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)
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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
Successful penalties are the result of diligent practice - as an old
Manchester player (famous for his ability to score them) constantly proclaimed. His advice to place them in the top corner
of the net cannot be faulted. No keeper, however agile or with prescience of the intention, can hope to reach that chosen spot.
On a corresponding note, I'm curious why players today so often
use the side of the boot when players of other days would use the instep/front of the boot...surely with more accuracy and power.
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wed 7th Jul 2021 12:02
Thank you Keith for your comments on "Yard Work".
Nowadays, people shun physical work as if it's bad.
All they want to do is zoom calls. ha.
Physical work is equal to mental work.
It is a partner in our overall well-being.
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<Deleted User> (5011)
Wed 7th Jul 2021 11:55
A lovely interview. Inspiring and instructional. Thank you.
Comment is about ‘I was too ill to write as normal, but the poems kept flowing’: Alwyn Marriage on her long battle with Covid, and the loss of a loved one (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This poem can also be found on my page on the wonderful Football Poets website http://footballpoets.org/poets/greg-freeman/
Comment is about The striker's fear of the penalty (blog)
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Thanks Holden, Nigel and Matt for your likes here. I am really touched here (:
Comment is about No one there (blog)
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Thanks Jordyn and Holden for the likes here. Means the world (:
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
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Thanks Nigel. Being ages since I had a attempt at writing little Natureish poems. Enjoying this little series m8. More to follow.
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
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Thank you, Keith. I appreciate you stopping by and sharing your thoughts on this. ?
Comment is about In Memoriam (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
footsteps of ghosts
imaginary witches spells
I hope don't
catch the bus
one of your best Andy.
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Thanks Andy I have a strawberry bed in the garden and get a good supply this time of year.
Comment is about Turning Red (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
The heart will fall
but like the flower
will grow to bloom
before you even know.
Comment is about The Flower One Day (blog)
Original item by Michael Kwack
Emer,
This poem has that special quality to take the reader where he or she wants to be, to mourn and remember. Written with mindful skill.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about In Memoriam (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
John,
Thank you indeed for this poem. The land owned by aristocrats was at one time the land of monasteries and convents who fed the hungry, provided hospitality, employed local people and educated the young. More recently the bodies of our war dead lie in foreign fields or watery graves. The survivors of horror are now jangled wrecks incapable of work or re entering society. Poppies still grow where the heroes lie below. Men and women who never knew privilege, only duty without any real gratitude.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The bloody poppy (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Aisha,
Thank you for reading and appreciating some of my poems. I find such interest in my work to be very encouraging.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Aisha Suleman (poet profile)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
I would beg to differ on the poppies, John. I've never seen so many as this year, while on holiday in the north-east. Fields of them, and many especially planted on grass verges by councils and the like. But I appreciate that's not really the point of this poem. And certainly great swathes of the north-east are owned by the Duke of Northumberland and his kind. England is in a right old state.
Comment is about The bloody poppy (blog)
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Thank you for your kind words Jordyn.
Comment is about Geraniums (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
This was just lovely to read! Great write.
-J
Comment is about Geraniums (blog)
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Thanks for the likes Aisha, Holden, Stephen G, Keith and Jennifer. Thank you also for the kind comments.
Comment is about Geraniums (blog)
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I recollect some years after the setting for this piece, at the 1974 World Cup, MC, the Dutch players appeared as fuzzy orange blobs on our colour telly. The silky skills of Johann Cruyff were lost beneath an orange blur.
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
New Shoes - thanks for the kind comment and for posing the question. A storm can certainly create unrest by its effects, but can unrest create a storm? Maybe if we all try hard enough. A pending storm can create space, and quiet, which gives an unusual pause for reflection.
I am overwhelmed by the number of you who liked this poem. Thanks to Nigel, Tom, Nikhita, Jordyn, Michael, Aisha, Holden, Erika and Pete.
Comment is about Storm (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Yes, Peter West. You wouldn't have caught him doing the wrestling. Not with my grandmother about....
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
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Today saw an email arrive about a £2000 pledge from two names from the acting profession. Getting there!!
Comment is about Campaigners reach £134,000 target for sculpture to mark WB Yeats in England with day to spare (article)
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JC - the TV days in question that I recall were "glorious black and white". Experimental colour television didn't come along until
the late 1960s and only on BBC 2 (with David Attenborough as
its controller. I distinctly remember the excitement at the
programming of the film "Singing in the Rain" (we stared
transfixed!) and that popular Western series "High Chaparral".
For a long time we had watched American imports with those
teasing end credits that told us they were actually in colour.
Hey - I've just remembered that
smoothie from cricket - step up Peter West.
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
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Lovely, as usual, Ray! Loved 'till I shooked'. Just one question, how did you know it was a fox?
Jennifer
Comment is about THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR STEALING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Liked this one! Short and concentrated! I have had to give up geraniums because of that b.................y butterfly that gets at them. jennifer
Comment is about Geraniums (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Never a dull moment!! Liked 'the elemental rage of a crackling pyre.' Jennifer
Comment is about Kindling (blog)
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This poem would resound well in any monastic community. St Benedict directed that all monks should engage in manual as well as intellectual labour. By "yard work", washing dishes, ironing or cleaning the house, our minds are refreshed and open to inspiration. Yard work is time which is never wasted.
An excellent poem
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Yard Work (blog)
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Thanks for the likes Nigel, Aisha, Holden, Keith and Stephen G. Also for the kind comments. Let us hope they receive good news about the pay increase soon.
Comment is about Congratulations NHS (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Great piece, Nigel, particularly like the second line but a wonderful piece either way.
Comment is about Turning Red (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Just a thought to add on top of comments and entry. For as long as man could detect large solar flare activity of the Sun, it has been correlated to directly correspond with civil unrest and war. So the question: Does civil unrest create the storm, or does the storm create civil unrest?
Peace Stephen, you're one of my favorites!
Comment is about Storm (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
better to tell our ordeals to lake than never
Comment is about Lost fugitive (blog)
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Inspiring words in staying the steady course.
Comment is about CaMpbEll/bAker (blog)
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Tue 6th Jul 2021 03:25
thanks Keith.
You would know, having been in the military.
we waste our best and brightest-
we gain nothing in the end.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
You have a strong voice for poetry
and use it well.
Comment is about Voice For The Voiceless (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
Thanks for your likes
Holden
Stephen G
Aisha
Jordyn
Michael
Andy N
Aviva
and
Your Royal Poetess.
Comment is about Turning Red (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
“Black and white”!!!??? Not the Minstrels surely, MC.
And a grandma who questions the masculinity of sweaty fat men in woolly budgie smugglers, Stephen? That’s a bit disturbing.
Thanks for the Like, Tom and Aisha and Jordyn.
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Canines and humans - one of the great inter-species success stories. It even seems impossible to imagine life without them.
It would be fascinating to be able to read a dog's thoughts about
humanity!
Comment is about 'The truth is I love watching you trot away from me' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Who was it who observed that "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be?"
It is...it IS!!
So many names from my own distant "yoof". Add the likes of
Julian Wilson (racing) and that smoothie from cricket - no, not
Brian Johnstone...but the smaller guy who reminded me of John
Mills' unknown brother - and the list grows ever richer and more
black and white!
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Not history, John, I remember those times. I used to watch WOS with my grandmother occasionally. She used to shout at the Wrestlers (for some reason questioning their masculinity). Come to think of it, she used to shout at everyone, especially carol singers. Those were the days.
Comment is about WORLD OF SPORT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Ray!
Comment is about Frank on Parole (after Tom Waits) (blog)
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jennifer Malden
Wed 7th Jul 2021 17:07
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)
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