Real letters are still such a fantastic thing definitely Do.Ro.Thy
Comment is about Time!!! (blog)
Thanks Po, I really wasn't sure about this one. So thank you.
J. x
Comment is about Unbreakable (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Brilliantly written,a joy to read.I was there listening to the howl of the wolf under the light of the moon.Unique.
Comment is about The Wolf and Moon (blog)
Original item by Zhar2020
Thank you, Po. If you get a chance go to see the film 'Sorry We Missed You' by Ken Loach. Loved it.
Comment is about Sorry, I missed me (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I've just read this again Cait and recognised the importance of what you say.....
'the way I value myself should not be dependent on whether or not you love me'
Comment is about Whisper My Name (blog)
Original item by Cait Abbott
Thank you Don (your comments always keep me going no matter how simple) and thank you Hamzah☺️
Comment is about Whisper My Name (blog)
Original item by Cait Abbott
Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 00:23
Cheers for your comments. I recorded the tracks in a really great studio with an experienced sound technician. The whole 21 track album ‘is there a poet in the house? Is on Sound Cloud. ?
Comment is about Extra Terrestrial Poets (Audio) (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Hi Cynthia - an interesting read.
An understanding of 'understanding' - may it not also come from above, that is from that - under - which we stand? And if it comes from that - on- which we stand does all ground give right understanding? Of course we all understand that we are not talking here about geology or meteorology. ?
Go well
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Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
You are a musician and music is the highest of the arts, because the most abstract. It is the musicality of poetry - its rhythm, metre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme, half-rhyme - which allows it its gravitas. Words put to measure. I admire your dogged optimism Fish. But I do not wish to share it. We certainly do NOT live in the best of all possible worlds. And, yes, Ray, it was brave of the Stones to use a minor key, but it works, gloriously. Incidentally, the title is taken from Plath's poem 'Tulips' about her experience in hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt:
My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water
Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.
They bring me numbness in their bright needles, they bring me sleep.
Now I have lost myself I am sick of baggage——
My patent leather overnight case like a black pillbox,
My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;
Their smiles catch onto my skin, little smiling hooks.
John
Comment is about My body is a pebble (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Po. I'm glad your getting something from my scribbling and keyboard tapping.
Not sure about your Baal Peor reference unless it's refering to the fact that we reap what we sow? But even with that there is grace, grace, amazing grace.
Go well
Yea keep our feet on the ground and our head in the clouds (depending of course on which clouds we mean).
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Comment is about afishamongmany (poet profile)
Original item by afishamongmany
Po, Don, apropos "ryhme" I repost this from a few months back:-
Zebedi nonchalantly sipping his tea said rhyme can be sublime but sometime a chime a chant a twisting slant that ignores you can't can be the plant that bears the rarest fragrantest flower that rears the shining climbing tower that awakens sleeping weeping cowards to see and say hooray hooray today came some really cool communication surprising inspiration such a sweet and strange sensation and please let's not forget in the creative sweat every asset by which the poet is beset alliteration personification metronomic syncopation and oh yes punctuation said Zebedi pouring another mug of best builders tea.
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Comment is about Faces (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
I see this three letter ending so often now that it begs for comment.
Invariably, it is used to announce an accusation of discrimination from a variety of origins according to its perceived advantage to the user who takes refuge in righteous indignation at the attitudes and/or
behaviour of others.
Comment is about "ISM" = I See Me (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The more usual term is probably "knocking shop". As for brothels
and sin, let's not forget that a certain Mary Magdalen was not
perfect according to religious teachings but JC had time for her...
sending us back to that admonishment "Let him (her) who is without sin cast the first stone."
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Simple yet profound - the one true "constant" in life when love takes
various forms with its demands - and sex is often part of those
forms and demands.
Comment is about Fame And Friendship/By Austin Dobson/Translation Into Amharic/ዝናና ጓደኝነትአውስቲን ዶብሶን/ ትርጉም ዓለም ኃይል ገ/ክርሰቶሰ - Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
Thank you Brian and Dorothy
Comment is about Sorry, I missed me (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Wow. You are a poet, an astrophysicist, and a chemist. How do you find the time haha
Comment is about What is the Matter? (blog)
Original item by New Shoes
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 25th Nov 2019 17:25
Thank you Po. Om Shanti.
Always good to connect with people like yourself.
You find your tribe with your vibe, is what I chant now.
Stay tuned.
Raj
Comment is about My Communal Dance (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
Explaining a topic
without revealing too much
poetry can do
without causing any offence
to those involved.
Comment is about Poetic vision (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Mon 25th Nov 2019 13:05
The poem 'Knock Knock' appeared on WOL ages ago and when I Iooked closer discovered it referred to Knock House in Knock village. I couldn't find the poem or writer. May have left?....
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:18
I believe in the existence of God...so for me there's logical acceptance.
Thnx for elaborating it. N yes.....welcome bk!!
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
This just 'came' from the flash thought that 'understand' is virtually 'under where you stand'. Out of the blue it was. So obvious! But not considered before. And you know me! 'Well, isn't that interesting!' And I was OFF.
You WOLers put up with a lot.
Bless you, Dorothy.
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:16
The picture says it all....so u clicked it??? Where on earth u got knocked out......hehehe ?
Seriously you get such things before us which we really never knew....not a topic where i mus comment...cos it's a boyzone...still...thnx for telling...for v mus know.?
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Jason,
What a poem! You have found your precious jewel.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Open (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:12
Thought provoking write!! ?
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:10
Beautiful thoughts!! Well described.... Cute connection.... Mighty love together. ?
Comment is about Open (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:04
Do u mean Alien's or ghosts?? I'm scared..don't wanna go bk to Jupiter... Sobs!!!
Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Do
Janet and I are waiting on Po to enlighten us. I'm sticking to my Manifold in Back but someone whispered it should be Manifold in Black. Typo Do....
Hello. Do? Deep-Space-Centre-Aus just texted me and said it might be connected to some strange science fiction thing. Beats me Do..
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Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 11:09
What are MIB's?? Whose interpretation is more likely??
Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Succinct, sardonic, satirical
Superbly sounding bite
Edgar Alan Poe at work
Po you're Poe'ing right
?
Comment is about Parliamentary chaos (blog)
Original item by hugh
The politicians are out there after our vote,
Making lots of promises to keep our country afloat.
But politicians please stop and think ,
Unite, otherwise our country will sink
Comment is about Parliamentary chaos (blog)
Original item by hugh
Philipos
Mon 25th Nov 2019 09:16
How refreshing is that! A very different and welcome new approach. Blessings. P. ?
Comment is about Fame And Friendship/By Austin Dobson/Translation Into Amharic/ዝናና ጓደኝነትአውስቲን ዶብሶን/ ትርጉም ዓለም ኃይል ገ/ክርሰቶሰ - Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
I am a little rhymer
A rhymer happy me
What am I gonna rhyme about
Dunno. Wot's on for tea ?
Clap...clap....
Thankyou Po.....
?
Comment is about Faces (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Clever MC....
I'm disappointed-gruntled
Hopeless as can be
Disaffected disillusioned
Silly ditty me
Disadvantaged-imilar
Hopeless still you see
Disputatious wot's that mean?
Silly ditty me
?
Comment is about "ISM" = I See Me (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
blip...blip.....
Po Janet says what's an MIB? It's not in her Earthspeak Dictionary. I would suggest Manifold in Back but knowing Janet she wouldn't know the front from the back of her ship let alone what a manifold was. No Janny I'm talking to Po
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Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
@afishamongmany & poemagraphic - Thank you so much for your comments! ❤️
Comment is about Coming home from Saturn (blog)
Original item by Aly
Thanks Po - ah a poem without a rhyme is still a poem for o' that and some 'poems' with a ryhme a line just ain't.
A fish who fishes men- now Po there's an idea for a poem.
Bed time, go well ><>
Comment is about Faces (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Hi Aly - beatifully and bravely writen. Psalm 147 verse 4.
Go well
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Comment is about Coming home from Saturn (blog)
Original item by Aly
Hi dk - a clear, uncomplicated, true, true write. A counter voice to the thinking that people who live the whole of their life in some country backwater are to be distained as having somehow 'missed out'.
Thanks
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Comment is about Looking Back (blog)
Original item by d.knape
John , a fine poetic expression of heartfelt depression.
But no not 'certainly'. Light is always the antidote to darkness.
Look for the dawn
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Comment is about My body is a pebble (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This is my favourite of all their tracks, John. It inspired me when I was first out there as a musician. It has a feel like a gypsy dance to me being resoundingly in the minor key! This is a poem which stretches the imagination and flirts with a sort of inevitable sense of fear, magnetically attractive. I like the fact you put this innocuous question in there; It gives it a childlike innocence.
I challenge anyone there not to be drawn by this. Am I a rare spirit being attracted to work of talent?
Ray
Comment is about My body is a pebble (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Hi Stuart V - heartfelt with rhyming, running, rythm. Yea don't we all wish so much and so many things. But seeing and hoping are mutually exclusive as are wishing and believing.
Go well
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Comment is about Vision (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
p o r t r a i t
by Tommy Carroll
Wednesday 20th November 2019 9:52 pm
Cheers Ray
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Hello A Peterson - A well written, heartfelt prayer letter.
I can tell you that He is found by those who seek Him. It isn't Him who is far away. It is us who are facing the wrong way.
He is only a (humble) prayer away.
Go well
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Comment is about Jesus (blog)
Original item by A Peterson
I enjoyed this, Stuart. But be careful what you wish for! (Unless it’s the winner of next year’s Grand National, of course).
Comment is about Vision (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Ruth O'Reilly
Tue 26th Nov 2019 11:20
Ooh Don sounds like you are verbally vomiting here!
Comment is about Throwing Up (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews