Lovely poem Keith..thank you..?
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Jon,
Thank you for this as you have given a theatrical description of what ails the world but including the prospect of hope.
A good poem indeed and thank you
Keith
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 20:19
Avishek, your unique style really shines through in this lovely poem. Profound meaning intertwined with impressive vocabulary creates an intriguing read. I especially enjoyed the last 5 lines. Bravo!??
Comment is about Murky (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
Hi Mae, thank you for liking Sat Here Thinking...I found your bio fascinating... Taylor?
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Thank you Jane and Trevor..your support is very welcome and much appreciated..?
Comment is about Sat Here Thinking (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Hello Keith! I bow my head (curtseys are stupid!) to you noble sir! Brave! Brave! Brave! And gifted with words! ?
Things that needed to be said.
Thank you for them!
Mae
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Attitudes and platitudes:
These take time to change;
The mindset is always with the herd
Out there on the worldwide range.
But the gay reality has now become a norm
With less cause than there's ever been
to anxiously conform.
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you all for such an amazing and overwhelming response to an ill conceived and hurriedly written poem. I appreciate enormously the support and friendship I have experienced on this site. Whenever one of us blurts out the reality of who we are or some other aspect of personal life there is an immediate response, a closing of ranks, which has affirmation and love embodied in it.
As many have said, we live in a more liberated society but someone of my age remembers well criminalisation when men went to prison, lost their livliehoods and reputations, were disowned by family and friends.
Fortunately this is no longer the case, but there remains a residual element of prejudice which is often well concealed. I still feel that I need to be on my guard. However, with you my fellow poets I have no such fears.
Thank you once again,
Keith
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
One for National Poetry Day and this year's theme of Change. Originally published in Picaroon Poetry Issue 8 in 2017.
Comment is about Rehearsal (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
There is no particular political stance to what is perceived
about the world today. Just about everything that today's
generation uses or relies upon is the invention or creation of
a previous one - for good or bad. It is reassuring that for
each malign influence on our world, there is a recognition
and a readiness to meet it...in particular with regard to the
environmental influences that emerge. That is the
reality and deserves to be encouraged at every turn...with
experience and eagerness combined in ways that can move
us forward across successive inter-locking generations.
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 16:24
This is a beautifully written poem! We all have the right to express our thoughts, pleasures and pains regardless of our sexual preference. We all must respect others and deserve to be respected in return. Surely throughout the years some societies have become more supportive of this mindset but sadly, there are those which haven't. I can only say that people who do not treat others with respect because of their sexual preference are the types of people the world would be a better place without!
I am so happy that I have the pleasure of getting to know you through WOL! Keep writing??
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Dk you have posed me a problem
A problem I want to forget
Oh bother dk I've forgotten
It is what I wanted to forget
Hah! just remembered a bit of information
Which MC told me to go do
When my mind has gone blank and gone useless
To go and sit on, sit on loo.
Which I'll now do dk in the hope I can remember what I wanted to forget ?
Comment is about Bad Memory (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 16:02
Fantastic! Love this Taylor!?
Comment is about Sat Here Thinking (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
I think Brian illustrates my point.
" Gotta stay in me nice cozy bed and text me sheila. Then I'm gonna raise me bones (nah mum they 'aint lazy) hop on me computer and Facebook me other bird. (Nah mum she won't know about me other sheila cos we only need to talk by text. No need for face to face anymore. 'aint technology grand mum) "
You need to vote son. What's that??
Shit!. And we're pinning our hopes on them fixing the mess we've made....
I shake my head.... ?
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Bravo Keith in presenting the warts and all with the oughts and ought not do's according to some. Not only a bloody good poem but a stout defence of individual traits which may or may not be one of choice. Widely misunderstood by "straights" of a certain type, most of which arises from fear of the unknown, your voice should be heard, so thanks. By understanding shades of behaviour, we are living out a rich palette. By condemnation, we become bystanders not participants.
Ray
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Yep I am with you D.K. I am sure there are things everyone wishes to forget..excellent ?
Comment is about Bad Memory (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Ah yes, the ephemeral vagaries of the muse.
Comment is about Sat Here Thinking (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
I think I subscribe to the view that your memory can only retain so much stuff. If you want to remember something new, an old memory has to be deleted to make room for it. The trouble is that the synaptic subroutine that controls this process is pretty arbitrary, and your conscious mind doesn't always get a vote!
And no, I can't remember what I did yesterday either!
Comment is about Bad Memory (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I raise the question as to whether the younger generation can get us out of the mess we are in? I raise this because social media seem to be controlling them today. The need to be like others using it for their own personal gain. Kids are also losing the ability to connect face to face. Impersonal Iphones have taken over.
Parents and educators need to own the problem and start weaning kids off dependence on social media.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but to me the future generation need to get back to relating face to face in solving the mess we've made if it hopes to solve the mess we've made ?
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 15:03
Tommy's right...some of these formats are just daft...and to some extent I include haiku in this. Many people seem to think that any old 5-7-5 is a haiku. Now I'm no expert, but there's more to it than this, otherwise it's a haiku in name only... my name for which is haikino.
Comment is about What's Going On? : An Adelaide Cinquain a la DM (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 14:57
We have much to thank the snowflake generation for e.g. Brexit and Trump. If only they'd got out of bed, tore themselves away from computer games, and got out and voted!
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 14:48
Hi Keith - obviously I am not in the loop because I thought attitudes had changed considerably and the behaviour you have described is to a large extent a thing of the past.
Aside from the sentiment Keith, it is a well constructed piece which rhymes...which is in itself not your usual way so respect for that.
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I don't care if you're homo or hetero
It makes no damn difference to me
As long as you're kind and you're caring
Which I'm sure you are and'll always be ?
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Despite a long and difficult road attitudes are gradually changing Keith ?
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Big Sal
Thu 4th Oct 2018 13:55
Right-wingers get pretty sensitive when called on their own shit, but they always cry wolf when someone on the left of the spectrum tells them something in return. My favorite is when one of them gets called racist, bigot, or anything true, they automatically go into defensive kitty mode and try batting that ball back at 'em.
As if 'snowflake' is any sort of intelligent denigration, now they all pat themselves on the backs like good little dogs. I love poetry like this.
Highly enjoyable poem, and the sentiment is top notch, well done Janey.??
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Big Sal
Thu 4th Oct 2018 13:48
Unique in presentation and substance. ?
Comment is about A.I. Graveyard (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Big Sal
Thu 4th Oct 2018 13:42
I love the idea of the beacon. I recently wrote a poem along a similar vein..the beacon being their love. Thank you..enjoyed this..?
Comment is about Before the dawn (blog)
Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson
It is timely to have this reminder of National Poetry Day and
any input or action that contributes to it has to be welcome.
So - without fear or favour...write on!
Comment is about Write Out Loud Helps You Join the Celebration - Somewhere! (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Powerfully put. However, today's generation has more going for it than any other, with awareness and
advantages and an ability to act not given to those before
who were caught up in world conflicts beyond their control
and suffered beyond imagining before returning from the
conflagration to light the way and provide the shoulders upon which today's generation stands and looks ahead. ?
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Thanks for the responses. I am persuaded that what goes
around comes around - and that "life" is a regenerational
process. Is it Buddhism that believes that we return in a
life form that reflects our previous existence and deeds -
up or down?! So - soar like an eagle or creep like a snail...
mind how you go! ?
Comment is about QUESTION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
elPintor
Thu 4th Oct 2018 12:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42yUeYKNYck
..only entertaining myself.
Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Thu 4th Oct 2018 12:15
Thu 4th Oct 2018 12:04
such a very powerful piece Janey oozing with sincerity.
Thank you. Jemima.
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
And what did you call your 67-line form Tommy? I couldn't see it listed in one of the all-time greats of poetic frustrations (sorry, forms). Perhaps the collators banged their heads silly trying to work out if it qualified
I'm gonna stick with Adelaide ?
Comment is about What's Going On? : An Adelaide Cinquain a la DM (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Last stanza love it swallowed by a gigantic ..whole..?
Comment is about Intimacy (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Don I invented a 67 line verse that has 8 words per line that contains only 10 vowels per line and must use the letter "Q" 13 times in total, that if read upside down near the back door you will get exceedingly annoyed.
Do try it Don and I'll see you in the outpatients.
Comment is about What's Going On? : An Adelaide Cinquain a la DM (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Wonderful writing Avishek....thank you..?
Comment is about Murky (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
Thank you for reading Taylor. I'm glad you liked it.
Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Some politicians I am sure start off with good intentions..but..as Lord Acton so eloquently put it 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'
On that basis what chance is there..enjoyed the poem thank you..❤
Comment is about Keeping Up Appearances (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 09:51
delightfully deep dude! write on!
Rose ?
Comment is about Murky (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 09:49
love your soap-boxing mode Trev!
Rose ?
Comment is about Keeping Up Appearances (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Enjoyed this Adam thank you. ?
Comment is about Fourteen Divided By Two (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thankyou for your likes and all the comments it produced. I found it an interesting area to explore?
Comment is about Who Holds My Key? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 07:53
Indeed a question to which there is no answer.
Fantastic poem; great theme. Love it!?
Comment is about QUESTION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Beautiful poem Ray, read it twice and thrice..?
Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Taylor Crowshaw
Thu 4th Oct 2018 22:38
We live in hope Jon..thank you great poem. ?
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby