Thanks for your thoughts, Stephen and MC. I've always liked this one myself. I was prompted to re-post it from watching the current "Yorkshire Steam Railway" series on Channel 5.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden and Branwell.
Comment is about THE MOORLAND TRAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Stephen and Aviva for the like
Thank you for your comments Keith. We seem to live in such uncertain times for many people highlighted by the time of year but I did want to reflect something positive from it all.
All the best Keith and thank you once again my friend
Comment is about Today is the day (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Philipos
Sat 23rd Jan 2021 22:42
Powerfully poignant words Mike.
Thought the piccy was great too.
Altogether an emotional roller coaster.
Thank you for sharing your words.
P
Comment is about Dog Stars (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Thank you Aviva! I wrote this for my mother after she passed to help keep my grief at bay. It did help a bit.
Cheers
Mike
Comment is about Dog Stars (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Kristian and Vautaw, thank you for the likes!
Comment is about Perfect Storm (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Aren't we lucky that you became a poet and not a chef, for with your deft touch you'd probably do really well as a chef too, but we wouldn't be able to taste the result across the internet as we can with your poetry.
Comment is about "Held in Her Palms (blog)
Original item by Emeka Collins
This poem tells so much, makes me feel so much too.
Behind the words seems to be that you both loved each other very much. The sky really will be watching over you from now on.
Comment is about Dog Stars (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Thank you Stephen. I know that they will be able to make their own way in the world someday and find and earn their own people and their own things, but I would have liked to be able to start them off with more than I've been able to. It just ended up that way.
This is a bit of a maudlin poem but it is chronological back-story to the sequence of meditations that I'm posting.
Comment is about All They Have Got (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you so much Keith and Paul.
Your words and encouragement always inspire me.
Comment is about "Held in Her Palms (blog)
Original item by Emeka Collins
The connection between big events and the big profits to be made is
well taken. Like war, disease sees industrial moguls making mega-
bucks. And a look at shareholders in the industries involved might
also be instructive assuming that the "trail" can be followed. It took
a former WW2 military supremo like Eisenhower when US president
to warn about the connections and their power/influence.
Comment is about BIG PHARMA' And The FILTHY LUCRE. (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
Great fun - from the point of view of a train spotter in my childhood
plus my admiration of Johnny Cash - who, with Frank Sinatra, was
the best of his kind IMHO. I was also watching a TV programme
last night (Friday) from "Great Scenic Railway Journeys" which
followed the luxury "Northern Belle (headed by "Princess Elizabeth")
on its round 200-mile trip from Preston via Settle - through the
beautiful scenery of Cumbria and the Dales in weather that your
described journey would know all about.
Comment is about THE MOORLAND TRAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much for your words, it means a lot to me.
Comment is about Pixel tomb (blog)
Original item by Patrick Kennon
Every line is a winner. Wonderful stuff.
Comment is about BIG PHARMA' And The FILTHY LUCRE. (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
I am seldom at a loss for words, except to say this poem has a quality which is quite exceptional.
Keith
Comment is about Dead Silence (blog)
Original item by Blue Raven
A good one, John. Close your eyes and you're there.
Comment is about THE MOORLAND TRAIN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A magical walk in pristine scenery. I love this. Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Snowy Walk (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks JC - points taken. An old saying comes to mind that should always apply - and that is "Fair dos"!
Cheers
Comment is about A WORD IN YOUR EAR (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The imagination in this poem held me in a strange suspense. your use of the language is compelling.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about "Held in Her Palms (blog)
Original item by Emeka Collins
An intelligent verse. Such simplicity and such a profound dilemma...
Comment is about All They Have Got (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
This is great and the final couplet is matchless.
Comment is about A Single Poem (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you, Keith. Yes, I'm looking forward to snowdrops.
Comment is about First Signs (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Lovely, Julie. It really captures the scene.
Comment is about Snowy Walk (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
And my thanks to all the others for the likes. These are, as ever, very much appreciated and give a good feeling.
Comment is about Behind the door (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Hi Paul. Nice to see you again and I'm pleased to be the culprit responsible for unhinging you. More power to your usual things.
Aviva-this was originally a three-verse poem and I wrote the second stanza a bit later. I think it shows a bit but in the end the poem just about holds together.
Hmmm...Where is the door and what is behind it? Or who?
Comment is about Behind the door (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Over here in Africa, we believe that birth brings hope. Fragile hope that only a keen eyes look forward to.
Well done Keith.
Comment is about First Signs (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Many thanks to John for seeing through all my waffle and to Julie for the like.
Comment is about The mysterious case of the hole in the trousers (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you Martin!
Comment is about Don't say a word for now (The reading) (blog)
Original item by Xoanxo
Once again some fabulous lines that make up a superb and almost totally encompassing poem in its depth and dexterity reaching all parts of the senses and the mind. On top of that it is well constructed and crafted poem.
Love it
Comment is about IMPERIUM (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I was just reading your first snow poem. there are some really great lines in it with so much richness of colour and texture. Wonderful John
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
really beautiful. Thank you for posting
Comment is about Don't say a word for now (The reading) (blog)
Original item by Xoanxo
This is a close relation to the poem that you adorned my profile with and which is a welcome guest there.
I am glad to see this version too, where it will be easier to be found and read by many. ? ? ? ?
Comment is about A Single Poem (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Martin,
A poem for the time of year and so well described. I have this minute walked the dogs and now the snow is falling heavily. A day like no other and I also am happy to let tomorrow take care of itself.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Today is the day (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thank you very much Vautaw & Paul! ?
Comment is about Don't say a word for now (The reading) (blog)
Original item by Xoanxo
I really enjoy your views from the same window but I also look forward to when you get to use your poet's eye upon a new scene with your newly honed vision.
Comment is about Arkles Lane Snowfall (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Thanks Po, I've really struggled to write at all recently so that means a lot. I think our choices are the only thing we can ever truly own 100%, everything else comes and goes.
J. x
Comment is about A Walking (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
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Sat 23rd Jan 2021 08:13
A basque is a piece of woman's underwear rather like a corset. They make one look sexy but they hurt like he'll to wear, my advice is not to wear them.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
So beautiful Xoanxo. Thank you. ❤️
Comment is about Don't say a word for now (The reading) (blog)
Original item by Xoanxo
Where am I now?
Comment is about Top Twenty Users (blog)
John,
I can glance over my shoulder and see other Bills. Men who struggled to survive, decent souls who did what they thought was right and despite being impoverished could always express gratitude and behave in a civil manner. Are we talking about an age long since gone, never to be resurrected? Perhaps so. Bill and his kin were truly those who built this nation with hard graft and others who sacrificed their all for what is now our inheritance.
This is a poignant reminder of our hard earned heritage.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Bill (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
John,
This myriad of haunting scenes and glimpses of times past, filled with so many emotions, too many to absorb, sent me reeling. The poem is like the canopy over an age which is filled with tragedy, which seems to make no sense. Yet the poem causes the reader to swirl in and out of challenging scenes until brought down to earth in a place so recently named and the consequences of man's betrayal of himself. The last two lines are menacing to the mind. This is what I take from this expertly crafted poem.
Thank you indeed for this. It has planted some seeds in my mind about my own future writings.
Keith
Comment is about IMPERIUM (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about Each Poem Is (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thanks to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?
Comment is about Inner Strength (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
This draws you in with the decreasing distance till the dawn.
I kind of hoped it was going to be a beautiful awakening
But the ending takes by surprise and that's very effective too.
A wake up call, and perhaps that's the point.
Comment is about Moon Charm (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
John Coopey
Sat 23rd Jan 2021 23:40
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Comment is about COTTAGE SLEAZE (blog)
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