Lysa as for Brexit and borrowing - here's one
"You're dammed if you do and you're dammed if you don't"
Bart Simpson.
Tommy
Comment is about Piggy in the middle (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 18:08
Damn, the whole thing is like one big slice of imagery with different twists on it.
Nice one man.? I don't know why, but the analogy reminded me of Tupac's "Me and My Girlfriend".
Comment is about Thursday (blog)
Original item by Dragan Bozilov
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 17:54
I suspect that Big Sal makes a reference to yours truly about "preach" and "practice". We all have a right to a point of view but also a responsibility to those who share this online platform we are so fortunate to use.
If I put in writing on WOL something which attracts adverse
comment, then my respect for other users of this site demands
I approach such comments via the use of explanation/ humour
and compromise where relevant. It is pointless taking a non- negotiable position and becoming "precious"/ protective about
one's work and seeing it as above reproach, with anything
other than agreement/praise unacceptable. An old saying goes:
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt
me. Not a bad stance for putting one's own before an online
global audience with very different ways of seeing things.
Good luck.
Comment is about No one is better than anyone (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
<Deleted User> (21422)
Thu 31st Jan 2019 16:20
Hello Vautaw. Thank you for your comment ...and yes, WOL is a wonderful, cozy place to express whatever comes to mind. ?
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
Original item by Vautaw
At least you are enjoying her company while you have it! - it passes so quickly, but you have written it down to help you remember what it was like. Great work.
Jennifer
Comment is about Your seven. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Agree with Clarke - awesome . Beautiful language - graceful darkling - slashing shadows - marching years. Can really relate to this as the years are really marching for me now, anyway. Thank you for a really good poem.
Jennifer
Comment is about Grace and Favour (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
Nice! 'foundrel ' thought = thoughts leading to nothing? New word to me.
Jennifer
Comment is about Of flotsam and foundrels (blog)
Original item by Charlotte Peters Rock
Thanks for your like on Anywhere Will Do
Your poem Under the Cover of the Snow brings such a connection as each verse is read.
Comment is about Pyrola (poet profile)
Original item by Pyrola
Very moving indeed - beautifully sad.
Jennifer
Comment is about One Last Frozen Tear (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
You're a gentleman Phil with that comment. I do try to be impartial and non judgmental and impart respect as a matter of course. Not always easy here I'm afraid, and sarcasm can come to my rescue.
Cheers. Ray
Comment is about mentalelf. Philk. (poet profile)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
The circle of life seen from different ends of life makes this special Phil. Great sense of continuity and comfort felt and expressed with real heart. I never had my own children and these thoughts rush in to fill a sort of vacuum. You hit a spot right enough.
Ray
Comment is about Your seven. (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Well stated Chris.
Got to be a welcome change from the eternal Welsh rain ?
Comment is about One Last Frozen Tear (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Thank YOU Phil for sharing your heart and vivid imagery with the WOL world! I am enjoying the journey here and look forward to reading more of your poetic prose. ?
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
Original item by Vautaw
Awesome...classic. Thanks for a great read, friend.
Comment is about Grace and Favour (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
Yeah Big Sal, I guess it was more prevalent than the army would ever admit.
Comment is about The Smug Bastard (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:39
MC and Don both know where I stand.
They both shouldn't be provoking others and then I won't talk shit back towards them.
I apologize if you were roped into this at all Lisa, or felt the need to respond. I also apologize for myself continuously involving you in it in any way.
The best thing to do is walk away. Yet I am hoping one of those two reads this, because if they keep it up there will be hell to pay.
I only speak up when someone diminishes my work or someone else's work. If they don't talk any more shit, then I won't either.
But they have to be willing to be the bigger men too, because I refuse to stand for any more of their bullshit.
As for all your distress, please don't take it to heart Lisa. I'm an asshole just telling other assholes what I think of them. I won’t be around for much longer anyways so don’t have to worry.?
Comment is about You pair are both great :-) (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
This poem is based on conversation I had with a fellow traveller on an overnight coach between London & Glasgow.
My companion had been a squaddy during the Falkllands conflict.
Comment is about The Smug Bastard (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:33
This is exactly one of the reasons why American soldiers in Iraq started to frag their superiors.
Comment is about The Smug Bastard (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:24
Makes me wonder about the 'stick dinosaurs' painted on Neolithic walls and caves. .
Comment is about Stick Men (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:23
Every tiny victory counts, but a Pyrrhic victory does not.
Comment is about Tiny victories (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:21
Big Sal
Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:19
A few years ago a lady from a couple towns over near here drove her SUV full of her kids and nephews/nieces off a cliff trying to kill everyone. Only like 2 of the children survived, and the fact that they knew their aunt tried to take them out would then live with them for the remainder of their lives.
I only hope they got the help they needed.
Comment is about Bottle neck blues (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I think your circumstances so nicely presented are more common then spoken out loud or written for all to read. A brave poem.
Comment is about Yin-Yang Love (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
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Comment is about Jinx: Abigail Parry, Bloodaxe (article)
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Comment is about The Houses Along the Wall: Karen Hayes, Holland Park Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you for your kind words re "Boulevard". And welcome.
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
Original item by Vautaw
The Great Fogginzo! What a fascinating story. I bet those students were as spellbound as I was stepping into your vivid memory. I am looking forward to reading about more of your adventures!
Comment is about Overlooked poets, open mics ... and how a blog got its name (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thu 31st Jan 2019 03:52
Don,
try writing some free verse
see what happens.
?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
I’m right there with you on the Boulevard of broken dreams. What a bittersweet memory. ?
Comment is about Boulevard (For my son). (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
I do appreciate . I do. Thank you J. ty.
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
First off, thanks for liking: Big Sal, Jon and Lisa.
I found this hard to write, but also the subject is full of pitfalls for a poem. I don't pretend any special knowledge of the subject, which in a way speaks for itself thanks to the survivors who were interviewed and followed in their last years; difficult viewing.
I hoped to hit the right note, and at least give a few readers on Holocaust Day a window of comment, and I am grateful indeed for those in return.
Dave, that really grates on me; I would be wary of your neighbour if this is his belief. The Knights Templar are a shadow of their former selves surely, and perform in relative security and privilege. Not to be trusted in my book. Thanks for pointing it out.
David, in a simple and perceptive way , you have explained my efforts and aims. thanks for that.
Thank you Phil. The guilt you rightfully mention which I didn't really although the "pointless ache" was part of that. If Zionism is to be accepted, then we in a quandary, for there lies more strife.
Ray
Comment is about HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
dk I'm doing something quite simple
But the space is resisting like hell
But no I won't look for another space
I'll hack 'way at this one till it fells ?
Comment is about Making Things Fit (blog)
Original item by d.knape
David , you make salient points about voyeurism , cinema itself has that fascination often enough, perhaps also TV; are we to be constantly weaned on it. Apparently so. Your link was quite riveting and stylish. Low key lighting helps the effect too. Thanks for that.
It's fair to say I think that the high churches rely largely on the middle classes to carry the banner these days. I noticed choristers are all from educated families. Not a criticism , but one can sense the separation from the poor in such ways . The frustrations of poverty must be closer to violence.
Mark, agreed about Hitchcock who I'm sure had more than enough voyeuristic tendencies himself. That's why he was good at the art. Note the spyhole in Norman's painting !
I can't honestly get involved in considerations of John Wayne, except to say that he seemed to me a pastiche figure who served the purposes of the studios. You and David have explored him more effectively than I could. I don't think that the reality of killing can ever be adequately portrayed on the screen dramas, though a seeming detachment of emotion might come close to it, as perhaps a sort of psychosis might be necessary in the act.
But I don't really know. Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks all for liking: Big Sal, Dave and Anya(welcome back).
, Ray
Comment is about MURDER MOST FOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I totally agree with Davids comments. The survivors have to carry so much guilt but also fear of being forgotten. Lets not forget, even as zionism undoes so much.
Comment is about HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Ray good to see your still here and reading and writing. Thanks as ever for your comments. I detect a kind gentility within you that makes me feel a happiness.
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 18:26
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 16:30
thanks pals.
and if you want max payne in novella form i have part 1 of ? complete but be aware there's vampires.
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
well i added an audio track
it's not great
Comment is about rant 2 (01/23/2019) rework (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 16:13
Yo Dom!
Comment is about Dominic James (photo)
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 15:55
The guy likes to preach it but doesn't want to practice it.
Comment is about No one is better than anyone (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 15:39
At least I can write.??
AND STILL I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO HIT LIKE ON THIS HAHAHAHAHAHA
Comment is about Improving my Poetry with Help from the Temple Builder (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal - when I commented on one of your earliest entries I got a
more measured reply than is the case now. Get off your high horse
and stop assuming the position that you're on some sort of crusade
against right-wingers(?), old(?) white(?) rhymers(?) who are bent
on your destruction...as if! What is written and placed on this site is
open to interpretation & valuation and if comment is forthcoming then
a rational reply is surely the best response, not a diatribe of disdain
intended to defame the critic's motives or mental/physical characteristics. .
Comment is about Improving my Poetry with Help from the Temple Builder (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 15:08
I personally wouldn't give him back.
Call it religious reasons.?
Comment is about The Gift (Limerick) (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Wed 30th Jan 2019 15:02
Hey cool rhyme scheme throughout your sample.?
Comment is about Budz1218 (poet profile)
Original item by Budz1218
LD - don't get downhearted because of perceived negativity
Any work of whatever sort placed before the wider world will obtain
opinions as to its message, meaning or essential worth/value to the
reader. This sort of site is a place for poetry that stands on its own for the attentions and comments of others, welcome or otherwise.
Personal subjects can connect and have their value accordingly - so
do not be discouraged from posting your work and think of it from
the eyes and mind of someone who finds a kindred spirit in you.
Comment is about No one is better than anyone (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
victoriavautaw@gmail.com
Thu 31st Jan 2019 19:15
Milkshake soul... can't think of a better dessert for a Thursday. Beautiful lyrics Dragan. Thanks for sharing. ?
Comment is about Thursday (blog)
Original item by Dragan Bozilov