This is based on a real life event that happened a few months back in India.
A country as rich and complex in its past and future, as it is with present day wide social structure.
FYI sex determination of an unborn child is a punishable offence in India.
Feel free to share your feedback on the subject and the peotry.
Thanks ?
Comment is about Woman incomplete (blog)
Original item by TROY
Thank you for your cement on We Jon..as always it is valued and appreciated... Thank you ?
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
David and Laura,
You and Jane have together really made my weekend and much more. My appreciation is boundless, my thanks are legion.
Peter T
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Jane then did give Jim a big kick
And it wasn't where you thought, on his lip
But it had an effect, he doubled up with great pain
Which severely affected his night's kip
That'll teach the old bugga to be smart
Jane thought with a smile on her face
Then suddenly realised what she had done
Would slow things in bed quite a pace
Please forgive me now Hugh for my tack-on
To the ongoing saga of your story
I can't help myself, (I'm a poet)
Who wants things to go on and get more-y ?
Comment is about A missed kiss (blog)
Original item by hugh
<Deleted User> (19836)
Sat 13th Oct 2018 13:39
Graceful and intuitive! You seem to know more about marriage than those who are married! Well done!?
Comment is about AISLE BE SEEING YOU! - Saturday Verse (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Another wonderful poem Peter. Love the analogy with a human life, and this flows like the breeze through the leaves. Some cracking assonance and well-placed understated alliteration. It deserves to be read out loud.
I'm a huge devotee of ephemera, it constantly gives me pleasure.Your knowledge of its importance rings through this.
This is sweet, colourful, lyrical and musical, with some fantastic imagery, and some strong points to be made about how we live our lives.
It's a real shame that every day just seems to be a race on here now, with quantity totally replacing quality. Something like this needs to hang around, and be sipped at slowly.
Lovely, thank you Peter.
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
A wonderful video by Becky Who,
A pleasure to listen and a delight to view.
Well done.
Comment is about My Wedding Day (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 11:55
Thanks for noticing the profile pic!
Great title by the way. A title that simple but workable could suffice for an anthology.
Has a great rhythm to it.?
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Excellent M.C. and I cry 'No Never'...?
Comment is about AISLE BE SEEING YOU! - Saturday Verse (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Any excuse for a party, eh? ?
Enjoyed this.
Comment is about My Wedding Day (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
John,
I was strangely introduced to you after you so kindly commented on one of my articles on Poets of the Great War. This has led me to explore some of your poetry which I have found fascinating. This particular poem took me back to the Al Hamra in Granada and then to Seville. Andalusia permeates through your words. Thank you for this poem which is so rich in so many ways but the last three lines stopped me in my tracks and made me think even more.
Keith
Comment is about Poem for an anonymous Moorish Poet on the defeat at Seville November 1248 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 13th Oct 2018 10:39
' grate' poem Trev. I used to date a guy called Gordon Zola who liked cheese-lived near the cheddar gap-but I met him in Wensleydale-called me his little cracker and loved getting on top of me-strangely afflicted by not wanting to go out in the hot sun?.
Eventually got himself into a pickle by crashing his motorbike and sidecar he had bought off two odd characters called Wallace and Gromit ?
Rose ?
Comment is about Where’s The Chuffin’ Cheese (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 13th Oct 2018 10:29
and I'm more than willing to marry my comments to this pearler Mrs C!
Rose ?
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Good Morning John,
Thank you for your comment on this particular chapter of my series of Poets and the Great War. I appreciate all you have to say and echo your admiration especially for Owen and Sassoon. Both were men of courage not only in the service of their country with Military Medals awarded to each but also their integrity and valour in challenging the very reason for and conduct of the war. They are to be applauded. Poetry indeed became the medium for expression during this futile conflict with many others who wrote some remarkable poems and prose.
My next article deals with the Home Front with a couple more to follow before we arrive at 11 November.
Thank you again,
Keith
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
Original item by Mike Took
WM - please see my comment on your WOL page about Capra/Capa etc.
Cheers.
MC
Comment is about DOOM AND GLOOM (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
No longer at the Tap and Spile. Now in the North Bar.
Review is about Poems Prose and Pints on 17 Oct 2018 (event)
To solve the unable-to-do-two-likes problem I'm gonna split each in half (like you would a chocolate bar) and do the nice poet-share bit....?
Comment is about My Very Disjointed Theme Contribution (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Just one word to describe this Trevor......Beautiful....?
Comment is about Goodbye (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
I believe most crucifixions were actually a long drawn out death by asphyxiation as the head could not be kept held up.
Perhaps here you refer to the inordinate length of time it has taken people to see through the smoke and mirrors of religion.
I don’t think believers do want evidence at all, preferring the supernaturality (that isn’t a word by the way) to living proof or otherwise.
Interesting how a short little piece has already grabbed a few converts!
Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Excellent two very different poems..
Both had me in stitches, great to get a glimpse into another's moments captured in words....thank you both..??
Comment is about My Very Disjointed Theme Contribution (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I agree with Jane Becky entertaining thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you Taylor ?
Comment is about My Wedding Day (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
<Deleted User> (19836)
Sat 13th Oct 2018 08:07
Weddings...very controversial subject so I think I'll just say...Great Rhyming by both Gents!??
Comment is about My Very Disjointed Theme Contribution (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Two very different takes on weddings.
Great!!
Jon
Comment is about My Very Disjointed Theme Contribution (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19836)
Sat 13th Oct 2018 08:02
elPintor
Sat 13th Oct 2018 04:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I8qpUpeYs
The written piece is much a product of the former--I can stake no claim.
Comment is about bodies in free fall (blog)
Original item by nunya
Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 03:55
10/10 and the readability is out-of-this-world good.
Crazy how the past holds so much untapped potential inspiration, all we have to do is find the correct well to draw from.
From first line to last, this piece felt like prophecy incarnate with just a twinge of ironic reality.
Comment is about Kassia: A Bold and Beautiful Woman, a Byzantine Poet (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 03:52
This reminded me of a scene out of The Godfather (my favorite film I might add) where Vito Corleone is playing with his grandson in his garden until the worst happens and fate strikes.
I enjoy how you reap inspiration from the past like a farmer with last year's harvest, and you sow it for all to see in the present. You are an excellent writer John, never stop writing. That'd be like telling birds not to fly.?
Comment is about Poem for an anonymous Moorish Poet on the defeat at Seville November 1248 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 03:48
Perfect title, each word holds significance to the piece at hand, and the metaphysical aspect is mind-blowing.
?
Comment is about bodies in free fall (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Sat 13th Oct 2018 03:10
Hablo, un poco..very kind of you, Jezer.
I very much enjoyed "reset"--I hope you'll keep posting.
Rachel
Comment is about bodies in free fall (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Sat 13th Oct 2018 01:51
..just a thought on some recent viewings of certain documentaries which very much lead me to believe that our educations are truly incomplete.
Rachel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UroPqMsr3UU
Comment is about bodies in free fall (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Sat 13th Oct 2018 01:44
Ray, I'm not sure that what I'm about to say is entirely relevant, but I'll say it anyway.
I recently watched a documentary that touched upon the divide encountered by the religious to the more scientific rigors. And, it struck me that the believers that were portrayed as they sat within their congregations truly all expected to be spoken to as if they were children. I suspect that they, either by will of conscious choice or by subtle enforcement, choose to remain unaccountable to the course of history by relinquishing their own authority to an unseen 'almighty' force.
Where does that leave the rest of us?
Rachel
ps
no answer required, though any thought on the idea would be welcome :)
Comment is about CRUCIFIXION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
An admirable summary of why the Somme occurred and what (if anything) it lead to. Sasson and Owen are for me the WW1 poets par excellence because they both had enough front line experience to come across as true. And as Doctor Johnny Keats (Owen's inspiration) said ' Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." Well put together Keith
John
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
Original item by Mike Took
You have a good way with words Jon. Well done ?
Comment is about The day it rained (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I do like My Voice Died Ariana ?
Comment is about Ariana Leon (poet profile)
Original item by Ariana Leon
I like this Ariana ?
Comment is about Peace in the Insanity - A poem (blog)
Original item by Ariana Leon
I concur it is a poem to which many can relate including myself. Excellent poem Jon..?
Comment is about The day it rained (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
A poem about abandonment and learning in order to move on makes this quite deep and gives a shiver to the spine if you take in properly. A recognizable theme but with that extra dimension you do so well.
Ray
Comment is about Grimoire of a RaVeN Poetry of a twisted mind (blog)
Original item by RaVeN Mathews )0(
Thank you Anya for looking in on this. It's a sad abandoned dog of a poem that has no owner. I appreciate your flower.
We must always move on, upward and onward.
Ray x
Comment is about YORKSHIRE BREW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Over 20 years ago, when, I suspect, many of today's WOL
contributors were either still in school or barely out of it,
a provincial newspaper published a letter of mine seeking
to highlight the threat to our already shrunken countryside
from the demands of housing as a result of increasing
immigration. The BBC TV's "Panorama" reported on the
subject but made no mention of the increasing population as a factor, even denying it - PC fashion - in a letter to me
when I took it up with their reporter, whose name I still
recall! It must have put their collective noses out when a
contemporary front page of a national newspaper printed
the government's admission endorsing my concerns.
We have acquired a population equal to that of France but squeezed into a third of the latter country's land mass.
As I observe (and believe) - too much is...well...too much.
Comment is about ISLAND NATION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 12th Oct 2018 20:30
I believe you have written something with which many can relate. We've all had those days! ?Well Done Jon!
Comment is about The day it rained (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Taylor Crowshaw
Sat 13th Oct 2018 15:23
Thank you for commenting on We Trevor much appreciated.. Taylor ?
Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)
Original item by Trevor Alexander