Each will you is answered
with a loving smile
lifting you - - - as you ask.❤
Comment is about Will you!!! (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
We have much to learn
History is made today
Tomorrow is the day
Others will also learn too.❤
Comment is about Figurines (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
"I’m ready to begin an entire new novel on the story of me myself and I."
Great line! Learning to love oneself, feeling whole & complete with just oneself. Sometimes it takes years & quite a bit of heart break to learn this. Bravo Healing & Dealing!
Comment is about Closure (blog)
Original item by Healing and Dealing
This poem made me smile! Sweet ending.
Comment is about Friendship (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks, Uilleam. Glad it had you going. The answer is always at the end! 😀One person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist. It was just an old joke though, Stephen. A bit like myself 😂
Comment is about Capital Punishment (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Your political stance is overcoming the need for impartiality in
addressing what is wrong. If I'm prepared to spend my pension
on relieving s small part of the pressure (and money spent) on
the NHS which helped me into this world, your interpretation
of an "I'm all right Jack" attitude on my part is demeaning and
unworthy of a considered response.
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
I suppose in the end, the "True" Friend is the person who, if need be, will tell you an unpalatable truth about yourself?
Comment is about Friendship (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Looks like the propaganda from the Daily Heil's Hitlergrußers is getting its message through:
"Cobblers to the undeserving poor-I'm all right Jack".💓
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Another gem, Tom. 'All consuming' is absolutely right.
Comment is about Lazing By The Well (blog)
Original item by Tom
I think you've said it, Hélène. Love conquers all, or at least heals some divisions some of the time. Which can't be bad.
Comment is about Love (blog)
Original item by Hélène
A bit dark this one, John. I suppose there are a few less cunning variations, like the firing squad which misses or the guillotine blade which doesn' t quite reach the neck. Mind you, Harry seems a prime candidate for the MAGA 'Freedom Caucus' in the US.
Comment is about Capital Punishment (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
The NHS was a grand concept that is in need of ugent review,
not least for the way it has been overtaken by time, demographics and events. This pensioner would be ready to
"go private" for emergency care if assured that the bottomless
pit the NATIONAL health service has become might undergo
proper revision of its finances e.g. who gets what? - and staff
e.g. how many "management" are actually needed to ensure
an efficient service nationwide for the country's people?
An afterthought to add to the mix -
There are too many beds filled with empty heads
Who have treated their bodies like shit,
Some sense and self-care to reduce the share
Of patient pressure would help more than a bit!.
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Yes, Uilleam. I can hardly believe the little lamb isn't real.
And thanks for the Likes, Frederick, Stephen and Dolyn.
Comment is about FREE TOMMY LEE ROYCE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Had me right to the end!
Absolutely shocking poem: Is that written in electric meter?😀
Comment is about Capital Punishment (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
When I first saw the title of your post, I imagined it was a real-life case-I rarely watch the news now, thought I'd missed something big!
I seldom watch programmes of that nature, but it's fascinating how people are gripped by and identify with characters in those dramas
Comment is about FREE TOMMY LEE ROYCE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Some of us hide our feelings, and especially for men, that's not always a good thing.
Best thing is to keep letting it out...Write it Out Loud.
😉
Comment is about Where to (blog)
Original item by Keith Byrne
Perhaps the best solution for not getting "Cancelled", would be to follow J. Cleese's advice in Flowerty Wats:
"Don't mention the war!"😀
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Thanks to all for your likes and comments.
I've said many a time to my friends that I will "die fighting for the NHS".
To me, the very concept of the NHS represents all which is best about UK society; whilst those who are actively seeking to destroy it, represent all that is worst.
MC, 😊
I'm intrigued as to how I can be "gentler" to people who are actively causing me, my family and my friends "Actual Bodily Harm"?
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Always good advice Hugh.👍
As for getting in debt, we have an economic system which is designed to keep some of us in debt.
The oft-trotted-out mantras "Getting people on the housing ladder", and "affordable housing"(affordable to whom?) are prime examples of that.
A massive chunk of our local countryside (farmland) has just been dug up for private houses which will be "affordable" only to the likes of company executives.
We need well-built and designed "Council Housing" at fair rents; but such a concept is anathema to both New Labour and Tories who pander to their voters' snobbery about "Council Estates".
Comment is about Plan carefully how to manage your money ! (blog)
Original item by hugh
I can vouch for the light touch on the shoulder, Uilleam. I have been red carded 5/6/7 times (I’ve lost count). Indeed on one occasion In 2020 (I think) I had a poem from 2017 deleted. The touch on the shoulder has a long reach.
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Rosie is fictitious, Julie. As for my mother-in-law, she has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t speak at all.
Comment is about ROSIE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you, Uilleam. It is dangerous when churches become an arm of the state, because God and all he stands for so often seems to disappear.
Thanks to Tom, Chris, Julie, Holden, K Lynn and Stephen for your support.
Comment is about Prayer for Ukraine (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I already loved this poem and sentiment but I've just discovered the audio rendition... excellent. Very well said Uilleam.
I think it's the only rational course to be outraged by the mechanics of the inhuman greed and lethal hypocrisy our current government operates upon.
Comment is about National Emergency: Life or Death Fight for the NHS! (blog)
Thanks Stephen. For this one, I originally had a verse for every disaster we're currently facing; climate, warming, sea level, disease, political etc and I walked through them all as my imagined family slowly died one by one along the way only find at the river's end was total nuclear armageddon.
However, I thought maybe this shorter version was probably enough 😂 Thanks for reading, commenting and liking.
P.S. Now with audio...
Comment is about River's End (blog)
Original item by Tom
Julie - thanks for the "like".
To one & all - it's always a bonus to get appreciation from those
whose work I enjoy.
Comment is about HOW GLAD (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you am glad somebody can related
Comment is about Where to (blog)
Original item by Keith Byrne
Thank you for the likes and kind comment John.
Comment is about Wintry Morning (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for this insightful write
Comment is about Becoming Who You Are. A Transgender Journey (blog)
Original item by Katie Sheila Haigh
😢 but Rosie has you to tell her untold stories.
Comment is about ROSIE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A poignant and powerful write 👏🏻👏🏻
Comment is about Land of the free? (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Lovely, uplifting stuff, Helene 🌈
Comment is about The Wings of Your Soul (blog)
Original item by Hélène
A good thought provoking poem, moonlight 🌈
Comment is about Figurines (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Beautifully conveyed, Tom. I think we've all felt like this at some point lately. The world seems to be rolling towards madness...🌈
Comment is about River's End (blog)
Original item by Tom
The only poet I liked when I was young. And you've did 'er proud, Ray.
Comment is about I'M PAM AYRES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Captures the essence of Turner, Stephen.
Comment is about A Ballad Of Tide & Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you Stephen and Uilleam.
2022 was the first time in my lifetime that I've genuinely felt the looming threat of nuclear war or attack. It has been playing at the back of mind throughout the year.
I'm usually good at rationalising the bombardment of fear the media shoot at us, but this time it genuinely felt 'inevitable'.
This poem is based on an actual dream and one from which I was very relieved to wake up.
Uilleam, I'm glad you had that reassuring voice during the cold war. And it was right. Let's hope my internal voice is wrong. I don't really enjoy writing about this kind of stuff. :) MAD indeed!
Thanks also to Frederick, Hugh, Adam, Kimberly and Chris for reading this one and for clicking like. I'll try and record an audio version in the next couple of days. 😊
Comment is about River's End (blog)
Original item by Tom
I fondly remember jaunts in our family car from our Wiltshire
home to the Cotswolds back in the 1950s - to the likes of
Bourton-on-the-Water in the days when even a modest
runabout with a name like "Standard" or "Jowett" could find a
parking place and afternoon teas were priced within our
rationed pocket range.. Haven't been back since. Happy though
to see its businesses doing well serving an admiring modern
tourist trade.
Comment is about I'M PAM AYRES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Oh where to when all life's problems become unsolvable??
Believe me-I have many days like that Keith.
Comment is about Where to (blog)
Original item by Keith Byrne
Except he, and the vested interests he represents are not speechless, really.
Client journalism and the sewer press will do his lying for him and his friends.
And we'll just carry on, "business as usual" parrotting in the pub and cafe
what they tell us.
That's how the UK is now in the cesspit we're in today.
Comment is about An early wake up call !! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Wed 18th Jan 2023 05:37
Excellent satire, John, and the last line says it all! 😎
Comment is about Comfort me with Green (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Wed 18th Jan 2023 02:27
Thank you so much, John, your kind comment means a lot! 😎
Comment is about Butterfly... (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Sat 21st Jan 2023 10:30
...but some are more equal than others?
😉
Comment is about Everyone's A Winner (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth