Comments received on poems by David Wakeling
Emily goes for a walk.
Bobby O said:
That touched my heart. Nice topic with much kindness spread.
September 23rd, 2023 04:38
Bobby O said:
That touched my heart. Nice topic with much kindness spread.
September 23rd, 2023 04:38
The Dawning Grace.
Goldfinch60 said:
Each moment we have is now and is so important, those in the past and the future are not as important as the now David.
Andy
September 22nd, 2023 01:09
Goldfinch60 said:
Each moment we have is now and is so important, those in the past and the future are not as important as the now David.
Andy
September 22nd, 2023 01:09
Who Gains?
2781 said:
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
September 20th, 2023 05:03
2781 said:
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
September 20th, 2023 05:03
Who Gains?
Bobby O said:
In the comedy lies the tragedy and the forever legacy perhaps I’d best counted when you inspire someone to smile.
Nice piece. Yiu hot great ideas
September 20th, 2023 01:20
Bobby O said:
In the comedy lies the tragedy and the forever legacy perhaps I’d best counted when you inspire someone to smile.
Nice piece. Yiu hot great ideas
September 20th, 2023 01:20
Belinda talks to her Husband while he is asleep.
Bobby O said:
A lament that I’m guessing he knew about but chose to pretend he didn’t or perhaps he didn’t know or realize fir yo self obsession or could it be he faked his sleep and felt calm cause she was finally gonna leave?
September 19th, 2023 02:24
Bobby O said:
A lament that I’m guessing he knew about but chose to pretend he didn’t or perhaps he didn’t know or realize fir yo self obsession or could it be he faked his sleep and felt calm cause she was finally gonna leave?
September 19th, 2023 02:24
Belinda talks to her Husband while he is asleep.
Goldfinch60 said:
Strong emotive words David.
Andy
September 19th, 2023 00:57
Goldfinch60 said:
Strong emotive words David.
Andy
September 19th, 2023 00:57
The House of Tears.
Goldfinch60 said:
Those houses of tears bring so much emotion to those who visit them David, I know!
Andy
September 19th, 2023 00:50
Goldfinch60 said:
Those houses of tears bring so much emotion to those who visit them David, I know!
Andy
September 19th, 2023 00:50
The House of Tears.
Bobby O said:
I felt this on several levels. As always you craft a story well. I enjoyed it.
September 18th, 2023 06:36
Bobby O said:
I felt this on several levels. As always you craft a story well. I enjoyed it.
September 18th, 2023 06:36
The Care Fairies.
Soman Ragavan said:
On the comment by Narash Machacino
In Pink Floyd’s song “The wall” says he “is just another brick in the wall.”
That is how we feel quite often. We are not seen as individuals; our respective identities are not recognized. However, poets wield tremendous power. Through their writings they propel themselves into immortality.
(a)
\"Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world.....
Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.\"
--P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) : “A defence of poetry.”
(b)
“On Théophile GAUTHIER (1811-1872). In a world in which everything is impermanent, the poet, by rearranging reality into art, can create something that will have more permanent value. ...... Art can thus provide the poet with a solace for his mortality while he is alive and the hope of immortality in death.” \"TWELVE FRENCH POETS. 1820-1900. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY.\" London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. (Third impression, 1959). (With an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée).
(c)
\"(.....) Poets are immortal, they take us to the frontier of the infinite,says at the very beginning James Burty David. For him, we must not think that the imaginary is disorderly, for even in this apparent disorder, there is a structured language.\" \"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius, 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
Sites like “mypoeticside.com” enable us poets to join together and share our views with other people. On sites like these you can come across extraordinary poems that you don’t find in regular poetry books in which students study at colleges. See the poem “The Lighthouse Watchkeep and the White Witches of Kiama” by David Wakeling and my comments on it. Soman Ragavan. 17 September, 2023. //
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September 17th, 2023 06:10
Soman Ragavan said:
On the comment by Narash Machacino
In Pink Floyd’s song “The wall” says he “is just another brick in the wall.”
That is how we feel quite often. We are not seen as individuals; our respective identities are not recognized. However, poets wield tremendous power. Through their writings they propel themselves into immortality.
(a)
\"Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world.....
Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.\"
--P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) : “A defence of poetry.”
(b)
“On Théophile GAUTHIER (1811-1872). In a world in which everything is impermanent, the poet, by rearranging reality into art, can create something that will have more permanent value. ...... Art can thus provide the poet with a solace for his mortality while he is alive and the hope of immortality in death.” \"TWELVE FRENCH POETS. 1820-1900. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY.\" London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. (Third impression, 1959). (With an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée).
(c)
\"(.....) Poets are immortal, they take us to the frontier of the infinite,says at the very beginning James Burty David. For him, we must not think that the imaginary is disorderly, for even in this apparent disorder, there is a structured language.\" \"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius, 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
Sites like “mypoeticside.com” enable us poets to join together and share our views with other people. On sites like these you can come across extraordinary poems that you don’t find in regular poetry books in which students study at colleges. See the poem “The Lighthouse Watchkeep and the White Witches of Kiama” by David Wakeling and my comments on it. Soman Ragavan. 17 September, 2023. //
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September 17th, 2023 06:10
The Care Fairies.
Tiresias said:
You could listen to a little Leonard Cohen. Songs like \'Everybody Knows\' and \'The Future\'. I found him a comfort - a Care Fairy sort of man. He always shares his love and irony with us about how we become victims. A nice Jewish fella. Listening to Pink Floyd from \'Piper at the Gates of Dawn\' to \'The Wall\' says a lot about this as well, and culturally about how the Governments vampirised the sixties youth and stole their optimism.
September 17th, 2023 05:23
Tiresias said:
You could listen to a little Leonard Cohen. Songs like \'Everybody Knows\' and \'The Future\'. I found him a comfort - a Care Fairy sort of man. He always shares his love and irony with us about how we become victims. A nice Jewish fella. Listening to Pink Floyd from \'Piper at the Gates of Dawn\' to \'The Wall\' says a lot about this as well, and culturally about how the Governments vampirised the sixties youth and stole their optimism.
September 17th, 2023 05:23
The Care Fairies.
Soman Ragavan said:
My comments on the poem \"The care fairies” by David Wakeling
“Care fairies” are stuff we invent to console ourselves and others.
Your girlfriend left you; the next one was no better. In fact, she was worse. You were hoping to get something better.
“Second marriage : the triumph of hope over experience.” --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
We string ourselves along from hope to hope.
After trying for a lifetime to care, we still can’t succeed.
Soman Ragavan. 17 September, 2023 .//
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September 17th, 2023 03:59
Soman Ragavan said:
My comments on the poem \"The care fairies” by David Wakeling
“Care fairies” are stuff we invent to console ourselves and others.
Your girlfriend left you; the next one was no better. In fact, she was worse. You were hoping to get something better.
“Second marriage : the triumph of hope over experience.” --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
We string ourselves along from hope to hope.
After trying for a lifetime to care, we still can’t succeed.
Soman Ragavan. 17 September, 2023 .//
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September 17th, 2023 03:59
The New Commandments.
jarcher54 said:
God is awfully full of himself. All those nots... not very creative that creator.
September 16th, 2023 02:08
jarcher54 said:
God is awfully full of himself. All those nots... not very creative that creator.
September 16th, 2023 02:08
The Bus Stop on Grace Avenue.
David Wakeling said:
Thank you for your wonderful comments.much appreciated mi amigo
September 14th, 2023 21:31
David Wakeling said:
Thank you for your wonderful comments.much appreciated mi amigo
September 14th, 2023 21:31
The Bus Stop on Grace Avenue.
Bobby O said:
A bus is humbling to some a reminder a yesteryear to others, almost always its a retro feel. What a perfect metaphor to have your mom visit. A surprise trip with all that deep deep feeling in a very alive reward. I like this
September 14th, 2023 17:37
Bobby O said:
A bus is humbling to some a reminder a yesteryear to others, almost always its a retro feel. What a perfect metaphor to have your mom visit. A surprise trip with all that deep deep feeling in a very alive reward. I like this
September 14th, 2023 17:37
Are you insane yet?
Lorenz said:
I was lucky enough to be born with the just amount of autism to adapt...
September 12th, 2023 11:27
Lorenz said:
I was lucky enough to be born with the just amount of autism to adapt...
September 12th, 2023 11:27
What game is this
Goldfinch60 said:
Indeed, what game is this in our lives.
Andy
September 10th, 2023 01:50
Goldfinch60 said:
Indeed, what game is this in our lives.
Andy
September 10th, 2023 01:50
Goodbye
Bobby O said:
Great read. I read it again and reached inside and found an inner power that directs reader to the details that were no accident.
September 8th, 2023 21:56
Bobby O said:
Great read. I read it again and reached inside and found an inner power that directs reader to the details that were no accident.
September 8th, 2023 21:56
The Soul of Sun
David Wakeling said:
You are probably right but I like my Sun the best.Just sayin
September 5th, 2023 03:15
David Wakeling said:
You are probably right but I like my Sun the best.Just sayin
September 5th, 2023 03:15
The Soul of Sun
Bobby O said:
There are more solar systems in the universe that are larger than our planetary system ( Milky Way) than there are grains of sand in earth. There are trillions of possible planets that have potential for life abd most of these galaxies have over a three billion year head start. There are millions of suns ( stars) maybe even hundreds of billions that cannot be eliminated as potential “Petri dishes” More than grains of sand on earth. Think about how many grains are in deserts and beaches. There is lots of life out there. Lots.
September 4th, 2023 22:41
Bobby O said:
There are more solar systems in the universe that are larger than our planetary system ( Milky Way) than there are grains of sand in earth. There are trillions of possible planets that have potential for life abd most of these galaxies have over a three billion year head start. There are millions of suns ( stars) maybe even hundreds of billions that cannot be eliminated as potential “Petri dishes” More than grains of sand on earth. Think about how many grains are in deserts and beaches. There is lots of life out there. Lots.
September 4th, 2023 22:41
Mr Bellmeister catches the bus.
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderfully emotive words David. I don\'t say this very often but this is going into my favourites.
Andy
September 2nd, 2023 01:30
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderfully emotive words David. I don\'t say this very often but this is going into my favourites.
Andy
September 2nd, 2023 01:30
Mr Bellmeister catches the bus.
David Wakeling said:
Exactly right.Thanks for your comments.Always a joy.
September 1st, 2023 22:27
David Wakeling said:
Exactly right.Thanks for your comments.Always a joy.
September 1st, 2023 22:27
Mr Bellmeister catches the bus.
Bobby O said:
Loved that story. It floated between a metaphorical trio
( bus named destiny) and a real one. Great style.
September 1st, 2023 19:33
Bobby O said:
Loved that story. It floated between a metaphorical trio
( bus named destiny) and a real one. Great style.
September 1st, 2023 19:33
The Sound of Bob Dylan.
David Wakeling said:
Thanks for reading.I think you\'re right.I\'ll revisit this song
August 31st, 2023 22:40
David Wakeling said:
Thanks for reading.I think you\'re right.I\'ll revisit this song
August 31st, 2023 22:40
The Sound of Bob Dylan.
Bobby O said:
This is great with intelligent alludes to so many of Dylan’s poetic strengths. The drownin’ man w the sealed fate? I feel he could maybe escape to renew and Think twice or don’t?
August 31st, 2023 18:33
Bobby O said:
This is great with intelligent alludes to so many of Dylan’s poetic strengths. The drownin’ man w the sealed fate? I feel he could maybe escape to renew and Think twice or don’t?
August 31st, 2023 18:33
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