Yes, loved this ... I did the same kind of thing with my friends

Comment is about the old kitchen tin box (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Once seeing the what if list
you will want to jump ship!

Comment is about What-If Analysis (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thanks for your likes
Aviva and
Holden.

Comment is about One Pink Rose equals another Day Without You (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

a poem of nostalgia and fond memories. Another poem where the reader is taken into Mom's kitchen. We bought matches to light homemade cigarettes from the dog ends we found in the local area. A good smoke if I remember.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about the old kitchen tin box (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Brian,
Thank you for your concern but the poem is based on the themes of spiritual consolation and desolation as found in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Desolation is the feeling of being abandoned by God and consolation when God's presence is felt in all its power.
Keith

Comment is about Desolation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Dear Keith. I'm glad you could smile. So can I. I expect you too to read between lines. You are very wise. John

Comment is about Non-woke rant (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Are you okay? I sense some real suffering here. Great poem too ...

Comment is about Desolation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

John,
This must be one of your best. I feel as if I have been thrown about only to stand up and read it all again. The video along with the last five lines encapsulate your deepest thoughts or so I imagine.
Thank you for this
Keith

PS An elderly uncle sails over the trees. That really does conjure up my imagination and I break out into a smile

Comment is about Non-woke rant (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I read this as if from a mother to her infant.
As such it is a very lovely concept.

Comment is about I am high on your Love! (blog)

Original item by Bindu Trigunayak

She’d be glad to be rid of me, Graham. Along with funeral plans and incontinence pads, I do seem to get a lot of internet attention from girls from the Ukraine, MC.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen G.

Comment is about N'DIDI (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the likes Hugh and Nazia and Stephen G.

Sending a virtual hug to you Hugh.

Thanks your lovely version Stephen G.
Inspired by Keiths comment about appropriate for a Mothers Day card, version 3 Is meant to be a "silly card" option.

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

So true Aviva, all rivers lead to the sea. Just sometimes some bugger pops a dam in your way. ?❤❤

J. x

Comment is about Mute (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Beautiful poems. Version 3 is a little bit sad but still uplifting.

How about?

I could have sent you some flowers
I could have sent you something sweet
I could have sent you a card
I could have sent you a special treat
I could have sent you anything
I could have sent you all the above
But I prefer the greatest gift -
I am sending you all my love

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Hi Aviva,

Thank you so much for sharing your view. I appreciate that.
I am more like „have a good cry and some ice cream” type of girl. Usually in the morning things look brighter. I guess every person has their own way of dealing with difficulties. Thank you for telling me about yours.

AG

Comment is about Close The Door (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you for your comment A Girl, and I most certainly do not mind you sharing your thoughts, at all, I promise.

It is perfectly OK if you don't relate to this poem, or don't get the same vibes from it that I found in it. I want to respond to the statements you made but I hope you won't feel obliged or pressured to change your thoughts about the concepts in the poem if I do.

Emotions are a bit like guests in our brain, in that we can let them in and we can block them from coming in or staying (if we know how). And a bit like guests, we have some sort of expectation of how they should behave - if a guest starts spraying graffiti on your walls or slashing your sofa (or sometimes even less extreme unwanted behaviour) then you wouldn't let them stay. Also, even if a guest is wanted but they insist on visiting with their whole family, all their friends, and everyone they met on the way until the whole home is crowded then again, they might not be invited to visit any more. Or if they are not numerous or badly behaved but just there so often that other guests can't visit... So, perhaps these emotions behaved better in your brain than they've done in mine ?

But, about that feeling of being scared at the idea of closing the door on these sort of feelings, I have to say that I can really relate to it, and though I've no idea if it is for the same reasons, for quite some time I would have refused and did refuse to close the door on the intrusive and damaging feelings either - and for me it was because... well, these feelings tend to come to us connected to our feelings of self-worth, which is to say, we feel emotional pain and rage when something has happened against what we feel we deserve, and so to say we shouldn't feel such emotions might seem to be saying don't value yourself.. but if those emotions behave in your brain as they did in mine, then valuing yourself means rescuing your brain from being held hostage in your own body. Other actions to prove how much you value yourself (to yourself and to whomever might have triggered the feelings) can be done even more easily without those emotions overwhelming you.

And this poem, along with one I'm posting tomorrow, were the turning point for me.

Comment is about Close The Door (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Sending cash to transport some chief's daughter?
Brings to mind: lamb to the slaughter! ?
(But the content does seem familiar online these days).

Comment is about N'DIDI (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The heading is perfectly correct. Indeed, it shows a self-belief that
relies on one's own judgement, not least because of the time and
expense involved in the commitment. I have been involved in
producing a novel, an anthology of verse and a CD of verse with
musical settings, as much for my own satisfaction as the possibility
of recovering costs. The latter can be dependent on the effort
in publicising and marketing, with the latter being an extra, often
enjoyable challenge to the original concept of getting something
in substantive form. The experience of handling the physical
product of one's own creation is well worth what is employed in its
progress towards reality. If nothing else, you will have realised
an intention through your own efforts and that in itself is both commendable and rewarding.

Comment is about 'Self-publication? It’s a perfectly respectable way to get your book into print' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

What would we do without hope.

Comment is about HOPE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

On mother's day

To send my mum a card would be a difficult task.
Please Oh Lord a favour I do ask.
As peacefully she lies in heaven above,
Please send her all my love.?

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks for the likes Aviva, A girl and Keith. Thanks also for the lovely comments. I have added a couple of versions inspired by your thoughts it could be written in a card, thank you Keith.

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I'm telling Gert!

Comment is about N'DIDI (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

For some reason, the thought of closing the door on all those feelings you wrote about Aviva, scares me.

... I probably just don’t get your poem.

Hope you don’t mind me sharing.

AG ?

Comment is about Close The Door (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

So lovely!

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Knowing human nature, it does not exist never did and never will.

Comment is about I WONDER (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Julie,
This would be appropriate for the inside of a Mother's Day card. Well said
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about The Gift Of Your Love (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Incredibly told. It seems as if some of our poetry has mapped the same places. This reminds me strongly of the zone where I wrote 'Tongue Tied', told differently but I'm pretty sure just a different view of the same place.

Comment is about Mute (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks for the Likes, Stephen A, Julie and Aviva.

Comment is about N'DIDI (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

how bout
"High Security Risk"!

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

A zom-bear was seen driving a blue van at high speed in the back a gang of zom-bears.
It was reported they had rampaged and feasted on a drugs free campsite.
Please do not approach if seen as you will make yourself late for work.

Comment is about Consequences XVIII (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Love can live forever
death lives only once.

Thanks Aviva

I am now looking for a Mother's day card with a pink rose and kind loving words inside.

Comment is about One Pink Rose equals another Day Without You (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Julie, Stephen A & Holden,

Thank you for your likes
Keith

Comment is about Desolation (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I love your little piece above Nigel, thanks brilliant.

Thanks to everybody else for the little likes too. One of my fav haikus this one (:

Comment is about Footprint (A New Haiku) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for the comments on these guys and the likes, these pieces do go a bit strange but we always have a laugh writing them (:

Comment is about Consequences XVII (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you MC

Comment is about Remembering (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

Just goes to show that you still call the shots

But I've got a new T-shirt idea for you

High Risk
High Reward

Comment is about HIGH RISK,---a poem by O.L. Buzzerd (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Death conquers life
It cannot conquer love.

Comment is about One Pink Rose equals another Day Without You (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Edited slightly this morning, thanks for the likes

Comment is about Something From Nothing (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I trust the Beano 'article' is peer-reviewed?

Comment is about Wow, readers! Write Out Loud's Matt Abbott pops up at a poetry slam - in the Beano! (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Grief in brief !
Intriguing for the way it invites the pulling back of a curtain.

Comment is about Remembering (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser

I like your wording
concerning HOPE
anymore a thing
so rare
there's hope still
in this poetry
the alternative
to despair.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

This poem intrigues me as I cannot distinguish whether it is a guardian angel which is being referred to or a godfather. I don't suppose it matters really as both have a sacred duty to protect and ensure one's spiritual welfare is taken care of and protected. The illustration is magnificent and the poem rich in content.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Godfather (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Is this a song?

Comment is about I Bet (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Thank you for the kind comment Stephen G and Aviva. Thanks also for all your likes folks.

Comment is about Something From Nothing (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thank you for your comment Nigel, I'll try!

Comment is about A Perfect Day Is Not Impossible (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you Nigel, that is such a lovely comment to make. ? ?

Comment is about The Perfect Fit (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

I want to see more fantastic poetry from you.

Comment is about A Perfect Day Is Not Impossible (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

The way you live
the poetry you give
to me the perfect fit.

Comment is about The Perfect Fit (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thank you, as ever, Keith for your incisive comments. A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway. So this is a metaphor for our journey towards the death that patiently awaits us all. By recognising that we all fall apart, maybe we will be less afraid of death and more prepared for judgement. John

Comment is about Things fall apart (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Beautifully sensual and well expressed.
Thank you
Keith

Comment is about Carmelize (blog)

Original item by Melan Drifter

The imminence of death seems to prompt people to have things in order for their eventual moment of departure. I often wonder about this. Is it to make death less of a burden for those left behind or a means of rehearsing for one's departure? I often become consumed with thoughts of the time I shall die, whether I shall be alone or with a loved one. What will precede this exit from life. Your poem dwells on this. Perhaps I am drawn to it by virtue of being in a similar situation. The last line I find puzzling.

I shall re read this a few times
Thank you for it
Keith

Comment is about Things fall apart (blog)

Original item by John E Marks