A sorry state of affairs indeed. "Randy Andy", to borrow his youthful
nickname, has shown poor judgement in his choice of friends and
his hubris has not helped. I recall his arrogance when challenged
by security in the gardens of Buck House - instead of smiling
graciously and accepting their apparent lack of recognition with a
little grace and good humour. The institution of The Crown always
exceeds the "value" of its individual members and he would have
been wise to have kept that in mind. My sympathy is for his mother -
a devoted public servant who has seen her offspring let her down
more than once when it mattered - and damaged all that she has
served so well in her own lifetime.
Comment is about The banned old Duke of York. (blog)
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Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 13:12
Beautiful poem!! Inspiring, thought provoking and soul searching!!! ?
Comment is about Stand And Be Counted (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 13:07
May their pious souls rest in peace!!
A heart wrenching write. Lots of tears in the words....lots of brave hearts in the words and lots of sorrows now fossilized in yourr poem for generations to read after we are gone.
Comment is about God bless the dead (blog)
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Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 13:03
Hi Ruth, No real letters in paper, and the photographs from moonshine and sunshine are reflections of him sent to me, no real pictures in paper, just a poem of my imagination..... I read the words, feelings and emotions in the beautiful words sent as letters in the form of poems and prose and see the pictures as in memory I hold of him in my soul and heart.
Comment is about Time!!! (blog)
Fuel for thought Ruth
I might order myself a trip into space - - -
now to change my will!
Comment is about We Will All Get There in the End (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Into One
A spark of inspiration
a draw of breath
a timeless reminder of intense imagery
taking both artist and poet
into the works of one.
Comment is about Popping up at Euston: a flashback to Write Out Loud poetry-art collaboration at Stockport (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Greetings Ruth - Whatever the queen watches - She will not be amused lol.
sláinte - Tom ?
Comment is about It's Christmas - Get Me Out Of Here (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Good pre Christmas poem Tom. I wonder what does the Queen watch at 3pm on Christmas Day...herself maybe?
Comment is about It's Christmas - Get Me Out Of Here (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
There's a fuelled up rocket ready to beam us up to the great beyond! Not yet though. Maybe there's a new business idea in this... Futuristic Funerals Inc ?
Comment is about We Will All Get There in the End (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Special Thanks to Po, Do, Don, Vautaw and Nigel for reading.
Comment is about Poetic vision (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Ooh Don sounds like you are verbally vomiting here!
Comment is about Throwing Up (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Real letters are still such a fantastic thing definitely Do.Ro.Thy
Comment is about Time!!! (blog)
Thanks Po, I really wasn't sure about this one. So thank you.
J. x
Comment is about Unbreakable (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Brilliantly written,a joy to read.I was there listening to the howl of the wolf under the light of the moon.Unique.
Comment is about The Wolf and Moon (blog)
Original item by Zhar2020
Thank you, Po. If you get a chance go to see the film 'Sorry We Missed You' by Ken Loach. Loved it.
Comment is about Sorry, I missed me (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I've just read this again Cait and recognised the importance of what you say.....
'the way I value myself should not be dependent on whether or not you love me'
Comment is about Whisper My Name (blog)
Original item by Cait Abbott
Thank you Don (your comments always keep me going no matter how simple) and thank you Hamzah☺️
Comment is about Whisper My Name (blog)
Original item by Cait Abbott
Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 00:23
Cheers for your comments. I recorded the tracks in a really great studio with an experienced sound technician. The whole 21 track album ‘is there a poet in the house? Is on Sound Cloud. ?
Comment is about Extra Terrestrial Poets (Audio) (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Hi Cynthia - an interesting read.
An understanding of 'understanding' - may it not also come from above, that is from that - under - which we stand? And if it comes from that - on- which we stand does all ground give right understanding? Of course we all understand that we are not talking here about geology or meteorology. ?
Go well
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Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
You are a musician and music is the highest of the arts, because the most abstract. It is the musicality of poetry - its rhythm, metre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme, half-rhyme - which allows it its gravitas. Words put to measure. I admire your dogged optimism Fish. But I do not wish to share it. We certainly do NOT live in the best of all possible worlds. And, yes, Ray, it was brave of the Stones to use a minor key, but it works, gloriously. Incidentally, the title is taken from Plath's poem 'Tulips' about her experience in hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt:
My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water
Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.
They bring me numbness in their bright needles, they bring me sleep.
Now I have lost myself I am sick of baggage——
My patent leather overnight case like a black pillbox,
My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;
Their smiles catch onto my skin, little smiling hooks.
John
Comment is about My body is a pebble (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Po. I'm glad your getting something from my scribbling and keyboard tapping.
Not sure about your Baal Peor reference unless it's refering to the fact that we reap what we sow? But even with that there is grace, grace, amazing grace.
Go well
Yea keep our feet on the ground and our head in the clouds (depending of course on which clouds we mean).
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Comment is about afishamongmany (poet profile)
Original item by afishamongmany
Po, Don, apropos "ryhme" I repost this from a few months back:-
Zebedi nonchalantly sipping his tea said rhyme can be sublime but sometime a chime a chant a twisting slant that ignores you can't can be the plant that bears the rarest fragrantest flower that rears the shining climbing tower that awakens sleeping weeping cowards to see and say hooray hooray today came some really cool communication surprising inspiration such a sweet and strange sensation and please let's not forget in the creative sweat every asset by which the poet is beset alliteration personification metronomic syncopation and oh yes punctuation said Zebedi pouring another mug of best builders tea.
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Comment is about Faces (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
I see this three letter ending so often now that it begs for comment.
Invariably, it is used to announce an accusation of discrimination from a variety of origins according to its perceived advantage to the user who takes refuge in righteous indignation at the attitudes and/or
behaviour of others.
Comment is about "ISM" = I See Me (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The more usual term is probably "knocking shop". As for brothels
and sin, let's not forget that a certain Mary Magdalen was not
perfect according to religious teachings but JC had time for her...
sending us back to that admonishment "Let him (her) who is without sin cast the first stone."
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Simple yet profound - the one true "constant" in life when love takes
various forms with its demands - and sex is often part of those
forms and demands.
Comment is about Fame And Friendship/By Austin Dobson/Translation Into Amharic/ዝናና ጓደኝነትአውስቲን ዶብሶን/ ትርጉም ዓለም ኃይል ገ/ክርሰቶሰ - Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
Thank you Brian and Dorothy
Comment is about Sorry, I missed me (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Wow. You are a poet, an astrophysicist, and a chemist. How do you find the time haha
Comment is about What is the Matter? (blog)
Original item by New Shoes
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 25th Nov 2019 17:25
Thank you Po. Om Shanti.
Always good to connect with people like yourself.
You find your tribe with your vibe, is what I chant now.
Stay tuned.
Raj
Comment is about My Communal Dance (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
Explaining a topic
without revealing too much
poetry can do
without causing any offence
to those involved.
Comment is about Poetic vision (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Mon 25th Nov 2019 13:05
The poem 'Knock Knock' appeared on WOL ages ago and when I Iooked closer discovered it referred to Knock House in Knock village. I couldn't find the poem or writer. May have left?....
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:18
I believe in the existence of God...so for me there's logical acceptance.
Thnx for elaborating it. N yes.....welcome bk!!
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
This just 'came' from the flash thought that 'understand' is virtually 'under where you stand'. Out of the blue it was. So obvious! But not considered before. And you know me! 'Well, isn't that interesting!' And I was OFF.
You WOLers put up with a lot.
Bless you, Dorothy.
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:16
The picture says it all....so u clicked it??? Where on earth u got knocked out......hehehe ?
Seriously you get such things before us which we really never knew....not a topic where i mus comment...cos it's a boyzone...still...thnx for telling...for v mus know.?
Comment is about Knock Knock. What's Going On Here? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Jason,
What a poem! You have found your precious jewel.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Open (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:12
Thought provoking write!! ?
Comment is about Rules! What Rules? (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:10
Beautiful thoughts!! Well described.... Cute connection.... Mighty love together. ?
Comment is about Open (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 12:04
Do u mean Alien's or ghosts?? I'm scared..don't wanna go bk to Jupiter... Sobs!!!
Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Do
Janet and I are waiting on Po to enlighten us. I'm sticking to my Manifold in Back but someone whispered it should be Manifold in Black. Typo Do....
Hello. Do? Deep-Space-Centre-Aus just texted me and said it might be connected to some strange science fiction thing. Beats me Do..
?
Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Do.RoThy
Mon 25th Nov 2019 11:09
What are MIB's?? Whose interpretation is more likely??
Comment is about UFO's and me!!! (blog)
Succinct, sardonic, satirical
Superbly sounding bite
Edgar Alan Poe at work
Po you're Poe'ing right
?
Comment is about Parliamentary chaos (blog)
Original item by hugh
The politicians are out there after our vote,
Making lots of promises to keep our country afloat.
But politicians please stop and think ,
Unite, otherwise our country will sink
Comment is about Parliamentary chaos (blog)
Original item by hugh
Philipos
Mon 25th Nov 2019 09:16
How refreshing is that! A very different and welcome new approach. Blessings. P. ?
Comment is about Fame And Friendship/By Austin Dobson/Translation Into Amharic/ዝናና ጓደኝነትአውስቲን ዶብሶን/ ትርጉም ዓለም ኃይል ገ/ክርሰቶሰ - Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
I am a little rhymer
A rhymer happy me
What am I gonna rhyme about
Dunno. Wot's on for tea ?
Clap...clap....
Thankyou Po.....
?
Comment is about Faces (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Clever MC....
I'm disappointed-gruntled
Hopeless as can be
Disaffected disillusioned
Silly ditty me
Disadvantaged-imilar
Hopeless still you see
Disputatious wot's that mean?
Silly ditty me
?
Comment is about "ISM" = I See Me (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Do.RoThy
Tue 26th Nov 2019 13:21
A beacon of glad tidings!!! ?
Comment is about Creased (blog)
Original item by abeacon