The frustrations are enjoyably conveyed...DIY can be the best way when the professionals have failed. As the saying goes: if you want a job done right, do it yourself! I have a second floor flat door that displays the various characteristics described in these lines. When that's indoors, it's weird!!
Comment is about Ode to Perfection (blog)
Ha ha, MC, please feel free to write whatever kind of riposte you like!
I guess there are idiots of all sorts out there!
Comment is about Live And Let Live? (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Thank you Cynthia. Yes, it was one of those soundless Olympic speedsters that prompted this poem!
Comment is about Live And Let Live? (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
As a lifelong cyclist - country, coast and central London (I dare you to be THERE on a bike!!), I sympathise with the writer's unwanted experiences with those pedestrians on
wheels (NO cyclists, they!) met over the years.
But I have also met people on foot who should
have a minder when out in public. Have you seen the particular variety who stands alone by
a pedestrian crossing & steps blithely out into
the road to stop the only car within a hundred yards?! Or who wanders along completely oblivious to anyone or anything around him/her?
I'm thinking of writing a riposte to put the
genuine cyclist's POV...so there!!
Comment is about Live And Let Live? (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Worth the writing and well worth the reading.The contrast of the images of new life in spring with the man-made platitudes that surround death and its tragedy is powerful. It is as if Walt Whitman met Sir John
Betjeman!
Comment is about Spring. (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
A moving observation on facets of old age, tho'
I am uncertain of the focus (from whom/to whom?) of the content. I loved the line "this
great flotilla of zimmers".
Comment is about Old Money (Fete Day at the Old People's Home) (blog)
Original item by Andrew Brown
What a lovely sonnet Lynn, I enjoyed the read thanks.
Comment is about Seeing Through The Rain (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Nick: Thank you! The first two quatrains (are supposed to) form an octet. ababcdcdefefgg is a pretty standard Shakespearean sonnet form.
Yvonne was joking that if I added a letter to my name I'd have fourteen letters, to parallel the fourteen lines of a sonnet.
Comment is about Examination (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
On a second read I can't stop giggling at the "She feels that life will leave her flat somehow". Hehehehehe. Beautifully crafted!
Comment is about A Cup (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I had a bit of a go at the Old English a la Heaney & Beowulf (OK and lots of older poets whose names I don't know). It's kind of addictive ...
Comment is about Metre (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Enjoyed this - plenty of good political and biting comment, combined with, as Andrew says, a spring poem.
Comment is about Spring. (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
Hi, there, Mr Coopey! The irony of the word 'syllabically' is that we don't actually use them all...
Comment is about Metre (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Guess what I'm going to say, Steve? (provided you've read my 13th Floor comments first.) This is a great perversion of the average spring poem (you know, the one we all had to write in school)and you hit us with some wonderfully potent images right from the top and by the time you get to line thirteen you've said it. Stop. You're a serious talent, Steve, keep them coming.
Comment is about Spring. (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
Beautiful, and moving, esp last two lines. A lovely piece well constructed.
Comment is about our bench (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
I love the musicality you get into these lines without once seeming to strive for it. A very effective tale simply told and made so much more poignant by the mundane details of looking round a bare flat. I'm not sure that the second half is really needed - to my mind, you've said everything you need to say supremely well in your first three stanzas. Great work.
Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)
Original item by steve pottinger
Love it.
Comment is about 2005 (blog)
Yep. That line about the first note in a peal of bells is an absolute belter. A lovely poem - thank you, Ann.
Comment is about our bench (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Slightly different words in the audio - I like both versions!
Comment is about The Schoolmistress (blog)
Original item by Nick Coleman
Try buying a new mouse John - last time I had the same problem I had a faulty mouse. x
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Gareth - I'm enjoying seeing your work on the blogs. I just wondered if the line spacing wasn't working for you. Not sure if you want your work to be laid out like prose but suspect not due to capital letters and longer spaces between some words, and your profile poems. I think this format (looking like prose) might put some people off reading it too which would be a shame. I am not at all technical but if the poems aren't looking as you want them to then do let me know and we'll see what the probelm is.
Comment is about Gareth Mathias (poet profile)
Original item by Gareth Mathias
I really like this. Touching and well-observed.
Comment is about The Plum Tree (blog)
Original item by Gareth Mathias
Hello Andrew - welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy being part of WOL - and find it productive too! Hope to see some of your work on the blog section of the site. Stuff gets more attention there than on the profiles.
Comment is about Andrew Brown (poet profile)
Original item by Andrew Brown
Hi John,
thanks for your kind message on my profile and for your entertaining and skillful poems. It is a joy to read the work of a fellow poet who enjoys playing with words (and the guitar).XX
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
oh this is just smashing. i love this kind of diary type reflection.i am assuming its autobiographical, perhaps not? agreed with cynthia very well written. suppose you were busy scribbling whilst all the bands looked like they were thrashing up the fury and they were but someone has to write it down.im glad you were there, really in it. i meet old friends all the time and we stare wistful that its all gone now while the new madness whirls around in different ways...theres no way of stopping the music, it still sounds in the rhythms of your brain. i danced my way through every body elses band and its a great thing that i did, theres no band without an audience. oh look im going on, a good write inspires another good ramble. nice one :)
Comment is about 2005 (blog)
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)
Original item by Jeffarama!
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Graham Robinson (poet profile)
Original item by Graham Robinson
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
I'm with you, J.C. Having your metre read is a
gas!
Comment is about Metre (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)
Original item by Chris Co
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)
Original item by Winston Plowes
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Yvonne/Harry...many thanks for the comments.
They help keep the "positive" positive!! :-)
Comment is about THE BEST AND WORST OF THINGS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hear,Hear!!
I've long had a feeling that maybe many of those who write free verse have not actually got an 'ear' for the discipline of metre and rhyme.Their symbolism, imagery and leaps of faith into uncharted allegory may well be first class but for me are not as delicious to savour as full bodied verses flowing and ebbing in a rhythmical rhyming structure.
To me, free verse is a different discipline,difficult to master in its own right.
Comment is about Metre (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Wow! The last two lines are a killer - still got tears in my eyes. You Have beautifully encapsulated the moods in such well turned phrases. Wonderful! XX
Comment is about our bench (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Love the emotions explored here. The sleepless night is so well portrayed and the contrast between the banal: - wife asleep/ stroke the cat, the picturesque; moon climbs high/ like a searchlight, hard,callous: end its life,banging, cold/shivering,emphasises the confused thoughts and feelings of the subject.
Comment is about Jury Duty (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
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Sun 15th Apr 2012 20:17
Beautiful. I love the wit and wisdom of the words. xx
Comment is about Chatting With Ari (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
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Sun 15th Apr 2012 19:33
Those are two scary titties John...I think she would pop if pricked (ahem) Enjoyed the humour x
Comment is about Mammaries Are Made Of This (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A sad reflection of how the world can turn on you. I, like Harry, enjoyed the pace and rhymes of this. Nice one. XX
Comment is about THE BEST AND WORST OF THINGS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I like the concept in this poem. The first/last verse have a lovely rhythm.
Comment is about Mornin' On The Desert (blog)
Original item by Ushiku Crisafulli
Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on 'A Cup'. I hadn't thought of it as a politcal statement but I see what you mean. It was actually the result of a challenge in a poetry group I belonged to to write a poem about a cup. Being me with my contrary streak I thought of 'bra size' not 'drinking vessel'.
I do , however, deplore the trend for folks to need to appear to have the perfect body or whatever fashion dictates this year. I think that the only statement this really makes of the need to conform is "I am a sheep!" - Not for me!
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Absolutely absorbing, in a free-fall style that suits the subject perfectly. It makes me think of James Joyce somehow, that falling-over-itself mixture of dreams, hope and harsh reality, the in-and-out of speech, thoughts and actions. I'm not saying this very well. The poem has charisma.
Comment is about 13th Floor (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
Travis Brow
Sun 15th Apr 2012 17:22
Thank you very much Cynthia. I don't know if i'm too young to be thinking of death so much but middle age beckons and the older i get the older those around me get and inevitably the closer i am to it all.
Comment is about Morbidity and Mortality (blog)
Anne,
Agree with all (particularly the accurately observed changing shape of the setting moon, and particularly the way you`ve ended it with the `little knowing...and the - sad? - `hoping for a star`)
Relieved to see you back.
Comment is about our bench (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
As always, effective use of blank verse to express a mood....It reads differently (to me) depending on whether the first two lines signify before - or after - the jury service...(in particular how to interpret the line:`Your heart beats like a hammer`(If it`s before, it seems to signify anxiety...ifafter, then some sort of panicky guilt...with the cat affording some comfort or relief)
Comment is about Jury Duty (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Hazel
Mon 16th Apr 2012 20:40
Lovely poem Stella. :)
Comment is about After a Long Day (blog)