A very good poem. Enjoyed this
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Over Corona (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Thank you Paul for your comment and the apropos quotation. The subjects you raise (truth, autonomy vs restriction, conformity to ourselves or to others, perceptions of normalcy) are all very important to me too.
(Sadly Paul's comment is no longer viewable since he left the site)
Comment is about Reflections (View Through A Window) (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Older than I look in the photo, but yes, not quite.
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Fine poem. Still trying to get my head around it, which may be a good sign.
Comment is about Asteroid (blog)
Original item by Clive Culverhouse
My dear whines - regularly! ?. ?
Comment is about Red Wine Deer (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes.
Thank you Candice, easy to make, just drink lots of wine, save the corks and get yourself a glue gun! ?
Comment is about Red Wine Deer (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you all commenters and to those who have liked the poem too.
Comment is about Trust In This Dark Night (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Enjoyed this one Aviva! Liked the 3rd stanza especially - thank you.
Comment is about Trust In This Dark Night (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I really enjoyed writing this poem. Particularly the last two lines which poses the question do we meet people we once knew if we are reincarnated? Is this why some people seem to have great chemistry or feel like they have known each for many years after first meeting.
A short poem but huge in suggestion.
Comment is about Asteroid (blog)
Original item by Clive Culverhouse
How lucky to meet someone you have such lasting connection to.
Comment is about Asteroid (blog)
Original item by Clive Culverhouse
Clever, Julie! I want a red wine deer. ☺️
Comment is about Red Wine Deer (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you Candice, J.D and Ghazala for your comments. It always brings me back to the moment that it was written and the contemplation of 'noticing how much we do not notice' and for me it becomes a reminder to accept that there is more out there than we think we know. And somehow I find that comforting rather than scary. But I didn't know if others would respond to the poem similarly.
Comment is about Reflections (View Through A Window) (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I once new a man that was a daily smoker and drinker, who lived to be 106 years old. He did however, Jog the three miles to church and back every day without fail. Maybe that is the secret to old age.
nice write, (I smell smoke)
Comment is about The Nanny State (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
'The sky can't be blue enough' and 'The power of giving' are both very profound poems. The first brought me to a stillness with you, and the second took me from stillness with you. Thanks for sharing them and I look forward to reading more of what you write.
Comment is about Sarah Louise mcnee (poet profile)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
Beautifully expressed!!?
Comment is about Reflections (View Through A Window) (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Mix of harsh truth and humor. Does she have a name? ☺️
Comment is about Nappies (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
I love this, keeps me thinking, I am trying to better see what you see.
I also thought of when you hold a mirror up to a mirror, how long does the reflection go on ???
Comment is about Reflections (View Through A Window) (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Love this, Aviva. Leaves your reader thinking.
Comment is about Reflections (View Through A Window) (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
You’re gracious, Paul! thank you ??
Comment is about Atlantic Beach “Public Parking” (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
I recognised South Shelds, too - and I've only been there once, on a very wet day that did include a visit to the museum. Has a wonderful state of the art library, too. Ocean Road, what a name, even if does only lead to the North Sea. Enjoyed your poem very much, Crystal.
Comment is about Crystal Stouf (poet profile)
Original item by Crystal Stouf
Hello John,
May God be with you always. I made an elaborate prayer requesting God to help you in all your endeavours, to bless you immensely with good health, happiness, peace, prosperity, love, tranquility and serenity.
"May God be pleased with you always. May He grants all your good wishes, prayers in your favour."
Always have faith in the One who created you. He is extremely loving, merciful forgiving Lord. Ask and it shall be given to you. Pray with full faith and belief that your prayers are accepted in your favour.
All my duas and best wishes for you always.
Peace n blessings be upon you. Ameen.
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank-you everyone for reading, thank-you for the likes, and nice comments.
Comment is about Plotting a course (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
It's not compulsory... ?
Thanks Paul
Comment is about The Possible Image (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser
Fri 4th Dec 2020 04:48
you are still young
you do not know
the second part.....yet!
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
<Deleted User> (13740)
Fri 4th Dec 2020 03:58
I also notice again, yet again in my life I'm the only working class woman to comment.
Comment is about WE'RE BUILDING A NEW WRITE OUT LOUD – AND ASKING OUR POETRY COMMUNITY TO HELP US (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Fri 4th Dec 2020 03:53
As a founder member, I want this site to remain open for people on benefits, in rehab centres, prisons and hospitals where they might dip into it. I don't want it to become elitist. Benjamin Zephaniah learnt how to write in Prison and he became poet laureate. Maya Angelou wrote when she was a PROSTITUTE and was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard. Have you read the book a colour purple, where she begins the book illiterate? I think and feel this is being dominated by middle class or university educated people and boffins, who are not thinking of making it accessible to the masses. I was one of the eight founders. . Hovis Presley and John Gilroy lived in a council flat and a bedsit and would not either of them have paid for subscriptions. Please reconsider this option. Yes ask for donations, yes fundraise, yes celebrate the rich famous people, but please don't forget the little people across the world or those that have literally nothing where £2 is a bag of sugar or a bottle of milk. From humble beginnings great work is born.
Comment is about WE'RE BUILDING A NEW WRITE OUT LOUD – AND ASKING OUR POETRY COMMUNITY TO HELP US (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It was a big-ass piece of Detroit steel - a 1964 Ford Galaxy 500, if memory serves.
Working on that monster every other week probably cost me many hundreds of dollars more than what I paid for it. It was worth it for the memories though. ?
Comment is about Old '64 (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Canterbury Tales. I think dk. Pilgrims setting off from Southwark. And no. I can't draw a straight line.
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
Original item by John E Marks
Greg and Brian, as you well know when not angry, we borrow the authority of others to support our POV through the use of apposite quotation. Also, being anti-EU is not the same as being anti-European and last time I checked our country was still one of the few fully paid up members of NATO. If UK governments and/or the EU had dealt with the consequences of the deindustrialisation of northern towns and cities more generously maybe the referendum result would have suited you better Greg. I don't know what Putin has to do with it.
Comment is about The inarticulate love of country (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks for the comment & Like Shifa. Appreciated as always
Comment is about Me v The Moon (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Interesting quote, John, although I wonder why you attribute it to Eric Blair rather than to George Orwell? Any particular reason? Orwell/Blair made it in different circumstances. Whatever you may think, we are not engaged in an actual war right now. The other point is that I would have been proud of my country in its fight against Hitler. I am not proud of my country when - quite apart from the economic harm it will do - it is turning its back on an organisation that was set up to avoid another European war. I have a patriotic distaste at seeing Putin rubbing his hands in glee. I don't feel proud about that. And here's another quote, for you: “We have crushed the British to the ground, they are on their knees and they will not rise for a very long time.” (Russia's ambassador to the UK, 2011-19)
Comment is about The inarticulate love of country (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
JD, Starting with care homes and most vulnerable, carers and NHS here I think.
Comment is about The Vaccine Is Coming (The Christmas Coca Cola Advert) (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes, like I said earlier can’t take any credit for this write.
Comment is about The Vaccine Is Coming (The Christmas Coca Cola Advert) (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes and comments. Sid sounds like a cool character ?.
Yes Stephen freezing rain is lethal. At least the sleet brought us some snow up on the hills.
Comment is about I Don't Like Sleet (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
That Great Emotion, Love at first sight I recently experienced, Love is Grand. I feel as if I have been dealt a winning hand.
Comment is about That Great Emotion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Graham, thank you for this comment. I was attempting to refer to the essence of love and not its passage which is often fraught with difficulties. True love never runs smooth but love itself is sheer bliss, only we can mar its beauty by our perverse desires or machinations. You are right to challenge this. Perhaps my pen got carried away
Thank you again
Keith
Comment is about That Great Emotion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thankyou, Stephen. And thanks for the Like, Julie.
Comment is about PISSING IN THE WIND (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Surely love can be distressed Keith. The route to true love is never plainly sailed!
A nicely considered piece no matter what.
Comment is about That Great Emotion (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Good poem, Julie
Sleet melts in puddles and trickles down the drain
But at least it's preferable to freezing rain
Comment is about I Don't Like Sleet (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
"Easy as a freeway". Yes, that's how we should remember it.
Comment is about The Road Of Life (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks as always for the generous comments. The poem was written a few months ago and has undergone several revisions since. Glad you enjoyed it, Paul, Brian, Stephen and Hugh.
Comment is about Heroes (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
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Thu 3rd Dec 2020 16:26
I must admit I'm not one for quoting others as a way of proving or reinforcing a point.
Why do experts always live 10 miles away?
(Brian Maryon 1953 - present) (You can use that one John if you like.)
Comment is about The inarticulate love of country (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
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Thu 3rd Dec 2020 16:20
Woof. Woofwoofwoof.
Woofwoof.
(Why keep a dog and bark yourself?)
Comment is about A Run In The Park In The Rain (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
keith jeffries
Fri 4th Dec 2020 18:04
Well said and well written, encapsulating the thoughts of many during this pandemic.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Alone (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo