Was climbing up my stairs today
(I don't have stairs, but need for rhyme)
I tripped (how bloody clumsy)
I do this all the time
But Lisa I am learning
To not so clumsy be
Each time I trip and fall down (these imaginary stairs)
The 'far' gets less, you see?
See?
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Comment is about I Fell Today (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Beautiful Cathy. Succinct, pithy, no wasted words. At the beginning of the very moving video-accompaniment - a child puts a protective arm around the shoulder of another, younger child - this image should break the heart of all the ignorant cynics, generals, politicians, those whose policies cause so much harm to so many of the world's children.
He who mocks the Infants Faith
Shall be mockd in Age & Death
He who shall teach the Child to Doubt
The rotting Grave shall neer get out
He who respects the Infants faith
Triumphs over Hell & Death.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Comment is about My Pied Piper (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Now Bran of course you realize
It's you who which are faulted
I really hope (insurance sake)
No car damage assaulted
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Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Kev the gritter wants to grit
Sees the gridlock, "bloody shit"
Shoulda come out hours ago
'Fore the snow began to snow
(True experience when I lived there. Typical Brit mentality. What's that? Brexit?.....)
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Comment is about Losing his load (blog)
Original item by hugh
So good Ruth....and as Do. says., how true.....
My brain goes round and round and round
Rotates all 'willy-nilly'
So bought the latest upgrade Ruth
I'm pleased, I'm now more silly
The shop where I did buy it from
(This upgrade for my brain)
Equipped it was with fitting shop
Surprised, it caused no pain
(Only pain in wallet...)
You know I could go on and on
But think I'll pull my plug
I am a little robot (Don)
I'm winding d..o..w..n.... glug.... glug
(After rest I re-plug and wind up again.....)
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Comment is about Robotic (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Ray and Jon. Yes, you're right, Ray, common enough, one could say universal:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
JD, No man is an island
Comment is about THE DIMMING OF THE DAY (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Good answer Kevin,must have been a load off your mind.
Comment is about Losing his load (blog)
Original item by hugh
Short but sweet,
Hope you landed on your feet.
Comment is about A Love Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
The thought of a thirsty thief not knowing what the beer was does make me laugh Nigel
Comment is about Drunken Monk (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Nah not on the rebound... just to higher state of mind....
Comment is about I Fell Today (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Good to hear, Brian. I knew you’d come round.
You know it’s not going to happen, don’t you?
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Vautaw, I thank you for responding to my 'the Visitor'.
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
Original item by Vautaw
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Wed 23rd Oct 2019 18:01
The penny is slowly starting to drop...
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Vautaw, thank you for contemplating choices offered in 'the Visitor'.
I totally agree the response depends on one's mood.
I will rework this piece to make it a more succinct composition.
I saw myself being all those characters, calm, fearful and aggressive.
Within us lives the capacity to exhibit multiple avenues of emotion, we're not yet aware of.
Comment is about the Visitor (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
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Wed 23rd Oct 2019 17:59
Shades of Victoria Wood...nice one Haze.
Comment is about Love Me (blog)
Original item by Hazel Connelly
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Wed 23rd Oct 2019 17:55
Don, I enjoy your ongoing play with words.?
Comment is about What's in it for me? (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Hello Do.RoThY
I like your analysis of me and us.
I sit , the words come, I jot them down and read them afterwards.
When I say 'me me me' a certain emotion appears. It feels like a kind of enclosure. When I say 'us', there as a sense of opening. I am not suggesting one is better than the other. Both are essential components of thought and human communing.
Our words, and the impulse behind them, may widen or limit the channel of verbal communication, and may be experienced as feeling in the body. Me and Us are just simple examples.
Comment is about What's in it for me? (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Very touching and sensitively rendered John. The theme is a common one but this has the edge I think due to its plaintive quality.
Ray
Comment is about THE DIMMING OF THE DAY (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Hugely entertaining and full of verve and quite illicit in its concept. I always think what the NHS should provide willing participants to give satisfaction briefly to those who can't do a thing for themselves. The world would immediately be a better place.
I am a bit unconventional by the way.
Nice work, a breath of fresh air (well almost).
Ray
Comment is about Love Me (blog)
Original item by Hazel Connelly
Very good I didn't see that last line coming..
Comment is about Losing his load (blog)
Original item by hugh
If I had my time again
I would become a lawyer
People would then not pay the piper
They'd pay me - employer
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Comment is about Paying The Piper (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Emilia is an addict
For caffeine she does say
But better this than nicotine
Or ice, what's round today
Don't tell me you smoke......
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Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
When Thale and I sit down to chat
(And drink in Hillbillys - me coffee in mug, she Earl Grey in china teacup)
We do not know what will come out
Serious or perhaps silly
Like you say Ruth let the mind wander and follow it around. See what it comes back with........
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Comment is about Drunken Monk (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Wed 23rd Oct 2019 13:48
I like this one - you say a lot in a short space. I'm also a caffeine addict ? in fact I spend most of my day convincing myself I don't need more coffee, but also most days I lose those arguments.
Comment is about coffee (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Wed 23rd Oct 2019 13:44
Your imagery is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this piece.
Comment is about Dry (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thale and I are flummoxed
Whatever is a mask?
Is that what you put round some glass
Before a painting task?
Thale: Think that's masking tape Don.....
Issit?.....
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Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Seriously Emilia the way you turned your baby language (gobbledygook) into something beautiful was clever.. ...
Comment is about gobbledygook (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Lingering Taste
Frequent peeing
frothy brew
thirsty thief
steals bottle
little knowing
Monks beer.
Comment is about Drunken Monk (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Scifaiku Blip Blip
Hear us Great Blip Blip
Are you on the same wavelength?
Static static. No
Bloody aliens. Useless technology....
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Comment is about Poetic Cud (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Don get out your mask
Thale must too
and join in
for some Halloween fun!
Thanks for your like Hannah
Comment is about The Halloween Party (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Wed 23rd Oct 2019 13:25
d.knape I love your interpretation.
Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Wed 23rd Oct 2019 13:22
Ruth, I babbled a lot too as a baby! Funny enough, only to my parents though. Otherwise, I was quite shy.
Don, I promise I won't tell my husband you said that, hahaha. In all seriousness though, I enjoyed writing this one. It's a small piece but I especially have a difficult time writing about being a parent or writing about my daughter in general just because it's such an emotional experience. So, I enjoyed being able to create at least something inspired by her.
Comment is about gobbledygook (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Have you ever tried writing a scifaiku Don? I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
Comment is about Poetic Cud (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
'e got stuck behind a gritter....
https://youtu.be/FB8TXxGEP1M
Comment is about Losing his load (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thanks for the comments, Brian and Adam. Also for the "likes" folks!
I have noted, with a mixture of "I might have known" and impatience,
just how many people appearing on TV quiz shows choose to go on
holiday when asked what they would do with money won. This was,
in part, a motivation for this blog.
Comment is about TRAVEL PLANS - ALSO RANS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Here, here! Don. I am with you all the way
Keith
Comment is about Poetic Cud (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks for lookiing in Hannah. Appreciated.
Ray
Comment is about ROUNDELAY (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hugh, I would love to know what inspired this one....
Comment is about Losing his load (blog)
Original item by hugh
Ha,ha Cheers Hugh no it's fine. My piece here is more of an unofficial sounding limerick. I like working with the sound of something that formulates in my mind. It's how I create my work. It means that this Ruth who writes to you now, did not sit down and say ' right, let's write a poem about a drunk Monk'. I never consciously decide what is coming next, that is why you will find so many different types of poetic creativity on my blog.
Glad to inspired you to create another piece though Hugh, I have coined this type of inspiration ' Russian Doll Effect' the poem within the poem, within the poem.
Comment is about Drunken Monk (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thank you, Dorothy. All will be well in the end. ?
Thank you, Ruth for the like.
Comment is about Dry (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
My first Limerick,inspired by yourself.I can extract it{delete it} if you find it a bit scary.Had the wrong tooth taken out once by a dentist.Interesting to find there are two completely different meanings for the word "lie."
There was once a young lady called Ruth,
Who would always tell us the truth.
But one day she did lie
At the dentist, she did cry,
When he extracted the wrong tooth.
Comment is about Drunken Monk (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Beautiful video Vautaw. Love through all stages of our life....
Comment is about My Pied Piper (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Two me's together make di-me
While three makes me tri-me
A multi-me I wonder what
Our poetry will be ?
(Awesome.....)
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Comment is about What's in it for me? (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
What is in it for me Fred?
Dunno, but like to play
Around with words which make no sense
Gobbledygook, gooday
to you Fred.....
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Comment is about What's in it for me? (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Vautaw, dark and curious
Going for the ride
Unsure of what might happen
Hesitant inside
Will I meet my maker?
At the end of ride
Or will this strange-like visitor
End dead, right at my side
(Thalia: He thinks it's Halloween Vautaw...)
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Comment is about the Visitor (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Don Matthews
Wed 23rd Oct 2019 22:23
That's good Ray......
Comment is about JACKO (blog)
Original item by ray pool