Frances Macaulay Forde
Tue 14th Mar 2017 18:28
Thanks Ray, Suki and Raj, so pleased that you enjoyed reading this and for making interesting comments, you are all very kind. Memory is a such an interesting and mysterious subject, isn't it?
And thanks too Adam and MGS for the likes.
I'm very grateful to you all.
Paul
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Brilliant Paul. It still resonates within me "from cubby-holes of consciousness".
Quite meditative.
Raj
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Hi John,
Well deserved - a poignant piece; spare and haunting.
Suki
Comment is about 'Drinking where the river bed is dry' by John Marks is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Love the clever way you've sandwiched the words Hazel.
Distinctively different and certainly engaging!
Raj
Comment is about With a nod to Dylan (Bob not Thomas) (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Hi Paul,
A kind of kissing cousin of "Deja vu all over again". The nature of memory and recalling the memory of a memory. I think we have discussed this before - or have we..
Suki
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
What a festive treat Martin. All within early memory. I love the line about A bid for freedom priceless. May I add that as an infant I was force fed semolina by a sadist at school?
Strange that early meal provision is now regarded as a real benefit by people who were never around at the time.
Ray
Comment is about School dinners (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Beautifully conceived and expressed Tommy - it grips you by the mental balls and has the great quality of simplicity coupled with immediate effect on the emotions, obviously coming from direct experience of depths.
Ray
Comment is about only time (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
HI Paul. I'm often guilty of indulging myself in the impression that a poem gives me and expressing that to the exclusion of a more serious approach, which of course you do offer here including some excellent salient points of reference to that illusive faculty of memory, clouded as it is by emotional overlayers and sub texts.
My impression having said all that is one of early onset....
(just joking of course). ay ay...
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
I really like the composite wordings in this piece Hazel. Very original and cleverly balanced syllables too.
Comment is about With a nod to Dylan (Bob not Thomas) (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Eric, your poems are beautifully crafted. Don´t stop writing as you have far to go. Thank you. Keith
Comment is about Eric Berard (poet profile)
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A really creative poem Hazel. I like it very much, there is something about the original style that compelled me to keep reading it over and over.
Well done.
Paul
Comment is about With a nod to Dylan (Bob not Thomas) (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Thanks David for your compliments and insightful comments about mind and memory. I have always been fascinated by the process of memory. And you're right we often fill in the gaps with imagined (and embellished) memories that often seem real and true. But conversely, as I'm sure you already know about PTSD, sometimes the memories are permanently vivid with every minute detail.
Re: the homecoming... it feels great so far, despite all the upheaval. You are very thoughtful to mention it and I appreciate that very much David.
Thanks Hazel, I really appreciate (and relate to) your comment. Much appreciated.
Thanks to you both, Paul
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Thank you. Yes unfortunately he left us for pastures new last Friday.
Comment is about SAM (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
I missed the first version and am hopeless with numbers. But I love the line 'How nature sings it's wandering song' Glad you kept that in.
Comment is about ANSEL ADAMS, PHOTOGRAPHER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I love it Paul. I feel led by your images but not directed by them if that makes sense. And I relate to the experience - my mind feels like a very worn Persian rug sometimes.
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Hi MC
Life is worthwhile I suppose when you get the odd gem from the pan-handled masses
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Cor, Martin, a trip and a half down school dinner memory lane. Plenty of humour, too.
Good stuff.
Paul
Comment is about School dinners (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks Harry.
On your final curtain you'll have left more than most
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Great imagery Tommy and a well written poem.
Paul
Comment is about only time (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
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Tue 14th Mar 2017 07:49
brings back memories Martin - not all pleasant! We are what we eat which is why I never eat creamy tadpoles on a plate!
Comment is about School dinners (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
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Tue 14th Mar 2017 07:44
excellent word usage and imagery Tommy - comes together well.
Comment is about only time (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hi Rachel, I didn't expect that finale. But the way life is the old coffee mug will be replaced with a new one. I hope.
Nice one.
Raj x
Comment is about Coffee Mugs (blog)
Original item by Rachel Miller
Sylvie
Tue 14th Mar 2017 06:45
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Sylvie
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Sylvie
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Sylvie
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Sylvie
Tue 14th Mar 2017 06:21
Oh my goodness. I did not see that coming. I was settling in for a cute love story. Heartbreaking. Well done. ?
Comment is about Coffee Mugs (blog)
Original item by Rachel Miller
Your poetry is straightforward. Seems right for a vet to write in such a way. Thank you and may God bless you for your service and sacrifices. I am glad you have poetry to pour your thoughts and emotions into. Have an awesome day! And keep writing!
Comment is about Quietly (blog)
Original item by Fush Moss
Nice! From some of the wording, I venture to say that you're a Brit, but I could so see and relate to all that you said, yet it wasn't clichéd nor flat. Kudos! Outstanding job!
Comment is about School dinners (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
You'll think twice about putting your hands in one again, Martin. Can't beat paper towels, I say.
That's so you and your mate can drip-dry together, Harry.
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks everyone for your generous comments.
Comment is about For Linda, just turned... (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
John,
The mind boggles!...But don`t be so exclusive ...(I mean what are those two curves for?)
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ken,
An ingenious fetching the bard up to a modern (somewhat cynical) stage.
I like the pro-creational hit and miss of the end of climax two....But I`m glad that I am leaving enough of me behind to exonerate me from moaning about the immigrants who are manning the N.H.S.
But where did you get that `Message for the dying` from?
Don`t you realise that even`the Boss Man` got himself crucified...and went back the hard way?
One thing for certain: The `happy Ending` ain`t anywhere down here.
The `pestle` and `mortar` is ace ?
Comment is about LIFE'S MISERABLE GO ROUND (blog)
Original item by ken eaton-dykes
like this alot. nothing more needs adding, much like the piece itself.
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
thanks martin, it is doubly rewarding when you try something different and people enjoy it.
Comment is about odaxelagnia (how i learnt to love being bitten) (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Its good to see that you haven't lost any of obvious daring for something new. I love the way that you are constantly experimenting. This works really well.
Excellent Stu
Comment is about odaxelagnia (how i learnt to love being bitten) (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
that opening line in particular is a great one Ray , it seems to motor along quite nicely then.
Nice one
Comment is about ANSEL ADAMS, PHOTOGRAPHER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I don't think I will ever be able to look at any dyson implement again in quite the same way. Ha ha!
Nice one John
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Yes, Stu. There is something of the explorer in every bloke and I confess I have inserted the mutton dagger in several left-field orifices. But a pig's head remains on the bucket list.
Happy to make you smile.
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Extremely well done! What a tribute to a healing friend.
Comment is about SAM (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
I enjoyed the poem and am glad you're on the other side of drug use. I did notice a couple of grammatical errors.
"I cannot to live with you" an unessary to
"If I could I’d move out long ago" move should be moved since I'd is past tense
"As you dig and shovel down" is an amazing word picture!?
Comment is about Goodbye. (blog)
Original item by Dan Marino
i must admit, at one time or another i have inserted almost every part of my body into an airblade. i wouldnt hold your breath re: dyson but it made me chuckle and really, thats about the highest honour there is, seen as how i'm a miserable little shit.
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I wonder if Dyson would be interested in offering me a commission for this?
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=65430
Comment is about 'It's depressing': Luke Wright's 'old-fashioned rant' about spoken word on TV ads (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Not a problem Colin, thankyou very much
Comment is about Search (blog)
Original item by Seamus Mac Fhearchair
An entertaining commentary on life - real and imagined.
I like to think that leaving something behind beyond offspring is worth one's unasked for existence and might
be around when even those offspring have gone to dust.
Surely life is about more than just adding humanity to an
over-burdened diminishing world?
Comment is about LIFE'S MISERABLE GO ROUND (blog)
Original item by ken eaton-dykes
raypool
Tue 14th Mar 2017 18:42
Exceptionally moving in its direct appeal to what is and should be important to maintain in this unnerving thing we call life. Who could argue with its sentiments, made even more powerful by the bathos of the ending.
Comment is about Drinking where the river bed is dry (blog)
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