Some effective and witty use of language in that one.
Comment is about 'Incensed' Julian Jordon's video riposte to Dorries and Johnson (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for your thoughts and recollections, Dave. I’ve been teetotal for over 25 years now but the curious thing is that although “I’ve forgotten half my life I can still remember this” (Leonard Cohen). I can remember the fine differences in taste of these and other beers.
Comment is about F***ING NEAR WATER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Keith, thanks so much for your recent comment on One Last Affair. I'm glad you picked out that line, no one else did but it made me smile when I wrote it. The perfect chat up line 😉 Great to have you back and writing ferociously! Cheers, Tom.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
The beauty of that may be lost on many John but not on me. Working as a driver's mate delivering soft drinks right down the Trent Valley I was intrigued at the range of local brews, none of which seemed to travel more than thirty miles from home in those days, which I suppose was what represented a reasonable catchment area for a small brewery. Strange how the brewing world has changed and I can get Cornish,Scottish, Kentish draft beers in my local micro pubs. Of course they're notlike they were. Thasnk God. They're probably better.
Comment is about F***ING NEAR WATER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Julian. The project was stimulated by last year's Winter Hill 125 event commemorating the Right to Roam marches of 1896. On a fine day in September several thousand re-enacted the mass trespass challenging landowner and industrialist Col. Ainsworth's attempts to fence off Winter Hill to prevent public use. The Winter Hill mast and its eight lights are a familiar beacon to people across south and west Lancashire.
Comment is about A moorland beacon: animated prose-poem documents the seasons of Winter Hill (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Top stuff Julian. Two fingers to them all.
Comment is about 'Incensed' Julian Jordon's video riposte to Dorries and Johnson (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Excellent write, Clare.
Comment is about A Conversation with my Father (blog)
Original item by Clare
What Stephen says.
Reminded me at the end of Billie Holliday's "Strange fruit".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
Comment is about Strange Feeling (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I believe that is called "customised", MC. My smart phone is too smart for me. That's why it's TAKING OVER!!
Thanks for your response!
Comment is about Becoming a Nokia G50 (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Tue 31st May 2022 23:55
😂
Thank you so much, Pete! 😊
Comment is about Son of the Sun (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Holden, Tom, Pete, Stephen G, Stephen A and Frederick.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
From the poem "Elm", 19 April 1962
Sylvia Plath,
Comment is about Black sun on the run (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I find this moving, Peter. And Shakespearean.
Comment is about DEARLY BELOVED ONE (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Cleverly constructed & hard hitting, Stephen 👏
Comment is about Strange Feeling (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
What is poetry, if not to spill your soul upon the page, Nadia. No more today, but tomorrow's a different day. Teenage life can be hard, but, like life itself, it's fleeting. Keep writing. You have a definite talent. (Former part of the Breakfast Club brigade😉)
Comment is about no place unlike my own world (blog)
Original item by Nadia Coia
Thank you Keith, I just missed out on that one 😄
And Carol, glad it made you laugh. Can't remember my parents laughing that much though 🤣
And Stephen, yes I still remember that hangover!
And thanks for the likes! 🌈🥴
Comment is about Where's Queen? (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Great , thanks again for allowing me access to my dictionary. Good stuff as usual
Comment is about Son of the Sun (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thanks Keith ,
I’m glad you liked it, I’d like to agree that it took serious thought, but I just wrote it in half a hour without much thought at all. It just came out the end of the pen. It must have been in there for sometime hoping to get written
Perhaps I just need help !
Comment is about hurt and soul (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
It's true that we never seem to learn from the past, Keith. Perhaps the dark side and the lust for power are just too strong. But, as you say, we must believe and search for peace. Excellent poem.
Comment is about Renewed Hope (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Inspiring and entertaining, Mike.
Comment is about Granny hi tech (new ending) (blog)
Original item by mike booth
Thank you for your kind words, Keith. I hope that people do relate to it.
Clyde
Comment is about The Lonely Old man Sits by the Window (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
You bring it all back, Stephen. Great fun (apart from the hangover).
Comment is about Where's Queen? (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thanks to Keith, Kealen and MC for these fascinating comments.
For my part, my main objection to the WEF is that it looks so bad and I'm surprised that the (many) decent people who attend can't see it. Speakers fly in by private jet and lecture the world about climate change. Maybe a virtual session would be better.
Very grateful for your kind words.
Comment is about Davos (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
My dumb phone (mobile for old gits) has developed a fault that
rejects incoming calls but permits ongoing texts. I much prefer
it that way. Silent but still able to communicate in my own
chosen time!
Comment is about Becoming a Nokia G50 (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
The theme is sure to be readily recognised and understood. There is a kick to be had in finding an unexpected good buy online! Sadly, my retirement's recall of a bar gain is when I used
to make it to the pub just before it closed after a busy day at work! 😃
Comment is about Deal Or No Deal (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
In one very topical instance I recognise the allusion to the
lottery of life that sees the existence of bad neighbours blighting
the chances of a peaceful fulfilling life. A major example of what
can be met and endured in humdrum daily life.
Comment is about Renewed Hope (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
The style of rhyme and content is spot on for this subject.
Is the title "World Economic Forum" a blind for the old secretive
well-guarded Bilderberger meetings? Or "Bilderbuggers" as I
thought of them since they seemed busy giving the rest of us
a poke up the arse in pursuit of their ideas for world domination
via wealth and influence.
Comment is about Davos (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
The kind words are much appreciated Keith
Comment is about De-Spite (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Thanks for your comments, Dave. You've known Shaun a long time. I just came across this fine poet during lockdown and through Zoom.
Comment is about They Race Me In The Streets: Shaun Fallows, Lulu (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
As one devoted to Christ your words are echoed in my heart.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Earning Eternity (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
A beautiful and meaningful poem.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about De-Spite (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
The only sincerity in the wef is that they're sincere about have a global tyrannical medical dictatorship. Children are eating bugs in a Welsh school while those in Davos feast on steaks. Just look at whose there. I wish ppl would wake up before it's too late and stop.us9ng Ukraine like a playground to try out their new weapons at the expense of innocent Ukrainian lives.. Our 'leaders' do not have out best interest in mind.
Comment is about Davos (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Puts us all to shame! Nice one Mike!
Comment is about Granny hi tech (new ending) (blog)
Original item by mike booth
Thanks so much Nigel, Stephen Graham and Holden for appreciating this poem. I edited it to within an inch of its life.
Ray
Comment is about PRACTISING FOR PEACE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
It doesn't bear thinking about, M. C.
Comment is about 'Incensed' Julian Jordon's video riposte to Dorries and Johnson (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Tue 31st May 2022 05:40
This made me laugh out loud! Delightfully playful! Or is that pelightfully dayful! 😁
Comment is about Where's Queen? (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
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Tue 31st May 2022 05:36
Thank YOU dear Keith.
“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and
is of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face” – St. Francis of Assisi
Comment is about Our kid (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Stephen,
This poem reminds me of a documentary I saw some years ago. It depicted a scene from the New York Stock Exchange where people were frenetic in their activity to create wealth. Juxtaposed was a scene from a small African village where a young man who should have been in school was making mud bricks to build a house for his mother as his father had recently passed away. Two worlds so far apart but on the same planet.
A good poem, well crafted and thought provoking indeed.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Davos (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Knowing and loving oneself is the way to wisdom.
Good poem
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about I LOVE ME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Maybe if BoJo joins the ranks of the ennobled, he can adopt the
motto "Deceiving is Believing". He has plenty of examples
from the past to turn to.
Comment is about 'Incensed' Julian Jordon's video riposte to Dorries and Johnson (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Stephen
A community in uttermost grief was told the police waited over an hour before moving in.
Comment is about Bloodstains On The Blackboard (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
KT - glad to raise a smile. Life can be so serious sometimes!
Comment is about I LOVE ME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
John,
you excel your poetic skills when it comes to raw emotion, grief and loss. This poem was written by you but could be written for you. I was drawn to the line "No pair of humans can attend each other's funerals". A strange but true thought which had never occurred to me before I read this poem. Suicide has a devastation which other sudden deaths cannot compare with. It is often a loss which cannot be explained which adds to the sense of grief. Well crafted and straight from a broken heart.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Suicide of a friend (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
John,
A deeply moving poem that must have been heart wrenching to compose. It is filled with love and a profound sense of loss; the desire to turn back the clock and restore and explore the emotions you so avidly express. This poem took my breath away by its depth of feeling. Very well written, a gem in fact.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Our kid (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This is a quality poem which must have required quite some thought. The imagery is incredible. I enjoyed this enormously. Thank you
Keith
Comment is about hurt and soul (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Tantalising and full of imagery. " Do you smell as good as you look?" This line encapsulates the poem. Well written and well thought out.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about One Last Affair (blog)
Original item by Tom
Clare,
This poem reminded me of my father who fought the Japanese during the Second World War. I was an immediate post war child and my father and mother steadfastly refused to talk about the war years and what they had experienced. I can so well relate to this as war bring personal tragedies as well as the wounded and the dead.
Thank you for this. A special poem indeed.
Keith
Comment is about A Conversation with my Father (blog)
Original item by Clare
Clyde,
This poem intrigues me as it generates a sadness all of its own. Somehow I think many readers will relate to this. It is quite beautiful.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about The Lonely Old man Sits by the Window (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
John F Keane
Wed 1st Jun 2022 11:47
A great piece. That said, all politicians are liars so low expectations of the 'political class' (cough) are mandatory.
Comment is about Avoiding the rap – no apologies to Nadine Dorries (blog)
Original item by Julian Jordon