A poem about what didn't happen. i love it!
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Original item by K. Lynn
Blessings on your birthday, Evelyn.
Comment is about Birthday (blog)
Original item by evelynisevergreen
Wow this was marvelous I like the love bombing part about taking country walks and such because I’ve related to times where my partner would love bomb but then would make terrible decisions to follow it up keep it up Clare you are painting art with your words
Comment is about Tenter hooks and Telling Looks. (blog)
Original item by Clare
I love the word “tenter”, Clare. It is one of those few words which goes through life, like swans, with only one partner - “ hooks”.
Comment is about Tenter hooks and Telling Looks. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Thanks Keith.
I'm now going to follow my own advice, I'm off for a walk before the rain comes-again!
Comment is about Turn The Bugger Off (blog)
Uilleam,
I am with you all the way on this one. Every word of this poem was music to my ears. I only turn the bugger on, if and only if, I have to use the bloody thing.
Thank you indeed for this,
Keith
Comment is about Turn The Bugger Off (blog)
Adam,
Thank you for this. I believe there is an innate goodness in us all but we need to be alert as the forces of darkness are predatory and will seize an opportune moment.
Keith
Comment is about The Nameless Religion (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Clare,
I read this poem with interest and as I sat back to give it thought I reflected on my own personal love life. The words "we weave a tangled web" came to mind. Is love about possession? Is marriage a trap? Is mental cruelty only around the corner?
Passion diminishes but love can endure but there needs to be a firm foundation for this. Or is it all a fruitless errand?
This poem has me thinking. I have read it three times and will do so again. Is compatibility an underlying issue? Who knows. As a gay man of advanced years I am now happily married but it took years of torment to find the right person.
Another great poem Clare and thank you.
Keith
Comment is about Tenter hooks and Telling Looks. (blog)
Original item by Clare
as-long as you recognize how far you came then you got it,
Indeed,
Comment is about “Gravamen” (blog)
Original item by Michael Morales
She drifted away,
And it's happening ever more frequently at my time of life.💗
Comment is about Orbs of Light (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Sometimes you don't need to "become" something,
Sometimes, just being who you are is the best thing to be.
Comment is about Invisible (blog)
Original item by Jblaze
MC.
"...overloading a health service no longer fit for purpose."
The NHS has deliberately been made no longer fit for pupose, for ideological reasons.
As early as 2005 or so, Jeremy Hunt's NHS policy book: 'Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party' called for the "denationalisation" of the NHS, and for it to be replaced by an insurance market system. That is now being enacted.
That book was co-authored by Tories Kwasi Kwarteng, Michael Gove, Douglas Carswell, Daniel Hannan and Greg Clark.
The destruction of every last vestige of the UK's "welfare state" and of the public services is the primary aim of the Tory party.
It's got nothing to do with "feckless teen mums" or "people in small boats" which the Murdoch client press would have the gullible believe.
Comment is about Mental health (blog)
Original item by hugh
A special day
Yours to keep
Each year enjoy
Yours to keep
Time to remember
Yours to keep.
Comment is about Birthday (blog)
Original item by evelynisevergreen
Thank you Clare.
And to think men such as that are deemed worthy of knighthoods in UK 2023.
Comment is about Tenter hooks and Telling Looks. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Fascinating story telling, Clare. You keep us on tenterhooks all right! 😀
Comment is about Tenter hooks and Telling Looks. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Spoken like a true patriot.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about ST GEORGE'S DAY 2023 (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
P.S. I would love to hear you speak this, is there any chance of an audio version?
Comment is about “Gravamen” (blog)
Original item by Michael Morales
I detect an interesting brain at work here. I look forward to reading more of your work. Great stuff!
Comment is about “Gravamen” (blog)
Original item by Michael Morales
I love this Michael. Full of attitude and rhythm. I have added you to my favourites. I think youve got the gift!💪
Comment is about “Gravamen” (blog)
Original item by Michael Morales
One of the best piece of writing that I've come across. Beautifully written.
Comment is about Before Eternity (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
This is so poignant, beautiful and magical - it moved me close to tears!
I think you may have been visited by the poetry gods. Wonderful writing.
Comment is about Before Eternity (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I second what Keith said. A strong, sweet poem for a Sunday morn
Comment is about Before Eternity (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I really enjoy your writing style keep going ! Much love, Michael ❤️
Comment is about Probe of Life (blog)
Original item by İrem Duygu KÖMÜRCÜ
Thanks so much Clare and Stephen. I have climbed Stoodley Pike (not often) and thought how small my own house looked. Distance leads to differnce and it is easy to disregard pain you cannot see or feel yourself. And you're right, Stephen, they are still people, but it's easy to forget!
Delighted to read your comments and likes from Nigel, Keith and K. Lynn. 😀
Comment is about Diminishing Scales (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Hi Clare. Your poem is a great example of writing as therapy (I think). It's what I attempt too at times, but not as brilliantly as this. Stunning!
Why leave emotions bottled up, when you can release them in your words, helping others at the same time.
You should enter this poem in a competition, in my view! 😊
Comment is about Mirror to my Soul. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Stephen,
One of your very best poems. To read this on a Sunday morning is a gift much appreciated.
Thank you,
Keith
Comment is about Before Eternity (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Stephen,
A thought provoking poem and appropriate for the times in which we live. Three lines stand out:
"Others will decide our situation" and the last two lines of the final stanza. What makes life difficult today, is the terrible feeling of uncertainty and our impotence to influence what affects us.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Language Lessons (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Quite, Stephen. I’m not expecting many would agree with me that it was a very good year.
And thanks for the Like, Holden.
Comment is about IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
If I may say so, John, a very profound poem. I remember climbing the Monument in London as a boy and saying 'the people look like ants'. 'But they're still people' said someone else. And, of course, they were.
Enjoyed reading this.
Comment is about Diminishing Scales (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Well written and chilling, Keith.
Comment is about A Gay Dismissal (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
It did give us a new perspective on life, John, provided that we survived and didn't go mad. The parallel with Milligan's war is quite apt, I think.
Comment is about IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Well said, Hélène. There is too much lazy nonsense talked about 'movers and shakers', who usually end up making things worse with their antics. As you say, just be.
Comment is about Just Be (blog)
Original item by Hélène
I can't disagree with the sentiment, Uilleam. Perhaps a pre-Cameron time machine is the answer. If only.....
Comment is about REJOIN THE EU! (blog)
Yes, brilliant and fun, but with a bitter twist. What more could you want? Thanks, JD.
Comment is about The waiting lists (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Horrifically beautiful this one. The beginning feels like an intro of a television series. Very well written.
Thank you.
Comment is about Black Widow (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Hello thank you K Lynn & Stephen G. Clare I told you a long time ago that you are a true poet and everything that I read of yours confirms me in that belief. You must write for yourself, selfishly, and, if you do, I think that you can far surpass my achievements. I hope that you write for the rest of your life.
"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
James Aloysius Joyce, The Dead, Dubliners
Comment is about Above the vaulted sky (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
One Is Never Enough
Hand covered appetite
Sticky mouth devours
Onion flavoured roll
Red tomato sauce
Adds extra taste
Do not overfill
Ready for another?
Down Market way.
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Original item by Stockport WoL
Care free flyers
Soaring high above
Wingless troubled souls below.
Comment is about 3 x more haiku about Change (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Thanks all for likes and comments.
Russell, you are correct to err on the side of caution:
Neither an under nor an over whelmer be,
But bravely carry on whelming, please feel free!😊
Comment is about REJOIN THE EU! (blog)
You continue to impress with your sublime use of words. Your poetry seems to get better and better. I want to write like you when I grow up!
Comment is about Above the vaulted sky (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I really like this. It unfortunately sums up much of what is wrong with humanity, or lack of. I love the way you always make your words dance off the page. You are like one of those song writers who tell a heartbreaking story to an upbeat tune - if that makes any sense at all!! 😂
Comment is about Diminishing Scales (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thank you so much for your insightful comments. Keith, you detect well. John Botterill you hit the nail right on the head! My husband said nobody would understand this, I told him it was a poets poem and they would get it. It seems you guys proved me right! Thank you for the likes and comments, they are truly appreciated from one who is often misunderstood.
Comment is about Mirror to my Soul. (blog)
Original item by Clare
I think I'm liberally overwhelming. My love life is conservatively underwhelming, and my addled brain is just labouriously whelming. (see what I did there, politically bipartisan), I feel a whelmed poem coming on, Ta ra 😀
A good bit of writing Uilleam
Comment is about REJOIN THE EU! (blog)
This poem releases the unnatural or unnecessary beliefs that is fed by the society (supernatural believers) to us, and urges to look towards things positively and as they come. I'm going to save this.
Thank you.
Comment is about Just Be (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Highly descriptive and the chaos crisp at it's imagery. The foreboding events been described at it's best.
Thank you for this.
Comment is about A Nocturnal Holocaust (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thanks for that permission Telboy, extremely generous of you; I was half expecting to be called into the headmaster's office for a vigorous spanking with a copy of Woman's Weekly...ah well, if only😉
You tell me: "...you are obviously entitled to post on any subject you choose, but..." you forgot to add - à la Basil Fawlty of the Towers:
"DON'T MENTION THE WAR!":
on our Freedom of Movement,
on Asylum Seekers,
on Immigrants,
on our Clean Inland and Maritime Waterways,
on the NHS,
on Junior Doctors,
on Nurses,
on our Railways and Transport workers,
on the Homeless,
on our Teachers,
on our Farmers,
on our Civil Servants (yes you, Dominic Raab).
Re the NHS:
As early as 2005 or so, Jeremy Hunt's NHS policy book: 'Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party' called for the "denationalisation" of the NHS, and for it to be replaced by an insurance market system. That is now being enacted.
It was co-authored by Tories Kwasi Kwarteng, Michael Gove, Douglas Carswell, Daniel Hannan and Greg Clark.
The destruction of every last vestige of the UK's "welfare state" and of the public services is the primary aim of the Tory party; it's nothing to do with "feckless teen mums" or "people in small boats" as the Murdoch client press would have the gullible believe.
Comment is about REJOIN THE EU! (blog)
Hélène
Mon 24th Apr 2023 14:43
Lovely and inspiring.
Comment is about Understanding (blog)
Original item by purplemoon