Wow, beautiful poem, I love this - conjures so many different thoughts and feelings, and has a such a poignant close. Fantastic.

Thank you for sharing.

Comment is about Meta (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Enjoyed reading this, but more so listening to it. He reads with great conviction and clarity and excellent pacing. I guess it's essentially a list poem (or "pome" as he pronounces it) and eminently suited for the occasion.

Comment is about Poet Richard Blanco reads One Today at Obama inauguration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Really enjoyed the poem. It could have become a bit oversentimental but just managed to steer away from that. I liked the imagery in it - the roofline/story connection stays in mind, also the dreadful implications of the children marked forever absence. It does bring a lump to the throat.

Meanwhile, I'm sure I'm not the only woman wondering why he has to be gay! Sorry for that superficial comment - couldn't help it :)

Comment is about Poet Richard Blanco reads One Today at Obama inauguration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

When floating on the surface
From out of the deep
Comes a light of hope
Faith grabs hold and takes
The deep from the demons
Who are drowning your soul.

Comment is about Deep Down Inside (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Hi Cynthia Thanks so much for the encouragement re my 'postcard'. I wasn't sure if they be of any intetrested to others. I've done about 18 so far and have really enjoyed using a form that is very short, but enables you to use some quirky little memory, but then open up a pathway to something bigger. THemes are also beginning to link them up as well. I'll keep you informed!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

What a wonderful, touching poem, weaving the universal with the personal, the topical with the timeless. Greg, well done getting this up. I hope we can get lots of folks reading/listening to it.
Now, Mr O, time for action.

Comment is about Poet Richard Blanco reads One Today at Obama inauguration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you all, much obliged. T

Comment is about La Vida Local (blog)

Hi Tony, thought I recognised the face! Good to meet you at Mole Valley Poets the other night, and thanks for the welcome and hospitality. Greg (Woking Stanza group)

Comment is about Tony Earnshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Tony Earnshaw

Thanks for the welcome - I'll do that

Comment is about Tony Earnshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Tony Earnshaw

Hi John,
Thank you for the compliment - I don't have the means to do audio on here but these tales do originate from live performances of 'Hunting The Great White Prawn'.
Them sailors and their Rum ration eh?, they treated it as gold dust by all accounts!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Harry,
I see you've been rooting through my back issue!
Yes, this is one I did when I came over last year. I thought I'd give it a re-post along with the triolet poem we chorused.
Hope you're keeping well and pleased to see that we have both been spared for another year!

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

John,
Was this the one you read when you guested
at Liscard?...Thoroughly enjoyed!

Comment is about The Plays of William Shakespeare (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A truly heartfelt poem that everyone can relate to in some way.
And what a deeply profound line too - 'the impossible vocabulary of sorrow' ...

Comment is about Poet Richard Blanco reads One Today at Obama inauguration (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Maybe you are right Cynthia, nevertheless here I prefer the infinitive at the end. Regards

Comment is about In the maze (blog)

Original item by Carla Tombacco

Steve,
I understand and agree that the theory of Evolution allows all the different - and even contrary beliefs that you speak of. for me it`s the so-called `science` of the thing.

I can, at least read well, and When I read the explanations of the theory intended for the layman I can`t help feeling the `evidence` for the theory is presented in the conviction that Evolution is already incontrovertibly proven. But I don`t find this at all. Quite frankly I find the surmises of some of the paleological bone guys to be quite hilarious `evidence` `I mean: The fish with the bony fins hauling themselves up on to the land - (one can`t help wondering - were they dreaming about one day turning into elephants?)

Despite all this impressive talk about it being an `elegant theory` I can`t escape the feeling that, as they say, I`m being `blinded with science`...It`s all a bit too glib and trendyfor me.

Comment is about Should he go to Specsavers? (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Love this, a great play with the words and a lovely lilting cadence to the rhymes ( I too have an affinity for rhyme)
On holiday in deepest Wales once I decided the sign on the door which read CLOOPSEEND must be the welsh word for OPEN. It was days before I realised that the sliding section of the sign was missing and I was reading an amalgamation of closed and open. Never thought about turning it into a poem though.

Comment is about A Trick of the Eye. (blog)

odd you should say that. sent a shiver down my spine....

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Hi Yvonne,
Thank you for your comments on Rum, Weedy and Bilgewater-not only will it blow your head off, it'll take your socks with it!

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

hahaha.. Lovely it.

Thank you for your kind words.

Comment is about Introducing Pros&Coms (blog)

Original item by Pros&Coms

thankyou for your comments on December
not really a poem to 'enjoy' so thankyou for reading

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

if one is a sweet old dear at 50 there's sod all hope for me (unless Phil Fletcher gets off his pussyogenetic horse)
Your prezzies could have been more imaginative. ( ref my poem The New Me)
A witty ditty.

Comment is about Old Ladies (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

love this - and the title is great. xx

Comment is about La Vida Local (blog)

I was just browsing, and glad i did, really love your poems. Great works :)

Comment is about The Plays of William Shakespeare (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Wow, Christina! what are you doing wading through my back catalogue!?
Many thanks for reading "The Plays of William Shakespeare". Glad you liked it. If you enjoyed this you might like some more of my other nonsense stuff to be found on my Profile page.

Comment is about tina (poet profile)

Original item by tina

Wow, Christina! what are you doing wading through my back catalogue!?
Many thanks for reading "The Plays of William Shakespeare". Glad you liked it. If you enjoyed this you might like some more of my other nonsense stuff to be found on my Profile page.

Comment is about The Plays of William Shakespeare (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Neat!

Comment is about Going knowing gone (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks guys. Shame I don't seem to have the same skills in stocks, shares and horses!

Comment is about Countdown to TS Eliot prize: how the contenders performed (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Crikey! I've got some catching up to do if this is what unrhymed poems are. Grrrreat! ps e lied about omit of (whatever's missing) ta v. muchly,

Comment is about A Trick of the Eye. (blog)

you have tamed the elusive raw sinusoidal flow that we would love to reign from time to time or tool to tool, great stuff - far to good for us beginers, ta muchly,

Comment is about Tools of the Trade. (blog)

hic et ubique - the masterful TB grows and glows before us all as we search for dotage! ta muchly,

Comment is about La Vida Local (blog)

She is the one bonding strength
That keeps you both as one.

Comment is about Grief (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

We all exploit experience, for better or worse. Thanks Patricia and Stefan.

Comment is about Tools of the Trade. (blog)

Hi Yvonne, some great lines hee and I like the structure of the poem, great twist at the end! Thanx for comment on Double Barrel Deidre X

Comment is about The Last Kiss (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I gather thou doest like not the December of joy and happiness. 'begins dark, ends black' Grief's not endless, although, there is plenty to go round. Tight and engaging, ta muchly,

Comment is about December (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Really fine piece of patois. Nailed it good boss. Fighting for peace is tantamount to fucking for virginity, hey man wot you tink?
ta muchly,

Comment is about Ma Third Eye (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

The brief and yet wonderful two-week world, and repeated year on. No expectation of things others know. The main world is the inside of a box. Never known is never missed. The brighter side of things not taken. A great joy, ta muchly.

Comment is about january fairy (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I was going to stay with knowing but now I'm not so sure. Well, should I go and leave it 'cos I wanted somewhat more? ta muchly, nick.

Comment is about Going knowing gone (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

hello, 'some daft missing link 'ere' this is wonderfully different, smashing idea young man, [he said knowingly] ta muchly, nick.

Comment is about Should he go to Specsavers? (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

I thought you said you wasn't takin' the piss?
of course mine are incompetent pants, ta muchly, nick.

Comment is about Old Ladies (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ah windmills - I love that song.
Not being too quixotic are we?

Comment is about Going knowing gone (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Well that's where were different Ann. I never have a problem with the tune - its the damn words - but if I try really hard, eventually they come, like magic out of nowhere!

Thanks for welcoming me. x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you for your warm welcome. I think were gonna get along just fine :)

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

What a rotter. I hope he doesn't filch any of my song lyrics!

Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Mia. Nice to meet a cheese lover! Must try the cheese in wholemeal one! Great poem. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about CHEESE (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Always good to hear about new poetry nights. Best of luck with it.
I am sure there are lots of poets on here who are in your neck of the woods.
Now do woods have necks?
Have to debate the pros and cons of that.

Comment is about Introducing Pros&Coms (blog)

Original item by Pros&Coms

Although tainted by association with Gove, I am hopeful that this could be enjoyable for all concerned. It so much depends on how it is handled though.

Comment is about Poetry by heart: here are the rules for pupils, and the poems (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Only when genius steals the result is something much improved. Ordinary little backyard scrumpers don't add value.

Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

http://www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com Noel Harrison ;o)

http://youtu.be/f5IRI4oHKNU

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Ward the gobshite will go into re-hab then have a series of radio and press interviews planned, his next (hurried) work will be a best seller and no doubt a Hollywood deal is being 'considered'. Hahaha
''Talent borrows, genius steals'' Wilde- that makes Ward a 'genius'?

Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Gruesome and Grisly!! Wonderful vocabulary, some great phrases You have really got into the mindset of the person(?)

Comment is about Oh Darkness, Sweet Darkness (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin