I'm jealous of how much poetry you are churning out I'll be honest, how beautiful this photograph is, question, do you ever sleep?!! And yes you do write beautifully too, it's not lip service I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true, God surely gave you a gift now didnt he? And when you don't use it the angels are sad and weep x

Comment is about When the poet ceases singing (blog)

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Jordyn, I cannot tell you how much I identify with this, seriously, lovely. I wish I could express myself as well. thank-you. J.D.

Comment is about Journey (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

I hope you never cease singing John. Your poetry is the best of the best. Can’t wait for your next book to add to my collection! ❤️

Comment is about When the poet ceases singing (blog)

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Thanks for reading "Zombie Halloween"
and thanks for your comment.
Are you a Zombie?

Comment is about J.D. Bardo (poet profile)

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In truth, Brian, we didn’t have any this year. Shame really. I’ll have to eat all the chocolate coated Brussels sprouts myself.
Nicola - there is no question that I am a curmudgeonly old bastard. If your nephews decide to throw rice at me would you ask them to take it out the tin first?

Comment is about LITTLE BASTARDS (TRICK OR TREATING) (blog)

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Nicola everything is funny to me , I laugh, and cry, every day

Comment is about a BAD start to the year 2020 (blog)

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thank-you Nicola, Rose, Keith, And Stephen.

Comment is about a BAD start to the year 2020 (blog)

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Mmm psychiatrists are strange breeds, I might invite mine to my next wedding. I once had a psychiatrist who asked me how many people I'd slept with him when I told him he looked at his big gold fat watch on his wrist, yawned and then looked at me again, asked me to repeat what I'd said and then looked green with envy, wrote something in his notes about me and then prescribed me a horrible pill that probably made me even more loopy. Psychiatrists are not my favourite people always xx lol I'm sorry but this made me laugh also was it meant to be funny? Or am I just as mad as an old wasp? X

Comment is about a BAD start to the year 2020 (blog)

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Ha I wouldn't be sending my nephews to your door! When I was about 8 there was this old crotchety woman in the street she said don't knock on my door. I read it in my book to have rice with you and rich people threw rice at weddings so when she said trick I bet you haven't got one? We threw rice at her, it went all in the house too. My mum made me go back and sweep it all up. But if she'd just given us sweets or even better money in the first place now we wouldn't have had to give her a trick now would we?? So maybe it's you, maybe you need to stop being a miserable old bastard and be nice to kids. I'd teach my nephews to throw rice at you xx lol ?

Comment is about LITTLE BASTARDS (TRICK OR TREATING) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

‘The little dancing man’. Conjures up the image of some kind of sprite, as in that moment he was. Love the short-wave and the static, too. Also the barrage balloon. A fine tribute, Stephen.

Comment is about Our distant friend (Remembering Nobby Stiles) (blog)

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Thanks M.C. I absolutely love that quote from Seneca, it's the ultimate in defiance I think. Glad you liked it mate.

J. x

Comment is about Defiance (blog)

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Thanks for the likes and kind comments. I had to Google Theodor Geisel of course it's Doctor Seuss. I've never been compared to him before. Praise indeed.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about The People I Never Have Met (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

JD.,


it is said that the best of poetry comes from the heart and this poem bears witness to that. It filled me with grief as I too have lost several dogs over the years. I too have cried and given way to anger, but your words are a haunting reminder for many people and also a means of telling others how painful this can sometimes be.
The poem is also raw in its honesty for which I applaud you. Your feelings are poured out onto the page with little held back.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about a BAD start to the year 2020 (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Hi Hilary,
Really like this: it paints a practical impersonal picture of the chapel at the start but by the end of the poem it has captured the enormity of grief hidden, when grief should be free to be expressed.
Hope you are well.
Andy

Comment is about Masks of grief (blog)

Original item by Hilary Walker

A lot fewer little bastards this year John. And you know what...I sort of missed them!!??

Comment is about LITTLE BASTARDS (TRICK OR TREATING) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ideal material for the times in which we find ourselves.

Comment is about Defiance (blog)

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To adapt a term - a real hum(bug)dinger to commence the run up to
the Festive Season.
But Dickens' Scrooge
Was no stooge
A canny old geezer
Was Ebenezer
Wealthy and healthy
Avoiding fools
Even now
Ebenezer rules! ?

Comment is about Spirits (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks for the Likes, Stephen A, Stephen G, Kevin and JD.

Comment is about LITTLE BASTARDS (TRICK OR TREATING) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Entertaining, that's for sure. An imaginative tour de force of its type.

Comment is about The People I Never Have Met (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Classic Kage.

Comment is about The People I Never Have Met (blog)

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Thanks for the poem, Abdul. Hard to disagree but we musn't give up.

Comment is about The future is bleak (blog)

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Someone called Edwina? No, forget it!

Comment is about Armed police called out in Westminster ! (blog)

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Thank you for the likes, and comments. Emer, Keith, Paul, V. and Stephen. Question for anyone what is the word, or character limit on here? how long can a poem be?

Comment is about The LAZY student (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

Cool poem Kevin, has a Theodor Geisel feel to it. Makes me want to be one less arty-farty you haven’t met! ?

Comment is about The People I Never Have Met (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Kevin,

As I began to read this poem I expected something completely different as the title led me to believe that you would speak of us all on WOL., most of whom, if not all, I have never met. Then you unravel your intention which is a poem rich in humour with many a true word spoken. " I've never met an honest tory who isn't in it for the glory". I know a few of these and don't wish to meet them.

Another of your best poems Kevin. Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about The People I Never Have Met (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Healing!! Nicely expressed.

Comment is about Ah, My Heart Aches! (blog)

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Thank you Amatul, indeed, we poets have many piercings. ?

Comment is about Full Moon Rising (blog)

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Paul, thank you for making me safe and warm, at home, here on WOL. You are a true treasure. Sending you much love and light my friend.

Comment is about Full Moon Rising (blog)

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thanks for the 'likes' I appreciate you all taking the time to read this.
thanks again Paul - glad you liked it ?
Ian

Comment is about Damnation Trail (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks Paul, another, "Sunday morning thoughts," piece.

J. x

Comment is about Defiance (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

JD.,

Reading is a great help when it comes to improving one's command of the language. It enriches one's vocabulary and teaches grammar. However, Winston Churchill a prolific and acclaimed writer never made it to University. I usually have two or three books on the go at any one time, one fiction and the other non fiction.

I failed badly at school in Maths. My penultimate school report, written by the Maths teacher remarked, who is this boy? I had given up by the time he wrote this.

This poem asks a question of the reader. We all need to be more selective in what we choose to read.

A good poem; well expressed.

Keith

Comment is about The LAZY student (blog)

Original item by J.D. Bardo

many a teacher took an early retirement after experiencing a year with me, thank-you Paul

Comment is about The LAZY student (blog)

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Thanks Stephen ?

Comment is about This Must Be A Nightmare (blog)

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Tom,

A poem to a lonely existence eloquently told.
Thanks for this
Keith

Comment is about The Lighthouse Keeper's Song (blog)

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Thanks for all the lovely comments Rachel, particularly what you said on Your Way Will Find You. If everyone always agreed, it would be a dull world indeed! Listen, understand, encourage understanding ?

Comment is about Rachel Moore (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel Moore

Thanks Rachel and Lasse for your comments and likes too, so kind of you. Youthful abandon indeed and much missed right now.

Comment is about Rooftop Reverie (blog)

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Thanks MC, Stephen, Jennifer, Tom, Ray, Jordyn and Trevor for stopping by to read this one and for your comments and likes.

Funny the way the arrival of a season can transport you back in time so vividly but it happens pretty much every year. I guess leaving the North East for the South all those years ago really made an impression on me...

Comment is about Oxford In The Autumn (blog)

Original item by Tom

I love the last stanza the most, great piece, thanks, J.D.

Comment is about It Is Not About Money (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Genuinely an honest write?

Comment is about It Is Not About Money (blog)

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Wound is the place
Where light enters from.

Beautifully expressed ?

Comment is about Full Moon Rising (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Your love for your pets shine through your beautiful poems. I lost both of my precious pets in a devastating fire in 2014. I totally understand the heartbreak. ?

Comment is about Tainted (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Woody, dear Cathy, is a Collie-Springer cross pup. I love him dearly but I think of Charlie every day, many times. I wrote this in 2017 when my lovely Charlie was scared by a thunderstorm.


Charlie
November 28, 2017 / Leave a comment / Edit

CHARLIE

So scared tonight, he made me feel as helpless
As I am. He’s looking at me as I write
Cataracts on his eyes, panting. Fear. No disguise.
The fear he feels at the strangeness of the universe,
The inexplicability of life. The Thunder..
But he knows I love him and he takes heart
As I tempt him into a cave under my desk
And Yes! He has finally settled down –
At least a bit – panting still but now no longer
Muscled for attack. He’s quiet. I have him back.

Comment is about Tainted (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks for your likes Tom and Charlotte.

Comment is about Without Warning Death Comes Calling (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Reading your poetry makes me think what it must have been like to live the same time as great poets like Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Yeats, Wordsworth...what a treat, no tricks tonight. Write on dear John!

Comment is about Tainted (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

It's all in our mind. We receive what we think. Keeping positivity is the key to success. Well expressed write. Jolting truth.

Comment is about That's too late (blog)

Original item by VHH

VERY reasonable to me, thank-you for sharing this. J.D.

Comment is about reasonable (blog)

Original item by Liam Osaneo

Fantastic piece of writing ai ou.

Please do keep posting.



Rose ?

Comment is about Unkept Promise (blog)

Original item by ai ou

Love it!






Rose ?

Comment is about To Breathe (Is To Burn) (blog)

Original item by Hannnah

The final stanza rounds this off perfectly. I can smell the coffee. I want one

Comment is about MORE RAIN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Some great lines in there Ray.

Comment is about MORE RAIN (blog)

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