You read a lot of poems on this site, the good the bad and the indifferent. And then something hits you. I am so pleased you made a comment on my poem, or I would have never looked at yours. (That's the one weakness, and positive point, there are too many poems here to read.)This is not only a lovely poem but clever. It tells of Grandpa in his garden and place of worship. Probably as a quaker how he lived his life. I shall read some more of your poems.

Comment is about Grandpa's plot (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Some neato rhymes in here chuck: I especially chortled at pelican/hell 'e can. Groovy!

Comment is about The Newberry Dye-Pass Crossing AKA The Rules Of The Road. (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

thanx Yvonne most ppl dont like it as its short and like a news report. write it in turkey in the late 90s on holiday.xxx

Comment is about AN UNFORTUNATE DEATH (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

CBT, Hi,
ref Dinner Date, or should that be: 'Inner Date' one never knows! you alone have delved into the thoughts behind this one. I usually expose the insipid mush but this was a fling, and yes, you triumphed! Well played, for seeing the truth inside this shallow piece of 'deception' in that I kept it simple to please the audience. I shall now be your most gracious 'watcher' Please, please me more! ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sorry Mr Coop 'ey lad' i've been away for a bit. out of control is what they said. never mind, or is that midn? I understamd that a bicycle theme has errupted in the WOL. I best add me bit.
tara for now, see thee later, [in my best Yorkshire] Nick

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

You is powerful boy. give us some grits an we will watch this relationship with some tender thoughts in our souls. Wow, bloody good but do you feel it's finished? Love it, chow for now, Nick. p.s. been absent for a bit sorry for delay.

Comment is about He said (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

ee love him. I was reminded afterwards. I didn't think, I'll write in the style of.
Thank you the three of you for your comments.

Comment is about Music (blog)

Original item by Glyn Pope

Hello Cynthia, thank-you .. it's strange how other people's analysis can reveal more . I thought this has to be called 'sea' .. perhaps we are just a conduit for our subconcious ideas ..cheers.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Is that 'THE' John Gorman, of 'The Scaffold' fame??

Comment is about John Gorman (photo)

Well done, John, you are quite right, of course!

(Mind you, I think my original message on towpaths has become completely lost - perhaps another poem may be looming? haha)

Comment is about Live and Let Live (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It's an 'Orb'!

Comment is about Rachel Bond (photo)

Lovely work.

Comment is about Music (blog)

Original item by Glyn Pope

I promise I am not stalking you - there's just something about your poems that whacks me on the nose! I loved this.

Comment is about Day 7 (blog)

A+

Comment is about Double Dealings (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

John, I just have to tell you how much enjoyment I get out of listening to you read your poems. I wish everyone did that.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Interesting use of imagery.

Comment is about In Search of the Devil (blog)

Alison, thank you for your comments on Day 6, you made it sound so much better than it was.

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Yvonne, thank you for the kind remarks on Day 6.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Laura, thanks for reading and commenting on Day 6. I posted something earlier from this same series of poems, I just wanted to see what the reaction is to some of the other ones. In case your curious I did a group of poems called 30 days to forget her. One poem a day for 30 days about how I was feeling about her at that time.

I honestly don't think it worked, nor do I think it was as therapeutic as it could have been. In fact I think it drew out the transition phase from being involved to being single a little longer than it should have been.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

A loving epitaph.
I feel that the rhythm of the 3rd line in the 1st and 3rd verses rather make the reader stumble.
How about
'Though there's much that is sadder than that.'

and
'And we know that this may be scoffed at'

XX

Comment is about We're gonna miss that cat (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

I'm with you on this Ray. In the hands of an expert (you) the rhyme and metre enhance the subject matter and you have certainly captured the sombre, hopeless helplessness of the newly bereaved. 'The sheets I will not change', Sure I can stop just when I want'
It certainly leaves me with a feeling of sadness. XX

Comment is about The Vapours (blog)

As love songs go - quite disturbing. Like it. XX

Comment is about A love song (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

You take your life in your hands every time you put your bum on the seat.
Apparently statistics have proved that the most common cause of death is lack of life.
Well done Jonh keep them coming. XX

Comment is about Live and Let Live (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John
to start in reverse order There was not much point in shame - it didn't rhyme with pelican!
As for all those different crossings, I'd no idea there were so many. I'd just googled pedestrian crossing when this novella on crossings popped up and tempted me - I'm easily led!
By the way if this cycle thread is to be sustained are you doing a rewrite of the pushbike song? XX

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Lynn
I am at various times a walker (some say that's a typo!), a cyclist and a motorist, and there is no question which is the best way to lose your life!

Comment is about Live And Let Live? (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks, Isobel. The belief that rhyme and strict metre are invariably at odds with depth of feeling or sadness is common enough these days. I don't share it myself, though!

Comment is about The Vapours (blog)

Thanks for reading/comments on SchoolMistress. Fortunately that woman never taught me!Maybe I was a teeny bit cruel about the woman it was based on.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

ah the delight of cyclists on our country lanes, the hiss of a snake at my horse's heels as Martian headed beasts whizz pass with inches to spare, with no advance proclamation of their passing, or the mob of wheels hurtling head down round the corner (on the wrong side of the road) admiring nothing but the blackness of the tarmac, blind to the blossom on the hedgerows. I dread the day it is the silence of the electric car that we curse instead.

Comment is about Live And Let Live? (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello All,
"I've got a horn on...
....my bike"
No, really. That shifts the buggers.
Of course the reality is that I'm a cyclist when I'm on my bike, a motorist when I'm in my car and a pedestrian when I've got a puncture.

Comment is about LIVE AND LET DYE - A cyclist's riposte to dear Lynn Dye (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

...and all those types of crossings - aren't they just "advisory" for cyclists?

Comment is about The Newberry Dye-Pass Crossing AKA The Rules Of The Road. (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

I have to confess I'm starting this "thread" back'ds so I'll no doubt end up at Lynn!
But, oh my word, Yvonne, "hell 'e can"! Have you no shame!?

Comment is about The Newberry Dye-Pass Crossing AKA The Rules Of The Road. (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Thanks for your comment, Ray. It made me look up your profile: Nicely turned poems - and, in relation to mine, ironic I should find the line "they take me at face value: I sell them short"!

Comment is about Old Money (Fete Day at the Old People's Home) (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

Enjoyed this, it's nicely observed and kind of gentle. From the perspective of carer to resident, I assume. You can rather see the ending coming, though.

Comment is about Old Money (Fete Day at the Old People's Home) (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

I wasn't implying that any of the comments here were emperors new clothes. I'm sure they are honestly felt. With best wishes
Glyn

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Please, Glyn! Be so kind and read my comments on "I am a lady".

Comment is about Glyn Pope (poet profile)

Original item by Glyn Pope

An emperor can walk naked but everyone will say that his clothes are beautiful.

Comment is about Glyn Pope (poet profile)

Original item by Glyn Pope

An emperor can walk naked but everyone will say that his clothes are beautiful.

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

You worry about the emperor's new clothes? Please, don't! Cuckoo praises a cock because a cock praises a cuckoo.

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I like all kinds of comments and criticism as well. They help me. And it doesn't really matter if they are positive or negative.

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I didn't say I am that type of a lady. Yes, it's my poem, but... it doesn't mean I write about myself.

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Yvonne - "mentally flossing": to clear the mind of detritus detrimental to the job in hand...in this instance - cycling!
But I enjoyed your view on the subject and take some
pleasure in the knowledge that the humble bike and its
custodian got some right of reply in the face of outrage from apoplectic foot-sloggers (and boat moorers!) :-))

Comment is about The Newberry Dye-Pass Crossing AKA The Rules Of The Road. (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

By the way - although my bike has a bell, I find it more effective to do an impression of
the Road Runner as I approach pedestrians from
behind.
You'd be amazed how effective a loud verbal "BEEP-BEEP" can be when a bell fails to
elicit any response.

Comment is about LIVE AND LET DYE - A cyclist's riposte to dear Lynn Dye (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I know that some folk have little spatial awareness of what's happening around them. I was out jogging once, trotting along the pavement and as I passed a pedestrian on the
side nearest the highway, he jumped violently, half-lashed out and shouted rudely at me. A
good example of someone totally unaware of his
surroundings, no doubt lost in his own little
world. Should I have shouted "Beware jogger!"
or perhaps (more fun!!) "Watch out, dozy-head!"
A numbskull (and there are plenty of them out there) needs a nanny...or perhaps a licence
to allow them to be out in public while unattended?

Comment is about LIVE AND LET DYE - A cyclist's riposte to dear Lynn Dye (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This is a curious one Ray. It seems like it should be sad because the subject matter is sad - I'm presuming that the spouse took his own life and that the neigbours now gossip, while she mourns the loss.

I love the opening lines but struggle with the rhyme later on. Strict rhyming pattern doesn't go hand in hand with sadness for me - I need a freer scheme. That's just my opinion though.

Isobel

Comment is about The Vapours (blog)

You paint a good snap shot here Gus and set a sorry mood. There are plenty of things that can take your smile away in life, beyond the weather, n'est-ce pas? It's the best imagery I've ever come across for portraying it though.

I liked the idea of the smile as a tangible thing that you could pick up and drop.

Hope the grown up you is smiling. x

Comment is about The Stolen Smile (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

It's a good poem. I'd prefer it without the opening two lines, they're a bit "Look at me!" I think the last 7 lines are terrific. You maybe don't need idle gesture, just gesture would do.

Comment is about Day 6 (blog)

Beautiful. There is a precision about the words that really struck me.

Comment is about Day 6 (blog)

Very clever, Yvonne, enjoyed this.

I never realised I was going to spark off a revolution of poems, great stuff!

Comment is about The Newberry Dye-Pass Crossing AKA The Rules Of The Road. (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Sentiment - 'I like. It is so beautiful. Am that type of a lady too!' Yes or no?

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

What I mean by sentiment is the 'I am a woman' idea. I'm probably now digging a hole and sounding sexist. I read poems here and don't comment because I don't even think they are worthy of commenting on. But I could read that you are a poet. I wanted to say what I felt, sounding pompous now, to maybe provide positive criticism. If I make on criticism of this site, it's I worry about the emperor's new clothes. Sometimes, and not all, I've seen criticism made, people are just too nice about people's work. Best wishes Glyn

Comment is about I Am a Lady (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska