If homosexuality is a condition, well it is spreading like wildfire with more and more celebrities, or famous people coming out of the closet every day. A condition afflicting more than 10% of our population that we know of statistically. (how many more are hiding their condition?). I am not afraid of catching this condition, I have had numerous intimate relations with men suffering from this condition, AND I AM FINE!!!
Thanks Keith, J.D.
Comment is about Another Condition (blog)
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Thank you for your comment Stephen ( & enjoying your book, The Shape Of Trees, by the way!)
And for the additional ?? Tony, and Brenda. Always appreciated ?
Comment is about Beyond (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you very much Stephen. The outlook is much brighter today.
Comment is about The Fourth Of May (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Throwing a few of these your way, Julie ????☀️☀️☀️?️
Comment is about The Fourth Of May (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
John,
Thank you for updating your profile as it brings you more into focus. Now I am able to see the exterior which hides the interior where so many fine poems come from.
Regards
Keith
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
I think you have misunderstood my comment DK. I meant grateful for your work not the brevity of it! I can see why you read it another way. Apologies!
Comment is about Short Poem (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you for all the kind likes for this poem.
Comment is about Dawn Chorus (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
A poem which drenches my heart with tears at the sheer impotence of the West. A powerful poem indeed. A poem which speaks the unvarnished truth. I am drawn to the sentiments expressed in the last two lines of the second stanza. A poem in honour to the fallen faithful, who were abandoned by their fellow Christians who saw no profit in going to their rescue.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Genocide (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you to Ghazala, Brian, Stephen and Nigel for commenting! ?
(I'm sorry that somehow today I can't think of individual replies)
Thanks also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about The Hardest Tears (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Wed 5th May 2021 03:21
ouch!
by the way, love your new photo on your blog.
wink.
Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)
Original item by Graham Sherwood
Knowing the dream
we once had
crushed into submission
starts the nightmare.
Comment is about The Hardest Tears (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
John,
A poem to commemorate the ultimate fall of the Byzantine empire and the blood which stains the sacred places now desecrated. Your photograph of St Sophia's, for that is what it will forever be, is magnificent and a symbol of its rich Christian heritage built on the foundations of those devoted to the what was taken from them. The photograph speaks of the ultimate victory.
I see President Biden has at last acknowledged the Armenian massacre.
May they rest in peace.
Thank you indeed for this
Keith
Comment is about The last Byzantine (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
A gentle poem which takes the reader from a desperate situation to the fruition of friendship and love. It places love above sex which is the order where these emotions should be. It is a poem of transformation and personal healing found within the hearts of two people are are honest with each other.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The Accidental Best Friend (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Tue 4th May 2021 20:40
Thank you Stephen, I really appreciate it ?
Comment is about Pharisaic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you for the thoughtful and kind comments.
Comment is about Sword or Pen (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
All red herrings, it was the butler that did it.
Comment is about Detective Stories (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Yes, clearly a heartfelt poem. I like the theme of contrasts and paradoxes.
Comment is about The Hardest Tears (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
This poem is excellent poetry about poets and poetry. The ranges are open.
Comment is about Sell-By Date (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Bravo. ? I know the feelings.
Comment is about The Hardest Tears (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you, Stephan. Though the theme has a sad side, I did not intend it to be sad hence the title. Thank you for encouraging me to write poetry. ?
Comment is about Hope (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Thank you, Aviva, for your word of encouragement.?
Comment is about Hope (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Garden/horticultural destruction always seems both sad and invigorating, in that most of it can be recycled. If I had a quid for every time I've said 'it's the cycle of life' to my wife whilst uprooting stuff or chopping shrubs back, I'd be a millionaire.
Christmas trees take on a different perspective (I have to admit we have had an artificial one for decades now) as they are elevated to deific levels once a year and are then forgotten for most of it.
I think I can feel your regret here Ray. It's just the cycle of life remember.
Comment is about CHRISTMAS TREE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A fine poem, enjoyable despite its sadness.
Comment is about Hope (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
GS certainly has a point about "English" being an attitude...a state of
mind. As for "mongrel race" - a phrase that seems to have gained a certain cachet nowadays - again certainly, but to a degree that
was severely limited over the past thousand years by the barriers
against any travel of meaningful distance and royal actions that
moved against immigration of any size (Queen Elizabeth 1st was
notable in that respect) plus the resident population's understandable
suspicion of foreign influence in dangerous days that saw other
nations look upon these islands with covetous eyes and wars
were all too often a state of affairs across their world.
Fair's fair - as we English say.
Comment is about England in My Head (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Your poem shows that the pen does a pretty good job, Mike.
Comment is about Sword or Pen (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Some wonderful (not to say alarming!) images, Ray.
Comment is about CHRISTMAS TREE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A really powerful piece of verse. Good one.
Comment is about Pharisaic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
An enjoyable reminder that the imagination can go where the feet can no longer travel.
Comment is about Wild Places (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
So good to hear from you, Philippa. This is a beautiful and moving poem.
Comment is about RESTING PLACE (blog)
Original item by Philippa Atkin
Thank you for the wonderful comments Tom, Philipos & Ferris (hope it hit you in a good way!) And thanks for the likes & continued support, Keith, Julie, J.D. & Holden ?
Comment is about Beyond (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
There's nothing more emotive to many than when the discussion turns to what is regarded by the term/label English.
Whether we like it or not, we are a mongrel race, added to, diluted, melanged with many different races over the centuries. I too regard myself as English but only in the above terms. My children I regard as English but they had a Polish grandfather!
I think English resides in a way of thinking. A way of acting (good or bad). From the upper-class twits to the beer-swilling football louts, that's us English.
The only issue I really have with Steve's piece is his claim that even the birdsong is English. An interesting observation as many of our garden birds are migratory. Come on England!!!
Comment is about England in My Head (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
This is an excellent and inspiring description of the fight for morality and self-control with conscious conscience and determination.
Comment is about At the front (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
Although you weren't able to share a last goodbye or tell each other final messages of support, you are still doing all he could have wanted from you, remembering him well.
Comment is about Hope (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
A well thought verse. Contemplation and analysis of human emotion, mind and feelings is a complex task. Well portrayed the flexible self. ?
Comment is about The Hardest Tears (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you Nigel for your poetic response ?
You are right once again, where one road ends another road begins, and so on and on.. and maybe not all roads lead to WOL but I'm happy to meet all the travellers for those that did.
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about End Of The Road (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
When there's nothing
more to say
I see it travelling once again
on a road
in a poem
I am reading today.
Comment is about End Of The Road (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Mon 3rd May 2021 22:11
Philipos
Mon 3rd May 2021 20:54
The all seeing eye of the camera which never lies. Enjoyed. P
Comment is about Pharisaic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Philipos
Mon 3rd May 2021 20:52
Recalling Churchill's mastery of words - spoken and written - I recall the comment attributed to an American observer that he "marshalled the English language and sent it to war". I am not being entirely
frivolous in remembering another vein altogether - that in Germany
written pornography was banned whilst the pictorial sort was not.
An interesting connection that surely shows how words can be
feared for any type of reason when it comes to controlling the
minds of others.
Comment is about Sword or Pen (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Philipos and JM - thanks for the comments. As age moves in, I
find I have no problem whatever keeping up the relationship! ?
Thanks also to those who took the trouble to "like" this piece of whimsy.
Comment is about BEDDED BLISS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The words carry their own weight and meaning - and resonate
accordingly with those who chime in tune. You could substitute
other identities and the message would also resonate accordingly
with those others who chime in tune. It's rare to find anything that
mentions either "England" or "English" nowadays so that in itself
is to be noted and read with interest. As for northerners having a
primary claim to the identify you specify, I would argue that the likes of Alfred the Great and Hereward the Wake, followed by ill-
fated King Harold and the subsequent Norman incursions from
France, combined with the surviving Anglo-Saxon population to
create the "English" identity that emerged over the ensuing one thousand years - and were more "southerners" than northerners.
I know the latter like to claim most of what's good but there are
plenty down here in the south who can point elsewhere in that
regard. ?
Comment is about England in My Head (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
jennifer Malden
Wed 5th May 2021 16:33
'Thank you for Waiting' was new to me, but it has everything.
Comment is about Simon Armitage launches library tour at 'Ashby-de-la-Zoom' (article)
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