Thanks Stephen, I must have missed that beaver reference ! Yes, that's another word that has been rescheduled by the whizzo tech boys.
Thanks Mark for drawing those parallels, truth therein.
Ray
and thank you John, Stephen and Holden for your likes.
Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)
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And my thanks to Robert and Kelvin for reading and liking this one.
Comment is about Volcano (blog)
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Thanks to Nigel, John, Holden and Pete for liking this one.
Comment is about Architecture (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A public servant offering help met by someone handing out
deadly violence. Appalling.
Comment is about Our hearts are filled with shock and sadness for the death of Sir David Amess M.P. (blog)
Original item by hugh
Sat 16th Oct 2021 12:14
it's enough to make you want
to go on living.
?
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
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Thank you for the likes and kind comment Stephen. We are very lucky to have these wonderful views whilst at our home from home.
Comment is about Gem Of A View (blog)
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You describe it beautifully, Julie. I'm quite envious.
Comment is about Gem Of A View (blog)
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Perfect. I had that same sensation stepping outside this evening.
Comment is about First Sign (blog)
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Thanks, KJ. Yes, avian violence can be distressing. A few weeks again I saw a magpie fly down and grab a mouse on our garden wall.
Comment is about Birds (blog)
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Fri 15th Oct 2021 17:32
Whatever happened to Jennifer Malden?
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Fri 15th Oct 2021 17:31
Not quite sure what you mean by
"hope you have not had a bad fall"
you mean the season or...
my balance?
Was that your way of saying you think I'm not right?
Then again, maybe you ARE right.
Most of my poetry is unbalanced, slightly askew.
:?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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A question for Amy Beach.
What is the relevant connection between "white privilege" and
assessment and availability of excellence in poetry?
Comment is about Poetry editor Amy Wack retires after 30 years with Seren (article)
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Thank you for the comment, Brian.
Indeed, I will add to my previous donations to WOL if anyone can
cite ANY instance of my DENIAL of the effects of human activity
on the climate. My position has always been to question the
LEVEL of the effects and the relevance of equally important
influences - the sun, giver of all earthly life, being the obvious example - in rational reasoned debate.
Cheers.
Comment is about SUNNY? (blog)
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I hope you have not had a bad fall.
Great poem
Keith
Comment is about First Sign (blog)
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Fri 15th Oct 2021 12:33
Don't feel bad, a lot of poetry makes no sense to me either.
I think a lot of poets think poems should be unintelligible.
That is why I try to write simple poems that average people
can understand.
Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)
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Fri 15th Oct 2021 12:29
I am still pretending.
?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Granny Slugshaw propositioned me in that meadow, Kevin. She took her teeth out so it would have been a Special.
Comment is about WAKEY TO CAS (blog)
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There is a cycle path from Grimston Low to Scumville. It's not a bad ride, and takes you through Dead Donkey Meadow.
Comment is about WAKEY TO CAS (blog)
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I can remember building dens as a kid. I don't know why. We never used them, but it was building of them that was the fun.
This poem brought back memories.
Thank you for posting.
Comment is about Hide-Out (blog)
Original item by d.knape
My garden is always full of birds... Mainly spuggies, but other ones too.
They are all welcome... Except for the bloody kestrel. It has now become an almost daily job sweeping up feathers after it takes another victim.
Comment is about Birds (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thu 14th Oct 2021 23:30
Thanks for liking, Holden and John. I think it must be the pre-migration feeling that encourages starlings to gather, John. I'll check out the jays.
Comment is about Birds (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A fascinating, intriguing poem, Keith.
Comment is about Silent Witness (blog)
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Is it the time of year that encourages starlings to congregate on power lines prior to their roost? I’ve only just noticed them. And jays - I’ve never seen so many jays before.
Comment is about Birds (blog)
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Thanks, MC. We recently holidayed in the Cotswolds where you don’t have to travel far to find a hill! Thank goodness for our newly acquired electric bikes. It still took some effort but was much kinder on the old knees.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden and Greg.
Comment is about WAKEY TO CAS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A successor to a title like "The Wasteland" seems entirely
appropriate. We can only hope that brownfield is given
priority over greenfield in any government approved building
plans for the future. My memory goes back to a big hit song
of years ago: "Green Fields". It could become a very apt
anthem for today.
Comment is about PLANTING UP THE FIELDS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I think it’s the Turkish equivalent to our Indian summer. Someone told me that the weather and sunsets we are getting is called Yellow Summer.
Comment is about Yellow Summer Sky (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
A flight of fancy that brought a smile and a recollection of Tom
Lehrer's laconic track of yesteryear: "Poisoning pigeons in the park".
Comment is about An angel gives a pair of statues an opportunity to have a good time in the bushes (blog)
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Hello, Anne, fancy seeing you here! Green post boxes, you say? I never heard of such a thing, m'lud ... You certainly have a better memory than me for that sequence of shops at Alexandra Drive! Many happy memories, indeed.
Comment is about The shopping parade (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A "welcome breath of fresh air"...thanks, JC. It took me back to
my own cycling days around the West Country byways of my
younger life....when the wealth of lanes and uncluttered minor roads offered a marvellous escape from humdrum daily life...and
in particular, that memorable Sunday in 1959 when I decided to
"bike it" from home outside Bath to my sister's place in Torbay
for a holiday break. Ah...that wonderful sense of "freedom". -
well nigh impossible to describe. You do a very respectable job
now with your own words.
Comment is about WAKEY TO CAS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This brought memories of my own 1950s childhood in post-war
England. Lucky are we who can keep the power of a child's
imagination as we grow older.
Comment is about Hide-Out (blog)
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Anne Bate
Thu 14th Oct 2021 13:49
Has transported me to Northcote Ave back in the 1960s! I also did errands to the Co-op, past Edith Gardens where one day an elderly lady had locked herself out and asked me (age approx 9) to climb in her window to open her door. Then on past the fishmonger, newsagent/sweet shop, baker, post office, bike shop, hairdresser, draper/woolshop, laundrette, greengrocer, butcher, hardware shop to the Co-op. The Off Licence was last on the row! Thanks for the memories. So many good ones! Green post boxes, races around the block, playing on the streets etc etc
Comment is about The shopping parade (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thu 14th Oct 2021 13:23
Thank you so much, Keith, I appreciate it! ?
Comment is about Roll Call (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
I won’t be able to keep up with you these days, Pete.
Comment is about WAKEY TO CAS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An interesting poem which stimulates the mind and creates its own imagery. It requires a few readings to absorb what is taking place. I find it intriguing; a poem which one can carry through the day and meditate upon.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Roll Call (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Stephen and Holden.
Comment is about Far Side Of The Bay (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Jennifer,
Thank you for your kind words. I seem to write in fits and starts these days as inspiration comes and goes like the morning tide. I increasingly find music a vibrant source of inspiration. A few days ago I listened to the Warsaw Concerto and realised how it could stimulate the imagination which a profound sense of drama, violence and suffering. Let's keep writing. Maybe one day we will be famous, not that I search for fame, as recognition will suffice.
Keith
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Spain's chequered history is washed and hung out to dry in this excellent poem. How I love the flamenco dance. How I love Andalucia. I walked the streets of Spain for two and a half years during the dictatorship. I recall Franco on television arriving in some town or other to enthusiastic crowds shouting Franco, Franco, Franco. Much love then but now maligned. I also learned of the Socialists, Republicans, Communists and Anarchists who murdered priests, nuns and burnt churches and monasteries, fuelled and paid for by Stalin who then robbed Spain of all its gold reserves. I walked the streets of Spain and listened to conflicting stories. I still visit occasionally and pray for all those caught up in that dreadful civil war.
I shall now turn to my cup of Horlicks and turn in for the night. History is indeed a mystery.
John, thank you for this poem. It stirred my memories
Keith
Comment is about Generation 27 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Ah, I see, Stephen. I think “saveloy” is intrinsically funny rather (as Ken Dodd) discovered “k” sounds are. “Knickers, knackers, knockers, missus”.
Comment is about SWEATY BETTY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The Villanelle is a fascinating form, Adam, and this one fits it perfectly.
Comment is about Villanelle For An Acorn (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Hello Keith!
Haven't been much on WOL lately, as been v busy with a much needed holiday, (no internet), and family health matters. Just wanted to say how much I liked your latest on Poetry Plus. By Which We are Known, A Silver-framed Photo, and especially Drenched in Duplicity. Fantastic title too. Was also v impressed with your review of Poems of the East. I have always liked and admired your writing, from the start, that is October 2017, when I joined WOL, and couldn't understand why at that time there was so little response! There was one about the sea some time ago, which I thought was fantastic. I'll try and find it again. Delighted that you are now being appreciated as deserved. All the best, Jennifer
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Not as such, John. I vaguely remember his notorious (and very funny) song with the first verse ending 'and a juicy saveloy'. Edited out of the repeat, I believe. Looking but can't find it on line.
Comment is about SWEATY BETTY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There still is a chippy opposite the Walmgate barbican, Greg. Don't know if it's called Jimmy's though. We had one in my home town of Hucknall called Joe McGann's. We kids thought we were dead clever calling it Joe Mucky 'Ands.
Comment is about SWEATY BETTY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Jimmy's Fish Bar opposite Walmgate Bar in York. Close to the Rose and Crown, and its huge jukebox. Late 70s.
Comment is about SWEATY BETTY'S (blog)
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I didn’t know that, Stephen. You mean Julian Clary did one about Sweaty Woman? Surely not Sweaty Betty? He can’t be old enough to remember her.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden, Tom, Stephen A, Pete and Hobo.
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julie callaghan
Sun 17th Oct 2021 06:55
Thank you for the likes.
Comment is about Saturday Morning Sailing School (blog)
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