Especially relevant to yours truly - not least having spent much
time discovering "sell by" food items when clearing the stuff
left by my recently departed brother. Also relevant to most of
us today in this consumer-driven society.
Comment is about SELL BY DATE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A welcome return - light the candle! 🎂
Comment is about the tattered old man on Christmas Eve (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
Neatly put. Took me back to the Previn/Comden/Green song
"I Like Myself" in the movie musical "It;s Always Fair Weather" -
a pleasurable recollection.
Comment is about you felt, I changed (blog)
Original item by bw
Indeed, Stephen. You just got to admire any town beloved by Jaconelli and Jimmy Savile.
Comment is about SCARBADOS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I particularly liked the ambiguity of the last line, Keith. A deep poem which challenged my thoughts.
Thanks. John.
Comment is about The Soul (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Laugh out loud funny. Hilarious!
Much funnier than UK football...😂
Which is sad😥
Great work. Thanks dk. John
Comment is about Offensive Coordinator (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Yes, I agree with Keith. An emotional and physical roller-coaster of a poem. Thank you, Martin.
Comment is about The easy air (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I admire the depth and detail of this poem, Keith.
Comment is about The Soul (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
It is for this that we are fighting, John.
Comment is about SCARBADOS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Beautifully written and very funny.
Comment is about Not So Stupid, After All (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
All comment seems superfluous with regard to this poem. Keep living and treasure every day, as we all should.
Comment is about THE DIAGNOSIS (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
The month ends
yet another year
with mixed emotions
do we keep zoom
on stand by
while meeting up
if safe to do so ?
Comment is about December 2021 Collage Poem: Chariot of Obscurity (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
True love is there to find
when you do keep
some are still searching
they may never find.
Comment is about 79. Poem (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
I have to confess chaps, thanks to Telboy's alert that I made an embarrassing error ! There is an author called Warwick Deeping and he must have just come to mind. Thanks for pointing it out, and to no detriment to the rhyme I have now altered it ...
Ray
Comment is about SELL BY DATE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you very much for the comment Brenda! 🌷
Comment is about A Silhouette In Time (re-post) (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
😂I'd be dead too DK, so I practice behind her back... silently, in an enraged form of charades...like all good cowards 😉.
Comment is about Offensive Coordinator (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I remember this from last year, Clyde. Wonderful stuff. Could become a Christmas favourite 🎅
Comment is about the tattered old man on Christmas Eve (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
Disturbing's the word Stephen, unless Ray means Market Deeping!
Comment is about SELL BY DATE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Out of the strong came forth sweetness
Comment is about 'Can I Come With You' (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
I loved this, Clyde. A beautiful Christmas tale.
Comment is about the tattered old man on Christmas Eve (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
A lovely comment on the (over-) consumer society, Ray. The last two lines are truly disturbing.
Comment is about SELL BY DATE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
John.
Sadly, we are all somewhere on that ladder. I like to think of myself as being politically correct, but I'm sure that I'm on the ladder somewhere. (Hopefully towards the bottom)
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A brilliant insight,keep writing and sharing.Live on,stay strong.
Comment is about THE DIAGNOSIS (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Ogden Nash - eat your heart out! 😊
Comment is about Not So Stupid, After All (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Courage takes many forms and facing the news that terminal
illness has taken hold requires one such form. Of course, we
are all "dying" in a sense from the moment we arrive into this
life but somehow we sail on as if such a thing doesn't apply to
us. We blithely disregard its inevitability. That is, until someone
utters the sort of news discussed in this poem. Fight the good fight - and do not go quietly into that good night! 👍
Comment is about THE DIAGNOSIS (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
A courageously written poem which has fear and defiance in the face of the inevitable. An impressive piece of writing in which every sinew of the writer's feelings have been exposed.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about THE DIAGNOSIS (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Good Morning Brenda. You write tellingly about winter. I also liked you first sample poem: "Shaking to the ground; twigs, acorns and fragile nests...". Put me in mind, I don't know why, of Robert Frost's famous poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". The centenary of its composition is coming up.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
Comment is about Dark December Days (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
This poem really crackles with atmosphere and of reaching out for things that have gone. A strong sense of place, with shadows remaining of what has gone before. Thank you
Comment is about A Silhouette In Time (re-post) (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Russell, welcome to WOL. I have been a member of this site since early 2017 and found it a valuable resource for the exhibition for one's poetry but also to read the work of others. I have benefitted enormously from the constructive criticism of other poets in particular. I now look forward to reading some of your poetry.
With every good wish
Keith
Comment is about Russell DuPont (poet profile)
Original item by Russell DuPont
There is always hope. Thank you for reminding us of this. We all need to be reminding each other more often of the value of hope that we have.
A stirring poem Keith
Thanks
Comment is about There is still hope (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Wonderful Keith. This positively skips along . A beautiful rhythm and pace to it as well as so many happy memories.
Love it
Comment is about A Tangle of Tinsel (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I am gauche not adroit! ?
John
Comment is about Left Handed Compliment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks to Nigel Stephen Moonlight and Kevin for the likes
Thank you Keith for commenting. Glad you liked
Comment is about The easy air (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Great imagery, flow & rhyming. Nice one!
Comment is about Fairies, Elves, and Goblins (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Book me in! Lovely stuff ?
Comment is about A Tangle of Tinsel (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
How does that square with all the vacancies in haulage, hospitality and retail, MC?
In any event, while ever we have the quality of life we have and they don’t, they will continue to come. And in increasing numbers.
So what do you suggest we do about it? 2nd rung?
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Wow. This really hits a nerve. The control persists even when we die?
Powerful dk.
John Botterill
Comment is about The Protocol (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Beautiful reminiscence Keith. Loved the structure.
Thanks! John Botterill
Comment is about A Tangle of Tinsel (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
There is also the suspicion that will not go away - that we are
now vastly over-populated for the size of the UK (France, for example, is nearly 3 times greater in land mass with a similar level of population) and that we are being "targeted" as a
country of convenience, with no mind to long-held customs,
social/religious history or indeed our laws. Check the huge
rise in all major crimes here in London during recent years, and
the parallel involvement of those who originate from outside these shores. Debates don't seem to suit certain mindsets who
find it easier to cast aspersions on the character of one of the
most tolerant and long-suffering peoples anywhere in this
world. But debates are vital for making sense of what is
happening and why - and how to deal with it.
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hugely optimistic and positive poetry. Gave me lift. Thanks. John Botterill
Comment is about 77. Poem (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Chocolate fingerprint paper
Christmas cheer intended
grim material collected
last Collage poem
for 2021 written.
Comment is about December 2021 Collage Poem: Chariot of Obscurity (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Martin,
Fabulously dramatic and highly descriptive with such a surprise at the end. A remarkable poem.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The easy air (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
We’ll all be housing them in our streets, Leon. Or else we “concentrate” them out of site.
You’re right to some extent, Greg. But I think also there was a positive spin-off to Imperialism (cue left wing outrage) that there was a moral obligation on the “mother country” eg Ugandan Asians, Hong Kongers, even to some degree, Windrush.
And we were more neighbourly.
The bottom line is that it won’t go away.
In truth, I don’t know what the answer is; but I know what the problem is.
And thanks for the Like, Moonlight.
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
In the past we did not have tabloid newspapers inciting the British public to hate all newcomers. Or indeed social media. Those two pernicious influences have made quite a difference today.
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Mon 13th Dec 2021 10:00
You'll be housing a few in your boat then John!
Comment is about THE LADDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
We choose not the terrain. How true.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about Piecemeal (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
clyde McCulley
Wed 15th Dec 2021 15:30
Love this poem, now that I am eighty years old, I can so relate.
Comment is about THOUGHTS AT CHRISTMAS - an annual re-post (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry