It’s a one season thing for you, Greg. For Graham and me it’s a lifelong affliction.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about EXTRA-TIME BLUES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Been a lot of misery associated with Spurs on here, so on a weekend where my team lose to the Spurs, some of my own misery to share!
Comment is about Palace of Tears (blog)
Original item by John Gilbert Ellis
This is beautiful, Tim, topped off with the ball-shape of the poem. Our bond with dogs is very special. Does she catch it in mid-air on the bounce sometimes? Our dog still does that, a bit more sedately than she used to.
Comment is about Finley's Favorite Ball (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
A really well-structured and rhythmic poem, Sarah. A pleasure to read. Thank you.
Comment is about Hello, I am a poem (blog)
Original item by sarah rich
Thank you very much, Leon.
And my thanks to Graham, Holden, RG, John C, Nigel, John GE, Tim and Rob.
Comment is about Deal (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A Northampton fan, Graham? You’d live longer, that’s for sure.
Comment is about EXTRA-TIME BLUES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
If only Bobbie Smith, Cliff Jones, Jimmy Greaves et al had been crap back in 1961 I would be a Northampton Town supporter! But no! An impressionable 10-year old got sucked into the Spurs forever fan club. God help us all!
Comment is about EXTRA-TIME BLUES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
rob1967able
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 20:00
leon stolgard
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 18:58
leon stolgard
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 18:57
An obviously bleeding great poem John 😁
Comment is about Shop Now Open (Sonnet) (blog)
Original item by John Gilbert Ellis
leon stolgard
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 18:54
Who doesn't love a doggy poem eh Mike-😍
Comment is about Puppy Trouble (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
leon stolgard
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 18:51
Thank you so much Ghazala for your spiritual poems. They are filled with generosity and love and uplift my soul.
Comment is about Feelings (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
The British were amenable to any mandate over "Palestine" and "Israel" being dealt with the The League of Nations, who
declined the responsibility and it went back to the British to cope with. It is a moot point about historical claims to right of
occupancy of the land involved and that has been the bone of
contention ever since. Britain herself paid a price with her
service personnel kidnapped and murdered by the hard-line
Jewish supporters of "Israel"...arguably driven by the reality of
the horrors that emerged from WW2 and determined that they
would not be driven themselves from land offically allocated
for their use by an international post-WW2 situation and
decision..
Comment is about Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead... (blog)
Thank you for the flowers and for the comments.
As you can see I have disgarded my nom de plume of Carlton Creme and am now writing under my real name. I am pleased with this development.
Coming out from beneath a self imposed shade.
David
Comment is about Beyond The Blinding Light (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Hey Newberry,
Thanks for your feedback.
Religion can never be forced upon anyone.
It's a test of knowledge and intelligence, who believes and who won't.
It's a decision we make, no one can force anyone to believe or not to believe.
https://noblequran.com/translation/surah109.html
Comment is about The call (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
Very cool initiative. We need to reconcile STEM and the arts.
Comment is about Just what the doctor ordered: Portugal's poet-surgeon adds poetry to medics' training (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
No more hiding your blinding light under a bushel David!
Comment is about Beyond The Blinding Light (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
A densely-packed, satisfying poem, John. I sense the odd reference dropped in her and there. A lot in this - thanks.
Comment is about The metaphysical (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
And five and a half yards = ?
How many sheds in a barn?
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Excellent, Carlton.
Comment is about Beyond The Blinding Light (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thank you Keith, Newberry & Nigel
Comment is about Everything is precious (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
leon stolgard
Fri 1st Mar 2024 10:57
leon stolgard
Fri 1st Mar 2024 10:36
An absolutely outstanding and all round perfect package C.C.-thank you sir
Comment is about Beyond The Blinding Light (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks all for your likes and comments.
Stephen Gospage
Stephen Atkinson
Holden Moncrieff
K. Lynn
John Gilbert Ellis
leon stolgard
Comment is about Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead... (blog)
Not to mention "chains", JC.😌 Which brings to mind a big hit record by "The Cookies" back in the day.
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thu 29th Feb 2024 21:05
Thank you so much, Leon, I greatly appreciate your kind comment! 😊
Comment is about Songbird. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thu 29th Feb 2024 20:42
leo:
With the right projected human voice and the compassion for other living things behind it, any megaphone can become a flamethrower. Set to burn down class society's oppression on the street. That what it was like for me during those street marches back in the 2000s to 2010s. I could devise an original chant on the spot, depending on what the protest was about or my feelings towards it. All someone had to do is give me a megaphone to express myself--
Comment is about FLAMETHROWER (blog)
Original item by Dee Allen.
Thanks for the comments/likes. Aren't you impressed by the fact
that as you reach such an event in your life (and I wish you
the best in that regard), the government is prepared to add
such a memorable financial recognition to the occasion whilst
obliging the payment of a tax in the form of an obligatory TV licence in your "sans eyes, sans teeth" etc., dotage? 😏
Comment is about 25p. (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I have no problem with people believing what they wish but it
seems to me that we are given brains that are too malleable in
infancy/childhood, not always to the benefit of those being
subjected to input from other other minds before they have
the opportunity (and added years) to form their own opinions
and understanding of the world around them - and beyond.
I am prepared to believe that we are subject to forces beyond
our capacity to comprehend and that we are on some journey
- perhaps to the stars - in whatever form that death brings.
Placng this in a single "entity" stretches my own capacity of
acceptance. We come back to the question...if there is a God,
then who or what created God? No wonder preachers, when
asked such things, reply with those high-minded words (wait
for it). "It is beyond our understanding". And since we don't know, it seems we create our own idea(s) of what is behind our
existence and this becomes a "religion". And so much suffering
has come - and still comes - in its name somewhere in this world.
Comment is about The call (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
I would have thought an old glimmer like you, MC, would still be working in cubits. And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There was method in that far-off juvenile gladness! And it
worked very well. As for various old terms, there were also
common use reasons,. Measurements, were often based in
human terms, like the length of an arm, thumb or reach. Oh...the
changes I have seen in my own long life! Perhaps my old brain
should have short-circuited in the process in an age that seems
now fixated - perhaps unsurprisingly - on Altzheimer's Disease.
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
"War is all hell." - General W.T. Sherman 19th century US Union Army. Nothing changes somewhere in this old world. My
encylopaedia informs me that, historically, the occupants of Palestine came
from elsewhere in the Med. and those of Judaea from further east.
They met and fell out in biblical times (check David and Goliath) and have been at it ever since.
Comment is about Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead... (blog)
You're absolutely right, KJ! What idiot let that one through? Have amended, thanks!
Comment is about John Cooper Clarke marks showbiz milestone and new collection with 2024 tour (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you for the kind words, Nigel.
Comment is about Two Years On - Poems on the War in Ukraine (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Years ahead of our time, Tony
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
leon stolgard
Thu 29th Feb 2024 15:37
Nipping over the back wall of the 'offy' after taking bottles in was a widespread pastime in my neck of the West Riding as a youth. Recycling in perpetual motion
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
particularly annoyed by the james not-clever 'you've made yer point' comment about the current protests
Comment is about Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead... (blog)
Saw him last year and he was as funny and engaging as ever. His biography is a fab read. Personality pours out of the man!
Comment is about John Cooper Clarke marks showbiz milestone and new collection with 2024 tour (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Groats were before my time, Kevin. You’ll remember them though! I do have however a couple of dozen silver sixpences my father-in- law has given me.
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
leon stolgard
Thu 29th Feb 2024 11:47
So vividly defiant piece Dee-as the saying goes-don't let the bastards grind you down-megaphone? one of the greatest worldwide peaceful weapons of today-that and the human voice of course thankfully!
Comment is about FLAMETHROWER (blog)
Original item by Dee Allen.
leon stolgard
Thu 29th Feb 2024 11:35
I can remember nicking and returning the same bottles three times in the same night. It was pushing our luck, and I don't know how we got away with it.
By the way you forgot to mention groats. 4d
Comment is about "3d BACK ON THE BOTTLE" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tim Higbee
Sun 3rd Mar 2024 17:10
Hi Stephan,
She can still get it in the air, but not as gracefully as she used to. She sure loves that old ball though. It's the only toy she hasn't destroyed. She is definitely spoiled!
Thank you.
Comment is about Finley's Favorite Ball (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee