A very powerful poem about life and aging..... Very effective imagery to describe the harshness bleakness of getting old

Comment is about Bittersweet (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

Go on Kevin I am sure you can. Thanks both for your lovely words of encouragement. X

Comment is about The Path (blog)

Original item by Louise Clarke

The survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster would agree with your last sentiment wholeheartedly, MC.

Comment is about 'Ye are many - they are few!' Jeremy Corbyn quotes Shelley at Glastonbury (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Wasn't Corbyn's visit to Glastonbury on the national Armed
Forces Day when the latter event was marked in Liverpool?
By their deeds, you shall know them.

Comment is about 'Ye are many - they are few!' Jeremy Corbyn quotes Shelley at Glastonbury (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Muy bonita ?

Comment is about HERMOSA FLOR ( BEAUTIFUL FLOWER) (blog)

Original item by Phillip Kelly

Thank you for all your comments they are much appreciated I feel I have found lots of friends in writing poems love Wendy X

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Like this poem...... I was shy child..... Your poems seem to have a brutal honesty truth about life and people which is incredibly pure and captivating

Comment is about Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Hello Ronnie just keep writing things down what you feel how you feel it's amazing to look back on no one can ever take it away from you. You are your own person don't let anyone change you thankyou for your comments love Wendy x

Comment is about Ronnie (poet profile)

Original item by Ronnie

You don't have to apologise to me dear girl.
You comments are always welcome even if they are belated.

Raj

Comment is about See you up there at love o'clock (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Oh fantastic. I loved this poem when I read it recently. Well done and big congrats Becky!

Comment is about 'The Concrete Road' by Becky Sowray is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Cheers David ?

Comment is about Bang Bang (for Karen) (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I'm somewhat ashamed Raj,to have not commented on this absolutely lovely piece of work before now.My apologies and thanks.Jemima.

Comment is about See you up there at love o'clock (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

I,m always happy to see you posting Wendy.And to read your lovely poems is more than a pleasure.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

haha! have your speedo's at the ready T.D.!


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Rose ?

Comment is about Heatwave (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

ayup cock! cast yer mincer's on me recent 'deddy' to you
and see if its chuckleworthy enough for thee ?



Rose ?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Rose - I predict a long hot summer !! - See you on the beach lol. T ?

Comment is about Heatwave (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Beautifully descriptive. Well chosen details build up a vivid picture. Love this intimate snapshot.

Comment is about Grandad's Armchair (blog)

Original item by Toby W

well said Juan, a good counter to our sex obsessed world.

I misread the second line as 'Price rises' and wondered for a moment if you were getting married in a supermarket! Silly me. But the thought of the newlyweds walking down the supermarket aisle and the husband being distracted by price rises made me giggle.

I liked the inclusion of local dialect and wondered could you do us a whole poem like that?

all the best,
Col.

Comment is about Love making (blog)

Original item by Juan Pablo Lynch

laughing here too Ray - Nora sounds completely Batty and who else but Bennett to do the voice-over. A class act all round. Thanks for posting this gem. Col.

Comment is about AUNT NORA (blog)

Original item by ray pool

sweet ?

Comment is about Honey sweet honey (blog)

Original item by G.N.D.

Your comments never fail to intrigue and entertain dear Rose cause thou speak in many tongues !!!!?

Comment is about See you up there at love o'clock (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Audio is here...

https://soundcloud.com/mark-mrt-thompson/stay-put

Comment is about Stay Put (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

The audio is available here...

https://soundcloud.com/mark-mrt-thompson/stay-put

Comment is about The Write Out Loud poem of the week is Stay Put by Mark Mr T Thompson (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

I'm with C.B.T. on this one Tom.

now wheres me 'kini?

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Rose ?

Comment is about Heatwave (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

'grandads sleeping in his throne...awww
lovely poem Toby.


Rose ?

Comment is about Grandad's Armchair (blog)

Original item by Toby W

me too Wendy.



more please!




Rose ?

Comment is about Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

There should also be a button for "love"; "like" doesn't quite do it for verse as brilliant as this.

Superb. Does it for me anyway.

Cheers!

Suki

Comment is about sick fire (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

totally agree with P&S.

take care girl.




Rose ?

Comment is about No Holes In My Socks (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

hey Loz! if it does as me old mother used to say it does as in 'putting hairs on yer chest'....then,


its a wonder I ain't tripping over me own titbush!

???


Rose ?....but tongue-free!

Comment is about See you up there at love o'clock (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Ha! Ha! Was that your impression of Alan Bennett?
Whatever, it made me laugh.

Cheers Ray!

Suki

Comment is about AUNT NORA (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Welcome back from me too, ElP. Hope you are keeping well..

Shrouding - and the phantom of our persona, which itself is a kind of shroud, and a gift; a shield we all need sometimes. That's is one way of reading this. Deep stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Suki

Comment is about the parachutist (deployed) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Brevity comes to the aid of anti - gravity - a clever and winning little poem. Kites are sad when only drawn!

Ray

Comment is about Pathetically Drawn (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

The name of this piece fits perfectly, this was a beautiful and inspiring poem. Loved it! ?

Comment is about Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Hi David, blimey, you have me sussed. Always full of hot air etc..... Goes down, etc. Not my style obviously.
Glad you got the drift mate.!

I'm flattered Michaela to be accorded this compliment . I do my best . I think the subject matter lends itself to descriptive words. Thanks you so much. Don't forget Fuchsia by the way.

Ray with love.

Comment is about 70th BIRTHDAY BALLOON (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I'm curious that there's this assertion that "Tories
blatantly only care for their own".
Pride and prejudice exist across the political spectrum
and one omniprescent oxymoron is the openminded liberal.

Comment is about 'Mates Rate' (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Harry - these days "steal" seems to possess a very fluid
meaning - depending on a viewpoint.
A professional football club charging the cost of a weekly
family food bill for admission to 90 mins of often poorly
executed sporting activity comes within that definition in
my book; as does the richly rewarded show-biz type
whose value for money is rarely challenged or criticised.
But at least choice exists for the payer, whereas money
seized from our pockets via various taxes, direct and
indirect, certainly needs the closest inspection when it
comes to how it's obtained and how it's spent. So, I go
with you about "following the money" in that respect.
There is - and has probably always been - a tendency for the politically employed to treat public money with
careless abandon, frittering it away on projects and
personal power-enabled policies while in office, and
using it to propel personal advancement, obtaining
out of office employment with newspapers and companies that pursue the old pals ploy of "political advisors".

Comment is about EXCUSE ME (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

wonderful to have you and your unique style back.i was just about to message you to ask if all was well when this popped up. lovely words as ever, the second stanza is sublime.

Comment is about the parachutist (deployed) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thanks Colin...

I note what you say about 'to nowhere'. I hadn't picked up on that and I think you're right...I may re-think that line!

Toby

Comment is about Driftwood (blog)

Original item by Toby W

I suppose you're right, Harry. Our Gert is particularly vulnerable on the Big Dipper.

Comment is about OL' MAN RIVER (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Joe,
I love the `run` of that :

`How does it feel to be part of the team,

in the faceless, exploitative, corporate machine?

I think lots of the reasons for the rise of populism in America and the lurch towards extreme socialism in Britain is due to the fact that -through globalization and robotics - we seem to be losing touch with the material nitty -gritty of wealth creation. (even though our fully employed, mainly consumer, populations are still enjoying the monetary fruits of it)...I think people are beginning to feel this and worry.

The industry I worked in (export tobacco) moved - after heavy initial automation and job reduction - overseas. The
monetary fruits are still enjoyed here in the form of profits and good pensions. We still have full employment here - but it is overwhelmingly consumer based...which is where the nervousness comes in. (which may be why the American miners want to continue dirtily shovelling coal...
well paid of course)

Some people - Hammond for instance - are beginning to see the problem...But the solution?...who knows?

Comment is about Your Revolution (blog)

Original item by Joe Williams

M.C.
One should always be suspicious of how money is made.
(and also how it is spent)..In this way one can be equally against the shifty capitalist and the benefit cheater... the trick is to always `follow the money`

The principle is always; `Thou shalt not steal`

(now where have I heard that before?)

Comment is about EXCUSE ME (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

John,
Just to stress the absolute even-handedness of the Almighty on this matter:

Life`s fair for trouser-staining slickers:
Women cough...and wet their knickers.

Comment is about OL' MAN RIVER (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

and how much we DO appreciate your poems Wendy.The words of which,we are more than familiar with.

P&S x

Comment is about No Holes In My Socks (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Hi Ray,

Thanks for the kind welcome back.

In return, your readings are always welcome. You reveal such complexity of thought in your comments that I can only surmise that there must be a complex mind behind them.

Much appreciated,

elP

Comment is about the parachutist (deployed) (blog)

Original item by nunya

alas I fear there is more plastic than wood drifting around our oceans which nobody wants to adorn their landscape gardens with.

Interesting subject matter Toby. Not sure about the choice of 'to nowhere' in the 4th line as it does end up somewhere by the last verse - but I see what you're getting at.

Colin.

Comment is about Driftwood (blog)

Original item by Toby W

great idea Michaela - creation, entrapment, power, freedom - some weighty stuff to ponder if one so chooses.

Col.

Comment is about Pathetically Drawn (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

short but sweet. loved it
Cheers kevin

Comment is about Pathetically Drawn (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

I wouldn't change a word. this was such a beautiful well-told tale. i'm thinking about doing one about an old crone, who had had a previous life, and been a looker in her day, but I don't think a can tell the story as well as you have.
cheers Kevin

Comment is about The Path (blog)

Original item by Louise Clarke

true!

Comment is about NEXORABLE ME (blog)

Original item by MANISHA SAINI

Wow I loved hearing you read this so much! Such grace and prosperity. Beautifully written

Comment is about 70th BIRTHDAY BALLOON (blog)

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