Tue 22nd Oct 2019 23:08
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 23:07
good point about maps confusing women.
if only WOMEN came with instructions!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Philipos and Desmond
I also need coffee
Thalia my Muse of Mirth
In china drinks Earl tea
(High class lady she is....)
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Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
I like the way you use words David. It raises the question do we possess a cruelty gene? Born with one?.....
Comment is about A Poem About Hatred (blog)
Original item by David Karban
I laboured long and hard I did
In end said "bloody jeez"
Now why dk did I say this?
'Twas all in some Chinese
Call Centre I did ring for help
(Of course it was offshore)
She answered in some Double Dutch
I gave up dk. Shit.
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Comment is about Men Don't Read Instructions (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Sorta Hannah, Nigel
Sorta Becky, Mae
Sorta Do. and Ruthy
Sorta too dk
(Thalia: Hey? What about me?.....)
Sorta my sweet Thalia
Sorta Muse of Mirth
Sorta Earl Grey/china cup
Sorta Forth of Firth
(She's giggling...I'm back in the good books.....)
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Comment is about I am a SORTA Poet (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 22:21
Love this writing, celebrating life, beauty.
Hannah
Comment is about ROUNDELAY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 22:11
Go SORTA for it Don !
Hannah
Comment is about I am a SORTA Poet (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 22:06
There's a wild optimism in this which I like.
Hannah
Comment is about Men Don't Read Instructions (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 21:57
A strong poem about an important issue that we see a lot of at the moment.
Hannah
Comment is about A Poem About Hatred (blog)
Original item by David Karban
Philipos
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 20:52
Need my am coffee like a drug - I feel my plugs been pulled without it. Guess I'm not alone by the sounds of it. Enjoyed. P. ?
Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
When you fall, you bounce back Lisa
Comment is about I Fell Today (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Loved 'Love Chair'.
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks Ruth, thanks Don, Chris and Robert - yes just over two weeks back in the old country. Back on line but only via a tablet, no office, we rent a box (mobile home/trailer). Surprisingly comfortable for a box. Still not yet in any routine.
Go well
afish
Comment is about Party Time (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
I love it Ruth got one in my size?
Comment is about My favourite Halloween dress (photo)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
An exercise bike is a great way to get your brain working more effectively Nigel, that's why I've put those in the background.
Comment is about The Mystery Of Words! (photo)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Open the poem
find one inside
open that poem
you find Ruth
working on another!
Comment is about Winter knows (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I'm sure it will be a graveyard smash!
Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
it's got a sorta appeal that could catch on Don
Comment is about I am a SORTA Poet (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Or it could be a grisly tail! I've got a favorite skeleton dress ha, ha I'll find a picture of it later
Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Must jump on my bike and get to Spec Savers double quick!
Comment is about The Mystery Of Words! (photo)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I have known about this tradition for many years but didn't know that the poet could influence the label and add a poem to the back label. Perhaps SA is the first?
I also did not know that the poet received 72 bottles each year for the ten years of his/her tenure as Laureate.
I wonder how much they fetch at auction?
Comment is about Poet laureate receives his sherry - and remembers the Marsden cuckoo (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 15:50
are you a sorta poet
or just out of sorts?
Comment is about I am a SORTA Poet (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 15:47
My consciousness has been awakened
but it prefers to go back to sleep.
Not sure what all this is supposed to mean.
Didn't New Age come out in the 60's?
we are now in 2019.
maybe New Age is not so new anymore.
Poems need to be understood to be effective.
Call them Old Age Poetry.
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Such a great poem. Thank you for sharing.
Comment is about TRAVEL PLANS - ALSO RANS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Got my skeleton costume ready plus my grisly tale Ruth!
Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 15:40
Ironic, perhaps even hypocritical, when one considers all the millions of young people taking part in the recent eco protests...and what do they all say they want to do? TRAVEL. Just for the hell of it. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it...it broadens the mind. But don't then preach to the rest of us.
Comment is about TRAVEL PLANS - ALSO RANS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
You been walking down Market street again Hugh? I'm sure I'll bump into you there one of these days....but will you recognise me? Who knows! ?
Comment is about One good turn deserves another (blog)
Original item by hugh
Ah it's back, I just wrote on your wall that it had disappeared! Ha,ha I'm feeling a presence, but then again it may be a kindly spirit who brings a present. Nice bit of suspense going on either way there Nigel.
Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
That's what you call real spooky Ruth - - -
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
You had some good special effects going on there with the Halloween party. I went to read it and it said ' entry not found' and THEN wait for it......It actually Disappeared. Now. Isn't that the stuff that a proper ghostly Halloween party is made of! ?
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Nigel I always enjoy the way you find another poem within the poem. Given me an idea for yet another genre of poetry, The Russian Doll effect!
Comment is about Winter knows (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
New-Age poetry is serious stuff. Mock it at your own peril. You wouldn't want to be struck by a cosmic thunderbolt powered by electromagnetic forces now would you? Of course not.
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Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Experiments in poetry can be fun. But I'm reminded of the column
"Pseuds Corner" in the UK magazine "Private Eye". Or - as a certain
foul-mouthed US tennis player was prone to shout -
You can't be serious! ?
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Now listen up there poem
You're gonna take new course
No stanzas, meter, rhyming stuff
I'm gonna make you, force
I've got a fan in Nigel
I cannot let him down
I'll change your adjectives to verbs
Whatever's left to nouns
But Don our verse foundation
Was laid by poets old
Shakespeare, Keats and Milton
Please,please don't change our mould
Sorry poem. New-Age is in town. Kaboom.....
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Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Love can wait
then miss out
Love can go
then get hurt
Love can find
warm summer sun
Winter snow falls
butterflies keep warm.
Comment is about Winter knows (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Cosmos I hear you calling
Blip... blip... blip.... you say
These blips? what are they meaning?
(Ruth, I'm struggling. What are these blips saying to me?....
I don't want to let the blip makers down. They could be our friendly aliens wanting to communicate,,,,,,)
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Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
But we should remember that man invented maps so that they could
confuse women - and do! ?
Comment is about Men Don't Read Instructions (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Good luck Don with this
I see you as a new age poetry navigator steering poetry on a different course.
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Ruth has turned her babbling
Into a career
Presenter on the radio
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
(Or, very good I hear...)
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Comment is about gobbledygook (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
I applaud you Emila.(seriously) Even I, a New-Age dabbler of experience could not come up with such exquisite poetic gobbledygook as this.
If you'll allow me,with respect, to take away another interpretation of your gookspeak. After all this is what poets do is it not Emilia?
mai mai dah , ya ya ya
nyuh nyah ah eh yay
gee doh ooh ooh noo noo
Let's roll in the hay
(Behave yourself......)
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Comment is about gobbledygook (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
I remember learning a lot about baby language for my English language A- Level and it really was one of my favourite parts of the course. It is fascinating learning about how babies learn to speak. My mum told me I started babbling very early on, and that's something that didn't change?
Comment is about gobbledygook (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 13:41
I like this one, Don. I've been thinking a lot of the universe and afterlife recently as I explore connected themes.
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 13:30
How to make a poem-
read the instructions!
Comment is about Men Don't Read Instructions (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Great imagery. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Autumn Rain (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Good one Nigel, yes it's all about keeping the flow of writing going, from the wonky first drafts to something more worthwhile. As Don says all we can but hope that the readers will be curious to read more of what we're writing, and want more!
Comment is about Do it anyway (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
d.knape
Tue 22nd Oct 2019 23:15
have you ever seen a Tasmanian Tiger?
there are rumors they are still around.
and that YOU have one.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews