The worst thing about this is calling her Lurpak !!
Comment is about LURPAK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I love your poems , beautiful and sensual
Comment is about Between the Moonbeams. (blog)
Original item by Clare
How true you are Grace! Our thoughts are the only true free speech there is. We give our thoughts freedom in the form of words and release them to the world. Regardless of interpretation or longevity, it is the pure essence of your soul that it is scented with. A fragrance willing given, but never taken.
Comment is about The soul of a poet (blog)
Original item by Grace
It is heart rending to watch television night after night of scenes of destruction and mass slaughter. As poets we mourn the loss of one Gazan poet Rafeet Alareel who wrote his final poem before he and his family were all killed in an air raid. The poem is on Youtube. Dark and sinister forces are at play when all the natiions of the world call for a cease fire and only two nations refuse to act to save countless lives. Greg and Julian, all the poets of WOL may I wish you all a Christmas in which we can find peace in our hearts and pray for peace in Gaza.
Keith
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A thrilling love poem, Clare. Unafraid, unashamed. Very enjoyable.
Comment is about Between the Moonbeams. (blog)
Original item by Clare
'The resilience of greed' puts its very well, Joe. We see shamelessness all around and growing inequality. I really appreciated this poem.
Comment is about Jacob Marley’s Ghost Returns to London (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Christmas card says
Stay happy today
When thrown away
Forgotten family troubles
Say I have
Not gone anywhere.
Comment is about Christmas (Christmas Card Poem 2023) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
A Father who cared so much
Close family ties
Cousins constant playmates
In those early years
Isabella was surrounded by love
Friendships never seemed far away.❤
Comment is about Early years (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Thanks for sharing this fine poem, Greg and Julian. Who knows, 2024 may surprise us all and bring peace in some places that really need it. Nothing is impossible if enough people want it!
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Congratulations to Jane, and I hope she can make an impact in this role. Poetry today needs to challenge humanity's relentless assault on the environment.
Comment is about Jane Burn wins environmental pamphlet award for whaling poems (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well deserved...Nick has been a presence on the Leeds poetry scene for longer than I've been writing and performing, which is a very long time!
Comment is about Bradford honours Nick Toczek with 'outstanding contribution' award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I've entered this competition many times in previous years and never had any success. Still, if at first you don't succeed...
Comment is about Zaffar Kunial to judge Rialto nature and place competition (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Bring Them Home
The year is entering its close
Oh Father hear our prayer for those
Whose children have been ripped away
Who face another broken day
Oh Lord let us not live in shame
Denying righteousness its name
Dorinda
x
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Coexist
Get along,
Be compassionate
Be strong.
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you Hugh, Stephen, Stephen and John Gilbert Ellis for reading and enjoying.
Thanks Reggie's Ghost, that fits the picture without a doubt.
I hope you're right Telboy. I think a march of consolidation on Downing Street should sort it out.
Ray
Comment is about ADRIAN'S WALL - A BRIEF HISTORY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A heartfelt poem does express how we rightly feel when confronted with the insanity of the way the world operates at a level beyond the reach of us who do not have power. Those who do have it are seldom in agreement as to how to use it and often as in the case of the Israel Palestine situation a solution could be reached but likely never will be. John Lennon said: Give peace a chance and Imagine ...... and spoke for the common man who will always suffer on the margins. Look what happened to him. I rest my case.
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This tender and uplifting poem raises our spirits, John. You are the voice of compassion and reason. More power to your poetry!
Comment is about Born in Gaza (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you for this inspiring message, Greg and Julian. This poem demonstrates the power of poetry: it stops you in your tracks and fills you with excitement (because of the exhilarating writing) and hope (because of its message). By existing, it makes the world a better, more humane place. The more verse like this, the closer peace will come. Our Christmas can be joyful, providing that we never forget what is happening to so many unfortunate people.
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
An appropriate and timely message of a type that I wish more would send.
I love the part of Yehuda Amichai's poem where he speaks of 'a little rest for the wounds'. There is so much turmoil in the world right now and without peace that won't change; wounds can't heal. Who amongst us has not made the observation, especially when meeting people of a different culture than our own, that 'under the skin we all want the same things'?
I've no idea what the practical answer is, but maybe just not adding to the pain of others by understanding what peace would actually look like and why cruel words are too often issued from an unrecognised position of selfish privilege is a place to start.
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I’m afraid I pre-date that venerable institution, RAP. And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about LURPAK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Cheers Mart & Uill
Thanks for your written appreciation.
🙂tc
Comment is about The Purpose is? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks Ray. There are non-Zionist Jews and non-Islamist Muslims. But Israel's war on the children makes me ashamed.
Comment is about Born in Gaza (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Ah thank you Graham, much appreciated.
Thanks also to Tom, Graham, Steve, Stephen, Stephen and Hugh for the additional likes and reads.
Comment is about Where Do You Come From? (blog)
Original item by Tom
Yes - there is so much to be sad about this year - man made sadness, together with all the fall out from natural disasters and the lottery of where you live and how you end up - trapped and with nowhere to go.
It's really hard to comment on, because everything you say sounds trite and you can't offer any solutions - only hand wringing. Putting your thoughts into poetry is one option though - at least it can be haunting and durable and not just throw away feelings.
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I doubt it, MC. I am eminently forgettable.
Comment is about LURPAK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You can always think of depriving her of your ongoing company as a long term act of kindness. Perhaps she thinks of you too
occasionally and smiles quietly at the folly her long-ago girlish dreams. It was GB Shaw, I recall, who observed that "Youth
is wasted on the young". But memory is provided as the
price we pay for our often bad behaviour when young.😇
Comment is about LURPAK (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There are times when situations in certain parts of the world can give rise to feelings of "For God's sake, get a grip and get
it done!".
As for "Peace", you have to be prepared to mediate, be moderate and accommodating even if it means concessions.
It has taken some peoples centuries to achieve some sort of sensible live and let live arrangement with their immediate neighbours. The UK is one example albeit that there are, even
now, those who will never be satisfied.. No names, no pack drill.
The greater tragedy is that in a global world, the rest of humanity are remorselessly sucked into the fray c/o endless
24/7 media activity and "righteous posturing".
The candle of Peace flickers dangerously low across this old Earth when we are treated as slightly removed participants,
with all the emotive baggage that such a position seeks to
impose.
We could do with "cooler heads" for a start in you know where!
(Take your pick!"!!).
Comment is about We wish you all a happier new year - a plea for peace in 2024 (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thankyou MC. Indeed Kevin. I await to see if I become a victim of cancel culture in January.
Comment is about SANTA KRAMPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Stephen and Carlton, I was thinking about her while out on a run in the woods this morning. She loved the outdoors & was really in her element in the garden - her husband is not a gardener, so he’s going to need advice, she didn’t even let him mow the grass, but that’s probably a subject for another poem…!
Comment is about Red stilettos on the bowling green (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Your finger on the pulse of what survives of the dignity of people sadly misaligned with the spirit of war and it's inflexibility bringing pain and shame on those it is levelled against. Politics is a breath or a heartbeat away at all times.....
Ray
Comment is about Born in Gaza (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
A wonderful poem celebrating a life well lived.
With condolences and thanks.
Comment is about Red stilettos on the bowling green (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
During my many years as custody officer in very busy West
End police stations here in London, I met my share of those
with varying degrees of mental problems. One encounter that
I especially recall was with a man waiting for an escort back
to a well known (as was) mental hospital on the outskirts
of the metropolis. Our conversation was, to say the least,
interesting; often convoluted - and bird-like in its speedy unexpected shifts, but I managed to adapt and keep up as we
chatted. My most rewarding moment came when the escort
duly arrived and their client stood up and paid me the unexpected compliment of how much he had enjoyed our
conversation. not least since it with someone from my particular profession. It was no surprise to read years later
that police officers had acquired a reputation for dealing
very competently with the mentally challenged. It came
with the job 24/7 and we had acquired under-appreciated talents in various directions!
Comment is about Hokey Okay (blog)
Original item by Kate S
A timely reminder of nature's irrepressible cycle, helped by a little
human activity when the situation arises.
Comment is about Fertile (blog)
Original item by Freda Davis
Ooer...kids love to be frightened, But spare us older folk please!
Comment is about SANTA KRAMPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
As someone who enjoys prunes with my muesli, I also enjoyed
these lines! Happily, I do not suffer the effects alluded to here.
Comment is about Breaking news (blog)
Original item by hugh
Of only you'd done this version in Wakey they might let you back in now.
Comment is about SANTA KRAMPUS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A wonderful and heartfelt tribute, RA. So sad that this happened so close to Christmas.
Comment is about Red stilettos on the bowling green (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Indeed, Stephen. Probably a forlorn plea. But the taking of innocent hostages is never justified and their safety it is the responsibility of the hostage-takers.
And thanks to Nigel, Tom, Hugh, Holden, Manish and Tim for liking this one.
Comment is about Let them go! (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Clarand
Thu 21st Dec 2023 04:34
It makes me reminds to https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=46516 https://uno-online.io where poets can get new chances. I'm really impressed.
Comment is about How to Wear a Skin: Louisa Adjoa Parker, Indigo Dreams (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
We can only hope, Stephen! Though, goodwill seems in short supply
Comment is about Let them go! (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks John, Carole was indeed a character. Born & brought up in Belfast, like my mum & my wife - those Ulsterwomen are made of strong stuff - & very funny!
Comment is about Red stilettos on the bowling green (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Hopefully the Emperor Hadrian's solution to hold back the Scots won't by adopted by Rishi Sunak in his quest to Stop The Boats!
Comment is about ADRIAN'S WALL - A BRIEF HISTORY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
She sounds a character, RAP.
Comment is about Red stilettos on the bowling green (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
another evening disfigured
by the spilled white paint of ignorance
Words you wish you’d written yourself. Sad but very relevant Tom.
Well done
G
Comment is about Where Do You Come From? (blog)
Original item by Tom
Pete (edbreathe)
Sat 23rd Dec 2023 22:15
Great words Holden as usual
Comment is about Burbled... (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff