Thanks for the Likes, Red Brick, Stephen, Holden and David.
Comment is about DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A very moving and profound piece, Jonathan. What if? We will never know, but should still ask the question.
Comment is about You and I (blog)
Original item by Jonathan Humble
Thanks Laura & Rachel ;much appreciated comments 🤔🙂👍
Comment is about Do not turn me into rhyme (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hi Graham,
I'm not quite sure I understand the "edit function" as you put it...I edit for grammatical purposes because I'm an illiterate bottom feeder, other than that my edits are emotional in an attempt to get to the real stuff.
As ever I appreciate your reading and comments, thank you.
David RL Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_FafCJbyWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Nsyib4bv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHR3uEOkkSo&list=RDMM&index=9
Comment is about Aubade-esque (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
I use the edit function quite a lot too but never mention it hoping people won't notice.
(Haha! I've just googled Aubade and this is an edited comment now!)
Comment is about Aubade-esque (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Therein lies the problem of our days xxx
David RL Moore
Comment is about liberty (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
"God blessed me, I'm a free man
With no place free to go..."
Cheers, David )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9i8E05bgI&pp=ygUNa2luZ3Mgb2YgbGVvbg
Comment is about liberty (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
I have revised this unsatisfactory piece.
The rythme had been purposely inverted so as to disrupt the reading, sometimes it works better than others. In this case it really didn't.
I have hacked some weeds away and renamed it, hopefully making it a little less navel-gazing in tone (although not entirely, I admit)
David RL Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqx70w64cQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDW-W2J84Hc
Comment is about Aubade-esque (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
"binds the dead up with the living"
I like the image of that in the vine...the connection whether desired or not, whether supported or not is there and cannot be severed.
We're all running to stand still in this place.
Great imaginative ideas Landi.
David
Comment is about liberty (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
Kalinova - see my comments on your other piece. I feel your pain and appreciate your words at the same time.
Rob
Comment is about A Love That Faded (blog)
Original item by KaliNova
I really like the self-examination, beautifully laid out in your work. I suppose, though we don't realise it at the time, love or relationships do change us and the way we see others. When this breaks down, we are left with loss of the relationship and those that became collateral damage along the way.
Self love seems a recent construct (and someone is making money by flogging the concepts and mantras) that acts as a bandage for grief. Barely adequate for most.
Keep up the good work.
Rob
Comment is about The Emptiness of Self-Love (blog)
Original item by KaliNova
Ha! I'm glad you think it worthy, Graham! Thanks
And for the much appreciated 🌷Holden, J.C. Stephen, Tom, & Nigel. 😊
Comment is about Giving Yourself Some Stick (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Personal experience! One that I am happy to have overcome 😂
Comment is about Psycho (blog)
Original item by DG
Thanks Landi,
those days when you simply want to stay under the covers, and then some.
I had been reading "Aubade" and wanted to say something similar but not quite. This fell out of somewhere, somehow.
David RL Moore
Comment is about Aubade-esque (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
"..one more time around the glowing jewel..."
to think of what the day removes from our sight in those still moments before the world rushes in...
What a strong line...
Comment is about Aubade-esque (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thank you very much for reading and for the lovely comments xx
Comment is about Heavenly Chat (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Okay, then. 😊, thanks again.
Comment is about A Book... A Human... (blog)
Original item by AirlogRigsMaria
Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, Larisa, John C, Rolph & Holden. 👍
Comment is about I Like Your Style (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thanks Tom and Martin for your heart warming comments
Comment is about Behind Bars (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Thank you, Flyntland. The point is well taken. Some friends of ours are situated near a new development which includes the menacingly-titled 'Collective Barbecue Zone'. The mind boggles.
Cheers, Tom. Your comment is much appreciated. I'm a bit of a rhymer when I can make it work!
And thanks to everyone who liked this.
Comment is about Jack's Fancy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Desperate times, Steve. Government by the mad and bad. Nice one!
Comment is about 47 (blog)
Original item by Steve White
Maria, just Graham is fine 😊
Comment is about A Book... A Human... (blog)
Original item by AirlogRigsMaria
Oh, I see... personal experience or just a piece of fiction?😊
Comment is about Psycho (blog)
Original item by DG
Sir Graham, Firstly, thank you for your time reading my humble poem, and yes, what you have mention is indeed correct. It is a metaphor and understanding this metaphor can help in navigating social dynamics and fostering better communication and connection with other people.
Comment is about A Book... A Human... (blog)
Original item by AirlogRigsMaria
................aye New Shoes,
these days are fraudulent. I am broken for our children.
Comment is about "Yesterday, love was such an easy game to.........." (blog)
Original item by New Shoes
Echoes perhaps?
Comment is about Giving Yourself Some Stick (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you Larisa and Rolph.
Best of regards,
Tom
Comment is about Watching Horses (blog)
Original item by TOM MERTON
Thankyou for your thoughts, Tom. And for the Likes, Stephen, Tom, Rolph, Redbrick and Aisha.
Comment is about JOHN THE HAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Defo an Arfur Daley and then some! Ta JC for this cleverly compiled composition.
While serving three FULL years for the outrageous crime of persistent truancy back in 'them days ' in approved school ( where I gratefully learned my decorating trade thanks to an ex Para/Gentleman-bless you 'Jeffo ' )
the only Daleyesque dealings I was involved in were flogging toffees shoplifted from the tuck shop 😅
Cheers Johnny boy!
Terrible Tom 😂
Comment is about JOHN THE HAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Be you a slave to rhyme or not Stephen, it would make no difference to me.
A much enjoyed piece.
( comment updated )
Thank you.
Tom
Comment is about Jack's Fancy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A super spirit lifting special 💐
Thanks Aisha
Tom
Comment is about Release Yourself (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
Hi Mike. Any poem about Dogs will always be up my street
( one with plenty of trees and lamposts in it )
Nice one thanks 👍
Tom
Comment is about Running With Dogs (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Do any of you ( as mad as me ) guys remember the part Spike
played in Hitler's downfall? 😅 Flyntland-do you mean ' those nice young men in their clean white coats ? 😁
Thank you
Nigel
Red
Stephen
Holden
Naomi
Flyntland
Enjoy the rest of the day guys when you've had your medications 😝
Best of my raving regards
Tom
Comment is about A Spiker in the works (blog)
Original item by TOM MERTON
Hey, thanks for showing interest! I’d say the poem/verse is about post-breakup coping mechanisms. And, as you can see, a failure to understand the discomfort from being alone. Going back to toxic patterns and feeling crazy / not understanding why nothing is working.
Comment is about Psycho (blog)
Original item by DG
A poem about reality,
I live in an AONB. - hard up against one boundary of my field, an exclusive executive housing estate, that has been threatening for the last two years, is in its final stages of planning. We hope it will be refused, but doubt it.
Hard up against another boundary, a row of tumble-down wooden sheds is already approved to be replaced by a large red brick, pitched-roofed 'stable block' with oriel windows.
Sad, but developers are powerful and have excellent lawyers who know all the loopholes.
Comment is about Jack's Fancy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
"They are coming to take you away, Ha Ha" - and we are all coming with you
Comment is about A Spiker in the works (blog)
Original item by TOM MERTON
It was always a fine sight, Stephen, to see the women of the village carrying the same handbags or the men wearing the same Barbour coats. You needed to be aware that his hair straighteners would self-combust and his vino laid you up for days. All good clean fun.
Comment is about JOHN THE HAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your reading and comment Martin.
David RL Moore
Comment is about Of Succubus And Demons (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Milligna, the well-known printing error, does it again. Get out the bluewash!
Comment is about A Spiker in the works (blog)
Original item by TOM MERTON
I doff my cap to you for this brilliant piece of verse, John. Of course, what he did isn't funny, but you still make a fine poem out of it.
Comment is about JOHN THE HAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Rolph.
Comment is about Detritus (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I am in Odessa on the main street
On a pedestal, I overtop
A lot of people I meet and greet
Their asses on me they drop.
A chair made of bronze!
Have you ever heard of that?
The other chairs are pawns.
With them, I ignore to chat.
Every day I’m admired,
Became a hero of the day
I’d love to say I’m never tired
And never wish to hit the hay.
Why am I so famous?-one might ask.
The treasures were hidden in my seat.
To find them was not an easy task
As I was one out of 12 and did not cheat.
The first of April is today,
A Humorina in Odessa-city
A sunny day! A funny day!
And all around is so pretty!
Humor is in the City Garden,
Laughter and joy are on the streets!
Someone said: I beg your pardon
If my voice is a bit of bleat
You can sit on me and take a picture,
So that to fix that beautiful moment.
It will be for life the best capture
For your offspring, the best comment.
The best music I’ve heard today
Different orchestras I did enjoy.
More than that, I would like to say:
Some … got rid of the hemorrhoid.
Laughing so much together with men
I know for sure what health it improves.
Come and sit on me again.
And your troubles my seat removes.
I want every day to be like that.
Listening to music, laughter, and jokes,
Being jazzed by funny acts, let’s bet,
Your life prolongs, and love evokes.
If I had a mouth, I would say:
It was really the greatest day!
The day of different adventures
And all people were not strangers.
©Larisa Rzhepishevska
***
Comment is about I Am a Chair (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Thanks Holden, Red Brick, Flyntland and Nigel for the likes on this one. I will repost it as I didn't realise the proximity of the month end. Please don't feel obliged to re-like!
Rob
Comment is about All At Once (blog)
Original item by Rob J Mann
Thank you @Flyntland; I am quite tickled by the cat being the underdog, awesomely played 🌷🕊🙏🏻
Comment is about is it all over, city cat? (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Graham Sherwood
Fri 4th Apr 2025 09:39
Jonathan this is a real quality piece of poetry. The subject pulls at all us old/young schoolboys so much. I wrote a similar piece called 'first' in memorium to an old schoolmate. He was always first to do everything (and I mean everything) but also sadly passed away first too. Sadly missed.
Well done sir!
Comment is about You and I (blog)
Original item by Jonathan Humble