Dear Lisa - Sing-song sadness. Search and you will find, is the promise.
May it be so
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Comment is about Searching (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thanks John for the link - Yea seems I've missed out, got unplugged not long after Morcambe and Wise.
Returning to your core question and Trig metaphysics - We are not our bodies, anymore than we are our houses or cars or clothes. We are much more than the sum of our parts.
Go well
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Comment is about TRIG'S BROOM (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I tend to think that mundane reality is more interesting and rewarding than dreams which after all are figments of imagination. On the other hand it's good to have ambitions. I hope visiting Athens is not one of your dreams/ambitions. I lived there for 8 years and it's more of a lunatic asylum really.

Cheers, John S

Comment is about Third Eye Blind (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Thanks for the feedback! B

Comment is about My Parents Went To Cancún (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Tu est une bonne fille Cynthia.

Sensuelle till the very end.
Totally captivating, ma magnifique amie.

That's me in my best Frenglish.
Raj

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Great scene you're painting with your words Zoe, you can feel all the disappointment of driving away from the fantasy into a bleaker reality, with a touch of suspense!

Comment is about The move (blog)

Original item by Zoëlla

Hey Hugh,

It's always a pleasure to ‘meet' a fellow poet who appreciates rhyme!

Thank you for your comments regarding ‘Heartbreak and Toothache'.

Regards

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

Siren this perfectly sums up the whole poetry writing process for me and explains the reason I hardly ever finished poems! Writing on here is helping to relieve some writer's block though so keep posting

Comment is about Tried, I did. (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Thank you so much for comment, I'm glad my writing brought you peace. enjoy the garden in your bare feet.

Comment is about The Simple Ways (blog)

Original item by Amanda Ann;

This was lovely Avishek.I love the line about time snickering somewhere. The older I get the more I think I can hear it!

Comment is about Just a Teardrop (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thank you so much Eiren for taking the time to not only read this but then read aloud as well, much appreciated!

Comment is about Always Intertwined (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I liked the comparison of salty ocean waves being tamed to just a tear drop Avishek

Comment is about Just a Teardrop (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

I love the idea of a locked down genius.... There's a wonderful tension in the idea of setting it free, but then fearing the consequences of the uncaring and proximity to life. Wonderful, and in so few words.

Comment is about rare birds (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thank you Kate G! I had that one in my books for a long time and didn't know what to do with it!
Thank you Lisa, always great support!
Thank you ladies?
Mae

Comment is about The Burden of Man- A Ghazal (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Good write

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Beautiful lines

Comment is about Poetry and Me (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

Mae!

Absolutely Fabulous !!!!

Lisa

Comment is about The Burden of Man- A Ghazal (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

You never disappoint Mae. I love the line.... The shoe wounds the soil like shame wounds the soul

Comment is about The Burden of Man- A Ghazal (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Phew. Time for a cigarette. Thanks Cynthia.

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia,

The moment is rapturously captured. The idea is fantastic and imaginative and entirely enviable.

I hope you'll forgive me for admitting it, but I have one minor suggestion. I'm not sure I've ever tried to offer constructive criticism here, but I really like your idea so much...

I felt a personal sense of anticlimax with the phrase, "it reminds me". There is a real potential for the piece to be transportive for the reader, but it felt like my moment was intruded upon in a very subtle manner with the use of certain words in the final verse.

I hope that makes sense. I understand if you feel like telling me to get lost ) feel free.

Happy Sunday, Cynthia,

Rachel

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

The voices in the head come from the heart...follow them.

Comment is about Destination (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Kate - don't even try. Bran's playing games with your mind. You'll end up silly like me....

Comment is about An Annoying Riddle (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Eiren will wonder what's going on Jason
The rhymers have taken full control
The poor girl's just new to the website
She'll be wondering what she's struck here on WOL

Comment is about Tried, I did. (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Then it would seem like a good idea.

Loved this Cynthia, really loved it.

J. x

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I am almost encouraged to pull out all my French 'stuff', and reboost my love of the language again. What an undertaking that would be. Totally pointless, but grand. The very idea makes my tummy flutter.

Comment is about La petite mort (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Oh so true and I have known many in my time and loved them all dearly. Of all strangers to start a conversation with these are by far my favourite and by far the most interesting conversations I've ever had.

J. x

Comment is about Town Character (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I have been remiss in not responding to this earlier Eiren.

To me the art of poetry is being able to put what you want to say into as few words as possible. This a skill. You have this skill.

Comment is about and i begin to fade (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

The beginning's often a thought so clear,
That the idea seems to gleam and glitter,
But after an hour what you've got, I fear,
Is a paper ball to file under, "Litter."

J. x

Comment is about Tried, I did. (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Are you a: Tea steam trophy sweat drum fools Day cream hazard????

J. ?

Comment is about An Annoying Riddle (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

this poem is
a characterization-
any resemblance to me
is purely coincidental.

Comment is about Town Character (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Eiren I thought I had lost you
It's been a while since you've come back
I think you're an interesting person
(Can't find me a rhyme, cul de sac?)

I'm still trying. It's not that I can't find a rhyming word but you gotta be so careful which word you choose these days. Political correctness and all that.

I'll try again, yes, I will Eiren
I won't let this thing get me down
Now have I got an end word to screen up? (thinks....)
OK, how about poem's a noun

Still not bard status.....but I tried ?

Comment is about Tried, I did. (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Ruth, this was so much fun to read out loud I gave it a couple full reads before silently reading it a third time to let the words soak in and settle. I enjoyed it completely. Thank you!

e. xxx

Comment is about Always Intertwined (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Love this line 'metal merengue
roof rumba ' and the idea that when we are no longer here we become Mist! It rains quite a bit where I'm from is it the sane where you are?

Comment is about Sound of Rain (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Oh Don!

Don't sell us short just yet! We have many more lives to live and if we want it, we will. This I believe.
Then again, I believe in everything.

also... I don't believe in anything.

e. xxx

Comment is about Tried, I did. (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Tiu Dragonfly, thank you for your comment and I am so pleased my words touched you and that you were able to share such a moment of connection with the rest of us. So moving and filled with love.

Devon, I listened to that song and loved it! Thank you for introducing me to a singer that surely will become a staple in my playlists going forward! Lovely!

e. xxx

Comment is about and i begin to fade (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

This poem of yours must never be removed,
A filling to your entries ,definitely approved.
"Heartbreak and Toothache,"can be described as brill,
Have the tooth pulled out succumb to the drill.

Comment is about Heartbreak and Toothache (blog)

Original item by Chrystel Roberts

Hi branwell,

I think you're very smart and not in the least bit annoying!

Comment is about An Annoying Riddle (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I feel like this one would-be wonderful read aloud Adam. Definitely evocative.

Comment is about Sound of Rain (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Pleasure ?

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I enjoyed this, Robert. The juxtaposition of material riches and the true wealth of love. If I was being picky, i thought the final thought wasn’t necessary - the piece had said this already.

Comment is about My Parents Went To Cancún (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Gosh, you're up early and on the bull for a Sunday morning John?

Have I got my genders mixed up? I'm gonna have to explain to our people I don't have a pet bull hence don't know what I'm talking about. Cows are my specialty

Comment is about A Toilet for Daisy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thank you so much for that Amanda. It hit the spot this morning. It waslike a ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloom-filled news room.

'Simple abundance' is what I call it. The little things that touch the heart and decorate the soul. More please.
Raj

P.S. You've inspired me to take my shoes off and walk bare feet in the garden.Catch you later!

Comment is about The Simple Ways (blog)

Original item by Amanda Ann;

Interesting wordplay going on here Adam. I've always worked on the idea that the art of poetry (to me) involves using the rules of poetry to condense what you want to say into as few words as possible. It's not an easy skill. Maybe that's why I like good haiku.

Keep it short and I'll stay with you. Make it too long and I give up halfway.

Comment is about Sound of Rain (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Not sure you’ve grasped the principle involved here, Don. It’s not the bull you inseminate.

Comment is about A Toilet for Daisy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Interesting thought, Kate. And I wonder who gets the greater pleasure, the bull or the vet?
The stuff of myth and fantasy, Jason. (Unless you do it yourself).
MOTW, Don?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWOtL-PZiE

Comment is about ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I had a number of ideas I wanted to explore when I started to write it. Not sure many ended up in this draft. A weakness of my work is I don't tend to edit down much...but on this I just kept cutting and cutting...stanzas lines and words...hope what is left is at least evocative if not as fully garnished as is my wont.

Comment is about Sound of Rain (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Hi Jason,

Right now, it's 07:30 in the morning in Zambia, and I've had my first hearty laugh of the day already!

Thanks for brightening my day!

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks for sharing this beautiful gift with the world. Magic indeed. ❤️

Comment is about YOU CAME IN TO THIS WORLD: ALEXIS KARPOUZOS (blog)

Original item by alexis karpouzos

Now Jason you've been led astray here
It's not one she's talking 'bout goes quack
It's the restaurant with the big M outside it
The one where kids/us eat Big Mac

I know you're not talking 'bout me Jase
I ain't orange, cheese puff or sex pest
I ain't got no hair I can speak of
And Chrystel ain't stoopid, she's best ?

Comment is about just ducking around! (blog)

Original item by Chrystel Roberts

Interesting MC. I have a draft piece on that very theme you raise.

Comment is about PRIORITIES (blog)

Original item by ray pool