Jackie,
This is an excellent article and after reading it I would love to have been there: such a wealth of people, such diversity but with freedom as their beacon.
Thank you for this
Keith Jeffries
Comment is about Language on the Side of Freedom (article)
Original item by Mike Took
There is something quite sad about a building being demolished as its demise takes with it countless memories. A simple concrete or wooden edifice has its own character and history. When I re visit place after many years and see that some building is no longer there I lament its passing.
A good poem
Keith
Comment is about Vacant Lot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
A poem which speaks of true devotion.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
Ok everybody, I'll reveal why women go to the bathroom in pairs. But you have to swear that you'll take it with you to your grave...or the office, on Monday, whatever...
Here goes. The truth is that the so-called "Ladies' Rooms" are not really bathrooms at all! They are designed to look like regular lavatories but what they really are is secret laboratories.
When one enters, one sees an ostensibly regular restroom but only when one penetrates into the interior sanctum of a cubicle does one find out the truth about women's public restrooms.
It all started several decades ago, after the feminist movement had taken off in the western world.
Scientists noticed that the female emancipation had started to cause men everywhere to suffer from itense feelings of emasculation. Furthermore, since women gained their independence and started focusing on their personal growth and evolution instead of the household and its needs, men started feeling neglected and found themselves before the grim prospect of having to pitch in the household chores. Naturally society's ancient, deeply-rooted order was overthrown.
Spouses started being alienated from one another, divorce rates went through the roof and more and more men resorted to having affairs. Now the IWSA, a.k.a. the International Women Secret Association (yes, there is one!) couldn't allow this to keep happening. After thorough research and several failed experiments they finally found a practical way to put an end to all this madness!
So they had a big red button installed and concealed inside each and every flush tank in each and every public women's restroom; kinda like the ones that are featured in cartoons, usually labeled: "DO NOT PUSH!" or "Self-Destruct Button!", but minus the label.
And when you press that button a hidden panel appears that requires one to enter a secret password. Each woman has her own. When your password is verified the water inside the toilet starts being stirred and gradually a powerful whirlpool is formed inside the can; slowly it starts wheeling and spinning until it reaches breakneck speed and when it finally stops it reveals all the single socks that got lost in that particular lady's washing machine!
As you can see this answers two big questions at once!
It's one of the oldest, biggest, best-kept secret, worldwide women conspiracies. All ladies' bathrooms architecture designer firms are in cahoots with all washing machine manufacturing companies and under the influence and total control of the IWSA.
Each washing machine is specially designed to create a-similar to the toilet's-whirlpool portal towards a different dimention. During the laundry process one sock of each pair is sucked into a hole, goes through the portal straight to the parallel dimention creating the strange phenomenon of socks being put in the washer in pairs and coming out as singles.
And the only way the missing socks can be retrieved is through the matching portals in public women's restrooms which are all connected to washing machines everywhere in a compex network.
Now, the reason why women go into the bathroom in pairs is so that a lady can go inside a cubicle and pick up her socks while her accomplice keeps watch outside, pretending to fix her hair and powder her nose. While in reality she makes sure that if a guy accidentally goes inside the ladies' bathroom he is immediately alerted, embarrassed and forced to flee. This is the only way the secret can be kept.
It's a shamelessly devious scheme designed to grant women THE ultimate power over men! The power to alleviate their husbands every morning despondence entitled: "Honeyyyyy, where are all my sooooocks?" . Thanks to this system only a wife possesses the secret knowledge of her husband's lost sock's whereabouts; making wives absolutely indespensible to their husbands and thus keeping men forever enslaved to their wives.
True story!
Thank you for your time!
(P.S. This is just a joke, it's not meant to offend anybody!)
Mae
Comment is about Women And Restrooms (blog)
Original item by d.knape
elPintor
Sun 14th Oct 2018 17:02
Thank you, Martin x
Really, Martin, the diversity of styles I encounter here, including yours, is a good part of what keeps me coming 'round. I don't say a lot, but I find the personal glimpses given through writing quite beautiful.
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Sun 14th Oct 2018 17:00
Thank you very much for your kind responses, Sal, Taylor, and Jon.
Truthfully, my tendency to be self-critical doesn't break me up all that much. I've come to see my blog as I would any art studio and I don't think that any true artist sets out to make a masterpiece--those happen only as an affect of sincere expression.
WoL has been invaluable to my personal development, allowing me to step out of what once became a very uncomfortable comfort zone.
Again, thanks all and enjoy what's left of the weekend.
With respect,
Rachel
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
'posturing and ignorance' seem to be the key words in this poem for me Keith. I think also although we may feel that we have no effect by writing and posting very often it is a question of chipping away at the stone rather than trying to take a sledgehammer to a situation.
Nice one
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I always look forward to your postings Rachel. You have the ability to say ion just a few words what I fail to do with a large number of words.
Beautiful
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
I am with Hannah on this. A constant flow of ideas needs to tapped whether it rhymes or not. Apparently enimen has boxes full of lines that he has come up with for later use. needless to say they pretty well all rhyme
Don't worry about it Don. it's all about what works for you
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Beautiful poem Avishek...?
Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
Thanks all for your comments. Sometimes careful responses to reader's thoughts can be more taxing than the poem itself, as it like a book cover being opened up with the long story in front of you.
As this poem encompasses all manner of associated ideas, I was aware of the task involved. I wanted to give a potted view of pain and what it might lead to. Undoubtedly deliberately invited pain as with Jesus is a whole different matter, but I still thought it was a relevant idea. Do those who worship bear that in mind, and or has it all been reduced to mantras. I'll let you decide.
Thanks Anya, It has served a purpose!
Rachel, your points are highly relevant, and call into question our involvement . You seem to imply a sort of relinquishing of personal responsibility in the bigger picture. A masterly idea and true in many cases. Thanks.
Thank you Jon. I'm please with such a short poem that you considered that.
Hi David. An instinctive response to silence is certainly to fill it with nonsense, or whatever may be lurking in the wings, perhaps like a celestial Mr Punch with retribution.
I feel there is revelation in silence. It has to be an open and an aware one though - if that makes sense.
Thanks for your thoughts .
Thanks Graham, i'm sure from a forensic point of view you could be right - but obviously extreme pain must have been a factor in the process, not necessarily fatal but in combination. Yes, I did refer to the long time issue- however in all ancient tales is a long life span as with fairy tales, being allegorical and not restricted to our everyday experiences. The shortness of it is really all I feel I needed to make the point.
I think converts will find a time when it may be right for them - i'm not one of them.
Thanks for dropping in, Taylor and Raven, appreciated.
Ray
Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks for the comment. It’s actually my first haiku. It was inspired after reading the haikus written by other poets. After decades of sport, there’s pain after the glory, but I’d change nothing. To be a little cliche, I am like fine wine, I get better as I age.
Comment is about Joy of Aging (blog)
Original item by Jezer Ureña
Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 14:54
The hint of alliteration coupled with the imagery, provided much to this piece. The emotion underlying its lines also gave glimpse into the rugged landscape it seemed to take place in.
Great piece.
Comment is about to thrash (10/14/2018) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 14:49
Great piece here.?
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Yet we are the only species that seems to understand what
- and when - damage is done and can (and does) take steps to remedy it. We have the gift of foresight that allows this and for every "man-made" hazard, there appears
on the horizon a man-made solution or response. Even
the appalling destructive forces of nature that are beyond
our control can - and are - addressed and repaired by
the human presence. Without that presence, the world
would sink towards a wild dangerous place that defies
our worst imaginings.
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Know the problem! But a cassette tape recorder - or a
pencil/pad - at hand can retain the flashes that light the mind before they are extinguished or overwhelmed by others.
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hits the mark! But the mind can manage most things that
come along, given the chance - and the humour!
Comment is about Joy of Aging (blog)
Original item by Jezer Ureña
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 13:31
Beautiful poetry.
I liked the part about the buds.
When I lived with a large tree outside my window, I noticed new buds forming in December/January, taking little notice of what we call winter.
Nature goes on and on.
Hannah
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 13:25
I think ideas that come spinning in is good for a poet.
It's, as you say, sorting them out and deciding which to share and which to keep back.
Every idea is valuable, I believe.
Hannah
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Shanice thank you, that is courageous of you
Comment is about love is not (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Raypool thank you yes I think you’re right on all counts there. There is a little twist in the last line there. It has a double meaning. I’m saying both that if someone treats me like that I do not love them for it, but also that when I love someone, that is not how I treat them. Therefore if those are their definitions of love, then by their definition I don’t love them, because my idea of loving someone is different to that. So maybe, by my definition of love, I do love them in fact. Does that make sense?
Comment is about love is not (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
John,
Thank you for this. Time is often not properly understood yet in our thoughts we flit from time and place past to the present with a sense of peering into the future. Our imagination can even be a tool to alter reality in this respect. I think I need to explore this concept more fully.
Thank you again
Keith
Comment is about Poem for an anonymous Moorish Poet on the defeat at Seville November 1248 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I agree. Your fly seems to have an attitude problem, but don´t they all
Keith
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Sun 14th Oct 2018 11:45
Crow
thought he saw
a Crowshaw-
his seeing flawed
no Crow
saw.
wink.
Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Sun 14th Oct 2018 11:38
Flies
with personality
end up dead
eventually!
wink.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
cheers Sal - and thanks for the great review - I genuinely do write everything as poems first - and then take a big pile of paper into the studio and think 'what the fuck am I going to do with this'
Ian
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 10:52
not only am I a sharer Don but chuffed to fuck that I am!
keep chilled dude.
Rose ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 10:49
wowsers Keith! top shelf material man!
Rose ?
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you all for your interesting and thought provoking comments. What I write in this poem has everyone´s agreement but also that we offer no solutions. It is indeed a dilema. The present situation is exacerbated by a society, yea a world where the gap between the wealthy and the poor widens by the day. Power, the ability to challenge this can only come from a moral impetus which affects the lives of all. Poets such as we, can be voices of dissent, prophecy and to enlighten but it must be a ground swell movement to bring about real change.
The one guiding moral force was the Church but this institution has discredited itself in so many ways as to become a part of the problem. Common humanity through education is the only hope for us to redeem ourselves before the knell of doom strikes.
Thank you all again,
Keith
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
As wordsmiths our work is lifelong. A true labour of love. T ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Try not to regret. You are who you are, and that is wonderful.
Look after yourself,
Jon
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
<Deleted User> (19836)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 09:05
Guess the man who did look in this mirror
To claim he was old and was fat
Did well to perceive it was a mirror
That his eyesight, not wife, told him that ?
Comment is about A visual boost (blog)
Original item by hugh
I haven't thought about this comment, but only to ask the question who doesn't share my problem? Poets who aren't serious? Wannabe poets? Those who have the ability to filter and limit what they write about? Those who choose one topic and fine-tune it over time to poet laureate standard?
All I know is I'm driven to write. One could call it an obsession. I call it an addiction. Better this than ice.... ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Beautiful poem Peter as the wind has been scattering leaves here for a few days now, very apt..Taylor ?
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Excellent poem Don..I share your problem..?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Good morning from the Emerald Isles Don thanks for the comments on We..have a great day..Taylor ?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 04:30
Memories make quite a first impression.?
Comment is about Golden Days Gone-By (blog)
Original item by Jonalyn Cajefe
Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 04:28
If the butterfly effect is anything to go by, even the smallest speck of pollen can cause a massive change of events or effects.
You may not see yourself as up-to-par in your writings, but they are nothing to doubt. Especially in an age of so much uncertainty, infantile aggression, and micromanaged art forms - believe in yourself and your writings.
You write extremely well, and it is a pleasure to be able to see up close the way your writing and progress unfolds. Oblivion take us, but by God never fear the dark.
Take care.?
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
Thanks Anya and Sal!
Big Sal, I echo your thoughts of being aloud about taboos and stigmas, using whatever “peaceful” medium. All we can do to help prevent such unfortunate happening is spread awareness, though I am afraid that might not be enough.
Thanks again,
Taps
Comment is about Woman incomplete (blog)
Original item by TROY
elPintor
Sun 14th Oct 2018 02:42
I know I may regret this later...
I fully realize that the quality of my postings are not always, as they say, "up to par". And, I'll admit that my will to post at all flags according to my confidence in what I write. However, ultimately, I choose to see this forum as a means of becoming not-so-disappeared in a world that would otherwise have us all remain anonymous to function as faceless cogs.
My place is infinitesimally small in the scheme of things, but (at least for now) I choose to magnify and reach out in this meager manner--it is as much as I can do to move however slightly against the forces that bind us.
Fighting oblivion (if only for a while),
Rachel
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
<Deleted User> (19836)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 19:00
Rich with emotion! A lovely sentiment.?
Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH