Too true, unfortunately! I want it all, I want it now!

Jennifer

Comment is about FREEDOM TODAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Liked this one! Approve absolutely, forever was never the point!

Jennifer

Comment is about Beguiling Sirens (blog)

Original item by Tom

Hi Tom
Thanks for your comments on "Buzzing Of The Saw"
Glad you like it

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

Original item by Tom

I really like this one Adam. I can see my own thoughts reflected here and the scope is much wider than the subject. Great writing.

Comment is about Buzzing Of The Saw (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Hi Greg

Sorry, only just seen your comment re Orison.

Yeh, I did wonder why you hadn't mentioned it - I had the opening and closing poems very much set in my mind for a long time, precisely because they bookend so very well. I had a real little epiphany as I played with that Newton's cradle, not long after my friend's death.

Oh give over, it's not too clever for you - it's easy, really ?

And thank you.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Greg

Sorry, only just seen your comment.

Yeh, I did wonder why you hadn't mentioned it - I had the opening and closing poems very much set in my mind for a long time, precisely because they bookend so very well. I had a real little epiphany as I played with that Newton's cradle, not long after my friend's death.

Oh give over, it's not too clever for you - it's easy, really ?

And thank you.

Comment is about Orison (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

What is perceived
is to be believed-
Sometimes a relief
when the sighting is brief.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

And thankyou to Your Royal Poetess and Crescent Moon.

Comment is about Eighty year-old rockers (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks for your kind comment, Julie. And thanks to Nigel, Keith, Stephen and Holden for the likes.

Comment is about Dead of Night (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

This is quite nice article. https://sites.google.com/view/www-hotmail-loginsignin/www-hotmail-com-hotmail-com-sign-in-create-hotmail-com-account

Review is about Austin Poetry Slam on 24 May 2022 (event)

"War is all hell" - General William T. Sherman Union Army USA
Spite - or retribution? Discuss.
Those who unleash the wind reap the whirlwind.

Comment is about From Coventry and Dresden: bilingual book of peace poet’s poems (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Now tis the season
To dispense with reason! ?

Comment is about TWITS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Entertaining.
Meanwhile - somewhere out on the rim of reality.......
funny how we can let perception affect that reality..

Comment is about HITCH-HIKER (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you both Stephens for the comments and likes.
Also thanks to Holden and Nigel.

I am getting dizzy already, need to get off the roundabout soon?

Comment is about Everything Happens For A Reason (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks Stephen, I really like this one.

Comment is about Dead of Night (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Cheers KJ
I get your point...
Tommy

Comment is about In Ancient Ruin (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Cheers Keith
for your response.
Tommy ??

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

Such links should be encouraged, advised and funded; Liverpool being the most Bombed city outside of London (East End mostly).
Even my Dad shuck his head at the bombing of Dresden (an act of spite by the English? )

Well done Coventry x
Tommy

Comment is about From Coventry and Dresden: bilingual book of peace poet’s poems (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Words forever timeless
selective poetry read
higher composition scaled
drowning further depths.

Comment is about August 2021 Collage Poem Reversed: Drowning in Time (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

I thought it was about the Sunderland game tonight...? Superb piece of writing!

Comment is about England, low tide (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

I always try to take the easiest path, Julie, but sometimes there's a big tree or boulder in the way that knocks me clean off course! ?

Comment is about Everything Happens For A Reason (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Oh you can guarantee it my friend, there are those in this world who can't bear the thought that life's got to change or stop. They're like the Black Knight from monty python and the holy grail, arms and legs cut off saying, "Tis but a scratch."?

J. x

Comment is about A New Day (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

A powerful poem, Jason. Surely no sane person can argue with this proposition, although the usual suspects are probably lining up as we speak.

Comment is about A New Day (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I like this, Julie. There is a really good narrative and conclusion. An excellent read.

Comment is about Everything Happens For A Reason (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I neglected to mention this poem in my review, Laura, and I really should have done. It's the final poem in your new collection, neatly bookends it with 'Origin' at the beginning, and is a very clever poem - in fact, probably far too clever for a bear of little brain such as I. Excellent work.

Comment is about Orison (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Yes, I'm not sure which is worse : Twitter or the comment columns of newspapers, featuring contributors such as Braindead Alex 72.

Comment is about TWITS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

The last line is a very apt pay-off. Common courtesy is the
lubricant that oils and eases the daily grind of life.

Comment is about The General Public (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

JC - ha...I wasn't born yesterday. In fact i was born a long long
time before yesterday! ?.
I look to the "onward and upward" attitude to refresh the quality
of life but all too often it's "Downwards and backwards" now
and idiots hold forth in insolent and ignorant intolerance.

Comment is about TWITS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for the kind likes

Comment is about Blushing Pink, Sunny Yellow (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

A poetic Mayor - very cool.

Comment is about Our man in Berkhamsted: poet becomes mayor in Graham Greene's home town (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I think important football matches have a lasting symbolism, Tim, so no worries about the date!

Comment is about England, low tide (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

Thanks Greg. It’s taken a month to write it from some notes I scribbled down on Lindisfarne the weekend of the Euro’s final, but the problem with writing about contemporary events is your poem becomes out of date almost immediately, so I thought I’d better post it online somewhere pronto!

Comment is about England, low tide (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

Tim, this is simply a magnificent, 'state of England' poem. I love it that it's about Lindisfarne, too. So many great lines ... 'I’ve always fumbled over stitching my fealty to / the English flag with that great cross of blood' ... 'hope will hit the bar' ... put together with Larkinesque craft, if I may so. And maybe an echo of Matthew Arnold, too. Thanks so much for sharing it here.

Comment is about England, low tide (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

You can't run from Love.
You are Love.?

Comment is about Mercy (blog)

Original item by Damon Blackery

Thank you for thanking me for liking your last poem...?. Liking your stuff, by the way! ?

Comment is about The Crescent Moon (poet profile)

Original item by The Crescent Moon

I get all my wisdom from Twitter, Facebook, Tim Tok and You Tube, MC.

Comment is about TWITS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Kate Clanchy...racist...ableist (that's a new one but hey...it all helps the vacuous virtue that is spouted by certain mindsets that brook
no view that, it can be argued, has legitimacy from a personal perspective. Poets are in the business of freedom of thought
and opinion, and if anyone feels uncomfortable about that,
perhaps a different interest/line of work might suit them better?

Comment is about Poetry Wales appoints new joint editors (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks very much Marsha, I'm really interested in how and why we learn to speak, and the processes involved in that. Add a little poetic licence, and here we are.

Very perceptive of you, your last comment ?

Comment is about Origin (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Certainly workmanlike! Reminds me of all those little business
cards from "Joe" or "Dave" that get dropped through the letter box.

Comment is about I'M THE GUY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hope and despair tend to come in cycles! ?

Comment is about Finding Hope (blog)

Original item by hugh

I share the sentiment.
Keith

Comment is about I can point (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks Nigel. I have mister google to thank for the lovely image. ? I enjoy sourcing photos and pictures that suit the poem. Wishing you a beautiful day. Thank you for reading my poem. Best wishes, Rasa

Comment is about Finding My Way (blog)

Original item by Rasa Kabaila

Hey Stephen

If you've not already got yourself a copy, get in touch and I can send you a signed copy if you fancy ?

And thank you ?

Comment is about Speaking in Tongues: Laura Taylor, Flapjack Press (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I just took some time to read through your recent efforts and I am just breathtaken. I admire your style to a point where I am almost a but jealous, haha. ?
Keep up the amazing work! ?

Comment is about Jordyn Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Thank you for liking my Defeat poem, your highness ? ?

Comment is about Your Royal Poetess (poet profile)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Hey Holden!
Thank you for reading and liking my last poem! ?

Comment is about Holden Moncrieff (poet profile)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Hey, thank you for reading and liking my last poem!

Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

I love the image it goes so well with your poem.

Comment is about Finding My Way (blog)

Original item by Rasa Kabaila

Einstein said

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

I think somewhere in the midst of this poem is the very essence of that statement.

The closing of the poem is defiance incorporated, the line;

'til incantation drains away and starts to dig itself a grave

to me is magnificent, that even in the process of our demise we play an active part until the lights finally extinguish..and even then it really isn't quite over.

So much to like here, imparted in a tone which suggests a poet who has matured via a vigorous process of lived experience.

Comment is about Origin (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Yes, that was the case when we lived near Selby, Stephen; the last one was about 5pm. We did however manage to roll up two inconveniences into parallel. The road was closed for 18 months to make repairs to flood damage, so all buses stopped coming through our village. But in any event Covid meant I wouldn’t have wanted to get on one anyway.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen A and Pete.

Comment is about TWERLIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey