Thanks Hélène.

Comment is about Books (blog)

Original item by Ray

Stay with us, working-class heroes.

We're in this together, Earth&Humanity.

We're in this together.

Comment is about Tenderness (blog)

Original item by Tom

as a fellow person struggling with bpd, this is such a relatable poem. i hope you heal well.

Comment is about I'm cursed. (blog)

Original item by mylie

Thank you Marla Joy!

Comment is about Highway 99 Revisited (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

When I read the reference to hem of the dress, I conjured imagery of the Bible story of the ill woman who touches the hem of Jesus's garment in hopes of healing. But then I wondered if the poet was referring to a beloved woman's dress. Marla's comment & poet Robert's response clarified this. Fun! Really enjoyed this poem, Robert.

Comment is about Prayers Everywhere (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Synchronicity! The 2 consecutively-posted poems entitled "Books" by Ray & Dawson inspire me to turn off Google and open my patiently waiting books. Thanks guys for these wonderful poems!

Comment is about Books (blog)

Original item by Dawson

A captivating poem, Ray. Clash of cultures betwern father and son, but poignant, funny and sweet. My extended family is an assortment of book lovers and telly lovers. I can relate to this poem!

Comment is about Books (blog)

Original item by Ray

Wow. You got me wowed with this one.

Your unique poetry gift has done something good here!

Comment is about BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (blog)

Original item by Naomi

Inspired by your comment, Uilleam, I googled the Madleen seizure to inform myself*; more heartbreak. Good on you to write a song/prayer, a powerful means to communicate and speak to the heart. (*I must confess with an apology, I don't keep up with the news much. My stalwart husband keeps me somewhat informed. I mostly read spiritual stuff.) After reading about the Madleen interception, I skimmed this essay on the Middle East in my feeble attempt to understand the horrific sorrow. Later I will try to read the essay properly, if I can summon the intellectual and emotional stamina. I keep praying. I give gratitude for peace activists. May the suffering lessen. Oh humankind, where is your salvation? No answer there.

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/03/ending-the-new-wars-of-attrition-opportunities-for-collective-regional-security-in-the-middle-east?lang=en

Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)

Original item by Hélène

And in the rooms of unspoken words
I hid the name of the unknown birds.
I proved that you exist in the world,
And this world shouldn't be pearled.


The snow didn't draw the picture.
I saw my face on another nature.
I looked for you for a hundred years,
Then I found you were my peers.


I found and knew I had a heart
That can't be cut and live apart.
I was afraid to have a choice,
I had to fly to hear your voice.


I closed my eyes and truly found
My heart beat to another sound.
I had a wish to learn how to fly,
And my heart made a new try.


The glass showed your name,
I didn't know how it came.
My love appeared on earth,
True love, without any curse.


©Larisa Rzhepishevska

Comment is about And In The Rooms Of The Unspoken Words ... (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

With the current knowledge, I'd type it's partly because of Japanese culture/influences.

At the risk of being totally&completely wrong, of course.

Comment is about The Nunctbubbles of Zip-a-dee-doo (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

'Suffering isn't wrong. Suffering is real.'

And maybe that's just another phase for me. That I'll be going through.

Saw many a restaurant come-and-go. That's a real kind of suffering. And tasty also.

Tasty also.........

Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)

Original item by Hélène

gd poem, enjoyed a lot. Maybe
Unlike the dog, I fail to fetch?

Comment is about Tenderness (blog)

Original item by Tom

Entirely coincidental that I posted a poem called Books just after yours. Yours has the advantage of brevity and rhyme and a memorable ending.

Comment is about Books (blog)

Original item by Dawson

My personal truth, Hélène?

I'm currently devoting all my creative energies into writing a song / prayer [based on an old traditional song], in support of Greta Thunberg and her "Freedom Flottilla".💗

I intend to publish the completed piece in defiance of Netanyahu's thugs, who have just unlawfully seized the Madleen in international waters, unlawfully detained her crew, and stolen her cargo of badly-needed aid for Gaza.

Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Thanks for your likes:
Auracle
Rolph David

The Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” ship has now been unlawfully seized in international waters, her crew unlawfully detained, and her cargo of badly-needed aid for Gazan's, stolen.

Netanyahu and his criminal fascist thugs are acting with complete impunity witht the help of His Majesty’s craven UK Government.

Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.21. Madleen] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thanks everyone for your likes
Helene
Auracle
Holden
Marla Joy
Red Brick Keshner
Rolph David
Stephen A
Aisha
and
Stephen G.

Comment is about Sharing The Good Times (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

You have a warm, comforting style in this vivid picture of a crowded city street. Nicely done.

Comment is about The Beginner (blog)

Original item by Manish

Wonderful reflective poem. You paint a good picture of youth with its fearlessness and desperation.

Comment is about Highway 99 Revisited (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Double D for Diddly Dee?

Comment is about A Day That Changed All Days (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Thanks Stephen,

As you say there is no shortage of things to be angry about.

Also thanks to those who have sent recent likes.

David.

Comment is about Pivot to War (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks, Eduardo.
I wonder, is all that Hollywood-esque gun-pointing some kind of compensation for phallic inadequacy?

Comment is about The Shadow of Destiny (blog)

Original item by Eduardo

Thanks for your likes:
Red Brick Keshner
K. Lynn

The sheer physical courage, moral clarity and integrity of Greta Thunberg and her crew-mates shows up the British government and their fellow cheerleaders of genocide for what they are: morally bankrupt, abject cowards and hypocrites.

Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.21. Madleen] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Brian sadly passed away on the 7th June 2018 just weeks before he was due to walk his daughter on her Wedding day.
A bottle of whiskey was set up on the day to remember him but I am sure in each and every heart would have wanted him there.
Instead we all toasted a well loved respected man.💗

Comment is about Sharing The Good Times (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you so much 🌷 @Leonard Morse 🌷the oil lamp in the dark image is subtle but quite powerful in its light. Most appreciated 🕊️🙏🏻RBK

Comment is about sleep on it (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you Stephen, it is frustrating but I got off lightly compared to so many. 😏

Comment is about Diplopia (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Hélène,

That is just the way love is. Nice style.
Marla

Comment is about Just Be (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Thank you for sharing your poems it is very powerful. I hope writing poems gives you healing.

Comment is about prayer for sanity (blog)

Original item by Zodinpuii

Thank YOU Yanma Hidayah for taking the trouble to write with such intelligence and perspicacity about 'Regret'. Plath beat us both to it!

“Always with the queer regret, blurring all the other summers into a fine nostalgic brew - distilling all the tart sweetnesses into this one, with the sea of music skipping over the time, and the feeling in you very warm and it is our town, we all together, very sweet, all summer light, sometimes almost tearful because it is so moving all the time. The fluid color, the fluid sound, towards its ending... And now I am sitting here crying almost because suddenly I am knowing in my head and feeling in my guts what those words mean when I did not know the full impact of them in the beginning, but merely their mystic beauty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Comment is about REGRET (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Although I’m sure he thinks he can, Stephen.
And thanks for the Likes, Erasmus, Aisha and Maddie.

Comment is about RELIVING THE RAJ (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oh my Lord, Rolph - just when you think things couldn't get worse! I've just seen this. My heart goes out to the American people.💗

https://youtu.be/myrN5liU0Vs

Comment is about The Sandbox Brawl: The End of Bromance (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

A fence is more than a barrier. It's the boundaries we need until we're strong enough.

To open the door. And, I know it's not easy.

Mais c'est Francais, vrai. C'est Francais.

Comment is about The Fence (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

He claims that the Orange Horror knew Epstein, yet still saw fit to expose his son to him at the Whitehouse.

And his concern for the victims......? a truly crass scale of priorities in which point-scoring takes precedence.

You accurately describe a society in freefall, Rolph...a degenerate scene which some in the UK appear only too eager to imitate.

Comment is about The Sandbox Brawl: The End of Bromance (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Thank you, Stephen.

My enemy is “an illegal”,
who lives for free in a luxury hotel,
I know that to be a fact,
because a posh boy,
who wears posh clothes,
who speaks with an Oxbridge acccent,
who appeals to my ignorance and prejudice
says so.

Comment is about The Fence (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

I liked an angry poem, David. And there's plenty to be angry about.

Comment is about Pivot to War (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

A rich, inspiring poem, Martin. Thank you.

Comment is about Love of the cursed (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you for your kind and interesting comment, Rolph. It is much appreciated. I am pleased that the poem made such an impression on you. Life must be hell during war. Love may remain strong, but, as you say, intimacy and the hope of expressing love slowly fade.

Comment is about Lines of Love (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

This is really good, Rolph. 'No rockets, roads, or subsidy' catches perfectly Trump's rhythm of speech. And the poem mirrors the juvenile tone of their slanging match. For me, the worst thing about this government by hyperbole is that I want to say 'who cares?' but know deep down that I can't.

Keep on speaking truth to them.

Comment is about The Sandbox Brawl: The End of Bromance (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

@John E Marks, this is beautifully written. The way you captured that silent, internal struggle, especially the weight of things left unsaid is deeply moving. Thank you for sharing this.

Comment is about REGRET (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I like how you deliver the lines of your poems, it feels romantic, melancholic, yet gentle. Well done, Lune Walker.

Comment is about THE STRANGE LIE (blog)

Original item by lune walker

Proof that Donald Trump can't spoil everything! Nice one, Joihn.

Comment is about RELIVING THE RAJ (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It is remarkable that you have been able to distill this unpleasant condition into such a fine poem, Freda, and with such subtle, understated humour as well. I really admire it. Best wishes to you.

Comment is about Diplopia (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

@LITTLE MISCHIEVIOUS SOUL, Thank you so much! (I’m not sure how to address you, by the way—but “Little Mischievous Soul” is such a cool username). You’re absolutely right. This poem was born from a quiet confession: that I shine with the light of hopes glowing around me, because of the light of my mother.

Comment is about Two Luminaries (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

A smashing poem which comes at you from all directions. Really liked it, Erasmus.

Comment is about Canal Walk (blog)

Original item by ErasmusBlack

Thank to Uilleam and Maria for the kind comments.

Always difficult to know where to show this sort of poem. ‘Write Out Loud’ seems the perfect forum.

Thanks also for the likes from Aisha, Holden and Manish..

Comment is about Click! (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

I hope this post helped you with it.

Comment is about A TINY LIFE'S SCARRED END (blog)

Original item by Naomi

I've just attended the funeral of Karenza Storey, who once taught creative writing at Harbottle first school, and as I understand it, inspired Felicity to enter this national competition. I knew Karenza because she was a fellow member of our local U3A poetry group in Rothbury. She took poetry very seriously. Her family printed four of her own poems in the order of service, and they were all read out in the church today.

Comment is about Poetry in the landscape: Felicity's lament for ruined castle (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Since you mention it Graham, what makes you think they’re Labour?; they ditched Socialism years ago.
We’re off to hell in a handcart; in a race to the bottom, to outdo Reform.

Comment is about Pivot to War (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks for that Uilleam,

you are absolutely right, that for requires an e.

many thanks,

David

Comment is about Pivot to War (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

"go ahead, be messy
leave crumbs on the counter
a spoon in the sink
the bed unmade
shoes kicked off by the door"

But I'm trying my very best, honest, Maureen!
I even got the lads in Birmingham to stop emptying the bins😀

Comment is about No to-dos today (blog)

Original item by Maureen