| THE ACT
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2025-12-01
Begin the day in positive anticipation—it says a lot about you as a human-being, positivity doesn't come to everyone.
A great analogy, Allen.
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| A Misanthrope on Trial
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2025-12-01
Would not the unkindest punishment be to be forever amid the throng?
I have an uneasy feeling after reading this. It went visceral.
jim
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| The End of November
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2025-11-29
What is it about this month that stirs so many strong and wary emotions?
I love this poem, and appreciate it, and take comfort in it.
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| November
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2025-11-28
What a clear vision of November!, to me the month that most invites reflection.
jim
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| Sparrow Hawk
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2025-11-28
You've hit the crux of it, eloquently and vividly. I can picture the scene, the movement, the connection, the resolution. A pleasure to read and imagine.
jim
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| The Easy Decision
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2025-11-28
What a frightening scenario you've written. These angry, judgmental men are emboldened by leadership from the top? Men with power, who know how to abuse power? That is what I read in your words. A lack of human kindness and tolerance and respect and scruples and faith . . .
jim
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| NOVEMBER'S GARDEN
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2025-11-28
This mirrors my own experience and reflections, differing only in detail—a lingering marigold rather than a rock rose.
November invites reflection.
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| OK Boomer
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2025-11-20
Touché
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| Loneliness in Modern Life
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2025-11-18
Old and technically challenged I find this other-worldly, and not in a good way. As an aging-boomer I'm grateful for a long history of letters written on paper, meals cooked in our own kitchen, and shenanigans between two loving and consenting people.
At the same time, the contemporary human beings I see in my life, I mean younger people, are largely engaged in work and their world, a lot of it via devices, but still a lot of real time life going on.
Who are these zombies you describe? It's a rhetorical question, but I don't see them, though I don't doubt you at all.
jim
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| Curtains of Time
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2025-09-07
"a dirge for what she thought was true,
would endure,
would see her to the final act."
We of a certain age are watching the destruction of basically everything we worked so hard to achieve, primarily decency, respect, equality.
Your poem conveys so well the feeling of sadness, but also the peace that can still come from within.
jim
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| Excitement
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2025-05-18
That is a very cool bike/scooter!
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| NOT HOLDING HANDS
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2025-04-05
I concur, "poignant" is the right word. The mother-son relationship being unresolved is hard. The reaching hand implies resolution may be near.
A wonderful, touching poem.
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| My Zen Life
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2025-03-31
I rode my bike to school every day until high school. I miss it, the ease and familiarity of it, riding no-handed, free & easy.
Casual comments that hurt should be ignored, but "should" never works.
jim
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| March
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2025-03-17
I agree with shells (I always have). This is magical, so light, so . . . there.
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| Reflection
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2024-10-12
There is something magical about the way you meld past and future—the ripples touching both.
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| IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
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2024-08-13
I appreciate, and understand it, so much, down to my core. Thank you sharing with us these intimate feelings.
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| Real is Bare
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2024-07-19
so many great and true phrases and thoughts here, wisdom
dig the real
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| Where is the Time?
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2024-07-16
to love and be loved
to touch and be touched
it's the best humans can offer one another ~~~
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| GAPS PERVADING
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2024-07-11
Age brings the inevitability of reviving old memories rather than create new ones. Your poem rings true.
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| Webhosting provider
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2024-07-07
Thank you for your persistence! All you do is very, very much appreciated, exasperating as it is.
Thank you!
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| July morning by Ann Wood
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2024-07-01
It is an unusually cool morning here as July begins the second half of the year.
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| Happy Father`s Day by Ann Wood
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2024-06-16
I call this, "happy to be a father day."
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| Cul de sac
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2024-06-08
Fatalistically optimistic, or optimistically fatalistic?!
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| What's happening to English?
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2024-06-08
Hi Marie, "Nebbish" is as old as the hills, maybe older. It's from the Yiddish. I grew up with that word, meaning someone or something a little sad, "doing poorly."
As for the other, no idea!
Best,
Jim
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| YOUR CHOICE
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2024-03-15
I don't think it is an either/or question, nor do I think it's a choice. We are connected, the mere fact of this poem by electrons instead of pen and paper is a link.
Seeking unconditional love, drifting through consciousness—absolutely!
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| THE POWER OF WORDS (Enportant Addians)
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2024-03-15
Don't kid yourself. The power of words is solely dependent on who is saying the words.
Martin Luther King's, "I have a dream" has turned to dust. Meanwhile, "Seig Heil!" is roaring loud and clear, alive and well, throughout the world.
The poet is, at best, a voice in the wind.
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| Embarassment
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2024-03-15
I was completely drawn into this, dynamite writing, and so much wisdom and pathos.
"i see so much, so much, so much"
That line is reverberating in my thoughts.
Just wonderful,
jim
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| Let go
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2024-03-03
Today must be a day of liberation and revelation, of discovery and letting go, for both you and R.W.S.
Maybe it's the spring, or almost spring, weather. Or, being where you were when you wrote this.
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| T h r i v e
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2024-03-03
This makes me smile, though I am still waiting for my moment of self-love, or even appreciation. I say, good for you!
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| In the Deep
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2024-03-03
"Awareness" is a very mixed blessing.
When my poet friend wants a shorthand version of a compliment, she says, "ace." This is ace, R.W.S.
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| Doremon
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2024-02-23
A life of senses, sensations, awareness. A sensuous life.
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| High Expectations
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2024-02-22
"High Expectations" seems less severe than "Demands," your earlier title I believe.
Either way, this is such a clear list of wants, ending with what is most important—and done with crystal clear writing. No ambiguity!
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| Conversations no 3
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2024-01-21
This is delightful, and I can feel "crundle" working its way into my vocabulary, just waiting for an opportunity to pounce.
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| Something Lost
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2024-01-20
The fourth line brought vivid images to mind, an entire scenario unfolded.
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| I WANTED YOU!
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2024-01-16
Young love sucks? Would have rather gone without?
A wonderful tribute to pain.
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| Emotions
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2024-01-14
This triggers memories, relationships, threads, there's no end to it.
Some good memories came to mind, forgotten. The bad ones are easy to remember. The good ones get lost, sometimes.
Thank you.
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| the joker takes the crown, a heartache in three.
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2024-01-14
"i am purely desire"
"i the fool,
and i wear it well"
What a great lines, and your metaphor of joker and queen makes this a unique poem of love.
It's tough being human, all these feelings . . .
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| PICNIC WITH THE CHEESELETS
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2024-01-12
A tour de force,
and to all a "goodnight!"
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| GRATEFUL AND MYSTIFIED
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2024-01-10
I reach back, can see, no feel, my mother sitting on the edge of the bed, saying a prayer with me, but what prayer?
Thank you for this. I long for lost memories.
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| branches of a tree
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2024-01-10
An interesting experiment ~~~
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| Looking forward thinking back
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2024-01-10
Such a lovely tribute to life, beautiful.
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| HOW TO FLY A KITE
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2024-01-09
So sweet and so innocent and so charming, I am taken back by this, taken back to memories somewhat forgotten with time, now awakened.
This poem is a time-machine. Can there be such innocence today, I wonder.
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| Our Beloved Abbey
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2024-01-09
I'm so sorry. I will always remember the image of Abbey perched atop your head.
Sweet sorrow, my thoughts are with you,
jim
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| The nectar of truth
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2024-01-08
Thank you for sharing peaceful thoughts, Nils.
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| The unintentional killing of a poem
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2023-12-26
Maybe part of writing is losing something precious and irretrievable.
"The art of losing isn't hard to master."
(Elizabeth Bishop)
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| Merry Christmas everyone
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2023-12-21
Merry Christmas, Alan, and I hope, we all hope, for a healthy new year for you and Carol ~~~
jim
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| Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024 by Ann Wood
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2023-12-21
Merry Christmas, Ann, and best wishes for the new year. Peace? One can hope.
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| ANOTHER GLORIOUS NIGHT
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2023-12-13
It is a glorious night, and if the sky is clear tomorrow night you may see the Geminids meteor shower outside your window.
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| The Streets
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2023-12-11
Thank you "Volunteer," this is ace. Much appreciated.
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| Bad awakening
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2023-12-11
Bravo for your ultimately sunny outlook.
I felt every twinge, gip, and *sing* as I sit here in the pre-dawn trying to get my body to behave, and the ringing to be a little more harmonious.
Good morning, another day, another opportunity (for what?),
jim
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