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by CalebPerry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: Ezines, Magazines and Publications
Topic: Publications Open For Submission
Replies: 52
Views: 5790

Re: Publications Open For Submission

Oh my God, this is perfect for me. I employ so much alliteration in my poems, I don't see how they wouldn't accept at least one of them. Thank you, Phil. On second thought, their last issue had only 14 pages in it, and not all of it was poetry -- and much of that had an experimental quality. Simply ...
by CalebPerry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Poetry Discussion
Topic: A poem that I read today by Mac
Replies: 316
Views: 60208

Re: A poem that I read today by Mac

...but Blake has a timeless quality John🤔😃 Time to resurrect morn... https://www.proleartthreat.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26617#p231596 👍 When I click on that link, I get my poem The Matchmaker. Didn't you mean to link to a Blake poem? Oh oh oh, I see. You were talking about "morn" and ...
by CalebPerry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
Topic: Favorite Songs
Replies: 19
Views: 91

Re: Favorite Songs

Here is another favorite song of mine: Crazy on You, by Heart. This band showed us that women can rock with the best of them.

by CalebPerry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:53 am
Forum: Poetry Discussion
Topic: NAPO
Replies: 7
Views: 36

Re: NAPO

I'm reminded of what Judson Jerome said. (Jerome wrote a poetry column for Writer's Digest for 30+ years. He died in 1991.) He wrote about a woman who was proud to have written 4,000 poems, and Jerome wondered if it might not be better to write 25 outstanding poems than 4,000 mediocre poems. However...
by CalebPerry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:42 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Fan of Worlds
Replies: 4
Views: 46

Re: Fan of Worlds

I'll admit that I only read it a few times, and that I was also a little tired (I'm always tired because of my afibs). If I had read it more times, I might have gotten the meaning a little better. Sorry. To a certain extent you may be writing over my head. I'll read it again with what you said in mi...
by CalebPerry
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Fan of Worlds
Replies: 4
Views: 46

Re: Fan of Worlds

It has been bothering me that no one has critiqued this poem. The problem for me is that this feels like one of your therapeutic poems, probably written to help you work something out in your mind. Your writing is clear, as always, and your word choices good (insofar as I am able to judge them), but...
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

That's interesting to hear. In this poem, I see meandering as good, as somehow more natural than my usual instincts. I was trying to write it as one sentence so I could send it to One Sentence Poems.

I'll be back later today if you post another comment.
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

Oh, I see. I haven't read that many of his poems yet.
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:35 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

Thank you for saying again that you like the poem, but what is that reference to drinking? I'm confused.
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

Thank you, Phil. That is mostly what happens in old age. I'm mostly confined to my house because of my atrial fibrillations and my back which won't stop spasming. Linda Ronstadt, that wonderful chanteuse, is confined because of Parkinsons. The end of life is no fun. (At least for most of us -- all t...
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Bad Dream.
Replies: 8
Views: 106

Re: Bad Dream.

I think that Phil likes the poem because he writes similar stuff. Most people, I think, will find the poem enigmatic. I used to advise people to write clearly, but I don't bother any more. If I read your poem repeatedly, even to the point of studying it, I can ascribe my own meaning to the various i...
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:42 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Posting Limit
Replies: 5
Views: 55

Re: Posting Limit

I would like to make a point, though, Phil. The forum has very few participants. It seems to me that a person like John, who posts so many poems, is at least showing enthusiasm. I'm now involved in two forums, each having very few active participants. In the other forum, days pass without any posts,...
by CalebPerry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:34 am
Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
Topic: Favorite Songs
Replies: 19
Views: 91

Re: Favorite Songs

I find the mother's voice more soothing. To see a mother-daughter in this joint effort warms my heart. In my family, we just fought constantly.
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Posting Limit
Replies: 5
Views: 55

Re: Posting Limit

Posting two poems a week will be easy for me -- my output isn't that high.
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

I looked up Bukowski. I've read a few of his poems now. I need to read more. I'm not overly impressed. I don't see much "craft" in his poetry, just spontaneous self-expression.
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Random Bloke
Replies: 6
Views: 35

Re: Random Bloke

This is definitely a clear poem, John. I like to read poems that I don't have to struggle to understand. I agree with Tony that the lumber room image is a good one. That incident in which you almost [did that horrible thing to yourself -- I don't even like to say it] obviously left an impact on you ...
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Bad Dream.
Replies: 8
Views: 106

Re: Bad Dream.

I'm away for a day and come back to people sniping at each other and Phil suggesting that we post fewer poems. What's going on? John, you could have given some reasons why you feel the poem isn't that good. And Tony, you could have responded more graciously. Regarding the images in the poem, some st...
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:35 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Posting Limit
Replies: 5
Views: 55

Re: Posting Limit

So, Phil, what is it that prompts you to suggest this limit? (and post it twice!)
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

Reminds me of a self-pitying Bukowski poem without the irony, but that's a good thing in my book. At least you are aware Thank you, Tony. You have a talent for back-handed compliments. Wait until you are in your 70's and have health problems which limit your life. You may see the poem differently t...
by CalebPerry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
Topic: Favorite Songs
Replies: 19
Views: 91

Re: Favorite Songs

Here is my favorite rendition of Pie Jesu.

by CalebPerry
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
Topic: Favorite Songs
Replies: 19
Views: 91

Re: Favorite Songs

Wow, that was a blast from the past. In many ways, Smokey's rendition is more expressive and emotional, and you reminded me that the back-up vocals were missing from Ronstandt's version. Also, I didn't know they had skateboards back in ... the 1960's? Thanks for posting that. Everyone should feel fr...
by CalebPerry
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Music and Song Lyric Discussion
Topic: Favorite Songs
Replies: 19
Views: 91

Re: Favorite Songs

Just to keep this thread going, I'm going to post other songs I'm listening to.

Thank God for YouTube. So much great music was created during my life, and I listened to only a tenth of it, if that.

Linda Ronstadt:

by CalebPerry
Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: The Opposite of Time
Replies: 7
Views: 28

Re: The Opposite of Time

Maybe like a recent pope, who gave himself two names -- John Paul -- you'll give yourself two names if you ever become pope -- John Jim.
by CalebPerry
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: The Opposite of Time
Replies: 7
Views: 28

Re: The Opposite of Time

Sorry for calling you Jim, John. I must have been thinking of someone else. Sometimes I confuse those two names.
by CalebPerry
Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:00 am
Forum: Post-a-Poem (Experienced)
Topic: Still (version 2)
Replies: 23
Views: 126

Re: Still (version 2)

That wasn't intentional -- I'm not THAT clever. As for stanza 1, "too" may go back to being "to": Inside my old-man’s lair, an apartment I leave only rarely, and glad to, -- i.e., glad to [leave only rarely], see? for it is now my infirmities that control what I can and cannot do...