thanks for the nice and inspiring comment!!!
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by ajay kumar sahoo
Frances Macaulay Forde
Fri 4th Oct 2019 08:37
Reminds me of something I wrote... seems both a popular and inspiring subject.
Comment is about Trash Day (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 4th Oct 2019 07:16
I know what you mean Candice...I've had to rush out bra-less a couple of times.
Comment is about Trash Day (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
That was great fantastic more comments plz
Comment is about What do I do (blog)
Original item by Karianne
Happy National Poetry Day Jason. Enjoyed this dramatic dark essence it would make a great vengeful break up piece!
Comment is about A Dark Seed (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Perfect for my Irish friend.
Thanks for sharing this
Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I had this very discussion today, no bombs though.
But where DO we go from here? IS there a 'happy place' between?
Technology is a wonderful thing, but there is always a price to pay somewhere. Fossil fuels are indeed killing the Earth, but look at a lithium mine! Electric cars are no better because of the batteries. And as far as bombs...the military are probably the biggest polluters there are!
I'll keep planting trees.
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Comment is about Bigger and Better Bombs (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
The road is always uncertain.
Good balance is a must.
Comment is about Halfway There (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thanks Keith.
Nice to see you Martin,
Thanks
Comment is about TRUTH (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Happy Poetry Day Cynthia, I'm half Irish and I love the spirit of these St.Patrick's Day Blessings which are appropriate all year round. Thanks.
Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 20:36
Thank you Martin for your kind words much appreciated. I too do wish, that one day I will write longer poem. Hopefully as good as you. Don, I too like haiku as well as senryu and tanka I think they make you slow down and take a different view on everyday happenings that we would otherwise take for granted. Thank you Keith and Avishek for the likes
All the best des
Comment is about incessant (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Thank you for noticing, Adam and Keith.
John
Comment is about Fossil sonnet (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
My sincere thanks to you Kevin. Thank YOU so much for noticing. I tried to use this little scene to convey a whole mood. Not very successfully I fear. Conveyed best, I think, by a deeply unfashionable (because deeply un-pc) yet quite brilliant poet, Philip Larkin, a man with vices as well as virtues, now isn't that a surprise?
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
Has changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
My grandfather served for four years on the western front as a machine gunner in the Cheshire Regiment, long since 'cut' by one or other of our oh-so 'patriotic' governments.
His name was Jack, a silent breed of a man, I loved him dearly. John
Comment is about Tuesday 4th August 1914 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 20:13
This is great. A good reminder to all of us that sometime the most important reason why we create art is not for profit or for others, but for ourselves.
Comment is about A Tweet Moved Me to Say (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 20:10
This one made me giggle. Short and to the point, but you get the message across. I like it!
Comment is about Intelligence Briefing (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I love the passion of this and have to agree with all that you say here. I think sadly there are so many people who are wrapped up in their own worlds , totally unaware of anybody else.
Well put
Nice one
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Nice one Nigel! This poem is perfect for the current mood we're living in and it could be about anything! Happy Poetry Day Nigel, Keep Writing!
Comment is about Halfway There (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Oh?.....watercolour's not a verb?....could've fooled me.....?
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Ha ha yes, that be fangtastic!!!?
J. x
Comment is about A Dark Seed (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
thanks Adam W for the like, and Keith for the like and generous comment. Hope the sigh wasn't a sad one?! thanks Don for the comment - I thought someone would start complaining that watercolour isn't a verb!!! Glad you liked it Ray. It isn't really intentional that there are no people, although the ones that were there on the beach were mostly 'spoilt' - overweight women in totally inadequate bikinis and paunches for the men. I confess to not being slim, but at least I am altruistic enough to refuse to wear a bikini now!!!!!! There appears to be a dearth of mirrors in most houses.
Thanks again, Jennifer
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Rose, our Keith's got his 'ead right here
Screwed on in such a sensible way
We gotta keep big business going
No matter what little us say, hey?.......
Comment is about Bigger and Better Bombs (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 16:06
Cynthia, it was me. Well why not, and since I'm the first to claim it...
Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 16:04
Smaller bombs but more powerful...that's the challenge!
Take that tongue out of your cheek Keith!
Comment is about Bigger and Better Bombs (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thalia's dancing round
Jangling poet bells
Proberly got Poets Blight
Shit, Rose, bloody hell
How do I handle this one Rose? You're a woman. I'm outa my depth....
Stop it Thalia. I'm asking Rose a serious question.....
But I'm your Muse of Mirth Don. I love you.....
Sheesh Rose. It's all your fault Ruth. Bloody Poetry Day. Bloody proberly.....?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Provocative stuff - and surely intentionally so. But all art has its
basic rules - and writing is surely included.
Far be it from me to be contrary
But a favourite friend is my dictionary,
And the editor of my thumbed Thesaurus
Never had the intent to annoy or bore us.
To misspell words and misuse grammar
Should send a writer to the "slammer". (American slang for prison) ?
Comment is about Grammar-Nazi (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
But Rose it don't qualify
For Poem Of The Week
It don't have no fluff
And no gloomy bleak
It's gotta be airy
And fairy now Rose
And shit girl no rhyming
No anything-goes
This Aussie he's reckless
We can't pat his back
Our nice WOLer Board
Imagine the flack?
Rose, he's refused his moment of glory....
Shit, you turned the board down ?....
Who needs POTW for fame?......
True.....?
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 15:36
ta chuck for the happy poetry day greeting and the same to you with inspirational bells on!
Rose ?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
This is in the spirit of POETRY DAY!
I received this St. Patrick's Day card years ago. Perhaps from my mother when I was in Teacher's College. From someone who knew me well. I loved it, saved it, mounted it in a clear frame, and it has hung over my pillow ever since. Spoken aloud, read silently, recited in the dark a thousand times. It has never lost its charm.
If anyone recognizes this work, do say so.
This work and 'I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree'
are my two favourites in the world. And I thought - the whole point of Poetry Day. It doesn't have to be something by me!
Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 15:30
Rosey has read
this pearler of Dons
she thinks it worthy enough
to be WOLS weekly best one!
Rose ?
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
The Poetry Blight has struck
Shit and bloody fuck
Little me down south you see
Mother hen goes cluck
He's come unstuck.......
Sheesh....?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Ho-ho.
However,...
Whatever the doomsters may think or say
We've never suffered being "nothing" here in the UK. ?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
We can get rid of politicians from our lives - but poets seem to hang
around ad nauseam! ?
Seriously, the "vote" is important to the former and the fear of losing
it - and a comfortable position and income - CAN bring change.
Remember that here in the UK, the idea of leaving the European
Union was thought worthy of patronising sniggers and dismissive
waves of the political hand...until the threat of the loss of votes
brought about a long-overdue national referendum which, it was
thought, would comfortably preserve the status quo. Not so!
The battle is on but it will be won....thanks to votes.
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Dead Dead Dead
Brain cells go dead
till time to end
all deadlines - - - dead!
Happy Poetry Day Ruth!
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 14:49
' and the bark will be made from your skin ' what!? ohh! that's me off to the beauty parlour and sharpish!
monstrously brill Jason. I might join in with this spectral subject later
fang you very much ?
Rose ?
Comment is about A Dark Seed (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
The truth .Poetry day theme
Jim told his wife the truth,
He was seeing a doctor called Ruth.
But Sally her truths she did rally
She was seeing a plumber down the alley,.
She was seeing a barman at the pub,
And a man called Boris at the club.
The problem evolved by telling the truth,
Jim left Sally and moved in with Ruth.
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
You don't think politicians take any notice of community backlash Brian ?
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Good golly, this new form of illness
Involves some strange utter form of exit
I do hear clinics are being set up
To neutralise this Psychosis Brexit
Google one near you Keith.....?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Adam,
a clever poem but horribly true.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about A Poem (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
trump it or trash it, is my advice
Keith
Comment is about Intelligence Briefing (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Ruth,
Thank you for this as I have been diagnosed as having chronic Brexit Pychosis. I need to go and lie down now as I feel another attack coming on.
Keith
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Chrystel, I'm working on another. Halloween is my birthday you see so it seems appropriate to write something really dark. This was a Poem about how October makes me feel and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed writing it.?
J. x
Comment is about Hallows Harbinger (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 12:37
It would be nice to think that any mass movement or grass roots movement has 100% support, but they never do. Look at Brexit 52/48.
Suppose for example that a mass movement started and got 60% support in favour of veganism...would you expect politicians to then make it the law of the land?
Time to put your serious head on Don.
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank You for your Kind Comments Tom I appreciate you reading some of my poems too. Happy National Poetry Day!
Comment is about Tom (poet profile)
Original item by Tom
Happy Poetry Day Don!
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Happy National Poetry Day To All in UK!?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Don Matthews
Fri 4th Oct 2019 09:35
I'm calling re your offer
To do a 'What I Can'
It sound exotic, teasing-like
(You don't list this on your fees Mr Kent?....please call back) ?
Comment is about Madam, My Card (blog)
Original item by branwell kent