Good luck to him I say, and I'm being serious. People can choose whether to buy or not. What else has he got to sell apart from himself? He doesn't manufacture anything or provide a valuable service.

Comment is about John Travolta Comes to Town (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

It's become another issue in the Leave-Remain culture war, Tim. Apparently Vera Lynn singing Land of Hope and Glory is top of the iTunes chart. You couldn't make it up.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you, Don. And you can stick your Paul Abbott where the sun don't shine. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

needless to say....
a Deep poem.

Comment is about The Vast Unknown (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks for the likes Hugh and Branwell

Comment is about Kaleidoscope (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Maybe I should go on a shopping mall tour. 50 bucks to have ya pic taken with Australia's future famous-to-be poet (No-one's buying my stuff so a bloke's gotta make a quid ...)

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Comment is about John Travolta Comes to Town (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hugh, you must be the only person who can bring a smile from Diarrhoea?

Comment is about Diarrhoea (blog)

Original item by hugh

Wot, no Land of Hope
No Land of Glory sung?
My mother country's been forsook
I'm buggered, feeling stung....

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Grease? More like greasing palms. I s'pose a bloke's gotta make a quid.

Comment is about John Travolta Comes to Town (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Ahhh, the magic of young love captured with great eloquence. Lovely Tom. Brought back memories

Comment is about Song for Laura Lee (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thanks Eric, glad it struck a cord even tho its the bum notes people play on us sometimes

Comment is about I am my own worst Enemy (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Rampant Capitalism Don

Comment is about John Travolta Comes to Town (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I remember hating Last Night of the Proms since I was old enough to have opinions on anything, 40 years ago or more. I actually watch some of the concerts these days so I must be getting old, but my reaction to the crude jingoism of the Last Night hasn’t changed. Dropping these fascist anthems is well overdue.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I was privileged to see Seamus Heaney reading twice in the two years before he died. Great to see his legacy continues and he’s being quoted by the future US President (please!).

Comment is about Biden quotes Seamus Heaney - and Sophocles - in acceptance speech (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I completely agree about the hijacking of symbols by Boris, Greg,but I still can’t get exercised by the singing of these songs. No-one really believes we are going to set our bounds wider still and wider.. Pretty tame stuff, don’t you think? Now “cut the throats of your sons and friends” (“La Marseillaise”) - that’s more like it.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Each to their own, John. I just have a gut reaction to those songs, that's all. I see now that Boris Johnson embodies the spirit of Land of Hope and Glory. Let's hope he - and the song - retires soon on grounds of ill-health.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Brevity - the soul of wit.

Comment is about Gone (blog)

Original item by Ana Dobrev

Thank you Nicola for your kind comment and thank you Jordyn for the like.

Comment is about The Painted Lady (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

This is something I feel I mirror- as silly as I feel knowing that I let it happen, like we get put down by others, maybe specific people, and slowly become the person putting us down, ad end up doing the same to others. I love it ?

Comment is about I am my own worst Enemy (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

I resonate with this, but the one part "hurt by my own harsh words" especially, as I often find myself putting myself down in moments of anxiety and frustration. Beautiful.

Comment is about Secluded Thoughts (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Thank you. It's the lives of many of my students.

Comment is about I've known only war (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Wow. Another great piece?


-J

Comment is about Words of Wisdom (blog)

Original item by Eric Berard

Beautiful x

Comment is about The Painted Lady (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

"I fixed my dreams and longing on a future garland
I told myself this was only temporary, an abberation"

These words stuck to me. Thanks for inspiring.

Comment is about I did not belong (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Keith is simply a writer that speaks unbiased to power and the people.

Comment is about Exactly the Same - 1939 (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Many thanks for your kind comment, Kate, and to everyone else for the likes.
One has to write about the present, even though we all wish that things could be different.

Comment is about Questions (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thank you Emer and Tom for the likes.

Comment is about The Painted Lady (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I feel your pain. Of course, expressing is more difficult than feeling, as you must relate with mere words.

Comment is about Secluded Thoughts (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Good concept. Uses your emotion, which shows, and is needed.

Comment is about The Mask (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

I agree, this is lyrical.

Comment is about Everest Rose (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Thanks for the likes Vautaw and John

Comment is about The Painted Lady (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks Rich, and yes exactly that. There have been times when I've just attended to my life rather than actually lived it. I was the spoon, in and out of the soup, but never knowing what it tasted like. ❤

J. x

Comment is about The Soup Spoon (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Not the first time, JC. To adapt an old saying.
"Absence persuades the mind to wonder". ?
Onwards and upwards!

Comment is about HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

it was - but it's also the title of one of JTE's albums - the irony is quite deliberate ?

Comment is about To The Saint Of Lost Causes (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I don’t mind the songs at all, Greg. If a nation wants to recall and celebrate its previous times that’s fine by me. I do have a rather bigoted attitude however to the Hooray Henrys singing it.

Comment is about The hoary and the gory (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Someone’s got it in for you, MC.

Comment is about HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for the likes and comments Manisha, Neressa, Victoria, Jordyn, Nicola, Kim and Kate. So kind of you. I'm glad this one seems to have translated. Victoria, thank you, I can't help but be drawn to a bit of heartbreak... Nicola, you're right, so many ways to nurture and take care of this world... And Kate, carving pretty worlds is no mean feat - please never stop. Thanks all. Tom.

Comment is about The Causeway Between Our Hearts (blog)

Original item by Tom

St Jude, wasn’t it, Ian?

Comment is about To The Saint Of Lost Causes (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Many thanks for your thoughts, MC. I tried to write it in triplets (dactyls) so I think a guitar plucked in 6/8 time would serve it well.
And many thanks for the Likes, Jordyn, Trevor, Stephen, Julie and Poems Hub.

Comment is about DREAM (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the like Kate

Comment is about The Painted Lady (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

I like the idea of erosion becoming a foundation. Nice poem.

Comment is about Solid Ground (blog)

Original item by Wandering Biku

I fear I love to carve pretty worlds in my mind too Tom...... So many great lines in this, I hardly know where to start. One I will read over and over.

Comment is about The Causeway Between Our Hearts (blog)

Original item by Tom

An anthem for our times Stephen

Comment is about Questions (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Very uplifting Faith. I enjoyed this very much.

Comment is about The Phoenix (blog)

Original item by Words of Faith

I love the imagery of being left with a thorn stuck in my mind. Will you put this to music Simon? It feels like a song.

Comment is about Everest Rose (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

I loved this Martin. Time to start a merry movement. ?

Comment is about Firestarter (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

This is delightful!
So glad that you wrote it.
Me.

Comment is about Have A Good Day (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I would echo what Keith says. That is a real test of your faith that it helps you to weather the storms. Keep on keeping on
Nice one

Comment is about The Phoenix (blog)

Original item by Words of Faith

The gift of Faith is a gift indeed. Excellent poem

Keith

Comment is about The Phoenix (blog)

Original item by Words of Faith

Thank you fee free to leave comments on my other poems. I appreciate any feed back.

Comment is about Dead silence (blog)

Original item by Michael Rios