"Hand-servants" is a lovely description.

Comment is about RECYCLING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

The coke bottle
will reincarnate
as a plastic plate
and after soon
will be a spoon
and maybe then
a biro pen
till fates allot
it who knows what.

Comment is about RECYCLING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you for your comment Your Royal Poetess. Fighting!

They steal happiness
as if they think it is the
only one i've got.

They run off with it
only showing the sad fact
they can't grow their own.

Comment is about A War To Be Won (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you for your comment Your Royal Poetess and that is a great concept, a beautiful thought. ?

Comment is about Other Things To Smile About (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Don’t let the world change your smile, allow your smile to change the world ☺️

Comment is about Other Things To Smile About (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Fight for your happiness ??

Comment is about A War To Be Won (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Ha. I love cats

Comment is about LOVING PARENTS (blog)

Original item by d.knape

It does seem true that our will to act can vary according to time and
circumstance. Heroism - like cowardice - can be a sometime thing.
There can often be that silent insistence
That leads to the path of least resistance. ?

Comment is about In an idle state (blog)

Original item by Jadia4708au

Thank you Kevin for your comment, and yes, that is right.
Waiting for the poetic train of thought.

Comment is about Poetry Junction (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Perhaps you yourself are the vehicle to take you there ?

Comment is about Poetry Junction (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

That is what pesticide does to us

Comment is about Pesticide (blog)

Original item by Damon Blackery

your presence here makes my world a little better. Take care

Comment is about The Algea (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Thank you for your comments A Girl and Keith. I am really glad that you each enjoyed the poem and took time to comment about it. ?

Thank you also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

Comment is about Poetry Junction (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

She of little memory thinks this might be your finest piece...

Comment is about LOVING PARENTS (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Hah - nice one!

Comment is about LOVING PARENTS (blog)

Original item by d.knape

This is one of those poems in which the writer successfully takes the reader into the scenario described. I well remember the days of steam, carriages with corridors and compartments, large waiting rooms with open fires, whistles being blown and the great gusts of steam as trains arrived and departed. Train journeys have no comparison to other forms of travel. A poem well written.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Poetry Junction (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Nicely penned. I really enjoyed this.

AG

Comment is about Poetry Junction (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

thanks for you kind comment nazia

Comment is about Raining again? (blog)

Original item by dazzer

Beautiful and ethereal. Thank you!

Comment is about MAGIC MOON TREE (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

Thank you for commenting Nigel. ?

Thanks also to those who have clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

Comment is about Invest In Posterity (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you to Nazia Khan and Holden Moncrieff for the likes.

Comment is about A War To Be Won (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you for your comment Nigel, I agree with that. ?

Comment is about A War To Be Won (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

After a lifetime of collecting
we forget to leave a space for ourselves.

Comment is about Invest In Posterity (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

You have won the war
when happiness comes
without having to battle.

Comment is about A War To Be Won (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for your likes
Aviva
Stephen A
Julie
Holden
and
Stephen G.

Comment is about Can't Put It Down (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

So just keep breathing and try to love yourself.

Music to my ears.

AG

Comment is about Breathing (blog)

Original item by Damon Blackery

Superb! ?

Comment is about Warmouth (blog)

Original item by gravelbar

Thanks for the likes folks.

Comment is about Daily Lesson In Maths (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Heavenly ?

Comment is about Imago Dei (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

I wake like that but it is not bitter, it is sweet. Sweet freedom.
it is salted caramel, it is lemon sherbet, it is fangtastic sours.
it is pancakes with lemon and sugar.

Comment is about Bitter (blog)

Original item by Deb

I like pheasant plucking cause pheasant plucking is fun
that is before it runs off!

Comment is about Good Morning (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Yourself must not
let the bitter taste of one
spoil the taste of another.

Comment is about Bitter (blog)

Original item by Deb

Love it, Nigel

Comment is about Whiter Than White (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you Nigel for stopping by and reading my poem

Comment is about I Don't Belong (blog)

Original item by Deb

You might consider this comment to be late, or perhaps just very carefully considered. I felt moved to add it after re-reading this interview.
Mission statements are oft well-meaning but can sound trite. I am thoroughly heartened to realise that Neil's (and everyone else's) perception of his success is to have brought more readers to (or back to) poetry, which we (Write Out Loud) have had as our mission statement - required for our 2015 application to become a Community Interest Company - and, as recent feedback testifies, have done exactly that.
Neil's critics worried that he had opened the gates to the barbarians. For the first years of our existence, we were accused of dumbing-down poetry, when in actual fact what Neil has achieved, and we have sought, is to help reduce the numbers of people ignoring most poetry, and increase access to the poetry that does not ignore most of us; to misquote Adrian Mitchell.
Thank you, Neil. Thank you, Greg.

Comment is about How we brought more readers to poetry - Neil Astley on Bloodaxe’s Staying Alive series, and the new anthology (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

?? ???

Comment is about The police are searching for a killer (blog)

Original item by hugh

Artwork by: Michelangelo Buonarroti ?

Comment is about Imago Dei (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

A beautiful poetic plant, planted by you. Trees are the lungs of our future.

Comment is about MAGIC MOON TREE (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

The virus is a maths destruction, I've nothing more to add.

Comment is about Daily Lesson In Maths (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks, GIrl, for your comment and kudos. I am glad you like it.

Comment is about After Gaze (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Thanks for the smilies, a girl ?

And, Julie, yes it was nice to see a bit sun for a change. It's as misty as my brain now though ?

Kevin, hope you're not laughing at my poem, it has hidden meanings regarding conservation of the planet & the eco syst... Aw, no it's just about a bird having a poo ?

And thanks for the Likes!

Comment is about Little Dickie's Poo-Pot (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Our ever present lack of satisfaction so well described. Better and better!

Jennnifer

Comment is about Never Enough (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

It’s like the instruction on how to write a great poem.

Made me feel.

AG

Comment is about After Gaze (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Beautifully written ??? I love rain and your poem smells like drenched soil. ???

Comment is about Raining again? (blog)

Original item by dazzer

Writing is my only redemption ?

Comment is about Free in captivity (blog)

Original item by Nazia Khan

Yay, I'm in a band! I'll contribute intermittent footstep and paraphernalia percussion.

Comment is about ANTHEM TO MY LIFE (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

Thank you, Kevin, yes, I agree.?

Comment is about After Gaze (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

perhaps that moment is not so far away

Comment is about After Gaze (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

I have to be honest and admit I was adopting a particular persona, but there is also an element within me that empathises with the sentiments of that persona. I should also add that I can't wait for warm days sitting outside a country pub, enjoying a pint or tw

Comment is about Normality (blog)

Original item by Nicholas

LOL it's cracking me up!

Comment is about Little Dickie's Poo-Pot (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson