Thank you, Beno.

Comment is about Autumn leaves to be reborn (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thank you, Jennifer.

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Really like this one Keith. it is definitely the next level up in its rhythm and flow.
Love it

Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

There is some really good use of words and turn of phrase here.
Nice one

Comment is about First Snow (blog)

Original item by Joanna Halliday

I like the image of building an igloo around snow.

Comment is about First Snow (blog)

Original item by Joanna Halliday

We learn from our mistakes don't we. And without being prepared to make mistakes we would never achieve anything.
I enjoyed this one

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about My Dad Said (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Jennifer, Thank you so much for reading and commenting on Jack..x

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Hi Ray, this a topic close to my heart, powerfully and authentically portrayed.

Comment is about A SOLDIER THAT CAME HOME (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Magnificent Adam. You captured the transition - it's promise and it's memory perfectly.

Comment is about Nocturne (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Magnificent Adam. You captured the transition - it's promise and it's memory perfectly.

Comment is about Nocturne (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Beautiful and often so true - going to war or similar changes a person for ever. (Hope Wolfgar/David doesn't come down on you like a ton of bricks as he did to me over 'The veteran'!) Keep up the good work.

Jennifer

Comment is about A SOLDIER THAT CAME HOME (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Wrenching. I felt every word.

Comment is about Ache (blog)

Original item by Megan Jones

Jack is a knave who uses crack, also a President who liked a whack, Brexit was a real Jack in the box!

Nice one. Jennifer

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Wilfred Owen`s poems are a beacon of light, the same cannot be said of the First War 1, which is chiefly remembered because of so many of the upper-class young men perished

Comment is about Wilfred Owen and the Poetry of Trauma (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Thanks everyone for the generous likes! and for the Hughku. Hugh, perhaps you meant -

she let out three squeaks
having doused her new breeks
when watering the leeks.

If anyone quite rightly objects to me lowering the general level of writing on W O L I will delete this doggerel!

Jennifer

Comment is about Three Haikus (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Well deserved congratulations! had missed this one when put in. Beautiful poem, and how true - if you think about it you can do anything with words - save someone's life or condemn them - stop or start a war - destroy a reputation etc. etc.

Jennifer

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Don,

Thank you for this which goes to prove what politicians, in the main, are like. Our own leader was originally in the Remain Camp when it came to our membership of the European Union and now leads a government determined to leave the Union. Should we be surprised at this Japanese politiician. These people engage in deceit and duplicity to advance their own ambitions and not those of the countries they represent. Most politicians leave integrity at the door when they enter a building.

Keith

Comment is about Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

MC.,

Thank you for your comment which is thought provoking indeed. I also question the motive of the private individual for going to war, especially if the conflict has little to do with our national defence and instead some foreign venture which has spin off benefits for us, such as the acquisition of natural resources or greater influence in a strategic part of the globe.

Thank you again

Keith

Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 6 Victory? (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Don - shouldn't it be 'no Confucius lurks' ?

Comment is about Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Lovely descriptive poem, capturing autumn well.
Clever last two lines just remind the reader that the rebirth in spring is not to far away. Makes you want to pull your coat tight around you, and enjoy and endure the freshness of winter for the prize yet to come.
Thanks for sharing Mr Stainsby.
Beno.

Comment is about Autumn leaves to be reborn (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

thank you all so much! i really appreciate the positive feed back?

Comment is about the mask (blog)

Original item by Brooke

We can be forgiven for thinking that war is mainly indulged in by/for
vested interests in the western world, but it is highly likely that any
close scrutiny of the subject will reveal conflicts occurring with
unremitting frequency across the globe over countless documented
centuries. It's just that the mechanised advances that our progress
(?) saw in action in the past century or more, plus the advances of
news gathering on a huge scale have brought wars large and little
into increasing numbers of homes and lives - and the habit of
going to war is still active somewhere, even as I tap this out on my PC in the early hours of a peaceful English Sunday. With all the
experience of loss this nation has endured in the two world wars,
we still march off to "foreign fields" and justify it by resort to treaty
and friendship against aggression. Certainly, practice makes
perfect in a bloody sense and the reputation of the UK as a fighting
force to be reckoned with may - just may - have deterred some
distant conflicts getting too far out of hand and descending into
uncontrolled barbarism and bloodshed.
As for myself, I'm looking forward to reports of our intrepid women
soldiers taking part in the tests to join the SAS - assuming these
haven't been changed/reduced to allow their acceptance! The
phrase "soldiers in skirts" previously applicable to the Scottish
ranks may take on a new more modern meaning from hereon!! ?

Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 6 Victory? (article)

Original item by Mike Took

This haiku gets my vote..?

Comment is about I'm a celebrity Haiku (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Love this..?

Comment is about Ache (blog)

Original item by Megan Jones

Nice one Becky..?

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Things left unsaid leave this poem open to the reader.
It's brevity gives it greater weight and power.
The third line is fantastic.
Thanks Megan for posting this.
Beno.

Comment is about Ache (blog)

Original item by Megan Jones

Oh dear - vanity at all costs -
yet perhaps the voice of the little bald pate just had to be heard?
A salutary lesson for all self-congratulatory narcissists I fear

Comment is about The Trouble With Tribbles (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Thank you, as ever, Jacob and thank you, too, O! Walk in man!

J

Comment is about Kōnstantinoupolis (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

ACADEMIC TESTS
Oh these tests,
Superflous academic tests.
No time to prepare
For entrance tests.

Difficult to store
Vast concepts in mind,
Oh how to retain so much
Till marks given and paper signed.

Bewaring that,
The examiner is not blind,
And not our bydweller
That gives marks so kind.

All worried,
Smile crease no face.
Will we get through,
Or falter in this pace.

Parents worried about their carreer
They believe books are nifty,
Smartphones are carrier's barrier
With no sympathy.

Parent's and teacher's
Support and hope is essential,
In order to raise their potential.

- Sahaj Sabharwal©
-Pacca Danga ,
Jammu
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Comment is about ACADEMIC TESTS (blog)

Original item by Sahaj Sabharwal

I really love your pithy style. And that's not taking the pith. Brevity is the soul of wit and you got it! It is so hard to write but you make it, right? John

Comment is about walkingman (poet profile)

Original item by walkingman

Thank you for the comments and likes..on a bus in U.K. visiting some of my children..?

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

When we awake
recall our dreams
they make no sense
aren't what they seem
We try to figure
what they mean
yet hate those gone
we can't redeem.

Comment is about Sweet Dreams (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Mothers make us
cringe a bit
'tween love and fear
which one is which
we live with both
but here's the glitch
when sisters rule
they love to snitch.


wink.

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Thank you, Ray.

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

I hear gay young Mary
Stopped being contrary
When choosing a career in Space;
She soon changed to airy-fairy...
Finding heaven in that place! ?

Comment is about Mary and Jack (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Good choice of material for the theme.
PS
My late brother-in-law John
Was always called Jack.
Now they're both gone -
So, no more craic!

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

A worthy and well researched addition to the theme.
Young kids used to play
With Jack In The Box;
Now old kids stay
With Jack In The Blogs!

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Wow, Jade, what a superb, fascinating interview, of an intriguing poet. I was interested in Jo's notion of 'letting her poems go', in contrast to those poets who can't leave them alone and keep changing them, even after publication. Thank you.

Comment is about None Of My Business: Jade Cuttle talks to Jo Burns (article)

Original item by Mike Took

I quite like Noel...I've even got similar boots as him.

Comment is about I'm a celebrity Haiku (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

I can hear him saying this CBT. I think brief poems that make their point in only a few words are both brilliant and the most difficult to get right with such a small amount of material. this is bang on!

Comment is about My Dad Said (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A thoughtful and satisfying piece Jon, congratulations !
I liked the couplet style, effective in this case.

Ray

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Keith

The lower case 'n' makes me wonder though...?

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Methinks you worked backwards on this one KJ.

Comment is about The Alcoholic Benefactor (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

It's nice that you've apologised to
Anyone with the name Jack
But you missed an apology to
Poets with poems also 'Jack'

(You're forgiven ?)

Jack Horner was quite opportunist
Wanted more than a plum in a pie
Went straight for the plum in sweet Mary
Got a boot in his foo, fum and fie (oops wrong nursery rhyme)

We've found out the perils of going
Up a big hill with a lass
Having more than the hill created bigness
Then he went for a roll in the grass

All Rhymers, all Clubbers have excelled here
With Jacks bouncing here, bouncing there
I didn't see one bounce out box though
Maybe in poetry that's rare ?

Well done all

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

I can well recall playing Strip Jack naked for hours but we all remained fully clothed with a true sense of propriety.

Thank you for this poem Taylor. Well done

Keith

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

MC.,

I read with interest your comment which I also thank you for. Your use of the word handmaiden is very accurate indeed when summarising those who exploit war and gain from it. When considering both world wars in terms of cause and effect, there were no winners. Both conflicts ended in the slaughter of millions and a continent in ruins. Both victors and vanquished were forced to rebuild at immense cost leaving people to grieve for the loss of loved ones. If there are any winners then they are in the boardrooms.

Thank you again

Keith

Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 6 Victory? (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Many thanks all your likes to Beno, Jon, Darren, Kate and Raven ! Greatly welcomed.

Ray

Comment is about THE ASSEMBLY OF MEN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Don and Taylor,

Thank you for your comments. It is only recently that I have acquired a garden which necessitated some urgent work to clear vast quantities of undergrowth. In doing this I was amazed to find that I had disturbed a world hidden from view but full of life.

Keith

Comment is about Down Under (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I am still a poet in learning
To keep me there, right up to date
On how I can deal with these pesky
These pesky, annoying, devil incarnates

You must Brian be painfully aware
How important continued training is to me
Can't let myself (and my Australia)
Slide into obscurity

glug glug glug....?

Comment is about Mary and Jack (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Becky you've done a great job with this theme, though I would have expected a Jacques in there somewhere.

Comment is about Jack (blog)

Original item by Becky Who