Big Sal
Thu 8th Mar 2018 23:08
Thank you! Happy to be here! And yes’mam it is!
Comment is about Andrea Lee (poet profile)
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Cheers Kieth?
Fred
Comment is about International Women’s Day Poem Extract (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 8th Mar 2018 20:31
This is simply a lovely poem with a great lyrical feel to it. Love it
Comment is about Fairy Tail Feathers (blog)
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Big Sal
Thu 8th Mar 2018 18:35
<Deleted User> (16099)
Thu 8th Mar 2018 18:30
good luck with all of this...many blessings to you..
Comment is about Friend. (blog)
Original item by Nicola Byrnes
Ray,
you have excelled yourself with this poem and Colin has caught the very atmosphere it was designed to create. It made me smile if only to realise how it is so often the truth of how we behave collectively these days.
Thank you again
Keith
Comment is about SUNDAY FAMILY MEAL IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 8th Mar 2018 17:15
Free? It should be locked up!?
Comment is about Fairy Tail Feathers (blog)
Original item by 220August
Thanks Col - your view is prose perfect in tune with my poem. So pleased about your analogy with Sharpe and Cook. Most of the family are only met in these circumstances. Weird or what?
Thanks too Ruby as ever for liking my stuff!
Ray
Comment is about SUNDAY FAMILY MEAL IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A rousing (of a sort!) response to this much-hyped event.
There are those who'd think this deleterious.
And echo McEnroe: You can't be serious!
But having the nerve to raise a smile
Is always to be seen worthwhile!
Comment is about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Short sharp fun! Keep them coming Hugh.
Comment is about Claire's despair (blog)
Original item by hugh
cheers both! glad you enjoyed it
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hello Fred, Well said, Keith
Comment is about International Women’s Day Poem Extract (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Yep, and no worries. I would always welcome debate ?
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thanks for the mention!
All are welcome to tonight's event - sisters AND brothers ?
Comment is about International Women's Day launch for #MeToo anthology (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Ooops I'll have another look! Sorry!
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
You might be right about the Hollywood thing actually. Here's hoping.
Nope. I take it you mean banners TODAY? Solidarity is solidarity, especially today. You don't get to pick and choose, you only support. That's how it works, brother ? Whether or not you would choose to approach it in the same way is entirely your choice. Once you begin to undermine solidarity, it's divide and rule all over again.
Thanks again David.
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thu 8th Mar 2018 13:21
Cheers you two ?
David, to reply to you first - in Cuba, she is idolised. Outside of Cuba, no one's bloody heard of her, not even the majority of my lefty comrades. Having read a fair bit about her though, it's my understanding that her fellow revolutionaries definitely DID treat her as an equal, as they did the other female guerrillas. She and Castro were extremely close for years, until the end of her life, and he held her in great respect, but I think what happened is that her male counterparts were recognised and identified with by OTHER males, be they revolutionaries or armchair insurrectionists. And then of course, they become commodified.
I salute all of my sisters today, no matter what banner they are walking under.
I feel the same way about the Guevara merch. I wouldn't let my then-teenage daughter wear a tshirt with his mug on until she'd read up on it all ?
Graham - thank you. But - they DO rhyme, they just don't END rhyme (much). I would always go for a rhyme that isn't obvious, because they make my teeth itch.
Btw, if anyone fancies further reading, this is the best source I've come across so far:
One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution, by Nancy Stout. It has been very carefully researched, double-checked, and verified by a number of sources.
Don't whatever you do read 'Celia Sanchez - The legend of Cuba's revolutionary heart' by Richard Haney. It is badly written, littered with inconsistency, chockful of incorrect unverified information, and is a bloody disgrace tbh.
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
I wish I could dare to inhabit your space for just five minutes!
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Not wishing to get into the equality/diversity debate but this is a very good poem Laura.
What I'd really like though is if the listings in the second verse could be made to rhyme somehow. It would be so much more powerful.
Whilst I never like "Days" (there's one for everything it seems to me) this is a very fitting piece.
Graham
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
i may have coined a new phrase. least i didnt drop the r!!!
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Happy International Women's Day!
Comment is about Celia in Silhouette (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Brendon,
Thank you for poem which comes straight from the heart. A first reading can leave the reader in no doubt of your sincerity about the one to whom you write.
Keith
Comment is about To My Love (blog)
Original item by Brendon Lee
Thank you very much. I hope the person which I wrote and keep writing about enjoy it as you have
Comment is about Stormy night (blog)
Original item by Michael Rios
Bella, thankyou.
Brian, I’ve paid good money before for that kind of treatment!
Comment is about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 8th Mar 2018 07:19
This is getting even more bizarre Stuart...you're introducing a shirt into it now!!!
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Human's are not a object. Your find someone who love you for you and it will be up to you to keep them. Who knows they may be waiting out there for you. ?
Comment is about Unbareable Truth (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
Thu 8th Mar 2018 05:15
You can find more of my poems on line including performance videos simply by searching on DAVID SUBACCHI.
Comment is about EVACUATING HEREFORD (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 7th Mar 2018 23:05
John - loved the last two lines but don't upset the sisters or they'll have you picked up by the fuzz.
Comment is about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
All the very best for your retirement, Greg.
Over the years I have often wondered how you manage to turn out the amazing amount of quality articles that you write. I came to the conclusion that you must have super powers. You are an inspiration.
If I am ever in Woking I will check out the WOL night!
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
thanks martin. due to the comments here i'm going to expand this one and write a shirt story based on it. so thanks! and fingers crossed i'll get funding but even if i dont i'll find a way!
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 7th Mar 2018 20:16
Hugh I was completely flattened by this one, but my wife seems to have developed a crush on Ben.?
Comment is about A flat joke (blog)
Original item by hugh
I agree with Colin that this could be part of a novel or short story. It puts in mind tales of the unexpected or a kind of scary Sci -Fi tale
But either way it is very good as usual and good luck with getting funding for you masters
Comment is about tabitha and the lawn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hi Colin
I apologise if I got the wrong end of the stick. I understand where you are coming from. No worries my friend
Cheers
Martin
Comment is about Standing on death (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
David,
Thank you again for a balanced appraisal. You are right in saying that forgiveness needs to be sought and granted by the person who was the vicitm. Genuine contrition on behalf of the convicted is essential and then a willingness for those who are the injured party to forgive. I cannot see any other option. We cannot seek daily forgiveness for the errros we commit unless we are prepared to forgive those who offend us. The two are in tandem. Contrition, confession and absolution or nothing. I think I can buy this.
Thanks again
Keith
Comment is about Misplaced Compassion (blog)
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<Deleted User> (16099)
Wed 7th Mar 2018 18:05
Beautiful sentiments a great write and from my point of you you have no Inperfections and I agree whispers are the best ........
Comment is about His Whisper (blog)
Original item by Sarah Mae
David,
Thank you for this very forceful comment to my poem which merits serious consideration. My emotional pendulum is swinging to and fro at the moment but I find your words very persuasive. Thank you indeed. Keith
Comment is about Misplaced Compassion (blog)
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Thanks Keith. Looking out the window, it could almost be spring, but I'm not entirely convinced yet! ?
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 9th Mar 2018 09:42
Christmas cracker was it??
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