| Two dogs, a camera, and a sunburned man
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2021-08-02
This poem is, itself, a nice little portrait.
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| Koan Resolved
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2021-08-02
Grim but funny!
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| Chattering
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2021-08-01
I'm not sure that I would be able to tell when a budgie was being lugubrious, but chatter of any sort can be off-putting.
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| It could be anywhere
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2021-07-30
True. It doesn't have to be expensive or wrapped. It just has to be a sign that you mean something to somebody (which, though you may forget, you always do).
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| We are all equal...but
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2021-07-30
Oh, well. At least you're ahead of the wood block.
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| Planet F.
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2021-07-30
Sounds wonderful...the place and the poem.
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| Saturday Night Rhapsody
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2021-07-30
The details have changed, but the melody hasn't.
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| scale
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2021-07-27
Life at high altitudes as natives live it, small within, huge without. Well done.
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| Freedom Should You Dare
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2021-07-25
I suspect that you're right.
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| Beware the Lord Skye
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2021-07-24
Fine writing.
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| A Day With Starlight Solo
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2021-07-23
I have nothing to add to what the others have said. This is very nice.
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| Treasured Island
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2021-07-23
Delightful!
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| "Mysterious Ways" Isn't a Satisfactory Answer
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2021-07-23
"Imaginative psychopath." An excellent description of that guy in the Old Testament.
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| avoirdupois
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2021-07-21
Good one.
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| Par for the Course
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2021-07-21
Yeah, maybe. I once was prescribed a medicine which listed blindness as a rare side effect. I hoped for the best and took it anyway. I may still be taking it. So far, so good.
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| The koala machine
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2021-07-21
A very nice poem and, as the video shows, one that accurately describes its subjects. After four children, we have accumulated quite a few of those entombed toys.
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| Love; What If
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2021-07-20
I believe that you're right. The you you think that you are is not the one your lover loves.
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| A Day Without The Net
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2021-07-20
Agreed! To a large degree, aging is the process of learning too much, anticipating too much, and, as a result, becoming depressingly risk averse. Your prescription helps to counter this.
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| Somewhere
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2021-07-20
This is wonderful.
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| Thoughts On Herds
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2021-07-18
Without doing any research, I'm guessing that a coward is one who is cowed, but that thought only further complicates things. Do cows cow?
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| Thoughts On Flights
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2021-07-18
Fine observations, Joe. It seems that, no matter what we do, we're screwed.
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| Pirouette
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2021-07-16
Well said. Grandkids are like that, aren't they?
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| Sonnet: O Liberty!
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2021-07-14
True!
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| Tropic of Cancer
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2021-07-14
Killer imagery, Joe.
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| King of the Lake
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2021-07-13
I am out of superlatives, but still captivated. This may be one of your best.
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| Allurement
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2021-07-12
Well, now, that one's a little peculiar.
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| On the shores of Upper Lake
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2021-07-11
Excellent.
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| our intention and so gentle . . . this rain
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2021-07-11
I'm a little dense. I didn't get the connection between these two poems at first. Both describe how something gentle can lead to the bursting forth of something else. Nicely done.
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| Morpheus’ Potion
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2021-07-11
Well done, Joe. Lovely thought, too.
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| Lessons
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2021-07-11
There is a very attractive calm confidence in this poem.
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| How the Sausage is Made
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2021-07-09
Ouch! Well done!
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| The Awakening
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2021-07-09
I guess that surviving isn't always a great victory.
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| this is me
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2021-07-09
One hopes. This a fine description of what we all do.
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| Flies and Conservatives
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2021-07-09
The poem was meant to be a sardonic reflection on the relative worths of flies and conservatives. It was not intended to be a policy analysis (which probably would have been neither funny nor interesting). I felt that I adequately summarized the whole of conservative thought by labeling it "dead."
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| These Parties
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2021-07-08
Well said!
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| Ramblings 566
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2021-07-08
It sounds like you had a painful, exhausting day. What made it good was the hope that you were given. Perhaps things will begin to get better.
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| Two moon poems
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2021-07-07
Both poems are very amusing.
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| In Which a Conversation Commences
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2021-07-06
It'll be interesting to see where this goes.
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| Century Porch
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2021-07-05
Fine work, Joe. We don't have a tiled porch, but we do have a marble entryway. My son's dog loves to soak up its coolness after she's been outside.
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| To .... ....
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2021-07-05
Are we to assume that things didn't work out for these two?
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| My Daily Walk
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2021-07-05
Well said, Joe. This time of year, he who hesitates will be cooked.
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| dawn
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2021-07-05
Such quiet, delicate writing, perfectly suited to its subject.
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| FT of The HyperTexts :>)
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2021-07-03
Congratulations!
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| Rainbows
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2021-07-02
This has all that I look for in an Elle poem, fine descriptions of the present, recollections, and longing for a more satisfactory future. It's very enjoyable.
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| [01 Jul] - Community poll | Posting limit?
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2021-07-02
I'm not in favor of any limits. Though I sometimes find it annoying when writers bombard us with poems presented separately, or single submissions consisting of innumerable works, I remember how I felt, years ago, when I was invited to join a site for a select few poets, and then was told that I was writing too much. I left the site. If you think that someone is writing excessively, you can skip some of their submissions.
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| high coot
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2021-06-30
This is nice. I had no idea.
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| Tecumseh Road
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2021-06-30
Great writing, Joe.
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| Ramblings 565
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2021-06-30
Hmm. Sounds familiar.
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| Duckci (a bar joke )
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2021-06-30
Pathetic.
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| Attention (with translation)
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2021-06-29
Welcome Google, our latest English-as-second-language bard.
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from USA