This pictures the relationship between the sky and the Earth, between birth and rebirth.
Well done

Comment is about Rain turned into wine (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Creative.

Comment is about Pieces (blog)

Original item by Mocosy

I know what you mean, MC, although your conclusion is perhaps arrived at via a fairly circuitous route, considering you started by addressing the subject matter of the poem, namely a romance between two teachers in a US school. Only a pedant would point out that the use of newspapers in wrapping fish and chips has been illegal for about the last 30 years. Never mind, no doubt we will soon be liberated from such restrictions by the forthcoming bonfire of red tape. Who knows, maybe we'll be able to wrap our chlorinated chicken in old newspapers, too, in the devil-may-care years to come!

Comment is about 'All his calculations secretly yearning away from algebra' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Has a certain primordial yearning about it. The full moon night and the wolves give it a special touch.

Enjoyed this poem.

Abdul

Comment is about FULL MOON NIGHT (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

Moon.girl, Po and Mortimer

I raise my tankard and toast you three for your generous comments!

Thank you for the like, too.

Abdul

Comment is about Rain turned into wine (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Hope you enjoy this virtual stroll around Kirkby Lonsdale. A perfectly safe day out in lock down.

Comment is about A Stroll Around Kirkby Lonsdale (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

thank you, Adam Whitworth, for hitting a like for 'Scars'

Dr. Kishore

Comment is about Scars (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

Hreatfelt thanks, Manisha Saini, for hitting a like!

Dr. Kishore

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

I will drink that wine any day Abdul.

Mortimer

Comment is about Rain turned into wine (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

What most people fail to realize is there are good people inside the police departments just following orders, just as their are good men in both armies of a war.

It would be a better world if good and bad were divided neatly with a line but they are not and never can be, they mix and match and blend together in every man, in every army much like the river and the silt it carries.

This perhaps is the greatest tragedy of all.

Mortimer

Comment is about Peace Officer (blog)

Original item by d.knape

This really is very beautifully written, I very much enjoyed reading it.

Mortimer

Comment is about The Midas Touch (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Very moving - violence breeds more violence of course. It's a country where there are far too many guns, and where it is absurdly easy to procure one, which means violent death is ever possible. I remember the 2011 riots in London,which were really shocking. Protest is absolutely legit, but not looting.

Jennifer

Comment is about 131 NEVER CAME HOME (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Po!

Comment is about FULL MOON NIGHT (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

Well said as a timely reminder that his agenda as a victim was being
a source of social cohesion and protection in his duty as a law enforcement officer. So right about the absence of the "showy"
support of what HE stood for.

Comment is about Peace Officer (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A letter to Kate Garraway, after her very moving interview on Friday morning. Wishing her and her family all the very best

Comment is about Dear Kate (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

An epic! What a lovely write, I must say. A challenging read kept me glued till the end. Good one.

Comment is about The Midas Touch (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

love the poem Greg - and there are still those who won't accept it's happening ?

Comment is about The Truth Of Colour (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

my grass is always greener
because I water it.
?

Comment is about GRASS (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you, Moon.girl and Adam Whitworth, for your kind attention...

Dr. Kishore

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

Dancing tears of joy and happiness I hope,
Vintage wine, the tears are more richly defined.
Creative!! Beautifully pictured.

Comment is about Rain turned into wine (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Thank you guys for your support! ?

Comment is about SINGING THE BLUES (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

I liked the theme. Good decision taken at the right time. Just stay safe n happy....keep exploring life as it comes to enrich your experiences.

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

Beautifully expressed!! Keep going.

Comment is about SINGING THE BLUES (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

Guided meditation is very effective. Much needed as of now. Well thought!!

Comment is about Beyond the storm (blog)

Original item by Greg_ari0us

I endorse the sentiment of this poem. Bravo, nice write, well done and thank you.

For me, the poem suffers from bad phrasing in a number of places.
Fortunately, a simple spot of editing could end the suffering.

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

If I allow that the police were acting under orders, Greg, it doesn’t remove the despicable motivation of the man who ordered it in order that he could make a piece of bizarre propaganda. That observation that he is the only President to make policy of dividing rather than uniting the nation is absolutely on the money.
And thanks for the “Like”, Stephen.

Comment is about HIDEAWAY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Plilipos,

thank you, for your heartfelt like for 'The village' ...

Dr. Kishore

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

Thanks a lot, Po!
Your comments throughly drenched me in a charismatic energy...happy to see still there are people who feel, no words...

Dr. Kishore

Comment is about The village (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

I hope you don't mind, Ian, but I'd like to post a link to a poem I discovered tonight, which was written in 1945: 'Look within' by the Jamaican poet Claude McKay https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10011713

Comment is about The Truth Of Colour (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for the comments
on a line by line basis I would be interested to know which line(s) you feel are incorrect MC - bearing in my mind this is my truth from what I have seen in this incident and many others - directly - not just in the media. If you believe otherwise then that is your truth - and justice may or may not follow - depending on who owns it ?

Comment is about The Truth Of Colour (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Mortimer

Nature is a limitless source of inspiration. Learning to live in harmony with it helps fire up imagination. Thank you for your comments and the like.

Abdul

Comment is about A true Leprechauns tale? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Well done, Phil. It does us good to write about and try to imagine what our fathers went through.

Comment is about Les gens du Bocage; les hommes du débarquement - Normandy early July 1944 (blog)

Original item by Phil Ireland

As you say, John, they also tear-gassed the crowd to clear the way.

Comment is about HIDEAWAY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

We all saw the knee on the neck, MC. 'Cool and dispassionate assessment' in modern-day America, with Trump
at the helm? You'll be lucky.

Comment is about The Truth Of Colour (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Quite right, MC. My mistake. I shall amend accordingly to avoid my further embarrassment. I gather also that the “lights out” was a fake news pic from a few years ago.
None of which, of course, impacts on Trump’s hideaway to “inspect” his bunker.

Comment is about HIDEAWAY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A fine reminder of how "everyman" in the time-honoured form of "Tommy Atkins" (and those that Wellington said frightened HIM) were
the true saviours of the freedoms we take for granted so much these days and which are all too often abused in one way or another, according to convenience and personal mindset.

Comment is about Les gens du Bocage; les hommes du débarquement - Normandy early July 1944 (blog)

Original item by Phil Ireland

Any security detail assigned to the protection of the president will
tell you that any such walkabout by a president is their worst nightmare, done against their advice. Attacks - like that suffered
fatally by Garfield, almost fatally by Reagan and endured by Ford &
others, are more likely to occur in such close proximity situations when an assailant can get within striking distance from out of
nowhere.
P.S. It's Floyd...not Lloyd.

Comment is about HIDEAWAY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

How about leaving "the truth" to be established via proper enquiry in
the appropriate forum established for that purpose? Political
demagoguery and media demonisation have no place in enabling
the process of cool and dispassionate assessment to determine motive and/or guilt. Assumption is no basis for judgement.

Comment is about The Truth Of Colour (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Your Kitchen window has a view of Narnia mate, for it makes you write words out of this world.

Mortimer

Comment is about A true Leprechauns tale? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Difference and the human spirit for competition is the reason why we as a species have prospered so much and have murdered so much.

A great poem, you played on my love for sausage and cheese.

Mortimer

Comment is about My enemy and I (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thanks Jen and Po, I really appreciate your comments,

You are right Jen, throughout history most people have joined the army for the chance of 3 good meals a day

Mortimer

Comment is about Obedience or Patriotism (blog)

Original item by MortimerBlooming

Thanks for the kind comments.
Philipos - yes - there are a few examples of this rock formation - the one I visited was in Banff, Canada - truly impressive.
Po - I visited this site in both winter and summer a couple of times - never fails to impress ?
Ian

Comment is about Hoodoo (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Enjoyable read Jes. Well done. P

Comment is about Silky cocoon (blog)

Original item by Rush

Enjoyable read David. ?

Comment is about Sassy (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

@MortimerBlooming Thanks for sharing your thoughts. And agreed. I am going through a waking up phase of my life. It is as if I never acknowledged who I am. And now I have started the journey to my true self. It is a difficult path. But would have never been possible without calming and slowing down.

Comment is about Hope (blog)

Original item by TROY

Ha ha absolutely ?

Comment is about The Laughing Parrott (blog)

Original item by Lee Franks

"This is a great thing that is happening" - the ghost of George Floyd (according to Donald Trump).

Comment is about HIDEAWAY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I think we all struggle to get our heads around this one JM - the tinder box waiting to set alight the hay. Agree with the wise words of MCN above - don't things escalate rapidly! Succinct and to the point. P

Comment is about GOOD COP BAD COP (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Thank you Jennifer. Housing (lack of) and homelessness are terrible problems in the UK. Rip-off landlords love the scarcity of housing, all they want is money. Poor people can so easily lose the tiny bit of security they've managed to find.


“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Comment is about Heaven (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you! That is very encouraging and I appreciate it a lot!

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