music and books ray. my two real loves!
Comment is about SURROUNDED (blog)
Original item by ray pool
nice words john and something i can fully relate to. i just go my own way and seem to be fine.
Comment is about The way of the cloud (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 16:08
Don you make me smile over and over again - don't stop -
or I shall be forced to frown.
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
John,
One of the best poems I have read for a long time as it is refreshingly honest and eloquently expressed.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The way of the cloud (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you all so much for the positive comments and thank you Dorothy for once again making me laugh with a sharp, witty response. Between that and your cheetah I think you're starting to become a bit of a hero for me ?.
J.x
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
The Tale
Child sits focused
playing with dreams
redbrick fireplace aglow
anxious Mother stares
love on hold
Father is already
five minutes late.
Comment is about The Tale.jpg (photo)
Original item by Stockport WoL
you are a cracking writer mate. i love this and everything i have read that you have written. bang on.
as a follower of the left hand path this is right up my street as well.
Comment is about Love Independent of Life (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Clever, with much imagination and vision. Do you have a collected poems anywhere? - Not stuff to be read alone in the dark, mind
you!
Comment is about Sentience (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
The darkness is behind us all the time and we spend our time flying from the endless empty, which is why religions were invented... Not that so many tell you anything but 'kill the none-believers'. "Test all things and hold to that which is good" (somebody said that, not me, but how do you know?)
Comment is about Ghosts and Gods (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Thank you, yes it is, and we dance it every day
Comment is about Love Independent of Life (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 14:06
AH! that would account for it,
note to self - - -
BE A LOT QUICKER and then I won't have to go on a search.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Dorothy I have a bell
On my oven door
Which rings when dinner's ready
My mind does not ignore
You see I've trained it properly
To freeze on hearing bell
Should it not obey me
I'll scream at it and yell
I want to eat my dinner mind
And not some frizzled steak
I've trained it to stop roaming
When fish is ready, hake ?
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you Jason, Mae, Dorothy and Kate! I appreciate you taking the time to read and leave an encouraging comment.?
Comment is about Wild Flowers (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Now those are authentic vows! Great job John! ?
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
To forgive your loves inopportune bottom burps is truly noble, especially when i am the culprit. Mancunian by birth, Orstralian by choice, Kate G how did you suss me out?
? PS love the spaces inbetween
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Love this, and to be fair, far more realistic vows?. Brilliant thanks.
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
I think it just does that every time Dorothy, when you post a new one it archives the previous. Is that what you meant??
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
wonderful poem - I really like this. Top stuff.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Really nice poem - I can so relate to this. I feel the pain. Well done.
Comment is about Imprisoned in My Mind (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
MC.,
Well said.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
JM - seen and noted! It doesn't detract from your creation - that's the
essential positivity for me. Thanks.
MC
Comment is about Out of the blue (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
To adapt the last line of this thoughtful piece...go out with a bang
on your way to that big black hole that awaits your earthly remains.
Remembrance is hardly a generational/family thing. Who knows of
Shakespeare's offspring or even those of Churchill. Use whatever
gifts you have to enrich life while you're here and hope some stay
on when you're gone to provide others with what you had to offer
That is the nearest any of us get to immortality.
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Good to see a positive outward looking blog with some sense and
the benefit of appealing rhyming to drive home its message.
Stay sharp!
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 11:08
Thanks for your kind words on Spaces Between Trevor
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 11:05
Love this Jason. Witty, rhythmic and matter of fact.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Well put together Jon. Good poem. Thanks Keith
Comment is about Cause and effect (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:31
" place an embargo on your ego, the knowledge is enough"
good thinking - it would prevent so many confrontations.
What is happening to your poems? I spot one - go back to re-read it -
only to find that it has gone, then I have to search for it.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:24
I relate Don. I love this piece. Yes poetry is cathartic for me too. ?
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:21
The perfect man, though I think farting is an opportunity for humour too good to miss. Typical uncouth Aussie, huh!
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:11
So true Jon, the subtle power of connectedness conveyed beautifully, as always.
Comment is about Cause and effect (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:10
"have you ever let your mind go free?"
Well yes - and the result - burnt dinner.
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:07
"pretend not hear when you fart"
How romantic is that? you certainly know how to woo a girl. HA HA HA
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:06
Lovely, brimming with authentic simplicity.
Comment is about By Lily (blog)
Original item by Just jo
<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:02
this poem has a purity and an innocence that takes us to a different place. It is so beautiful.
You must be proud of Lilly.
Comment is about By Lily (blog)
Original item by Just jo
Barclodiad y gawres*
My eyes peer through the iron gate
Transporting me ten thousand years
Great boulders leaning inwards,
Lure me down the passage to
Where, bent beneath the roof
Men pull their leader’s corpse
Into his vaulted chamber.
Returning to the lofty crossing place
Where old folk tend the mackerel
That smokes above the hearth,
They leer at me then point
Across into another gloomy crypt.
There before a small dead child
A kneeling woman weeps.
Beyond her is a door of stone
Etched with sacred symbols
Inside lie the bones of giants
Of an even older time.
* Apronful of the giantess
Comment is about barclodiad y gawres.jpg (photo)
Original item by Stan Bloxham
Well Don,
Instead of encountering St Peter we might find St Nookie at the golden gates.
Keith
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 08:05
This is exactly how I was feeling when I got onto WOL this evening, and your poem was the first one that I read. I understand the feelings of being trapped. I am working my way out of this one myself. for myself, I feel my freedom is near. I have been learning how to love myself as the truth that lays within self, strengthening my soul while giving this love to others. the more you work on it, the more it becomes real and the fog begins to clear and the those gates will open and you will spread the wings you never knew you had.
Thank you for this poem. it is nice to read the truths of what burdens and obstructs our path.
May peace find you with a Smile upon your face.
Willow
Comment is about Imprisoned in My Mind (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
Another poet earlier
On this site he did gave
The exciting possibility
Of sex beyond the grave ?
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you MC and Keith. MC I've plagiarised your comment and incorporated it into the poem. I think it fits. Hope you like it. John
Comment is about Out of the blue (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Heart of Lead
Tue 26th Feb 2019 16:42
So beautiful. "Each proud and stiffened spine caressed." Each one of us lost in memory. That is a childhood that does not die.
Comment is about SURROUNDED (blog)
Original item by ray pool