The challenge of the hills well caught in these lines. I recall
something similar to the content in the last line on one occasion...
not a comfortable feeling!!

Comment is about The second peak (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

Nice poem. I feel just the same about wild areas.

Comment is about Wilderness (blog)

Original item by Shrawani Sen

Wow.

Comment is about That Paper Twang (blog)

Original item by Tamaryn Mina

Many thanks for your kind comments, Julian, Stephen, and Ray. Glad you enjoyed this. And for the Like, Holden.

Comment is about Vincent in Spitalfields (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Leon.
It's sad but true that people do think like that.
My mum was often stopped, and given a lecture by "tax payers"who thought that they had some kind of right over us.

Comment is about Mi Mam's Take On Contraception (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Ray - your observations about cinema/music venues had me
thinking of the use of various churches for recording classical
music CDs - very successfully. I've also attended orchestral concerts at these venues across London. They certainly knew
something about acoustics in the design and building process,
no doubt keenly aware of the need for a voice and music (choir and/or organ) to "project" to the furthermost extent of the
interior. .

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Viewpoints can be strong but never reach the point of no return answers are always found.

Comment is about Dilemma (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Waiting to explode into a brand new day when it comes - - -
we say goodbye to the burdens of too many down trodden paths
great poem.

Comment is about Village (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks for your likes
Greg
Stephen G
and
Holden.

Comment is about A Quick Pint then it's off to Edgeley Park (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Last game there were four of us watching a hard fought battle on the pitch and enjoying good company - - -what I missed last season.
Some of those hot dogs with running red sauce are messy but not to be missed glad you liked Stephen.

Comment is about A Quick Pint then it's off to Edgeley Park (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Well written with a good use of language and description.

Thanks for this
Keith

Comment is about Wilderness (blog)

Original item by Shrawani Sen

Thanks, Nigel. A good read. I've been to a fair few non-league games where there's a lot of the same atmosphere but no chance of a crusty pie. Just a possibly live hot dog and a sugar spoon shared about 100 times. All good memories though.

Comment is about A Quick Pint then it's off to Edgeley Park (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I love this almost staccato rendition of so much detail and atmosphere that conjures up the whole ethos of an area Greg, and casually flowing like a metropolitan waterway.

Ray

Comment is about Vincent in Spitalfields (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Great poem, Greg. I completely empathise with your description of the Circle Line.

Comment is about Vincent in Spitalfields (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Superb poem, fab final verse, magnificent last line.

Comment is about Vincent in Spitalfields (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I think at the moment we seem to be buying more and more players at a higher level. They will have to play as a team and the manager will be safe.
I fear for the Newcastle manager his job is on the line with the team on a poor run.

cheers Greg

Comment is about A Quick Pint then it's off to Edgeley Park (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Always like a football poem, Nigel. I even have one about Stockport myself, though it's not like this one. I hope the new owners don't go in for dismemberment or torture, or I wouldn't fancy being the manager. As for Newcastle ... from Northern Rock and Wonga, to Mike Ashley and the Saudis.

Comment is about A Quick Pint then it's off to Edgeley Park (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Now if not woke
you are banned folk
with censored speech
and tracked bank notes.
?

Comment is about Woke (blog)

Original item by d.knape

"woke" was just a Joke! ?

Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Face to Face
no saucepan faces
without superficial screens
poetry mellow toned
human conversation flowed
home sweet home.

Comment is about October 2021 Collage Poem: This Side of Heaven (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

There's always some miserable sod ready to suggest that parents should only have the children they can afford! Haven't they heard of socialism and the welfare state?!

Comment is about Mi Mam's Take On Contraception (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thank you Keith and Stephen.
This is actually a true one.

Comment is about Mi Mam's Take On Contraception (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thanks so much for the note, Keith ??

Comment is about Your Florida Preserve (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

Thank you for your kind comment, Keith. Yes, I know the one you are referring to. And Pete, I know exactly what you mean! Thanks again.

I love Ray Bradbury's book and its dystopian vision of a bookless future.

And thanks to Ray and Holden for liking this poem.

Comment is about Fahrenheit 451 (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A poignant poem, Keith. We moved house a couple of years ago and I found it a surprisingly emotional experience, especially the last evening with everything packed up. As you say, being able to share the move with someone makes it more bearable, although it generates more memories.

Comment is about Removal (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Very funny one!

Comment is about Mi Mam's Take On Contraception (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Probably best to cut out the driving....?

Comment is about Woke (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks Mark . Yes, common sense doesn't really come into these designed ghettoes. It's up to councils to evaluate the overall benefits, which are constantly under appeal from the developers who never give up without a fight, which they can afford. I get steamed up. When is a greenfield site not a greenfield site: when it is subject to housing, simple as.

Ray

Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Covered by AM.

Comment is about g1038a.jpg (photo)

Original item by Stockport WoL

An interesting poem which reminds me of the poem: they for the communists but I was not a communist, then they came for the........ and so on. Yet every word of this poem is true.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Fahrenheit 451 (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

That’s great, do you ever get to the end of writing a poem and think, where did that come from.?
I do every time ?

Comment is about Fahrenheit 451 (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A good take on the word WOKE.
I can empathise.

Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Woke (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Unvarnished humour at its best.
Thank you for another gem

Keith

Comment is about Mi Mam's Take On Contraception (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

It's moving on.. but not moving on
they say that moving house can be one of the most stressful times of your life, but with your partner coming too, all's good.

Comment is about Removal (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you Mark for all that. Highly interesting. I was gigging at a few Top Rank ex cinemas and theatres in the 70s; as well as poky flea pits there were massive centres of entertainment, I remember the Rainbow room, previously Finsbury Park Empire a pop music venue and went there when it was a cinema - mock byzantine galleries I recall! The regal near Edmonton which was vast as well, on the north circular. There was always an echo to the soundtracks.

Senior moments! Ray

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

The housing recently built has been marked by a lack of real
understanding pf what makes a "community" work and prosper.
Absurd to build rows of homes without any thought to the
needs of, and services to its potential residents. Even worse
when that lack of basic common sense is exacerbated by these
being placed on green field locations that are lost forever to future generations. Like some man-made desert in a natural oasis!!!

Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ray, I recall that the name "Essoldo" was a mix of the first letters
of two Jewish brothers behind that cinema venture, The cinema
was just on the Limehouse side of the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel and the way under the Thames to Kent. Surely long gone
now, along with much else along the main road through Poplar
to Canning Town and beyond.

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

The quality of a good descriptive poem is that it takes the reader into the place being described. This poem achieves that.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Your Florida Preserve (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

Thanks Keith, I’m glad you like it ?

Comment is about mIN d (blog)

Original item by Edbreathe

Thank you, Stephen ?. I was thinking of the state of mind.

Comment is about Collage (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

The final stanza is perfect for this poem

Thanks
Keith

Comment is about mIN d (blog)

Original item by Edbreathe

Thank you Stephen, Pete and Holden. Islamo-Fascists, neo-Nazis, authoritarians of left and right, have one thing in common - they despise the ordinary lives of ordinary people. They have no empathy. In that great American anti-Fascist novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, Tom Robinson's defender, Atticus Finch, advises his daughter Scout that:
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”

Comment is about HOLY BROKENNESS (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks guys, I was trying to paint that dismal picture; interestingly I am a bit of an addict to watching such stuff now. Mark, the sixties still offered much of the pre war scenes as you say. I love that comment about the ice cream! Could it have been a disgruntled usherette though? Essoldo is one of those magic names from the time.

Stephen, it does seem that people aged quicker in those days, and the clothes didn't help. My father always wore a trilby in the fifties.

Thanks for looking in Holden !
Ray

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Brenda, enjoy the views while you can!

Ray

Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

It seems that only houses are being planted in the fields these days.

Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks, Holden, Does 'Bliss' refer to a person or to a state of mind?

Comment is about Collage (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Excellent, John, and particularly relevant in light of recent events.

Comment is about HOLY BROKENNESS (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks, Ray. Interesting site and poem. I love the image of cats in gutters. In many such films, it always looks dark and everyone seems to be at least middle-aged. 'And her only 31..'

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Great stuff, Ray. Brings back my 1960s days in the docklands
of East London. Especially one afternoon at the Poplar Essoldo
cinema watching the superb opening credit sequence (by Saul
Bass) of "The Big Country" and seeing that stage coach and
its team galloping across the panoramic Californian vista - and
a very substantial widescreen ice-cream smear, no doubt
delivered by some dissatisfied yob during a previous cinematic offering!

Comment is about REEL STREETS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

It'd probably never happen anyway... But we can dream.

Comment is about STORMING OFF IN A SHITTY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey