One Cheek Smile
Half a nose
shady sunglasses too
upper body shot
so well taken
hope your hand
was not shaking!
Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)
Original item by BlueGirlPoetry
Great insights as alway Po. I learned that lesson many moons ago, one can only be healed when they do the internal mind, body, and spirit work necessary to heal. Healers can only light the path from their own journey.
Comment is about Healing Muses (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Thanks for stopping by Moon Girl (cool name). I try to remember that it’s nearly impossible to be grateful and depressed at the same time. I’m so grateful for the gift of poetry!
Comment is about Healing Muses (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Thanks Ruth! I also love Elvis. When I was a little girl I wanted to be the first female Elvis impersonator! ? I went around making my voice deeper to imitate him singing “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog.” Still makes me smile when I think about it.
I hope and pray some deep healing comes from all this Covid craziness!
Comment is about Healing Muses (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Hi Keith,
This was San Sebastian in the mid-eighties, hence the bombs and nervous police. Herri Batasuna. Thanks and take care.
John
Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)
Original item by john short
A sense of the unknown pervades this with its background of familiarity to the poet, and gives us an ache for resolution. It reminds me of a cinematic distancing effect, especially as the subsequent experience is still in the past. The cleverness of it is in the unresolved wonder. A powerful piece of writing Ian. I crave good poetry and you don't disappoint. I first read of the ginnel in Alan Bennett's autobiography. These alleys I have explored myself on my musical jaunts, one in particular in Brighouse near the canal. Super all round.
Stay safe!
Ray
Comment is about The Loop At The Edge Of Reason (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Comfrontation _ a too familiar a tale. Well told. Situation sensitively handled.
Comment is about Confrontation (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Great poem Victoria. I've been thinking a lot about the healing aspect of this time. I've been a big fan if Elvis since I was a kid so really enjoyed this video too, never saw it before.
Comment is about Healing Muses (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 15:05
False consoles are heart wrenching,
Given up Hopes and altogether sad
Your poem sounds promising and intense
Keep up your good work, may brighten someone's life
From me, as of now, Good night V.
Comment is about Healing Muses (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
This reminds me of my days in Franco's Spain before 1975.
Keith
Comment is about LA CONCHA (blog)
Original item by john short
You may be right about the body doubles, MC. I would have loved to have seen the video to make up my mind.
Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 13:26
Beautifully crafted and well captured surrounding.....?
Comment is about Elemental (blog)
Original item by SophieJPugsley
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 13:25
Down the memory lane...?
Comment is about Confrontation (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 13:25
Yes D. It's TRUE......better to stay away from media...phew!!
Comment is about Conspiracy Theories (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Your comment leads me to mention that our professions were
in our passports (lodged at the hotel) and we thought ourselves to
be likely "targets" for Russian interest in those Cold War times. But
awareness was with us at all times - as it should be with anyone
(like Trump for example) who has a position that places him/her
in range of any "honey trap" undertaken by security services in
lands with limited freedoms but excessive paranoia. It's suspected
that body doubles have been used to embarrass those who become
official targets for whatever reason within Russia itself. Cue - the
likelihood of the practice being extended to serve a purpose.
Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Interesting indeed - begging the question "What was said?" that
sparked such a reaction and which leaves us to ponder "action
and reaction" in this stimulating classroom vignette.
Comment is about Confrontation (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
This is a powerful and moving story, Cynthia.
Comment is about Confrontation (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Glad you qualified the “fun in your hotel room”, MC. Of course, what bobbies do on tour stays on tour.
Incidentally, it has occurred to me what a waste of good American dollars DT’s little peccadillo cost him. I’d have done it for free.
Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
dk - I recall that in the Western film "Open Range", the character
played by Robert Duvall admitted to his trail partner (Kevin Costner)
- when both were faced with imminent death in a gunfight - that his given name was actually "Bluebonnet". Now I know its origin, I see
more clearly why the admission caused mirth from the hard-bitten Costner character at that moment. I thought it to be just a fancy name.
Comment is about Simple Pleasures (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I find it difficult to believe that anyone visiting Russia would be caught
that way. Back in the 70s, along along with a pal of those days, I
took a trip to Leningrad and stayed at the Hotel Moskva beside the
River Neva - with a view over the river to the battlecruiser Aurora
(fired the shot that heralded the 1917 October Revolution). We
had fun in our hotel room, speaking loudly in praise of the city
and how the Germans could never have hoped to defeat the spirit
of the Russian people - assuming someone somewhere would be
either listening or watching.
Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hahah! Good Girl ?
Comment is about Love in the time of coronavirus (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Don. I updated it slightly after a few re-reads but retained
the theme of this being something of a journey that we are on.
Comment is about STATIONS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you both for your lovely comments. They made my week!
Comment is about Into the Wild (blog)
Original item by SophieJPugsley
Meanwhile, a first sign of domestic tension during the lockdown ... my wife accidentally shrinks my EU T-shirt in the tumble drier ...
Comment is about Love in the time of coronavirus (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Naughty? Not me, Po. That’s Don. I just described it.
Comment is about PEE ON ME (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (24283)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 08:20
I like your dp....meaningful words!!!
Comment is about Mocosy (poet profile)
Original item by Mocosy
Sat 4th Apr 2020 03:11
aha! A road beautifier, in a roundabout way! ?
thanks for your comment and insight.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
What Po said. I agree wholeheartedly. You both make WOL my daily therapy! ❤️?
Comment is about Inside Out (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I fee this beautifully written poem. ❤️
Comment is about Grief (blog)
Original item by David F. Freeman
Philipos
Fri 3rd Apr 2020 23:38
Thanks for commenting Don. Pinheads. P. ?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Am Cash, you should stop telling me how to write. I will not rename this poem. How dare you. This is the second time that you have came onto my profile and commented under my work suggesting that I should change my work. Get over yourself, get some manners and stop telling me how to write.
Comment is about Show me the way to go home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
So good Emer.....
Comment is about Show me the way to go home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
You should rename it so many questions to go home x
Comment is about Show me the way to go home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
So many questions. Your poem is built around our feelings... So many questions... But no answers today, just question why
Comment is about Show me the way to go home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
Audio has returned ??
Comment is about Show me the way to go home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
Thanks for the kind comments - glad you liked it. I think it does tap into a lot of peoples childhood experiences of staying with relatives MC - I never felt threatened in any way - just that creeping unease of unfamiliar surroundings and strange sounds and furniture. Then in the morning the feeling that you had somehow escaped - and soon forgotten ?
Thanks again
Comment is about Overnight Stay (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
That indeed was the Dan album I was listening to, Graham!
Comment is about The junk room (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Reading poetry listening to Steely Dan, now that's an idea! Keep reeling in the years Greg/Ricky
G
Comment is about The junk room (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Very kind of you, Ray. My first lockdown poem in which I've managed to not mention the virus. I regard that as progress. Keep looking for that badge, Ray!
Comment is about The junk room (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I love the sense of everything having its place and usefulness, however brief, and how that makes up our environment. A clutch of tankards ! indeed. The pace and sense of the poem is a lovely piece of drollery belonging fairly and squarely in your hands. That reminds me, I still can't find my cycling proficiency badge!
Always a treat Greg.
Ray
Comment is about The junk room (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 4th Apr 2020 23:21
I like the poem Jason...the rhyme and the message.
I assume the finger is being pointed at China. Will Western democracies become anti-China? Maybe, but we'll stillcontinue to buy all their cheap goods I have no doubt.
Comment is about Balancing The Ledger (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss