I can relate to this. Thanks, Janey
Comment is about What Is Freedom? (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
I don't actually believe in a biblical version, when I say put on this Earth I just mean that as a so called civilised race we should know better than to go out to war and kill each other. I don't know how we came to be on this earth, but all life has to have come from somewhere whether we were put here by a god or by some act of nature.
Comment is about We crossed the line (blog)
Original item by Andrew Mark Bedell
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 24th May 2018 19:38
Well if you believe we were 'put' on earth you must believe the biblical version in which mankind started killing each other almost immediately.
Comment is about We crossed the line (blog)
Original item by Andrew Mark Bedell
Thank you kindly Keith. We are doubly blessed. This is a May-time to remember, to hold and to cherish. John
Comment is about A May-time (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (16837)
Thu 24th May 2018 17:24
Thank you for appreciating my work.
Comment is about kishore karunik (poet profile)
Original item by kishore karunik
I'm working on a plan here. The door has been officially opened for me. You have give me the unofficial OK to crack on.
From what I'm picking up people look at the blog site to see what's traveling past. "Hey that Downunder guy looks interesting. Must keep an eye out" My Wanna have a giggle/uproottree/giraffe will go past. Watch for it Spike Milliganish (also bipolar)
Comment is about I'm Standing at Your Entrance (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Brian - interaction between like minds is to me the highest form of intellectual pursuit. I thrive on it. We seem to think alike. Why weave people into my poems ? Why not ? We're all connected and have stories which need telling
BTW - can't think of anything clever here ?
Comment is about I'm Standing at Your Entrance (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
You caught me from the opening lines. A wonderful piece of poetry Alex. I look forward to more
Congratulations on POTW
Comment is about Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week is 'Random note 1' by Alex J.J. (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 24th May 2018 16:01
Don - you don't need any formal acceptance...just crack on and post.
Comment is about I'm Standing at Your Entrance (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 24th May 2018 15:59
Don - This is the first time I've actually been given a name check in a poem...I'm honoured.
BTW - there's no fee charged on the first occasion.
Comment is about I'm Standing at Your Entrance (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (16837)
Thu 24th May 2018 15:38
i guess it is written to define the beauty of your daughter...and all blessings for her safe and happy future....masha allah!!
Comment is about Love at first sight (blog)
Original item by Bindu Trigunayak
<Deleted User> (16837)
Thu 24th May 2018 15:36
indeed a sad scenario... a sorry picture of false beliefs and superstitions...rightly said.?
Comment is about About Today’s fake Babas (blog)
Original item by Bindu Trigunayak
<Deleted User> (16837)
Thu 24th May 2018 15:34
beautiful poem...i like your confidence...keep going dear....have a happy and contended life always... love n luck to both of u...from: me
Comment is about Self-Appreciation (blog)
Original item by Bindu Trigunayak
John,
Thank you for a poem which is so highly descriptive and flows perfectly. ¨The quiet majesty of an English breeze ´ It is as England should be.
Keith
Comment is about A May-time (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
A very special poem with layers that carry the reader into the lives of both the narrator and the people in the photograph.
Comment is about Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week is 'Random note 1' by Alex J.J. (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Hi Nicola
Thanks for hanging a comment on my Comment Tree. As bipolars we know what it's like. Some say to me this is private Don. Don't share it with the general public. I take the opposite view. How can people understand when it is not raised for discussion? It's been swept under the carpet for far too long.
Don
Comment is about Comment Tree (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Nicola Beckett
Wed 23rd May 2018 19:35
Love this poem, I'm also bipolar, solidarity and respect.
Comment is about Comment Tree (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
This deserves a comment Hazel - echos my feelings perfectly. I push boundaries, refuse to travel the straight 'safe' line. Not sure I would roll naked in the mud, but that last catch line is so good. Well done. I'm new on the scene and keeping an eye on Brian Maryon. Can't have him getting too serious....
Don
Comment is about Don't Short Change Yourself (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Clearly it’s not that simple when you’re already in a war zone, as we all know. The slaughter of innocent people is astounding, sickening, terrifying brutality. But wars start when people refuse to see their neighbours’ humanity, and most wars end with a hand shake. Peace begins in the hearts of people. Any war anywhere in the world will not be solved by the remaining nations turning neighbour against neighbour in suspicion and paranoia, in seeing foreigners as ‘animals’, in finding scapegoats for our troubles, in innocent children washed up dead on shores of nations that turned them away. This is how war spreads like a plague. Peace be upon you.
Comment is about Common Ground (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
I think the sudden inspiration (it was completed very
quickly) came from watching the royal wedding - and the
faces of those immediately involved. But the question is
eternal, is it not?
Comment is about WHO CAN EXPLAIN? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 23rd May 2018 14:22
Great advice Janey. I'll tell my friend David (Wolfgar) to spread the word next time he's in Gaza.
Comment is about Common Ground (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 23rd May 2018 14:20
A piece of advice Don....if you post poems one after the other only the latest one will be readily visible to us.
Comment is about Comment Tree (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Dear Rachel - thank you for your comments. To enlarge on
my own interest, my late eldest sister married a US WW2
vet. in America, having met him (wounded/recuperating
after the D-Day invasion) here in the UK and travelled
Stateside afterwards. Their home was in south Louisiana
and they had ten children - eight of them still living with
families of their own spread over the USA. She never
returned to the UK but I managed to take our mother over
there in the late 1970s to renew their relationship and to
meet our American side of the family. It is not possible for
my generation to fully understand what that conflict meant
in so many ways to those who experienced it in their
assorted ways, but two things must be kept in mind: remembrance
and gratitude.
By the way, a book called "The Forgotten Dead" is the result of
some dedicated detective work by
South Devon hotelier, the late Ken
Small (recognised by President
Reagan for it later) in which he
set out the tragedy that befell
hundreds of US service personnel
when ambushed by enemy E-boats
during D-Day rehearsals in the
Channel not long before the big day.
It had been one of the best kept secrets of the war because of the
hugely important plans at that time
but Mr Small's work put it back into
the public awareness and allowed
the families of so many to finally
know and come to terms with what
had happened one dreadful night.
Look it up and you'll see what I mean.
Comment is about DAMBUSTER - "OPERATION CHASTISE" COMMEMORATED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi Cynthia
yes - a sonnet - I like to write in traditional poetry forms now and again - it sooths the political beast in me ? glad you liked 'the beast beneath the beck' I appear to be in a fantasy/myths vein at the moment. Hope you're keeping well
Ian
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Hi Yvonne - and welcome to Write Out Loud - nice to see you on here. It really is a good forum for posting new material and the feedback you get can help shape your poems for future publishing / performing.
Glad you liked 'the beast beneath the beck' - not sure about roses but I think you just click on the bud that appears beneath the post,
Looking forward to reading some more of your stuff
Ian
Comment is about Yvonne Ugarte (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Ugarte
thanks for your kind comments on 'the beast beneath the beck' Martin - one of the more run down bits of Wakefield - I often wondered how many drunks it had claimed as I wend my weary way home ?
Ian
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
Original item by Martin Elder
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 23rd May 2018 13:24
Google translate? They'll never know ?
Comment is about My Sunset Haiku as a Sunset Englyn (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
I think the Eisteddfod bards might frown on an englyn written in English!
Comment is about My Sunset Haiku as a Sunset Englyn (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Love is an enigma & a battlefield. ?
Comment is about WHO CAN EXPLAIN? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Pat & MC,
thank you both for your comments. Yes, I am fortunate to live in such a place.
Keith
Comment is about A Roof Terrace (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 23rd May 2018 08:21
thanks for the explanation Chris - have you thought about entering the Eisteddfod? You could become WoL's official Bard. I often wonder how these different writing techniques came to be. Like most traditions they seem to have their roots in some very foggy mists of time. I came across this article about the Eisteddfod which gives an interesting account of its beginnings under 'How did it start'.
All the best, Colin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztbk87h
Comment is about My Sunset Haiku as a Sunset Englyn (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Lovely. I know the feeling.
Comment is about Firefly//Ballroom Dancing (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
Thank you, Anya. It was and is still tough. xx
Comment is about I lost you (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 23rd May 2018 07:52
last four lines are ace Damon - might be worth considering condensing your other lines down a bit to make them as effective as these - make 'em short, sharp shockers! Maybe an idea for future poems? Good stuff nonetheless. Col.
Comment is about Space Cowboy 2 Proxy (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
Thank's Anya you really are the best.
Comment is about Space Cowboy 2 Proxy (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
elPintor
Wed 23rd May 2018 02:12
Good evening, MC,
I've read some bit about the risky air campaigns waged by the Allies through WWII..thanks for the reminder. Our part of the world seems deceptively peaceful in these times and we would do well to remember that we may also be demanded to answer, as a nation, to our values in much the same way of that generation.
Rachel
https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Ploesti-Campaign-Destroy-Hitlers/dp/1935149393
https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-500-Untold-Greatest-Mission/dp/0451224957
ps
A bit over a year ago, I visited a local armed forces museum and gave some extra attention to letters home from American soldiers to their families during WWII. Though I realize the heart remains much the same, the tone of language I saw from them makes the tone of your poem all that much more appreciated--it truly was a different time.
Comment is about DAMBUSTER - "OPERATION CHASTISE" COMMEMORATED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
elPintor
Wed 23rd May 2018 01:40
Good evening, Colin, David and Brian.
I worried slightly that this question might arise when posting, but decided it should go either way--the counsel could be meant for another or for me. I mean, by definition of the golden rule, any "good" advice given would be disingenuous if not also equally applied to the self.
On a personal note, there is always the persistent struggle of planned future endeavor against present reality--the possible fruit of it all remains a source of inner contention.
Thanks for your comments and the source of some further communication of my own to you.
Rachel
Comment is about 40-night bender (blog)
Original item by nunya
Big Sal
Wed 23rd May 2018 01:26
<Deleted User> (16099)
Wed 23rd May 2018 00:01
1970 for you..I could of done better.....great write....
Comment is about Old Love (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Well said M.C. - Give & you shall receive. T ☺
Comment is about Royal Wedding (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Big Sal
Thu 24th May 2018 21:13
Great sample. ?
Comment is about Janey Colbourne (poet profile)
Original item by Janey Colbourne