Really good poem Damon, well thought out and expressed.



All the best des

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

This is the only place I have posted it because I know I can get real advice on what I should do and I did so thank you and no one else off of this site will find out. Also thank you Nicola for your support in writing as healing it is helping me so much with everything.

Comment is about need help (blog)

Original item by Jade Riley

Good for him - and you!
He sounds like worthwhile company and a top example to
emulate.
He would probably also know the truth behind -
"Cynicism is the last resort of Idealism".

Comment is about What Was Passed Down (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks, one and all, for the comments and the "likes".
Good of you to take the trouble and add to the fun of
"taking part" on this site.
"Like it or love it...Or tell me to shove it,
It means that you've read it - and your
comments have said it!"

Comment is about DO NOT... (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I have no experience with type one diabetes, though I have encountered some debilitating lows concerning blood sugar--some simply made me somewhat volatile, others entailed a rush to the kitchen while my sight darkened to almost nothingness.

The description is very effective, Candice--we should all be so informed of our personal physiologies.

Rachel

Comment is about The Beast Does What Tyson Once Did (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

The penultimate line has a certain pleasing linguistic rhythm to it. But -
you must mean the recent "British" - many of whom support
certain well-known Premier League soccer clubs and caused
mayhem in living memory while eagerly claiming victim status when suffering the results of their own idiocy and getting the worst of it? The dross who run riot on foreign
holidays are almost certainly their drug and drink fuelled offensive offspring!

Comment is about DIPSO FATSO BINGO ASBO TESCO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you Martin. J

Comment is about Listen to the lion (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

No.

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

"We'll find the words our mothers used." - excellent line.?

Comment is about Moon (blog)

Original item by Tom Carr

Martin - you need a pic of yourself sitting down writing with paper and pen. Don't you know blue light can affect your reproductability? ?

Comment is about Australia's Mental Health Crisis (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The truth is we basically write for ourselves. If others enjoy our work, fine. If not, also fine. We have to keep reminding ourselves of this. Look at all the posts getting no comments and likes. They continue regardless. We write to express ourselves not to get accolades - or should do ?

Comment is about DO NOT... (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

An excellent poem of the relentless travail of motherhood. I loved every line.

Thanks for this.
Keith

Comment is about I Protest (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

I'm not a king.

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Yes, I agree with Hannah, some very good lines.

Also well-expressed feelings.

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

It's not always easy posting on here.
I love the last line of this.
Creativity must be free to grow and fly.

Hannah

Comment is about DO NOT... (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Some very good lines in here, in what I think is an important poem.

Hannah

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Interesting and clever poem..

Comment is about Recently I Took Plath To Antigua (blog)

Original item by Michael Cameron

An atmospheric piece made even more meaningful with the clocks going back an hour for winter.

Hannah

Comment is about Time to party (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

We are a part of our parents.
This is a beautiful poem describing that bond.

Hannah

Comment is about My mother appeared to me today (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

If truth be told I expect most of us expect to be feted/celebrated but reality soon kicks in when we find we're not. We then become more reasonable and settle back in the way your poem continues. Good piece MC.

Comment is about DO NOT... (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I think you just need to be you Clara. As Candice says just be authentic

Comment is about Level up (blog)

Original item by Clara

Beachy head is indeed an amazing place with some beautiful walks along the south downs
Nice one Keith

Comment is about A Glorious Power (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

A languorous exploration of the value of a dead poet's words that deserves our attention.
I am not acquainted with the output attributed to her so
cannot comment on its worth - only knowing of her
relationship with another poet and her early (self-inflicted?) demise. Poets can resort to such departures, it seems!
Thomas Chatterton appears to have set an early example.

Comment is about Recently I Took Plath To Antigua (blog)

Original item by Michael Cameron

Like it M.C. We all want to share our work and hopefully have it read...?

Comment is about DO NOT... (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This has got to be among your best John and a real appreciation of the mighty lion or lioness who seemingly does most of the work in any pride.

Comment is about Listen to the lion (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Absolutely love this Adam. pleased I didn't miss it

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Plath will be just fine ? ...

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.”

Comment is about Recently I Took Plath To Antigua (blog)

Original item by Michael Cameron

Absolutely love this . A really powerful sense of rhythm and pace. Left me wanting more

Nice one

Comment is about Rum and Rise (blog)

Original item by VHH

Thank you, walkingman, Hannah, Jon, Anya, Jennifer, Big Sal, Don, Brian, K.J. and Martin..you are such a wonderful support. I don't think it is easy for any of us to put our work out there. We hold our breaths and press enter and our baby is out there in all its glory for better or worse. Thank you...?

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

this reads a lot more like a song than a poem with your delivery sounding not unlike Bob Dylan without the music.
None the less a good poem
Nice one

Comment is about Slipping Sand (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

yep too much time spent in front of screens said the old man sitting in front of computer typing his comments and I should know better.
You have raised a good point Don
Nice one

Comment is about Australia's Mental Health Crisis (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

My favourite poem of yours D.K. sounds like my dad.....?

Comment is about What Was Passed Down (blog)

Original item by d.knape

you have beautifully caught a real slice of life here Taylor with childhood memories


Nice one

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

I am glad to see you write about this and extol the non-acceptance of B.S. I have found that it is always dangerous to believe my own

Comment is about What Was Passed Down (blog)

Original item by d.knape

very clever. Maybe there is something that is quite sensual about that which is largely unattainable.

nice one

Comment is about Recently I Took Plath To Antigua (blog)

Original item by Michael Cameron

Jezer,

This is really excellent. Well thought out and composed.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Mirror (blog)

Original item by Jezer Ureña

Hi Keith! Don't really see why there should be a hidden meaning in it. It's as you say a description of the all powerfull forces of nature - here the defiant cliff battling
against the sea. Really impressive!

Jennifer

Comment is about A Glorious Power (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hilarious and hughly clever as well! Good work.

Jennifer

Comment is about Halloween Haiku or Hughku time (blog)

Original item by hugh

You keep honing your craft and continue to improve with each piece.

Probably your best one in my opinion, and the last little stanza had so much power you'd think it was a chorus even without being heard before the end. . .

On a side note, I read this while "Hallelujah" performed by Rufus Wainwright played on my coffee table, and it may have something to do with the classic-film vibe I get from your work - but you could put this to music and have it come out impeccable.

Do you mind me asking, is "The Slumbering Pines" a full anthology, a chapbook, or? The title sounds amazing.?

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I think you had a lot with an obviously close, caring family which is so much important for a child than expensive clothes or toys.

Jennifer

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

one of the finest poems written
in the last 30 minutes.

Comment is about What Was Passed Down (blog)

Original item by d.knape

M.C. Newberry, I like your last line: " Let history
be our teacher and persistence in the pursuit of change for the better the essential virtue in any hoped-for victory."

I'm sorry, I just get mad when there's anything that shouts of diverting the blame from those that really are taking us all for fools - the money men running the show. Yes, it is unfortunate if some people over-protest, protest emptily or whatever, just as it is unfortunate that some "beggars" are fake, benefit scroungers or whatever. But all their crimes put together still pale into insignificance next to just a few multimillionaire tax dodgers.

Comment is about Intertextual protest (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Beautiful. ?

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Jennifer, Big Sal and MC.,

Thank you indeed for your interesting and valued comments. Each one of you brought to light other aspects of the role of women in both world wars and the enormity of the conflicts along with their significant contribution.

Thank you again
Keith

Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 4 The Home Front (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Rose & Brian,

Thank you both for your comments. You both seem to be slightly perplexed as to the significance of this poem. It is quite simply a descriptive poem which speaks for itself. I have always been in awe of the beauty of nature and in particular cliffs and dramatic coastlines. Beachy Head in Sussex and Los Gigantes in Tenerife to name but two fine examples.

Thank you again,
Keith

Comment is about A Glorious Power (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Suicide seems to be on the increase in many countries.
It is worrying.
Good that you have posted about this issue.

Hannah

Comment is about Australia's Mental Health Crisis (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Beautiful poetry, full of nostalgia.
The memories of childhood, hopes and dreams amid hardship.
A joy to read.

Hannah

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

I love the feel and the imagery.

Comment is about Memories (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Good one Don. Is it really permanent mental health condition? I have my doubts. I think more likely angst due to low self esteem caused by social media trolls highlighting body/personality traits. They spend so much time online and are disproportionately affected by comments viewed.

Comment is about Australia's Mental Health Crisis (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Love..all consuming. When ones love is lost it fractures our very core. Still we just keep being dragged along by life. Sometimes there is a stillness inside the chaos. A small safe place to stay until the emotional storm which rages passes over. ?

Comment is about Faithful Until The End (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey