Thanks Stephen

Comment is about Annie (blog)

Original item by Lewis O'Brien

Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. 💐

Comment is about Taken From Me (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

thanks.

Smiley Face

wink.

Comment is about Ghazala lari (poet profile)

Original item by Ghazala lari

have been gone for a few days.

aren't you tired of balancing on one foot?

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

have been gone for a few days.
so...no poetry.

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Hi MC, how poignant then our earlier teachers and their teaching, being remembered decades on, a sort of mental flow chart on how to live your life.

BTW, our head was one of beleaguered members of the armed forces strafed at Dunkirk by enemy planes. We had another likeable guy who having made the allied landings, advanced slightly before getting the mini stove out for a brew.

He didn't manage even a sip before he caught one in the thigh and had to be medically evacuated. Such are the fortunes of war I guess.

My thanks to you for the dialogue and like, and to Greg, JD Bardo, Tom, John Coopey & Holden, also for the likes.

Appreciated. P

Comment is about CHIDINGS (blog)

Original item by Philipos

Well said - and I particularly like those words attributed to your
former head teacher...a maxim for any age! A follow-up could
be "Take delight in simple things". There was a time when
teaching was a vocation, not just a career for university level job-
seekers. I still recall the name "Helen M. Tarry" inscribed under
lines on "The Value of a Smile" which she wrote in my childhood
autograph book seven decades ago.

Comment is about CHIDINGS (blog)

Original item by Philipos

That sounds too much like common sense for easy assimilation by a
great many these days. But it's certainly worth saying.

Comment is about Past Participant (blog)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

A moving and telling testament to the challenges some people face but which beggar belief for those not cursed with these experiences. Thank you for sharing that with us. Appreciated. P 👍

Comment is about Our house (blog)

Original item by Sanja Atanasovska

Thanks for the likes, Nazia, Holden, JD and Stephen G also for the kind comment. It was so nice the sun made an appearance to bring a lovely end to the week. Thanks also to Hugh who liked the duplicate post.

Comment is about Tonight’s Walk (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks.

Comment is about I am ... (blog)

Original item by Sanja Atanasovska

Thank you for your comment Tom, and for the title suggestion 💕

I can see how 'weathered' could apply to time, nature, wind, rain, storm, and pain - but one of the interpretations of 'weathered' can mean 'got through it' whereas the subject of this poem hasn't 'got through it' at all. I hope you don't mind that I can't use this suggestion, I've had so many ideas about the title that I haven't used too ('Last Request', 'Between Gods', 'A Family Affair', 'For Crying Out Loud' - and those are just the one's that got written down then crossed out or recently thought of and rejected)

The reason why Weeping Wounds might work is because 'the not-blood' is tears, weeping wounds also can mean infected (too gross to explain further), and also there's the interpretation where 'wounds' is the verb - weeping (implied: too long) causes damage.
Still, I'm not absolutely sure yet about this title either or that there might not be some better idea ahead...

Thank you also Nigel for your suggestion 💕
Although 'Desperate Cure Wanted' is the crux of the meaning, it would deflate the arrival of the word 'cure' when it appears in the poem. - but 'Desperate' or 'Desperate Prayer' might both work.

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for your well appreciation Nazia, today's conditions are really very insipid!

Comment is about GONE ARE THE DAYS... (blog)

Original item by DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

Desperate Cure Wanted.

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for all your likes
Stephanie S
Aviva
Holden
Stephen G
and
Stephen A.

Comment is about Held Accountable (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you for the likes Greg, Philipos, Tony, Stephen, J.D, Aviva, Holden, Nazia and Stephanie! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read.

And thanks Philipos, it's absolutely a reminiscence. I have a vague memory of trying to write this poem about ten years ago when the feelings were still raw but I couldn't get it to work.

I came back to the idea again when I was mulling whether it's a universal thing that everyone has a moment in grief/loss when the enormity of what is happening finally hits them fully. In the 5 stages of grief there is acceptance but I'm not sure that is what this poem is about it - more like somewhere between denial and anger...

Comment is about The Window Box (blog)

Original item by Tom

Great work Aviva (as always). I love the passion in your writing. Weathered Wounds?

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks, Aviva, I like your suggestion.😄

Comment is about Dreamscape (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

To one and all - thanks for the comments and the "likes".

Comment is about BEDDED BLISS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you, Julie. You really capture the scene.

Comment is about Tonight’s Walk (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

This is powerful and a great read. Thanks.

Comment is about BACK TO SEA (blog)

Original item by Philipos

Thank you for commenting Stephen, and for the suggestion. 💕

'Weeping Wounds' might work well ?

Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem 💐

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

A sad encounter, Jan, but I fear still far too common. Nazia's comment says it all.

Comment is about a little argument (blog)

Original item by jan oskar hansen

An intense poem, deceptively simple. Perhaps "wounds" as a title?

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

An interesting, thought-provoking poem. Thank you.

Take care of yourself.

Comment is about Annie (blog)

Original item by Lewis O'Brien

Thank you both Aviva and Holden, for the Likes, and to Stephen Gospage also for kindly commenting.

Blessings.

P

Comment is about BACK TO SEA (blog)

Original item by Philipos

There can still be treasures hidden
Even in what looks to be a hopeless case.

Comment is about Hopeless Heart (blog)

Original item by Lewis O'Brien

Many thanks for liking this Stephen, Stephen and Tony.

Glad you found favour S G. It was quite a surprise!

Graham, you've hit the nail on the head - I did feel regret. Sometimes it's a mood thing. Amateurism in any field often leads to emotions running away, as opposed to the wise specialist. We invest what we feel into our lives and then often punish ourselves. A thousand ants can't be wrong.

Hope you're well. Ray

Comment is about CHRISTMAS TREE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

It become monochromatic, no rainbows 🌈 are left

Comment is about GONE ARE THE DAYS... (blog)

Original item by DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

No one is an outsider we all belong to this earth. Just because it's divided by humans doesn't make it theirs.

Comment is about a little argument (blog)

Original item by jan oskar hansen

Eloquently described 🖤

Comment is about John Bunyan's Shed (blog)

Original item by Graham Parker and his musings

Without the last line you would leave the reader in their own imagination (in their own dreamscape).

Comment is about Dreamscape (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

The very young think happiness is in the future
The very old think happiness is in the past
Somewhere in the middle
Those who think happiness is right now.

Comment is about Good Times (blog)

Original item by The Chessplayer

This has everything including the garden shed! 😀

Comment is about John Bunyan's Shed (blog)

Original item by Graham Parker and his musings

Thank you Nigel for commenting 🌷
The line 'knight takes maiden' is a strong one,
It has connotations of chivalry, anti-chivalry, and also chess!

Thanks also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem 💐

Comment is about War Of The Sexes (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Refreshingly different Sanja - enjoyed the read. P 👍

Comment is about I am ... (blog)

Original item by Sanja Atanasovska

It s a myth that the new generation don' t understand the value of ideal meaning. So sometimes people who fight for ideal forget .
They forget the freedom. How freedom can be forget? When someones see in your free country " the unfair of being free" . You know , I have never met dictators only hurmed people by them.

Comment is about Freedom day-Africa (blog)

Original item by Jadia4708au

Thank you to those who have clicked 'Like' for this poem 💐

I know this is quite a dark and depressing poem but actually I do like the lightly varying rhythm of this one.

Comment is about Screams Of A Spoilt Child (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

My work hasn' t something remarkedable ... hower ,my poems had been created during a hard time period .My father had served for three years Cyprus . He was in war zone,1974....
It' s important to live among heroes😉

Comment is about SPACED OUT (blog)

Original item by Philipos

Hi Kiki, no, closest I got to living in Greece was by going back to my days living in Cyprus and seeing the remnants of Greek culture expressed out there at the time.

Philipos per se, is a name I go under to write my online stuff. Good of you to get in touch though.

Always a pleasure to welcome a newcomer to WOL.

Will try and get to check out some of your work shortly.

Blessings.

P

Comment is about SPACED OUT (blog)

Original item by Philipos

Very nice poem . Phillipos is a very common greek name . Do you have any relation with Greece?

Comment is about SPACED OUT (blog)

Original item by Philipos

Great reminiscence, well done.

Enjoyed.

P

Comment is about The Window Box (blog)

Original item by Tom

All the best to you, Jan.

Comment is about echography (blog)

Original item by jan oskar hansen

Your call is important to us
It is important that we don't answer it.
😎

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Eventually through to us you have got,
But unfortunately your call will cost a lot.

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks, MC. I did some work there at Royal Mail a few years ago and followed it up with a caravan holiday there shortly after.
And there are, of course, other fry-eries.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen A.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this for its old-style message of localised hope and confidence
and for the appealing rhythm of the words that tell its story.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

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Comment is about 14/12/1994 (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Please try later.
You are on hold.
Our executives are busy.
Sorry for the inconvenience. 😃

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A great opener here on WOL. Well done!

Comment is about Steps (blog)

Original item by Krab