excellent poem ray but you know something, having watched the film at least three or four times, i really dont care for it at all. i think i am quite apart in that opinion but it does nothing for me.
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 16:06
? An amazing read - can we have for more please?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 15:53
Would rhyming couplets take up less space?
or even one liners?
can you have a one line poem ?
alternatively - smaller print.
Dorothy
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 15:42
Don't meditate for too long - things to do - places to go -
Dorothy
Comment is about Some Assembly Required (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Absolutely love this! I'm now spending the afternoon trying to make my purring cat roar!
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Well, the beauty of your poem lies in its brevity. Thanks for sharing
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Thank you, for appreciating the poem, Victoria. John
Comment is about Roll Away the Stone (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I, like Jacob, love this poem. Thank you, Victoria, for sharing it.
healing hearts
with the flick of a pen
on a tattered page.
?
....and, me, here, wishing it might be so.
John
Comment is about Dear Poet (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
I wouldn't want to be
Called an Aussie flooder
Drowning out all other's work
Shudder, udder, bugger....?
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Such is the ability of a good haiku Kate
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
The faster you go downhill dk
You gotta be careful you don't
Rattle apart, gay abandon
Even though you call out you won't
Whoooosh,,,,,?
Comment is about Some Assembly Required (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks guys. I havnt been writing recently and I just had an emotional night and needed to let everything out.
I'm not sure if it's a typical poem but I certainly felt better afterwards.
Excuse the grammar mistakes ha! ??❤
Comment is about Looking back. Moving forward (blog)
Original item by Caoimhe June Jane Ryan
One of the most iconic of films, carefully considered here Ray. There's a dampness to these words that pick out Venice perfectly. Blacks and greys and that one vital, tiny splash of red! I think Peter might be right.
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Sorry Don,
The fact is that before this was introduced, some poets were flooding the site with their work and it took ages for other poets to trawl through their work to get to others.
What other prolific poets do is to produce their own blog page elsewhere on Wordpress or something similar and provide a link for others to navigate to.
Sorry for the Blogslide!
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:20
This is really lovely.
Comment is about Where Her Truth Alone Triumphs (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:18
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:14
This is beautiful and wrenching, clearly a very personal story of love and loss. Thank you for sharing. xx
Comment is about Looking back. Moving forward (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:12
How did you pack so much into these three little lines. Very, very significant for me right now. Love this.
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
What a delightful read. I look forward to more - perhaps a trivia anthology?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Wow. So much in life that is too much to take and too big to avoid.
Comment is about PAIN (blog)
Original item by Ty
Love your 3 rationales for getting a platypus.
Comment is about Why I Want to Own a Platypus (blog)
Original item by Fernwood Press
This poem shows the healing power of words. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Comment is about Looking back. Moving forward (blog)
Original item by Caoimhe June Jane Ryan
Hmmmmmmmm. Wet flannel palaces left me feeling almost as uncomfortable as did the original film.
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
We’re both old and ugly enough to remember Train Fenton’ s “My Choo ca Choo”.
Comment is about THE POWER OF WORDS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thu 21st Mar 2019 06:30
Thank you Mae, I hope you enjoy at least some of my poetry. Much appreciate you taking the time.
All the best des
Comment is about DESMOND CHILDS (poet profile)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Hi Ray,
the audio really works well with this poem – a gravelly god looking down at the crowd below, from time to time making more than meaningful observations on the better-than-most drama he has just spotted.
Would it be impertinent to suggest this is one of your best?
Peter T
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 01:18
Another masterpiece Peter. What a talent.
Comment is about ONCE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
thanks Frances glad you like it , heart warming
Comment is about The Daily Sluice (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Never one to avoid discussion I would just add the fact that similar numbers of Christian churches were erected during the Victorian fervour for organised religion; a shift of emphasis and of course sources of funding must be a factor in the new emergence. Every influx of immigrants will have their religious centres, and perhaps it is as well as that gives them a focus. If many are turning their back on Anglican and Catholic churches we can hardly pray for the removal of the new idolators, can we. I think of course we are on the thorny subject of integration, which needs at least a new bible to cover it.
Ray
Comment is about RELIGION TAKING FLIGHT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Oh gosh MC you've given me
A chance for Doctoratecy
Searching bats which might stand up
Not hanging from a tree
Shit (or shite) I've gone and done
What some did say's a sin
I've gone and rhymed a comment
I'm in the shit agin ?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
<Deleted User> (21487)
Wed 20th Mar 2019 20:32
Don
I walked a pretty woodland path this morning and found two soiled nappies.
I think that sums up to-day's attitude of 'can if I want' - so sad.
Comment is about The Age of of Entitlement (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 20th Mar 2019 20:16
I sometimes think we are too welcoming for our own good.
I was surprised to see the other day that the first mosque wasn't in Bradford, Manchester or London...but in Woking.
Comment is about RELIGION TAKING FLIGHT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
the entitled need to be enlightened not constantly vying to be enhanced
Comment is about The Age of of Entitlement (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Ha...you're half-right on that one JC.
Comment is about THE POWER OF WORDS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nor sung by Smokey Robinson, MC.
Comment is about THE POWER OF WORDS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Putting this together must deserve the "Poetical Persistency Prize"!
Extraordinary stuff - both content and presentation.
Question: Would a UK bat become disorientated in Australia - and
stand up? ?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
We have gone from my late mother's words "what will people think?"
to "who cares what people think?!" Coarse crass selfishness which
rewards no one because, ultimately, it becomes self-defeating..
When the phrase "consideration for others" is in mind
Then we'll all be sisters and brothers - and be kind!
Comment is about The Age of of Entitlement (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I DO know it wasn't written by "Coal Porter"...ho-ho!?
Comment is about THE POWER OF WORDS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Great stuff Phil. It just says so much that is implied if you look into it. With your poems I always do. Recklessness, abandon, hope, freedom, and sense of heightened experience - not bad for a nights work. Talking of pipes, I love the Uilean pipes and the Northumbrian pipes too. There is such a raw but keen sound like a strange call of a bird.
On the millennium night gig I did there were six bagpipers in the one place.
Ray
Comment is about Dublin 2000 (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Lovely sample! I think I'm going to enjoy exploring your work! Thanks for liking my poem "Dream"!
Mae?
Comment is about DESMOND CHILDS (poet profile)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
So very, very, sadly, true.
J.
Comment is about The Age of of Entitlement (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A punch in the gut to the fairy tale of life. Thank God for poetry to sooth the pain. Beautiful expression John. Thanks for sharing. ?
Comment is about Roll Away the Stone (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Congrats. A well deserved piece for POTW ?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Shoes' by D.Knape (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Cheers Ray, yes I know 'Jarrow Song' well, it's one I remember being played in the house a lot when I was very young.
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Hahaha
We may be onto something here
Just between me and you
Who wants to swim with Whale Sharks
When you can swim with Kangaroos ?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Ah John you did bamboozle me
Menagerie-intense
I overlooked the kanga swim
I feel so bloody dense
I've set myself a task
Go swimming with the 'roos
To look for any bubbles
As they gooblie poo
If I witness this I will contact Wikipedia and Guinness Records as first person to detect this phenomenon
Why am I writing all this twaddle?...?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
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Hazel ettridge
Thu 21st Mar 2019 17:24
Thanks for commenting Kate, Don and Binte. I think I could have removed a couple of words but then it would just have been, well, a sentence?
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
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