To be honest Paul, he was a cantankerous old bugger, who lived much of his life like a car crash, but he was very funny and we all loved him, and for all his faults he had an honest soul. I don't have any problem with religion, people are free to think what they like, it's their life, and you never know, they might be right?
But I don't think so, I think the only way we live on after death is in the hearts and minds of others and in the DNA of our children. ❤

J. x

Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

It will eventually reveal. With time it will be seen.?

Comment is about The Real Deal (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Indeed, she was one inspirational woman. Easily explaining astro-physics in a way all could follow.

Comment is about Heather (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

I see you asking for someone to lend you their feet
But it won't be a walk in the park for them
They'll actually be lending you a hand as well
And that's after lending their ears -
After you've borrowed their shoulder
And captured their eyes and mind
What's left I ask you?
Give someone an inch and they'll take a mile

Comment is about Wake Up!!!!! I'm not sure if they teach the Standard system in Metric land (blog)

Original item by New Shoes

I forgot to count how many breaths it took me to read this, but everything slowed down while I concentrated on your eloquent writing and I'm pretty sure that included breathing too. So I'll have less than the usual count of breaths today, by quite a few since I read this a few times just to admire the skill of it and catch how it begins once I already knew how it ends.
You capture a subject so completely in how you tell it, the surface and the depth are each caught so well.

Comment is about Lucky Girl (blog)

Original item by Kristian Deidre Brown

Oh my goodness this is beautiful! ❤ I'm so glad to have stumbled upon your poem tonight.


-J

Comment is about Lucky Girl (blog)

Original item by Kristian Deidre Brown

Thank you dear Paul. ? It’s so nice to see you back with your WOL family. ❤️

Comment is about You and Me (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

I like your use of lightening & thunder.
Make Poetry
Not War!
?

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

It's funny you know. My dad was an atheist as am I and he chose, on the subject of wood, a natural burial with an oak planted over him, thus giving a little back for all we've taken. After experiencing that I chose the same thing and if some small part of me lives on in one of our symbiotic partners on this planet, then that's all good with me.

J. x

Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Probably your best Julie in its tightness and rhythm.

I like the use of the possessive pronoun relating to Christoph.

Comment is about Trees That Now Span The River (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

?Thanks Po, I'm really pleased you liked it. I've had a bit of a, "Dry spell," just recently (Pardon the pun), so I'm pleased that it's water that came to my rescue, my favourite of the 4 elements.

J. x

Comment is about If I Was A Sailor (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Yes and when they can't fulfil their orders
Because they didn't think to be hoarders
They'll be out of Scotch Eggs
Then they'll run on their legs (how else)
And we'll soon see them raiding the borders

???

Comment is about Haggis (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Very insightful and atmospheric poem. The analogy is striking and feels very true. But I wonder whether we realise everything right, we who think that we must court danger if we dare to court at all... maybe there's some less dangerous landscape to find each other, and we just don't know where it is?

Comment is about Lovers (blog)

Original item by Devyani

Thanks for your thoughtful insights Aviva. The poem is unfinished. I just wanted to capture what came to me. The quote to me speaks of a love separated by circumstances beyond control.

Comment is about You and Me (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

I like the poem far better than the quote.
(Seems quite mean to me to have your love consigned to stay outside your cosy home and only the scent of them allowed to reach you ... tch tch tch...)
Your poem however tells of a love with proper connection.

Comment is about You and Me (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

I like how there is a lot of movement in this poem, and I don't just mean the description of the way the snow moves but the fact that the onset of snow has been described in all of its stages. And then the poem ends in stuck stillness with the frozen and (implied?) unmoveable shutter.

Comment is about A Snowy Landscape (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you very much for the nice comment and the likes!

Comment is about 2.36 (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thank you for reading and the likes!

Comment is about The 4th Wall (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thank you for commenting Tom. Perhaps it will grow into a new poem, even. Which makes me think... of a new best wish for poets... May you find many beautiful poems, in yourself and elsewhere.

And Hooray!!!!
An extra thank you for everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem as this is the first of mine which reached TWO FLOWERS
? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Comment is about To My Daughters About Dreams (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for the comments Lasse and Beth. Thanks to everyone for the likes.

Comment is about Robin (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks, Clyde. Liked this one.

Comment is about windmills (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Can we see the poem Mark?

Comment is about REACHING OUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Greg. Interesting article. I may have a cardigan somewhere, although I can't remember ever wearing it. I hope that I would never dismiss something just because it was "a bit modern". The audience members who protested against Stravinsky's Rite of Spring would look rather ridiculous now. Perhaps time gives us a perspective.

Intellectualism has a place in poetry or any other art form, but as you say, a certain coldness can repel the reader.
Eliot himself was steeped in learning but (at least to me) his poetry was never cold or inaccessible (although you have to work at it).

Yes, some of the reaction to Amanda Gorman disappointing but I am sure she has found a wider audience. Her books seem to be selling well.

Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Here's a brief comment on the subject and its £25,000 prize.
The immigrant seeks to bring change to the host
Whilst the host seeks to keep what is valued the most. ?

Comment is about Bhanu Khapil wins £25,000 TS Eliot prize with collection about immigrants and hosts (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

The reference here to "high end version" (of poetry) indicates a
sort of schism in what's written by poets for poets and what's written and touches the rest of us. It is apparent that there is a whole
world of mutually reliant, mutually admiring writers turning out stuff
that might be termed "competition" content - aimed at the appreciation of the like-minded and dismissive of anything that deviates
from what "they" consider to be "poetry".
Modern classical music has seen a similar situation for some time.
An old saying comes back to mind:
The intellectual seeks; the wise man has found.

Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the comments
ARB - you're not far short of the truth. I put my poem in a transparent
sleeve (waterproof) and left it (a sort of self-publication) at the start
of a coast walk where others who took the same path might see and
read it. That she returned later with a pen to copy it was a big compliment.
KJW - Indeed, it was kind of her to follow-up - even thirty years
later! She even said how it still brought tears to her eyes
BH - good news is always welcome, not least when it crosses the
decades..
Thanks to all who took the trouble to "like" this post.

Comment is about REACHING OUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

a skillfully composed poem rich in its descriptive quality. Certainly an ode to a photographer. An Italian friend is a professional photographer and I shall show this to him.

Thank for a fine piece of poetic language

Keith

Comment is about Murmuration (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thank you for your comments Aviva, Philipos, and Stephen! Glad you liked this piece.

Best
Mike

Comment is about Dog Stars (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

I really enjoyed this Aviva. I especially liked your line about how some dreams "would not stay". For some reason it really stood out to me and caught my imagination. Thanks for sharing.

Comment is about To My Daughters About Dreams (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Charlotte.

Comment is about windmills (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Good you, Greg.

From the man in the Clapham cardigan.

Comment is about The 'man in the cardigan' was gently ribbed by Ian McMillan. But does he have a point? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm really glad you felt guilty today as this is brilliant.

It makes me think though... (and as you know, that's not always a good thing)...

Perhaps lightning and thunder only occurs when people on this planet haven't written enough poems to take the tension out of the air? It seems plausible to me! Keep writing... ?

Comment is about NOT WRITING (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I actually quite enjoyed reading that! ?

Comment is about Robin (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

That's right. Robins often come to tease. I think they like to present themselfs. But still they are a lot easier to photograph than tits. They never rest.

Comment is about Robin (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks for the likes for my little ditty Paul, Hugh and Stephen A. Nice to see many posts about everyone enjoying the snow.

Comment is about Hours Of Fun (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks for all the likes

Comment is about Like Snowdrops We Should Be (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Hi Nikola,
thanks for sharing that. I found that some of the people who have overcome a severe disease know more about living life than most. Being grateful is also a quality that makes you kind of invincible ?

Comment is about Hypocrite Society (blog)

Original item by Lasse Krey

Nicola and Brian, thank you both for your comments and support.

Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem.

Comment is about To My Daughters About Dreams (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Much to think about in this. The layers of the poem spread far beyond what you can see from your window. Then, you at your window writing a poem is part of the poem too. Then, somewhere in life's global poem is the balancing measure that turns our every moment into poetry.

Comment is about Window Frame (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Thank you M.C for your comment. I agree that would be an important consideration ?

Thank you also to Philipos, John Andrew Nield and J.D Bardo for clicking 'Like' for this poem. ?

Comment is about Secretly Wanted (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Paul for your comment.
Thanks to Keith, John and Trevor for the likes.

(Sadly Paul's comment is no longer viewable since he left the site)

Comment is about Finders Keepers (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Martin for your comment and sorry for not responding sooner. I've also had many songs that became like that for me too. So much so that it wouldn't be fair to mention one more than another, all except 'Night People' by Dio which I'll mention since it does have the word poetry in it too.

Comment is about Music To Live By (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Fabulous good news.

Comment is about REACHING OUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Food for thought... liking it

Comment is about Hurt Me (blog)

Original item by M3RK

Yes. Good!

Comment is about Jagged Edges (blog)

Original item by M3RK

Smooth, open, airy, free
I like it. More!

Comment is about Sunrise Eyes (blog)

Original item by M3RK

Reflective reflecting. Liked.

Comment is about I am my own worst Enemy (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

This has a very pensive feeling to me. I like.

Comment is about As I get older … (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

I like this for its openness and organic feel.

Comment is about Pushing Through (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Heartfelt and true.

Comment is about All They Have Got (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari