Congratulations. Keith
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thank you Jon and Keith. MC methinks thou doth protest too much. Take a look around London. Contrast west with east. There were 4.1 million children living in poverty in the UK in 2016-17. That’s 30 per cent of children, or 9 in a classroom of 30.
London is the area with the highest rates of child poverty in the country. You can see child poverty rates by local area by visiting End Child Poverty.
When kids grow up poor they miss out – and so do the rest of us. They miss out on the things most children take for granted: warm clothes, school trips, having friends over for tea. They do less well at school and earn less as adults.
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 15:38
Well done, Becky. As I'm sure you could tell by now, people on WOL love structure in their poems, and a villanelle is a perfect showcase of that. The repeating line must always be more powerful than the entirety of a haiku, and as brief as one too.
You did well with this, you should practice them more.?
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Thanks Brian. I'd never thought of that comparison, but I'll take that as a huge compliment..cheers ?
Comment is about TO CHOOSE (blog)
Original item by Ciaran Cunningham
Big Sal
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 15:29
Nicely done again, Randy.?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 15:16
This is your first post Ciaran? It's a good 'un!
Comparisons with Kipling's IF are obvious.
BTW welcome to WOL
Comment is about TO CHOOSE (blog)
Original item by Ciaran Cunningham
Highly commendable in its spirit, The grubby overcoat is in fitting opposition to the highly elaborate concepts of the poem and grounds it. The idea of death on the physical level is always the last option in any spiritual considerations. The last two verses are spot on.
Ray
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Oh, wow, Randy. Fabulous poem.
Well done on PotW!
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Brilliant psychology sculpted with words underpinned with insight and humour. Deliciously over the top and yet grounded at the end with a sense of futility. I laughed spontaneously.
Ray
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 14:36
Completely agree Knapey...though the one exception is my wife.
Comment is about The Longer You Live (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks Anya for being LIKE and appreciating my poetry.
? GBU
Comment is about Bless Me (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 12:23
A wallaby
a kangaroo
a boomerang
& Don Matthews
All of the above
are symbols of
a continent
that people love.
wink.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 12:17
cant tell what your two emoji's are.
either they are laughing or crying.
not sure which.
too small and
my eyes are bad.
if i squint they look
like me.
Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 12:15
liked your cat poem.
do you always talk on the banana?
try using a cell phone.
much handier.
if cats have hats
what's their excuse?
cats do have hats
blame Dr. Seuss
Comment is about Hazel ettridge (poet profile)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Interesting how we see society today: as if we should feel "guilt" at
every turn. There can have been no time when poverty has been
so rare - except that the word has taken on a new definition and
dimension in today's materially wealthy world. Kindness is still out
there. Good will is still out there. Help is still out there. This small
country alone probably has more organisations to offer assistance
than any other in the world - and that often travels far beyond
these shores. It is rare to turn on the TV and not be confronted
with the latest "appeal" to help someone somewhere - or some
other cause in search of money to further its aims. And the response invariably exists. Many distant governments must be most grateful to the UK for underwriting their own greed and
incompetence. The old religious adherence may have given way
to a more flexible secular attitude but the inherent goodness and
generosity still exists. I know that to be true for a number of
reasons - not least from a personal perspective over many years
living and working in a great city.
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Every country is entitled to the right to have laws that control who
enters it - and, logically, anyone attempting to force an entry or
otherwise bypassing those laws is subject to action necessary for
their implementation/enforcement. Criminal intent and the
spread of disease are but two obvious reasons for such laws and
their enforcement. It is no accident that there has been a notable
increase in serious diseases like TB accompanying the modern phenomena of mass human migration.
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Great poem - really enjoyed it.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thank you so much Anya, I am glad you liked it!
I was actually thinking of my daughter when I wrote it - I have been shocked that so many young people are often so troubled and feel bad about themselves. However I think the general message can apply to most of us at one time or another.
Thanks again.
Comment is about Donor (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
Great stuff Randy, I really enjoy your ways with words! Hope to catch up again soon.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 10:05
Don - 5000 people turning up at the gates of USA and knocking to come in does not sound like controlled legal immigration.
Yes they may all have a good reason for leaving Honduras, Guatamala etc, but if they genuinely need refuge don't forget they have all passed through at least one safe country to get to Tijuana.
And don't forget...USA does not have a PNG like Oz!
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 09:57
Congratulations Randy
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Another great poem Randy. You seem to have a unique and gifted ability to be quite tongue in cheek with well crafted poems. Congratulations for a well deserved POTW. See you soon
Martin
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thank you for the likes. This was an odd one.
Comment is about Pain or Suffering? (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Morning Randy. i enjoyed your poem as a start to the week - querky and tongue in cheek - though my bet is that we all fall into these mini-bear pits more often than we'd admit.
Peter T
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
When comparing US and Aus policy on immigrants we need to be be talking legal immigrants. Both countries allow these and I believe US is now beginning to do this but far too slow in Tijuana. I am not close to the situation and can only present the situation as I see it
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (16837)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 08:10
Very well written Noya..... being truthful about your feelings is good for oneself as well as for the other who could be waiting for u.... loved the way you framed it all...thanks for sharing!!!
Comment is about Disappointment (blog)
Original item by Noya
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 08:09
Don - what's your view on Trump's decision to deny them entry, bearing in mind your own stance on illegals entering Oz?
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (16837)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 07:57
thank you Noya for reading and appreciating my poem... ?
Comment is about Noya (poet profile)
Original item by Noya
Thank you for commenting on First one Last Hazel. Always valued and appreciated. Taylor ?
Comment is about Hazel ettridge (poet profile)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
<Deleted User> (18474)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 06:26
God is for the insane. Is this the poems message ??
I truly believe that people who believe in a god are mental. But aren't we all a bit.
Any vehement beliefs cause other people trouble. But if you believe your righteous......
The Christian god for example is not lovely and forgiving, as we're indoctrinated to believe.
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/what-made-it-okay-for-god-to-kill-women-and-children-in-the-old-testament
If 'he' exist 'he's' as sick as the people who make him a reality.
On the poems.
Very different work than Saddleworth Moor. That was truly the best poem I've ever read. I don't know if some of that is coz I live on it for five years. But know one could capture that moors beauty and shame better.
There is it's other side of course. When you lie there on a still summer's day. The warmth on your face in complete silence except for the skylarks. But even then you can't forget what you know.
I enjoy this one less for beauty and more for it's thought provoking qualities. Of course its brilliantly constructed and flows with ease.
Well done again.
Hope scooter club and the lost boys gives way to saddlewoth moor.
Beno.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 04:38
thanks for your comments on my poem
"Normal People".
did not realize you are in your 8th decade
as you put it. Good for you!
as we age, people get nicer, don't your think?
either that or....we are just numbed to it all.
wink.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks Big Sal, for your appreciation
Comment is about Romantic Desire (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Really enjoyed this Marianne! Really nicely crafted. Thanks for sharing. T.
Comment is about Befriending Fear (blog)
Original item by Marianne May
I'm lean and thin
Diet not needed
Cos I'm an Aussie
Yep, pure Aussie breeded ?
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It would be nice to think that they got along just fine and let one another sit in the sun for a turn.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
You'll gather, Hazel, that the choir would not select me!
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I'm afraid that's the way it has to be in our model of democracy, Alan. If politicians had to fund the mess themselves, no "working men" would go into politics; there would only be those wealthy enough to take on the risk who would do so. A patrician society.
I'm afraid we're John Bulls lumbered with the Four Alls.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
All we need is a choir and a YouTube video.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 21:14
Many of the conflicts around the world are caused by religious differences, but I suppose if there never was any religions we would have found something else to squabble about...so it might as well be religion.
Good one Alan.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
I guess we are the ones to decide what meaning we wish to give to all things in our lives.
Comment is about The Small things (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
I love my cat
Cos she is fat
If that's not true
I'll eat my hat.
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Yes, I agree - but the real prat was that pillock Cameron, who started the whole thing to keep his backbenchers quiet and put in a referendum without any prior conditions and, when he found that he would have to manage the results of his stupidity, just legged it as far as he could.
The thing about politicians is that they NEVER have to pay financially for their mistakes. WE, the 'ordinary', powerless people have tp pick up the mess.
And pay for it.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Another word from me - if there is a nomination for 'Poem of the Year', I'll vote for this one!!
Cheers, Beno. keep going, you're on the right track.
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Darren Lea-grime
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 16:55
Thank you Kevin, idonthave a beard myself but may grow one in the future to see what the fuss is about
Comment is about The truth about people with beards (haiku) (blog)
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