Well done Clare.
It takes some doing to connect with a child's view of the world.
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Well done, John, I was expecting some sort of double entendre to pop up...but, lovely, clean child friendly stuff. Nice one 😀
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Than you Tim.
I like the word shutterbug.
Carpe Diem indeed!
Comment is about How long will we have to wait? (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
When I was a 50s teenager, finding the singing of Frank Sinatra
in my elder sister's record collection, and the Rockn'Roll of my
own generation, i don't recall any need for adult concerns about my "well being". Indeed, I was only too happy to live my life
free from such intrusions, happy to "grin and bear it" as I
approached the time to take the train from a rural youth to The Smoke and the apprenticeship to a working life - aged 16. Those
were perhaps my luckiest freedom-filled days!
Comment is about Adolescence (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Well put Keith
I Citizen of the World, when answering census forms, and snotty- nosed interrogations from such as the local authority, usually end up putting "Irish, Viking, Anglo-Norman, with possibly a tad of Gaulish je ne sais quoi."
-all of which tallies with recent results of my blood tests.
They don't like it up 'em you know!
Comment is about Civis sum Mundi (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Good can be found in everyone Hugh-we just need to know where to look.😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Comment is about Jane’s new boyfriend turns out to be a disaster (blog)
Original item by hugh
GRAHAM...I wuz bein sarcastic innit!
See my re-edited post.
MC...a realistic acceptable solution?
SOCIALISM😊
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
I often wonder whether the advent of a 24/7 global media
leans towards reporting events of a type that have always
been happening, in days when communications were hardly
instant or even interested in/focused on the weather and other far-away places as a matter of course (as is the case today).
One of the most devastating natural polluting effects on the
atmosphere was the vast volcanic eruption that destroyed
Krakatoa, causing a huge tsunami and a blanket of ash that
blotted out the sun for a huge distance. One can only imagine
how today's global media would report such a natural effect
on the Earth's climate. The climate change hyperbole would probably
choose to ignore such an event. After
all, there's no money in any chance of containing/controlling natural phenomena.
Comment is about It’s the end of the world as we know it (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
JC - this has shades of the work of the famous Tin Pan Alley lyricist Irving Caesar who was commissioned (and resisted at
first) to write a song encouraging kiddies to follow a healthy
lifestyle. He is on record as saying it gave him the greatest
satisfaction once he had undertaken and completed the work.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Certainly, the current lot of bums on the parliamentary benches
leave much to be desired, with a few notable exceptions who
veer from the current woke narrative that feels sorry for everyone
but offers no realistic acceptable solutions. There is room for
a clear-out of what we have endured of late on both sides of
the House. With tongue only partially in cheek, I ask "Who guards the Guardian readers?" 😋
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Then I ask why you have posted on a poetry website then?
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
The original intention is found in governing interest of advancing
the old Domes Day register attributed to William the Conk who
chose to stick his nose into everything when he arrived here back
in the day. As life becomes more complicated, its effects are
sought for "record purposes" in the usual political pursuit of
exercising power and control. Quelle surprise! 😋
Comment is about Civis sum Mundi (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Right up my street, Clare, farts & snot! Top notch poetry! 👏
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
"when the forest burns along the trails, like Gods eyes in my headlights, when dogs are looking for their bones, and it is raining ice picks on your steel shores, I'm going to break, I'm going to break my, I'm going to break my rusty cage and run!" Johny Cash.
Comment is about "To live would be an awfully big adventure." (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Uilleam, I am with you all the way. We need a radical change of government and direction. We are being mismanaged by buffoons.
Thank you for this,
Keith
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Thankyou Kevin and Kevin. Yes, Santa Krampus might have got Operation Yew Tree involved.
And thanks for the Likes, Stephen A and Pete.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much Stephen, Helene, Clare, Graham & Kevin for your wonderful comments.
Been organising the family tree & you find out some fascinating stuff, both good & bad! Unfortunately there's no rich relatives I've came across yet! 😞
And thanks for the likes Manish & Bethany 🌈
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Piccallilllli Kevin. As Peter Kaye says, “ Even scientists don’t know what’s in that stuff”.
Comment is about I WENT DOWN TO THAT LONDON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
that's become one of my favourites. Thank you for Horace Bum Breath.😁
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
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what would this world be without the occasional spoonful of humorous sugar that helps the medicine go down
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
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my friend
you are an amazing vehicle we all need to ride on
while letting you take us on journey after journey
down endless roads of inspiration
well! I've got my ticket!
Comment is about Dimethyltryptamine Daydream (blog)
Original item by Rob Cohen
Thanks Stephen. I’ve been writing poems about climate change for many years, and trying to spread the word by other means too. But people only hear what they want to hear.
Comment is about Failing the people (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
I worked in Scampton in the eighties, when the Red Arrows were based there
It's a shame to think of it closing.
But beyond shameful to think of shipping containers being used to house refugees.
Good luck with your campaign.
Comment is about 617 (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
If owt you have lifted the standard.
It's not easy writing for children.
I bet they loved this.
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
This is one of the finest poems that I've come across, Keith. Loved every bit of it. Highly descriptive and imaginative, every line is poetic and exotically written with great bunch of vocabulary. I'm going to save this and read.
Thank you.🌻
Comment is about The Empty Quarter (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
They're giving TWO FINGERS to the UKs Covid dead!
Absolute arseholeing scumbags.
Totally morally bankrupt.
We should be taking to the streets and kicking off.
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Brilliant John.
I could just imagine, if you accidentally left the wrong papers.
Hundreds of kids traumatized by Krampus for example.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Yet another flawless gem Mr Cohen
Comment is about the cost of writing dreams (blog)
Original item by Rob Cohen
Thanj you
Comment is about It’s the end of the world as we know it (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
A poem which is born in the age in which we live, put together succinctly almost as a litany which asks for a response. A good poem, well crafted and well thought out.
Thank you for this,
Keith
Comment is about It’s the end of the world as we know it (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Additional appreciation for your "likes" is owed to Clare, Holden, Stephen, Brian, Keith, Hugh and JC.
Comment is about SPIRIT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Fantastic poem! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ancestors and how we continue to carry them within us - so for me, your poem is perfectly timed. Perfect in every way!
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you too Bethany.
Comment is about Throwing stones at the stars (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
You did a good thing there, John.
Smug forty-somethings are my pet hate.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Poem of the month, at least, Ralph. A blast of honesty and compassion about a shocking situation. The last line stops you in your tracks.
Well done to you.
Comment is about Jumping Trains (blog)
Original item by Ralph Dartford
Gives me an optimistic feeling, Hélène. We must learn to trust, difficult though it is.
Comment is about Inner Healer (blog)
Original item by Hélène
A fine vilanelle, Tim. I agree with your arguments, of course. Politicians have a duty to put these difficult issues to the public. But what if the public (heavily influenced by right-wing media and advertising) don't listen?
Not easy for anyone. We just have to keep trying. This poem is a part of the campaign.
Comment is about Failing the people (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Well done, Stephen. A fantastic poem about the rock you were hewn from.
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I love the images of excess and of...love, Clare.
Comment is about The Tortured Poet. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Thanks for all the generous and pertinent comments. I would love to have a rosier view of this conflict and even believe that a Ukraine victory will make everything right. But sadly the moral vacuum created by war tends to spread to everyone and it is often not those who have suffered who reap the spoils of peace.
I agree, Keith, that we have abused our beautiful planet and with Hélène that there is still hope in basic human decency. Thanks also to John B, John C, Uilleam and Bethany for their comments and to Clare and Manish for liking.
Comment is about Cold Soup (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Extremely powerful, bitter and as usual, with you Stephen, accurate. Thank you.
Comment is about Cold Soup (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I’ve read that so many who voted for Brexit are now regretting doing so. I must say I’ve not come across that. It’s not so easy to admit you were so gullible.
Comment is about Per Ardua ad Astra (now with audio) (blog)
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Sun 11th Jun 2023 18:02
Thanks Rob.
A substance that occurs in humans?
Sounds good!
Comment is about Dimethyltryptamine Daydream (blog)
Original item by Rob Cohen