KJ - I do agree that pit closures required a more circumspect
approach with some surely remaining viable; indeed during
the strike itself some clearly kept open. Even now, there are
some which could probably be used again were it not for the
climate change obsession that vast lands like China and India pay scant heed to in compariion with our own small island nation..
Mr Carroll - always happy to indulge in intelligent polite debate.
Telboy - I think you have a point. And history teaches us that
nothing stands still over the years in matters of "industry".
The lumbering local waggon made way for the stage coach
and the fabled mail coaches, which in turn gave way to the
onset of the railways, which in turn had to move aside to a substantial degree when the motorways arrived - and so it goes. .As for Thatcher - cometh the hour, cometh the woman.
But, as the daughter of a grocer, she would probably have
treated the egg-throwing as a waste of good food!
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Thank you Fred.🌷
Thank you Nigel🌷. The coasts almost clear. I'll have to make it alone, with my God by my side always.💕
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Wise words Nigel. Indeed it will be.🌷
Comment is about Victim ain't a convict (blog)
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<Deleted User> (33618)
Tue 17th May 2022 04:20
<Deleted User> (33618)
Tue 17th May 2022 04:18
Such a powerful write!
'All we need is a little empty space-time….
for everything under heaven is strange and new
and resists the slaughter of the innocents.'
Comment is about A WITHERING (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Your Alpaca poem warms my heart!
Comment is about Adam Whitworth (poet profile)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thank you John and Stephen for your lovely comments and reflections. So glad we can be on this poetry journey together! Wishing you both a fabulous day.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Thanks for your reflections Adam. Glad it resonated with you in some way. Indeed- not always an easy thing to apply dialectics!
Wishing you a wonderful day.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Tue 17th May 2022 01:57
Thank you so much, Frederick, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Comment is about Quixotic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A favoured scene from childhood imagination, the charge against windmills! Read this awesome poem with a relish. Frederick.
Comment is about Quixotic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
MC
Not being able to slave away on a coalface wouldn't be such a loss if those jobs were replaced by others heavy industries.
However there are certain areas where mines have closed and nothing has replaced them.
Incidentally, do you think that we would be suffering the same energy crisis that we are at present if we still had our active coalfields.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Cheers John for your generous comment on 'This wanting look'
and
'Waiting for my mum,'
tc
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
Original item by John Botterill
Tom his final words (as I recall them) in "The Naked Civil Servant" while out walking he was approached by a group of sailors who joked with him; gently mocking and responding to his smiling defences, with his fading voice-over of "it was the happiest moment of his life".
tc
Comment is about A Man for All Seasons (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Re the pits, if not Thatcher a subsequent PM would have closed them as they became unviable.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Hey Joe I'm ready to pass you the fully loaded 6 chamber egg box.
(metaphorically speaking - take aim..)
tc
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Hey Newberry try reading a book with 4 corners.
Enough said.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Fascinating how going down a pit and slaving away at a coal face
has now become a "loss" that is now something to grieve over
as if it were essentially allied to some mythical "good old days".
No one quotes the views of the miners who kept working despite
all the verbal and physical abuse and intimidation they endured.
while Scargill abused the rules, still "high" from embarrassing
Ted Heath and reducing the country to unwanted candle light evenings and 3 day working weeks. Ah.yes...the good old days!!.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Catching trains to cubicle land, nice one
Comment is about The truest self (blog)
Original item by Moana mai
Thanks Stephen. You have rightly picked up on my ambivalence. Super comment, as ever.
Comment is about Woodland Sanctuary (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thank you Carol
And John, for your constant encouragement! 🌈
Comment is about Her Words (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
This such an interesting poem, Rasa. It reaches out beyond selfishness and introspection. It is a poem of generosity. Many thanks!
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Good one, Joe. I'm sure there will be queues to do the same when a statue of the boy Boris goes up
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
It happens to the best of us, KJ.
Comment is about Alien Abduction (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
I always have mixed feelings about tree cutting, John, and I think you reflect these in the poem. It usually needs to be done, but there is a sadness in seeing an old tree dismembered. Thanks for this.
Comment is about Woodland Sanctuary (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
A brilliant poem, Jo. Learning happens in so many different ways!
Comment is about Always A Student (blog)
Original item by Jo Callisto
<Deleted User> (33618)
Mon 16th May 2022 01:43
Beautifully penned! I especially love the first stanza.
Comment is about Her Words (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Branwell, with women it's best to choose the right game.
Comment is about Hey-Ho (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Damn! If only I was a betting man! Missed out again 🙄😁
Comment is about Spaceman Aims For The Stars (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Amazingly honest, Rasa. Many people are complex and maintain a facade, but never admit it. Fine poem!
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Thanks for commenting on 'Throwing Eggs at Thatcher'! I'm afraid it wasn't really me who did it - as you probably know it was a reference to this news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-61455387 - but I will gladly metaphorically throw eggs at her as long as I live.
Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)
Original item by kJ Walker
Thanks Holden, Nigel and KJ for the likes. 😊
Comment is about Woodland Sanctuary (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I'm afraid it wasn't really me who did it - as you probably know it was a reference to this news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-61455387 - but I will gladly metaphorically throw eggs at her as long as I live.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
At a time that people are pulling down statues of people who have long since been forgotten, I can't believe that someone who caused so much poverty and hardship is now being commentated.
It's a disgrace, and an insult to everyone who lives within the mining community.
Good on you for chucking that egg.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
The morning I got the news that my mother had taken a "you'd
better come" turn for the worse I was two hundred miles away
and my car had been removed without warning from its legally
parked spot to allow a quick road work attendance, forcing me
to spend an hour getting it from the car pound a couple of miles away. I was too late to say goodbye and only consoled by the
knowledge that my two sisters had been there in my own absence. Such is life even in death!!
Comment is about So Sorry Mum (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks you John Marks and Bethany Sallis. I'm still getting used to navigating the WOL site, so I may not be timely with my responses.
Comment is about morphemic emissaries (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for the likes and comments. I hope you put a fiver on that Stephen A. Didn’t see it but I believe you guessed right.
Comment is about Spaceman Aims For The Stars (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you Keith, really appreciate your comments and thank you for reading. Great to see you posting again.
Comment is about The Hidden Lake (blog)
Original item by Tom
Straight talking. Clear message.
It's not as common as it could be. Nor as easy.
A satisfying read, Rasa, thankyou.
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
What a cosmic vibration it would be to bring even the controllers to their knees
Comment is about Lullaby (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
My own knowledge of these lines came from their inclusion
in a fine hardback book about square-riggers published by a publisher based on the south coast of England. Accurate details now
elude me due to the passage pf time since then. Perhaps an
online search for the publisher (in Brighton I recall) might
produce various "leads" towards tracing more information.
I also remember (more or less) other lines in the same weighty beautifully produced volume - maybe titled "The Last of The
Square Riggers".
"You can keep yer steamboat racin'
But gimme me the run in a gale
Of a well-geared able clipper
Wot is driven by snow-white sail.
For I've known the thrill of a pilin' sea
And the sky in a snow-flecked gown
And fifteen knots in her windbag
When she's running her easting down.
Good luck!!!
MC
Comment is about D'YE MIND, OLD PAL? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you, John. And thanks to Holden, Stephen, Nigel, Rudyard and K Lynn.
Comment is about My Enemy (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
It's good to share these nuggets Jo. Very enjoyable, Jo.
Comment is about Always A Student (blog)
Original item by Jo Callisto
Outstanding poetry. Yet again!
I love
"Inhaling words, exhaling verse
Poetry made flesh!"
Comment is about Her Words (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
John Marks
Tue 17th May 2022 20:10
The ex=mining villages of northern England are plagued by heroin, crack and male suicide. That's her heritage.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams