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
Tue 8th Oct 2019 13:05
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
<Deleted User> (9882)
Tue 8th Oct 2019 12:44
definitely a hear! hear! worthy piece Don, well done matey!
Rose ?
Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Kevin, Don, Lisa, Marina, Ray and MC.,
Thank you all for your comments which I greatly appreciate.
Keith
Comment is about Nan´s Kitchen (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Ghazala Lari
Tue 8th Oct 2019 10:14
Yes, most of the things you write are important but unusual. I would never dare to venture in that zone. Can't imagine writing a poem on such issues. I liked your poem on fishes eating plastics in seas and oceans. Most of your works are unusually excellent.
Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I write serious pieces like this to raise awareness of what people (including myself) may not know....
Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A welcome break eh, Don, from my free verse? It’s even free of bourgeois restrictions like little lines and worthy navel gazing
Comment is about SQUEEZING THIGHS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ghazala Lari
Tue 8th Oct 2019 09:24
You bring the current issues in a subtle way. Arousing curiosity and concern at the same time. This issue has several issues to talk in itself. I hope the right people get the right feel out of it.
Great write!!
Comment is about Climate Hysteria is Spreading – Helped Along by Eco-Messiah Greta Thunberg (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I like this....the title....the concept....presentation.... short and succint.
Well done Fred. Pity it wasn't for real though......?
Comment is about make believe love (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Tue 8th Oct 2019 02:59
if the light did not come on
and it occurs again
get a new light bulb
things are looking dim
the question unanswered
is it the bulb or him
that's losing his brightness
either way it's a no win!
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
My Monday here's
Bright m'dear
Full of sunshine
Full of cheer
You're livin' in
wrong hemisphere.....?
Comment is about Gloomy Monday (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
John, I can't believe it! You've written an actual poem with 4-line stanzas and rhyming to boot. Your Muse been tapping you on the shoulder?.....?
Comment is about SQUEEZING THIGHS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Rose and Ruth. And another week in the hamster wheel begins?.
J. x
Comment is about Mondays Demon (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
This is wonderful, thoughtful and touching. I loved the little memories as you recall them. Really great writing. Thank you for sharing.
Comment is about Chair (blog)
Original item by Ashleigh Davies
What a great opening poem to post on WOL Ashleigh!
There is something about an old chair that can transmit the previous owner's persona to the current incumbent. Enjoy that chair!
Comment is about Chair (blog)
Original item by Ashleigh Davies
Thank you M C. Don & Do.RoThY for your feedback and positive comments. T?
Comment is about Astounding Autumn (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Brian - that's a poem! And a cracker at that!
Incidentally I've had my "passage paid for" once or twice in the past.
Comment is about SQUEEZING THIGHS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Just another medieval Monday Jason!
Comment is about Mondays Demon (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 7th Oct 2019 17:53
John - I wasn't brought up at Eton but some say I look like I was eaten and brought up.
Comment is about SQUEEZING THIGHS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (14241)
Mon 7th Oct 2019 17:36
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 7th Oct 2019 14:34
stunning!
thank's Jason.
Rose ?
Comment is about Mondays Demon (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 7th Oct 2019 14:20
truly beautiful piece Adam-indeed!
thank you.
Rose ?
Comment is about In The Mansions Of Memory (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thanks for the likes folks.
Ray
Comment is about THE DEATH OF WORDS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A short and sharp exercise in self-awareness. Neat.
Comment is about apologies (blog)
Original item by Marina G
Thanks, Don. To borrow from a certain UK source.
You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment!
Comment is about MIND THE GENERATION GAP (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
The reference to betting shops reminds me of the gag from an old
(as "of yesteryear") comic about his luck backing the gee-gees.:
"I follow the horses that follow other horses".
Boom-boom!!
Comment is about Idle Chit Chat from a Walkabout Mind (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Loved the picture Tom. Reminds me of my time of living in England....
Comment is about Astounding Autumn (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
You had grit and gumption
Which helped you get through
The Brits now have lost this
Am I speaking true?.....
Maybe not.....
Comment is about MIND THE GENERATION GAP (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A timely and invigorating reminder of the glory of the changing
seasons, perhaps more marked in these islands than anywhere else on Earth.
Comment is about Astounding Autumn (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
I'll second Rose, a veritable masterpiece! Wow, wow, wow!
Thank you!?
Mae
Comment is about Between (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Fantastic! Incredible! I absolutely love it!
Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about Light (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Is Tse Wen aka dk?
Like O'l Buzzard is
You got me all a'wondering
You got me all a'tizz
I opened up my door
But no light did come on
Maybe the bulb is blown out?
Maybe it's all a con
I think I need advice dk
So I will now say Wen
I think you've opened wrong door
I'll try another then
Thankyou for advice dk.....?
Comment is about Sage Advice (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Good work Keith. Simple, direct and down to earth. There is much impact in presenting truth in this way. People would see this scenario as depressing today, but it was common practice, and provided only the basics of comfort. Where did we go so wrong (or right) according to taste. The last lines are highly relevant.
Ray
Comment is about Nan´s Kitchen (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Mon 7th Oct 2019 11:48
Froggy went a wooing go
(Thalia says hello)
Wherever is this rhyming going?
Beats me Phil, dunno ?
Oh yes she does remember
Remember you quite well
She thanks you for your WOL Muse Tour
(With me she kinda fell)
It was sorta mutual really....
Comment is about Idle Chit Chat from a Walkabout Mind (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Philipos
Mon 7th Oct 2019 08:27
Hello Don - say Hi to Thalia for me - there was a frog who lived in a bog - Hey Ho - said Rowley - the frog got as big as a house through eating toast with too much butter on it. Had to go to the froggie vet (before the betting shop) but the vet just said 'Hop it'. Strangely enough there was a horse running that day with the name of Hoppity so froggie backed it and went forth and multiplied. Rivet, Rivet. Don't tread on any frogs - you'll need to get the shoe brush out. P. ?
Comment is about Idle Chit Chat from a Walkabout Mind (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hersrgees
Mon 7th Oct 2019 06:53
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Review is about The Chester Poets on 26 Sep 2019 (event)
I'm first up on the blogslide
Yippee! (he's like a kid)
He'll soon come down to earth again
And down the blogslide slid....?
(Who's that spoiling my fun?....)
Comment is about Idle Chit Chat from a Walkabout Mind (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Boing boing...
No they are not riding kangaroos up Johnny
Qantas jumbo to Heathrow
???
?
Comment is about Announcement to Parents by Chairman WOL Kiddie Kindergarten (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (17799)
Mon 7th Oct 2019 02:09
leah
Mon 7th Oct 2019 00:14
MAGGIE HARRIS & OPEN MIC AT SEPTEMBER WRITE ANGLE
Maggie had three turns at the mic. Her poetry was wide ranging, from nostalgic memories of her childhood; to the airplane shot down over the Ukraine; to an ode to her muse, Leonard Cohen. Her thoughtful, evocative and lyrical poetry performed in such a beautiful voice was much appreciated.
As compère, Jezz created an impressive cabaret of performances, bringing poets back to the open mic several times.
Bruce Parry provided masterly descriptions, whether of nature with 'Southern Summer' or 'August Rush'; or of people in his 'Mr and Mrs Ever So Nice'. On his melodious hammer dulcimer, there was strong feelings of nostalgia with 'Those were the Days'.
Colin Eveleigh imbues his poems with meaning, whether telling of a bird that flies into his window in 'Thump' or of a leaf on a web in 'Caught in Camera or his monologue, 'Not Yet'.
Denys Wheatley, makes scientific information interesting with 'Kepler 87B' and the workings of solar winds then told of a a lake district hotel, The Old Dungeon Gill Hotel.
Poet Harry Haines used to claim that his poems came to him like leaves falling from a tree. It was hard to believe that. Yet the way in which Fred Werner writes seems to fit that description as he writes about the experiences in his life. He performed his web poem, 'Butterfly Snared by the Web', a mother in the park 'Blowing Bubbles' or more personal, relaising his daughter was pregnant, with 'Love's Produce. Life's Ticket Reservation'.
Richard Hawtree described a garden in 'Waterperry', or was it about love. And as autumn closes in on us, he produced his rousing out of season, 'April Leaps,
Jezz has a voice that makes all the songs he sang full of emotion, whether it was David Bowie's 'Kooks', inspired by the birth of his son – will you stay in our lover's story – followed by 'Melody' and then 'Magnolia'. It's not just his voice but the plaintive sound of his guitar that pulled the audience into his music.
The raffle was for a meal for two at La Piazzetta and second prize of a bottle of wine provided by The Queens Head at Sheet. As always it was a worthwhile evening.
Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 17 Sep 2019 (event)
My favourite idiom, Brian, has passed into political incorrectness but you would find it in The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie. To repeat it here would undoubtedly invite deletion.
Comment is about GREAT SHITS I HAVE HAD - CHAPTER ONE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Philipos
Sun 6th Oct 2019 19:15
Thank you Lisa (Chauvin) hope it made you smile. Blessings. P.
Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 6th Oct 2019 18:18
welcome to write out loud hun!
Rose ?
Comment is about Zoëlla (poet profile)
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Sun 6th Oct 2019 18:16
M.C. Newberry
Tue 8th Oct 2019 14:27
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