Festival Time... 'Soggy Dog Days'

[xyzllii]

Interesting.

[dashpoet]

Good to hear! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, I appreciate it.

[666Feliks]

i really really like your poems

[dashpoet]

Delighted you found them, thank you.

[violetparme]

very convincing!

[dashpoet]

Always good while it lasts! Thanks Violet

[MEOSHABEAN1]

very nice

[dashpoet]

Cool, thanks Meosha.

[keanghiero]

nice.

5*

all the best

Kean

[dashpoet]

Thanks Kean, glad you like it.

[XaveJamesGrey]

"Let the deluge wash your soul...." Been there, done that, and what a great cleansing indeed...  Nice stuff Dashpoet!

[dashpoet]

It is good to get dry afterwards though! Thanks Xave

[loctia1]

great dancing rhythm!  cheers, hunter

[dashpoet]

Needs a few tweaks to really keep the beat, I think, but happily I hear there is enough to get you moving!

[dashpoet]

... next year...

[peebzzz]

This is awesome. I love festival time =]

Though I definitely wish I could have gone to Woodstock! That's THE festival!

[dashpoet]

I even found myself sheltering in the poetry tent at this year's Latitude! No open mike though, or I might have been tempted...

[peebzzz]

I wish I could have gone to Latitude. I couldn't afford it damn it =[ Download stole my money. But Download was awesome so it was worth it.

I thought the poetry tent had an open mic. That would be awesome. I think Glasto may do... but I may be making that up lol.

[PulsarPoet]

"stomach takes the bass . . . long live rock n' roll . . ." Too right. Live music is best - in whatever accompanying conditions. Your poem captures the feeling well.

[dashpoet]

A couple of key lines - and the stomach taking the bass is the best bit for me! Thanks PulsarPoet.

[psychospeakempire]

Festivals are really big (no pun intended) in England I see.

I went to Woodstock in 1969, and that was enough for me.

all that mud and rain was really miserable. give me a roof over my head any day.

but if that's what you like, all the best, and have a blast, if that's the English way.

loved it Mark!

[dashpoet]

I guess if you are going to go to one festival, that should be it! There do seem to be more and more festivals each year here. I think it is approaching saturation though, not all sell enough tickets to go ahead. My friend went to one recently where he got a £125 ticket free with a beach towel from a website promotion! Give me sunshine over rain any day, when it comes to festival time. If it does rain though, you may as well find a way to enjoy it anyway!

[leftgreenthumb]

Makes me glad it is festival season!! Great 'tribute' to the summer rock fest. :)

[dashpoet]

Thank you! Perhaps not my best poetry, but one I am glad to have written. Cheers to you, Mark.

[rttallie]

very uplifting, it puts me into one of the feelings where i'm at at an all day musical event and everyoe is just free minded and cheerful. Long Live rock and roll!

[dashpoet]

Hey, thanks for that. Some of the best days, outside with friends, listening to music. Cheers!

[MrDaMan]

Hah Dash... love the line "Dance of the urinals" this whole piece is a frolick in fun. :-) Well done.

[dashpoet]

Cheers MrDaMan. It's where the poem started, going with the flow, in a toilet tent! Seemed almost choreographed, the way everyone found space, moved on through. Poetry in motion, so to speak!

[DoorsChick1967]

Wonderful, full flow, like the layout of a banquet meal.

[dashpoet]

Great metaphor for a festive feast! Thanks DoorsChick.

[NewBrazdolph]

Great! you´re simply fabulous!

[dashpoet]

Thanks Braz, glad to share this with you. Cheers!

[clayLavl]

damn! you can make a poem about anything! brilliant! haha!

[dashpoet]

It is what I do! Thanks Clay, good to hear from you.

[HalooftheMuse]

Much, much rather listen to the winged flight and flow of your ethereal words and voice than be in such a crowded skayp!!! 5*****

[dashpoet]

Glad to offer an alternative! Thank you Haloof, you are always welcome.

[yipyip2020yip]

As always, your poem is wonderful ^^~~

Enjoy every footstep of life wherever we are. Listen to our breathing, the mind is clear what we need. Concern the feeling of others with our pure heart,  there's peace in our mind. ^^~~

[dashpoet]

Such lovely sentiment, beautiful comment, thank you.

[PoetLina]

Wallowing in nostalgia - who says mud doesn't echo: Long Live Rock and Roll! 5* fav.

[dashpoet]

That's a great line... if I'd thought of it I think I would have used it in this poem! Hey ho, one for the future anyway, all part of live and learn. Thanks PoetLina, glad to connect again.

[tinySpectacle]

Such a great poem-- a perfect window into this event.

[dashpoet]

Thanks tiny. Your comment puts me in mind of the description of my first poetry website: 'a view through paintings as windows to poems as given moments'. It is exactly what I try and achieve with descriptive poems like this one, so I am delighted to hear your comment. Cheers!

[AntaresInScorpius]

wow, was that stone henge?? I am gonna visit stone henge some day. very cool, as usual dashpoet.

[dashpoet]

Thanks Antares. Not Stonehenge, but could have been! The poem is from experience of festivals in general, that I began writing at Latitude a couple of weeks ago. The photos are from a mix of festivals too. Enjoy Stonehenge when you go!

[InspireJessi]

This was great!

Your words are beyond creative in humorous application.

[dashpoet]

Fantastic response, thanks to you Jessi. Cheers!

[charlottepoet]

nicely done!

the pictures were classic and i totally enjoyed the poem.

one creepy thing though was that i wrote a poem, years ago (unpublished, unshown) where I used a line similiar to footsteps marking time . .

:)

[dashpoet]

Great! Thank you. It surprises me more just how often it seems possible to come up with completely new arrangements of words for a poem, particularly when they seem to mean something, sometimes quite profound. (Although I confess this is of the playful rather than profound tendency!) Cheers Charlotte.

[andrewnorris1]

Oh those wonderful festival days, how you took me back, mind you those urinals seem pretty sophisticated compared to the dug holes of my Stonehenge days. Nice one

[dashpoet]

Thanks Andrew - rest assured there are still plenty of 'proper' festival toilets, particularly by day 3 or 4! They are generally better though, than they were. I was selective in the photos I used here, could have put a lot of people off before the end of the first verse!!

[liz1060]

Hail, yes! I'm curious, Mark, which came first -- the words or the pictures?

[dashpoet]

Hi Liz, thanks for listening in again. The words... starting in a toilet tent a week or so ago! I finished the poem when I got home. The pictures I found on-line, tried to mix and match the best I could: I don't tend to take a camera to festivals. (I usually am able to recite my poems 'by heart', this was a little too long to learn. That's why most of my longer poems are accompanied by images! The secret is out...)

[liz1060]

I love secrets! Thanks for revealing -- both your method and your foible -- it's good to know my demi-gods are only human -- lol.

[dashpoet]

Oh my, now you ARE embarrassing me!

[Kabuki0009]

I love the spirit of this one, but that being said we are getting way too many soggy days *****stars; ) + faved

[dashpoet]

... since the start of the school holidays it seems, sods law I guess! Thanks Marcell, stay dry!

[Idlinfarm]

Hail to Dionysus! Loved it.

[dashpoet]

Nothing is really new it seems! Thanks Ida, carrying on the tradition, Mark.

[anglicansag]

Another Big Smile put on my face by Dashpoet !

Mark, this was utterly charming. "effervescing string" ... indeed !

[dashpoet]

Ah yes, not sure where that one came from... seemed somehow fitting though! Cheers anglicansag.

[ozjthomas]

Really captures the feeling of those festivals!

[dashpoet]

Cool! Thanks Oz.