Heartbreaking to realize we aren't as evolved as we like to think we are. Awareness is the first step. Thanks for sharing this poignant piece of your soul. ?
Comment is about Shame (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Glad you like the group Valerie and it has helped you with your writing - - -
I have managed to write a poem for next month called The Wardrobe Killer!
Comment is about Valerie Judge (poet profile)
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Thanks Ray, Thanks Cynthia - much appreciated. Always lovely to get nice feedback.
Comment is about To a Younger Self (blog)
Original item by Rich
Together with my Friend's kids at Fahaheel, Kuwait.
Comment is about Free Weekend Tour (photo)
Original item by Farag M. Afify
Fri 1st Mar 2019 16:54
more like
a Legend in
his own mind.
?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Love this. Favourite line: "Too drunk to stand straight, too tired to fall."
Brilliant!
J.
Comment is about Behind the Thoughts (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Two whole pages?
You crazy, maverick, renegade ?.
Loved it.
J.
Comment is about New Book (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Hello Louise, love your bio, "'A human being of questionable merit." Brilliant! There's a poem in that title if ever I heard one.
Great sample, really captures the moment. Favourite line: "Backdropped by a fading reddened sky." Really like your writing style so please be sure to write some more.
Thanks,
J.
Comment is about LDawg (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 13:15
It's nostalgic but goes much deeper Martin. There are so many expectation wrapped up in the places we consider home, and the places we choose to leave behind. I enjoyed this immensely, it really spoke to me.
Comment is about city of birth (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 13:10
<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 13:09
Now that's poetry Ray. A beautiful end to a Friday for me.
Comment is about SKID ROW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 13:07
I'm sure any story you have to tell would be way more than two pages.
Comment is about New Book (blog)
Original item by d.knape
dk I applaud your new venture
The Life of a Poet, So What?
What an original title
Would you please help me with lessons you've got?
Two pages! including cover! mama mia
You've got it all wrapped up in box
Any chance of franchising your method?
I wanna be different unorthodox
Comment is about New Book (blog)
Original item by d.knape
d.knape,
May I place my order now? Man, poet and legend, all interest me.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about New Book (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Ged,
A wonderful play on words with good humour. I enjoyed this.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Behind the Thoughts (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 10:36
Hard hitting from tthe first word to the last,
no words wasted
no sentence wasted
nothing left unsaid.
Dorothy
Comment is about Shame (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 10:30
beautiful, heart felt, melancholy,
Dorothy
Comment is about His Eyes (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 10:23
"steeped on three storeys
all front and trousers
their rears exposed"
"of bawdy seaside humour
ice cream sundays
knotted handkerchiefs"
Who needs photos with vivid descriptions like that.
Wonderful
Dorothy
Comment is about city of birth (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 1st Mar 2019 10:11
Don
I agree with Keith, the victims will never escape from their private prison.
I love the way this poem can be read to the 'tune' of the 'Pater Noster'
I much prefer your version.
Dorothy
Comment is about Cardinal Pell, Burn in Hell (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A poem written from the depths of the heart. Beautiful indeed.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about His Eyes (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Don,
Well said especially the last two lines. They used their robes and power as camouflage for heinous crimes. They will now pay the price but sadly the victims are those who bear the scars.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Cardinal Pell, Burn in Hell (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Martin,
A poem rich in nostalgia with affection for the past and the memories it contains. I had a similar experience over fifty years ago when I left home to join the Forces. I do remember the knotted handkerchiefs.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about city of birth (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Fri 1st Mar 2019 09:26
I am back to writing
quietly or...
out loud.
?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Fri 1st Mar 2019 09:22
most poets ARE out of orderl
Repair to their rooms
to write
themselves.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Fri 1st Mar 2019 09:19
most poets are not Normal.
it comes with the territory.
haha
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Fri 1st Mar 2019 09:18
Thanks for reading "Abnormal Behavior".
Poet's usually don't qualify. haha
Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Fri 1st Mar 2019 08:19
Thank you Erin for your encouraging comments, much appreciated. Thank you Rachel and Damon for the likes
All the best des
Comment is about child like (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
elPintor
Fri 1st Mar 2019 06:02
Thanks Stu--just a bit of psychic noise I had to set free so I could get back to sleep )
It's great to see you about...
..and, good morning David and Phil;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2lC47PQ3Z0
I can't be the only one who wakes up to music in my head.
Comment is about origins and distillations (blog)
Original item by nunya
E
It takes a lot of bravery
To come out on the screen
Expose our inner selves to all
Those we've never seen
It's called help by catharsis
We need it, you and me
We all need showing bravery
It is ones therapy
D
Comment is about Bravery (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
Reminds me a little of the Limerick that doesn't work,
There was a young man from Tralee,
Who was stung on the leg by a wasp,
When asked if it hurt,
He said, "Not at all,"
"It can do it again if it likes."
?
Comment is about Schemata (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
No more rhyming Tom, I mean it,
Anybody want a peanut??
(Really liked it by the way)
J.
Comment is about Schemata (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I consider myself 'normal' and everyone else out of whack ?
Comment is about Abnormal Behavior (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Well done Keith , particularly last two lines:
'a new dawn, ordained of God
and not of man'
Don
Comment is about Winnowing Fork and Millstone (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Rhyme here Tom
You can't 'scape me
Inside I beat
Metronomically ?
Comment is about Schemata (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Those old camps were really variants on the internment camps with a sort of circumscribed expectation; my first was in 1950, the one that appeared on Hi de Hi. There was still barbed wire and mines on the beaches. I love that line boxed happiness, A smell of disinfectant pervaded. Outside toilets with large gaps under the doors. I had constipation all the time I went to them.
Years later as a muso I often played in them. Cardboard palm trees and Lloyd loom chairs.
Excellent poem so true to life.
Ray
Comment is about Butlins Filey 1960 something. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
There's a compelling quality to this Tommy, I find it like a sort of breaking out and a rejection of what is expected. You know the plan but I like it a lot.
Ray
Comment is about Schemata (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Being "Normal" is highly overrated.
Comment is about Abnormal Behavior (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 28th Feb 2019 20:41
For me it was Warners on the Isle of Sheppey, and glutton for punishment we went two years on the run, me and three mates.
Comment is about Butlins Filey 1960 something. (blog)
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steven arthur
Thu 28th Feb 2019 20:36
you're one for an age, Jason.
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
steven arthur
Thu 28th Feb 2019 20:35
you're a great writer, Jon, never stop.
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Such beautiful imagery and brought a smile to my face! You had me reminiscing about being little and playing in the snow and how great that feeling is! Keep up the great work Desmond!
Comment is about child like (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Dearest Creative Poetess .. so happy reading my words .. honestly I suffered much of those colors of lies .. for a while i lost my temper. that is the main reason of writing this lines. Thank you so much.
Comment is about God's Question (blog)
Original item by Farag M. Afify
True enough it is a difficult one to chart, but we'll worth it ?
Great poem.
J.
Comment is about A triolet (blog)
Original item by mona s
Thanks, "Heart." It's only in places like this that I ever feel truly re!axed.☺
J. x
Comment is about Absorbing The Day (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Very peaceful. There is a softness, a pause, an escape. Good accompanying picture. I should like to escape there. Words can take us just as far away.
Comment is about Absorbing The Day (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Nigel Astell
Fri 1st Mar 2019 18:40
Silver
Last smoke
as youth
bids farewell
silver grey
full beard
older wiser
reflective thoughts
life drains
into death.
Comment is about Silver.jpg (photo)
Original item by Stockport WoL