Profile image

Martin Elder

Fri 12th Feb 2021 15:17

Wonderful Bob. Love that last line which rounds it al off nicely.

Comment is about More research (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Profile image

Martin Elder

Fri 12th Feb 2021 15:14

some excellent use of words here Keith. Dare I say without wishing to use a pun that this is sheer poetry.
Love it

Comment is about Retreat to Natrun (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Profile image

attila the stockbroker

Fri 12th Feb 2021 12:59

Well done! I'd have helped if I'd known about it...

Comment is about A huge thank-you to everyone that supported our fundraising appeal - you did us proud! (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Profile image

Adam Whitworth

Fri 12th Feb 2021 09:07

Love this one. very, very very good.

Comment is about Don't Tell My Heart (blog)

Original item by Dawn

Profile image

John Coopey

Fri 12th Feb 2021 09:01

Thanks for the Likes, D Joshi and Holden.

Comment is about COVID CLOTHES BLUES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Profile image

Mike Bartram

Fri 12th Feb 2021 08:53

Thanks for reading and the nice comment!

Comment is about Puddle Jumping (For Cancer Research) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Profile image

Nigel Astell

Fri 12th Feb 2021 08:49

Perhaps you have more
they themselves have nothing
but pictures to show.

Comment is about Green Eyed Monster (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

Nigel Astell

Fri 12th Feb 2021 08:36

Thanks for all your likes
Keith
Julie
Hugh
Stephen A
Holden and
Martin.

Comment is about Giving Something Back (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Profile image

Nigel Astell

Fri 12th Feb 2021 08:33

On the radio a volunteer who had talked to concerned anxious people who seemed so worried as they waited.

He just helped saying it would only take a few minutes for the jab and noticed one lady he had already talked to come back.

The doctors and nurses came out afterwards and said something like this makes a desperate situation a whole lot better to deal with.

Thanks for your comment Keith

Comment is about Giving Something Back (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Profile image

julie callaghan

Fri 12th Feb 2021 07:37

Thanks for the added likes and for the comment Stephen A. I am also feeling the need to upload a new profile photo?? you may have inspired a write

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

Brian Hodgkinson

Fri 12th Feb 2021 02:07

Very good. Yes, what do we expect? LOL

Comment is about Gods & Playthings (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Profile image

Brian Hodgkinson

Fri 12th Feb 2021 02:03

enthralled indeed. well done.

Comment is about Zeitgeist Zealots (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Profile image

Brian Hodgkinson

Fri 12th Feb 2021 02:01

very good. subtle.

Comment is about Autoimmune (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Profile image

Brian Hodgkinson

Fri 12th Feb 2021 01:56

I like this one a lot.

Comment is about Uncharted (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Profile image

Scattered Sun

Fri 12th Feb 2021 00:08

Thanks for the likes!
I love your work. You write so beautifully, I can feel every emotion.

Comment is about Jordyn Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 22:10

Thanks to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

Comment is about Hourglass (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

<Deleted User> (13740)

Thu 11th Feb 2021 22:08

Ha ha x funny

Comment is about THE SOUND OF BARKING (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 21:59

?

Comment is about THE SOUND OF BARKING (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Profile image

D Joshi

Thu 11th Feb 2021 20:13

Thank you Brian ?

Thank you for sharing your experience Andy. And yes the island life is considerably different to the mainland. I was there in 2014 spent a week on the mainland then a week on Tobacco Cayes at their Marine station for a university research project. Best two weeks I’ve had ?

Comment is about A Field Trip to Belize (blog)

Original item by D Joshi

Profile image

andy simons

Thu 11th Feb 2021 19:23

Good poem. I was in Belize in 1980. I lived on Ambergris Kaye while recovering from la touristas - which I got in Cancun. It was hell going through Belize and staying in Belize city. Once I got to the island it was heaven. I was on the reef a few times. This takes me back.

Comment is about A Field Trip to Belize (blog)

Original item by D Joshi

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 19:20

What's left besides the last final part... quite a lot, but until you can decide what that is for you, write lots of poetry. ?

Comment is about I admit, dying (blog)

Original item by letstalkaboutitbrooke

Profile image

andy simons

Thu 11th Feb 2021 19:17

I like this poem. I feel like I have seen and felt this.

Comment is about February Snow (blog)

Original item by Brenda Wells

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 19:15

I'll agree to agree so my comment can stay
But let's make it clear, as its better that way
This agreement assumed much of what you intend
Let me give some examples to show what I meant.

If you're thinking that I'm as wise as can be
If you're thinking that I write such cool poetry
If you're thinking that there's no one better than me
Then I undoubtedly, absolutely, unarguably agree.

? ? ?

Comment is about CLOSED MIND (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 19:00

I think the transition from weakness to strength, broken to restored, desolate to determined etc.. is the strength of the poem.

Comment is about Overwhelmed (blog)

Original item by Eric Berard

Profile image

Brian Hodgkinson

Thu 11th Feb 2021 18:36

Great word painting. Reminds me of my time in Hawaii. MMM I miss some of that.

Comment is about A Field Trip to Belize (blog)

Original item by D Joshi

Profile image

Stephen Atkinson

Thu 11th Feb 2021 18:03

Thank you for the additional likes & comments Brian, Vautaw & Nicola & for the Like Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin (that's a great name, by the way!)

Comment is about A Reflection (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Profile image

Stephen Atkinson

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:56

Wonderful imagery conjured up with chilly expertise. ❄️

Comment is about February Snow (blog)

Original item by Brenda Wells

Profile image

Stephen Atkinson

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:52

Great atmospheric piece! Showing your darker side Julie...?

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

D Joshi

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:50

Thank you for the Likes ?

And yes Julie, Belize is such a beautiful country. Well worth a visit one day ..

Comment is about A Field Trip to Belize (blog)

Original item by D Joshi

Profile image

Dawn

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:28

I think I like your poem, but i had a hard time following in parts. I know that can be part of the poem, but I looked up several words and I didn't find definitions (steeline, nuturance, unsutured (kind of has a def)) and it was hard for me to find the theme, even after rereading it. ... The second half was vivid and compelling and I hope to get the connection to the beginning.

Thank you for sharing

Comment is about brindle II (02/11/2021) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Profile image

Stephen Gospage

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:02

Thank you very much, Brian.

Comment is about Behind the door (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Profile image

John Coopey

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:02

“Before and after”, MC? Me? No, Sir. Our Girt does me with some hedge trimmers.
As for the original :-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBME_J0pf3o

Comment is about COVID CLOTHES BLUES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Profile image

Stephen Gospage

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:01

Comment is about Behind the door (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Profile image

Stephen Gospage

Thu 11th Feb 2021 17:00

Keith, Jennifer and John

Thank you so much for the comments. I didn't want to write poems about stereotypes, so the roles could just as easily be the other way round. This situation is just an example. But the notion of two people doing shared or parallel things in order to make it through many decades together is quite an inspiring one.

Thanks for the kind comments on the language, Jennifer.

Comment is about The Red Marriage (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Profile image

raypool

Thu 11th Feb 2021 16:55

I appreciate you looking in Keith and that there was a resonance with your own experiences, always precious of course! We can't know what youth today will store for the future, but it will certainly be tinged with the same auras, as were my father and mother's own before me. One thing I do know - there are so many smells gone that would take us instantly back, most of them not to today's liking no doubt!

And thanks a lot to Jennifer, Brian, Julie, Stephen, Aisha, Aviva and Holden to whom I must present an award for ongoing awareness of my efforts.

Ray

Comment is about FIFTIES' HOLIDAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Profile image

keith jeffries

Thu 11th Feb 2021 16:19

Thank you. Two words which say and mean so much yet cost so little.

Keith

Comment is about Giving Something Back (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Profile image

julie callaghan

Thu 11th Feb 2021 16:19

My kind of trip, one day....

Comment is about A Field Trip to Belize (blog)

Original item by D Joshi

Profile image

M.C. Newberry

Thu 11th Feb 2021 15:47

Well done Dave Martin - thanks for the poem. I look forward to
seeing what results from the hoped-for promotion later on. By the way, it always seemed to me that Torquay frequently lost a game by
giving away a goal or two in the closing minutes - so often, that I
would look out for it when checking the results as a long-distance
observer from The Smoke. At least that has been less obvious lately.

Comment is about The poetry of football (1): Dave Martin, bard of Torquay United (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Profile image

M.C. Newberry

Thu 11th Feb 2021 15:31

I didn't know the original but this is a real tonic in these dull days.
Inventive and jolly - bravo.! By the way, do the photos show you
"then" and "now"?? Just asking.

Comment is about COVID CLOTHES BLUES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Profile image

Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin

Thu 11th Feb 2021 14:12

beautifiul words Keith

Comment is about The Earth Sleeps (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

d.knape

Thu 11th Feb 2021 13:55

You can't go down
to Ikea again
it's all to no avail,
for even if
you could return
your ship"s already sailed!

?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Profile image

julie callaghan

Thu 11th Feb 2021 13:34

Great poem, well done for raising awareness to this fundraiser.
Happy Splish, splash, sploshing.

Comment is about Puddle Jumping (For Cancer Research) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Profile image

julie callaghan

Thu 11th Feb 2021 13:30

Thank you for you kind comment Keith, and everyone else for the generous likes.

Comment is about Too Little Too Late (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

julie callaghan

Thu 11th Feb 2021 13:29

Thank you for the likes and comments. Glad you picked up on it relating to different situations Brian. I didn't even know the correct term until I googled for a picture. Yes, cutting corners by not putting tow paths through the tunnels was probably not the best idea?

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

andy simons

Thu 11th Feb 2021 13:05

Wow, high praise!
thanks.

Comment is about Perfection (blog)

Original item by andy simons

Profile image

Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 11th Feb 2021 12:38

carry on, carry on, 'til the end of the tunnel's in sight
stay strong, stay strong, until you find your light.

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

Nigel Astell

Thu 11th Feb 2021 12:06

Uncertainty creeping in
perhaps half-way
no turning back
just carry on.

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

keith jeffries

Thu 11th Feb 2021 10:58

Straight from the heart and beautifully written.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about The Things I Know (blog)

Original item by Scattered Sun

<Deleted User> (18980)

Thu 11th Feb 2021 09:57

Like it. The tunnel could relate to a number of situations, so folk will put their own interpretation on it.

The picture harks back to the days of horse drawn barge. If only they could have taught the horses to do the tunnels!

Comment is about Legging It (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Profile image

jennifer Malden

Thu 11th Feb 2021 09:25

Thanks to Abdul, Stephen, Aisha and Holden for the likes, and Ray and Dawn for the comments. glad you found something in it. Great to hear from you again, Ray!
Jennifer

Comment is about A Rude Awakening (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

More Comments

◄ Prev123 … 304 … 608 … 614615616617618 … 912 … 1216 … 1520 … 1824 … 2128 … 2432 … 2736 … 303230333034Next ►

This site uses only functional cookies that are essential to the operation of the site. We do not use cookies related to advertising or tracking. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Find out more Hide this message