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by BobBradshaw
13 Feb 2024, 21:50
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Matchmaker (small changes)
Replies: 8
Views: 914

Re: The Matchmaker

Caleb, since most of the comments about your poems have been from me, and since I was the only one to comment on this poem before your accusation,I take this comment of yours personally. “ I wonder if the poem was a little too gay for this board.” I will no longer comment on your poems. Others can c...
by BobBradshaw
13 Feb 2024, 05:13
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: A Mother Writes To Her Daughter, In Europe Somewhere With Her Friends
Replies: 7
Views: 781

Re: A Mother Writes To Her Daughter, In Europe Somewhere With Her Friends

Do you think all mothers are like yours? Most mothers love their children, as this one does. Many women have a love and passion for gardening, and gardens are sensual. Many mothers share the beauty of gardens and the sensuality of plants, their touch, scent, colors, with their children, especially w...
by BobBradshaw
13 Feb 2024, 05:08
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Matchmaker (small changes)
Replies: 8
Views: 914

Re: The Matchmaker

Being too gay for this board? What nonsense. This isn’t the 1950s.
by BobBradshaw
13 Feb 2024, 01:42
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: A Mother Writes To Her Daughter, In Europe Somewhere With Her Friends
Replies: 7
Views: 781

A Mother Writes To Her Daughter, In Europe Somewhere With Her Friends

A Mother Writes To Her Daughter, In Europe Somewhere With Her Friends How are you? Your letters home are like flower catalogs to a gardener in winter. They don’t come often enough. I have plenty to do to distract me. Spring as always is as busy as a mother with two toddlers underfoot. Your collie Na...
by BobBradshaw
12 Feb 2024, 23:51
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Matchmaker (small changes)
Replies: 8
Views: 914

Re: The Matchmaker

This is a fresh twist on the ever popular matchmaker theme. There is a bit of filler…”of course”, “sans serenity”. The first 3 lines aren’t needed. The last 2 lines of S1 echo the 2nd and 3rd lines anyway. The first line isn’t needed because the title tells us who she is. Having been briefed…remove ...
by BobBradshaw
12 Feb 2024, 21:54
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Not Looking Forward To The Last Note
Replies: 4
Views: 676

Re: Not Looking Forward To The Last Note

Ah. How sweet. I love grandkids. They’re the best.
by BobBradshaw
11 Feb 2024, 06:41
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Notice
Replies: 2
Views: 351

Re: Notice

Our blessings go with you, Ieuan. I’ll be glad when you’re back.
by BobBradshaw
07 Feb 2024, 07:39
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: My Siberia
Replies: 8
Views: 2176

Re: My Siberia

This is better, both the vapor imagery and that slam of a close…”vault-like door”… the 3 heavy stresses reinforcing the image.
by BobBradshaw
06 Feb 2024, 08:58
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Of Love, Cuts and Caring
Replies: 4
Views: 880

Re: Of Love, Cuts and Caring

Fairly well done. It’s something that we’ve all thought and can relate to. I like your trying a different voice. I like the sneer in this: Is there a poet working at Johnson & Johnson? Or is that obvious? I wanted a stronger punch line for a close than that last line, but I don’t have a suggestion. ...
by BobBradshaw
06 Feb 2024, 00:17
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Big Shot
Replies: 4
Views: 1076

Re: The Big Shot

Thanks
by BobBradshaw
03 Feb 2024, 07:04
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Goodbye
Replies: 2
Views: 658

Re: Goodbye

Some nice lines in this one….see my favorite ones below. The language is rather formal, but since it’s consistent I’m not faulting it… though I do dislike “I bid you”. There is a lot of warmth in this poem, especially in the next to last stanza, my favorite. Trying to hold onto water is a common sim...
by BobBradshaw
01 Feb 2024, 22:20
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Bob Bradshaw -Two Poems at The Lake
Replies: 3
Views: 687

Bob Bradshaw -Two Poems at The Lake

I have 2 poems at The Lake, “Butterfly Weed” and “The Orchestra”. Check them out at https://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/bob-bradshaw/
by BobBradshaw
01 Feb 2024, 21:49
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: DoesThat Tree With White Papery Bark Want To Be Me?
Replies: 3
Views: 838

Re: DoesThat Tree With White Papery Bark Want To Be Me?

I like the imaginative language deployed in the telling of some painful memories. Good, active verbs. Another success.
by BobBradshaw
01 Feb 2024, 21:45
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Big Shot
Replies: 4
Views: 1076

Re: The Big Shot

This is no fantasy. This all happened. Haydn was the most respected composer before Mozart arrived on the scene, and after he died. Nearly everyone called him the Master. Beethoven was a young man, and studied for awhile under Haydn.
by BobBradshaw
01 Feb 2024, 08:34
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Big Shot
Replies: 4
Views: 1076

The Big Shot

The Big Shot Haydn sits primly on the side, never a hair out of place on his powdered wig. Everyone admires the Master. The old man takes to flattery like a horse to a bucket of oats! That is why he wants me to sign my scores "Ludwig, Pupil of Haydn" ....I refuse! How often has he cut our lessons sh...
by BobBradshaw
31 Jan 2024, 22:50
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: A Dream at the Beach
Replies: 6
Views: 1033

Re: A Dream at the Beach

I like your edits, Billy
by BobBradshaw
31 Jan 2024, 22:30
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Dervish Dance
Replies: 7
Views: 1234

Re: Dervish Dance

I love this poem. Maybe it’s partly because it’s nostalgic for me. But, also, it’s cause I love the N’s voice. And I wholeheartedly agree with that last line. Another good one, Billy
by BobBradshaw
29 Jan 2024, 07:06
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Reader
Replies: 2
Views: 787

Re: The Reader

Thanks for commenting.
by BobBradshaw
29 Jan 2024, 06:26
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Changing World
Replies: 6
Views: 1012

Re: The Changing World

Thanks for the comment. To me it isn’t clear that it is satire. Perhaps it will be to others. Nevertheless, good flow and metrics.
by BobBradshaw
29 Jan 2024, 00:53
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Reader
Replies: 2
Views: 787

The Reader

The Reader Sitting in the passenger's bucket seat
 with her brown ringlets of hair
 like Elizabeth Browning
 she bent over a book. We pulled up to the drive-thru. "You want a shake or soda?
" She shook off my question. "Do you like music?"  I asked,
 straining like a man at his oars,
 the waves kick...
by BobBradshaw
28 Jan 2024, 23:01
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Changing World
Replies: 6
Views: 1012

Re: The Changing World

No, I didn’t read it as mocking transgender people. Quite the opposite.

Didn’t you say that you were gay? If so, why would you mock someone who is transgender?
by BobBradshaw
28 Jan 2024, 03:39
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Changing World
Replies: 6
Views: 1012

Re: The Changing World

Very nice! I love the warmth, humor and humanity of this. Lovely flow and sonics as well. The metrics are good. Your best piece so far.

Was that a pink bow I saw in their scraggly beard?
If I see them again, I’ll give them the hug
I should have given them the first time.