Ha Ha, why do I believe it?
Zatoichi was close though.
Love Zatoichi!

Comment is about Blood on the Firm's Hands (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

What do you mean Mindy? That's me!?

Comment is about Blood on the Firm's Hands (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Good last four lines Eve.

Comment is about It's War (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

You're right, Brian. You're frightening, but you're right.

P.S. That photo isn't Zatoichi, is it?

Comment is about Blood on the Firm's Hands (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Siriusly brilliant, John. The grim calculations of men meant only to shield them from their own nothingness.

D

Comment is about A dark star (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Having read mine, you know how delighted I'd be with yours!

I am so new, dare I make a suggestion? Well...You use "progress" as a noun in the second line. That requires stress on the first syllable. If you wrote the line with "progress" as a verb, you'd move the emphasis to the second syllable. Something like this: "Trying to progress,"

If I'm being gauche, I'll grovel.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

What a beautiful song, John. Love the refrains, and I am particularly taken with "Daffodils lean in this wind of change."

D

Comment is about J'adore (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Hello, Devon and Jon )

While I'm here, I would just like to say that this is not an appeal to violence, though it might seem so--it's so unnecessary when there are so many less direct means of accomplishing the same things.

Good day to all wherever you are and Happy Birthday to my home in the States.

Rachel

Comment is about saving face (blog)

Original item by nunya

Don't give a hoot about the earth
We think its gone too far
We're stocking up our larder to
Prepare a trip to Mars

In Elon Musk's you beaut spaceship
We'll blast off for the new
Age of human development
With tinned food for the few

Lucky ones, selected
No plastic bags for us
We've left them all on planet earth
For them to make a fuss

(My mind wanders at times Eve....)

Comment is about It's War (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Thanks for all of your responses, comment and otherwise.

I heard an interesting idea yesterday...

mostly our thoughts come to us readily made in words, but there are some thoughts that have form without language and we must come up with a way to say them while protecting the integrity of the creative force behind them.

--just an idea.

Rachel

Comment is about cataclysm and containment--Stage 1 (blog)

Original item by nunya

"Slough" is a beautiful poem. I would love to hear more examples like that.

Ray, i wish more of my teachers had made a point of examining this. I had professors who read poems in old and middle English (accurately, as far as I know) but left more modern and contemporary poems to be read without much analysis related to place of origin.

Comment is about Poetry is Regional (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

It's the good fight, Eve. But I think the battle is much larger than simply removing the plastics. What needs to break is the demand for convenience in the developed world. What needs to break is the demand for cheap.

D

Comment is about It's War (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Mindy Newton, you are right, but I cheery-picked lovely stuff of NYC

Comment is about Nasir Soomro (poet profile)

Original item by Nasir Soomro

The love of money sure seems to be the root of many evils Don. A heartfelt poem which really resonated with me. I'm intrigued by the research that has identified earning £50k as the cut off point - apparently people don't get any happier if earning above this.

Comment is about Blood on the Firm's Hands (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

That was lovely. (And NYC can show a lot of the unlovely!)

Comment is about Nasir Soomro (poet profile)

Original item by Nasir Soomro

Thank you so much dear KJ! You honor me?
Mae

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Ring Around the Poison Ivy' by Mae Foreman (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

We are always up in arms when this happens and we want the Government to step in to either stop it happening or prop up the company. But do we complain when one of our own companies wins a contract from abroad which subsequently causes a similar situation to the other country's workers?

Comment is about Blood on the Firm's Hands (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I think I got a bit lazy at the end and had to wrap things up a bit more neatly )

Comment is about saving face (blog)

Original item by nunya

Beautifully nostalgic. I must admit, I don't have memories of listening to the radio in my bedroom, reading comics by torchlight was more my thing.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you all for commenting and liking, it is much appreciated. I do sometimes write cheerful stuff.?

J. x

Comment is about Life And Its Alternatives (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Wonderful. It's the kind that you read again and again. Congratulations on POTW.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Ring Around the Poison Ivy' by Mae Foreman (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hi Devon, thanks for commenting. I am happy you like this.

It does not refer to any specific moment. I hope that, just as it is for you, it can be any moment in time. A time to reflect on how things were, are and how they can and do change in the blink of an eye. Also, how many feelings and thoughts are hidden to be exposed in a single moment.

Jon

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

I like this..

Comment is about Just let it fly (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

My favourite is Dogger closely followed by German Bight.

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Moment beautifully captured in a way I've never thought of it before. I've never seen the shipping forecast through the eyes of a child, but now I have it's going to be hard to see it any other way.

J.

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ray, obviously this reminds me of "Seamus Heaney", but you take it to another level. You have captured a moment of childlike wonder, and I am taken back to the old eight band radio I had as a child. I think anyone who reads this will be taken back to those nights, in a dim light, hoping the parents won't hear, where we listened to the world we didn't know, but could only imagine.

D

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I was hooked Cynthia, and saw the tongs line as it came up of course, which was a nice addendum to add. The poem reminds me of the vulnerability of etiquette as it used to be . I think today (here I go) we have such a mix of upbringings to cater for that almost anything goes, especially fed by the celebrity culture if you can call it that.

Nice tale. Ray

Comment is about WEDDING RECEPTION (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A can of worms nicely contained Randy. The sort of knowledge that a teacher might use perhaps !

Ray

Comment is about Poetry is Regional (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Hi Ray, what a lovely story, You are the master of understatement betraying (beautifully) a deep afffection for so much that you touch.
Peter

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A very fine poem David ; I love the subject, and the mindset that goes with that enterprise, which at the time you mention was almost the equivalent of space flight today, demanding and dangerous with little help apart from ice axes, leather boots and heavy coats. You get to the heart of the matter here, the spiritual force being a sort of recklessness with do or die approach.

Great stuff! Ray

Comment is about ALPINE CLIMBERS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Peter, I cannot put into words the impact this poem has made on a grizzled geezbag like me. You kidney-punched me with the "hearse transporting father" imagery, in a good way. I always enjoy your work. It shows you take the time to ponder the past and how it informs the present. Your humble servant -

D

Comment is about THREE WARM EVENINGS IN A ROW (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Rachel, I keep coming back to this poem to dissect the meaning of it, particularly how the title compares with the text. First, I'd like to applaud you on its opacity, because for me, this poem is an exercise in contrary motion. It breathes out, in, gags (mask). It goes up down, sideways, it bends. Even the title supports the notion. Thanks for this one.

D

Comment is about cataclysm and containment--Stage 1 (blog)

Original item by nunya

Love the words, Rachel. Subjective but sufficiently powerful to make you keep on reading and reaching. Great, thanks.
Peter

Comment is about cataclysm and containment--Stage 1 (blog)

Original item by nunya

And for all this intense rhythm and image - the gain to loss ratio is precisely nothing. Wow, Rachel. This poem is kicking.

D

Comment is about saving face (blog)

Original item by nunya

Laughed out loud and got dirty looks and didn't care. Delicious.

Comment is about Muffets And Spiders (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

What a relief to read something hard-headed and life-affirming.

Comment is about Life And Its Alternatives (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

You can find more examples of my poetry here on Write Out Loud or simply by searching on line for DAVID SUBACCHI.

Comment is about ALPINE CLIMBERS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Jon, I've been holding off commenting until others have done so, because I just had to know what event, if any, is being referred to as "that black night." So many moments in history are running around in my head - and aha - it is each and all of them. Fantastic work!

D

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thank you, Leon. I do not disagree.

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

It's true you might be British if you say that slough rhymes with cow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-935cbXTt_g

sorry, friends--it's probably a too well worn point by now ;

Comment is about Poetry is Regional (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

being thrown a curved ball poem like this one Jon to me is what poetry is mostly about, as in keeping up the stirring of the old grey matter. I doubt you will disagree.

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thank you, Brian, Dorothy, Lisa and Devon

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thank you, Rose. It just came out of my head like this. ?❤

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

great poem with a great punchline.








Rose ?

Comment is about Life And Its Alternatives (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

a very unusual poem Jon but none the less enjoyed.









Rose ?

Comment is about Hardy folk (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thanks for the comments, gents!
Eiren x

Comment is about time zones (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

' there shall be no names'.....you spoilsport Lisa! ?

me likey!






Rose ?

Comment is about Oasis (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thank you Don, I really appreciate the input. x

Comment is about disconnected (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Thank you so much Cynthia! Will do! You too! ?
Mae

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Ring Around the Poison Ivy' by Mae Foreman (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thanks for the comments. I really enjoyed the Not the Nine O'clock News clip.

I read lots of British poems in my university days back in the early 80s (in Texas), but I've only realised that I missed much of the rhyme and rhythm since moving to the UK in 2016. It's a little embarrassing, but we keep learning, eh?

Comment is about Poetry is Regional (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton