With a true heart I can say every word of this prayer.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about A prayer! (blog)

Original item by Bindu Trigunayak

Check your inbox

Comment is about A prayer! (blog)

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Thanks, MC. My mother-in-law is about to get one and it was this that inspired me. I believe the pic is from a Julie Walters sketch.

Comment is about LEADER OF THE PACK part 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ameen?

Comment is about A prayer! (blog)

Original item by Bindu Trigunayak

I liked it although it left me feeling a little sad.

Comment is about DESOLATION (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Hi Philipos - I've even been reminded that the Bible itself contains
words about the duty that slaves owe to their masters and to act accordingly.

Comment is about BARBARY COAST (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Great fun. Love the picture too! I've always been wary of those
motorised Boadiceas seated in their pavement hot-rods, eyes
gleaming as if daring anyone not to step aside!

Comment is about LEADER OF THE PACK part 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ha...this reminds me of when the key to the street door of my
small residential building snapped in half, leaving me staring down
at the bit in my hand and then at the bit in the latch. Fortunately,
I had a useful piece of knife kit that was equipped with small tweezers and I was able to prise out the latter piece and use my
spare key to get me indoors. NOT a nice feeling when it happened!

Comment is about Bad Day (blog)

Original item by Andy N

JD.,
This is a cry from the heart; the voice of so many, seldom heard, as they fade into obscurity, left with a feeling of abandonment and lacking in purpose. Time passes with only memories to console us. Written from the heart.

A very good poem and one worth giving consideration to.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about DESOLATION (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Really liked this one! This is genuine love from both sides. 'thorn rose in quicksand' so well describes the two sides of her. It is true also, in my experience anyway, that you often perceive a person you were close to more objectively and sensitively when they have gone.
Great writing.

Jennifer

Comment is about First Light (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Thanks for your kind comments, Stephen and Graham. Tbh, as I was growing up my favourite strip cartoon in the Mirror was The Perishers, not Andy Capp. Does anyone remember the dog Boot and 'the eyeballs in the sky'?

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Very moving

Comment is about If Only (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

??lovely poem?❤

Comment is about Beautiful life ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (blog)

Original item by Ghazala lari

Thankyou, Philipos. And thanks for the Like, Holden Nazia, Aviva, Kevin and Greg.

Comment is about LEADER OF THE PACK part 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very amusing - enjoyed.P ?

Comment is about LEADER OF THE PACK part 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It would appear that slavery was the lingua franca of the day. Fair skinned slaves brought greater pay back and females stocked the harems of the Emirs.

St Patrick was enslaved I read somewhere before later becoming the famous Patron Saint of Ireland via a circuitous route.

Head men in UK villages would trade their expendable boys and girls for profitable amounts.

History can be horrifying at times.

P

Comment is about BARBARY COAST (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for explaining that John Coopey.
I will start going there
as opposed to
the Bath Room.

?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

The noted author, d.knape
has had works published in his basement
on a copy machine and stapled together for worldwide
distribution using postage stamps he personally applies.
He is also a director of the National Curmudgeon Society,
promoting the universal spread of Curmudgeonism
to all old men who have nothing better to do with their time.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for the likes Nigel, Aviva and Holden Thank you Stephen for the kind comment. I made a couple of changes.

Comment is about At Last (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks to everyone who liked this poem. This means a great deal to me.
Your comment is fascinating, Philipos. So pleased that you enjoyed the poem.

Comment is about Bars (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Love the picture as well, Julie.

Comment is about At Last (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thank you, Stephen, some wounds never heal.

Comment is about If Only (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

This is a smashing poem, Greg. Some years ago, I read a quite serious political article which mentioned, in passing, that Hartlepool was full of housewives who answer the door in their underwear. Things seem to have gone downhill since then......

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Moving and packed with great metaphor.

Comment is about If Only (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

This has a great (bad) dream-like quality. I can't decide if it's hitting me or the other way round..I know that feeling, from somewhere.

Comment is about Chicken Licken (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Nigel and Stephen for commenting ?

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

Comment is about Deadlock (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Ghazala and Nigel for commenting ?

Nigel, it is where secret dens usually are! I'll open up a pack of biscuits and eat some until you get here! Ghazala you can come too!
And anyone else who leaves a comment on this poem ?

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

Comment is about Chicken Licken (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Yeah, procrastination and mañana, but I'm originally from Ireland. The Irish aren't as hasty as that....

Comment is about Perseverance (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Where is your secret den? I will come and join you.

Comment is about Chicken Licken (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

The whole truth and nothing but
what is seen written in riddles
collage poem unusual interpretation
expressed somewhat erratic format
the truth is yours to find.

Comment is about May 2021 Collage Poem: Truth Not Fiction (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Added to which - "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" !

Comment is about Childproofing A Poem (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Everything will work out well
After each night the morning dwells
Anxious write? well worded.

Comment is about Chicken Licken (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

She's surely got those "Procrastination Blues" !!

Comment is about Perseverance (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

I’m sure you’ll have your own slang for it but a dunny is a toilet (both the toilet bowl and an outside toilet). They also call it that in Australia.

Comment is about University Of Stupidity (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks, Kevin. That car must have thought you were reading one of your poems!
And thanks for the Like, Leon.

Comment is about THE GARDEN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I watched and heard some interviews with Hartlepool voters on the TV/Radio and the overriding sentiment that seemed to come across to do with their dissatisfaction with Labour was of 'being taken for granted'.

These are very interesting times, ripe for observational writing. You're hitting a rich seam lately Greg! Good stuff.

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the kind words, Greg. Your poem reminded me that I’d actually written The Headland. I find places like The Headland strangely beautiful, especially on a slow Sunday afternoon. If I remember correctly, the first British casualty in WW1 was at the Headland - German bombardment from the North Sea. As to the town’s recent voting habits, I quietly despair. Oh, the hanging of the monkey during the Napoleonic war is now a thing of civic pride. Tony

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your comments, Phil and Tony. And Tony, thanks for your wonderful poem. As you might have guessed, I have never been to Hartlepool. Now, having read your poem, I kind of feel I have. If posting my little effort had no other effect, it was worth it to read 'The Headland'.

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Greg, I live about a fifteen minute drive from the Andy Capp sculpture. It’s at the Headland, or Old Hartlepool as it used to be called. An interesting place to which I’m frequently drawn. Tony



THE HEADLAND

Past the God forsaken roundabout,
its guano-mottled, brine-bleached statuary
the only thing of civic pride for miles hereabouts;

past the minimalist youth and his propensity
for casual violence; beyond the last man standing
public house, marooned in its car park, empty

at 3.15pm on an afternoon that isn't ending
as you might have expected; past the row
of shops and their crestfallen guttering;

past the drive-by tattoo parlour,
the blood and thunder butcher's,
dull thuds on the wooden hour;

past the the tirade of gulls in the harbour,
circling, plying their endless trade;
past the pawn shop, the no-credit jeweller's,

cheap at rings in their seedbeds,
an empty plaque of sunless absence;
past the crime that is always being committed

to which there will never be a witness;
past the dog seeking retribution
for its ribcage; past all of this

and face the sea, its diminishing return,
its ship to shore silence and emptiness,
which is going nowhere, ever. Walk past this.

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I agree, and don't even let the left hand see what the right hand gives.

Having said that, a little publicizing helps to focus others who are better placed to give and opening up their wallets.

I believe most people have a kind gene inside them - somewhere.

Enjoyed. P. ?

Comment is about What is charity? (blog)

Original item by DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

Aw. Yes I remember it well. Good write.?

Comment is about Andy Capp (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the likes, Aviva, Holden, JD and Nigel.

Comment is about Come Dine At Mine (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks to John Aviva and Holden for liking

Thank you to Keith and Stephen for commenting. It never ceases to amaze me how we all react in different ways to the ongoing situation. There are those who crave for the pubs. Good luck to them with that. But I think that all of our lives have somehow been touched and probably changed in some fashion and what was normal will never quite be normal again which isn't an entirely bad thing

Thanks to all again
Martin

Comment is about An island of silence (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks for your comments, Ray. But not Passport to Pimlico, please! There's been too much of that 'spirit' already in the last few years.

Comment is about Vauxhall (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your comments, Ray and Graham. The pub is on the Wey Navigation, the New Inn at Send, which Ray will know as the location of Write Out Loud Woking for its first two years. The friends were fellow am-drammers who have only been able to read any lines on Zoom for the last 15 months or so.

Thanks also for the Likes, John, Phil, Tony, Stephen, Julie and Holden.

Comment is about Easing (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Are you saying that Mum provided copies of Titbits and Reveille for you, Ray? If so, how enlightened. I admire your daring, to mention the sainted Enid Blyton and the ladies that adorned those mags in the same breath. It brings on a certain frisson.

Comment is about THAT'S WHAT MUMS ARE FOR (blog)

Original item by ray pool

As you may have noticed from my lack of activity on here, I haven't written owt new for a while. So I will be boring the good folks at Well spoken with more repeats of the usual stuff.
Still I can't wait. On line isn't the same.

Ps.
Did you know that someone has driven their car through the window of the Doncaster Brewery and Tap.

Comment is about THE GARDEN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

That is brilliant.

I found a note I wrote in an a writing notebook I have not touched in years. I told myself to read Prometheus and Andromeda. I was so touched. It was so emotionally raw.

Thank you!

Comment is about Prometheus and Andromeda (blog)

Original item by Nash

Julie Callaghan.
(I put the capitals back in)
I now have a new phone,
that old phone was not too SMART!

Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)

Original item by julie callaghan

What? you have Fake News in Spain also?
It's all biased.
No Truth anymore.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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