Oh Nigel this was sweet of you
You will have won her heart
She wears them both to bed each night
Not from her bod they part

She will cherish them and you forever....?

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Flowers will not last
but on each glove
I scratched a message
to remind you of - - -

holding hands in the potting shed.

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Morning
Outward
Nigel
Driving
Away
Yesterday

Comment is about Gloomy Monday (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Yes, yes I do ?

Very well said.

Comment is about Moments (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Well Don maybe one day I will record myself saying this long word for you! We should all do that!!! Well I do have an accent in an almost neutral kind of way. It's a Mancunian, Corkonion Irish lilt, yesterday someone told me I sounded very soothing ?

Comment is about Floccipaucinihilipilification (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Definitely the one connected to the hard drive....computer that is ?

Comment is about Gaming Addiction (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Ruth

But can you say it? Don't ask me though - my accent would jar you. Oh, this reminds me, as radio presenter have you acquired one of these 'indistinguishable' accent voices? ?

Comment is about Floccipaucinihilipilification (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Nice to see you speaking a bit of Hindi there Do.Do.Thy!

Comment is about Floccipaucinihilipilification (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hmm I Hope 'mouse' isn't being used as some sort of euphemism here Don...

An aching wrist
But still persists
Can he not resist?

Comment is about Gaming Addiction (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks for bringing that word back Don, it gave me a real sense of achievement to learn it. Not a good word for anyone with false teeth is it? ?

Comment is about Floccipaucinihilipilification (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Further good news about this wonderful project ... an anthology of around 200 poems is promised. https://www.placesofpoetry.org.uk/The-Places-of-Poetry-Anthology/Blog/

Comment is about Necklace of haiku puts Exeter on map as popular project enters its final month (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Don,

as an erstwhile student of latin I have never come across this word. I suppose it is ok if it is confined to two consenting adults in private.

Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Floccipaucinihilipilification (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I thought he was the best contributor on this site and I also picked up a few tips from him. But he was also the most controversial, irreverent, and often abusive to those who didn't deserve it...including me more than once. We fell out, which was distressing for me as I thought we'd had a good private relationship.

He challenged authority and did not know when to back off...that was his undoing. It would be nice to see him back but I fear he's blotted his copybook once too often.

This may not be what others wish to hear, but folk on this site are always banging on about the truth and this is the truth as I see it.

Comment is about David (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

One of the best poems I have read in sometime as it cannot help but raise one´s spirits and generate a sense of optimism.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Moments (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

A lovely tribute. I have also gained much from David's work.

Comment is about David (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks for this John. I continue to follow David on his wordpress site, and have always enjoyed, and continue to enjoy his work and comments. He has my support.

Comment is about David (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I like this.....and the rhyming....

Comment is about Memory Box (blog)

Original item by Ashleigh Davies

Unfortunately colour is seen as important in society. How wrong. It's what's inside us and shown to others that is.....

Comment is about Color Matters (blog)

Original item by Fred Nicholson

NHS, help!, I'm addicted
To playing around with my mouse
The one that's connected to hard drive
I've tried to rehab me, to douse

It just squeaks right back, I come running
Like an addict addicted to ice
Do I qualify for entry to clinic
To rehab my online game 'mice' ?

You're pushing the boundary here addict
We can't find your MICE game online
Suggest you sit, play with your squeak-mouse
Till it becomes registered (in time)

(But I'll be a wreck by then....)

(We of the NHS have rules sir. And rules are rules...)

(Bloody NHS. Useless......) ?

Comment is about Gaming Addiction (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Hello Candice,
Your samples are enchanting to absorb.
'RED CHAIR' is color-full, exhilarating, and nature-full.
T'HELL WITH HAIKUS had me laughing and counting.
'THINKING OF ME' had me inhaling and hearing the gulls.

*****
a Living Paradise
Your impact-full compliment induced a rush of tingling chills.
I enjoyed visualizing the image compilation you presented.
I heartily thank you.

Haven't figured out the chore of uploading a profile picture yet.

Comment is about Candice Reineke (poet profile)

Original item by Candice Reineke

Hello Candice,
Your impact-full compliment induced a rush of tingling chills.
I enjoyed visualizing the image compilation you presented.
I heartily thank you.

Comment is about a Living Paradise (blog)

Original item by Fred Nicholson

Hello Don,
You say, "Pity it wasn't for real though."
For me or for you, my fellow poet?

Comment is about make believe love (blog)

Original item by Fred Nicholson

If there's anybody out there - Maryland is quite near to Stratford East - not the sort of place you'd want to be waiting for an all night bus, Aythangow.

Comment is about IN MARYLAND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A rung missing from the scaled ladder

nobody notices except for me.

Yes it feels like a bereavement Ray - the banishing of Wolfgar (David) - but, worse, such an unnecessary loss and such an unwarranted insult to a man of an austere intelligence and poetic vision.

REINSTATE DAVID NOW!!

Comment is about THE DEATH OF WORDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I only became aware of David's situation today. David fought hard (in many senses) against the principles of INGSOC and its literary equivalent 'duckspeak' — automatic, vocal support of political orthodoxies in speech and writing. David knows the importance of thinking for himself - ownlife — a person's anti-social tendency to enjoy solitude and individualism. I don't know what tense to use in writing about David. Who the hell thinks they have the right to silence his voice on this forum God alone knows. I am just about to read your poem Ray. We need to use our only weapon - language - to bring David back where he belongs. But, then again, maybe he will not want to return after being so badly done to. John

Comment is about David (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Fred,

This poem albeit brief speaks volumes on the subject of colour and how it is perceived. I think it will always be an enigma of sorts. Your words give powerful significance to this

Thank you
Keith

Comment is about Color Matters (blog)

Original item by Fred Nicholson

Thank you for reading, the good wishes and the nice comments..Mike

Comment is about Blue or pink!! (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Isn't synchronicity a wonderful thing, John. No sooner have I posted a poem than yours comes up in support of David. You illustrate perfectly the stimulation and also the bracing truths he summarized. I for one feel cowed in my inspiration now but your always stimulating work has boosted me no end !

Ray

Comment is about David (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

No role now maybe, but without it for the last two centuries we would not be where we are now.

Comment is about Coal - you have no role! (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Eve,

A masterly poem in condemnation of pollution. The poem is better than the photo in terms of description.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about Coal - you have no role! (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Thanks Don and Amelia for the thumbs up. Whilst i agree poets have a job to record history as it's happening like Don I think action is necessary....like the Extinction Rebellion action around the UK. The poem was inspired by attending a ER Climate Change strike demo, where a six year old boy with a banner bigger than him, told me he had been to speak to his head teacher off his own bat, to ask for the day off to join the protest. She told him she was proud of him and the school would be proud of him! If you are interested you can join Extinction Rebellion on line, you don't have to go to protests just joining encourages the activists who are peacefully protesting on the streets.

Comment is about Situation earth 2019 (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

So soulful and it touches the heart?

Comment is about Heart To Heart (blog)

Original item by DeVaughn

Yes writers are
real fighters
for the cause
without making pause

human pain
remains
their main concern
and he tries to turn it into happiness

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Really Hugh? You've seen daffodils today? That's another sign of climate change!

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Flowers are like friends,they bring colour to our world,
While out walking this morning ,two daffs on the horizon unfurled.

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks Hugh. Thanks Brian hmm maybe it's how I've written the words, I'm going to read it again now?

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Love it Ruth but the rhythm changes towards the end which for me doesn't work.

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

The end of a budding relationship.
"She'd waited for hours for him to bring flowers."Great line .

Comment is about Birthday Flowers (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Clever Randy......

Comment is about In Unironic Praise of Older Women (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Guess pink shorts not in fashion and I gotta go with the fashion else Thalia will disown me.

Take them right back now!!

OK pet whimper whimper....?

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I liked this personification of a vengeful autumn.

Comment is about Climate change? (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Don, I really think a nice crisp pink shirt on a Man can be very attractive.... But not pink shorts. Even Thailia will ban you from wearing them?

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Heartwarming stuff Ashleigh. Simple and direct and hits the spot.


Ray

Comment is about Chair (blog)

Original item by Ashleigh Davies

Ruth, MC, I'm in a spin
I really did like blue
Now maybe I should wear pink shorts?
To please both me and you?....?

Seriously, our Premier wore pink shorts back in the dim dark past. A very 'with it' leader...

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

MC

Here is a 'possible explanation' as to who is funding and pulling the strings of Greta Thunberg. It was a guest post. Source link below.

But if you think that Greta’s parents are the only ones pulling the strings on poor disadvantaged Greta, then you would be wrong. The real puppeteers are the “One Foundation”.

Who is the One Foundation, I hear you ask? Remember the song “One” by U2? The One Foundation was set up by none other than Bono, who was previously accused, much like the Clinton Foundation, of using a charity to line his own pockets, with Bono taking 99% of the charity donations. Some of that charity money is going to fund climate activism; the rest, presumably, funds Bono.

If you think that Greta being funded by a Bono run charity is bad enough, you ain’t heard nothing yet! Bono has also joined with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and…George Soros, to push Greta Thunberg as the new face of global climate change rebellion.

So there we have it: the real money behind the global push for climate change, with Greta Thunberg as their talking head, is a consortium of Bono, Bill Gates and George Soros, people who clearly don’t give a toss about using a poor autistic girl to push their radical climate agenda.

https://www.whaleoil.net.nz/2019/05/greta-thunberg-child-prodigy-or-an-exploited-puppet-of-the-left/

Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

d.knape good poem, I love when you can create content from the mundane like that. Hmm...you could always do as the Greeks do and smash those plates ?

M.C & Don that Pink and Blue association always fascinates me. I've heard that pink was a male colour of war before the 1920's as it is just a lighter shade of blood red. Blue on the other hand is mainly calming and more feminine, The Virgin Mary is painted wearing blue & white.

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Paper plates can be recycled - hurrah! But plastic cutlery...that's
another matter (so to speak).
Don - it surprised me to read that a century or more ago, pink
and blue were reversed for use as colours chosen for infants. Not
sure when blue became identified with boys.

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Dishplay dk sounds like a fun game
Pink ones for girls, blue for boys
We sit at the table eat cookies
With pink and with blue plates, our toys

And matching nifes and fawks our mummy bought for us......?

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I ask this question (so far not addressed by any media I know).
WHO funds the travels, promotion and appearances of 16 year old
Greta Thunberg? In short, WHO is pulling her strings?
As for the subject of climate change in a general sense, there is no
doubt that the climate fluctuates over the years...as history can tell
us. In my lifetime, I've seen the "gospel" being preached in ever-
changing ways - from the dangers of "abandoned fridges" (CFCs)
to man-made smoke and gases. Very little is reported about the
enormous effect of the activities noted on the sun that directly
affect the weather patterns creating violent storms over oceans,
or the volcanic emissions that pump out their products in quantities
that dwarf human output. Remember the panic stories about the
"ozone hole" over the Antarctic and how it was growing to signify
the dangerous effects caused by (very distant!) humanity. Now
little is reported of the news that it's shrinking (fluctuating?) in
size but that doesn't fit in with the "scare" scenario that is being
pushed out these days.
Back to my question, but in a more general sense - WHO is pulling the strings?

Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

We do the dishes
for the Missus
who cooks our meals
which are delicious,
if we do well
we reap the kisses
and now you know
just what dish bliss is!

?

Comment is about Dishplay (blog)

Original item by d.knape