Love it, a good giggle over breakfast. Thank you
Comment is about Owed to the Subtitles Righter (blog)
Original item by Rob J Mann
A sombre and sobering piece this one Stephen. The older I get the more I think of a resting place. Hopefully I'll get to choose my own unlike many poor devils!
Comment is about The Vineyard (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Our lives, and quite possibly the planet's death, are being controlled from inner space. Satellites, controlled from who knows where and by whom we know (and don't) to their own ends, will be weaponised sometime soon. They say what goes around, comes around.
While there are human beings, there will be false Gods - I'm hoping that I won't be one of those beings too much longer, thus avoiding the consequences of their whims.
Comment is about And there will be no Gods (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for likes: Yanma Hidayah, TOM MERTON & Naomi. 👍
Comment is about More Dead Than Alive (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Hi John,
I couldn't sleep tonight...I came to my screen and read this.
We are in the same bandwidth of despair and near surrender, it is some strange comfort to know mine is not the only sleepless night.
Thanks John,
David
Comment is about TELLING TALES (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
The world has a way of passing down generational trauma in spite of the freshness of youth...
..it's a wonder I don't wish to understand.
great song )
Comment is about TELLING TALES (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
wow Devon! real honest to goodness poetry!
Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Migration on a Bad Day' by Devon Brock (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thanks. Some good points. I'm glad for the comments.
Marla
Comment is about A Poet With An Ego (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
What a lovely friendly poem Aisha. I'm actually smiling while
I'm reading it-and why not?😆
best of my regards
and also hope that your day goes well 💐
Tom
Comment is about Sunny Smiles (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
… on “bear poetry” - I would imagine so @tryingthings😂🙏🏻🕊🌷
Comment is about pallavitryingthings (poet profile)
Original item by pallavitryingthings
…on ”bear pottery” - I would imagine so @Robert 😂🙏🏻🕊🌷
Comment is about Rob J Mann (poet profile)
Original item by Rob J Mann
I would imagine so @Robert @tryingthings😂🙏🏻🕊🌷
Comment is about ‘bear pottery’ (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I understand that they haven't really 'thrown' themselves into it and they tend to 'crack' as the heat builds.😄
Comment is about ‘bear pottery’ (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I love your mum's sewing kit, Lee! A clever, compelling, heartwarming poem. As a "mom" (California, USA), with 2 grown sons facing life's challenges, this poem made me smile. I imagine your mum was a special lady.
Comment is about Sew Me (with audio recording) (blog)
Original item by Lee Campbell
A splendid poem on exploring an essential question: who am I?
Comment is about Born Into Belief (blog)
Original item by pallavitryingthings
It helps me to contemplate definitions. Defining Ego as "sense of self," ego in this sense can contribute to purposeful writing. Defining Ego as "overinflated focus on one's own success at the expense of others," ego in this sense, can interfere w/ heartfelt writing. That's my 2 cents, guys.
Love the line: "But a poet with a heart that is open
Gets out of the way
And lets the truth speak."
Comment is about A Poet With An Ego (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
Mon 3rd Mar 2025 10:37
Bears - ever the cultured lot, the recently unhibernated have taken to ceramics - as a meditative exercise maybe!
Comment is about ‘bear pottery’ (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks Manish re ' Almost but never quite '
Comment is about Manish (poet profile)
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Thanks Naomi re ' Almost but never quite '
Comment is about Naomi (poet profile)
Original item by Naomi
Cheers Mr. Moncrieff re ' Almost but never quite '
Comment is about Holden Moncrieff (poet profile)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Helene, much appreciated.
David RL Moore
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
… on “the rising” - Thanks Robert, 🌷there seems of late no room for any real optimism. Only flashbacks of an alternate 1917 universe. That’s not the type of historical era one would wish to repeat. 🙏🏻🕊 (rbk)
Comment is about Rob J Mann (poet profile)
Original item by Rob J Mann
Thanks Robert, 🌷there seems of late no room for any real optimism. Only flashbacks of an alternate 1917 universe. That’s not the type of historical era one would wish to repeat. 🙏🏻🕊
Comment is about the rising (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Sun 2nd Mar 2025 23:21
Thank you so much, Robert and Stephen, I really appreciate your comments!
Comment is about Wolf (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Don't you need to have an ego to be a writer, otherwise why bother?
Comment is about A Poet With An Ego (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
Loved this a lot Ruth especially the ending. Thank you!
Warm regards
Tom
Comment is about Tramlines (blog)
Original item by Ruth Guest
Thanks gor likes: New Shoes &;Naomi. 👍
Comment is about White Rabbits 🐇 (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your comment, very much appreciate your reading and taking time. I'm not accepting your self deprecation though, everyone has something of value to offer...you certainly have.
Thanks Graham,
I appreciate your comment and have to agree, in some respect it has an element of the classical about it, although possibly a little rough around the edges. I've maybe been diving into Blake a little too much lately.
Incidentally, I watched "A Complete Unknown" last night and very much enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed the story didn't progress beyond his Newport Folk Festival performance, I guess his story is so vast it would have required a few more hours to tell.
David RL Moore
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Stuart,
I like your bio, especially about the Inside and Outside poems.
I've never heard that before and like it very much.
Marla
Comment is about Stuart Vanner (poet profile)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Rez, So true, I can relate. Love the honest, heartfelt style in which this is written. Marla
Comment is about Strings Unseen (blog)
Original item by Rez
Spot on again, Rolph. One of the saddest aspects of all this is how Trump tries to make foreign leaders complicit in denigrating Joe Biden.
He has no dignity, no manners.
Comment is about The Staged Betrayal (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Or maybe he'll get his deputy to do it for him, Holden! Very clever poem.
Comment is about Wolf (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Love a good, well-placed hyphen. Like the work, but I'm cynical about mankind recognising its fate, before its too late. Rob
Comment is about Maybe (blog)
Original item by Hélène
A lovely lyrical poem. To me, it felt like morning dawning, stealing the precious night from people who were to be separated forever. A sense of loss and sadness.
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
I fear a forlorn wish for equality and recognition, as this world descends into tribal popularism. I admire your optimism.
Comment is about the rising (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
America has become a banana republic, full of yellow crooked Republicans too cowardly to confront a bully and the totally ineffective Democrats, too wet to be even considered snowflakes!
Comment is about The Staged Betrayal (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Too good for my humble thought to spoil the page.
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Holden - I like the work, but who on this planet remains uninitiated ? We know him so well, but some people refuse to learn.
Comment is about Wolf (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
'the impatient blade of morning
bleeds the starlight pale'
The poem has a somewhat classical feel to it, a lilt, a balance.
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Hi Flyntland,
There are some great rhyme couplings here, I particularly like the term "furrow-limps" it is cleverly discriptive, immediately putting an image in my mind.
It is a humbling tool to remember how small we are in the great scheme of things and how endless our universe truly is, puts us in perspective.
David RL Moore
Comment is about FLINT LANDS (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Don’t worry he didn’t fool anyone apart from the Republican leeches that cling to him!
Comment is about The Staged Betrayal (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Thanks again Landi,
And thanks for the link.
I think this poem has sunk and is on its way to the coastal caves of hulls and skulls.
David RL Moore
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thank you to Tom D. and Holden for reading my slightly odd little poem and for liking it. I have several of these fossils in my hearth, now cleaned and polished. They are a reminder of what 'newcomers' to the world we are.
Comment is about FLINT LANDS (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Flyntland
Tue 4th Mar 2025 10:54
Anyone born into poverty during the 40s. will have experienced some aspects of your haunting poem. Professionalism hadn't been invented, bullying was normal, good old days did not exist.
Comment is about TELLING TALES (blog)
Original item by John E Marks