Entertaining - and very welcome for that! 👍
Comment is about Anecdotal Attributes (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Than you John and MC for your welcome comments.
I agree I can think of no excuse for killing our beautiful song birds.
Cruelty is an issue here - beaters have told me that the birds try to double back and run between the beaters legs - the birds are then picked up and thrown into the air - to be shot.
Comment is about 1st. OCTOBER - IN THE KILLING FIELDS (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Who knows what exit lies ahead
But hopefully, with ease and at rest - in bed! 😉
Comment is about The old man in the next bed, (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
I think it's worse in Italy where they line up to kill the migrating
song birds. At least pheasant and duck can be eaten!
Comment is about 1st. OCTOBER - IN THE KILLING FIELDS (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Well put, Flyntland. Stylish poem! A savagery we could do without. 😖
Comment is about 1st. OCTOBER - IN THE KILLING FIELDS (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Thanks Flyntland, lovely comment, and thanks, too, Graham, you are so right! 😂
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Hello Flyntland, I'm so glad you enjoyed the poem and took the time to comment. Thank you.
The Sapien, in goodwill, pleads in earnest with the quercus.
The landmark is allowed a response and then it is found the plea is turned back towards the human.
Comment is about Winter Tree (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Frederick John and Holden, thanks all for your liking this one.
Many thanks Greg, I do my best!
That app sounds excellent Graham. This was another poem I rewrote completely and that idea came the second time. Thanks.
Thank you Massoud for your observations. I think you have touched on humility there, and the quest for wonder is a great one. So called reality seems to be a relative term depending on subjectivity or objectivity. Such a vast subject.
A lovely comment Stephen, thank you. I tried to make it seem personal.
Ray
Comment is about ON SEEING JUPITER 26 9 22 (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Yes kind poet. Hope is what we live in @Flyntland
Comment is about as the smoke clears (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
" though your perfect tiny toes are curled"
Delicious
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
This is one of the most beautiful poems that I have read.
I have a deep love of trees,
some years ago I planted two 12" oak seedlings on our land, They have grown well and are now higher than a house, sturdy and strong, well used by wildlife.
So thank you for this poem, it is one that I shall read often.
Comment is about Winter Tree (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
" genial kindnessses shall spring" we have to live in hope.
Comment is about as the smoke clears (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
"Blessings to the children whatever their progress, talents, aquired skills"
I would like to echo this sentiment.
Lovely poem K.Lynn. so gentle and thoughtful.
Comment is about School started yesterday (blog)
Original item by K. Lynn
I love the reflective qualities within this piece, K. Lynn, and you are correct in all respects, 😀
Comment is about School started yesterday (blog)
Original item by K. Lynn
Thanks so much, Julie. I felt very emotional. My first granddaughter! 😀
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
How wonderful. Many congratulations. A perfect welcome to the world message.
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
This is a fabulous poem with a vast sweep and clever use of the refrain. I love the noble tone and the pulsating rhythm, too. Awesome!
Comment is about Embarassment Of Riches (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thanks for the likes Graham, Frederick, K. Lynn and Adam 😀
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks Flyntland and John (Botterill) it reminds me of why I am here. 😊
Comment is about behind each poem (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
I suppose the poem concerns, in one strand at least, anthrpomorphic and anthropocentric issues.
I think I see how you would use the word 'macabre' and that's fair enough although the poem isn't intended to be harsh or critical or dwelling on a dark side.
Thanks for your kindly and perceptive comments, Massoud.
Comment is about Winter Tree (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
I really like this poem, too, Frederick. Powerful, reflective, poetic. Bravo! 😀
Comment is about behind each poem (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
<Deleted User> (34003)
Thu 29th Sep 2022 21:08
This seems to me to be a willingness to submit to something inevitable. It is a beautiful poem which I am sure will mean different things to those who read it.
There seems to be an element of the macabre, forgive me if that is in anyway undesirable in respect of your intention.
Comment is about Winter Tree (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
A brilliant poem, John. So stylish and expressive!
Comment is about The blossoming of the north (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks very much, Stephen. It was one of those very rare special days. A cousin for William. 😃
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Your joy and happiness shines throughout this poem, John. Lovely.
Comment is about Juliet (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
It's very kind of you to say so, Greg. I wanted to write something rhythmic to contrast with the crass, rifle-butt nature of this exercise. Thanks, Flyntland, I am so glad you enjoyed this. It is incredible that 15% of Ukraine's territory will be snatched away tomorrow (at least according to some people).
And thanks to Nigel, Frederick, John C and John B and Reggie's Ghost for liking this.
Comment is about Referendum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you very much Tom. In the recent past I have suffered many losses: relatives, friends, human and canine. I respect your opinion very highly, Tom, and I am so very sorry for your loss. John
“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?” – Sir Walter Scott, novelist, playwright, and poet
Comment is about The blossoming of the north (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
OH DEAR! I should be more careful.
But I do love the idea that we can 'bounce' off each other and discuss.
Thank you for not being cross
Comment is about The old man in the next bed, (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Thank you Flyntland,
You inadvertingly miswrote the end of a line when you commented, but I thought it inspiring so I have rewrote the last 4 lines to make what you thought it was into what it is now, it is so much better as it ends the conversation of the old man more succinctly.
Again thank you
Comment is about The old man in the next bed, (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
"Bask in the warmth of each moment
Life affords no second chance"
Iimportant words - words that should never be forgoten.
Comment is about The old man in the next bed, (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Good to see you back with a bang Jon!
Comment is about A milkmaid's tale (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thanks Kevin, so pleased this one resonated with you.
And likewise, Graham, thanks very much for your encouragement on this one - it means a lot.
Comment is about Dark At The End of The Street (blog)
Original item by Tom
Hi John, this is beautiful. So many great lines. I lost a pet this week and it's hard to even go into the room they lived in. I'm trying to put it into words in a poem at the moment but it won't come close to your writing about Charlie. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about The blossoming of the north (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I really like this one Frederick. perceptive and thaughtful.
Comment is about behind each poem (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thank you Flyntland, you are very kind.
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
Comment is about The blossoming of the north (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I'm not an expert on Auden, by any means, Steve, but this reminds me of his work, the power and sweep of it. It was the words "the bones /Dumped near the fenced-off railway sheds" that made me think of him. Remarkable poem.
Comment is about Referendum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Full black, those were the days John (Coopey)! 😃
Comment is about cuppa (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
"24 and there's so much more
Living alone in a paradise, makes me think of two
Love lost, such a cost
Give me things that won't get lost
Like a coin that won't get tossed
Rolling home to you" good old Neil Young
Comment is about August. (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
I lve the rythm of this piece
My favourite lines - -
"For freedom's optimistic tidings
Are out of fashion in these parts,
Their wagons mothballed in the sidings"
Comment is about Referendum (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
It put me in mind of Cat Stevens’s “Hard Headed Woman”, Flyntland. I have been fortunate to be surrounded by strong women.
I really like this.
Comment is about MOVING ON (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
I take mine black, Frederick, and, regrettably, de-caf these days.
Comment is about cuppa (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Indeed Julie! Bemused & baffled (again!)
Comment is about I Just Don’t Get It (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you John. I don't realise I'm sentimental until a write something down and it turns out like this! And I love Bukowski! Thanks
And thank you very much Kevin! Although what you can learn off my stuff I can't imagine!
Just popping in & out of WOL at the min as I'm trying to compile a book to publish on kindle...
Comment is about I Hope (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
I don’t know why they don’t just call it Euro Political Fashion Contest, Stephen, and spare us the night of dross. Ukraine are 9/4 favourites to win in ‘23 and their entry doesn’t get selected until December!
And thanks for the Likes, Holden and Frederick.
Comment is about FESTIVAL OF TAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
M.C. Newberry
Fri 30th Sep 2022 16:55
No infection will find you out
As quick as a bout of self-doubt,
But self-pity can be witty
So keep some in the kitty!
Comment is about Mind Neuroplacebos (blog)
Original item by Jared Harris