Days evaporate away, a glimpse, a gleam, wrap around a dream,
This is a ghost written elegy, for all that appears, or seems.
Some stunning lines, as always, John. 👏
Comment is about Biba — 1967 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Beautifully conveyed, as always, Keith.
And, like you say, if only...
Comment is about Andalucia (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you, Auracle & Tim for taking time to comment. I'm glad you liked it! 😊
And for all the likes! 🌷🌷For everyone
Comment is about Mind Garden (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
same here.
and all the tomorrows will be somehow
- just keep swimming, swimming, swimming - Finding Dory'
Comment is about There's Still a Tomorrow (blog)
Original item by Manish
I'm glad that you liked it Beth. John
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Comment is about Biba — 1967 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you to all who expressed 'likes' and also commented on this poem. Andalucia Is a place close to my heart. Second to it and a short distance away is Morocco. These two places are rich in culture, cuisine, music, architecture, dance and a blending of Islamic and Christian coexistence which could well serve as a model in today's troubled world.
Thank you again,
Keith
Comment is about Andalucia (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Internal conversations are the best kind of conversation--this is the place where we can be both hostile and refugee 🌷
Comment is about we are not yet dead (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
This seems like an internal conversation, the kind of which is never resolved...
Like much of your recent writing it is mysterious (in a very good way)
Individual lines which can be mulled over and played with.
David.
Comment is about we are not yet dead (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
A moment full of possibilities--at once ordinary and ecstatic, impossible to bear )
Comment is about There's Still a Tomorrow (blog)
Original item by Manish
Thanks to those who have posted recent likes on this one today.
I think today a few more people may be asking the question posed in the final stanza, no answer will come.
Quite why it would take so long to question is totally beyond my comprehension.
David.
Comment is about Beyond the Valley (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
It's a worthy cause, Hugh.
I think so many people who are parents today never had their own experiences as teens validated by adults and therefore need guidance on how to handle young people who are experiencing their first awakenings to the truth behind the world around them.
Maybe if we, as adults, see ourselves more as temporary shepherds than entitled rulers, they will come to trust us more.
Comment is about Teenage sadness needs parental aid (blog)
Original item by hugh
I agree, MC. Why is so much poetry devoid of fun? It doesn’t need to be self-indulgent navel gazing, does it?
Comment is about POETRY ON TV (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for the read and comment, penguin. I intentionally keep some flaws with rhyming, I like it that way. Also lets me know how attentive is the reader.
Comment is about There's Still a Tomorrow (blog)
Original item by Manish
Another excellent contribution from this source - thank you.
G.K. Chesterton's "The Secret People" is a favourite poem of mine
-never more timely than now, pehaps.
Comment is about The Poets' Ball (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
It's the luck of the language!
It's your good fortune, merry folks of England!
May your nation live long and prosperous always 😊
Comment is about Citizens (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Enjoyed the read, especially the off-rhymes. But handle/happen isn't even close. Maybe occur/bear?
Comment is about There's Still a Tomorrow (blog)
Original item by Manish
Love it. You've spelt his name wrong, mind you.
Comment is about The Best Poet's Name (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Very good. I didn't know Chesterton wrote poetry. And John Cooper Clarke the only live man amongst the dead.. It's an easy mistake to make.
Comment is about The Poets' Ball (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
A poem which reflects accountability for life and found in all the Abrahamic Faiths. Self examination is an essential part of life in order to be prepared for that day when all will be laid bare and for which we shall answer. This well scripted poem speaks eloquently of this.
Thank you,
Keith
Comment is about Settling scores (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
I think asking if poetry is any good is like asking if jam is any good. You like it or you don’t.
Comment is about Writing poetry is easy! But how do we know if it's any good? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
For me as an atheist, to have such blind faith in oneself and one's god is both admirable and disturbing. However, self belief and self-doubt is a balance I try to hold equally.
Comment is about Settling scores (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
Getting robbed was a good outcome, given the stark alternatives.
Comment is about ‘Lyricism of an abduction’: Imogen Wade’s ‘The Time I Was Mugged in New York City’ wins National Poetry Competition (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I tend to redraft poems quite a lot and will often agonise over a choice of one particular word (I suspect I'm not alone here).
Inspiration (or what passes for it in my case) can happen at night, in the early hours. Walking the dog is another occasion for ideas to come, although remembering them until we get back can be a struggle!
Comment is about Writing poetry is easy! But how do we know if it's any good? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thankyou, Greg, David and Stephen.
I set this scene in the Miners Welfare as a collier rants at my dad while we sit drinking after after my shiftus horribilis.
Seams really were so tight that men had to shovel coal onto a conveyor behind them by lying on their side. Before the National Day Wage Agreement men were paid for the tonnage of coal they shifted. So for a whole face team to have to crawl out to let some twat turn his shovel round cost them time and money.
The language would be authentic - there was no-one more helpful than miners for pointing out your shortcomings.
And thanks for the Like, Bethany.
Comment is about WRONG ROAD ROUN' (An Urban Villanelle) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What a wonderful read, Ian. An inspirational piece of verse to be set to music. A jewel of a poem.
Comment is about Citizens (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Well done, John. Probably wouldn't make the Tatler, but none the worse for that.
Comment is about WRONG ROAD ROUN' (An Urban Villanelle) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you, David, for reminding us of the ongoing nature of such horror. Man's inhumanity of man, and especially to women and children.....
Thank you, Jennifer, for your support. Yes, the battle against evil may never be completely won, but it has to be fought.
One of the most horrible aspects of the Bucha massacre was the attempt to pass it off as a 'staged event'. See my poem from two years ago.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=121913
And thanks to Nigel, Steve, Hugh, Holden, Manish, Auracle, Hélène and Tim for liking this.
Comment is about Words from Bucha (April 2024) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
What I particularly like about this John is its authenticity.
I like the tone of the reading, in tune with the disdain one might imagine seasoned colliers speaking to such an individual.
This kind of poetry is vital to communities in their remembrance of the labour that built them.
Such toil is remote from most work places today, some might not even believe such ardous endeavour ever existed.
I think this type of poetry, often brushed aside and dismissed is highly relevant to communities (those few that still exist)
Keeping it alive in words like this is a credit to you.
David
Comment is about WRONG ROAD ROUN' (An Urban Villanelle) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Worlds within worlds Robert,
All of them diminishing.
Lovely work, thoughtful poetry, refreshing.
David
Comment is about miniatures (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Thank you for the generous comment Bethany, and to those who sent flowers.
Writers such as Tolkien, Lucas and Shakespeare borrowed heavily from biblical imagery and story...with only a limited number of stories available almost everything is dilution.
That said this is straight "Bible"
Poetic license; my reference to Jericho is of its biblical incarnation, it is no longer a ruin..although after Friday Prayers it often burns.
The river course is verdant all the way to Galilee in contrast to the surrounding Desert.
David
Comment is about Beyond the Valley (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Great stuff, JC. And dialect, too. Thanks for responding to the villanelle challenge!
Comment is about WRONG ROAD ROUN' (An Urban Villanelle) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much, Tim, I'm so glad that you liked it. I've been wanting to write this from a long time, feels good to have finally completed and posted it here.😊
Comment is about January (blog)
Original item by Manish
Wed 3rd Apr 2024 03:42
Thank you, David, I appreciate the comment! 😎
Comment is about Mulberry. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
I love poems about nature, it's such a treat to read, always puts a smile on my face and heart.
Another beautiful poem, Hélène!
Thank you.
Comment is about Walking (blog)
Original item by Hélène
A superb poem as always, Keith.
Thank you.
Comment is about Andalucia (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
The short ones are often hard to write aren't they? Haha.
Thanks a lot, Graham.
Comment is about A Cold Goodbye (blog)
Original item by Manish
I just subscribed to your Youtube Channel.
Should be good 😊
Comment is about New music work (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
The beauty of romance & relationships.
Who wouldn't want that?
I've enjoyed it. And still looking for more of it *sigh*
Comment is about miniatures (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
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Wed 3rd Apr 2024 01:17
First rate poem Keith, thank you.
Beth
Comment is about Andalucia (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
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Wed 3rd Apr 2024 01:15
' remember you, only as daylight '
just one brilliant line of so many.
Absolutely lovely poem Mike, thank you.
Beth
Comment is about Hury Patience! (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
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Wed 3rd Apr 2024 01:07
Wonderfully overwhelming poem John, thank you.
Beth
Comment is about Biba — 1967 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Until that time we crave, and our cravings we turn into poems
Comment is about Andalucia (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Stephen Atkinson
Wed 3rd Apr 2024 22:46
Like David says, your writing has a lovely mystery to it that jabs the imagination 👍
Comment is about we are not yet dead (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz