Your poems and videos bring some magic and warmth. I enjoy them. Thanks!
Peace
Comment is about Outfoxing the furies (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
"I went down to the crossroads and fell down on my knees. Asked the lord above for mercy, I'll beg you if you please" by Cream, Crossroads
Peace
Comment is about I surrender (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
you can't hug death, but it can surround the only light you have left. A star thrown off into the far off isolated regions of space surrounded by darkness. The only emitting light being that of its own with nothing to reflect or emit the light back to remember the warmth of love and relationship. gravitate your mind and heart to love and rebuild the cosmos that align with your creation, and may your truth set you free and ward of the thoughts of death's inflictions.
Peace
Comment is about Stuck On You (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Mon 5th Apr 2021 03:53
glad to see you are back M.C.
where have you been?
that was an unexcused absence!
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Be careful, Stephen. I don’t think a lobotomy is reversible.
And thanks for the Likes, Nazia and New Shoes.
Comment is about REDDIT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I love those Nigel, really clever, cheers m8 (:
Comment is about #Haiku of Life 1972 and 1973 (as part of #NaPoWriMo) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
always good to read your comments
thank you Keith
happy Easter ?
Comment is about The Grand Experiment (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
A lot in this. A really good read.
Comment is about Eight Billion Cells (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
So, you've got great pot 'n chill ?
Comment is about GONE TO POT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I thought about trying to self-identify as a Brexiter, just to see what it's like. (Reversible, of course).
Comment is about REDDIT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hear, Hear! He was a genius and a fine singer (I heard him sing "Nessun Dorma" at 80).
Comment is about Sing A Song (For us Tonight) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
I just do not understand people who leave litter behind
I just can not comprehend what goes on in their minds
Comment is about Please Take It Home (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes MC, Holden and Stephen G.
Thanks also for the comments. It really is astonishing, I am sure it never used to be this way, makes my blood boil.
Comment is about Please Take It Home (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you, Julie. It's the amount of the stuff which is eye-popping....
Comment is about Please Take It Home (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you, Ferris. I appreciate your thoughts on the poem and your kind words. "Reputed Brutish", yes. There was definitely an "us and them" frontier between the made and unmade roads, even if it was in reality just a product of the local council's limited capacity for putting down tarmac.
I feel your pain, John. Until we moved a couple of years ago, we had a septic tank. Every time it was emptied I feared that Godzilla would jump out. I guess your childhood streets were tougher than mine. Our road was a mudbath and there was a tramp living in a shack a couple of doors down, but some of the houses were quite nice. One place further up the road (owned by a London docker) was detached and really quite roomy. Plus ca change......
Comment is about Unmade (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Hear, hear !
These are probably the same people whose cars resemble the inside
of waste bins and whose homes look the same. ?
Comment is about Please Take It Home (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
And women wonder why their man has fled
To seek peace and quiet in garage and shed! ?
Comment is about Character Flaws (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you for commenting Ferris Ty Taylor. ?
Me? A poetic genius? I would have said no... but perhaps I'd be the last one to know... so, maybe?
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Comment is about Reckless Abandon (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
1972
Andy N
a fighter
from day one.
1973
Big ears
got you
in a flap.
Comment is about #Haiku of Life 1972 and 1973 (as part of #NaPoWriMo) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Steady on, Stephen! We've still got a cess pit. (Actually a septic tank).
I can relate to this. I was brought up as one of the scuzzie kids on a slum nicknamed "Little Moscow" and where the local councillor was, appropriately enough, a Communist. They pulled it down when I was seven and we moved to the new council estate slum.
Comment is about Unmade (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
"From unmade roads," to me, connotates the plight of travellers, or the homeless. I thought this was a beautiful and vulnerable testimony to resilliance.
"Reputed brutish," I know that one. An ideal boxer is hungry.
Comment is about Unmade (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
The last line of the final stanza is to be found in scripture and how true it is. Good Poem for Easter.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about The Grand Experiment (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Sat 3rd Apr 2021 21:47
Thank you very much ?
I can't say there's been any hip hop influence, but I'll take it as a compliment ?
Comment is about L'Esprit de L'Escalier (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
There's too much tension in this one for me, I'm afraid.
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I've missed your gift ?
Comment is about New Year's Morning, 2021 (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Reminds me of Jimmy Dean's 'Big John's. Love this
Comment is about The Childe of Hale (1578-1623) (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
You dance with rhyme nicely, I love your stuff. Am I detecting a hip hop influence?
Comment is about L'Esprit de L'Escalier (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you, kind sirs, I will. As Rambo once screamed: "I can't turn it off."
Comment is about Psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ferris Ty Taylor
Clyde, that's lovely. Aviva this is a beautiful poem, to write this at 17 implies a great deal of genius, I think
Comment is about Reckless Abandon (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for commenting Clyde ?
Good advice, I recall we did have some pale pink roses in the garden, but even more memorable were the blackberries and the Bramley apple tree - a lot of baked apples and apple crumbles. ?
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about Reckless Abandon (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I like the shaped poem best.
Take the blade to the garden
and cut a rose.
Tomorrow is a new day.
Comment is about Reckless Abandon (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you to Rose, Philipos and Adam for your very kind comments and to everyone for the likes. I am so glad that you all enjoyed this poem, which is partly autobiographical, although highly embellished. 'Something else', as you say, Rose.
I did once live on an unmade road, we did have a cesspit and my Mum boiled cabbage on a Sunday morning, but as for the rest, they are lurking on a collective memory which may or may not include mine. Fun to write, though. Thanks once again to all the readers and Happy Easter.
Comment is about Unmade (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
As Brian says "Keep writing"
Keith
Comment is about Psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ferris Ty Taylor
Reflection is good for the soul and this poem is the epitome of it. An inner examination and cleansing.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about REFLECTION (blog)
Original item by ShalomP
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Sat 3rd Apr 2021 13:57
and can also do naughty things on kitchen table . That's what I was thinking anyway ha ha
Comment is about The Kitchen Table (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you for commenting Ferris Ty Taylor. ?
I suppose it is one of the many mysteries and mystiques of poetry
Sometimes it seems more true when it rhymes
Sometimes it seems more true when it doesn't rhyme
(And then there's half-rhymes)
Though I couldn't judge it at the time, I think this poem had a lot of schematic confidence and maturity for an early poem.
Comment is about Troubled Water (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you for your comment Ferris Ty Taylor.
I'm really happy that this poem impressed you that much.
Though, I'm concerned that I won't live up to the expectation
Thank you for exploring back through some of my poems too.
?
Comment is about Freefalling (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
New Shoes
Mon 5th Apr 2021 06:33
It's a pain in the tuchus.
Comment is about Tangled (blog)
Original item by Emer Ní Chorra