We have much to thank the snowflake generation for e.g. Brexit and Trump. If only they'd got out of bed, tore themselves away from computer games, and got out and voted!

Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

Hi Keith - obviously I am not in the loop because I thought attitudes had changed considerably and the behaviour you have described is to a large extent a thing of the past.

Aside from the sentiment Keith, it is a well constructed piece which rhymes...which is in itself not your usual way so respect for that.

Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I don't care if you're homo or hetero
It makes no damn difference to me
As long as you're kind and you're caring
Which I'm sure you are and'll always be ?

Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Despite a long and difficult road attitudes are gradually changing Keith ?

Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Right-wingers get pretty sensitive when called on their own shit, but they always cry wolf when someone on the left of the spectrum tells them something in return. My favorite is when one of them gets called racist, bigot, or anything true, they automatically go into defensive kitty mode and try batting that ball back at 'em.

As if 'snowflake' is any sort of intelligent denigration, now they all pat themselves on the backs like good little dogs. I love poetry like this.

Highly enjoyable poem, and the sentiment is top notch, well done Janey.??

Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

Unique in presentation and substance. ?

Comment is about A.I. Graveyard (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Great piece.?

Comment is about Winter (blog)

Original item by sasha

I love the idea of the beacon. I recently wrote a poem along a similar vein..the beacon being their love. Thank you..enjoyed this..?

Comment is about Before the dawn (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

It is timely to have this reminder of National Poetry Day and
any input or action that contributes to it has to be welcome.
So - without fear or favour...write on!

Comment is about Write Out Loud Helps You Join the Celebration - Somewhere! (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Powerfully put. However, today's generation has more going for it than any other, with awareness and
advantages and an ability to act not given to those before
who were caught up in world conflicts beyond their control
and suffered beyond imagining before returning from the
conflagration to light the way and provide the shoulders upon which today's generation stands and looks ahead. ?

Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

Thanks for the responses. I am persuaded that what goes
around comes around - and that "life" is a regenerational
process. Is it Buddhism that believes that we return in a
life form that reflects our previous existence and deeds -
up or down?! So - soar like an eagle or creep like a snail...
mind how you go! ?

Comment is about QUESTION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

1st in a series

Comment is about A.I. Graveyard (blog)

Original item by Andy N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42yUeYKNYck

..only entertaining myself.

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thanks so much, Taylor.

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

such a very powerful piece Janey oozing with sincerity.
Thank you. Jemima.

Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

And what did you call your 67-line form Tommy? I couldn't see it listed in one of the all-time greats of poetic frustrations (sorry, forms). Perhaps the collators banged their heads silly trying to work out if it qualified
I'm gonna stick with Adelaide ?

Comment is about What's Going On? : An Adelaide Cinquain a la DM (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Last stanza love it swallowed by a gigantic ..whole..?

Comment is about Intimacy (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Don I invented a 67 line verse that has 8 words per line that contains only 10 vowels per line and must use the letter "Q" 13 times in total, that if read upside down near the back door you will get exceedingly annoyed.
Do try it Don and I'll see you in the outpatients.

Comment is about What's Going On? : An Adelaide Cinquain a la DM (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Wonderful writing Avishek....thank you..?

Comment is about Murky (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thank you for reading Taylor. I'm glad you liked it.

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Some politicians I am sure start off with good intentions..but..as Lord Acton so eloquently put it 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'
On that basis what chance is there..enjoyed the poem thank you..❤

Comment is about Keeping Up Appearances (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

delightfully deep dude! write on!







Rose ?

Comment is about Murky (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

love your soap-boxing mode Trev!






Rose ?

Comment is about Keeping Up Appearances (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Enjoyed this Adam thank you. ?

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Thankyou for your likes and all the comments it produced. I found it an interesting area to explore?

Comment is about Who Holds My Key? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Love the rhyme....love the poem..?

Comment is about QUESTION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

beautiful

Comment is about Today You Remembered (blog)

Original item by yajaira

Indeed a question to which there is no answer.

Fantastic poem; great theme. Love it!?

Comment is about QUESTION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Beautiful poem Ray, read it twice and thrice..?

Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A powerful piece of poetry... Thank you..?

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

Like this ..a lot thank you.?

Comment is about do i cross your mind? (blog)

Original item by Grape

I guess if there are more forward steps than backward ones that is the best we can hope for. Good piece Trev.

Comment is about Keeping Up Appearances (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

I love this poem. Boys are ThE WoRsT ? but what can we do we need the to reproduce??. Great poem now one of my favorites.

Comment is about do i cross your mind? (blog)

Original item by Grape

You keep surpassing yourself Avishek, keep writing how you know how and let the words flow. ?

Comment is about Murky (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Thanks, Big Sal...you always seem to say what you feel in the moment. Be well, to you too.

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

Last line holds itself like a vigil to long forgotten emotions we didn't know we still had in our back pockets. Nicely done.?

Comment is about do i cross your mind? (blog)

Original item by Grape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WWcvaS1dg

"you've got to know your history..."

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

Beautiful with bathos injected into it for good measure. Excellent poem very much worthy of its namesake.

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Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Honest as it is full of life and imagery.?

Comment is about Tick Tock (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

Like a ballad to the death of innocence.

You always manage to pack so much power into short lines, it's always a refreshing read.

Be well.?

Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thanks Rachel for your comment- even though you've lost me, I'm a bear of very little brain.

I suppose a person might embark on some sort of heavenly quest or may remain content to try to be some sort of successful businessasshole. I suppose most of us tread a sometime-uneasy middle line.

I've flung down these inconclusive lines hoping the reader will "enjoy" having some of the work left to him/her.

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

"I aim for the sun
and within my guilt
I come undone."

Icarus escapes with or without wings...

Rachel

Comment is about Stuck (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

I realize it's somewhat anathematic, but this puts me in the mind of Machiavelli: "the end justifies the means"--reason can be so slippery and serpentine.

Rachel

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Hi Sal. I think that's because the past is epic in all its miseries joys. Sometimes, I feel the past - even the very distant past - closely and intimately. Common humanity is not bound by time: empathising with the people of the past is no more difficult (easier in some ways) than empathising with the people of the present. As to vocabulary, dear Sal, I think you might be practising the ancient English art of self-deprecation! Thanks, as ever, for noticing my work, few do. Occasionally, I think of switching to prose but I just drift back to poetry, it is my natural medium. All good wishes, John

Comment is about A lamentation upon the fall of Constantinople 29th May 1453 (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I've been caught talking to myself one too many times, Ray. Subtleties have a way of taking on the air of private jokes--even the hecklers get more laughs on the outside.

Still reading though not commenting much, lately,

Rachel

Comment is about SIMPLE FARE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you Martin. The story is from an old Hindu parable.

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

thanks for reading my poem.
I wish i was
a Registered anything...
unfortunately they do not register poets
if they did I would probably not get a tag
for pedigree.

Comment is about Shanice Matos (poet profile)

Original item by Shanice Matos

The old eternal question of deciding what is truth and what is not. You have tackled this very well Adam. Love it

Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

This sounds almost Shakespeare like Mark. A very fine piece of poetry as well as being concise and to the point
Nice one

Comment is about QUESTION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Ray this definitely reads like it should be a folk song and a very fine one at that

Nice one

Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)

Original item by ray pool