| A Bad Poem
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2025-11-24
Amusingly off kilter.
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| Sparrow Hawk
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2025-11-24
"Civilization" has led (at least, some of) us to regard existence very differently from the "kill and be killed" lives of other creatures.
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| Sufferers
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2025-11-24
And there seem to be so many of them everywhere you look.
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| Ramblings 687
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2025-11-24
With your situation seeming so bleak, I'm always relieved to learn that you're still around. For what it's worth, and I know it's not much, I am hoping that things will get better for you. Larry
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| BLING (AKA reviewing)
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2025-11-22
I'm well acquainted with such days. Nicely done.
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| No Rest for the Weary
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2025-11-20
Excellent description of the White House's new low-rent look, and the tasteless boob who called for it. Can't wait to see the ballroom.
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| Appeal
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2025-11-20
Nicely done.
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| Returning to the Polluted Pond
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2025-11-20
This poem is not about poetbay poets. It's about the academic poets who show up in the journals no one reads.
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| OK Boomer
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2025-11-19
We babyboomers are a spoiled, selfish bunch. We have enjoyed ourselves at your expense. Now you can't afford college, can't find a decent job, can't buy or rent a place to live, and your government's so deeply in debt that it can't offer any help to you. We're the ones who are burning the world, and we don't care. We'll die eventually, and you'll have to deal with the mess we've made.
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| Immigrants|Exiles
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2025-11-17
Well said.
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| Hypocrisy
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2025-11-17
Good one.
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| An Ordinary Day
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2025-11-15
I love the metaphor of a mind wandering "like a bee among flowers."
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| Last First
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2025-11-11
Well done!
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| Nonsense Poem
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2025-11-11
Good one!
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| The November Night
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2025-11-10
Cold and dark, a perfect fit to the season.
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| Bacchus
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2025-11-10
It might be about time to put down the glass, Ralph.
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| Rhythm
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2025-11-05
Very amusing. Been reading Joyce or Faulkner lately?
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| All Hallows Eve
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2025-10-31
A suitably creepy poem. Good to have you back, Dougie.
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| Ramblings 684
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2025-10-29
The existence you describe is so hellish that anything I could say would sound, and be, pointless.
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| Love’s Five Fingered Kiss
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2025-10-29
There's some first-class imagery here, the "five-fingered kiss," being clay that is molded into a utensil.
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| Help Needed to Keep PoetBay Running (Update)
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2025-10-27
And Isabelle, of course, for all you've done under difficult circumstances.
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| Help Needed to Keep PoetBay Running (Update)
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2025-10-27
Wonderful news. Thank you Sameen and Allen.
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| WHAT THE HELL!
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2025-10-25
The older you get, the faster the clock runs.
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| Sports
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2025-10-22
When played very ably, there is a gracefulness to sports. Is it a kind of poetry? Probably not, but it's similar to the gracefulness of language that one finds in ably written poetry.
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| in the waning light
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2025-10-22
Well done.
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| Household Mutiny
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2025-10-21
Nicely done!
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| What I Think About When I Think About Crowds
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2025-10-20
When I lived in a city far from Nebraska, I enjoyed being an anonymous part of a crowd. Being alone didn't bother me. Here in Nebraska, people are so ridiculously friendly that you can't be anonymous for long, even if you'd like to be.
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| Holding On
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2025-10-20
A little bit of good news.
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| Daedalus
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2025-10-19
Excellent.
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| Insidious
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2025-10-19
A much more horrifying tale than any Halloween story.
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| An Unexpected Moment
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2025-10-16
Touche!
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| Practice Poem
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2025-10-13
Promising material.
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| Perhaps a China Berry Tree
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2025-10-12
Well done.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS #4
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2025-10-06
Very bittersweet. "It was nice, but not enough offset what had happened."
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| How to Write Poems Using AI
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2025-10-05
Having AI compose a poem for you isn't writing.
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| MIXED DEMENTIA A PERSONAL NOTE
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2025-10-03
A very sad story.
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| Among the Remains
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2025-10-01
I too lush. III, IV, V too sparse. II just right.
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| A FEW MOLECULES OF MY LOVE
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2025-09-30
Nicely done, great examples. I have the feeling that you could have gone on forever.
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| letters to be sent
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2025-09-26
A splendid, disciplined poem, one that is a pleasure to read.
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| In Long Voids; Intermittences
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2025-09-25
I like the spaciousness of the first version.
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| DESTINY
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2025-09-24
Maybe so. It's too bad that no one comes back to tell us what to expect.
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| Ozymandias
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2025-09-22
Excellent.
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| What’s Past is Past
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2025-09-19
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS #3
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2025-09-19
I read up on Preludin, which I'd not heard of before and no longer is being sold. I think that you're right to believe that it changed her for the worse.
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| When The Chaos Stops
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2025-09-19
A fair summation, I say.
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| Virgil
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2025-09-17
Dante? I haven't had the pleasure.
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| Something Has To Give
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2025-09-17
Something is giving. Many of us are giving as decency, equity, diversity are being pushed aside. With the forces of intolerance and oppression on the offensive, all others must give.
By the way, don't place too much faith in the Constitution. It may as well be a blank sheet of paper, as what it says is determined by six grotesquely corrupt political hacks in black robes.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS
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2025-09-13
Nicely done. Do you plan to write about the other four?
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| Three for the Mouse
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2025-08-31
Applause from Nebraska, where the heat has broken. Three fine poems.
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| hesitation
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2025-08-27
Things change in unexpected ways when one is absent. Sometimes, those changes are jarring, hard to deal with. Let's hope that this isn't the case with the vineyard and those living there.
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from USA