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by theirishsea
May 19th, 2019, 7:58 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Prose Poem About My Least Favorite Subject
Replies: 1
Views: 223

Prose Poem About My Least Favorite Subject

Trump is strumpet to his own ego----he is mirror-diseased. He is the idol of mean, rotten, people who drop solid food out of their mouths as they try to eat with their hands and close their eyes and grunt under their breath the same time their rotting teeth chew----what a feat!---they grunt givemegi...
by theirishsea
May 18th, 2019, 11:38 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: kind of doing the Ferlinghetti thing
Replies: 5
Views: 635

kind of doing the Ferlinghetti thing

Thunder Speaks its poems directly to the ear No fear booming loud, obtrusive Knocking dinner conversations off the table Picking up beauty with a napkin Flashing that lightning smile Broccoli saying “cheese” And tasting so good Like air to a pair of full-sailing lungs Oh, the storms of poetry in the...
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:37 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: What Do Our Leaders Believe In? (six question marks)
Replies: 4
Views: 441

Re: What Do Our Leaders Believe In? (six question marks)

Emptiness-----the old cliché---empty kettles make the most noise----warmongers are always rattling rhetoric. How could we elect such a rotten administration and followthe same evil path again and again. No, far from everybody voted and votes for these horrible people but why can't the good overturn ...
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:33 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: The Art of War
Replies: 8
Views: 749

Re: The Art of War

Your observation is right---suffering and destruction. war if it is an art is not a gift to humanity---far from it.
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:30 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: lighthouse
Replies: 3
Views: 352

Re: lighthouse

creativesoul's comment (which is a poem too) is better and more personal than the comment I'm writing but I do like the "lighthouse" as a symbol. The opening of the poem is thought-provoking and elicits an emotional assent granular time rolls backward, forward the beach of our composure always in mo...
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:24 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: The door
Replies: 7
Views: 720

Re: The door

This is a nice one. I felt good after reading it. Yeah, old age and definite imperfections in our lives but love opens the door.
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:22 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: gehenna
Replies: 5
Views: 577

Re: gehenna

the images come rapid-fire but the reader can reread after the first time thru and take the time to dwell on each. The title drew me in. I like the basic metaphor on which the poem turns


gehenna speaks in rapid fire's blink
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:17 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: April is the Cruelest Month
Replies: 9
Views: 643

Re: April is the Cruelest Month

I like this poem----that is the bottom line of my feelings on it. The first stanza is super Almost out of Winter, they assault again, late blizzards and hoary religious wars. Desperate and dire, they try to draft you, like smoke rubbing old English panes. And Jesus? Well, that is the truth. Peace is...
by theirishsea
May 10th, 2019, 7:13 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Lyric of A Mixed Metaphor Maker
Replies: 2
Views: 343

Lyric of A Mixed Metaphor Maker

thoughts tumble down splat on the empty space of silence they aren't square or cubed formulations they don't gust with rhythmic sounds my fault my genetics my leaning my patience are not up to corralling them into a pen whipping the fat off them they still stink with the less than ideal world they w...
by theirishsea
May 4th, 2019, 3:21 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: LOVE behaving like wingless beasts
Replies: 4
Views: 478

Re: LOVE behaving like wingless beasts

LOVE/angelizing/its wings----------great start to the poem. And this:

risque encounters
adrift with passions
set fire, breathing
living dragons copulate
in the skies darkened
by veils of clouds,

and the ending on a bed of ideals----really a nice inventive poem.
by theirishsea
May 4th, 2019, 3:09 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: They come!
Replies: 3
Views: 478

Re: They come!

Brutus? A hero perhaps but the empire came anyway. Lady MacBeth saw the daggr---if I remember correctly----but that was after the fact.

When words become deeds, the horse is out of the barn.
by theirishsea
May 3rd, 2019, 6:12 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Unity Lost
Replies: 7
Views: 515

Re: Unity Lost

Sad times. What was always there but hidden, maybe restrained is out in the public square like the evil times of the history---hopefully we can avoid the worst possibilities---but the potential is pretty bad.
by theirishsea
May 3rd, 2019, 6:09 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: wishes
Replies: 5
Views: 395

Re: wishes

actually you have a good poem here. Though you may be consciously frustrated---in your own evaluation---you do a lot with that frustration. The car keys metaphor is excellent. I can identify with that---everybody can. And I like the sea-weathered shack in Key West---where Hemingway lived and Wallace...
by theirishsea
May 3rd, 2019, 6:00 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: A Public Display
Replies: 2
Views: 274

A Public Display

"keep your mouth shut' anything that explodes in your mind gets said your social being is dead you rave like a deranged president you have that urge to burst into language to boom non sequiturs to bellow stupid jokes you really have no sense of humor things just get said finger on the trigger you ne...
by theirishsea
April 18th, 2019, 5:43 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Starting with Nothing and Somehow Communing
Replies: 3
Views: 479

Starting with Nothing and Somehow Communing

starting with nothing but empty words no, not meditation not OM not a guru's black hole of an eye in which he is not home but somewhere on a plane with God jetting over existence silently 34 thousand feet up thoughts appear disappear are the roar of the jets but not in the pilot's ears quiet peace t...

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