Only the really great achieve immortality through writing, and even they go in and out of fashion. It's a way to express feelings and share tragic or happy feelings, so if someone else finds something in them it's v gratifying. Interesting.
Jennifer
Comment is about We Write (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Only thing I get through the post now is utility bills, although some I pay on internet. The old posties were great, and you got all the gossip from the village, if you offered them a cuppa and a sitdown.
Jennifer
Comment is about Junk Mail (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Very apt! So often it's a mistake and very depressing to go back
to a place you loved and were happy at because it has changed for the worse and the people who made it what it was are no longer there.
Jennifer
Comment is about You Can't Go Home Again (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for the like Holden.
MC it relates to a news story about there not being enough staff to man the airports and train stations due to so many being pinged by the track and trace app. Maybe your dentist had suffered with the same difficulties ?
Comment is about Pingdemic Pandemonium (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Surely the most over-used and undervalued word in the English
language. Love this brief observation. ?
Comment is about Love is a Verb (blog)
Original item by Ralph Dartford
Is this related to the ray gun at my forehead and the hand gel I
receive from the assistant at the dental practice I use? How
quickly we get used to strange invasive practices.
Comment is about Pingdemic Pandemonium (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
How true.
The past is another country
That exists only in the mind;
Trying to return there is impossible
As all of us will find.
Comment is about You Can't Go Home Again (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for your likes
Stephen G
Holden
and
Your Royal Poetess.
Comment is about Back in Ten Minutes (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I left it to keep you guessing Stephen
Comment is about Back in Ten Minutes (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you kindly Keith and also thanks are due to Holden and Stephen.
Comment is about Forget-me-not (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Tue 13th Jul 2021 23:24
Thank you, Stephen ?.
Even if it could afford to, would it have the humility to do so?
Comment is about Bridge (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Shetlanders? Aren't they in quarantine? Sounds as though they should be. (Nice people, I'm sure).
Comment is about Alnwick (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hope is spread thin, Keith, but it is still there. A tour de force.
Comment is about A Battle Fought (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I love 'Pingdemic pandemonium'. The turn of phrase, of course, not the phenomenon itself.
Comment is about Pingdemic Pandemonium (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Good one. Perhaps some spaces should just not be bridged. Or can mankind afford to admit defeat?
Comment is about Bridge (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A tennis player going off court at the end of a set? We may never know.
Comment is about Back in Ten Minutes (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Such a wonderful, moving poem. Glad to hear that it will be in the book and looking forward to seeing the video.
Comment is about Poignant poem about wartime disaster that claimed 61 lives in Lancashire (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you Rudyard for the kind comment and thanks to Greg, Julie, Holden and Pete for the likes.
It often happens that post-retirement activities are enjoyable but do not take the place of work and all that goes with it. I have changed line 4 which I now think works slightly better.
Thanks again to everyone.
Comment is about Old Dancers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
“Soften attitudes”, MC? Pah! Do not go gentle into that good night, I say.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This poem is in my recent pamphlet 'The Taking Part', published by Maytree Press. https://joewilliams.co.uk/publication/the-taking-part/
Comment is about Penalty Shootout in Zero Gravity (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Greg chooses to ignore my opening line. I'm well aware of the use of social media by morons for vile behaviour. (I note the use of "intentionally or not"). But I can accept that sort of jousting
as long as the point about overt lack of proper skill and practice
is understood and maybe even accepted for the reality it
represents when it comes to England's penalty failures.
Let us consider why the manager chose these players, led by
Rashford who had previously failed from the penalty spot in a big match in similar style; to be followed by two others with no
history or real experience in that area of "motor skill". There
were other players present whose kicking/scoring (including
Pickford himself) indicated a greater possibility of putting the
ball in the back of the net. Players and managers still fail
the test when it matters.. As do those morons on social media! It is a matter
of ongoing regret that this can encourage the sort of behaviour that
has been reported and rightly condemned.
Comment is about Disappointed, Saddened, Let Down And Dismayed (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
To ignore the obvious is hardly likely to improve England's
chances of scoring from the penalty spot. But that might please
those who are short on pride in England.
Comment is about THE SIMPLEST KICK IN SOCCER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
How interesting that the other commentators here were children
in 1966. And to read their views in that light makes me think
on the saying "time and tide waits for no man" - nor does it
soften certain readily expressed attitudes, it seems.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I shared this poem on Twitter and a kind person printed it and read it out before putting it on Marcus Rashford wall
Comment is about Disappointed, Saddened, Let Down And Dismayed (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
double red kisses
two topaz dresses
rewriting tea leaves
fantasy meets sci-fi
unexploded time bomb
turned up-side down
ablaze in words.
Comment is about July 2021 Collage Poem Reversed: Lonely Windows (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
<Deleted User> (30611)
Tue 13th Jul 2021 07:36
I agree Ralph, the word is bandied about.
Comment is about Love is a Verb (blog)
Original item by Ralph Dartford
Regrets opens the door to Satan. And you have entered the doors way beyond the entrance?
Comment is about regret (blog)
Original item by JustKelvinMasilela
You are already burnt,
if you think like it.
What you think
You become.
Just added antidote. ?
Comment is about Ill Desire (blog)
Original item by The Chessplayer
Tue 13th Jul 2021 03:42
you like the poem
so do not mock it,
just take your hands
out of your pockets!
?
(your photo.)
Comment is about Tom (poet profile)
Original item by Tom
Tue 13th Jul 2021 03:40
The sound of rain
just might have been
a gentle dribble
down your chin!
?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Welcome to WOL. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Keith
Comment is about JustKelvinMasilela (poet profile)
Original item by JustKelvinMasilela
These are true poems of repentance from a heart tortured with regret. They are well written and without doubt come from the heart. Perhaps the time has now come for a restoration of who you really are and to embark on a more positive course of action.
Good poetry
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about regret (blog)
Original item by JustKelvinMasilela
John,
This really captures the moment and time of happening. Halcyon days of unbridled passion with a future that was seemingly endless.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Forget-me-not (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Home made brew barrels
now all on empty
no matter the result
they did us proud.
Comment is about Anything Could Happen (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
You shitehawk, Walker!
I do seem to have attracted a specific demographic in these posts of middle/old aged men.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Mon 12th Jul 2021 18:33
<Deleted User> (27399)
Mon 12th Jul 2021 18:31
Thank you all so much for your kind comments, it's really encouraging.
Comment is about The Wild Strawberry Plant (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
I remember the 66 world cup only to well. We were camping in Devon, and my dad was listening on the radio. I noticed the family in the next tent earwigging so got me dad to turn the radio off.
That'll show em.
I wonder what became of that other lad.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you, Ruth and K.J. I'm sure your were right, even though we lost! I suddenly had this idea that if society has to operate at half-capacity for a while longer, what happens to the other half who used to fill it up? Maybe they are doing something else, instead of 'packing in'. But what is it?
And thanks to Jordyn, Rudyard, Holden and Your Royal Poetess for the likes.
Comment is about Unpacking (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Jacob Rees-Mogg at a Paignton campsite, John? Shurely not! Although 'spiteful little turd' certainly fits the bill.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your further thoughts, MC, Greg and Stephen.
On more reflection, rather than his life turning out a huge disappointment, I would not be surprised to discover that he turned out to be the spitefully privileged Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Yes, I remember that Peter Shilton, otherwise a great keeper, seemed to be rooted to the spot during shoot-outs. And, as I said, they can bounce about a bit more before the kick these days.
Comment is about THE SIMPLEST KICK IN SOCCER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
It seems that, as with the assassination of President Kennedy, everyone remembers where they were at the time of the 1966 World Cup Final. My mum sent me out to buy a bag of sugar at the corner shop at half-time. There was no one serving in the shop and when I came out I momentarily got lost, missing the start of the second half. I later turned this into a (much darker) short story entitled "Going Back".
Comment is about ENGLAND V WEST GERMANY 1966 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Stay true and strong, you definitely do belong.
Comment is about Lost In A World Where I Don't Belong (blog)
Original item by curiousdud3
jennifer Malden
Wed 14th Jul 2021 16:14
So there are top buzzards as well as top dogs, chimpanzees, etc. etc. They may be a little grim but they do a good job.
Jennifer
Comment is about Pecking Order (blog)
Original item by d.knape