Thank you again for sharing your comments, Yanma!

Comment is about Dog Days (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Thanks for extra likes: K. Lynn, John Coopey & Red Brick Keshner 👍

Comment is about Writing Keeps Me Alive (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thanks so much @Holden Moncrieff and two tulips is quite a compliment. I had hoped that the poem would be an accurate depiction of that state and stage of life. Most appreciative of your time and consideration. 🕊️🙏🌷🌷RBK

Comment is about a moment turning (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

A stunning poem, RBK, the images it conjures are very unique and perfectly chosen to portray this "slow turning" with great eloquence and precision! 🌷🌷

Comment is about a moment turning (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thankyou Stephen for your kind thoughts. And thanks for the Likes Adam, Aisha and Gillian.

Comment is about IF I FORGET (A SONNET) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It is hard not to be moved by this lovely poem, John. A terrible reality for some and frighteningly near for others.

Comment is about IF I FORGET (A SONNET) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Indeed, David (RL Moore), that is such an excellent video clip. One would think they were tailored for each other. Thanks so much for sharing it as well as visiting with my poem. 🙏🕊️🌷

Comment is about in the end (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Many thanks Yanma Hidayah for your perceptive feedback. It is much appreciated 🙂
Thanks for likes: hugh, Aisha, John Gilbert Ellis & Holden. 👍

Comment is about Writing Keeps Me Alive (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thanks for the Likes, Redbrick, New Shoes and Stephen.

Comment is about WHERE DID THEY GO ? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thankyou for your kind thoughts, Yanma and Holden. And for the Likes, Aisha, Redbrick, Tom and John.

Comment is about IF I FORGET (A SONNET) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi @Tom Doolan, writing has always made me feel alive too, and I love how the line ‘When I run out of ink I will die’ speaks metaphorically to me. Thank you for sharing this piece, Tom.

Comment is about Writing Keeps Me Alive (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

This poem carries such depth, and its rhyme brings it to life so beautifully. I truly felt the emotion in it. Thank you for sharing this, @John Coopey.

Comment is about IF I FORGET (A SONNET) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi @Mike McPeek, Your poem captures that simple truth so beautifully, that love is never loud, it’s simply felt. Thank you for sharing this, Mike.

Comment is about Dog Days (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

A beautiful poem, sensitively written, John!🌷

Comment is about IF I FORGET (A SONNET) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hey Alexia, thank you kindly. I look forward to experiencing some of your work!

Comment is about A Primal Echo (blog)

Original item by Pinnochio

Beautiful and profound, Lee ... and a good gardening tip, too! What more could you ask for?

Comment is about The secateurs (blog)

Original item by Lee Campbell

Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner & New Shoes 👍

Comment is about Autumn Blues (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

It is fascinating how uneven the march of autumn is, depending on the type of tree. Some lime trees near us are still quite well stocked, other trees completely bare. But not long now till all the jewels are gone, as your poem well illustrates, Graham.

Comment is about Jewels (blog)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

This poem is a joy to read, Laura. We all need to lose some wrath - there is far too much anger about. Your poem is a welcome cry for a more sensible world.

Comment is about Self Medication (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

That's excellent urban exploration right there, Uilleam! 🙏🕊️🌷

Comment is about waiting at the gate (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

I am absolutely in love with this piece!

Comment is about Live While The Light Is Here (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Mmm that resonates somehow with me.

I know all writings, poetry especially have multiple interpretations. Some are abstract and reach memories and places that mostly lie dormant.

I'm posting a link to a wonderful piece of modern film that for me encapulates what you speak of.

Lovely work RBK.

David.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNfxK5Q2Qg

Comment is about in the end (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Very much enjoyed your suggestive wonderings...

I love The Boxer....

"Show me something pretty" xx

David

Comment is about my first million (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

Hi Graham,

I just drove home on a short local journey, I was rained upon by so many leaves I had to wipe them off the car.

It is great to see the colours this time of year, their falling is quite depressing but also part of a seasonal tradition.

This time of year always feels rather historically pogniant to me, rather grim and representative of our country's dark past. Like all things it has to be endured to come out the other side.

Thanks for your continued scribbles, much enjoyed.

David

Comment is about Jewels (blog)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

Thanks to RBK, Tom and Adam for the early likes.

David

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2sV6mG18C4

Comment is about The Verdant Crown (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Hi David

Good that you are on that same level. Wouldn't mind a retreat myself!

Thanks.

Ha, nowt new there then!

Comment is about Self Medication (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Having just returned from a retreat to The Western Isles I feel tuned in to these wonderful words.

Great to see you here Laura.

David RL Moore

PS, A few hundred years ago you'd have been burned at the stake for such utterances...things haven't changed so much x

Keep burning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ

Comment is about Self Medication (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

https://youtu.be/8P09rxVaQAM?si=fgEI1uUMAKe0merK

Comment is about my first million (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should
fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope."

--"Self Reliance", Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment is about Self Medication (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Good to see you back Keith!

Comment is about Perpetual Insomnia (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

My dad got his, Malpoet, and he was dead! It paid for the crem.

Comment is about Winter Warmth (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Thankyou for the Likes Redbrick, Tom and Stephen.

Comment is about QUALITY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I hope we will hear from you again, Rolph. Your poetry and comments on others' work have been truly inspiring. Best wishes to you.

Comment is about Goodbye, For Now (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Thank you, Graham. Yes, I think melody does sound much better. Perhaps 'humdrum melody', to keep the rhythm?

Thanks once again for this precious feedback.

And thanks to everyone who liked this poem.

Comment is about Songs (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Sorry to see you go Rolph. Your profile will not be deleted so please do not worry on that account. Sometimes it’s good to have a breather. Hope to see you back at some stage. G.

Comment is about Goodbye, For Now (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Thanks for likes: Stephen G, Pinnochio & Red Brick Keshner 👍

Comment is about Waiting For You (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

I've read through your work and it seems we have similar styles. I enjoy the introspection in your writing. Thank you for sharing!

Comment is about A Primal Echo (blog)

Original item by Pinnochio

These are heavy and necessary words. The parts of capitalism that we are quick to dismiss. Thank you for sharing this.

Comment is about Choice (blog)

Original item by New Shoes

Thank you John.
Sorry I don't think I'll be able to make well spoken this month either, due to a bereavement.
Hopefully I'll see you all in December.

Comment is about My Heart is Like a Swinging Brick (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Once again, I applaud you, Aisha, for your gift of rhyme and uplift. Keep writing, sweet poetry sister!

Comment is about The Light We Give (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

I like this and I’ve been racking my brain about the last verse.
Personally I would swap monotony for melody. Good work though Stephen 👍

Comment is about Songs (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Dear Rolph,
Thank you for your most generous comment, it means a lot to me. I'm so glad that you connected with my poem and that it impacted you. Your words motivate me to write more and also makes relieves me knowing that my words and motive are taken as intend them to be.
Good day!

Comment is about An Apprentice? (blog)

Original item by Manish

A great message, Uilleam, and interesting to see the rhythm of the Irish original.

Comment is about Haiku as Gaeilge [Haiku in Irish] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Excellent stuff, Kevin. You were missed last month. Maybe see you again in Nov.

Comment is about My Heart is Like a Swinging Brick (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thanks for extra likes: Holden & Naomi 👍

Comment is about Tearful Times (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Dear Rolph,
Thank you so much, it truly means a lot to me that you appreciated this poem and thought so deeply about it!
You have a genuine gift of uncovering layers of meaning I hadn't even considered, but which resonate when you express them. 😊
I'm always immensely grateful for the sensitivity with which you approach and analyze my poems, thank you again! 💕

Comment is about Ciphers. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

It's hard to forget at times how much hangs on those 'five pieces of medication'. I hear you, Graham

Comment is about Lifer (blog)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it’s impossible to determine warp, woof or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which comes to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroys any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the funny-looking automobiles of the ’30s, the curious fashions of the ’20s, the peculiar moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of a continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.”

–V., Thomas Pynchon

Comment is about discrete (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

Thanks for likes: Manish, Nigel Astell, Yanma Hidayah & Red Brick Keshner 👍

Comment is about Tearful Times (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you, Graham Sherwood 🌷🕊️🙏🏻 it may just have managed to turn pigskin into silk thread, and only because the sty was generous with its mud!

Comment is about self-deprecation (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner