Thank you M.C Newberry for stopping by my profile and for your kind and encouraging words. You also seem like a very gifted, sensitive and generous individual. Keep writing, and diving in to every moment—for whatever it brings.
P.S—I love the cover of your poetry book 'Poetry to Please'. Just divine!
Warm wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
As I recall all numbers resolve to 9. Any mathematical problem's answers resolve to 9. +3 sets of 3 holds a sustainable structure in relationship and form giving it the ability to acknowledge itself by looking in the mirror. at least that's what I remember when I invented it.
Good to meet the acquaintance of a fellow 9er
Peace
Comment is about nine (blog)
Original item by Jacob Germain
Thank you Holden! Your continued support means the world to me.
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. Seneca
Comment is about passing clouds (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
only when rejoicing birth
your soul will come alive.
Comment is about Shinigami 死神 (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
Don’t make me laugh, Stephen. I’ve got a cracked lip.
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you for your like and comment on my poem, was a pleasure to catch up with yours!
Comment is about Ferris Ty Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Ferris Ty Taylor
Thanks Ray, for the comment, and thanks to Jordyn, Stephen G,
Abdul, Aisha, Aviva, Holden and Pete for the likes. It still makes me laugh when I remember his delight at the sport.
Comment is about Frogging, a new sport (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
So very apt, and well thought out!
Jennifer
Comment is about GROWING OLD ALONE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks Elizabeth, Abdul, Holden B renda and M.C. for the likes, and MC for the comment. Unfortunately so many young lives are still being lost in conflicts which will be forgotten again.
Jennifer
Comment is about The Allied Forces War Cemetery - Italy - 25th April 2021 (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
We used to have a tuck shop at school, but now it is just a blur of 'orrible kids stuffing their faces with chocolate. Having said that, there was little evidence of obesity, as most of them were sent three miles each day by their parents to pick up a pint of winkles and a few lumps of coal for the bath.
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This poem melts on the tongue, Brenda. Thank you.
Comment is about The Wild Strawberry Plant (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
I like this very much. I love the way it tells a story in ten lines.
Comment is about untitled (blog)
Original item by Jacob Germain
I love this. Provocative and cutting to the deeps.
It is good that you are not air - yes!
It's good that i'm a nettle today
in your cruel hands - yes!
Comment is about Nettle (blog)
Original item by Sanja Atanasovska
DK - thanks for the explanation on my profile page. Got it!
Here in the UK, the process would come under the heading "ward of court".
Comment is about Wife Breaks Silence (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Nods to nostalgia.
In the 1950s, when a £1 represented 240 pence, a choc bar cost
6pence - and you could buy penny chews that seemed to last for ever. If you think that decimalisation brought myths about value, just check the price of a choc bar now. 50pence is low average
from what I can see...when a £1 today represents 100 pence.
Forty choc bars for £1 against -2 today. That seems to equate
to a £400+ weekly salary today to keep up if you use the less than £10 a week
wage guide back then when I moved up to London to start a working life.
PS...JC - I think Lovells was based in Wales - not that far away from
the West Country I knew as a boy. Maybe they supplied a catchment area
that didn't reach your own neck of the woods?
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
SG raises an interesting point. But it seems that there is a more
general relaxation in terms of what used to be considered "gamesmanship" on the pitch. Hardly excusable now though,
with the all-seeing eye of the video and multi-angle slo-mo
replays.
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Just been catching up on my profile page and wish to thank you
for your kind comment about "Thoughts At Christmas".
You seem to be an exceedingly busy and gifted individual...well done..
MC
Comment is about Rasa Kabaila (poet profile)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Fri 9th Jul 2021 03:14
A Conservatorship is a legal construct designed for people who
are incapable of handling their own affairs.
The court appoints someone else to handle them for the person
incapacitated. Unfortunately, this process is often abused
and the person loses all their civil rights.
(see Brittany Spears).
Her story has been all over the news here lately.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you anonymous soldier - your eloquent testimony speaks volumes. People, generally, do not want to know the hell that soldiers go through whilst serving this country of ours. Your testimony teaches those with the guts to truly listen.
Siegfried Sassoon, another soldier and another poet, told it exactly how it was and still is for British soldiers on active service.
SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
Comment is about The bloody poppy (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
When I used to referee football matches, we were very strict on goalkeepers moving before the kick. It seems now rules permit keepers to do disco dad moves along the line and get away with it. The winning Italian penalty taker was very cool when he scored, though.
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It looks great, Julie. Thanks for the poem.
Comment is about The Buffet Is Now Open (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
MC as per usual can’t do right for doing wrong. Let’s hope they take the huff and find another garden to terrorise! I suppose I am also guilty of being sizeist. Maybe I’ll just leave the door open. ?
Comment is about The Buffet Is Now Open (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Not heard of a Milky Lunch,MC. Well, not since I needed burping.
I used to wonder if shrinking sizes was a myth but simply a function of your hands getting bigger as you get older. But when I see the tins of Quality Street and Celebrations at Christmas I now know I was wrong.
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Only 7% of the sought-after sum left to achieve, according to
the latest news. Success beckons!.
Comment is about Campaigners reach £134,000 target for sculpture to mark WB Yeats in England with day to spare (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
JC - the player I referred to described a penalty kick as the easiest
in football...with practice breeding confidence and.confidence producing success under pressure. And he proved it by his own
performances.
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
"Conservatorship" is not a word that is familiar to me. It gives
the impression of being an upmarket description for a care home.
I'd sue for breach of promise! ?
Comment is about Wife Breaks Silence (blog)
Original item by d.knape
On my return home from school to a cottage above Lacock (well
known to TV and film viewers for its use as a location for many
"period" productions), I had to wait for the village bus to take
me up the hill on the last stage of my trip and that gave me the
chance to use whatever pennies I had to buy my favourite treat
of the time - a "Lovell's Milky Lunch" bar - from the local shop.....
at 1950s' prices, of course!
You are right about shrinking sizes of various choc bars - in
keeping with the value of the pound after decimalisation.
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A poem of poignant power. "Ramrod white stones" - so
evocative and right! The rest marches on to pull us along
through a journey that tells of so many lost young lives and
half-forgotten conflicts. US Union Army General Sherman said
"War is all hell" - and these lines remind of that reality in the most
personal way.
Comment is about The Allied Forces War Cemetery - Italy - 25th April 2021 (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
On behalf of the crows, I wish to protest against this blatant "birdism". ?
Comment is about The Buffet Is Now Open (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Hi Keith. My website is still under construction. In the meantime, a quick Google search should do the trick.
Also, if you're interested, below is the link to my debut chapbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58065112-how-to-wake-a-butterfly
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Comment is about Loic Ekinga (poet profile)
Original item by Loic Ekinga
Entertainment indeed, Leon. And better still, free.
Thanks for the Like, Holden.
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ah yes, George Galloway. A former Labour MP, as was another rabble rouser, Oswald Mosley, who acquired a certain following. Mosley got his comeuppance at Cable Street. A great pity Galloway didn't suffer a similar fate at Batley & Spen. He certainly deserved to.
Comment is about The poisoned garden (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Wed 7th Jul 2021 23:03
Sunday school hymn 'Tangles' was sung as 'Spangles'. What a hoot (we had to make our own entertainment in those days!)
Comment is about TUFFEES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes, Aviva, Holden and Jordyn.
Comment is about Speckled Foxgloves (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
I think they already have Leon, greedy rascals. ?
Comment is about The Buffet Is Now Open (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
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Wed 7th Jul 2021 18:45
You're spoiling those birds Julie. They'll forget how to forage.
Comment is about The Buffet Is Now Open (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
John, Keith, Greg. I very rarely make comments or entry these days. I am one of the jangled wrecks you refer to. I have since Gulf Ops had a straight 8 hour kip since 1991 about five times. I average about 2 - 4 hours kip a night unless tanked up with the only medicinal still capable of providing respite, alas, it does not do well to medicate on a single malt, particularly when Social Services are using your own children as a gagging tool.
The poppy! One could almost ask, what is it, what does it now symbolise. It is a flower where controversy in colour alone as one time serious and respected news casters follow the lines of hate and jealousy, and opt to push for a colour change.
Poppies are red, and are still upon fields of Northern Europe and beyond. I do fear it is wilting now, for all reason of its reference has nowt but politic to hide the Sun.
As a former soldier, with years of PTSD on board, it does not get any better. You may learn coping skills but if anything, some events become the more frightening. I will give an example.
I was held up at gun point during The Balkan War. There was a guy with us who was serbian who latched on. HVO wollers tailed us and confronted us. We were at the bottom of some steps in a built up area, and they sealed off any escape exit. An asian man, perhaps mercenary, had his hand on his pistol, which was tucked down the back of his pants. He was stood interogating the serbian who was crying stating they were going to kill him. so he is stood with his hand on his gat ready to just................... one of us, who were working for UNPROFOR, began to try to escape. He kept trying to make it up the stairs but the armed militia kept pushing him down. As an ex soldier, you know that if you're going to go in you go in hard full vocal until you breathe no more. But this woller, he was silent as he kept trying to push past the armed militia.................he just said nothing in a half hearted attempt and he was an ex soldier.
we eventually were set free, the man ran away as fast as he could.
over the years, you replay a whole myriad of events that, even if no direct threat, became all the more powerful for indirect psychological trauma.
recently I have visited that incident. I myself scared, unsure whether it was the neg seventeen celsius or fear thart had my teeth chattering. I stood my ground but know, temperature has nothing to do with it, even if the interogation went on for over 30 minutes.
As i visit that place, I have been crying for the state the man was in, who silently tried to push past the armed militia. To begin to understand what must have been really happening inside his heart and psyche, is to visit a place no man, no man, or woman should ever have to be.
We are all wrecks. We are trained, we learn to bare it, we all, want 'away' at the end of the day. As you understand the mass of male cull on regular schedule, you begin to weep for what is thought of human males. And there, you know just what a disgust and disgrace, our rulers and class act actually are, our engineers of hate.
We look to food banks for food, we see former acquaintances and know the wars in the middle east are ilegal. You weep for muslim as a brother, so too irish or african, russian too. You look at the history of Arnheim, Flounders and even Culloden...............and there is an emptiness that a chalice has no bottom for the liquid to settle.
It doesn't compute, and you begin............to wretch for all that was thought of you. Thoughts that, to this day, they uphold as they use your own family to gag you from telling the truth.
There is a poppy, I could hold it in my hand, I could hold a rose, a daffodil, a thistle.......................you could even think of Spikes The New Rose and still, all of it, has become lost unless, marketable by fake.
A great poem I will dwell over for some years and place in a collage of understanding that persists only solemn tears.
..............'They Just Don't Understand.'
Comment is about The bloody poppy (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Right ?✌? thank uh for the comment
Comment is about Lost fugitive (blog)
Original item by Nazia Khan
Welcome to WOL. I would welcome to read some of your poetry.
Keith
Comment is about Loic Ekinga (poet profile)
Original item by Loic Ekinga
There are different perceptions at play with a penalty. To the penalty taker the goals seem impossibly small; to the goalkeeper they seem as big as an aircraft hanger.
The advice about hitting the top corners holds true,MC, provided you do. It is very easy to undercut it trying to give it elevation, sending it arcing over the bar. On the other hand you can't "overcut" one to a bottom corner.
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Loved the title as well as the poem. Can't understand why this got so little attention!
Jennifer
Comment is about By Which we are Known (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Really beautifully expressed, and mysterious. Think you mean that sometimes you have a perception of your own, hear or see something or someone, or are you thinking more about religious faith? Beuatiful and thought provoking anyway.
Jennifer
Comment is about Utterances of Wisdom (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you Stephen, Thank you Aisha,
for your liking, making me happy.
Comment is about The Flower One Day (blog)
Original item by Michael Kwack
Quite right, Nigel, The heart will bloom after it falls.
Thanks for making me happy again.
Comment is about The Flower One Day (blog)
Original item by Michael Kwack
My thanks to those who have taken the trouble to "like" this
contribution.
Comment is about GROWING OLD ALONE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Rasa Kabaila
Sat 10th Jul 2021 07:50
Thanks for stopping by my profile Tony. I'm glad you enjoyed 'Tinder Tango'!
Can you tell me more about the inspiration behind 'Linen'? I love your words—somewhat cryptic and still expressive.
Your doggy is gorgeous. Rescue dog I hear? Aren't you a blessing.
Have a wonderful day.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Tony Hill (poet profile)
Original item by Tony Hill