such a wonderful writer
Comment is about Crimewatch Verses Spartacus ~ Blame Russia (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
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Mon 19th Feb 2018 08:02
Blimey mate you pack so much into each line and force our soggy old brains to go into overdrive contemplating each image as they tumble one upon the next I'm fair exhausted by the final line. All if which means I'm utterly impressed of course. Hope your week is a good one. Col.
Comment is about Crimewatch Verses Spartacus ~ Blame Russia (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=49241
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Hi Keith
A beautiful tribute to your Grandmother. Me Mum and Dad had a similar way of cleaning etc. Tuesdays for this room, Wednesdays for the washing and drying.
It's such a realistic and touching portrait ( esp the last stanza), that I felt as if I was walking with this wonderful lady through her routines and her life.
Beautiful mate
Jon
Comment is about An Orderly Woman (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thankfully there are still some parts of the UK that have not yet been built on. But you are right Ray there are far too many cars around usually filled up with people wanting to make an impression and going no where in particular. the world and his dog seem to all have to be car owners.
But where young people get the cash to buy a house or flat now days is a wonder to me.
however when great new estates of housing are built there is no thought at providing the accompanying infu-structure. Sometimes I do feel like an old man bemoaning the fact that is not like it was in my day. But I guess that may well be the way it will always be until we run out of space to accommodate buildings and cars!
Rant over
good poem
Ray
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Gosh is it really that time already to start working on the garden. Ours looks like a bomb site after all the wind we have experienced blowing across it of late. I love the way you refer to your wife as the headmistress. She clearly takes a firm hand with regard to the garden.
Nice one Ray
Comment is about FIRST JOBS IN THE GARDEN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Excellent. sadly this is all too real in portraying the way that some men view women.
very well written drawing the reader in to believe that you are talking about a woman until the last punch line
Nice one
Comment is about damaged goods (blog)
Original item by Natalie Rupik
Is this ok for an analogy Suki - a mangled block of metal that was a car and all the life it contained, but no room for looking out of the window! I see so many images and all slipping in and out of focus, under a technicolour spotlight. Wonderful writing , challenging, shifting phantasms of ideas, always glorious fare. I will take a slice of this larded cake and consume, to disappear in soapbubbles.
Ray
Comment is about Crimewatch Verses Spartacus ~ Blame Russia (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
I concur completely her Tommy, it can be a minefield at times. I just love writing
Nice one
Comment is about Wandering Expositions (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
A fantastic series of poems Ian. Particularly love the music version. Sadly there are so many in America who believe that it is their God given and constitutional right to carry guns. Those who would no doubt make the same argument for nuclear weapons.
Nice one
Comment is about ameriKKKan trilogy version 2.0 (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Wow Suki this certainly some poem. There is a lot of great description coupled with quite a jaundiced and multi layered look at ,modern day living. There is acres of dazzling description here.
Love it
Comment is about Crimewatch Verses Spartacus ~ Blame Russia (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Ray - by all means "dignify" my comments and I'll keep commenting. I am fiercely opposed to the loss of our
precious countryside and the excuses offered for its
rapidly increasing momentum, hence my own recollections
in response to your pithy poem. End of story.
Cheers
MC
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
HI Suki. A rock and a hard place. I know"quantitive easing" certainly put land buying money in the hands of speculation bankers. They always squeeze our balls, don't they?
Thanks Kevin. Ironically some of the old workers' cottages built for the mines and railway navvies are now worth good money. Trouble is where you get new communities, you have cars in abundance = environment issues plus costs of new railways considerable. Watch this space. I threw in the hymn idea as I think we need help from somehow more celestial.
Thanks Mark. Had to smile at "briefly!." I'll try to dignify your comment as best I can. I easily bought my house in 1979 as a freelance musician (1 year work living at parents gave me the £2000 deposit.) My dad in the legal business said stick to ownership without the lumber of service charges. The estate agents/solicitors/lenders linkup was always an unholy alliance. Disbursements always creamed off first. It is still a minefield with people suffering delays and bullshit. I got my loan from a B.Society. In medieval times land ownership was in few hands, but at least livings were assured and food provided however humble. The black death put paid to that, reducing cheap labour. After the death throes of heavy industry and on the back of social deprivation, it seemed to coincide with increased immigration, within a deliberate political policy. It did Enoch no good to highlight it.
Nothing in society stays the same, and us old'uns will have to get used to it, as our predecessors did in their day. Social diversity can of course be a good thing when prejudices are fought out in the open, forcing give and take on all sides. I hope I presented a few views, and don't want to get bogged down with spinoff arguments!
Thanks so much for hitting the like button, Col, Adam, Charlotte, Pat and Brian.
Ray
Love to all you lot.
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Very funny John. Couldn't have been written by anyone else but you.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about THE SAGA CRUISE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Seems like your redoubtable sagacity will see you reduced
to Saga-city!
You can always take comfort in listening to Frankie
Ford's big hit Rn'R hit of yesteryear - "Sea Cruise"!!
Comment is about THE SAGA CRUISE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Chris,
a well constructed poem which echoes my sentiments so completely. It encapsulates the Christian response to the stranger amongst us. Thank you indeed for this.
Keith
Comment is about One people (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Briefly, back in the mid-80s with similar fears about not
being able to afford rapidly rising house prices, I bought
a L/hold studio flat (near to my present rented flat),
at the going cost of (wait for it!) £25,000 - a very
substantial sum for me then, made possible by selling
virtually everything worth anything I owned to fund the
deposit and ensuing mortgage payments. It took a while
before I saw that leaseholders were victims of whatever
repairs and services the owners saw as "necessary" -
adding increasingly onerous costs to the "delights" of
property ownership. I sold up, adjusting my known future income to accommodate renting a similar place nearby and swore never to buy again.
Property ownership IMHO is basically a "con" for officially encouraged bank mortgages, agents and property
developers. As for the much-touted "shortage" of homes, this is just another con - and you can check the
property for sale/rent supplements in provincial papers
to find plenty of properties available for either purpose.
Finally, with the environment increasingly under strain, it
has been reported that the building industry is responsible for 40% of carbon emissions, with cement "full of carbon and CO2 emissions" (Devon Life magazine-
January 2018). And did you know that chancellor Hammond buys land - and why you may ask? I recall a certain Nicholas Ridley who, as the environment secretary, applied the dismissive term NIMBY to those
protesting against the concrete sprawl engulfing our
shrinking countryside. In 1997 a prominent provincial
newspaper published my letter prophesying the assault
on our countryside with uncontrolled immigration and
development as the major contributory factors. It's no
satisfaction to be proved right with ever increasing
frequency more than twenty years on.
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Generous sentiments, cogently expressed but...
I believe in the concept "of a kind"
And see this as a frame of mind;
So when so many come why do we find
They want to bring what they leave behind?
Comment is about One people (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Nice one(or 3) Andy, the 1996 poem tipifies the unique events that some Fall gigs were, an experience to say the least! 'I am coming out of the toilet' class mate ?
Comment is about 'Three Short Poems About Mark E Smith' by Andy N is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Nick,
thanks for another deep poem which comes from the heart and to which many readers will relate to.
Keith
Comment is about Haunting Lulaby. (blog)
Original item by Nick
Interesting Ray. Where we live there are lots of massive building sites popping up. Mostly on brownfield sites, namely the old pit tops.
I wonder who's going to buy them, now that we have lost all our industry.
I liked the way you used an old hymn to make your point
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hello Tommy,
I apologise for copying your hair style but I have saved a fortune by not going to the Barbers. However, what I have relinquished on my head I have cultivated on my face.
Cheers
Keith
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
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Sat 17th Feb 2018 09:39
I agree, M.C. I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but these words seem to be speaking directly to me. The mark of a good poem, or at least of good writing? It seems to me to start rather like a haiku in getting to the essence of its purpose quickly. Superb.
Comment is about 'Who has the courage to look out to the east again at someone else's sun?' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Sat 17th Feb 2018 02:30
Light is more powerful. Than the not light it shows us the way on our journeys xx
Comment is about Hidden behind the dark (blog)
Original item by Shruti
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Sat 17th Feb 2018 02:22
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Sat 17th Feb 2018 02:16
Hi Ray,
Nicely put!
Although I know a few who own property, most of us rent, and that's becoming more difficult. There are some so-called luxury flats not far from me. The "starter homes" are a few hundred thousand, and get sillier from there. I suppose another bank crash will sort it out - or then again, maybe not.
Suki
Comment is about DISTANT VIEWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Keith your comment is appreciated now stop copying my hair style.
Yours etc
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
HI folks. I'm gutted about the Hampsteads at the moment, and feel no better writing this. Thanks for your comments though. Sorry to trigger your problem, New Shoes. I think if I was a horse I might have been put down by now. Thanks for your liking.
That's pragmatic Col. May I nevertheless suggest a yearly checkup? I've had the windup ever since my dentist went private.
Thanks Pat. One needs a rounded approach and wit helps to get things in proportion - the teeth certainly aren't.
Thanks for the like Brian!
Please, Suki no developments at exhorbitant prices, if you please. Thanks for the original ideas though!
Ray
Comment is about TEETH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Great writing Eric. A stand alone poem as it leaves nothing unsaid, and a powerful and moving piece. Well conceived with dark irony.
Ray
Comment is about Middle Child (blog)
Original item by Eric Maynard
Hi Nick,
this poem is blunt but poses serious questions from the heart. From the fourth stanza you write the words, ¨that
we´d be drinking from the same well ¨. Priceless words but ones by which you caution yourself. You might very well find that your offspring could be a source of such delight as to being about your own healing. Well written as always. Thank you indeed. Keith
Comment is about Family Tree (blog)
Original item by Nick
Laura you never fail to break the mould. Love it.
I suggest you should launch a whole series of Taylor-made Pisstake Cards for next year's Val Day! You'd make a killing.
Raj x
Comment is about Happy Valentine's! (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Dream of Dreams
Make the time
connect with smiles
ideas move on
towards your vision
awaken to relive
dream of dreams
you always kept
secret till today.
Comment is about Nicola Hulme (poet profile)
Original item by Nicola Hulme
Inspired by the negative criticism Melville received, while he lived, for "Moby Dick".
Comment is about A Cooks Wish (blog)
Original item by 220August
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Fri 16th Feb 2018 14:24
Thankyou Keith, i certainly will. Donovan
Comment is about donovan wilson (poet profile)
Original item by donovan wilson
Thanks, Colin. I’m sure we will, so long as they don’t make us row home like they did last year.
Comment is about THE SAGA CRUISE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Dentists too. There's a hot topic!
Nice humour too - helps take us into the weekend. I suppose soon we will have virtual 3d holographic teeth, with free Wi-Fi..
Suki
Comment is about TEETH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
This will change the world...
because the world is me
the world is you
the world is us..
#onelove
Comment is about LAMENTATION (blog)
Original item by Nyanjiru Wambugu
oh
that's really sad..
Comment is about I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DEVIL (blog)
Original item by Nyanjiru Wambugu
I wouldn't want anyone I know or love to be in this world of Maybes though I hve been there before.. But you'll always have a shoulder to cry on my loved ones..
Including the one that holds the other half of my heart... lol
hmm
Comment is about MAYBE (blog)
Original item by Nyanjiru Wambugu
This is really touching ..
and it's made me shade a tear but this is nice work...
keep the pen rolling hun...
and touch souls through your writing...
Comment is about FARE THEE WELL MY LOVE (blog)
Original item by Nyanjiru Wambugu
Well miss Nyanjiru wambugu
this is some great literature you gat right here.. so bravo!! and keep it up..
you got a bright future ahead of you...
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Nyanjiru Wambugu
Thanks Col. Des and Brian for your likes on this one!
Ray
Comment is about CRIMINAL WAYS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks again, Colin! Its a somewhat unfinished piece but im working on it!
Comment is about Sunrise (blog)
Original item by frey
Stu Buck
Mon 19th Feb 2018 08:05
this flows just beautifully tom.
Comment is about 4am (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding