A Girl
Tue 16th Mar 2021 17:09
May it be fruitful Julie. Cheers!
Comment is about Poet Tree (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Wow .A very powerful piece Keith. You don't pull any punches here and rightly so. We live in interesting times . it will be even more interesting to see how as society comes to terms with another change of circumstances when the ability to do all the things that we previously took for granted are available once again.
A superb poem Keith
Comment is about A Changing Landscape (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Magnificently said Jason such wonderful words underscored with the repetition of Goodbye old friend in all the right places. A hearfelt tribute indeed.
Comment is about Goodbye Old Friend (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Yes, sorry I was a bit quick off the mark! the fact that I say I am sad is referring to my age, although today I am grateful to be as old as I am as I now have my vaccine to look forward to. Every cloud.?
Comment is about Sounds of the Seventies (or 'Those weren't the days') (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I am sure you will keep it going for many years, Julie. Power to your pen.
Comment is about Poet Tree (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
But thanks for the comment!?
Comment is about Sounds of the Seventies (or 'Those weren't the days') (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Sorry, Julie. I meant to get my comment in first. I wasn't replying to yours.
Comment is about Sounds of the Seventies (or 'Those weren't the days') (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
As you may have guessed, I am not one of those who thinks everything was better when I was young. I remember a time when racism, homophobia, misogyny and class prejudice ran rampant. Not to mention the terrible food.
Of course, there were many good, nice people around and we all tend to look back through rose-tinted spectacles. And yes, many aspects of modern life are annoying. But I have little nostalgia for my younger days.
Comment is about Sounds of the Seventies (or 'Those weren't the days') (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Sad to say it, but I do remember some of those days. Thank you
Comment is about Sounds of the Seventies (or 'Those weren't the days') (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
This poem has a great rhythm and flow to it with so few words.
Love it
Comment is about Playtime (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you for the likes, Stephen G, Hugh, Aviva, Holden, Nigel and MC. I promise I will be brave.
Comment is about My Vaccination (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
This is the poet putting himself in the place of one who is disorientated and filled with anguish. A clever piece of writing which fills the reader with a certain dread of old age and the last days and hours of life. It conjures up many images and thoughts.
Martin, this is poetry of a high standard where empathy is evoked and sympathy drawn out.
I salute this poem
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The door is shut (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
On the other hand, I don't think the government would be too keen
to hurry into endorsement of a drug that would place it in an even
worse light. The figures for the alleged blood clots are very low,
not least compared with clots caused by other means per annum.
As for yours truly, I too had this injection but I also take a medication
prescribed to prevent clotting anyway so I think I'm about as
covered as I can be, with probably more chance of being hit by a
low-flying seagull from the Thames!
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Glad to see this. Clive James was an underrated poet and also a very funny man.
Comment is about THE FIRE OF JOY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
That's exactly how my days go. I especially like that the poem seems dark without the title, but with the title in consideration it lightens and uplifts it, and provides the solution to the problem.
Although the poem does not need it and is perfect as it is, the analogy could extend to dominoes too.
Comment is about Playtime (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Very good one, John.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (30611)
Tue 16th Mar 2021 15:37
Go onto youtube. Worth a listen.
Comment is about THE FIRE OF JOY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
LK - thanks for the question. Only insofar that he has been mentioned with reference to the author's songwriting interest.
Comment is about THE FIRE OF JOY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (29585)
Tue 16th Mar 2021 15:07
Another great write. I love the way you write?
Comment is about She was a Phoenix and He was a Vampire (blog)
Original item by David Lindsay
<Deleted User> (30611)
Tue 16th Mar 2021 15:04
MC - have you ever come across singer Pete Atkin? Clive James was his lyricist.
Comment is about THE FIRE OF JOY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
what a superb piece of poetry
Love it
Comment is about Swamp Child (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
Very clever John. Love it
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Absolutely love this as much for its sparseness of words as well as the words themselves
Wonderful
Comment is about A simple definition of love (blog)
Original item by Mimosa
I think you are on the right track Hugh. However good male role models are needed to teach every boy youth and man that any form of abuse against women is totally unacceptable.
Thanks for posting this Hugh
Comment is about Nip the bud of violence against women at an early age (blog)
Original item by hugh
Indeed,MC. I have been a vociferous supporter of the vaccination programme but it does seem a bit suspicious that the OAZ’s biggest supporter is our own government, which has much to lose in credibility after its well documented poor handling of the crisis prior to the vacant breakthrough if it transpires there are dangerous side effects. I have a dollop running around inside me so Fingers crossed.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Fabulous.
Love it
Comment is about She was a Phoenix and He was a Vampire (blog)
Original item by David Lindsay
Testing times
but this
spring clean
must be done.
Comment is about Spring Clean (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
<Deleted User> (29585)
Tue 16th Mar 2021 13:05
True M.C.?
Comment is about Nip the bud of violence against women at an early age (blog)
Original item by hugh
<Deleted User> (29585)
Tue 16th Mar 2021 13:03
I more than agree with this piece?
Comment is about Nip the bud of violence against women at an early age (blog)
Original item by hugh
I started to attempt poetry just after the start of lockdown and I began writing one or two a week. I came across WOL and have been trying to post something every day. I have now posted over 300, I know my writes are not great but the site has been very accepting, welcoming and friendly and given me a new interest. Writing has helped me fill the days in lockdown and provided a great distraction too. I think it will be very interesting to read other peoples poetic diaries and look back on these strange times we have all experienced.
Comment is about 'A poetic Pepysian diary': veteran performer Nick Toczek has written a daily Covid poem during the pandemic (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
There were surely times when children were placed in "the cupboard
beneath the stairs" that used to feature in older buildings. Cruelty
takes many insidious and damaging forms and that against children
is the most pernicious of practices, deserving condign punishment
when discovered.
Comment is about Black Cupboard (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
I always think of the word "ogled" as the vulgar companion to the
word "admired". The overall aim is to be content in one's own skin
and be accepted, but not immune from criticism...that aspect which
can teach us to be aware of our faults and shortcomings.
Comment is about I don't want (blog)
Original item by Ankita Srivastava
A eulogy that could be employed with absolute confidence in any
"service of farewell". Finely wrought, displaying the sort of
caringly considered construction so suited to the subject.
Comment is about Goodbye Old Friend (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
A pleasant change to see some balance brought into the equation
in this "Twits on Twitter" age.
Comment is about 'Bad Apples' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Let's hope we're not being told any "Porgies" - sorry, porkies - by
George!! ?
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Walking away is the obvious option when males feel provoked - that
being the only reason for reacting in any sense. I guess that married
men might care to discuss this further.
Comment is about Nip the bud of violence against women at an early age (blog)
Original item by hugh
Tue 16th Mar 2021 11:29
even when I'm still
I'm wrong.
?
Comment is about old shoes (poet profile)
Original item by old shoes
Wow
.to use a common word
...ditto
Comment is about Out Of Reach (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Hi Aviva, Howdy Hugh
My thanks go to the two of you.
Let’s hope we’re over Covid’s spike
And Thankyou Holden for the Like.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The vaccine is coming out in a flood,
I hope there's no clotting in my blood!!
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This is a slightly revised version -- I saw some artifacts I missed from the 2007 version and felt the need to update.
Comment is about Chimera (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Be still and know that I am Right!
Comment is about The Silent Treatment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
No, every line in it is as good as the first.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 16th Mar 2021 00:27
Thank you Annie, it means a lot ?
Comment is about What-If Analysis (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
The best line of this is the first line which, I confess, I saw on the BBC website.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Wow! I can so relate to your poem! I know from past experience how it can take over. “So commences the dissection of thoughts, utterances, deeds, woven into deranged rhapsodies”. ❤
Comment is about What-If Analysis (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
John Coopey
Tue 16th Mar 2021 18:27
Many thanks for your kind words, Stephen G and Martin. As I mentioned in my earlier comment to Aviva, the title is a poach from the BBC web page.
We certainly hope so, MC and thanks for the Like, Stephen A.
Comment is about SUMMERTIME AND THE LOCKDOWN IS EASING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey