Thanks for all the likes and kind comments.

Comment is about Christmas Cheer And Happy New Year (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

The veiled threat and insinuation of violence / conflict is captured very well - I like things left unsaid. Leave it to others to join up the dots. Excellent

Comment is about Border Guard (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

The final verse tells me a great deal about both the poem and its author - I like the cosmic nature of this piece. Thanks

Comment is about Me v The Moon (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

13 words that contain as much insight as a whole world of words - quite a feast.

Comment is about Tossed Salad (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Very cool concrete poem. Wishing you healthy, happy holidays! ?

Comment is about Christmas Cheer And Happy New Year (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Simon, Losing my beloved Chocolate Labrador Leah, (11 months ago) had caused many depressing thoughts, I feel for you. I thought that I could not go on without her. I still have her lead in its spot. I still cry sometimes thinking of her. Reading "Mallard Days" brought out a short, but hard cry. Thank-you for writing this.

Comment is about Mallard Days (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Love how you've created the ? shape!

Comment is about Christmas Cheer And Happy New Year (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

A well needed daily reminder through these dark days Keith. Very powerful, Thanks for writing it so well?

Comment is about We are growing (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

That made me laugh, you should start writing Christmas cracker jokes Hugh ?

Comment is about Solving a teenage problem (blog)

Original item by hugh

J.D. I get what you're saying 'there'.
it does have an AAAA rhyming scheme ?

Comment is about To There (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

there, rhymes with there, so, there is a poem there, so there is my opinion on, "to there" (there)

Comment is about To There (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

What would I do, without my daily dose of Hugh?

thank-you so much, JD.

Comment is about Solving a teenage problem (blog)

Original item by hugh

Brian ??

Comment is about To There (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

What constitutes a poem Aviva? Anything goes. The real question is whether you think it's worthy of sharing with others, and clearly you do as you have. You could do a series...here, somewhere else, abroad etc.

Comment is about To There (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Viva Aviva!

(also a paper towel)

?

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

It is questionable whether this is really a poem at all.
Sometimes I think it is, Sometimes I think it isn't.
Let me know what you think.

Comment is about To There (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

hardly brilliant-
more like
dull.
?

Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks Greg for your words. I appreciate the feedback.


Clyde McCulley

Comment is about thinking of robert frost (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Thanks Tony, glad you saw the haunting quality in the poem. I am new to poetry writing, so your comment helps.
Thanks again
Clyde McCulley

Comment is about thinking of robert frost (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

The rhyme's there Stephen, unspoken.... ?

Comment is about Christmas Card List (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Yes, it sounds like one of the odes from 'Up Pompeii'. 'I couldn't think of a rhyme there...'.

Comment is about Christmas Card List (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Brilliant (or did I already say that?)

Comment is about The Don't Do List (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Very interesting comments. Thanks to everyone for these comments and the likes.
I see this as closer to the old East Germany than present-day Dover Maritime, although having once been subjected to a rather disturbing rant from a customs officer when trying to exit the Eurotunnel parking area after the tunnel was closed down, I appreciate that these thinngs can happen anywhere.

(And I didn't even have a poetry book!)

Comment is about Border Guard (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thought provoking. This poem seems not so much about the difference between appearance and reality of our surroundings or others about us, but more about that of how we are seen by others, and even more about how we see ourselves. - You see yourself in limbo or vanishing because of it and you say you are comfortable and not afraid of that.
But it makes me think, this inability to know what we really are and to be hidden by what we appear to be, our true reality is shape-shifting.

Comment is about Appearance And Reality  (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Ah but then I'll have done everything on my Don't Do list in the first few seconds of not doing anything, I'd have to make another list or use photo-copies and I could get through dozen's of Don't Do lists and still have a lot of day to spare.

How about a Don't Do list which you only tick off at the end of the day if you spent the whole day not doing the things on the list?

Comment is about The Don't Do List (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Prioritize your work in a descending order in your to do list.

Mental mapping is beneficial too.

Comment is about The Don't Do List (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Life is everything and much more.

Comment is about Nothing Greater Than Life (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

This hit really deep. Amazing writting man !?

Comment is about Battles never fought (blog)

Original item by Faiq Arif

I stand corrected.

Now you mention it, he does have that brow-beaten northern look to him.

Comment is about David Constantine awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Eloquent, powerful, melancholy. Requires a number of readings.

Comment is about WE LET IT GO (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

What's not to like.

Comment is about Nothing Greater Than Life (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

I enjoyed reading this Steve, thanks for sharing.

A reminder that each headstone represents a significant story.

Blessings.

P

Comment is about A Regular Joe (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Lol Erika, that wouldn’t leave much for us to talk about. ? Thanks for stopping by. Welcome to WOL. Write on!

Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Many may miss the joke in the last line. Not me Trevor...I've been there a few times!

Comment is about Christmas Card List (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Great add-on Aviva! ❤️ Thanks for reading and commenting. ?

Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Squashed and flattened ? are becoming !
Really true? Really true!

Comment is about MARK OF THE DEVIL (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Zombies dressed in red blooded hats
sacks of human heads, arms and legs
when asked what presents hidden inside
they replied dirty black rats to gobble up
so not to leave any grizzly bits behind.

Comment is about Consequences XIV (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for your likes
Aviva
Stephen G
Jordyn
and Stephen A

Comment is about A Don't Blame Yourself Poem (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I like that Aviva - - -
don't blame yourself - just be yourself

Comment is about A Don't Blame Yourself Poem (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Agreed! Lovely to be reminded of Robert Frost at this time of year. A great poet himself - and the good friend who persuaded Edward Thomas that he could be one, too.

Comment is about thinking of robert frost (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Thanks for the likes folks. Thanks for the comment Ray, glad it brought some cheer. They are really very funny to watch. I should try to video them and put it to the music.

Comment is about The Love Triangle (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Really like this, Clyde. There’s a haunting quality to it. Tony

Comment is about thinking of robert frost (blog)

Original item by Clyde McCulley

Thank you both, Stephen Atkinson and Vautaw for your comments.
Thanks also to those who clicked the 'like' button for this poem.

I often let myself use lots and lots of words to say not much, but in this one I somehow managed to use not many words to say lots and lots - not something I often know how to do!

Comment is about Tossed Salad (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

I like the way you've written this, with such self awareness that it really takes me back to times gone by when I've felt like that too. But after too much fire is too much ash.

I look forward to reading more.

Comment is about Consumed (blog)

Original item by Wandering Biku

The idea of Benny Hill transformed into a blackbird has tickled my fancy Julie. We could all do with some cheering up and there's a big tick for you from me. Merry Xmas thrown in!

Ray

Comment is about The Love Triangle (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

lovely poem, thank you for sharing!

Comment is about Christmas Greeting (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Can we pretend
older people
don't need to talk
about what wonderful things
they did when were younger

Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Thanks for the Likes, Kevin and Stephen.

Comment is about NOT QUITE RIGHT IN THE HEAD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Can we pretend
it doesn't harm anyone
to keep on pretending

Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Clever play on words Aviva! ❤️

Comment is about Tossed Salad (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari