The Poetry Blight has struck
Shit and bloody fuck
Little me down south you see
Mother hen goes cluck
He's come unstuck.......
Sheesh....?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Ho-ho.
However,...
Whatever the doomsters may think or say
We've never suffered being "nothing" here in the UK. ?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
We can get rid of politicians from our lives - but poets seem to hang
around ad nauseam! ?
Seriously, the "vote" is important to the former and the fear of losing
it - and a comfortable position and income - CAN bring change.
Remember that here in the UK, the idea of leaving the European
Union was thought worthy of patronising sniggers and dismissive
waves of the political hand...until the threat of the loss of votes
brought about a long-overdue national referendum which, it was
thought, would comfortably preserve the status quo. Not so!
The battle is on but it will be won....thanks to votes.
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Dead Dead Dead
Brain cells go dead
till time to end
all deadlines - - - dead!
Happy Poetry Day Ruth!
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 14:49
' and the bark will be made from your skin ' what!? ohh! that's me off to the beauty parlour and sharpish!
monstrously brill Jason. I might join in with this spectral subject later
fang you very much ?
Rose ?
Comment is about A Dark Seed (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
The truth .Poetry day theme
Jim told his wife the truth,
He was seeing a doctor called Ruth.
But Sally her truths she did rally
She was seeing a plumber down the alley,.
She was seeing a barman at the pub,
And a man called Boris at the club.
The problem evolved by telling the truth,
Jim left Sally and moved in with Ruth.
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
You don't think politicians take any notice of community backlash Brian ?
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Good golly, this new form of illness
Involves some strange utter form of exit
I do hear clinics are being set up
To neutralise this Psychosis Brexit
Google one near you Keith.....?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Adam,
a clever poem but horribly true.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about A Poem (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
trump it or trash it, is my advice
Keith
Comment is about Intelligence Briefing (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Ruth,
Thank you for this as I have been diagnosed as having chronic Brexit Pychosis. I need to go and lie down now as I feel another attack coming on.
Keith
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Chrystel, I'm working on another. Halloween is my birthday you see so it seems appropriate to write something really dark. This was a Poem about how October makes me feel and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed writing it.?
J. x
Comment is about Hallows Harbinger (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 12:37
It would be nice to think that any mass movement or grass roots movement has 100% support, but they never do. Look at Brexit 52/48.
Suppose for example that a mass movement started and got 60% support in favour of veganism...would you expect politicians to then make it the law of the land?
Time to put your serious head on Don.
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank You for your Kind Comments Tom I appreciate you reading some of my poems too. Happy National Poetry Day!
Comment is about Tom (poet profile)
Original item by Tom
Happy Poetry Day Don!
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Happy National Poetry Day To All in UK!?
Comment is about Brexit psychosis (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Don,
Brilliant. Another nail in the coffin of greed at the expense of our earthly home. I agree there has to be a grass roots movement which everyone gathers toward. No more use of fossil fuels, no more wars, no more destruction of natural habitats and a halt to the slaughter of whales and other endangered species. F..k all politicians!!!!!! As poets we have the voice of prophecy, the voice of warning and the voice of dissent. Speak out.
Well said matey
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Lisa,
A testimony to the truth. Brief but powerful. I loved it.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about TRUTH (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Adam,
One of your best as it entered into the season of autumn.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Fall (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 10:30
Big toes are firm
hold feet to ground
but big people should not
shove other people around.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 10:28
thank you Emilia for reading "Big Toe".
Now you know what
fine poetry looks like.
?
wink.
Comment is about Emilia Callahan (poet profile)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
To me the art of poetry is putting an idea into as few words as possible. Why I like haiku. And it's challenge......
Not easy, as you say Martin....
Comment is about incessant (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Thanks to everybody for liking.
Thanks also to Keith Rose and Jennifer for commenting.
I am not entirely sure where this came from except to say that sometimes I really do enjoy the quietness of the night and the night sky.
Thanks again I am humbled by your responses
Comment is about Bring on the night (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I sincerely wish I could be a man of so few words when it comes to writing . Wonderfully put Desmond
Nice one
Comment is about incessant (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
I think we can all relate to this. Wonderfully crafted Keith
Comment is about In Love (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I particularly love that last stanza Adam.
Nice one
Comment is about Mandy's Girl (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Thanks you, Tom, Ray and Brian.
Comment is about Nude descending a staircase (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thanks for your comments Adam and Don; glad to have saved you the trouble of Googling it Don!
Have a great day...
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
You write a great poem here. I have used the word before but perhaps incorrectly.
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Great descriptions and love the few friendly stars
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
I write to educate, express my feelings and have fun. Aided by Thalia, my Comic and Serious and born-with condition the long-repressed and hidden poet within me is banging on the door to get out.
Thankyou for enjoying its arrival. As am I........
Comment is about Waymo, Skippy and Driverless Car Week (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Yay! I'm Big Toe here I come
What's that next door? don't push me round?
It's me who keeps our foot all balanced
Without me you'd all fall to ground
Whimper whimper...sorry, hadn't thought of that.....?
Comment is about Big Toe (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Well this is certainly a novel way to make the announcement. Whoever thought it up is quite clever......?
Comment is about Blue or pink!! (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
Please sir please sir (three bags full)
Give us good deal, (no shit bull)
EU EU EEIO
Boris asking (doh see doh)
EU EU here Boris
We do deals with serious stuff
Your hair is too flyaway
Lady friend too much like fluff
Why you rhyme such frivolous waste Don?......
EEI EEI EEIO
EEI EEI EE dunno......?
Comment is about Let's do this thing ( what is it again?) (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Very well written (and observed) with so many good lines here Jennifer. I particularly like
'watercoloured by the first sunlight'.
Ray's comment 'A painting in words' is very true....
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
A well presented package Chrystel. You even saved me the trouble of Googling the title......
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
This is great Keith. You perfectly capture that feeling. It’s almost too close for comfort, actually. Nice work.
Comment is about In Love (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
John,
It is so hard to imagine that such a summer was the prelude to the most ghastly carnage imagineable. I remember as a boy knowing men who had returned from that war. One in particular had the most awful cough which I attributed to smoking but in fact was a result of mustard gas poisoning on the Somme.
Thank you for this comparison and reminder of those heroic men and women
Keith
Comment is about Tuesday 4th August 1914 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Haha Keith,
'ausgezeichnet sounds like a death sentence'...indeed!
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Love this one Keith❣️It takes me to that passionate place that once visited is always longed for. ?
Comment is about In Love (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Fabulous and engaging panorama of colour to take us when you want us to go Jennifer. And we do. It interests me that you have no people in the poem, and maybe that is a clue to your own appreciation of what may be unspoilt. Just a thought!
A painting in words.
Ray
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Chrystel,
morals have sadly declined along with attitudes. I have two adorable dogs and have fallen out with most so called friends and family.
German words can sound unkind, simply by their guttural pronounciation. Who would have thought that Ausgezeichnet means excellent. Sounds more like a death sentence.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
A poem which took me there, to see and experience all that your pen wrote about and to sigh at the end of the day and at the end of the poem. A very descriptive piece of writng.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
thanks Emilia and Adam. Jennifer
Comment is about Sea Changes (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Wed 2nd Oct 2019 20:28
Lovely! Quietness and silence aren't easy to find in our modern world, and are priceless.
Jennifer
Comment is about Bring on the night (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Hey Ruth,
Yeah, good old Mark Twain; I'm a great fan of his work...
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
I have a keyring with that quote "the more people I meet, the more I love my dog!" I didn't realise it was Mark Twain who originally said it.
Comment is about SCHADENFREUDE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 15:30
Rosey has read
this pearler of Dons
she thinks it worthy enough
to be WOLS weekly best one!
Rose ?
Comment is about The Poet and The Politician (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews