Another fabulous poem Tommy. I always look forward to your postings.
Nice one mate
Comment is about r e f u g e (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
This is a first class reminder of what went on and how a seemingly insignificant corporal can have such a devastating effect on world history
Nice one Greg
Comment is about The carriage in the forest (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I agree with Hannah in this one Ray. It is indeed brilliant. It reminds of a church not far away from where I live that has some tatty looking regimental flags that look as if they would disintegrate if anybody touched them
Fabulous mate
Comment is about NEEDING MAYBE A TITLE IN LATIN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Another superb poem Jason . I love the harmony and the rhythm of the lines which match the content really well. And that last line is magnificent.
Nice one
Comment is about Aftermath (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
I love the flow of this poem Lisa as well as the statement it makes about time and how we are caught up in it
'one small fish in the great tide'
I also love the fact that
'Time moves on so I must follow'
So many great lines
Love it
Comment is about Time (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
This is simply a beautiful piece of poetry. great imagery and I love the accompanying picture.
Nice one
Comment is about Endless Now (blog)
Original item by trixtex
The difficulty for many is finding that happy place. It seems like you are able to do so. I am perhaps blessed in that I have more than one both physically metaphorically and spiritually.
I love the way your poem encourages others to seek that place.
Nice one
Comment is about Meditation on My Happy Place (blog)
Original item by trixtex
Thanks to Lisa and Trixtex for the likes. Also thanks to Kate for commenting on this piece. It was something I wrote about a month or mare ago and hadn't quite finished it. As I worked on it I realised it had a particular resonance for Sunday so I decided to post it.
Thanks again
Comment is about There's a town (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
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Mon 11th Nov 2019 08:53
"I need a bath,a shave and some soap,
For a nice house and a job,there's not much hope!
An avalanche of events have destroyed my life,
I'm a human being living in disaster and strife."
Comment is about Avoid building a Berlin wall between us and the homeless (blog)
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Mon 11th Nov 2019 07:16
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Sun 10th Nov 2019 17:15
I had an aunt who was a matchmaker, made a disastrous date for my cousin.
I love the character in this poem.
Hannah
Comment is about Forbidden fruit (for my grandmother) (blog)
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Sun 10th Nov 2019 17:12
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Sun 10th Nov 2019 17:07
This is a brilliant piece.
Once a year we are taken into this realm of suffering and loyalty and heroics, with as you say, few questions as to why.
Hannah
Comment is about NEEDING MAYBE A TITLE IN LATIN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you all. And Vautaw, I think I might be able to arrange that... ?
Comment is about Pocketful of Rain (blog)
Original item by Tom
Beware Don -
When you highlight age
It might become the rage -
Seeing folk who can't wait
To be like you - eighty eight!
(OK - I ex-ag-gerate!!) ?
P.S. Or as the old saying tells us:
It's not the years in your life -,
It's the life in your years.
Comment is about When You Get to My Age (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you for reading and your feedback Merey! I too love Jon Bon Jovi, not just because his band puts out amazing music, but because he gives back to his community through his pay-what-you-can Soul Kitchen and helps veterans. I think this new song will bring even more awareness. I hope his generosity inspires more celebrities to do what they can to make the world a better place. One rocker, one poet, one motivated person at a time can make a dark world shine.
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
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Sun 10th Nov 2019 13:30
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Sun 10th Nov 2019 13:10
Hi Martin, I love the twist in this - the change in tone from nostalgia to brutal reality. Really well done. I read it several times....
Comment is about There's a town (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thank you Don, Kimberly, Kate and Vautaw for the comments and Branwell, Jeannot, and Hannah for the likes. I feel like I still need to fix up a few lines in this one but on the whole it says exactly what I wanted ?
Comment is about Born To Muse (blog)
Original item by Tom
And Don, we wouldn't want you to write any other way! The rinky dinky dink line did make me laugh too.
Comment is about When You Get to My Age (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I like this a lot but not sure I've cracked it's meaning just yet. It has a novelistic feel to it; I could well imagine reading "The border had done
what most borders do - shrugged us through." in one of Martin Amis' better books.
Comment is about r e f u g e (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I used to think time was the enemy, but now we've formed a temporary truce. Liked this one Lisa.
Comment is about Time (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
This is beautiful and moving.
Comment is about Through 7 Year Old Eyes (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Hi Po - My son is an ex-servicemen, who fortunately came home intact. Thanks for your comments. T?
Comment is about Remember & Reflect (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Do.RoThy
Sun 10th Nov 2019 08:56
Very well thought and said Po??
Comment is about Torn pages of the book!!!!!! (blog)
Do.RoThy
Sun 10th Nov 2019 06:43
I liked the video, as a child i was very fond of jovi. Nice write Vauw.
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Sun 10th Nov 2019 01:49
so sorry to hear about your dad passing so early
in your life. how sad.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I would love to hear this set to music with light rain. Heartbreakingly beautiful. ?
Comment is about Pocketful of Rain (blog)
Original item by Tom
Brian, the poem (not 'narrative', that means story)) does not state that all veterans are destitute. But if one veteran is destitute - that is, for me, a national disgrace. The poem is centred on our national hypocrisy - we wear the poppy but forget (or fail to realise) the flesh and blood sacrifice of those who serve - death, mutilation, shell shock, PTSD et al. . This gap between civilian 'remembrance' and military service is at the centre of the poem. Also, if we really valued our soldiers, sailors and air personnel we'd pay them more and offer them decent pensions, if they live long enough to collect. Instead, since 2010, the budget for the MOD has been cut and cut again. You are not alone in having served, and having relatives who served. Millions of Brits are in the same position, I am no exception.
Comment is about Bullet points (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Wot's this? My screen's gone blank?
I'll miss my netflix fix
You say I haven't paid my fee
There's been a banking mix?
I shoulda paid cash over the counter......
?
Comment is about Netflix-oholic (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
Thanks for this, Jennifer. It reminds me of my late grandma, who loved gossip and playing matchmaker. In her mind, the life-partner candidates she would pick for me were absolutely wonderful. They weren’t! ?
Comment is about Forbidden fruit (for my grandmother) (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
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Sat 9th Nov 2019 21:40
I accept what you say John that there are veterans who are homeless and in need but narratives such as yours give the impression that every veteran is in the same position. I can only speak as I find...I have three siblings who served and five friends. My father and all my uncles fought in WW2. None of these ended up homeless or destitute. So based on that what other conclusion can I draw except that the very fact of being a veteran does not make you destitute. There must be other factors in play such as family support.
Comment is about Bullet points (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Grim but good...
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Very cool Do. We are surfing on the same plane today! I love Bon Jovi for many reasons including their amazing music and the way Jon gives back through his Foundation and Soul Kitchen. Bon Jovi was the first concert I ever attended. I love that they are still going strong. So inspiring to keep pursuing your art❣️
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Thanks Po. This poem was inspired by Bon Jovi’s new song Unbroken that he wrote for a documentary about service dogs.
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Ray you are correct. I stand corrected. Correction is the side-street to drunken doorways.
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Comment is about The Woman at My Table (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Ruth,
A common theme today...Time....as that is what came to me upon waking.
Everyone I know has been edgy leading up to this moment.
Let us all hold on for the ride
Comment is about Retrograde (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Do. This week is especially important in this.
Comment is about Retrograde (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Start Nailing Wood - - - the Drifter said
Broken whiskey bottle, fight starts
gunslingers firing, townsfolk shouting
They've shot the sheriff
Butt cigar Drifter gambling man
odds against him five to one
killer bullets fly, cocksure laughing dies
Bodies hit dirt coffin boxes made
holes freshly dug wanted men dead
Drifter collects reward, undertaker takes share
Only words said Brief but good.
The theme for Monday night - - - Grief but good
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I do believe in 'strology
My alien friends prove this
They try to contact me ...blip...blip
But always seem to miss
I must always be out.,...
?
Comment is about Retrograde (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
\My own father died too young, aged 50. I was five and mercifully
too young to have known him either as a father or a man. My mother
and older siblings bore the brunt of the cruelty of his early death.
Comment is about Through 7 Year Old Eyes (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Martin Elder
Mon 11th Nov 2019 11:20
A touching poem that strikes all the right chords in the right places. I also had not realised that Jon Bon Jovi was actively involved in helping ex-service personnel. More power to him and indeed to you for writing such worthy pieces
Nice one
Comment is about Touchstone (blog)
Original item by Vautaw