Hi Kate, you have sketched a vivid character and scene. Excellent.
Comment is about The Door (blog)
Original item by Kate Hubbard
Silence clears your mind
Wiping unnecessary concerns away
All that is left
Your love his peace.❤
Comment is about Silenced (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Memories lost
thrown away
not wanted
not needed
- - -
while writing
this poem
they bring
themselves back.❤
Comment is about Faded memory (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Thanks for the like Steve...much appreciated.
It seems hypocrisy abounds amongst our leaders concerning Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine etc.
Comment is about Never Again Means Never Again-For Anyone! (blog)
My thanks to Graham, Steve, Manish and MC.
This poem was in part inspired by a 2018 film entitled 'Loro' (Them) which depicts Silvio Berlusconi's clan of entitled hangers-on and the desperate (and forlorn) attempts of a small-time racketeer to enter this world.
Of course, it also speaks (as Steve points out) to inequality and the ability of the uber-privileged to maintain their position by pleasing their backers and, if necessary, by lying. It is not a poem about envy or resentment.
I understand your point, Graham. I have had the same feelings as well. Respect is a big part of it.
I tried to write it in a rhythmic and entertaining way.
Thanks to Frederick, Pete, K Lynn,Hélène and Tim.
Comment is about Them (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks Manish 🌷your observation and review is always welcome and much appreciated 🙏🏻
Comment is about smoke and mirrors (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
God's will shall prevail. Submitting to His will💐
Comment is about Third part lies (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
An excellent poem with an encouraging conclusion. Also very expressive with a good use of language and vocabulary.
Thank you for this,
Keith
Comment is about Silver door (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
A thought-provoking premise. The sheer variety of life on Earth
can make us casual and often cruel towards some of it, perhaps
too quick to evaluate the planned purpose of an existence that
we may see as hazardous to our own in certain situations and/or
in numbers that can seem to pose a threat. The trick, I guess, is
not to "rush to judgement" in our ability to end any life form we
meet.
Comment is about As the Cockroaches Flee (blog)
Original item by Luke Bainbridge
Why have others got a lot
And so remind me I have not?
Why does their pot hold so much
When my own is "such and such"
To help me go from day to day -
What lessons does life teach this way?
Has it been so since time began
As man sought to benefit from man?
With generations handing on
What they obtained before it was gone?
Meanwhile, we must always strive
To make the most of being alive,
With luck and tenacity in the right spot
I might obtain what others have got!
And might even have what they have NOT! 👍
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Comment is about Them (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Like Graham has mentioned, this is indeed a brilliant thought-provoking poem, Stephen.
Thank you for this.
Comment is about Them (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I must mention the efforts you've put into the creative way of portraying this poem, RBK, just brilliant! And a good read too!
Thank you.
Comment is about smoke and mirrors (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
A beautiful story exquisitely weaved into a poem. I enjoyed this one a lot, Tim.
Thank you.
Comment is about Queen of The Wooded Grove (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
Cheers Greg, Stephen, Hélène and Red. I will continue to try Stephen, I am very trying! John
Comment is about These streets aren’t meant for dreaming (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Graham, I've spent lot of time hunkering in bunkers... ! And I agree completely Stephen, I much prefer the natural feel of links golf courses which blend with the dunes and seascape around them. My wife is from Portrush in Northern Ireland, which means we're somewhat spoilt in that regard
Comment is about Rewilding the golf club (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
This was a poem I wrote during the start of the pandemic, so all my paranoia can be felt in it😅
Comment is about Strolling Out in Covid Life (blog)
Original item by Nila
Thank you Leon, Holden and Stephen. I'm so pleased you think this works.
Thanks also to Nigel, Frederick, Hugh, K Lynn, Hélène, Tim and Carlton for the likes and for taking the time to read it.
Comment is about Low Winter Son (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thanks Stephen,
I think that at the heart of society's problems are these ideas that some people are worth less than others, whether that's the King seizing the assets of people who die intestate in his duchies or the Government-backed othering of refugees, and I think your poem sums that up nicely. Through the eyes of the predator, we are all prey.
Comment is about Them (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thankyou, Stephen. I read it at his wake. It went down well, people said, with just the right tone.
And thanks for the Likes, Redbrick and MC.
Comment is about JOE 90 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It’s strange how we ordinary folk are apt to castigate the wealthy or privileged for their position and advantage.
Then I think how I feel coming out of a supermarket with a trolley full of shopping and seeing the poor homeless chap and wonder what he thinks of me, my relative wealth and situation compared to his.
I think for all concerned these days it is all about respect or the lack of it!
Comment is about Them (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I think you’ve just about got everything in there RA.
Rhyming hunker and bunker is a hole-in-one for me. Well done
Comment is about Rewilding the golf club (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Great stuff, RA. Maybe we should let all courses grow a bit so that getting round is a bit more of a challenge. Some are so manicured that it feels like playing on a carpet.
Comment is about Rewilding the golf club (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Keep painting these pictures, John. Somehow you transport me back to places where I've hardly ever been.
Comment is about These streets aren’t meant for dreaming (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Well done, John. A genuine tribute to a decent man. There's always an extra tinge of sadness when someone like this doesn' t quite make it to 100.
Comment is about JOE 90 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Greg, that’s kind of you to say so, may the wind stay behind you and your balls stay in play…
Comment is about Rewilding the golf club (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Sounds good to me! A wonderful vision contained in this truly excellent and very enjoyable poem.
Comment is about Rewilding the golf club (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Sat 25th Nov 2023 19:45
A great Manchester/Salford poem, John.
Comment is about These streets aren’t meant for dreaming (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This short poem probably says more about government irresponsibility than hundreds of pages of a report. It seems that many old people were ultimately saved by the common sense of DRS, so to speak, cancelling out the upraised finger (!).
Comment is about It’s not cricket: Covid inquiry evidence prompts Michael Rosen poem (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wise and devastating words, Keith. The last four lines are particularly effective. Poetry is an essential response to pointless war, but, as you say, it is sometimes a struggle to find any more words.
Comment is about Poetry at War (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
this is bad writing
but sometimes it just has to come out.
when I'm awake I'm sure I could make something out of this. but that's not really the point.
there are a lot of times in my life that I'm thinking of right now where I should have followed.
someone leaves the room crying -- I should have followed.
someone disappears into a crowd, into danger -- I should have followed.
these are promises that I'm breaking:
"I will help you, I will protect you, we are friends;
I know you, I see you, I love you."
and ive failed.
ive let fear get between me and what's important.
I don't want to be that person anymore
I want to be real; I want to be me
but it's hard.
Comment is about through a windshield (11-25-2023) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
Sadly as often happens we are getting very close to contravening Wol’s code of conduct I fear. Perhaps best to let this one go everyone.
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
Thank you to all who liked this poem and to Uilleam and Manish for their comments.
Uilleam, your comment matches my many thoughts as I was born in the immediate postwar period on the outskirts of Birmingham and remember well a city still in ruins, not to mention Coventry a few miles down the road. I clearly recall bombed buildings and rationing. I lived in a world of people who grieved their losses, a local scenery out of some nightmare and on the table the most frugal fare. As I watch events in Gaza my mind instantly goes back to those grey wartorn days. War is utterly futile as there are no victors.
Thank you again,
Keith
Comment is about Poetry at War (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
The UK now has a much needed Minister for Common Sense, and on the basis that “one volunteer is better than ten pressed men”, step forward Reggie’s Ghost, Minister for Upholding High Poetic Standards; well done that man, a beacon of hope in our literary darkness.
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
Thanks for your comments Mark. It is one of the perils of a site like this that what I could call thoughts expressed with a sense of irony as in fact I try to do in order to have a sense of proportion (a balanced view) usually results in a polarized sequence of opinions, often due to bitter experience which is naturally to be expected. My poems are not glued into any sockets as such and I hope can bend in the wind of controversy. While I understand the bitter gall that society can throw up I try to stay well clear. So forgive me if I do not appear to lend credence to or criticize your views , except to say I know them to be truly felt and I appreciate that! I would only say that memories of previous incarnations do not always apply in the tides of current thinking. Whether that is for good or bad is probably for later generations to reflect on when we're long gone.
Thank you Stephen, your instincts are right in my case!
Thanks to Hugh, Tellboy, Reggie's Ghost, John Gilbert Ellis and K. Lynn, much appreciated.
Comment is about A GOOD MOAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks to all for your comments, likes-and for your contributions Steve White.
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
MC, you can correct all you like; my estimate of thirteen years and six months +or- a few days still stands; because I live in the present and in hope; not as it were, in some fantasy of a Thousand Year Reich.
I've never claimed to have "a monopoly on virtue", but I do have a solution; it's called Democratic Socialism.
As for the protection and well being of the UK, of which you speak:
do you consider Home Secretary Braverman's decision some weeks ago to allow Spanish Neo Nazis and self-professed Jew-haters (who've been refused entry to Germany at Frankfurt) to meet in Preston, and to commemorate The British Union of Fascists' leader, Oswald Mosley as being in the interests of the UK's population?
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
Courage of a lion
Heart of a lamb
Acting contemptuous to both
Third party cannot win.❤
Comment is about Third part lies (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
I recall Chatterton's too early demise - a waste of a young life
that might have seen much produced with more time. Self-destruction is so sad, not least when it prevents nature offering
better days to come and their gifts to others along life's highway.
Comment is about Chatterton’s Redress (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
My thanks are due to JGE/RJ/BD/SG and Hugh for their "likes".👍
Comment is about DOG AND BOY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I would suggest, my friend, it was ever thus...
From the Victorian street to a modern bus!
It certainly can't be called far-fetched
To see the timeless hand outstretched.
Comment is about Dance (blog)
Original item by Gray Nicholls
UoC Can I offer a correction to your interpretation of my comment. You sought correct me about "fourteen" years - yet
surely by the time the next election arrives it WILL be that term in
office? As for the rest of your response, pray do not compound the error of thinking you have a monopoly on virtue
with tub-thumping stuff that offers no solution.
SG - your comment about Farage seems connected with your present whereabouts. He is labelled "far right" because he has the temerity to speak
out on behalf of the protection of, and social well-being of the nation state.
Anathema perhaps to a socialist POV.
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
If you can't decide
How your sex is allied
And you have to hide
What you seek to decide
Take the escapist route
At the cost of some loot
There's a lawyer en route
Who can "tailor your suit" 😑
Comment is about Talibani Tranny (blog)
Original item by Jed
<Deleted User> (35565)
Fri 24th Nov 2023 19:04
10/10 !! and then some! melancholia at its best-well done sir!
Comment is about Low Winter Son (blog)
Original item by Tom
I can't help feeling that quality and standards have slipped on this site.
Where's Wolfgar when we need him?
Comment is about Message from an Arsehole to a "Shithole" (blog)
You’re right, Stephen. Many’s the time I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and by the time I get there I’ve forgotten what I’ve just been dreaming about. On this occasion though I woke up at getting-up time so I wrote it down.
Comment is about THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It happens to the best of us, John. Let's hope there are enough of us around to having something to conform with. A profound and amusing piece of verse.
Comment is about Time Was (blog)
Original item by John Gilbert Ellis
Proves that we don't control our dreams, I suppose, John. It's great that you remembered it so well. Strange, though.
Comment is about THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tim Higbee
Mon 27th Nov 2023 14:05
Moonlight, you had me at silence. It is such a powerful and magical realm. Not enough people know how to incorporate the serenity or the benefits of silence. I think silence scares some people because it will show them things they don't want to face.
Comment is about Silenced (blog)
Original item by Sunshine