No apologies necessary Sal! Criticism is not necessary a bad thing, I do value it. And one can't always hear what they want to hear, right? And you did have a valid point and as a matter of fact your comment helped and I'd happier with the revised version! So, no worries. ?

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

I was laughing at the blunt critique wrapped in a pun, and it's great if you like it. As long as you're satisfied with what you wrote, then everyone else should be too.

I didn't mean to come off as criticizing. I don't do that unless someone asks for it, so sorry if it seemed like I was.

Great piece still though. I like the changes you've made.

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Well, Big Sal, I appreciate the honesty and criticism. Maybe I can find a way to improve and still make my point which had nothing to do with smoking pot. How about the revised version?

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

If I wrote this and couldn't think of a title, I'd just call it 'Tasty Cakes'. Seriously, I would.?

"Smoke the weed of that self-doubt"? Sorry Mae, but you made me laugh with this line. Hey, you could call it 'Space Cakes'. Or . . .

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hey Hugh! Oooh! Good one! Let's see what else might come up!
Thank you!

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

I'm waiting with baited breath for the remake of "Mary
Poppins" as "Marty Poppins", the kindly but no-nonsense
wizard who arrives to sort out a troubled mixed race household in new London Town!
Ideas for casting...anyone? ?
Sorry about the balloon...couldn't see a kite emoji to use!

Comment is about Brilliant (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

How about "Destroy and digest"

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank You Anya! ?

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank you Brian! Very fitting! I'll concider your suggestion! ?

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hi Brian, thanks for liking the poem.

Hannah, well it's nice that you pack such exact thoughts into your comments, I appreciate that.

Ray

Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

How about "Suck It Up"

Nice piece Mae

Comment is about Consume or be Consumed (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Men who seek a compliment
Risk detriment.
To avoid strife
Never ask the wife!

Comment is about A visual boost (blog)

Original item by hugh

Love this one.

Hannah

Comment is about A missed kiss (blog)

Original item by hugh

It's powerful and clever.
Thought provoking.
Read it three times.

Hannah

Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Somehow, I've been taken back to that Barker and Corbett TV serial in which Diana Dors bosses a ruthless all-female
police force in a world run by women - and men are
forced to wear dresses etc. while conducting clandestine
warfare and intrigue against the dominant order.

Comment is about Women And Restrooms (blog)

Original item by d.knape

This is so beautiful.
Really enjoyed.

Hannah

Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Once again Zach I have to admit to not understanding what this poem is all about, but it is interesting and attractive to me.

Comment is about to thrash (10/14/2018) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Excellent! Truly excellent!?

Comment is about Grave Thoughts from Above Ground (blog)

Original item by mike booth

A heartwarming sentiment.? Well done!

Comment is about Light - O'- Love (blog)

Original item by Katlego Maake Jr

BRAVO! If this is not a POTW then I don't know what is!?

Man a solitary figure

a freckle on a swirling planet

Time past and present

have witnessed only a fragment

of what lies ahead...........PERFECTION KEITH!?

Comment is about Too Late (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Memories are what's left of this world, some in the hearts of human and some lingering in the air around us, waiting for it to be felt.

Comment is about Vacant Lot (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A wonderful poem and so appropriate for the world we now live in. Reading between the lines is not always easy! Well done! Thanks, Jane?

Comment is about e-Love (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

Rich with emotion! A lovely sentiment.?

Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Jackie,

This is an excellent article and after reading it I would love to have been there: such a wealth of people, such diversity but with freedom as their beacon.

Thank you for this

Keith Jeffries

Comment is about Language on the Side of Freedom (article)

Original item by Mike Took

There is something quite sad about a building being demolished as its demise takes with it countless memories. A simple concrete or wooden edifice has its own character and history. When I re visit place after many years and see that some building is no longer there I lament its passing.

A good poem

Keith

Comment is about Vacant Lot (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A poem which speaks of true devotion.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

So true.

Jon

Comment is about e-Love (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

Ok everybody, I'll reveal why women go to the bathroom in pairs. But you have to swear that you'll take it with you to your grave...or the office, on Monday, whatever...

Here goes. The truth is that the so-called "Ladies' Rooms" are not really bathrooms at all! They are designed to look like regular lavatories but what they really are is secret laboratories.

When one enters, one sees an ostensibly regular restroom but only when one penetrates into the interior sanctum of a cubicle does one find out the truth about women's public restrooms.

It all started several decades ago, after the feminist movement had taken off in the western world.

Scientists noticed that the female emancipation had started to cause men everywhere to suffer from itense feelings of emasculation. Furthermore, since women gained their independence and started focusing on their personal growth and evolution instead of the household and its needs, men started feeling neglected and found themselves before the grim prospect of having to pitch in the household chores. Naturally society's ancient, deeply-rooted order was overthrown.
Spouses started being alienated from one another, divorce rates went through the roof and more and more men resorted to having affairs. Now the IWSA, a.k.a. the International Women Secret Association (yes, there is one!) couldn't allow this to keep happening. After thorough research and several failed experiments they finally found a practical way to put an end to all this madness!

So they had a big red button installed and concealed inside each and every flush tank in each and every public women's restroom; kinda like the ones that are featured in cartoons, usually labeled: "DO NOT PUSH!" or "Self-Destruct Button!", but minus the label.
And when you press that button a hidden panel appears that requires one to enter a secret password. Each woman has her own. When your password is verified the water inside the toilet starts being stirred and gradually a powerful whirlpool is formed inside the can; slowly it starts wheeling and spinning until it reaches breakneck speed and when it finally stops it reveals all the single socks that got lost in that particular lady's washing machine!

As you can see this answers two big questions at once!

It's one of the oldest, biggest, best-kept secret, worldwide women conspiracies. All ladies' bathrooms architecture designer firms are in cahoots with all washing machine manufacturing companies and under the influence and total control of the IWSA.

Each washing machine is specially designed to create a-similar to the toilet's-whirlpool portal towards a different dimention. During the laundry process one sock of each pair is sucked into a hole, goes through the portal straight to the parallel dimention creating the strange phenomenon of socks being put in the washer in pairs and coming out as singles.

And the only way the missing socks can be retrieved is through the matching portals in public women's restrooms which are all connected to washing machines everywhere in a compex network.

Now, the reason why women go into the bathroom in pairs is so that a lady can go inside a cubicle and pick up her socks while her accomplice keeps watch outside, pretending to fix her hair and powder her nose. While in reality she makes sure that if a guy accidentally goes inside the ladies' bathroom he is immediately alerted, embarrassed and forced to flee. This is the only way the secret can be kept.
It's a shamelessly devious scheme designed to grant women THE ultimate power over men! The power to alleviate their husbands every morning despondence entitled: "Honeyyyyy, where are all my sooooocks?" . Thanks to this system only a wife possesses the secret knowledge of her husband's lost sock's whereabouts; making wives absolutely indespensible to their husbands and thus keeping men forever enslaved to their wives.

True story!

Thank you for your time!

(P.S. This is just a joke, it's not meant to offend anybody!)

Mae

Comment is about Women And Restrooms (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you, Martin x

Really, Martin, the diversity of styles I encounter here, including yours, is a good part of what keeps me coming 'round. I don't say a lot, but I find the personal glimpses given through writing quite beautiful.

Comment is about red sun (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thank you very much for your kind responses, Sal, Taylor, and Jon.

Truthfully, my tendency to be self-critical doesn't break me up all that much. I've come to see my blog as I would any art studio and I don't think that any true artist sets out to make a masterpiece--those happen only as an affect of sincere expression.

WoL has been invaluable to my personal development, allowing me to step out of what once became a very uncomfortable comfort zone.

Again, thanks all and enjoy what's left of the weekend.

With respect,

Rachel

Comment is about red sun (blog)

Original item by nunya

'posturing and ignorance' seem to be the key words in this poem for me Keith. I think also although we may feel that we have no effect by writing and posting very often it is a question of chipping away at the stone rather than trying to take a sledgehammer to a situation.
Nice one

Comment is about Too Late (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I always look forward to your postings Rachel. You have the ability to say ion just a few words what I fail to do with a large number of words.
Beautiful

Comment is about red sun (blog)

Original item by nunya

I am with Hannah on this. A constant flow of ideas needs to tapped whether it rhymes or not. Apparently enimen has boxes full of lines that he has come up with for later use. needless to say they pretty well all rhyme
Don't worry about it Don. it's all about what works for you

Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Beautiful poem Avishek...?

Comment is about In Praise of Your Glance (blog)

Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH

Beautiful

Comment is about Golden Days Gone-By (blog)

Original item by Jonalyn Cajefe

Thanks all for your comments. Sometimes careful responses to reader's thoughts can be more taxing than the poem itself, as it like a book cover being opened up with the long story in front of you.

As this poem encompasses all manner of associated ideas, I was aware of the task involved. I wanted to give a potted view of pain and what it might lead to. Undoubtedly deliberately invited pain as with Jesus is a whole different matter, but I still thought it was a relevant idea. Do those who worship bear that in mind, and or has it all been reduced to mantras. I'll let you decide.

Thanks Anya, It has served a purpose!


Rachel, your points are highly relevant, and call into question our involvement . You seem to imply a sort of relinquishing of personal responsibility in the bigger picture. A masterly idea and true in many cases. Thanks.


Thank you Jon. I'm please with such a short poem that you considered that.


Hi David. An instinctive response to silence is certainly to fill it with nonsense, or whatever may be lurking in the wings, perhaps like a celestial Mr Punch with retribution.

I feel there is revelation in silence. It has to be an open and an aware one though - if that makes sense.
Thanks for your thoughts .

Thanks Graham, i'm sure from a forensic point of view you could be right - but obviously extreme pain must have been a factor in the process, not necessarily fatal but in combination. Yes, I did refer to the long time issue- however in all ancient tales is a long life span as with fairy tales, being allegorical and not restricted to our everyday experiences. The shortness of it is really all I feel I needed to make the point.

I think converts will find a time when it may be right for them - i'm not one of them.

Thanks for dropping in, Taylor and Raven, appreciated.

Ray

Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hit the bullseye!

Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks for the comment. It’s actually my first haiku. It was inspired after reading the haikus written by other poets. After decades of sport, there’s pain after the glory, but I’d change nothing. To be a little cliche, I am like fine wine, I get better as I age.

Comment is about Joy of Aging (blog)

Original item by Jezer Ureña

The hint of alliteration coupled with the imagery, provided much to this piece. The emotion underlying its lines also gave glimpse into the rugged landscape it seemed to take place in.

Great piece.

Comment is about to thrash (10/14/2018) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Great piece here.?

Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Yet we are the only species that seems to understand what
- and when - damage is done and can (and does) take steps to remedy it. We have the gift of foresight that allows this and for every "man-made" hazard, there appears
on the horizon a man-made solution or response. Even
the appalling destructive forces of nature that are beyond
our control can - and are - addressed and repaired by
the human presence. Without that presence, the world
would sink towards a wild dangerous place that defies
our worst imaginings.

Comment is about Too Late (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Know the problem! But a cassette tape recorder - or a
pencil/pad - at hand can retain the flashes that light the mind before they are extinguished or overwhelmed by others.

Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hits the mark! But the mind can manage most things that
come along, given the chance - and the humour!

Comment is about Joy of Aging (blog)

Original item by Jezer Ureña

Beautiful poetry.
I liked the part about the buds.
When I lived with a large tree outside my window, I noticed new buds forming in December/January, taking little notice of what we call winter.
Nature goes on and on.

Hannah

Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

I think ideas that come spinning in is good for a poet.
It's, as you say, sorting them out and deciding which to share and which to keep back.
Every idea is valuable, I believe.

Hannah

Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Shanice thank you, that is courageous of you

Comment is about love is not (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

Raypool thank you yes I think you’re right on all counts there. There is a little twist in the last line there. It has a double meaning. I’m saying both that if someone treats me like that I do not love them for it, but also that when I love someone, that is not how I treat them. Therefore if those are their definitions of love, then by their definition I don’t love them, because my idea of loving someone is different to that. So maybe, by my definition of love, I do love them in fact. Does that make sense?

Comment is about love is not (blog)

Original item by Janey Colbourne

John,

Thank you for this. Time is often not properly understood yet in our thoughts we flit from time and place past to the present with a sense of peering into the future. Our imagination can even be a tool to alter reality in this respect. I think I need to explore this concept more fully.
Thank you again

Keith

Comment is about Poem for an anonymous Moorish Poet on the defeat at Seville November 1248 (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I agree. Your fly seems to have an attitude problem, but don´t they all

Keith

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

Crow
thought he saw
a Crowshaw-
his seeing flawed
no Crow
saw.


wink.

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw