Thank you both So much for the words of encouragement I am new to all this I have posted on another blog under a different name but never gotten so many likes and comments it truly has made me cry and I feel happy hoping I am help others heal as well I can't thank all of you enough ?

Comment is about Whole lot of shame (blog)

Original item by Darkest sunflower

All the sights and sounds of Spring.
Nature never stops.
Love this one.

Hannah

Comment is about Isolation in Spring (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you for your kind comments. Gaining a little more confidence to try to just go with the flow.

Comment is about When you see a rainbow (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Beautiful poem.
The imagery.
Love rainbows. Very good last verse.

Hannah

Comment is about When you see a rainbow (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Hi Mortimer thanks for your lovely comment on my poem Always Love You

Comment is about MortimerBlooming (poet profile)

Original item by MortimerBlooming

Dear Po, your comment is so uplifting. Thank you very much?

Comment is about Always Love You (blog)

Original item by Deb

Thank you for your lovely comment, Mortimer.

Comment is about Always Love You (blog)

Original item by Deb

I love this poem and can so relate, especially the line, “In all this I found my love to write” which definitely does make it worth the fight. ?

Comment is about Whole lot of shame (blog)

Original item by Darkest sunflower

Thanks for the kind comments all - I really appreciate it. I enjoyed writing this one and really liked how it came together ?

Nice to see you blogging again Hilary ?
Thanks again for commenting Po ?
Thanks J J - glad you liked it ?
Ian

Comment is about Elegy For Days Lost (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I absolutly love this

Comment is about Thoughts (random) (blog)

Original item by Rebecca John-charles

I really am not too sure about this one!!

Comment is about When you see a rainbow (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

One thing to learn from this I personally find is you have to have eyes in the back of your head even more on-line. The night I co-run Speak Easy hasn't had any trouble such as this and if we did, it's set up now so people that cause trouble are thrown straight out and banned.

It is very disrespectful to everybody that is there and ruins it for everybody else.

Glad you managed it well Ian.

Comment is about Poetry on Zoom ... the good, the bad and the ugly. From Manila to Chester, but trouble at Wigan (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Am sure we have all been there in one way and another, only time heals if it ever does - bad memories never help our equilibrium - so we have to climb the stairs of hope. Not sure that will helps if that isn't you - I suppose there would be no blues music if we didn't learn to cope - counsellors might have some answers to this conundrum. Compelling read BTW. Take care. P.

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Hi Dorinda, sorry that you've been having these problems. Have passed on your query to our tech supremo Paul. Thanks for alerting us to this.

Comment is about Don't leave it too late! It's deadline day to enter Write Out Loud's Beyond the Storm poetry competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Beautiful, I enjoy the rhythm of this poem.?

Comment is about Sapphire (blog)

Original item by Greg_ari0us

Wow, creepy!!

Comment is about Daddy Long-legs (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I have submitted two poems for this competition.
However I am having problems trying to donate! The Just Giving site keeps asking me for my password - I have done this - they then ask me to enter my password and I keep doing this. Every time it comes back to the same box! I even tried "lost my password" box, but again I keep getting the box asking me for my password! I tried again and they said they would send me a new password, but they haven't, and I'm back to that box again!
I do want to give, so could anyone help please?
Thank you!

Comment is about Don't leave it too late! It's deadline day to enter Write Out Loud's Beyond the Storm poetry competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

A bitter-sweet irony in these lines...reminding us of those nicknames
we give to the afflicted...often intended as a backhanded salute to the
way afflictions are borne. The final lines make an excellent "pay-off"
to what has gone before.

Comment is about 'One Lung Dave' (blog)

Original item by JJ

Po - please refresh my attention span regarding the "earworm" song
plus the "incident" you refer to. I'm one tep forwards, two steps
back at the moment! Put it down to anno domini. Which has me
wondering whether the current situation will be referred to in the
future as "BC" (Before Coronavirus) and "AC" (After Coronavirus") ?
?

Comment is about GOODBYE PICCADILLY, FAREWELL LEICESTER SQUARE? (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

PO thank you for the like and your advice is 100% welcome here but sadly. The last part of my poem is about my personal experiences I do adore Alice in wonderland but this is about what I am currently going through I was needy and selfish I have hurt alot of people including myself though I maybe sad I understand I am to blame I appreciate your advice feel free to rewrite this poem however you like and post it that's what being creative is about

Comment is about Whole lot of shame (blog)

Original item by Darkest sunflower

HI Mortimer Glad you liked my tape recorder poem. More carefree days indeed!

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Original item by MortimerBlooming

Very clever that. enjoyed. P

Comment is about Auntie's Clock (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Nice one....

Comment is about Haiku for the Tory voter (a lament) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

I really like the rawness of your style and how the thoughts are displayed as erratic via the structure and enjambment. Great stuff! Thank you.

Comment is about Ventilator Dreams (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Yes!! This is it. All good things shall stay forever. I liked this poem.?

Comment is about Give Me Space (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks Po, and thank you Victoria, really glad you liked it.

J. x

Comment is about Give Me Space (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thank you so much Adam, Jennifer, and Mortimer for reading and your comments. I appreciate your support. Silence is a tricky subject because it has both positive and negative connotations. Some loves flourish without a single word, the two have that special telepathic connection. Meanwhile, other loves are idle and the silence kills them even more.

Thank you to those that also liked this poem.

Comment is about We Don’t Talk About That (blog)

Original item by kimberly

Thanks Po and Ruth

Thanks
Liam
itsjustmedownhere
Hilary
Stephen
Po
Ruth
Nicola
for your likes

Comment is about My Goodbye Letter (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I agree with Po. Love it. Thanks for sharing! ❤️

Comment is about Give Me Space (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Po, you already know. I love WOL, especially because of you! You always make a point to read and leave feedback for us fellow poets. They need to put you on payroll! Thank you for being a friend. ❤️

Comment is about Gen Zzz (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Mortimer, even your responses are poetic. I love the dandelion analogy. Thanks for reading and sharing your insights.

Comment is about Gen Zzz (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Thanks Po. I always explain at Open Mics that I can't sing and I'm not much cop at playing either. But that I am, however, always the best looking there.

Comment is about TALKIN' SAMMY'S HORRID DREAM MASSACREE BLUES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Cheers, Po.

Comment is about Parfum (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thanks, both! ?

Comment is about Going Viral (with Teflon Dom) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

That is a delightful photo above, so full of possible symbolism! The handwriting in a notebook. Even the decoration on the little, hand-thrown pot sitting upon a rough, plank table.

Maybe I'm totally off the mark, but, honestly, that is how my eyes swept over it, and had to look again, and smile.

Comment is about Liam Osaneo (poet profile)

Original item by Liam Osaneo

Po

I don't believe my dad ever met your dear old father?

His daily mantra was "if you can't say anything nice, say nothing."

I didn't heed the advice always. Had a knack of engaging my tongue before thinking.

With passing time I've understood the value of the wisdom offered.

Abdul

Comment is about Busy rearing the young (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Brilliant! Just so much fun.

Comment is about Zoom (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

A very moving poem ending on a note of optimism.

I really like the tone and pace.

Comment is about Elegy For Days Lost (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Light and hope is always bound to be extinguished, that is why it is so important for us to vigorously fan the flames as long as we can,

Thanks for your kind words Po

Mortimer

Comment is about Conversations with the angel of dawn (blog)

Original item by MortimerBlooming

Beautifully poignant Ian x

Comment is about Elegy For Days Lost (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thank you for all the interesting comments guys. Without going into detail this is a personal poem that I've been trying to write for some time. I think its finished now and I'm content with it.

Comment is about Escape 1970 (blog)

Original item by Hilary Walker

Thank you!

Comment is about Art Gallery, Stockport - A Tribute (blog)

Original item by Dorinda MacDowell

Ha - Po...very droll. In that sense you are probably right!
I was interested in the timing of this application - can it be called
"a coronavirus coincidence"? ? - like that political ploy of releasing
"awkward" news when the public's attention is elsewhere? The
welter of inital comments "in favour" seems to indicate a lack of
much wider public awareness - including my own, about its existence
until very recently.

Comment is about GOODBYE PICCADILLY, FAREWELL LEICESTER SQUARE? (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Loved the line about the ink well full of tears , great poem Nigel

Comment is about My Goodbye Letter (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I really must stop listening to that voice in my head - I have begun to call it Po ?

Comment is about Fog (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I like this Stuart it reminds me of a time traveller explaining what Zoom is

Comment is about Zoom (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

thanks Po - glad you liked it - I've now done 54 days straight - some have been better than others - the sadist in me wants to have a go at 2017 which I also missed - that would take me to 90 - then the OCD in me thinks I really should round it up to 100 - we'll see ?
Ian

Comment is about Fog (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thank you Cathy, Po, Mortimer & Stephen..

Regret burns. Dreams tantalise. Hope hurts.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Comment is about Dogs who love the rain (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Powerfully well written piece David. Enjoyed. P ?

Comment is about FOR HOWLIN’ WOLF IN HEAVEN (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

Po

Thank you your magnanimous comment on this piece. It reassures an ancient dithering mind to carry on writing.

Always appreciate your input whether positive or negative. Those two beasts serve to improve ones perceptions.

But you never make negative comments no matter how appropriate they may be!

Abdul

Comment is about Busy rearing the young (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad