M.C., I do know that 'blessing'.

Apparently, I have 'Nordic' blood as well, which, in combination with the Celtic Irish, is quite a heritage for considering the 'esoteric' themes of life. There has to be some explanation for this unrelenting drive.

Ruth, how wonderful. My first thought was: 'Well, that accounts for the bright face leaping right off the screen. Irish eyes and a winning smile!'

Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks for reading Keith, glad you liked this. Hugh, Don, Adam, Branwell and Michael for the 'likes'.

Comment is about Armchair Travels (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

The ultimate in the art of zen Don.
All the best ideas start by focusing on that blank screen in your mind. Ironically it can take hours of meditation to free that mental chatter and get a blank screen. Uri Geller's top tip in becoming psychic...Focus on your blank screen. So we can expect some predictions from you soon.

Comment is about Haiku – White Screen (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Black n white
Colours spilled
Book of art
Craziness instill

Haiku expert!!

Comment is about Haiku – White Screen (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

d.k.,

We are kindred spirits. Look after your typewriter and cherish it as it is green friendly. I am a self confessed technophobe who still writes poetry, short stories and letters with a fountain pen. Blotting paper at the ready and an inkwell. I stick stamps on letters and visit the post office. I even send postcards, picture postcards and the postman knows where I live. I too possess a typewriter but seldom use it as it is the forerunner of the computer, a cursed machine. My telephone is black and I also have a whistling kettle. Stay strong in the face of progress. I also keep a diary, a page a day diary, which is not vulnerable to power cuts or spam. You should receive HOTW Hero of the Week award.

I salute you.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Sent From Typewriter (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Bear up, Don. It won’t be much worse than the stuff on here.

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

They sound like a movie of todays time. She should have been a script writer born now.
It does rings a gong in the head. Seriously i had always thought her to be a poet unlike your analysis.
Keep fuelling your think tank and keep sharing!!

Comment is about Headachey Makey (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Skippy is name for kangaroo on children's programmes boing boing...

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

Original item by d.knape

Waiting for Driver-less cars.
That was a Driver-less poem!

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

what is a "Skippy"?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

I will write My First Car
as soon as I remember
what it was.
cars had stone wheels back then.
a hard ride but...
no flats.

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

Why are you standing in the water?
in those new sneakers?

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

Original item by Tom

thanks for reading my poem
I just hope you are not addicted.
if so, seek treatment in
Write Out Loud.
?

Comment is about Emilia Callahan (poet profile)

Original item by Emilia Callahan

Oh no! You mean it gets worse?.....

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Dead Poet’s Society.
There is a special corner of Hell reserved for us, Don. It’s where we are forced to listen to one another’s pretentious shite.

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Here's a haiku (genre fun)
10,000 miles to you
Been sitting in my drive 3 months
'Bout time it to you flew


You will notice I am improving with my haiku studies..........

Thalia is impressed.......

Comment is about Haiku – White Screen (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The poem is entitled 'Oh to write like Emily' .It's hard writing (in rhyme) about a complex poet who wanted all her work destroyed. What attracted me was they were short rhymes, but so puzzling. A challenge you could say. And with titles like 'My life had stood - a loaded gun' and 'I felt a funeral' and 'Because I could not stop death' I couldn't resist her attraction....

Comment is about Headachey Makey (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

The poem seems to have a good start, creates curiosity, something kind of suspense.....m sure there is a thriller coming up..just waiting for the poem.
Hurry!!! Curiosity kills the cat?

Comment is about Headachey Makey (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Wow. Powerful piece, Keith! World history is marked by radicalized people blatantly acting out of sheer evil, in the name of righteousness. And history keeps repeating itself. ?

Comment is about Loathing (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Nicely presented Keith. I like the short 4-line 'interuptions' between...

Comment is about Loathing (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Rose, right?! Thanks so much for your kind words! ?

Emilia, thank you for reading and for your caffeinated empathy! Cheers! ☕️

Comment is about Before the Beans Grind (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

I love the way dreams blend elements of the past and we are left to give them meaning. You captured the dream so simply. I admit I would have tried to look for deeper truths if I had not read your comment, but as it was, I just enjoyed the physical experience of your poem. It flows so well.

Comment is about A DREAM OF MISFORTUNE (blog)

Original item by john short

I've missed the Grim Reaper so far
Don't think he likes poetry stuff
Too art-farty and how-do-you-do
Too uppity and queue youie fluff

Shit John I can see his shadow creeping up on me....thought I was safe in the poet queue...?

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ghazala, Do.RoThY

How interesting Ghazala. I like how her work is so tight, yet so complex. I'm also attracted to her use of rhyme. I always need to go to analysis to fully understand.

I am serious when I say I have writ a poem. And yes it did headachey makey me. Will post it sometime. Here's a verse

Every line a puzzle
Waiting to unwind
Taut with strange intensity
Created in her mind.....

Comment is about Headachey Makey (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Going once....

Going twice.....

Sold - to Rose....?

Comment is about Last Car (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Someone from WOL had a vision
Employed techs with experience (not green)
To figure a way to put poems each day
To be seen by great many on screen

And the viewers were happy...

(Cos they no longer had to watch rubbish on Logie Baird...) ?

Comment is about VISION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Indeed he does snatch some from further back in the queue, MC.
And thanks for the “Like”, Desmond.

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Do you know what Ruth, you're right. I'd never even thought of that. The idea was for Halloween. It was a demon whispering poison and doubt into someone's ear.

J. x

Comment is about A Dark Seed (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I think this is one of those laws that will be very difficult to police and enforce, but I expect support for it will grow amongst new parents in particular and behaviours will change accordingly. And the message will be carried via social media to other parts of the UK and we too will change our behavior, law or no law.

Comment is about With Reasonable Force (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I'm sure he will reappear in another guise.

Comment is about THE DEATH OF WORDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Skint as well

Hugh went to the doctors and was first in the queue,
Asked ,"Do you treat alcoholics?"Yes we treat quite a few."
Hugh said,"Judging by the queue you must make a mint."
"Good after you've seen all these patients get your coat on I'm skint."

Comment is about Armchair Travels (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thank you Candice for your comment on my poem THE MONSTER. I am The Monster because ran out of coffee?

Comment is about Candice Reineke (poet profile)

Original item by Candice Reineke

A lament, an invisible eulogy. Was this loss self imposed? " a window on his world bricked up" are words which say a great deal of a wounded soul.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about THE DEATH OF WORDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I really enjoyed this.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Armchair Travels (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

This says a lot in just a few words. Thanks for sharing ?

Comment is about Mabye I'll be okay (blog)

Original item by Zoëlla

I like this one, and I'd love to know what exactly the five dollar words were that changed the narrator's life moving forward.

Comment is about Five Dollar Words (blog)

Original item by Marantha Greyson

They say it takes forever to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning. Thanks for sharing!

Comment is about Before the Beans Grind (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

This is a really great poem. It leaves the reader wondering why he deleted his comment.

Comment is about THE DEATH OF WORDS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Yes watched it on parliament live.I was in the middle of doing research for my poem and by coincidence it was on.It was a moving experience listening to her.I have sent the poem by email to her and read it out to members of her staff on the phone.The things we poets do !

Comment is about Domestic abuse (blog)

Original item by hugh

Rosie Duffield made a very moving speech in parliament 2days ago. It was about her experience of domestic abuse topped with embarrassment as it was going on at the same time as being an MP. Did you see that Hugh?

Comment is about Domestic abuse (blog)

Original item by hugh

In my old (now sadly gone) local pub run by two Irish brothers, a sign
above the bar displayed these words that might have been added:
May the road ahead always rise up to meet you.

Comment is about An Irish Prayer (author unknown) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

When I work out my years ahead of you,
I'll be happy to look back down that queue
To see the Grim Reaper reach in and nab
Those jostling behind to avoid his grab! ??

Comment is about MOVING UP THE QUEUE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Topical and worth reading and commenting.
During decades of public service here in London, I attended my
share of what is now termed "domestic abuse". The causes were
varied and the solutions rarely easy or readily accepted from within
the marriage (I assume this basically refers to marital situations) -
and logical advice was often acknowledged with an outward show of gratitude - but with no follow-up action that might have alleviated the problem. The sad proof of "hope springs eternal"!.
Bullies and aggressors exist in both sexes, their behaviour
rarely examined other that to allocate blame. Don't marriage
counsellors (a fact of life in years past) exist these days? Victims
can also be instigators and treading carefully when dealing with
this volatile scenario is of paramount importance or else we are in
danger of falling back on our own prejudices to form judgements
that merely scratch at the whole often unpalatable truth.
Divorce courts spend hours trying to determine such situations
when they get that far - which says much for the multi--faceted
web of deceit and self-deceit that can be weaved between the "warring factions".
Physical and verbal aggression are
open to proper remedial action but so
often these courses are not adopted and
the results are often all too evident - too
late!

Comment is about Domestic abuse (blog)

Original item by hugh

Today i happened to teach A narrow fellow in the grass to my students.

Great write!!?

Comment is about Headachey Makey (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Now they should sort out their considerable problem with alcohol -
the cause of so much aggression and physical harm there.

Comment is about With Reasonable Force (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

has that,

' if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all '
similar ring to it.

well done girl!





Rose ?

Comment is about hush (blog)

Original item by Eiren Water

very entertaining dude!










Rose ?

Comment is about Last Car (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Candice, you never said and never will say a truer word/s. Oh! that wonderful liquid kick-start to the day!

Brilliantly written piece.







Rose ?

Comment is about Before the Beans Grind (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

A little bit of flirt

She was slim and smart with plenty of charm,
Chatty and friendly confident and calm.
She'd come to see me to plant a seed,
By the end of the meeting I was her dog on a lead.

She crossed her legs and was a bit of a flirt,
She did it with her eyes and a very short skirt.
She signed me up for my last car,
No swear words or smoke from a cigar.
No footie talk or offer of a drink,
A little bit of flirt was her success I think.

But it wasn't my last car,I put it into reverse,
Crashed into a bus,ended up in a hearse.
I'm up there in heaven happy and proud .
Driving with the angels up in the clouds.

Comment is about Last Car (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks Don

I sometimes make my poems open Ruth so you can put the words to any situation on a personal level

Cheers Lisa balanced it must be!

Comment is about Halfway There (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell