Take a bow, Clare. You're a one off!😄
Comment is about Osmosis Of Emotion (blog)
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Thanks Clare, John, Jock and Tom for the likes. 😀
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
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Thanks Clare, KJ, John and Brenda for the likes. 😀
Comment is about Your Tears Returned (blog)
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Haha! I'm glad I didn't disappoint you, John. I do like a good challenge. 😀
Comment is about Osmosis Of Emotion (blog)
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Absolutely stunning Clare. I am in genuine awe that you were able to write this poem seemingly instantly! I stand back in amazement. Thank you!😎
Comment is about Osmosis Of Emotion (blog)
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Is there something you wish to get off your chest, Ray?
Comment is about WHILST IN PUTNEY (blog)
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Thanks to all you likers, John, Stephen, Holden, Bethany and K.Lynn.
Thanks Martin for your comment, which confirms my own thoughts! We certainly don the cloak from time to time. I was pleased with that line too, took a bit of shoehorning to get it!
Again Stephen, many thanks as always.
Wow, there's a lot to analyse there Mark. Fascinating stuff, especially the flying dreams, which i'm very sorry to say I don't get these days. I would float up and stay in the air without flying too. I'm all for it, but life brings us down with a bump!
Ray
Comment is about MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Ursula. Your kind words mean a lot 😀
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
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By any measure of decency, Stephen, I should have been kicked out. I must have had a guardian angel keen to see what I got up to next.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen A.
Comment is about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (blog)
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<Deleted User> (32907)
Tue 19th Apr 2022 18:18
Lovely poem, John. Well done to you!👍
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks Stephen A., Stephen G and Russell for your appreciative comments. 😀
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
A very true, poignant poem, John.
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
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Brilliant, if not entirely recommended!
Comment is about 4 Years (blog)
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So it was you in 'The Young Ones'; John. Was it you who put his boot through the TV? Ah, Higher Education. I had two goes at it (Teaching and, er..Politics) but never quite finished.
Comment is about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Did you hear the one about the convict who fell into a bucket of wet cement? Looks like becoming a hardened criminal.
Much appreciated piece, MC.
Comment is about LIFE IS BUT A JOKE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A gem of a poem, Tom. It tugs at something in all of us.
Comment is about Young Family In The Sunshine (blog)
Original item by Tom
A lot to take in here, Rasa. I think it is better to cry than to feel nothing. I always cry at certain films and musicals (especially Carousel). A packed, enjoyable read.
Comment is about Tears (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
Beautifully understated
Comment is about My Mother, Waving Goodbye. (blog)
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Thank you for the comments Frederick & J.C.
And for the Likes!
'The Wife' says I talk it as well as write about it...😳
Comment is about Imodium (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you Bethany, I'm so glad you thought so.
Thanks Brenda too. What a lovely way to have read this poem, I think that's beautiful.
And thanks to Blackrose, Stephen, Holden, Ursula, Clare, Russell and K Lynn for reading and for the likes. Very kind of you.
Comment is about Young Family In The Sunshine (blog)
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Another chance to listen back to my interview with fellow Write Out Loud member Andy N on National poetry writing month & his latest poem recently published in a new book on Neurodiversity.👆
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It was certainly more selective/elitist then, MC. These days something like a Third of 18 year olds go to university. I question however if a third of the jobs available to them as graduates are “suitable”. We seem to have highly qualified cadre of call centre staff.
And thanks for the Like, Holden.
Comment is about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (blog)
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Thanks for the comments plus the likes. And to Jock Strapp Jr - welcome aboard!
Comment is about LIFE IS BUT A JOKE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
And they seem to occupy positions in parliament or the police
these days! 😑
Comment is about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (blog)
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Jock Strapp Jr
Tue 19th Apr 2022 10:50
As nice as a walk over the highlands lassie!
Comment is about Ready By Nine (blog)
Original item by Clare
Hi Martin, just want to say thank you for taking the time to read and like/comment on one of my recent poems. I really do appreciate it!
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
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Hi John, just wanted to say thank you for your recent like and comment on my latest ramblings. I always very much appreciated. I've been loving your recent work - I feel you are going from strength to strength!
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks for the like and comment on my poem. It's always much appreciated when talented folk like yourself take the time to read and feedback - makes you realise your ramblings may have some value to others, which I find reassuring.😌
Comment is about Holden Moncrieff (poet profile)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Lovely imagery, Leonie. “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be” as they say.
Comment is about Granite Stones (blog)
Original item by Leonie A Anderson
Thank you, John B and Rasa. Yes, I think there is some hope in this poem, or at least a coming to terms with this situation in later life.
I will pick a word for the next round as soon as I can.
And many thanks to John C, Tom, KJ, Julie, Robert, Stephen, Holden, Brenda, Clare, K Lynn and Bethany for liking this poem.
Comment is about Tears (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you, Brenda. There is a difficult balance to be struck on this issue, which your comment sums up perfectly.
Comment is about 'Grieving Ukrainian Mother' (As seen on TV) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I recognise this battle between hope and dispondency so well. It often ends in tears.
I love 'hope' s wiles'!
Phenomenal, Holden, as ever! 😎
Comment is about Futility (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Fabulous poem. Tender, wise and encapsulating the human condition. Bravo!
And it succeeds in the 10 line brief! 😀
Thank you, Stephen.
Comment is about Tears (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Imodium is a cure. I Mode I'um; one fashions the cure, of themselves! Should that not do the trick we try another brand: diatabs 😁
Comment is about Imodium (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Beautiful, now that my children are grown, I sometimes think how lovely it would be to revisit the past and spend a day with them as little ones again.
Comment is about Young Family In The Sunshine (blog)
Original item by Tom
I agree that privacy should be allowed for those in intimate painful situations. However, it is essential that others know of what is happening and that it is causing others such pain.
In some ways perhaps we can share a little of this, as we stand with those who are suffering.
We can only hope that our shared horror and outrage at what is taking place may help to hasten its end.
A sensitively written gentle piece Stephen, thank you for sharing.
Comment is about 'Grieving Ukrainian Mother' (As seen on TV) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Jock Strapp Jr
Mon 18th Apr 2022 17:49
hope this leaves YOU smiling Mr Newberry......
there was a soldier
a Scottish soldier
who wandered far away
down the road to Mandalay
his name was Angus, loved mash and bangers
and the ladyboys of Bombay 😂
JS
Comment is about LIFE IS BUT A JOKE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Jock Strapp Jr
Mon 18th Apr 2022 17:36
hoots mon! unbelievable lassie! unbelievable!
ye would nae like one o those on your shoulder!
Comment is about The Eagle's Wedding (blog)
Original item by Clare
Jock Strapp Jr
Mon 18th Apr 2022 17:32
Grand poem Adam my boy!
Plenty o those not far from where I live!
Jock.
Comment is about Sacred Salmon (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
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Mon 18th Apr 2022 17:04
In answer to JC. As a self indulgent navel gazer (and proud to be), I think that is an ignorant comment. Keep smiling😀
Comment is about LIFE IS BUT A JOKE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
self-indulgent navel gazing JC? I thought you were the genitalia poet? 😉
Comment is about LIFE IS BUT A JOKE (blog)
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Graham Sherwood
Tue 19th Apr 2022 23:12
I always fight shy of assuming poetry is largely autobiographical. However, this is an interesting piece, which can be read in several ways. Surely the central tenet of the work. I hope!
Comment is about WHILST IN PUTNEY (blog)
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