Sun 17th Mar 2019 02:54
thanks for reading
my poem
i write by touch
some say I am.
wink.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sun 17th Mar 2019 02:51
my view is warped
it was left out in the rain!
haha.
Comment is about Once We Were Gods (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Sun 17th Mar 2019 02:49
lost, but now found
Keith Jeffries is alive!
call off the search
return you your normal programming.
wink.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Stop it, Kev. I've got a cracked lip.
Many thanks, Cynthia. I was just having mischief about it being a poem.
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 16th Mar 2019 22:40
Had to read this with the OED at my elbow! Good one Jon.
Comment is about Word wanderer (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
elPintor
Sat 16th Mar 2019 22:28
I have a younger brother who went through some experiences with some of the chemicals you mention. He is younger than me and, at the time, we were both in very early adolescence.
"Vincristine" is one that stands out, especially, as some are especially cruel.
Just a story, but my brother and I used to wrestle and play like young siblings or friends do. I happened to grab his hair during one such bout, like I would have at any other time in such play, and I heard a sound as if it were velcro separating from itself.
I had grabbed and pulled a handful of his hair, innocently. I was shocked and sad and sorry all at once--I was speechless.
He was so lovely, though. He looked at me and told me, as would've the wisest of men, what was going to happen to him.
He saw friends go through the same treatment he went through who didn't make it. And, I know the thoughts of them weighed upon him deeply, even as young as he was.
Thanks, Phil. I wish I knew how to say more, but the place from where you speak deserves more than words.
Rachel
Comment is about Chemo Pharmacopeia (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
glorious and horrendous Phil. Like the ravings of true experience. I always remember as a kid certain smells that turned my stomach - ether and antiseptics, dentists miasma, truly horrifying to a kid. Not to mention the almost teutonic detachment of the professionals. Nowadays more variety of drugs. Remember Olivier as the Nazi dentists in the Marathon Man. That's where I am with this !!
Ray
Comment is about Chemo Pharmacopeia (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Thank you for reading and the nice comment and likes!
Comment is about 8 Heroes (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Hello John - many thanks for your comment on my home page - and the quoted extract from the Binyon poem. Even
reading those lines brought the moisture to my eyes, such
is the effect on me of their irresistible evocation of nature's power for renewal.
And, yes, the first name is Mark.
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
Splendid! You got me, cold turkey!!! And I hooted.
Comment is about Painting (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
A clever imagination at work here.
Comment is about Once We Were Gods (blog)
Original item by d.knape
This looks like one to seek! Much that intrigues and promises to
identify with if the sample extracts are any guide.
Comment is about So the Sky: Valerie Lynch, Dempsey & Windle (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks, Rich. Once I got started it might be said "I got carried away"
- but knew when to pull up! ?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'The Racing Stable' by M.C Newberry (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Welcome. You've certainly entered the arena with a humdinger.
Do you actually mean, in your BIO, '... of outrageous of recovery'? I'm having trouble making sense of the second 'of'. But, maybe it's just me.
Neat bio picture: the upcast eyes from the old, gnarled tree that looks about to devour your head. I'm pretty sure its composition is well orchestrated.
Comment is about John Flowers (poet profile)
Original item by John Flowers
This is an excellent contribution, and I don't give a damn that it's not in poetical 'form'. The language and its formatting are pure 'poetry' as is its very topical and interesting subject. LIFE qualifies!
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
John. Just to clarify. Do you intend to chop your poem or your todger up?
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There you go, Don. Save you looking too hard.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/discuss/when-is-a-poem-not-a-poem--2162
https://www.writeoutloud.net/discuss/what-is-poetry--2138
But just to be clear, Don, I don’t consider this a poem; I’m just taking advantage.
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An interesting perspective.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Once We Were Gods (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Poetry is defined as
a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.
Does not necessarily have rhyme but must have metrical rhythm to be classed as a poem.
Sorry John. As much as I find your bit fascinating it is not a poem. It is a story, until someone convinces me otherwise.
Now don't go and sulk. Your idea of chopping it into pieces has merit. Go work on it. Don't forget the metrical rhythm though
Don
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
John,
I've done my research and back with questions.
I discover that numpties are confused people with little idea of what they are talking about. Therefore when the say poetry has no rhyme. or rhythm they don't know what they're talking about. I could not see any such learned Discussion threads anywhere on the site about this?. Where did you see them? If you took them at their word this suggests you are also a numpty?\
Don ?
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Lovely poem for POTW - congratulations. Great rhythm, got a sense of riding along, and building and building.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'The Racing Stable' by M.C Newberry (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Ah Rich. If we could just learn not to be so selfish. Maybe I'm asking the impossible. Maybe it's in our genes. The me-first gene.
Comment is about Nab Me a Seat (blog)
Original item by Rich
<Deleted User> (21487)
Sat 16th Mar 2019 08:24
I think that those of us who write shite are a shade posher than those who write shit.
The very poshest think that sugar is more elegant.
Dorothy
Comment is about It's Shit Not Shite (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Excellent points, MC. The point about sweating hadn’t occurred to me but the evidence is there for me in that I don’t go to the lav anywhere near as often through the night in summer.
Don - I too cannot conceive of this as a poem either. But numerous numpties in Discussions have argued that there are no rules to poetry. They argue it does not require rhythm or rhyme. So I’ve taken them at their word and written this poem. Perhaps if I were to chop it into little lines?
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Missing Person Keith Jeffries, last seen prowling through the undergrowth of heavy prose in search of a liberating poem. No need to contact emergency services.
Keith
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
I used to write shite
but now I know it is shit
so be it.
Thanks Don.
Keith
Comment is about It's Shit Not Shite (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21487)
Sat 16th Mar 2019 07:35
Jeffarama
"you will never speak for all of us
it's in your name, not mine"
I want to shout those words from every hill and mountain across the world.
Dorothy
Comment is about They were only saying their prayers... (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
elPintor
Sat 16th Mar 2019 06:58
Words can be terrifically slippery, but I love them most when they resist me so.
Duality--so glad to see it expressed so clearly through your comments, David and Jason.
Thanks to all who read,
Rachel
Comment is about manual (blog)
Original item by nunya
Golly gosh!
What elixer do I take to get a boner like that? It would need to be an elixer which can be cut off at will though
Retrograde ejaculation? Maybe that's why wet dreams in my youth never made an appearance on the sheets? The got confused and went into my bladder.
As much as I find all this interesting my head is struggling to get around how this finds itself onto a 'poetry' website?
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Beautiful lyrics. Thanks for sharing! ?
Comment is about Cadence (blog)
Original item by Daemon Cantrell
Kate,
Medications stop full-blown mania but I'm times 10 on the emotion scale. I therefore 'feel' more intensely. Empathise more intensely. Get 'angry' more intensely. Get emotional more intensely.
I'm comfortable with this.
Don
Comment is about This Rhyme Upsets the Rhymer – Understanding Bipolar Disorder (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 15th Mar 2019 23:28
Wonderful Don... your candor about mania is a story that needs to be heard. It reminds me of a perspective I heard the other day on those who have experienced trauma... As much as the effects can be terrible if not managed, it often leaves those who have experienced trauma in a position of strength to greater empathise deeply, with others. Robin Williams is a big loss to the world....
Comment is about This Rhyme Upsets the Rhymer – Understanding Bipolar Disorder (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Although diagnosed 'bipolar' I for some strange reason don't suffer 'depression' unless feeling regret at saying some of the things I say can be classed as 'depression'?. I put the question to professionals but get no satisfactory answers. My demon is mania. Medications help control it (sort of). Would I want it eliminated? Never! It gives me the drive to create. 'Controlled mania' is one of my best friends. Don't wanna be a zombie ?
Comment is about This Rhyme Upsets the Rhymer – Understanding Bipolar Disorder (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Kindness is a virtue. But the kind are often done wrong... Beautiful Jon! And fair.?
Comment is about Hangman (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Good Evening Mark (is it?), you did me the immense favour of re-acquainting me with the beautifully crafted poetry of Robert Laurence Binyon 1869–1943. I remembered 'For the fallen' very well but had either not read or forgotten (mea culpa..) 'The burning of the leaves' which I found an immensely brave and moving poem:
They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring;
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.
John
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for your likes Kate and Dorothy. Tommy, I seem to have you as the cyclist . Lovely pictures you conjure up . A fellow enthusiast. A good long ride! My longest day was Norwich to Bedford. So many stories! Thanks for digging this. Rày
Comment is about HAWK WIND (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thankyou Dorothy I am glad you liked the poem that means alot to me!
Comment is about Cadence (blog)
Original item by Daemon Cantrell
TC's advice about drinking before bedtime is good. Also,
coffee (and perhaps tea to a lesser extent) is reputedly an irritant in that area. The stimulation that sees someone in need of a
pee is also a matter of mental control whilst the physical side is
regulated by the sphincter to a large extent unless the bladder is
overladen and elimination is a matter of urgency - part of
nature's blueprint for self-protection as urine retention is
hazardous to health. In the final analysis, it is accepted that
age is a dominant factor in urinary matters and has to be adjusted
to via related physical maintenance/exercise. When youthfully active there is elimination of water from the body via sweating, often
unrecognised, and this lessens the load heading for the bladder -
and the frequency of urination. Age reduces this physical side of
things and more water is sent via the kidneys to the bladder.
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Tommy. We ought to go into business as an NHS Helpline.
You might need to ask Tommy that, Graham. There is an irony though here. Replacing your Bag For Life with a plastic bag seems to fly in the face supermarket policy.
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 15th Mar 2019 18:40
Daemon
I love the natural world, unfortunatly due to my increasing age I am no longer able to walk through the fields and woods that I love, but you have taken me back there and I thank you for that.
Dorothy
Comment is about Cadence (blog)
Original item by Daemon Cantrell
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 15th Mar 2019 18:09
Jason
It is obvious in every careful word - in every careful line - this was written with a very heavy heart.
It would be easy to write token platitudes so I won't insult you with them, but I will say that I have absolutly no doubt that every one on this blog is willing you to stay safe.
take care
Dorothy
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Does an M&S bladder hold more than a Tesco Bladder? Discuss
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
John not drinking 3 hours before retiring reduces bladder-fill (sounds like a Death metal band) try emptying your bag immediately before bed. Laying on the back increases pressure on the bladder, try sleeping on the side. Bladders are bags, a bit like Tesco bags with zips and no handles but not made of plastic and obviously with no Tesco on it. So now you know.
Comment is about PRIAPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 15th Mar 2019 17:17
kJ Walker
Sun 17th Mar 2019 07:14
This one follows on nicely from your last one Jon.
they could have been written as a pair.
Comment is about Word wanderer (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby