Whoa. Powerful in its pure simplicity. Love it!

Comment is about Open Heart Surgery (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Hi Noris

This is really well written.

I love the intensity of your work, even though it sometimes leaves me blushing - but perhaps that's just down to my sheltered upbringing, long ago, ha ha.

Comment is about Vibrating in the unison of the scream of passion (blog)

Original item by Noris Roberts

Thanks so much for your feedback everyone!

I'm new to this but am challenging myself to write a new poem every week

Looking forward to reading everyones work :)

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Lovely poem, my favourite is the second verse. Just slightly. Xx

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Love this, it reminds me of now. I'm glad you walked away xxx

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Thanks again Martin - yes a hard thing to realise that endlessly waiting for all the 'one days' soon adds up to a lifetime!

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Ah yes! Thanks Rob!! Corrected! That slipped though my edit!! He claimed that once we were 'friends' we couldn't hurt each other - but in fact he hurt me more as a friend than he ever did during our brief liaison!

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

savage and brilliant. you have a way with endings. there is near-imperceptible nastiness running through it, then you just seem to twist the knife right at the last. same with the previous one of yours i read (aisha with beads). this one is left open ended and makes me wonder two things. what were the other three secrets, and how does the narrator know so much about him...

Comment is about Nicole (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

I love the explosion of imagery paired with simmering rage! I feel like the relentless disconnectedness of it is perfect for expressing unwelcome memory. Really nice!

Comment is about Perspective (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I love your style of writing Eric. Very deep and reflective. I really like the meditative vibe to this piece. Keep up the great work. Emer

Comment is about Breathe in this moment (blog)

Original item by Eric Berard

seems you may already be acquainting them if they hold your quill Not dipping your ink too by any chance?

I might have had a chance in this quiz - I know one of the answers.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I need to acquaint them with their full range of duties, MC.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Yvonne - aha...you get it.
TC - I prefer "Sacre Bleu!"

Comment is about SAME THING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Who'd have thought a poem about a quiz
Would turn out to be such a wiz?
That's 'cos JC knows his biz
Hurrah for Coopey's Groupies!

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments guys, very much appreciated. You are partly right Laura about the age reference. Although it just poured out of me so to speak, I realised that it is me in a reflective mood from where I have come from to where am now. I also have a tendency to be a bit on the melancholic side at times.
Thanks again
M

Comment is about Beige (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

As Stu and Vicki have said there is some great imagery here Rachel. I also caught a hint of an almost Jerkyl and Hyde quality about this with
'I can't control the beast you see he's all I now and love'
Great poem.

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Sounds like you made the right decision Vicki. Sadly one day rarely comes to pass. I like the way you have positioned it almost like a whirlwind romance.
Nice one

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Yes, Yvonne, it's a bit of a puzzler. I thought "hold our quill" might convey a bit more than intended. And "quill" is not really a forced rhyme. Really. Honest.
Hello Vicki. I'm rather smug about winning last night's quiz with the lowest winning score ever.
It's not the ale which causes our loss of memory these days, Raypool; it's the age of our grey matter.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Vicki - should that be ' I knew that you would make me cry'? I love the seraphic touch line, and the mystery of why he/she would not believe you? Pray tell.
Rob

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Thanks Rob - this was written awhile ago & you'll be pleased to know that I did 'walk away'! X

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Vicki - a helpless illogical love can destroy the besotted as easily as a car crash. Unfortunately most hearts are bound to have breakages. We can only hope the head doesn't suffer the same fate.
Rob

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Hi Cynthia

Just a short note to let you know how much I have enjoyed reading your sample poems.

In particular I like "The Dream-footer". It conjures up such strong images. The joy of the bare-footed dance and its release made me nod and smile.

I'm looking forward to reading more of your work, both past and future. There are so many good poets on this site!

:-)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Excellent rollicking descriptions and spot on with theme and variations with a dash of sexism to spice it up, all in good humour!! I only went to one quiz in my life, and found it distressing on account of my minimal drinking habits and my colleague's gargantuan ones. He was so pissed he lost all memory.

Nice one. Ray

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This has a gorgeous serpent like quality , embodying an elusive and mystical theme. Not sure where the ideas spring from, but it reminds me perhaps of Kahlil Gibran or the Arabian Nights. Worth a detailed read.
I enjoyed it a lot Jeremy.

Ray

Comment is about the muslim's tale iv (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Hi Rachael
there is some wonderful images and lines in here
sugared suns peppered with hate
^^ wonderful
as vicki mentioned, acid tongues spit twisted words is also fab.
the last line is very clever and ties the whole thing up.
confession - i dont much like this kind of poetry (woman-man, heartbreak etc) but this is one i'd come back to.
excellent.

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Whoop whoop!! Well done matey xxx

Comment is about Stepping up to the mic: Steve Pottinger is Write Out Loud's new chief executive (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Big thanks to you all for your lovely comments. It was such a huge experience that I had to somehow process it, and the best way for me to do that is through poetry. I think I aged about 10 years that night, mentally and emotionally, and I hadn't known how I was going to feel when it finally came around. It was totally different to what I imagined. I never even liked classical music prior to that!!

So anyway, thank you again, and thank the universe for poetry, eh?!

Comment is about The Melting of the Ice (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Laura

Thanks for your review of "The Rebel"

:-)

Jim

ps I don't wear a watch. Does that give it away, I wonder?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I really am sorry to be so late to respond to these magnificent poems, but at least I did in the end, and I am very happy to have read them. They're so dense and multi-layered, with a harsh core of the kind of brutally honest self-awareness that is incredibly rare in people these days. I am in awe.

Comment is about New Farmer (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith

Ha - and once again I find myself agreeing with Cynthia :D

"if only those people in Baltimore had done yoga
instead of tearing the city apart"

oof!

Comment is about Process (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith

I missed this somehow at the time, maybe I didn't have time to comment or something, but agree with Cynthia's comment. Tons going on in here. You have a real skill for this lark don't you?

Comment is about Vineyards (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith

Wow. This has so many layers of meaning, truly poetic. The blossoms are all wrong - yes, yes they are. This folds love and nature and what affects us all into the one poetic mix. Well worth re-reading to pick up on the nuances.

Another great poem.

Comment is about Dedication (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith

Lovely piece, full of the apathy and despair of winter, and the desperate need for 'growth and decay to pound me awake, the hot crisis of summer to pin me to my body', as well as yet another tender layer of nurturing. Absolutely spot on.

I identify with this so closely, and you have crafted it beautifully. Love it!

Comment is about Winter Growing (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith

Thanks Yvonne and Vicki - all aboard the nostalgia bus.
You have a point Yvonne with the last verse - but I still like it there!

Ray

Comment is about THAT WAS THE SEVENTIES (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ah brilliant, you blogged it :) I really like this, and have to say I identify with Raymond :)

I love the 'ordinariness' of the story-telling, and the heart-warming inner life and self-confidence of him. That kind of 'sod you world, I don't need you, I'm happy to be me'.

This is fab:

If it's right to comply
And wrong to be different,
Then Raymond accepted,
Without a care,
That he was a passive rebel.
So be it.

Pancho Villa, Che Guevara,
Robin Hood -
And Raymond

Start to finish, this is a cracker. Nice one :)

Comment is about The Rebel (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Excellent news. Best of luck, Steve!

Comment is about Stepping up to the mic: Steve Pottinger is Write Out Loud's new chief executive (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Haha you've just described my childhood! Nice one!

Comment is about THAT WAS THE SEVENTIES (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I like it - you've perfectly captured how our past can follow us - I hope you're not haunted forever! Vic x

Comment is about Haunted (blog)

Original item by Pauliegreg

Oh yes waiting & not staring - I get that that!

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Haha!! Love it! Although I'm always better at the general knowledge round than the show biz/celebrities - but in music I excel (being a musician an all that!!)

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Acid tongues spit twisted words

I love that! It's an apt description of a tortured relationship - I like it - Vic x

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Wow thanks for your comment on Foreboding Martin - I'm delighted to be compared to the Bard! Xx

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Wow thank you Martin! That was the line that started the whole piece if I'm honest. Thanks again x

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Hi Ray

Glad you enjoyed "The Rebel". Eccentricity rules!

(Talking of which, you didn't imagine Jimmy Greaves; I had mentioned him on Graham's profile when I commented on his "Sis" poem)

Stay well

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

Aha. Cynicism becomes you. A jolly poke at the IT generation!

Comment is about SAME THING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

To take these intimate moments and cast them so well in words which convey a breathtaking intensity of emotions is a great skill.
I love the way you have linked it with Finlandia. You have coloured the way I perceive that piece now.

Comment is about The Melting of the Ice (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Ah the beauty of nostalgia is we can edit our memories.

I like the pace of this, so resplendant with sharply penned images.

I prefer it without the last verse since the title has already established the era.

Comment is about THAT WAS THE SEVENTIES (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Your groupies put on quite a show
It seems there's not much they don't know
But ask them this please if you will
Can a woman really MAN a quill?
I know this query's quite a tester
But as someone from Personchester
I'd really like to know if there's
An anti-PC group that cares
Not one whit for the thought police antics
But finds their pleasure in semantics.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

So glad I read this one- several times. Lovely writing.

Comment is about THE BIRTH (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Esp like the fourth stanza..."words that were said and words unsaid hanging in the air, barging into your head when least expected "...words,memories, it's all about learning to turn things around when the buggers show up ! Great insight x

Comment is about Haunted (blog)

Original item by Pauliegreg