| Consuming Poetry
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2021-01-26
Excellent, Larry, and I wholeheartedly agree. Some poets are life-giving water; others a quick pick-me up (coffee); still more are an intoxicating and somehow fortifying beer, lager, ale, or stout.
But then there is Courvoisier. And I think you've aptly isolated the Elizabethans as poets one doesn't wish to gobble, guzzle, or gulp.
Bookmarkable!
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| Stephen
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2021-01-25
Joe, very moving. Poetically effective, the repetition of "alone" and then the variation at the end. So sorry that you are bereft of a man you considered a brother. But am grateful that you wrote about him, and shared your writing.
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| Keep Wondering...
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2021-01-24
Virtual hug. And a kind thought ~~~
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| our family, of sorts
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2021-01-24
I admire the sinewy spareness of the poem, from which the reader feels that nothing is wanting and in which there is nothing excessive.
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| Calm Of Dawn
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2021-01-24
I need to read and reread. Many gorgeous lines.
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| Aftermath “WARNING DISTURBING”
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2021-01-21
Joe, this is something else. The verity of it is harrowing. Excellent work.
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| The gift
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2021-01-21
Oh, Joe, really lovely. A joy to read at 2 in the morning. Let it snow! And thank you for these thoughtful and graced words.
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| Platter
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2021-01-18
Such a joy! You had me at "ostracized oysters"!
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| Cranberry Cake
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2021-01-17
An enjoyable walk through your culinary adventure!
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| Kind
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2021-01-17
I admire the agility of the rhymes, patterned in such a way as not to impede the fluency and grace of the poem.
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| Crocus
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2021-01-15
That's the stuff! Every word, fresh, contributory, enlivening. Bravissimo Z!
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| DAYS ARE COLD & WET & THEN THERES LOCK DOWN
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2021-01-15
I was watching the Dean of Canterbury on YouTube yesterday. He was indoors! He NEVER takes refuge from the rain. But he described the rain as "unrelenting."
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| Passing Time
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2021-01-15
Reminiscent of some Asian poems of antiquity, in its brevity, in its simplicity, in its quiet understated emotion.
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| Supernumerary
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2021-01-15
Eliotic in spots. I love the "sad sack/dollar deal" part.
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| Keepsake
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2021-01-15
This poem was a joy, Purple Puddles! It does what all good poetry should do: it finds meaning in the "things of this world," so many concrete images in this poem (chicken, t-shirt, ticket stub from the movie, sticky notes, broken jewellery). And I am charmed by the first two lines, the private language being shared.
Bravissima!
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| Lost Utopia
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2021-01-15
I cherish the directness of the last few lines, especially.
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| I PRAY
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2021-01-15
I like the spareness and simplicity of some of the stanzas. A noble effort!
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| Nobody knows it better
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2021-01-15
Yes, ol' 45 is a record-setter, isn't he? Sigh.
I enjoyed this limerick immensely.
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| Chloe's Father
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2021-01-15
This is likely a common scenario in our very verkakte republic. You paint the scene well.
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| Hard Reset
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2021-01-15
The last line of the first sestet is poetry: exactitude and verbal felicity. The poem as a whole merits highest praise! But I really like that line.
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| MORE REASON FOR ' TRUPOTON ' TO BOAST
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2021-01-15
A record-breaker! Or perhaps just a "wreck"! But the best wreck ever! Haha!
It's getting a little scary on this side of the pond, though.
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| sun and cloud
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2021-01-15
I'm thinking of Wallace Stevens: he was another poet who "thought out loud," sometimes. I like these sonnet-like stanzas. They merit re-reading!
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| My Bad
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2021-01-14
Forgive us our bads, as the paternoster doth not say!
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| Overcoming
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2021-01-12
I celebrate this poem's jauntiness!
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| Portrait
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2021-01-12
It is quite dismaying. Thank you for the poem. And please send a few thoughts heavenward that these toxic hooligans, vandals, thugs, and indeed murderers, will not perpetrate further damage, will not commit further crimes. I have scant grounds for hope, however.
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| A Winter Date At Bondi’s
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2021-01-10
Beautifully depicted. Bravo Z!
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| Silver birch
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2021-01-08
A winsome, handsome, gladsome lyric! Bravissimo!
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| The Attic
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2021-01-08
The second stanza's first four lines appeal to me mightily.
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| Winter Garden
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2021-01-07
The language of this poem is a joy unalloyed!
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| evening call
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2021-01-03
I, for one, am enchanted. About to bookmark, methinks!
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| Memories of happiness
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2021-01-03
I am drawn to the litany of the things you've missed. Fine work, Sona, and brava!
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| No Longer Chasing the Day Together
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2021-01-03
Tremendously sorry for your loss, especially so as I read this poignant poem.
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| Changing the bedding with Pat
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2021-01-03
The heart of this reader smiles, warmly, empathetically, sincerely, at this beautiful picture. Thank you for sharing it!
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| Zen
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2021-01-03
Beautifully measured and "gently rhythmic"!
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| zoey's caravan
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2021-01-03
I like especially "glorious and noble" for the lunar phases, and that aforesaid moon being coy. Bravo on an accomplished sonnet.
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| Lament of the leaning trees
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2021-01-03
I bow (from the widening waist, slowly and with reverence!) to the poetic prowess of this winsome and skilled lyric in anap(a)ests. I cherish especially "cool clammy clench" and "hoard of hard wood," but the poem has many, if one may be pardoned, felicities.
Bravissima!
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| Happy 1st Birthday Oscar
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2021-01-03
A joy to read, Elle. Congratulations and blessings!
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| Alone
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2020-12-31
That darned sunlight, always pointing out the dust! I enjoyed this poem, too, Joe. It reminds me of some French poetry of the mid-20th century ... can't place the poet's name at the moment.
I also like the rhythmical balance and the audible specificity of "A distant car a robin's trill."
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| The Palace(Twisted Mind)
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2020-12-31
Firm in its rhythm, stark in its diction, this poem is powerful.
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| The Flaw of Love
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2020-12-29
"beneath their Max Factor" --- that's a devastatingly good line!
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| In Vino Veritas
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2020-12-29
When reading this fine poem, one almost inevitably thinks of the last four years of political life in the USA. Whether that was your intention or not --- excellent work!
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| PLAYING THE AIR DRUMS (Additanans)
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2020-12-28
Wonderful!
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| evening breeze
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2020-12-28
Marvellous with two British Commonwealth L's. I'm about to bookmark!
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| Scrabble
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2020-12-27
Poignant and skillfully articulated.
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| The Journey
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2020-12-27
A nice poem for the Epiphany (or Theophany, as it is sometimes called). I enjoyed it greatly!
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| Imperfect recall
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2020-12-27
I am grateful to have read this poem. Very fine work, indeed.
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| Cocooning
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2020-12-27
Charmingly articulated and nicely constructed!
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| A Christmas Evening Prayer of Thanks
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2020-12-25
You've captured the mood well. Bravo!
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| This Christmas Eve
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2020-12-24
Well said! Merry Christmas, Joe.
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| The now part of life
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2020-12-24
Sona, I really like this poem. It has what one might call a playful simplicity. Very nicely done!
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from USA