I once shared an office with an Italian colleague who spoke the most extraordinary gutteral Belgian French. He sounded like a Gallic John Prescott. I remember that one day he came in with his arm in plaster and told me that his wife had just broken her leg. Not terribly logical, I know. It was rumoured that they were driving the car by...no, I don't believe it either.
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
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Jordyn, Aviva, Paul- thank you all so, so much for your kind words on Lucky Girl. They really mean the world to me!! ?
Comment is about Lucky Girl (blog)
Original item by Kristian Deidre Brown
Our Gert, Stephen.
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A message that deserves due consideration..
By all means comment with informed intent
Discern what's written and what is meant!
Comment is about REVIEWS (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It's a big question and a good poem.
Comment is about The Real Deal (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I have to say, MC, I prefer the sound of French.I can get by in speaking it but what comes back is high-speed gobbledygook.
Interestingly, I’ve heard it said that as we think French sounds sexy, the French think English does too. They should come to Barnsley. Even Doncastrians can’t understand them.
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Il faut vivre avec, John.
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Should I mention that immortal phrase "Ooh-la-la"? Why isn't it
"Ooh-le-la" or "Ooh-la-le"? .For sheer aural attraction, i prefer the
Italian language - almost musical in its intonation and arguably that
much more romantic. All that French masculin/feminine-y separation
seems sexist to me.
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I always felt a bit sorry for Yuric (!) Nice one.
Comment is about SHAKESPEAREAN DILEMMA (blog)
Original item by ray pool
This a poem from a book of poems entitled "The Shape of the Trees", which I have just self-published. The title poem is also on WOL.
Comment is about Don’t you just hate it when that happens? (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
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Tue 26th Jan 2021 15:26
Nice bit of poetic licence with Yorick's name Ray!
Comment is about SHAKESPEAREAN DILEMMA (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Greg. Time to spill the beans. The Nomad Theatre project a few years back in East Horsley. Put the cuffs on me.
Brian, I'm twisting on a spit, but thanks anyway.
Kimberly, it's not as bad as stand up comedy, but there was nothing funny in this . I feel for you.
Paul, It does take some balls to present your work, but if the audience likes you it's not hard work. That day was a baptism of fire; I don't think it would have made a difference who was reading frankly.
I rely on empathy so much and am willing to work for it, but have no day job....
Stephen , you picked a good one there. Wrong time wrong place.
Thanks for liking this, Julie, Aisha, Holden and New Shoes ...
Thanks all ! Ray
Comment is about POETRY GIG (blog)
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Thank you for commenting Moon.girl ?
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?
Comment is about The Real Deal (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Manju Ray
Tue 26th Jan 2021 12:49
Hi
I'm ...MANJU ..RAY
PLEASE ...KEEP A SLOT FOR ...My ...POEM/ STORY
Best Wishes
Manju Ray
Review is about Allographic Open Mic on 31 Jan 2021 (event)
Hi Paul,
I'm pleased to know you enjoyed this humble offering.
I've been 'missing in action' recently, due to beginning a novel (yes, but I couldn't help myself!) .
After a while though, my poetic urges returned and would not be denied - and probably never will be.
Take care,
Chris
Comment is about Into the Storm (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
Thank you Paul, Holden and Keith for the likes and for reading ?
And thank you Keith, I'm honoured you'd share this with your friend. For me expressive and evocative photography is the art form most akin to poetry – and perhaps even more instantly transportive. It's a great source of inspiration too. As with the poets I like, when I find them, I often like everything they write; and the same with particular photographers.
I wish I managed to say it all slightly more pithily but my inner editor failed me on this one. ?
Comment is about Murmuration (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thanks for the generous comments and likes Brian and Paul, also thanks for the likes Aviva and Stephen A.
Comment is about Trees That Now Span The River (blog)
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My compliments and thanks to Aviva and Brian.
Like many UK expats here in Australia I am saddened beyond measure by the tragic effects of this awful virus.
Take care to everyone.
Chris
Comment is about Into the Storm (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
To be honest Paul, he was a cantankerous old bugger, who lived much of his life like a car crash, but he was very funny and we all loved him, and for all his faults he had an honest soul. I don't have any problem with religion, people are free to think what they like, it's their life, and you never know, they might be right?
But I don't think so, I think the only way we live on after death is in the hearts and minds of others and in the DNA of our children. ❤
J. x
Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
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Tue 26th Jan 2021 08:34
It will eventually reveal. With time it will be seen.?
Comment is about The Real Deal (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Indeed, she was one inspirational woman. Easily explaining astro-physics in a way all could follow.
Comment is about Heather (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser
I see you asking for someone to lend you their feet
But it won't be a walk in the park for them
They'll actually be lending you a hand as well
And that's after lending their ears -
After you've borrowed their shoulder
And captured their eyes and mind
What's left I ask you?
Give someone an inch and they'll take a mile
Comment is about Wake Up!!!!! I'm not sure if they teach the Standard system in Metric land (blog)
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I forgot to count how many breaths it took me to read this, but everything slowed down while I concentrated on your eloquent writing and I'm pretty sure that included breathing too. So I'll have less than the usual count of breaths today, by quite a few since I read this a few times just to admire the skill of it and catch how it begins once I already knew how it ends.
You capture a subject so completely in how you tell it, the surface and the depth are each caught so well.
Comment is about Lucky Girl (blog)
Original item by Kristian Deidre Brown
Oh my goodness this is beautiful! ❤ I'm so glad to have stumbled upon your poem tonight.
-J
Comment is about Lucky Girl (blog)
Original item by Kristian Deidre Brown
Thank you dear Paul. ? It’s so nice to see you back with your WOL family. ❤️
Comment is about You and Me (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Tue 26th Jan 2021 00:44
I like your use of lightening & thunder.
Make Poetry
Not War!
?
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
It's funny you know. My dad was an atheist as am I and he chose, on the subject of wood, a natural burial with an oak planted over him, thus giving a little back for all we've taken. After experiencing that I chose the same thing and if some small part of me lives on in one of our symbiotic partners on this planet, then that's all good with me.
J. x
Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
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Mon 25th Jan 2021 21:36
Probably your best Julie in its tightness and rhythm.
I like the use of the possessive pronoun relating to Christoph.
Comment is about Trees That Now Span The River (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
?Thanks Po, I'm really pleased you liked it. I've had a bit of a, "Dry spell," just recently (Pardon the pun), so I'm pleased that it's water that came to my rescue, my favourite of the 4 elements.
J. x
Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Yes and when they can't fulfil their orders
Because they didn't think to be hoarders
They'll be out of Scotch Eggs
Then they'll run on their legs (how else)
And we'll soon see them raiding the borders
???
Comment is about Haggis (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Very insightful and atmospheric poem. The analogy is striking and feels very true. But I wonder whether we realise everything right, we who think that we must court danger if we dare to court at all... maybe there's some less dangerous landscape to find each other, and we just don't know where it is?
Comment is about Lovers (blog)
Original item by Devyani
Thanks for your thoughtful insights Aviva. The poem is unfinished. I just wanted to capture what came to me. The quote to me speaks of a love separated by circumstances beyond control.
Comment is about You and Me (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
I like the poem far better than the quote.
(Seems quite mean to me to have your love consigned to stay outside your cosy home and only the scent of them allowed to reach you ... tch tch tch...)
Your poem however tells of a love with proper connection.
Comment is about You and Me (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
I like how there is a lot of movement in this poem, and I don't just mean the description of the way the snow moves but the fact that the onset of snow has been described in all of its stages. And then the poem ends in stuck stillness with the frozen and (implied?) unmoveable shutter.
Comment is about A Snowy Landscape (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you very much for the nice comment and the likes!
Comment is about 2.36 (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thank you for reading and the likes!
Comment is about The 4th Wall (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thank you for commenting Tom. Perhaps it will grow into a new poem, even. Which makes me think... of a new best wish for poets... May you find many beautiful poems, in yourself and elsewhere.
And Hooray!!!!
An extra thank you for everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem as this is the first of mine which reached TWO FLOWERS
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Comment is about To My Daughters About Dreams (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks for the comments Lasse and Beth. Thanks to everyone for the likes.
Comment is about Robin (blog)
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Mon 25th Jan 2021 17:32
Thanks, Greg. Interesting article. I may have a cardigan somewhere, although I can't remember ever wearing it. I hope that I would never dismiss something just because it was "a bit modern". The audience members who protested against Stravinsky's Rite of Spring would look rather ridiculous now. Perhaps time gives us a perspective.
Intellectualism has a place in poetry or any other art form, but as you say, a certain coldness can repel the reader.
Eliot himself was steeped in learning but (at least to me) his poetry was never cold or inaccessible (although you have to work at it).
Yes, some of the reaction to Amanda Gorman disappointing but I am sure she has found a wider audience. Her books seem to be selling well.
Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Here's a brief comment on the subject and its £25,000 prize.
The immigrant seeks to bring change to the host
Whilst the host seeks to keep what is valued the most. ?
Comment is about Bhanu Khapil wins £25,000 TS Eliot prize with collection about immigrants and hosts (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
The reference here to "high end version" (of poetry) indicates a
sort of schism in what's written by poets for poets and what's written and touches the rest of us. It is apparent that there is a whole
world of mutually reliant, mutually admiring writers turning out stuff
that might be termed "competition" content - aimed at the appreciation of the like-minded and dismissive of anything that deviates
from what "they" consider to be "poetry".
Modern classical music has seen a similar situation for some time.
An old saying comes back to mind:
The intellectual seeks; the wise man has found.
Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for the comments
ARB - you're not far short of the truth. I put my poem in a transparent
sleeve (waterproof) and left it (a sort of self-publication) at the start
of a coast walk where others who took the same path might see and
read it. That she returned later with a pen to copy it was a big compliment.
KJW - Indeed, it was kind of her to follow-up - even thirty years
later! She even said how it still brought tears to her eyes
BH - good news is always welcome, not least when it crosses the
decades..
Thanks to all who took the trouble to "like" this post.
Comment is about REACHING OUT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
a skillfully composed poem rich in its descriptive quality. Certainly an ode to a photographer. An Italian friend is a professional photographer and I shall show this to him.
Thank for a fine piece of poetic language
Keith
Comment is about Murmuration (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thank you for your comments Aviva, Philipos, and Stephen! Glad you liked this piece.
Best
Mike
Comment is about Dog Stars (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
I really enjoyed this Aviva. I especially liked your line about how some dreams "would not stay". For some reason it really stood out to me and caught my imagination. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about To My Daughters About Dreams (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Good you, Greg.
From the man in the Clapham cardigan.
Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
John Coopey
Tue 26th Jan 2021 18:13
I have a relaxing tape of Norfolk dialect, Paul. I got it in the NHS for insomnia.
Stephen, this is my finest poem in French.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=103195
Comment is about UNE BITE ET UN VAGIN - a cock and fanny story (blog)
Original item by John Coopey