Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 21:48
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 21:45
So concise but so beautiful.
Great piece of poetry.??
Comment is about Burst (blog)
Original item by Chloé
Realising you’ve been shafted is very painful, MC. Even more so when you’ve done it to yourself.
Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (16099)
Wed 16th Jan 2019 18:53
very tender and soul searching.. loved it
Comment is about I Still Think Of You (blog)
Original item by Sarah Mae
Freda Davis
Thu 22nd Oct 2009 19:27
Tommy, the struggle comes over, but you make sense. The layers of thought commenting on thought are clear because of the brackets. A 'conscious' senility is not the same as 'deliberate' .
You have it in one Freda
Tommyxx
Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)
Original item by Freda Davis
Cynthia Buell Thomas
Tue 20th Oct 2009 19:20
"I tire of this conscious senility'... and so do we, sometimes, Tommy, so do we. And 'humour by disguise' is no humour at all if no one recognises it. You write by code for an elitist reader; if that is your aim, so be it.
But that is a terrible thought - to be in 'conscious senility'. Who with intelligence would deliberately induce senility? The reality of senility is heartbreaking, especially for those who witness it and can do nothing. The victim is powerless to care."
Cynthia my references to "conscious senility" is in regards to my recent brain haemorrhage. Not deliberate but dysfunctional brain operations. Tommy
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Really outstanding - one can really be there on the freezing morning with the various smells, and can hear the chainsaw working. Liked spring-poised coppice.
Jennifer
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Applause..... My nan would love this fantastic piece..
RESPECT ran rampant in the good old days..
Now ' most cant even respect their selfs..
I truly enjoyed reading this. Well done?
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Loved this haha
Gym all year and then wasted for junk food and beer ...
I no longer own a scales. I judge my weight with jeans hahaha
Thank you for the giggle..
Comment is about Time To Diet (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Yummm... Im of to find the ice cream man now (lol) ... A nice cinquain indeed ?
Comment is about Ice Cream (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Sometimes golden , sometimes worrying and many times peaceful ghaza ?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
A confectionery of delight?
Comment is about 'An Iago lie of pernicious intent, layer upon layer of dark deceit' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It makes it more fun and challenging big sal ?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
<Deleted User> (16837)
Wed 16th Jan 2019 17:32
Silence has so many stories to relate. ?
Well expressed!!?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
The foresight of our Victorian forebears here in London to place
trees along the main thoroughfares (apparently Plane trees are
especially effective in dealing with pollution) is one of the great
British contributions towards the health of our urban areas. It is
also worth noting that a national tree-planting process has been
successful - recognising the need to replace those lost and regenerate the remaining countryside for the benefit of ALL living
creatures. Long may it continue.
Comment is about Afresh, afresh, afresh: publishers seek poems for anthology on trees (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
1. Always worth hearing your witty ditties tied in with tunes I recall.
2. The vote was widely forecast - yet another false step on a
series of false steps designed to remove Brexit and return us
to the tender control of the EU.
3. 2nd Referendum? Does anyone remember the profligacy
involved in the government/leaflet campaign prior to the
Remain/Leave vote...making us aware of all the "dangers"
of a departure from the EU - that it was an irrevocable step
that once taken could not be reversed? How could anyone
NOT have known of what was being chosen when their votes
were cast? Mentally ill people are disallowed from voting as I
recall. Perhaps obtuse people should also be excluded.
4. If a 2nd vote IS obtained and it confirms the original vote to
leave - what then?
5. If May and her government had really wanted to obey
the majority vote to leave she/they would have sought to
commence repealing the European Communities Act 1972
and set out the terms for leaving at the outset. "Getting a
deal" is and has been just a political ploy to bring about a
scenario which points to No Deal Brexit; and that having been
decided by the engineers of this farce as unacceptable
indicates the hope that an exhausted British people will
be persuaded to return to the fond bosom of the EU.
Moral: Faint Hearts never won Fair Freedom!
…………………………………………………………………………….
Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This poem is an invitaton back into a world which is no more. Time has flown by with astonishing alacrity catapulting us into unchartered territory. The values of modesty and decency have almost entirely been abandoned and replaced by gratuitous pornography, rampant promiscuity and the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases sky rocket. Have we advanced as a society or regressed? Your poem leaves the reader with questions for them to answer for themselves.
Well done and thank you.
Keith
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 16:25
A torch too heavy, but just a candle too bright.
I always enjoy your 2 stanza pieces, Ray. It's like unfolding a chapbook per, and in the end we're all better off for it.
Constantly developing, forever improving.?
Comment is about IT'S ONLY RIGHT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 16:21
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 16:18
You always can imbue a piece with a great rhythm.?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Hi everyone! Could you let me know what the theme is for next time, please? Hope you had a great time on Monday - love D x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Good poem. There are some spot-on images here that take us right into the scene. I liked breaths hang in clean air. Well done.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Very briefly -
It's right that we should sympathise
With those who've missed life's bus;
Yet thinking, as we avert our eyes -
Thank god that it's not us.
Comment is about IT'S ONLY RIGHT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Bottle it all up
Trevor... 100%... Sometimes its hard to speak when it falls on deaf ears, sad but true.. Being heard is a blessing and those who dont listen can teach a great lesson ?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Every generation must experience something akin to this.
The change in social/sexual mores in my own lifetime has been
considerable, much of it positive but not always. The derided
deference was also the companion of polite consideration for others -
now both seem a distant memory in so many regrettable ways.
My parents were "middle aged" when I was born, the youngest
of a large family, and were just that to me: other-worldly figures
embracing age, experience and respect...removed from any
flights of sexual imaginings or the chance of finding contraceptives
in their possession. I grew up quicker mentally in my ability to deal
with adults but had to find my way without any modern "advice" or
"guidance". Maybe there could have been room for improvement
from what I experienced but I was able to deal with life and its
demands as a result and have no feelings of regret or resentment
about my own way through life. Good luck and good will towards
others is what I wish as I witness both the up the down sides of contemporary existence.
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Yes, yes. We need a bit of fun to lighten the darkness.
Comment is about Wretch-ed and Fetch-ed (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Those times when you want to say something, but you 'bottle it' and it just comes out sotto voce.
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
I guess it's a sort of subversive thought we sometimes springs to mind, for us to shy away from. I remember being vaguely shocked to see a pack of condoms when I went into my parents' room once.
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for the comment Lisa, and for the poem Don! I’m off to my local pub open mic this evening which will be interesting...it’s years since I read a poem there completely sober.
Comment is about Dry January (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 16th Jan 2019 14:35
Keep it light
Keep it bright
Don, keep on posting
your fun-filled shite.
Comment is about Wretch-ed and Fetch-ed (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A good piece of work, causing pause for reflection.
As the father of two girls in their mid twenties I know only too well how the 'older' generation feel towards 'liberalization.'
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
This says it all. What more can I say ?
Comment is about I Cannot Imagine (blog)
Original item by d.knape
oh i know right, its sad seeing all this insanity going, and with the 5G people don't have a damn clue about what this technology can do or capable of....most people just think "oh faster internet, sweet". It's very sad, and if you try to tell people about it and with evidence they just brush it off and label you as a "conspiracy theorist"...
Comment is about Mind Control On Sheeple (blog)
Original item by Jared Harris
Pastoral poetry brought up-to-date by a chain-saw of all things!
Nice one.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
This was one of my very first poem's.. Enjoy ?
Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
thank you guys for taking the time to read my work, I wrote this poem actually back in 2012 and its basically satire, about the invasion in the middle-east....also this was written a few months before my accident, December 29th 2012 I got ran over by a car and almost died, so my perspective on generally everything has changed since then...but my sample poem is about the accident and in one of my other poems I mention it as well....And I'm happy to see people leaving comments its much appreciated..
Jared
Comment is about The Big Red, White and Blue Dick (blog)
Original item by Jared Harris
Reminds me of Walt Whitman in its freshness and immediacy.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 11:26
First two lines set the stage for something great.???
Comment is about The Last Moments (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Hi Big Sal, truth is definitely not black and write.
Thanks,
Jon
Comment is about The dichotomy of love (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
“Reunite when they have both worked on their soul healing”... what a beautiful destiny. Maybe that was the issue, much soul healing to be done. I absolutely believe there is a reason we all cross each other’s path. Thank you for that insight Nicola!
Comment is about Connections (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Thank you all for your kind words.
I will be slowly exploring the corners of your mind, looking for crumbs of discarded light.
Comment is about Waiting for peace (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Millions more trees are desperately needed in order to even begin to replace and repair the damage to this planet perpetrated by mankind. We don't deserve to be here.
Comment is about Afresh, afresh, afresh: publishers seek poems for anthology on trees (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Tried this one too. Just lost. I get the rhythm though. Again not sure what the jest is. I feel I am missing something important.
Comment is about Tech Life (blog)
Original item by Rich
Well no idea what this about? I am. Clearly a bit thick and I can not see the Potential. If someone can explain? Obviously in a minority
Cheers Andy
Comment is about Potential (blog)
Original item by Rich
<Deleted User> (16837)
Tue 15th Jan 2019 22:08
What is meant to be yours will be....even with flickering hopes the right things shall be..dont give up...give one more try and just Fly Fly Fly??
Comment is about Silly dove (blog)
Original item by marzipan666
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 15th Jan 2019 21:23
You lucky bastard David!
Comment is about Morning Glory (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Aweee the cuteness of this poem has made me smile lots, great job ?
Comment is about Forever (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Big Sal
Wed 16th Jan 2019 21:50
Excellent haiku.✌?
Comment is about Winter (blog)
Original item by Chloé