This one resonated with me. It brought to mind a similar experience from my past. I believe it is very necessary for us to walk down memory lane from time to time, if for no other reason than to see how much we have changed from who we were then, to who we are now.
Comment is about The Devine Division (blog)
Original item by Chris Heidtbrink
A stunning poem. Very powerful, Jenre!
Comment is about My Bleeding Mother (blog)
Original item by Jenre35
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Mon 7th Mar 2022 19:37
Very strong and sad poem, Jenre. I feel the emotion. Blessings🌷
Comment is about My Bleeding Mother (blog)
Original item by Jenre35
No problem, John. I suspect it’s a picture from any time or any place.
Comment is about WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks everyone. Ray, appreciate your thoughts as always.. a bleak time, where normality must seem like paradise
Comment is about Another Spring (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Thanks to everyone (MC, Greg, Leon and the two Johns) for their comments on this poem. I respect everyone's freedom of choice but, of course, such "choices" have consequences e.g. prolonging a pandemic and infecting other people. And in our tolerant liberal democracy (thank goodness for that) people generally have the luxury of making such choices, whatever the consequences. So sometimes choice must be restricted for the common good (e.g. mask mandates). Nothing illiberal about that.
People in Ukraine have very little choice at the moment. They have to fight for their freedom, for the sake of the common good.
Thanks to Stephen A, Julie, Rudyard and Clare for liking.
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
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Mon 7th Mar 2022 16:28
Stop Press : Greg Freeman agrees with right winger, shock horror!!!
Comment is about From Reykjavik to Kyiv (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sorry John. Got that wrong. 😟
Comment is about WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An amazing poem, Holden. Stunning writing!💪
Comment is about Guessing Game (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Welcome words and image. A 👍 from me!
Comment is about Cheery Ditty (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Suspicion about "control" of our lives takes various forms. But
with something like an unseen and proven deadly disease, it is
perhaps best "to err on the side of caution", not least in confined
places - and respect the existence of the "idiot factor" that some folk possess.
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks Stephen A. , yes those advertisers certainly know how to get inside your head. I am still counting the calories from the various products they persuaded me to buy haha 😀
Thanks too, for the like Holden.😀
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I am working on a quick release arse-flap, Kevin.
And thanks for the Like, Rob.
Comment is about SQUITTERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes, Clare, Holden, Stephen and Stephen.
The poem was my untold answer I think about when people ask why I quit the police service at just 6 months in.
It’s not quite like the tales in here and longer story of two sides. But the unfairness and harsh realities spurred me hastily to quit.
Comment is about Is this justice? (blog)
Original item by Robert Shersby
Clare… this really means so much to me. Thank you for your kind and caring words. 😃
Comment is about Is this justice? (blog)
Original item by Robert Shersby
See Neil Leadbeater's review of David's collection Sicilian Elephants. He mentions this poem.
Comment is about Bigger Trees Near Warter (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
They're not still doing that, are they? (You really should stay off those far-right websites, Brian)
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Sun 6th Mar 2022 23:33
Yes, I should have put that phrase "Read All About It"
in the poem.
Good idea!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
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Sun 6th Mar 2022 22:38
Surely it's all about freedom...isn't it? And standing up for freedom.
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I would make them work a month on a Covid ward.
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you Holden, Stephen & John for the comments. And for the Likes! 🌈
Comment is about Night-time Serenade (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
It was Nottingham, John.
Thanks for the Likes, Stephen G, Stephen A, Holden and Kevin.
Comment is about WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A great piece that prickles the mind with imagery
Comment is about Bigger Trees Near Warter (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
Haha love this, John. Why is it I remember more adverts than T.V. programmes...?
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I really like your analogy, Ghazala. I think I'm a few pieces short of solving my puzzle, too. Lovely poem! 😀
Comment is about Craziness overdose 😉 (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
Sounds very primitive. Very South Yorkshire, John!
Exactly like my school in North Yorkshire, in fact. We had British Bulldog too. A similar run the gauntlet type of game! 😀
Comment is about WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thankyou for your likes and comments, John and John, Earnest Hemingway was a very wise man!
Comment is about Kind Kathleen (blog)
Original item by Clare
Thankyou for your like and comment, John. I for one feel the need for a little light relief from the horrors we are seeing unfold.
Comment is about Spring is Birthing (blog)
Original item by Clare
There is an authenticity to your writing, which I love. So refreshing to see such honesty and passion in poetry - something I miss in modern writing. Can't wait to read more of your stuff. Thankyou for sharing.
Comment is about Is this justice? (blog)
Original item by Robert Shersby
I quite agree. Things have been some perspective recently, Stephen, and certain people need to get a grip ( and a mask!)
Comment is about Whingers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
There's a sense of the hopeful and the forlorn in the lines here David, that leave us in wonder and in the middle of a picture transported from walls to wolds. Excellently subtle. It really gets us into the grandeur of nature. I particularly find "sky dissolved in torrents" powerful and fulfilling.
Ray
Comment is about Bigger Trees Near Warter (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
Spring really is on the way, then, Julie. 😀
Comment is about Frogspawn (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you, John and MC for your kind comments. I must admit that I am not entirely sure what my poem is about when I read it again. One point which did occur to me is that we may grow old and resent victory as much as we do defeat, especially if the aftermath is not quite what we expected.
Comment is about Agincourt (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Well said, Greg. A fine poem.
Comment is about The little green man of Berlin (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Lovely comment and reminiscence, MC. They definitely had something memorable! Thank you. 😊
Thanks for the application, Stephen. I've been wracking my brain to think of the Birds Eye strapline but it won't come! 😣 Adverts eh? Soon they will put programmes in between them 😂
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
KJ - I understand the feeling you express so forcefully. But
who is privy (to use a famous old word) to what is actually
being done from various sources to provide help - both verbal and physical - to support Ukraine as the days pass. It is very
much a balancing act when faced with the unbalanced
behaviour that imposes mass military action upon a neighbour
with which it has had such close historical ties. Paranoia has long been a dangerous feature of Russian political control.
Remember the destruction of that civilian jet with its three
hundred passengers a few decades ago when it was said to
have intruded into Russian air space (from the Sea of Japan?)....and other more recent aggressions in the name of "defence" that have occurred. There has always been that
willingness by the Russian state machine to resort to ruthless responses.no matter who suffers. The paranoia clearly persists! So it is wise to play the long game and give the likes
of Putin and his stooges the least number of excuses to
escalate the situation. Softly softly, catchee monkey (money??) perhaps.
Comment is about UNITED (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Memory time that shows just how successful the ad. campaigns
were - some even relied on rhyme for most effect. For example:
"You'll wonder where the yellow went.
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent".
Poet laureate stuff for the modern age 😁
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I think it was worth it, John. A wonderful antidote to all the bad news.
I once wrote a poem called 'Captain Bird's Eye' but I can't remember his catchphrase.
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
A special moment, the first frogspawn.
Thanks, Julie.
Comment is about Frogspawn (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Haha. Yes, and they come from "Hudd-ers-field! Then they smash them all to pieces!!!"
Probably where he got his alien ideas from!
Thanks, Greg and thanks Kj for the like. 😀
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks for spotting the reference, Graham. I think the police generally prefer to let sleeping Russians lie, MC. More convenient for all concerned. Surrey hasn't got much going for it, but it is developing a reputation for dead oligarchs littering the place. Thanks for the Likes, Rudyard, Holden and John.
Comment is about Death among the conifers (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I don't blame you for getting nostalgic for the ad slogans of yesteryear, John, in the circumstances. It's a nice collage, a mash-up. And talking of mash, I still remember the outrageous Cadbury's Smash adverts, when some aliens tried to persuade you that their dry, powdery substance was somehow better than the real thing. And doesn't the head alien remind you of a certain Russian leader?
Comment is about 'For mash get Smash' re-hash. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I wrote this poem in 2015 after a visit to Berlin, at a time when Germany was welcoming refugees from Syria with open arms, in contrast to a number of other European countries. It's heartening to see Berliners doing the same thing for Ukrainian refugees now.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/berliners-rally-to-support-ukraine-refugees-germany
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/quite-wrong-david-miliband-singles-out-uks-visa-policy-on-ukrainian-refugees
Comment is about The little green man of Berlin (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Veronica Jones
Mon 7th Mar 2022 20:40
This piece really spoke to me. I have known you since jr. high and yet, I don't really know you. This piece gives me a bit of insight into who you are.
Comment is about The Beast Within (blog)
Original item by Chris Heidtbrink