'autonomy of anatomy' - great line, and I applaud your standing up to shout it.
Comment is about Welcome To The New Age; (blog)
Original item by Leah Anne
I hear where you're coming from Tom. You wonder why something you think is good is 'ignored'. Then I say, hey? who cares, I enjoyed creating it. And yes, it is a 'creation'. Not just a collection of words.
Have just come across you. Gosh you've been around a while...... I liked 'Eccentricities'
Sorry Leonard was out.
Comment is about Tom (poet profile)
Original item by Tom
I just don't believe
You've got nought to say
C'mon now dk
Your excuse holds no sway
You've written 'bout nothing
But given me the bricks
To write 'bout your poem
Which is nothing, nix
What a load of drivel
We've both written 'bout
Shows we are both hopeless
Poets, no doubt ....
Comment is about No Poem Today (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I see the adroitness of any religion which is politically savvy enough
to provide a "cop out" for sins committed via the offered facility of "confessing" them to one of the religion's employees. A sure
way to keep members - and an attraction perhaps for the watching
waverers in society towards increasing membership? ?
Comment is about You Are My Priest (blog)
Original item by Tom
Oooh the the rhyming and sometimes content have a repetitiveness that rlly emphasises the msg of the poem and makes it easier to empathise with. Well done x
Comment is about OCD (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
you are a clearly a very talented and gifted young man x
Comment is about Shawn Garcia (poet profile)
Original item by Shawn Garcia
A balancing act that is perfectly described with a frisson of the lingering on the aesthetics..of work. So many skills require the strength and precision that let the spirit free which in your case is always sprightly Cynthia !
Comment is about Cutting the Grass (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Tue 25th Jun 2019 13:17
I woke up this morning, and my first conscious impression, with a huge smile, was this poem! 'the voice of God'! Thought you might enjoy that little fact.
Comment is about A Pallet On The Floor (blog)
Original item by d.knape
'Voyeurism' never crossed my mind! But, yes, I have to accept that, in the broad sense. I saw only 'beauty' in another human being, an unconcious activity that was captivating in its skill and innocence.
Comment is about Cutting the Grass (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
re 'A freedom to express'
The ability is not the right; without neither the voice nor the ability to write, the righteous are diminished. I think we are broadly in agreement. Tommy
Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)
Original item by kJ Walker
re 'A freedom to express'
The ability is not the right; without neither the voice nor the ability to write, the righteous are diminished. I think we are broadly in agreement. Tommy
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
re 'A freedom to express'
The ability is not the right; without neither the voice nor the ability to write, the righteous are diminished. I think we are broadly in agreement. Tommy
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The ability is not the right; without neither the voice nor the ability to write, the righteous are diminished. I think we are broadly in agreement. Tommy
Comment is about A freedom to express (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Traveling to Hell in a handcart
Let's all shout hip hip hip hooray
The planet's going down the plughole to extinction
And no-one gives a hoot anyway
The leaders we rely on seem weak-kneed
Not willing (or able) to act
Ignoring the problems around us
Problems which they need to crack.....
Comment is about Hell In a Handcart (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
elPintor
Tue 25th Jun 2019 10:15
Louise, I think it's a terrible indicator of certain trends in society that a contributor should feel as if she has to remind readers to be kind. We are each trying to express ourselves in anyway we can and shouldn't be required to be especially ingenious or conformist to be the recipients of understanding--or, at least, of courtesy and/or silence where understanding does not exist.
Feelings on the preamble aside, the meaning is not lost--anyone who's been on the wrong end of such an experience knows how deleterious the effect of such insidious mind games. Really, I think it's a fine comment on your sense of decency that you should take up a friend's cause in such way )
Rachel
Comment is about Gas Light (blog)
Original item by Louise Clarke
Don't think you can stroke a lovely squirrel. They have a nasty bite. Maybe they take your pinkie for a tasty morsel.....
Comment is about The Squirrel Ripple (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
elPintor
Tue 25th Jun 2019 09:27
Awwww Martin, I sometimes feel the same!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jix7XcbVA4w
Rachel )
Comment is about Sometimes (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Wendy Steel
Tue 25th Jun 2019 09:14
I love this! It is so clever the way you recreate the squirrel’s movement and have fun with rhythm and rhyme.
Comment is about The Squirrel Ripple (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
elPintor
Tue 25th Jun 2019 09:00
I have to say that squirrels are one thing I adore most about home. Through pure chance, I once happened to see one standing up, arms in the air, in defense against a swooping hawk. His face seemed to scream in defiance. That's the way I'll always remember it anyhow--I was in love.
..to ripple a million miles--what a thought )
Rachel
Comment is about The Squirrel Ripple (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
This one - really frightening! None of our 'leaders' seem to care about the state of things - Trump even denies that environmental issues exist - we fill the seas up with plastic- threaten other nations and impose sanctions if they don't kowtow etc. etc. I can't keep up with your production, how do you manage to write at 6 in the morning!!!!! Obviously heartfelt.
Jennifer
Comment is about Hell In a Handcart (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
This is excellent.
Comment is about The Book Of Broken Promises (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Hi Jason! Hope they are really mapping their route to Hell! So many lies and manipulation of the truth. Great writing as usual.
Jennifer
Comment is about The Book Of Broken Promises (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Loved this one Jason. Very sympathetic without being mawkish. 'It onc e had a home and was not forced to roam.'
Jennifer
Comment is about A Face In The Looking Glass (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Congratulations Devon! Jennifer
Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Migration on a Bad Day' by Devon Brock (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Cheers, Martin
Comment is about To the edge of the ledge with a pickle wedge (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
That rhyming is good Louise. The lilt and the rhythm carries the message along. It could refer to you or someone else. Doesn't matter. That's what i like about rhyme - it's a multi-messageable carrier.....
Comment is about Gas Light (blog)
Original item by Louise Clarke
i have recently worked with andrew and had secretly hoped he would get it but i didnt think i ever believed he would. i think alice is a superb choice
Comment is about Alice Oswald is Oxford's first female professor of poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I like it John
Comment is about a splash of yellow across a sometime sky... (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Devon Brock
Mon 24th Jun 2019 22:48
Devon Brock
Mon 24th Jun 2019 22:32
A glorious string of images. Kudos.
Comment is about YOURS TO SEIZE (blog)
Original item by cindylee loucks
Devon Brock
Mon 24th Jun 2019 22:31
Sheering shaving skirting dancing wheeling. Oh how I love the gerunds. This is voyeurism without a hint of creepiness. Nicely done, Cynthia.
Comment is about Cutting the Grass (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Devon Brock
Mon 24th Jun 2019 22:26
Way to bring back the memories. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
Comment is about A Pallet On The Floor (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Devon Brock
Mon 24th Jun 2019 21:42
Thanks everybody. It was a humbling shock to be chosen.
Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Migration on a Bad Day' by Devon Brock (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thank you all, for liking and commenting!
Dear Martin,
First of all thank you for stopping by again! I assume that it sounds to the reader as though it was prompted by politics perhaps... Or... I don't know l, you tell me! But it was actually inspired people's relationships, as are most of my pieces. Just... the "ways of mankind".
Dear Jason,
Thank you for the support, as always! I've never tried getting even...The best I've achieved so far is to write borderline-incopmprehensible, ranting, angry poetry! I'm the kind of person that implodes instead of exploding, sadly for me, thankfully for the rest of the world!
Thank you gentlemen ?
Mae
Comment is about Rage, rage, rage! (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
I know that feeling well ? Nicely put Martin.
Comment is about Sometimes (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Making this style engaging is difficult so well done!! The rhyming was defo a good call it sounds like a voice in you head getting more and more frantic x
Comment is about Drugs to death (blog)
Original item by Holly Robinson
Great poem Mae, it even reads like an angry rant. Still, you know what's better than getting mad, getting even. As ever, love it!
J. x
Comment is about Rage, rage, rage! (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Very very nice Jason. beautifully put with such fervour and passion.
Nice one
Comment is about The Book Of Broken Promises (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Jon Jason DO and Devon for likes.
Martin I quite appreciate this is tricky but yes it represents a relative who before dementia had a strange mind already. There are those who find it hard to distinguish between fact and fancy.
. In my hands that becomes a challenge,! appreciate your input thanks
Ray
Comment is about VISITATION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Don Matthews
Tue 25th Jun 2019 16:27
I know you're a nice
Person dk
I understand you completely
You'll be recognized one day
But I've just read your poem
On nothing to say
You'll have to do better
Than this one dk ?
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape