Every country is entitled to the right to have laws that control who
enters it - and, logically, anyone attempting to force an entry or
otherwise bypassing those laws is subject to action necessary for
their implementation/enforcement. Criminal intent and the
spread of disease are but two obvious reasons for such laws and
their enforcement. It is no accident that there has been a notable
increase in serious diseases like TB accompanying the modern phenomena of mass human migration.
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Great poem - really enjoyed it.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thank you so much Anya, I am glad you liked it!
I was actually thinking of my daughter when I wrote it - I have been shocked that so many young people are often so troubled and feel bad about themselves. However I think the general message can apply to most of us at one time or another.
Thanks again.
Comment is about Donor (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
Great stuff Randy, I really enjoy your ways with words! Hope to catch up again soon.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 10:05
Don - 5000 people turning up at the gates of USA and knocking to come in does not sound like controlled legal immigration.
Yes they may all have a good reason for leaving Honduras, Guatamala etc, but if they genuinely need refuge don't forget they have all passed through at least one safe country to get to Tijuana.
And don't forget...USA does not have a PNG like Oz!
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 09:57
Congratulations Randy
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Another great poem Randy. You seem to have a unique and gifted ability to be quite tongue in cheek with well crafted poems. Congratulations for a well deserved POTW. See you soon
Martin
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Thank you for the likes. This was an odd one.
Comment is about Pain or Suffering? (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Morning Randy. i enjoyed your poem as a start to the week - querky and tongue in cheek - though my bet is that we all fall into these mini-bear pits more often than we'd admit.
Peter T
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Confessions’ by Randy Horton (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
When comparing US and Aus policy on immigrants we need to be be talking legal immigrants. Both countries allow these and I believe US is now beginning to do this but far too slow in Tijuana. I am not close to the situation and can only present the situation as I see it
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (16837)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 08:10
Very well written Noya..... being truthful about your feelings is good for oneself as well as for the other who could be waiting for u.... loved the way you framed it all...thanks for sharing!!!
Comment is about Disappointment (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 08:09
Don - what's your view on Trump's decision to deny them entry, bearing in mind your own stance on illegals entering Oz?
Comment is about A Human Crisis (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (16837)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 07:57
thank you Noya for reading and appreciating my poem... ?
Comment is about Noya (poet profile)
Original item by Noya
Thank you for commenting on First one Last Hazel. Always valued and appreciated. Taylor ?
Comment is about Hazel ettridge (poet profile)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
<Deleted User> (18474)
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 06:26
God is for the insane. Is this the poems message ??
I truly believe that people who believe in a god are mental. But aren't we all a bit.
Any vehement beliefs cause other people trouble. But if you believe your righteous......
The Christian god for example is not lovely and forgiving, as we're indoctrinated to believe.
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/what-made-it-okay-for-god-to-kill-women-and-children-in-the-old-testament
If 'he' exist 'he's' as sick as the people who make him a reality.
On the poems.
Very different work than Saddleworth Moor. That was truly the best poem I've ever read. I don't know if some of that is coz I live on it for five years. But know one could capture that moors beauty and shame better.
There is it's other side of course. When you lie there on a still summer's day. The warmth on your face in complete silence except for the skylarks. But even then you can't forget what you know.
I enjoy this one less for beauty and more for it's thought provoking qualities. Of course its brilliantly constructed and flows with ease.
Well done again.
Hope scooter club and the lost boys gives way to saddlewoth moor.
Beno.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 04:38
thanks for your comments on my poem
"Normal People".
did not realize you are in your 8th decade
as you put it. Good for you!
as we age, people get nicer, don't your think?
either that or....we are just numbed to it all.
wink.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks Big Sal, for your appreciation
Comment is about Romantic Desire (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
Really enjoyed this Marianne! Really nicely crafted. Thanks for sharing. T.
Comment is about Befriending Fear (blog)
Original item by Marianne May
I'm lean and thin
Diet not needed
Cos I'm an Aussie
Yep, pure Aussie breeded ?
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It would be nice to think that they got along just fine and let one another sit in the sun for a turn.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
You'll gather, Hazel, that the choir would not select me!
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I'm afraid that's the way it has to be in our model of democracy, Alan. If politicians had to fund the mess themselves, no "working men" would go into politics; there would only be those wealthy enough to take on the risk who would do so. A patrician society.
I'm afraid we're John Bulls lumbered with the Four Alls.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
All we need is a choir and a YouTube video.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 21:14
Many of the conflicts around the world are caused by religious differences, but I suppose if there never was any religions we would have found something else to squabble about...so it might as well be religion.
Good one Alan.
Comment is about Gods et. (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
I guess we are the ones to decide what meaning we wish to give to all things in our lives.
Comment is about The Small things (blog)
Original item by Elle Shaine
I love my cat
Cos she is fat
If that's not true
I'll eat my hat.
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Yes, I agree - but the real prat was that pillock Cameron, who started the whole thing to keep his backbenchers quiet and put in a referendum without any prior conditions and, when he found that he would have to manage the results of his stupidity, just legged it as far as he could.
The thing about politicians is that they NEVER have to pay financially for their mistakes. WE, the 'ordinary', powerless people have tp pick up the mess.
And pay for it.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Another word from me - if there is a nomination for 'Poem of the Year', I'll vote for this one!!
Cheers, Beno. keep going, you're on the right track.
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Always thought-provoking.
Thank you, John.
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
John,
Thank you for this poem which serves as a reminder of how far we have travelled from such a sense of charity to a place where the individual reigns supreme and community is diminished.
Keith
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Avishek, nice to see you on WoL ?
Comment is about AVISHEK GHOSH (poet profile)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
If only negotiation was as easy as telling the other party what you want, MC, and them then giving it to you.
I’ve never bought the argument, Po, that politicians are any less honest than the rest of us. But rather I feel that Politics isn’t the place for absolutes and idealism. Too much compromise and getting your hands dirty on difficult decisions.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 18:08
weight will weigh you down
write lean
write fast
run off the words while you can.
Comment is about Dieting (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you, Taylor
The world is very loud at this moment.
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Don - Boris is in a class of his own. With a name like that, he probably was!!
KJ - the old army adage rings true. Like the old command "One pace
to the front - march". But there can be a positive use for the action -
or many charities would be feeling the pinch.
JC - glad you chose to spend a penny here!
Many thanks - one and all.
Comment is about TESTING TIMES - a Saturday "theme" poem (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Like the subject matter Jon. Sometimes silence is restful. ?
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thank you John and Big Sal, just goes to show being first in the queue does not always guarantee the prize..?
Comment is about First One Last (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
"Beat me", said the masochist.
"No", said the sadist!
And I think Parliament has had - and has still - its share of both!!
If the democratic majority vote to leave had been respected at the
outset, the relevant European Communities Act tying us to the
EU could have been repealed by Parliament and the break begun
our own terms. Instead, unwilling to act decisively, those who
have <ultra vires> transferred the power invested in them by UK
election to Brussels, even now talk of binding (illegally) future
parliaments to agreements with the EU. They have their fellow-
travellers in the USA who tend to think they can over-ride their
own famous Constitution - and do! It is called "post-Constitution".
These are difficult and even dangerous times in many ways.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Anya and Big Sal.
Thought I'd give it a try.
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:08
Excellent piece of writing. First two lines takes the cake.?
Comment is about Close to the Flames (blog)
Original item by Randy Horton
I once tried to impress on Daughter No 2 the importance of voting, Po,
“Men have died for your right to vote” I said.
“They’d be dead now anyway” she said.
Comment is about UP THE ARSE 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:03
Haiku has certainly taken hold.
I never even liked it until coming onto WOL for like a year.
Nice word choice, Jon.?
Comment is about No Silence (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 15:01
Very unique take on a love poem.
Well done on this.?
Comment is about Romantic Desire (blog)
Original item by Suko Waspodo
M.C. Newberry
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 11:19
Interesting how we see society today: as if we should feel "guilt" at
every turn. There can have been no time when poverty has been
so rare - except that the word has taken on a new definition and
dimension in today's materially wealthy world. Kindness is still out
there. Good will is still out there. Help is still out there. This small
country alone probably has more organisations to offer assistance
than any other in the world - and that often travels far beyond
these shores. It is rare to turn on the TV and not be confronted
with the latest "appeal" to help someone somewhere - or some
other cause in search of money to further its aims. And the response invariably exists. Many distant governments must be most grateful to the UK for underwriting their own greed and
incompetence. The old religious adherence may have given way
to a more flexible secular attitude but the inherent goodness and
generosity still exists. I know that to be true for a number of
reasons - not least from a personal perspective over many years
living and working in a great city.
Comment is about A judgement of conscience (blog)
Original item by John E Marks