| moments gone cold
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2021-05-26
The second stanza is topnotch, and I like the "dandelions and birthday candles" of the third. It's always a joy to see one of your poems.
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| Lilacs
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2021-05-26
A vivid, well-wrought lyric poem, making what the poet sees live in the mind of the reader. Many thanks!
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| outside of sonoma
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2021-05-25
To use a peculiar Marianne Moore-ish verb, the poem implicates the reader: draws us in, gets us involved, and makes us think. Well done.
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| Retrospective
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2021-05-23
I love the line "Arctic snows to Manhattan raves": a wonderfully unexpected contrast!
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| At Peace
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2021-05-23
Here's to bone-shaking bicycles, unkempt gardens, and woolly socks! An excellence.
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| Battle Hymn of the Creative Writing Major
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2021-05-23
I have an especial fondness for villanelles, and have written 25-line versions of the form myself! I cherish the barbed humour, the agile dexterity, oh, many things here!
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| house of cards
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2021-05-19
I like the second stanza a lot. There's a wonderful freshness to "buttons and pins of hope and faith."
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| Instant Attraction
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2021-05-19
Now that's a rhyme scheme! (Took me a while to notice it, but very well done.)
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| 47 Sedan Road Trip Memories
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2021-05-17
So much here to like. The old sedan that drums at thrumming gales. The "English Leather" being Wakefield tobacco! A sunny summery dad-poem. Merveilleux!
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| In the slowness of the early hours
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2021-05-15
There's a freshness and economy to the language here, which stands the poem (and poet!) in good stead. Bravo!
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| Morning meditations
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2021-05-14
I cherish the impatiens, the clematis, and the pungent mulch! Am glad that the morning provided you with palpable joy.
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| My Soul’s Bequest
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2021-05-13
I echo previous praises, and seek to amplify them. This poem is so beautifully observed, so verbally alert, and so esthetically pleasing, that it qualifies as one of your best, or at least as one of my favourites!
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| Climate Change
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2021-05-10
I like this modified pantoum immensely, and the rhyme (which is subtle in spots, but present) does add to the poem. A joy to read lines like "Staid old Winter is a harlequin" and "daffodils in February's transition."
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| Between Walls
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2021-05-10
There's something really holy (and I do intend the word) about ol' Doc Williams' dedication to exactitude.
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| Cosmic Knight Errant
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2021-05-09
I like the form you've chosen, or rather, the form that has chosen you!
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| Alphabet Soup
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2021-05-05
I cherish the subtle humour of this poem!
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| unconditional love is empowering
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2021-05-03
I cherish especially the first line of the last stanza. It is a nice encapsulation of the theme, in one vivid image.
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| May Day!
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2021-05-03
I'm all about "the bearded rainfall."
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| Big shade from Jupiter ( A fun response to Pocket Planet )
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2021-05-03
Oh, wow, Mr B, this is turning out to be quite the poetic flyting! I'm so grateful you proposed this challenge.
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| The Outcast Planet
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2021-05-02
There's a winsome parallelism and resolution to these two stanzas that I admire greatly. A fine poem!
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| Happy Easter to all my Orthodox family and friends by Ann Wood
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2021-05-02
blessed Pascha!
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| lost among friends
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2021-05-02
Vivid details, beautifully presented, with a winsome affection for the region you describe. Excellent work.
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| Hélas!
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2021-05-02
All the feels, all the loves, all the plaudits and kudos. I really love the poetry of Oscar Wilde, and prefer it to his plays. The poetry, Dorian Gray, De Profundis, and the dialogues: that's where it's at for me!
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| voices
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2021-04-29
I think I recognize myself, or parts of myself, in the speaker of this poem. They fascinate, these lines.
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| is your spirit still heavy
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2021-04-29
Your poems of late have been very effective, very powerful. This one is no exception!
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| Michael sits on wooden steps
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2021-04-29
I like this a lot, Hans. An affecting theme, and a beautifully structured poem.
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| HUMANKIND (Additans & Work Completed)
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2021-04-28
A genesis, more down-to-earth than goddily:
When man and woman come together bodily.
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| The tyrants bore
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2021-04-28
The language is kinetic, lively. Must check out the video!
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| A stroll along e-beach
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2021-04-28
I feel this.
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| Love, Silk and Oxygen
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2021-04-28
This is wonderfully fresh! A small-scale gem, a felicity, which this reader is grateful to have encountered.
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| I'VE JOIND THE TWENTY FIRST CENTCHARY (Work Completed)
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2021-04-28
You had me at the first line! Phonacide! Yes, it's happened to me as well.
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| I Would Kiss You
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2021-04-26
Delicate, deft, and deeply affecting.
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| Brushing up Against the Sun
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2021-04-25
Am loving the personification in lines 5 and 6. Well done!
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| those kids wear confederate flags
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2021-04-24
This is a very good poem.
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| Spring snow
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2021-04-23
Nicely done!
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| your appalachian tongue
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2021-04-23
I echo and magnify the praises already offered by other readers. There's nothing in this poem that I wish were different. It's a gem, and more than a gem; it's real, and earthy, and vivid, and deft, and just plain good.
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| A Rhapsody in Blue
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2021-04-19
... and a beautiful meditation on beauty and age, expressed with a deft and delicate lyricism that sustains our gladly-given attention. Thank you.
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| Prayer
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2021-04-16
"act in your name in support of those who have nothing" --- yes, my kind of prayer!
Dame Edith Sitwell once wrote of Dylan Thomas, "His pity for the outcast, his love for those who have received no mercy from life, are great." Your words here summon to mind Dame Edith's graceful and gracious description of my favourite poet.
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| Wander with me
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2021-04-16
Ah, yes, this poem is instantly appealing, causing this reader's promiscuously wandering attention to tarry happily, to abide a while within the world of these graced lines.
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| Magnolia
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2021-04-15
Oh, the disciple-of-Dante in me (always looking toward the light of a Beatrice) cherishes the last line immeasurably!
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| recipe
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2021-04-15
If only poetbay had a "love" emoji!
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| Denouement
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2021-04-14
I'm a great one for lists, so I adore line four, and I love the closing stanza as well. Wowzers! Lotsa good stuff at the ol' bay these days!
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| My Spring Garden
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2021-04-12
Winsomely exposited, with lyric grace and a clear eye.
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| Nature’s Grace
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2021-04-10
Joseph, kind sir! Skill and a certain grace are evident here. Grateful for this poem. The postage stamps, the shark's teeth.
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| Adam's Ale
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2021-04-10
Glad to have read this poem!
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| Haircut
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2021-04-10
Beautiful, direct, compassionate portraiture.
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| Soft words from a broken sky
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2021-04-08
Such beautifully modulated proficiency. And yes, the corsages.
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| Through a Window on a Sunday Morning
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2021-04-08
Nicely exposited. The tartan lawn!
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| we are not rooted
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2021-04-06
I like the form that has found you here, or that you have found for the poem. I shall have to read this through again, more slowly, more receptively.
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| Eyes
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2021-04-05
I'm loving the poetically fertile permutations, the imaginative changes, of this poem. Quite lovely.
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