Dorothy I have a bell
On my oven door
Which rings when dinner's ready
My mind does not ignore
You see I've trained it properly
To freeze on hearing bell
Should it not obey me
I'll scream at it and yell
I want to eat my dinner mind
And not some frizzled steak
I've trained it to stop roaming
When fish is ready, hake ?
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
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Thank you Jason, Mae, Dorothy and Kate! I appreciate you taking the time to read and leave an encouraging comment.?
Comment is about Wild Flowers (blog)
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Now those are authentic vows! Great job John! ?
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
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To forgive your loves inopportune bottom burps is truly noble, especially when i am the culprit. Mancunian by birth, Orstralian by choice, Kate G how did you suss me out?
? PS love the spaces inbetween
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
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Love this, and to be fair, far more realistic vows?. Brilliant thanks.
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
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I think it just does that every time Dorothy, when you post a new one it archives the previous. Is that what you meant??
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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wonderful poem - I really like this. Top stuff.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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Really nice poem - I can so relate to this. I feel the pain. Well done.
Comment is about Imprisoned in My Mind (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
MC.,
Well said.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
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JM - seen and noted! It doesn't detract from your creation - that's the
essential positivity for me. Thanks.
MC
Comment is about Out of the blue (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
To adapt the last line of this thoughtful piece...go out with a bang
on your way to that big black hole that awaits your earthly remains.
Remembrance is hardly a generational/family thing. Who knows of
Shakespeare's offspring or even those of Churchill. Use whatever
gifts you have to enrich life while you're here and hope some stay
on when you're gone to provide others with what you had to offer
That is the nearest any of us get to immortality.
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Good to see a positive outward looking blog with some sense and
the benefit of appealing rhyming to drive home its message.
Stay sharp!
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 11:08
Thanks for your kind words on Spaces Between Trevor
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 11:05
Love this Jason. Witty, rhythmic and matter of fact.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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Well put together Jon. Good poem. Thanks Keith
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:31
" place an embargo on your ego, the knowledge is enough"
good thinking - it would prevent so many confrontations.
What is happening to your poems? I spot one - go back to re-read it -
only to find that it has gone, then I have to search for it.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:24
I relate Don. I love this piece. Yes poetry is cathartic for me too. ?
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:21
The perfect man, though I think farting is an opportunity for humour too good to miss. Typical uncouth Aussie, huh!
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:11
So true Jon, the subtle power of connectedness conveyed beautifully, as always.
Comment is about Cause and effect (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:10
"have you ever let your mind go free?"
Well yes - and the result - burnt dinner.
Comment is about Catharsis (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:07
"pretend not hear when you fart"
How romantic is that? you certainly know how to woo a girl. HA HA HA
Comment is about 21st Century Vows (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:06
Lovely, brimming with authentic simplicity.
Comment is about By Lily (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 10:02
this poem has a purity and an innocence that takes us to a different place. It is so beautiful.
You must be proud of Lilly.
Comment is about By Lily (blog)
Original item by Just jo
Barclodiad y gawres*
My eyes peer through the iron gate
Transporting me ten thousand years
Great boulders leaning inwards,
Lure me down the passage to
Where, bent beneath the roof
Men pull their leader’s corpse
Into his vaulted chamber.
Returning to the lofty crossing place
Where old folk tend the mackerel
That smokes above the hearth,
They leer at me then point
Across into another gloomy crypt.
There before a small dead child
A kneeling woman weeps.
Beyond her is a door of stone
Etched with sacred symbols
Inside lie the bones of giants
Of an even older time.
* Apronful of the giantess
Comment is about barclodiad y gawres.jpg (photo)
Original item by Stan Bloxham
Well Don,
Instead of encountering St Peter we might find St Nookie at the golden gates.
Keith
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 08:05
This is exactly how I was feeling when I got onto WOL this evening, and your poem was the first one that I read. I understand the feelings of being trapped. I am working my way out of this one myself. for myself, I feel my freedom is near. I have been learning how to love myself as the truth that lays within self, strengthening my soul while giving this love to others. the more you work on it, the more it becomes real and the fog begins to clear and the those gates will open and you will spread the wings you never knew you had.
Thank you for this poem. it is nice to read the truths of what burdens and obstructs our path.
May peace find you with a Smile upon your face.
Willow
Comment is about Imprisoned in My Mind (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
Another poet earlier
On this site he did gave
The exciting possibility
Of sex beyond the grave ?
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
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Thank you MC and Keith. MC I've plagiarised your comment and incorporated it into the poem. I think it fits. Hope you like it. John
Comment is about Out of the blue (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 25th Feb 2019 20:43
Keith I'm with you on this...for example - I'll never forget old whatisname.
Comment is about Forgotten forever (blog)
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elPintor
Mon 25th Feb 2019 19:29
Hi David--I was hoping someone would enjoy that clip along with me ;
And, hello to you too, Jon.
Goodnight from the other side ;
Comment is about göçebe (blog)
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Trevor. Thank you for your kind words. We certainly share an interest in the same poets but Frost was new to me. I shall look him up and investigate further. I am a huge admirer of Ginsberg. Keith
Comment is about trevor homer (poet profile)
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Thanks Dorothy, I really do appreciate your comments and value your opinion.
J.x
Comment is about Absorbing The Day (blog)
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Congratulations Trevor a wonderful POTW
Of late September’s sun. When questions,
Along with the lamps were lit.
I love these lines in particular
Comment is about Trevor Homer's 'When in Some Distant Time (For Imogen)’ is Poem of the Week (article)
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elPintor
Mon 25th Feb 2019 17:51
Thanks for looking in and for your comments to each of you, Martin, Desmond, and Vautaw--it's good to know when something you've written has touched someone.
Rachel
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Mon 25th Feb 2019 17:34
"lead me into the dappled wood
where spears of light hit the clay"
Gentle dreamy words and an image of peace.
lovely. Thank you
Comment is about Absorbing The Day (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
That will do nicely, Nigel.
We now have 15 poems on this tier.
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How kind Jon to say you enjoy my work. Every like you afford me ,and there have been many, are an encouragement to me. Bless you. I . Ray
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
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I like the connection between what is not given and what is self-supplied in these lines. Life is a continual learning process which
we tend to put into convenient "time/age" related slots given names
to signify their supposed worth. BUT -.
An enquiring mind ceaselessly burning
to know - will know in time by learning
What is actually needed to understand
And help achieving what is planned.
Comment is about My book shelf (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Add to these moments the scenes of phone-chatting victims having
their prized chatbox snatched by mobile users of the scooter variety!
Comment is about Funny Yes. Serious Very. Mobile Phone Addiction (blog)
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I guess all small boys have this monster lurking inside, to some degree or other. I plead to a couple of things I feel remorse
about even now over six decades later, but the lesson and moral of
these vivid lines were learnt in the self-knowledge that I endured - and that young sinner changed: not to a saint but to someone who
would treat creatures with care and respect as far as nature and
given circumstances would allow.
Comment is about Terence Evans (blog)
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<Deleted User> (21487)
Tue 26th Feb 2019 14:06
AH! that would account for it,
note to self - - -
BE A LOT QUICKER and then I won't have to go on a search.
Comment is about Sharpen Your Wit (blog)
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