Thanks for reading and commenting on my poem Bully the week. Reading your work and looking at your blog I have to say I am a big fan of telling stories in poetry as well as through books and short stories . You have an engaging style and although I don't go on WOL as much as I used to I look forward to reading more of your work.
Martin
Comment is about Tricia McCallum (poet profile)
Original item by Tricia McCallum
Thanks to Nigel and Mortimer for liking
and thanks to Michael and Tricia for commenting. I think that all of us feel this way at various times during our week. It is just that it has all become heightened through the course of recent events . A time to take stock and revaluate how we operate.
Thank you again
Martin
Comment is about Bully the week (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks Martin - glad you liked it.
I think we all like to think that we could be Tank Man - but very few of us are. I think you have to be totally committed to a cause and - yes - a lit bit mad to do it
thanks again for commenting - I appreciate it mate
Ian
Comment is about Tank Man (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
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Sun 10th May 2020 13:51
Coward dies many deaths before he dies in reality. Be brave and bold. Nothing can harm you when God is protecting you.
Comment is about Keep Your Distance (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Sun 10th May 2020 13:20
Philipos
Sun 10th May 2020 12:55
Don, I think we all quail at all implications of the electronic pen - didn't we once agree that it is mightier than the sword - and anyway we get to know the characters of those going on line as well and strike up a kind of global bon homie. And didn't we need to especially when Novo kicked off - WOL helped us through self-isolation and more. Blessings. P ?
Comment is about Anxious (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Every line is tight and true. Brilliant John!
Comment is about A quiet disbelief in nothing (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Sun 10th May 2020 11:59
a volcano huh?
that is really neat.
write a red hot poem!
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thanks Martin, it's funny I tend to write almost exclusively in rhyme although I do love prose. I think it's the early influence of listening to music all the time. It only struck me when someone mentioned it before, a few years ago, that a lot of my stuff would only need a little tweak to be a song. Glad you liked it.
J. x
Comment is about Rich (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Indeed, MC. When he lost the 1945 Election his wife is reputed to have asked him “How can they have done this to you?”. He replied “It’s what we have fought for”.
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Philipos
Sun 10th May 2020 09:01
Thanks for commenting on that 'clucking' poem. Always good having some levity. Appreciated. P. ?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Sun 10th May 2020 02:52
We need more poems like these, to plant the seed of wonder and warmth in this machine world, Everyone needs to stop every once in a while to look up at the sky, where every second a new shade of blue is born unlike any ever seen. Thank you for helping me pause for a bit.
Comment is about Every Day Beauty (blog)
Original item by Rich
Hi JC - yes, I watched the film on TV even though I have it on DVD
- a recent gift. Gary Oldman's portrayal of WSC is extraordinary...
and he deservedly won film industry recognition for it. I certainly
see how WSC would have been racked by his share of doubts - although his frequent unheeded 1930's warnings about the rise of Nazi Germany and the threat it posed would surely have bolstered his conviction of purpose once he obtained the PM's position of
power and was able to act to confront what so many, including
certain Royals of the time, saw as something to be admired and
appeased. He was, with his previous family history and his own
political expereince of success and failure, the perfect adversary
for the strutting dictators in Europe.. His belief that "You cannot
appease the crocodile" never left him in his war-time leadership.
He was the exceptional leader for exceptional times and even
though understandably disappointed to find himself voted out of
office after the war, he surely would have admitted that it was
the proof that the system and way of life he fought to preserve
was still functioning as it was meant to. Not a bad legacy!
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi here d.k. - not sure I agree totally about the disappearance of
manners or common courtesies. I still experience them in my
dotage (maybe because of it?), but nonetheless they exist - often
accompanied by a smile that lubricates the wheels of modern life.
I keep in mind the need to display them myself and invariably get a
like response. And if I don't the effort was still worth it and who knows, the recipient may just remember later and learn from their
rebuff and "play it forward" in subsequent contact with others.
..
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
Did you see tonight's film, MC? I saw it a couple of years ago at the flix. I was impressed by the portrayal of Churchill as rather vulnerable and racked with doubt, which seems to me to be entirely plausible. In retrospect he is characterised as a strong leader but, in truth, he must have been shit scared. Also the portrayal of Chamberlain and Halifax as reasonable men who saw the sense in appeasing.
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Such a hard piece to read because it breaks your heart over and over again.
Comment is about Ocean's Roar (blog)
Original item by Tom
No doubt Churchill and Greenwood would have recognised a
fellow imbiber and felt more at ease with each other because of it.
Churchill was even mocked in the House for being drunk - but
his ready riposte "You, madam, are ugly but I shall be sober in the morning" has endured down the years since that robust/rude
parliamentary exchange (imagine the squeals of outrage today) took place. As for Dunkirk, Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard's
memoir "Skies to Dunkirk" has a detailed account of how the
"flotilla of little ships" became a reality after Goddard carried Lord Gort's urgent message about the British Army's plight to the War Cabinet in London via a wave-hopping flight by Goddard (then a group captain and Gort's aide-de-camp) across the Channel -
followed by a desperate dash to London and some "gate-crashing"
to the WD's inner sanctum to ensure the message was delivered..
Comment is about THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I am not normally a great fan of rhyme but this has such a wonderful natural rhythm and pace to it matched well with the repeating phrase of 'let me'
wonderful stuff Jason
love it
Comment is about Rich (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
love the metaphor wrapped up in this,
Nice one
Comment is about Let Me Bother You (blog)
Original item by kimberly
what a beautiful picture you have painted here.
Love it
Comment is about Enough (blog)
Original item by Tricia McCallum
I agree with Cynthia this has to be read at least three times and therein lies its beauty.
Love it
Comment is about Ocean's Roar (blog)
Original item by Tom
It is amazing when we suddenly have more time to stop listen and draw breath that our senses somehow become more alert.
Lovely poem Abdul
Comment is about Lockdown gift (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
In every situation like this there seems to be a tank man. That one defiant individual who is insensed by what is happening enough to meet all that is going on full on. superb poem Ian
Nice one mate
Comment is about Tank Man (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
This simply made me feel better and for that, Martin, I am in your debt.
The arbitrary deadlines we impose upon ourselves have potentially huge fallout. Guilt is corrosive and given I was raised Catholic, who would possibly know this better?
Best to follow your poem's advice, and that we all say, simply, "Hey, tomorrow? I just may do better."
Hope you stay well and keep writing.
Warm regards.
Tricia McCallum
www.triciamccallum.com
Comment is about Bully the week (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks for reading and commenting Hannah . It is quire strange that nowadays in almost any town or city the rush hour can be just half a dozen vehicles at the traffic lights.
Thanks again
Comment is about Nothing but rainbows (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks Hannah. I am glad you enjoyed.
bless you
Martin
Comment is about The unchosen path (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I really like this poem. The full circle it makes. It reminds me a bit of Joni Mitchel'ls Circle Game...The ceiling becomes you canvas...I am jealous of that line...it is so good.
Comment is about Storm in a tea cup (blog)
Original item by Shrawani Sen
This is the kind of positive affirmation I can tolerate...not too sweet...but with a big dose of humor and wit...Thank you
Comment is about Bully the week (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I read this three times, and each time it revealed more than I saw before. Lovely words, like water dropletss falling out of a glass, same source, yet all individual.
Comment is about Ocean's Roar (blog)
Original item by Tom
Sat 9th May 2020 12:46
Thanks so much! I love this community here
Comment is about Prometheus (blog)
Original item by MortimerBlooming
Ruvi, I am the MOTHER of twins!
Comment is about Ruvi Galhena (poet profile)
Original item by Ruvi Galhena
Sat 9th May 2020 12:12
This is soooo good!
The author is brilliant!
Bravo!
Comment is about In No Uncertain Terms (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Deeply beautiful, I enjoy listening to the audio.
Comment is about Every Day Beauty (blog)
Original item by Rich
Sat 9th May 2020 09:29
"Manners" are a thing of the past.
Along with common courtesy.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Welcome to WOL Mortimer! I am looking forward to reading more of your amazing poetry!
Comment is about MortimerBlooming (poet profile)
Original item by MortimerBlooming
I know exactly this feeling, this dichotomy, you describe, .L.m.P.
"I enjoy the relief, and sometimes even the pain, poetry brings me."
Diving down into the pain is part of what we as poets do. Then as ever we raise our hands upward to the surface, feeling a respite, a solace, and swim to the surface above once again.
Tricia McCallum
www.triciamccallum.com
Comment is about .L.m.P. (poet profile)
Original item by .L.m.P.
Some of us write
some of us read
all on Write Out Loud
do both to please.
Comment is about That's the Way (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
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Fri 8th May 2020 18:48
This is a beautiful poem.
I especially like the last verse, filled with caring and hope.
Hannah
Comment is about The unchosen path (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
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Fri 8th May 2020 18:45
Amazing imagery of a city in Locldown.
You can feel the sadness, the desertion.
Hannah
Comment is about Nothing but rainbows (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Excellent poem Andy! I hadn’t heard that before.
Comment is about Dealing with the Dead (blog)
Original item by Andy Humphrey
Thanks, P. Glad you enjoyed this one. A bit of wishful thinking.
Comment is about Let Me Bother You (blog)
Original item by kimberly
Thanks for the interest. I wrote this some time ago and find that I am still trying to come to terms with it. Very pleased that others find it worth reading. Best wishes to you all.
Comment is about Bedside Days (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Philipos
Fri 8th May 2020 17:12
Nice nostalgic read Kimberley. Enjoyed. ?
Comment is about Let Me Bother You (blog)
Original item by kimberly
John Marks
Sun 10th May 2020 18:54
Your words lifted my spirit (at least to pavement level!) when I needed it. Not a word wasted. Thank you. Martin.
Comment is about Bully the week (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder