I tell you what I'd pay to see:

The looks on the faces of past generations to see the world as it is today. It'd be like a horror show mixed with a steampunk gravitas.

It'd be the saddest tale ever told.

Again, like I said before Ian, you could write about anything and have it come out superb. Every new piece you put out I always now find myself wondering if you ever adapted in some way to another kind of art form.

Good on you, and keep up the great writing.?

Comment is about Thaw-Irkhet-if (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Lovely romantic poem, nice one Hugh..?

Comment is about Breaking the ice (blog)

Original item by hugh

OK, Tommy, aren't you going to finish it? You may be going somewhere but people need a few more signposts to follow you.

Comment is about Brexit: A learners guide (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

What a surprise

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Nice one Beno. A poem with blood in its veins! Blow up the world, why not, it's all going to hell in a basket anyhow!
I love the way the rhymes drive it forward, be a great one for an open mic.
Takes me back nearly 70 years, believe it or not, to the climbing scene in the 50's and 60's when we were all on bikes to Lanberis Pass every Friday night, doing dangerous things and looking for girls.
Dark Manchester streets and Youth clubs and coffee bars. Go for it and keep on going!
PS, I like the 'snowflake armies' phrase - fair comment on today's Labour Party.

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Anarchic with a hint of chaos. I felt like I was there.. going to have a hangover tomorrow. Very clever Beno.

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Good on yer, Trev!

Comment is about Out of the Ashes: Frieda Hughes, Bloodaxe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

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

Like the music references in the last stanza. This poem certainly packs a punch, and packs a lot in, too. Vibrant, rich.

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks, Poem....
Sorry to have disrupted your slumber.

Comment is about "HAVE SOME MADEIRA, M'DEAR" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, MC. I’m a miserable teetotaller. But never more popular than when people want a lift home.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I bet that many people do not even know what blog is short for. Anyway Don, I thought you Aussies routinely debased the language with your strine?

Comment is about Blog (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The commercial aspect is almost "too much" and too early! And
it is not much help towards keeping children's expectations under
control. But chin up and keep supporting the needy. Can I send you
my address? ?
I never took you for a stooge
To Christmas cheer, old chum,
But do your kid's deserve a Scrooge
When waiting for Santa to come?

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'll bet my bottom dollar
The juvenile seeking Mars
Will very quickly muck it up
By using plastic jars

Why do we think so lazy ?
Nothing it does achieve
I want my naked fruit like you
A chore it is, yes Eve

Changing ways it takes a while
Not easy to attain
Let's change to get sustainable
More plastics are a pain ?

Well done Eve - I liked your 'naked fruit and veg'

Comment is about It's war (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Ah, that is so good Fred. Dates us hey? ?

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

For some reason I was thinking on a completely different plane here. I didn't even think it was an animal. I thought it was talking about a homeless underdog person

'for kindness he's still waiting

kicked to the side again'

Thankyou dk for opening up this pathway of thinking ?

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

In truth, Brian, my kids love the bits I get them from the Charity shops. And they reciprocate. My daughter once got me a birthday card which read 'You've been like a dad to me'. I haven't stopped laughing.
It seems we share a dislike for Christmas, Poem. But my dislike pales against New Year's Eve which seems to mock me with 'Another year gone and you've done f**k all again'.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Well done Po.

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Well done John...an early bah humbug.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for reading, Kevin, it is very much appreciated. One day I will get around to audio tracks for these books I am working on, but I am glad to see people interested in such a thing.

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Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)

Original item by kJ Walker

I'll never understand why more people don't enjoy rhyme in their poetry. It's like having a gin and tonic at a bar and refusing the gin with a pinky up.

Nice one, Eric. Keep posting and practicing and your skill will only grow from here.??

Comment is about MISCELLANEOUS (blog)

Original item by Eric James

Excellent Hugh..?

Comment is about Scot,a sad loss (blog)

Original item by hugh

Beautiful Adam, thank you for sharing..?

Comment is about Mornings As Riches (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

I can relate to this Robert..thought provoking..

Comment is about XXX (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Sad poem.. mans best friend, a fitting poem demonstrating the thoughtless cruelty we inflict..?

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Hi Kevin, I am not that old either......just remember random things from childhood..?
Thank you for reading my poetry it means a lot..

Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)

Original item by kJ Walker

How many pieces of food get wasted around the celebrating world I wonder?

Comment is about After The Day After (blog)

Original item by d.knape

You're right on a legal front, Brian. "Slaughtered" is a more appropriate term anyways seeing as animals are slaughtered and no one gives a shit until they need a sandwich.

Seeing to that logic though, is it really appropriate to ever label a massacre of people as a 'slaughter' since the connotation is usually reserved for the killing of animals? Can't have it one way and not the other. Then we stand the risk of being a hypocrite with little logic.?

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Being pedantic, a murder charge only applies when a human is the victim.

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

The apotheosis of gaze,

The apoptosis of mind,

You'll hardly notice the grace,

The lost focus of time.

____________________

I am truly glad I got the opportunity to write on a poem with you, John. That is something I will always hold in high esteem, along with your genuine skill.

This piece is permeating gravitas but also has an air of bliss about it. I don't know how else to explain what I got from it, but then again we all have our thoughts on it!

Great piece is an understatement.?

Comment is about Moments of Vision (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

There are those animals that are abused, and then there are those that are murdered for no reason at all. Either way, great piece of yours.?

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Actually, dogs are happiest when they know their place in the pecking order. Provided your dog Knapey wasn't actually kicked but left to eat after everyone else had finished he would have been perfectly happy as long as this pattern was followed consistently.

Or perhaps you're not talking about dogs at all?

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

For all abused animals.

Comment is about Abused (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I haven't moved my arms in 17 years.

Comment is about Famous Pub Crawl Brought to the Page (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Excellent review, Greg, of what sounds like a fascinating book. I might be tempted to add this to my Christmas list - despite its obvious dearth of “merriness”.

Comment is about Out of the Ashes: Frieda Hughes, Bloodaxe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

You have the same pose in this as you do in your profile page. Actually, I'm pretty sure your drink has the same amount in both pictures as well!?

Comment is about Famous Pub Crawl Brought to the Page (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Thanks folks. I love these wild moorlands and have tramped and camped them for years. The terrible associations of murder and lost children are frightening and, sadly, detract from their lonely beauty.

Comment is about Saddleworth Moor (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

Lovely prose-pictures Jennifer, I swear i've been there (well perhaps). By the way 'amethyst deceivers' are edible, as are your 'dead men's trumpets' but maybe you know the real names anyhow?
PS We went to Sardinia a few years ago, doing mycology for two weeks and my wife went to Tiscali.

Comment is about ‘The Legacy’ by Jennifer Malden is our Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Did he say anything about a spanner?
Nice one Hugh.

Comment is about Scot,a sad loss (blog)

Original item by hugh

Hannah, Taylor and Jon,

Thank you for your comments as they are much appreciated.

Keith

Comment is about Perplexity (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

So obvious, yet so true.
very clever.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about The truth about people with beards (haiku) (blog)

Original item by dazzer

I liked this one (especially the audio).

If any metaphors were intended I missed them and just saw it as a poem about gardening.


Cheers Kevin

Comment is about THE INCINERATOR, ON A LATE NOVEMBER DAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I can remember this process well. I can also remember having a massive soot-fall one Christmas Day, which our parents blamed on Santa.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about UP IN SMOKE! A Saturday theme poem. (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Taylor
I didn't think I was that old, but I can remember that product being called Fiery Jack. I think it was replaced in the eighties by a product called Algipan.
The one that is available at present is "Deepheat". I don't know if these were all made by the same company, but they all had the same affect.

A cautionary warning, the affect isn't instant. so you tend to think that you haven't put enough on, and re-apply. then when it does kick in you know it.

Comment is about My Aching Back (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

We used to pass through Saddleworth Moor when we had relations living in Cheshire. The beauty of the place is stunning, but that pales into insignificance because of what happened there. We can't drive through the place without thinking of those poor souls.

Comment is about Saddleworth Moor (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

The advent of the mobile phone and body cams brings a valuable aid to collecting evidence and ensuring compliance. And, on a similar front, I for one do not oppose the growth of CCTV on Britain’s streets.

Comment is about A BLACK LIFE DOESN'T MATTER ANY MORE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ah Joe, you are the egg man
Of our World Eggish fame
Your brood of hens reminded me
To touch on this again

Unfortunately you have to
Wait another year
To poetize this oval gem
Which gives us so much cheer

I'm not a mic'ing 'former
I don't live in UK
Brian Maryon wouldn't like this
I write, that's 'nuf, OK

Like Brian I have a habit
Of prowling round the site
Offering words of wisdom
Offering rhymic light ?

Comment is about The Headingley Taps (blog)

Original item by Joe Williams

Don't worry John if you 'aint new
'Aint worth old habits trying to cure
Getting tired and knackered and crotchety
Simply shows you're beginning to mature ?

Comment is about NEWMAN (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Hi John,

I believe that within the many families where a mother like this exists, dysfunction has merely become function. In other words, there is an interplay of (functional or dysfunctional) variables that brings about a set of end results that represents the norm within the family to whom it is specific.

I believe that most parents are aware of the special position they hold and are loathe to consciously take advantage, yet are mostly helpless to faults they can't possibly correct due to a blindness to the self--we all have it to one degree or another.

For obvious reasons, it is absolutely true that women exert their power in different ways than men. Though, I will refrain from further stereotyping or victimization of any group in favor of another--it's just too much to get into.

Thanks for your comment--I'm very glad to revisit.

Rachel

PS
I'm looking at the second paragraph of my comment and rethinking the first phrase--as parents we most certainly take advantage of our position, yet mostly try to do so in a constructive manner...and even that barely suffices...

Comment is about sexism (blog)

Original item by nunya

Agreed, of course. The advent (and not before time) of video
camera evidence has shown that encounters are far from the
simple often prejudiced assumptions that can be trotted out as "gospel". I took the view over three decades ago that cameras
and tape would be valuable assets in front line policing but, of
course, there was always political resistance (guess the reasons!)
and for years it was never going to get past the concept stage.
The Yanks are ahead of us in some ways and now we have at
last adopted a London version of their side-swipe technique aimed
at putting a vehicle and its occupants off the road and open to
arrest - check the method being used here now to knock moped-riding thieves from their machines. Reported linked crime down
by a third already! Let the courts hear any complaints.

Comment is about A BLACK LIFE DOESN'T MATTER ANY MORE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey