Hahaha!
one of my young grandsons was taken by his parents on last wekend's 'people's march' to support remain. They photographed him wearing a 'bollocks to Brexit teeshirt. When I asked him why he was a remoaner he said because daddy said I'd need someone to wipe my arse one day and English people wouldn't do it!
Crosby Stills and Nash come to mind!
Just about says it all I think.
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Update
Steve was murdered by his wife,
She's now in prison serving life.
Sonia who took Steve to health care,
Was the paramedic who worked there.
Comment is about A wife's concern (blog)
Original item by hugh
To plagiarise the great Sammy Cahn.
(And to be "perfectly Frank".)
Time after time
I tell myself that I'm
So lucky to be leaving the EU
So lucky to be
On the way to being free
In the future when we start anew
I only know what I know.
The passing years will show
We made our hopes
So fresh - so new
And time after time
I tell myself that I'm
So lucky to be leaving the EU !
…………………………………………….?
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
How can I put this? You are "in the frame" for writing naughtily funny
lines that deserve a "sentence" of (ap)probation!!
May your wit continue to be trusty
And your zimmer device become rusty! ?
Comment is about Love Me (blog)
Original item by Hazel Connelly
"Seconds away!". Another knock-out from this dryly humorous source. ?
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
Well spotted John just so! Grey area. Jack was a bit of a lad more accurate but I used that for rhyming. Many once familiar idioms are disappearing from common language owing to the wide sweep of outside influence. I met a few likely incoherent some of them were..
Ray
Comment is about JACKO (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks John. It was a dig to be honest about frustration. Savvy?
Ray
Comment is about LOOK I'M ONLY HUMAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Many thanks for opening up the poem and enjoying the spirit of it. A reading like that completes a circle. I started with the image of an ox cart! You may know mussorgsky. Pictures from an exhibition and the slow piece Biddloh. A rustic scene. Your quote is appropriate about Carneval and applies I suppose to pantomime too. Many barriers have been crossed in that genre especially cross gender concepts. A healthy counterpoint to stuffy victoriana.
Made my day!
Ray.
Comment is about ROUNDELAY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Philipos
Fri 25th Oct 2019 09:23
Hi Don - Brewing Up. Certainly is politics and driving us absolutely potty with the different takes of MP input and delay. Politicians all seemed to have reached a new level of public disapproval - and it will take them a very long time to regain their street cred if they ever will. But I for sure, am not the lone voice in the wilderness. P ?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi BK - I guess it comes down to how you hear it in your head.
But the songwriter in me can sing the words and they work for me in rhythm..
Cheers
MC
Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
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Philipos
Fri 25th Oct 2019 09:07
You could put out a rod and catch a Baramundi or two so as to celebrate. Good to share the dialogue over the past year. ?
Comment is about Floating On A Raft (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
It's chicks with brick and blocks sir, ticks and tocks sir.
it's all a matter of time
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
John, You are a poet’s poet. Your comments are a delightful education in poetry and humanity. Thank you my friend. ?❤️
Comment is about Willpower and Discipline (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
There all just words Don
Better out than in
The cathartic WOL
Is my lottery win
Thank you for your words though
About my withering, rotting brain
Without your repetitive comments
My WOL experience wouldn't be the same
So to you and Thale
I take it that's your muse
I bid farewell an thank you for
Your feedback, on my monday morning blues
?
Comment is about Monday Morning sigh (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Thanks for your comment on my profile re my comment on your 'Love Me'. I'm always looking for a chance to bring humour out (Thalia and I have bonded quite nicely - my Muse of Mirth). You need to get to know me though to know how to take me. Thalia wrings her hair out at times......
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Comment is about Hazel Connelly (poet profile)
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Gosh, you're in a bad way Phil.
Thale is worried. She suggests perhaps you didn't listen to the stars and follow their guiding hand to the winning lottery ticket?
We're not cheering him up here are we Thale?
We're sorry to hear about you Phil
The gasses which seep from your pit
Your wearing-out brain and your withering head
You'll have to just get on with it
That should cheer him up......
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Comment is about Monday Morning sigh (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
I see you and agree.
Rhythm (scan)'s essential
To make a rhyme top-notch
Just one word out of place and
You'll end up with a hotch -
- Potch
(Thalia says I'm improving but what's a potch?....they don't have them on Mt Olymp)
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Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
I could change the third line to "It's not because you're beautiful..."
but if I change the fourth line the rhythm won't work.
Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
This is my fourth reading now, then on to the next one and the fight with Steerpike. Irresistible. We can't help but be inspired by the genius. We can dream of a vast banqueting table, you at one end and me at the other under candelabras, passing the cruets and feasting on the love of words. As you say, not many of us....
Comment is about Mind the gap: Work-in-progress (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I loved those Gormenghast novels. Mervyn Peake, was so under-rated and so brilliant. Thanks for noticing Ray. Not many of us left, is there? ?
Comment is about Mind the gap: Work-in-progress (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Remarkable John. A free thinking and spirited dance with words, all doing their own thing to entrance us - and we can't help but see the whole picture Lear like imagery. I am reading Titus Groan now, and this would be required reading as light relief to that.
Ray
Comment is about Mind the gap: Work-in-progress (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
"All those colours that welcome light" - especially yellow and red, garish midsummer colours but also the clown's uniform. This is thrilling, this view from the outside, but what about the circus from the inside? The garden as man's regimentation of nature. Control. The carnival is at the centre of the circus and I love your resurrection of the ROUNDELAY. as lyric as song. Extend the significance of the circus (and of singing of the circus), go into it, dig: "The misrepresentation of circus acts as grotesque has significant implications because it places the circus in a carnivalesque relationship to society. Bakhtin’s theory considers carnival as a ‘temporary liberation from … the established order’ that can result in ‘great changes’ because it ‘offers the chance to have a new outlook on the world" (1984 Bakhtin, M. 1984. Rabelais and His World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar]
Comment is about ROUNDELAY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
"a bit of a lad was our Jack" maybe too northern for a half-arse cockney 60s gangster. Could never stand the breed, just bullies really, but do like this poem, Ray.
Comment is about JACKO (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thu 24th Oct 2019 20:59
Thank you Philipos, Don and Emilia for your comments, much appreciate. Thanks David and Japov for the likes.
All the best des
Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
'because you're beautiful because you're bloody'. I agree MC. EAP would be pleased MC......
Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Nigel
I can't dance naked in the rain
(Cos can't reverse robotic frame)
If I do, fizz bang, short circuit
I'll just end up from where I came
(Pile of useless components.....)
?
Comment is about Robotic (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
A rather rogue interpretation of the current direction of travel, MC.
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Chinese junk Hugh. Will let you down time after time. Always keep receipt.
?
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 24th Oct 2019 20:05
We put them back
We put them on
All we lack
is the will to attack
the time that's gone
Solid gone
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thanks for the comment Don (Love Me) It was written lying in hospital bed after a hip operation
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks for the comment John on Love Me, wrote while in hospital after a hip operation
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Thanks for the comment on Love Me it was I wrote it after a hip operation
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Old saying (suitably adopted/adapted)
Everything comes to those who wait;
Remainer MPs, your votes dissipate! ?
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Enjoyed both the humour and the use of rhyme. Thanks.
One caveat: I would have used the full word "because" - essentially
for the following reasons: it pleasingly precedes the words "beautiful" and "bloody" (alliteration) and fits in terms of rhythm when recited.
?
MC
Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
This is excellent, I really enjoyed the tone and the imagery you use. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about My Muse (blog)
Original item by Michael Triandam
Scorpio sting
clock rings
turn off
sleepy head.
Comment is about Scorpio season (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Pushing Buttons
Daily routine
travel there
then back
watch T.V
bed to sleep
tear out the circuits
throw away the microchip
be the outward adventurer
dance naked in the rain!
Comment is about Robotic (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I like this Emilia....
Comment is about Untitled (ghostwriter) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
I really like the way you just brought new meaning to the old classic saying ' The Grass is always greener in the other side'. I had never thought of it that way before!
Comment is about Untitled (ghostwriter) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Thu 24th Oct 2019 13:49
This is beautiful and very real. I love the lines "that's not where the good poems are - they come from not getting what you wanted" - I feel like that's absolutely so true.
Comment is about My Muse (blog)
Original item by Michael Triandam
Thu 24th Oct 2019 13:45
No, I don't smoke. Caffeine is quite frankly all I need - and a beer every now and then ?
Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Thu 24th Oct 2019 13:39
I actually live in Southern California! Thanks for your comment, Rick ? I agree it could be more grounded in reality. I had a hard time garnering the inspiration to write this piece, and I feel like that's why.
Comment is about Untitled (cold water) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
'Twas me who was blindfolded Ruth
I couldn't read your rhyme
I didn't know clock locked away
Hugh couldn't see no time
?
Comment is about Scorpio season (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hugh needs to find the actual clock Don, having the receipt won't help?
Comment is about Scorpio season (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Philipos
Fri 25th Oct 2019 11:57
Re; Brewing up - couldn't agree more M.C. There must a word out there that perfectly describes this mind boggling scenario - (something like conundrum). Will it ever come to a satisfactory conclusion for everyone. I think Writeoutloud helps us get it off our chest. I wonder if that word I might be thinking of could be 'Wrexit' or could even be 'Vexed it' Am sure someone will coin a suitable phrase one day. ?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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