a technophobe?
are you in therapy?
you can be helped
with counseling.
confess your sins
say your penance!

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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not sure what you mean here.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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You bring me fodder
Food for thought
Don't ever stop
Don't leave me nought

Cat plays with mouse
What's this dead rat?
Cat waits for mouse
While on it's mat

This could go
On and on
Have to go out
Be back, not gone.......

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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I have also come to writing poetry late in life. As well as wishing to stir emotions in the reader it is the effect of stirring my own emotions that was unexpected - and rewarding......

Comment is about Belinda Sue Kiser (poet profile)

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My cheeks flush

and I'm not even flying

Loved it

Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)

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"Fodder"
is food for thought!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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age is all right-
what's scary is
the alternative.

Like Annie Lennox says "Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death"

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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age is all right-
what's scary is
the alternative.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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humor is the soft cushion
for the hardness of life.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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don't worry about age
it's just a number
what matters is
what goes on inside your head.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Pink not Blue

July orange thoughts
drift and dream
inside tangerine marmalade.

Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)

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Dear Shaakiera,

I am really impressed by your survivor's spirit and your faith in Allah. May Allah bless you (Ameen).

Binte

Comment is about Shaakiera Schroeder (poet profile)

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have not had any grouse lately.
or
ever!
?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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thanks for reading the poem,"Pulse".
your pulse should be good-
do not give in to IMpulse.

Ah..,...I'm always jumping in to IM.

(silly boy - wonders why he crash lands so much....)

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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thanks for reading the poem,"Pulse".
your pulse should be good-
do not give in to IMpulse.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Don - Splashbacks - appreciate the feedback muchly. Would add more but my PC is behaving like a tortoise waiting in a long queue. ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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No problem Devon, none taken. Really. ?

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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The picture of the owl is by Arthur Rackham.


The Naked Ape is one of those books I keep meaning to read but never get round to. Maybe one day.


Thanks for your comments and interest..

Comment is about branwell kent (poet profile)

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Fab photo on your bio. Terrific bio too. Interesting how, in the small version by each entry, the picture looks entirely different, like two glowing eyes.

Did you ever read 'The Naked Ape'? Could well be eons before your time. But, maybe not.

Comment is about branwell kent (poet profile)

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My mind went down
a one way street
I was hit head on
by an idea
but now I am being ticketed
for operating a poem
without poetic license.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Thanks Keith, just trying to coax those shy artists into expressing themselves out loud somehow. Really appreciate the comment.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Hi Adam, thanks for the comment on Murmur Love. I'm just trying to encourage a shy artist into expressing themselves out loud. Looking forward to reading (and listening to) yours in the next few days. T

Comment is about Adam Rabinowitz (poet profile)

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I've noticed the chat window problem with older versions of Windows. I don't have it with 10, but my work computer, Windows 9, I think, or whatever came before 10, has the same behavior.

D

Comment is about Adam Rabinowitz (poet profile)

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Thank you kindly!

Comment is about Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet (poet profile)

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Wonderful Triolet, Mae. How about now we both try an Etheree.

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/etheree.html

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Thanks for this John

I don't get on to WOL so very often, so apologies if silence looks like indifference - it's not.

Ditto re your sample poems - love their wit and sardonic humour, esp "Rose".

"Laters" I guess

Dave R

Comment is about David Redfield (poet profile)

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Here you go, Mae...try a Triolet!

https://poets.org/text/triolet-poetic-form

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Hello Adam! Loved your sample and may I say impressiove bio! I wish I could write songs! I wonder, is your sample a sestina? I recently did one, two in fact...yours is far better!
Anyway, welcome ?
Mae

Comment is about Adam Rabinowitz (poet profile)

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Ok, palindrome it is. After reading a few, I think this may take awhile. I'll find one for you also.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Hey Laura! Thanks for stopping by at my profile! Yeap, I'm telling you spitting image! ? Congrats again! I'll be exploring your work! Thank you ?
Mae

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Mae

Thank you again.

Meryl Streep? Hahaaa ? I've never had that before ? Yes, that is me in my profile pic ?

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Hi Jon! Been some time since I dove into your work! I'm all cpught up! You were always extremely skilled and wise! You are thriving and at the same time I sense you are maybe in pain. A cruel controversy. Just wanted to say, congratulations for being a great poet, skillful, profound, insightful artless, humble, taciturn and centred! Your poetry really speaks to me.
Thank you my friend ?
Mae

Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)

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Love the re-work of your sestina. Though I loved the original, your poetic sensibilities knew what needed to be done. Great work!

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Thank you Don for stopping by, reading and liking my poetries. This makes me so happy.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Hi Dev and Don
I do appreciate your posts.
I may have left the back-door open in this poem.
The shape of some light, on a surface through window glass, can be fancifully described as such.
And Dev pardon my use of "To clarify" that upon retrospect came across as a rebuff - far from it. It was a genuine request to enquire.

The legs and her legs.

Cheers lads.
Tommy

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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John I can't believe
The record people haven't
Signed you with a contract
With such fantastic talent

Tra la la la la la la la la

(I would sound like a wounded dingo....? )

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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John you must check comments
On your profile page
More than once in several months
Someone might want engage

How would you feel if someone
Gave you heaps of praise
And you ignored them several months
The giver would go crazed

On other hand they could John
Curse you on and on
You wouldn't know but others would
(You need to check more often.....) ?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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'Fraid dk your poems
Always make me sick
Sick with laughter (that is)
I then can take the mick

The serious ones however
I know they must come out
I cannot take the micky
On these which are about....

Things we need to ponder
(I need to garden shape)
Instead've of rhyming nonsense
To someone called d knape ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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My poetry is
the silent killer.

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Sounds good, Mae. Since you pushed me toward a sonnet, and I pushed you toward a sestina. Perhaps you will present me form to undertake and we'll see what happens, because this is fun and challenging.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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thanks for always reading my poems
hope they don't have an ill effect
but WOL is pretty lenient
so what did you expect.
?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Thanks for joining in the fun on 'Nuff Said' Don. ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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I never intended to upset you with a comment, Tommy. I, perhaps stupidly, underestimated the intelligence of the reader. I only sought to highlight a clever wordplay (as he seeks to remove foot from mouth).

D

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thank you Ray - for all of those words - Ymmot

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Hi David

Enjoyed your sample poems especially Colonel Double-Barrel. Some wonderful images here. Look forward to reading your blog entries very soon. Thanks for these!

John Short

Comment is about David Redfield (poet profile)

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Mae, congrats on wrestling down the sestina with "Hades Ferry". Absolutlely marvelous.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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DK - when I saw the title "Hearring Loss" - I anticipated a blog
about our UK fishing stocks (herring) running low - slightly misprinted. I was doubly deceived!! ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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That was one excellent piece! Deep and steeped with symbolism, impeccable on so many levels! Loved it?
Mae

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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see this morning's poem.

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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From poet's heads
to seeing eye
hard to believe
we so contrive
We write despite
a reason why
the poem part truth
and part a lie.

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

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