A response to Auracle's "BeLanguaged" as I still haven't the privileges to comment on the page. Cheers for that banger of a spark—it had proper teeth! 🦷 🌷 @Auracle
Comment is about echolalia after the fall (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Yes! @Auracle ; a lifelong learning curve. 🌷🙏🏻🕊️bedankt😊
Comment is about closed windows (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks @David RL Moore 🌷 to loose ourselves in the losing of ourself would be some achievement. Most appreciated. 🙏🏻🕊️
Comment is about closed windows (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
We're learning the waves, Red Brick Keshner. At least I am. For if one day they will come, we will be able to live upon them. Like these kids, who know how to row, sail and motor. Row, sail and engine. And everything else.
Comment is about closed windows (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
A point well made in this delicate poem, David. 24- hour and online news has a lot to answer for, and much of it is so boringly repetitive that it wastes our time. And yet it is so difficult to step back. I'm as guilty as anyone.
Comment is about The Harrowing (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Beautiful,, Tom. I remember that feeling of quiet relaxation in Japan.
Comment is about Picnic By The Kamo River (blog)
Original item by Tom
A brilliant snapshot of the way things are going, Ray. I haven't been there for years. Not sure they would let me in now.
Comment is about America (blog)
Original item by Ray
Thanks to David, Greg, Uilleam, Ray and Graham for all the comments, and to everyone who liked this poem.
It is sad, but perhaps inevitable that wars drop down the news agenda over time. Actually, in the circumstances, I think much of the Western media has done a good job covering Ukraine. Of course, I accept that other conflicts are unjustly ignored.
What we have now though is a US 'administration' which seems to regard the Ukraine conflict as too difficult and boring, and also too problematic to steer in favour of their erstwhile ally, Russia. To the point where, shamefully, the war hardly figured at the NATO summit this week.
Greg - thank you for the comment about the local Ukrainian family. I know the heartbreak that family separation and tragedy has brought to several refugees who attend our English classes at a local school. It is particularly hard for children, although they can appear outwardly resilient. And now I see that the UK government is refusing asylum to some Ukrainians. Very sad.
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Hi Yanma,
I thought it was time to pay you a visit.
Our imaginations are our creators, at least in some cases they can be.
Who are we to deny our own or anothers imagination?
Historically many of those who have indulged their imagination have led themselves and multitudes to some kind of salvaton. Specifically in the fields of medicine and the arts, the great philosophers and those who simply imagine our lives could be better who then pursue their imaginings into reality.
Too many of us deny ourselves the opportunity to realise our imaginings, I find that such a waste.
A great poem to provoke some thought.
David RL Moore
Comment is about The Seeker (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
I trust the cursor will not wait too long RBK.
I think I will be losing myself in the Countryside or a Gallery somewhere before this day is out.
I think atm we are vibrating on a similar frequency.
David
Comment is about closed windows (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thank you for the likes on this, they are all very much appreciated.
Thanks for your comment and thoughts Graham. Rolling news and social media opinion has a huge impact on some of those who expose themselves to it. It can become an addiction I believe.
David RL Moore
Comment is about The Harrowing (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
I think it's inherent to try to beat ourselves up regularly. When things are going right, we await the banana skin, with comments like 'it can't last forever etc!
Modern news/reportage is incessant and we have been duped. Once we used to sit down to listen/watch news a couple of times a day. Now we seem to need it on the hour, Why?
A very conscience pricking piece David. we are all guilty as charged.
G
Comment is about The Harrowing (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thank you for this, @Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh—there's something hauntingly honest in your lines.
Comment is about Bonnie Madleen (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Let's start from the very beginning,
A very good place to start.
When you read, you begin with ABC
When you sing, you begin with Do-Re-Me.
Comment is about I Learn And Study English (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Thanks @David RL Moore 🌷 I can so relate with that awkwardness about rhyme. Being raised and trained to rhyme it was okay until the pushback began from those that were quite militant about eradicating rhyming. So it may be an acquired response to that. More often than not I produce two of the same poem and then decide which gets posted and the other archived: rhymed or unrhymed. 🕊️🙏🏻
Comment is about quiet apologies (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
You're absolutely correct, @Ray Miller. That is indeed the actual title. Loving how the dynamic is with you in reference to rhyming poems, yours and others'. Splendid 🌷🙏🏻🕊️
Comment is about quiet apologies (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
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..................................................I am Palestine Action.............................................
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..................................................I am Palestine Action.............................................
Comment is about Bonnie Madleen (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thu 26th Jun 2025 18:43
Very profound and beautiful poem, Naomi, it speaks many truths! 🌷
Comment is about THE SILENCE BETWEEN NOTES (blog)
Original item by Naomi
Don't know what's happened to the formatting. But I think it works.
Comment is about Rhythm of the Day (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Tight and succinct! I think I would have titled it 'Eve of Destruction' or have I read it wrong?
Comment is about America (blog)
Original item by Ray
The Nakba has shadowed me from the year of my birth.
I now realise that it was always there, always happening, always enabled by the liars and criminals who pretend to be my friend.
..............................Friends of Genocide,..............................
..............................Friends of Infanticide,..............................
..............................Friends of Ethnic Cleansing ..............................
..............................Friends of Racism......................
..................................ARE.................................
..............................NO FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE..............................
..............................NO FRIENDS OF MINE!..............................
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No. 23. Fuck Your Fascist Police State] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
You paint an horrific tableau here Stephen and I can offer no meaningful words. I fear that the rest of the world will one day have to put Russia back in its box. It will not be pleasant.
Thank you for occasionally twisting our guts so effectively. G
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I imagine that even the Western media find it difficult to speak of unprovoked attacks in the current climate.
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Enjoyed the read, I've felt the same. Certainly death is no longer scary, but I guess that's just old age.
waiting for the end of the day
but wishing that there was no tomorrow
simple but effective
Comment is about Fades (blog)
Original item by Charlote Dee
On the street, a woman’s tempted
by the babble of an Apple.
Excellent Ray.
No doubt she’s vehemently “Pro-Life”; but she has no qualms about Billions of tax $s financing illegal wars which kill innocent babies in their thousands.
Comment is about America (blog)
Original item by Ray
Apologia in Free Verse (After Too Much Metre) - that should be the title, I think. Not sure why you bring "quiet" into it. Thought unbuttoned - lovely phrase. Speaking for myself, I'm more impressed by my rhyming poems, but tend to find the poems of others more interesting when they don't rhyme.
Comment is about quiet apologies (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thank you, Stephen, for an honest portrayal of human suffering.
Corruption within the arms industry accounts for a large proportion of financial fraud worldwide; how much of that corruption is responsible for the loss of those 6 million lives around the Democratic Republic of Congo, which David mentions?
How much of that corruption accounts for the rewarding of individuals by, for example, elevation to the UK House of Lords; people who, under normal circumstances, (for example, the proposed UK war-footing), would be regarded as “Enemies of the UK State”?
How much of that corruption results in scum such as Putin being regarded by the UK as “the devil incarnate”, with cries for him to be hauled up before the international courts; whereas, in contrast, UK politicians actively enable and allow scum like Netanyahu to get away with Genocide?
It’s a “hierarchy of racism” which lies behind those discrepancies.
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for reminding us, Steve. At the local mother and toddler group in our village hall, there is a Ukrainian mother and her little boy, who are currently living at a local farm. They were away for a while, visiting the husband and father in Odessa. It was a long and arduous journey, I understand. At the village hall the little boy is slowly coming out of his shell.
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Quite right, Stephen. We’ve moved on since we were told to eat cake. The Communist Manifesto needs rewriting to include universal access to 5G and fibre broadband.
And thanks for the Likes, Redbrick and Greg
Comment is about DEATH WHERE IS THY STING? (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I would like to thank you for giving such a nice comment on my poem It Was On Sunday, The 22nd of June, at 4 A.M.
Regards,
Larisa
Comment is about Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh (poet profile)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Brilliant Poem,
This is a struggle musical poets wrestle with endlessly.
I vomit at my rhyme, often.
The cutting edge of non-conformative unbridled words shears through centuries of pleasurable weaselly obeyance.
I applaud your disregard most heartily.
David RL Moore
Comment is about quiet apologies (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Hi Stephen,
This is a worthy and interesting poem, of that there is no doubt or question.
The ongoing wars and tribal unrest in The DR Congo and it's multiple border areas has over the past 30-40 years accounted for in the order of 6 million lives.
I suspect the people of the DRC and it's numerous satellite countries would ask the people of The Ukraine and the rest of the world, why their plight is looked upon as less worthy coverage than that of countries deemed more important than their own, in fact not only disregarded but not even reported upon or necessarily known of.
There may even be a country where greater apolyptic terrors are taking place that I am not aware of.
Your poem poses a question that challenges and highlights the very base instincts of humanity.
The media dominated heirachy of suffering is a reality which poisons the very water we all collectively swim and suffer in.
David RL Moore
Comment is about Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine (June 2025). (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks @Rolph David 🌷that’s so amazing you were able to do that. Daily, run of the mill things connect us to each other and greatness as well 🙏🏻🕊
Comment is about Molière (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I think you have nailed it, Rolph. A great poem. Its rhythm and structure gives it a lot of power.
A terrible spectacle, as you say;
This vile old man has got his way!
Comment is about The Smile That Sold Us Out (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
It's a universal problem, John. We once spent ages trying to get through to our telecom company here, only to end up being threatened by an employee who appeared to have consumed most a wine bar's stock at lunch.
Maybe the revolution will be sparked by experiences like this.
Comment is about DEATH WHERE IS THY STING? (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Doubt on both sides, Trevor. A clever, well-rhymed poem.
Comment is about Doubt (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Our love&respect for Earth,Nature&Humanity.
Comment is about The Meeting Tree (blog)
Original item by Tom
With our love&respect for Earth, Humanity and Nature we have come a long way!
Comment is about Remains Untold (blog)
Original item by Manish
Wed 25th Jun 2025 17:26
Thank you so much, Manish, you are truly kind! 💖
Comment is about Diaphanous. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thanks to Graham and Rolph for the most generous comments and to all who liked this, cheers.
Comment is about Remains Untold (blog)
Original item by Manish
Excellently written, David. Very intriguing indeed.
Comment is about The Guest Beneath My Tongue (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
"epiphanies
Tend to rest
On diaphanous wings..."
Sheer brilliance as always, Holden. Loved it.
Comment is about Diaphanous. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thanks both - they certainly do. 😃
Thanks for reading, all.
Comment is about Daniel (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thanks to Uilleam and Graham for thier comments.
I'm still cringing a little at the title of this piece, that said in the moments of writing that is how I felt...I cannot deny.
Thank you for the reassurances Uilleam.
Graham, I've been a fan of Neil Yong for a long time also. There is something about "Cortez the Killer" that has had me returning to it for years now, it isn't just his guitar work but the entire arrangement builds in an hypnotic fashion that never fails to deliver.
Thanks to all who have sent likes.
David RL Moore
Comment is about These fuckers (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for your likes:
Red Brick Keshner
Phils Words
Tom Doolan
Holden Moncrieff
Yanma Hidayah
Two war criminals, hand in glove, whose only hope of keeping out of jail is to cause more war.
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No. 23. Fuck Your Fascist Police State] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Yanma Hidayah
Sun 29th Jun 2025 04:43
Hi David,
Thank you so much for this beautiful and thought-provoking comment.
I truly resonate with your words. It’s comforting (and empowering) to be reminded that imagination can shape not just art, but life itself.
Your reflection adds a deeper layer to the poem, and I’m grateful you shared it with me. It feels like a gentle encouragement.
Wishing you warmth always,
Yanma
Comment is about The Seeker (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah