I'm overwhelmed by the responses that I've received for this one, thank you all for the likes, and Tim, Martin, M.C., and Graham for commenting.
Martin, it was the opposite to me, haha! I found the rest of the math pretty interesting.
M.C., chemistry alone had left me cold and confused a lot of times as far as I can remember, sometimes physics too.
Tim and Graham, I'm glad that you both liked it and connected with it. Thank you very much.😊
Comment is about School Days (blog)
Original item by Manish
Excellent work, Tom. I really enjoyed reading and hearing this one!
Comment is about Ordinary Day (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
The night always gives a certain mood and inspiration for us poets to write. I've myself written a few about the beauty and mystery of the night and this surely goes into my favourites. Loved it, Martin.
Comment is about The night is mine (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I have some personal experience in this area. My collection of
verse "Singing Words" was published with my financial input.
My comic-crime novel - now in re-titled form as "Baytown" - is
being issued in ebook form after a printing error slipped by that
I could not accept in the paper edition with which I also had
some financial input. Even in the last stages, the printed word
can provide unwelcome expense and disappointment to any
author despite the involvement of the paid "professionals" in the trade.
Maybe modern technology has its advantages in an ever-faster
more time-conscious world. I recall my late elder sister's own
delight in Kindle editions, for both convenience and useful variations in print size.
Comment is about Instagram poets pushing us off bookshop shelves, warns Bloodaxe's Neil Astley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I agree, mine were too, especially Athletics in summer sunshine (I'm sure it didn't always).
Schooldays are rich pasture for poetry, the place, the time, the people, all ripe for nostalgic words as you've written so adeptly here Manish
G
Comment is about School Days (blog)
Original item by Manish
An enjoyable piece of nostalgia, bringing back the fun and the pain of schooldays and the sense of freedom before and after
school itself. Certain subjects were a form of torture for me...
chemistry and the various higher versions of maths left me cold
and confused - then and now. Just as well humanity is so
adaptable and able to use its preferences to add to the overall
richness of adult existence.
Comment is about School Days (blog)
Original item by Manish
Sometimes we needed to be slapped around the face with a dose of reality. Thanks Tom
Comment is about Ice Cream Van (blog)
Original item by Tom
An interesting piece of schooldays and those parts of school life either liked or not. Strangely trigonometry I didn't find so bad. It was the rest of Maths I found baffling.
Nice one
Comment is about School Days (blog)
Original item by Manish
A superb piece that makes the reader think about the nature of goodness and what we mean by good.
Comment is about Goodness Sake (blog)
Original item by Lewis O'Brien
So vividly haunting and effective for stirring emotion.
Comment is about Ice Cream Van (blog)
Original item by Tom
It's just another ordinary day
I must try to keep my mind out of the way
and bless the peace ordinary brings
allowing her spirit to share the beautiful things.
Your endearing sentiment allows us a glimpse into a connection that must have been so rich. Thank you for sharing, Tom
Comment is about Ordinary Day (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
School days! What a mixed bag of emotions that evokes.
😀😕
Comment is about School Days (blog)
Original item by Manish
Hi Larisa-back again after I had to delete my profile due to a technical problem-to repeat my previous comment...
absolutely beautiful Larisa-well done!👍💐
Comment is about The Melody of Love (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Thank you Graham, Greg and Stephen. Punditry remains an arcane world where language is ritually abused by the High Priests of the Beautiful Game. It is almost as big a mystery as England insisting on playing with a right back on the left wing, effectively rendering them a team of ten men. But they're in the final, so what do I know?
Comment is about Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Hi Tim-just to point out that I've had to delete and re enter my profile page including my poem ' Praising interruptions ' that you had kindly commented on and I didn't want you to think that I had ignored your comment,
As you can see here in these comments that my previous comments shows that deletion.
Comment is about Love’s Power (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
To think that the only mode of transport for this purpose is an ice cream van-how sadly ironic.
Thanks Tom
Comment is about Ice Cream Van (blog)
Original item by Tom
I suppose I should have brought this up to political correctness, Stephen, and not used words like “fat” and “lard” but “calorifically challenged” instead. Although I reckon this lad has met the challenge admirably.
Thanks for the Likes, Larissa and Tom.
Comment is about SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Stephen. Not a subject I enjoyed writing about but the horror of what we're seeing can't help but get under your skin. As it should.
Thanks Holden & Nila for the likes.
Comment is about Ice Cream Van (blog)
Original item by Tom
I couldn't understand a word that the Scottish pundit was saying!!
Comment is about Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Nice poetic punditry, RA. I thought that ITV's commentary last night was refreshingly better than the Beeb's. It's not just the politics, it seems. As for the game itself, the outcome really was the stuff of poetry.
Comment is about Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
There is still something special and important about printed books, and poetry collections which are properly edited. It would be a shame if the literary world became a total free for all.
Comment is about Instagram poets pushing us off bookshop shelves, warns Bloodaxe's Neil Astley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Brilliant, RA. I suppose that part of the problem is that football is a game of two halves (whoops, he's off again) of 45 minutes each but the coverage lasts three or four hours, so there's so much time to fill with pundits.
Comment is about Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
A tough one to read, Tom, but so important. A shocking inditement of, well, all of us, I suppose.
Comment is about Ice Cream Van (blog)
Original item by Tom
I reckon the sugar tax has something going for it, John. Great fun.
Comment is about SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Graham, David and Leon for your supportive comments. The Russian reaction to Orban's 'peace mission' i.e. to bomb the hell out of a Ukrainian childrens' hospital, shows him up for what he is - an irrelevant, far-right windbag.
And thanks to Nigel, Larisa, Manish, Tim, Patricia and John for their support.
Comment is about Useless (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Guy is coping hard. People just don't buy printed poetry books. Or printed books.
Comment is about Instagram poets pushing us off bookshop shelves, warns Bloodaxe's Neil Astley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
More information about David's life (and death). Including a lovely poem called 'Don't Keep My Grave'.
http://www.texasescapes.com/Poetry/David-Knape-Poet.htm
And all his poetry is here:
http://texasescapes.com/Poetry/David-Knape.htm
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
It takes considerable willpower, MC, to get through so much food.
Comment is about SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Wed 10th Jul 2024 12:33
Absolutely beautiful Larisa-well done!👍💐
Comment is about The Melody of Love (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
More salutary fun! It is worth recalling that there are people who
actually resemble the photo shown with tis ditty. It beggars
belief how they manage to live like that.
Comment is about SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Wed 10th Jul 2024 12:29
I guess we're a long way from Abbottabad in 2024, further than I thought.
https://youtu.be/Uj2LcKdRU0o?si=5yrx4azAixTXjCWf
David
Comment is about Haveli (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks for all the likes New Shoes, Stephen G, Stephen A. Aisha and Tim.
Yes Graham part of growing up in the halcyon days!
A very clear reminiscence Mark, and reminding me of my early visits to West Drayton on the same line indelibly marked for all time.
Ray
Comment is about THERE'S A TRAIN COMING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A poem that speaks about the two sides of the same coin. Nice one, Tim!
Comment is about Love’s Power (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
As a country lad in the Wiltshire of the 1950s. I lived near the
local GWR station of Box on the London-Bristol main line, spending many happy evenings on the down platform waiting
for the Bristol-bound express to thunder by, leaning in towards
my vantage point as it passed, leaving me in glorious clouds of
coal flavoured steam and a blur of dimly lit carriages. These
lines bring back those joyous times.
Comment is about THERE'S A TRAIN COMING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Strong images and meaningful phrasing. An excellent poem David
Comment is about Haveli (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
The directness of the lines beautifully expresses the ageless question, why haven't I been seen?
Comment is about I Want You to See Me (blog)
Original item by purplemoon
Thank you for the kind (and very true!) comments. They are an inspiration indeed! I have wrote about 40 poems about them already, I might put them in a little booklet to remind them and myself what a magical time we've had so far!
Comment is about For Alba And Nola (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
My dear friends, thank you so much for liking and commenting on my poem. With warmest wishes, Larisa
Comment is about The Most Powerful Force in the Universe … (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Thank you Tim and Leon, you guys are very generous, I'm glad that you liked it.
Comment is about Disowned (blog)
Original item by Manish
Thank you Stephen,
The poems that mean more to me usually vanish into the ether.
David.
Comment is about Haveli (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
<Deleted User> (57085)
Tue 9th Jul 2024 11:14
Great poem Mike with an end worth remembering!
Comment is about Permanent Loan (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
<Deleted User> (57085)
Tue 9th Jul 2024 11:10
Beautiful!
Comment is about A Million dreams and a million more..... (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
<Deleted User> (57085)
Tue 9th Jul 2024 10:59
Not that I wish it to happen Stephen but one possible day who knows these warmongering S.O.B's may end up taking their country into oblivion.
It is definitely the old Hitler scenario all over again and we all know what happened to him and millions of his people who were living under his thumb for far too long and unfortunately paid the price
The world HAS to move on but with Putin now wearing the jackboots what hope is there of that being possible?
God have mercy on and bless the living and dead of Ukraine
Keep the war poem reminding flag flying Stephen👍
Comment is about Useless (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
John Marks
Thu 11th Jul 2024 19:49
Grateful thanks to N Shoes, Mr A, φιλότιμο H, عائشة She Who Lives, Mr Tomfoolery, Open land in Andalucia(ish), Τιμόθεος (Timόtheos) and, off course, León (late of soapy Castile). Child-at-heart.
Comment is about The flowers of the forest (blog)
Original item by John E Marks