Beautifully put together Ray. I just love the flow of this one

Comment is about SACRIFICIAL WINE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

very good david . I love the feel of playing strings, marvellous

Comment is about Mill Girl (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

Ian,
This is what you call `putting your finger on it`

The two things that strike me about the present situation are:

1...If just over half of the immigrants are from the E.U. then it follows that just under half are not...where are they from?

2...In my old trade Union days five per cent unemployment was regarded as full employment....That`s what it is now, so (given that we are in something of a recession) are these people urgently needed?

Comment is about Xenophobe (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thank you, Steve. It's actually a true image. I can see the boiler house chimney of a big house from my study window and there are often birds flitting to and fro. The favourites right now are the visiting swallows.

The day I wrote the poem I had a Mozart concerto playing in the background and a bunch of roofers above :/ which were kind of irritating, but 'asking' to be included in my work.

Comment is about From Where I Sit: Music and Movement (blog)

Original item by Monica Winter

That says it as it is, and no doubt that was probably the tip of the iceberg, difficult to comprehend really, respect to all, thanks for reading Jutland.

Comment is about SUMMER OF THE SOMME 1916 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Val, glad you liked my Jutland poem, hope you can come and see us soon at the Socialist Club, next get together is Tues 21 June, 7.30, hope you're good :-)

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

I endorse this and repeat the comments I made on it when first posted. Lovely lines. Very well done!

Comment is about 'Vial' by David Blake is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I think this is really excellent David. It has a sort of repose and sympathy as well as elevating a quite simple situation into a real study.

Ray

Comment is about Mill Girl (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

Fantastic Ian :)

Comment is about Xenophobe (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I love the opening to this poem. "What magic is this?" Exactly. Thanks, Monica.

Comment is about From Where I Sit: Music and Movement (blog)

Original item by Monica Winter

A great poem, David, and a beautiful observation on the minutiae of everyday life.

I commend your choice of a well-stocked fridge, too. No reason why poets shouldn't be practical!

Comment is about 'Vial' by David Blake is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

You're in for a treat, Sowerby!

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley at Puzzle Poets Live in Sowerby Bridge tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Valerie, thanks for reading my poem Fine. Very kind. I love your poem Good Mother.

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Harry, thanks for the comment on Bullet Holes in Backyards. I really enjoyed your recollections, it's fascinating to hear which small details about profound events are remembered, and even more so when those memories are triggered unexpectedly. Thanks for sharing. T.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Please, the excuses.

Comment is about They never called me nigger (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Ahhh Tommy la... if only i'd have know... dismissal would have been so much harder...

Comment is about Cyentha. Is that really you.... (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

story of my life that!

still, she's going down as a lover for the records.

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Rose I need a financial adviser- apply now n writing to- Tommy

Comment is about Cyentha. Is that really you.... (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Come on Phil you know that it was moi all the time. Cheeky chap.

Comment is about Cyentha. Is that really you.... (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Thankyou for your comment on my Assumptions poem. It means more to me than anyone could know that somebody gets something, whatever that something is, from a topic so close to my heart. I am hoping to write more on topics similar to this to raise awareness and understanding in a positive way!

Thankyou again for your comment Michelle,
Take care

Comment is about Michelle Cote (poet profile)

Original item by Michelle Cote

Val,I am glad that you enjoyed reading my poem,"to be Dauntless." Thank you . :)
Solasta.

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

I really enjoyed reading this poem. It's very Good. :)
Solasta.

Comment is about Sun Bleached Bones (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

If I'd have known this young woman was going to promote such heartfelt work I wouldn't have deleted her so quickly! Perhaps we should have a section called Spametry?

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Very good Solasta. I enjoyed ready your poem it ran at an even pace picking up steam to the very end " free as a bird." Excellent.
Val

Comment is about To be Dauntless. (blog)

Original item by Solasta

I enjoyed your poem Ronnie, the line at the end,was perfect,it nailed it.
Val

Comment is about Fine. (blog)

Original item by Ronnie Leek 1

Wow, this is so moving and true. Thank you for this tribute to a truly unique individual, one the world is better off having known.

Comment is about Ali (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Wow, this really hit home with me.... nicely written. I was on the other side of a relationship like this, I'm the one who wants to talk and he is the one who knows it won't help, he said his piece with kindness, he just doesn't love me and no amount of talking will change that so yes, you are correct, he doesn't want to talk either... just such a sad situation when there is love from one side only. thank you for posting this. M.

Comment is about But You Want To Talk (blog)

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Comment is about But You Want To Talk (blog)

Original item by Stewart Blackmore

but Phil,

you must not detract
from the possible fact
that Cye' might be a woman
and if she's owt like me
all she would want for free
is a pin number from a dumb'un
or
a donation to
her Aunty who
needs an unaffordable operation
if so,be big,empty your pig
then she can join the England bound migration


;o)............x

Comment is about Cyentha. Is that really you.... (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Dear dear Cyentha
our world have drifted apart
your words of love
held my heart
and I dreamed of romance
in a foreign part
I thought
i'g go the whole
wide world
i'd be in heaven
then I discovered
your a hairy bloke
with an AK47.

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Sorry you were troubled by this. We finally managed to get rid of her late last night.

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

haha- she is well known as a virus Stu. Check 'her' out.

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Indeed Trevor indeed.

Comment is about Ali (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

oh i thought i was the only one and that someone liked me.

gutted...

Comment is about Hahaha so... WOL is now el Poff. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

A nice glimpse Lynn... well pictured. x Thank you.

Comment is about Scaffold (blog)

"They"... All Vietnamese would have Wolf?

Comment is about They never called me nigger (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

A wonderful creation, Suki. I wasn't bored at all. Lovely rhythm.

Comment is about 'You Should Have been Here Yesterday' by Suki Spangles is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for letting me know.

Comment is about 'You don’t need expensive kit. Just a mind and a mouth, a pen and some paper': Laura Taylor (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Harry. As I mentioned in a comment elsewhere,
loss in war has touched my own family and my late
father not only survived the WW1 Western and Italian
Fronts but was in uniform again for WW2. There can
be no other generation expected to endure so much.
How ironic, and bitter gall for my mother, that he
should die from TB aged 50 in 1949 leaving her and six children to cope as best they could in a poor post-war Britain.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has succeeded
in helping to maintain the peace since - even when
the EU failed in Kosovo & its regions; now indulging
in power posturing over Ukraine when it should be
especially aware of the history of the old Bear Russia
- blighted by invasion from the West and still ready
to react to any imagined threat for all sorts of political reasons, internal and external.
An inspiration for my poem was my memory of Robert
Graves' account in "Goodbye To All That" - about how
he & his comrades would shake the visible hand of a
body buried in the trench wall when they passed by.
Sanity can be preserved in unpredictable ways!

Comment is about SUMMER OF THE SOMME 1916 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

aye up Simon - nice to see you on here - now get blogging some poetry mate - Ian

Comment is about Simon Widdop (poet profile)

Original item by Simon Widdop

Thanks for the comments and likes guys - I'm pleased you liked it
ian

Comment is about Xenophobe (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for commenting on 'Xenophobe' Lynn - I'm pleased that you liked it :-)
Ian

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

thanks for the kind and supportive comment on 'Xenophobe' Phil - glad you liked it mate
Ian

Comment is about mentalelf. Philk. (poet profile)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

M.C.
This is a very true account of what real soldiers would do in times of war. They made their small symbolic tribute
and just got on with it. As all people did. The point was that everyone was in it together on the battlefront.

The second war was more inclusive still. At the age of eleven I had to sit in a shelter listening to the bombs falling outside (as did many here, -and eventually- in Germany.) I once saw two of my mates pulled out from under slabs of concrete, while a seaman - who had only docked that day - ran screaming around the bombed shelter under which his family were buried...The soldiers who touched that boot would fully understand why me and a few of my mates climbed on a flat roof looking for anti-aircraft shrapnel the following day...it was a case of life going on for the young.

As that guy Hart said: The trouble with calling war horrid is that it is so `thumpingly obvious`(and it is) But also,
obvious - in a very touching way - is the way the sufferers
deal with it. In a situation where almost everyone had to endure hardship of some sort, stories drawing too much attention to one`s self was out of order.

One of the problems with Brexit scoffing the idea that there would ever be another European war is that the idea
was `thumpingly obvious` both in 1914 and 1945 and yet
the landscape of Europe is strewn with the crosses of the dead... It`s not their patriotism or feeling that is in question - it is their common sense.

Your poem (which also touches the `soul`) caused me to think all this...thanks.

Comment is about SUMMER OF THE SOMME 1916 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Rose and Lynn. Ah the demon drink!

Ray x

Comment is about SOUTHERN COMFORT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hey, Lynn,

I had the opportunity to read this while I was at work today and it's been on my mind since..

I just wanted to say how succinctly you describe the sort of personal victory one feels when leaving, for the last time, a place where they have suffered "manipulation humiliation..degradation.."

Thanks for posting this very good piece of work,

elP

Comment is about doors that open and close (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you for your kind comments, Jemima, much appreciated. Fortunately, no, it is not of personal experience.

Thank you Wolfie for liking.

Lynn x

Comment is about doors that open and close (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

you know, i never had the faith in the first place to lose. this is a hazy memory of my cult times, a sabbath 'celebration' we all took part in that i always found curiously Lynchian in its metaphor and dreamlike state. I have, of course, sexualised it needlessly, but then thats my thing baby!

and you are quite right. worship at the temple of god/desire. its all the same.

Comment is about knead/kneel (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Stu - I didn't realise I'd hurt you quite so badly - so sorry!
Rob

Comment is about the only poem i will ever write about you (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hahaa - aww, cheers Ste! Nice to see you around, even if you don't have a bloody profile for me to reply to on!! Thanks mate - don't be a stranger eh?

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