Always distressing to hear stories like this.
Comment is about The Hairdressers Tale (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
saw only snow white bunches of fragrant stars.
A lovely line.
Comment is about SNOW WHITE STARS (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks ,nicely put.
Strange how in Autumn, a season of death, great beauty is found.
Comment is about Defy, decay (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
Unable to focus
Like I’m halfway between hungover and crazy
All too familiar with that feeling😒
Comment is about The Rona Effect (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
A powerful and heartbreaking write Stephen.
Comment is about The Lowest of the Low (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Au contraire, mon repos. I don’t hold Nigel Farage to blame - he knew exactly what he was doing. I hold the numpties who voted for Leave, despite the warning of expert opinion and who now cannot back down and admit their mistake for fear of showing themselves as gullible.
And I shall continue to enjoy their discomfort for many years yet.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 26th Nov 2022 16:39
# this poem is great!
its really great
bollocking the government I enjoy
Rose a name I call myself
at protest marches a megaphone I employ
out of touch Westminster is
but thank F they got rid of A/H Liz
and Rish isn't by any means a whizz
will bring us back to VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
# vote again for what its worth
or will we all be back verily to square one?
probably there is no doubt
soon my life savings will be gone #
# then I'll be left with jam and bread
shall I just stay in F/G bed
take a long walk off a short prom
or rubber boat it across the med! med! med! med?
************************************************
# just a bottle full of Jack Daniels
will make Christmas go down
Christmas go down
Christmas go d-o-w-n
Christmas go down
just a bottle full of Jack Daniels
will make Christmas go down
in the most delirious way! #
Rose 💋🎄
Comment is about Their Favourite Things (blog)
Thank you for your encouragement Rose & John & Uilleam. I really appreciate it! It's great to be able to share our poetry rather than have the poems sit all lonely in our journals. 👩❤️💋👩
Comment is about Live in the Light (blog)
Original item by Hélène
JC - I have to give you credit for unfailingly locating the least
flattering picture of your intended target. 😊
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I like the use of a famous musical number to make a point.
Richard Rodgers would probably smile and put it alongside the
use of his "You'll Never Walk Alone" elsewhere!
Comment is about Their Favourite Things (blog)
A charming and very relevant analogy to the problems facing the human condition.
Comment is about Recharge (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 26th Nov 2022 15:28
Clever poem, this, Julie, and warm-hearted, too. A good combination!
Comment is about Recharge (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
"Walk in the Light", I think was the title of a hymn/song we used to sing in church.
Comment is about Live in the Light (blog)
Original item by Hélène
True.
But what of the traitrous enemies within?
In the UK Parliament?
In the filthy money launderette which is the City of London?
NB. I refer of course to the Russian oligarchs at the seat of our government, and their friends who in a time of war would be "consorting with the enemy".
Comment is about PUTIN AND SOLDIERS' MOTHERS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
What an education is the world of poetry!
But I think I need to get a life.
I found myself tapping out the syllables to see if it was a PROPER Haiku!😄
Comment is about Black Sapote (blog)
Original item by Andy N
"Follow the money".
A term I increasingly use in the pub and elsewhere, whenever we're discussing political and social problems which the UK and the world face.
Comment is about News (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Some wonderful lyrical lines here John. The unreachable is always a temptation when the imagination is stirred.and you have managed that to conjure up that feeling. Poetry should always reach in and touch us and this has done that.
Ray
Comment is about SNOW WHITE STARS (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Excellent advice, and well put.
I need all types!
Comment is about Recharge (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
If I remember reading rightly, Kevin, the OBR quantified on decreased trade the effect of Brexit as 4%. It isn’t the sole cause of the recession obviously, but it is a part. But politicians “dare not speak its name”.
And thanks for the Like, Adam.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes and very kind comments. Lost my writing flow recently. 🌈
Comment is about Brain Freeze (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Great stuff guys (:
Comment is about Warm words as Stockport poets add voices to national initiative (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
There is no doubt that Brexit, among other policies brought in by Boris et alia who have followed has caused the situation we are now in.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Fine work, JD. As she has given you this poem, you should give the poem to her.
Comment is about The Hairdressers Tale (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
The time-honoured practice of making money out of promises.
Comment is about Their Favourite Things (blog)
A somewhat unique take on the country’s economics, MC.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sat 26th Nov 2022 05:11
A truly beautiful, profound poem, Hélène! 🌷
Comment is about Keep Trying (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Thanks for the likes Aisha and Holden 😀
Comment is about History is Bunk (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
If the contemporary Conservative and Unionist Party was still
the Party of long ago (national interest and famous financial
probity), it is doubtful the this financial situation would exist.
Budgeting scores of billions on an unnecessary rail link to save
the time it takes to drink a Martini when locking the country
down is hardly fiscal probity. As for Hunt, he is the elephant
in the room, a "placed man" for wider global interests that saw
no profit for its aims with the Truss plan for national financial
growth over a longer term. Note Hunt's observation that we need more immigrant labour - to do what in an increasingly
automated workplace, except undercut what is being paid to
our own workforce and increase the profit margins of global
interests in business that see purely national concerns as
obstacles.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I like the poem and your commentary upon it, Russell.
The style is open and left for the reader to interpret. A story for our times.
Comment is about The Hairdressers Tale (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
The answer to Rose's question is a definite NO!
Another stunning light sabre, Helene
Comment is about Live in the Light (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Pithy and witty.
You are right on the money, Uilleam. 👍
Comment is about Their Favourite Things (blog)
Excellent John. I hardly ever get involved in analysis like that, but it is I think a good use of the site when inspiration hits! Glad you approved.
Ray
Comment is about History is Bunk (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 25th Nov 2022 18:48
Apart from the fact that he looks the spit of Toad from Wind in the Willows I LOVE scare mongering Nige 👍
as to the lazy sods-give em a bleeding brush n binbags and get em to clean the fast food crap wrappers that those who don't have that shite delivered have left there in the first place dump on our streets along with syringes, laughing gas canisters, beer cans. bottles etc etc etc-after they've finished anti-socialising that is-GRRRRRR!!!!
Rose 👎👎👎
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 25th Nov 2022 18:23
Helene, are you capable of writing a bad poem? 😉
I definitely don't think you are!
Rose 💋
Comment is about Live in the Light (blog)
Original item by Hélène
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 25th Nov 2022 18:21
Deeper and deeper you go the more I like it H! 👍
Rose 💋
Comment is about Freedom (blog)
Original item by Hélène
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 25th Nov 2022 18:19
The global tale of slavery is a hugely diverse subject over
many centuries, mostly but not totally consigned to history.
The worrying aspect of modern life in that neck of the woods is
the apparent disregard for the safety and the lives of those
imported to provide the labour. The reported numbers alone
indicate something badly wrong with attitudes there, akin to
those existing in other less aware or caring times when the
value of life was measured in purely financial worth, with
any conciences assuaged by differences in religious beliefs.
Heresy anyone?
Comment is about The Ghosts of Qatar (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks for your comments, guys.
You don’t think Brexit (whisper it soft) contributes, Graham? Certainly Jeremy Hunt said as much, the OBR thinks so as does the IFS. And it’s worth noting that both you and I are recipients of state benefits, as are my in-laws, aged 91 and 90. The idle bastards.
I was indeed, Telboy. Never forget the old socialist maxim - “ by hand and brain”. And I used my brain to pinch money.
And thanks for the Like, Aisha.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
And too many people doing well paid non-jobs.
John, by your own admission, you were one of these methinks?
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Like the poem Russell, and also your comment about the scissor-wielding hairdresser.
Comment is about The Hairdressers Tale (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Sooner or later the people of the UK will have to come to terms with the fact that there are just too many lazy sods in this country who can't be asked to work for a living. Is the a big enough elephant for you?
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Quite right, John. We should take Nigel to tusk..... (Perhaps Donald - remember him?)
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Stop making me laugh, Uilleam. I’ve got a cracked lip.
And thanks for the Likes, Frederick and Greg.
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
No no no, you just don't understand.
That's PROJECT FEAR!
It's at the root of the UK's troubles.
That elephant's in the room because the UK is full up and it has nowhere else to go!
If only old people would just do away and die and stop being a burden on the NHS, then elephants would have somewhere else to go, and they could graze the sunlit uplands along with the Unicorns!
PROJECT FEAR!
PROJECT FEAR!
PROJECT FEAR!
Say it often enough and it will become true, I promise..........
Comment is about THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (33540)
Fri 25th Nov 2022 12:00
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Sat 26th Nov 2022 20:27
A lovely part of the world, the Dingle Peninsula, I'd love to see it again.
We were a typical R. Catholic family, but even though Dave Allen regularly took the urine out of the church, my mum and dad loved him-I think he spoke some home truths!😀
Comment is about Young Dan (blog)
Original item by Kevin Vose