Thank-you Hugh, and Aviva, for the comments. and to all hitting the like. thank-you also. JD.
Comment is about A chip off the old block (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thanks for the comment KJ. Thanks also to everyone for the likes. It will be here before we know it?
Comment is about The Week Before Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
A bit more of David Constantine's background: "He was born in 1944 in Salford, Lancashire, an urban landscape of factories, red brick terraces and mizzle-grey skies, the Lowry backdrop to his childhood with a nimbus of “visionary dreariness” quite particular to that part of England."
https://poetryarchive.org/poet/david-constantine/
He has this marvellous poem about women in the first world war
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/soldiering/
Our former blogger John Foggin speaks highly of him as well https://johnfogginpoetry.com/2019/07/09/my-kind-of-poetry-david-constantine/
You can hear David Constantine reading a number of his poems in his distinctive northern accent here https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=1081
Comment is about David Constantine awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Measured lines produced
different single visions mirrored
reflected by viewpoints
words develop collage image.
Comment is about Christmas 2020 Collage Poem: The Other Side of Love (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Upper-middle class tedium personified.
Comment is about David Constantine awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Philipos
Wed 16th Dec 2020 23:31
Gosh John, just visited your piece.
Very moving and I guess this appertains to WW1.
Thanks for sharing.
P
Comment is about Ex-communication (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Lovely direct and simple exposition of true memory - worked its wonders on me !
I have enough history to remember a rosy glow at Xmas.
Ray
Comment is about christmas past, 1947 (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
it seems apt (for the story of life) that I can't remember how it started by the time I reach the end of it. I also think I'll have to read it quite a few times to unravel the story but this isn't a criticism of the poem, I just have very poor short term memory. Anyway it feels as if it is being told prettily and wittily and there's some really good moments in it.
Comment is about The story of life (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
Your crunchy words came just in time
coated in sugar
and chewy in the middle
I've probably eaten more
than I should have
But you are mistaken
to think poetry an empty replacement
or inadequate diet.
There's moral fibre and meaty issues aplenty
The fruit of other people's reasoning
and vital new tree ants
at least I think that's what we call them.
And no matter how sweet or flowery
poetry has no calories so
speaking of that
it cannot make you fat.
Comment is about HUNGRY SOULS (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for reading & tapping the Like generator, Pratishtha, Liam, & Mark!
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I love bubbles. I never thought of them as personal story rainbows, but will forever now. It’s sad that bubbles are a trigger for a tragic story in your life, yet so inspiring that you are brave enough to create a new bubble memory. Great share Simon. ❤️
Comment is about Bubbles (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
Philipos
Wed 16th Dec 2020 13:10
Hugely funny in a droll sort of way and that was only the first part of the read.
Must catch up on the rest later as I have to head into town.
Am still chuckling.
Reminded me of the Stanley Holloway Monologues, which, if you haven't re-read recently, you ought to.
Good luck with the writing.
P.
Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)
Original item by kJ Walker
It's going to be a bit different this year, but maybe when things get back to normal we'll better appreciate what we have.
Comment is about The Week Before Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 16th Dec 2020 07:27
It's been an interesting period, the like of which we'll never see again...probably.
Comment is about Legacy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 16th Dec 2020 07:24
Perhaps you could work the word 'bubble' into the poem Mark...
Comment is about CHRISTMAS SNOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Woahhhh! Your first submission was fiyah(fire)! It was deep, intellectual, & a well put together life story that many can relate to. Keep up the good work & may the Universe bless.
Comment is about Erin Nicole (poet profile)
Original item by Erin Nicole
So good John. Your poetry inspires me. ?
Comment is about Ripples (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Philipos
Wed 16th Dec 2020 00:20
Poignant times MC, thank you for sharing that.
May yours be a jolly one.
P
Comment is about CHRISTMAS SNOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
taylor
Tue 15th Dec 2020 22:12
Wow!! you know how to perfectly express your emotions, the way you use words is so beautiful. This poem is deep especially for music lovers like me !
I'll be waiting for more like these ?
Comment is about The melodic grass (blog)
Original item by pratishtha singh
Sing to yourself of who you were and who you are and who you want to be... Who you met and who you know and who you want to meet... What you've felt and what you feel and what you want to feel. Throw your thoughts and words about until they start to stick, take the best of these and make it poetry.
But if your words pour out only in agony, as an outlet for pain or to heal yourself again, or to keep you mostly sane it must be some relief, that the material is gone and your life can go on quite happily.
Your words will always be there when you need them.
Comment is about I need new material... (blog)
Original item by Damon Stigen
I'm torn between being sad for you about having all those problems to write about or happy for you that you've written such a great poem about it - I feel like I should be sad about the problems (and I am) but then I feel like maybe that's poem-envy disguised as best intentions, so then I go back to being glad you wrote the poem, and then i am really guilty that I'm valuing poetry more than human suffering - I am torn up! If I take these two pieces and weave them together a bit then I think it summarises as I'm really sorry that you had those difficult problems but at least on the bright side... based on the evidence of this poem if anyone is going to be able to get out of the cycle it'll be you.
Comment is about the problem is (blog)
Original item by jezzalee
Thanks Julie. I'd be interested to see which track that TV drama would take. Could be right up my street!
And Aviva ? glad I've made your mind 'float', which must be a good thing! And, yes, spilling it down your throat is acceptable. Much better than over the carpet!
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Reading this I imagine the start of a tv drama. I’m left wondering which direction the story would take. Wonderful as always.
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I've been put to thinking all sorts of things because of this poem, which catches a familiar whimsy so well, that I've been thinking of your version of this and my own peeks at the unknown past and the unknown future (and how I never seem to spill wine doing it but I probably should give that a try, sounds fun - not the spilling but the trying (I'm planning to fail at that and just succeed at the drinking) - although, does spilling the wine down the throat count?) - yes as you can see my mind is now floating about all over the place and it is all because of this poem. Thanks.
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
There is a deeper story here in many ways. I was the victim of child abuse and can see similarities.
A well written poem
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Beaten (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
<Deleted User> (13740)
Tue 15th Dec 2020 16:56
Ha. Its all stupid. Stupid Covid. Stupid government. Stupid rules and red tape. Stupid jumping through hoops to please the powers that be. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Now Where's my mask and hand gel and can I be first in line for the vaccine please ?
Comment is about Herd Immunity (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you for your comments MC and John. It is lovely to have them home.... Although I may feel a bit different after a couple of weeks!!?
Comment is about Home For Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Pleasing positivity in a time of enforced absence that many find hard
to endure, not least at this time of the year.
Comment is about Home For Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
This should be "herd" loud and clear by those who travel in selfish
fashion, unheeding of the possible deleterious effect on others.
Comment is about Herd Immunity (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Stay safe, Old Timer. You do yourself an injustice, Julie. And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about VACCINE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What's not to like. Ahead of the game by a "country mile".
I'm in Tier 3 down here in the Smoke and whilst I'm a decade older
than you JC, I fear no evil. Unlike the spuds you describe, I avoid
the hot potato of infection by masking up, keeping hands gloved
as well as washed, and avoiding the "stupid is as stupid does"
brigade who undermine common sense efforts in the name of "freedom". Yeah, right...the freedom to be admitted to hospital that
could have been avoided with a bit of mental application along the
way. Perhaps we should have a Captain Sensible campaign on the
media to make the obvious ...er...obvious to the oiks out there.
Comment is about VACCINE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Homely images of a family occasion.
Comment is about Home For Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes for my silly write, Hugh, Dean, John and JD
Comment is about The Cross Legged Carrot (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you, made me smile, much better than my version. Great minds...
Comment is about VACCINE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Aviva. I think Dolly would approve. (Well, maybe not of the singing!)
Comment is about VACCINE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Can't help smiling at this one! ? ? ? ?
Comment is about VACCINE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I am a warrior, Adam. Constantly at war with Nature in my garden.
Comment is about Leaning On A Spade (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Yup th' Ole Herd Immunity certainly some sort 'o pipe dream (what were they smokin' ?) but at least them all found out 'ain't no diplomatic immunity neither. (they can put that in their pipe)
Comment is about Herd Immunity (blog)
Original item by d.knape
But they told me to "just get over it", yeah there they go again,
so I'll be smiling in the rain.
Comment is about A Disease Called Loneliness (blog)
Original item by Just another writer
WOW, Damn good poem in my opinion. Thank-you. sorry for the bad language. JD.
Comment is about A Disease Called Loneliness (blog)
Original item by Just another writer
'Invest quality time in an internal powwow' Interestingly put and never truer said. We need to consult and satisfy all our voices if we want to feel wholly happy with whatever we do, have, or become.
Comment is about Internal Liberty (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser
With Hugh and you I am agreed,
It is certainly a very good read.
Comment is about A chip off the old block (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Fun poems like this we need,
I laughed so much ,nearly weed.
Comment is about A chip off the old block (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thank you for the likes and comments. I am so pleased that you have enjoyed my writing.
Comment is about Wanting True Love (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
J.D. Bardo
Thu 17th Dec 2020 09:22
Thank-you Julie, you fit so much into those two small words. Thank-you for your daily offerings, I am reading. JD.
Comment is about A piece of you (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo