This is recent. I didn't think I would share it, but I am passionate about libraries and the thought of their possible demise fills me with dread.

Comment is about The Written Word (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

What about
"Fanny... because you're worth it"

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Yep - I'm just being dim - like I thought .. durrr

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

well you're a 24 carrot poet - aintchya ?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Isobel, I meant the style of writing, the choice of expressions. Your thoughts and words are lovely in Beloved. I find them 'romantic' but always enduring. I couldn't begin to write anything like those last three lines because I don't think that way. I would feel like an idiot, using 'uncertain skies', 'immortalise' or 'eternal in my words of love'. At worst, I might make a jest of them, which in respect for other people, I just won't do.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Ahhh Iso... not that wrong... I would love to throw you my balls ....as long as you brought them back......sit!

Gus xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi - I'd already posted one a while ago called "when vampires menstruate". Sorry if I'm being dim, but I dont understand the bit about "Road" - can you maybe enlighten me ?
The Origin of the World - great picture - but I think a more honest title might have been
"don't you just love fannies?" (or similar)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Haha - I wasn't sure whether that was Comanche, Hopi or Hawaiian at the end there, had to look it up. Never heard of Bob Brozman either! I do like this though - very interesting

You ever heard that song covered by Leon Redbone - My Little Grass Shack? Bizarrely, it has Ringo Starr on it too

Comment is about WATCHING BOB BROZMAN AT THE WESTY IN OCTOBER 2010 (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

:D excellent!! this made me laugh a lot - great variety of communication methods there. I found myself doing a Just a Minute and looking for repetition - sorry! It wasn't there anyway :D

Comment is about I AM HOLDING AN OBJECT OF SIGNIFICANCE (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Wooo! I NEVER make comment on anything to do with war as I find my views are almost always unpalatable and offensive to others. Experience bears this out.

Hear, hear!

Comment is about Steven Waling (poet profile)

Original item by Steven Waling

Short poems in vogue these days. Enjoyed this. I wondered about deadened rather than dulled.

Comment is about Fields of War (blog)

I don't see it as romanticism Cynthia - though perhaps you didn't really mean that word. I see it as sharing humanity. I think I am a deeply empathetic person - I can sense and feel pain - that makes it easier to write about. As I said to Banksy, we are all wired differently. What moves one person will make another squirm... So long as you can feel, I guess expressing that feeling isn't as important. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Love me tendril, love me sweet
Elvis, wasn't it?
I felt vulnerable reading it, oddly, or not. The line, face-to-face, brilliant ending.

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

brilliant Rodney. loved it.

Comment is about WATCHING BOB BROZMAN AT THE WESTY IN OCTOBER 2010 (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

I don't know if I could ever follow your poetical lead as shown in Beloved. I am so pragmatic I find that type of expression eludes me. Romanticism was never my strong point; I enjoy reading about other poets' experiences, but I've never been there. If I copied emotions they would sound false as hell. BTW, some time back I changed The Last Kiss to Beloved, but it is still 'in your face' poetry.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Just read all your recent stuff Rodney. I always get to its end. Often out of intrigue but usually to enjoy your choice of words and use of language.

Comment is about I AM HOLDING AN OBJECT OF SIGNIFICANCE (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

I often feel that with some writing you can spot the genuine sentiment and experience, not with the choice of words but by the way internal rhymes (often subconsciously written) find their way into a piece.

This is a good example of raw emotive writing but equally disturbing on a personal level if you're currently thinking this way. Keep writing what you're feeling Mike. I enjoyed this.

Comment is about In a World of Confrontation (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Howdy Cynthia - cheers for your comment on The Road. It started as me musing on what other metaphor for life I could write about, apart from a museum. Then as I thought 'road', a ton of stuff fell through my head :D I like how you've phrased the process though - poetical in itself :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

excellent, tomas. love this - my sense of humour! lol

Comment is about A Citizen Peasant Answers a Question of a Man of Graces (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

i enjoyed this, Marianne.. very vivid indeed even though the last line threw a little bit for a reason I don't know.. xx

Comment is about And the trees fought back (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

James May ?? and you're upset?
I could unnerstand if it was me or that Richard Gere feller :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi - agreed totally with all of it. the reason I post some that are daft or "really not that great" is that I've had a few published & almost without exception, it's the duff one I've included to "make up the numbers" that gets chosen over the ones that I think of as good & the exact same thing happens on WOL - no accounting for taste. xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Yes Banksy - but would you like really a tendril instead! And it did look very vulnerable waving about in all that freezing cold water too ;-)

The face to face reference was as you say Isobel, but also from the biological point of view, the whales were mating faceing each other (OK I knowhtheir eyes would have been round the back!)- front to front anyway! whereas I think most animals mate with the male looking at the back of the female's head (they don't call it doggy style for nothing I guess!)

And thanks everbody - how lovely you all are! xxxx

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like this one too Ann. It is simple but not and well thought out. I love the parallels you draw between yourself and whales - I guess face to face woud indicate love and commitment that not all animals or humans can embrace.

Do a poem on sea horses next. The human race could do with learning from them. I like this one a lot.

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is well expressed. I love 'the shifty air' and 'etching nervous patterns'. You watch the leaves and wonder how they can cling on. Very seasonal.

Comment is about the little leaf (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hello Cynthia, thanks for the response to my little alphabet exercise.I am trying to get writing again and these exercises are fun.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Utterly fab! Why , oh, why can't I write about sex without sounding like a callow fool?

You don't have to answer that.

Lovely.

: )

Jx

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

ten foot !!
makes me old chipolata seem a little spare :)

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Really like this poem, Larisa. xxx

Comment is about Your Eyes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

So I was barking up the wrong tree - despite the picture staring me in the face. You should have called it Rover.

Comment is about Jake (This poem was written for a very dear friend on the loss of her true and faithful friend) (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

You are right about the picture - it does slant interpretation. I almost didn't post one cos I couldn't imagine what to put there - I didn't want a death mask. Perhaps I should have left it without. Thanks for commenting. Glad you liked it. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I would like to have your work available by my bedside. Do you have a volume of your verse? Your work breathes beauty of thought, universal experience and the art/craft of impactive poetry.

Question: Does rain really swell a tide?

Comment is about Tide Turn (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

It is very good, Isobel. I would not have restricted it to a 'lover' fallen in war (despite the Poppy Picture which you must have known would slant your meaning almost exclusively.) I found 'hydrate' perfectly fine; it never fizzed on me as being unpoetical; in fact, I thought it was powerfully poetical in the sense of 'restore', a great word for your general theme.

Comment is about Beloved (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Fantastic! Masterful. A joy to enjoy for all the reasons that I love poetry. Your opening two lines take off like a speed boat setting the course for the whole poem. Superb among so many phrases are 'querulous porcelain' 'the zone of zillions' etc.

Comment is about Antique Zealot (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Hi Cynthia As ever thanks for your kind comments on my poem. I loved that old bookshop and was devastated when it bunt down in my absence!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

It is a very good poem.

Comment is about Invisible (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I wonder if you have posted this before. The theme is surely a popular one, even the 'love your car' idea, so perhaps not. You do make a good social point. How can the posting date be Nov 16, 2010?

Comment is about Poppy Picking Day (blog)

Original item by stephen smith

Thank you so much Ros for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Rosalind (poet profile)

Original item by Rosalind

Thank you so much Isobel for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you so much Andy for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Once again a direct hit with an observation that impacts both heart and mind as we consider how closely related all life is. In your work, as in all good poetry, nothing ever exists by itself; it is just a springboard for thinking. I believe this element is is what makes poetry ART.

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Absolutely loved this one Marianne. jumped off the page (screen) at me. Vivid as usual. Keep up the good work. Win x

Comment is about And the trees fought back (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Well-spoken, well-recorded. The rhyme scheme is great and the juggled rhythms are in keeping with the emotional 'wind-up'.

Comment is about A Citizen Peasant Answers a Question of a Man of Graces (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Thank you so much Carole for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Thank you so much Anne for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you so much Ladies and Andy of course, for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Jake (This poem was written for a very dear friend on the loss of her true and faithful friend) (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

I love whale music for meditating to, it's haunting.
Great poem ;-)
x

Comment is about whale music (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you very much for going to the trouble of finding out more about my poem 'Life.'
You know my thoughts on it :-)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Ann and thanks for not dismissing my poem 'Life'.
You are spot on with the intention behind it. I love descriptive poetry too :-)
I can fully understand as you do how some people can read other things between the lines and even look for it. I do that myself often but sometimes it's nice just to appreciate the scenery isn't it. x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks Steve, Laura and Ann.
Ann has this spot on. I love descriptive poetry and anything connected with nature so this was written as such.
Any hidden message that may be interpreted by the reader is unintentional but i have to admit that after i'd written it there seemed to be something in the second stanza which reflected my thoughts about the Prime minister of that time :-)
I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to see it the way i did.

Comment is about Life (blog)