Ah yes, weeds: merely plants we don't approve of, that we don't think should be there, are of no use.
Hang on, if they are of no use, why are they there in the first place!
Comment is about Rose (blog)
Original item by Princesselle
Amazing beings, trees-and hedges; home to a myriad of creatures, stabilising the soil in which we grow our food, and helping to create the very air we breathe.
It's a great pity about the habit farmers once adopted of rooting up hedges for the sake of growing crops.
Comment is about THE SECRET LIFE OF A SINGLE TREE (blog)
Original item by Naomi
Thanks, Yanma.
The picture you paint reminds me very much of a TV programme we always enjoy, called "The Repair Shop", in which much-loved artifacts represnting treasured memories, some seemingly beyond repair, are lovingly restored by craftsmen and women with amazing skills.
Comment is about Mom, This One Needs Your Hands (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
Thanks for likes: Nigel Astell, Stephen G, hugh, Holden, Naomi & Stephen W. 👍
Comment is about The Poor Poet (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Well said Stephen.
Though I would like to know when, if ever, those sitting in the UK Parliament, in the House of Lords, for example, who have massive amounts of "Kompromat", and certain gobby hate-mongers, be held to account?
Will the counter-terrorism police come knocking on their doors at two in the morning,---in the same way that they do to completely innocent UK journalists and UK citizens bearing witness to genocide, and to Jewish citizens protesting against the same?
Not on your Nelly!
Comment is about Enemy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
You've got him off to a T, Stephen.
I remember remarking several times, years ago, when he first dis/graced the world of politics, that he spoke with all the eloquence of a petulant teenager.
Comment is about Rumpatrumptrump (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
You'll make me feel the aim.
I will be strong enough.
I won't answer you the same.
I will leave the days tough.
I'll forgive you and even say, Hurry,
And let you go, without regret.
It will be so hard to live and worry
I'd better share the happiness I get.
I won't keep anger in my heart!
I'll have some space for warmth.
I would rather give the start,
I'd better give my dream a path.
Your childhood was without a mask,
You lived sensually without envy.
Now you suddenly break your task,
Any person can be born with envy.
You are the one I'll have to know,
You'll get as much as you deserve.
Don't judge, and I will never show!
So much you get with double nerve.
©Larisa Rzhepishevska
Comment is about You'll Make Me Feel the Aim... (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Thanks everyone for the likes.
Thanks Graham, you reflect my own attitude to old pre used tools and I marvel at the quality of some of them. Vive the old trades too!
Thanks Stephen. Yes, think of tapes and vinyl for example.
Yes Uillean I remember the gas rings and the waft of glue at school - am I that old? yes. Rabone was a well respected firm in that field.
Ray
Ray
Comment is about OLD SCHOOL NEW SCHOOL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks so much Nigel, Tom, Hugh Stephen, Stephen, Holden and David for liking this one.
Ray
Comment is about AN ENDING OF SORTS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you for the kind feedback Rolph.
Comment is about Fascination (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Thanks for your kind comment, Hélène.
In my Chapel-going days we’d sing Bread and Roses to celebrate occasions such as Mother’s Day and the Sufragette movement. I find the following words to be particularly touching:
“As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—
For they are women's children and we mother them again.”
The horrific loss of life mourned in the first part of the video is sadly, repeated time and again, as politicians advocate cost-cutting on behalf of big business. The murderous inferno of Grenfell Tower in the UK is one such example. The policies leading to it were part of “The Bonfire of Deregulation”. To this day, those who suffered in that event are denied justice, without which there can be no peace!
Comment is about Bread and Roses (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
You'll make me feel the aim.
I will be so9 strong enough.
I won't answer you the same.
I will leave the days tough.
I'll forgive you and even say, Hurry,
And let you go, without regret.
It will be so hard to live and worry
I'd better share the happiness I get.
I won't keep anger in my heart!
I'll have some space for warmth.
I would rather give the start,
I'd better give my dream a path.
Your childhood was without a mask,
You lived sensually without envy.
Now you suddenly break your task,
Any person can be born with envy.
You are the one I'll have to know,
You'll get as much as you deserve.
Don't judge, and I will never show!
So much you get with double nerve.
©Larisa Rzhepishevska
Comment is about You'll Make Me Feel the Aim... (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Good to have our Ukraine man back again Stephen!
They must not cede the Crimea
Comment is about Enemy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Perhaps the muttering is the key, Graham. Is it embarrassment, or sincerity? Thought-provoking, as always.
Comment is about Flare (blog)
Original item by Graham Sherwood
A profound poem which speaks to us all, John.
Comment is about Kickin' the future down the road (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
But you do it so much better, Stephen. A wild ride!
Comment is about Rumpatrumptrump (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Nicely weaved JD 👏
Comment is about If Will Shakespeare were a Therapist. (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Thank you for the likes on this.
Graham, thanks for the comment.
Although I like Blake, Wills, Wordsworth and many of the other flowery poets my favourites are really those who use simple language to the greatest effect, among them I might include Betjeman and Larkin, JC Clarke and others.
Thanks again.
David RL Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gbFMWZWlo&list=RDEMQCADQblBKEr0wmEpraINDA&index=5
Comment is about Discarded (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Sounds like a special person! good to see the short lines.
Comment is about You Shine On Me (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Thanks all for the thoughtful comments - always make me think 😃
& I agree Graham - really, there are no rules for poetry or any art (it's all a construct). But I guess everybody wants to feel understood by their audience or loved ones, and for me, the feeling and the message are often more important than the packaging... but ofc getting that feeling across can often rely on the packaging so 😅
Comment is about This is not a draft (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Marvellous! It was my daughter’s 30th birthday that year, my wife’s 60th and our 40th wedding anniversary. So I saved a fortune on them. Wrote poetry instead - much cheaper.
Comment is about Write Out Loud looks back … at the early days of lockdown. How did poets cope? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
My kind of brevity David.
Screaming graffiti is a great idea
Comment is about Discarded (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
I am sure of the poets and writers who have picked up a weapon in defence of some seemingly righteous or humane cause (matter of debate) most of them would reflect upon such a serious undertaking with sadness.
That fact alone does not diminish their actions or their subsequent works, in many cases it enhances their worth, certainly their knowledge of the fulitity of war.
The majority of writers and poets are fortunate enough to never be called to arms and witness the slaughter, they are the lucky majority who are able to judge the actions of others from comfortable distance.
To kill is an abomination to life itself...but to live with dignity is the right of all and should be defended by those fortunate enough to exist unmolested by warmongers.
David RL Moore
Soldier and Masquerading Poet
Comment is about sword or pen? (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for sharing this music video Uilleam to deepen the plea for peace and freedom in your poem. Really powerful.
Comment is about Bread and Roses (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thankyou for your further thoughts, Helene and Uilleam.
I can help with this, Flyntland. It’s not a bloke; it’s a bird.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for all your likes
Hugh
Holden
Red Brick Keshner
Stephen G
Naomi
Helene
Aisha Suleman
Stephen A
Uilleam
Auracle
and
Larisa.
Light as a feather
so frail so wonderful
carefully holding a fully formed
bright red human baby boy
I have never forgotten that moment.
Comment is about You Never Left My Heart (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you Stephen, and to those who sent recent likes.
David RL Moore
Comment is about Easter, the resurrection of man (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for the like, Stephen A.
I've had it up to here with the hypocritical gaslighting establishment.
Comment is about Bread and Roses (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
It is not just humans that are confused over gender identity - a pheasant has been coming to my door for the last 2/3 years -
it's colouration is mostly male but not completely male.
'It' does not call or strut and keeps a low profile. The hens ignore it, and the males push it away from food but never attack.
At present it is shedding some of it's male feathers and brown female feathers are replacing them.
It has never wandered off as other pheasants do but stays close to the safety of my garden all the year round.
In the past I have also owned a fully identifiable hen that crowed, strutted and looked after the flock.
We are all part of nature.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Until science (the systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe) tells me anything different, I’ll stick to that, or, to the “facts”, as they’re commonly known.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Hugh. This poem sums up a real problem. There's really no excuse for shoplifting and stealing. In the end, as you say, the honest people have to pay more. That's not to deny that social issues may drive (some) people towards this behaviour, but fundamentally it is wrong.
Comment is about This shoplifting plague needs strong medicine (blog)
Original item by hugh
An interesting view Helene. sometimes doing nothing is better than doing too much. Poetry is one. Do we edit/change/tamper with/re-write or should let the raw version stand alone?
Difficult,
G
Comment is about One Minute at a Time (blog)
Original item by Hélène
It's interesting, she calls herself a "transwoman" rather than a woman, & one time made a brief comment that she wasn't going to try to "pass" as a woman. My extended family doesn't talk much about all the thorny issues associated w/ womens sports, female bathrooms, hormone use for minors, etc etc. Lots of room for debate there, that's for sure.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Correction-she was killed the day after her documentary wa accepted at the Cannes Film Festival.
Every free journalist, every word, every foot of film, every photo is a threat to the oppression of death-dealing tyrants.
........................."Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk".........................
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.11] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thank you Ray.
I still remember the smell of animal glue in our school wood-working classes.
And I love using the old Rabone brass and boxwood folding rule I picked up years ago at an antiques fair...it still bears the now indistinct name of some tech-school student. The old cabinet makers screwdivers are a favourite of mine-made for the job!
Comment is about OLD SCHOOL NEW SCHOOL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks for your likes:
Red Brick Keshner
Stephen Gospage
Holden Moncrieff
Flyntland
The horrors of this war on humanity war know no boundaries; the recent video featuring Trump and Netanyahu might be thought by any sane-minded person to be some kind of sick joke.
However, it is actually a statement of intent to commit ethnic cleansing; those politicians and their evil, twisted backers in the UK, (a so-called Christian country) who support those policies should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and need to be held accountable in the Hague.
Comment is about Land and Freedom [ Gaza's Not For Sale! ] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thanks Hugh, but ours is a society whose economy is based on greed.
The introduction of "impulse buying" was nothing but a cunning money-maker which I think began around my childhood.
Instead of asking someone behind a counter, "ave you got fork 'andles?" we can now take them straight off the shelf.
As a result, we have mums walking around supermarkets with babies in prams feeding them food they haven't yet paid for!
I've no sympathy for the whingeing so-called "victims", who are ripping customers off by massive amounts with their pricing tactics.
As for the Sun, trust them to take the side of the exploiter!
Comment is about This shoplifting plague needs strong medicine (blog)
Original item by hugh
Oh how I love a chicken butty
it's oh so tasty, with moist stuffing!
Comment is about Matador (blog)
Original item by Lee Campbell
Thanks for your likes
Stephen Gospage
Aisha Suleman
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.11] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Tue 22nd Apr 2025 14:15
Thank you so much, Stephen, your kind comment is very encouraging! 😊
Comment is about Triumph. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Glad to hear it makes your nephew feel better, Helene. My thoughts are this. He has every right to say he’s a woman. Just as I have every right to say he’s not.
And thanks for the Like, Aisha.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Clever poem John, but allow me to throw in my 2 cents from family experience. My sweet, quiet, shy nephew was depressed & suicidal in his early 20s. He came out as trans, slowly transitioned to a transwoman (medical & therapeutic assistance), and is now my sweet (still somewhat shy) niece. Our family has been open-minded and kind with this experience; it has been an educational process for all of us. My niece seems so comfortable in her skin now. We humans are an interesting species-- kindness is the guiding light. (No offense taken to your poem John; written in the spirit of fun I think.)
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What a fabulous image, Steve: someone pretending to be a policeman inspecting the genitalia of someone pretending to be a woman. Marvellous stuff.
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An extraordinarily well-observed poem, Ray. The same phenomenon everywhere, I think.
Comment is about OLD SCHOOL NEW SCHOOL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
The Haiku form makes a powerful statement here, Holden.
Comment is about Triumph. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
The subtle structure and rhyming builds up to an immense impact in the final line, David.
Comment is about Easter, the resurrection of man (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
You're welcome Holden Moncrieff. Coming straight from Kevin (although he is protecting himself and his loves now). Those
vengeful suicidals. So much of a problem. How should we name them?
Vengesidals? (written: Vengesuidal)
Comment is about Triumph. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Jakey’s got a new job
Care of that Supreme Court mob
What’s inside your boxers or briefs?
Jakey’s joined the toilet police
Jakey’s simply upholding the act
He needs to see your biological fact
He’s got his eye on your tomboy niece
Jakey’s joined the toilet police
An orderly queue, if you please
At the checkpoint for the Ladies
In his jackboots and company fleece
Jakey’s joined the toilet police
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thu 24th Apr 2025 14:49
💗
Comment is about You Never Left My Heart (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell