WELL DONE! Subject probe and analysis and execution!

Comment is about Four Men Involved In A Fight (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Life can be cruel. Association by birth has more merits than god given talents. A well crafted poem on this social injustice.

Comment is about Nepotism (blog)

Original item by Dr. Kishore R. Nikam

I also welcome you. Sorry it's a bit delayed. Any chance you might tell us about the picture above?

Comment is about nightflower (poet profile)

Original item by nightflower

A fine command of language. It must give you much pleasure.

Comment is about Hollow Planet (blog)

Original item by nightflower

Cheers Po

I'll ask the buttler to reserve the best bottle for when you come visiting.

Comment is about Friends will come out to play (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Philipos
You're as always well informed.
Thanks for your comments and the like.
Abdul

Comment is about Friends will come out to play (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Moon.girl and Po

Thank you for your comments. Noted and appreciated.

Comment is about What's the fuss all about? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Rejoicing indeed Abdul and in the wake of some promising vaccine data too. ?

Comment is about Friends will come out to play (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Painful words by someone created out of love. Shakespere as in Julius Ceasar would have wished him ill.

A well woven picture of inhumanity Jennifer.

Comment is about Waylaid on the road to Jericho (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

"while consequences growl, like a tornado." A brilliant vignette on addiction.

Comment is about Primal Howl (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Interesting. The media define people by the colour of their skin when it suits them.

Comment is about Four Men Involved In A Fight (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thank you Po. Your poem complements mine.

Comment is about amidst everything* (blog)

Thank you Shifa.

Comment is about amidst everything* (blog)

Discovering the face we wore before we met the world...

Comment is about Art Of Being (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

It’s a bit like Marmite, Po. With one big difference. You either hate it and can’t bear it or love it and can’t bear it.

Comment is about LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I missed this first time round, Greg. You are right that the timing is right again. I think it might have been more intriguing, though, if you had left the doubt in rather than declaring your hand.

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

https://www.google.com/

Comment is about Undying Flame (blog)

Original item by kimberly

Thanks for the comments and likes, everyone. FB reminded me today that I had attended a vigil for Jo Cox at Westminster four years ago. There was a picture of people gathering, beside the statue of Churchill. Ah, well.

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you kindly!

Comment is about Footsteps (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

Indeed moon.girl but we can never imagine the amount of pain a person may have felt that they take such a huge step. And it’s not only for him but to everyone who lost hope.

Comment is about You wanted to live (blog)

Original item by Kashish Dawar

This poem includes everything and nothing, it discloses much and nothing as such. I think a poem should be secretively deep as this.

Good one!!

Comment is about What's the fuss all about? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Sushant singh rajpoot, he could have lived, but he chose not to, not a coward but he lost his self worth.
We should always keep God first and world underneath God's feet, He will definitely do what He feels is best to keep.

Comment is about You wanted to live (blog)

Original item by Kashish Dawar

A blessed relationship indeed. One to always keep.

Comment is about Friendship (blog)

Original item by Mocosy

He was the master of disguise...put on a pair of glasses and no-one recognised him.

Comment is about Chucked (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

gone to soon, may he finds his peace now.

Comment is about BUT PLEASE GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE! (blog)

Original item by Kashish Dawar

Your words always make me smile. Thankyou so much rose❤️?

Comment is about you! (blog)

Original item by Kashish Dawar

Where there is no smoke
there is no fire.

Comment is about First Date (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you for an uplifting comment Trevor. I know our previous exchanges a while back had some useful substance to them, so it' good to get a true and accurate observation on this effort. I wouldn't ask for more. I'll try and catch up with your own poems.

Ray

Comment is about RESPECTING WHAT'S DEAD AND BURIED (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I sensed when our paths crossed Ray that you had integrity. It shows in this piece of writing. I don't see any glorification of Kipling other than to give the poem a centre. Glad I decided to tune in.

Comment is about RESPECTING WHAT'S DEAD AND BURIED (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks guys.

Comment is about No One Comes (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Such problems getting back
but I think I finally got it.
More poems will be coming
if you can put up with them.

Comment is about She Dreams (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Sausage man has joined the non-starters
Where can we now buy our chipolatas?

Comment is about The Sausage Man (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Hi Greg

I think this is why we need poetry. These verses cut through the nonsense and state a truth, however inconvenient, that so much of polite society finds it difficult (or even distasteful) to express. I spent years writing about Brexit and its (to me, disastrous) consequences but I never got close to distilling it like this. As you say, we should remember Jo Cox, do our best to learn lessons and hopefully create a more tolerant, inclusive world for future generations.

Really interesting read.

Steve

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

You are quite right Abdul, The heat does make all the wise men seem as raving lunatics, while the lunatics become heads of state.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Mortimer

Comment is about Wisest Man in Egypt (blog)

Original item by MortimerBlooming

Thanks for the Like, Manisha.

Comment is about SUSPENDED SENTENCE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

No excuses - just enjoying myself.

Comment is about First Date (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

"Darkness unrolls its blanket over me". . . love it. I think you have set the scene perfectly.

Comment is about Homeless sleeping on the steps (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thank you M.C. Your comment is really soothing.

Thank you Shifa and inner child. Hope/trust you both be happy.

Comment is about Rain and Balloon (blog)

Original item by Michael Kwack

To have made only one mistake is commendable.

"Caught in waterless ocean like a fish" mind boggling imagery.

Enjoyed reading this work

Comment is about WHO TOOK MY MOON? (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

I note online that the word "thug" is reported as racist - no doubt
due to its association with the murderous religious sect of India.
Nothing like having a band-wagon to leap aboard. I would call the
violent protestors hooligans, but that might risk someone from
across the Irish Sea holding me to account due to its "racial" connotations. As for criminal elements latching on to the Brexit
cause, there is a comparable but much more significant situation
that affected the reputation of the Irish Republican cause. Back to
the "band wagon" and its usefulness for the opportunistic fellow travellers seeking a respectable advantageous ride,

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Jennifer - thanks for commenting. You say "All animals/men are equal, but some are more equal than others!" That leads me to ask:
Is a lion equal to a lamb in the biting order? It interests me that two
great countries (USA and France) that have made a big thing of
"equality" in their political manifestos are in constant turmoil
because of it. Trying to realise the unrealistic ? The simplistic
politically adroit "born equal" completely sidesteps the immediate
reality of human existence AFTER our arrival into this world, while
the French inclusion in "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was a high-
minded bit of revolutionary tub-thumping meant to capture the hopes and dreams of a nation that had endured and suffered from dismissive aristocratic idiocy, and was ready to try anything that might be better. To finish with a very basic but real conundrum:
I am a man and cannot bear children. Where is the "equality"
with a woman who can. And in what sense? The premise, like
so many others under the heading "equality" is, in my view, unanswerable and impossible to obtain within its proper definition.
How then to impose the impossible via legislation without indulging
in preferment - thereby contradicting the true meaning of the word itself?
With the acceptance of equal treatment before the law, I stay with "opportunity" as the most logical solution.

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Comment is about HOCUS-POCUS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

?thanks for the likes and comment Brian - in this case it was woodwormed municipal park posts and crossbar ?

Comment is about Half Time (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

On our local news today - the English Civil War memorial in Worcester has been smashed up and sprayed with the letters BLM.

There are idiots on both sides.

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

There's a pleasingly dreamy feel to this, Greg. The last verse in particular works really well, in my opinion.

Comment is about A lockdown lullaby (blog)

Original item by Greg_ari0us

This made me smile (and sigh) Greg. Great write.

I also love (and despair at) the idea that someone thought you'd written this from your own point of view ?

Comment is about Brexit boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Manisha, Shifa, MC.,and Jennifer,

Thank you for your comments as they are much appreciated.

Keith

Comment is about The Black Sunbeam (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi Trevor! Had missed this one alas. Explains so much about loneliness, which the lockdown has made even worse. Really moving.

Jennifer

Comment is about No One Comes (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Thanks Tom, Manisha and Shifa for the likes. Glad you found something in it.

Jennifer

Comment is about Waylaid on the road to Jericho (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Just beautiful! Jennifer

Comment is about Footsteps (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

Lovely Hugh, you're always good for a laugh! Nowadays one never quite knows what one's getting. I have a friend who travelled a lot for his job, and once he came home with a broken leg. When asked what had happened, he explained he had crossed over the balcony of his room to get into that of a very glam lady he had met downstairs.When he discovered things were not as he supposed, he was in such a hurry to reach his room again he slipped and fell! We laughed for weeks.

Jennnifer

Comment is about A shock (blog)

Original item by hugh