Nice poem, Mike. Did you sing 'Lord dismiss us with thy blessing?'
Comment is about The Final School Bell (St Margaret Mary's 1968) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
You said it, Greg. Great piece. Waitrose will be next. I think ad nauseam has a better ring about it.
Comment is about 'Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit' (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (30611)
Thu 22nd Jul 2021 15:28
Is this an anti-fishing poem? The real problem is that no-one is hooking humans. We have no predators, and science is unwilling for us to die. We will over-populate the planet and eventually meet our demise.
Incidently we're having fish for tea tonight.
Comment is about Fish Sing (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thank you for your kind comment, Brenda.
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for the Likes, John, Julie, and Holden!
Comment is about Believing (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for the likes, Holden and Stephen!
Comment is about Jack Kerouac (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Marsha
Thu 22nd Jul 2021 10:38
Works as metaphor and reality.
Have you seen Seaspiracy yet?
I like the final verse particularly, suggesting that we are almost willingly taking part in our own demise, which of course we are and will most likely continue to do.
I know it's a serious piece but the abrupt nature of it's ending indicates an appreciation of comedic righteous justice.
Comment is about Fish Sing (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Wed 21st Jul 2021 23:45
Thank you, John, I really appreciate it ?.
Comment is about Counterintuitive (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Greg, I was invited by the BBC they are doing an online project about the wall.
Comment is about My Visit To The Wall (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Glad you got to meet your Twitter collaborator, Julie. Well done!
Comment is about My Visit To The Wall (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
I like this a lot. I'd, maybe, add 'nation' after 'imprimatur'.
Comment is about Counterintuitive (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A gentle reminder of the passing of time and life itself. I too
was at school with my elder brother for a while - and recently
said goodbye to him for a final time at the other end of life's
road...a road that seemed endless when we were young.
Comment is about The Final School Bell (St Margaret Mary's 1968) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Love the title!
Really captures the spirit and character of the guy.
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Wed 21st Jul 2021 01:18
Very poignant, Jennifer.
I used to be Verger at Selby Abbey and it was a source of pride to me that for Remembrance Sunday the Abbey offered poppy crucifixes not just in the shape of a cross but as Stars of David, and with Muslim, Hindi and Sikh inscriptions,
Comment is about The Allied Forces War Cemetery - Italy - 25th April 2021 (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Thankyou, Jennifer, and Jordyn and Aviva for the Likes.
Comment is about I GOT EWE, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It sounds great. Looking forward to getting and reading it.
Comment is about Pig's Ear, Dog's Dinner: Paul Cookson, Flapjack (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A beautiful poem. The second verse brings home the futility of it all.
Comment is about Siren (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
'On a wire suspended and marooned'
reminds me of someone else we were discussing recently.
Very effective sonnet.
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Great. An elephant-sized cat might just win you the Turner Prize.
Comment is about A 'Brush' with Art ! (blog)
Original item by John Andrew Nield
A tour de force of pensive musing , lightly conversational and bejewelled with scalpel nib and I was clay in particular.
Lovely.
Ray
Comment is about Looking Out (blog)
Original item by Tom
Short and to the point; of a hammer?
Jennifer
Comment is about Murder Made Easy (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Wow! really impressive writing. A long and terrible journey through life, so well expressed.
Jennifer
Comment is about Life is not here (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Really liked this, wonderful to find someone who appreciaes what he has, so many of our poems are sad! Also original topic, seems to me and very well constructed, every word counts. 'Looking Out'
doesn't seem uninspiring to me.
Jennifer
Comment is about Looking Out (blog)
Original item by Tom
Really enjoyed this one John and it has inspired me to write something of my own. Thanks! ?
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Beautiful poem, but not for me, don't like heights, much less jumping off a precipice!
Jennifer
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Nice! Acrylics are infinitely easier to cope with than oil-based stuff, and why don't you go in for abstract stuff? Very funny, and what can be more 'demented' than a pickled sheep or a urinal?
Jennifer
Comment is about A 'Brush' with Art ! (blog)
Original item by John Andrew Nield
Thank you Greg. The older I become (it is my birthday today) the less I understand humanity and the less I comprehend of the effects on our psyche of the perilous human condition.
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Excellent poem, John, linking our strange, irrational sense of immortality - although it's what keeps us going - and the fascinating, unstable world beneath us. Earthquakes and volcanoes serve to remind us of our powerlessness.
Comment is about STORMY WEATHER (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Tue 20th Jul 2021 13:24
Thanks JC. That's a thought to be borne in mind.
Comment is about UNTITLED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I'm like a lamb, led to the laughter!
Comment is about I GOT EWE, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes Tom, Holden and John.
Comment is about Freedom Day (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Tue 20th Jul 2021 12:40
Thanks for the compliment
it's easily
far better than something
derogatory!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 20th Jul 2021 12:36
both for the chop?
a chop shop?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for all comments and to Tom, Adam, Jordyn, Aisha, Nadia and Holden for the likes.
Leon - there is certain physical resemblance between JC and JC, although not JC, if you see what I mean.
Ray - yes, the hunchback. I suppose there is also a subliminal allusion to the famous slip wire incident in the London park (complete with strangely small Union Jacks).
John - I reckon you're in the clear.
All the best Steve
Comment is about Prime Sinister (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Does Silvie have an orthopedic mattress? There is a punishing schedule taking place which the normal springs could not tolerate.
Brilliant Kevin and thanks
Keith
Comment is about Silvie (a re-post) (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
1999, you say, Kevin? That’s nearly twenty quid!
Comment is about 1952 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nice one John. Any chance of you doing one for me, and my birth year...1999
Comment is about 1952 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Reminded me of Joyce Kilmer’s “I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree”.
Comment is about More Than Men (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Does it have a melody yet, MC? Roll on the audio.
Comment is about UNTITLED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I want to do one day - maybe for my 70th birthday.
Comment is about SONNET AT THE SUMMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Pete (edbreathe)
Thu 22nd Jul 2021 16:23
Thanks for the comments . ?
Comment is about Fish Sing (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe