I love this poem Keith, I like the rhyme, and did not have to look up any big words this time. and I can identify. and doesn`t Gay mean you are happy. I am happy that you posted this. thank-you, JD.

Comment is about A Dark Secret (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

thank-you for the likes, Julie, Aisha, and Aviva, always happy that you are reading. thank-you for the comments Keith and Emeka, I never know what to say on my return comments, I lack the confidence and courage to say what i want, and should say. I do want to say to you Emeka, I respect your opinions very much, I feel you are a great poet. I learn from you, and admire your work. I was very impressed, and love the poem of yours (Walking Tender Paths). I am happy to see you came online and visited with us. come back often, we miss you. JD.

Comment is about Under the Bridge (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

I don't like the circumstance as I wish you would have found solace sooner, but I like the poem

Comment is about A Dark Secret (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I'm sure that he could work it out with a pencil

Comment is about A constipated composer (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thanks Paul. I wanted to convey the reality of travel fatigue and also the mystery in the story. We have a tendency to want to pin things down but that can Destry the magic

Comment is about Magi (blog)

Original item by Tony Earnshaw

Emeka, welcome to your new admirer! Your comment is of a mature nature as poets should be prepared to deal with awkward issues. We are often the voice of dissent.
Keith

Comment is about Under the Bridge (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Thanks Aisha and Brian for the likes.
Brian thanks for the lovely comment, I am lucky to get inspiration from local views and scenery which is captured and shared on social media by a local photographer.

Comment is about Mitchelgate (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Sadness at failure
Is fore-runner of success
So don't give up yet.

Comment is about Failure (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Usually flushed with success, but it was a struggle in the end.

Comment is about A constipated composer (blog)

Original item by hugh

A deed is but by intent
To start is in our hands
Patiently persevering
Having faith and belief
Prayers to perceive
But the outcome
Is not in our hands
It rests upon one power

Failure or success
Depends upon hard work
Right intentions
But above all
Never tell your moves
Before you achieve
People spoil everything good
So quietly go on
Success will be yours

Comment is about I'd like to thank the academy (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

this is a very good Haiku
a good one is hard to do
i have tried a few
nothing as good as you

Comment is about Failure (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

thanks for your comment on the "Stumpy" poem.
It is very kind of you.
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Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thank you Uncle Paul. Your words means so much to me.

Comment is about "Ambitions and the Dead" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Thank you Keith. I appreciate your kind words. You're one of the few whose words keep me going and doing this.
I hope my secret admirer comes out of hiding soon. So we could talk.

Comment is about "Ambitions and the Dead" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Thank you so much Paul. Your works and words inspire me to keep treading this path.

Comment is about "Yours in Everything" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Well said, MC. And thanks for your regular comments on these poems over the years.

Comment is about 'The box knowing the route, the shoes badly lost and confused' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you Emeka for your comment. Much appreciated.
I have read a few of your poems tonight and can say that 'Great choice of words laden with deep-knitted emotions.' summarises your own writing very well too.

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Stephen G., Aisha, JD., and Ghazala, thank you for your likes which I appreciate greatly as they are a constant source of encouragement.

Keith

Comment is about An Inner Voice (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Emeka, exceptional and another poem for your star chamber.
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about "Walking Tender Paths" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Emeka, this is another one of your really good poems. You are becoming popular on this site and also you have a secret admirer of your work!!
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about "Ambitions and the Dead" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Emeka, thanks for your comment. I as always appreciate it. How was your Christmas?
Keith

Comment is about Kindred Spirits (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Great choice of words laden withe deep-knitted emotions.

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Aviva for your kind words.

Comment is about "Yours in Everything" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

Images of our nude bodies is a work of art...

Great words...

A sensitive topic many shy away from...A poet always summons the courage to venture into the untrod.

Comment is about Under the Bridge (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Timelessly romantic. Love goes the distance. I hope that whatever has caused the separation will soon pass and when the distance is over the only change it would make will be a few extra poems.

Comment is about "Yours in Everything" (blog)

Original item by Emeka Collins

I hope we will one day get back to the lives we left behind before this crazy pandemic hit us.

What an excellent way to capture this.

Well done.

Comment is about The Cafe (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

This is solid stuff.

Comment is about CREATION (blog)

Original item by trevor homer

Thank you Keith, I am really glad that this poem was able to bring you such strong and special memories too.

My mother went to live with her mother after divorcing my father (when I was just 6 months old) so I and my sister grew up from then on living with my grandmother as part of the household (although she had her own rooms they were not separately accessed). Although my grandmother didn't have a chaise longue she would preside over gatherings from her special armchair. Her mobility was always affected by health issues, in earlier years she would as the poem recalls make occasional excursions which were fond memories, but in later years she was largely house-bound yet still a vibrant and precious personality.

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

"Every moment is filled with a sincerity

during which there is peace without anxiety"


This is what true brotherhood is.

Comment is about Kindred Spirits (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you Ghazala and Keith for your comments.

Keith your insight for this poem has tempted me to write a poet's perspective (anyone not wanting to read a poet's perspective for this poem should ignore the rest of this comment)

This is all about what time means to the universe, to the planet, to the society, to humans in general, and of course to the individual. Time as a wild commodity of the universe of course will last forever no matter what, but humans value time in a much more personal way. For human society time spent lasting forever means attainment of solid progress of at least passing permanence that could then be said to lay a foundation for all that follows. For humans themselves, time lasting forever is both beyond and within their own lifespan - beyond means our own actions having impact on others, and within means pleasant memories or personal results of how we've spent our time. And yes, the word 'if' is very important, but also the word 'right' because it is for each person to decide what the right way to use their time is.

Comment is about Time Could Last Forever (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Succinct and descriptive, and you have painted a pleasing picture without using excessive words. In my opinion the best you've posted Julie.

Comment is about Mitchelgate (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Julie, JD and Aviva, thank you for your likes which I appreciate enormously. They are an encouragement to me

Keith

Comment is about Kindred Spirits (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

The relationship described in this poem is a mirror image of the relationship I had with my paternal grandmother. On reading it I was back with her, in her sitting room, as she laid on her chaise longue with a cigarette in a black holder smoking and sipping pale ale. I loved her so much. When a poem can take you back over sixty years and stir one's imagination, the poet has achieved something very special indeed.
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

The last line "if" sums up this poem of hope. If only, and we would live in a better society. This has a slight Rudyard Kipling tone to it. I like your use of non verse rhyme. Succinct but a good poem which begs a question that we need to find an answer for.
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Time Could Last Forever (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Well Trevor I'm flattered to have a poem dedicated to me, though I have no idea why. Maybe it refers to one of my pieces, or possibly is linked to a comment I made about one of yours. I'm sure the use of upper case is significant. Anyway Trevor you've joined a very small club that has written a piece for me, the other member is the erstwhile Don Matthews...and you'll have to dedicate quite a few more to catch him up. I think he was in love with me!

Enjoyed the poem.

Comment is about CREATION (blog)

Original item by trevor homer

Stephen - You and Sam can laugh about it now but I bet it wasn’t so funny at the time. Sam says one of the most frightening things about it was that as she ran for the exit, someone, presumably the manager, was turning the lights off in sequence just in front of her as she ran. She said lt was like something out of a Stephen King horror film. How we laughed.
And thanks for the Likes, Ghazala, MC and Julie. Not a great poem I’ll grant you but a good story.

Comment is about WHEN SAMMY GOT LOCKED IN THE STORE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

These questions I could have answered page on page
There was a time I knew the answers, I am sure
But since then I have now reached forty-eight
And I can't remember the answers any more.

Comment is about Turning 40 (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

JD.,

With this poem you have excelled yourself not only with its style but the manner in which you have dealt with a very sensitive subject and as you so rightly say, it can expose not only sexual ambivalence but a past which many would rather either forget or will not acknowledge.

It is well rhymed and has a touch of boyish humour as we all went through that period of self exploration. It is also courageous as you too acknowledge your orientation. Your honesty in these lines is exhilarating.

A poem worthy of submission into a poetry competition, where I am sure an accolade would be awarded.

Thank you indeed for this

Keith

Comment is about Under the Bridge (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Your final stanza should ring bells in deaf ears. But deaf ears cant hear. An alarm should be raised so high that their vision hears what you have written here.

Sad but so true.

Comment is about The Unwritten (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

When you bemoaned the absence of a rich sweet date
Be careful what you wish for in front of your mate
For the risk is he might not understand it...
And gifting you fruit all your plans turn to... nothing.

Comment is about A cure for constipation (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thank you Shifa, I am flattered and honoured that you think so.

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

This is the most beautiful elegy I've read in a long time. Chills!

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you all- Aviva, Aisha, Brian, Hugh, Michael, Stephen- for stopping by and appreciating my poem. Grateful for all the roses!

Comment is about The Day After The Day of Days (blog)

Original item by Shifa Maqba

Thank you to Hugh, Paul and Stephen for your kind comments.
Thanks also to all those who decided to click 'Like'.

Tomorrow's blog will also be a memorial poem. It was also written in consideration of my grandmother, but has a different perspective and is non-specific so it can be for anyone who might have lost anyone that they had a caring relationship with.

(Sadly Paul's comment is no longer viewable since he left the site)

Comment is about Remembering Mimi (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

John, thank you so much for embellishing the comment section with these beautiful verses! Your like is deeply cherished as well.

Thank you, Hugh, Adam, D.W. Hamilton and Aviva for your generous roses!

Comment is about The Soul of the Moon (blog)

Original item by Shifa Maqba

Thanks Stephen G, all the best to you

Comment is about Twenty Twenty One (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Much appreciated, Michael.

You have got me thinking again.....

Comment is about Strange man (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

I like this poem, really I liked.

The real strange thing about a man would be that he dies (one week later, or far later)
whoever.

Comment is about Strange man (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Brilliant, John. It once happened to me during a bomb scare at Portsmouth Polytechnic........

Comment is about WHEN SAMMY GOT LOCKED IN THE STORE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, Julie. A great new year to you.

Comment is about Twenty Twenty One (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan