Thank you Ray

Comment is about Ode to The Soaps (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thanks Ray for your constructive feedback. Respect 🇯🇲
Thanks for likes: Yanma Hidayah & Aisha 👍

Comment is about Party Party (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you so much!

Comment is about 1000 days (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

You can't beat a good football poem!

Comment is about Extra Time (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Thanks for all the likes and the kind comments Uilleam. Hope you can make walking an affirmation of your daily life and the coming months won't be too dark.

Comment is about Born for the Morning (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

Thanks Uilleam, I saw that but she doesn't say when he said it or to whom. This blogger went looking and attributes it to someone completely different in 1971: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whats-the-origin-of-the-phrase-we-shouldnt-just-be-pulling-people-out-of-the-river-we-should-be-going-upstream-to-find-out-whos-pushing-them-in/

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

Have put this to bed now but added an audio and video.

Thanks for your reading and taking time to comment Uilleam.

David.

Comment is about Epitaph For The Waste Land (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Nice one Ray,

Leonard Rossiter was a comic genius who held a mirror up to us all with Rigsby. He was also an acclaimed actor outside of comedy, with appearances in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon. I think he would have gone on to be a huge success.

Apparently he wasn't a nice chap, but who knows? certainly not me.

I loved Rigsby, his failures were magnificent.

Nice little poem for those who remember and have met Rigsby's on our travels in bedsitland.

Cheers Ray.

David

Comment is about VOTE FOR RIGSBY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

When dog owners say "Oooh he's never done that before!"

Comment is about Dog Days (blog)

Original item by Ray

I don't think it's you, Ray. Falling-outs between artists of different genres are many and varied.
Witness the vitriol heaped on the heads of various painters, the French for example, whose success threatened the reputations of more "conventional" artists. What we now consider to be the beautiful works of the Pre-Raphaelites were ridiculed, by artists of the time.
I can't say much as regards poetry, but what I think RBK's trying to say is that in poetry our creativity grows as we try to find different ways of "connecting"....don't know if that made sense.😏

Comment is about a true marriage of minds (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Haven't watched a soap for several decades but enjoyed the poem, especially the
"If you’ve been affected” line.

Comment is about Ode to The Soaps (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Enjoyed the read, maybe there should be more about Saturday night. But you gotta love a poem about reggae and ska.
Monday comes around too soon
The week is gonna fly until - wouldn't the week drag, rather than fly/?

Comment is about Party Party (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Nothing wrong with idealism, I suppose, but having met many poets online and in the flesh, I'd wager that we're just as likely to fall out with each other as your average Joes. Or maybe it's me!

Comment is about a true marriage of minds (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Hear, hear, M.C. -
we must find our little comforts where we can. Anything to balance out the horrors we've proved all-too capable at!

Comment is about A POEM FOR THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Our church had an exchange with Oman.

She was brave to go there.

And share 🌷

Comment is about Oman (blog)

Original item by Luke

As 2025 approaches my sense of foreboding increases with regard to this war. I applaud your words as usual Stephen but I wish you didn’t need to write them

Comment is about 1000 days (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Hello Greg. Yeah, Villa are doing fine. Chelsea are....well, I'm not sure the words have been invented that would do justice to Chelsea these days. Something beginning with "multi-" obviously.

Comment is about Dens (blog)

Original item by Ray

Cheers Stephen! The Peasants' Revolt is thought to have started just down the road from Basildon, in Fobbing.

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

Another winner, Ian. I remember Eccles in the Goon Show saying that liquorish gives you a good run for your money! Versatile indeed.

Comment is about Laila Liqourice [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

A splendid poem, Steve. I notice that there's a Wat Tyler Country Park near Basildon. I suppose heritage will get us all in the end.

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

The days roll by and nobody will learn.

Thank you Stephen for your tireless efforts on behalf of those who have no voice.
What's so frustrating is that some of our UK politicians (currently engaged in whipping up racial hatred here by various means), have financial links with those inflicting the horrors of which you speak....NOT IN MY NAME!

Comment is about 1000 days (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Yes, a poem tinged with sadness but at peace with itself. Good work, Manish.

Comment is about Grandfather (blog)

Original item by Manish

Hi Steve. I found the following quote, typed it in to search, and found an article reflecting on the life of Tutu, in which the Revd Sonia Hicks, President of the Methodist Conference, attributes the quote to him.
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

I think it certainly will, Graham. 'L'année de tous les dangers', I think. Thank you Uilleam. Yes 'disruption' will only get you so far, we hope.

Comment is about Allowance or 'Dim Don Junior' (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

This is a very gently placed piece Manish. The heart-felt sentiments shine through it

Comment is about Grandfather (blog)

Original item by Manish

Yes Uileam! Very SHARP witted of you!

Comment is about Needles and Pins (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

"The 20 year accretion of piss and semen" has a strange musicality. "The sense of something melting" is a wonderful conclusion. Ah, I know who you are, Penguin. Good to see you back! And Villa doing better these days ...

Comment is about Dens (blog)

Original item by Ray

Helen,
Your poetry and paint is honest, simple and wonderful.
Marla

Comment is about helen art efforts7.jpg (photo)

Original item by Dusty- Kennedy

love this concept

Comment is about "The Human Hindrance" (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

Brilliant Ian, a song with a seasonal flavour...What with rhubarb an all that, an eclectic cultural mix!😋

Comment is about Laila Liqourice [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks for your thoughts, MC. Not just Tamsulosin but Finesteride too. The short answer is, I don’t know if they’re working. I can’t both take them and not take them at the same time for comparison.

Comment is about Toilet Troubles (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks for the likes and your supportive comments Stephen - glad you liked it

Ian

Comment is about Spinning Jenny [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for the likes and supportive comments people - I appreciate it
Ian

Comment is about Orgreave (Truth & Justice) [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for the likes and your kind comments Larisa - glad you liked it
Ian

Comment is about Down In The Hole (song version) (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks to everyone for the likes and encouraging comments.

Not any easy song to sing live - a lot of emotion to hold in and deliver it without a waver in my voice.

I'm glad you liked it - just wish my parents had been able to hear it 😞

Thanks again

Ian

Comment is about How Did It Get So Late So Soon? [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for the likes and the comments you lovely poetry people 😃

Glad it brought back some sweet tasting memories for you 😃

not sure about the Christmas number 1 Stephen - that alwaays seems to be taken by that other festive foodstuff - the sausage roll 😲

I've just posted a new song - which hopefully will remind you all of another childhood favourite 😉

Thanks again for the encouragement

Ian

Comment is about Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb [song version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I get the point!

Comment is about Needles and Pins (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Ha ha yea, exactly!

Comment is about Music Lovers (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Oh, and I'll check out Southey's play, Uilleam, thanks. I guess once you're Poet Laureate you're inside the tent...

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

Thanks Ray. It's based on a quote widely attributed to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, although I can't find any source material to indicate that he actually said, or wrote, it.

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

He was indeed, M.C.. Sir William Walworth, merchant, money-lender, brothel-keeper and Lord Mayor of London.

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

Doom and gloom...doom and gloom
Make way, I pray, and give comfort room! 😇

Comment is about A POEM FOR THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Cheers!

Comment is about Wahwahwah (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Even Oliver Cromwell suffered that insult in death. Power was
the name of the game and deterrence against threat the hope
behind the deed. Was Tyler subjected to his fate with the help
of the London mayor of the day? Opportunists currying favour
find their chance in every age, it seems.

Comment is about The River (blog)

Original item by Steve White

"If only you could see yourself through my eyes,
you’d lose your heart in a single breath."
That's rather beautiful.

Comment is about A Blossom Forsaken (blog)

Original item by Srijan Shukla

💗

Comment is about Diffuse Rainbow (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Sorry I missed this John.
I desperately need to make walking an affirmation of my daily life, although it's going to be difficult in the coming dark months.

Comment is about Born for the Morning (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

Isn't the Tamsulosin still working JC? I've been doing my own
trials and was fascinated by how it serves to affect the flow, whilst somewhat perturbed by the extensive list of possible side effects....some of which seem positively daunting. But then Big
Pharma always covers its backs, if not its tracks! I treated myself
to appointments with a urology "consultant" here in the heart of
London's medical expertise and it was/is worth the cost of a
holiday anywhere you care to mention.
Hey - you should see the video of the
laser treatment now available to
burn off surplus gland!! Eye-watering
stuff - but fascinating!

Comment is about Toilet Troubles (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

We do beggar belief with some if the things - well no, most - that we do. We prove the impossibility of a kind and wise God, because what kind of incompetent moron would call us fit for purpose? Nobody made us but ourselves. Noster maxima culpa.

Comment is about A POEM FOR THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Enjoyed the poem.
Refereed by consensus. Corners,

free kicks, won by loudest shout.

I play walking football and that's still the rule.

Comment is about Extra Time (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander