Thank you Shirley so pleased you liked it, and do you know its about a year old and so often people miss its very obvious meaning, you understood it perfectly.
No I cant paint for toffee so I didn't do the artwork but it is a great pic.
As a father who home-educated his son and was the house wife if you like, I have maybe a better understanding of motherhood than many men xx thanks
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Beautiful! Just beautiful. I think as adults we all fear, the growing up of our children, or crave to return to when our children were younger.
Beautiful artwork. Did you do this?
Very moving poem.
Shirley
Comment is about Mother's Autumn (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Cheers for the comments on The Writing Class, MC; allusions to Betjeman muchly appreciated too - I'm beginning to think that structured, formal verse is most definitely frowned on by today's poetic community (someone recently commented that no rhymed poetry stands a chance of winning comps or being published) so comparison with someone of his stature stands as no small compliment.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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In the tradition of R.L. Stevenson - a charming
piece of imagery.
Comment is about We Visited A Rainbow (blog)
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 17th May 2013 14:52
A painful and consistently accurate portrait ofwhat it is like to endure the loss of a parent(or anyone as close) to that terrible thief of identity and existence.
I know and empathise!
Comment is about Forget me not (blog)
Original item by tina
I was reminded in passing of "What is this life, so full of care..."
Enjoyed this as a gentle reminder to keep the
innocence of childhood fresh.
..................
Let the child within you live
Even while you earn a living
And you'll not lose the gift to give
Or the gift of others giving!
Comment is about CATCH THE RAIN (blog)
Original item by Pete Slater
LOL - thank you Richard - I really enjoyed myself last night.
Performance poetry is all about hip action and don't let anyone tell you otherwise ;)
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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fantastic. this is poetry to me, in seagreen with anenomes :)
i also love the sea., but it totally scares me..i can get overwhelmed ina fear of the sea...not the splashy waves and ripplets of the shore but the sheer size and tumultous prescence of its muscley wet arms travelled in only a few miles.. writhing around in the gales of winds capable of smashing whole towns out and the speed of a tsunami wave. its like a great mercurial beast..it scares me witless. i dont even want to think about what lurks underneath. deep in the deepest deep where explorers know more of space than of its creatures ut i love its peace. its noise is massive but it sounds in the ear and brain like white noise and people are speechless by its lull....i love everything of being near the sea and tales of sailors and mermaids..truley,this one is beautiful xx
Comment is about Treading Waters (blog)
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Thu 16th May 2013 19:04
I really like this
Comment is about Latest Mental Health Poem: In Therapy (blog)
Original item by Gemma Lees
So true Ian, Thank you for your comment :) x
Comment is about Forget me not (blog)
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Richard - thanks for the comment you left on "Dambuster". I look forward to reading your "Lancaster" poem in due course.
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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It inspired me also I have always loved aviation which helps, but I titled a poem after watching the news today called Lancaster,
which I will write down the line )
Comment is about DAMBUSTER (blog)
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I love the nautical imagery. I love the surprise of the language. Very arresting. What are your influences?
Comment is about Treading Waters (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Thank you for your time and comment, Richard. I love the sea too and the way it can mother me similarly.
Take care.
Comment is about Treading Waters (blog)
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Love this, your lines brake and ebb and it invokes so much, on a personal level for me.
My soul is bound to the sea, I am never more calm then when close to it, never happier.
I found her hair tangling around
my ankles; a translucent green
seaweed to me )
Comment is about Treading Waters (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Very moving Tina - I also lost my mum to Alzheimers and other age related illness a couple of years ago - and also wrote a poem called 'forget me not' which is somewhere down the list on my profile/blog page.
It is something that destroys you as a child, because you 'lose' the one you love before you actuaslly lose them - if that makes sense?
Ian
Comment is about Forget me not (blog)
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Hi Richard, great poem, I enjoyed this.
Comment is about Cruel Impossible Love (blog)
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Hi Isobel, thank you for your kind comments on perspective. I haven't written much lately, so greatly appreciated. I like your 52 Hertz idea, I shall have to get thinking! xx
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Posted as part of Mental Health Blog Day - http://www.yourmindyourbody.org/mental-health-month-blog-day/
Comment is about Bottling (blog)
Original item by Winston Plowes
Scary stuff. It seems unimaginable that a history, a homeland, a nation can just disappear like that - possibly more easy to accept when it's on this scale - but imagine when it's Holland...
I like the reference to the tracing of circles - it brings to mind the grid lines on a map. if I was better at geography I'd know what those circles are called but the word escapes me.
Comment is about Kiribati (blog)
Original item by David Blake
Oh dear - you sound that bad do you? Well, at least I can vouch for your voice being pleasantly low Ian, even if it is tuneless!
David, Ian - everyone - I'm really looking forward to hearing your poems.
In fact I've changed my mind about offering a prize. I just received something from Nick (who organised the last one) in the post and it was a lovely surprise - made a change from bills and charity bags at any rate. So, there will be something little for first prize - so long as you trust me with your address :)
Comment is about 52 Hertz (blog)
Original item by Isobel
I will enter something official for this shortly Isobel - but here's a haiku for a bit of fun:
Fifty Two Hurts
I sang you that song
every week for a year
and still I’m alone…..
those who have heard my sound samples will understand :-)
Comment is about 52 Hertz (blog)
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Uschi Wheeler
Wed 15th May 2013 15:36
"Mad Experiment" sounds like a fantastic concept!
My first language is German but I write poetry in English. At school I was fascinated how well Shakespeare translated, to the point of suspecting an underlying conspiracy.
I have six publications to show for and had an article about rhyme published in the October issue of WOL.
If I can help, I'm up for it!
Uschi Wheeler
Comment is about Mad experiment on Write Out Loud – translating poems online! (article)
First - thanks for your kind comment on my last post.
"We laugh...we jest...
To forestall the final rest!"
Second: love your line "I'm glummer than a raindrop falling on a hearse" (above) in a very funny poem. Priceless!
Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)
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Hi Gemma I like this very much, its harsh but so poetic and invokes a perfect sense of the place, nice )
Comment is about Bury Market (blog)
Original item by Gemma Lees
Hot kitten
Sexual appetite
lover's dream
uncertain future
means that
it will
broken again
and again
and again.
Comment is about Morning Shower (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
Slight Drawback
Heaton Arts
lady designer
foreign translation
Julian explains
blue trousers
golfer gear
political split
why not!
french poem
ohh lala
doctor ambushed
badly beaten
varied selection
fine poetry
only one
slight drawback
no time
collage poem.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
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Yvonne,
That bloody Coopey feller again!...He gets all of them!...It`s the youth, isn`t it...and the guitar?...that sound you can hear is my teeth grinding...all four of them.
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
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Hi Ann I really enjoyed Breathing, for me the sound of the words almost made me lose sight of the meaning, if that makes sense wonderful )
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
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Hey John kind words as ever, the picture is the profile one) its a beautiful painting, of for me a beautiful place
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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Thought your Blackpool poem had gone mate,was looking for it then found it here.'Sweet smell from pink hair to eat.Clowns of glass,elephants and rock.' Love it,but didnt it have a posting of its own with the brill pic?
I could taste the candyfloss,feel its sticky sweetness as I read this.'Charm,romance,beauty!nostalgia'
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Great poem Richard,sad/heartbreaking but full of depth and experience.
Comment is about Cruel Impossible Love (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
thunder-inward
cosmos needle points
of angry miracles
like this very much
Comment is about Eye (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
What a very clever form this takes Tommy, really, really innovative, the sort of thing you wish you'd done yourself. Well done! Left frustratingly hanging. Graham
Comment is about 00:01 (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I like this very much Lynn I have a real love for green fields and golden meadows and I know it twists at the end but it still invokes beautiful imagery on a personal level for me :)
Comment is about perspective (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Thanks for your kind comments on 'eyrie avenue' jonnie - glad you liked it - i hope it stayed just on this side of eerie - and the pay-off is the thought of what/who else is behind those other twitching curtains.
You know - I'd never even thought about the dual connotation of 'horny' and now I do I want to change it :-)
Cheers
Ian
Comment is about Jonnie Falafel (poet profile)
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I'd be well up for doing something too. They are fracking here in West Sussex...
Comment is about Whole lot of shaking going on: poets join fight against fracking (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
thanks for commenting on 'eyrie avenue' Yvonne - it's an older poem of mine and the characters are actual people - glad you liked it
Ian
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
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Thank you for the encouraging words Jonnie
Comment is about Paul Sands (poet profile)
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Do watch the video! There's a bit of everything at Sunday Xpress, it seems. It's not just poetry, it's true; but listening to the stories unfold in this very enjoyable piece of film, this venue in Brum does seem to have many typical characteristics - and characters - that Write Out Louders will recognise. And, as Brendan says, it keeps him out of the bookies.
Comment is about Poetry and all that jazz: Birmingham's Sunday Xpress at Adam & Eve (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
IKEA is brilliant. Haven't laughed so much for a long time. Very funny.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Love the satire. These are my kind of poems. Superb.
Comment is about Your First Hut Is The Cheapest (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I like the dark humour. Very witty.
Comment is about THE MAGICAL MEDICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND (blog)
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Shirley Smothers
Fri 17th May 2013 17:41
Hello again Richard. My husband was the stay at home parent for two years. So he has seen the pro and con of at home parenting. Your poem "Mother's Autumn" speaks well of this.
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
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