A haunting poem. Very moving and unnerving, Clare.
Comment is about Waiting for Answers (blog)
Original item by Clare
Tue 22nd Feb 2022 01:26
Thank you so much, John and Stephen, your comments are always greatly appreciated! 😊
Stephen, I wasn't thinking of it so much as a contrast in the second verse, but perhaps a more introspective aspect of a seafarer's journey. 😊
Comment is about Mariner (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Michelle - thank you so much for your kind comments. Yes, his final appearance at the Paris Opera, when he was terminally ill, was both moving and tragic.
MC - Yes, he changed the face of male dancing. There have been dancers who were technically superior to him, but none with his personality and sense of going right to the edge. As you say, he and Margot Fonteyn had an extraordinary relationship.
John - Thanks for your encouragement, as always. It was a personal tribute. Before I ever saw him dance, I attended performances at Covent Garden where people in the slips (the highest - and cheapest - seats at the side of the theatre) always seemed to complain about him. And, of course, as he got older, he could be ragged and cut a few corners. But the raw power and talent was still there.
And thanks to John and Brenda for liking the poem.
Comment is about Nureyev (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Sleep is like an ointment for the over-thinker and troubled. You enter the realm of no pain or worry
Comment is about Just a page (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Christ, no, John! I couldn’t do with any more money; I can’t spend what I’ve got now.
And thanks for the Likes, Clare, Holden, Julie and Your Royal Poetess.
Comment is about ANOTHER DAY OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Such an amazing poem of relief to read🎃
Comment is about Kachō-Ōji (課長王子) (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
I think they should give us extra pension as recompense! 😀
Comment is about ANOTHER DAY OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A great tribute, Stephen. Wonderful poem.
Comment is about Nureyev (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I saw this on FB. Now you've gone and made me read it twice.😊
Comment is about Beware the Crooked Billet (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
The chances that any of us are alive to tell the tale are improbable beyond belief.
From a single cell organism that developed over millions of years into a pondlife and thence to a reptile, thereafter a mammal and finally to us, without any of our ancestors getting squashed, eaten, starving, or being killed by any number of ways before giving birth to its next generation is incalculably remote.
Nice poem, OZ.
Comment is about Being who you are By Louis D'Alto (blog)
Original item by OZoFe
Thanks for the likes Adam, Stephen and Holden, and Graham, that's quite amazing - there you go!
Ray
Comment is about WE MAKE A SHOULDER OF THE WIND (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Yes it is, Steve. Thanks for checking out my work. 👍
Comment is about Spring Cleaning (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
To adapt a word known in that world of dancing, he raised the
bar! And his partnership with Fonteyn is legendary.
Comment is about Nureyev (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
It is a sad ending but as someone else mentioned here in the comments, at least the hope of retirement kept him going. The older I get the younger 65 is!!
Comment is about Pension (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
very moving... loved the last line... thank you for posting your wonderful work!
Comment is about Nureyev (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you for your comment. There's only so much someone can do when you've got both sides blocking your every move but he got more shit done in 4 years the last 5 presidents combined. I hope he mentioned the Christians being murdered and persecuted in NK while he was there. I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of Trump. Which is why same crocodiles are trying to change election laws. I'm very much looking forward to the 2024 meltdown memery. Thanks again for your comment.
Comment is about The Troll Who Saved The Earth (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Mon 21st Feb 2022 11:37
A clean desk may mean
all the work was done.
what about that?
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Spring cleaning is always good for the soul
Best wishes, Steve
Comment is about Spring Cleaning (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
Based on a story one of my friends told me in the pub with a nod to a certain old flame thrown in!
Many thanks for the comments
Comment is about Sirens in the Distance (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Yes, I remember a training course at work where people said 'I like clutter' and 'When I see a clean desk, I know there's no work being done'. This was not the aim of the course, obviously.
In clutter, no one can hear you scream. That would have been a good title.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Interesting contrast of mariner and sailor, Holden. Two sides of the same person, I suppose?
Comment is about Mariner (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A fascinating poem, Holden. We don't think of the different problems encountered by those at sea. We'll, I don't. Really made me think, thank you!
Comment is about Mariner (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Mon 21st Feb 2022 03:04
His stuff is now Your stuff!
better get rid of the stuff
before it's too late
and you become stuffed like him.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Mon 21st Feb 2022 03:01
The people who do not think too straight
are those who tend to accumulate
sooner than later they awake
to find there' no more room
for pity's sake.
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for sticking with this one M.C. and Stephen. It's a bit of a long one, so I especially appreciate it.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about Beware the Crooked Billet (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Like a book you can't put down. Marvellous!
Comment is about Beware the Crooked Billet (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Thank you very much I try to capture emotions but they are elusive 🙏
Comment is about Ra-iN. (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
This is very beautiful. You have a lovely way with words and I love how you use them to portray something I think we can all identify with.
Comment is about Ra-iN. (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thankyou, Brenda. It's so kind of you to leave a comment for me. It's very much appreciated. You are so right!
Comment is about The Wandering Wise Woman. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Full of wisdom, Adam. A fine poem!
Comment is about Honesty And Generosity (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thankyou so much for your likes and comments - Stephen, John and Ursula. Stephen, I didn't mean to disturb you!
Sometimes, when I feel I can't write, I just write anything to keep the juices flowing. I have updated after my walk!
Comment is about It's Gone! (blog)
Original item by Clare
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Sun 20th Feb 2022 20:33
Very clever poem Steve, if a little scary!
Comment is about Sirens in the Distance (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
I like the fact that you have written a brilliant poem about haxing writer's block. Ingenious! 😀
Comment is about It's Gone! (blog)
Original item by Clare
Those sirens came in useful, Steve. Enjoyed this one.
Comment is about Sirens in the Distance (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
I remember seeing a programme about a TV presenter whose clutter (newspapers, magazines, books etc) began to physically engulf him in his house. Rather terrifying. Very good poem.
Comment is about Clutter (blog)
Original item by d.knape
You've got to love it.
Comment is about To many socks create a misfit for John (blog)
Original item by hugh
It has been, Clare. This is wonderful, with a chilling, disturbing quality to it.
Comment is about It's Gone! (blog)
Original item by Clare
Sad, as you say, John but I'm pleased you found a silver lining of hope. Yes, Greg, retirement at sixty-five has gone for many people. It has given me the idea for a short story about a man who can never retire because the government keep increasing the retirement age just as he is about to go, until of course....
Thanks for the comments and thanks to Nigel, New Shoes, Rudyard and Holden for the likes.
Comment is about Pension (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
It can be a chancy progress -
And certainly worth a check;
From an arm around the shoulder
To a millstone around the neck. 😕.
Comment is about Sirens in the Distance (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Thanks MC, I had no idea of the two versions. I presumed it was Trooper as in troop. I had to Google Trouper!
Comment is about Get Well Soon Ma’am (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Inventive and intriguing in equal entertaining measure.
Comment is about Beware the Crooked Billet (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
I recall Trump making much of "draining the swamp" ,by which
I understood him to mean the self-serving establishment
that continued to obtain and use (mis-use?) power in its egregious "expectancy" of entitlement. The MSM duly
provided confirmation of that definition with its hostility
before his election and throughout his term in office,
unabated after he left the White House. I will remember his
courageous political action meeting the North Korean leader
which, on its own , was a momentous presidential decision.
Like him or loath him, Trump set out to get things done in a moribund land that was in need to a wake-up call to remind
it of what it was - and could be - in other days.
Comment is about The Troll Who Saved The Earth (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
How readily I can - and do - identify with these words! Not least
at this time when I'm trying to dispose of stuff from my late
brother's flat, a proportion of which is now finding its way into
my own small home - which seems to be shrinking with each
move to fulfil that need. to de-clutter elsewhere. My brother
used to talk about moving but never did. I can now see why!!
Comment is about Clutter (blog)
Original item by d.knape
John F Keane
Tue 22nd Feb 2022 08:18
It's interesting how western nations are so indifferent to social criticism. I guess the authorities know that since nothing will change, poetic protest is safe enough.
Comment is about Where is Innocent Bahati? Worldwide concern over Rwandan poet missing for a year (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman