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Thu 19th Jul 2018 22:08

Thank you Anya?

Comment is about Space (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Thu 19th Jul 2018 22:03

Hello Greg- thanks for the comment about Meditterranean August - have only just realized that incredibly it was POW
Jennifer

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:59

Hi Keith, Thanks for the positive feedback on Meditterranean August. Have onlu just realised that incredibly, it was POW. Thanks for your encouragement.It was reallly the wine which lulled us to sleep more than the breakers!

Jennifer

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:56

Hello Martin,

Thanks for your comment on Meditterranean August! Much appreciated. I have only just realised that incrdibly, it was POW.

Jennifer

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:53

Thanks for your comment on Meditterranean August!
More than psychedelic results it might be due to alcoholic results!

Thanks again Jennifer (Malden)

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

Original item by Suki Spangles

<Deleted User> (19836)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:42

Lovely...made me smile. Thank you!

Comment is about Cicada Summer (blog)

Original item by d.knape

<Deleted User> (19836)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:38

Sometimes the truth hurts and reality is cruel but you have managed to express it magnificently! Bravo

Comment is about PURPOSE IS DEFEATED (blog)

Original item by Kporho Vwede Daniel

John Coopey

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:36

All rather puzzling, MC. My last post, told from the perspective of a man “upskirting” women, was removed. This post, told from the perspective of a man who slices up women, has not. Strange times!

Comment is about MINOR SIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:26

Thanks again Jane really appreciate it?

Comment is about Space (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:25

Hello Ray!

Lovely poem - well deserved POW. Being as thick as a post don't get who the 'she' is in the last two line?

Jennifer

Comment is about ‘Bye bye blackbird’ by Ray Pool is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

<Deleted User> (19836)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:23

A very nice poem; I especially like the last two lines. Bravo!

Comment is about Space (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:23

Hi Jane, thanks I appreciate it ?

Comment is about What do I do? (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:22

Thanks I sometimes use the same words for the fun of it?

Thanks for the comment, appreciated?

Comment is about The Watering Pot (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

<Deleted User> (19836)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:19

A beautiful poem full of sincere emotion.❤ I enjoyed reading it; good rhyme and rhythm.

Comment is about What do I do? (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Big Sal

Thu 19th Jul 2018 21:18

Very creative as the end of each line is tethered by the same 7 words as the couplet before it, and the poem's depth resides in the face and mind of anyone that reads it. Well done on this.?

Comment is about The Watering Pot (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

<Deleted User> (19836)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 20:54

I love this! A poetic message to be remembered.

Comment is about Hold on tight, it’s a rocky ride (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Thu 19th Jul 2018 20:51

Thank you everyone?

Comment is about Suppose (blog)

Original item by Mayah ROSE

Jake Vincent Belmont

Thu 19th Jul 2018 19:24

Thank you, Jane! ?

Comment is about Dying Into Each Other (blog)

Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont

Thu 19th Jul 2018 18:10

Hello Don - each to his/her own. But I guess it's the sheer
prevalence of prose as poetry that triggered my short entry.
That said, some favourite poems are "prose-based",
primarily due to their mastery of painting word pictures
that I find memorable. But this requires skill; a mix of inspired imagination and vocabulary that is worthy and
deserving of admiration.

Comment is about SNIFFY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thu 19th Jul 2018 17:56

I can imagine some pulpit preacher in the USA's Deep South vehemently pounding his lectern whilst powerfully
proclaiming similar sentiments to an open-mouthed
hill-billy congregation! Hell-fire and damnation awaits us all
- and that sort of stuff!! ?

Comment is about MINOR SIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thu 19th Jul 2018 17:39

I still correspond with a long term ex-job chum who has owned a Vincent Black Shadow since we first got
acquainted back in the early 1960s - and has lovingly
maintained it so he's still able to use it for extended long-distance trips to places as far apart as the USA and
Australia. It usually attracts a crowd of admirers even if
its owner is past that point in his life! ?

Comment is about THE OLD FELLAS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

keith jeffries

Thu 19th Jul 2018 17:34

Colin, Martin and MC.,

Thank you for your comments on this article which I hope will be a prelude to a closer study of poetry and what it offered previous generations and what it can achieve in the future. War seems to have inspired some incredible poems which speak of human suffering in the extreme. MC you raise a number of interesting points which I hope to cover in my next article.

Thank you indeed,
Keith Jeffries

Comment is about Poets: Voices of Prophecy and Custodians of Truth (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Thu 19th Jul 2018 17:28

The ill-considered words of a mother can have a lasting
effect and many women in general use this means of
criticising and often undermining the targets of their ire.
More fool they, for its corrosive effects can rebound to haunt
them and then we get reports of "domestic violence" or
"neglect". Sad, but all too often true.
A mother's privilege and duty it to love their offspring to
the best of their ability even when the latter may be limited.
They are fortunate if a child uses this unhappy scenario as a
challenge - to meet and rise above in later years.

Comment is about Weak (blog)

Original item by yajaira

Thu 19th Jul 2018 17:21

If your word you wish to spread,
Be sensible and use your head;
Spreading some things can't be right,
And that pertains to Vegemite!

Comment is about Vandalism with Vegemite (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thu 19th Jul 2018 16:57

I recall it being observed that the use of swear words indicated a lack of adequate vocabulary to make the intended point. Certainly, when I think of the delightful
rudeness employed so politely by the immortal W.S Gilbert
in his frequent verbal assaults on subjects he found worth
his mettle, that view might carry weight.
However, there are times when the well judged, carefully
considered use of swear words - single or plural - can have
a desired effect. The risk, especially in this age when
the f word has now crept into TV programmes as if it were
expected or encouraged, is that their the power will be lost
or, at least, greatly diminished.
To borrow that old adage: familiarity breeds contempt.
In closing, can anyone quote any from Shakespeare -
from an age when bawdiness was seemingly the norm in
everyday life?

Comment is about Please don't apologise: Swear! (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Thu 19th Jul 2018 16:44

Both timely and true in so many respects.
But there are common denominators in human behaviour
that carry on down the centuries. War - with its varied
causes and reasons - has never left us, and seems to need
any old excuse (religion, secularism, greed, vanity...to
mention just a few) to get started. Ironically, at the same
time, it can often set in motion a sort of fast-forward in
change of a positive sort - like advances in medicine and
medical treatment or more civilised housing conditions when the old are demolished - and one can wonder sometimes if it is all part of some unknown pre-ordained blueprint for the story of humanity on this small planet,
almost a speck of dust amongst such wealth of planetary
surroundings that linger in zones beyond our ability to
reach or - as yet - understand.
If I was to be asked for one word that all humanity should
aspire to, I would offer "kindness". For out of that one
word comes so much more to enhance and not despoil, to
enrich and not deplete - and THAT, surely, has to be good!
In the meantime, we stagger from generation to generation, trying to make sense of why we are here and
forgetting too often that the good in us is there to be
tapped to the benefit of the present and of the future.

Comment is about Poets: Voices of Prophecy and Custodians of Truth (article)

Original item by Mike Took

raypool

Thu 19th Jul 2018 16:40

Appreciated Jon; i'm pleased with it. I think the impact of an experience is a challenge to put into words.

Thanks for all the likes: Jane and Darren.

Ray

Comment is about BYE BYE BLACKBIRD (blog)

Original item by ray pool