yes, come out of the closet.
Keith
Comment is about GROUND ZERO (2) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Congratulations on your latest poem to be published in The New European, Stephen. Well done!
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Intriguing and slightly sinister in its content...instilling the question of
just who is talking here?. ?
Comment is about Safer Streets (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
A powerful review, Neil, of what you convince us (certainly me) is a powerful, vital collection.
Comment is about Inhale/Exile: Abeer Ameer, Seren (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
MCN, as you will know, being a long-standing member of WOL, the moderation function is employed very infrequently.
For reasons of sensibility, the process usually (where practicable) is undertaken between the moderation team and the member concerned.
At the time of writing, I don't believe www.wol.darkweb.com exists but you never know eh?
Comment is about MODERATION IN MODERATION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
This evokes some lovely images and the special feeling of spring bursting into life.
Comment is about O Glorious Spring! (blog)
Original item by Annie Josephine
It’s one Tom Paine missed off in his “Rights of Man” - the right not to be offended. Aka “No Platforming” .
Comment is about MODERATION IN MODERATION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
This has a lovely rhythm to it, Annie. And a succession of timeless perennial images.
Comment is about O Glorious Spring! (blog)
Original item by Annie Josephine
I think you're fairly safe here, MC and John.
Comment is about GROUND ZERO (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Beauty in tragedy ??? exactly
love this one
Comment is about Beauty in tragedy (blog)
Original item by Cody Roach
Beautiful.
https://inknwords.000webhostapp.com/
Comment is about Two Fools and Me. (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Stephen, thank you. ?
Comment is about No Child Should Ever Smile Like This (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
A perfect day in a perfect place.
Comment is about O Glorious Spring! (blog)
Original item by Annie Josephine
They remind me
as young children
wild and free.
Comment is about Endearing (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Wed 24th Mar 2021 23:53
Thanks for reading "True Love"
I am shocked that you continue to come to my site.
But I welcome your response.
I see you are still wearing that gun holster
strapped to your chest.
You look like James Bond!
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
This was written in 2007 -- unaltered
Comment is about Juneau’s camp of the misguided (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Thank you Keith. It is so important to remember, especially when we are seduced into taking our freedoms lightly. They were won by blood and sweat and tears.
Here is Keith Douglas' original and brilliant Forget-me-not poem:
Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not)
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare ground
we found the place again, and found
the soldier sprawling in the sun.
The frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing. As we came on
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.
Look. Here in the gunpit spoil
the dishonoured picture of his girl
who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.
in a copybook gothic script.
We see him almost with content,
abased, and seeming to have paid
and mocked at by his own equipment
that's hard and good when he's decayed.
But she would weep to see today
how on his skin the swart flies move;
the dust upon the paper eye
and the burst stomach like a cave.
For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Nimrod is the most perfect music for remembrance. I often hold back the tears as I become overwhelmed by the scale of such enormous losses. May they all rest in peace, everyone a hero.
My father's youngest brother was blown to smithereens on a road in Tournay during a German air attack as he was making his way to Dunkirk. The obelisk in Dunkirk bears his name but there were no remains. He was 20 years old in the Warwickshire Fusiliers. My Grandmother was crushed by the loss.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks, Graham. Yes, we’re fine. You too?
I’ve heard said, Stephen, that Man U are both the most followed and most hated club in the world.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden, Kevin and Branwell. Also Greg and Brenda.
Comment is about ...BUT LOST TO HUDDERSFIELD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Past his best when he joined us at Sunderland, but he still had that swagger & style we loved.
And who doesn't love putting one over the Manchester's ?
Comment is about ...BUT LOST TO HUDDERSFIELD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A powerful & vividly presented poem ?
Comment is about No Child Should Ever Smile Like This (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
I hope this poem is etched over the dressing room door at Huddersfield JC. If not it should be.
Hope you're well
G
Comment is about ...BUT LOST TO HUDDERSFIELD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Action needs to be the result of words. If not we serve no purpose in alleviating the plight of the hungry and dispossessed. I agree with you.
Keith
Comment is about No Child Should Ever Smile Like This (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Everyone enjoys a Man U come-uppance, MC. It couldn’t happen to a nicer team!
Comment is about ...BUT LOST TO HUDDERSFIELD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Keith, thank you for the comment. I agree, but I would suggest it is more than the disparity between haves and have-nots. Human nature has an opportunity, whether rich or poor, to remember those who are less fortunate. Our forgetfulness and glib attitudes are more the issue.
Comment is about No Child Should Ever Smile Like This (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Kevin T.S. Tan
Wed 24th Mar 2021 16:03
I hope this song gets through. And if not, I'll weep alone
https://youtu.be/-REakMcvXEc
Comment is about Babel (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
That sort of outcome makes English football the timeless leveller
that is so appealing to our sensibilities. I bet the older Frank W. would have smiled at his younger look - back in the day when shorts
were shorter and hair was longer !
.
Comment is about ...BUT LOST TO HUDDERSFIELD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Kevin T.S. Tan
Wed 24th Mar 2021 15:25
God was not merciful on humans that day. Perhaps we can do better
Comment is about Babel (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Well composed and true in every sense.
Keith
Comment is about TRUE LOVE (blog)
Original item by d.knape
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Wed 24th Mar 2021 13:45
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Wed 24th Mar 2021 13:44
This is corruption of beautiful emotions...well penned?
Comment is about Burden (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
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Wed 24th Mar 2021 13:42
I love you like a kid loves the candy, the girls love teddy, the women love jewellery and the mother loves their child, like romeo loved juliet, desert miss the rain....but these are all old school type.
This is an awesome poem. Reminds me of so many songs, verses of each is quoted above.
"I know it makes me a shitty person that I don’t want you to have friends
But I want you all to myself I've always been greedy like that
"I was just hoping you wouldn’t need anyone else, that I was enough for you because I know I’m not for everyone else" these lines are awesome and anybody in true love would understand and happily sacrifice.?
Comment is about I Guess (blog)
Original item by Anonymously Me
To read this is to draw comparisons in a world where there are those who have and those who do not have. It is not so much the disparity in wealth which is alarming but the sheer lack of human concern for those who are living in abject misery. As one man lives in a villa worth millions there is somewhere another man who is making bricks out of mud to build his home.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about No Child Should Ever Smile Like This (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
It’s the stuff that erupts from my nose and ears that bothers me.
Comment is about Lockdown Hair (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
God save us from the “worthy” stuff.
Comment is about GROUND ZERO (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
This has a great rhythm to it and a great message. ?
Comment is about JUST LIVE (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
Thank you for the nice comment.
Comment is about The Faraway Man (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thank you Stephen G for the like.
Comment is about The Tale Of Covid 19 (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you to everyone who liked this. There is a race between vaccination and the third wave and more restrictions will be necessary until the numbers immunised get up to a decent level. At the moment, only 10% of Belgians, where I am, have had their first dose.
Comment is about Third Wave in Europe (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you, as ever Keith for your erudition and empathy. As I.grow older I go further back for my reading. This poem was inspired by Virgil's the Aeneid and the Eclogues, one passage in particular:
"I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love."
Virgil 70 BC to 21 BC
Comment is about leaps and bounds (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Great message, well said. Thank you
Comment is about The Faraway Man (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
A poem from the heart of inner searching and anguish from the past. The poem has a raw content but engenders compassion. Honesty is at the fore.
Well written and direct.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Trapped in my mind (blog)
Original item by curiousdud3
a poem of intense longing for that moment when we drift away. As with all your poems I am drawn to certain lines, "waves to gentle my dreams as I slide into the sea" and " while young ghosts in the hallway weep silently". As the reader I am there. If I were to write this poem I should want to be close to the sea but in a chair wrapped in a heavy tartan blanket with my pipe and a glass of rioja as the sun sets. A poem which brings to together life as a culmination of all yet in a moment of time.
Dare I say, more please.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about leaps and bounds (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
You are quite right about consistencyMC. We coined the very definition-“Spursy”. We were top of the league just before Christmas, having beaten Man U and City, and the Arse. Two months later we were mid-table having dropped like a stone. “Spursy” from game to game and also within a game, always capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s what every Spud signs up to.
Comment is about VILLANELLE FROM HELL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Stuart,
This is a good poem and the last stanza really says it all. There but for the grace of God go we. Many are unfortunate in either their appearance or mental agility. They need all our love, attention and support. I once knew a young man who was downs syndrome. He was regarded as a lost cause by most until he developed a flair for cooking and baking. He was sent to a Catering College against advice but emerged with distinctions and credits along with best student of the year. As your poem concludes "show some humanity".
A good poem and thank you for it
Keith
Comment is about The Elephant Man (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
JC - I wasn't aware of that comment from JM.. But maybe he was
"talking them up" into being better than they were? His previous
teams were hardly short of class/talent. The question is - where is
the consistency of play from the players now? Arsenal has had
the same problem. Talk about travelling in hope in a league that
has players swanning around claiming to be worth hundreds of
thousands of £££s a week!! ?
Comment is about VILLANELLE FROM HELL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
victoriavautaw@gmail.com
Thu 25th Mar 2021 18:57
Heartbreaking Aviva. I will never understand the hate and judgment that resides in the human heart. Thank goodness we have writing and poetry as salve for our wounds and to give a voice to our inner child. Write on my friend. ❤
Comment is about Faith, Love and Honesty (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari