Comments received on poems by Robert Southwick Richmond
Holocaust Hall of Remembrance, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
orchidee said:
A fine tribute Robert
We have a Memorial Day in the UK every Jan. 27th.
At least birds sing there. They don\'t at Auschwitz, it\'s said. Why should birds sing in Hell on earth?
January 2nd, 2021 13:18
orchidee said:
A fine tribute Robert
We have a Memorial Day in the UK every Jan. 27th.
At least birds sing there. They don\'t at Auschwitz, it\'s said. Why should birds sing in Hell on earth?
January 2nd, 2021 13:18
Soul winner, Christian businessman
orchidee said:
A thoughtful write Robert.
I don\'t go along with reincarnation either.
I see it as we\'re \'born again\' - the catchy phrase - or \'born from above\' spiritually, not physically.
January 2nd, 2021 03:10
orchidee said:
A thoughtful write Robert.
I don\'t go along with reincarnation either.
I see it as we\'re \'born again\' - the catchy phrase - or \'born from above\' spiritually, not physically.
January 2nd, 2021 03:10
Soul winner, Christian businessman
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
If there\'s an afterlife, there\'s nothing we can know about it - everything is metaphor. Too many people think that being a Christian is all about the afterlife, but following Jesus is a matter of the here and now. If there\'s an afterlife, Jesus will take care of it for me.
I don\'t think there\'s any hard evidence for reincarnation, either.
As a result of an error in inventory management, my soul hadn\'t been recycled since the Paleolithic, when I was either the sculptor or the model for the Venus of Willendorf.
January 1st, 2021 19:35
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
If there\'s an afterlife, there\'s nothing we can know about it - everything is metaphor. Too many people think that being a Christian is all about the afterlife, but following Jesus is a matter of the here and now. If there\'s an afterlife, Jesus will take care of it for me.
I don\'t think there\'s any hard evidence for reincarnation, either.
As a result of an error in inventory management, my soul hadn\'t been recycled since the Paleolithic, when I was either the sculptor or the model for the Venus of Willendorf.
January 1st, 2021 19:35
Soul winner, Christian businessman
dusk arising said:
So many theories, so many doctrines and too many preachers. Lets face it none of us know for sure about rebirth, reincarnation, heaven etc for each is an unproven theory and the reality is closed to us.
However, I was surprised some twenty five years, or so, ago at the amount of modern written evidence there was for \'previous lives\' in my local library (which was not a large one). I\'m not including those hypnosis previous lifes episodes which thankfully lost credibility when it turned out that there were too many \'I used to be Napoleon\' claimants walking the streets.
Interesting and thought provoking post from you.
January 1st, 2021 19:16
dusk arising said:
So many theories, so many doctrines and too many preachers. Lets face it none of us know for sure about rebirth, reincarnation, heaven etc for each is an unproven theory and the reality is closed to us.
However, I was surprised some twenty five years, or so, ago at the amount of modern written evidence there was for \'previous lives\' in my local library (which was not a large one). I\'m not including those hypnosis previous lifes episodes which thankfully lost credibility when it turned out that there were too many \'I used to be Napoleon\' claimants walking the streets.
Interesting and thought provoking post from you.
January 1st, 2021 19:16
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (limerick)
Michael Edwards said:
It must be limerick day today after weeks without one.
December 29th, 2020 15:34
Michael Edwards said:
It must be limerick day today after weeks without one.
December 29th, 2020 15:34
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (limerick)
Jerry Reynolds said:
I\'m rather elastic don\'t mind getting stretched a bit. I live it, Robert.
December 29th, 2020 14:43
Jerry Reynolds said:
I\'m rather elastic don\'t mind getting stretched a bit. I live it, Robert.
December 29th, 2020 14:43
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (limerick)
dusk arising said:
My first ever seen classical limerick. Nice too.
December 29th, 2020 13:29
dusk arising said:
My first ever seen classical limerick. Nice too.
December 29th, 2020 13:29
Verses for a Christmas fete
Michael Edwards said:
Just read these verses and - yes - they beautifully observe poetic metricity making them fully recitable and a joy to read.
December 28th, 2020 03:02
Michael Edwards said:
Just read these verses and - yes - they beautifully observe poetic metricity making them fully recitable and a joy to read.
December 28th, 2020 03:02
The Holopornogram
Jerry Reynolds said:
Solid write Robert. Have a Happy New Year
December 27th, 2020 14:30
Jerry Reynolds said:
Solid write Robert. Have a Happy New Year
December 27th, 2020 14:30
Ode to Cecilia
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
After 60 years, I doubt anyone remembers this poor demented indigent woman. Possibly one of the nurses who cared for her is still living and remembers. There was one really tough old nurse on that big ward, and she made each of those patients walk every day, usually accompanying them.
It\'s not uncommon for demented people to wail or moan some short, often meaningless phrase like Cecilia\'s, over and over. Sometimes this \"gomer cry\" appears to originate from something they were saying or thinking when a stroke hits.
Among odes to St. Cecilia, I was thinking of Purcell\'s.
I must have written this poem considerably after 1961, when I met Cecilia, since it uses computer jargon from the 1980s, and refers to events in the distant past.
December 27th, 2020 11:51
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
After 60 years, I doubt anyone remembers this poor demented indigent woman. Possibly one of the nurses who cared for her is still living and remembers. There was one really tough old nurse on that big ward, and she made each of those patients walk every day, usually accompanying them.
It\'s not uncommon for demented people to wail or moan some short, often meaningless phrase like Cecilia\'s, over and over. Sometimes this \"gomer cry\" appears to originate from something they were saying or thinking when a stroke hits.
Among odes to St. Cecilia, I was thinking of Purcell\'s.
I must have written this poem considerably after 1961, when I met Cecilia, since it uses computer jargon from the 1980s, and refers to events in the distant past.
December 27th, 2020 11:51
Ode to Cecilia
orchidee said:
Gosh, you\'ve seen some things and people in life, including this Cecilia, and the link with St Cecilia.
The mind getting \'stuck\' on some meaningless chant? Or some deep meaning, known only to the person?
December 27th, 2020 03:17
orchidee said:
Gosh, you\'ve seen some things and people in life, including this Cecilia, and the link with St Cecilia.
The mind getting \'stuck\' on some meaningless chant? Or some deep meaning, known only to the person?
December 27th, 2020 03:17
Ode to Cecilia
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I wrote this poem when I was a medical student, about 1961, about what was later called a “gomer cry”, the call of a demented person. Her face was jaundiced from a medication, what I no longer remember. This is a poem to read out loud. Think of St. Cecilia, patroness of music. Cecilia was really her name.
December 26th, 2020 19:43
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I wrote this poem when I was a medical student, about 1961, about what was later called a “gomer cry”, the call of a demented person. Her face was jaundiced from a medication, what I no longer remember. This is a poem to read out loud. Think of St. Cecilia, patroness of music. Cecilia was really her name.
December 26th, 2020 19:43
T.S., Eliot
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
This poem is a spoof of T.S. Eliot\'s style. If you\'re not familiar with his poetry, it isn\'t going to make any sense.
December 24th, 2020 14:47
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
This poem is a spoof of T.S. Eliot\'s style. If you\'re not familiar with his poetry, it isn\'t going to make any sense.
December 24th, 2020 14:47
T.S., Eliot
orchidee said:
Erm, yes, probably a good poem Robert, but you lost me after about three words!
December 24th, 2020 14:42
orchidee said:
Erm, yes, probably a good poem Robert, but you lost me after about three words!
December 24th, 2020 14:42
Oren dying
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
Oren wouldn\'t have known any of those things. That hospital was in rural Appalachia, and most of our patients were dirt-poor rural workers who\'d seen action in WW 2. I think of him speaking out of Jungian collective unconscious.
December 24th, 2020 13:20
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
Oren wouldn\'t have known any of those things. That hospital was in rural Appalachia, and most of our patients were dirt-poor rural workers who\'d seen action in WW 2. I think of him speaking out of Jungian collective unconscious.
December 24th, 2020 13:20
Oren dying
orchidee said:
He probably wouldn\'t have known about \'Ma\' as you have explained here. Maybe he simply meant \'Mother\'?
For either, or both, of these reasons, it\'s a dark, horrendous state described here, I think.
One dying, pitiful, a terrible scourge of smoking.
December 24th, 2020 03:58
orchidee said:
He probably wouldn\'t have known about \'Ma\' as you have explained here. Maybe he simply meant \'Mother\'?
For either, or both, of these reasons, it\'s a dark, horrendous state described here, I think.
One dying, pitiful, a terrible scourge of smoking.
December 24th, 2020 03:58
Hold Fast This Beauty
🐤s.zaynab.kamoonpuri🌷🐦😽 said:
Wow superb poem with fine vernacular terms and poetic vocab. I\'ve read caesura before and always meant to look it up but forgot. Kudos for this fab muse.
December 22nd, 2020 09:03
🐤s.zaynab.kamoonpuri🌷🐦😽 said:
Wow superb poem with fine vernacular terms and poetic vocab. I\'ve read caesura before and always meant to look it up but forgot. Kudos for this fab muse.
December 22nd, 2020 09:03
Dandelion haiku
L. B. Mek said:
a wonderful haiku, capturing time, place and meaning: as glimpsed through nature\'s veil,
well executed
December 21st, 2020 07:00
L. B. Mek said:
a wonderful haiku, capturing time, place and meaning: as glimpsed through nature\'s veil,
well executed
December 21st, 2020 07:00
Dandelion haiku
Goldfinch60 said:
Good Haiku. I write a great many Haiku and Senryu.
December 21st, 2020 01:39
Goldfinch60 said:
Good Haiku. I write a great many Haiku and Senryu.
December 21st, 2020 01:39
Dandelion haiku
Jerry Reynolds said:
Haiku is Japanese. In tradition praise of a good one is to offer a humble link.
frostbitten dandelions
bloom for days
December 20th, 2020 18:25
Jerry Reynolds said:
Haiku is Japanese. In tradition praise of a good one is to offer a humble link.
frostbitten dandelions
bloom for days
December 20th, 2020 18:25
Dandelion haiku
FredPeyer said:
Robert, I am not a technical writer, I just know what I like. And I do like both, the picture and the Haiku. Well done!
December 20th, 2020 12:10
FredPeyer said:
Robert, I am not a technical writer, I just know what I like. And I do like both, the picture and the Haiku. Well done!
December 20th, 2020 12:10
Dandelion haiku
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I never heard of haiku in French, but Wikipedia came to my rescue.
How do you count syllables in a French haiku? You pronounce all the normally unspoken vowels (including two syllables for l\'eau, \'the water\'), in their example, a translation of Bashō\'s frog.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku
December 20th, 2020 11:22
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I never heard of haiku in French, but Wikipedia came to my rescue.
How do you count syllables in a French haiku? You pronounce all the normally unspoken vowels (including two syllables for l\'eau, \'the water\'), in their example, a translation of Bashō\'s frog.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku
December 20th, 2020 11:22
Dandelion haiku
orchidee said:
Good Haiku Robert.
Is Haiku French? (Note to self: Do shut up now Orchi. lol).
December 20th, 2020 11:15
orchidee said:
Good Haiku Robert.
Is Haiku French? (Note to self: Do shut up now Orchi. lol).
December 20th, 2020 11:15
Forbidden Planet
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I don\'t find the remark inappropriate, but I\'m not sure I understand it, either.
December 20th, 2020 10:45
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I don\'t find the remark inappropriate, but I\'m not sure I understand it, either.
December 20th, 2020 10:45
Forbidden Planet
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I don\'t find the remark inappropriate, but I\'m not sure I understand it, either.
December 20th, 2020 10:45
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I don\'t find the remark inappropriate, but I\'m not sure I understand it, either.
December 20th, 2020 10:45
Forbidden Planet
orchidee said:
A fine write Robert.
Dave gets lost also, in some banter that I have on here with another poet. It\'s indecipherable! Eccentric really. heehee.
December 20th, 2020 03:03
orchidee said:
A fine write Robert.
Dave gets lost also, in some banter that I have on here with another poet. It\'s indecipherable! Eccentric really. heehee.
December 20th, 2020 03:03
Forbidden Planet
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I wrote that poem not very long after the Chernobyl disaster. I\'m actually very interested in nuclear technology. There was no reason for Chernobyl - it was a Triumph of Management.
December 19th, 2020 20:33
Robert Southwick Richmond said:
I wrote that poem not very long after the Chernobyl disaster. I\'m actually very interested in nuclear technology. There was no reason for Chernobyl - it was a Triumph of Management.
December 19th, 2020 20:33
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