Hello MC. Thank you for taking time to comment on my latest poem The Spirit. It has taken me a good while to reach the point when I am in full control of myself after a lifetime of conformity and being controlled. It is in fact remarkably liberating. Thank you again as I always value what you have to say. Keith

The hard hitting truth is all the trouble with taxis and young girls being abused was happening and reported in 1991 in Hx when we were fostering troubled girls and then in later years their remarks were We know to do things better now .i don't think so . Thankyou for your comments Regards Wendy X .

Dear MC, thank you for the comment on my poem, Anxiety, My Companion (a daily struggle). I have done both therapy and medications. Sometimes it helps other times not so much. But I do try to keep a positive attitude and writing helps. Sorry to say but My Daughter suffers more than I do and has no insurance, and in the United States it is difficult to get help.

Thank you for all your comments they are much appreciated I feel I have found lots of friends in writing poems love Wendy X

Hello M.C. , .. thanks for your comment ... I wrote it very quickly while logged in here ... which concentrates the mind a bit ... it's about a real event where I failed, so I'm probably reading it stressing different thoughts to myself .. I usually leave well alone and don't edit endlessly ... cheers.

Many thanks, MC.
I sang and played "Sammy B Goode" at our village coffee morning on Saturday for the old ladies. We passed a cup round and they kindly gave £80! I had to kiss a few of them for that though!

Hello MC,
Sorry I only just saw your comment on my song Sammy Be Goode and the issue you have in accessing my Just Giving page via FaceBook.
I don't want to seem presumptuous but if you would like to make a small donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust I have attached a link to their webpage where you can do so directly rather than needing a FaceBook page to access my JustGiving one.
Many thanks,
John

https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/support-us/donate?gclid=CJHjxc7NqNMCFfYy0wodTVUFqw

MC, thank you for your comments on the content on the poem A Frontier of Contrast. It makes for some interesting reading. I agree with your use of the word indolent as this can apply to most Latin countries as I well know having lived in Spain for many years. There can be no doubt that California is an economic giant which will always attract wealth but what it has invested in its pristine beauty it lacks in culture. America is highly multicultural which cannot be said of its southern neighbours who are more monochrome in their complexion. America has no cohesive culture but a dynamism to succeed; to create wealth. Yet when the wealth has been created they are stymied in their search of culture. Thank you again for you comments which I value. Keith

thanks for commenting on ;'this book is bound in leather...' MC - as always you are spot on with your observation of it's meaning and nuance - I appreciate you taking the time to post
Ian

Hi M.C.

Thank you for the comments on Super Mum: Another Working Class Hero.

It is true poverty has always been a part of things in the World. It saddens and angers me that despite holding the keys to eradicate it, the issue persists a home and abroad.

thanks for commenting on 'returning home' MC - you have picked up the mood and feel very well in your summary - and, indeed, the references within the lines - thanks for commenting
Ian

Hi MC

Life is worthwhile I suppose when you get the odd gem from the pan-handled masses

thanks for the comment on 'Old Romantic' MC :-)
Ian

Hi MC

Just been catching up with your most recent enjoyable note worthy blogs. On the WOL profiles thinga-ma-jig I player

Ken.

Thank's MC and I'll put that rite

Hi M.C.

Thanks for the comment

Thankyou for your comments but when you have been on the line of fire with Hearsay the nastyness can ruin your life and mud sticks forever their are too many I'm all right jacks in this world to ever think you can put things right regards Wendy .

Great comment on Which Rev, love it

Thank you for your comment on SHARE M.C. It's nice to know you have taken the trouble to read and comment.

thanks again MC Newberry

ty for your kind comments; yes i know there is good in the world; but at this moment in time I feel the guilt of a celebration when there is so much horror going on around us; it is for each of us to express these feelings especially if of a sensitive nature; we all have opinions so in poetry we express them in the only way we can

Hi MC

Just as well the human spirit is capable of adapting to whatever it's born into.

Merry Christmas Ken

thanks for the comments on USMF MC - and some insightful commentary on past presidents. As you know I'm a big JFK fan - and although he had his faults I think deep down he was on 'OK Joe' - I don't think that can be said of the President Elect now in any way, shape or form
Ian

Hi MC

Many thanks for your comment on Armistice Day.

Life's story for us Critters is without exception completed on a sour note.

We all die at the end of it

thanks for commenting on 'red poppies on an autumn day' MC - glad you liked it - I appreciate you taking the time to comment
Ian

Thank you for your comment on "On Bourley Road" M.C,

I really hadn't anticipated any response to this, though the sentiment is broad the title is specific, so I am grateful for your reading and comment.

I am at an age it seems when it is hard for me to view anything without being reminded of some other thing.

I feel that this trait may annoy some (I understand that completely) but it is sometimes so vivid I cannot help myself, so I am grateful for any indulgence.

I have several former RE friends, and have to say I have rarely served with a harder working or tuffer bunch of men than they, (In peace time or war) they do their trade, much of which is humanitarian.

I know this part of the world quite well, its full of old boys seeing out their twilight years (not going quietly)

Thanks again,

David.

thanks for your i9nsightful and supportive comments on 'Fairy Cakes' MC - I've responded on the blog as I needed to answer both yours and Stu's point in a 'contrast and compare' way.
Thanks for commenting as always
Ian

Hi M.C. Thanks for comment on Dylan poem. I gave it another airing because of the Nobel which, personally, I can't take seriously even though I love him as a performer. That poem is important to me because it was the first poem I wrote after a 20 year hiatus and I have written and published loads since 2008.

Hi MC
Very funny
One simple comment made me think what I'd feel like when folk stopped telling me I looked well.
I think I'm getting close

Thank's MC

Yes it's nice being able to take the mick, without the fear of losing one's head. That's true democracy.