I-Like-Rhymes

• Last seen 1 day ago. Member since February 7, 2006.
• My mood is , and quote is "Why!!".
• I am a 57 year old man (England)
• When I'm not writing, I'm Reciting or singing shantys.
• I help out as a moderator manager
• I am in the groups Moderators
• I have 1,091 comments, 14 columns, 260 poems, 3 stories

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• Column: October at allpoetry
  OCTOBER
  
  The conkers (horse chestnuts to the uninitiated) are falling of the trees and will soon be joined by the leaves. The dark mornings and even darker nights have arrived to make the daily commute to and from work even more depressing. The ch
• Column: The guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools at allpoetry
  When I was a youngster and, occasionally, listening to what my teachers would tell me, there were a lot of certainties in the things they would say. Not the least of these pronouncements were about what they called poetry, My English teacher, or should th
• Seasons at allpoetry
  A cruel old man in his white flannel suit
  Wrapping the world in a clean soft sheet

Guest Book

• iLikeGir on May 27

  hello im mary. ive always dreamed of going to college in England to be a vetrinarian. now that im 15, i have to consider these things. whats it like down there???
• dnoeman : "a year's spinning" on March 20

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• bigperm : hello on January 28

  Just wanted to say hi. I have been writing on AP for a little while and just started browsing some of the sister sites. I really had no motivation to read old poetry, per say, but this site has been very enfluencial to my muse the last couple of days. I've looked around this site and seen your name on many different aspects within. I just wanted to tell you that I really do appreciate what contributions your making here and basically...thanks.
• Mari Goes on July 14, 2008

  Happy Birthday!
  

Comments

• on The Great War by Vernon Scannell, 1 day ago

  I agree Scannel has written some great stuff that deserves an even wider audience.
  It's a shame that his content here is limited but the copyright position prevents adding more.
  Jim
• on Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, 2 days ago

  It is said that this was written on the eve of Arnold's honeymoon and some of the initial lines can readily be imagined as being spoken to a lover. However the last three lines do suggest a certain panic in the heart of at least one of the pair on his wedding night!!
  "Ignorant armies clash by night" might well describe the inexperienced lovemaking of two newly-weds.
• on Auspex by James Russell Lowell, on November 4

  Beautiful but sad

  To me the poet is lamenting the loss of children (song-birds) from a home (nest).
  The warmth of a home has became merely a house, the rich leaved tree of summer and autumm has become the lonely framework in winter.
  The swallows reference, for me, indicates that now the children have left they will not return again as swallows return to a location each year. The parent will be lonely when he can no longer hear the squabbles of growing children.
  The last lines are saddest of all since to me they represent the poet thinking about his death and burial.
  Jim
• on Th’ Owd Family Bible by William Baron, on November 4

  I couldn't agree with you more about the translations. We have lost some wonderful and powerful language in the century since this was written.
  Take the simple phrase "hutched on mi gronfeyther's knee" it is so hard to replace hutched with its conotations of comfort, warmth, security, and loving belonging, and certainly perched is inadequate.
  Although I provided the update for this, and am doing so for others, I cannot hope to equal Baron's excellent phrasing.
  However, given our international readership, the attempt needed to be made.
  Jim