Her feelings like the seasons
will set sail
says Captain Romantic.
Comment is about Seasons Like Feelings (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Well thought out and rhymed MC. Not wishing to detract, but inspired me to write:
If you are in need
And satisfy with speed
You need to be careful
Could end up as greed
Comment is about CHANCE? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
On that slippery slope
For most there is
No hope
But our Dear Don
He carries on
A Quitter?
Not him
Nope
Where did you go skiing Don more Austria than Australia Right? It's on my bucket list to learn to ski
Comment is about Winners & Losers (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Don,
thought some silliness would brighten up an otherwise boring Thursday afternoon :)
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Well done Do.Rothy You've said all the positive bits and know you're winning at life?
Comment is about Winners & Losers (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Nice Chrystel. And nice title....
Comment is about Shell-Shocked! (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Thanks Jason - and my appreciation is also due for the "likes".
It struck me that the words had both a connection and a contrasting
use, depending on your outlook. You can be both or you can be
one because of the other in others....er, if you see what I mean.
Comment is about CHANCE? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
leah
Thu 29th Aug 2019 13:57
AUGUST WRITE ANGLE'S 'CUP OF TEA', ROBERT GARNHAM & DIVERSE OPEN MIC
Fresh from his third appearance at the Edinburgh fringe, Robert Garnham brought Write Angle his new show, 'Spout'. This is an extravaganza in which Robert spouts all about the tea coming from the spout of his teapot. There was forty minutes of laughter for an act which is no storm in a teacup!
Giggle inducing puns were intersperced with comical poetry all about tea, like his aunt Rose's ashes accidently put in the tea caddy, giving a new meaning to the cockney rhyming slang expression, Rosie Lea.
Now, as it enters its thirteenth year, Write Angle, described by one reviewer as a little gem, always has a great line-up of headliners, from John Hegley to Tolu Agbusi, Mab Jones, Brendan Cleary, Patience Agbabi and locals Speech Painter and guitarist/singer, Greg Harper. Its ever enduring strength, however, lies in the many poets and musicians who come to the open mic. This August was no exception, with an impressively eclectic mix of thirteen poets and singers.
The mic was shared by regular and new poets - Fred Werner, Richard Hawtree, Sue Spiers, Dick Senior, Colin Eveleigh, Leah Cohen, Neil Dandridge, Diana Arnold, Graham Langley, Bruce Parry and Mark Cassidy. Relative newcomers, Sheila Salway and Jules Gibson provided A Capela songs.
This variety of people reflects the experience Write Angle has had over its time in Petersfield. They come from far and wide, with a broad spread of different performers. On one occasion there were twelve guitars lined up, waiting for their owners to perform. Professional poets come to us to try out new material, interspersed with newcomers who have never performed in public who have gone on to appear at other venues. Poets are comical and serious mining their lives for material or dealing with issues. And, as with August's Write Angle, most importantly, there are just those who come to enjoy the show, laugh and clap.
Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 20 Aug 2019 (event)
Ruth you've got a winning smile
Compared to mine, I'm losing
I'm gonna ski to end of slope
Wave at the chicks while cruising
I chose to use the photo
At top of run, so steep
And not the one at bottom when
I crash-banged in a heap
Lucky no chicks around......?
Comment is about Winners & Losers (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
funny guy
weird and funny
right up my street x
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Very well crafted Don! No eye contact, can be very frustrating indeed. Someone has to say these things, thank you!?
Mae
Comment is about Look At Me Damn You (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
dk
I'll bet it was you
Who on the ground threw
This bag, so-called Cheetos
You litterer, you
And you s'pposed to be an environmentalist?
Grackle...grackle
Caw....caw
We do want
More more
dk?
Comment is about Cheetos On The Parking Lot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks Jennifer for your interesting comments. The pea shooter is priceless giving the element of surprise and not causing harm. I've got a toy wàter gun if the distance is right. I've used it to break up cat fights when we had multiple visits.
Yes Jason. It's true about awareness of spaces. Birds also need to feel confident do feeders should be near foliage. A battle of wits with cats! I've put up a wire netting around the feeder now. Thanks for your input.
Ray
Comment is about ON WATCH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Dear Don, I am no expert at all but with a line like "Mat sat under cat" I think you are going to do just fine! As for the principal, I say forget about him, listen to Thalia! She knows best! Excellent haiku ?
Mae
Comment is about Haiku Homework (Grade 1) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you, Don.
There are days when melancholy takes over!
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Beautifully portrayed scene of activity, would be inspirational in itself as a setting and takes us right in to a sense of a backwater.
The issue resonates with other species that don't have our blessing like badgers and squirrels. I'm no expert in these matters but you present a good case! As another matter, I recall as a child Rupert the Bear and Teddy Tail (a vertical mouse) and identifying these various creatures as real people. In some ways it is a shame to have to grow up I feel.
Ray
Comment is about Watching for the beavers (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Devon Brock
Thu 29th Aug 2019 11:38
Cheetos Oh! Cheetos
Black cat in the bag
rushes out like a tiger
with a sore belly sag.
Off to work - much fun!
D
Comment is about Cheetos On The Parking Lot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thu 29th Aug 2019 11:36
Oh Cheetos, once eaten
on fingers remain,
Orange is the color
of permanent stain.
?
Comment is about Cheetos On The Parking Lot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Devon Brock
Thu 29th Aug 2019 11:32
"I don't take many things seriously, and poetry is no exception"
I don't believe you Eiren....
Comment is about Eiren Water (poet profile)
Original item by Eiren Water
Don, thank you for the generous compliment, I appreciate your encouragement and critique!
While I don't always feel that poetry needs to be this short and concise, sometimes that is how it reveals its intent. Other times I feel like I am spewing out endless lines and still have a hard time understanding exactly what it is trying to express. I have no solid preference or opinion of which is better, I just know they both work in their own time and space to get the thoughts and feelings across for me so I respect both equally. I love to read short simple poems, but also love a long ballad style poem when I have time to focus on it.
My poems tend to reveal themselves to me as I type them, and it is unusual for me to interfere with their messages by way of editing or "improving" once they have been released from my overactive mind, so it means a lot to hear others whose work I respect give their (your) opinions. I am so grateful to all who take the time to do so here.
I'm rambling and I imagine it is only to myself. ?
e. xxx
Comment is about and i begin to fade (blog)
Original item by Eiren Water
Jennifer
What do I have to do to get mine to do this? It seems to go opposite to yours....
Comment is about The Separation (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Jennifer
Thomas Austin introduced rabbits to Australia in 1859, for sporting hunters. But with no natural predators and litters of five or more baby bunnies seven times a year, soon there was a rabbit plague. Farmers ripped their warrens, laid poison and shot them but still they multiplied. By the late 1940s after the second world war rabbits had reached plague proportions and were ravaging vast areas of Australia.
Hence the mix virus was introduced. For obvious reasons. Thankyou Thomas Austin.
Comment is about I've Got Some Good News And Some Bad News (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Mae
I believe you are an expert in the field of haikuing. As I am still in the bud-opening stage (according to my College Principal) is my bud starting to open and bloom, or do I need to fertilize it more? I await your valued help.
Vautaw
I also understand you are into the field of roses (the Spanish Rose kind). Your knowledge would surely be of great assistance in helping me bud-open more and show my inner haiku glory. I await your valued help.
Comment is about Haiku Homework (Grade 1) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Writing good haiku's not easy
Your neurons must be willing, not sparse
And don't try to force them, never ever
As they might 3-syllable 'up your arse'
No, you have to sweet-talk and entice them
Give them some incentive to seek
So who wants to now try, come up with
A poem that's Haiku of the Week?
I wanna haiku Don....
Can I ?...
Can I ?...
Please? Please?
Me too?.....
Please? Please?...
(See what I mean? Works like a charm...) ? ..
Comment is about Haiku Homework (Grade 1) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks Devon and Jason for the comments, and Fish for the like. I can understand the farmers disliking them as in this area the rivers are small/medium size and the land is all cultivated so they have to be watched - there isn't the space there is for the American or Canadian ones who have vast areas in which to live with few inhabitants, but I feel a little sorry for them.
Thanks to Ray as well - glad you liked it! What is a vertical mouse? He stands on his back legs? I remember Rupert the Bear too!
Jennifer
Comment is about Watching for the beavers (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Great writing - really brings driving on the motorways to life, have always thought that the job of the 'power starved operators' I think the people at the exits? was one of the worst jobs ever.
Jennifer
Comment is about U-Bahn (blog)
Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont
My shadow, for some reason makes me look much slimmer than I am so I am very attached, (literally) to it. Loved this one too.
Jennifer
Comment is about The Separation (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Nice one! Was horrified the other day to read that myxomatosis had been INTRODUCED on purpose to reduce the British rabbit population - thought it had just appeared on its own so to speak.
Jennifer
Comment is about I've Got Some Good News And Some Bad News (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Enjoyed that Don ? Thanks Chrystal I'm glad you got what I was saying there ?
Comment is about Procrastination (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Wow ... Keats! ... are you sure, Devon? I'm stunned and bowled over by the comparison. Keats is one of my idols. I'm highly flattered, and hadn't seen this piece as "ekphrastic" in the sense that I understood it, but I've gone back to my literary terms, and Googled it. Seems to fit, yes.
Thank you so much for this lavish praise.
Comment is about Shaman (blog)
Original item by David Redfield
Thanks for the comments, Kate G and Lisa.
I was beginning to think you’d got it trapped, Don.
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you for liking and commenting on my poem, Keith, Merey. I confess the meaning changed as I wrote it. Memory of past lovers are not always painful, but tainted memories are the worst kind, where you recognize what you could not before.
Comment is about The Memory of You (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Great poem, Ruth.
Few words but weighty in meaning. I love it!
Comment is about Procrastination (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Beautifully said, Lisa!
Comment is about The Nature of Things (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
My pleasure Keith and thank you Don. It is the waste of such prodigious talent that is so tragic. Pure bigotry ruined his life and denied us all that AT would have contributed in the latter part of his life. He was an adopted son of Manchester, my city, and I share, in a very minor way, his fascination with Mathematics. He was a polymath, a true Renaissance man.
Comment is about Alan Turing 1912-1954 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
One little snail went a'slithering
His mate, yep, he slithered behind
They went far too close to a precipice edge
Fell over, we all looked, but no find
Moral: don't slither too close to precipice edge. You end up splatter mess.....?
Comment is about Procrastination (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I Gasped out loud at that last verse....you went all Glen Close!
Comment is about I've Got Some Good News And Some Bad News (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Bran I'm overjoyed here
Not because of bunny
Cos I can be first in line
To comment "This is funny"
Sorry Ruth, sorry Mae
Kate, and all you too
You gotta be more quick-on-toes
Choogaloogaloo ?
Comment is about I've Got Some Good News And Some Bad News (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
I'm just a little tinkler
Three blind mice I kill
My audience of hundreds
Say I a Mozart will
Never make....
But dear readers I will
Not let this get to me
I have my roll of Mozart
Pianola ready
Thalia: go Don....?
Comment is about Mozart (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Seems like I'm a bit slow off the mark here
What all you lot doin' here before me?
Been slackin' I have, I been letting John down
Been havin' a long pee...now where's airblade?
Removed for repairs. Use one in Ladies.
Comment is about THE DYSON AIRBLADE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I hate stigma, ignorance and all that goes with it. I applaud those with the courage to stand up and 'come out' and all that goes with it. Times are a changing but we still have a long way to go.
Thankyou John for raising this issue. And Keith, as one of us 'come outers', although for different reasons.
Comment is about Alan Turing 1912-1954 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Welcome to the club my friend
Woe oh woe is us
Rhyming lotsa tipos but
We could'nt give a toss....?
Comment is about An Upgrade is Available (blog)
Original item by Bon Darcy
Thanks Ruth, that made me smile. I must be projecting my internal dichotomy again ?
Comment is about An Upgrade is Available (blog)
Original item by Bon Darcy
Jake,
This is incredibly descriptive as you are able to take the reader with you as a passenger. A very good poem.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about U-Bahn (blog)
Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont
John,
As a gay man I salute this poem in that it shows that within the lifetime of many, including myself, this nation acted with barbarity. Hitler gave us pink triangles and sent 100,000 of us to concentration Camps as the British chemically castrated us or sent us to prison.
Well done and thank you
Keith
Comment is about Alan Turing 1912-1954 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
What a great compliment Keith.
Thank you and your welcome
Comment is about The Nature of Things (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Ruth O'Reilly
Thu 29th Aug 2019 15:32
Ha, Ha I thought the tortoise was getting into the Lamborghini to cheat the race at first. Good reworking ?
Comment is about Shell-Shocked! (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts