Thanks, MC. I ran out of ideas in the last line.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This has shades of the Carry on films Harry. Nicely entertaining and indulgent - you really needed a manual !
Ray
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Here's to the Tierney brothers, Michael and the late much
missed Kieran from Co. Galway, who ran two of the best pubs here in Marylebone, one long gone and the other
now under threat since their departure, one from life and
the other from their memorable double act as genial head barman and loquacious landlord. I'm looking across at a photograph of Kieran in auspicious sporting company that includes a bearded but still youthful George Best in
happier days "at the bar" of The Duke of Wellington in
Crawford Street, London W1. The smiles of the faces
rewind time for me as one of the regulars after work in those distant days.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
No problem I've just come off Spotify. I will return.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hopefully, it will do justice to its subject. But I never saw
it coming...did you?
Comment is about Outer Hebrides to Offa's Dyke: 'Best of British' anthology to be launched (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It's so often what is NOT said, isn't it??!
Another hoot from the well known weaver of words - and
in perfect rhythm (almost to the end).
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I can't find it Wolf only a song about St. Patrick was a gentleman. tc
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Ta Wolf You've given me sufficient details.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks David - it is hard to justify any depth to this offering, it is full of holes in terms of a serious assessment; but I feel that may be a lone position and one that may well antagonise. Of course we must meet serious matters with wise heads, but what is wise when we rely on experts to do our thinking?
There is a parallel in the inhuman burning of the holocaust
because it was an institutionalised position . We can always burn a newspaper or indeed eat chips out of them(retro) without crime but then think also of the Nazi book burning.
You are right to allude to a laissez faire attitude; although perhaps we are too wound up by the media not to notice every nuance of decision making . Alas, what are we to do?
As for the job position, I think you refusal said a lot about your sanity. Mind you the 1.4 mil would come in useful.
Ray
Comment is about THE TIMES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Harry - I was once accused by a woman of copulating with her while she was asleep. I'm not proud of that but in my defence, she was not asleep when I started.
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
'Today' Harry that would be considered more than just a slip! Tommy.
Maybe a broken nose was going too far
as for teeth
I rest my case. TC ;- )
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/don-meredith-no-resignation-1.4028557
Comment is about Sad senator (blog)
Original item by Louis Audet
I think you have got it in a nutshell SS . Because children are in need of acceptance and love they are malleable ; it is not until later that the shell develops and the subconscious start to play tricks. Life itself demands a trade-off just to survive. I think those monsters come back to haunt us.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Ray
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Many thanks for you thoughts, Emer and elP.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I really liked the way the story unfolded.
whenever you pass a homeless person it's all too easy to forget that they have a back-story. often it is just that one simple tipping point, that has put them there.
a great piece of writing
cheers Kevin
Comment is about Bag Of Bones (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Oh thank you my dear.
Always good to get positive response.
Raj xx
Comment is about Play it again Andy (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
<Deleted User> (16513)
Sat 18th Mar 2017 07:41
Not about the length but it's the quality. Small but terrible poem. xx
Comment is about Ssssh, there's someone speaking (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
<Deleted User> (16513)
Sat 18th Mar 2017 07:38
Hi elP,
I know. That's cats for you..
Cheers for the feedback. Glad you found it amusing - that was the aim.!
Suki
Comment is about I Lost The Thread (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Hi Ray,
It's a form of psychic violence - denying children their own dreams by imposing upon them the unfulfilled wishes/desires/dreams of their parents' own childhood yearnings. Cruel irony. I agree with elP too.
Suki
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Linda,
Censorship has being rampant since 9/11 - Patriot Acts 1 and 2.
What's also as insidious was Obama in 2012, through the revised NDAA, legalising propaganda on the US public with the nullification of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948.
Your redacted poem sums up some of these issues nicely.
Suki
Comment is about On Censorship (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
elPintor
Sat 18th Mar 2017 01:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XRfDZYHrBc
--my contribution to the conversation...
elP
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
elPintor
Sat 18th Mar 2017 00:24
Hi, Paul..I read this when you first posted it while on my lunch break at work and it's remained with me since. There isn't much that I can say that hasn't already been said in the comments, but it does have a Radiohead sort of feel.
..this song came to mind when reading. It's only loosely related, but I hope you like it anyhow..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKbRslydU0
elP
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Hello MGS. Yes, she is real. She is my sister.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks elP for your considered thoughts. I agree with you ; it is often the adults who impose themselves often without wisdom or listening to the inner child - my own experiences were with teenage step children, so I'm not directly qualified, except by intuition.
The Paul Simon song is wonderfully to the point.
Ray
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you Wolfgar, Graham,Paul, John, Suki, Martin Laura and Cynthia for taking the trouble to comment upon my poem. My poetry is inspired by the poets of the past. No more so than John Donne: "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace/ As I have seen in one autumnal face". Elegy IX: The Autumnal
Comment is about 'Drinking where the river bed is dry' by John Marks is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (16513)
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:30
Aghast! to the picture size, is it real? is this allowed to post here?
sorry just asking...
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
elPintor
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:21
"like an elusive freak mouse
waving some cosmic entanglement tickling stick"!!! Hah!
That is a great phrase among many..I have to laugh. It's funny and true and written with real flair for imagery.
..and that cat--why do they like to settle themselves right in the middle of a book when you're trying to read?
elP
Comment is about I Lost The Thread (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
elPintor
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:05
It's sad, really--the entire poem. I mean, to impose upon a child's innocence so completely must be a kind of abuse--like cramming them into tiny little boxes and force-feeding them through tubes. Maybe the analogy is a bit of an exaggeration, but I can't help but think of how much talent gets squashed by adults who think they know so much, yet fail to see just how contrived and stupidly over-complicated they've made their own lives.
That's my rant for the evening. It's a very thoughtful and well-written piece, Ray.
elP
ps..I first read this while at work and Paul Simon came to mind..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1D3-tY9PuY
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Such a beautiful, emotional piece and very well read. Thank you for sharing this. Well done .. keep up the great work, John.?
Comment is about Drinking where the river bed is dry (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks, Colin. You'll keep an eye out for me though, won't you?
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
HI David. I really appreciate your getting into this and going to the heart of it. I think this is one that won't get the attention ...
Ray
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Linda
There was severe press censorship in the 1970's, I forget the country or the publication, but the publication involved had several leading articles censored, so that day's paper had large blank spaces on the front and inside pages The editorial staff had made a stark point.
The government forbade the usage of such anti-government propaganda.
Comment is about On Censorship (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Comment is about On Censorship (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
Hello everyone! I've had a few messages re World Poetry Day/schools comps, etc. I'm away 20-24 March, and this is possibly a little late in the day, but if there is anything I can contribute towards either, do let me know - thanks!
Dorinda x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
World Poetry Day
It looks like everyone will be asked on Monday night if they can help in any way to an event at the Art Gallery starting at one on Tuesday 21st March W P D.
Comment is about Rescheduled Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 17th Mar 2017 13:50
liking the revised version Andy. Thanks for messaging me.
Col
Comment is about Duty (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Adam James
Fri 17th Mar 2017 12:32
I'm amazed and I just don't have the words you and so many people here have such talent it's beautiful
Thank you for being brave
Comment is about on symbiosis and a concerning dream (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
This formation of words seems awkward at first, but if allowed to flow through the mind, coagulate into a fine, connected thought pattern, a paring down of philosophy to bare bone.
If that makes any sense.
Comment is about You and me (blog)
Original item by kishore karunik
I find your intimacy of details, as you and your dog walk together, evokes a range of very broad and compelling ideas. And the burden of your 'age difference' that you carry constantly upon your heart is most emotive. An excellent choice for POTW.
Comment is about 'Drinking where the river bed is dry' by John Marks is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 17th Mar 2017 08:18
your absence has been noted Waring. Buck up your ideas and stop blaming t'internet lad ?
Comment is about From Out Of Nowhere (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 17th Mar 2017 07:48
you have successfully honed in on that tipping point that makes a person homeless. I particularly like the last four lines which are very effective. Personally I would be tempted to add in the title to the last line: so exists Billy "Bag of Bones" Jones - to round things off, especially after the sleeping bag / grave image. Great writing Ian.
Col
Comment is about Bag Of Bones (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
thanks for your kind comment on 'devil on my right shoulder' Hazel - so pleased you liked it
Ian
Comment is about Hazel ettridge (poet profile)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
thanks for commenting on 'devil on my right shoulder' Stu - as always you are very perceptive - and the black dog comment was there to signpost that, sometimes, writers can be sidetracked into dark areas when doubts and insecurities creep in
I appreciate your insightful comments, as always, mate
Ian
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
Original item by Stuart Buck
thanks for commenting on 'devil on my right shoulder' Tom - glad that you liked it
Ian
Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)
Original item by Tom Harding
Raj Ferds
Sun 19th Mar 2017 07:01
Nice one Maria.
Quite like your analogies and subliminal cynicism certainly comes through.
More please!
Raj x
Comment is about Object (blog)
Original item by Maria Renea