NONE of my 'lot' understand or like poetry, except my father and my sister. My father took a book of poems with him to read even in the wartimes. Think that one needs time to read and understand poetry, and some people prefer playing with numbers rather than words. Playing cards for example. Liked this and thought it very original.
Jennifer
Comment is about Not Everybody Likes Poetry (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
Thank you for the likes, I love writing about my homes and their immediate environment.
Comment is about County Road (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks for the likes and comment, bit rushed this one and I did struggle with the line your pointed out! I will probably change it!
Comment is about 2 Rooms...2 Views (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks Stephen. He didn’t let us down. Strange being in a big arena full of people. Had a great evening. Thanks Holden for the like.
Comment is about Rick Astley (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thu 28th Oct 2021 23:28
Who are those people?
The Bilderbergs?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
He'll never give you up
Nor let you down, Julie...?
Enjoy!
Comment is about Rick Astley (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you Jon, Holden, Graham and Stephen. ?
Comment is about Early onset Alzheimer's (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I think I've been lucky with my in-laws although we do keep them at arms length. A little but not too often. By the way this is clever stuff Ray.
Comment is about IN LAWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
More fun and some wisdom...an attractive combination.
P.S. Too much "doing" can be anyone's undoing!
Comment is about Doing (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I felt creative this morning. It's not about me!
Comment is about I thought you’d moved on (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
John, I hear you. And it's not always a “fault” that needs fixing but an endearing trait that we writers can laugh about ?
Comment is about Not Everybody Likes Poetry (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
Thu 28th Oct 2021 11:37
Good advice Master of Ceremonies.
I hate it when the comment on my poem
is better than the poem itself.
wink!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
It’s too late for us, Graham. We’ve messed up. The hope is in the kids.
And thanks for the Like, Holden.
Comment is about IF WE ONLY HAD TIME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The one thing we all fear most, becoming lost.
Comment is about Early onset Alzheimer's (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thu 28th Oct 2021 02:26
Socialize more?
I am anti-Socialist!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you M.C Newberry and John for your comments. ? Wishing you both a great day! Thanks for the suggestions John. Do you feel in the introduction of the audio that I gave too much information? Or in the written poem itself?
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Goodbye, dear friend (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Thank you for the comments!
Yes, Candice, a little twist on the old comfort blanket!
Thanks Greg. Still remember the first time I saw The Exorcist ?
And John, one of my favourites, The Raven ?
M.C. while everyone was reading The Beano etc, I was reading Weird Tales & stranger than fiction...
Thanks Julie, Happy Halloween ?
And for the Like, Holden
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Yip, outlaws & in laws, sure is little difference ? Nice one Ray.
Comment is about IN LAWS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
The perfectly understated sad truth of it, John.
Comment is about Early onset Alzheimer's (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Another compelling story. Perfect for Halloween.
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Agree with JC. The ocean that is life with all its ebbs and flows: buoyed up one moment, left high and dry the next.
I enjoyed the imaginative theme and how it has been put to use. .
Comment is about Goodbye, dear friend (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Spooky indeed. It reminds me of the horror comics i knew and
remember from an early 1950s childhood. One story had a four
poster bed with a canopy that descended upon the hapless unsuspecting occupant to smother its victim. Oooer!!
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Hmm. An interesting premise. However....
It's healthy I find
To speak one's mind
It's only the dense
Who take offence.
Instead of debate
They resort to hate!.
Comment is about For Once (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It is a fault that we writers all take ourselves too seriously.
Comment is about Not Everybody Likes Poetry (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
I actually think, Rasa, the analogy with the ocean, it change, it’s turbulence, currents etc works.
My only minor criticism is that your explanatory introduction finesses the poem before it even starts. Have the confidence to let the poem do the work.
Comment is about Goodbye, dear friend (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
I like this but I really think you need to socialize more!
Comment is about Shopping Cart (blog)
Original item by d.knape
“Nation of shopkeepers”, Stephen.
Comment is about Middle Class (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Great stuff, Stephen. Mysterious and threatening. It reminded me of The Raven.
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Excellent poem, Stephen. A really spooky tale, just in time for Halloween. Something in the attic ... reminds me of The Exorcist.
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Bravo with the irony in this piece. You turn an inanimate object meant to comfort us into a haunting villain who can't be trusted. We all have one in our bedroom – no one can escape your artistry!
Comment is about The Blanket (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
layers of reading
standing so majestic
row by row
a last goodbye
settled dust remains
leaving behind only
thoughts of why.
Comment is about Last Goodbye (Stockport Market) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Thank you, John. I remember when I was young seeing (though not reading, I'm afraid) a book called The Triumph of the Middle Class. Perhaps it was ever thus....
Comment is about Middle Class (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for the likes Stephen G and Holden.
Comment is about Dalyan (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks, fellas. I also have a mirror on my bike, Ray. I tend to sit a couple of feet further out from the kerb than I need and then when I see something about to pass me I tuck in a couple of feet. It might seem a bit cheeky but it keeps me alive!
“Lycra” “Micra” that’s you best rhyme ever, Hugh.
No doubt there will be criticism of such a chauvinistic thought that women have inferior spatial abilities than men, MC, but there won’t ever be criticism from women that they have superior skills in other aspects.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about A VIEW FROM THE HOT SEAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A great, uplifting story, Adam. It took a surprising turn.
Comment is about Hiccup (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Fair point, MC. This is a bit of a diatribe about the ruthlessness of the middle classes when it comes to maintaining their status. Which is not to say that we don't have some good qualities (yes, I am one of them). Thanks, Nigel. You put a lot of responsibility on me, which I am certainly not equal to.
And thanks for the likes, Adam and Holden.
Comment is about Middle Class (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Interesting question, Candice. I am sure that she saw the beauty in all of these. Thanks for reading!
Comment is about eyelids and earlids (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
A touching vignette of the end of something...not specified
exactly but leaving room for conjecture. The "battered pencil" is an adroit pointer and allows the imagination to
do its work thereafter.
Comment is about Last Goodbye (Stockport Market) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
That's a bit harsh, SG. But stimulating!!
The middle class are just that - forming the backbone of the country; never more so when the so-called "working class" and
"upper class" seem eager to change their perceived status in
today's "multi-mannered" world and are like book-ends
supporting what's in between...
Comment is about Middle Class (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
As a cyclist in busy London and further afield for many years,
I go along with the comment about spatial awareness and women drivers - personally witnessed via attempts to place
a vehicle in a parking space and a motoring encounter with
an oncoming car (woman driver) in a narrow street. There
was no room for either of us to proceed but there was a place
to my immediate front left which would enable me to pull
in and let her go by before driving on myself. I indicated it and
signalled to her that she reverse a short distance to allow me
to do that helpful manoeuvre. The response: wide-eyed signs
of fluster and agitated arm and hand waving, including initial
refusal/unwillingness to comply with my indication. I felt like
David Cameron's "Calm down dear" parliamentary riposte
with my placatory hand motions of "take your time" in her.
direction. She seemed to have forgotten where anything
was in that momentary need to complete an unexpected
piece of driving. Perhaps it connected with the difficulties
women seem to experience with reversing when parking?.
Spatial awareness again?
Comment is about A VIEW FROM THE HOT SEAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Close encounter
A lady was fascinated by John's tightly clad lycra,
And overtook him in her left-hand drive micra.
She wound down her window and close to him got,
And gave him a slap on his lycra clad bot.
Comment is about A VIEW FROM THE HOT SEAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
HI John. I thought i'd join the fray, as i've just ventured out on my vintage road bike after going crackers tarting it up with tape and all manner of pretty additions(except me). I was so wound up about motorists that i've bought a tiny adjustable mirror that clips on glasses and allows a splendid view of approaching leviathans or indeed just as dangerous ms drivers. Apart from getting lost and having to ring the lady wife, I felt quite confident. I waited in a pub of course. No helmet either.
I'm not an iguana by the way or a road lizard, are you?
Ray
Comment is about A VIEW FROM THE HOT SEAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
that place above the creaking stairs
will fall hate dies
one poem will decide.
Comment is about Middle Class (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Tue 26th Oct 2021 03:20
That poem was written in praise of shopping carts
not to criticize them or point out their failures.
God knows there is enough negativity already.
We should uplift each other and...uplift our shopping carts.
Where would we be without them?
(by the way, where did you come from? Not seen your name
before. Are you a regular or irregular?
?
Comment is about Adam Whitworth (poet profile)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
jennifer Malden
Fri 29th Oct 2021 11:42
Agree absolutely with Keith about 'being taken there'. One can see it all happening, and the language is beautiful.
Jennifer
Comment is about Your Florida Preserve (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke