Happy Friday, Stephen, Julie, and everyone else!
It's Friday
My day
Don't ask why day.
Comment is about It's Friday! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thanks for the Likes, Aviva, Holden and Leon.
Comment is about DEAD MEN'S SHOES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the likes folks, today is my last week of my Gratitude Gallery course. I must admit finding something to be grateful of everyday has been a challenge that I have enjoyed and has been a very positive thing to do.
Comment is about Reasons To Be Grateful Week Three (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Sounds perfect. Enjoy?
It's Friday
Wine and pizza day
Mix in your six day
Comment is about It's Friday! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Your poem and the song will dominate our day. Well done.
Comment is about No compulsion!! (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
hmm.. I can build a sandwich, but only on a plate in the kitchen... I don't think I could build one up a tree in the wind. And I couldn't build a nest anywhere.
Comment is about Building A Nest (blog)
Original item by d.knape
This is great! I really enjoyed it. Although the earlier verses seem to say 'Even though you live, remember you will die' the final verse has the strongest message (for me) and it seems to say...
Remember
Until you must die
You must live
Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Thu 20th May 2021 15:43
like your response to Condensed Poem.
makes good rhyme
and sense!
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
without love we are merely flowers without petals
Comment is about Love Lives Here (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thanks Greg. I wrote this a couple of years ago but decided to share it now after watching jubilant news reports about British holidaymakers flying off to the Algarve as soon as they are allowed but with no mention made of the environmental costs of air travel.
Comment is about Hoopoe (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Again, I wasn't really expecting this poem to be so popular. I'm glad that many of you have found reasons to enjoy it.
An extra thank you for everyone who has clicked 'Like', now that it has reached TWO FLOWERS ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Comment is about Prophecy (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for commenting Nigel ?
Even the wreck on the seabed
Is still a treasure many hope to find
And some can be brought back to the surface
For a new existence in the world above water
If lovingly supported.
Comment is about List For Santa-Claus (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for commenting Nigel ?
If I dared to risk the consequences
Of tampering with the fabric of time
And the mesh of cause and effect
That this moment and the next is built upon
Then I too, if I could,
Would go back and tell myself many things
That I didn't then know.
Comment is about Merry-Go-Round (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for commenting Moon.girl, it is intriguing and I can see why this poem reminds you of the current pandemic situation, but in fact this was written nearly three decades ago. I must have managed to capture some truisms about life and people in order for that to be possible for it to have relevance beyond it's time and anything I could have then imagined.
I'm not really comfortable with the 'it started in China' way of saying things as to my mind 'it started in nature' and it is just random chance that it happened there rather than anywhere else. I also recall that it was incredibly well managed there and only became a devastating pandemic due to the mismanagement of the situation in other parts of the world. The pandemic created by the rest of the world then returned back into China far less manageably than the original outbreak so although in one sense 'it started in China' is true, in another sense it isn't true at all. I also don't think that the pandemic is a punishment from heaven, but you are entitled to your views I just feel that since it is my thread I should also state my opinion.
Comment is about Aftermath (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
<Deleted User> (31922)
Thu 20th May 2021 05:41
Now it spares none. Not even a friend. Entered every premise. We are all in it together and forever.
Comment is about Aftermath (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
<Deleted User> (31922)
Thu 20th May 2021 05:39
It all started in China. Then it started exchanging hands. From city to city, village to village it spread like wild fire.
Country to country it started spreading simultaneously. Those that knew were cautious instantaneously, others joked and ignored the spread.
Wrath descended, a punishment from heaven.
Comment is about Aftermath (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Merry is how you must be
round the corner
is the go to start over.
Comment is about Merry-Go-Round (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
All I know
this ship can float
once love itself lifts
up that aching heart.
Comment is about List For Santa-Claus (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks Martin without love we have nothing.
Comment is about Love Lives Here (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about Merry-Go-Round (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for the lovely comments & continued support Aviva, Julie, Keith & Ghazala! ?
And for all the Likes ??x
Comment is about Our Lungs (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Can’t believe I missed this first time around. Fathers and sons eh? (Especially our generation) need a McGuffin to get close. Mine was fishing. You are very lucky to have had one of the most powerful links....music! A very concise but powerful poem Ray. Well done.
Comment is about HARMONY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you each and every reader Tom Tony Stephen Julie Stephen Ghazala Holden and Nazia for liking my poem.
Comment is about HARMONY (blog)
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Thanks for this gentle reminder.
Comment is about Our Lungs (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you everyone for the very kind likes.
Comment is about Sweet Dreams (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Stephen, another good poem and well crafted. The last few lines say it all.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about Our Lungs (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
It begs the pertinent question: are some people fit and able to rule
themselves? A shameful event that brings to mind the likes of the
Gestapo and NKVD in the fear of anything that might undermine
their merciless and unforgiving grip on the lives of others. Poets
are persecuted because they represent the freedom of thought that
dictatorial mindsets cannot tolerate.
Comment is about Myanmar poet dies in detention after interrogation (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well done to Gill, Rebecca and everyone who contributed to this!
Comment is about Bloody Amazing! Taboo-breaking anthology wins accolade (article)
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I see no end to unbreakable cyclic routes that's been tread upon. A 360 degree run from the spot we begun. A loop without any loophole. Only an entrance without exit to a better land. Feel heaven in hell else it will be an intolerable stay. No way out. Stuck at dead ends.
Thanks for reading the poem.
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Ah thank you John, Tom, Stephen, Stephen, JD, Aviva, Holden and YRPoetess for reading and the likes. Really appreciate it.
And to the Stephens, so pleased you enjoyed. Those times were such a heady mix of uncertainty and possibility it's hard not to look back at them from a place of wisdom and wonder what it was all about... Thanks for reading and commenting, I'm very grateful. Tom
Comment is about Headlights (blog)
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I would still do whatever I truly believe in, acceptance or resistance depending on the circumstances. The outcome will stay the same either way, but if I don't honour my own wishes then I, the participant, will change for the worse, into something other than my true self.
Comment is about That's it (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
This poem itself is like a breath of fresh air. Delicate and refreshing.
Comment is about Our Lungs (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you for this, Neil. A thoroughly interesting and very enjoyable piece. If Wendy is your kind of poet, you are our kind of reviewer.
Comment is about My kind of poet: the seriously funny Wendy Cope (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sly one this, Hugh. A lovely bit of black humour.
Comment is about A funeral request (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about List For Santa-Claus (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Wed 19th May 2021 03:43
Wed 19th May 2021 03:32
What ever happened to Don Matthews?
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Wed 19th May 2021 03:31
thank you Julie Callaghan.
Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks to John Stephen Aviva Holden and royal poetess for liking.
Thanks to Stephen and Keith for commenting
It is much appreciated
Thanks again
Martin
Comment is about Painting in the air (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Such meaningful and purposeful poetry about saddest reality of this era! Thanks for this beautiful poem?
Comment is about Free Palestine ?? (blog)
Original item by Your Royal Poetess
The burning anticipations only found in youth. Lovely stuff Tom ?
Comment is about Headlights (blog)
Original item by Tom
My thanks to Martin and Stephen for their lovely comments. Thanks also to everyone who liked the poem.
Comment is about Colours (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for the encouragement, Martin! Much appreciated?
Comment is about Solace in the storm (blog)
Original item by Binte Afroz
Many of us who were around then, MC, will recall the iconic images of the emigrating Trabants.
And thanks for the Likes, Stephen and Holden. Stephen G. and Aisha.
Comment is about THE TIME I SAVED WESTERN DEMOCRACY FROM COMMUNISM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Stephen Atkinson
Fri 21st May 2021 13:21
Why Aviva? ? Thanks & have a good weekend!?
And, Julie, I might just have a little wine as well...'cos I'm a bit greedy like that ??
Enjoy!
Comment is about It's Friday! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson