Beautiful

Comment is about AGE AND POETRY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This is your time
to write
another masterpiece.👍

Comment is about My time (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

A remarkably powerful poem, Clare, one to be pondered long after it's been read! 🌷

Comment is about As The Bell Tolls. (blog)

Original item by Clare

Keith - thanks for the kind comment and the "like".
LS - thanks for taking the trouble to "like" this contribution.

Comment is about AGE AND POETRY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A truly incredible example of nostalgia in poetry. Very well written with the fullness of inspired imagination.
Clare, thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about As The Bell Tolls. (blog)

Original item by Clare

I'm with John on this being a very good piece on a wretched situation. I wonder whether Keith read right to the end?

Comment is about Census (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Sounds like you all had a great time Uilleam. Hope Granddads knee's didn't suffer too much.

Comment is about Thanksgiving for Sunday 23rd April 2023 (blog)

A beautiful pictorial and poetical presentation.

Comment is about May day (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

This reads to me like the lyrics to a song. Splendid stuff.

Comment is about Thanksgiving for Sunday 23rd April 2023 (blog)

I think that last line
I sleep away soundlessly
really rounds off the whole piece rather splendidly

Comment is about May day (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

A poem which embraces those perennial joys of life which we still witness, yet it is in the penultimate line which caught my attention. "If only we had eyes to see". So often we are distracted from such joys by the irritating and pressing concerns of life but no longer have time nor inclination to absorb the wonder about us.
John, thank you for another poem which prompts us, the reader, to stir from our complacency or distrait manner to pay more attention to what we have had and still have. There is a lesson here. Thank you,
Keith

Comment is about May day (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Keith says it all John. No, it must not have been an easy poem to write for sure but God bless and have mercy on his poor soul.

I absolutely adore the music of Nick Drake who also took his own life ( River man-beautiful song! ) Rest in peace Chris.

Thank you John


LS

Comment is about Silhouette (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

wow that's beautiful, and also incredibly sad

Comment is about I thank you for not being good enough (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

A terrific and yet terrifying poem. The unseen ironies of war, Stephen.
Foetal in his dusty infant stillness
Classic and clever imagery!

Comment is about Census (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

From one venerable old gentleman to another it is now our time is it not?
Well said my good friend and thank you for a masterful poem.
Keith

Comment is about My time (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

A beautiful, down the memory lane poem! Makes me think of my fishing days with my grandpa.
Thank you.

Comment is about Thanksgiving for Sunday 23rd April 2023 (blog)

Precious moments to be treasured.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Thanksgiving for Sunday 23rd April 2023 (blog)

A fascinating run-chase story, Elle. I've enjoyed reading it. Very well written.
Thank you.

Comment is about Run Rabbit Run (blog)

Original item by Elle Shaine

Prose, written at its very best with much for the reader to think about. MC., thank you,
Keith

Comment is about AGE AND POETRY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This poem sets out a stark choice, Keith. I'm sure many of those in combat must think about this. I think I would. Thanks again for a fine poem.

Comment is about Sudden Death (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Stephen, thank you. Another poem which deals with the perpetual intrusion into our homes and private lives. I now have a policy which I employ when dealing with these 'inquistadores'. Give them the minimum of information and not a word more. Questions relating to race, ethnicity, religion, tick the box 'other' or 'do not wish to say'. When asked how many live in your house, answer by saying if fluctuates as to the time of day. They are prying into our private lives. They do not serve us but others whose motives are sinister.
An excellent poem,
Keith

Comment is about Census (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A very precise piece Keith. A startling question in the first four lines. Could the answer be courage? without the reward of something in return. Unlike the age old promise of all religions.

Good succinct thinking stuff.

Comment is about Sudden Death (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

No self-pity, just a desire for justice.

Comment is about A Gay Dismissal (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

It eventually becomes a great sacrifice for the country I believe, Keith. But, on the contrary, when it comes to "to where the soul eventually belong?", I really feel incapable of sharing any of my opinion or perception about a life so great and a sacrifice equally brave.
Thank you for this thought provoking poem, Keith.

Comment is about Sudden Death (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you for this Keith. Oftentimes, we don't know what we have until somebody threatens to limit our liberty.

Comment is about The Voices of Freedom (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

This poem is powerfully written. This deserves to be read by a greater youth audience. Being a post graduate student myself, I have seen this quite a few times in my college life. I think this will fill-in a lot of confidence to the one getting bullied or facing any of it.
Thank you.

Comment is about Bullies (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

Stuart,
A very topical poem which depicts much of what adversely effects all our lives.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Bullies (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

Thanks all. My poetry is my therapy, & I am grateful to WOL for this affirming forum that allows me to share what I write. Thanks to all who work so skillfully on this user-friendly website; to all who write from their hearts, minds & souls; and to those who press "like" & post interesting, thought-provoking, challenging & encouraging comments. You are all appreciated by little old(ish) lady me!

Comment is about Morning Adulation (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Thank you Keith, John, Manish & Ulleam.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
— From "Sonnet 116"

Comment is about My brother (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

That's interesting Stephen. I feel the same way about London. I go, do whatever I went to do, and then come home!

KJ, you're dead right. I have friends who have been everywhere and seen nothing!

Comment is about Leaving Bangkok (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Many thanks for your kind comments, Uilleam, Kevin and Stephen G, and for the Like, Stephen A.
I am particularly proud of
“My heart hung heavy with chagrin,
My balls like saddlebags”
Which seems to encapsulate the essence of adolescence.
I am particularly proud of the phrase
“The essence of adolescence”
which seems to encapsulate etc etc

Comment is about MI FIRSTEST POEMS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, KJ. There's a lot in that.

Comment is about Leaving Bangkok (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

It always annoys/amuses me when I hear "well travelled" people telling of the places they have visited.
Sometimes it seems just like a tick list, and I do wonder how much of the country they have actually seen.

Comment is about Leaving Bangkok (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks, Pete. A devastating poem. I still think there is hope, but maybe it will turn out to be forlorn.

Comment is about Hate Billion (blog)

Original item by Edbreathe

A stunning, beautiful poem, Hélène.

Comment is about Morning Adulation (blog)

Original item by Hélène

A good honest piece of writing, written from the heart.
It's our upbringing that shapes us and makes us the people we become.

Comment is about Self Portrait. (blog)

Original item by Clare

I like the way that you emphasise the similarity of some aspects of the plight of soldiers and their families. A very strong war poem, Keith.

Comment is about The Agony of Separation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Well done, John. Classic stuff. You could become the next Poet Laureate.

Comment is about MI FIRSTEST POEMS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I really liked this one.
Interesting subject matter.
I remember as a kid being crapped on by a seagull, and mi mam saying "shit for luck". I didn't feel that lucky at the time.

Comment is about Beauty in Bass Rock (blog)

Original item by Isabel Hope

An apt description of the futility of war
, And that effect it has on soldiers and their families.

Could refer to many conflicts, but I've a feeling that it is about one happening right now.

Comment is about The Agony of Separation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Don't put yursen down John.
The crap you write now is every bit as good as the crap you wrote then.

Just kidding, you know that I'm a fan.

Comment is about MI FIRSTEST POEMS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I often think that it's the politicians who are somehow responsible for the conflicts within a nation. An interesting piece of writing this, Uilleam.
Thank you.

Comment is about Uncivil War (blog)

You weave patterns of sounds with such skill, Helene. A true poet of the soul! I am in awe!

Comment is about Morning Adulation (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Simple yet profound.
Let this song be our anthem.

Comment is about Weaving the Threads (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Another good poem Uilleam. Our politicians like most of the general public, know very little about the history of their own country let alone another land. If we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana).
Thank you for this ,
Keith

Comment is about Uncivil War (blog)

It is a dramatic monologue of my friend, Chris, as he prepares to take his life in May 2022. It was not an easy poem to conceive of nor to write. I want to thank you Keith for your selfless support of my writing over a long period of time. Thanks mate. John

Comment is about Silhouette (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

An extraordinary poem which speaks of inertia; a lack of zest for life, to say the least. Yet in some ways I suppose there have been times in my life where I have reached the same low point. A place of weariness but always I have been brought back from the abyss of gloom to an equilibrium of being which has renewed my sense of purpose.
Also an interesting poem,
John, thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Silhouette (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

A nice description of the creative process Chris.

Comment is about The Door (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

Thanks Keith.

Comment is about The Agony of Separation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I like this Hélène.

"Settling into the sigh
of the morning quiet,"

Comment is about Morning Adulation (blog)

Original item by Hélène