I felt the sensation of treading water, panic and the inability to progress whilst reading your poem. So well thought out, I was completely immersed. Excellent...
Comment is about The Distant Sofa (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Beautifully uplifting poem...excellent..?
Comment is about Things I Am Thankful For (blog)
Original item by d.knape
This poem touched me deeply Keith..thank you..❤
Comment is about A Covered Mood (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 17:47
Ditto John Lennon.
Comment is about The Day Elvis Died I Cried (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
thanks stu,
this is actually one in a series of many letters to many people and I feel kind of guilty for having dominated this conversation so heavily
I think I'd have the voice for it if I took up smoking, but whiskey will have to do for now.
Comment is about sean penn (11/19/2017) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
Eve,
thank you this poem as wisteria is one of my all time favourite blooms. Roll on spring when we can see it again.
Keith
Comment is about Winter Wisteria (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Big Sal
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 16:07
A crossroads of a choice spoken poetically.?
Comment is about an exploration (blog)
Original item by walkingman
It's strange when someone you've known for years but never met can have such an effect. I had a similar experience when David Bowie died.
Comment is about The Day Elvis Died I Cried (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 14:29
Pause, reflect, give thanks.
Comment is about Things I Am Thankful For (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 12:38
Hi Tommy; I just meant loyalty to a political party. Regards Ray
Comment is about Austerity (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 10:25
Well Don,
Obviously not a church mouse.
Keith
Comment is about ATM Give No Rupee (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Down Under we write simple
Pretention? we know not
Our writing is not bullshit
Good God this poem's shot ?
Comment is about POLICY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 02:39
sorry, did not mean to offend.
maybe my humor was misplaced or misunderstood.
that's all it was, Humor.
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
elPintor
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 01:04
the color comes to life from the first line, and the complement you provide is almost terrible in its striking contrast and vividness.
Forgive me, but it reminds me of a story I've recently heard of a waiting for a pure red heifer--I puzzle at this part of humanity that is drawn in by such esoteric conclusions, yet find it quite beautiful, even in my hope that it remain benign.
Rachel
Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
elPintor
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 00:37
Hey, man, I love the Dolls. The theatrics are so gorgeous and over-the-top and, besides, Amanda Palmer reminds me of my niece and so, I listen and watch every so often when I'm feeling nostalgic for family and the simplicity of deep, often unspoken, true love. Thanks for the link.
Lovely to have you peek in, Stu.
Rachel x
PS
As teenagers, my younger brother and I once shot an instant photo of her (my niece) at three years--a cute little towhead dressed in a shredded Metallica tee, and a cig hanging from her pouty lip--she had the act down from the beginning...
Alas, that picture didn't survive my mother's scrutiny--at least I have the memory.
Comment is about sexism (blog)
Original item by nunya
'Austerity':
'Loyalty' Ray? I'm not getting your point here.
Tommy
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
'Loyalty' Ray? I'm not getting your point here.
Tommy
Comment is about Austerity (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks for your reading of this Stu it is much appreciated. Cheers
Comment is about Ravaged (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I agree with David in that I love the word frottage, it has so many marvellous possibilities. Once again your word play is superb always making me work at reading and savouring every last morsel.
Good to see you back Stu
Nice one my friend
Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Works of pretension??? On this site, MC???? Surely not???
Comment is about POLICY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Great poem Louis! Taken from the point of view of someone doesn't appreciate or approve of a poet's creativity and looks down their nose at that poet and the subject.
Comment is about I am better than him (blog)
Original item by Louis Audet
Kate, I just found your comment, sorry . Pleased you like it!
Ray
Comment is about STANNAH STAIRLIFT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Jon Anya and Kate very welcome likes, thanks!
Big Sal, The smell of the fields was pervasive. Over here we get lavender in pots and whack 'em in where they can thrive, but seeds sound interesting! Enjoy what you have.
Martin, Maybe a recording can help to convey a slant on a poem; I don't have a plan, though I think this had a tinge of Richard Burton, dare I say it. Only half cocked though. The Cotswolds this year brought a swathe of our oriental friends. I hope they were allowed in to York Minster.
Great to hear from you Stu. I'm glad you're watching and listening too!
A lovely picture you paint David, almost a poem in itself. We tend to keep the heads and make pot pouri which you stick your nose right in. Thanks too for your encouragement, one I take seriously.
Thanks for the warm comment Darren, appreciated.
Greetings all. Ray
Comment is about LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Keith and Megan, thanks for liking this!
Hannah, Beno, John Anya and Martin, glad you enjoyed the poem, thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the ideas David. That place was the closest I've ever got to a place of peace. Bloody freezing, though low humidity. I had days off on that tour and that was one. The last line was the icing on the cake.
Ray.
Comment is about IN NORWAY 1976 (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you for your comments on The Dance Ray..?
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you for your comments on The Dance John, it is wonderful to read the perspectives seen in our work, from another's view. Taylor
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
I guess you could equally have a plague of Grockles....?
Comment is about Grackles (blog)
Original item by d.knape
IMO, a really fine work, short and strong, savagely simple and full of so much 'scope' in so few lines. The 'chorus' is gut-wrenching.
WOW!
Comment is about Congo Childhood (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Great little limerick.
I have a really hard time recognising 'pretension'. What if the poem simply isn't within my personal taste, or beyond my scope to understand? Now, I really don't like 'dumping' which may be the same idea - those writers who seem to think they are so brilliant that their writing requires no 'work'. Basically irritating. But, then, you get the odd writer who really IS so brilliant his/her writing requires no 'work'. Aw --- heck! I'm probably just plain jealous.
Comment is about POLICY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you, Sal! I appreciate you reading it!
Comment is about the first is [not] (blog)
Original item by ha'azinu
Hi Kate
Didn't occur to me when writing that it had universal application but that's good news. Thanks for liking.
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
Original item by john short
Some of your list of questions after my comment I have already covered on 6 August so that should suffice. Insults tend to go stale quite quickly unless they are very skilled. It is not obligatory to comment on poems but where an inspiration comes in I feel it is justified, which I did in your case. Perhaps you might feel the urge yourself someday. Other than that I am flummoxed - either I am not getting your humour or aliens have landed. (That's my humour).
Ray
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 21st Nov 2018 17:08
Big Sal
Wed 21st Nov 2018 16:51
You won’t be surprised to know, MC, that they stole it from me.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=18205
Comment is about UP THE ARSE (1) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (19421)
Wed 21st Nov 2018 16:23
Splendid Ray - and as ever superbly recited!
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you so much! I just joined this community, and I greatly appreciate your feedback!
Comment is about the first is [not] (blog)
Original item by ha'azinu
cheers david. this was the exemplar poem for an ekphrastic poetry competition held a couple of months ago. i've only just got the clearance to post it, hence the gap. i cant show the photo sadly, but it was very 'a field in england' and so i rewatched the film then wrote this while in its thrall. hope your well mate, i'm sure myself and this lovely site will wax and wane once more.
Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
A coda to Owen and the conflict.
While it's generally mentioned that Owen's
reputation is based firmly on his "anti-war" poems, there are other lines that
indicate a conflict in his personality and his approach to the business of war -
plus the fact that despite persuasion from
his contemporary and mentor Siegfried Sassoon to the contrary, Owen insisted on returning to the fray (a rather odd decision,one might think), to be killed in action in the days leading up to the Armistice.
This action and less quoted lines by Owen, tend to suggest a more
complex frame of mind than that assumed as his primary attitude to the world-changing conflict about which he wrote
so graphically.
Comment is about Wilfred Owen and the Poetry of Trauma (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Spot on JC.
My memory is that they went in Loewe and I was a Lerner! Ouch!!
Comment is about UP THE ARSE (1) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Reminds me of my small flat here in the centre of The Smoke - except that I'm
content with this womb with a view!?
(despite an uneasy association of the words
"womb" and "tomb"!).
Comment is about The Womb (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Taylor Crowshaw
Thu 22nd Nov 2018 19:50
Another funny, honey. Nice Hugh..?
Comment is about Freedom of choice (blog)
Original item by hugh