I empathise, Taylor. I tell Our Gert I could have done better. Then I make my bed up in the shed.
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Nice villanelle, Becky. The only apprenticeship we serve for being a parent is role play. And we only get to play the kid.
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
It took a while before the penny dropped for me, MC.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Ha ha, Kev. You feel I should get off the fence a bit more?
I have to say, MC, I’m quite enjoying this. And I am acquiring a grudging respect for TM who has tried to manage the democratic decision while holding the shitty end of the stick. Cf The Invisible Man, Corbyn, Or her own party’s political careerists. (As a former manager, I’ve always realised its a lot easier throwing stones than doing something).
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
"Never volunteer for anything" that's what I was warned when I was in the army.
I enjoyed this one M.C.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Just to make it clear John, are you for or against Brexit?
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 03:33
Life's a somatic risk in the bliss of the chorus,
Like a poetic wisp in the midst of the forest.
____
Well done on a beautiful piece, Jon.??
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 03:21
Not wishing to undercut
The cleverness of Horace
All I can think off
Is self-hanging Boris
Who wasn't as smart
But wanted to be first
The trouble is his ego
It finally burst
But the problem I have
I have no real clue
If what I am saying
Is actually true?
It's just poor old Boris
Did happen to rhyme
With MC's young Horace
Which gave me fun time ?
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
As Oscar might have said - Thank you for your excellent judgement!
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you for the ISBN relating to this promotion/review.
I know only too well about incorrect or missing information having
submitted a published novel with all the appropriate information to
a magazine column for review purposes - only to realise upon
reading the resulting review that the ISBN shown was not the one I had supplied.
Cheers.
MC
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Perhaps excepting the effects of illness, it is likely that any "old"
person who is rude and unpleasant was probably of the same ill-nature before the years caught up. My own eighth decade is
only too ready to be polite and good-natured towards my fellows
and I'm only too happy to meet the same in return.
As EMW wrote - and it has a substantial portion of truth...
Laugh and the world laughs with you....?
Comment is about Normal People (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Pithy and uncomfortable enough to makes both sides think.
But any lot in Parliament that chooses to act ultra vires to tie us in
to something that has - like the "Alien" - mutated into something
no one warned us about deserves to wriggle and squirm on the hook of public disquiet - from whatever political position held..
The Tories should be the Janus Party
Two-faced, deceitful and smarty-farty.
If they'd repudiated the Community Act
Wielding a proper chopper to enact
The vote that said we want to leave
And spared us the wily web they weave
With all that "May we...please sir" sop
Toadying to Johnny C's Junkshop,
At least we be well on the way to pain
That was OURS to face - with much to gain!
.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sudacrem, Brian I lathered it on my two when they were little.
Thanks, Po.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your nice comment, Taylor Crowsaw?
Comment is about Script Without Words (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Thanks for your comment on 'Script Without Words'?
Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 22:38
Last three lines are a perfect way to end a perfect poem..?
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
D.K. one thing I have learned is that the old can be rude and unpleasant too. It is, as you rightly say all about people..normal people, helping hands of all persuasions...?
Comment is about Normal People (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you M.C. I enjoy your comments. I was always a cup half full type of girl..?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Congratulations, Beno
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 16:43
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 16:35
Well M.C. this tale was certainly 'noose' to me.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
There's a link to the publisher's site at the end of the review, as is our custom, MC, although I can't see an ISBN number there. I'm sure you could track it down yourself, but seeing as it's you, here it is ... ISBN 978-1-912111-74-9. Don't come back to me if it doesn't work for any reason!
You're very kind, Trev.
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
That's a bit more literal than I intended, but I really appreciate your kind words. ?
Comment is about Close to the Flames (blog)
Original item by Randy Horton
But some might even settle for "Big Ben"! It's merely a question of inclination and time in hand.
Comment is about 12.01 All Done, All Said (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi DK
Very tasty - positively Cordon Bleu!
Jennifer
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Isn't optimism merely the coming to terms with pessimism?
The theme of hope against disappointment in the daily rituals of
life is well caught.
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Do you have the ISBN for this book? Handy for an online order.
MC
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you for commenting Brian it is life and what is it they say..'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
Thank you everyone for the likes always very welcome and appreciated..?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
I imagine that all parents are "amateurs" as far as a first birth is
concerned, no matter how much advice - written and verbal - may
be available. It's clearly very much a "hands-on, learn-as-you-go"
process. These lines certainly convey that to the reader, adding
the effect of the transfer of parental priorities to a new born.
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Enjoyed this M.C. ?
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Lovely villanelling! Agree about the sleepless nights -and then one has to go to work as well.
Jennifer
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Trevor Breedon
Sat 1st Dec 2018 14:58
There should be a copy of this in every NHS waiting room.
Another great review, Greg.
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A parents lot..wonderful but fraught with pitfalls..x
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Oops - sorry about that - due to an electronic hitch...re-entered
and re-titled.
MN
Comment is about IN THIS WORLD (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi Steve. Thanks for your comment on " Albert Edward Burrows". I have read a lot about his case, and I wanted to share the story so that people know what an evil man he was.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thanks for your comment Po
Comment is about A Hundred Thousand Whys (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I like instead of merry you use red and green with such a good effect!
Nigel
Comment is about Red and Green Christmas (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Top stuff mate, took me back a bit, great rant great rhythm with some of my favourite music in there Beno! One of first poems I ever wrote was called Punks not Dead, its still at the very start of my profile, if you get chance to have a gander, enjoy all the best Jeffarama!
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Patrick, you put me in mind of Virginia Woolf's wise appraisal of Conrad, in whom she recognises that tension between a writer who finds there is everything to say, and the seafarer who knows there is nothing to be said. Hopkins troubles me, his occasional jump off the page genius, and his profound understanding of sound, I follow at... more than a pace or two. For the general crisis, here's a favourite, one of his quiet pieces, i'm sure you know it.
Heaven-Haven
(a nun takes the veil)
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
Comment is about Poetry and the Affirmation of Life (article)
Original item by Mike Took
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 09:51
It's life isn't it Taylor...learning to bounce back from disappointment.
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 09:49
A lot of responsibility on his shoulders! I'm sure you are great parents.
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 08:01
It's a conundrum Don...wife or WOL.answers on a postcard please.
Comment is about 12.01 All Done, All Said (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
This kept me hooked. What beauty, longing and hope is expressed in this wonderful poem. It is worthy of praise and acknowledgement..??
Comment is about Anatomy of Longing (blog)
Original item by Tom
Nice bit of humour Don..?
Comment is about 12.01 All Done, All Said (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18474)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 06:56
Thank you to everyone who posted comments.
Well done to Jennifer with her acute observational skills. I guess I don't have a particular style because it depends on which one of me is writing the poem that day. I was really drunk when I answered the Q and A's Jennifer. ?
Really like that you liked my poem Mr Braddock. Coz your work is very special and I am a great admirer of it.
Kate G your comment was very clever. I loved it.
Not sure what big Sal meant.
Thanks again Anya.
Mr Sherwood, I blushed after your comments.
Ray, I always enjoy your comments RE my work. It's great your enjoyed it. Made me proud of myself, which isn't normally my thing or objective but it felt nice.
And thank to everyone else. Lovely.
Beno.
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Rick Varden
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 10:24
Ah great, thanks Taylor for your comments and support, appreciated ?
Comment is about Friend or Foe? (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden