Great to hear that Stephen. I have treated myself to your book. Can't wait to read it 😀👍

Comment is about Book out now!... or you could just read them on here lol! (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Powerful, moving poetry, Stephen. Bravo!

Comment is about Please Remember Me (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

I can only echo the other comments, Helène. This is great.

Comment is about Rain (blog)

Original item by Hélène

I love this poem.. for its pace... and for its length.. and for all the rapid fire concepts. great stuff...

Comment is about My Name Is Sunshine (blog)

Original item by Mama Lola

Thank you both so much for your kind and thoughtful comments, I'm truly grateful! 😊
Stephen, you are right that we all think of counterfactuals, often to the detriment of the present moment!
Rose, you picked up on exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that line!
💐

Comment is about Ramshackle (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Drivel!? says who? certainly not me! This poem is a gem ( P )







Rose 💋

Comment is about The songs that I hear (blog)

Original item by pallavitryingthings

Love this Frederick. Oh! the archaic colours of Autumn! I blogged a similar poem on here years ago ( The last leaf of Autumn )
inspired by having seen a particular tree bearing just that-a last leaf.

Another poetess on here used the same title for her poem, no offence taken and no names mentioned but coincidences do occur




Rose 💋

Comment is about fallen (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

This great poem can tug all it wants on my heartstrings it will not get me blubbering.......😓








Rose 😓

Comment is about December 24th (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Fabulous Holden. The workings of the universe are truly mind blowing as in the time that the light from implosions of stars would take to reach a terrestrial observatory -' extinguished perhaps already '

brill poem!




Rose 💋

Comment is about Ramshackle (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thanks Stephen. It was a great evening. Strangely, I couldn't remember any details for the poem . I know that I laughed a lot! 😂

Comment is about Reunion (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

A lovely poem on enduring friendship, John. Make sure you all keep in touch - it's important.

Comment is about Reunion (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

I like this, Holden. I'm sure we all think of counterfactuals, what might have been....
'Reality's ramshackle tenement' - great concept.

Comment is about Ramshackle (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thank you Bryrony re "I saw you standing there"
Your generous words do make me think.
Tommy

Comment is about Bryony Partridge (poet profile)

Original item by Bryony Partridge

I love this! Well written and nice twist at the end haha!

Comment is about Reflections (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thanks all for taking the time to stop by- this one was the result of watching too much Brian Cox

Comment is about Entropy (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thanks for the likes, Stephen A, Holden and Nigel. 😀

Comment is about Early Learning (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

A very nice and moving poem F.Jae, thank you.

Comment is about From up on the poppy hill (blog)

Original item by F.Jae

I really like the Buddhist concepts of attachment and detachment... as in.... we really should try *not* to be attached (in the *fully committed* way because 'all things are temporary'. There's a real fundamental truth in that and to mature, we need to face that fact.

I don't know whether you are talking about detachment in a different way tho. I've known people who use detachment as a tool of oppression-of-others... as a tool of power-play.

In its purest sense tho.... (and for me, that's the Buddhist reading of the word).... it's more of a recognition.. that all things.... are temporary.... even the things we love... all of it... but that... we shouldn't necessarily be freaked out and depressed by this fact.... because.... that's just how things are... neither good...nor bad... just falling away... and rising... falling away etc..

But as a purposeful (kind of spiteful) psychological strategy... I reckon it does more damage to the gamer than to the object of their game..

Very thought provoking post. thank you for writing about it.

Comment is about Detachment | Agonizing Words (blog)

Original item by Agonizing Words

Lovely piece Helene. Some people moan about the rain-I say well which other way would we have of making beer? 😋

Spooky that you should have used rain as the basis for your poem Helene, because my forthcoming poem also has a theme of liquidity to it but with just a touch of added salt-😄

catch you later-chuck ( English slang for buddy )



Rose 💋

Comment is about Rain (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Love this 🌈

Comment is about From up on the poppy hill (blog)

Original item by F.Jae

I am happy to report that I (a Californian of French-Canadian descent; my father from Québec gave all his kids names with accent marks!) am learning British slang from WOL. Eg "snap" (=2 things the same) used by Tom in a comment, & "bung" (=toss) used by Rose in a poem. Google provides me the definition of these words I have never heard before. My old brain is happy to be learning. So keep on writing UK folks!

Comment is about Rain (blog)

Original item by Hélène

How fun is that! Looking forward to reading your Rain poem should you post it. We live in California where we really really need rain.

Comment is about Rain (blog)

Original item by Hélène

A brilliant poem Tom, I love the combination of ideas here; and the ending is perfect.

Comment is about Entropy (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

I love this one Hélène. I read this half an hour after putting the final full stop to a poem about rain of my own. And... not worrying about wet socks was exactly the point I was trying to make too. So, snap 😃

Comment is about Rain (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Terrific blend of coffee and cold comfort Tom. A nimble and reflective mind at work.

Ray

Comment is about Entropy (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thanks Rose. Logic indicates that any time we say or think "No
thanks" and/or "I'd rather not...", we are discriminating. At one
time I recall the word was a compliment with regard to "taste"..

Comment is about A QUESTION OF DISCRIMINATION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you for your kind comment, Pete. And thanks to Tom for liking.

Comment is about A Song for Ukraine (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

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Comment is about Detachment | Agonizing Words (blog)

Original item by Agonizing Words

My kind of army for sure Helene-very nice calming poem.








Rose 💋

Comment is about An Army of Angels (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Far out man!








Rose 💋

Comment is about Your Humble Poet (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Wonderful poetical dedication Tom.








Rose 💋

Comment is about Gentleness (blog)

Original item by Tom

Fair do's M.C. I'm all for them aka live and let live.







Rose 💋

Comment is about A QUESTION OF DISCRIMINATION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Respectfully beautiful F.Jae







Rose 💋

Comment is about From up on the poppy hill (blog)

Original item by F.Jae

Thank you Frederick, Stephen, Adam and Pete for a comment so pithy and replete. Neat. 'Brevity is the soul of wit.' Dr Samuel Johnson.

Comment is about Al Andalusia (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Great , really difficult to capture the emotion well done 🙏

Comment is about A Song for Ukraine (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Great !

Comment is about Al Andalusia (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you Stephen.
I too want to honour their memory, but what is going on now-the arms trade literally making capital from Remembrance Sunday- is an obscene insult to their memory.

The poppy fascists are out in ever increasing force, their hypocrisy must be resisted...they are colluding in the deaths of soldiers and civilians alike.

Comment is about Poppy Rocks Bollocks (blog)

A lovely mixture of fantastic and intimate, Tom.

Comment is about Entropy (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

On dangerous ground, here, Uilleam, but I like it. I want to honour the victims of wars (11 November is a public holiday here in Belgium), but there is something sinister about the poppy obsession.

Comment is about Poppy Rocks Bollocks (blog)

Thanks, Tom. Much appreciated. And thanks to Stephen and Helène.

Comment is about A Song for Ukraine (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Poetry?

Comment is about Detachment | Agonizing Words (blog)

Original item by Agonizing Words

Thanks Stephen, enjoyed. The hardest thing is wanting to write about something but finding the validity in the voice to form an authentic response.

Comment is about A Song for Ukraine (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks for the like Frederick 👍

Comment is about Early Learning (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

Sally Jenkinson is a Doncaster poet who now works nationally and does not get back to perform in her hometown so often, so it's a huge pleasure to have her guesting at Well Spoken! for November.
Sally is a poet, writer, performer and creative facilitator. She's been writing and performing poetry across the UK for more than a decade, and has written and performed internationally in Sweden, Iceland, and Australia.
Born and raised in Doncaster, she's now based in the Forest of Dean. She has recently been featured in Lighthouse Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, The Morning Star, and on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Power Lines’."

Review is about Well Spoken! at Doncaster Brewery on 10 Nov 2022 (event)

Poems do not come much better than this Tom
a space ace!







Rose 💋

Comment is about Entropy (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thank you all, I truly appreciate the encouraging feedback!

Comment is about Napkin Equation (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thanks to Rose, Adam, K Lynn and Rudyard for your support. I enjoyed writing this one.

Comment is about A Song for Ukraine (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Dear Penguin,

This poem may be prompted by the music warehouse I work in.
So many titles feature skeletal zombies with hanging rotten flesh,
all kinds of monsters and miseries. Why this genre is so popular I don't know.
Perhaps people think these are dark times and the end is nigh.
Violent and depressing films are from the same stable
and I think poetry, perhaps always prone to melancholy,
is bleaker and more solid with misery than ever.
I just like to encourage the underdog and optimist here.

Comment is about The Luminous Poets (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Very nice. These two lines are pretty much saying the same thing, though.
In an inexplicable miracle of timing,
almost impossibly, at the same time!

Comment is about Thanksgiving, 2009 (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

I'm a bit confused. Who are the dark poets and who are the luminous poets and whose side are you on?

Comment is about The Luminous Poets (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth