Thanks Keith, I wanted to express how deep true love can be and how fiercely we fight for something so precious. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

J. x

Comment is about Crack The Beams (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?

Comment is about Confusion (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you for commenting Nigel. The sonnet form is often used for expressions of love.. as if each line were a rose stem ending in a delicate rose, a bouquet of words.

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

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Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for your comments M.C and John. :) I'm glad you fellas enjoyed the poem, and most importantly that you are enjoying your retirement! Well earned my friends. I concur with you M.C, Aging should be something to also celebrate and embrace.

Ah yes, John, going to the shops when everyone is at work-such bliss!

Have a great day John and M.C.

Comment is about I want to live in a retirement village (blog)

Original item by Rasa Kabaila

Save for a wooden stare
shows that inside troubled waters
drowning had been not far away.

Comment is about Troubled Water (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

We are all of these at various times.

Comment is about Sons and Lovers (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Reminds me of Suez, one of the greatest English achievements besides the language

Comment is about Container Ships (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

This is quite the trip. Recommend anyone to read it with the music.

Comment is about The rhythm of a dream (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you kindly Holden and dear Kevin.
有情饮水饱，无情食饭饥— With love, water is enough; without love, food doesn’t satisfy.

Comment is about The rhythm of a dream (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

beautiful

Comment is about Tears in the Time of Covid (blog)

Original item by Brenda Wells

A poem to make one sit up with recharged batteries. A bracing piece of poetry with a vocabulary well chosen. Highly expressive. I enjoyed this.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Crack The Beams (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Well, they say it's better than compost....

Comment is about Murder Made Easy (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

You WILL have your shot!

Comment is about Vaccine Shot (blog)

Original item by d.knape

This poem puts its finger on something important, Jennifer. I realise how much I miss seemingly mundane pleasures and pursuits, such as reading a newspaper in a café. Counting the days to when I can enjoy them again.

Thanks for this.

Comment is about Hard Times (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Darkly funny. ?
Tom Lehrer lives!!!

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Original item by branwell kent

He should have bit the bullet while he had the chance.

Comment is about Vaccine Shot (blog)

Original item by d.knape

???

Comment is about Yours sincerely , Gen Z (blog)

Original item by manasvi ganiga

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Comment is about A Game Of Pool (part 4) (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thank you Stephen! I rewrote this a couple times because it never sounded right to me, so I'm glad you like it.

Comment is about Tide (blog)

Original item by Mahika

A love letter in such form would break many a heart.

Comment is about Sonnet (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for your likes
Aviva
Holden and
Stephen G.

Comment is about Starship Shining Love (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I never knew that you were a friend of my mother.
Just loved this
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Murder Made Easy (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Thank you M.C. football is a religion to some so they say!

And yes, Stephen, it was a bit of a labour of love. And took a bit of research! Thanks for the like.

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thanks Keith and KJ for the comments, glad you agree with what I hope might be a positive consequence out of all the disaster. Silver lining is rather trite, but a fog is like a cloud after all. Many thanks
again! Thanks also KJ and Keith, Hugh, Kevin, Aviva and Holden for the greatly appreciated likes.

Jennifer

Comment is about Hard Times (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Thanks,MC. I reckon 2/3 times a night. But it can be as many as 6.
And thanks for the Likes, Stephen A and Stephen G.

Comment is about THE WEE WEE SONG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A pleasure to read something positive and fun about getting old(er).
I'm there already and it suits me just fine. ?

Comment is about I want to live in a retirement village (blog)

Original item by Rasa Kabaila

Good fun about an unenviable complaint: over-grown prostate meets
over-active bladder! Older men know all about it. I reckon that once
or twice a night is bearable and it certainly helps if retirement allows
an extended stay in bed otherwise.

Comment is about THE WEE WEE SONG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you Nigel. Back then, before the internet and still in the footprints of the dinosaurs, the only exposure to poetry was to the lauded published poets and since a beginning poet is so very far from able to write poetry at that standard so many beginning poets just decide that they 'clearly aren't a poet' before they ever have a chance to develop and grow into it.

I'm still going along that journey, and perhaps I'll never get to the highest standard but it is interesting to see what will happen in future, who knows, but I really believe that people should understand that nobody begins writing brilliant poetry.

Sadly I can't really go back to my very earliest poems because before I realised the value of them, still at quite a young age, I threw many away thinking they were worthless and embarrassing.

Comment is about Fidgeting (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

A bulldog clip used to work for me, Kev. Not any more.

Comment is about THE WEE WEE SONG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Names that lived
surrounded by colour.

Comment is about Old And New (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I like the way you are going to the very start of writing poetry and what it meant to you.

Comment is about Fidgeting (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

It won't be long now, and all this will be behind us.
As you say, when it's over we'll value what we have all the more.

Comment is about Hard Times (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

I'm the same John. 6:30 every morning.
Trouble is I don't wake up till 7:00

Comment is about THE WEE WEE SONG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thankyou, Stephen.

Comment is about SO LONG, S'BIN GOOD T'KNOW YUH (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It’s a grand life if you don’t weaken. And the best bit? Mondays. When the rest of the world is back at work or in school.

Comment is about I want to live in a retirement village (blog)

Original item by Rasa Kabaila

Thanks for the Likes, Branwell and Aviva.
Talk about “Life imitating Art”! This pretty much mirrored last night’s schedule which was
12 o’clock
1,45
3.15
4.30
6.00
7.30
I caught a nap in between.

Comment is about THE WEE WEE SONG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it. Marcus Aurelius

Comment is about Trickster (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

I agree John. Thanks for reading and commenting. It’s like notes in the margin from my favorite professor! ✔️?❤️

Comment is about Elixir (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Thank you for commenting Stephen. It is a very uncomfortable poem, but it is a snapshot of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.

I think in the language and style of interaction in the poem you can see it was written by an angsty teenager, and that's why it rings true. Because it is true (as much as any angst is).

It is also quite an unimportant poem, it doesn't give much back to the reader, but somehow becomes a bit more important within the series of poems as a mark on the map.

Comment is about Confusion (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

It is the moment that counts. The past winds up to it, the future rolls away from it, all we have is.the eternal present- this moment.

Comment is about Elixir (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Jennifer,

A poem which enters into the fullness of this moment and how we live our lives. Fearful and frustrated but as you begin the final stanza you speak of a silver lining which I believe to be the ultimate issue. From these dark days in which we have had time to reflect on many aspects of life we will emerge, hopefully, with a greater sense of appreciation for who we are and move forward as better people. Suffering often strengthens us. The pandemic will play a part in this.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Hard Times (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Thanks for your kind comments Greg. That route certainly has some atmosphere!

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Original item by Chris Bainbridge

That's why I feel the EU has to compensate for its colonial past. Problem is the inequality between all individual countries. It is what it is I guess.

Comment is about Anyone? (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

You are right, Brian, it is. I admire people who do things I would consider terrifying - mountaineers, formula 1 drivers. Life would be pretty dull if they didn't do it.

Comment is about Living on the Wire (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Quite a saga, Stephen. A labour of love, I think. Interesting to ponder what Brian Clough would have done but for the injury. So many names! So many memories!

Comment is about Chrysalis (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Yes, it's great.

Comment is about Two Fools and Me. (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Wonderful!

Comment is about The Day of the Dandelion Clocks (blog)

Original item by Brenda Wells

Trevor, I feel your pain. I hope the DIY approach worked.

Comment is about Lockdown Hair (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

A funny poem, John, though tinged with sadness. Some people might say it's only a shop, but on that basis Upton Park was only a football ground.

Comment is about SO LONG, S'BIN GOOD T'KNOW YUH (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very good one.

I am ashamed to say that as a civil servant and occasional spokesman, I did something very similar.

Comment is about Trickster (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff