“Where have all the drivers gone?
Long time passing;
Where have all the drivers gone?
Long time ago;
Where have all the drivers gone?
Back to Poland every one;
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?”.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I was asked to write a mental health message to my younger self, I know he won't listen to my words of wisdom and will tread his own path. Hopefully others will.
Comment is about Life Advice to My Younger Self (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Thanks
It’s surprising how it all hangs together, a completely random list in a random order !
Comment is about PLAy. Liszt ( in order of PLaaaaay) ! (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Great minds! I was working on one like this. You've beat me to it! Excellently composed & fun!
Comment is about PLAy. Liszt ( in order of PLaaaaay) ! (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thanks to those you liked and to Ray for commenting
Yes I recently went through what I would describe as a bit of a dry spell. Although I have continued to write, much of it has been utter rubbish. However things are looking a little brighter now.
Cheers Ray
Comment is about But for words (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks to John, Robert, Stephen and Holden for liking this poem.
Comment is about Golf Game (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks Stephen for looking in.
Graham, thanks for your comments, and of course the analogy of vampires roaming is a dramatic one, while the truth of aberrant behaviour is much more likely to go unnoticed, until flagged up. I can't help seeing the perpetuation of crime passed on as a sort of horrible legacy through time.
Hi Mark. I wonder if Steve Coogan will be compromised in his future by this role. He is always worth watching, if only for his versatility. I still think the Louis Theroux documentary was highly revealing - no doubt it will never be repeated.
Stephen, i'm glad you felt that way, thank you.
Ray
Comment is about ABUSERS - THE UNDEAD (blog)
Original item by ray pool
JC -Views about denial come in assorted forms, .according to a state of mind. ?
SG - you can hardly be more negative than preferring others to exert control
over your country's laws and business dealings. Cheers.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Looking at their website, events haven't been updated since early 2020 - ie start of lockdown - so we suspect not. There is no imminent poetry event listed on the Dugdale Centre site, either. Write Out Loud relies on gig organisers making use of our service to update their info on our Gig Guide.
Review is about Enfield Poets on 2 Oct 2021 (event)
Thank you Stephen, Holden and Laura for the likes and for reading ?
And thanks Stephen... It does have some length but I'm glad you didn't feel it outstayed its welcome. I will put the scissors down and let it be what it is. ?
P.S. To D.Knape... if you're reading this, I told you I'd find a poem for this title ;)
Comment is about Holy Terror (blog)
Original item by Tom
Paula Curteanu
Thu 30th Sep 2021 12:45
hi there, just wanted to confirm if this event is still on?
Review is about Enfield Poets on 2 Oct 2021 (event)
thanks for the kind comments...Roger started his own haulage firm after quitting the game, driving his own lorry. different times now eh when top class players retire!
Comment is about 'Sir Roger' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thu 30th Sep 2021 05:02
The English Culture is being deluded by foreigners.
How about your Mayor of London?
Now there's a real winner!
?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thu 30th Sep 2021 04:58
Hello Jennifer,
most people just give up on me
since I make so little sense.
Somehow, you have stuck around.
I guess you find me amusing.
either that or
you feel sorry for me.
?
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Thu 30th Sep 2021 04:53
I would comment on your comment
but....I'm on the other line, on Hold!
?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
“It’s got nothing to do with Brexit” they say, Stephen. “It’s got everything to do with Denial” I say.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Great flow & rhyming. Definitely more than a storm in a tea cup!
Comment is about sTOrm (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Silence isn't always golden. Nice one, Keith.
Comment is about The Library of Silence (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
dk.,
Thanks, I enjoyed Spain for the warmth, the cost of living and the quality of life which is far less stressful than in the UK. However, I am an Englishman and there is no place like home. I am not a European. My language, culture and the freedom we enjoy in the UK is incomparable. God Save the Queen!
Keith
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Wed 29th Sep 2021 19:38
It is a situation that we can often see around us.
Thank you, Keith
Comment is about Why (blog)
Original item by Robert Neest
A good poem based on an understanding of human nature and the reality it faces.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Why (blog)
Original item by Robert Neest
And thanks to Stephen, Holden, Kelvin and Feeling Emotion for liking this poem.
Comment is about Elvis Presley Boulevard 1994 (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
No problem with that, John. Brexit was always a completely negative idea.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Or sometimes it's "scenes which viewers may find upsetting"!
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
I love this one, Keith. The concept of the 'Library of Silence' evokes perfectly the limited opportunities that so many of us had in our early years. Not really the fault of parents, or schools, but just of circumstances. Glad that you had the determination to eventually overcome the 'silence'.
Comment is about The Library of Silence (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thanks, Mike. He was a fine player and a good man.
Comment is about 'Sir Roger' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Outstanding, Adam. A real tour de force.
Comment is about Orpheus And Eurydice (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
When I was very young, my father used to have a p/t job at the local 'Regent' cinema (we know it as the Picture House). I remember he used to bring us kids a small box of 'toffets' home on a Friday night.
Magical times now gone west with a lot of other warmly remembered things.
There's more dodgy stuff on BBC1 than those old x-rated films these days
Comment is about The Ritz, Surbiton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Why wouldn't I love this Greg? no reason at all. It's rather a coincidence, but the references to Margot are reflected in that opposite the Ritz was a cafe called The Good Life ! The seedy part of town obviously. I loved the last verse. Thanks for the credit but you must be crackers to write about the Ritz.
Ray
Comment is about The Ritz, Surbiton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wed 29th Sep 2021 15:39
Moved back to England?
I must have missed that post.
How do you like it now?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Wed 29th Sep 2021 15:38
What country do YOU live in?
Do you get out much?
hahaha
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Wed 29th Sep 2021 15:36
"contains unpleasant scenes".
what a nice way of putting it.
?
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
So true! Getting through to any real human being is quite a
result nowadays. The system really does seem designed to
deter (not to mention delay) callers.
Comment is about Wait Time (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Andy Kadir-Buxton
Wed 29th Sep 2021 13:54
It takes me day to do what I used to do all day!
Comment is about Sex, Alcohol and Sugar (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks for the likes, the two Stephens, Holden and John. Maybe Margot would have disapproved, Stephen ... but I've always pictured her as one of those secret 70s Surbiton swingers. Maybe there was a hidden agenda to their friendship with Tom and Barbara.
Comment is about The Ritz, Surbiton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
As Graham says, we have lost too many of these 60s football heroes recently. A fine tribute, Mike, to an underrated member of that World Cup winning team.
Comment is about 'Sir Roger' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Primo Levi's book on his experiences was a masterwork of internalisation. It is brave to raise the horrors of the holocaust John and to point out the acceptance of it by those in the know, and especially the commitments of those who authorized it revealed by the Nuremberg trials proves how ordinary these functionaries of the state were as people. Shades of 1984 in the thinking.
Ray
Comment is about Final Solution (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I love reading these poetic obits. Sadly too many required in the last twelve months. I was never a Liverpool fan but one had to admire them in their heyday.
Comment is about 'Sir Roger' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thank you all for your comments, for the kind words of encouragement and for some food for thought.
Yes Laura, absolutely - the mundanity of what is considered spectacular by the dying is what makes such a devastating situation cut deeper. But ushering with it a newfound appreciation of the small things, the little (sometimes resented) routines in life.
Thank you again.
Comment is about Something Spectacular (blog)
Original item by S Sampson
D.k.,
I moved back to England over three years ago. Just in time for Brexit.
Keith
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
It's quite long Tom (Oh Matron!) but not unnecessarily. Nicely done
Comment is about Holy Terror (blog)
Original item by Tom
I'm happy to say that it brings out the worst in me, Stephen.
Fuel deliveries are only the front page news. We have just spent a week's holiday in the Cotswolds. The number of pubs and cafes offering restricted menus or times of opening or advertising staff vacancies is incredible. The owners almost always cited loss of foreign workers as the cause.
I'm happy to say that it brings out the worst in me.
And thanks for the Likes, Kevin and Stephen A.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It's true. 'Contains unpleasant scenes' is an almost obligatory introduction to TV dramas. 'Contains beauty': who needs that?
Comment is about UGLY (blog)
Original item by d.knape
'Plausible' is at the centre of this. Good one, Ray.
Comment is about ABUSERS - THE UNDEAD (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Entertaining stuff, John. It's payback time, as you say. Another example of how Brexit brings out the worst in everyone.
Comment is about TEN WHEELS ON MY WAGON (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks to Ray, Greg, John and Trevor for all the kind comments and input. I was in Memphis in 1994 visiting a fertilizer plant (it's a long story) and managed to squeeze in a visit to Graceland. I gather it's changed a bit then, but it seems they still have to electrify the road signs to fight off souvenir hunters.
There are so many Elvis impersonators now (one used to live opposite my aunt's house near Basingstoke) that I suppose sightings are quite common, especially if there are no changing facilities at the venue. Thanks for the Kirsty McColl video, John. I thought it was the sort of thing Chas and Dave might have done. Or you know who....
To parody Spike Milligan (not a good idea):
I thought I saw Elvis riding on a tram;
I asked "Are you Elvis?" He said "I am".
Comment is about Elvis Presley Boulevard 1994 (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Rasa Kabaila
Fri 1st Oct 2021 00:23
Thanks Tom for your comment. When we are able to travel, you guys will have to come and visit in Port Macquarie! ?. Hope all is going well in your world.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about My Ocean Dream (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila