Thanks John! Love hearing your life reflections. How fortunate we are ro have you here with us as a poetry teacher. 😃
Kind regards,
Rasa
Comment is about Freedom (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
This resonates with me a lot. I love clear image Rasa and the way that it conjours up the relationship. Bravo!
10 lines though? Haha
Comment is about We Make Mud (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
I really like this piece a lot Rasa.
The opposites and the complementary facets of each side intriguing but frustrating. Good work, well done!
Comment is about We Make Mud (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
I have certainly known that feeling, Rasa. All those years teaching poetry and never writing any of my own!
Thank you. Hope your bid for freedom works out! 😀
Comment is about Freedom (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Fri 20th May 2022 04:59
Thank you for the comment, Kevin, you've expressed it very beautifully by saying that "writing poetry is pure mercy"! 😊
Comment is about Beatitude (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
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Thu 19th May 2022 22:48
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Thu 19th May 2022 22:44
Very interesting indeed and thought-provoking!
Comment is about Morning Report (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Being in hospital for any length of time.. *is definitely* a shocker, Stuart... yes, I completely agree.
Hope you're feeling a bit better these days.. 😊
Comment is about My Injury Time (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Thank you John and Stephen.
I haven't planned to do a sequel, but who knows.
Comment is about Alien Abduction (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Hilarious KJ. Leaves so many questions for us to ponder! Can we have a sequel perchance? 😂
Comment is about Alien Abduction (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
I like the way you tackle complex moral dilemmas Stephen and you are right, war does increase the complexity! Fine poem!
Comment is about Afterlife (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A fascinating poem, Tom, with so much detail and imagery. Thanks for this.
Comment is about Morning Report (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Thanks Nigel, absolutely enjoyed the haiku response. /Frederick.
Comment is about Rotterdam (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks Stephen it has been a struggle for a while and it seemed that Stockport might never get back.
This team with the manager who came in halfway through the season has done us proud.
Comment is about More Than A Game (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Congratulations, Nigel. It's special moment when a team gets out of the National League and back into the Football League proper. It's never easy, is it?
Comment is about More Than A Game (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Rails covered
blood spills
Rotterdam express
no delay.
I always like a story behind a very good poem.
Comment is about Rotterdam (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thanks, Tom. Sadly, every extra day is a tragedy in this war. And thanks to Frederick, Stephen, Holden, Rudyard and Russell for the likes.
Comment is about Day 82 (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for your likes
Frederick
Stephen G
Holden
and
Stephen A.
Comment is about More Than A Game (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thanks Greg it was some weekend a few of the players came into the pub, they were more drunk than us!
Comment is about More Than A Game (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Congratulations to Stockport!
Comment is about More Than A Game (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you Carol and Holden. Happy to hear that you both enjoyed reading this one. 📖😊
Comment is about Home (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra
Wed 18th May 2022 02:53
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Wed 18th May 2022 02:33
❤
Moonlight gliding
you travel
with so much love
he gives to you.
Comment is about Victorious (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
The ex=mining villages of northern England are plagued by heroin, crack and male suicide. That's her heritage.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
KJ - I do agree that pit closures required a more circumspect
approach with some surely remaining viable; indeed during
the strike itself some clearly kept open. Even now, there are
some which could probably be used again were it not for the
climate change obsession that vast lands like China and India pay scant heed to in compariion with our own small island nation..
Mr Carroll - always happy to indulge in intelligent polite debate.
Telboy - I think you have a point. And history teaches us that
nothing stands still over the years in matters of "industry".
The lumbering local waggon made way for the stage coach
and the fabled mail coaches, which in turn gave way to the
onset of the railways, which in turn had to move aside to a substantial degree when the motorways arrived - and so it goes. .As for Thatcher - cometh the hour, cometh the woman.
But, as the daughter of a grocer, she would probably have
treated the egg-throwing as a waste of good food!
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Thank you Fred.🌷
Thank you Nigel🌷. The coasts almost clear. I'll have to make it alone, with my God by my side always.💕
Comment is about Waiting (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Wise words Nigel. Indeed it will be.🌷
Comment is about Victim ain't a convict (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
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Tue 17th May 2022 04:20
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Tue 17th May 2022 04:18
Such a powerful write!
'All we need is a little empty space-time….
for everything under heaven is strange and new
and resists the slaughter of the innocents.'
Comment is about A WITHERING (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Your Alpaca poem warms my heart!
Comment is about Adam Whitworth (poet profile)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thank you John and Stephen for your lovely comments and reflections. So glad we can be on this poetry journey together! Wishing you both a fabulous day.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Thanks for your reflections Adam. Glad it resonated with you in some way. Indeed- not always an easy thing to apply dialectics!
Wishing you a wonderful day.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about Complex Creature (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Tue 17th May 2022 01:57
Thank you so much, Frederick, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Comment is about Quixotic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
A favoured scene from childhood imagination, the charge against windmills! Read this awesome poem with a relish. Frederick.
Comment is about Quixotic (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
MC
Not being able to slave away on a coalface wouldn't be such a loss if those jobs were replaced by others heavy industries.
However there are certain areas where mines have closed and nothing has replaced them.
Incidentally, do you think that we would be suffering the same energy crisis that we are at present if we still had our active coalfields.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Cheers John for your generous comment on 'This wanting look'
and
'Waiting for my mum,'
tc
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
Original item by John Botterill
Tom his final words (as I recall them) in "The Naked Civil Servant" while out walking he was approached by a group of sailors who joked with him; gently mocking and responding to his smiling defences, with his fading voice-over of "it was the happiest moment of his life".
tc
Comment is about A Man for All Seasons (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Re the pits, if not Thatcher a subsequent PM would have closed them as they became unviable.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Hey Joe I'm ready to pass you the fully loaded 6 chamber egg box.
(metaphorically speaking - take aim..)
tc
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Hey Newberry try reading a book with 4 corners.
Enough said.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Fascinating how going down a pit and slaving away at a coal face
has now become a "loss" that is now something to grieve over
as if it were essentially allied to some mythical "good old days".
No one quotes the views of the miners who kept working despite
all the verbal and physical abuse and intimidation they endured.
while Scargill abused the rules, still "high" from embarrassing
Ted Heath and reducing the country to unwanted candle light evenings and 3 day working weeks. Ah.yes...the good old days!!.
Comment is about Throwing Eggs at Thatcher (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Rasa Kabaila
Fri 20th May 2022 09:28
Thanks Graham and John for your thoughtful reflections. Yep, totally exceeded the ten lines John! I own it in the audio if you fancy a listen- might make you giggle! Ah, family complexities!
Comment is about We Make Mud (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila