Comments received on poems by Neville
More Than Nearly Dearly Departed
Michael Edwards said:
A telling read - left to the reader to interpret - nice one Neville.
January 15th, 2023 15:24
Michael Edwards said:
A telling read - left to the reader to interpret - nice one Neville.
January 15th, 2023 15:24
More Than Nearly Dearly Departed
MendedFences27 said:
This leaves so much to the readers imagination. All of the \"Who, What, When, Where, and Why\" questions go unanswered. The reader is free to construct the scene however they choose. To me it reads like a crime scene with the narrator as a detective, but I\'m probably incorrect. It can be so many different things. One cannot help feeling sad for her? or whatever is encompassed in your \"she\" describer. Makes one wonder, what is the rest of the story? - Phil A.
January 15th, 2023 13:06
MendedFences27 said:
This leaves so much to the readers imagination. All of the \"Who, What, When, Where, and Why\" questions go unanswered. The reader is free to construct the scene however they choose. To me it reads like a crime scene with the narrator as a detective, but I\'m probably incorrect. It can be so many different things. One cannot help feeling sad for her? or whatever is encompassed in your \"she\" describer. Makes one wonder, what is the rest of the story? - Phil A.
January 15th, 2023 13:06
More Than Nearly Dearly Departed
Fay Slimm. said:
A shudder of a read knowing how familiar this scene is in many countries - - girls kidnapped for sex are in constant danger and you tell it well here my friend........x
January 15th, 2023 05:12
Fay Slimm. said:
A shudder of a read knowing how familiar this scene is in many countries - - girls kidnapped for sex are in constant danger and you tell it well here my friend........x
January 15th, 2023 05:12
How Very Agincourt
Goldfinch60 said:
The imagination flares with that bow Neville.
Andy
January 15th, 2023 02:40
Goldfinch60 said:
The imagination flares with that bow Neville.
Andy
January 15th, 2023 02:40
How Very Agincourt
jarcher54 said:
I did not laugh... but the smile lasted a while! I bow to your talent! Or kneel?
January 14th, 2023 14:06
jarcher54 said:
I did not laugh... but the smile lasted a while! I bow to your talent! Or kneel?
January 14th, 2023 14:06
How Very Agincourt
Fay Slimm. said:
Loving the double usage of the word Bow here Nev. Inspired another angle for a story in my norty mind however - - - The decision to bow and kneel, Agincourt style, shows a modern-day lady to be often wily - - - best to steer clear of manipulation methinks my dear Sire - - -for guile maketh peeps. not very nice - -- of course there are other reasons for kneeling before lusty males or maybe that\'s going too far !! ............x
January 14th, 2023 10:01
Fay Slimm. said:
Loving the double usage of the word Bow here Nev. Inspired another angle for a story in my norty mind however - - - The decision to bow and kneel, Agincourt style, shows a modern-day lady to be often wily - - - best to steer clear of manipulation methinks my dear Sire - - -for guile maketh peeps. not very nice - -- of course there are other reasons for kneeling before lusty males or maybe that\'s going too far !! ............x
January 14th, 2023 10:01
How Very Agincourt
orchidee said:
Oohh, was you there with Goldfinch and I in 1415, and Hastings in 1066?!
January 14th, 2023 06:08
orchidee said:
Oohh, was you there with Goldfinch and I in 1415, and Hastings in 1066?!
January 14th, 2023 06:08
An Uncertain Certainty
Doggerel Dave said:
My own Uncertain Certainty -
\"I really like old guys\", she said.
Minuscule pause followed by an encouraging response seasoned with a smattering of caution:
\"Oh yes?\" I said.
January 13th, 2023 20:50
Doggerel Dave said:
My own Uncertain Certainty -
\"I really like old guys\", she said.
Minuscule pause followed by an encouraging response seasoned with a smattering of caution:
\"Oh yes?\" I said.
January 13th, 2023 20:50
An Uncertain Certainty
MendedFences27 said:
\"contagious self-doubt,\" caught from getting too close? Would loving her less reduce the risk?
Sometimes emotions are as transferrable as Covid.. _ Phil A.
January 13th, 2023 14:10
MendedFences27 said:
\"contagious self-doubt,\" caught from getting too close? Would loving her less reduce the risk?
Sometimes emotions are as transferrable as Covid.. _ Phil A.
January 13th, 2023 14:10
An Uncertain Certainty
Kinsey Peterson said:
oh gosh, following a breakup this poem hits hard
January 13th, 2023 11:31
Kinsey Peterson said:
oh gosh, following a breakup this poem hits hard
January 13th, 2023 11:31
An Uncertain Certainty
Bella Shepard said:
In matters of the heart it seems, the head grapples with emotion and a choice is made, always hoping it\'s the right one. Good write my friend!
January 13th, 2023 09:52
Bella Shepard said:
In matters of the heart it seems, the head grapples with emotion and a choice is made, always hoping it\'s the right one. Good write my friend!
January 13th, 2023 09:52
An Uncertain Certainty
L. B. Mek said:
lovely shorty Hyung
I couldn\'t help but try and scribble a little reply
(boldly, we dive
\'Hope\' first, trepidation
pulsing, in each
stuttering breath and yet
still, managing a smile
knowing
this, is as magical as life gets...)
January 13th, 2023 07:24
L. B. Mek said:
lovely shorty Hyung
I couldn\'t help but try and scribble a little reply
(boldly, we dive
\'Hope\' first, trepidation
pulsing, in each
stuttering breath and yet
still, managing a smile
knowing
this, is as magical as life gets...)
January 13th, 2023 07:24
Rape of the Sabine Women
L. B. Mek said:
how Brave!
before, ever
we try to contemplate
just how depraved our hu\'man\' inheritance
as existence, is
we must first, look-up
the etymology of the word, \'Havoc\'
its very existence in modernity\'s vocabulary
and its very meaning to all the victims, it encapsulates
before
the word, ever existed even
far, far back
to Euripides and \'The Trojan Women\'
or
the very tragedies and horrific acts
being carried out
on those \'battlefields\' of Ukraine,
and all the wars around the world,
this very minute...
(were I a man, gifted
the wisdom of genuine empathy
how, dare i look upon the rage
and justified wrath of a lady
without being singed
by the very pain, boiling
in her pulsing DNA of inherited suffering)
January 13th, 2023 07:20
L. B. Mek said:
how Brave!
before, ever
we try to contemplate
just how depraved our hu\'man\' inheritance
as existence, is
we must first, look-up
the etymology of the word, \'Havoc\'
its very existence in modernity\'s vocabulary
and its very meaning to all the victims, it encapsulates
before
the word, ever existed even
far, far back
to Euripides and \'The Trojan Women\'
or
the very tragedies and horrific acts
being carried out
on those \'battlefields\' of Ukraine,
and all the wars around the world,
this very minute...
(were I a man, gifted
the wisdom of genuine empathy
how, dare i look upon the rage
and justified wrath of a lady
without being singed
by the very pain, boiling
in her pulsing DNA of inherited suffering)
January 13th, 2023 07:20
A Sure Sign of His Passing
L. B. Mek said:
reading these delicate words
as a window to society\'s callous indecencies
I couldn\'t help but be transported
to when first reading
the Funeral of the Elder Zosima
in \'The brothers karamazov\'
(I have nothing more I can add
to either praise or acutely relate
how much I enjoyed reading this poem, Hyung
your poetic subtlety at its, most
intoxicating Best!)
January 13th, 2023 07:04
L. B. Mek said:
reading these delicate words
as a window to society\'s callous indecencies
I couldn\'t help but be transported
to when first reading
the Funeral of the Elder Zosima
in \'The brothers karamazov\'
(I have nothing more I can add
to either praise or acutely relate
how much I enjoyed reading this poem, Hyung
your poetic subtlety at its, most
intoxicating Best!)
January 13th, 2023 07:04
Something More Than Just Skin Deep
L. B. Mek said:
Spencer\'s legacy breathes
within these very lines
even in our loveless Time!
(Amoretti, I: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly lands
by by the great, Edmund Spencer:
\'Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might
Shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands,
Lyke captives trembling at the victors sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look
And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright,
Written with teares in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rymes bath’d in the sacred brooke,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
My soules long lacked foode, my heavens blis.
Leaves, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.)
simply Brilliant! dear Poet supreme
forgive me
for pasting Spencer\'s poem
on your page,
I just wanted you to be aware
of how unquestionably, favourable
your poetry
compares to those of the great poet\'s in history
(at least in my humble opinion)
thank you! what a treat
(this must be the prelude
to \'Something more than just a Flutter\'
I had the line:
\'Just like some Hapless
moth, perchance ..\'
running through my mind for days now)
lol
I sound like such a pathetic geek
oh well
try as I might, I can only be what I am...
😎
January 13th, 2023 06:54
L. B. Mek said:
Spencer\'s legacy breathes
within these very lines
even in our loveless Time!
(Amoretti, I: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly lands
by by the great, Edmund Spencer:
\'Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might
Shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands,
Lyke captives trembling at the victors sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look
And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright,
Written with teares in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rymes bath’d in the sacred brooke,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
My soules long lacked foode, my heavens blis.
Leaves, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.)
simply Brilliant! dear Poet supreme
forgive me
for pasting Spencer\'s poem
on your page,
I just wanted you to be aware
of how unquestionably, favourable
your poetry
compares to those of the great poet\'s in history
(at least in my humble opinion)
thank you! what a treat
(this must be the prelude
to \'Something more than just a Flutter\'
I had the line:
\'Just like some Hapless
moth, perchance ..\'
running through my mind for days now)
lol
I sound like such a pathetic geek
oh well
try as I might, I can only be what I am...
😎
January 13th, 2023 06:54
An Uncertain Certainty
orchidee said:
I\'m uncertain if KP\'s used more botox or not! lol.
January 13th, 2023 06:47
orchidee said:
I\'m uncertain if KP\'s used more botox or not! lol.
January 13th, 2023 06:47
An Uncertain Certainty
Fay Slimm. said:
Ah - I see a breakthrough to self confidence peeping from doubt in this telling reflection- - -always the best plan is a bit of introspective thinking when love becomes too one sided methinks ...... strange that my post today says a similar thing mon ami.........x
January 13th, 2023 04:52
Fay Slimm. said:
Ah - I see a breakthrough to self confidence peeping from doubt in this telling reflection- - -always the best plan is a bit of introspective thinking when love becomes too one sided methinks ...... strange that my post today says a similar thing mon ami.........x
January 13th, 2023 04:52
Rape of the Sabine Women
MendedFences27 said:
Mythologically, this could be a scene between Jupiter and Terra Mater with Jupiter appalled by the actions of the Romans. As written, I see it as an encounter between a Roman soldier and a Sabine woman. What followed were years of many wars and expansion of the Roman Empire. In today\'s parlance it is an example of sexual harassment of women. Will it ever be otherwise? A real eye-opener this one. - Phil A.
January 12th, 2023 22:53
MendedFences27 said:
Mythologically, this could be a scene between Jupiter and Terra Mater with Jupiter appalled by the actions of the Romans. As written, I see it as an encounter between a Roman soldier and a Sabine woman. What followed were years of many wars and expansion of the Roman Empire. In today\'s parlance it is an example of sexual harassment of women. Will it ever be otherwise? A real eye-opener this one. - Phil A.
January 12th, 2023 22:53
Rape of the Sabine Women
orchidee said:
A poetic write N.
Well, ignoring the title, this can\'t be about KP and I. Or you been spying on us?! lol. I will give her sackcloth and straw to lie on. heehee.
January 12th, 2023 06:11
orchidee said:
A poetic write N.
Well, ignoring the title, this can\'t be about KP and I. Or you been spying on us?! lol. I will give her sackcloth and straw to lie on. heehee.
January 12th, 2023 06:11
Rape of the Sabine Women
Fay Slimm. said:
Outrageously kidnaped and then often raped these women raised the hackles of many a painter or writer and gave Roman soldiers a history of eternal shame that others have unfortunately followed time and again since then..... oooh am on my soapbox after reading your vivid pen-painting of those Sabine victims. Romulus had a lot to answer for methinks amigo eh ?..............x
January 12th, 2023 06:07
Fay Slimm. said:
Outrageously kidnaped and then often raped these women raised the hackles of many a painter or writer and gave Roman soldiers a history of eternal shame that others have unfortunately followed time and again since then..... oooh am on my soapbox after reading your vivid pen-painting of those Sabine victims. Romulus had a lot to answer for methinks amigo eh ?..............x
January 12th, 2023 06:07
Heed
Goldfinch60 said:
So true, without mistakes we would not learn how to move on.
Andy
January 12th, 2023 01:52
Goldfinch60 said:
So true, without mistakes we would not learn how to move on.
Andy
January 12th, 2023 01:52
A Sure Sign of His Passing
MendedFences27 said:
A \"cold,\" \"empty and bare,\" home \"a sure sign of his passing\" - these lines
indicate to me that he \"passed\" a long time ago. No longer recognizable as human. A most unfortunate and unhappy person, despised by all who knew him. Makes one wonder why. What destroyed this creature? What events in his life brought him to this miserable end? No sympathy though, we are all tested disproportionately, and some do not survive. - Phil A.
January 11th, 2023 16:00
MendedFences27 said:
A \"cold,\" \"empty and bare,\" home \"a sure sign of his passing\" - these lines
indicate to me that he \"passed\" a long time ago. No longer recognizable as human. A most unfortunate and unhappy person, despised by all who knew him. Makes one wonder why. What destroyed this creature? What events in his life brought him to this miserable end? No sympathy though, we are all tested disproportionately, and some do not survive. - Phil A.
January 11th, 2023 16:00
Heed
MendedFences27 said:
Amen. We learn through our mistakes. The harder the lesson. the more we learn. - Phul A.
January 11th, 2023 15:42
MendedFences27 said:
Amen. We learn through our mistakes. The harder the lesson. the more we learn. - Phul A.
January 11th, 2023 15:42
Heed
SureshG said:
If only I did, if only I could, the pain not so much, the tears not so often—
Thanks for showing me my follies, even when prosed so well.
January 11th, 2023 11:02
SureshG said:
If only I did, if only I could, the pain not so much, the tears not so often—
Thanks for showing me my follies, even when prosed so well.
January 11th, 2023 11:02
Heed
orchidee said:
Plenty people have aches - headaches, that is - through hearing me sing! heehee. Fido howls to drown me out!
You beaten that egg yet?
January 11th, 2023 08:45
orchidee said:
Plenty people have aches - headaches, that is - through hearing me sing! heehee. Fido howls to drown me out!
You beaten that egg yet?
January 11th, 2023 08:45
From the Cradle to a Grave
Doggerel Dave said:
I want no credit for my life. I\'ll pass judgement on it myself (credits though for those who may have helped me along the way...)
Pretty sure you don\'t worry too much, Nev.
January 11th, 2023 06:37
Doggerel Dave said:
I want no credit for my life. I\'ll pass judgement on it myself (credits though for those who may have helped me along the way...)
Pretty sure you don\'t worry too much, Nev.
January 11th, 2023 06:37
So What Does Your Father Do
Doggerel Dave said:
Good question, Nev. Ofttimes it more than determines your own path way in life (although there can be a refusal admit to that). And of course, there are exceptions.......
January 11th, 2023 06:21
Doggerel Dave said:
Good question, Nev. Ofttimes it more than determines your own path way in life (although there can be a refusal admit to that). And of course, there are exceptions.......
January 11th, 2023 06:21
Taken From the Diary of a Contented Man
Doggerel Dave said:
Got it completely, Nev - and I\'ll be saying it tomorrow too...
January 11th, 2023 06:15
Doggerel Dave said:
Got it completely, Nev - and I\'ll be saying it tomorrow too...
January 11th, 2023 06:15
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