A blooming great poem, John.

Comment is about SEEDS (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

A brave, challenging poem, Steve.

Comment is about Cold Sausage Rolls (blog)

Original item by Steve White

Beautiful poem, Mike. We were in Newcastle today with our three grandchildren, the day after people turned out in the Toon in large numbers to say No to the far right, as they did all over the country. Our eldest grandchild is called Alba, too.

Comment is about 'Over Here...Over Here'!! (A World of Innocence) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks Mike.
For various personal reasons, your poem has touched my heart.
Many of us are badly in need of a bit of silliness and innocence.
Each day I see people who are the targets of the hate mobs...I saw a young man on the bus yesterday with a pram full of "new baby" paraphanalia...and I had a heavy heart as I wondered about what kind of a world his child would grow up in.💖💖💖

Comment is about 'Over Here...Over Here'!! (A World of Innocence) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

This can’t be easy for you, MC. On the one hand protesters against immigration and on the other the police.

Comment is about LOOKING FOR A STATESMAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

How strange?
I often say to my 10-years old granddaughter ‘I love you button’ (only yesterday).
Not something I’ve heard often repeated!

Comment is about Walking Along (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Thanks for your thoughts, MC. And for the Likes, Tom, Holden, Uilleam, Stephen and Martin.

Comment is about THE BLUE PLAQUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Once the human is on unhallowed ground often not much can save him, and it seems to a march to hell at the moment . I always think of the experiments used on putting too many animals together and watching the resultant mayhem.

Ray

Comment is about The accidental tourist (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Many thanks Uilleam for your kind response 😊
Thanks for likes: Stephen, Holden & Hélène 👍

Comment is about I Can't Let Go (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

This is a fine poem, David, and it has done my heart good to read it.

Comment is about The accidental tourist (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

I don't think trying to be clever about the violence, fear and hate on our streets is a good look for anyone, let alone a former police officer.

Comment is about LOOKING FOR A STATESMAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I'll have a go at explaining it, MC. The fact that some of the working-class were/are racists is no justification for racism. Alf Garnett was no working-class hero. There is no justification for the current violence on the streets, and yet you, as an ex-copper, seem strangely reluctant to come out and say exactly that. I can only conclude that you are in fact working undercover for the Met by pretending to be a follower of online conspiracy theories such as 'two-tier policing' which you mentioned recently elsewhere. Oh ... I've blown your cover. Sorry.

Comment is about The Poisoned Garden (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you so much for liking this poem, guys!

Comment is about The Sorrow of All Jews is in Your Eyes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

MC,
brilliant classicist or not, Powell was an out and out racist, in that he approved of refusing housing, employment, and public services to people on the grounds of colour, race and ethnic or national origins; hence his oppostion to the Race Relations Act.

The “Rivers of Blood” appellation derives from his allusion to a prophecy in Virgil’s Aenid: in which he said: “…like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'.”

And no, the working classes are not racists as you appear to imply: the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, against the British Union of Fascists, fought by trade unionists, communists, anarchists, British Jews, and various socialist groups proved that.

Comment is about The Poisoned Garden (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

More fun from this reliable source. I saw a fascinating TV documentary that featured a largely unknown pioneer from those
Bletchley Park days who went on to become invaluable to our
American cousins but fell foul of them and his British contemporaries when he insisted on publishing an autobiography
in the name of freedom of information, thereby treading on some
sensitive official toes on both sides of the pond. One might fast-
forward to the likes of Assange and others, and the official response to their own activities in that direction.

Comment is about THE BLUE PLAQUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Interesting views. There never were the words "Rivers of blood"
ascribed to Powell. He was a brilliant classicist who talked of
the "Tiber" from a Roman POV. The latter day interest is that the
working class of his time seemed to get what he was alluding
to and were his biggest supporters by far. Explain that in retrospect, if you can.

Comment is about The Poisoned Garden (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the comment Uilleam,

That is the intended reference, I'm grateful you recognised it.

I think we have been very close in some instances to people being killed. Certainly anyone setting fire to a building in which people are housed can only have one intention, reckless or otherwise.

David

Comment is about The accidental tourist (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

I did, for a while, get weary of words. Nervous breakdown, breakup, who knows?
One thing is for sure, there are many who would like to shut us up, and that's enough for me to say "up yours, carry on writing".

Comment is about Words (blog)

Original item by Tim Higbee

I want my country back.💐

Comment is about I Fear (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

💓

Comment is about I Can't Let Go (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you Mike.
Book burning, only a few years before I was born was a prelude to untold horrors.

Comment is about The County Road Riot 3/8/24... (My Road) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

"...though here I'm stranger fruit"

David, forgive me if I've got this completely wrong, but In the UK over the last few days, we seem to have stopped just short of lynchings....so much for British values?

Comment is about The accidental tourist (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Is happiness contentment......?

Comment is about Holding Happiness (blog)

Original item by Stuart Vanner

Those enemies of Voltaire too easily become the friends of our leaders- as and when it suits them.

Comment is about THE RUINS of NINEVEH (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks for the likes folks..

David

Comment is about The accidental tourist (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Sometimes closing your eyes and allowing the music to wash over you is the best way to show your appreciation for the art. Well captured, Stephen!

Comment is about Late Quartets (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thankyou, Graham. As the 80th anniversary approaches, we should have learned something. Perhaps, in a strange way, we have

Comment is about Hiroshima (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Freaky indeed, Graham! Coincidence, I hope. I am sure it will work in a future context.Thanks for your kind comment.
And thanks to Martin and Tim for liking

Comment is about Late Quartets (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A shocking and brilliant poem, David. So sorry, and ashamed, that this is happening. All the best to you and your family.

Comment is about I Fear (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Yes, sabre rattling from a safe distance, Uilleam! Nice one.

Comment is about Gobs on Sticks (blog)

It's their loss Ray.

Hope all is well...

David

Comment is about HOMILLY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Audio and Video have now been added to this scribble.

Thankyou.

https://wolfgarwords.com/2024/08/06/of-love-lust-and-faith/

Comment is about Of Love, Lust and Faith (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

We are all guilty of destroying this wonderful planet in some way or other! Let he who casts the first stone etc etc!

Comment is about Hiroshima (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

It’s peculiar how both music and aromas can most effectively conjure up places and times!.
One of your lines ‘cheap adjectives’ etc almost mimics a line I was writing this week but chose not to include. That is very freaky indeed. Good work as always Stephen.

Comment is about Late Quartets (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A sad and shocking poem, Mike. We write about wars but sometimes horror is much closer to home. Well done for writing this, in such frightening circumstances.

Comment is about The County Road Riot 3/8/24... (My Road) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks Steve, there is something magnificently Olympian about JCC, and he does love cycling.

Comment is about L'Amour Olympique (blog)

Original item by R A Porter

Very sorry to hear this, Mike. I can't imagine how it must feel to see this on your home territory. The burning of a library ... but thank you for these words from the front line.

Comment is about The County Road Riot 3/8/24... (My Road) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Yhe pen is mightier than the sword. 🙂

Comment is about Words (blog)

Original item by Tim Higbee

Thanks Manish, appreciate it.
Thank you, Helene, Holden, Jordyn, K. Lynn and Stephen G. for the likes.

Comment is about Sunlight (blog)

Original item by Tim Higbee

I love this there are so many great lines not least
playing hopscotch in shadows

Wonderful

Comment is about on a thursday (blog)

Original item by Sherri

Thanks to everybody for all the likes and for your comments Manish, much appreciated.

Comment is about The night is mine (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Loving the JCC influence here.

Comment is about L'Amour Olympique (blog)

Original item by R A Porter

I've been there Greg, and you're spot on.
The very same people who were spouting his racist rhetoric in the pub, during the Brexit campaign were yesterday, regurgitating Powell's "Rivers of Blood" bile whilst the pub doors had to be locked on police advice.
Sheep, "Led by Donkeys"!

Comment is about The Poisoned Garden (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the like on this Reggie,

David

Comment is about Of Love, Lust and Faith (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Exactly, MC. The opening of the 12th string quartet is unforgettable.

And thanks to Hugh, Larisa, Holden, Manish and Rudyard for liking this one.

Comment is about Late Quartets (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

A re-post from 2021 ... I have no words for the present situation, apart from these. I have never written a poem about 'Tommy Robinson', and I hope I never will

Comment is about The Poisoned Garden (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Indeed, MC. I had in mind a certain SB, PP, LA & BJ, all of the same affiliation at the time. LA ran off to join Reform; the others still skulk around the midden of far-right political thinking, or vomit up ideas for the DM.

Comment is about TO A PROMINENT PUBLIC FIGURE (OR TWO) (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Thanks Ray, will make that change. I ‘misheard’ on the train to Stansted. I should’ve heard ‘mind the internal step’ of course.

Comment is about Edmond Halley’s Place  (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

If the cap fits...? 😏

Comment is about TO A PROMINENT PUBLIC FIGURE (OR TWO) (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Mais oui, merci, MC!

Comment is about L'Amour Olympique (blog)

Original item by R A Porter