Really liked this, wonderful to find someone who appreciaes what he has, so many of our poems are sad! Also original topic, seems to me and very well constructed, every word counts. 'Looking Out'
doesn't seem uninspiring to me.
Jennifer
Comment is about Looking Out (blog)
Original item by Tom
Really enjoyed this one John and it has inspired me to write something of my own. Thanks! ?
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Beautiful poem, but not for me, don't like heights, much less jumping off a precipice!
Jennifer
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Nice! Acrylics are infinitely easier to cope with than oil-based stuff, and why don't you go in for abstract stuff? Very funny, and what can be more 'demented' than a pickled sheep or a urinal?
Jennifer
Comment is about A 'Brush' with Art ! (blog)
Original item by John Andrew Nield
Thank you Greg. The older I become (it is my birthday today) the less I understand humanity and the less I comprehend of the effects on our psyche of the perilous human condition.
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Excellent poem, John, linking our strange, irrational sense of immortality - although it's what keeps us going - and the fascinating, unstable world beneath us. Earthquakes and volcanoes serve to remind us of our powerlessness.
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Tue 20th Jul 2021 13:24
Thanks JC. That's a thought to be borne in mind.
Comment is about UNTITLED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I'm like a lamb, led to the laughter!
Comment is about I GOT EWE, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes Tom, Holden and John.
Comment is about Freedom Day (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Tue 20th Jul 2021 12:40
Thanks for the compliment
it's easily
far better than something
derogatory!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 20th Jul 2021 12:36
both for the chop?
a chop shop?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for all comments and to Tom, Adam, Jordyn, Aisha, Nadia and Holden for the likes.
Leon - there is certain physical resemblance between JC and JC, although not JC, if you see what I mean.
Ray - yes, the hunchback. I suppose there is also a subliminal allusion to the famous slip wire incident in the London park (complete with strangely small Union Jacks).
John - I reckon you're in the clear.
All the best Steve
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Does Silvie have an orthopedic mattress? There is a punishing schedule taking place which the normal springs could not tolerate.
Brilliant Kevin and thanks
Keith
Comment is about Silvie (a re-post) (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
1999, you say, Kevin? That’s nearly twenty quid!
Comment is about 1952 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nice one John. Any chance of you doing one for me, and my birth year...1999
Comment is about 1952 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Reminded me of Joyce Kilmer’s “I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree”.
Comment is about More Than Men (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Does it have a melody yet, MC? Roll on the audio.
Comment is about UNTITLED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I want to do one day - maybe for my 70th birthday.
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Tue 20th Jul 2021 01:44
Thank you very much for the kind comment, Tom!
Comment is about Siren (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thanks everyone, Tom, Keith , Elizabeth J, Stephen G, Aisha and Holden for the likes, and Ray Tom Stephen G and MC for the generous comments. Glad you felt the acid in it Ray! We had kept the lid on for so long, it just exploded like a pressure cooker.
Jennifer
Comment is about A Relative Close (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Ray - Bill Bryson reported in his book on the home that loss of
appetite can be connected with a vitamin deficiency - was it B1 ?
No fun to eat if the "interest" isn't there.
Comment is about Full English (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Beautifully crafted sonnet, Ray. But rather you than me!
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Jennifer good of you to drop in. A very emotional time sadly. I used the Holmes method - when faced with the impossible what remains must be the solution (or something like that). We do have foxes here and they were on a table, so i'm pretty certain - I know they go for anything leather.
Ray x
Comment is about THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR STEALING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Sorry I missed you Jennifer - I get no alerts on my emails! Thanks for those words of encouragement.
Comment is about TRAPPED (blog)
Original item by ray pool
HI Trevor. Gargantuan writing. I'm trying to put on weight and have lost some appetite, but am forcing as much protein down as possible ( a polite way of saying your poem is very appropriate.)
Ray
Comment is about Full English (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Blimey, some vitriol Jennifer. I think this a great piece that just keeps on going and giving of that strong feeling. Can't be faulted and illustrates how destructive our relationships can be when driven to it. All a bit like an Ibsen play. Hope you're well!
Ray
Comment is about A Relative Close (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
The title alone...! Perhaps in his scaling of impossible heights he should team up with the hunchback of Notre Dame, another calamitous figure. Nice, Stephen!
Ray
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
This is a real pearl - it made me read on and absorb it without any faultlines. It manages to avoid over sentimentality by being open and truthful, a hard act to achieve, and there is no bitterness to it, another good thing!
Ray
Comment is about AT 68 ( FOR DEBORAH ) (blog)
Original item by Terry McArthur
The admiration is well deserved. But - in the final analysis...
Tree and man
Man and tree
They're both for the chop
Even-tu-ally! ?
Comment is about More Than Men (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Enjoyed this. Particularly 'there's no such thing as an exit wound' great way to finish.
Comment is about Siren (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Enjoyed Jennifer. Well said and very incisive.
Comment is about A Relative Close (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
https://www.mssociety.org.uk/about-ms/what-is-ms
Comment is about Demyelination (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
Mon 19th Jul 2021 12:01
are you kidding me?
pre-breaded fish?
How in the world?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you for the lovely comments and likes.
Comment is about Glasgow (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Mon 19th Jul 2021 02:24
what happened to you?
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you Aisha, Holden, Jennifer and Stephen G - stalwarts all, not the most popular of poetic subjects, quantum physics though I find it inspirational. John
Comment is about Light waves to Schrödinger’s cat (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I was surprised too, Julie, when I spent time working there. Like Liverpool, it is an architectural secret.
Comment is about Glasgow (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Surely not my fault, Leon!!!???
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Scottish Nationalists are keen to overlook, Stephen, that Scotland joined the Union because it had to. It was bankrupted by its Darien venture and needed English money to bail it out.
And thanks for the Like, Aisha.
Comment is about 1952 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I knew you'd like it in Glasgow, Julie. I've been once, but need to go for a proper visit.
Comment is about Glasgow (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (30611)
Sun 18th Jul 2021 17:57
He is in number 10 because of JC, and I don't mean Jesus Christ!
As for tomorrow onwards, keep everything crossed and wear your Tena Pants.
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
'Eye of the Beholder' rang very true and was perfectly constructed.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for the likes, Holden and Jennifer.
Comment is about Something for nothing (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
As 'Freedom Day' approaches, watch out...
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Yes, brilliant observations and imagery.
Comment is about A Relative Close (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
jennifer Malden
Tue 20th Jul 2021 16:55
Wow! really impressive writing. A long and terrible journey through life, so well expressed.
Jennifer
Comment is about Life is not here (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries