Oh, I have enjoyed this. I sure hope you did intend to be 'funny'.

Comment is about Evening Class (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Glad you liked Ruth and thanks.

Thanks also Nigel. This came about from reading this poem somewhere by chance last night and it kinda made sense reflecting on it in a different era. I like to think Larkin would have thought something similar if he had wrote it nowadays.

Comment is about The Flowers (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you Abdul and Moon.girl.

Comment is about Wishing well, living full (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Don,

This poem has put into words a thought which I have often pondered over.

Thanks

Keith

Comment is about I've Got a Problem (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

It's really good.

Comment is about Alive_sunflower (poet profile)

Original item by Alive_sunflower

Thankyou all for your comments. She smiled this morning. Was a different girl.....and she smiled first! I must have a kind face....

?

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

thank you for writing

One day this old world

Will be ruled by lovers

I am all in with you at the children's table

Lorraine

Comment is about Still Believe in Love (blog)

Original item by Michael Triandam

The survivors
are those
who write
and keep writing.

Comment is about April 2020 Walpurgisnacht Collage Poem (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

A miracle of harmony is birth
that brings all you have.

Comment is about A Miracle of Harmony (blog)

Original item by Alive_sunflower

Your poem is like spring itself
words afresh in rings of truth.

Comment is about The Flowers (blog)

Original item by Andy N

We are waiting for a month with no new cases Mika. Only three to go, fingers crossed. I am starting to see a slight reddening on the horizon. Just joking. I'm fast asleep in bed at that time.

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Comment is about Meeting in Solitude (blog)

Original item by kimberly

Thanks, Don & Moon.girl for responding to this poem. I hope you are both doing as well as can be during this trying time. If only those promised tomorrows could come sooner.

Comment is about Meeting in Solitude (blog)

Original item by kimberly

I'm waiting for tomorrow
Will it ever come?
Where's your science background
Dark precedes the sun

Nice poem Mika...yours

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Comment is about Meeting in Solitude (blog)

Original item by kimberly

Thanks for liking my poem

Comment is about Lorraine Settanni (poet profile)

Original item by Lorraine Settanni

Greg,

Thanks for the info. I've never been to Marbella and didn't know that.

Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)

Original item by john short

I bruised it by kneeling on it, Po.

Comment is about FUCK THE NHS! (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I still get some use out of my nudger when I’m laying carpet, Graham.

Comment is about FUCK THE NHS! (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Social networking and closeness after lockdown days.

Comment is about Meeting in Solitude (blog)

Original item by kimberly

Tools are best left on the bench at your age JC.

Comment is about FUCK THE NHS! (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

And we all need to recognise that we are among others’ others.

Comment is about OTHERS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I don't depend on others
For comments on my work
Just get enough contentment with
My own handiwork...

Comment is about OTHERS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for your thoughts, fellas. This is a re-post. First time around the sadly missed Harry O’Neill commented, “ Stick with it, John!”

Comment is about FUCK THE NHS! (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Much of my rhyme is quite useless
What else can I do I do pray?
Can't coffee in cafes and chat with my mates
This helps pass my humdrummy day

yawn...

?

Comment is about Residues (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

CBT - you must be marvellous company. Keep them coming. You and your siblings sound like "the darling buds of May".

Comment is about See a 'What' Skin! (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This just wanted 'out'. So I let it go. It was FUN.

Comment is about See a 'What' Skin! (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Good theme for any day! But I imagine that each of us has that
time when we might be occupied elsehwere mentally and get noticed accordingly. Maybe not very fair, but it happens.
Keep trying for that absent smile
When it comes, it'll be worthwhile.
Who knows, you may even get a grin
Which surely can be counted as a "win"! ?

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I think that Joan Rivers would be the purveyor of something similar
if the genders were reversed! Can I be excused if I say that I find
myself glued to any contribution from this source of inventive ribaldry? ?

Comment is about FUCK THE NHS! (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Droll; reminding me of that saying about living every day as if it were
your last. Easier said than done in this humdrum world but the idea
is a good one...e.g. trying to get something worthwhile out of each
passing day. Writing poetry that gets read and hopefully enjoyed by
others is one such way of achieving that aim. Keep at it!.

Comment is about Residues (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

'This city of bombs and needles' ... good line. Irrelevant topographical detail ... there is a fiercesome-looking mountain called La Concha that looms above Marbella on the Costa del Sol

Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)

Original item by john short

Hi Michael.

Just saying, until recently I just typed in the pen name and it came up. Now it's disappeared - at least I can't locate it any more on Amazon. Hence the Publish & Print option.

Cheers.

Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)

Original item by john short

Don you'll frighten the poor girl. Just smile at her observing social distancing norms!

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Abdul

I'll get down to cash register level and say "look at me...look at me".

The poor girl will probably get her fingers caught in the register....

?

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

He was a well versed naughty boy.

Thank you for your generous and encouraging comments Philipos.

Comment is about Sonnet_ Love and Lust (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

He was a naughty boy the Bard wasn't he? And we talk about some of our risqué comics. Enjoyed the read Abdul. Love is not a subject that's easy to unpack. You did it with aplomb. P ?

Comment is about Sonnet_ Love and Lust (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Don

This is a gorgeous observation of human interaction. You can't win them all.

Next time you visit the newsagent's give her one of your smiles first. And wait for the reaction.

Abdul

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Smile is a soothing language. Its convincing, it approving, its great to know your views. For we feel the same but never thought to put it this way.
Nice thought!!

Comment is about Missing Look. Missing Smile (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Yeah if I'm honest Jennifer I didn't fully know where I was going with this one, but I knew the rough direction.
You're quite right, the references to binding feet, grinding wheat, chains and whips were all references to slavery of different kinds, and a metaphor for our relationship with our greatest slave master, greed. Money, trinkets etc, and how much in the end the, "Need," for all this crap weighs you down and drags you under, and in the, Great storms," of life, and in life in general that being content with taking only as much as you need is lighter on the soul.

J. x

Comment is about Yet Untold (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I live in the US, so I can get a copy of "The Private Unmentionable Gargoyle" on amazon...

Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)

Original item by john short

I am a Hospice Volunteer associated with Baystate Hospital, Springfield, MA and would like to share this inspiring poem in the weekly newsletter sent to bring solace and encouragement to the medical caregivers coping with the current epidemic.

I would hope that the word choice, cadence, and message surround and uplift them the way it did me. In The Time Of Quiet took my heart on a Nature Walk leading to a space of peace and hope.

Please let me know if you would allow me to share this message in that way.

Whatever you decide, thank you for putting thoughts to words that speak to me in this comforting reminder of the healing force of nature.

Deb

Comment is about IN THE TIME OF QUIET (blog)

Original item by Philippa Atkin

You had me hooked from start to finish.

'Feet firmly in the clouds and dancing breasts'

I never had such luck......where did I go wrong?

?

Comment is about Counting Crazy Lovers (blog)

Original item by Michael Triandam

I'm trying to learn the steps of
This not so merry dance
My current partner's teaching me
(But I want rock and roll......)

This not so merry dance
That I'm restricted too
Involves no handshakes, hugs and kisses
What am I gonna do?

Your poem tells me things will change
Get off my sitting feet
Get back to dancing rock and roll
A much more happy beat

?

Comment is about DANCE ON (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for your comments, Jeff, Ray and Vautaw. And cheers for the likes, Liam, Kate G, and itsjustmedownhere

Comment is about Chuck Berry's Ding-A-Ling (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

how does one qualify to be an "Edwardian" father?
haha
(apparently you are the only one to get the humor,
then again, you may be the only one who read the poem0
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Classical piece John and can't we still learn such a great deal from the ancients. Enjoyed. P

Comment is about Hetaclitus the Obscure (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

The twist at the end made me laugh! Being a high school teacher often I want to say after each lesson...never mind, just think what you want to think.
Also, there is a driven quality to most artists that you captured well. My uncle is a screenwriter in LA and his mood depends entirely on how well the work is going.
Cool poem!

Comment is about Creativity Costs (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Thank you for liking my poetry ?

Comment is about Jordyn Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

I like this poem...immediately it reminded me of Rumi and his relationship with his teacher, Shams. It also reminded me of a carefree way of living where you move with the breeze.

Comment is about wind (blog)

Original item by Liam Osaneo

Liked this although have to admit that I don't fully understand it- Slavery, or just exploitation of unfortunate people?!'Bind the feet 'makes me think of Chinese girls of the past. Beautiful language anyway, and full of indignation for past and present injustice.

Jennifer

Comment is about Yet Untold (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

cheers Ray - although I think I may have been trying to be a bit too clever with the meaning of this one as neither you nor Laura have seen beyond the picture/words - and I meant it to be a bit more 'current' ?
thanks for reading and commenting mate :-)

Comment is about The Lodger (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley