<Deleted User> (35860)
Sun 28th Apr 2024 09:40
Thank you very much prakhar, for your kindly comment on my poem ' Beneath an audience of Stars '
Have a lovely Sunday.
Bethany
Comment is about prakhar dhama (poet profile)
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Many thanks to all who read this poem, liked and commented! 😄
Prakhar
Comment is about The First Try (blog)
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Thank you for your kind words Manish 🙂
Thanks for likes Bethany & Tim 👍
Comment is about I Remember Joy (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thankyou for the likes folks.
David
Comment is about A Disinheritance (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
This is one of the best poems that I've recently read, Tom. "I remember joy, it was a long time ago," is itself such a great line to set up the poem with. So catchy and bitterly beautiful. Loved the audio and music too.
Thank you.
Comment is about I Remember Joy (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Insightful, interesting, and quite the quandary for the Litteral thinker in regards of normality. I love how it dares us to introspectively examine the concept of sanity. The premises was there for all to observe its stately structure but inside there are many walls. The walls divide analytical thinking and creativity. They separate uninhibited thinking from formality. The stoic from the exuberant and the burdened from the unburdened. The thing about psychiatric hospitals is the definition and degree of psychosis depends on which side of a wall you are sanding on.
Way to make our wheels turn Manish. Food for thought!
Comment is about Psychiatric Hospital (blog)
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I echo Bethany's comment. Tough times when the mind goes wild. Creativity can tip into insanity (and sometimes vice versa? ). Some people eventually find a liveable balance, others don't. Thank you Manish for this compassionate, thought-provoking poem.
Comment is about Psychiatric Hospital (blog)
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<Deleted User> (35860)
Sat 27th Apr 2024 22:37
A true and well written account of these terrible kinds of afflictions which so many unfortunates, especially the rising numbers of younger people are suffering with. May God help them all.
Thank you Manish.
Bethany
Comment is about Psychiatric Hospital (blog)
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<Deleted User> (35860)
Sat 27th Apr 2024 22:18
This era, was when actors, actually acted, and without a gun in their hands. Enjoyed the trip Stephen, now, lets have a....
Walk on the wild side, or go up to the
Room at the top or see some, as Greg mentions
Sporting life or jog alonside
The loneliness of the long distance runner
Alfie 👍 etc etc
will you be needing an ice-cream lady during the interval? 😁
Bethany
Comment is about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I know, Graham! And I'm honestly so grateful to you and every fellow poet who took their most valuable time to read this, like and comment. It truly means the world to me!
Comment is about You (blog)
Original item by Manish
Thank you Beth, A slight re-write, I hope that you approve. I'm sure that I've written loads of horrid poems: overblown, opinionated, cacophonous, wordy, derivative, astringent et al. I am very trying. John
Comment is about FOG at SEA (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Sat 27th Apr 2024 18:46
<Deleted User> (35860)
Sat 27th Apr 2024 16:02
I think that as hard as you might try, John, you could not write a bad poem.
Every one of your poems are a great pleasure. to read. Thank you for, this brilliant poem, and video.
Bethany
Comment is about FOG at SEA (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Look at all those likes Manish!! Proof if needed that you continue to grow and grow! Fantastic work, well done!
Comment is about You (blog)
Original item by Manish
A poem with gorgeous imagery, delicate rhyme, flowing rhythm, Stephen. Love it!
Comment is about You Are (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you for your kind comment Tim, I'm ever grateful for your continued support towards my work.
I just wanted to bring out the fact and feeling through this that, sometimes, you want to be treated by someone the way you've always wanted to treat them, or have treated them.
Thanks to all those who liked this. Cheers!😊
Comment is about You (blog)
Original item by Manish
"Will they wonder why this salty sailor left his trusty boat and the tranquil sea
After so many long, long days or perhaps an hour will they recognize it is me?"
A great end to a tremendous poem. Reflecting back on good-old-days always brings a smile on our face, but your question, "will they recognise me?" is definitely and inevitably a dreadful feeling you get when you visit a memory after a long long time.
Excellent my friend!
Thank you.
Comment is about A Boy and His Boat Named Bill (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
You had me at the playful wrestle! Enjoyed this - well done.
Comment is about Just You (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
Wonderfully evocative poem, Steve, about a moment in time, those Sixties black and white films, including This Sporting Life, A Kind of Loving, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, to name a few more. And always a steam train whistling in the distance, to add atmosphere, as Beeching readied his axe.
Comment is about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Tim I like the sentiments of this. Returning to a place of early years is a thing I have done in recent years which has resulted in a collection awaiting publication. It is a rich seam for poetry as your piece readily shows. Well done!
G
Comment is about A Boy and His Boat Named Bill (blog)
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Thanks to all for the early likes, much appreciated.
David
Comment is about Words of Love (blog)
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Thanks for likes - Tim & Leon 👍
Comment is about One Tear at a Time (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Dorothy the warrior
using past battles
as her own
ultimate power drive
to forge a
much better future.😎
Comment is about Synchronicities of life (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Thanks for your likes
Manish
Stephen G
Stephen A
Holden
Larisa
Aisha
and
Bethany.
Comment is about Happy Hours for the Edgeley Faithful Extended (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Oh! This poem is interesting. I enjoyed reading it and enjoyed reading the comments. Thanks so much for giving me the link.
Regards,
Larisa
Comment is about Celebrate St George's Day (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
There is a soft and careful seductiveness mixed in with the compassion for the fragileness that accompanies life. Nicely done.
Thanks Manish.
Comment is about You (blog)
Original item by Manish
Fri 26th Apr 2024 12:52
Piñatas are fun but not forever like Earths beauty…I suppose.
Comment is about Piñata Earth (blog)
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leon stolgard
Fri 26th Apr 2024 11:28
leon stolgard
Fri 26th Apr 2024 11:27
Thanks for your feedback Stephen 👍
Thanks for likes - New shoes, Holden, Manish, Hélène & Bethany 👍
Comment is about One Tear at a Time (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thanks for your message, Evan. It was a pleasure to read your poem.
Comment is about Evan Tyler (poet profile)
Original item by Evan Tyler
"Grief is the price you pay for love" is quite a thought, Tom. Thanks for this.
Comment is about One Tear at a Time (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thanks Telboy, Greg and Steve for your comments and to those who gave likes.
It's true, who knows whose contributions last and whose don't, difficult to gauge.
That Lennon line in "Instant Karma" is one that rattles around my head often. It's comforting in its way, in moments of disappointment it's a useful chant.
A few years ago I was doing a little work in Highgate, London... Passing by the terraces on South Grove I spotted an old gent coming out of a front door, collar up cap pulled down he looked slightly familiar. It was Ray Davies shuffling along to the Tesco Express on Highgate High Street. In that moment I just couldn't get Waterloo Sunset out of my head, this hunched figure living out his life in the gentrification of Highgate...up from The River he had serenaded all those years ago. He was somehow a sad figure but seeing him lifted my mood a little, that's music for you...like medicine for the moment.
Thanks again folks.
PS, Johns not gone
Comment is about A Life in the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Da nemnoga izvinite - I must have clicked on wrong link as I also wrote a St George's Day poem
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=134913
Comment is about St George’s Day (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Funny! I addressed Trevor Alexander and got an answer from Tom Doolan in Russian. Do you know Russian, Tom?
Comment is about St George’s Day (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Cheers Stephen looking forward to Sunday when there will be an open top bus from the town hall with the team showing off the trophy.
We will be cheering them on maybe just a few pints to toast them this time
Comment is about Happy Hours for the Edgeley Faithful Extended (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I reckon Kylie, Britney and Adele are all in with a shout, Telboy.
Comment is about A Life in the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Don’t be too hasty, Tom. You won’t catch anything off porn.
Comment is about SWINGING (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nice reminder of the Fabs ... and the Kinks as well! Skilful blending of song lyrics. Karma, eh?
Comment is about A Life in the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thank you Graham and Stephen. The idea for this came to me during a surrealist art exhibition, when it struck me that you could put a still life arrangement into almost any situation, horrific or otherwise, and still call it a still life. The iron bar (twice) adds a bit of menace, I suppose.
That's the best I can do. I often find it difficult to explain the content of my poems!
And thanks to Aisha, Holden, Nigel, Tom, Evan, K Lynn, Steve, Hélène, Manish, Bethany for the likes.
Comment is about Still Life with Massacre (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
How many of todays popstars in fifty years time would be instantly recognised by just their Christian name?
Comment is about A Life in the Day (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
No more porn for me - I'm going swinging lol 👍
Comment is about SWINGING (blog)
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Tom Doolan
Sun 28th Apr 2024 09:42
A poem to get lost in and float away on. 👍
Comment is about You Are (blog)
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