Ordinary moments become extraordinary when spent with someone special.

This says so much...

'Through your eyes
I see everything
again.'

Comment is about arrival (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

this is lovely Ann x :) good to have friends such as this..

Comment is about arrival (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

For my pal.xx

Comment is about arrival (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Aww, thank you very much, Ann. It's good to be back. xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

"....Maybe make it Southend
I can get there on me bike"...

Sorry Lynn, couldn't resist adding these last two lines! Glad to see you back, brightening up the place! xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello Anthony
Glad you liked "Hic Haec...". I suspect it's a rather niche attraction - probably male 50+ somthings of a grammar school education.
(Did girls do Latin?)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

I totally agree with your sentiments. I try and help people all the time and I walk awy from nasty people....

Comment is about Munee, Munee, Munee... (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

same comment as for the poem above yours.

Comment is about The Air is Still (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

same comment as for the poem above yours.

Comment is about The Air is Still (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

same comment as for the poem above yours.

Comment is about The Air is Still (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

I like the repetition, I like the content, I hsve written many poems on death...

Comment is about the dead done gone and did it again (blog)

Original item by Russell J Turner

very good as well....

Comment is about Nightbird (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

very good....

Comment is about Odium (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

"were we all to choose that path"

if we were Dave
what a sorry state the world
would be in without doubt.

good poem Monsieur Dunn.

Stef.

Comment is about Munee, Munee, Munee... (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Hi John,
Thanks for your comment on "Over by Christmas."
I've done 5 or 6 of these 10 worders; sometimes I need the challenge to spur me on, otherwise I lay dormant for months. These exercises are set by 10 members of our writing club. using a metaphorical pin and a dictionary. (Sadists all of them.) They never enter the competition.
I take it you won't mind if I do "The ghost of White Hart lane." at my club.
Cheers Mate.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for all your wonderful comments :)

Comment is about Bum magnet (blog)

Coops, don't fear rejection, but wasted opportunity!

Thanks stella, maybe a 'grinning style' would have been more apt.

Cheers LR, appreciated.

Comment is about She passed a smile suggesting (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

"all colours in all forms
can,t live separately"

...especially the colours
of human hearts.

nice poem.

thank you Lisa.

Stef.

Comment is about Color (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

Thanks for the comment on The Ad and The Id, much appreciated.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

"my loss or yours?

-a very fair and understanding question
methinks.

good,short burst.

thanks.

Stef.

Comment is about Bum magnet (blog)

Hi Ann,
I listened in yesterday to you on the radio - as much as I could - internet issues... You sounded 'smashing'... And was that you singing?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

If you touch the sparrows they will leave freckles on your face. It was her grace. I really had freckles on my face.

Comment is about I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

This should work, Chris. We lesser mortals try flowers.

Comment is about She passed a smile suggesting (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

i didn't know a sparrow was the same as a dunnock, i thought they were 2 different species..but yep..that does sound a painful and yukky thing for a dunnock to do...I'll never eat one of their caramel wafers again

Comment is about Join fellow poets for a walk in Ted Hughes' stamping ground (article)

well observed - we all "learn our lessons" from life's mistakes, but that in itself is generally a mistake IMHO as it closes too many doors. First & foremost, we're not girls & boys, men & women, black & white - we're people - all individuals. just my 2 cents. B

Comment is about Bum magnet (blog)

I remember my grandmother telling me: Don't touch the swallows otherwise you'll be cursed.

Comment is about I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

This is nice, Larisa - a really sweet allegorical picture -- the kind which people today seem to be almost embarrassed to paint.
I was watching swallows, the other day, flying around a romantic ruined castle in Scotland, and half-imagining that they were the ghosts of the people who once lived there ...

Comment is about I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Some really beautiful sentiments expressed, Laura...
My favourite lines:

'In the day before today,
in the day after tomorrow,
in the core of all your sorrow,
my mind will walk with yours.'

Comment is about For a Friend (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

The title works well as a draw... hard not to want to know what the poem is about.

It's a very raw one but I kind of like the starkness - the baldness of what you are saying.

I think it is his loss and your loss only if you allow it to be. I would file him under 'tosser' and carry on having fun in life. Life is just too short to let one person ruin it for you. The love game is a cruel hard one. Develop a thick skin - allow someone in emotionally once you have known them long enough to develop trust. If it all goes pair shaped, start over...

That is my philosophy on life - it's taken a little time and life experience to develop it :)

Comment is about Bum magnet (blog)

Thank you all. This arose out of our discussion on the different words for gym shoes and the different meanings of the word pump...

Thanks for inspiring me Francine! Haiku is great for getting you going when you are totally rusty and untuned to poetry! xx

Comment is about Pumps (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Really sorry to hear about your mum in law, Steve - that must be a huge strain on the pair of you. I hope she makes a recovery and one that involves quality of life. Look forward to seeing you at some point. Give my regards to your wife.
Isobel xx

Comment is about Stephen Pass (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Pass

Lol - that would be the large freckled free range chest variety...

Trust me to get it wrong! Just call me Mrs. Malaprop. For those who can't be bothered googling, when dunnocks have mated, other male dunnocks will peck at the female's privates to make her expel the seed... They will then supplant it with their own. It makes you quite glad to be human and not a dirty dunnock, dunnit?

Comment is about Join fellow poets for a walk in Ted Hughes' stamping ground (article)

Thank you, dear Stella!

Comment is about I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

still laughing at this John brill work :D

Comment is about Hic Haec Hoc Hunc Hanc Hoc (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

a corker Isobel..heh heh..neatly done

Comment is about Pumps (blog)

Original item by Isobel

I thoroughly enjoyed your write Harry...ahh the fraility of man..nice work sir.

Comment is about PRECIPICE (blog)

What a lovely concept Larisa..just imagine :)))

Comment is about I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Gosh Chris..yes..

crossed a grinning meadow and traversed a winking style...Chris?..style works well for me but I wonder whether you meant stile?..to be honest I think I prefer style but was just wondering if this was word play coz if it was it was great.. :)

Comment is about She passed a smile suggesting (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

i saw a dimmock once in a garden...a mass of copper feathers and a large chest...i think it was being courted by a titchmarsh.

Comment is about Join fellow poets for a walk in Ted Hughes' stamping ground (article)

My God! This poem is so beautiful!

Comment is about She passed a smile suggesting (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Thanks for your comments, Neil, Jules, everyone. I am always happy for my poetry to stimulate debate.

Jules - I'm not quite following your argument - I can be a bit dense at times. I very much regret your health problems. Are you attributing them to a violent type of parenting or to a society that hasn't done enough for you - or to both?

I happen to think that our country is far more generous with its people than many others. No child in our society is allowed to starve or go homeless. However, governments can't dicate how a parent spends its money. Out and about one sees a lot of money quite literally going up on smoke...
In what other country can you get your kids teeth straightened out for free? Not in Australia, where people dream of a better life. People have to take out large loans for teeth over there - or leave them crooked. Small wonder that people are having less and less children in such countries - they can't afford to provide for them and have the lifestyle they want.
The only society that can provide absolute financial equality would be a communist one, I guess - and that has already failed to work...

If your poor health is due to parenting, I very much regret that. As I said before, had I ever been beaten by a parent, I would be in the anti smacking camp. There are other ways of disciplining though, that don't involve physical punishment. What I am really saying is that children need to know that an adult is in charge - if they are forced to make everyday decisions for themselves without any authority it causes insecurity - leads to bad decisions.

Comment is about The Haves and The Have Nots (blog)

Original item by Isobel

This is clever language; but, I don't think that the overall thoughts hang together. IMO, this is a great idea that needs more cultivating, and culling. I find that great dexterity in word choices can sometimes actually become a weakness.

Comment is about Nightbird (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

..hello Isobel..thanks for your encouraging comment...cheers ..chris.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Lots of comments and having read the poem, I can see why.

Here is my response -

Y

A ten inch scar on my head,
two on my arm, one on my hip.
Rheumatoid arthritis and two sticks,
wobbly knees, crinkly hands.
Crohn's disease makes me bleed.
Itchy feet, highs and lows.
A closed left eye.

The question is not why.
It is why not.....

Comment is about The Haves and The Have Nots (blog)

Original item by Isobel

The Old World - some great phrases used here - I like the world balm - the poems reminds me of a holiday in Majorca - love long gone and just a memory. I prefer to rmember the holiday and not her.....

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Breakfast Pots - very readable and I nice endnding - the pots or the wahing are always there to return to....

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

very romantic and meaningful. I could read that one again....

Comment is about Ashes Blow Over All Things (blog)

Original item by Tom

So real and true......

Comment is about The Friend You Lost (blog)

Original item by Tom

Nice picture ... true as well

Comment is about Color (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

"Amo!"

Regards,

A.E.

Comment is about Hic Haec Hoc Hunc Hanc Hoc (blog)

Original item by John Coopey