So true!! Sometimes an unbreakable bond is woven around us, v keep discarding the thoughts not realising they are overpowering us. Strange connections which hurt n gv tremendous pain. Well written!!

Comment is about Connections (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

(one idea leads to the next....)
how true.
Merry Christmas Don.
The best to you and yours.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks to Anya and Jane for liking

Comment is about Marley (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks for Liking Hannah, Charlotte Damon and Jane much appreciated

Comment is about Pay (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks Hannah, Glad you liked it

Aa merry Christmas to you also

Comment is about Marley (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hi Don
I appreciate the time taken to leave a comment on Brexit TV.
I'm useless at critiquing, and write (as I think you may) pretty much to entertain myself.
I doubt I'll ever be a 'poet', but enjoy the occasional recital.
The major benefit from writing and reciting poems is that I met my wife through WOL

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

I echo Brian's comments here Stephen. The rhythm and rhyming is excellent. And the content is very appropriate ?

Comment is about Brexit TV (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Great rhythm and rhyming...deserves more interest.

Comment is about Brexit TV (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

The winter solstice, always bringing us in touch with the mystical.
Love this one.

Hannah

Comment is about THE SHORTEST DAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A strong poem from someone trying to survive.
Unfortunately so many sleep in the streets now.
It's sad and shameful.

Hannah

Comment is about LETTER FROM THE STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Very good poem on a very important issue.
What would Dickens say if he returned and saw all these poverty stricken people on the streets ?
Shameful situation.
Well done.

Hannah

Comment is about Homelessness ! A plight to fight. (blog)

Original item by hugh

The pantomime continues with the cast getting wilder.
I'm glad you wrote about this subject.
The mask slips indeed.

Hannah

Merry Christmas.

Comment is about Oh yes he did ! Oh no he didn't ! (blog)

Original item by hugh

Great writing.
I love the story and this poem too.

Hannah

Merry Christmas.

Comment is about Marley (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

The two sides of life,

Hannah

Comment is about Ugly beauty (blog)

Original item by Vinod K A

Fabulous poem.
Yes you can see him.
Well deserved POTW.

Hannah

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘To Life (full colour version)’ by Rick (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Excellent carol, MC. But when will we hear the audios again?

Comment is about WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUND - a seasonal carol/song (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Certainly wouldn’t catch a cold reading it! Thanks

Comment is about Virus Alert! (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

You raise a good point Ray. I guess I was attempting to see scrooge reflecting as at the end of a Christmas Carol That he can changes his ways and not take on the ghost of Jacob Marley. I always like to see a chink of hope in any possible scenario. Of course some may call me just plain naïve. But anyway I hope that may throw some light upon this piece.

A very Happy Christmas to you my friend and thanks for all your support over the year

Comment is about Marley (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

A pleasing reminder that we're now on the up - the slow rise to longer
days after the rapidly dwindling light that accompanied our annual
journey through the seasons towards winter.

Comment is about THE SHORTEST DAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

'A poem is never finished, only abandoned.'
paul_valery

well not always. ?

Comment is about Nietzsche Declared (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Cheers Ray re 'Nietzsche Declared' I was telling Dave (Wolfgar) 'A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Paul Valery' malarky. Tommy

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

This time of the year is for regeneration
With fine old reasons for celebration
Let's store up stuff on our poetry shelves
And raise a toast to Santa and his elves!

Up Over - or - Down Under! ?

Comment is about A Very Christmasy Saturday Rhyme (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Compliments of the Season to you, Po. Thanks for commenting so
positively. This is one I wrote a while ago but I feel the content to
be relevant every year - and whilst not religious in the man-made
sense, I do believe there is more to this existence than we can know
- and on that basis I am happy to use the birth of Christ and its
story to pursue that belief. Hope springs eternal.

Comment is about WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUND - a seasonal carol/song (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you, poemagraphic,

I enjoyed opening out the vision of this poem - until it got away from me.

Chris

Comment is about The Sojourner (blog)

Original item by Chris Hubbard

Thank you so much, Po.

Peace to you, too at this time, and forever.

Jon

Comment is about A chariot bringing good news (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Many thanks, Brian and Po.
In truth, It was at one of these do’s that something far worse happened to me. Our Gert and me started courting.

Comment is about THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS DO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Brian

Just like you had a poem in storage
To bring out on this rainy day
I'll also keep this one in my storehouse
I'll still be rhyming then, no decay

I'm pleased you're still alert, still attentive
You noticed the year twenty twenty eight
Which means I can re-post this poem
But we'll all have ten years for to wait ?

Comment is about A Very Christmasy Saturday Rhyme (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Don...you are ten years ahead of everyone!

Comment is about A Very Christmasy Saturday Rhyme (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Give this poet an idea
And he'll be hooked for life
Rhyming words of wisdom
Rhyming words of strife

Every idea's an adventure
Each one leads to next
Curiosity in him flourishes
Boundaries get stretched

Romancing words (it comforts him)
He looks upon his screen
Discovers there are other
Poets just as keen

(one idea leads to the next....)
?

Comment is about Boys & Books (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you, Anya ❤

Comment is about A chariot bringing good news (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Lovely work as usual. I know I already commented on this, but I came back to read it again.

It's that good.?

Comment is about II. (blog)

Original item by ha'azinu

You tried to rise above 'em
but didn't you bloody love 'em

Comment is about THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS DO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Someday sherry will make a comeback, MC, I'm sure. Who'd have though gin would?
Quite right, Don. We're lucky our misdemeanours were pre-CCTV.

Comment is about THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS DO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this MC. Some rhymes don't suit a rhymic response. This is one of them ?

Comment is about Who Let This Aussie Grammar-Bender In? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

John

Your Cassandra did remind me
CCTV did see
This guy jump up on copier
Copy his 'thing-a-me'

He did it very quickly
So no-one else could see
But obviously he did forget
About CCTV ?

Comment is about THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS DO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The highs and lows of seeing the year out caught in all its "grot and
gruesome" variations.
You can sing along.
If you bring along
What will make us merry
Whisky and beer
From far and near
But knickers to the sherry!

Comment is about THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS DO (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

"A Deceit of Politicians" - my own collective reference for these
clowns. I judge the importance of a job by the time we can live
properly without it working for us (let alone against us, as is so
clearly the case in the Brexit saga). See the hours that medical
staff and other emergency services work on our behalf and
compare them with those found in the Houses of Parliament and
other "governing" authorities. I rest my case, m'lud!

Comment is about Brexit TV (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Having a bit of trouble penetrating the truth behind this Martin. I respect your work so much I have come at it from different angles, but I do suspect a feel of anguish and escapism in it; Marley was Scrooge's boss, so I am adrift on the connection!

Love to get back to it with a few hints from your good self.

Ray

Happy Xmas. (present)

Comment is about Marley (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

I can't dissect this John as it makes such a great statement and has humour and irony , all the best ingredients with social history . Just love it a lot.

Ray

Comment is about NIGERIAN VILLAGES (blog)

Original item by john short

How to bring someone down to earth in one foul swoop, and what a victim ! Great how the indomitable woman deals the blow.

Happy Xmas Tommy.

Ray

Comment is about Nietzsche Declared (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

A beautifully turned poem with craft and craftiness, bringing the past to bear on the future. A whole agenda of immigration and its expectations and frustrations are lovingly presented. It's interesting to note that the Waldorf also has its history in the Strand. Lovely to read your work here David!

Ray

Comment is about A Waldorf Salad (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

Strangely consoling Peter. A homily that has me admiring how you weave such intricate lines so casually and bind us with spells.

I can always your voice threading its way through the page.

Have a good Xmas !

Ray

Comment is about AFTERWARDS (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

The essence of this time of the year - which I think of as "Good will
towards all".

Comment is about The true meaning of Christmas (blog)

Original item by Andy N

We can take it in...we can throw it out -
But at least we'll experience what life's about!
This world of ours would be so tame
If all it showed was just the same!

Comment is about Who Let This Aussie Grammar-Bender In? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

A timeless observation on how the individual can be a valuable part
of a larger world. I can easily imagine a Roman road worker here
in Britain stepping back to admire his handiwork while gazing at the
straight as an arrow highway he had helped put down...even as the
mist swirled down out of the hills. Those New York workers who
sat on dangling girders eating their sandwiches hundreds of feet
above the teeming city streets gave as much to progress as any
architect or planner.

Comment is about A Waldorf Salad (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

When women drive men to distraction
Words are the most merciful source of action!
A previous PM was known for hand-bagging,
A polite political term for nagging.
(In short, if women are so ready to use words that criticise, moan,
abuse or nag...why the surprise when men do it?).

Comment is about Oh yes he did ! Oh no he didn't ! (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thankyou for you comments Brian ?

PS. I've discovered what ' put 'em in a glass case and throw sugar at them' means. Seems it's an English/Irish expression.

Comment is about Who Let This Aussie Grammar-Bender In? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks for your comments everyone, much appreciated.

Comment is about God Is No Man (blog)

Original item by David Irvine

I think it is more fo a concern to folk of a certain attitude - and maybe "vintage" - this restraint about giving offence.
There are some who do it intentionally for a purpose - and
sometimes gratuitously for show. But it's worth it IF the
expressed words have a genuine purpose and feeling as their source. I tend to raise my eyes heavenwards and
sigh at the readiness of many "agendas" to take offence
at every opportunity but the pleasure and power of poetry
of whatever stripe is that it is generally accepted as the
time-honoured forum for such material. Long may it be so.
Merry Christmas to you. Keep posting!

P.S. Love the picture on your page - brings back memories of family images from those black and white
more innocent days of yore.

Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Well Don, it's always good to take things on board, run 'em up the flagpole, put 'em in a glass case and throw sugar at them.

Comment is about Who Let This Aussie Grammar-Bender In? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews