'Dark like his heart, and glistening silver...'
A good insight on how an object can influence a persons mind. I liked this.
Comment is about The Ring (blog)
Original item by Amy
The Cure, Midge Ure and Wigan Casino without Northern Soul. Really enjoyed this and some great inferences to excellent music. Love it.
Comment is about Rock n' Roll Love Poem! (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
Just discovered the title and had to look to see if it was the Bowden Hill between Chippenham and Melksham off the A350. Very pleasantly surprised to find it was. Lovely insight into bygone days without cycle helmets and brought back good memories of cotter-pins, punctures and centre-pull brakes. Enjoyed this and The Menin Gate very much.
Comment is about BOWDEN HILL DAYS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Rhythmic, vibrant and in your face. She certainly captures this Brazilian Football Fest... and I bet she can explain the 'offside' laws. Wonderful observations.
Comment is about 'It's still a game that anyone can play with anyone, anywhere': Hollie McNish captures that World Cup moment (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
that last line 'chocolate cake' is mad but kinda finishes the piece off perfect.
great stuff.
when's volume 2 coming out of the collage pieces, john?
Comment is about Willpower - June Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
really enjoyed last monday guys. really made me smile. the really short poems suited everybody.
already looking forward to july's.
see you all soon.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
it was good ....
Comment is about Tricia Hague-Barrett (poet profile)
Original item by Tricia Hague-Barrett
Fri 13th Jun 2014 08:25
Marianne, very happy to be left hard work to do as a reader. Never let that challenge prevent you from saying what you want to say how you want to say it - there are lots of difficult poets around, especially modern ones. Don't compromise your self-expression. We will all get from your work our own stuff...everything is only a reflection of self.
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Harry's 'analysis' is impressive. And your subsequent approval of it speaks volumes. I must miss so much.
But I do find Beauty - a cognizance of life, shared with great insight and sympathetic interweaving of time, space, matter and myth. I admire your scope of connectedness to all forms of human wisdom.
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Charming metaphor, like an incantation, that could be for any 'threshold' situation, real or imagined. Skilful diction and sustained metre/rhyme control.
Comment is about The threshold folk (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
Hi I really liked Piazza very different
Comment is about Adele Ward (poet profile)
Original item by Adele Ward
Thank you
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I really like this. For me,it's not easy to follow through individual lines, but then it suddenly drops into your mind whole. I think that your premise is: Listening dominates the 'projected' five senses, perhaps because it is the only interactive sense, like shared views/debate? Or not.
......
Just read your impressive profile. You'll like it here on WOL; it's a very supportive site. The lack of comments does not mean no admirers.
Comment is about The Sound of Photographs (blog)
Original item by John Eliot
Girl, you are GOOD. Capturing with such strength, and destroying so effectively, barriers between the simple and the complex. I so admire your scope.
Surely even the title ALARM is loaded with meanings.
Comment is about Alarm (blog)
Original item by Jane Ozkowski
So another 'man and cat' poem is in the eternal ether, and it's every bit as good as any prior ones.
Which famous illustrated Christian book has the picture of the monk/scribe sitting with his cat? Is that the one with the monk's little erection sticking up? Copying was tedious work.
Comment is about Pur(-ef)fect (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
Lol you see my eyes truly are bad :)
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Thanks so much that typo must of happened when I pasted Ta very much as I never noticed
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Oh, help!
Check out 'bits of glass' - just a typo, but it would look better corrected.
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
This has passion and considerable beauty. 'nocturnal theatre of my dreams' and 'metaphors in my soul' are lovely images.
Comment is about Your lips... (blog)
Original item by Noris Roberts
Not a great poem just a bit of fun but thanks for the comments folks :)
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Thank you, I couldn't agree with you more.
Comment is about What is today? (blog)
Original item by Outside of Comfort
Hi Richard - don't get back from hols until around midnight on Friday - so can't make Cadence until S
aturday PM session
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Love will cancel the fear
A Father who has left
Will still always love you
Because he has never stopped
Each time you start crying
He guides the hand that
Will wipe away your tears.
Comment is about What is today? (blog)
Original item by Outside of Comfort
Hi m8 are you going to Cadence Friday night
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
May the spring of hope lead to a summer of peace
and a safe future.
Comment is about Spring Meets Summer (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
I think the title took me back to those hazy
endless days when Jerry Keller sang a song with
almost the same title when I was a teenager.
Certainly, the sentiment stays strong, with the
sun always lifting the spirits. But there is
still something sneaking into my mind that tells
me when enough is enough - and I long for the
brisk breeze of autumn and those swirling leaves
about my feet. Not for me those perpetual blue "California skies".
Comment is about Here Comes The Summer (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
From adversity can come a life-enhancing reversal:
the determination never to be like the types who
inflict cruelty on others, usually the helpless
or dependent. In-family cruelty is somehow worse
because it seems self-fulfilling down the
generations UNLESS there is the will and the support to defy the pattern and save those coming
after. One of the greatest compliments that can
be paid to a human being is the simple adjective
"kind". How tragic that so many don't recognise
that or aspire to it.
Comment is about FATHERHOOD GONE AWRY! (blog)
Original item by Tricia Hague-Barrett
Thanks for a great review Cato. I must say I find the cover rather intriguing and quite Hebridean. Perhaps it is a bit dark tho. Thanks again.
Comment is about Moontide: Niall Campbell, Bloodaxe (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It is one of the kinder aspects of ageing that
it's usually a slow process of acclimatisation.
The sudden loss of a faculty is always shocking
but in general...
You have to adapt, you have to adjust,
Until your body goes to dust!
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Intriguing in content and construction...an
analogy of just about any of the hard choices met
in life, mental and physical.
Comment is about Hand of dust (blog)
Original item by Christopher Dawson
Travis Brow
Thu 12th Jun 2014 06:34
Thank you Harry.
Comment is about DARK AND WET ONE WINTER MORNING. (blog)
Very good twist on the perception the reader holds. Well, very good twist on perception period.
Comment is about Pur(-ef)fect (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
M.C.
iF UKIP has its way your points will be met
1...we will rule ouselves
2...Immigration will be soley our decision.
3...As Stella Creasey is trying to point out our home-born staff just never arrived in time to grow and be trained for the positions, so we will have to use all those billions we save from getting out of the E.U. to pay for new immigrants to come over (but it will be purely our own decision) to man the NHS. Our politicos will - as always - keep splurging our money on home-grown jaunts and various international visits
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Difficult to `suss` this.
I like, though, that introductory stanza and the
line:
The way sadness slowly slides from a broken heart
Comment is about Alarm (blog)
Original item by Jane Ozkowski
Keep smilin` Richard and don`t let the blurry
b...stards grind you down.
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
M.C,
Ah!..if only?
Comment is about "HARSH WORDS FOR DIRE POETS" (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
It`s all exactly (and poetically) good. But I
particularly like the sound of `drizzle wraiths`
Comment is about DARK AND WET ONE WINTER MORNING. (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Wed 11th Jun 2014 23:44
thanks for letting us know you are still in the land of the living Dave.Whatever happened to your pink wig,we'd like to know?xx
Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Dunn
As a highly educated `language savvy` user Jeremy
Paxman chairing the Forward judges, - despite feeling better- says that poets have connived with their own irrelevance, must engage more with the people as a whole. And should submit to an explanatory `inquisition` by those people....I could not agree with him more. (preceded by an inquisition by the poets themselves into their own poetry) If poetry has become irrelevant to the increasingly educated ordinary person then something is seriously wrong and the poets should do something about it.
George Sirtzes answer in the Guardian that poetry is felt rather than understood simply will not do. How can we persuade the ordinary person to feel something after we tell him that he cannot understand it? Words, as Sirtzes says, carry a
baggage of music, context, allusion, history, and attachment. Indeed. and it is precisely these allusions which can be explained and understood as leading up to that `eureka` of poetic realization. Comprehension is an exactly inclusive word for the process but you arrive by elucidating the verbal path.
Comment is about Poets should engage with ordinary people much more, says Forward prize chairman Paxman (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (9882)
Wed 11th Jun 2014 20:11
Dave,please keep them coming.Thank you.x
Comment is about Winebar in Worktown (blog)
Original item by Dave Morgan
"The man on the Clapham omnibus" was more
related to the courtroom and the legal eagles'
remarks to a jury about the application of the common sense that was widely expected/respected in
the mind of the down to earth British working man.
The connection between common sense and
comprehension still has relevance.
Comment is about Poets should engage with ordinary people much more, says Forward prize chairman Paxman (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Write out Loud is ahead of the game then on the Smokestack front. Watch this space for a forthcoming review of "Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust" edited by Thomas Orszag-Land
Comment is about Never mind the Forward: Smokestack publisher's breath of fresh air (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wed 11th Jun 2014 11:53
Nice one Dave! full to bursting,stretching the skin of words.
Steve Smith
Comment is about First Date (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
M.C. Newberry
Fri 13th Jun 2014 19:28
Hello Daniel - thanks for your comments on "Bowden
Hill". As the song goes: "Ah yes...I remember it well." I have many happy memories of those
distant Wiltshire schooldays and I understand
that Bowden Hill is one of the recognised "hill
climbs" in today's competitive cycling world.
Having read your poem "The Place Where Only Dead Men sleep", I can appreciate your affinity with
"The Menin Gate".
Lest we forget!
Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran