Nigel Astell, Stephen Gospage, Aisha Suleman, Manish, and Leon Stolgard, thank you so much for liking my poem. Leon thanks a lot for commenting.
With best wishes,
Larisa

Comment is about The Petrel and the Penguin (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks so much for your comment Landi.

I was most pleased with the attachment as I'm a big Slavoj admirer.

His jokes are great, often due to his delivery rather than content, so thanks.

Much appreciated.

David

Comment is about Your healing (blog)

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This could be printed on a T-shirt. Bravo!

Comment is about Rockin' on the front porch (blog)

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I don't have the luxury of expounding, but when I read this, I think of this...

"In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: “Let’s establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: “Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theaters show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair — the only thing unavailable is red ink.”

And is this not our situation till now? We have all the freedoms one wants — the only thing missing is the “red ink”: We “feel free” because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom...The task today is to give the protesters red ink."

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/five-jokes-slavoj-zizek/

🌷

Comment is about Your healing (blog)

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30 Jun

Thanks for the latest overnight likes folks.

29 Jun,

Thanks for the overnight Likes.

Thanks for the early likes folks.

David

Comment is about Your healing (blog)

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Just what would we do without birds and wildlife in general eh Stephen? doesn't bear thinking about! Great poem-thanks!

Comment is about Morning Call (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thankyou, Stephen. I confess I quite like Friends. And thanks for the Likes, Helene and Holden.

Comment is about OUR GERT (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you all for reading my poem. It's appreciated, honestly.

Comment is about AS SENSIBLE AS A LETTUCE BUDGET (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

I think I'd draw the line at watching 'Friends', John.

Comment is about OUR GERT (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Indeed, John. As a society, we should never be complacent.

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Cheers, John. Benny Hill on Saturday Afternoons, really.

Comment is about Bring Back Streakers! (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

I wasn’t aware of Jackie Hagan until I read the article and looked her up on YouTube. What a brave, talented, funny and remarkable woman.

Comment is about Disabled performance poet Jackie Hagan dies after long illness (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you for giving this old lady a peek into your spiritual practice, Ghazala. Really lovely.

Comment is about True beauty of hijab (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Superb, Stephen!

Comment is about Morning Call (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thanks Stephen - your friend’s farewell sounds wonderful in a way. Some of my mother’s ashes were scattered into the Irish Sea off Bangor in Northern Ireland by her sister and I one beautiful spring morning - it was poignant and beautiful. A return to nature, and home.

Comment is about Celebrant (blog)

Original item by R A Porter

Marvellous insight, Stephen, into what for we privileged is an otherworld. Lest we forget that our lifestyle and values are not a “given” and need constantly protecting.

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Wonderful boobs and bobbies’ helmets. They went together like love and marriage.

Comment is about Bring Back Streakers! (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Lovely poem Helene.

Searching for dreams, there's a start point for another poem.

Searching for dreams whilst dreaming, I sense I do that when I'm dreaming sometimes...hoping to find the door I came in by.

Dreams are a great alternative to our waking lives, I am often more content in my dreams than in waking moments.

Maybe as our dreams are the creation of our subconsious and in our dream state we are in that other world we cannot be troubled by subconscious interventions as we are embedded deep within it/them.

Oh well, just a thought. Thanks for stirring my remaining grey matter.

David

Comment is about In the Stars (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Definitely no shell suits, Leon, and easy on the mullets. And thanks for the funny memories, RA and MC.

My thanks to Aisha, Tom, Holden, Larisa, Stepheh and Rudyard for liking.

Comment is about Bring Back Streakers! (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks Graham, Leon and David. I can think of few things worse than being forced out of your home and suspecting that you may never be able to return, or that someone else will claim it as their own.
Larking said 'Home is so sad' but, for many, there is nowhere else.

And thanks to Keith, Holden, Manish and Landi for liking this.

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Home is where someone else now lives, for many.

David

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

It would not be great if the truck didn't come, but it might just wake people up regarding the important things in life.

The reliance on convenience which one day just might dwindle away will set us back into survival mode. How many might survive, I wonder?

Great thought provoking piece Robert.

David.

Comment is about In the Sprawl (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thank you so much, Stephen, for your thoughtful comment! 😊

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thank you Stephen for your kind comments.

Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)

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Thanks for likes - Aisha, Leon & Holden. 👍

Comment is about She's Fallen Off My Planet (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Hi Larisa-anything whatsoever to do with birds is good enough for me-I absolutely love them all! Thank you for this great poem

Comment is about The Petrel and the Penguin (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Yet another ( albeit sad ) gem to add to your worthy resident war poet reputation Stephen-thank you!

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

That last stanza! Wow! And those last four words, harrowingly sad!
Write Out Loud’s ‘Laureate de Guerre’

Comment is about Evacuation (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

In the midst of Euro 24, this certainly makes a change from the surfeit of punditry and wild improbability!

Thanks, JD. Good one.

Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

The last line seems to suggest that life, like politics, is the art of the possible. Interesting poem, Holden.

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thank you, RA. We recently helped to dispose of a deceased friend into the Schelde in Antwerp. Biodegradable and all that, but surprisingly moving.

Comment is about Celebrant (blog)

Original item by R A Porter

Thanks, Likes..XX

And did those feet in ancient time
walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
on England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
among those dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant Land.

Comment is about The sum of all we truly are (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thank you, Keith, for your comment, I appreciate it!

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

It would almost certainly have been Union, MC. Bath is a top Union club and the West Country is also. League is a York’s/Lancs/Cumbria thing.

Comment is about SIR RODNEY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A poem which speaks of today's society where people have lost the ability to communicate. People are now locked into their own world. People seldom strike up a conversation with a stranger which in years past was considered quite normal.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Day 15 (blog)

Original item by SunFlower

I must agree with MC. This poem speaks of excuses and never the conclusive.
Thanks,
Keith

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thank you Stephen & Hélène for your positive feedback and comments. Much appreciated. 😊

Comment is about She's Fallen Off My Planet (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you very much, M.C., for your comment, I find the connection you drew fascinating! 😎

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

I recall a number of such incidents during my days at sporting venues. My fondest put down is from the ever urbane and witty
actor David Niven, who when interrupted during a stint speaking
at the Oscars by one such individual, remarked about irony of the
latter seeking fame by displaying his shortcomings.

Comment is about Bring Back Streakers! (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Absobloominglutely! 😊

Comment is about The Blatherwight (blog)

Original item by Clive Culverhouse

Reminds me of my situation at the hands of successive medicos who are arch-exponents of the terms "might be", "could be"
and "may be". 😏

Comment is about Suspended. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

I am reminded of a saying: Rugby is game for hooligans played by gentlemen. Soccer is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans. Our school had a rugby player (who played for Bath)
as a teacher so that was the school game. Never could get to
grips with its rules and can't recall whether it was "Union" or "League".

Comment is about SIR RODNEY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

What could have been, eh, RAP? You might have been a bishop at the very least by now.
And thanks for the Likes, David and Larisa.

Comment is about SIR RODNEY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I seem to remember someone saying (it might have been Tommy Docherty) RAP, about that ‘78 team “They’ll be home before the postcards”.
Of course, it’s a brave man who knocks Scotland while England have been so abject.

Comment is about THE LION RAMPANT (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Well done, Tom!

Comment is about She's Fallen Off My Planet (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

I like the way this works as pure verse and song lyrics, Tom. Not easy. In your audio you shift seamlessly between the two. Good blues theme, whichever way you look at it.

Comment is about She's Fallen Off My Planet (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

This is really beautiful - it flows like a clear, sparkling stream through the garden.

Comment is about DEARLY BELOVED ONE (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Thanks for pointing me to this Tom - I’ll see what I have under 60 seconds!

Andy

Comment is about Request for help - share your poetry audio... (blog)

Original item by Tom

The Billy Beaumont team talk photograph that featured Erika was a masterpiece of sports photography! Unforgettable.

Comment is about Bring Back Streakers! (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Still remember “Allie’s Tartan Army” in Argentina in 1978 - they were going going to win it I think? Some never got home at all, but Allie and the team were home earlier than most. As a Man Utd supporter in the late 70s I had the privilege of watching Martin Buchan, a Rolls Royce amongst defenders, and Denis wasn’t bad was he? Didn’t like England much, although like me he lived in Stockport.

Comment is about THE LION RAMPANT (blog)

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