It is great that you can write and express your feelings in that way.
And of course, share with us.

Hannah

Comment is about Checking Into Rehab (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Tom
I loved this. I think it's amazing when you can find a place that there's not loads of in every high street too.

Plus the kind of friendly customer service reflected in this Poem always makes me want to revisit a place like this and spend time there

Rare places nowadays, but they're still in existence. Just.

Great Poem
Jon

Comment is about Crooked Café (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thanks for your like Kimberly Ray the night sky has been so good all this week

Comment is about Signs that Light up the Star Lit Sky (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

This is an interesting take down memory lane - loved that prog and that main guy with a Yorkshire accent once heard with a Cockney one. Well done U. Philipos.

Comment is about GOODBYE TO MARINA AND PEARL (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I wonder if you run the risk of being a self-deceiver?
Remember, there's no eager thief without an eager receiver.
So, let your mind keep active - taking what it needs
To keep us receivers busy - so our mutual profit succeeds! ?

Comment is about Checking Into Rehab (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Adaptability is the secret of success - no truer words ever devised - and their truth here for us in pleasing fashion.

Comment is about Crooked Café (blog)

Original item by Tom

Really a feel good poem - the sort of open sharing quality that personifies your work, and hits the spot for me. Thanks for sharing Cynthia.

Ray

Comment is about Bermuda Islands' Visitor (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I think you exemplify the spirit of discovery both external and internal John. Of course I am in agreement but I would say that wouldn't I, considering my vocal involvement on earlier occasions. Brian has a point , but sadly a wider audience is already well served. while some attempt at least could be made to empathize with the deeper layers of meaning in the lives we live.
I like your phrase weaponize mediocrity, like a suit of armour perhaps.

Ray

Comment is about After reading the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

The spirit is willing but the flesh.... A great study in character that leaves us wanting more of him (imo).

Ray

Comment is about The Wrestler (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

On the horns of a dilemma D. My wife is ruthlessly objective, but usually right to be honest.

Ray

Comment is about Fan Club (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Loved this poem. You can really paint a picture of your childhood that a lot of people can relate to.
Especially liked your Dad calling you and embarrassing you in front of your peers.
An excellent piece.

Comment is about The Ocean Inside The Shell (blog)

Original item by Jon Darby

Thanks Po.....but are the sorrows really sweet? Do the pain have sweet melodies or bitter ones....separation isn't fun...phew!!

Comment is about Melody of pain!! (blog)

It enters deep inside the soul.....but somehow i researched long back, so i hv the answer to why D.....but not to what that Po got before us brilliantly....i need to introspect and explore the newer realms within myself....thanks for this great piece!! Brilliant n introspective write!!

Comment is about Who am I (blog)

Original item by Dewald

Hey there,
I wish to dedicate a video in memory of your dad. I can feel your pain. I can cry your tears.

In loving memory of your dad
https://youtu.be/4N-POQr-DQQ

Comment is about The Place in my Soul (blog)

Original item by Dewald

Behind every successful man is a lady.....and that lady is your lovely wife.....trust me...u r extremely blessed....praise the God almighty...
Beautifully n truthfully expressed!!!

Comment is about Fan Club (blog)

Original item by d.knape

He is a poet.
That's what I heard.

Comment is about Fan Club (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you Tom , a pleasure, and Jennifer too.

Tom , Brian, Lisa and Kate, obliged for your likes.

Ray

Comment is about SMALL WORLD (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I enjoyed that clip Vautaw, thank you. I've played that tune many times a la Glenn Miller, but the recording was a fine piece. By the way I wrote a poem called Moonlight Serenade. I'll send it to you, but it is not a pretty piece!

Thanks for dropping by, Tom and Po.

Ray

Comment is about ON THE QE2 1977 (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Jennifer, you are right to honour those who died for whatever reason was valid at the time and that is indeed what most of us feel compelled to do. In a sense it is all we can do. However in the poem I wanted to bring out the sense of futility of the wasting of life and how a yearly observance of it just becomes ultimately an institutionalized response. I think anger would be more effective, instead of the subduing of emotion which often happens at crowd gatherings and indeed at church services. I may be wrong, but these are simply my feelings. I intended no disrespect.

Hi Jon, I'm glad my effort was worthwhile; it's not a subject to be taken lightly, so I gave it my best shot. Thanks.

Po, I have stuck my neck out here I know, but it is after all a site for discussion, and I have subverted that last line to introduce an element of national sensibility into it. We probably unconsciously are drawn to a sense of loss more focussed where our own kind are killed. Perhaps we are closer to understanding other cultures nowadays, and how precious is life globally. I believe there is a sort of tribal element to conceptions of The Empire which were greatly influential at the time. Are we to learn or just repeat our ghastly misconceptions of supremacy and marginalizations which result in ethnic cleansing and the like?

Thanks for your like, Jon.

I'll get my coat.

Comment is about NEEDING MAYBE A TITLE IN LATIN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

This is really enjoyable Cynthia, I know those magic moments of solitude well. And heard "Needing rocks and waves for sanity" very loudly. Loved the ending too.

Comment is about Bermuda Islands' Visitor (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Much enjoyed this, Raj. However positive insight strikes, I think it is the most valuable gift of 'being human'.

I think 'civilization' has always had contradictions, in any part of human society from the very beginnings of 'collecting together', anywhere on the planet. Somehow, leaders and followers do emerge, leaders mostly as problem solvers, observers, thinkers and doers. And then, those who can see 'That way is better.' and willingly follow, often with much respect.

And then, the thinking, the psychic energy, the communal bonding - inter-reliance of body and mind for physical survival and acceptable societal mores. The universal need for Divinity. Our human conviction that it is there because we are unique. And the purely physical acceptance: 'Mother Earth' is not really a 'joke'.

I'll shut up!

Comment is about My Communal Dance (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

I can feel the strength and the persistence. Inspiring!!!

Comment is about Fear (blog)

Original item by DIYwrites

Once you have lived on a small island in a vast ocean for years, you never escape the clear understanding of the insignificant at the mercy of the mighty, in whatever context.

Comment is about Bermuda Islands' Visitor (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Six years like the passing of a breath.

Comment is about Eli Anderson (poet profile)

Original item by Eli Anderson

Enjoyed reading this,emphasises the complexity of our existence.

Comment is about Who am I (blog)

Original item by Dewald

Oh my goodness Aimee I can feel the trauma of your words pouring out of this poem.A literary gem.

Comment is about Change (blog)

Original item by Aimee

Sad but beautifully written....?

Comment is about Grief (blog)

Original item by Aimee

Wonderful piece!!! Loved it a lot.

Comment is about If I wrote you a song (blog)

Original item by Aimee

True love never ends, n cn never be exchanged!!! Healing is only in union....give it a go....well expressed!!

Comment is about Change (blog)

Original item by Aimee

Great poet in the making!!
Your drawers seem so full, much creative work still unexplored.....u hv a huge compilation to do!!
Nice write!!

Comment is about Checking Into Rehab (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Interesting profile MT. Thanks for commenting on Coming a Croper. Blessings. P.

Comment is about Michael Triandam (poet profile)

Original item by Michael Triandam

I love this ! Truly magnificent

Comment is about The Place in my Soul (blog)

Original item by Dewald

Thank you !!!! I’m glad I’ve finally found a place full of creative thinkers

Comment is about Aimee (poet profile)

Original item by Aimee

Good work Aimee !! Good to know that are people of all ages seeing that the world has a lot a contradictions ?

I have posted an piece this morning called Who am I, sharing very much of the same emotion in your post

Love your work !

Comment is about Aimee (poet profile)

Original item by Aimee

Hey litttle Nobody
You've made someone smile
Keep donning smile faces
Keep donning with style

(OK......)

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Comment is about Nobody (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thank you I’ve been writing for 10 years but haven’t published yet never thought I was that good

Comment is about Aimee (poet profile)

Original item by Aimee

Your poems almost always make me don a smile. ?

Comment is about Nobody (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Good one Tom. I feel every blow!

Comment is about The Wrestler (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thanks both, the sweet mysterys of life

Comment is about The Hard Problem (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Ray you are correct. I stand corrected. Correction is the side-street to drunken doorways.

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Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

...though to reach a wide audience it is often necessary to keep the language and the message relatively straightforward. Complex pieces can leave many behind and end up appealing only to a tiny elite. This doesn't mean that pieces have to be dumbed down...that is entirely different.

Comment is about After reading the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I don't know where you came from but i am sorry you had to
find my site and read my terrible poetry.
I hope someday you will recover.

Comment is about David Redfield (poet profile)

Original item by David Redfield

Thanks again Hannah

much obliged
Martin

Comment is about Born into this suit (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you so much Hannah. I am glad you liked

Cheers

Martin

Comment is about There's a town (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hi Ray
Thought provoking. The stunning second stanza sums it up for me.
So well thought out and written
Jon

Comment is about NEEDING MAYBE A TITLE IN LATIN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Keith
Beautifully written. Exposes the cruelty of which mankind is capable.
Jon

Comment is about A Solution (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Beautifully awful!!!!! They even collected gold teeth afterwards!

Jennifer

Comment is about A Solution (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Po - know where you're coming from. But I was throwing out some
magazines after posting this - some dating back to the early 1990s
(hoarder - moi?!) - and a number contained items that remind us how
the Tories became so disdainful of the electorate's misgivings over
the EU (I do NOT consider the EU to be "Europe"), with reminders
that John Major was vilified for betraying the electorate by signing
the Maastricht Treaty without a proper mandate, whilst a certain
"Father of the House" - Ken Clarke - was telling students in Cambridge of his ambition to see us signed up to the Euro.
Years ago, I wrote to the latter expressing my own misgivings about what was being done, quoting lines from G.K. Chesterson's poem "The Secret People". The response was a card merely acknowledging my letter. Now, the poet's words are taking form. His
"Unhappy Lords" see their power wane
now that the people understand what has
been done in their name and reject it..
Here's an amusing but rather alarming example of what we were facing:.
The Lord's Prayer has 58 words
The Ten Commandments have 297 words.
The US Declaration of Independence has 310 words.
But the EC directive on the exporting of duck eggs has 28,911 words!

Comment is about SPOT THE DIFFERENCE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

If we didn't even bother to turn out surely it would mean we didn't care a damn? turning out will never help the pain and sorrow of those injured, or that of families who have lost members, but it at least shows that we remember and are grateful for what they did. Or not?

Jennifer

Comment is about NEEDING MAYBE A TITLE IN LATIN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Loved this one, concentrated and full of significance.

Jennifer

Comment is about SMALL WORLD (blog)

Original item by ray pool