Cheers Don, making people think is always good!
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
I am an orange traffic cone
And Keith, a horny male
At end of day at pack-up time
I fight to on-top female
How else can we proliferate
You drivers knock us down
All the time reducing us
(Don't give a damn, just laugh...)..?
Comment is about Traffic Cones (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Aha, my mother has bred Pyrenean Mountain Dogs for the last 50 years, at one time she had the UK's top show dog and top stud dog in the breed. In fact that's how I learned to walk, I'd grab one as they walked past and they'd patiently let me drag myself up off the floor until I was standing and then toddle off on my own. I fell asleep on them so many times that the smell of Pyrenean fur still makes me sleepy. Few people understand the difference between a guard dog and a guardian dog. They were definitely my guardians and deep friends. And I can honestly say as someone brought up my whole life with dogs, I'm no expert, but one thing I can do is communicate with the pack. Beautiful dogs.
J. x
Comment is about The Eyes Of A Wolf (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Really good, topical and provoking.
Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Waiting for a whisper and even the ocean is silent....that is some incredible wordwork there. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about The Memory of You (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Great contribution. Very astute, and talented.
Comment is about Can't is a four-letter word (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
It´s what they do at night when they pack up and leave the roadside which bothers me. Are they male or female or both?
Good poem
Keith
Comment is about Traffic Cones (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Really wonderful to read. I especially liked the last 4 lines with the end rhyme separated out. I have a young Great Pyrenees and an old Golden mix and their smiles and raising of eyebrows is always quite expressive of their adoration and desire for food or company.
Thanks for sharing
Comment is about The Eyes Of A Wolf (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
IMO,a very admirable idea well caught. The second verse is a bit 'terrifying'. When I see a jet fly over I always breathe a prayer, 'Be safe.' Every time!
Comment is about Next (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thanks Keith,
I feel a bit grim so no surprise that it comes out here but I am comforted by your regard for the piece.
Comment is about Between (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Ruth, you capture the mystery of the future so well here. I can feel myself there urgently questioning and unable to unentangle the answer from the aura. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about The High Priestess (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Adam,
A poem which is grim in content and offers little comfort but so very well written. I cannot fault what is said and in particular I like the lines, "before empires burned language onto the tongues of slaves".There has to be light if only to see the silhouette.
Good poem
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Between (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Thank you for reading and responding, Rose....
I very much appreciate the compliment.
Comment is about Between (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Good one, well-expressed - the most 'common subject' for us all!
Comment is about insatiable (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Splendid thinking, sparkling and sparking, full of 'suggestive, magical mystery' which simply 'IS'!
I'm not sure that everyone 'relates', but 'some' definitely do.
Comment is about The High Priestess (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 21st Sep 2019 12:47
a veritable masterpiece Adam. Thank you!
Rose ?
Comment is about Between (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 21st Sep 2019 12:43
Splendour - it has the essence of magnificence.
Comment is about Old Men's Tears (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 21st Sep 2019 12:32
clever stuff Ian. Nice to see you! ( back again ) to see you NICE!
Rose ?
Comment is about True Nature (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Sat 21st Sep 2019 12:25
Wave and salute them
as you rush by
those men of orange
braving the hordes
caring for the careless.
Comment is about Traffic Cones (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I like it Chrystel. You've prompted me to write:
CAN'T is a four-letter word
The opposite, a three-letter CAN
I am much more partial to the three-letter
So the four-letter one, I you ban...
Comment is about Can't is a four-letter word (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
I meant to post this yesterday to mark the Climate Strike. "Better late than never" is perhaps an appropriate phrase.
Comment is about Landing (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Do.Ro.ThY
Your comment interests me
"wish could read the poets mind"
A poet does not usually discuss his own work, but in this case I'd like to make an exception.
When I create I let my mind go free and see what it brings back, Sometimes comic, sometimes serious, sometimes shocking, many times surprises.. Rhyme can deliver any of these messages. You know what I mean.
I follow Jessica Masterson's "When your mind next wanders follow it round for a while"
'Plastic Plastic' fell out in 30 minutes. The fish made a perfect storyteller. Thought a new food had come it's way. Why were plastics praying at it's death? Was I unconsciously personifying them as us? Don't know. The mind is complex and mysterious.
Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
To me this has an image of misty water running down the marble eye of a statue on a grave in a gothic graveyard and someone quietly contemplating life, deciding that though it would be easy to be paralysed by the fear of death it would mean that you wouldn't truly be able to live. I absolutely love the lines, "This life isn't for the faint-hearted; for death isn't only for the brave." I think that sums up the only choice we really have, which is whether or not to roll up our sleeves and crack on with living. I like the last two lines personally, I think they carry the message really well. I've always loved your writing Mae, but it feels like recently you seem to have found a whole new level and personally, I'm loving it!
J. x
Comment is about Lightly (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Sat 21st Sep 2019 10:44
Ride it out Don or.....
find another road.
?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
What a beautifully defiant statement of the determination to live life to the full regardless of the fate that hangs over us all, while at the same time acknowledging that, that very courage is a choice. I love the symbolism of the moon for this, because with its very slow rotation meaning that we only ever see the same side of it, it's almost like it very carefully chooses to only show us the bright side that we're used to and to keep it's darker side to itself, metaphorically speaking. Brilliant Mae.
J. x
Comment is about The Moon in Me- An Epigram (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Both poem and illustration are excellent. I do like Jason´s comment, "we really are as thick as pigshit aren´t we". We damage the environment with impunity, but would scream blue murder if someone came along and damaged our house..
Thanks for this Don
Keith
Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
The dread of falling asleep as if dipping beneath the surface of the ocean. When I was young I used to have this recurring, lucid nightmare and this is how I felt about sleep. Eventually, at quite a young age I had to remind myself that my mind belongs to me and that I am master of my dreams, although it took a while, until then I used to dread sleep. Really well written.
J. x
Comment is about Those Puppet Strings (blog)
Original item by Kate Hubbard
Made me smile Hugh, glad this inspired you to write that ?
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I was listening to a chap on BBC R4 the other day proudly boasting how many satellites are now up in low orbit around the Earth. Seems we’ve already started screwing up Space too with our junk.
Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Three blind mice
I have 12 legs 6 eyes and I can't see,
What do you think I could be ?
Three blind mice running round the house,
What did the lazy cat say to the mouse?
"Catch you later."Please cheese me the mouse did sing,
Then lit a candle,light refreshment it did bring.
The three blind mice loved to roam
And moved together into their new home,
A mouse warming party they did arrange,
And played a mouse organ out of cat range.
There was a bingo hall next to their house,
They eat a lot,eyes down for a full mouse.
They had a mice time.
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
For, "The most intelligent animal on earth," we really are as thick as pigshit aren't we, the amount of crap we've dumped all over our planet, not just in the sea, but the sea's bad enough. So when anyone takes the opportunity to point it out, I think that's great, thanks Don.
J. x
Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Very succinct, to the point, insightful and I love it. So true, hiding belligerence in polite speech.
J. x
Comment is about Can't is a four-letter word (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Glad you fixed this Hugh see how nicely the rhythm now flows with please and Louise ?
Comment is about The men you please (blog)
Original item by hugh
Can't believe no-one would know who Dylan off the Magic Roundabout was, and then I remembered how old I am. Conversely, I didn't have a clue who Dylan Hartley was.
J. x
Comment is about POETRY LIKE DYLAN’S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ruth
You remind me of those T-shirts emblazoned with JUST DO IT....?
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Don, pushing the boundaries is all part of the experiment
Feel the ridicule
In the riddle
Dance to the tune
Of your
Own fiddle
Do it anyway...
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Cheers Jason! Thanks for reading & liking this. Fairytales and nursery rhymes are our first introduction into poetry, so it's fun to re- visit them once and a while!
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
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Sat 21st Sep 2019 08:54
Jason
If I push the boundaries and write a sweet little 'piggy-like' nursery rhyme with deep dark undertones do you think I'd get away with it?
Nah, WOLers wouldn't see the subtlety. Writing some of that sing-song Jack and Jill stuff again Don? Grow up boy. Be a man poet like us.....
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Ruth
'squoinking' You have taken the simple 'oink-squeak' call of these new hybrids to a new level....?
Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I can see it now, Keith.
I’ve read that it is now possible to turn your ashes into a vinyl disc. I shall have that. I will have Another One Bites the Dust, You Spin Me Right Round, and Ring of Fire put on it.
https://scattering-ashes.co.uk/product-news/meet-your-maker/ashes-put-vinyl-record/
Comment is about The Final Act (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thanks Ray. I have no need for self-deprecation though. My mediocrity is blindingly obvious.
And thanks for the “Likes” Becky, Jeannot, Dean and Chrystel.
Comment is about POETRY LIKE DYLAN’S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
'my body will be borne on the shoulders of those who I love
this should rapidly reduce supposed numbers...' well said.
Going out with a bang!
Comment is about The Final Act (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Joe Williams
Sat 21st Sep 2019 13:24
Thanks Cynthia, glad you liked 'Landing' ?
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas