Thank you Keith. I do tend to get more than a little cynical at this time of the year. i always value your comments
Thanks again old friend
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Full of romantic undertones, it's easy to build a picture and sense the passion behind your move Greg. Up north feels almost as far away as Jupiter itself! Enjoy your new year together....
Ray
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks, Graham ... and a happy new year to you, and all at Write Out Loud. Living up here is changing the kind of poetry I write, at least at the moment.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It’s beautiful up that way Greg, lucky fellow.
Jupiter was really showing off wasn’t it. I need an app to help me recognise the planets these days.
Lovely evocative piece. I see you’ve also got dolphins up there now!
Happy New Year
G
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This struck a chord Ray. Can’t really explain why for some reason.
Happy New Year
G
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
more prevalent than ever before as now, apartheid is placed in the subliminal conscience of yourself they never want you to get in touch with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s
I have a dream too MLK. xxx
Comment is about Never Say It's.......... (blog)
Original item by ZTK Space
I remember him being carted off against Portugal, Greg, but the damage was done against earlier teams (Bulgaria rings a bell).
And thanks for the Likes, Frederick, Nigel and Chris.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you to all for your 'likes' and also to Graham and Stephen for their comments. They are all much appreciated. Keep on writing folks
Keith
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you Uilleam for your effective protest in support of my view. I wonder that millions can be so misled, it has me scuttling into dark corners of discontent.
Thanks for looking in, Brenda and Frederick!
Ray
Comment is about LOST AND GONE FOREVER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Marvellous stuff, John. He was certainly kicked out of the World Cup in '66.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Rose, Hélène, Stephen, Flyntland and Keith. Flyntland, I think my mood was certainly not manic, more a low level depression that lingers. Rose, I do hope that your derrière is responding to treatment! WE can wallow in emptiness or try to fill the void - that's why I write poetry.
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
Comment is about Empty (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
"it's short term remember", are the words that stand out for me in this poem. The need to realise that we are only passing through as all is transient. This should spur us on to be positive and make good use of the time we have.
A philosophical poem about life's journey with a good sense of optimism in it.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Introspection Trilogy (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Stephen,
Well rhymed and well written. This does not come as a surprise as the Ukrainians are endeavouring to establish their national identity, their language and culture without the influences and memories of the past. They are also inspired by anger for what they have suffered.
A topical poem with a good sense of awareness.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Odesa (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I like the physicality of this piece, Keith. It highlights the contribution of body and mind to what is finally produced on paper. Thanks.
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thankyou, Graham and Stephen. Another one of his famous misses was when he lobbed the Czechoslovak (I think) goalie from the half way line. He looked like man chased by a ghost.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A great tribute, John. His greatest moment that I remember was one when he FAILED to score - selling the Uruguayan goalkeeper an outrageous dummy in Mexico '70 and just missing in the side netting. I'll look for it on you tube. Happy New Year, in spite of the sad day.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Indeed, John. A blast from the past which hasn't aged at all.
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Martin,
this really is a work of art as you have turned the festive into a lament. Perhaps this was not your intention. As Christmas approaches I find myself wishing it was already over and done with. The same goes for the New Year. Surely all this frenetic energy and spending does not constitute joy. When it is all over we are financially worse off, suffering with hangovers and with the winter left to face and deal with. I somehow feel that we have forgotten or lost the reason for this festive celebration.
Thanks for a well thought out and truthful poem.
Keith
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Botticelli and Pele...........perfect
Have a good New Year John!
G
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for all the likes and thanks to Stephen Leon Rose M.C and Ullieam for your comments, much appreciated.
Blessings to all and a happy new year
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
This has to be the most haunting poem that I have ever read - we all have those 'empty spaces' inside us - I wonder what your mood was when you wrote it.
Comment is about Empty (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Graham,
Thank you for this comment. We share a common experience of having that sudden inspiring thought which prompts the need to write. Yesterday morning I wrote three letters by long hand to elderly friends who don't have computers. I wrote for three hours to find that I was spent. I could not write another word. As you will gather I use pen and ink and this gives me greater freedom in the way I express myself, free of typographical errors and a steady flow of thoughts which are easily transferred into words. If I were denied the ability to write, which I do every day, I would wilt and be left utterly bereft. Like you I am always impelled to write, to express on paper what ferments in the mind. It has a cathartic quality which motivates the soul. Inspiration invariably arrives unannounced.
Keith
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Too true Ullieam. I love your approach, and it's the one I try to adopt. Wishing you a lovely new year.
Best wishes,
RaRa
Comment is about If You'd Known (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
When we trust Allah/God.....all goes well, even if, we don't understand.
Comment is about Always (blog)
Original item by Hélène
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 30th Dec 2022 02:05
I would describe this poem if you will pardon my profanity as being not just brilliant poetry but as-
poetry with bollocks, poetry that bites one in the arse
Thank you so much John
Rose 💋
Comment is about Empty (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Keith, I don't think writers have any choice, they HAVE to write!
I woke at 4am yesterday sat up and wrote my latest piece 'The lost and found' straight off the bat and although I've trimmed it up since writing it the body was mainly done.
I don't understand it, perhaps I'm glad I don't. As you so eloquently say 'the writer writes on'.
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
A poem from a place where much is demanded and needed and the consequences thereof. A poem well crafted yet succinctly woven together. It merits several readings and a sense of gratitude for those who are on the front line almost every day.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about A day on the frontline (blog)
Original item by Keith Byrne
A highly descriptive poem which allows the imagination to wander and absorb a deeper content. My mind was drawn to the words "Empty waiting rooms in empty railway stations no more smoky-smell of coal and steam". I remember well those days of such travel and the loneliness of those deserted waiting rooms in which all time was lost.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Empty (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
We are only our thoughts. And more often than not, the true measure of our happiness is how well we manage to hide from them. We try not to think. But some of us are just too sane. So we envy the insane, and drink.
Keep writing.
Comment is about to be so lonely (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
The art of rip-off down to purr-fection 😝
Which reminds me -have they started paying tax yet?
Comment is about Kopi Luwak (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hey diddle diddle......Those cows that jumped over the moon...they'll account for the story about the moon being made of green cheese...they were dairy cows!
Comment is about Moon Walk (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Thanks Stephen
And thank you all for liking , it’s appreciated
Comment is about January (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
The best reason for not using Starbucks, Stephen.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=22753
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die
Thomas Hardy
Comment is about The family face (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks, Uilleam. Yes, indeed it is.
And my thanks to Frederick, John, Hugh, Rudyard and Holden for liking this poem.
Comment is about Plea to the Warriors (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Good one, John. Another reason not to go to Starbucks.
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think a universal misapprehension is that tea is made with water which is merely hot and not boiling, Uilleam. Evidently the Empire did not last long enough nor stretch far enough.
And thanks for the Likes, Hiugh and Holden,
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The French were notoriously rubbish at making tea-now they actually have "tea-shops" in France-with real tea pots!
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you for your efforts Stephen.
I believe it's a truly insane world in which major arms companies are sponsoring events such as Remembrance Sunday and other related events.
Comment is about Plea to the Warriors (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I'd support a street market if we had one.
But Das Kapital has put paid to that idea.
The plan works every time:
1. Demolish homes with an open market at their centre,
2. Buy the land-and the Councillors.
3. Sit on the land for several years til the time is ripe.
4. Then build a supermarket where we have no choice but to buy imported crap instead of what our farmers produce.
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Where have all the people gone?
Tucked in tighter to their circle
Under the guise of staying healthy,
Yep they've been well and truly brainwashed- still mask-wearing, hand-wringing gel-sniffing obedient zombies walking round town with their noses to the screen looking for the next big thing the politicos and their pals want us to be scared of.
Here in body, not in spirit-that's where they've gone!
Comment is about Where Have All The People Gone? (blog)
Original item by kimberly
We awaken
Seeds of Peace
If only that could be our goal in life!
💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
Comment is about A Bucket and a Mop (blog)
Original item by New Shoes
My Boxing Day morning was the best ever...the sound of our little ones' giddy laughter still ringing in my ears from Christmas Day.
Comment is about Boxing Day Morning (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
This is our town...everyone's.💓
Comment is about Never Say It's.......... (blog)
Original item by ZTK Space
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Sat 31st Dec 2022 09:13
Lard an gin
Must try it sometime!
Comment is about Icelandic poem: said in the voice of Bjork (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll