Thank you very much Stephen & J.C. Where & how will it ever end?
And thanks for the likes 🌷🌷
Comment is about Playground Decorations (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thanks for the likes Holden, John and Nigel 😀
Comment is about Scarborough Festival (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks kindly, Keith (Jeffries) it’s heartening to know that the language, its use, and the imparting of anticipatory feelings balanced out the partial comprehension challenge. Cheers, Frederick.
Comment is about The Rhymester (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Exceptional, Stephen.
Comment is about Playground Decorations (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
You’re so right, Stephen. Knowing we need to do something isn’t Enough.
Comment is about Conundrum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I liked the unfolding - just the occasional forced rhyme thorn/scorn, tread/dread, coil/toil are a bit clunky. I love rhetorical questions in poems and the never ending nature/nurture debate.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Comment is about Why? (blog)
Original item by Clare
Stephen,
as I came to the last line I somehow expected the poem to continue. Perhaps a few more stokes of the pen as the poem is very good indeed. What you say is clearly the case that we lament the damage done to the environment but contribute to its perennial destruction.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Conundrum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I really liked this poem. Clare> Mackerel skies on dappled days.
. “I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.” Sylvia Plath
Comment is about Under the Mackerel Sky (blog)
Original item by Clare
Thankyou, Stephen. I was particularly happy with finding the word “sycophants” which was a perfect match of sense, rhythm and rhyme. Nevertheless I expect Terry Wogan is spinning in his grave.
And thanks for the Likes, Hugh, Holden and Stephen A.
Comment is about THE TORY DANCE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sorry if this seems pessimistic. I don't claim to be more virtuous than anyone else.
Comment is about Conundrum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Mon 11th Jul 2022 16:41
Thank you so much, Stephen, I really appreciate your kind comment! 😊
Comment is about Nocturnal (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
You always get so much clever narrative in your work Greg. I'm a big fan. Wish I was there, so much inspiration. Rich words.
Comment is about From Gorbachev to Johnson (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Many thanks for the comments, John and Steve. And for the Likes, Frederick, Stephen, Holden, K, JC, and Dawn.
Comment is about From Gorbachev to Johnson (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Stephen. I really enjoy your responses! I feel that we have had parallel lives! 😁
I was trying to capture my world before I was Hemmed in by a mortgage haha. Sheer bliss!
P. S. I didn't realise that Garfield had a brother! Now, there WAS a great player and another left hander!
Comment is about Scarborough Festival (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
A marvellous, evocative piece, Mike. Thanks.
Comment is about The Fence in Our Back yard (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
A fine poem on an unspeakable situation. Well done, Stephen.
Comment is about Playground Decorations (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
A lot packed into these six lines, Holden. 'A little midnight stroll' is quite sinister in this context. Good job.
Comment is about Nocturnal (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A wonderful, tight descriptive poem, Candice.
Comment is about Teddy Roosevelt Park (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
I never made it to Scarborough, John, but thus really takes me back cricket festivals. In the 1960s I saw Gary Sobers (and his brother Gerry) play against Essex at Westcliff on a Sunday afternoon. Life really doesn't get much better, and your poem describes all the atmosphere with great panache.
Graeme Pollock - one of the all time greats. If only he had been born somewhere else.
Comment is about Scarborough Festival (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
It's strange how one links places to major events, Greg. I remember that we were on holiday in Brittany when Gorbachev left. Loved the detail and descriptive quality of this one.
Comment is about From Gorbachev to Johnson (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks so much for your kind comments, Holden, John and Candice. This time I tried to write something with rhythm and rhyme to illustrate the horrible situation. I am pleased you enjoyed it, in spite of the awful context.
And my thanks to Nigel, Frederick, Steve, KJ, Julie, Stephen and K Lynn for liking this.
Comment is about Dying in Ukraine (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Find your wishing well
throw penny thoughts
cast out spells
your true self returns.
Comment is about Mis spell (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Angel staircase
stars shine
moonlight steps
making sure
you are
never alone.
Comment is about Page 1. New life diary (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
An interesting but difficult to comprehend except in part.. I was left with a feeling of anticipation throughout.
Good use of language and words.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The Rhymester (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
resounding condemnation written with exceptional skill and verve, Stephen. 🌷
Comment is about Dying in Ukraine (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I liked the mingling of the personal and local with the historical and international. Fine poem, Greg. 😊
Comment is about From Gorbachev to Johnson (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for your appreciation, Greg. Cricket touches my nostalgia bone, I think!
Yes cricket is looking up, certainly. 😀
Thanks for the like, too, Frederick and Stephen A.
Comment is about Scarborough Festival (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Lovely poem, John, especially for those of us who love cricket. Exciting days, too at the moment.
Comment is about Scarborough Festival (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thank you to Kevin and MC., for your comments and also to Frederick, Stephen G and Holden for their likes. Smoking remains a controversial subject which I think is yet another fear tactic employed by government. I know an elderly gentleman whose weekly delight was to visit his local pub for a pint of bitter and enjoy his pipe. Since the new law came into force he was asked to go outside with his pipe. It was raining and he decided to go home instead. He no longer goes to his local and buys a few cans of beer and stays at home alone. There is something wrong here. Smokers make provisions for non smokers yet there is no reciprocity.
Thank you again
Keith
Comment is about Smoking Kills (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
JD.,
Thank you for your comment. I am pleased that the poem evoked thoughts about friendship with you. There are times in a friendship when one needs the other more and it is at these times when true friendship comes into play. It is all a question of being there for the other.
Thank you again for reading and commenting on this poem.
Keith
Comment is about True Friendship (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Something along the lines of
“A bucket of vindaloo
With Angela Rayner too”
eh, Graham.
I’m not suggesting Churchill was perfect, Greg, (no politician who gets their hands on reality is) but that there was far more to him than his student.
Comment is about KICKING AND SCREAMING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes and comment Stephen G.
Comment is about Trying (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Sun 10th Jul 2022 01:37
Another remarkably powerful poem, Stephen; it conveys harsh truths in such an evocative manner! I found these lines particularly poignant:
"They're lying, buried pointlessly beneath
A shallow pretext, lying through its teeth."
🌷
Comment is about Dying in Ukraine (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Churchill also famously likened the Labour party - the same party that founded the NHS - to the Gestapo during the 1945 election campaign. Just saying.
Comment is about KICKING AND SCREAMING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Best to start sharpening your scalpel for the next Tory JC. Plenty of material no doubt! Nothing about Sir Starmer getting off his beer and curry wrap yet though?? And I thought you were an egalitarian!
Comment is about KICKING AND SCREAMING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Due to reasons Beyond My Control, I have recently let down a true friend. I immediately thought of some of the lines in this poem. And if I had an opportunity to speak to this friend right now I would say sorry, you deserve my immediate attention when it's needed. That's what friends are for. I'm sorry for recently letting down a good friend, also I'm sorry for not immediately commenting on this wonderful poem about friendship. Way to go Keith. Excellent writing.
Comment is about True Friendship (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
My thanks to all who took the trouble to "like" this blog. You
know who you are. There's nothing like a good whinge, I' m
sure you'll agree. 😃
Comment is about PUNY UNI (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A moving poem, Russell.
Comment is about Four Pound, Half An Ounce (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
A very good poem, Stuart. Beauty is so important; it can raise our lives above the ordinary.
Comment is about Beauty (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Thanks to Stephen Holden and Frederick for liking. Thanks for your comments Keith. Ordinarily I don't like to involve myself in politics but there are somethings that have to be stated if only to vent my spleen.
Thanks again
M
Comment is about Game for life (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
A powerful, inspiring and brilliantly expressed piece, Clare 🌈
Comment is about The Ancestral Scream (blog)
Original item by Clare
Greg Freeman
Mon 11th Jul 2022 23:01
Thanks for the very kind comments, Graham. As you may have already guessed, the two sections of this poem were written three years apart.
Comment is about From Gorbachev to Johnson (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman