Ray - thanks for appreciating the essence of the poem.
Don - I used to watch Somerset when they came to play at the
Recreation Ground in Bath. But for most of us, including yours truly,
the game had its true place in a village setting on a lazy hazy summer's afternoon.
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Ho-ho. Takes me back to those mother-in-law jokes that Les Dawson was so fond of telling..
Comment is about A neglected gift (blog)
Original item by hugh
Plangent precision!
It's self-delusion to live with the "you" that you hate by victimising
another's sense of self-worth. .
Comment is about Oh Ego (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
Hey
I had a happy read of your poems and yellow green iris was definitely my favourite. I loved it-very poetic aha (cringeee). It’s always interesting to see which selection of poems people like out of all of someone’s work which is why I went through yours and liked my favourites. It doesn’t surprise me that you liked my poem in the shower now that I have read slippy lust...ciao x
Comment is about Emer Ní Chorra (poet profile)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
There is a time when "minding my own business" is inadequate
for why nothing was done in such tragic circumstances. Of course,
we do not know the "history" behind this awful event, whether there
had been previous verbal excesses that may have blunted the
reactions of those who could have helped in some way but chose
not to. That said, we all have 'phones these days so why not use
one to report what was being heard?
Comment is about She Screamed for Help but you did Nothing (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Topical indeed! It brings thoughts of the Empire and its Dark Side in
Star Wars - or The Mysterium in Philip Pulman's stories. Control is
the name of the game, with science and the medical becoming
the modern "religions". Roman emperors used to rely on supplying "bread and circuses" to keep the people happy. You don't have to look very far for their equivalent today!
Comment is about No Comment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Interesting way you have written this Mika. Could almost be a verse/chorus song.....
Comment is about Revolving Door (blog)
Original item by kimberly
<Deleted User> (24283)
Tue 5th May 2020 07:03
Tragic and sad!
Not all love stories have a happy ending?
Comment is about Revolving Door (blog)
Original item by kimberly
<Deleted User> (24283)
Tue 5th May 2020 02:16
You know the art of speaking volumes using just few words. Wise girl I must say.
Comment is about Race (blog)
Original item by Reappak
<Deleted User> (24283)
Tue 5th May 2020 02:14
This is brilliant. Deep wisdom in few words. Loved it. Thanks!
Comment is about Balloon of hope (blog)
Original item by Reappak
Deep emotions hidden inside
resurface back into life
before you know it
the outside world decides
it's time to return.
Comment is about Temporary Freedom (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Well I'll be....no wonder I didn't understand the title
'There's nothing more English than this - sitting in a deckchair at the Worcester county ground, watching the match and the sound of leather on willow. '
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
'Reality and retreating dream merged as one to turn my face into the pillow' is a good line.....
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
An interesting play on periods Sophie. Also short and succint. I like it....
Comment is about The period of mental illness (blog)
Original item by Sophie
A very good 4-line rhyme about a sad situation. Well done Emer. And I like your new pic.....
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Comment is about Oh Ego (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
That title has so much power to summon up the ghosts of summer and long days, and as you rightly say it is a comfort to the fevered brow, however irretrievable it might seem. I know nothing of cricket being a dunce at sport, but I can appreciate your feelings as they shine through this poem Mark.
Ray
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Brilliant! Nice Guardian joke, too
Comment is about 'I just wanted to do SOMETHING': why Luke Wright has been performing nightly during the lockdown (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (5011)
Mon 4th May 2020 18:04
Filthy, earthy language. Dettol injections? Highly recommended.
Comment is about 'I just wanted to do SOMETHING': why Luke Wright has been performing nightly during the lockdown (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Philipos. I sought to evoke something of the "not quite real"
that tends to perrmeate our recollections of the past - focussing more often than not on those halcyon hazy days spent at school when
the world and lfie itself was in sharp focus as we looked ahead to
the unknown and all it held in store - only to find it wasn't all that
we had hoped for. Age has a fondness for finding its way back to
its own version of what was! Fact and fiction = faction, I recall.
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I find your poem above, 'Friction', really thought-provoking.
Comment is about Lorraine Settanni (poet profile)
Original item by Lorraine Settanni
<Deleted User> (24283)
Mon 4th May 2020 15:39
That was funny sad for your MIL Hugh.
Comment is about A neglected gift (blog)
Original item by hugh
Philipos
Mon 4th May 2020 15:35
Aw Bless MC - great memories to be sure. The only sound of willow I remember were the boys at my school getting the cane - threats to kill unsaid upon their faces as they coped with the after effects. I seem to remember being one of them, and scowling back at the teacher. Although cricket was a big deal at my school, the point of any sport tended to elude me. ?
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The matter of fact tones from another age are fondly remembered.I remember a money box once owned - in the style of a UK street
post box; red, of course, with the letter slot taking the coins.
Comment is about My Tin Money Box 1950's (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
We're in a rhyming groove now
A gavel/hammer crash
The Lord High Judge is being rash
I gotta go, fin, dash
?
Comment is about The Judge's Decision (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi Cynthia. Thanks so much. Hope all's well. A scurrilous little offering and a true event.!
Thanks for your likes Jon Stephen and Moon.girl.
Comment is about CONTACTS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Moon.girl & Po
Many thanks for your constructive criticism always encouraging and much appreciated.
Abdul
Comment is about For love (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
Thankyou for your comments and the like
Our jails are full to bursting
They're also losing cash
You've been good boys so off you go
You think I'm being rash?
But I'm Lord High Judge. I know what's best....
?
Comment is about The Judge's Decision (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Philipos
Mon 4th May 2020 09:49
How interesting how people make money thinking about ways how to store it. Great to hear the voice again from way back when. Enjoyed. P. ?
Comment is about My Tin Money Box 1950's (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks Nigel... Yeah it's a funny time at the moment out there.
Thanks Itsjustmedownhere for the like means a lot.
Comment is about Hitching a Ride (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Po,
Thanks for your comment. I always enjoy your words which I value greatly.
Keith
Comment is about Do you see? (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (5011)
Mon 4th May 2020 06:57
Nice one, Neil.
A deft and glowing review of a consummate, popular and powerful performance poet who always has something important to say, and says it superbly; be it in performance, or on the page it seems.
Nice one, Steve.
Comment is about thirty-one small acts of love and resistance: Steve Pottinger, Ignite Books (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Watering the stony place of your childhood
are these the tears of sorrow felt
so much shown in the first verse.
Comment is about Hitching a Ride (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Mon 4th May 2020 00:46
we had so much spring rain
the flowers are literally gushing
forth, they sing of happiness
can't you tell?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Welcome to WOL! From what you have posted so far, looks like we're in for a treat. Thank you for sharing your gift. You are among friends here. Write on!
Comment is about Abruvanamedsly (poet profile)
Original item by Abruvanamedsly
Thanks for stopping by and commenting Po. I use music, as, often, but not always, the highest of the arts, to accompany music's poor cousin, poetry. Sometimes the connection is obvious, sometimes it's tangential. Anyroadup, thanks for taking the time.
John
Comment is about AH! BRIGHT ANGEL (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sun 3rd May 2020 21:56
Sounds funny. Innocently expressed a child's behaviour, amazing write!
Comment is about Mr. Tomato (blog)
Original item by kimberly
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sun 3rd May 2020 21:54
Sir I must say you have a flair for expressing emotions in the form of poetry. This is a beautifully woven piece. Although sadness is the theme, but admire the way it's written.
Comment is about For love (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
How are you Cynthia? It’s been a while
Comment is about The Prisoner (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
There's a good interview with Sale organiser Sarah Pritchard that has just gone up on Andy N's Spoken Word label https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-pritchard-spoken-label-may-2020?fbclid=IwAR3kjjx3ZvMBGuDkeNWoqyn-q9wYQCUjbzReVh7u6uz8p6K8xKMhi-Zpi7Q. Worth a listen!
Comment is about From Surrey to Sale, via Wales and Belfast: online open-mic accesses all areas (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wonderfully descriptive, of not just a change of approach, the globalisation of all our fears , but the decline of a scholarly unkempt type I remember from years back. Our geography teacher, who had jug ears would raise a book up and flex the spine to demonstrate synclines and anticlines in land movements. This was invariably accompanied by suppressed sniggering.
Thanks for posting. Ray
Comment is about Mr Crotty (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
Hi Linda,
I am missing you, so did the next best thing and perused your profile. Which, like your company, I have enjoyed greatly.
Cheers, Valerie
Comment is about Linda Cosgriff (poet profile)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
Perhaps what is going on with that great celestial orb, the giver of
life as we know it here on Earth, should be enquired into far more
than is evidently the case nowadays if we are to make real sense
of what is currently named "climate change".
Comment is about Why is the sun doing this? (blog)
Original item by A Peterson
We certainly live in strange times. In this case,, it appears that the
fashionable mania for money-saving "rehabilitation" has now
supplanted that old staple of justice named "righteous retribution".
Comment is about The Judge's Decision (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Much to ponder when one has the ability to compare what one knew
before with what is peddled today. Notice how much the word "record" is used in reports these days, whereas if anyone were
able to travel back in time before "records" began, they would find
much to help us gain a far wider appreciation of what is happening
now. How about starting with when the Thames used to freeze over
so effectively that fairs were held upon its frozen surface?
Comment is about Mr Crotty (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 5th May 2020 15:14
Ah yes...sitting outside the cricket pavilion on a sunny afternoon - there's no finer place to sleep.
Good piece Mark, and I do enjoy a bit of cricket provided it is of the shorter format.
Comment is about LEATHER ON WILLOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry