John,
Thank you for this poem which serves as a reminder of how far we have travelled from such a sense of charity to a place where the individual reigns supreme and community is diminished.
Keith
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Avishek, nice to see you on WoL ?
Comment is about AVISHEK GHOSH (poet profile)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
If only negotiation was as easy as telling the other party what you want, MC, and them then giving it to you.
I’ve never bought the argument, Po, that politicians are any less honest than the rest of us. But rather I feel that Politics isn’t the place for absolutes and idealism. Too much compromise and getting your hands dirty on difficult decisions.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 18:08
weight will weigh you down
write lean
write fast
run off the words while you can.
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you, Taylor
The world is very loud at this moment.
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Don - Boris is in a class of his own. With a name like that, he probably was!!
KJ - the old army adage rings true. Like the old command "One pace
to the front - march". But there can be a positive use for the action -
or many charities would be feeling the pinch.
JC - glad you chose to spend a penny here!
Many thanks - one and all.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Like the subject matter Jon. Sometimes silence is restful. ?
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thank you John and Big Sal, just goes to show being first in the queue does not always guarantee the prize..?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
"Beat me", said the masochist.
"No", said the sadist!
And I think Parliament has had - and has still - its share of both!!
If the democratic majority vote to leave had been respected at the
outset, the relevant European Communities Act tying us to the
EU could have been repealed by Parliament and the break begun
our own terms. Instead, unwilling to act decisively, those who
have <ultra vires> transferred the power invested in them by UK
election to Brussels, even now talk of binding (illegally) future
parliaments to agreements with the EU. They have their fellow-
travellers in the USA who tend to think they can over-ride their
own famous Constitution - and do! It is called "post-Constitution".
These are difficult and even dangerous times in many ways.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Anya and Big Sal.
Thought I'd give it a try.
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:08
Excellent piece of writing. First two lines takes the cake.?
Comment is about Close to the Flames (blog)
Original item by Randy Horton
I once tried to impress on Daughter No 2 the importance of voting, Po,
“Men have died for your right to vote” I said.
“They’d be dead now anyway” she said.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:03
Haiku has certainly taken hold.
I never even liked it until coming onto WOL for like a year.
Nice word choice, Jon.?
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:01
Very unique take on a love poem.
Well done on this.?
Comment is about Romantic Desire (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:01
Great poem, and the personification is second to none here.
Well done. The ending is superb.?
Comment is about The Wind Is Howling (blog)
Original item by Tom
Has a touch of the irony of Daltrey's 'hope I die before I get old.' Ahem.
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 12:52
I cut in any line - and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do just that.?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Wonderful sentiment.. Wonderful poem..
Comment is about With a honor (blog)
Original item by Hasmukh Mehta
Thank you, Kate.
I am happy to hear that.
xx
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 11:07
Beautiful poem, and I learned a new word. ?
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thank you, Taylor, Anya and Big Sal for your comments.
Thank you, Adam and Kevin for the likes.
I am so grateful for your support.
xx
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Ah great, thanks Taylor for your comments and support, appreciated ?
Comment is about Friend or Foe? (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
I empathise, Taylor. I tell Our Gert I could have done better. Then I make my bed up in the shed.
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Nice villanelle, Becky. The only apprenticeship we serve for being a parent is role play. And we only get to play the kid.
Comment is about My first-born (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
It took a while before the penny dropped for me, MC.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Ha ha, Kev. You feel I should get off the fence a bit more?
I have to say, MC, I’m quite enjoying this. And I am acquiring a grudging respect for TM who has tried to manage the democratic decision while holding the shitty end of the stick. Cf The Invisible Man, Corbyn, Or her own party’s political careerists. (As a former manager, I’ve always realised its a lot easier throwing stones than doing something).
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
"Never volunteer for anything" that's what I was warned when I was in the army.
I enjoyed this one M.C.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Just to make it clear John, are you for or against Brexit?
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 03:33
Life's a somatic risk in the bliss of the chorus,
Like a poetic wisp in the midst of the forest.
____
Well done on a beautiful piece, Jon.??
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 03:21
Not wishing to undercut
The cleverness of Horace
All I can think off
Is self-hanging Boris
Who wasn't as smart
But wanted to be first
The trouble is his ego
It finally burst
But the problem I have
I have no real clue
If what I am saying
Is actually true?
It's just poor old Boris
Did happen to rhyme
With MC's young Horace
Which gave me fun time ?
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
As Oscar might have said - Thank you for your excellent judgement!
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you for the ISBN relating to this promotion/review.
I know only too well about incorrect or missing information having
submitted a published novel with all the appropriate information to
a magazine column for review purposes - only to realise upon
reading the resulting review that the ISBN shown was not the one I had supplied.
Cheers.
MC
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Perhaps excepting the effects of illness, it is likely that any "old"
person who is rude and unpleasant was probably of the same ill-nature before the years caught up. My own eighth decade is
only too ready to be polite and good-natured towards my fellows
and I'm only too happy to meet the same in return.
As EMW wrote - and it has a substantial portion of truth...
Laugh and the world laughs with you....?
Comment is about Normal People (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Pithy and uncomfortable enough to makes both sides think.
But any lot in Parliament that chooses to act ultra vires to tie us in
to something that has - like the "Alien" - mutated into something
no one warned us about deserves to wriggle and squirm on the hook of public disquiet - from whatever political position held..
The Tories should be the Janus Party
Two-faced, deceitful and smarty-farty.
If they'd repudiated the Community Act
Wielding a proper chopper to enact
The vote that said we want to leave
And spared us the wily web they weave
With all that "May we...please sir" sop
Toadying to Johnny C's Junkshop,
At least we be well on the way to pain
That was OURS to face - with much to gain!
.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sudacrem, Brian I lathered it on my two when they were little.
Thanks, Po.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your nice comment, Taylor Crowsaw?
Comment is about Script Without Words (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Thanks for your comment on 'Script Without Words'?
Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 22:38
Last three lines are a perfect way to end a perfect poem..?
Comment is about Wanderings (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
D.K. one thing I have learned is that the old can be rude and unpleasant too. It is, as you rightly say all about people..normal people, helping hands of all persuasions...?
Comment is about Normal People (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you M.C. I enjoy your comments. I was always a cup half full type of girl..?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Congratulations, Beno
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 16:43
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 1st Dec 2018 16:35
Well M.C. this tale was certainly 'noose' to me.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
There's a link to the publisher's site at the end of the review, as is our custom, MC, although I can't see an ISBN number there. I'm sure you could track it down yourself, but seeing as it's you, here it is ... ISBN 978-1-912111-74-9. Don't come back to me if it doesn't work for any reason!
You're very kind, Trev.
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
That's a bit more literal than I intended, but I really appreciate your kind words. ?
Comment is about Close to the Flames (blog)
Original item by Randy Horton
Jon Stainsby
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 19:58
Always thought-provoking.
Thank you, John.
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks