Poetry has always had room for dissenting voices, even those who make no room for other dissenting voices. Long may it be
so.

Comment is about Marples Must Go!: Greg Freeman, Dempsey & Windle (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

More entertaining sardonic stuff from this source.
Personally I'd have replaced "the case referred" in the penultimate
verse with "the judgment refers" - to chime with "the rest is hers".
But that's purely a personal POV. from a rhymester! ?

Comment is about His & Hers (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Echoing Stephen and KJ Walker's comments here, Kelvin. Thank you for posting this. As you outlined, men are brought up being taught just to 'suck it up', which is totally unfair. It takes courage to be vulnerable. As a mental health nurse practitioner, I appreciate the stigma of men being seen as being 'less manly' through simply asking for the help that we all need at different times. Posting reflections like yours here, are a way to break down that stigma.

Keep writing and smiling.
Warm wishes,
Rasa

Comment is about Sadness (blog)

Original item by JustKelvinMasilela

And no calories!

Comment is about Rump Steak (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Poetic clues are left
portrayed for us to guess
a kind of heaven sense.

Comment is about September 2021 Collage Poem: Hope Resurfaces (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

The problem is
one worth the solving-
are we making progress
or devolving?
?

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you very much Stephen G! You're a beacon of encouragement here on WOL!
Thanks to John for the decision making suggestion ?
And for all the Likes, always appreciated ? Have a lovely weekend

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Not so much “stressful”, Stephen, as “tensile”.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden, Stephen A and Aisha

Comment is about STRESS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Fascinating remedies, John. I suppose that in lockdown your colleague would not have had far to go, although maybe the novelty would wear off. It could even become stressful...

Comment is about STRESS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This is great. Worth reading many times.

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

A fascinating poem, Sanja.

Comment is about I drank your wine (blog)

Original item by Sanja Atanasovska

Dear Rudyard

Thank you so much for your positive comment.

Steve

Comment is about The Peppers (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Soo true Graham

Comment is about SICK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Too many us realise too late in life that the level of health and fitness most of us enjoyed in our youth departs very gradually until we suddenly notice the state we have allowed ourselves to get in. A sage reminder MCN.

Comment is about SICK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I tend to take a different view about extreme suffering and the
religious zealotry that allows it to occur. How about starting
with banning "assisted living" in such circumstances?

Comment is about Ban assisted dying and keep us all alive (blog)

Original item by hugh

I remember a critical quote castigating the attitudes of younger
people and how they behaved, and was nodding in recognition -
until I reached the last line which informed me that they were
words from a famous Greek from two thousand years ago!.

Comment is about Before Our Very Eyes (blog)

Original item by d.knape

? Sometimes I worry about you Simon...

Comment is about Rump Steak (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Coffee, beef and a human orange, what's not to like!

Comment is about September 2021 Collage Poem: Hope Resurfaces (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Thank you Hugh! Nice to have an alternative ending! And good to see you back posting !

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

I've added it for better or worse....if worse, blame Julie, she forced it ?

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

On the branches landed birds with no fear,
It all began when I cried a single tear.

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Yes I think definitely add it. Another page for the book and draws you back to the beginning to read again, which I often do with your writes. Age 8… I think I put myself around 3 possibly four on a good day. Not much later for my attempts??.

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

I really liked it. Nothing bad to speak off, something so little turned
to a full blown story. Very nice!

Comment is about The Peppers (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thank you M.C. great idea! Now...just need an anthology ?. Thanks

Julie, yes I can draw... like an 8yr old! Lol. I'll let you try ?. ?

And thank you John, and yes originally I had this after waved goodbye:

The branches flourished leaves
Which caught the morning dew
And dripped a single tear
To start a stream anew

Then took it out, but think I might add it? John? M.C?? Julie???

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

? Thank you Stephen. Nice Title, I did think about that but decided to leave it untitled. Thank you.

Comment is about UNTITLED 1 (blog)

Original item by jeronth

Excellent, Stephen. But I was rather expecting it to return to the single tear.

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Let's hope so, MC. But Hope is never a solid foundation for policy.

Comment is about "A" PLUS AND "A" MINUS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This would make a worthy last page to a poetry anthology.

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Hi Brian - I do hope your neck of the woods managed to escape
the ravages of Hurricane Irina. I still remember the warning
given years ago about avoiding the "hurricane season"! Thanks
for the comments. The "A" was for American efforts and success
in the distant past, not the recent past.
JC - we can live in hope that something the world can live with emerges from the result. The Taliban also needs to survive in a
rapidly changing power-shifting global existence and may even
actually begin to understand the requirements needed to endure.

Comment is about "A" PLUS AND "A" MINUS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for the likes for my silly write. Thanks New Shoes.

Comment is about So Frustrating (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

your poem is resonating

Comment is about So Frustrating (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Love this. I can see each page in an illustrated book… can you draw????

Comment is about A Single Tear (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

I am not a real poet.
I am a robot!

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

It is indeed tempting to say we (and the USA) should never have got involved in the graveyard of imperialism. But if the Taliban honour their bay'ah with al-Qaeda and the latter restart huge terrorist atrocities in the West, should we respond. And how?

Comment is about "A" PLUS AND "A" MINUS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Stephen. We always referred to any girl who had that alluring gap at the top of her thighs just underneath her crotch as Eddie Tupper.

Comment is about GARDEN OF LOVE (YOUR MOTHER'S SYCAMORE TREE) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Mark...imo, America (and Britain) should have learned from the Russians before them and never stepped foot into that lost country. That said, I honor the efforts and sacrifices of those who served there. The withdrawal was a complete disaster and embarrassment and the sole responsibility of the Biden administration's ineptitude. You are very generous with your grade...I'd give it an 'F'.

Comment is about "A" PLUS AND "A" MINUS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, John. I thought your version was great and just tried to imagine Benny's cheeky leer. He was a very funny man, especially in his "Tommy Tupper" spoof.

Comment is about GARDEN OF LOVE (YOUR MOTHER'S SYCAMORE TREE) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

How familiar this sounds. My own experiences seem limited to a
huge US based online shopping service and a UK based (but
with an outsourced helpline) 'phone company. Obtaining a
real human at the other end seems well nigh impossible most of the time. And when that actually happens, the opening gambit is always the same: "We're sorry for the inconvenience". Not poetry to my ears!!

Comment is about Our Agents Are Currently Busy (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks for your likes
Stephen G
Holden
and
Stephen A.

Comment is about Convincing Someone Like You (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

All exercising becomes too brutal-
my contribution mostly futile!
?

Comment is about Exercise (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I would rather be coveted
than Covided!
?

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Thanks for the likes Holden, MC and Dreamer and for the comment Rob.

Comment is about Rich Pickings (rewrite) (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

This is deep!

Comment is about Established/ ment (blog)

Original item by Luke

HA. I love this. But I never resign. Not for time, honor or respect.

Comment is about The Grandmaster Comments (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Of course it’s not woke, MC. it should definitely be banned along with Shakespeare, Nabokov, Chaucer, Ovid, TS Eliot, Donne et al - Racist, sexist, chauvinist pigs, every one of them.
And thanks for the Likes, Stephen A, Stephen G and Pete.

Comment is about GARDEN OF LOVE (YOUR MOTHER'S SYCAMORE TREE) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

SG - thanks for the "welcome".
JC - point taken. I suppose you can have too much of anything.

Comment is about MAUDLIN DAWDLING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I've known a cross-section of folk from varying backgrounds and
"poor" can be relative, not least in its effect on individual mindsets.
Give me the guy who aims to try...
Always aspiring to be better,
To those who - often at others' expense -
Become your ruthless "go-getter"!

Comment is about Established/ ment (blog)

Original item by Luke

I'm sure Benny would feel complimented! He was failed by
child star John Howard Davies, who as a Thames TV executive
took it upon himself to cry "foul" at Benny's non-PC material
and exclude him from programming, even though Mr Hill had been - and no doubt continued to be - a great money-spinner in
places like the USA where he was so popular. That young Oliver
was clearly round the "Twist"!! in later years? Thank goodness for YouTube!!

Comment is about GARDEN OF LOVE (YOUR MOTHER'S SYCAMORE TREE) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Indeed, Kevin. Likewise Ronnie Barker.
And thanks for the Like, Holden.

Comment is about GARDEN OF LOVE (YOUR MOTHER'S SYCAMORE TREE) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

to be covided = to have covid, (not grammatically correct!) You are far too easily shocked. I enjoy reading your poems, believe it or not. Keep digging, Jennifer

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

Original item by d.knape