"archetypal depiction of manhood" !!!

Fantastic, I love it.

Comment is about An Exquisite Hand Job (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

if the poem directly refers to the picture then I like the fact that this piece of old wall has drawn attention to itself and inspired your words when so many would have walked past and overlook it.

Comment is about Only a shadow (blog)

Original item by Rhiannon

Many thanks, Colin. But I wouldn't prostitute myself!

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

misunderstood agendas - great line.

Comment is about Old Romantic (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Excellent work, MC. And an unusual and imaginative take on Valentine's Day. Commemorating two loves. The one he would never have and yours for him.

Comment is about ANOTHER VALENTINE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Not an out-and-out horny poem, Paul; I can do without the competition.

Comment is about An Exquisite Hand Job (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Harry, you old goat! I'm sure this will have worked. And cheaper than flowers.

Comment is about Yvonne (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

ha! very good Paul but I think your title and picture give the game away thus making the punchline rather predictable. Alternatively you could dump Adonis and make the object of her desires a Cedar of Lebanon dildo and turn the whole thing into an out and out porny poem ?, ditch the title but keep the photo! Rather like the idea of the old boy in his immaculate workshop turning out exquisitely made wooden sex toys!

Comment is about An Exquisite Hand Job (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

'toon' as in 'cartoon' ends this piece rather awkwardly for me. Rhymes don't need to look the same. Why not spell it 'tune' ? - it will still rhyme with 'moon'.

And the same with 'growin' and 'showin' - add the missing 'g' and the rhyme with 'thin' remains.

I like the theme of your poem, it is serious and wants to be a proper poem, which is why I feel it needs proper words that haven't been truncated. Hope you don't mind me saying.

All the best,
Colin

Comment is about BLOOD MOON (blog)

Original item by old shoes

Glad you like it Hazel.

How I wish that staying in the present will be my natural state of being. Working on it?
I wish that more and more people would stop dwelling on the past or worry about the future. It would make it a much better world.

Om Shanti.
Raj

Comment is about The Moment matters (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Hi David,
Are you making a list of those interested in your book? Please add my name. As soon as you have more details about where I can purchase a copy, please let me know. May your muse always amuse.
Frances.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

(Come to think of it, I haven't written any yet...)

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

IAN,


And there was me getting in the mood - spoilsport! ?

Comment is about Old Romantic (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks, fellas.
I really must get round to writing some proper poetry again.

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Scatologicaly apt John.

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Pithy yet profound. Brevity bravo!

Comment is about pieces (blog)

Original item by old shoes

Good to see more choice from "Whiteley's* Department Store" (*a noted emporium once here in London).

Comment is about Old Romantic (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Sure to bring on the DTs in your many admirers. No
drinking needed!!

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi AM - having read your comment about Brexit on John
Coopey's home page (good to know we both enjoy his
champion chuckles), I felt obliged to point out the democracy in the superiority of "leave" votes even if the
verdict didn't meet expectations. I'm old enough to
remember the original machinations employed by Heath
and Co. (he was warned by a Tory minister that if the
British public knew what was intended they'd never vote
in favour and took the decision not to tell them!), and
the stealthy step by step tactics employed towards a
fait accompli once our MPs decided to go along. I've
watched for many years during which the high handed
behaviour of the Brussels entity saw our own prime
ministers being lectured on ignoring the opinion of the
public and become a "European" (e.g. a toady of their
master plan). This was not, and is not, the way we do things here and time has seen the wheel turn to pull
the mask of federal ambition and deceit aside. Now
they even justify seeking their own EU army, despite
the proven oversight of NATO - the true guardians of
Western security. It's all a very long way from a
"Common Market", the last occasion of a public vote
and even then the procedure was based essentially on trading between nations. It is no accident that all
that has followed has been between those already in
hock to the process of political integration - with any
reference to the peoples of the various nations
definitely OFF the CM/EEC/EC/EU (in sequence) agenda.
There had to be a reaction and it is perhaps fitting that
this small island nation should take the first step to
regain self-determination while the wider world watches with expectation and anticipation.
Cheers. MC.

Comment is about AM Cash (poet profile)

Original item by AM Cash

John, you should release (oops) this, it would be a sure-fire number 1 (hopefully not a number 2...) ?

Honestly, if you could see the mess I'm in....I think I may have laughed my stones off..... I'm so giddy, so kippered-up...I've completely lost it. You funny man, you. So utterly brilliant.

Paul

Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

"Loose canon"? I knew you were connected to your local
church but I didn't realise you were such a big shot as to
be a member of the cathedral chapter my dictionary
mentions - and a wayward one at that. Boom-boom!?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

As always thanks for your thoughts Colin. I aimed for the staggered words to form a kinda background beat to the poem, like drums. I'm glad you like it!

Comment is about In the Orchard (blog)

Original item by Rhiannon

Let's stay here now you said
Really love this line.

Comment is about The Moment matters (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Well thank you so much for comments on my little ditty.

Comment is about The End is Nigh (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Harry makes some historical points about parliamentary
sovereignty. It was the bone-headed intransigence of
Charles 1 to be an "absolute" monarch that led to the
Civil War and his defeat. However, even Cromwell was
obliged to face the corruption and self-interest in
the subsequent parliamentary set-up, even dismissing
it is robust terms. Those self-serving 17th century MPs
have had their equivalent in more modern times among
those who chose to go along with the great deceit and
dissembling that presumed EU primacy over the mandate
entrusted to them by a largely unaware and trusting electorate who were thereafter consistently led to think
it was a "done deal" and not to be denied. I may be
old-fashioned in my values but that smacks of a word
well known, with its exponents readily dispatched in other days.
As for the Restoration, with its return - to huge public approbation - of Charles the Second to the throne, that
set the tone for what has followed as a widely admired
and successful compromise between the centuries-old system of monarchy and the public desire for accountability. The English have displayed something
of a gift for such things down the years.
As for the Lib Dems and the likes of Tim Fearon, in
another life they would have probably been engineering
plots, in alliance with their European cronies, against Elizabeth the First!! Today, they are a busted flush.

Comment is about TO REMOANERS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

So true. The book is often used. On a walk yesterday a friend inspired me to use it again. I have learned there are no new stories just different ways to tell them. I will go to your page Graham and enjoy Book Lover.

I am with you Trevor. Great introspection.

Juan thanks for enjoying.

Paul, hello to you! I vote for limited drama for you too ?

Thanks all. Nice to hear from other great writers.

Comment is about CHAPTERS IN A BOOK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Ray, clever and funny, I really like this poem.

first we had those humourous VD references, now hypochondriasis....we have quite a medical vibe going on today! ?

Nice work Ray.

Paul

Comment is about HYPOCHONDRIA THE LIBERTINE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ray, what a wonderful thing to say about this. I felt honoured to read that. How incredibly generous of you.
And happy VD to you too, please accept a man-hug ?

Col, I fear a contagion of VD. There is a tad too much poetic promiscuity on here today ? ?

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

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Comment is about Love is beautiful (blog)

Original item by Saniya

Luxurious and tactile , a splendid seam of poetry mined by the finest of wordsmiths I know Stu.

Ray

Comment is about for love (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

this VD is catching

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

skilfully constructed, wilfully conceived , and thrillfully read Paul. It is that rare thing, a piece contrived that works well.

Ray, happy VD by the way.

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Hi Lynn,

I hope it's a fun-filled epic with not too much drama ?

Paul

Comment is about CHAPTERS IN A BOOK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thank you for reading Trevor. I'm grateful to you for the compliment and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Paul

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Thank you Juan. There is nothing like the power of the present!!

Raj

Comment is about The Moment matters (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

This is brilliant Hazel,

I must confess on the first couple of readings I read...Where all our love is done and not Where all of love is done.

I think I refer the former but it works either way.

Well done!

Comment is about The End is Nigh (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

The allegory of the village dying as well as the "dad" is wonderfully poignant.

Comment is about "Village Scene, Lincolnshire" (blog)

Original item by Rick Gammon

Last two lines are incredibly effective in syphoning the previous ones down into a pinprick. Love it!

Comment is about for love (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

It always interests me that many of us use the book analogy for our lifetime. My recent offering Book Lover similarly did this.

The best years/worst years idea too is well trodden, with none of us knowing how the "story" is likely to pan out.

Let's hope your last chapter is a long one Lynn

Comment is about CHAPTERS IN A BOOK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Lovely, every moment does matter...such a powerful poem...
Thanks for sharing.

Juan

Comment is about The Moment matters (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Clever concept, well written. I really enjoyed this one.

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

I have chapters I sometimes wish could be redacted! But hopefully the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Great piece, which as you can see led me to my own introspection.

Comment is about CHAPTERS IN A BOOK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thanks Steve!

Comment is about Old Fred (blog)

Original item by Joe Williams

"the part of me that has no name" is where you really got me..that's the part that's the hardest reach...

and "thrum"--like throb and drum together--is a great word esp in the context.

elP

Comment is about for love (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thanks Stu: If I won the lottery my cynicism might just disperse; but I don't do it so that's it. Thanks for liking.
Hope you're well.

Ray

Comment is about TICKET TO PARADISE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Seedlings lie in sodden ground / their bodies splinter through the ceiling

that's an interesting perspective. I like that. There's a pleasing up and down feel to this poem accentuated by the staggered words. I also like the way those staggered words could be removed and you would still be left with an excellent poem - it works both ways.

thanks for posting Rhiannon.
Colin

Comment is about In the Orchard (blog)

Original item by Rhiannon

we're all envious of that chocolate line

Comment is about for love (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Col, I hadn't intended to be so PC on VD ??

Comment is about one syllable love (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

thanks for comment on That Tennyson, Harry, it's whatever seems right!
Dom.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Rich and sensual Stu, nailed by the darkest chocolate line.

Paul

Comment is about for love (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck