I'm happy to write it and can't deny that I'm also happy that you like it, too.
Comment is about The end of the chain (blog)
Original item by Lasse Krey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 11th Aug 2020 19:34
The things that stick in your mind at such times...
Comment is about Away (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
Both your imagery and lyricism are outstanding. Amazing poem!
Comment is about Bruckner (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thanks for the likes, hope there is no repeat performance tonight.
Comment is about Repeat and Repeat (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the comment and like
Comment is about My Version - Audrey Hepburn Beauty Tips (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Indeed, MC. EBAY has cornered the market in “pre-loved” goods particularly (the nomenclature is so much more inviting that second hand junk) while Amazon must be coining it in during Covid. Everybody seems to have bought something through them. Their only vulnerability is their reputation for poor staff relations which they have addressed on the box with adverts showing happy, smiling people.
And thanks for the Like, Stephen.
Comment is about JOHNNY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Insightful, profound and important.
Comment is about The end of the chain (blog)
Original item by Lasse Krey
From experience, I wlll say that it would help if the pictures used for
this procedure were clearer! ?
Comment is about I Am Not A Robot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
JC - I think the likes of Ebay and various other online sites have
taken much of the trade that would have otherwise found its way
to the S/H shops we knew. But, like pawnbrokers (some of which
even have their TV programmes nowadays!), I agree that there
will always be a useful convenient outlet for "certain items" via
these back street "bazaars".
Comment is about JOHNNY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, MC. I recognise that my take on the demise of the second hand shop is probably premature. I suspect there will always be a gap in the market for those who are hard up and need to capitalise a few bob. (And also as an outlet for stolen goods).
Comment is about JOHNNY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I am not a robot, and often fail at the first attempt?
Comment is about I Am Not A Robot (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Shifa, thank you. A hundred times thank you. Your words are always so kind and encouraging.
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Poetry has to relate not only to life but our own aspirations and hopes
about it. The timeless themes still resonate - even though it is
difficult to see how a lot of modern poetry can compete with the
content of Shakespeare's centuries-old sonnets in that context.
But maybe there is a connection between the modern song and the
modern poem? Will either stand the all-important test - the test of
time? Is illiterate emotion hand in hand with illiteracy in general?
Are today's gatekeepers up to the job of encouraging, let alone ensuring poetry "in perpetuity"?
Comment is about Don't make poetry an optional 'add-on' in schools, warns poet laureate (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Tue 11th Aug 2020 12:49
Thanks for reading MC ? Yes, I had one of those crystal/cat's whisker sets too. Local radio in the north east of the UK wasn't particularly inspiring but I used to like the shipping forecast (for some reason) at a very young age. "This is The BBC home service" yes, I can still hear it being said aloud in my head. Cheers, Tom.
Comment is about Cairo On The Radio (blog)
Original item by Tom
Sure to get the mind working! A view that tells us that we can
use selective recall, especially of events occurring under stress, and see it redressed when placed under renewed pressure of
circumstance.
Comment is about 'Sometimes you have to tell a story your entire life to get it right' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Shifa welcome back.
You don't strike me as a person who would suffer from the fear of missing out.
Your generous support has not diminished by your absence.
Thank you always.
Comment is about What light from yonder window shone? (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
How true - and even more important in a world which tends to
pursue ambition and "advancement" as if life were a competition
between the sexes. A woman is more likely to be regarded with
real love if she doesn't neglect her primary function as a giver of
life and its primary source of nurture to those who share it with her.
Comment is about My Version - Audrey Hepburn Beauty Tips (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
I agree with Paul. Putting life into objects like this is inventive and fun. There is also (to me) the intriguing hint of an analogy with the human youth and age experience.
Comment is about The Autobiography of a Tin of Peaches (blog)
Original item by Peter J Matthews
Thank you Ray! Mow Cop is great name too ? Some places demand a poem purely thanks to their name and I'm glad to give Holly Hagg its small moment. I'm really pleased you enjoyed this one.
Comment is about Holly Hagg (blog)
Original item by Tom
Pleasing indeed. I'm taken back to the pulp periodicals of yesteryear
that featured adverts that occupied a whole back page - from a firm
in London that advertised all sorts of fascinating things to capture a
young imagination...including "crystal (radio) sets" - when costs were
measured in pounds, shillings and pence. My own childhood was
also marked by the radio programmes of the day, Like Ray, I have a
recollection of much from those distant days when radio ruled the air.
"This is the BBC Light Programme"..."This is the BBC Home Service..." - how readily those spoken words come back to me now.
Comment is about Cairo On The Radio (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thank you Keith, Jordyn, Shifa, Branwell, Mark and Greg for the likes ?
Keith and Ray, I really enjoyed hearing your recollections. The radio was truly a source of magic back in the days before the internet and when there were only 4 TV channels... I have so many memories attached to radios but this one is extra special to me. My grandad was a wireless operator in the Desert Rats in WW2. He was the first great story teller I ever met and his war stories were always so vividly realised (even when they brought a tear to his eye). Listening to a world I'd not yet seen coming over his long range receiver in the late eighties was so exciting and I'll never forget it. I only wish I could talk to him now that I've seen the world for myself.
Thanks for sharing your memories and thank you so much for reading.
Comment is about Cairo On The Radio (blog)
Original item by Tom
"Separated somewhat from the detritus of Homo Sapiens:
The killer species"... what a killer line! A killer poem in fact.
Bloody brilliant!
Comment is about Noises off (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks for the likes, surprised I managed to put pen to paper this morning!
Comment is about Repeat and Repeat (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
An entertaining trip down memory lane for those like me - of a certain
vintage in the age stakes. I recall two such shops from long ago:;
one in the Paignton of my childhood (In what is ironically called
"Winner Street") and the other in my teen years, located on the way down to Bath Spa station in that beautiful city. They stocked a
range of stuff that fascinated me and their trade must have been a
difficult balancing act between honesty and opportunism in the
pursuit of making a living. Books, binoculars, cameras, long
playing records, war memorabilia (World War 2 was still close in
the memory) and small items of furniture/bric-a-brac seemed popular merchandise. Thanks, JC, for the chance to re-visit those old places.
Comment is about JOHNNY'S (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you, Kevin and Chloé, for your generous roses!
Comment is about The Last Rose (blog)
Original item by Shifa Maqba
Hands down the best compliment, Chloé. I'm honoured!
Comment is about The Cost Of Your Hand (blog)
Original item by Shifa Maqba
Thank you, Shehariah, for your lovely comment!
Thank you Jordyn for your constant support!
Comment is about Unrestrained (blog)
Original item by Shifa Maqba
Meat and drink to anyone who likes to smile!
Comment is about Out of reach (blog)
Original item by hugh
Jordyn and Kevin, many thanks to both of you for leaving a rose each!
Comment is about Plath's Poppies (blog)
Original item by Shifa Maqba
I have said this before, but I'll say it a hundred more times if I have to-- your ability to convey such vulnerability and pain through your poem is unlike anyone else's.
More light and power to you!
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
This comment isn't exclusive to this poem, but all the poems that you've penned this week. Having been away from WOL for almost a week (which is a long time for me) reading your poems makes for an extremely therapeutic experience to offset the major FOMO I'd been having.
Thoroughly rejuvenating! Each poem more immersive than the other.
Comment is about What light from yonder window shone? (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad
Hallielle, thank you for the like as well. ?
Comment is about Am I Enough? (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Hi Paul,
Very true, good company can bring out the best in us.
Thank you for encouraging words
Monica
Comment is about Changing of times (blog)
Original item by Mocosy
Hi Keith,
Thank you for your kind words.
Comment is about Changing of times (blog)
Original item by Mocosy
Keith, thank you so much for the feedback! It’s quite encouraging.
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Nicola, you are so right. If our focus is to love one another then win or lose doesn’t matter.
Comment is about You Win (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Bluesky, I like that perspective. I need new things. I’m learning how to live sober and have integrity (living in the light) and what it is to live without shame and hopelessness. I lived most of my life in utter darkness.
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Nicola, thank you. I’ll take all the light I can get. ?
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Paul, oh wow! That’s really interesting. I’m going to check that out. I also want to rewatch V for Vendetta. I saw it many years ago. I’ve never heard of Kett.
Comment is about Vacant (blog)
Original item by Shehariah
Genuinely inspiring and heartwarming - with such a human touch. The title alone deserves a commendation. A real pleasure in the reading.
I am reminded of my brother who lived in a place called Mow Cop in Staffordshire, a hellish steep hill with a plateau atop near Congleton.
Ray
Comment is about Holly Hagg (blog)
Original item by Tom
Descriptions of a world within a world, perfectly summed up, and reminding me of the same Tom. The Voice of America station with its Willis Conover hosted big band jazz for example in the fifties. Radio Luxembourg with its adverts. I actually believed that everything happened in the hot red valves inside.
A lovely poem altogether. I'm old enough to remember the sound of the air raid all clear interrupting the wireless too.
Ray
Comment is about Cairo On The Radio (blog)
Original item by Tom
keith jeffries
Tue 11th Aug 2020 22:15
Utterly beautiful.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Imagination running wild (blog)
Original item by Abdul Ahmad