Hi Jerod. I am intrigued and hope to hear more from you!
Lisa
Comment is about Jerod Tew (poet profile)
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In celebration of May Day.
And falling in love.
Comment is about Carnival (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Oh, the feeling when you know you are in love.
Comment is about The blindfold (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Hello Cynthia!
Liked your poem '1ast Chemio Session', and as I assume it is autobiographical, am so happy for you to be out of the wood. I had a similar experience 20 years ago, but got off with just radiotherapy, and have been in the clear ever since. Treatment seems to be so much more effective now. All the best!
Jennifer
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thank you friend, I was lost for a while but feeling good to be back x
Comment is about The blindfold (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
For me it was ice-cream! All year long!?
Comment is about Chemo Session 4 (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Liked this.Just having time to sit quietly and think, or let your mind become 'velvet starless night' is so important, but modern life doesn't let us do this. To do anything even remotely creative, time to empty your mind of everyday cares is vital.
Jennifer
Comment is about THE BEST CURE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Jennifer! It's an overused metaphor but it's beautiful and I couldn't help it sο I indulged! Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Hi Ray! thanks for the very positive comment on Hopeless. Glad you saw something in it. I was doubtful whether to post it or not, as it was more a word game than any kind of poetry. I really can't bear to think about not having somewhere to go on a freezing winter night. I was in the ER at the hospital in December, and there was a homeless man I know, 'cos he is always outside our local supermarket. He is at least 65, and was just trying to get through the night somewhere with heating, but they turned him out eventually. One feels so ashamed, even without being directly responsible.
Jennifer
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Hi DK,
Only just seen the question about 'keep your pecker up'. It's Cockney, (East End of London slang), for cheer up! or similar expressions. You prob know about Cockney rhyming slang, which is fascinating.
Jennifer
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Loved this one! Liked the butterfly metaphor.
Jennifer
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Hi Mae!
Thanks for the supporting comment about Hopeless!
Jennifer
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Love your sample. I really like the off beat in the rhythm of it. I think I've re-read it about 5 times. Really very good.
J.
Comment is about Cesca (poet profile)
Original item by Cesca
Ahh, good to see you back mate, excellent poem and so very true.
J. x
Comment is about The blindfold (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
"Because I am involved in mankind..."?
Mae
Comment is about Moses Maimonides 1135 - 1204 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks Desmond. The workshop stuff is exciting. I'm used to working in front of big groups in assemblies and I'm looking forward to concentrating on creative writing with classes. I shall see how it goes and review at the end of the year. : )
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Book End' by Jonathan Humble (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hello Cynthia. I, too, was treated at the Christie in 2007 and wrote a short vignette related to the treatment, which I thought you might like. Though written in a very different style it has, I think, the same touch of insouciance that is so lovely, and brave, in your poem. It stands without saying that I wish you all the luck in the world Cynthia. John
CHEMOTHERAPY
In a universe of singularities
Near is very far
And
There’s a vastness that appalls
Chemotherapy,
White walls.
Scurrying through
The corridors
Of the Christie, this Monday morning
Early,
Meeting Emile, yes, named after Jean Jacques's eponymous hero.
Married at the weekend, it has spread,
He fears he’ll soon be dead.
His Caribbean lilt
Still
Echoes in my head.
We smile and laugh and joke with the nurses,
As they try searching for a vein
In vain.
What else can you do?
Blue’s still
The colour of blue.
Comment is about Chemo Session 4 (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Hi, Jordyn. Welcome to WOL. Very arresting 'title', photo and bio, all of them full of dramatic imagination. Some day, writing poetry may actually be a joy, as well as a 'medication'. But, maybe, as 'medication', it already IS a joy. Interesting thought, actually.
Good touch with 'aside from waffles'. All is not so bleak that a sense of humour is stifled! Besides, I totally agree. Mine is salted peanuts, chocolate pieces and raisins - in one chompy mouthful - the taste coming through individually and in good company!
Comment is about Jordyn Elizabeth (poet profile)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Wed 1st May 2019 12:57
Hello.
Perfect symmetry in the rhythm..
A poem that I instantly liked..
And yes .. ..you should always write ?
Comment is about Hello (blog)
Original item by Dragan Bozilov
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Wed 1st May 2019 11:10
Wed 1st May 2019 10:32
Great poem Johnathan, well deserved poem of the week
Ps good luck with the kids, brilliant idea.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Book End' by Jonathan Humble (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thank you Jason!
"You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs!
I look around me and I see it isn't so!"
Who was it that said that the people who write about love are the ones who don't know anything about it?
It's true though, I rarely like a love poem or a love story but very often feel the need to write one myself...
I'm secretly a romantic soul! But shhh!
Thanks Jason?
Mae
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Dana Robles
Tue 30th Apr 2019 22:51
We all have our imperfections. Some are noticeable at a quick glance and others require that you look beneath the surface. The physical imperfections, in reality, should require no fix, they are only superficial. The imperfections that cannot be seen are more dangerous, and yet, often go unnoticed and unadressed. These are the ones that we need to work on, and yet, the surface imperfections are the ones we (and others) focus on. Oh, the dichotomy of the superficial vs. depth of who we are...
Comment is about A SPLIT LIP (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Why else were we born indeed Mae?
Never doomed nor forlorn, just as long as you spread your wings. x
Beautiful poem. I thought you said you didn't like love poems?
And yet you seem to be very good at writing them.
J. x
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Tue 30th Apr 2019 20:21
Thank you Steve you’re comments are much appreciated. Thank you mona, Lisa and ana for the likes.
All the best des
Comment is about Senryu/Hailku (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
An orgy of sneezes! Nice poem - unique.
Comment is about SNEEZATHON (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Eric, it seems you be a new poster, in which case welcome! I am intrigued by this poem- it is a kind of nightmare of suppression and almost masochistic in tone. The endurance of such torment is welcomed at the end, so we are left in some doubt, but that could be just what you intended.
Ray
Comment is about Against (blog)
Original item by Eric Fox
Thanks Steve. I think that's one of the best compliments I've ever received
Comment is about tanka (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
I had to look this up, Steve. No, I’m on Tamsulosin with its remarkable side effects.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=88532
Comment is about ME AND MY BLADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
thanks for commenting on 'Phantoms' Laura - glad you liked it. One of those I didn't really appreciate myself as I wrote it - but when I read it back this morning I thought 'yeah - that works'.
Thanks for getting me onboard with this NaPoWriMo thing - I've enjoyed reading your daily quota and really enjoyed doing it myself. Hopefully this has kick started me down the poetry routes again - as I had drifted seriously off course since last October
Ian
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Last day of the 2019 challenge, and the 'official' prompt was for a minimalist poem, so I chose a rondelet form.
Comment is about Simple Pleasures (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
i did that too! glad you liked the poem mate been reading your daily contributions with great gusto.
Comment is about think back/pink black (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thank you so much Mona!
I'm glad you like it ?
Mae
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Mae
Tenderly written and captivating images. Beautiful poem.. ?
Comment is about Rite of Passage (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Thanks for looking in, Anna.
That assessment is about right Steve, thanks. I've had some experience of meditation; I like to call it self hypnosis. I had the idea that you have to rise above all other demands if possible ! Hence the idea of keeping watch constantly. I'm intrigued with your reference, but not sure how to clarify it as I don't have a Bible !
HI Dorothy. I'm very pleased you liked this. I think my comment to Steve might give an idea of my aims. "Haunting" I love - it is a word that has many connotations within the poetry genre.
Ray
Comment is about THE BEST CURE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Love Lord Byron! Dear John, It impresses me how fervently you seek your origins sifting through the mosaic of the old Ottoman Empire. I had never thought what it would be like to not be certain that you belong in some ethnic or religious group and the only clue you have is that you were an Ottoman citizen. It never dawned on me that it is possible for one to not know what their heritage is; the Ottoman Empire being so multicultural. I fond it intriguing!
Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about Janissary (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Oh yea...and write it all down!!!!
Comment is about Things To Do Today (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Thanks for the comments Steve. This was my first try at a tanka...
Comment is about tanka (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Only just seen this. Idiot young is a great expression. And I've done this kind of thing so many times. Closing each eye in turn to flip-flop perspective was a favourite of mine.
Comment is about think back/pink black (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Not only Frank and well written but so, so true. Thanks John.
J.
Comment is about Burning words (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Vautaw and Jon.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Book End' by Jonathan Humble (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Frances Macaulay Forde
Tue 30th Apr 2019 04:50
Loved it, Trevor. More please. ?
Comment is about Ilkley Moor (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Congratulations, Jonathan
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Book End' by Jonathan Humble (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Lisa C Bassignani
Wed 1st May 2019 22:02
For Joanne,
You really need to do this.
❤
Comment is about tanka ? (blog)
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