This was based on a dream I had a few nights ago.
Thanks for reading.

Comment is about Scavengers (blog)

Original item by Luke

Ha ha yea! Thank you

Comment is about Lady Desiree (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

“Where’ve you caffein bean ‘til now?” she said.

Comment is about COSTA COFFEE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

And it is thus, that the dog-whistling politicians who loudly complain "This is a Christian country..." betray and crucify Jesus with every death.
They don't want to "stop the boats", because that gives them power over a population divided by hate.

Comment is about The Last Supper (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

That's a beautiful last line David; its beauty is in its truth.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Keats

Comment is about On The Mount (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

A grim beauty in this one, John.

Comment is about Seppuku* (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

@Holden @Uilleam Thank you 🤍

Comment is about When That Little Boy Is in His Solitude (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

Thank you Yanma. Very moving; I recognise something of my own experiences in that little boy's solitude.

Comment is about When That Little Boy Is in His Solitude (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

A moving poem that unfolds beautifully, Yanma! 🌷

Comment is about When That Little Boy Is in His Solitude (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

Thanks for likes: hugh, Uilleam, Manish, Yanma Hidayah, Auracle & Larisa. 👍

Comment is about Lost (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thanks JD. Can’t make my mind up whether it’s alliteration, consonance or what, but it works very nicely; wish I was there!

Comment is about The Lane (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Wave your wallet at her Rick-that might work!😊

Comment is about Lady Desiree (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thanks Landi.
"Awaiting A name"

...and it needs a human to name it! just imagine if some being existed who/which could give it a name other than the one we earthlings have given it....?

Comment is about womb (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

Thanks for your comment Uilleam,

I'm an observer now when it comes to political activism. In this country revolution is a thing of the past (for now) and this piece of writing is fantasy.

Our political system has crippled itself with appeasement and dishonesty. It has also utilised state agencies to work against its own people. Until such time as an apathetic society wakes from the anesthesia of popular cultural and the opium of the quick fix we're all fucked.

Most of us deserve the contempt with which politicians appear to hold us in. I'm convinced many politicians have recognised this and that is what motivated them to join the winning side.

David RL Moore

Comment is about The Dead Wood (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Shades of The Big Friendly Giant or something there, Clive.😊

Comment is about The Ravenous Witch (blog)

Original item by Clive Culverhouse

Thanks for the likes:
Red Brick Keshner
Tom Doolan
hugh
Jordyn Elizabeth
Stephen Gospage
Stephen W Atkinson
Aisha Suleman
Steve White
Auracle

Comment is about Is This What British Media Has Become-A Bigot-Filled Sewer? (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thanks for the likes:
Red Brick Keshner
Trevor Alexander
Steve White
Auracle

Comment is about Limerick [Final Solution] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thanks for the likes:
Tom Doolan
Trevor Alexander
Holden Moncrieff
Auracle

Comment is about Who Needs Rhetorical Devices! (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Playing catch up; thanks for the likes and comments
Tom Doolan
Stephen Gospage
Aisha Suleman
Larisa Rzhepishevska
Steve White
Tim Higbee
Arrianna
Tobani / Nataiella

Comment is about Two-Tier Racists (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Belated thanks to:
Tom Doolan
hugh
Ruth O'Reilly
Larisa Rzhepishevska
Holden Moncrieff
K. Lynn
Hélène
Manish
Tim Higbee
Arrianna
Tobani / Nataiella
For your likes…and a jolly good read it is, too!💗

Comment is about We are Human (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

What are we on WOL for, Ghazala, if not to express ourselves and to learn from others?
A thoughtful and imaginative poem, I say. As far as poetry is concerned, I have few academic qualifications, save those of my schooldays, thus I’m loath to comment on certain aspects of anyone’s poetry so, thank you for the accompanying notes, which I find insightful and helpful.

I have several old books, gleaned from the treasure troves which are second-hand bookshops, of Spanish (Lorca etc.) and French poetry which spans the centuries; they are all, thank goodness, heavily annotated, and as a result I’ve learned much which I otherwise would not have done.

Comment is about The Mind, A Time Machine (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Thanks to Tom, Uilleam and Stephen for the likes on this one.

David

Comment is about On Treachery² (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thank you Arrianna 🤍

Comment is about When That Little Boy Is in His Solitude (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

Beautiful poem ❤️

Comment is about When That Little Boy Is in His Solitude (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

They try to recreate the old markets with supersized shopping centres, but fail miserably. The sanitised, dehumanised cathedrals of commerce are just not the same. Just an excuse for increased 'stallholder' rents, and thus ever higher prices.

Comment is about Marketplace [Song Version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

GREAT!

Comment is about Marketplace [Song Version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks Ian, I've not yet had chance to listen to it properly.

Re Tom's comment, we now have a so-called "street market" where you can get a mortgage on a beefburger costing just short of £10 quid!😧

Comment is about Marketplace [Song Version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks for likes: Tobani / Nataiella, Jordyn, Holden, Manish & Stephen W. 👍

Comment is about Once Upon A Time (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Nice one Ian - It won't be long before markets will be consigned to history. 😐

Comment is about Marketplace [Song Version] (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thank you Grahan for your feedback.😃

"It's my choice to elaborate and explain. I guess that's no sin and there's no such rule that one needs to follow, therefore I ain't breaking any".

Comment is about The Mind, A Time Machine (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Sometimes I think it is a shame that you extensively explain your poems instead of allowing the reader to interpret them for themselves. They then become mere texts.

Comment is about The Mind, A Time Machine (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Definitely Uilleam. It's going to be.

Thank you!!

Comment is about The Mind, A Time Machine (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Lovely, Mike. I think they may still be around in non-league football, complete with a sugar bowl with its one shared spoon to stir in your tea! (May be the pandemic put an end to that!)

Comment is about The Match Day Hot Dog Seller (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks David, let's "clear the rot away".

Comment is about The Dead Wood (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks for the latest likes on this.

David

Comment is about The Dead Wood (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks MC.
Re Latin: we’re told that it’s a “dead language”, but is it?
It has survived by mutating over the years into Italian, and therefore, it is now as dead as Schrödinger's Norwegian Blue Parrot; it’s both dead and not dead!😏

Comment is about THERE'S AN ENGLAND (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Sourajit.
Your poem posits an interesting moral problem:
“…Yet still we're told, that money's the curse,
The source of all evil, the root of the worst.”

A frequently mis-quoted saying is that from the Christian Bible (the King James version,1 Timothy 6:10), which says:
“…For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

I would interpret that in a more general sense, and suggest that the problem is "the love of money", one of greed; that the love of anything, to excess, is at the root of many evils. Or, as the saying goes: “One should eat to live, not live to eat”.

Comment is about Money (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

A beautiful poem, full of hope. I enjoyed this, Tim.

Comment is about New Season (blog)

Original item by Tim Higbee

Thanks for likes: Stephen G, Aisha & hugh 👍

Comment is about Falling For You (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you so much, my dear friends, for commenting and liking my poem. With best wishes, Larisa

Comment is about My Crazy September Love (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Killer last line Hugh (literally) Well done! G

Comment is about In control (blog)

Original item by hugh

Intriguing Manish!

Comment is about Unspoken Words (blog)

Original item by Manish

Ha...this takes me back to my old job, nicking the street traders
offering this sort of thing illegally in Oxford Street, London W1.
Anyone seeing one of those disreputable characters wiping his
nose on a grubby overall sleeve would surely think twice about
buying his offerings. Health and Safety??? Do me a favour, guv!😝 !!!!

Comment is about The Match Day Hot Dog Seller (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

UOC - talking of languages (so to speak 😉), interesting that Latin remains so relevant. Not everything has to change to make
sense of our lives and expectations.

Comment is about THERE'S AN ENGLAND (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Correct Stephen, “Life has no meaning without art”. Though, to get things into some perspective; what on earth is the value of a few drops of paint on a canvas, (in this day and age), other than a measure of the vainglorious delusions of some billionaire, who would like to keep it in their bank vault, purely for the satisfaction of owning it?
I would much rather our children and grandchildren survive to create their own art and be able to tell their and our story to future generations, i.e: That we fought their corner.

Comment is about Poetry student jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh painting (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Excellent advice Hugh, I know never to try that one on.

Comment is about In control (blog)

Original item by hugh

Great lines, jeronth.
"So tread with care on dreams that gleam,
For desire’s spark can burn the dream."

Comment is about Wavering Passion (blog)

Original item by jeronth

"lost and found in the beauty of the ordinary,"
Nice one, Eduardo.

Comment is about Awakening in the Stillness (blog)

Original item by Eduardo

"Push ahead", I say. Per Ardua ad Astra.

Comment is about The Mind, A Time Machine (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

I used to aim for one of those stalls coming out of the "Palais de Danse" (now a hole in the ground) after a night on the ale, drinking rum'n black chasers. Never did me any harm, in fact I'd say my immunity got a booster.
The vile crap they're selling in supermarkets now, full of preservatives, with "Not For Sale in the EU" notices on (cheers, Brexit!), is probably no better.

"...nearby toilet facilities, with soap and sink." There's something similar in our local BnQ car pk.

Comment is about The Match Day Hot Dog Seller (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram