If I could speak to my mind, I’d ask it “what the fuck are you thinking”

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Think I have LFW at this moment

Lost For Words ?

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

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Ta Po ?

Comment is about Suicide or a Bacon sandwich ? (blog)

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Watch out Wolfgar, there's a new boy in town.
This is the best poem I've read, ever.
I'll leave it at that.
Beno.

Comment is about Saddleworth Moor (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

Awesome dude.
I really enjoyed this poem.
I will follow your links and try and read some more of your stuff.
Beno.

Comment is about The Headingley Taps (blog)

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Thanks folks for the comments. Appreciated. Taylor, have you entered the WoL competition? I have but being a rhymer I expect the usual rejections on my 3 submissions ?

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thanks lol, no just ramblings of an old fool, confused some might say ?

Comment is about Re-think (blog)

Original item by PatricioLG

Desmond,

This really has caught my imagination. I need to go away and give this intriguing poem some considerable thought.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Cleave (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

It's completely bonkers off the scale, but I sort of like it.

Was that you Patricio that I hit with my bike?

Comment is about Re-think (blog)

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Thank you Po (I love the Monika). I enjoy this type of writing a poetic story written in rhyme..

Comment is about Beyond the Trees (blog)

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Thank you for all the likes and comments.
Trevor and Anya, I agree we should recognise how fortunate we are.
Big Sal, Haiku is good fun to write and can still make an impact.

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Great analogy.

For once, someone else made me laugh more on your poems than you did.

Po, you need to get that checked. I hear constant attention can help curb such an affliction in abundance.?

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

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Thanks, Kevin. January (hopefully) it is.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

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John, it's gems like this that we are going to miss at Well Spoken if you "blob" again.

see you in January

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congratulations on POTW Beno.
I missed this one so I'm glad of the second chance.

I loved the energy and drive of this. I found the language a bit fruity, and I don't think I would have been so bold to use so many expletives as that myself. but this is not a criticism. of course you should speak in your own voice, and this particular poem wouldn't have worked without those words included.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

I guess we have to be thankful that we can stay warm indoors.

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

touché Alan re my verse on Brexit.

Tommy

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Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

What a great organic poem, a ripe seed-pod bursting with poetry.

Don't know about the nouveau riches occupying London though, aren't they just the rich rich?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/25000-cheapest-flat-sale-london/

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Happy to be infected

Keith

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cheers both. i hope your doing well wherever life finds you

Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

What a balls-up ?

Comment is about Jackie And Frankie (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Thanks to Jon, Darren and Anya for reading and liking!

Big Sal, I think the pleasure of a fire certainly goes way way back, even before nostalgia was invented ! Thanks.

I'm glad you thought so Taylor. Especially as it feels like a man's world!

Hi David. A thoughtful interpretation, and one which bears scrutiny. I was quite absorbed and challenged by the task, and reading it does make a comparison with that degradation you mention. I seriously wonder if that led to any PTSD - although perhaps a sense of relief or duty might have been uppermost.
I often think how inadequate are the trappings of funerals crematorium style and think an open fire would be far more civilized. That would of course require a much broader and more inquisitive mind at work. I love the phrase Fuehrer's carcase. Versatile I feel.

Thanks Kevin. As I implied to David, I was absorbed, but these things can trigger other thoughts. I was not deliberately aware on that level myself. I try to infuse my audio with a distinctive approach, thanks for liking that!


All the best to one and all.

Ray

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Original item by ray pool

"Any country that is willing to sacrifice its freedom for financial advantage deserves to lose both". Words from a US president
that are worth bringing to mind at this time. The country needs
only to hold its nerve IF May has complied with the severance
demanded by the referendum vote.
Go back to the original concept of national sovereignty. The Tories
under Macmillan decided to discard the Commonwealth for a
European "Common Market" - opposed by Atlee who accused
them of abandoning our allies in the WW2 conflict that supposedly saw the origins of the political entity that is now the EU - but
which began incognito as that "Market". During my lifetime, I've watched as the original went through the stages of "European
Economic Community"..."European Community"...to the "European
Union" - with not a peep from successive UK governments busy
signing up to these changes ultra vires - since this was beyond the
mandate they had from elections because at no time was the public
consulted about the power transfers taking place and thus it was
a stealth policy of want of truth, deceit and dissembling by our own
elected representatives In government...opposed by others who
were accused of being disloyal and worse by government leaders
(see John Major and his "bastards" reference for a sample) -
and even now their modern equivalents - like Jacob Rees-Mogg -
are accused of "extremism".
The primary players of the EU - like Juncker - have no elected
origins and cannot be voted out of office by the peoples of the
countries of the EU. It is a political entity that serves itself - not
democracy as we understand it. It is not our way - and maybe, just
maybe, the referendum vote belatedly reflected that realisation!

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Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks, Taylor. I’m not a religious person (in a worshipping sense) but I do resent the commercialisation of Christmas. And peddling of shite.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

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Press the red switch and and the special effects team will make it snow while everyone sings jingle bells jingle bells while I find which page I am on!

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No cure D.K. EVER......?

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Clever repost Alan ;- )
Tommy

Comment is about Brexit: A learners guide (blog)

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thanks for the comments on 'falling down the cracks...' Mark - I find myself falling behind in responding to comments again - so sincere apologies for my tardiness. Yes - the pain of diet and the sweet joy of a new pair of jeans - life is built around such small things :-)
Ian

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Fourth stanza sums it up for me John..excellent poem and very pertinent..?

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

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Loved this Fred, very meaningful and thought provoking poem. Taylor x

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

I was about to tell you how fun I now think haiku are to write - and then I read Anya's comment and realized she's right with all the solemn truths in a cold world.

Either way, both are true, and thank you as well for the well wishes.??

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Good one Don informative and humorous excellent...?

Comment is about Blog (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I tell you what I'd pay to see:

The looks on the faces of past generations to see the world as it is today. It'd be like a horror show mixed with a steampunk gravitas.

It'd be the saddest tale ever told.

Again, like I said before Ian, you could write about anything and have it come out superb. Every new piece you put out I always now find myself wondering if you ever adapted in some way to another kind of art form.

Good on you, and keep up the great writing.?

Comment is about Thaw-Irkhet-if (blog)

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Lovely romantic poem, nice one Hugh..?

Comment is about Breaking the ice (blog)

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OK, Tommy, aren't you going to finish it? You may be going somewhere but people need a few more signposts to follow you.

Comment is about Brexit: A learners guide (blog)

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What a surprise

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

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Nice one Beno. A poem with blood in its veins! Blow up the world, why not, it's all going to hell in a basket anyhow!
I love the way the rhymes drive it forward, be a great one for an open mic.
Takes me back nearly 70 years, believe it or not, to the climbing scene in the 50's and 60's when we were all on bikes to Lanberis Pass every Friday night, doing dangerous things and looking for girls.
Dark Manchester streets and Youth clubs and coffee bars. Go for it and keep on going!
PS, I like the 'snowflake armies' phrase - fair comment on today's Labour Party.

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Anarchic with a hint of chaos. I felt like I was there.. going to have a hangover tomorrow. Very clever Beno.

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Good on yer, Trev!

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Congratulations Beno!

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

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Like the music references in the last stanza. This poem certainly packs a punch, and packs a lot in, too. Vibrant, rich.

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

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Thanks, Poem....
Sorry to have disrupted your slumber.

Comment is about "HAVE SOME MADEIRA, M'DEAR" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, MC. I’m a miserable teetotaller. But never more popular than when people want a lift home.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

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I bet that many people do not even know what blog is short for. Anyway Don, I thought you Aussies routinely debased the language with your strine?

Comment is about Blog (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The commercial aspect is almost "too much" and too early! And
it is not much help towards keeping children's expectations under
control. But chin up and keep supporting the needy. Can I send you
my address? ?
I never took you for a stooge
To Christmas cheer, old chum,
But do your kid's deserve a Scrooge
When waiting for Santa to come?

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'll bet my bottom dollar
The juvenile seeking Mars
Will very quickly muck it up
By using plastic jars

Why do we think so lazy ?
Nothing it does achieve
I want my naked fruit like you
A chore it is, yes Eve

Changing ways it takes a while
Not easy to attain
Let's change to get sustainable
More plastics are a pain ?

Well done Eve - I liked your 'naked fruit and veg'

Comment is about It's war (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Ah, that is so good Fred. Dates us hey? ?

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

For some reason I was thinking on a completely different plane here. I didn't even think it was an animal. I thought it was talking about a homeless underdog person

'for kindness he's still waiting

kicked to the side again'

Thankyou dk for opening up this pathway of thinking ?

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Original item by d.knape

In truth, Brian, my kids love the bits I get them from the Charity shops. And they reciprocate. My daughter once got me a birthday card which read 'You've been like a dad to me'. I haven't stopped laughing.
It seems we share a dislike for Christmas, Poem. But my dislike pales against New Year's Eve which seems to mock me with 'Another year gone and you've done f**k all again'.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

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Well done Po.

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