An extremely moving poem, John, thank you...as is the film. Sadly, there are those who trivialise the kind of bigotry which leads to such injustices.
Comment is about THE GREEN MILE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think it only fair to warn you, Stephen.
You have just expressed admiration for someone who, in UK law, is now designated as a “terrorist”.
........................................................I am not joking!................................................
Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thank you @Stephen Gospage 🌷🙏🏻🕊your kind comments help in my journey of poetic expression. You are much appreciated 😊👍🏻
Comment is about letter from a quieter version of me (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Wed 16th Jul 2025 22:28
Wed 16th Jul 2025 21:56
Thank you so much to everyone who liked this poem.
Comment is about The Public Mood (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
The pathetic fallacy grips the neck of the bottle of rum and squeezes! My dad loved dark rum, a hangover from his navy days, spending his 21st birthday in the nick in Capetown just after the introduction of apartheid. . Gripped by a bevvy of Ditchmen he said.
Comment is about so, i’m not yer cuppa tea (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for the disappearing comment @MaryBarron 💨
Comment is about so, i’m not yer cuppa tea (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Wed 16th Jul 2025 16:04
I admire your activism and dedication to the cause, Uilleam.
Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
A superb, rather moving poem, RBK.
Comment is about letter from a quieter version of me (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner & Hugh. 👍
Comment is about Killer Smile (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Wed 16th Jul 2025 05:10
I can pick my friends, I can pick my nose, but I can't pick my friend's nose.
Comment is about ALFIE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, David.
Write your words David, and may the mealy-mouthed cowards be damned for their complicity in war-crimes.
Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
A piece of poetry for yours...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6abcH1L_I&pp=ygUibGVuZGVycyBpbiB0aGUgdGVtcGxlIGNvbm9yIG9iZXJzdA
🌷
Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Truth to tell, Graham, he is a little twat. And thanks for the Likes, Redbrick and Holden.
Comment is about ALFIE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you @Graham Sherwood 🌷🕊🙏🏻As always, your feedback is much valued and greatly appreciated. RBK
Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Ah! the soft underbelly of the JC. I knew there was one somewhere!
Comment is about ALFIE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Candy racks? Never heard of them Graham.
I was brought up with the traditional British “Ye Olde Toffee Shop”.
14th July, 2025: Visited 2 different supermarkets, each 5 minutes’ walk apart.
1st one. A floor area “just happened” to be positioned immediately after the check outs, and oustside the toilets. It was approximately 5’ wide x 5’ high x 15’ long, and was piled high with chocolate bars, boxes of sweets, you name it. Not a magazine in sight.
2nd one. There were about 6 till conveyor belts, every single one of them deep in a mountain of mints, chocolate bars and packs of chocolate biscuits; might as well have been bags of sugar! Not a magazine in sight.
Social policies determining low incomes, poor education, and coupled with inevitably poor nutritional food choices form a vicious circle, leading directly to poor health.
Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thanks for extra likes Uilleam, Nigel Astell & Marla Joy. 👍
Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Your best yet in my opinion. Lines 2 and 6 I wish I had written! Bravo!
Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I think your piece is extremely fine writing David. The right to determine own's own status is of course laudable unless others are hurt by such determination. Tolerance is paramount and in very short supply.
Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
It's been a while since reading one of your poems, Hugh.
Yes, it's Kevin, pseudonymed, so my family&relatives are a little less stressed out about geopolitics!
If you wanna know more about me, Chef's Table episode with Jamie Oliver is now on Netflix! No, I'm not in it. But I was part of Fifteen Amsterdam in 2011-2012.
You're still a magnificently good poet.
Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)
Original item by hugh
All I would say is that Patinkin is right in his anger.
I would qualify that Israel does have the right to exist (as he states) however, not in its present configuration....that must not be permitted to continue.
David RL Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU&list=RDU7gbFMWZWlo&index=6
Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for all the likes on this one.
Thankyou to Uilleam for the comment, it is indeed tainted with a sadness.
A sadness that some things never change and a sadness of the generational repetition of trauma.
David RL Moore
"Bellum Aeternum"
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Mon 14th Jul 2025 21:50
That is such a movingly awesome image @Uilleam! The emotional appeal skyrocketed with this thought, thank you 🌷🕊🙏🏻
RBK
Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thank you for reading and the lovely comment.
Comment is about Diogo Jota RIP 1996 2025 (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks for all your likes
Red Brick Keshner
Holden
Yanma
Stephen G
Aisha
Tom
Hugh
and
Manish.
Comment is about A Poetry Pint with a Unique Taste of Evening Entertainment (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Far Beyond The Comfort Zone
Anxious dancers
Move closer
Towards unavoidable
Cosmic edge.
Comment is about July 2025 Collage Poem: Dancing on the Edge (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thanks for your positive comments guys. Sadly it's too easy to pour concrete over the world, mostly in the pursuit of profit.
Comment is about ARRIVAL OF CONCRETE (blog)
Original item by john short
Uilleam they were called ‘candy racks’ at the tills and were replaced with magazines in my day!
Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Quite right Hugh.
I seem to remember some years ago, that amid fears for childrens' health, plans were proposed to prevent supermarkets from pandering to "pester power" at checkouts.
Unfortunately, as with most aspects of UK society, the prevailing norm is "Profit before People".
Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)
Original item by hugh
One look at the sky outside tells me you describe it to a tee, Trevor. The kind of weather I just hate - not so much a calm as a breathless, suffocating blanket of grey.
Comment is about Meh! (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Thanks, RBK.
That sunbeam travelled at one hundred and eighty-six-thousand miles per second, just to say hello to the cats....the very thought makes me want to slow down and rest!
Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, hugh, Stephen W, Aisha & LEON STOLGARD. 👍
Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Graham, I appreciate your ever sincere words and it was.
Difficult to share as well, but I feel a responsibility to express dark and twisty creativity as well. Not sure why, but it feels important. Something having to do with Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness perhaps.
Thank you again, hope all is well.
Comment is about "Journal entry #3: feel those big feelings so you can get on with your day" (blog)
Original item by Laura Bray
Fortunately for many, John, we do not. I appreciate you taking the time to read my work.
Poems are likened to mirrors for some; windows for others. What do you think?
Comment is about "Journal entry #3: feel those big feelings so you can get on with your day" (blog)
Original item by Laura Bray
Many thanks for your thoughts, Uilleam.
Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sun 13th Jul 2025 12:42
Thank you Mr Keshner. ( A more appropriate title preferred )
Comment is about Tarnishment (blog)
Original item by LEON STOLGARD
On reflection, I ought to replace "Banana Republics" with "so - called civilised Countries", bearing in mind the civil rights struggles in the UK, USA, the European continent and the rest of the world!
Comment is about I am Palestine Action (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Sun 13th Jul 2025 11:46
😁👍....too right Uilleam! thank you and thanks to Yanma-Holden-Hugh-Red for condoning my mad half hour!
Leon
Comment is about My tasty belief in the Ceylon hillside plantation leaf (blog)
Original item by LEON STOLGARD
Forgot to say, John, I agree with Stephen G.
Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An inside job, I reckon, Ray. Not quite Brinks Mat, but there could be TV series for Hugh Bonneville.
Comment is about NO GRAFFITI NEFERTITI(A TALE OF THE SMALLEST ROOM) (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Very impressive poem, John. Something here about memories and the passing of time, whether we like it or not.
Comment is about ARRIVAL OF CONCRETE (blog)
Original item by john short
A river does not shout its course,
Yet carves the stone with patient force,
Yes, the insistent power of water is immense.
Comment is about The Quiet Path (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
I don't mind admitting, Nick, that brought a tear to my eyes.
Comment is about A memoir (blog)
Original item by Nick
Graham Sherwood
Thu 17th Jul 2025 10:52
Just checking WOL’s T&C’s to see if terrorists are allowed?
Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh