The epitome of true willpower and strength
Comment is about Triumph. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
I have spent my life questioning and challenging what I learned at Sunday School. I am left wondering just what it is that makes people either good or evil
Comment is about Easter, the resurrection of man (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for the likes and comments
David
Comment is about The infinity of consequence (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Here's a good reading of Caged Bird by Maya Angelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzULmvSSQc
Marla
Comment is about The Songbird. (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
In the famous words of Edmund Blackadder, there was only one problem with the plan,
"It was Bollox"
David RL Moore
Comment is about For f*** sake (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Uilleam, why do cage birds sing? I feel I aught to know something here possibly by another poet.
Comment is about The Songbird. (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
thank you Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh for your kind words and thought full comments , It can be applied to journalism (i didnt think that before) and yes many brave ones are killed or put behind bars as in Turkey now
Comment is about Behind Bars (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Thanks guys
As always it just came out . No predetermined idea .
But I got more angry as it went on !
Comment is about For f*** sake (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thankyou, Stephen and Edbreathe and RedBrick for the Likes.
Anyone "identify" the tune?
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Exquisitely worded dear Uilleam 🙏🏻🕊️thank you kindly. 🙏🏻🕊️🌷
Comment is about w o r d s (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I admire the sincerity and power of this, Pete.
Comment is about For f*** sake (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
The plug-in gives you peace of mind for long journeys, I suppose, John. So far we have never driven beyond the range of the vehicle (Belgian coast and back), but doing longer journeys and getting close to 0% must be a bit like driving naked.
Comment is about Full Electric (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you, Uilleam and Graham. Actually, I'm very happy with my full electric (range 500km), although I rarely go much further than the newsagents, and on balance electric cars are better for the environment (until some future time when it becomes politically possible to argue that private car ownership of any sort is unsustainable for the planet).
In the meantime, I opted for this bit of fun and would like to thank all who commented or liked it.
Graham - Yes, if only it had a meter you could use to revive it!
Uilleam - I've always found the range quite reliable, but I have heard a story of someone caught in a long diversion in the wastes of Northern France! Maybe they are still there.
Comment is about Full Electric (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
We’re on our 2nd electric car, Stephen (plug in hybrid, actually). When the battery runs out it switches to petrol automatically.. So no anxiety there (unless the petrol runs out!).
And in answer to your question, Uilleam - about the same as in the manufacture of a petrol car, I would have thought.
Comment is about Full Electric (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks Marla.
You pose important questions, I think Rolph has a good answer.
Comment is about Echoes Of Contentment (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
I know why the caged bird sings.
💗
Comment is about The Songbird. (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Simply by holding up a sheet of whatever material into the wind, we can be propelled across oceans, to the four corners of the globe; what a wonder!
Comment is about Sails of a Giant (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
The ancient need,
to make our mark,
percieve a pattern,
tell our tale,
old as
mankind
itself.
Comment is about w o r d s (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for your likes
Hugh
Holden Moncrieff
Edbreathe
Her only weapon was a Camera. Two days after her work had been celebrated at Cannes Festival, she was bombed to death, together with ten of her family members.
Journalists, poets, artists, musicians, anyone in search of, and telling the truth about the genocide of the Palestinian people, you are now all legitimate targets.
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.11] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thanks, Mike.
I distinguish, correctly or not, between "solitude" (which I've often sought out, seeking refuge from the madding crowd), and "loneliness", an imposed, inescapable condition?
Comment is about Lonely (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
I am an
indefinite article.
Comment is about The Post Trauma Session (blog)
Original item by Shirley Birch
Don't worry Edbreathe, the nominal head of the Christian faith in the UK, the newly-branded "Defender of Faiths", Charlie III, together with the help of his Prime Minister for genocide have got it sorted; Onward Christian Soldiers, Carry On Killing!
Comment is about For f*** sake (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
You can bet some bugger will be offended, Uilleam. Probably a 5 year old, trans, blind frog. Or someone on their behalf!
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Absolutely brilliant, John, you've knocked the whole issue into a cocked hat!
Some self-proclaimed "experts" don't appear to know the difference between biological sex and gender....I've got a sixty-foot yacht at the marina, she's a proper goer; one moonlit night, after a few too many whiskies I got a bit frisky, now I'm daddy to a little dingy!
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Many thanks Rolph for your poetic retort
The love we crave sometimes comes up short. Your detailed responses are much appreciated. 🙂
Many thanks Stephen G for your kind and understanding response. 🙂
Thanks for like Manish. 👍
Comment is about My Daddy Never Loved Me (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Dear Rolph, thanks kindly for myself, on behalf of the poem, and those that identify with its cry 🌷🕊🙏🏻 Here’s to our continuance of building bridges that change lives for the better through poetry 🙏🏻🕊🌷
Comment is about a miscreant yearns (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
-on “a miscreant’s cry” ~ Dear Rolph, thanks kindly for myself, on behalf of the poem, and those that identify with its cry 🌷🕊🙏🏻 Here’s to our continuance of building bridges that change lives for the better through poetry 🙏🏻🕊🌷
Comment is about Rolph David (poet profile)
Original item by Rolph David
-on “a miscreant yearns” ~ Thanks Marla Joy 🙏🏻🕊that speaks deeply to me as I never chose the way in which I had grown to use language; and you’re allowing room for that brings me to a place of freedom and acceptance, no matter how strange my language may get. It’s like writing the way Christopher Walken would employ language in his speech, almost (for lack of a more ready analogy). You are much appreciated and your kind words much valued. 🙏🏻🕊🌷rbk
Comment is about Marla Joy (poet profile)
Original item by Marla Joy
Thanks Marla🙏🏻🕊that speaks deeply to me as I never chose the way in which I had grown to use language; and you’re allowing room for that brings me to a place of freedom and acceptance, no matter how strange my language may get. It’s like writing the way Christopher Walken would employ language in his speech, almost (for lack of a more ready analogy). You are much appreciated and your kind words much valued. 🙏🏻🕊🌷rbk
Comment is about a miscreant yearns (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
interesting observations Stephen.
Two thoughts on this.
How much CO2 is generated in the manufacturing process of these vehicles?
When they say, for example "up to three hundred miles in one charge", that could actually and "legally" mean Zero miles.
In my opinion the phrase UP TO, frequently employed by advertisers, is fraudulent and should be banned by trading standards.
Comment is about Full Electric (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Superbly written, Rolph. A pleasure to read, and to ponder.
Comment is about Sails of a Giant (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Thanks, Rolph.
At times I find our need to coin words in order to describe certain aspects of the world around us, somewhat comical;
I wonder what the adherents of "Phlogistics" would have thought of "string theory" and "black holes"?
Comment is about The Death of Phlogiston (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
A sad, heartfelt poem, Tom. Everyone shows love in different ways. My dad was not very demonstrative but he showed his love by making so many sacrifices for my brother and I - taking us to museums, cricket matches, which I'm sure he could barely afford.
Comment is about My Daddy Never Loved Me (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
When change draws near, build mills and not a wall —
The winds that break one man can lift us all.
Wise words, Rolph.
Comment is about Sails of a Giant (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Thanks David. I've been scrolling through a lot of posts that I missed in recent weeks, and found this, highly relevant to the murderous attacks on press freedom taking place around the world, and to those taking place in the UK.
Anyone who earns their living by bringing us the truth, must be painfully aware that journalists are now routinely murdered in the middle east, whilst here in the UK, a shill who supports such a genocidal regime is platformed by a so-called News outlet at the British taxpayers' expense!
Comment is about Behind Bars (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Sat 19th Apr 2025 08:11
Red,
Reading "A Miscreant Yearns" felt like listening to a soul speak in its purest form. You showed how even those who feel lost or unworthy still carry a deep, aching beauty inside them. The way you describe longing finding shape through words really stayed with me. It’s a reminder that even brokenness can build bridges — between ourselves, and to others.
Thank you for giving voice to that quiet, powerful truth.
All the best,
Rolph
Comment is about a miscreant yearns (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Sat 19th Apr 2025 08:05
Dear Tom,
Your words cut deep, I know them well,
A story my own heart could tell.
A father's love, so tightly sealed,
A wound that never quite gets healed.
They lived in times both hard and proud,
Where feelings stayed behind a cloud.
To show their hearts, to speak their soul,
Was seen as weakness, not a goal.
My father too, wore such a mask,
To reach for love, a hopeless task.
He never knew his mother’s hand,
His father, stern and hard to stand.
And so, the cycle traveled on,
A hidden love, a quiet song.
Yet deep inside, I know it’s true,
There was a love he never knew... how to pursue.
Your poem gave that silence voice,
The pain, the longing, and the choice—
To still achieve, to live, to try,
While carrying that question: why?
Thank you, Tom, for being brave,
For giving voice to what we crave.
Your words remind us we’re not alone—
In silent love that went unknown.
With deep respect,
Rolph
Comment is about My Daddy Never Loved Me (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Many thanks Uilleam & Marla Joy for your feedback and comments. Much appreciated. 🙂
Thanks for likes: Holden, Red Brick Keshner, hugh, Nigel Astell & Hélène. 👍
Comment is about My Daddy Never Loved Me (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Sat 19th Apr 2025 07:56
Good morning Marla,
It’s easy to get caught up in wondering who will remember us, how many will, and in what way. But your words also remind me that the most important part might be how we live right now (hard enough!), fully present in our own lives (even more!!!), rather than obsessing over what comes after.
Thank you for sparking this reflection.
Take care,
cheerio,
Rolph
Comment is about Echoes Of Contentment (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
Thank you so much Hélène and Marla ❤❤
Comment is about Mom, This One Needs Your Hands (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
A short poem but Oh! so beautiful, Thank you Helene
Comment is about Sending Love (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Thank you for your kind comment, James.
I was living abroad when I wrote this. It is an expression of a certain amount of disorientation and a desire for a connection with someone/something deeply familiar.
I'm glad it resonated with you.
Comment is about fever (blog)
Original item by Landi Cruz
Trevor,
You paint a vivid picture aging here.. Well expressed.
Marla
Comment is about Mission Control (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Telboy
Sun 20th Apr 2025 22:17
It's all a load of bollocks...or perhaps it isn't !!!???
Comment is about SELF-IDENTIFY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey