one of the wonders of words. i prefer to taste off of a plate unlike the patrons of quasi-fine dining establishments, who eat off of bits of the roof. thanks cynthia x

Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

What a superb, pretentious piece
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Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

A fine example of covid brain. Vaccine required ASAP. ?

Comment is about Remember You're A Human (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Is the above 'poetry posture' inspired by Oscar Wilde? It so reminds me of a favourite black and white photo of that man which I found in a magazine when I was a teenager. Same tilt of the head and sling of the hips. I still have it framed on a lounge table, years and years and years later. Just a question; the similar 'attitude' made me smile.

Comment is about Rob Cohen (poet profile)

Original item by Rob Cohen

I'm looking forward to discovering 'you' for myself.

Interesting how 'sour' or 'bitter' crosses swords with 'sharp' or 'forthright'. It all dependes on 'taste' which dances on a hot, tin roof!

Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

That's an impressive photo on this blog. I will try to catch up with more of your work. I haven't been much on line this past year. Do you know how to build guitars? I get the feeling that if you don't, you'll learn. It would be quite an achievement.

Comment is about New Shoes (poet profile)

Original item by New Shoes

JD.,
Some of the greatest minds were considered insane largely because people could not understand them. To be outspoken or eccentric can add to a person's attraction. We don't all have to be dull conformists. I am a little crazy too but tend to keep it under wraps. When I read your poetry i see an original mind and not a crazy one.

Thank you for this illuminating poem
Keith

Comment is about Insane (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Well put, and shining with sincerity. The experience of birthing your daughter as a couple deserves to be remembered with beauty and love. Nine-years-old is very perceptive and wise. As are you.

Comment is about My Beautiful Daughter (blog)

Original item by New Shoes

not quite. i've always been mad for poetry.
the use of 'acerbic' is two fold in it's meaning.
1. (especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
2.tasting sour or bitter.
it's a commentary piece on modern art and the degeneration thereof - taking an avant garde approach.

thank you for reading and commenting

Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Nicola and J.D.

Best
Mike

Comment is about Notes on Forgiveness: May, 2019 (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Thanks Philipos! Putting on some Stones just now...

Comment is about Gimme Shelter (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

This is an amazing 'photo' on your site, basically without gender, despite the long lashes and the dress. Is photogtaphy an interest as another form of 'art'?

What's with 'lower case letters'? Am I missing something currently in vogue about poetical 'awareness'

Comment is about sun (poet profile)

Original item by sun

Further to my previous post today, this is not me trying harder this is me going covid crazy?

Comment is about Remember You're A Human (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Note - I certainly agree with the way that walks can produce poetry.
One of my own - "The Galmpton Robin" - was scribbled on an
envelope directly after a November walk beside the River Dart
in South Devon. Perhaps Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" and
Masefield's "Sea Fever" also came to be written in similar
circumstances? I like to think so.

Comment is about 'Walking generates poetic ideas ... I always come back with a couple of good adverbs': Simon Armitage on BBC's Saturday Live (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your 'like' on my most recent poem. I like your work too, the 'machinery of your mind'. IMO, the closing lines of this work are superb.

Does the human being actually 'morph into seeds' or soil? Mind or matter? Just asking.

I think the 'circle' is possibly the most illuminating and the most deceptive of all mathematical proofs versus imagination. Comfort or control has always been my conundrum.

Comment is about circles (blog)

Original item by sun

Exhilarating - like being alongside as you go. Took me back to
weekend cross-country runs - with the promise of a mug of tea and
a hot sausage roll to look forward to! ?

Comment is about Twilight Run (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Moving through poetry can be like moving through life - not without its
worthwhile discoveries or its painful moments! ?

Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Sounds a little Dylan-ish too Rob. Glad school didn't put you off poetry for good!

Comment is about pretentious highbrow poetry & other ways to lose friends (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

yeah ! absolutely right, one human can only feel the pain when the human itself felt that pain until and unless they don't bother at all.

Comment is about The Irresponsible Protest (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

not sure how to reply to comments or how much of this website works so please excuse me if i seem rude.

trevor - thanks for that. less is more?

stephen - cheers. not all adventures end up at a tea party, some end with the tea party in government

new shoes - sounds good. i don't. mine has always been laced and i suspect bill gates is involved

Comment is about Teletubbie Television (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Thank you for the poem left on my profile Aviva...but why not post it as a comment on Keith's Predicament, or as a piece in its own right on your blog? Brian xxx

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for likes - Greg & Stephen. T ?

Comment is about Twilight Run (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Cleansing of the mind you will find beings so pure and true melding into the frequency of love. The temple of resonance where desecration can't birth its existence. The temple of love is in your thoughts and in your every spoken word. your temple sings in your unique glory. The beauty is in the story, on how we arrive.

Comment is about Lost in Thought (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

My meadow healed me. no matter the torque on our souls, natures harmonies remain the same. It can bring you back to a healthy state of mind. we are made of nature

Comment is about The Runaway (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

different parts and different functions.

Comment is about GENDER NEUTRALITY (blog)

Original item by d.knape

man it made me remember the good old days when my only worry was if someone laced the weed.

Comment is about Teletubbie Television (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

I recall this same struggle. It is a interesting one. There is a book called the Four Agreements. In it is mentioned a tribe who has identified this process, and they equate it to killing a parasite that is trying to control the mind. It refers to the active conscious mind of said person to be a warrior in this fight. It is the fight of breaking the dream of your first attention(how one was raised) to then create the dream of your second attention by use of the conscious mind.

May the force be with you

Peace

Comment is about Little voices (blog)

Original item by Michael Rios

"shall I buy a new guitar. should we drive even more powerful cars. should we work straight through the night. get into fights....... contract disease......... keep people as pets. train dogs respect. buried bones break up homes...... now back to the wall" its all mixed up and in the wrong order and miss alot of great stuff, but it's a great song by Pink Floyd. Don't remember the name of it though

Comment is about poem from book One Thousand Plastic Trinkets Nick Armbrister (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

what a wonderful place to be.

Comment is about Surrounded By Love (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for your likes
Stephen A
Stephen G
Jordyn
Aisha and
Your Royal Poetess.

Comment is about Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

It was about ten years ago when I went to see the reformed group appear in Stockport.
Gerry was well known for his stories and before singing this song explained how he had broken up with his girlfriend then writing from just raw emotion won her back.

Comment is about Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

the poem itself
was an exercise
in absurdity.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Good Point but...
I'm partial to women!
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Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for reading & likeing Holden & Aisha.

Comment is about Broken Friends (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Reading this is like falling down a rabbit hole & landing at the bottom with a thump! Love it.

Comment is about Teletubbie Television (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Keith, I live in hope that you will balance out this doom and gloom piece in the next few days with something uplifting. We are all stuck in our homes feeling sorry for ourselves and the last thing we need is a poem telling us how awful our world is. Are you trying to get us to top ourselves???!!!

Comment is about The Predicament (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

So you miss all the women ? X

Comment is about GENDER NEUTRALITY (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Hi Tony - thanks for feedback. Thanks for like Adam. T ?

Comment is about Twilight Run (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

This reminds me of 'Ring a Ring o Roses' which was a simplistic and lively rhyme about the plague. And this tells of a different sort of social, behavioural and philosophical affliction in a similar sort of hypnotic and fast-footed way. 'An Old Tale' told very well.

Comment is about An Old Tale (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Really like this, Ray. I can’t stand those newspaper columns urging us during lockdown to read more, exercise more, drink less, take up a new hobby - the list is endless. Is it my imagination or are you using rhyme more these days? Tony

Comment is about COVID AVOIDANCE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Loved this. Very atmospheric. Tony

Comment is about Twilight Run (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

The term "poetry world" intrigues me. It sounds like some sort of
cosy club - a literary "order" to which entry is obtained via
selective-through-acquaintance processes. ?

Comment is about 'Walking generates poetic ideas ... I always come back with a couple of good adverbs': Simon Armitage on BBC's Saturday Live (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

A follow-up to remind us how what is said and done can be
distorted for whatever purpose. I've always been curious how/
why Trump - the ultimate "outsider" to an entrenched political
establishment, has been treated prior to - and throughout the
term of his incumbency. Demonisation is a word that comes to
mind, not least in the MSM...itself in the grip of powerful vested
interests closely connected with the established political power
base. As for my points raised about words attributed to Trump
when he addressed the crowd prior to the march to Capitol Hill -
let us consider the words he ACTUALLY used, and with audible emphasis on the first three - "peacefully and patriotically make
your voices heard". That has me asking - WHY would the MSM
choose to place blame when his words give the lie to its actions?
The answer is perhaps best left to the cool detachment of historians, free from the hyperbole and hysteria that is evident
"of the present".

Comment is about Insurrection (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Thanks for your thoughts, Aviva, Tom and MC. Of one thing you can be quite sure, MC; that things won’t remain as they are. If this were the case we’s both still be feudal serfs.

Comment is about SHIT HAPPENS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

How I see it is there's a stream of brilliant consciousness that runs through your work, it's just that I feel that sometimes 'more is less'.

Excellent

Comment is about Teletubbie Television (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

I'm not sure if this is poetry to my ears - but it's stimulating the
thought processes on a dreary Sunday afternoon in this diseased
metropolis. I wonder what generation ever existing prior to our own
has ever been so fixated (obsessed?) on what happens to the world
in the future. Nature cares naught for our concerns, only her own -
to adapt some words borrowed from a favourite poem. I think we
had far more to worry about in the early days of nuclear power and
we have survived that very real worry thus far - with the caveat of a
parallel concern that reports the sudden sabre-rattling of North
Korea at this time...when the only president to step up and get
some sort of future relationship with a real rogue state is now under
siege within his own country. Coincidence would be a fine thing!!

Comment is about SHIT HAPPENS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you MC, no mask but it was very brief, outside and at 2 metre distance. Thanks for the likes Greg, MC and JD.
What a difference a day makes to a walk and a blog entry!

Comment is about I Preferred Yesterday’s Walk (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

The manipulation of language is a tool intended to achieve an object.
But it becomes risible and self-defeating when the absurdity of the
exercise appeals to the latent sense of the ridiculous in all of us.

Comment is about GENDER NEUTRALITY (blog)

Original item by d.knape

An enjoyable rural ramble in suitably rhythmic stepping time.
But there is one question I must ask
Was your chat carried out from behind a mask? ?

Comment is about I Preferred Yesterday’s Walk (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

We both too have re-evaluated many of the things that seemed important once and can no longer be enjoyed. Quite a few things we are ambivalent about. We have done no shopping (other than for food) since March 2020 without missing a thing.
However, the insidious protection of personal space does leave us both feeling, 'will we ever go back to shaking a hand, slapping a back, giving a hug' to anyone outside of our closest family. I sincerely hope so.
Thought provoking in its brevity as always Ray. Stay safe!

Comment is about COVID AVOIDANCE (blog)

Original item by ray pool