For, "The most intelligent animal on earth," we really are as thick as pigshit aren't we, the amount of crap we've dumped all over our planet, not just in the sea, but the sea's bad enough. So when anyone takes the opportunity to point it out, I think that's great, thanks Don.

J. x

Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Very succinct, to the point, insightful and I love it. So true, hiding belligerence in polite speech.

J. x

Comment is about Can't is a four-letter word (blog)

Original item by Chrystel Roberts

Glad you fixed this Hugh see how nicely the rhythm now flows with please and Louise ?

Comment is about The men you please (blog)

Original item by hugh

Can't believe no-one would know who Dylan off the Magic Roundabout was, and then I remembered how old I am. Conversely, I didn't have a clue who Dylan Hartley was.

J. x

Comment is about POETRY LIKE DYLAN’S (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Works for Nike....?

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Ruth

You remind me of those T-shirts emblazoned with JUST DO IT....?

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Don, pushing the boundaries is all part of the experiment

Feel the ridicule
In the riddle
Dance to the tune
Of your
Own fiddle
Do it anyway...

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Cheers Jason! Thanks for reading & liking this. Fairytales and nursery rhymes are our first introduction into poetry, so it's fun to re- visit them once and a while!

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Plastic? Oh no. Banned!

Comment is about Plastic Plastic (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Jason

If I push the boundaries and write a sweet little 'piggy-like' nursery rhyme with deep dark undertones do you think I'd get away with it?

Nah, WOLers wouldn't see the subtlety. Writing some of that sing-song Jack and Jill stuff again Don? Grow up boy. Be a man poet like us.....

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Ruth

'squoinking' You have taken the simple 'oink-squeak' call of these new hybrids to a new level....?

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I can see it now, Keith.
I’ve read that it is now possible to turn your ashes into a vinyl disc. I shall have that. I will have Another One Bites the Dust, You Spin Me Right Round, and Ring of Fire put on it.
https://scattering-ashes.co.uk/product-news/meet-your-maker/ashes-put-vinyl-record/

Comment is about The Final Act (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thanks Ray. I have no need for self-deprecation though. My mediocrity is blindingly obvious.
And thanks for the “Likes” Becky, Jeannot, Dean and Chrystel.

Comment is about POETRY LIKE DYLAN’S (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

'my body will be borne on the shoulders of those who I love
this should rapidly reduce supposed numbers...' well said.

Going out with a bang!

Comment is about The Final Act (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I've already decided that I want St James Infirmary Blues (either Louis Armstrong or Cab Colloway ). It's a morbid song, and none of my family can stand it so I don't suppose it will happen. (And I won't be here to argue)
I like your choices. Especially Norman Greenbaum.

Comment is about The Final Act (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Meya,

I have a time machine but it takes me into the future not the past

While you are just beginning your Saturday I have already lived through it on the other side of the planet.

While you are asleep and I am awake
I'm living the next day ahead
Predicting the future when you do wake up
A modern-day Who it be said....

Comment is about My golden years (blog)

Original item by meya

you are not a Cow
you are a Bull.

(the poem was Bull also.) wink.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

thanks Tom
for reading "Put Some Clothes On"
a spoof about celebrity selfies
and cows.
wink.

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

Original item by Tom

i liked your little typewriter poem
type on!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

I liked your typewriter joke.
"you're not my type".
hahaha

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Great poem.I love the canal and spend a lot of time on it with my dog cycling,I call my activity "canycling."

Comment is about BY THE CANAL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks to you all..Yeah..those are priceless moments no technology could ever bring back..unless theres time machine..

Comment is about My golden years (blog)

Original item by meya

Surprisingly Candice there was nothing on the questionnaire about frequency of tweeting (ridiculous or otherwise) so I unable to give an opinion.

I was also surprised there was no space for 'other suggestions' ?? ?

Comment is about Yes Mr Trump (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Dear Love Adviser

I have a problem. My shock absorbers have worn out and they don't make replacements any more. Will the road get smoother or do I just have to ride it out?

Yours
Worn-out shockers

Comment is about Love Is... (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Really love this Ray, to me it paints the picture of a big, inquisitive, slow moving serpent, gently and quietly snaking it's way across the landscape.

J. x

Comment is about BY THE CANAL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ah...such is the life of Becky Who. But you are still in the land of the living. Which is good news.

All this too will pass.....(as will many of the treasured things we wished did not....)

Comment is about The school run (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Now that is what I call an exit, and Norman Greenbaum to finish, superb. I wish I had as clear a plan, the only thing I'm insisting on is that someone reads, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

J. x

Comment is about The Final Act (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I love the classic nursery rhymes and tales from childhood, beneath the surface they're so dark. So big round of applause Ruth, it's one of my favourite things when people rework them.

J. x

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

So sorry Rose, exactly the same problem my end, (well android not iOS). So pleased you liked it.
Funny you should mention, "The Pit and the Pendulum," Ray, I had an image of that in my mind but couldn't seem to reference it in the finished piece.
And Ruth, do you know what, I think I'd have been alright as a knight, mind you these days I'm an archer (genuinely I do archery).
But yes it struck me the other day when I was reading about the sword of Damocles that actually, it's that one hair of a horses tale, that's the key ingredient, that's the unknown, the weakest link in the chain, and there by a single hairs breadth all our fates hang.
Thanks all for commenting and liking.

J. x

Comment is about A Hairs Breadth (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Well Don a whole new world of Hybrids has been discovered by you, I especially like that squoinking sound effect!?

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Yes Meya, I would also like to go back to those years......

Comment is about My golden years (blog)

Original item by meya

So good Ray.....

Comment is about BY THE CANAL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

....and they are stunning biologists..... Producing many little piggymouslets. Blind in one eye only. Tail only half-curled. Strange oink-squeak call. Both mother and father doing well but father beginning to worry about rising costs of living.

Seems said therapist did not advise against dilly-dallying with blind mice.......?

Comment is about 3 Little Pigs (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Some powerful images there. Suffocating; as it should be. Great writing.

Comment is about Those Puppet Strings (blog)

Original item by Kate Hubbard

Profound writing and rich with emotion. I think as imprisoned souls we often scream through what we endure, knowing that there is a recurrung pattern. This poem comes from the mind where it cannot be fully understood but thank you for such a valiant display of the pain which inhabits the inner self.

Keith

Comment is about Those Puppet Strings (blog)

Original item by Kate Hubbard

John,

This poem speaks for those who look with some despair on a life lived with the inability to revisit and change. Perhaps a life which is little understood. I am drawn to your words, "that my veins are clogged with curdled liqour" and "in this sandstorm of brokeness". In this poem are you searching for some explanation or meaning to a life which often seems enigmatic to say the least or even pointless? I am intrigued.

Keith

Comment is about The rags of time (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

What an interesting concept Jason, and yes in a way we are all, only a hair's breadth away from our own personal swords falling upon our brow!

The world you have transported us to in this piece Jason, convinces me that your past life in the knighthood regresses itself through your poetry.

Comment is about A Hairs Breadth (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

And don't start on the clowns they taste too funny?

Comment is about Devour and Crunch (blog)

Original item by hugh

Really loved the spiritual aspect of this poem Sarah-Louise.

Comment is about CHAKRA HEALING (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

This poem speaks of September and no other month, with its soporific ambience.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Whispering wind (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Mike,

such a detailed poem of events long since out of the news and the scope of many but a scene which still haunts all those who have been engaged in one conflict or another. Well rhymed and very well described.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about A Hunting We Will Go. (blog)

Original item by Mick Stewart

Exquisite! This poem captures so much of those man made features which criss cross our industrial landscape as if they possess a soul of their own.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about BY THE CANAL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you Keith..

Comment is about Lesroy Mardenborough (poet profile)

Original item by Lesroy Mardenborough

Happy Independence Day to Everyone from St. Kitts and Nevis.. ??

Comment is about St. Kitts and Nevis Independence Day Poem (blog)

Original item by Lesroy Mardenborough

Nicely sour writing John. All claims to fame punctured from the outset. It reminds me of Tommy Cooper live when I backed him on stage. Saying he did impressions he did one of his butcher, and got a laugh. That was Tommy.

Ray

Comment is about POETRY LIKE DYLAN’S (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Eminently sensible and a good lesson in life as we move through the voices we hear. Says something about the paths we might take.

Ray

Comment is about Pigeonholed (blog)

Original item by Amanda Steel

Quite a seductive idea and perfect for the season Jon. All is soft at the edges and alluring to the mind.

Ray

Comment is about Whispering wind (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

As close to self torture as I've seen, Jason. The idea of the sword's weight above is a chastening one, and reminds me of the pit and the pendulum. Plenty of gothic pretence.

Ray

Comment is about A Hairs Breadth (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I love the quick fire lines that emphasize the sense of impending danger and the tight spaces. Paints a very strong scene and is just the right length to take us on a journey. Full of enjoyable atmosphere.

A pleasure to read Mick.

Comment is about A Hunting We Will Go. (blog)

Original item by Mick Stewart

Thanks guys. Dunno what impulse made me want to post this here. Hope it pleases!

Comment is about The school run (blog)

Original item by Becky Who