A lot summed up by the brevity of words.
Nice one
Comment is about Ache (blog)
Original item by Megan Jones
Why oh why am I not surprised !
Comment is about Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I love both the tenor and the use of the words of this poem. It has a style and rhythm all of its own
Nice one
Comment is about Quaker With a Vengeance (blog)
Original item by 220August
I just love the simplicity of this poem and the real sense of atmosphere that it generates.
Wonderful stuff
Comment is about Return (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Ah memories sweet memories. memories to be cherished!
Well put Taylor, nicely said
Nice one
Comment is about The Dance (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Sun 18th Nov 2018 21:25
I agree great rhythm and flow Keith. I love the subject matter beautiful..?
Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Nice rhythm to this. Thank you ?
Comment is about Complicated Man (blog)
Original item by Stuart Clark
It is very true we just shrink and fade away..so sad. Lovely poem DK?
Comment is about The Space Of A Lifetime (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 20:19
Martin, Hannah and Kevin,
Thank you for your comments as they are very much appreciated. Kevin, it will be my first English winter in ten years and believe me I have all that is necessary to survive it........I hope.
Thank you again,
Keith
Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
No one who knew the world she knew
This is a line that sums this poem up very wel for me on a subject that can be very much closer to some of us than others.
Nice one
Comment is about The Space Of A Lifetime (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Numbers do seem to have a Hugh bearing and weight in our lives together with words. But numbers are not always by what we want to be known. A well thought out piece
Nice one
Comment is about Weigh Day (blog)
Original item by Shannon Louise Guild
Keith. It sounds like living abroad all that time has turned you nesh.
I hope that you are up to a cold British winter, cos they're forecasting a stinker this year.
loved the poem
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
A stupendous description on watching life as it literally floats by from a good vantage point
Nice one
Comment is about an exploration (blog)
Original item by walkingman
Big Sal
Sun 18th Nov 2018 19:07
Thanks for reading and commenting, it is noted and appreciated.
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Comment is about walkingman (poet profile)
Original item by walkingman
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 18:31
Your writing is always deep and beautiful.
Hannah
Comment is about Always Yesterday (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 18:30
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 18:19
'Night rules day'
Beautiful atmospheric poem.
Hannah
Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 18:16
I really enjoyed this poem.
Nature and the elements while people struggle to relate to one another.
Great.
Hannah
Comment is about First Snow (blog)
Original item by Joanna Halliday
dk.,
A poem tinged with some sadness but true also as contentment arrives.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about The Space Of A Lifetime (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Sun 18th Nov 2018 17:19
smaller and smaller
we become each day
until we eventually
pass away.
Comment is about The Space Of A Lifetime (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you, Jennifer.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Really like this one Keith. it is definitely the next level up in its rhythm and flow.
Love it
Comment is about Winter´s Icy Blast (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
There is some really good use of words and turn of phrase here.
Nice one
Comment is about First Snow (blog)
Original item by Joanna Halliday
I like the image of building an igloo around snow.
Comment is about First Snow (blog)
Original item by Joanna Halliday
We learn from our mistakes don't we. And without being prepared to make mistakes we would never achieve anything.
I enjoyed this one
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about My Dad Said (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Hi Jennifer, Thank you so much for reading and commenting on Jack..x
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 12:08
Hi Ray, this a topic close to my heart, powerfully and authentically portrayed.
Comment is about A SOLDIER THAT CAME HOME (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 11:48
Magnificent Adam. You captured the transition - it's promise and it's memory perfectly.
Comment is about Nocturne (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 11:48
Magnificent Adam. You captured the transition - it's promise and it's memory perfectly.
Comment is about Nocturne (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Beautiful and often so true - going to war or similar changes a person for ever. (Hope Wolfgar/David doesn't come down on you like a ton of bricks as he did to me over 'The veteran'!) Keep up the good work.
Jennifer
Comment is about A SOLDIER THAT CAME HOME (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (19913)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:53
Jack is a knave who uses crack, also a President who liked a whack, Brexit was a real Jack in the box!
Nice one. Jennifer
Comment is about Jack (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
jan oskar hansen
Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:45
Wilfred Owen`s poems are a beacon of light, the same cannot be said of the First War 1, which is chiefly remembered because of so many of the upper-class young men perished
Comment is about Wilfred Owen and the Poetry of Trauma (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Thanks everyone for the generous likes! and for the Hughku. Hugh, perhaps you meant -
she let out three squeaks
having doused her new breeks
when watering the leeks.
If anyone quite rightly objects to me lowering the general level of writing on W O L I will delete this doggerel!
Jennifer
Comment is about Three Haikus (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Well deserved congratulations! had missed this one when put in. Beautiful poem, and how true - if you think about it you can do anything with words - save someone's life or condemn them - stop or start a war - destroy a reputation etc. etc.
Jennifer
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Words’ by Jon Stainsby (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Don,
Thank you for this which goes to prove what politicians, in the main, are like. Our own leader was originally in the Remain Camp when it came to our membership of the European Union and now leads a government determined to leave the Union. Should we be surprised at this Japanese politiician. These people engage in deceit and duplicity to advance their own ambitions and not those of the countries they represent. Most politicians leave integrity at the door when they enter a building.
Keith
Comment is about Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
MC.,
Thank you for your comment which is thought provoking indeed. I also question the motive of the private individual for going to war, especially if the conflict has little to do with our national defence and instead some foreign venture which has spin off benefits for us, such as the acquisition of natural resources or greater influence in a strategic part of the globe.
Thank you again
Keith
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 6 Victory? (article)
Original item by Mike Took
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 08:46
Don - shouldn't it be 'no Confucius lurks' ?
Comment is about Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18474)
Sun 18th Nov 2018 07:24
Lovely descriptive poem, capturing autumn well.
Clever last two lines just remind the reader that the rebirth in spring is not to far away. Makes you want to pull your coat tight around you, and enjoy and endure the freshness of winter for the prize yet to come.
Thanks for sharing Mr Stainsby.
Beno.
Comment is about Autumn leaves to be reborn (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Sun 18th Nov 2018 01:57
thank you all so much! i really appreciate the positive feed back?
Comment is about the mask (blog)
Original item by Brooke
We can be forgiven for thinking that war is mainly indulged in by/for
vested interests in the western world, but it is highly likely that any
close scrutiny of the subject will reveal conflicts occurring with
unremitting frequency across the globe over countless documented
centuries. It's just that the mechanised advances that our progress
(?) saw in action in the past century or more, plus the advances of
news gathering on a huge scale have brought wars large and little
into increasing numbers of homes and lives - and the habit of
going to war is still active somewhere, even as I tap this out on my PC in the early hours of a peaceful English Sunday. With all the
experience of loss this nation has endured in the two world wars,
we still march off to "foreign fields" and justify it by resort to treaty
and friendship against aggression. Certainly, practice makes
perfect in a bloody sense and the reputation of the UK as a fighting
force to be reckoned with may - just may - have deterred some
distant conflicts getting too far out of hand and descending into
uncontrolled barbarism and bloodshed.
As for myself, I'm looking forward to reports of our intrepid women
soldiers taking part in the tests to join the SAS - assuming these
haven't been changed/reduced to allow their acceptance! The
phrase "soldiers in skirts" previously applicable to the Scottish
ranks may take on a new more modern meaning from hereon!! ?
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 6 Victory? (article)
Original item by Mike Took
<Deleted User> (18474)
Sat 17th Nov 2018 20:31
Things left unsaid leave this poem open to the reader.
It's brevity gives it greater weight and power.
The third line is fantastic.
Thanks Megan for posting this.
Beno.
Comment is about Ache (blog)
Original item by Megan Jones
Martin Elder
Sun 18th Nov 2018 23:15
I think that you have used the word Jack to really good effect. Now I am familiar with your style I can imagine you performing this.
nice one
Comment is about Jack (blog)
Original item by Becky Who