Thanks Taylor for your constant love and support.

Comment is about Riddle (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thanks Rose for your helpful comment. I have done few changes after your advice. Keep encouraging me thus.Thanks a lot again.

Comment is about Riddle (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

so true Wendy! ( glamour puss! )...?!!






Rose ?

Comment is about Tit for Tat (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

love it Avishek...would have finished with

'will I be asleep or awake forever?'...?

shall I get my coat or not? ?




Rose ?

Comment is about Riddle (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thank you Don! I really liked those two lines as well...really flow well off the tongue ?

Comment is about Compulsive Manipulation (blog)

Original item by HayzTee

welcome to the club dude!





Rose ?

Comment is about Mess (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

your best to date Taylor by far and muchly enjoyed.





Rose ?

Comment is about A Quiet Man (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

It was music to my ears,beautifully written.

Comment is about YOU ARE THE MUSIC - a song lyric (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Anya/TC/Kate G. and Jane B. - many thanks for the
comments. I have a short "bridge" in mind after the
first AB verses. Still working on it. ?

Comment is about YOU ARE THE MUSIC - a song lyric (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

The topic is bound to attract diverse opinions and it helps
to have a sense of humour! The range of size alone
makes the spider a fascinating subject, from tiny house
spider to the enormous plate-sized variety found in hotter
climates, they deserve our consideration - and a healthy
respect when venomous! I think it is their tendency to
lurk in dark places and their speed of movement which
promotes an atavistic response in us - probably with good reason when facing the unpleasant often fatal results from
an encounter with certain species before medical science
produce antidotes. I recall the evidence of aggression
of one particular species - the dangerous Brazilian
Wandering Spider, which has been known to run towards
a broom-wielding human - and UP the broom handle!
Oo-er!! We are blessed in this temperate zone - except
for the careless traveller who might bring back unauthorised arachnids in luggage...as can happen on
occasion. I have perfected the glass tumbler and postcard
method of safely depositing an unwanted visitor outside!

Comment is about Spider fear (blog)

Original item by hugh

Awesome work Lynn, a great poem

Comment is about 'Love Garden' by Lynn Hahn is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Don't digress, confess
Bring it all into the open
Your mess will get less

Comment is about Mess (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I look at this and think did I really write this? It's still ripping emotions reading it 12 months later ?

Comment is about Mess (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thank you to all of you kind people who have taken the time to comment upon my scribbling. Kindness is, for me, the greatest, and most under-rated, of the virtues. Thank you Big Sal for planting in my head the possibility (I was going to write 'positing' but that's a very silly word) that I might be around at the end of time. Has my head spinning that. I love to read poetry, I read everyday if possible, and I try to learn from other poets of the past and present. I really admire the work of the deeply unfashionable, Anglo-American, Anglican poet TS Eliot:

“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?”

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

Original item by John E Marks

Eight legs good, six legs bad

With apologies to George Orwell.

Comment is about Spider fear (blog)

Original item by hugh

Jon Loomis is a poet from Wisconsin, and his most recent book is The Mansion of Happiness, from Oberlin College Press. https://ww1.kissmangalist.com

Comment is about 'You think you know them, these creatures robed in your parents' skins' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Nice one.

Comment is about Loving You Hurts (blog)

Original item by Melissa Wiens

Thanks Big Sal! I would love to do an audiobook at some point.

I’ve not heard of Fyre festival, thanks.
It seems to be a growing trend at many mainstream festivals. I used to work behind the bar in the Student’s Union and it was in a similar state at 4am. They’ve just upped the scale of it.

Comment is about On Tents Left Behind At Festivals (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

Beautiful air of melancholy and sensitivity to life here. Makes me think of Bob Dylan - They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark
She looked at him and he felt a spark
Tingle to his bones
'Twas then he felt alone
And wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate.
I love the phrase "quiet sobriety and the tears of his friend, his children and his wife",
Just lovely.
M x

Comment is about A Quiet Man (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

I like this Hayley. The words, phrases, thoughts intertwine nicely. Thought these two lines in particular shone out. Nice bouncing rhythm.

I await your dissatisfaction to my lack of interaction
Discontinuing your precisely planned chain of reaction.

To then use them as a 'closure' I liked. ?

Comment is about Compulsive Manipulation (blog)

Original item by HayzTee

I won't get caught up in all the frivolous comments below dk. I'll just say , nice poem ?

Comment is about Slow Learner (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Sweet and simple.?

Comment is about SWEET SIMPLICITY (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Wow

Comment is about Her smile (blog)

Original item by Louis Audet

Il est très beau ce poème

Comment is about Breathing (blog)

Original item by Louis Audet

Excellent emotion throughout, and what a ride!?

Comment is about It's Easier Not to Care (blog)

Original item by Melissa Wiens

All my oaks were chopped and seared years ago. . Great sample you have though, as it leaves a nostalgic reminder for some like me.?

Comment is about Melissa Wiens (poet profile)

Original item by Melissa Wiens

If you haven't already, you should Google 'Fyre Festival' and see all the detritus left behind by those spoiled rich kids. Lot to take in, and even more going into the oceans. People there were bitching because they didn't get any more than sandwiches and FEMA-looking tents. Pretty funny to watch until you see all the shit they left behind.

Good recital and poem Janey.?? (You'd do a great audiobook)

Comment is about On Tents Left Behind At Festivals (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

THEATRICAL EVENING WITH ADRIAN BROWN AT AUGUST WRITE ANGLE

“What I like is that you are so inclusive,” said one of Write Angle's open mikers and it's not the first time we've been told that. In its 12 years, Write Angle has brought in a huge variety of guest poets, musicians and open mikers of all kinds as well as those who just want to come and enjoy the evening.

After a highly successful career in theatre and television, Adrian Brown, our August guest, returned to his first love, poetry. His performance at Write Angle was theatrical and humorous. Commandingly assured, he generated beaming smiles and bursts of laughter all across the room.

He explained that, if he had been placed in charge of the world when it was created, he'd have changed quite a number of things. In his book, A Blast of Blasphemy, he explained how. In High On the Hoof, he asked " if you ever know what the cows are doing when you aren't looking.” In fact, “she stands all day in liquid mud chewing the hallucogenic cud.” Ego Unplugged told how “One deplores those narcissistic troubadours who seek the chance....free to talk about myself.” Calumny spoke of god – “others cast you as a counterfeit, hinting you only manage to survive by means of heavenly housing benefit procured by some divine P45.”

He is a loveable performer who was able to lure in several of his fan club. Is it the 'Zany Poets Club of London', of which he is Poet Laureate?' A clever and intelligent humourist who had everyone on the edge of their seat.

At the open mic, without his hammer dulcimer this time, Bruce Parry read a short story, Too English to Go Abroad. This dealt with how strange members of a touring coach found the food on their first trip in mainland European countries. Colin Eveleigh's found poem, Overheard, lines from thirty different people, strung together and built into an almost sensible poem. Shall we Dance followed, dealing with relationships: “Someone you thought would always be there, or a person for whom you no longer care.” Finally, Red Dot, about exhibiting his pottery – yes pottery, not poetry – at the Festival Hall Exhibition - “Hang on, I've sold the lot.” Not only that but he came in 'first' in the pottery awards. 'my second time' he told us. 'The last was 15 years ago!'

Ross Chapman performed This Isn't the Sign of the Cross - “You have to be careful to measure the words that you say”. Then Hoseasons, whose brochure promises so much - “...sensual landscapes in which you and I coming together at last under nightfall...hoping to find unquenchionable wonders...” Dick Senior's Spoonbills at Pagham - “With the world gone wrong...this eye of the storm...is gentle.” Then the lyrical Midsummer's Day - “swifts mate in the air” – “I saw a couple join and drop like black sickle-winged stones that dropped through the sharp, blue sky.” Rib-tickling Just Another Day in the Penile Clinic poked gentle fun at the men who attended it. On a more serious note, Aleppo Gardener's Son dealt with the war in Syria - “When he cries, you're crying too”.

Ray Vogt played his amazing, bell-like, resonating guitar while singing Willie McTell's Wake Up Mama - “I'm goin' to the country, baby do you want to go? And Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - “Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly...” Mike Spilberg performed The Ur Snake's Soliloquy - “The vilain of the piece is held to be me but I am her private joy.” Tiny World was followed by Vegging Out – “...I stand perplexed: the spud's eyes winking at me in the gloom.”

Jezz on Guitar, an all-time favourite, accompanied by Happy Jack Poulton on Cajon (a square drum to those of us who know no better), played and sang Poppies by John K. Wozniak - “... his majesty sent soldiers and thieves to India searching for gold. Instead, from the ground, some magic they found, something far better I'm told. Yeah, poppies.” Then The Cure's Catch: “And she used to fall down a lot. That girl was always falling again and again. And I used to sometimes try to catch her but never
even caught her name.” They rounded off the evening with Steve Earle's Copperhead Row: “I wake up screaming like I'm back over there. I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know. You better stay away from Copperhead Road.”

It was a well-attended evening with a responsive audience. The raffle sponsor was a new find; the excellent India Quay at Port Solent with free meals for two won by one of the lucky audience!

Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 21 Aug 2018 (event)

HI Martin. Thanks for your response to my comment. I was intrigued by the internals of the poem, and I took off at a slight angle, but that I suppose all adds to the thought patterns as you imply. I meant that if a place lacks identity, it might encourage people to lose theirs. Although in the case of a transgender person, unless we know someone of that persuasion intimately, I think we can only judge on our instincts, not always unbiased i'm afraid. To be on the fringe of what might be acceptable is not usually easy i'm sure especially within families who have a vested interest in their children.


I'd better get my coat. Ray

Comment is about Sexless (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Wow! Thanks all!!!!

Comment is about 'Love Garden' by Lynn Hahn is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Mike Took

...and men who understand that live happily ever after...Lol????

d.k., you know I'm falling off my chair!

Comment is about Slow Learner (blog)

Original item by d.knape

The tapestry keeps folding and unfolding...what a line...great Avishek..?

Comment is about Riddle (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thanks Big Sal for your so kind words.Thanks a lot.

Comment is about Riddle (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thank you for commenting on A Quiet Man..your thoughts are always appreciated and of value to me....Taylor ?

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you Martin as always your comments are valued, and appreciated..?

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

I particularly love the last stanza which could almost stand up on its own. Marvellous Robert

Comment is about Hunger mistaken for thirst (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Puts me in mind of cars I have seen in the not too distant past that display the words 'Powered by Fairy dust'

Comment is about Drunk Fairy Grounded (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Very well and succinctly put. Sadly too many people think of love in purely superficial terms and what they can get out of a relationship rather than what they can brinbg to a relationship.

Nice one

Comment is about Someone to love me. (blog)

Original item by Hannah Marzano

Somebody who touched more than one other life in his own. This is very often the case without us realising it.
Nice one

Comment is about A Quiet Man (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

A reminder that an unmentioned "other" also has to
endure in such circumstances - gently evocative to allow
us to take on board the human cost that is often only partly
acknowledged, if at all, when death comes to call.

Comment is about A Quiet Man (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Thanks to David for liking and to Taylor , Jane, Sal and Ray thanks for your reading and appreciation.


Ray I am glad that you felt you could open this up. It is based on my observation of an individual from a little bit of distance so to be honest so I am not sure whether it was a man or a woman. I am guessing like you that it was a man I saw. But this piece was in part as a result of seeing this person and hearing an excellent poem recently about somebody who was transgender. This in turn got me thinking about identity and its importance not only to the person who wants to be identified in a particular way or not but also to us those others who view that person from the outside and the judgements we automatically make either rightly or wrongly. I am obliged too you because even now I am thinking again about my own responses.

Thanks again mate


Martin

Comment is about Sexless (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Very emotional poem. The things we do for love....?

Comment is about Someone to love me. (blog)

Original item by Hannah Marzano

Taylor, you can tell a good woman...

...but you can't tell her much.

Comment is about Slow Learner (blog)

Original item by d.knape

You know what they say..behind every good man......I will say no more. Loved it..?

Comment is about Slow Learner (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Don
Don
He's solid gone!

Comment is about Drunk Fairy Grounded (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

You and me both Knapey!

Comment is about Slow Learner (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Great app stuff Mac, I really like your idea of AstroTurf obscuring truth...

Just read your profile and think that your sample poem is also great!

Cheers


DJB

Comment is about Get out (blog)

Original item by Mac

Here's hoping you keep writing until the end of time John.?

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

Original item by John E Marks

..right clever observations, Ray.

Comment is about SUCCESS STORY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I just read this while listening to a melodic song, and I have to say, it's another one of those filled with excellence in each line and one of your best.

I could review the whole piece line by line and still not say everything that needs to be said. .Maybe I'll just wait for it to make its rounds and see what others have to say first.

Expect me back, but until then, very great poem.?

Comment is about A Quiet Man (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw