This reads like a novella. You could say that life's sole purpose is to bring us from the point of existence to the point where we are ready to die. You've done well if you become ready to die before you actually do.
Comment is about Life is not here (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
This is beautiful Nigel. I'd love to know more about Brian, but only if you are happy to share.
Keep writing my friend.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Poem For Brian (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Aww... you're the only one who noticed when I disappeared.
I am not having a final sleep at WOL, just napping.
I've got quite a lot of poetry to catch up on after the shut-eye.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
A controversial combination indeed...sex and another equally
immediate form of self-exposure...poetry! No doubt there is room
for this concept and poetry itself has its ancestry in matters of
this nature, going back to antiquity. Selling one's "assets" in
whatever form is a theme that always remains of interest, and
if that asset is the body then the interest becomes even more
personal. Prostitution takes various forms and, indeed, enjoys
degrees of "status" amongst its practitioners and their clients.
It has been described as "the oldest profession" and despite
the passing of time and progress in the human condition, will no doubt remain with us; not necessarily through necessity,
but because there will probably always be those who actually
choose to take pleasure and reward from it for their own reasons. The true pornography in life is not sex but violence.
The tragedy is that social pressures and religious dogma
often result in a perversion of both, with the former blamed
for the latter. Humbug and hypocrisy remain curious "constants" in human existence.
Comment is about In An Ideal World I'd Not Be Murdered, Chaucer Cameron, Against The Grain Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for dropping in Holden, Jennifer and Leon.
Thanks Greg, not me either, just liked the idea on paper. I wrote it as an experiment to see if I could muster up the sonnet form. I was inspired by a book of Shakespeares' sonnets and converted to a modern version by Timothy Ades, a master stroke.
I should stick to terror firma John like me. Or maybe a casual bungee jump haha.
Join the club Jennifer !
Got you Stephen! Surprising how the lines came fairly easily, but had to edit to make it scan.
Ray
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks for both your kind comments, Jennifer & Stephen. Yes, today's art offerings do seem to 'stretch the imagination', somewhat! ?
Comment is about A 'Brush' with Art ! (blog)
Original item by John Andrew Nield
There was a couple of typos in this, but that didn't detract from it being a really good, well thought out poem.
I really liked it.
Thank you for posting
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about The rythm of life (blog)
Original item by Coaghlin broic
Nice rhyme and rhythm.
Perfectly describing not being able to sleep on one of these sticky nights. I liked that all the noises that disturbed your slumber were countryside associated, it would have had a different feel to it if harsher urban sounds had caused the problem.
Comment is about Wide Awake At 4.30 (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you all for your kind comments and likes.
Comment is about My Visit To The Wall (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
It Christian poem based on the torn veil
Comment is about The velvet curtain (blog)
Original item by Coaghlin broic
Always a delight to find them. Lovely poem, Jennifer
Comment is about The Wild Strawberry Plant (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
The most ironic of titles, Stephen. Bitter fruit.
Comment is about Hunger Games (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Nice poem, Mike. Did you sing 'Lord dismiss us with thy blessing?'
Comment is about The Final School Bell (St Margaret Mary's 1968) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
You said it, Greg. Great piece. Waitrose will be next. I think ad nauseam has a better ring about it.
Comment is about 'Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit' (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (30611)
Thu 22nd Jul 2021 15:28
Is this an anti-fishing poem? The real problem is that no-one is hooking humans. We have no predators, and science is unwilling for us to die. We will over-populate the planet and eventually meet our demise.
Incidently we're having fish for tea tonight.
Comment is about Fish Sing (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thank you for your kind comment, Brenda.
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for the Likes, John, Julie, and Holden!
Comment is about Believing (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for the likes, Holden and Stephen!
Comment is about Jack Kerouac (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Marsha
Thu 22nd Jul 2021 10:38
Works as metaphor and reality.
Have you seen Seaspiracy yet?
I like the final verse particularly, suggesting that we are almost willingly taking part in our own demise, which of course we are and will most likely continue to do.
I know it's a serious piece but the abrupt nature of it's ending indicates an appreciation of comedic righteous justice.
Comment is about Fish Sing (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Wed 21st Jul 2021 23:45
Thank you, John, I really appreciate it ?.
Comment is about Counterintuitive (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Greg, I was invited by the BBC they are doing an online project about the wall.
Comment is about My Visit To The Wall (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Glad you got to meet your Twitter collaborator, Julie. Well done!
Comment is about My Visit To The Wall (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
I like this a lot. I'd, maybe, add 'nation' after 'imprimatur'.
Comment is about Counterintuitive (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A gentle reminder of the passing of time and life itself. I too
was at school with my elder brother for a while - and recently
said goodbye to him for a final time at the other end of life's
road...a road that seemed endless when we were young.
Comment is about The Final School Bell (St Margaret Mary's 1968) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Love the title!
Really captures the spirit and character of the guy.
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Wed 21st Jul 2021 01:18
Very poignant, Jennifer.
I used to be Verger at Selby Abbey and it was a source of pride to me that for Remembrance Sunday the Abbey offered poppy crucifixes not just in the shape of a cross but as Stars of David, and with Muslim, Hindi and Sikh inscriptions,
Comment is about The Allied Forces War Cemetery - Italy - 25th April 2021 (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Thankyou, Jennifer, and Jordyn and Aviva for the Likes.
Comment is about I GOT EWE, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It sounds great. Looking forward to getting and reading it.
Comment is about Pig's Ear, Dog's Dinner: Paul Cookson, Flapjack (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A beautiful poem. The second verse brings home the futility of it all.
Comment is about Siren (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
'On a wire suspended and marooned'
reminds me of someone else we were discussing recently.
Very effective sonnet.
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Great. An elephant-sized cat might just win you the Turner Prize.
Comment is about A 'Brush' with Art ! (blog)
Original item by John Andrew Nield
A tour de force of pensive musing , lightly conversational and bejewelled with scalpel nib and I was clay in particular.
Lovely.
Ray
Comment is about Looking Out (blog)
Original item by Tom
Short and to the point; of a hammer?
Jennifer
Comment is about Murder Made Easy (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
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
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
keith jeffries
Sat 24th Jul 2021 11:49
Aviva,
Thank you for your two most recent comments on my poetry. They are most appreciated and a source of encouragement.
Keith
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari