tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post1960781659008059926..comments2023-07-17T08:19:24.624+01:00Comments on Delusions of Adequacy: The Poetry Bus of WordsArgenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-18415260214125363982010-04-03T22:32:34.495+01:002010-04-03T22:32:34.495+01:00@Lacherie - Thanks for the kind words and for stop...@Lacherie - Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-82568729484574786912010-04-03T04:29:54.823+01:002010-04-03T04:29:54.823+01:00Awesome poem, love! I need to get cracking on bei...Awesome poem, love! I need to get cracking on being more disciplined in blogging, lol.lacherie_17https://www.blogger.com/profile/04573288933316745280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-41428662301854594362010-04-02T13:04:55.727+01:002010-04-02T13:04:55.727+01:00@Matt - Hi, lovely to see a new face around here a...@Matt - Hi, lovely to see a new face around here and many thanks for your kind comments.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-28578648404023694692010-04-02T10:42:40.119+01:002010-04-02T10:42:40.119+01:00And yet your catch echoes still ... beautiful poem...And yet your catch echoes still ... beautiful poem.matt at shadow of irishttp://www.shadowofiris.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-21797114313033700012010-04-01T16:42:39.405+01:002010-04-01T16:42:39.405+01:00@Pure Fiction - Thank you!@Pure Fiction - Thank you!Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-69984350411427639482010-03-31T20:27:52.959+01:002010-03-31T20:27:52.959+01:00Lovely - Beautifully phrased and compact - really...Lovely - Beautifully phrased and compact - really like it. (My own pome this week is weirdly similar)Pure Fictionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04265599089734430505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-26901177463799295602010-03-30T20:52:58.152+01:002010-03-30T20:52:58.152+01:00@Karen - To say you wish you'd written it is t...@Karen - To say you wish you'd written it is the highest praise indeed! Thank you!<br /><br />@Bug - The blank page gets all of us from time to time.<br /><br />@Bethany Rae - I find the blankness comes and goes. At the moment it's at bay but I went for nearly 10 years without wiriting a single thing once.<br /><br />@Titus - Thank you. the deck/desk thing seemed such a natural progression - think I must have channelled it from somewhere :-)<br /><br />@Domestic Oub - Thank you, glad you enjoyed.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-19540185429024218912010-03-30T14:51:55.499+01:002010-03-30T14:51:55.499+01:00Argent, great stuff, loved it.Argent, great stuff, loved it.Domestic Oubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17298706907126418711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-80008483678520297122010-03-30T09:11:56.162+01:002010-03-30T09:11:56.162+01:00What a good one! Brilliant choice of word, the fi...What a good one! Brilliant choice of word, the fishing imagery fits it so well, and I'm with the rest on loving the movement from deck to desk. Plus it conjures something we surely all know so well - those inspired phrases that skitter away to who knows where - and yet at the end, there is a poem. Loved it.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-77566157777298377082010-03-30T02:53:57.736+01:002010-03-30T02:53:57.736+01:00I love this. I feel that way all the time. I have ...I love this. I feel that way all the time. I have so much to say but really I am saying nothing at all.Bethany Raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249041508926743591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-17670228619198926352010-03-30T01:29:40.795+01:002010-03-30T01:29:40.795+01:00Excellent! I feel this way quite often - darn blan...Excellent! I feel this way quite often - darn blank page!The Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-85707439290545110592010-03-30T01:12:35.759+01:002010-03-30T01:12:35.759+01:00Sometimes I read a poem (pome) and wish I had writ...Sometimes I read a poem (pome) and wish I had written it. This is one of those. I love it from beginning image to surprising ending.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-43703483054852773542010-03-29T23:49:02.614+01:002010-03-29T23:49:02.614+01:00@Ann - Glad you enjoyed, it was fun to write too.
...@Ann - Glad you enjoyed, it was fun to write too.<br /><br />@Friko - Don't go! don't- Oh, she's gone :-) Thanks for dropping by.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-41683014731686137822010-03-29T23:02:41.956+01:002010-03-29T23:02:41.956+01:00Blimey, brilliant and brilliant touch at the end.
...Blimey, brilliant and brilliant touch at the end.<br />I'm leaving.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-40420225992550986812010-03-29T22:36:08.494+01:002010-03-29T22:36:08.494+01:00Images of fish shimmering in nets as I read. I al...Images of fish shimmering in nets as I read. I also loved the reference to disappearing words. I do have a tendency to suffer from words flitting off. Really enjoyed this.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07524878248746427258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-48705807721475686032010-03-29T18:01:28.840+01:002010-03-29T18:01:28.840+01:00@Enchanted Oak - Thanks you. It's amazing the...@Enchanted Oak - Thanks you. It's amazing the things they let us play with as kids. We have proper lead soldiers and used to play on a waste tip ear home that asbestos and old batteries lying around on it!<br /><br />@NanU - You're right. I've taken to keeping a notebook with me and by the bed for those middle-of-the-night inspirations.<br /><br />@Watercats - Cheers!<br /><br />@Peter G - Irony rules! Thanks!Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-35660941564016159082010-03-29T15:22:49.233+01:002010-03-29T15:22:49.233+01:00This is great. Lovely image of the net of words bu...This is great. Lovely image of the net of words bulging and writhing,<br />And of course the irony of the page being not actually blank any more..Peter Gouldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292063172122249202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-69367410787077915792010-03-29T13:57:59.009+01:002010-03-29T13:57:59.009+01:00wow!.. this is a beaut! I love the words being cau...wow!.. this is a beaut! I love the words being caught like a fish... and then the sad ending... just seriously lovely!Batteson.Indhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10846214578565824955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-10326299426983374632010-03-29T12:17:23.011+01:002010-03-29T12:17:23.011+01:00So true, Argent, so true. All the really good word...So true, Argent, so true. All the really good words happen when we're bereft of anything adequate to catch them in.NanUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11596765792663269178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-53773770032363904472010-03-29T11:55:30.491+01:002010-03-29T11:55:30.491+01:00This is a lively piece of writing about the flashi...This is a lively piece of writing about the flashing nature of thoughts. They do that, don't they, lie there are wriggle. Quicksilver is beautiful stuff. I had it in my rock collection when I was a kid, and we never knew it was toxic.Enchanted Oakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815997287116818456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-38070982127474306642010-03-29T11:14:41.143+01:002010-03-29T11:14:41.143+01:00@TFE - Haha, all we were told in Science was not t...@TFE - Haha, all we were told in Science was not to touch it. We played a kind of football game with it on the desktop using rulers. Happy days, could also explain the madness! Thanks for the kind commentos!Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-12956957731723647612010-03-29T11:05:26.847+01:002010-03-29T11:05:26.847+01:00Lovely analogy.You do have to get the words down e...Lovely analogy.You do have to get the words down efore they fade.We were given quicksilver in the science lesson at school with no health warnings/ safety equipment/gloves etc at all.Played with it and kept it in me pocket for weeks.Doh!<br />You've landed a lovely fish here Argo!Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-22484182355960595852010-03-29T10:34:02.561+01:002010-03-29T10:34:02.561+01:00@EW - Yeah, I believe quicksilver is mercury. I j...@EW - Yeah, I believe quicksilver is mercury. I just love the sound of the word. I played about with some mercury in Science as a kid, it is very strange stuff. Glad you like 'deck to desk', I quite like that bit myself.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-58219336306104383922010-03-29T10:21:53.270+01:002010-03-29T10:21:53.270+01:00I like going from deck to desk.
Isn't quicksil...I like going from deck to desk.<br />Isn't quicksilver mercury?<br />Have you ever watched that disappearing? Evocative.Emerging Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-23537110558038963112010-03-29T09:44:03.860+01:002010-03-29T09:44:03.860+01:00@Niamh - Thanks, it was all a bit of a rush this m...@Niamh - Thanks, it was all a bit of a rush this morning and I struggled to think of a word I liked among all of the many that I like.<br /><br />@Dominic - Gotta love those paradoxes. Actually, I didn't spot that but thanks for bringing it to my attention.<br /><br />@DFTP - Let;s have a pome about a badger then!<br /><br />@Rachel - That was a typo (fixed now). Slippery/sparkly - an excellent combination., thanks.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.com