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Comment is about If only poetry burned calories...(first posted 31/10/18) (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Hi Brian, thanks for the tip, will do! Should I then delete this version, or leave it? What do you mean "archived" - is it an end-of-month thing? Is there a "good" time to post? (I know I have a tendancy to post late at night, at least my time. I've fallen foul of Facebook like that too).

Comment is about If only poetry burned calories (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

I really enjoyed this, Steve.

Comment is about The Royal Mint rides again! (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Love this, Becky.

Comment is about If only poetry burned calories (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Great, Ray

Comment is about THE HOUSE OF USHER (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I agree with the first observation. Thank you. Poppy flowers are associated with the cemeteries of soldiers fallen in wars. After a millennium, mankind did not understand anything and people talk through bullets.

Comment is about Novae Litterature (S. Craciunas) (poet profile)

Original item by Novae Litterature (S. Craciunas)

Thanks a lot for reading and appreciation. We must leave a degree of freedom to the reader

Comment is about Gun like a flower (blog)

Original item by Novae Litterature (S. Craciunas)

Thank you, Damon

Comment is about The future is waiting (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

i am happy.
but i can still hear those words
ringing in my ears.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

I don't know how you do it.
you always comment.
not just mine
but so many others.
How
do you do it?

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

how are things in the Pool?

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

regarding Mother's Lament
i think we've all been there
at one time or another.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

That middle stanza, the 3rd one, is like a poem within a poem. Nicely done on the set-up of this, and the execution was flawless.?

Comment is about THE HOUSE OF USHER (blog)

Original item by ray pool

The repetition adds to the power of the piece. And I suspect the birds will outlive us all.?

Comment is about Two Minutes To Midnight (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Clever poem, Becky! Love the analogy. ❤️

I live 7 hours behind this website’s time zone, so your timing was great for me.

Comment is about If only poetry burned calories (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Hi David,

Thanks for your comments. Actually the only thing I forgot to work into the poem was their insane addiction to chasing policemen on motor bikes.

Comment is about THE DOGS OF ATHENS (blog)

Original item by john short

Thank you,

I think you will find it’s the other way round but I’m not that precious about it really. All Souls’ Day dates back to 609AD and there were Christian traditions (like the original Christmas) that simply got changed or are influenced by Celtic or Germanic practices. However there is no doubt about where the Halloween name originated (All Hallows’ Eve) All Souls Day is 1st November, it’s just the traditions that have been merged or changed, over the years like Christmas and Easter.

Comment is about Moonlight Halloween (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Hi Becky as today is 31 Oct your poem will be archived at midnight, which is a shame as not many members will see it. I advise you to re-post it in the morning.

Comment is about If only poetry burned calories (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Love it! This is a song, yes - have you put chords to it? That would make a rousing sing-a-long at the right kind of open-mic nights or folk festivals...

M.C., others have asked the same question, and others have tried to answer it, just in case your MP is too busy:
https://www.quora.com/If-Switzerland-can-maintain-an-open-border-with-the-EU-while-not-being-part-of-the-customs-union-why-couldn-t-the-UK-do-with-the-Irish-border
Of course this is just one expert's opinion I guess. Also the fact that Switzerland is part of Schengen, but neither the UK or Republic of Ireland are, must muddle things somewhat.

Comment is about The Royal Mint rides again! (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Hi Taylor, thanks for commenting "Intertextual Protest", and for all your support as always. I'm not always on top of thanking people sorry - time seems to go by so quickly these days!

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Hi Kirsty, thanks for commenting my poem "Intertextual Protest". I love your Halloween poem - I've just returned from trick-or-treat with a vampire and a mini-Spiderman so it really struck a chord!

Comment is about Happy Hiker (poet profile)

Original item by Happy Hiker

Hi, thanks for commenting "Intertextual Protest", and thanks for your support as always!

Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

There is certainly a pleasure in exploring the shelves of an
old bookshop, never quite knowing what is to be found.
Well done to this writer who's smitten
By the ageless appeal of what's written;
Don, who dislikes stuff rambling on,
Might agree this provides a literary cabochon! ?

Comment is about An Excursion (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I keep thinking of The Strawbs - Part of the Union, Steve

Comment is about The Royal Mint rides again! (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

MC.,

An apology. Job Seekers get more per week than ex servicemen do in their pensions. Perhaps I should have stayed at home.

Still a good poem

Thanks
Keith

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

dk it seems you've been
A very silly boy
Buggered up on lotsa things
Treated things as toys

I'm sorry I can't help you
You've done your dash I'm 'fraid
You've made your bed and feathered it
On now it you must laid

I hope you're happy now ?

Comment is about Mother's Lament (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Tom, Keith and TC - thanks for your comments.
My own family has a military history: a great-grandfather
who survived a Royal Artillery career in Victoria's army;
a father and his first cousin (the latter killed by enemy action); a maternal uncle (killed by enemy action), and a
brother who still lives. It is to the nation's credit that we
do not forget - and Keith, I agree 100% with your comment
about being paid a proper pension that recognises the
service and sacrifice demanded of our armed forces.

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I usually don't like
Poems that go on and on
I seems to fall asleep halfway
By midway I am gone

But...

You got me in on this one
Intrigued me to the end
I also was addicted
To see what you intend ?

Comment is about An Excursion (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Yes I agree, a few decent and morally upstanding philanthropists would certainly come in handy in the current economic and political climate. We could also use ways to combat the rise to power of completely inappropriate characters - governments have so often proved themselves not "up to the job", as you say, economically or morally. It seems that "democracy" as it currently stands, in many places, is not working to prevent placing people in power that are proving themselves completely unsuited to the job - by putting themselves or the few above the rights and needs of the many, by creating and maintaining their power by pushing division and pitting people against one another, "divide and conquer" and all that.

I don't pretend to have the answers. I just know that things are not right as they currently stand and we have to at least try to make things better. Kind-hearted rich people can try their way, and good on them.

Comment is about Intertextual protest (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Entertaining stuff! I wish I had a Cortina - even rusted it
would be a nice little earner. I've settled for a "Mitsu" instead....bordering on the practical I guess.
Talking of borders, the elephant in the room is the deafening
silence about Switzerland's next-door borders with EU entities - no problems reported. What does that say about
the one in Ireland? I'm waiting for a reply from my local
MP about that at the moment.

Comment is about The Royal Mint rides again! (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Well said M.C. - A very poignant reflection. My son is a serving soldier - 10 years service. Leaving in 6 months - Still in one piece - Give thanks. Never forget those that have fallen. T ?

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Taylor, for your comment on “All Hallow’s Eve” ? ?

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Well done, David! Fitting photo, as well.??

Comment is about Pumpkinhead (blog)

Original item by David Redfield

dk.,

Thank you as the words still echo in my ears. I was that boy.

Keith

Comment is about Mother's Lament (blog)

Original item by d.knape

MC.,

Thank you for this poem. Instead of countless and endless remembrance services would it not be more befitting of a grateful nation to pay our ex serviceman a decent military pension to show real gratitude? I served in the Army for ten years and was awarded the DSM. I receive a pension little more than a Job Seekers Allowance.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Nothing to say just so sad so many young men lost..?

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I can just hear this lament in houses everywhere..?

Comment is about Mother's Lament (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Excellent Candice...?

Comment is about All Hallow’s Eve, Then vs. Now (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

A man after my own heart..the smell of musty books love it....great poem..?

Comment is about An Excursion (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Beautifully put Cynthia as ever with something to make the reader think. And a belated happy birthday to you. Hope I bump into you again soon


Martin

Comment is about MIND (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wonderful piece! Thank you?
Mae

Comment is about Simon Zonenblick (poet profile)

Original item by Simon Zonenblick

Becky - actually, the MSN online page tends to feature items from what may be called the "left-leaning" media
over others. I have even "messaged" them about this
tendency! The item about the billionaires was something
of a surprise! We can forget that other times saw the
great philanthropists of their age - notably in the Victorian
era - leave their mark on society when government was
not up to the task. We could do with some of their sort
today - across the globe, not just in the West, judging by
emergence of some from otherwise poor nations with
similar track records on show from their own countries
and governments. E.G. Nigeria, Mexico and India. The
last mentioned has just spent $400 million on a statue
of a political leader when legions of kids are left to fend
for themselves in the streets across that country.

Comment is about Intertextual protest (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Thank you Big sal

Comment is about Clarity (blog)

Original item by Mama Lola

Thank you Taylor ?

Comment is about My Mother (blog)

Original item by Mama Lola

Like an adult version of "The Giving Tree", but one I enjoyed.?

Comment is about Strangler Fig (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Good fun.
The would-be thieves should have shelled out
For mobile phones of their own,
Avoiding Amelia's nose-twitching act...
(If only those chickens had known!).

Comment is about Chickened out by Amelia the young witch (blog)

Original item by hugh

Maybe happy to remain on the tree. Never bitten or bruised, keeping its rosy complexion much longer than its brothers & sisters.

Comment is about The Last Apple on the Tree (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Thanks Brian and WM. The collective remembrance is
important even as the individual connection, personal or
"relatively" speaking, should and must be a matter for those more immediately concerned.

Comment is about FOR A SOLDIER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

So true!

Comment is about Wandering expositions (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

"Hammer" it home, Ian! A roller-coaster ride into horror,
revenge and dread. I'm uncomfortably reminded of that
US mass murderer who used clown performances at kids'
parties to achieve a respectable cover to lift him into the
"I would never have thought it" section of the unsuspected.

Comment is about That Which Autumn Leaves (REPOST with Audio) (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley