Tue 12th May 2020 23:59
Your ability to tell a story and a lesson in just 4 lines is miraculous, these limericks are so comical I chuckled out loud more than once, keep writing wonders like these, they are lovely.
Comment is about Limericks for May 12th (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Good golly! I'm discovering
A thing, not one but two
That cricket's full of raunchiness
Ring-a-ding-a-doo
Told to me by WOLer
Poet-Note MC
An expert on all raunchiness
Dingle dongle dee
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Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I also seem to remember David Coleman, the doyen of Colemanballs, saying of the Cuban runner, Alberto Juantereno, “ he only has to open his legs to show his class”.
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Quite, MC. As I suspect in your sector too, colleagues can be very cruel in their humour. I was known as Robert Stroud, the Birdman of North Gawber.
Comment is about BUDGICIDE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you very much for reading and your kind comments!
Comment is about A RAINBOW (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
JC - I will bow to your reversal of my classification about batsman
and bowler. Cheers for the correction.
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Of such things are legends made. Your co-workers were clearly all
of a twitter before social networking arrived.
In so many words
You got the bird(s)!!
And found yourself pigeon-holed for life by the sound of it! I won't mention an apparent necessity in mining: being eagle-eyed. ?
Comment is about BUDGICIDE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Philipos
Tue 12th May 2020 18:22
What - nobody mentioned bowling the maiden over - perhaps it was someone else. Enjoyed. P ?
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
You just beat me to that, MC!
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
And one of the greatest urban myths, Brian Johnstone "The bowler's Holding, the batman's Willey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etmukKLR-pM
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Please note that I intentionally omitted the legendary line attributed
to dear departed "Johnners" while commentating on a test match
and mentioning the names of the West Indian batsman and the
English bowler together in a riotous coupling. For younger
readers it is probably the most famous sentence in the history of cricket commentary..
Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Brilliantly done, all at Lily Lane, and especially the inimitable Louise.
Comment is about Poet in residence Louise Fazackerley reads at school's VE Day event (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
MC feeling bit better now
Not what it used to be
My 'rections lost it's fiery glow
Magnificence did flee
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Comment is about OOPS! (or "Double the fun"!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you Jennifer, I'm really pleased you like it. You don't have to be wealthy to be rich, and only the truly rich know what an impediment wealth is to the process of enrichment.
J. x
Comment is about Rich (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Jennifer, it's truly inspiring in life to see someone fight for you as hard as you've fought for them.
And thank you Moon.girl for such a beautiful, detailed, inspiring answer. I don't believe in God myself, but I do deeply believe in faith, and that's not to assume I'm right or to disregard others beliefs, it's just how I was brought up I suppose. But if the notion of God represents one thing to me, it's hope, and in a cruel world, hope is our shield.
J. x
Comment is about Punch Drunk (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Would that be Kenyeuky Fried? I admit to liking chicken though.....?
cluckin' good!
Comment is about Southern Fried (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Beautiful writing - both the idea and the language - 'What do the moonbeams say, that can mend your heart fantastic!
Jennifer
Comment is about Punch Drunk (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks for your comment Graham. Yes it is very easy to rush back in and ignore social distancing. Many of the stores have established ways of dealing with this but in many it is not practical. All you can do is rely on the individual to do the right thing.
Thanks also to Blackrose and Moon.girl for the likes
Comment is about Missed Warnings (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (24283)
Tue 12th May 2020 08:19
Thanks Mortimer and Emer for your kind comments.
Comment is about Every Day Beauty (blog)
Original item by Rich
<Deleted User> (24283)
Tue 12th May 2020 05:00
You stay true, cos hour heart and intentions are true and that is why it so strongly stands despite all the storms.
Comfort is in the remembrance of God. For he who made you has written the destiny too. Trust is all it takes with sincere prayers.
It's the light of God alone that guides, shines and lights a person's path.
Truth is in right intentions, true love, committed heart and soul. God alone makes a person stay and never give up.
Moonbeams brings with them the pictures, memories, and sound convictions from the lovers roof into the room.
Faith in God alone can mend the hearts together with right prayers.
Theres no end. When it all started it just moved with God's plan and still following, there's pause but never an end.
You will never part,
You will win,
There is no end,
There's only moving ahead,
When time is right,
God will unite.
Comment is about Punch Drunk (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
I might try giving 'live' a go. Could be a winner
Thanks for bringing it to my attention MC....
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Comment is about GOOD ADVICE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Philipos
Mon 11th May 2020 22:27
Mortimer - thank you for commenting on Starfish - and welcome indeed to WOL. The world of good poetry needs you. Blessings. P ?
Comment is about MortimerBlooming (poet profile)
Original item by MortimerBlooming
Thank you Racha.
It was fun to write.
Comment is about A Pirate Named Clyde (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
You're right about changing the world "in a second". That happened
when a youth named Princip decided to shoot a certain Archduke
and his wife in Sarajevo more than a century ago.
Comment is about A Second Changes Everything (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Subtle Simon, the ending resonates for unexpected reasons.
Tommy
Comment is about Valves (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
Interestingly on the news here are jam-packed shopping streets in Australia now that the restrictions have been eased. no social distancing or else.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-52616232/coronavirus-crowd-concerns-as-australia-s-restrictions-ease
Comment is about Missed Warnings (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Moon.girl
If it were in my gift I would grant your wish to be an owl. I've contacted Merlin. The wizard needs to know what species of owl would you like to be?
On a serious note:
Thank you for spending time to read this poem and indicating a like.
Abdul
Comment is about What would you rather be? (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
Thanks for the comments lads - it's a topic I keep coming back to because I find it intriguing how much can change in the world by just a second - I guess that's true of the current situation too. I do think that this event was pivotal to how the world looks now - things would have certainly moved differently if Kennedy had lived longer.
Intriguing stuff I think
thanks once again
Ian
Comment is about A Second Changes Everything (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Hi JC - a PS about Victor Goddard.
He experienced possibly the most famous "slip through time" ever recorded in history when in 1936 he flew over the near-derelict site
of Drem Airfield in Scotland in a heavy storm. He suddenly saw in bright sunlight a meticulously accurate vision of its airfield as it was
to be four or five years later, with the yellow monoplanes which
had not yet been invented being wheeled out by mechanics in the
brown overalls which had not yet been adopted.
In 1937 he contributed a major counter espionage coup when a
visiting delegation of German dignitaries came to Britain to seek
an alliance at the urging of the pro-German Brown House Group.
The idea was that with Britain's control of the seas and its
colonial resources, and Germany's envisaged control of Europe
(nothing new under the sun, is there??), together the two countries could rule the world. Pretending to be pro-Nazi, Goddard fed the
visiting WW1 flying ace Udet with disinformation, convincing the latter who had been entrusted with the technical plans for the new Luftwaffe that Germany should not build four-engined bombers.
Udet swallowed this but committed suicide when he realised he
had been fooled and that Britain had achieved a "bomber edge"
by building the very four-engined bomber that he Udet had been persuaded to abandon.
There are other examples of this man's amazing active life but
this is a good example ot be going on with. You are certainly on
the button about him being a man who helped save Britain.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (24283)
Mon 11th May 2020 12:28
Cythnia, Martin and Kimberly, that's so pleasing to hear. I love it when a poem inspires you to read it more than once. Thank you so much for the feedback.
And thank you to Victoria, Abdul and Adam for pausing to read and 'like' I really appreciate it.
Comment is about Ocean's Roar (blog)
Original item by Tom
Dear Michael
Thank you for your review!!
My thoughts take a flight of their own once I start penning them down...
Circle, square, matrix...sometimes just a straight line?
Comment is about Storm in a tea cup (blog)
Original item by Shrawani Sen
My misses doesn't jabber on
She says you look at me
I quivers in me boots I do
And do just what I'm told.....
Just joking
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Like KJ it's just background noise
Her talk's a fuzzy fade
Until she reprimands me with
Put on your 'earing aid
Not joking
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Comment is about WHY WOMEN DON'T READ IN THE BATHROOM (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for reading and commenting John. Hope you are keeping well.
Cheers
Comment is about Bully the week (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I know what you mean John. The silence is very appealing. So many people have mentioned the fact that it is possible to hear the sound of the birds in built up areas.
I love the analogy of gangs of goats in Oxford street. I have visions of adolescent goats in leather jackets hanging around on street corners.
Thanks John
Comment is about Nothing but rainbows (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thankyou, MC. He was not a figure I was familiar with. Another candidate for the title of “The Man who Made Modern Britain”.
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
After a while you learn to zone out. when my missus jabbers on, it's just background noise to me.
Unless she's saying "snap's ahrt" I just don't hear her.
Comment is about WHY WOMEN DON'T READ IN THE BATHROOM (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Also thank you Don Matthews, Moon Girl and Mocosy for the additional likes. Means a lot you all enjoyed this (: ?
Comment is about Face in the crowd (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Thanks Po and John.
I've done an audio to this, but for some reason I couldn't manage to load it on.
"Fair or fowl" great pun.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about The Devil Came To Grimstone Low (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Thank you dear Cathy, Tom and Jon. Your support is vital to me - the genre of the longer poem is new to me. It is a sort of confessional poem. Maybe a touch like the work of the American poet Robert Lowell ('Skunk Hour' or 'For the Union Dead' for example). Though it is a while since I've read his work. Also, come to think of it, another American poet's work is, maybe, influential, Robert Frost and his most famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Who knows where poems come from?
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Comment is about A quiet disbelief in nothing (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
owen
Mon 11th May 2020 05:33
The way your words wring out the soul’s desperation leaves me in awe. To be able to express one’s passion and pain in such a profound way is a gift from the gods to show us mortals that life is experienced once through the veil and again through a poet’s looking glass. Superb!
Comment is about A quiet disbelief in nothing (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
The ramifications of that event resonate even now.
Check the photo that shows LBJ ducking out of sight in his
following car even as the Secret Service are trying to identify
what they've just heard.
Comment is about A Second Changes Everything (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
JC - here are some words ftom a newspaper obituary about
Goddard; I quote -
"Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard was that rare combination, a visionary who was also supremely a man of action. He was
personally responsible for saving the British Expeditionary Force
at Dunkirk. The Belgian armed forces chief had informed Lord
Gort, Commander of the British Forces, that the Belgian army and
navy were about to surrender to the Germans and leave the British
defenceless. Gort then asked the then Group Captain Goddard to get to London somehow to arrange evacuation of his 250,000 men.
To avoid being shot down by the French, Goddard took off at night
from a ploughed field near Dunkirk in a crashed Ensign aircraft with
no seats. To avoid being shot down by the English because he
had no password, he circled the Channel until dawn. Flying on to
London, he met by chance an old friend, Air Commodore Archie
Boyle. He persuaded Boyle to get him entry to the underground
war headquarters where he forced his way into a meeting of the
Joint Chiefs ofStaff - just in time to hear the Chief of Naval Staff
say that his six destroyers were all that could be sent to Dunkirk
to evacuate non-combatants.
Goddard interrupted the Joint Chiefs and insisted that an armada
of small boats be sent to rescue the entire army (an idea which
occurred to him as he spoke) and gave the correct location for the
rescue. He was expelled from the meeting by a scandalised Vice Chief of the Air Staff. But his wild plan was adopted and he was
commended, and the army at Dunkirk was saved." (unquote)
A man of action indeed. His long life was something akin to plots
from the movies, not least when his premonitory experience
in Shanghai at the end of the war saved his life in a subsequent air crash and was the basis of a popular film called "The Night My
Number Came Up"..
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nigel Astell
Wed 13th May 2020 01:57
Hitching a ride
you jump on a ghost train
going past all the stations
you wonder - - -
when is it going to stop.
Comment is about Hitching a Ride (II) (blog)
Original item by Andy N