M.C. Newberry

'convistion of purpose' eh - sometimes I don't know what day of the week it is 😉 thanks again mate
Ian

thanks for the kind comments re: 'with banners held high' Mike - you make some pertinent and insightfull comments as always - glad you liked it. In the process of developing it as a song for the festival with the same name in May - hopefully will have it ready in time
thanks for taking the time to comment
Ian

thanks M.C. for visiting.
the jury feels sorry for the criminal,
not so much for the victim.
If you get in trouble, holler racism.
that will get you a free pass
and an interview on TV.

Cheers folks re (My Bookshelf): Ray, Don, Martin and M.C.
I think I may have failed in my attampt to be ironic lol. And now I have lost the point that I was attempting to make - oh the irony of it all. 😉

Tommy

thanks for the welcome back Mike - I needed a break 😉

got your good response to "Public Domain".
thank you M.C.
(you are the Wordsmith, not me!).

agreed.
especially at my age
it's nice to get home
where all your stuff
is right where you want it.

Thankyou for your comments MC I once wrote to an mp about drug problems 250 needles found in an area where children played a few years ago was told to put in the dusbin they didn’t care then and only care about self interest now . They are not worthy of our votes only Interested in there Gravy Trains . Love Wendy x

thanks for reading
my poem
i write by touch
some say I am.


wink.

Good Evening Mark (is it?), you did me the immense favour of re-acquainting me with the beautifully crafted poetry of Robert Laurence Binyon 1869–1943. I remembered 'For the fallen' very well but had either not read or forgotten (mea culpa..) 'The burning of the leaves' which I found an immensely brave and moving poem:

They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring;
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.

John

your plot...
thickens!

thanks for visiting M.C. 😀

most poets ARE out of orderl
Repair to their rooms
to write
themselves.

So very kind that you took time to enjoy my PoTW - I shall look with interest at your blog for comment Thanks again

I don't know what happened but WOL stopped sending me
the notifications, so I did not know you responded.
Sorry about that.

re 'Accidental Curator'

Two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on the bed with bare torsos to improve the work, which they thought had not gone far enough. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed. Sold for £2.5 million

. Wikipedia
;- )

thanks for your comments on
"We Never Asked"
the poem I think
speaks to us all
as we speed through life
unthinking.
we wish...

Hello Mc - thanks for the info about the poetry competition. I might send in the Pine poem. Thanks also for your nice comment - I can't bear seeing a tree felled for unimportant reasons . those pines are lovely but they do create some problems - the roots are on the surface, at least some of them, so they deform the tarmac which is dangerous for mopeds or bikes, especially in the dark - also if there is abundant snow, (not v often here) branches tend to fall off as they are top heavy. On Elba there are so many they are like green seas, and you don't realise how many villas are hidden in them - lucky b...........s!
Hope you are keeping well - Jennifer

I end up talking to myself.
I am the only one
who will listen.

wink.

Hi M.C.
Thanks for taking the time ...
I think I could write a book about some of the ways that the literati commented on the fact that my first poems only were written in rhyme.
As my latest tomb suggests I only started writing (anything) after my first wife died, 12 years ago. Poetry (if that's what I write) certainly helped.
Poetry also helped in me finding wife no.2, but that's another poem.
If it works, it works

Your wonderful comment is appreciated, thank you.😌Jane

more fun to be bad
but one gets hungry
after a time.

where would we be
without women to
civilize us?

😃

Hi M.C.
You did absolutely nothing wrong with regard to your viewing my Jigsaw 'poem'.
I don't think I'd done a jigsaw for 60+ years, but ...
My Father in Law gave me a jigsaw for Xmas and it became such a compulsive task in finishing it, that I could have wanged it out of the door.
I began to write a poem about the frustrations, but then thought that I could express my feelings better by just writing nothing.
Me trying to be a smart-arse.
At my age I should know better.

Hope I may be forgiven 😃

Tom's silly itis !!
I like it!
😃

"keep your hair on"???
what the heck does that mean?

hahaha

At least you passed
Puberty!

wink.

Being married
is like living in a cell-
only the warden/wife
has the key.

wink.

my dog is potty trained.

Hi
House of Fun
Comments and thoughts much much appreciated.
Sad isn't it how much in life continues to disappoint, but I suppose it gives us something to write about.

Dear MC Thanks again for your encouraging comment.

Hi Thanks for the toughtful commentsonmy poem 'A Waldorf Salad'. Much appreciated.