I appreciate comments, likes, kudos, but these have nothing to do with my motivation for writing.
If I were the only human on planet earth, I would write just what I have written. What a wonderful freedom this is.?
Comment is about My Writing Senryu (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Thank you very much Keith
Comment is about Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin (poet profile)
Original item by Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin
I would love to have been there.
Keith
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Welcome to WOL. Your introductory poem is to be applauded as it deals with love as something all embracing and free of inhibitions.
Keith
Comment is about Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin (poet profile)
Original item by Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin
Thank you M.C Newberry for commenting, I agree with you about the points you made.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Check the determination to impeach a private citizen, clearly contrary
to the actual wording of the Constitution - hardly likely to be aimed
at the essential political unity needed to benefit the country..
That is merely the most immediate step in a backwards direction by
the members of this well-to-do Party.
Speaking of which - as he floats around in his private jet while
thousands are now reported to be losing employment:
John Kerry
Makes merry
While the jobless poor
Are shown the door.
Comment is about A CONTEMPORARY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I don't need to follow the news anymore.
All the important stuff gets a poem on WOL anyway ?
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Hello Ray - I sent you a reply via WOL about obtaining an online
copy of your photobook, but have not received a reply. Did you
receive it?
Cheers,
MC
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
A theme for life perhaps. I like the sequence of couplets and where
they lead.
Comment is about Status (blog)
Original item by Scattered Sun
A genuine expression of contrition is always welcome and serves
to diffuse many awkward situations. Sadly, there is a tendency to
apologise by public figures when a more considered approach to
previous utterances and/or behaviour might have prevented the
perceived need to do so.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
The cost of fame is the price you pay for losing your personal
privacy. For those who seek it, there must be a reckoning that no
amount of retrospective complaining can counteract..
Comment is about Fame (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
When you have an active brain, it is continuing to work ahead while
you head to obtain what was in mind previously and it places the
latter in the "done and dusted" file.
Comment is about Senior Moment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Electronic democracy in disputed (disreputable?) action, no less!
A storm in the proverbial tea-cup.
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the comment Graham. Thanks for the likes JD, Brian, Aviva, Keith and D Joshi.
Comment is about The Cross (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Not just me then? I often forget to remember, or do I remember to forget.
Comment is about Senior Moment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
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Sun 7th Feb 2021 16:03
Barmy, but I like it.
Comment is about Temple Encounters (Funny poem) (blog)
Original item by Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin
Thanks Hope Ray for commenting. All true.
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Someone knows. Beautiful sentinels.
Comment is about The Cross (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
A neighbour of mine is 84 and he recently told me that he has lost six friends/acquaintances since Christmas. He has a very refreshing attitude for an old 'un. He says if it wasn't them it'd be me! Bravo I say.
Always a thoughtful write Ray. Thanks for keeping us alert.
Graham
Comment is about LOSS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (28781)
Sun 7th Feb 2021 12:25
To err is human. Change begins within.
Stagnant water causes stench.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
narcissist much
Comment is about that one time i saw a ghost (blog)
Original item by Stanley Butterscotch
weishenme??
Comment is about what the old man said to me (blog)
Original item by Stanley Butterscotch
comment est-ce qu'on dit "grockle" en francais?
Comment is about important fact to remember (blog)
Original item by Stanley Butterscotch
Thank you moon.girl for your comment. I've also forgiven many who never ever said sorry to me, but genuine remorse leads to change and a broken system needs to change.
Out of context, or in the wider meaning, I think it is helpful to think about how and when we say sorry.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks for the kind comments and likes Keith, JD, Stephen G and Nigel. Also thank for the likes Holden, Aviva, Candi and Brian.
Comment is about Jack Of All Trades (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (29585)
Sun 7th Feb 2021 09:28
Sorry. A word! Sans feelings. I have forgiven many who never ever said sorry to me leave alone feeling sorry. I'm happy I forgave and moved on.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Nice wordplay, Jane
Comment is about I wondered into the British Museum (blog)
Original item by Jane McCourt
An excellent start ,well done . Look forward ,as others will too ,to reading more of your work.
Comment is about I Don't Hate You, I Hate Myself (blog)
Original item by ImJustMe
Hating yourself
doesn't work
as you see.
Forgive yourself.
Love yourself.
Discover the
joyful surprises
those miracles bring.
Write on!
Comment is about I Don't Hate You, I Hate Myself (blog)
Original item by ImJustMe
Deal me in
felt a slap
your hard hand
when playing snap.
Comment is about Jack Of All Trades (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you for the comment on my poem!
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I have to give this the heist praise
Comment is about I wondered into the British Museum (blog)
Original item by Jane McCourt
This is beautiful Candi. All those small things which mean so much in the eyes of the unfaltering love of a parent. Quietly powerful and made me think of my own mum. ?
Comment is about Last Day at School (blog)
Original item by Candi
I think the optimism could be confounded here. The USA has gone from being a melting pot to a boiling pot.
Keith
Comment is about A CONTEMPORARY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
How so? In another clerihew, preferably ...
Comment is about A CONTEMPORARY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for your thoughts, Stephen and MC. I’m not against bending history in the interests of a good yarn. Shakespeare did it often enough. But the imbecilic plastic characterisation in The Patriot and Braveheart is beyond the pale. And thanks for the Like, Aviva.
Comment is about THE ANTI-CHRIST OF HISTORY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Stephen for your comment and for expressing a preference.
The shorter version is more direct, surprising and mysterious, whereas the longer version is more ornate with metaphor and word-play and has some additional explanation and concepts. it's a 48%/52% preference and it changes all the time for me, sometimes from moment to moment, which I prefer more ?
Comment is about I Cannot Cling (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Wow, so many good poems today. Every line of this one crackles with energy.
Thanks!
Comment is about Temporary Fool. (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Thank you Keith for your comment. You are right, the way we decide to live is very much linked to whatever we believe in, that can set some boundaries for us.
Outside the structure of an established belief system we just get to find our own answers if we want to. Perhaps the answers or the coursework will get marked wrong at the end, but then again perhaps not.
Comment is about I Cannot Cling (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks, Hugh. They just get better!
Comment is about An apple puzzle that might appeal (blog)
Original item by hugh
I am slightly partial to the directness of the short version, although it is hard to lose the missing text of the longer one. The last line presents the ultimate challenge (or choice?)
Many thanks for the poems.
Comment is about I Cannot Cling (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
The scripts were certainly focussed on film "entertainment" but I
certainly get your point about how many actually believe what they
are seeing on the silver screen. Perhaps films of this sort should be
preceded with a warning about "Artistic Licence"? Gibson is a
very real talent as a director. His films "Man Without A Face" and
more recently the visceral war film that told the story of the young conscientious objector who served as a medico and rescued many
lives under fire (and obtained a ten minutes ovation at a European
film festival). are proof of his talents. Maybe it's just the Aussie in
him mixed with his adopted US mindset - that had him taking
liberties against the dastardly English in the films you mention. After
all, he has also come under fire for anti-Semitism, so controversy is
certainly not unknown in his life as a film-maker.
Comment is about THE ANTI-CHRIST OF HISTORY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
J.D. Bardo
Sun 7th Feb 2021 20:58
Lucky for us that you are motivated to share your work, I enjoy all of it Brian. Thank-you. Senryu is what you call it? I have some in my collection but most will not pass the moderators approval.
Are you there moderator? stand by on your delete key !!
J.D. has some challenges, (i will start with a tame one)
Comment is about My Writing Senryu (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.