Devon Brock
Tue 18th Jun 2019 21:24
Absolutely not too bold. Speaking truth is never too bold.
Comment is about Mind in a Cage (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Devon Brock
Tue 18th Jun 2019 21:20
Really digging on the terse verses here, Tommy. Also, the rhythmic razmataz after "This way leaving" is top notch.
Comment is about The end of interest (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Amanda Morton
Tue 18th Jun 2019 20:39
That’s absolutely amazing Sarah! I would like to see more of your work
Comment is about Heartburn no more (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
Success is dialectical, failure is formalistic, measuring's another's gauge, twixt damp-squib and ballistic.
appologies for versing your post Cyn. ?
Comment is about Math Test (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Congratulations, Alexandra
Comment is about 'My Point is Circular' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you both! ?
Comment is about I am not locked up, I am the lock. (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Thank you for all these thoughtful comments, I really appreciate the support!
Comment is about 'My Point is Circular' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Vautaw. Personally I have no fear of spiders. But I can understand those who do, there is something creepy about them.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about Scared Of Spiders (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Many thanks for your comments, Lisa and Don.
Comment is about CAMAY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Yea an epiphany a day keeps one from fading away ? ><>
Comment is about On rejoining the cult (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Fish has saved the
Day for you
Harley round
Doo de doo
No more slow
Looking fool
Harley round
Looking cool
Should thank fish
For idea
No more slow
Drink your beer....?
Comment is about Slow Walking (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Hi Peter T - An interesting read. Did it fly? As you you say 'Jumbo lumber'. But the journey was coherent and intellectually stimulating. 'And Because' of that I liked ?
Thanks
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Comment is about AND BECAUSE (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
A tidy piece Hugh. Should be part of every school's curriculum.
Careful you don't fall into that canal mate.
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Comment is about Live much longer don't smoke! A message to teenagers. (blog)
Original item by hugh
Chloé, Jason - Thank you muchly for your kind comments and encouragement.
d.k. - Those info cakes sometimes ya must take but they're not so yummy, too many will give ya data dyspepsia, they'll upset ya and give ya tummy ache. ? ><>
Comment is about afishamongmany (poet profile)
Original item by afishamongmany
Thanks Martin but, as you say, we need really to thank Heraclitus. The 'west' is reluctant to acknowledge our debt to the civilizations of Greece, Egypt, Carthage, Mesopotamia and Rome. Maybe, as you imply, because it would reveal how unoriginal our thinking, in terms of art and culture, so often is. I think we have made progress in Physics especially through the work of Albert Einstein who famously acknowledged that "Imagination is more important than knowledge." John?
Comment is about No man ever steps in the same river twice (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Interesting to read your story JJ,
'I am British, born, bred and buttered; and yet ...'
Can identify with that being born and brung up in war/postwar Britain but both parents foreigners. The making and the shaping of us eh!
A good poem effectively animated. Hope it gets plenty of exposure.
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Comment is about A villanelle for the cup that cheers: Julian Jordon's poem accompanies Refugee Week animation (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you Lisa, I'm touched that you were touched by it, and thank you to all who liked, considering it was my first go I'm pleased with how they came out.?
J. x
Comment is about Haiku X 10 (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
To those well-off enough to have servants:
Who's got a servant to skim off the skum?
Those with a servant to help wash their bum
Nice to be Roman in this day and age
Having such servants with which to engage
Notice I said
Servant not slave
Some would though still
A slave wish to crave
Servant slave
Skim skum
Wash bum
Ho hum ?
Comment is about 7-Up: Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 18th Jun 2019 10:19
Personally I get one of the servants to constantly skim off the skum (poetic or what?) and top up with clean hot water.
Comment is about 7-Up: Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
... I on the other hand , bury the nests and baby blackbirds the magpies have killed , and even though my catapult is by the back door I've never managed to hit one , the grey squirrel vermin are another matter , chewing their way through the acer brilliantissimum ......
Comment is about Why I kill magpies. (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
gripping, not just the infamous cat
Comment is about I am not locked up, I am the lock. (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Taken at any point, excellent. With that thought at its own speed or pace quality which is so arresting and a lovely, orderly muddle. POTW you bet.
Comment is about 'My Point is Circular' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
what a great sense of perspective you have captured here.
I love the line
Or the shelves that collapse
Silently, as tears tie her down
wonderful stuff
Comment is about Flicker (blog)
Original item by Astrid
Thanks Martin
I don't normally write poems from a personal perspective but this one just came to me when I was reminiscing.
Cheers
Wayne
Comment is about A Stranger Calls. ....... (blog)
Original item by Wayne McLellan
A wonderful title John. I think we little realise the profound effect the ancient and in particular Greek thinking has impacted our lives. I do feel that we should spend more time contemplating these origins to our western way of thinking before we lay claim to what we believe is the originality of our own.
Nice poem
Comment is about No man ever steps in the same river twice (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Yikes, a gal has just gone come into view
She must have read about it my rhyming
Or come across Coopey, (he's good for a laugh)
Checked in, said yikes, what's Coopey writing?!!! ?
Comment is about CAMAY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I am impressed that you posted it so quickly John. I think this is possibly one of our most interesting yet.
Comment is about June 2019 Collage Poem: Going Back in Time (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
It reminds so much of what happened with my dad. Its never easy seeing them be somebody else. beautifully put Wayne
Thanks for posting
Nice one
Comment is about A Stranger Calls. ....... (blog)
Original item by Wayne McLellan
There are some great lines here
composing silhouettes and sending
them out through the chute of dusk
is one that stands out for me
brilliant poem
Nice one
Comment is about Silhouettes (blog)
Original item by David Blake
A bit of a catch 22 wrapped up in this. A beautiful poem with some great lines of which I think my favourite is
'a constant fire that longs for fresh air but stays content with burning only me.'
marvellous
Comment is about Doubt (blog)
Original item by ByteSize
Brian I'm pleased to see you
Keeping tabs on me
Bringing me to heel for
Not pushing boundary
Least you will remember
Bridget Everett
And thank me for thus bringing you
Risque you won't forget ?
Comment is about Bridget Everett - On the Edge (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 18th Jun 2019 08:14
But Don, you haven't pushed a boundary. Bridget Everett has.
Comment is about Bridget Everett - On the Edge (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Tue 18th Jun 2019 07:42
Many thanks Devon, I like the whole event as much as the game - people watching, the sales techniques of the beer, peanut and popcorn vendors as well as the fact that the crowd don’t tend to carry knives! Your mother sounds very wise.
Comment is about the first pitch of summer (blog)
Original item by thephantomscribbler
I like the fast paced rhythm of this poem CindyLee.
Especially liked :
"radar
vision
fighter pilot
precision"
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Comment is about VAMPIRE'S KISS (blog)
Original item by cindylee loucks
Good luck this evening : )
Comment is about Stuart Buck is guest poet at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Pushing boundaries is what I
Believe poets should do
Not keep with flowers and fluffy stuff
Try comedy taboo?
But yikes Don this is pushing things
Out of our comfort zones
We're British, Queen-like, stick to rules
No broad-mind Aussie tones....?
Comment is about Bridget Everett - On the Edge (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Jason, 'Tears' filled me with tears! Love it. All are quite wonderful
Comment is about Haiku X 10 (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks, Wayne. What a fabulous idea!
Don - hopefully they're all shopping at Boots.
Comment is about CAMAY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thought Police, I like that term
How long will this make them squirm?
Notice how the comments all
Are from guys not gals at all....
Comment is about CAMAY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Lisa C Bassignani
Tue 18th Jun 2019 22:17
goodbye
Comment is about The end of interest (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll