Thank you Dorothy! Isn't that fun? I just love when a poem, story, video sends me on an adventure to learn more. I love both those movies (and just about any romantic movie, from Thornbirds to Letters to Juliet, but of course the goth/romance Wuthering Heights is my absolute favorite). I hope you get a chance to watch The King and I. It's a sweet treat!

Comment is about Shall We Dance (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Good heavens! You've put your computer-dabble time to productive use here

I have also been productively-dabbling.

'Polyadic'
3 or more
Useless word
I ever saw

Had to Google
What it meant
Useless word
We been sent

Down from Greeks no doubt...

Me no agelast
Me ha ha
May be aged but
Fun no bar

Waiting for
other's words
Ones that I have
Never heard......

Comment is about Let's play a game (blog)

Martin,

Thank you indeed for all your comments on my recent batch of poems. I value greatly all you have to say, more than you will ever know.

With gratitude
Keith

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Liked this one yet again - like the sound and combination of the words. Fractal is quite new to me, (had to look it up). It's about the end of the world as we knew it, I think? A lot of original and beautiful language, needs to be read several times.

Jennifer

Comment is about The Natural Habitat of the Cube-Eating SkyFish (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Great poem Jason, don't see how I missed it. Very encouraging in these Covid times. Here in Tuscany things aren't too bad at the moment, but everything has shut down, and in the north it's really grim. Hope is desperately needed. I too would say slopes for a cliff, as usually they are many faceted, not just one slope.

Keep up the good work. Jennifer

Comment is about Let My Rock Be Hope (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

If we are human,it's okay to have
non-essential contact with others.

Comment is about Waiting In Line (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Are you on Twitter, Carolyn? If so, there is something called International Poetry Circle run by @Tara Skurtu which might interest you.

Tara has issued these instructions on how to join in:

—Record video of yourself reading a poem.
—Tweet video in response to thread below (pinned on my page) & include #InternationalPoetryCircle.
—Add photo/link of poem after your video.

Comment is about It's goodbye to poetry out loud for a while - and hello to online poetry initiatives (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you Victoria. I do have a soft spot for a bit of vampire stuff occasionally. ? And thanks for the like Cynthia.

Comment is about You & I, Vampires (blog)

Original item by Tom

AGELAST




Definition: a person who never laughs

The humorless agelast comes from the Greek word agélastos (“not laughing, grave, gloomy"), and not, as one might suppose, from the fact that spending any time around such a person feels like it lasts an age. Agélastos in turn comes gelân (“to laugh”), the same word that gives us gelastic ("arousing or provoking laughter").

Add to these a gift of irony—that confounder of the literalists and Agelasts—perfect self-possession and an imperturbable sang-froid, impenetrability of expression and purpose and the equipment of the Dandy seems to be complete.
— Temple Bar (London, Eng.), Apr. 1890

Comment is about Let's play a game (blog)

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10X

Comment is about Mr Perfect (Believe It Or Not) (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I tried watching the movie king and I but it's not free. Saw prince and me instead. Just saw I forgot to leave my comment here.

A beautifully penned piece V. Simply loved the video. Made me search n watch kept me occupied this morning after waking up....hehehe

Comment is about Shall We Dance (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

It's a sad scenario world over. I hope things get better with time and law enforcement agencies start acting responsibly.

Comment is about ধর্ষণ বনাম আমাদের সমাজ (blog)

Original item by Md Abdul Hannan

Hey Damon, please don't break down. We all are experiencing almost the same thing as you. Keep going, don't give up. You can and you have to. Stay happy and blessed....n keep smiling always!!

Comment is about No Halo (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Not at all, Ruth. Make sure you tell them I’m good looking!
(And it might be nice to prewarn your listeners that I am a writer and definitely not a singer!)

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

ThisThunberg gotta try your nerves.....hehe!

Conspiracy theories doing the rounds
Up and down, up and down
Blowing trumpets, Cock a doodle doo
Winks, winks, winksssss?

Comment is about My 'Light-Bulb' Ideas on Coronavirus (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

And it's a 10 out of 10 from me!

Comment is about Mr Perfect (Believe It Or Not) (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

It's a community station allfm96.9 it'll be on Sunday afternoon. Just wanted to check that you'd not mind me using it. Cheers John!

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The Sandman - thanks Tom. Will eventually get around to reading your file of promising material. Blessings. P. ?

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

Original item by Tom

I wholeheartedly agree Po. Thank you for inspiring this poem with your beautiful poem, “Dying for Your Touch”... I love the way poetry keeps on giving!

Comment is about Lucid Dreams (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

What a beautiful memory John. Thanks for sharing it with us. Good memories make the tough days better.

Comment is about Day by the sea (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Wow, Ruth! You’re more than welcome but I fear your listenership might plummet!
What show is it and what station?

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

No it won't bother them....they'll still keep doing it......

Comment is about Does It Bother You? (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

No probs John, could I play your song my radio show? I'm thinking it might be a bit of light relief! ?

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I cannot help but feel there is more than a slither of truth in these lines. Very well put Keith

Comment is about Infection (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

This is a wonderful description of those fallen who we so longer overlook.
Nice one

Comment is about A Silver Framed Photograph (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

You paint such a wonderful picture here Keith. I have got to say this is among one of your best.

Comment is about Homely Love (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thanks Po much obliged

Comment is about Alone together (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Newspapers were bad, Po, but the TVTimes was worse.
And thanks for the Like, Rich.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi MC, can't say I am familiar with this work but thanks for the intro. I am more aware of the Stanley Holloway monologues and especially Oh Dear I do feel Queer. There is a line in that still has me howling with mirth, 'How old are you now, aye 50 that's true - well your father died then and your mother did too.' Thanks for the opportunity to reminisce and reinvoke a ready smile. P. ?

Comment is about "I GOT IT FROM AGNES" - LAUGH WITH LEHRER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello Jennifer

I put my foot right in it........
I hail from North Africa. Nurtured by the Nile and ripened by the desert.

Abdul

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Vampires, passion, immortality...so fascinating to me. Love this one Tom. Thanks for sharing. ?

Comment is about You & I, Vampires (blog)

Original item by Tom

You need to be of a certain age, Jennifer, to remember the joys of Izal.
Failing Izal, MC, I would suggest a small dog.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ah yes...I remember it well. The time spent on the seat could be
seen as the domestic equivalent of "the bum's rush" !!
It was promoted as "medicated" as I recall. But then we war babies
were of a rationed "grateful for what we could get" generation.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Don't get the increased need for loo paper, unless people are going to be sh..........ng them selves in panic? Newspaper (ouch!) is a possible alternative. Nice poem anyway. Another title could be Roll on.

Jennifer

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I could solve the crisis in a heartbeat, MC. I’d take all the toilet rolls out of the stores and replace them with Izal, that scratchy, greasy, stuff we had in our outside netty.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Good for you, JC. Always topical and entertaining. What next?
"I Fought The Store" perhaps?

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Always a bonus to wake up each morning, Po.
And thanks for the Likes, Kev and Dorothy.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

You could say that we're in a race
When the winner is furthest from face to face. .

Comment is about Flutter Flutter (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks so much for reading and your feedback Keith, Don & Tom. The words come to me elusive as butterflies in a field of dreams!

Comment is about Lucid Dreams (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

I would be interested in joining any online poetry gigs that you or any of the event organisers will be holding in the future.

With Best wishes to everyone

Carolyn O' Connell

Comment is about It's goodbye to poetry out loud for a while - and hello to online poetry initiatives (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Tom Waits' beautiful voice, his magnificent music, and his divinely broken lyricism, break my heart every time I listen to the ghost who sells memories.

Comment is about THE GHOST WHO SELLS MEMORIES (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Writing poetry is in the blood...it will never leave you....

Comment is about Above The Fluttering Butterfly (blog)

Original item by ZTK Space

Good heavens! What's Do painting me as?

?

Comment is about Flutter Flutter (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

True for many, I'm sure.

I loved this: "each turn of the wheel / loosens mothers strings"

Comment is about Boys & Bikes (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I love the feeling and atmosphere created here. Each line flows so nicely into the next.

Comment is about Lucid Dreams (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Metered hugs....no more kisses n handshakes,,,,,,,ladies watchout.....Don is coming!!!?

Comment is about Flutter Flutter (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Clever response EmCee!!

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Indeed, Vautaw. It’s like a sketch from Monty Python. “Come at me with that banana”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVTO2VmIBE

Thanks for the Likes Po, Branwell and Ruth.

Comment is about I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Wash your hands before eating,
Avoid a shake when you are greeting.

Comment is about Wash your hands keep them clean. (blog)

Original item by hugh

I am a little sperm cell
Chock full of DNA
Swimming up the uterus
To find an egg hey hey

Once there egg/I will party
Combine and party-make
Cells for new-born baby
In amniotic lake

?

Comment is about LITTLE PERSONAL (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello