Remember Charlie and his splish splash Po?
Well I do a bit of splish-splashing with the girls myself. Look hard . See Thale and Lucy shakin' it up? You not looking hard enough. Is that Ruth and Do I see? Golly gosh Po! we gotta party going on. Pity Ruth won't see the vid. Seems she didn't check in. Maybe boomerangs not her thing?
I asked the video people to stay above me vitals in case the towel slipped.
And I end up with a bevy in my bath. How good is that. Some have all the luck hey?...
https://youtu.be/Js1aewLBjfs
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Comment is about Boomerang. It's all Wrong (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 22nd Nov 2019 08:31
Point of order Mr. Speaker - the stars are not our future...they are our past. The light from stars takes years, even light years, to reach us.
Comment is about The Stars Are Our Future (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Fri 22nd Nov 2019 03:09
Po
Gosh! It's 60 years and I can still remember it almost word for word. Thankyou for bringing it all back
You probably didn't know his but different species of kangaroos produce different sounds. For instance:
Spanish reds go whop,...whop...whop
Charlie's variety go do-rong...do-rong (nothing to do with our Do incidentally)
Ones going down my street go boing...boing..
Ain't that interesting?
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Comment is about Boomerang. It's all Wrong (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you Ray. Your approval means a lot to me. I am often reduced/elevated to tears these days - a man shuffling down the road, a baby's cry, a memory, a wish, music, poetry, the sheltering sky:
“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
- Poem XL”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Comment is about Near water (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This is a nicely presented account of the truth and the fact remains that the man in question had to appear at the tribunal and got away with it. It all has that essential class privilege syndrome tied up in it and remains a microcosm of its time. Excellent especially the thousand watt moon and the billowing black sheets.
Ray
Comment is about The Man Who Made The Titanic (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
A lovely piece of work Tommy. Romantic and written in an almost freehand way if you get me. The very idea of doing a portrait even under the influence is a fine aim.
Ray
Comment is about p o r t r a i t (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
This took me close to tears John. A poem to read like the long draught of a life looking back and pinned to the present. Scholarly and multi layered, exceptionally effective.
Ray
Comment is about Near water (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thu 21st Nov 2019 12:05
when one turns its head around 180
i run for the hills.
Comment is about Praying Mantis (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Do.RoThy
Thu 21st Nov 2019 11:53
Boom.... This rang quite many ? bells. I guess u into learning boomerang sport. I know someone who has tried hard to work on this rang device. Works quite well, i will also give it a go. It's a ? child's ▶ play.
Comment is about Boomerang. It's all Wrong (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Do.RoThy
Thu 21st Nov 2019 10:17
This is real convincing truth of life, the earler accepted the better results it brings forth. A reality that bites but its necessary for our growth and development if taken in the right light.
Meaningful and spiritually packed with wholesome thoughts!!!
Comment is about Every Tear the Skies Have Cried (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thu 21st Nov 2019 04:37
Thanks Tom for reading
"You left before I could say Goodbye"
i think it could apply to many situations
and many people.
Haven't we all expressed that sentiment
at some point in our lives?
Comment is about Tom (poet profile)
Original item by Tom
“Breeding rainbows”... Ziggy did it and you do too❣️
Comment is about Breath (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
How pleasing to enjoy this piece of positivity!
Comment is about Happy Heaven Club (blog)
Original item by Ashleigh Davies
Thanks for a lovely comment Po
Thanks Don and DoRothy.
Comment is about Amidst & Beyond (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Do.RoThy
Wed 20th Nov 2019 21:40
Hey Don i didn't realize the lilt until you spoke of it, good observation i must say....happy reading hours to youu dear...thank you?
Comment is about Lifey life!! (blog)
Do.RoThy
Wed 20th Nov 2019 21:39
Thank you dear Po.. Your encouragement means a lot to me.....?
Comment is about Lifey life!! (blog)
Philipos
Wed 20th Nov 2019 21:36
Don - re Junk Mail - the big difference with your system and ours is that we have to provide an A4 page and envelope - requesting opt out (back through the postal system) every 2 years. With 41,000 residential homes (not including business premises) occupied, in my area alone we are talking big numbers of felled trees nationally over a single generational lifetime - and that is before we even get to the question of the junk mail itself. I know of no other country that does this in the English speaking world - and where the post office ignores the householders request in writing (usually a sign) on the door. It is a total farce - even 3rd world countries are showing better recycling ummph than ours. Makes me so cross. ?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
I really like this Ashleigh......
Comment is about Happy Heaven Club (blog)
Original item by Ashleigh Davies
Has a nice lilt to it Do....
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Comment is about Lifey life!! (blog)
sunset casts rainbow fractals
blurring our faces,
This is a poem as much about a recurring vision as it is about the struggles to love. 'Fractal' is such an apposite choice, trapped in a recurring pattern, wanting to break out into singularity, restrained by the heavy weight of romantic myth. "A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos."
Comment is about Emilia Callahan (poet profile)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
I admire this a lot Emilia. The focus pans out to school shootings and zooms back to 'you' in the high chair.You illustrate how the media works to make distant events close and so encourages a wave of paranoia to sweep into private lives. I have lost a child so I understand what you fear.
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."
("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire
Comment is about Santa Clarita (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Thank you Graham, Hannah and Jeannot for liking the poem.
Tom, this was an old poem I found that fitted my mood in a sort of Milliganesque frame of mind !
Ray.
Comment is about SLEEP WALKING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Extremely effective John. Authentic and harrowing and jars the spirit - a sort of nether world between life and death portrayed so well.
Ray
Comment is about Even the olives are bleeding (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Quietly poignant. I like it.
Comment is about You Left Before I Could Say Goodbye (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Wed 20th Nov 2019 13:36
Thank you for sharing, John. I agree with Keith's comments - these types of injustices are truly heartbreaking.
Comment is about Even the olives are bleeding (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Wed 20th Nov 2019 13:31
Oh wow. Not the first time I've seen something like this, unfortunately. These are the type of stories that make me so NOT proud to be an American. Thank you for sharing your poem, Don.
Comment is about My Boy He Went To Kindy (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Wed 20th Nov 2019 13:23
Thanks Tom, Don, and Vautaw. I'm glad that you all enjoyed it and that it sparked the sentiment I'm hoping to create.I think this is the hardest part about being a mother so far - watching senseless violence occur in our world, and only hoping my own child's life isn't cut short due to the same thing.
Comment is about Santa Clarita (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Thanks for all your appreciative comments. It took a few drafts (and rejections) to get this right. But the value of rejection is it makes you go back and think again. How can it be improved?
Comment is about KAMCHATKA TRAILS (blog)
Original item by john short
Do.RoThy
Wed 20th Nov 2019 10:46
Clear skies, sunny days ahead......nice poem!!!
Comment is about Amidst & Beyond (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Do.RoThy
Wed 20th Nov 2019 10:42
Now look what you did Don
You just left tips to parenting
A good parent with qualities good
I just wonder how you learnt these
Btw, seems you be a good parent
I'm sure!!!
Good write Don!! Children can't be unsafe at home.
Comment is about My Boy He Went To Kindy (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
John,
yet another good poem which clearly speaks of one of the greatest injustices of the last century which continues unabated with the help of those who don´t care. It makes me furious but also feeling utterly helpless.
Thank you for this.
Keith
Comment is about Even the olives are bleeding (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you both for your kind words. These past few weeks have done more damage to me than I could ever imagined, but somehow I’m grateful for it.
Being truly in my worst state made me realise that I’ve been in it for longer than I thought and now I can finally begin to get better.
cait
Comment is about Recovery (blog)
Original item by Cait Abbott
Love the last line
'Blues in the soul and the blues gotta knife'
Ouch.....
Comment is about The blues (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Now look here Benny Garcy
You've over-stretched the mark
You could've held his hand to school
And led him 'cross car park
Your child's safety is priority Mr Garcia
You could've also held his bag for him thus avoiding car-knockdowns
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Comment is about My Boy He Went To Kindy (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Good one Tom. Love that last stanza❣️
Comment is about The African Queen (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
A poem I wish didn’t have to be written, but grateful that you have given a voice of awareness for the senseless tragedy that continues to take innocent lives. Heartbreaking. ?
Comment is about Santa Clarita (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
“Her speckled dust is faded sunlight.” Love that line and this haunting poem! ?
Comment is about a lay for a lady (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks MC! I love learning about great musicians. Pretty cool that Local Hero has been made into a musical too!
Comment is about Good Days (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Thanks so much Hannah & Martin. I appreciate you stopping by and taking time to leave feedback❣️?
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Do.RoThy
Fri 22nd Nov 2019 10:08
???
Comment is about Boomerang. It's all Wrong (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews