Much to agree with here. I've been around long enough to remember country roads that saw few cars and had those little
garages with workshops and a couple of petrol pumps - ordinary
and super. It's a question of "balance" these days, with so much
more traffic on the roads and people in an endless hurry and maybe
there's a place (literally) for not having to wait in a line for a fill of
fuel and taking the opportunity to top up with some grub too. All
things change - not necessarily for the better, I grant you that, but
time - and traffic - has to move on.
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi Don. Your comment
has hit the nail on the head.
All or nothing? True!
Comment is about A Cornucopia Of Haikus (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
Hi Laura. Thanks very much for your encouraging comment. I love writing haikus, especially when my brain's not firing properly - they allow me to express the little that's on my mind without the need to expand on what I'm saying. They're also a counter to those poems of mine that do witter and bloviate!
Comment is about A Cornucopia Of Haikus (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
Absolutely love the first three - spot on!
Comment is about A Cornucopia Of Haikus (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
Hi Don,
I remember going to the same station, sitting on my motorbike while the attendant put petrol in the tank and we talked about art and progressive music - such a pleasurable experience in the 70s.
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Devon Brock
Fri 21st Jun 2019 11:18
Don, in New Jersey, at least when I last checked, self-serve gas stations were banned statewide. Praise be to New Jersey. And, those self checkouts at the Walmart are costing jobs, so don't use them. Nicely done!
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Good stuff this haiku
Allows deep thinking emerge
(0r maybe sod all?)
Comment is about A Cornucopia Of Haikus (blog)
Original item by Richie Muster
<Deleted User> (17847)
Fri 21st Jun 2019 11:13
EXACTAMUNDO MAN!
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Devon Brock
Fri 21st Jun 2019 11:04
There is so much gorgeous in this poem, it is difficult to say anything with my jaw on the floor. Beautiful stuff, Adam.
Comment is about The Nature Of Love (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Leon. As the smiling guy cleaning windscreens was doing. As my poem says - the little niceties in life are gone. So sad....
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you all for the likes.
Comment is about A natural concert (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (17847)
Fri 21st Jun 2019 10:39
such a sweet smooth summery smattering Jon
Comment is about A natural concert (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (17847)
Fri 21st Jun 2019 10:34
Don, I used work on a garage forecourt and my job wasn't only for serving folks with car juice but also doing something far more important
as in being genuinely sociable!
Comment is about Service Stations. Disappearing Services (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I am with you in that Tom . Not being able to sleep is a real drag.
Nice one
Comment is about Shadows Climb In My Cold Room (blog)
Original item by Tom
By the rhythm and the use of rime I would suggest that this would be excellent as a performance piece.
Love the subject matter
Nice one
Comment is about I strive to be a part of the hive (blog)
Original item by Shawn Garcia
A plethora of colourful words here. I particularly like verdancy.
Nice one
Comment is about A natural concert (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
At first I have to confess to have been a bit flummoxed by this one until I read your explanation. My thoughts immediately turned to the same as David in Dylan Thomas's famous opening lines for under milk wood.
A cracking piece of poetry
Nice one
Comment is about THE MESSAGE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I just saw your comments on my Profile page. Apologies for the delay in acknowledging them. I don’t check it very often. Glad you enjoyed your time in Devon. We will be there in September after a week in Christchurch.
As for the “Walk the Line”/ Just Giving thing - not to worry. I know you have a good heart. We made around £500 this year but the walk was hard! Give me abseiling from 300’ any day.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
There is some magnificent phrasing and description here John. A friend of mine who is a real Mozart fan told me that Mozart never made any mistakes when writing his music. All corrections were made in his head not on paper I am intrigued by the painting.
Nice one
Comment is about Die Zauberflote (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
the speed and pace of the rhythm in this piece make it almost a dance itself.
Nice one
Comment is about Memoirs of an Alcoholic (blog)
Original item by Erin Renee Moore
Beautifully put eve. I have worked with refugees in the past and some of the stories I have heard are completely and utterly tragic.
A great poem
Comment is about I will go home and cry (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
A huge thank you to everyone who read and liked this piece....I know it's not easy reading. Offering asylum and welcoming refugees is one of the things that made Britain Great in the past....we need to get back to where we were before Theresa May created the "Hostile Environment".
Comment is about SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
thanks for the kind feedback?
Comment is about Heartburn no more (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
elPintor
Fri 21st Jun 2019 06:34
The juxtaposition of light shone into "dark dramas" and the repetition of "black" as in "the black book" set my mind off on its own...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book
It's too early in the morning to consider the possibility of parallels, so I will stop there--quite a brooding scene, though ;
Rachel
Comment is about THE MESSAGE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I've come undone
To miss this one
'Lectricity ?
Come, synergy
Where have I been
To sight unseen
Your poem re
'Lectricity ?
(Nice one PP)
Comment is about Electricity (blog)
Original item by Pagan Poetry
Interesting thoughts here PP
Messy, disordered, dishevelled
But dents, scratches, states of confusion
Will all be erased the next level
(An interesting, thought- provoking poem PP...I like it)
Comment is about Indifference (blog)
Original item by Pagan Poetry
Seems Brian's forgot to chain his bike
No music response I see
I hope she thinks to bring it back
WOL needs some poetry...
Comment is about My Muse Has Gone Off Bike-Riding (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
All this is making my head spin around
These ephemeral peripheralities
I'm all a'confusion in deciding my thoughts
Are they A are they B are they C ?
Comment is about Thoughts about Thought (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 23:48
Another solid celebration on the bounty bestowed by refugees and immigrants. Keep this up! Keep it present!
Comment is about SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 23:14
I try to decide between A & B
I find myself blind at the A & P
Sometimes Trix sometimes 'Flakes
Just screamin and screamin whatever it takes.
Great work Fish, making me think about style.
Comment is about Thoughts about Thought (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 23:04
And lest we forget...
"Judge form the plunging depths
To the necklines of lace."
Beautiful.
Comment is about Die Zauberflote (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
From an early age I was brought up on Dr Seuss, which gave me a love of stuff that is clever but also joyful to recite.
This, Fish, is both of those things. I've read it a couple of times just for the pleasure of saying it. Thank you.
J. ?
Comment is about Thoughts about Thought (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
"Feel his rise to the screaming heights,
Smell out his plangent affirmations.
Silence from the Queen of Night
A cacophony of exclamations."
Absolutely breathtaking.
J.
Comment is about Die Zauberflote (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 22:25
Hi Cynthia. Thanks for welcoming me to WOL. As far as old geezer goes, I'm bellysliding down the back side of the hill, green grass stains on the inside of my lower lip and loving every minute of it. I dig the diversity of style in your samples - you won;t be pinned down. Look forward to reading more and more and more.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 22:20
Jennifer, thank you for commenting on my profile. Happily married 25 years now. "Creek at San Teodoro" is exquisite in its use of color.
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Yes, I can be intense at times I won't deny it! I'm glad you think my passion is poetically expressed!
Thanks Fish?
Mae
Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
None of us will get out alive.
This is wonderful Jason
Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Devon Brock
Thu 20th Jun 2019 21:30
I really enjoyed this poem Ray. I didn't at first understand the piece, but after I read your explanation, all that you present with your images makes perfect sense. It may not be for your taste, but it certainly is mine. One of those exquisite poems that forces me to do the heavy lifting. My only wish is that you weren't so forthcoming in your explanation. Nice work!
Comment is about THE MESSAGE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks everyone. I keep turning it over in my head and so many new meanings come about with such a few simple words.
Comment is about X X X (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Really enjoyed this - and made me pause to think for longer than anything else today. Great work, thank you. T
Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Ah Mae -Passion, Passion, poetically expressed. ><>
Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Hello Lucas BF - Thanks for posting this. A great reading of a sublimely great poem.
Go well
><>
Comment is about god's grandeur (blog)
Original item by Lucas B. Foley
Yea, well expressed, Jason, full of poetry. -But- no, for me not so. Death is an enemy. I fear it not but it is an enemy, a defeated enemy.
Live long
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Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Ah Alexandra P - as Martin says lots of meat to chew off the bone (oh dear, hope you're not a vegetarian).
Without vision the people perish and a 'scale' (for weight, size and reality) has been given.
Go well
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Comment is about Seeing Things (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Thanks for your responses Afishamongmany and David. I ought to explain my thoughts as there is no centre otherwise. In my head was an American delegation of evangelists. There may be other similarities, but chiefly the nature of the message is simply that of the gospel , which in itself is to lots of us shrouded(excuse the pun) in myth and mystery. The sober appearance is of course important (cleanliness next to Godliness). Both your comments are very welcome and have caught the flavour I was after!
Not for my taste, though I did write it.
Ray
Comment is about THE MESSAGE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
M.C. Newberry
Fri 21st Jun 2019 13:14
AFAM - to abbreviate your moniker...many thanks for the comment.
I know what you mean but occasionally a politician or a political
situation demands a response.
Comment is about IS IT GOODBYE? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry