Thank you Devon, Ruth and Jason for your appreciation and comments. Ruth, there are no prizes but a clue maybe. He lives in impenetrable darkness......Milton´s Paradise Lost!
Keith
Comment is about He Stepped Inside (blog)
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Hi Keith, no I'm not flaming, it was then and not now now. ?
Hi Jason, I think 'moving on' and scorch-marks says it .
Hi Ruth, I think the 'positive spin' echos Kieth's point, not wrong just behind my shoulder as I turn away.
Thank you all xxx
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Hi Keith, no I'm not flaming, it was then and not now now. ?
Hi Jason, I think 'moving on' and scorch-marks says it .
Hi Ruth, I think the 'positive spin' echos Kieth's point, not wrong just behind my shoulder as I turn away.
Thank you all xxx
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Hi Keith, no I'm not flaming, it was then and not now now. ?
Hi Jason, I think 'moving on' and scorch-marks says it .
Hi Ruth, I think the 'positive spin' echos Kieth's point, not wrong just behind my shoulder as I turn away.
Thank you all xxx
Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hi Keith, no I'm not flaming, it was then and not now now. ?
Hi Jason, I think 'moving on' and scorch-marks says it .
Hi Ruth, I think the 'positive spin' echos Kieth's point, not wrong just behind my shoulder as I turn away.
Thank you all xxx
Comment is about We've each got different partners now... (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I'm a lowly rhymer
Put rhythm in me verse
Oh? Was that ungrammatical?
How damnably perverse
Of me.....?
Comment is about why i like Poets (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Positive spin on a usually painful subject, I like how you managed to create that effect Tommy
Comment is about We've each got different partners now... (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
"Poets see the beauty of the glass."
That is such a profound line, and one that I will endeavour to live up to.
Added to favourites.
J. x
Comment is about why i like Poets (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Really enjoyed the suspense of the beginning of this poem. Reading through this No prizes for guessing who this is about.
Comment is about He Stepped Inside (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Beautifully put and in varying degrees, true for all of us. We each step through lifes doors and only too often miss the sound of the lock clicking behind us, but such is life.
I suppose the real skill is truly knowing what rooms you're stepping into.
J. x
Comment is about He Stepped Inside (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Perhaps the old flame doesn't burn anymore, I read it as more of an acceptance of moving on, but it does seem that like so many of the rest of us, you happily wear the scorch marks. Really liked this.
J. x
Comment is about We've each got different partners now... (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks Mae, I was definitely in deep reflective mode for this one. Sometimes you do need to say to yourself, "It is what it is."
Thank you for the constant support, honesty and friendship that both you and Heart Of Lead have always given.
J. x
Comment is about Sitting On The Shores (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
"Cor, well m'dear, I thank ee kindly for thy words of comfort ?.
J. x
Comment is about Stranger At The Hearth (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Just riffing Mae, just happily riffing?.
J. x
Comment is about Black Jack (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Mae and Ruth, for your kind words. It was born of the phrase, "Scream a symphony," which as I'm sure you'll remember from the music discussion is a Chemical Brothers lyric. Funny how music just keeps reaching in isn't it my friend??
J. x
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
When did you join Project Fear JC?
Comment is about WHEN HITLER BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh no my friend, it's definitely rich and chocolatey.
J. x
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
When we talk about the protection of the British constitution it is important to understand that we don't have one. We have a "system" of practice and precedent. And I would dispute that the overrule of parliamentary representatives by a Prime Minister is not a dictatorship. It may be benign and politely British but it cannot be anything other that a dictatorship if the PM is allowed to dictate to Parliament.
Comment is about WHEN HITLER BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Does the old flame still burn? The poem implies a sense of hope, not entirely abandoned.
A good poem
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about We've each got different partners now... (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I've always been a tad self conscious for having kind of a husky voice for a girl but "chocolatey" makes up for a lifetime of "Hello son, It's Mr. Whatshisname from Whereverton, could you pass your mother on the phone please?"
Thank you Jason ?
Mae
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Love the structure and the story!
Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about Three Empty Words (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Every single word of this poem is impeccably placed, sharp as a razor, universal notions. I have no words. This is a masterpiece! You seem to be writing many of those lately. But of all of them this definitely stands out as a timeless reflection of the human soul. Excellent ?
Mae
Comment is about Sitting On The Shores (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Yes Mae, I definitely saw this as a musical piece, wild, orchestrated violence and melodic soothing.
J. x
Comment is about The Deity Screams (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Ingenious inception! Well planned and crafted! Contact Tom Waits? Very well done my friend!?
Mae
Comment is about Stranger At The Hearth (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
And I'd just like this opportunity to thank Mae so much. I've always loved the beautiful rich chocolatey tones of your voice Mae, and I was the one who felt a bit cheeky for asking if you'd do it. Thanks again my friend, I absolutely love your recital.
And thanks Rob and Fish for your kind analysis and comments.
J. x
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Fascinating! The idea of those two hands belonging to a conductor, an actual man a maestro, master of the universe conducting a celestial and earthly orchestra, harnessing the forces of nature; turning thunder to percussions and silence to violins...music is as haunting, as exquisite and as wild as creation! And a conductor is pretty much God holding all that in his hands! Excellent! ?
Mae
Comment is about The Deity Screams (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
But Chrystel why the "rhyme" or the "rhythm"?
Comment is about why i like Poets (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
I am loving these comments almost as much I'm loving this ingenious poem! Kudos Jason?
Mae
Comment is about Black Jack (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
A masterpiece dear Jason, master of rhyme and rhythm. Loved it ?Inhave always been bad at analyses, words are not enough here, alt least words would sell my mind short. I'll be reading this again and again. Lovely, staggering. Kudos ?
Mae
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
d.k. you speak plainly, straightforwardly of one of the greatest causes of why 'civilisation' is where it is today. The two great wars meant that for generations there just were not enough fathers to perpetuate fatherhood as a core component of society. Then seeped in the wholesale denigration of patriarchy and 'Jack the Lad' become the dominant male role model.
Thanks for your gentle male voice.
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Comment is about Our Fathers (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you so much dear Jason for the honor of trusting your poem with me!
Thank you Robert, it is such a beautiful poem one or Jason's best! It was a great honor to recite it and I'm glad you like it!
And thank you Fish, I tried my best! I'm relatively new at this and I always try to improve but mostly I hope to do justice by the poet's work. I hope I did.
Thank you all, but mostly Jason!?
Mae
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Yes Jason - well written, thought provoking. Well read Mae, right pace and rhythm for the piece.
Go well
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Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Jason - this is a beautifully written piece, made more so by Mae's sultry tones. There are so many outstanding lines throughout that I don't know which are my favourites. It somehow reads differently to Mae's rendition, but to me, this only makes it twice as good. Congratulations on the writing Jason and thank you Mae for adding another dimension.
Rob
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
My own final comment on this "interesting" situation is that this is
less about democracy and more about its manipulation to suit a
purpose. The most ground-breaking example of the word in its
proper sense was the majority vote in a national poll on staying in
or departing from the European Union - granted by Parliament
itself. The result seems to have been against expectations.
To disenfranchise that same vote now by raising non-existent
inclusions/conditions applicable to that vote is a manipulation of democracy.
Comment is about WHEN HITLER BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Don I hope you aren't going to be in need of a hearing aid soon we'll get Leon a loudspeaker in the meanwhile
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
The most alarming thing for me is that so many people are not alarmed by the fact that they went to bed one night in a democracy and woke up the next morning in a dictatorship.
Comment is about WHEN HITLER BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Timely indeed and full of old but perennially relevant wisdom about
the importance of a "dad" in life. I lost my own father before I was
old enough to know him (I was five) and my step-father sadly
suffered by comparison in retrospect, perhaps because he had previously brought up a family of his own and was old enough
to be my grandfather when I was moving through my formative
years and he became a distant figure in my own life. However,
I was to become more self-reliant, so there can be a positive
side to some negative aspects experienced in growing up.
Comment is about Our Fathers (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It's pleasing to see considered if conflicting views about this most
important chapter in the history of these islands. To get a proper
perspective we need to go back to the immediate post-war days
when the looming perceived threat from the arrival of the Russians
in Germany, with their "foothold" and (for the Yanks especially)
communist idealogy, suddenly the atrocities and would-be
enslavement of the free world by Nazi Germany were sidelined:
the new enemy was Russia! Encouraged by this thinking, certain
mindsets in Europe were encouraged to see a political buffer
of strength in a "united Europe", actively endorsed by the USA
with its huge financial interests and investment via the Marshall Plan and its own chosen position as the enemy of communism.
The "Common Market" became its innocuous innocent "front" and
the plan proceeded with participation by politicians/powerbrokers
willing to adopt stealth, deceit and want of truth (the latter
especially goes against our UK way of thinking!), Ted Heath
was warned by Geoffrey Rippon that the British people would never agree if they knew what was ahead and the decision that
they would not be told has haunted the Tories (and the
subsequent public trust in Parliament) ever since). After all,
if the occupants of that place were willing to indulge in conduct
that gave away its sovereignty to become a yellow star on a
made-up flag and to all intents and purposes be controlled by
rule from elsewhere, then the very word "sovereignty" is a risible
abuse of its real meaning for us here in these islands. Only by
a consensus within Parliament NOW to comply with the essential
example of democracy via the recent one-off/no second chance
national referendum can trust in Parliament be restored to its
rightful place. The real danger is that those in Parliament are
still bedevilled by thoughts that their own conceits and convictions
take precedence over that monumental public decision and that
only serves to exacerbate a fraught situation. It is said that
Cromwell meeting similar behaviour in his own time, dismissed
them: "Get ye gone for all the good ye do here" (or something
similar). Temporary parliamentary suspension seems a very
logical step under present circumstances and it also has a place
in the system with a new government seeking to "set out is stall" despite its opponents accusing the government of ulterior
motives e.g. actually seeking to do what the referendum
required of it - to LEAVE the EU and forego the endless self-deception that "they" (its opponents) know what is best for us.
Comment is about WHEN HITLER BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ruth, I know Leon wasn't singing it for me but I could feel what was left of his voice after traveling 10,000 miles down the wire under the sea. That is some feat! Maybe Leon if you could sing a bit louder next time, the signal might not be so feeble the time it gets to me...?
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Captivating us with your rhythmic tone Jason, love your heartfelt expression of the unequal distribution of power in society,
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thank you so much Kate I really do appreciate you reading my work?
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Don I love a bit of song of the south's zip a dee doo dah the only song I believe I can sing in fact!
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Cheers Leon I did enjoy that song , being called a poet and how beautifully you sang it?
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Jason - interesting comments. Rhyme to me just tumbles out. I don't have to think much. As you say the structure and rhythm forces you pare down and focus. Prose, to me, takes more effort....
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Kate, very much appreciated.
Also thanks for liking Bon.
J. x
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
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Sun 1st Sep 2019 12:53
LOVE the rhythm and message, and juxtaposition of ideas. Really great Jason.
Comment is about The Key Fumbled (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (22444)
Sun 1st Sep 2019 12:50
Really wonderful Ruth. I could adopt this as a war cry. Love your work.
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
keith jeffries
Sun 1st Sep 2019 23:40
Ruth,
an empowering poem and source of encouragement to all. Very well written and expressed.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Warrior of Spirit (blog)
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