Mon 11th Feb 2019 12:27
I think "We Never Asked" rings true for so many of us
who think there will always be time Later
but then time runs out.
Thanks for your comments Keith.
they speak to who You are,
a caring person.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Phil. I'm pleased you took this on board. I'm convinced we have to tame ourselves or become overwhelmed. How that works is an individual thing. All the best. Thanks for the like Frances. Ray
Comment is about WAITING (blog)
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hello cynthia, hope your well
i was just wondering when WOL Sale is on next and whether there would be a spot for me to perform? i have a new book out and i am trying to get out and about to promote it a bit.
thanks
stu
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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Well done Steve, thoroughly deserved, fantastic poem.?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Win Sum’ by Steven Arthur (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Awhhh,,,, that was so kind of you to say farag ?
I do enjoy writing alot.
I write short story's for my kid's for bedtimes.
They enjoy them alot as its always based on their daily antics.
I twist it to make it hilarious with alot of teaching also..
Needless to say , they close their eyes with much wisdom absorbed and a great laugh.
Thank you for this lovely comment. It touched my soul ?
Comment is about Mistaken (blog)
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Dear Creative Poetess and Story Writer .. i enjoyed reading your nice poem .. i feel like you're a story writer .. really .. you've the qualifications to draw an excellent plan for nice stories too .. not only poetry. Best wishes dearest Lysa.
Comment is about Mistaken (blog)
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Ok, just listened to the audio file of GR. Mae you have a beautiful voice, a slight husky sultry tone which, for me at least, had a lovely lilting quality. Got to say, I loved it. You could read any of mine anytime you liked, it was great.
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
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I felt this on a spiritual level ❤️
Comment is about Are you Trustworthy? (blog)
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You’re most welcome d.knape. The sign reads, “DANGER. Do not climb on kissing rocks.”
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
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Silk sheets in the summertime...ah, nice! ?
Comment is about Rekindled (blog)
Original item by Mazzi
Keep thinking of that song "What we need is a great big melting pot..."
Loved this metaphor. Well done, Jason.
Comment is about Coffee Pot (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Love the feeling of stillness which has often been my own balm. Captured so well. As David so accurately stated "to be content in time and with time is a true gift."
It beats just sitting there waiting to die like so many lost minds.
Comment is about WAITING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Love. Pure energy. As it should be. Living a parallel life through our conscious dreams. ?
Comment is about Light (blog)
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Sorry, had to edit, it didn't scan.?
Comment is about Coffee Pot (blog)
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Mon 11th Feb 2019 00:27
what is that thing on your profile?
and....what does the Danger Sign say,
it is too small to read.
thanks also for your comments on
"We Never Asked".
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
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Mon 11th Feb 2019 00:21
excellent perspective on "We Never Asked".
your comments ring true for so many of us.
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Mon 11th Feb 2019 00:20
thanks for your comments on
"We Never Asked"
the poem I think
speaks to us all
as we speed through life
unthinking.
we wish...
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Thanks again, David and Ray.
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
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Mae,
This superbly written poem with gorgeous imagery of a place I know well or should I say a similar place, as I returned last August after living in Spain for ten years. I have one golden gift and that is my Spanish partner who came back with me. Your poem speaks of those sunny climes, the vegetation, the fruit and above all the sun,
Thank you for a poem which fills me with nostalgia and also a powerful sense of yearning to return.
Keith
Comment is about GR (In the South) (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Congrats!?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Win Sum’ by Steven Arthur (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Ah the lovely comments received in the vacuum of a suspended mind ( which I managed to wrench myself out of to be replaced by daily living).
Keith, I often how we savour inactivity in our different ways, so its nice to have an ally in this, thanks.
Brian, I forgot to mention I was gazing down at slippers ..... cheers.
Yes David, you do make an important point. The mind is really is what is most at risk, but yoga and its followers seems to link the physical balance and stillness with a mental freeing up . I have experienced it, and having done so, have to resurrect it when in states of agitation. I'll get my coat.
Thank you all for the likes: MGS, Kevin, Anya and Dorothy.
Ray
Comment is about WAITING (blog)
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It's good to see poetry coming to deliver a message starkly and wrest so much response rightly so John. Yes, a serious side, nice to see from yourself . I sense you found it a hard task to convey with no overriding ego involved , which I applaud.
Ray
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
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Sorry Wendy, I wrote that as a comment on your poem because I found it very moving, but I also decided to put it up as a blog entry afterwards. I hope that's ok?
Comment is about Surplus’s Fat (blog)
Original item by Wendy Higson
Writing poetry about real people
...wonderful John Thanks
I am a hospice poet and have used all sorts of ‘voices’ on behalf of patients over 8 years now. It’s a privilege to reflect one work of art with another!
Comment is about Whose life is it, anyway? Writing poetry about real people (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Love your sample poem. So very, very true.?
Comment is about Cassandra Magan (poet profile)
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The answer to your last question is yes. Definitely yes. I can see someone developing a beautiful gift with words, amongst other things. And remember, no-one can sell your heart, it is yours to keep or give, and never be afraid to give, and believe me after 50 years on the planet I do know that as fact.
Comment is about Ameno (blog)
Original item by Cassandra Magan
Each little bean in the coffee pot,
Has it's own unique design,
But who cares as long as the coffee's hot,
'Cos each unique little bean's divine.
Loved your poem❤
Comment is about Surplus’s Fat (blog)
Original item by Wendy Higson
Heartbreak and hope is what I see in this uniquely written verse. ?
Comment is about Let's Pretend I'm Fine Like You Do (blog)
Original item by Damon Blackery
Thanks for reading and your feedback Adam. I agree, sometimes simple and uncomplicated is better, but a poem reads different depending on the line breaks. I recorded both versions. I can easily waste hours on a word or line break! I wish it was an easier process for me and not overthink it, but it seems to come with the gift.
Comment is about Soul Mates & Muses (blog)
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Indeed,MC. I recall the Vietnamese girl photo. I believe she was burned by napalm. An image which summarised the war and the era.
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A pleasing addition to the poems about gardens in this country -
with a history going back centuries. Is there any land that has a love
of its gardens to equal our own - and I do not refer to those grand
showplaces that resemble theme parks!
Comment is about Nature's Bounty (blog)
Original item by Rich
Buying a place in heaven? I see our own church wearing costly
vestments and think of Christ in his homespun robe.
Comment is about Haiku (Thailand) (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Tragedy unfolds around us every day in this life. In conflict, the
single image can be so powerful in representing the greater horror.
Remember the photograph of that naked burnt little Vietnamese
child on the path somewhere in her war-ravaged country? It came
to represent the reality of what such horrors meant and went
around the world. The grainy photographs of uncomprehending
children being led towards the Nazi gas chambers still linger in my
mind. Someone's children are always the pitiful victims of conflict
and nothing seems to stop that generational tragedy occurring
anywhere in the world.
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
These lines thinking had me got...
About how best to go to pot! ?
Comment is about The Bessecarr Teabag Famine (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Looking back, I see how little I asked or even thought of asking about
things that affected my parents and older relations. It was - and is-
one of the downsides of the young, obsessed with their own lives
and futures, that they ignore the fact that those ahead of them in
life's marathon have endured and survived whatever life threw at
them without the constant care and attention lavished on those following on, blithely unmindful and unaware of what that meant in human terms. "Taken for granted" is entirely appropriate.
Comment is about We Never Asked (blog)
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I have never read anything like this. Wow. It's the best compliment one can give: "Your writing doesn't remind me of anyone's".Excellent.
Thank you for it?
Mae
Comment is about This Corpse Eats The Stars With Bloody Feet (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Incredible. A punch in the gut, indeed, Vautaw. I think even the few lucky ones that have the least regrets in their lives, are tortured by immense guilt when it comes to their elderly kin and loved ones. The people we love is our worst weakness and biggest strength. It's our, as the say, "poison"! Even if you see them and talk to them every day no amount of time is enough... You always want more. In fact you want forever. Or maybe that's just how I feel. And this is what truly sucks about death.
Incredible piece.
Thank you for it?
Mae
Comment is about We Never Asked (blog)
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I fall into this trap all the time and it feels like a repeated punch in the gut when tomorrow does't come for a loved one. Thanks for the reminder. Today, I'm going to call my mom! ?
Comment is about We Never Asked (blog)
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Such visceral imagery.
So arresting and imposing.
Comment is about This Corpse Eats The Stars With Bloody Feet (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
A Masterpiece.
Keith
Comment is about This Corpse Eats The Stars With Bloody Feet (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Thank you all for your kind and constructive comments.
Po, your words illuminate problems which are easily overlooked and few are truly aware of. The very thought of marine life being so adversely affected by submarines is so dispiriting. We are called to be the custodians of the natural world but seem to be hell bent on its destruction.
Thank you all again.
Keith
Comment is about Aerials (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
This excellent poem will resonate with many folk with those famous words too late. Many regret not spending time with the older generation as they can be a source of wisdom and illuminate all our pasts. Listening to our elders is time well spent and often very enlightening. Thank you for this. Keith
Comment is about We Never Asked (blog)
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Thanks, Kev. Yes, I don’t like to get too type-cast, although I am aware which I am better at! Hope to be there Thurs and might do this as a bit of a surprise. It’s a bugger to play though for someone of my limited ability.
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi John
This is so different from your usual cheeky stuff, I had to double check that it was you who posted it. Of course I know that you can do serious stuff as I have read your book (everyone should buy a copy.. get a plug in here).
Have you considered writing under two different names, so that the reader knows what to expect?
See you soon all being well. (Are you doing requests on Thursday)
Cheers mate
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Droll, David. If only Mary Whitehouse was on WOL, even from the other side. Bang to rights, and all that. As my birthday got in the way, I had to get my priorities right - saving or condemning souls was not on the agenda.
Apt you mention D & C. I recall one pissed sketch, where Peter Cook asked Dudley : " Does Valerie have a beard? Actually yes, she does... Perhaps Valerie is Jesus then? I think you're right."
Apart from you, I don't seem to have many followers with this specimen. Must try harder.
Thanks mate, always a pleasure.
Ray
Comment is about PEAKS AND TROUGHS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Many thanks again, David. Did you check out the Tom Paxton song on YouTube? It really is extremely powerful.
Comment is about ALAN ON THE MORROW (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Just wanted to say thanks for a cracking game yesterday and unfortunately I'm tied up today, so no time at the nets for me.
Also I can't tell you how much it made me laugh that during the verbal interplay we managed to invent a completely new word to add to the lexicon.?
I bow to your skill and consider myself thoroughly, "Spankquished!"
???
Comment is about Ms.Donohoe Poetry Tennis Champion. (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
kealan coady
Mon 11th Feb 2019 13:02
Thank you all for your kind words, its really appreciated
Comment is about This Corpse Eats The Stars With Bloody Feet (blog)
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