Ah, now it makes sense! No reason for apologies, please! The language barrier sometimes makes it hard for me to pick up colloquialisms, that's why I asked! Plus it's a lovely imagery, shrinking down and submerging into a fantasy! These things are MEANT to get you carried away! ??So feel free to roam into all my fantasies my dear Mindy! ??
Thank you ?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

d.k.,

With this poem you have brought to light something I once heard about poets, that they can be the most effective voice of dissent. This I believe to be true. The poet challenges in the face of oppression, he speaks out on issues when others remain silent often out of self preservation. Poets need to possess the courage of their convictions and say what will make others uncomfortable. The poet you describe should receive the highest accolade for his work in bringing and uncovering the truth. The truth seldom attracts friends.

Thank you for this. Free Speech???

Keith

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Hey Mindy! Is this one a bluebird? ?
?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hi Mindy! I know squat about birds or flowers for that matter! I found this pic online and chose it because...well the bird's blue and there are flowers! ?
What do you mean by "Shrank the Kids" ? I only know the movie "Honey I shrank the Kids". What's the connection?
Thanks for stopping by!?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thanks Lisa for your like on The Chase!

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Gosh dk what a bad cad
A cad of the worsest type kind
To write such damn offensive poetry
And women and children not mind

Think I saw it on WOL
Must've got through the moral sieve.
Bastard.

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Wow a perfect 10! Thank you dear Merey?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Sucha beautiful write...10/10?

These are the best two lines "And came back the next vowing only for Her to henceforth sing

And the wallflower blossomed!"

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

The question: Is this poetry?
The answer: Incarceration!

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Bran I'm trying hard
To picture on the ceiling
Two naked bodies intertwined
You've sent my mind a'reeling

As Lisa has just said Bran
This act should be in private
Where was the lock upon your door
When you were in mode drive-it?

Oh yeh? too anxious? You forgot?....

Comment is about Silly Sex Poem (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

You should get a lock or a no disturb sign...
Was there a duck involved?

Comment is about Silly Sex Poem (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Seems Fester's affected your thinking
From here I can hear your brain huffing
It must be quite bad cos it's 10,000 miles
And really it's Ado About Nothing.

I still got my bets on Willy...

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Fester, Don. Methinks I jape ye not.

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Your writings are very philosophical and a touch theological, more than sufficient to stimulate the minds of your readers. I can go along with a good deal of what you say and in particular like the line "Sometimes a scorched earth policy is required to remove the old and make people move away so the important stuff can grow anew". This I believe to be true. The letting go of the past is imperative to journeying forward. Your final sentence is a conclusion which I can concur with.

Well written and well explained.
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Battles Wars Crusades (blog)

Original item by Robert Williams

My ex wife took that policy when she left me. thanks for giving me some insight to why she would leave in such a way. I woke up when I saw that my fullest expression could not grow without the light, and the battle was merely in my mind. so, now here I am and here we are, and the question must be asked: What is our time worth?

THANKS for your contribution.

PEACE
Willow

Comment is about Battles Wars Crusades (blog)

Original item by Robert Williams

Shit John are you buggering up
My whole learning of Willy?
Methinks you just are playing games
Gone down the track of silly

Fester you say?......

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ankita I can see
From your picture before me
The blush which is on your cheeks
From this poetry.....


Be different Ankita. You never know what might emerge. And don't be shy.....

Comment is about Diva (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

So nice Keith.....

Comment is about Being (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I'm trying to eat my breakfast
Poems come fast as blinks
Just fin with Mindy's Stagnate
When Lisa says stop, Think

I'm thrust into the infinite
(While eating brekkie crunch)
To contemplate my future
And what I'll know by lunch

Forgive my flippant mind Lisa. I thought your piece was clever....

Comment is about THINK (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Many thanks, Kev and Ray.
And also to Ankita and Devon for the "likes".

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you dear Jason for the kind supportive words. I kinda held my breath for your feedback, I respect you as a writer and a reviewer. I'm glad you like it. It was about time I tried some variety in structure... I'm glad it worked! Thank you so much Jason and Devon! Both writers whose opinion I value truly! Thank you both gentlemen ?
X.x.
Mae

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

That is, in my humble opinion, a truly breathtaking feat of writing. Not only to remain within the form, but whilst doing that to write something that touches right at the heart. Incredible.
I never cease to be amazed at the journey you take me on. It is a rare and beautiful talent.

J. x

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

You keep intriguing me! I'll try my hand! Oh and Devon... In case you didn't notice I strayed from the official pantoum structure in the end. I added two additional rhyming lines. Also it's not a rule what I do in the last verse where all lines rhyme with each other, it was just easier at the time. Just for the sake of clarity!
Thanks again!?
Mae

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Well, a sonnet is much easier than a sestina for sure. Simple adherence to meter, rhyme scheme and line count is all that matters in a sonnet, of which there are six types. If you have read Willy, you get the gyst of it. But for me, not easy. I tried one once, and it read like dung. I am impressed by anyone that can pull off traditional forms. I certainly can't.

D

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

I'm American so I don't know much about this guy. There's a lot to read...but I don't think I like him. And I do see that he appealed to Trump for asylum...yikes.
What a world, what a world.

And my book recommendation was for a good guy.

Comment is about Jailed for Journalism (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Wow, I've read it 5 times and....still not enough! It's glorious though! Thank you for illuminating me! And as for sonnets... you speak of them as if it's something easy to do...is it? I have no idea, never tried... Haven't even studied what it is, just read a bit of Shakespeare. And it doesn't look easy!!!! ?
Mae

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Mae, I can't even pull of a sonnet, let alone a sestina. Here is a link to a famous one by W.H. Auden.

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/paysage.html

D

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Phantasmagorial tha'nus. A delightful trawl through the vagaries of the Shakespeare canon with that delicious Blackadder sensibility to coax it through its paces. I can't say enough except that I was utterly amused and conflagrated .

Thanks for cheering me up John

Ray

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oh God it seems impossible! But color me intrigued! Just as soon as I have something to write about... I mean, today it rained, but tomorrow may be mundanely sunny...You never know in this life! ?
Have you ever written a sestina? If you have, please kindly point me at it!
And thanks so much for the kind words ?
Mae

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank you very much Keith and Lisa for your encouragement. Not an easy poem to write. I am not a rabid white nationalist - as anyone who's followed by work would know - but I think the jailing of those who expose what the 'authorities' willfully ignored, whilst children suffered untold abominations, is a very serious crime and those responsible for turning a blind eye to such abominations should be the ones to be put on trial. I sincerely hope that we won't need to wait as long as the Hillsborough families did. John

Comment is about Jailed for Journalism (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Graham, Jon, Lisa, Devon and Rebecca many thanks indeed for
reading and liking .

To be honest David, I didn't have a specific thought here but there was a sort of reaching out to try and clarify why we need to express ourselves to echoes of the past haunting us, an uncontrollable facet of life, and how when faced with the present we might feel inadequate in simply adapting to its demands to a non caring world.
Your points are entirely sensible of course, on the other hand if nobody is really listening what then? Perhaps the madness you mention is the real motivation of what creates mayhem , therefore it might be inherent in the human condition. I like your final point of persuasion, my own view!.

Thanks Rachel, I seem to sway between ideas of what might be greater than the sum of our parts in a spiritual way and the challenges of the humdrum life we sometimes live. There is a refuge in expression . I certainly think silence is essential to recharge ourselves, a rare thing now as nature is often overrun by people making lots of noise. When I used the word ghost It was a metaphor for the invisible (to others) and not being heard or accepted I suppose.

Ray

Comment is about PARADISE LOST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I would love to see you try your hand at a sestina - equally brutal. But your classical knowledge and story-telling abilities will probably see you through.

https://poets.org/text/sestina-poetic-form

D

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank you dear Devon! It took hours!!! It's called "pantoum"! I give you a wiki link about it! Kinda stupid huh? But I know nothing of this style other than the fact that a great Greek poet whom I love and admire wrote one and I loved it! A Nobelist at that! Georgios Seferis! Don't try to find it, it's in Greek! But it was so lovely that I thought I should try to write in this form!

Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum

Thank you so much for the support and appreciation! It was really really hard indeed?
Mae

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Great subject and read John. People only seem interested in fake news lately.

Another wonderful book on this subject is "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" by Jocobo Timerman.

Comment is about Jailed for Journalism (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Bravo....more!!!!!

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Jailed for Journalism (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

This is terrific, Mae, and I suppose more than a little difficult to pen. Strict adherence to form is often daunting without coming off "forced" May I ask which form this is written in? Love it.

D

Comment is about Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Though if I want to be honest... I ALWAYS wear sunglasses! A quirk of mine I guess...?

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

From the darkness there shall be light.

Comment is about No Star Was Seen (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

And this is why you are a legend at the Doncaster brewery and tap. Always a pleasure.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Fish, I had an inkling as to the subject of this poem, and your response confirms my reading of it. At the time I read this one, I was a bit exhausted shall I say. Thank you.

D

Comment is about No Star Was Seen (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

A ditty for Don


I tried to pen a ditty for Don,
A ditty for Don to grin upon.

But as I strode through dew and grass,
I cut my toe on broken glass.

And when I bent to tend the cut,
a copperhead leaped an bit my butt.

So as the poison in me raced,
I turned and ran, my path retraced.

Through glass, though grass, through dew, NO! reeling,
I'd left In my baggage my kit for healing.

Comment is about Change the Record Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Smash-up...oops, I mean...
Smashing!

Comment is about Learning How To Drive (blog)

Original item by d.knape

This is lovely. You should be blushing from the adoration.

Comment is about Diva (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

Hi again JC. I declared in a blog in the recent past that refugees
are migrants but migrants are not necessarily refugees. But whatever definition applies, they have certain characteristics in common. Both seek to move from a place that doesn't "suit" to
a place that does - or promises to do so. They both possess the
ability, aim/intent to change their destination to one that reflects
their own "face" and hopes. As for the Normans, they surely
fall within the wider definition of migrant/immigrant and set about
changing the Britain they found into something that reflected their
invasive ambitions - largely heedless (at least to begin with) of,
the resident Anglo-Saxon population and its concerns. It took
many years of unrest for assimilation to kick in but from that came
what we know as "The English" identity....lasting to the present
day.
As for your "Jewish" question. I suspect that I would have attuned
myself to the values, attitudes and behaviour of my father's generation present at that time. Before WW2, the German Jews
(I assume this is the subject) who saw the rising threat made their plans to move away to less dangerous destinations - of which
there were many besides this country - the good old US of A
being the favoured choice for many. It must be remembered that
the population here was considerably smaller than it is now and
the existence of the Commonwealth would have made the
acceptance of substantial numbers less problematical than now.
The Poles are also here in substantial numbers, again largely
arising from those years and their ripple effects, and they probably
contain a sizeable total of Polish Jews.
On a related matter - it is recorded that Queen Elizabeth the First
acted to control immigration into her realm (population circa 15
million I believe) to avoid social unrest. So, the subject is hardly
new.
Cheers.

Comment is about TRUMPETRY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Generally I write about social taboos and issues. This is something different I tried today and I am still blushing and feeling so shy while posting it.

Comment is about Diva (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

Moody Blues, Bloody Muse
Both, of which, I would refuse
But to please my inner spaz
Play, for me, some crazy jazz


Nice one Don.

Comment is about Change the Record Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The question I ponder
Branwell, to me
Was the nurse that you speak of
A he or a she?.....

Comment is about Just My Luck (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

dk

I tried to drive computer
Drove it through my mind
On exit from my headspace
No poem did I find?

I think I need to go back
Re-train on how to drive
Computer through my mind-bank
For poem to arrive

(Am I going to the wrong driving school dk?......)

Comment is about Learning How To Drive (blog)

Original item by d.knape

If I'm gonna shuffle
(off site's gloomy coil)
I'm sorry all you doomers
Your fun I'm gonna spoil

On and on and on I go
With my funny disks
Shuffle infinitum
Up some fun, I whisk

I'll have to get my burner
They're lining up for miles
"I gotta get a copy
I wanna play it, smile"....?

Comment is about Change the Record Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

"Straight lines

Curved answers

Draw pictures on the glass

shattered from pressure"

These ending lines drive your message home with power. Cool poem.

Comment is about Painted window frames (blog)

Original item by Pagan Poetry