| A Day With Starlight Solo
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2021-07-23
Joe, one of your best. This is about to be bookmarked! I think this is among the poems in which you trust your own voice completely. If I might be forgiven a paradox, there's a confident modesty here. You are concerned with (and successful at!) making the reader see what you see, feel what you feel, sense what you sense. There isn't anything in this poem that dissatisfies.
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| "Mysterious Ways" Isn't a Satisfactory Answer
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2021-07-22
What Steven said. Good poem!
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| Blueberry
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2021-07-22
Quietly powerful, and I concur with those who've already spoken their praises.
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| Par for the Course
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2021-07-22
Sending good thoughts.
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| Musings on Weather
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2021-07-22
There's a jauntiness here that I like.
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| Windship Fancy
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2021-07-21
The fourth couplet, especially, has a rhythm that takes us in ... the language, too, is strong there: "the waves that froth beneath my lee."
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| A Day Without The Net
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2021-07-20
The cadence draws me in, and the words by their meaning and music keep me in!
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| Prayer
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2021-07-20
I like this, and I see themes that resonate. There are things (mentioned here) that I need urgently to work on! Glad you shared.
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| Dead End
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2021-07-20
Sending good thoughts.
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| Funny Thought
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2021-07-18
Hahaha! You'd have to use all five initials!
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| Ever Consider the Same for Me?
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2021-07-17
Ah, yes, the phenomenon of the opinionated soul who loses all trace of equanimity when confronted with the differing opinions of others. C'est triste.
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| Discordant
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2021-07-16
I think I like "startled quiet" best. Yes, the world can be so noisy sometimes that we think there's something wrong when it gets "too" quiet!
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| READ NOT TO JUDGE
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2021-07-16
I agree, Ken. It's much more enriching to me as a reader when I approach a poem with eyes alert to the virtues of the poem, rather than with eyes that pounce upon flaws perceived or actual.
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| Pirouette
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2021-07-16
Joe, there's joy in the language, and in the scene described. A pleasure to read!
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| Tropic of Cancer
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2021-07-14
The language here is very rich: appropriately so! I enjoyed reading this poem; so thankful you're posting!
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| hillfolk blues
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2021-07-12
Powerful and alive. As always.
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| Morpheus’ Potion
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2021-07-11
Ah, nice one! A virtuosic display of rhyming! And the rhythm does not falter.
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| These Parties
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2021-07-08
These parties sound like they are, in Hamlet's words, feasts "more honoured in the breach than the observance." Excellent poem.
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| Ramblings 566
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2021-07-08
I see the words "personable" and "kind"; when combined with ostensible competence, they tell me you've got a gem there!
So sorry for your unforeseen walk. You describe well how uncongenial that was.
Wishing you all the best on this new phase of your diagnostic journey, and these (one hopes) auspicious first few steps toward effective treatment.
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| Walking through that door together
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2021-07-07
Wonderful! And good to see you posting.
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| Century Porch
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2021-07-06
A vivid and winsome picture painted here: I like the bouquets that are "purposed" and "random"! And of course, I cherish the wee litany of the flora.
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| [01 Jul] - Community poll | Posting limit? (HOLD)
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2021-07-05
Isabelle, hello again!
Within a single post, authors are (and should be!) free to post however many poems they like. But they should know that it is the posts of "manageable" length that are more readily read in their entirety.
The excess that I worry about has more to do with number of posts per day. We want to avoid the Tobias situation (that fellow who posted, sans blague, eighty times a day).
But even when one posts less vigorously than Tobias, it can be problematic. If as few as three authors are posting, say, seven times daily (which hasn't happened; I'm just thinking hypothetically), such a situation could lead to the more reticent voices being crowded out, as it were.
Whatever is decided, a per-diem limit of much fewer than 120 posts would seem sagacious, prudent, and fair. Five per day is my suggestion.
Peace and light
Tom
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| dawn
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2021-07-04
Lines three and four of the second stanza: glorious!
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| My Daily Walk
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2021-07-04
This reader empathises keenly! Despite my full head of hair, my integument can very quickly turn lobster- or tomato-red (the Celtic strain predominates)!
And hope that Chablis was at least as satisfying as the shade of the banyan tree!
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| the color of the sky
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2021-07-04
Moving theme. Well-made poem.
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| [01 Jul] - Community poll | Posting limit? (HOLD)
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2021-07-02
As Poetbay is a shared space, I would support a daily posting limit of somewhere between three and five. (Leaning strongly toward three.) And as a writer or poet can include several small pieces on a single post, the curb should not seem draconian.
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| Cutting wood
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2021-07-01
I love the vigour, the gusto, the energy of this poem. And of course, its lived imagery.
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| Tecumseh Road
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2021-06-30
Good to see a josephus post! I enjoyed the read.
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| My (poor) Take on Verlaine's "Il pleure dans mon coeur"?
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2021-06-23
I think there's something powerful and helpful in your unrhymed verse rendering. You have done justice to the meaning, and the poetry sorta comes in through the back door!
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| About Louis
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2021-06-20
Very moving portrait and story. Well done.
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| last light
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2021-06-20
Really nice language here. Bookmarking!
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| That Drunken Moment
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2021-06-19
Such skills of exposition, cadence, and image. About to be bookmarked. Thank you for posting this poem.
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| Last Night As I Walked
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2021-06-14
Applause from this address. Vivid and fresh, the phrasings both unpredictable and exceedingly apt.
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| Papa
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2021-06-12
A beautiful poem-portrait.
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| sugar high and loneliness
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2021-06-12
I'm cherishing the cautious, clear, tentative, definite human voice of this poem.
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| so passed the night
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2021-06-10
I am liking this much: cool, clear, vivid, skilled, poised poetic language.
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| my father
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2021-06-09
A very moving portrait.
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| A Match
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2021-05-31
Swinburne doesn't get his due. Thanks so much for posting this poem.
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| PTSD on Memorial Day
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2021-05-30
You limn the scene skillfully. Bookmarked! A very moving poem.
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| mountain magic
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2021-05-30
Wow. (The best possible wow!) The economy, the fluency, and the power of this poem. Tip of the hat, bow of the head.
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| Ramblings 556
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2021-05-30
Sending a wave of compassion your way.
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| A Shanty
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2021-05-30
I enjoyed the shanty. Simple and deep.
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| Making Bread
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2021-05-30
Brother Simon, an elderly Trappist, baked this marvellous wheat bread one day for Terce (Latin for "mid-morning coffee-break") during my weeklong retreat at Spencer in 1992. I can "second the emotions" of how immeasurably better bread is when it's not mass-produced.
A joy to read your poem!
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