Thanks for your well appreciation Nazia, today's conditions are really very insipid!

Comment is about GONE ARE THE DAYS... (blog)

Original item by DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

Desperate Cure Wanted.

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for all your likes
Stephanie S
Aviva
Holden
Stephen G
and
Stephen A.

Comment is about Held Accountable (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you for the likes Greg, Philipos, Tony, Stephen, J.D, Aviva, Holden, Nazia and Stephanie! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read.

And thanks Philipos, it's absolutely a reminiscence. I have a vague memory of trying to write this poem about ten years ago when the feelings were still raw but I couldn't get it to work.

Comment is about The Window Box (blog)

Original item by Tom

Great work Aviva (as always). I love the passion in your writing. Weathered Wounds?

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks, Aviva, I like your suggestion.?

Comment is about Dreamscape (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

To one and all - thanks for the comments and the "likes".

Comment is about BEDDED BLISS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you, Julie. You really capture the scene.

Comment is about Tonight’s Walk (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thank you for commenting Stephen, and for the suggestion. ?

'Weeping Wounds' might work well ?

Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

An intense poem, deceptively simple. Perhaps "wounds" as a title?

Comment is about Desperate Prayer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

An interesting, thought-provoking poem. Thank you.

Take care of yourself.

Comment is about Collapse (blog)

Original item by Lewis O'Brien

There can still be treasures hidden
Even in what looks to be a hopeless case.

Comment is about Hopeless Heart (blog)

Original item by Lewis O'Brien

Many thanks for liking this Stephen, Stephen and Tony.

Glad you found favour S G. It was quite a surprise!

Graham, you've hit the nail on the head - I did feel regret. Sometimes it's a mood thing. Amateurism in any field often leads to emotions running away, as opposed to the wise specialist. We invest what we feel into our lives and then often punish ourselves. A thousand ants can't be wrong.

Hope you're well. Ray

Comment is about CHRISTMAS TREE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

It become monochromatic, no rainbows ? are left

Comment is about GONE ARE THE DAYS... (blog)

Original item by DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

Eloquently described ?

Comment is about John Bunyan's Shed (blog)

Original item by Graham Parker and his musings

Without the last line you would leave the reader in their own imagination (in their own dreamscape).

Comment is about Dreamscape (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

This has everything including the garden shed! ?

Comment is about John Bunyan's Shed (blog)

Original item by Graham Parker and his musings

Thank you Nigel for commenting ?
The line 'knight takes maiden' is a strong one,
It has connotations of chivalry, anti-chivalry, and also chess!

Thanks also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

Comment is about War Of The Sexes (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Refreshingly different Sanja - enjoyed the read. P ?

Comment is about I am ... (blog)

Original item by Sanja Atanasovska

It s a myth that the new generation don' t understand the value of ideal meaning. So sometimes people who fight for ideal forget .
They forget the freedom. How freedom can be forget? When someones see in your free country " the unfair of being free" . You know , I have never met dictators only hurmed people by them.

Comment is about Freedom day-Africa (blog)

Original item by Jadia4708au

Thank you to those who have clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

I know this is quite a dark and depressing poem but actually I do like the lightly varying rhythm of this one.

Comment is about Screams Of A Spoilt Child (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Great reminiscence, well done.

Enjoyed.

P

Comment is about The Window Box (blog)

Original item by Tom

Your call is important to us
It is important that we don't answer it.
?

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Eventually through to us you have got,
But unfortunately your call will cost a lot.

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks, MC. I did some work there at Royal Mail a few years ago and followed it up with a caravan holiday there shortly after.
And there are, of course, other fry-eries.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen A.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this for its old-style message of localised hope and confidence
and for the appealing rhythm of the words that tell its story.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Artwork by: Sergey Svistunov ? https://www.deviantart.com/fear-sas

Comment is about 14/12/1994 (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Please try later.
You are on hold.
Our executives are busy.
Sorry for the inconvenience. ?

Comment is about High Volume (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A great opener here on WOL. Well done!

Comment is about Steps (blog)

Original item by Krab

Fate! Late! Mistake! Retake.

Comment is about Steps (blog)

Original item by Krab

Thanks for the Likes, Philipos, Aviva, Holden and Stephen.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for the likes, yet more reasons to be grateful?. Thank you for the kind comments Ghazala and MC, yes there is much to find if you stop to look and listen.

Comment is about Reasons To Be Grateful Week One (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

No apologies necessary.
I have successfully duped you
into thinking I write
poetry.
Something is further from the truth.
We just don't know what it is.
?

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

"something to crow about"!!
I like that MC.
Good come back!
?

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you John for commenting ?

Comment is about Real Lows And Artificial Highs (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you kindly Keith. St Sophia's is as important to Orthodox Christianity as St Peter's in Rome is to the western Christians. The ONLY country that actively seeks to support the Christians of the East in Syria (who are almost all Orthodox) is Russia which is an Orthodox Christian nation.

"During Hussein’s regime I visited Iraq and its northern areas, and I was in Mosul. I visited ancient Christian monasteries. I saw this pietism of people and was glad that Christian churches calmly exist in the Muslim environment. Now almost nothing has been left. The monasteries have been destroyed and the churches have been blown up, 85% of Christians have been either eliminated or expelled from Iraq’s territory. And this could have happened in Syria,"

Comment is about Genocide (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you dear Keith. Amongst many other atrocities the invading Turks destroyed many of the libraries, and librarians, in Constantinople. Libraries holding not only ancient Greek manuscripts but texts in Aramaic, Hebrew and Persian. These texts going back 3000 years were destroyed gratuitously. The Turks didn't, and don't, place any value on the Byzantine inheritance. They are barbarians all! Erdogan, and his Daesh-supporting regime, should be kicked out of NATO now!

Comment is about The last Byzantine (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you, John, for your comment. I agree.?

Comment is about Silly Rabbit (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Moving observation on desperation, Aviva.

Comment is about Real Lows And Artificial Highs (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

In answer to your question, Brian: No, nothing can be better than that.

Comment is about Silly Rabbit (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Just seen this, MC. (We've been away on holiwags to Scarbados). So effective in its simplicity.

Comment is about BEDDED BLISS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

In a sense, anything affecting the state of being is a condition. But
to be selective and discuss ANY in the pejorative sense is just reprehensible when there is no detrimental effect on any OTHER state of being. Indeed, it would show itself as a form of prejudice,
not least because there would be no likelihood of any sort of benefit
in any direction.

Comment is about Another Condition (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

☁️ ?

Comment is about Heaven is evil (blog)

Original item by Nazia Khan

That's the spirit. Obtain pleasure from the simple things so often
taken for granted. To which I'll add raindrops sliding down a
window; the distant laugh of a stranger; the whistle of a passer-by;
and the clean smell of a fresh new dawn as the sun comes up.
.

Comment is about Reasons To Be Grateful Week One (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Indeed. A prime example of "They also serve who sit and wait" - even when it's hundreds of thousands of miles away above
another planet. His exposure to those stresses certainly didn't hinder
his advance towards a venerable age back on Earth.

Comment is about EQUAL IN GREATNESS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

I can see it now - the words readily reproducing the image. Something to crow about! Nice one.

Comment is about Old Crow (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thank you Ghazala and Nigel for commenting ?

Thanks also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

By the way, this poem was untitled until today...
I had to spend a while thinking about it...
But I'm really happy with the title that it now has.

(And now, THIS poem ^, has also got a title)

'This poem was untitled until today'

Comment is about Real Lows And Artificial Highs (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for all the likes folks, they are most appreciated

Comment is about Wordsworth's Shroud (blog)

Original item by Graham Parker and his musings

Friends who have
reached those lows
can pull you free
if you let them.

Comment is about Real Lows And Artificial Highs (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

A surreal but interesting read.
And just enough gaps to thread our own meaning through?
I think I know what this poem means, but I could be wrong.

Comment is about Meeting The Day (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth