This is a great poem. Worth waiting for, I think!
Comment is about This Too Shall Pass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
The poem complements the picture perfectly.
Comment is about Toro Bravo (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Yes, the notion of things being just out of reach, however hard we try to reach them, is really well put here.
Comment is about Square One (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for the comment, Keith and to everyone for the likes. Sometimes, hearing a beautiful piece of music for the first time can create an experience which is hard to describe and difficult to recapture.Perhaps once we encounter perfection, or near-perfection, everything else, as the advert used to say, is just toothpaste.
Comment is about Listening to Tippett (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Very powerful. We owe you a debt of gratitude. Stay strong.
Comment is about Cold Steel 1982 Falklands Finale. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Thanks John, glad you liked it. I have started on one that's deeply personal, but can't seem to get near to finishing it, which is unusual for me, normally it's a pretty quick affair, this one took about twenty minutes in comparison. Mind you, the idea's been knocking round inside my head for a couple of days. ❤
J. x
Comment is about This Too Shall Pass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Excellent poem, Jason. Well worth the “dry spell”.
Comment is about This Too Shall Pass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Beautiful poem.... Always that there is a man with good intentions we will keep our hope
Comment is about The Unsettled Man (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thanks Kimberly, I've had a bit of a dry spell just recently, I suppose I just felt I had nothing to say. Plus it's been a bit hectic here, ha, life eh?
So it's nice to tentatively, "Climb back on the horse," so to speak.
J. x
Comment is about This Too Shall Pass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Such a timeless poem, Jason. One for keeps.
Comment is about This Too Shall Pass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Artwork by: Mario Sanchez Nevado
Comment is about A WoMAN’s World (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
Very well said, quite scary how reliant we are on this WIFI.
Comment is about Black Box (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you Stephen very much.. to be called a poet! Wonderful. I posted the full series one after another as they were a complete story, start to finish. I didn't know if people would get that and just put it down to a bombardment of poems?
Ah well it was poignant to me, the first time I've put pen to paper about it all. Interestingly you'r the only one to comment. So thank you so much for that.
But it's a long , long time ago now. Memories still fresh though always will be.
Comment is about Cold Steel 1982 Falklands Finale. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Wed 17th Feb 2021 10:19
you nailed it Stephen,
"helplessness" is the word
and the feeling.
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you for this sharing this again. Wonderful.
Comment is about The Unsettled Man (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you, all!
Comment is about I wondered into the British Museum (blog)
Original item by Jane McCourt
??? sounds like a crumbled castle ?????
Comment is about The Great Devour (blog)
Original item by Insta: bullthemessenger_94
Thanks, Stephen. Not at all my usual bag but I’ve always had an interest in history. I came across the story of the Lady in Neil Oliver’s excellent “History of Ancient Britain”.
And thanks for the Like, Holden,
Comment is about THE RED LADY OF PAVILAND (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You've posted some poignant & powerful posts today I.N.P. I guess only those who have been through it can truly understand the extent war has on the mind & body. And you're definitely a poet! ?
Comment is about Cold Steel 1982 Falklands Finale. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Interesting words of a revelatory nature. I find this poem intriguing.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Listening to Tippett (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for your comment Stephen.
Comment is about Passing Through (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
This was written many years ago. The inspiration to polish and finish it came from listening to Michael Tippett's great, late work 'The Rose Lake'.
Comment is about Listening to Tippett (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Great. Who could argue with this advice?
Inspires me every time I read it.
Comment is about Your Time Will Come (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Good stuff, but has he really gone?
Comment is about A POP CLERIHEW (1) and (2) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for your comment Stephen, for better or worse actually... it certainly feels very much all about practicing on pancake day, and just practicing for a better pancake..
but, back to that idea about rehearsing, they've said that all the world's a stage, but perhaps its less intimidating to think that all the world is actually just a rehearsal room. ?
Comment is about Still Practicing (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
This is a fine poem which captures a bad dream or a horrible reality. The feeling of helplessness is real.
Comment is about Snowball's Chance (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Yes, a haunting piece, John.
Comment is about THE RED LADY OF PAVILAND (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A moving and atmospheric poem, Keith. I love it.
In a similar vein, I remember that my grandmother lost contact with her sister for forty years (I still don't know how). The reunion was less demonstrative than yours but I remember them, sitting facing each other in deck chairs at the end of my parents' garden, quietly filling in the gaps.
Comment is about Reunion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Interesting thought and nice poem, Julie.
Comment is about 15 Million (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
This is a really enjoyable poem with a lovely rhythm. Thanks, Aviva.
Comment is about Passing Through (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I suppose that we are all rehearsing for a better life. And why not?
Comment is about Still Practicing (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
A fine poem, Mike. Vital and poignant.
Comment is about Guests, of a Sort (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Thanks for your comment Nigel. So it is said, but practice makes perfect might be a myth, as indeed might the concept of perfection be. However, practice does definitely make Arctic PE and Rice Pact ?
Comment is about Still Practicing (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Artwork from: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.southernliving.com/garden/flowers/anemone-flower%3famp=true
Comment is about Mi Anemone (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
Artwork by: Christian Schole
Comment is about Senshi (戦士) (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
Practice makes perfect.
Comment is about Still Practicing (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
In my late-ish 70s, I see bodily insistence on making its owner aware
of its presence is, in its own way, a reminder that life is still going on!
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Comment is about Guests, of a Sort (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Tue 16th Feb 2021 08:40
Thanks M.C.
our power only lasted 30 minutes.
The rest of the day we were out.
Then at 7:30pm it came back on,
only to go out again 30 minutes later.
Now at 2am, it came back on again.
so I rush to type this to you
This is the worst storm I have ever seen.
It is now 6 degrees Farenheit.
cold cold cold.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Really quite perfect Keith.
.........you may wish to address the typo in line 15.
Comment is about Reunion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thanks, Ray and to Greg, Branwell, Stephen and Aviva for the Likes.
Comment is about THE RED LADY OF PAVILAND (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Even now, in the heart of a great city, I keep candles just in case of
a power failure. Pity there's no fireplace and logs in today's "power supplied" so-called civilisation. Maybe I should invest in another camping stove too but there's always an alternative when it comes
to eating: one advantage of big city life. Your word picture reminds
me of the country living of my youth when we were so much closer to elemental living from day to day.
Comment is about Snowball's Chance (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?
Comment is about Passing Through (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks for looking in Tom and Stephen.
Never miss one Graham - I dare not....
This is the one I sent this year:
You are my rhyme and reason
a must for every season,
this card reminds us what we've got
a reason to love
which means a lot. (Not the cynical one I posted)!!
Ray
Comment is about VALENTINE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A strangely affecting piece John. I can hear the drone of pipes maybe on a reading of it. Like an elegy.
Ray
Comment is about THE RED LADY OF PAVILAND (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Wonderfully touching Keith. Can it get any more poignant than this?
Ray
Comment is about Reunion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you for the likes Keith, Hugh, Aviva, Vautaw and Scattered Sun
Comment is about Still There (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Audio recording of this poem now available here: https://soundcloud.com/kimray_poet/the-gentle-birdsong-calling-of-spring
Comment is about The Gentle Birdsong Calling of Spring (blog)
Original item by kimberly
julie callaghan
Wed 17th Feb 2021 19:22
Hope the light, red or green means you now have power.
Comment is about Black Box (blog)
Original item by d.knape