i write in simple terms-
real poems are too complicated!
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Comment is about afishamongmany (poet profile)

Original item by afishamongmany

to d. knape
thank you for your comment.
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Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you Devon your comments are really appreciated ?

Comment is about When did I sign up? (A Carers lament) (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thank you kindly m'lady, with a deeply unfashionable southern grace, a flimsy piece of tattered lace. John

Comment is about Mater mea (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

DB and KJ - your comments are appreciated - thank you. And thanks also to those taking the trouble to "like" the lines.

Comment is about SIMPLY COMPLEX (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you Ray, John & Kporho. Your words are too kind.

D

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Migration on a Bad Day' by Devon Brock (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Dorothy, Devon and Martin,

Thank you all for your comments. They are much appreciated.

Keith

Comment is about Ode to the Free World & its Leaders (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

"How we drive these bodies harder than rental cars"! Pure gold.

D

Comment is about Today's Lab (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Great commentary Keith. Nothing but thugs and weak fearful "strongmen" these days, giving each other pats on their backs. It's the everyday folks like you and I that ultimately pay the price.

D

Comment is about Ode to the Free World & its Leaders (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Simply perfect.

D

Comment is about SIMPLY COMPLEX (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I love your last statement in bold. Wonderful poem and statement here Keith. I also love the line about expecting the whole world to smile and say cheese
Well said

Comment is about Ode to the Free World & its Leaders (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

This kind of speaks of humanity in general aside from crash test dummies. mind you the way some people drive!
Nice one Robert

Comment is about Today's Lab (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

There is that old saying that an every Englishman is king of his own castle. I have a feeling it maybe Churchill who either made if famous or used in a speech somewhere. But I stand to be corrected if that is not the case.
At any rate it is quite an old ideal the notion of every Brit pulling up the drawbridge and not be accessible to the outside world. I can see the need for protection but sometimes we all to readily cut ourselves off from everybody. I guess you hint at the wider implications of that in your poem here Ray.
Nice one mate

Comment is about SUBURBAN CASTLE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Adam W. it was a delight to read this ramble.
Loved -
'The white-haired gentleman
by the glint of humour in his eye
inescapably highlighted the fact
that I was not the finished article.
I couldn't argue with that, being full as a sea
with laughably shaped fish.'
Let's hear it for white-haired gentlemen, Yea!
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Comment is about Wayside Episode (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Lisa, sounds like it's worse with you there with than us. This is our fourth with highs of 36°c (98ishF) but it's the night temperatures staying above 26c (79F?) that gets to one.
Well written descriptive piece. I'm glad that I was there only in my imagination. ><>

Comment is about Summer in the City (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

This is a good one Hasmukh A., the English works and there are no stumbling blocks.
Particularly like -

'the thoughts unwillingly enter
and cater
the concept of love
and I give in to believe its holiness'

Go well
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Comment is about Cool down (blog)

Original item by Hasmukh Mehta

Thanks very much, Devon. I post most of my stuff at ethicsbeyondcompliance.com.

Comment is about The Power of Compatible Ignorance (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

d.k.- I love the simple clarity of much of your stuff that succeeds in taking hold of deep mood.
Memories yes but not -only- memories. The best is yet to come.
Go well
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Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

DoRoThY and Devon thanks.
Devon, I appreciate you willingness to engage. I know well that many find the 'topic' too 'uncomfortable' to spend time with.
Go well
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Comment is about It was not so (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

So I've blogged in my 'half a pound of tuppenny rice' to add to the blackbirds baked in this pie.
Jennifer M. makes an interesting point. The Brothers Grimm were aptly named. But the difference between Horror as a genre and nursery rhymes and folktales is that their main purpose was not to promote horror but to overcome horror. ><>

Comment is about Mother Goose is Loose (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Well done and well said.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about SIMPLY COMPLEX (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Jennifer,
I know just who you mean. Good work
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Humpty Dumpty - a different rhyme (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

My contribution to the current nursery rhyme mania ? ><>

Comment is about Over the Hills and Far Away (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

This sounds like a political nursery to me
Where all Humpties land in Whitehall
They don't give a jot 'bout the people they serve
They just wanna drink, have a ball.....

Comment is about Humpty Dumpty - a different rhyme (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Ah...recherchez du temps perdu - and something all who grow older
will surely recognise. But age has its own compensations that can
be celebrated if accepted as an integral part of the progress of life itself.

Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks for looking in, David and Dorothy.

Lisa, Glad you approved. Very true.

Devon, I see your point there! A word can make such a big difference to the route through a poem. That line is pivotal as you say implying a consortium of shared power, which we find so hard to manage !

Ray

Comment is about DISCOVERY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

We need to let the Finns do our voting for us. LOL. Great poem Don.

Comment is about Trump's Re-Election Strategy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I am going to read this to my Dad.
It is beautiful.

Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

My pre-ejection strategy
(If no-one puts hands up)
Sorry, should be erection
Shit! act needs cleaning up

If I'm gonna fill a space
To topple mister Trump
I need a good scriptwriter
Not like this rubbish dump

Ejection/erection ? who would vote for this clown? (those who voted for Trump sire.....)

Comment is about Trump's Re-Election Strategy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The way you form your pain into beautiful words is wonderful.

Comment is about No (blog)

Original item by ByteSize

I love encounters like this. One's that keep you thinking for ever after.

Comment is about Wayside Episode (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

yawn........

Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

NOOOO!!! We do need a prizefighter Graham.
Don, I'm voting for you in the fill in space!

Comment is about Trump's Re-Election Strategy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Jennifer...I looiked, but sadly, I could not find my book. It was well worn, taped up and thoroughly enjoyed!

Thanks

Cinderella was always my favorite.

Comment is about Mother Goose is Loose (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Sweet Dreams.

Comment is about I Dreamed That I Was Young Again (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Love the line about "Recuerdos"! Sometimes those momentary encounters change the world.

D

Comment is about Wayside Episode (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

I have an American friend, living in the USA who is about as Anti-Trump as you can get but he thinks he will be re-elected because there is still no credible opponent to stand against him. The democrats are waiting for him to put his foot in his mouth (as if he hasn't already) and trip himself up instead of finding a prizefighter to defeat him!

Comment is about Trump's Re-Election Strategy (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

A Big Congrats To U. Devon

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Migration on a Bad Day' by Devon Brock (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I echo Devon's comment Eiren. I can't comment any better, but to say your three repeats of 'but really', slowing the conversation and final 'what went wrong' were effective 'tools' if you know what I mean.

Comment is about disconnected (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Thanks Devon. As always, your comments encourage.

Comment is about disconnected (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

Did someone just mention my name?
Puss in Boots here ( yes Jen I made fame)
My creator (like me) did not moan, did not groan
We put other nursery rhymers to shame.......

Comment is about Mother Goose is Loose (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Nice one Lisa! I managed to find my old book - (it has lovely illustrations, so hadn't been thrown out), as you must have, or you went on internet. Many of them did come to a rather sticky end! If you think about it many fairy stories are rather grim too. Beauty imprisoned by The Beast - Snow White sent out to be butchered -
Cinderella working as a slave - The Sleeping Beauty in a coma for years - etc. My favourite was always Puss in Boots, as the cat was so clever, and immediately found solutions instead of moaning!!!!

Jennifer

Comment is about Mother Goose is Loose (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thanks Lisa, Devon and Jon for the comments / and DoRothy for the like. Don - my nursery rhyme book was the same as the child's. Jill was plain out tarty, always up for a bonk, and she thought Jack could lug the water down the hill for once, so .......................

Jennifer

Comment is about Jack and Jill (a different rhyme) (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Let's have a re-look at this Jack and his Jill
They all could have been black and hearty
Was Jill true to Jack or she frisk mineral man?
Was she true or was she just plain-out tarty?

The baby came out looking beautifully black
But whose black daddy made this nice charm?
Now if DNA testing was round at the time
We'd know which daddy it would confirm

(But mummy, in my picture book Jack and Jill are white.... and I can't find a mineral man anywhere?.......)

Comment is about Jack and Jill (a different rhyme) (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Real leaders create more leaders and not followers....

Comment is about The Big Red, White and Blue Dick (blog)

Original item by Jared Harris

Dearest Afisha,
thank you for reading my poem.
I don't know what i did
to deserve it.

Comment is about Necessities (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Ugh!, been there...No thanks

Comment is about Summer in the City (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

And then..da da da da..."there's the mosquitos". This prose poem is fantastic. You truly nailed the raw ferocity of it. We have a heat index of 102 degrees F where I am, right now. It's brutal. I'm a cook and I'd rather be slinging hash over a flattop than sitting around in this nasty. At least the hoods will pull the heat away,

Comment is about Summer in the City (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I thought it was the mosquitoes!...the grass would have been so nice and cool.

Comment is about Summer in the City (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Lisa, the baby next door haunts this piece. Sadly it will keep getting worse. But those wonderful European schoolkids are having their say. I place all my hope in them, because sadly, I have little hope in us.

D

Comment is about Summer in the City (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani