Like to get drunk
drinking those cups of love.
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Don
Sliding on the blog
is so much fun
so many different comments
so much fun.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
I remember clearly the event - A young black man savagely beaten by a feral gang of Angels while the king of prance continued to dance on stage - love and peace man!
Comment is about The Death of Meredith Hunter (blog)
Original item by Mike Bartram
I too thank you again Fish and Martin. On the subject of faith all I will say is that at heart I am a pessimism stricken atheist filled with mortal dread about things who after many exploits and many nights of blind prayer to something I didn't believe existed, I now call claim to be an agnostic. Merely as as sign of humility and in rememberence of the feeling of weakness and need for prayer. Though my faith to the divine hasn't been strengthened, my faith in mankind and humanity has been reassured significantly. Call me crazy...
Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks for liking Brian and Rose, I enjoyed writing this one, pleased you like it.
J. x
Comment is about Lead Me Not (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 9th Sep 2019 13:18
28 buzz's dk has given bee
He's therefore quite excited is he
Now don't no-one tell me I've counted them wrong
And that there is actually only 23
(You try counting them without going silly....)
Now why is this bee so excited?
You've guessed it, he's pumped up with sex
He's trying to get at the queenie
While buzzing midair's damn complex
He's gotta fight off all other buzzers
(We all know how hard that can be)
So thankyou dk for your adding
28 buzzes to my poetry
Or are there 27?.....?
Comment is about Buzz (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you very much, Keith. I tend to have short bursts of writing/ideas, and do not drag poems out over a longer period to add further to them. In general, I see no necessity for this. If I like it it stays as it is.
Comment is about Turning my back (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Mon 9th Sep 2019 11:49
Thanks Ruth, I've been trying to write something in iambic for a while and then this just came to me this morning. So glad you liked it.
And thank you Devon for liking.
J. x
Comment is about Lead Me Not (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
While you're asleep I'm busy awake
Absorbing the day you're awaiting
We're governed by nature, must go with the flow
(It's caused by the planet rotating)
Oh? No-one told me that.....
Why haven't you told me dk?
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
Original item by d.knape
This sounds very powerful Jason, You are akin to a poetic exorcist shunning demons of the soul. I can imagine this being performed on stage.
Comment is about Lead Me Not (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Dear Adam, that's a very interesting thought! That's why we are here aren't we? ?
Dear Don, I most certainly did ?
Thank you gentlemen!?
Mae
Comment is about Blessed With A Curse -A Wretched Rhyme (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Thank you my dear Jason!
X.x.?
Mae
Comment is about Wedding Wish (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 9th Sep 2019 09:54
In 1969 I was young, thrusting and full of testosterone
now I'm old, slowing and full of crap
and gradually getting myself
back to the garden
Comment is about Joni Mitchell 1969 (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Just called for a big yellow taxi
To take me back in time
For although I never witnessed it
I'd like to see 1969
Comment is about Joni Mitchell 1969 (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
It's been a nice day where I live
The sky a perfect blue
And yes the sky turns pink some times
A sunset, spread-wide, hue
You have inspired me Chrystel
To go on with my verse
And let my mind go down it's path
And to us all converse
"The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while" (Jessica Masterson)
My mind is seeing visions
Boy babies dressed in pink
Good heavens! Chrystel Roberts
My mind has lost a link
I think we'll stop the mind wandering now. It might start seeing X- rated stuff.....?
Comment is about BLUE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Jon,
Thank you for this poem albeit short it is loaded with meaning for all to interpret as they wish. Yet the central theme is clear. The powerful act with impunity for their own interests and will do anything to achieve what they want even if it comes to slaughtering fellow humans. A powerful message, succinct and with impact.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Turning my back (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Cheers Don!
Anyway, I think boys rock in pink too! Too many unnecessary restrictions imposed by society.
Have a nice day; or what's left of yours in Aussieland.
Comment is about BLUE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
Adam has suggested a poet
Go smell lady's nose, make her glad
But what if said nose smelleth yucky?
Would poet then relay this, make her sad?
I feel like a bit of a Shakespeare here
Playing round with Adam and Mae's lovely rhyme
It's called poetic license (which the Bard had)
Which I seem to do all the time....
I vote you go and smell her nose Adam. I'm sure Mae has written invisible rose fragrance in it. Haven't you Mae? ?
Comment is about Blessed With A Curse -A Wretched Rhyme (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
I never was a Ballroom Glitzer
Preferring rock and roll
Glitzing round the ballroom floor?
Nah, now glitz round on WOL
Well rhymed Ray. The only note of serious here.
Devon, you punk singer?
I can't believe my screen
Your body scarred your ears all shot?
(You still got ring in nose?.....) ?
Skull earring?......
Pierced tongue?.....
Comment is about PAST CONTENDERS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Tell it to Len Goodman! ?
In days gone by when young hopes were high
They vied with one another
To put their stamp on that cup marked "Champ"...
Now pushed to put one foot after the other!
Comment is about PAST CONTENDERS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks, Martin. I so appreciate the encouragement.
Comment is about No Comparison (blog)
Original item by Adam Rabinowitz
So fun and thought provoking. Makes me think of the idea that what we wish to enjoy or appreciate is often right in front of us if we just open our eyes. Or in this case, our nose. I wish she had just asked a poet to smell her nose for her and then whisper in her ear a description of the scent so that she could know the pleasure she brought to others and perhaps not die as she did and have a beautiful sense of her nose. Is it not the poets that help others to sense the world that is in front of them. Anyway, wonderful to read this.
Comment is about Blessed With A Curse -A Wretched Rhyme (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Society says baby
Boys should wear blue
While rattling their rattle
And saying goo goo ?
A well rhymed poem Chrystel (yours that is)
Why is my little little boy wearing pink?....
I let him choose his own wardrobe.....
Oh....
Comment is about BLUE (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
I think she'd forgotten him and no longer knew him. Thus a sad ending. And all in four lines, the sort of poem I like. Well done Branwell....
Comment is about Lost Love (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Thanks for reading Hugh, the 105 yrs poems were fun too
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Devon Brock
Sun 8th Sep 2019 23:12
John,
Once again, you've led me down the historic and poetic rabbit hole.
Thank you so much. I need to dig through this poem for a time. A little research is required. And I thank you for that as well. For now, however, I leave you with this:
Woo not the world too rashly, for behold,
Beneath the painted silk and broidering,
It is a faithless and inconstant thing.
(Listen to me, Mu'tamid growing old.)
And we- that dreamed youth's blade would never rust,
Hoped wells from the mirage, roses from the sand-
The riddle of the world shall understand
And put on wisdom with the robe of dust.
- Al-Mu'tamid
D
Comment is about For Al-Mu'tamid (Seville, 1040-95 Christian Era) (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This is good poem to highlight homelessness especially as the nights are getting colder and in the run up to Christmas
Comment is about Aspirations of a Refugee (blog)
Original item by hugh
"but your beloved's heart is tuned in-key and beats to your sweet heart's rhythm!"
Beautiful my friend, just beautiful.
J. x
Comment is about Wedding Wish (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
A happy ending
They both forgot the last time they kissed,
An occasion ,sadly,which they dearly missed.
But both now present in heaven above,
Where every night they enjoy making love.
Comment is about Lost Love (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Thanks Martin and Fish. Martin, yes there is hope, there's always hope, because without it we are finished, I'm glad that you see that in it.
Fish, also right, we all have faith in something and whatever that thing is, is down to each individual to work out. If I was asked I'd say on balance, I'm an atheist, but I'm also aware that it would be the greatest conceited arrogance to say that just because I can't understand something that it can't possibly exist, and that's the point of the poem really, it's just a very long question.
J. x
Comment is about A Stone For The Miller (Collaboration Feat Mae Foreman) (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
A positive poem written by Ruth,
The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
A seven year itch
Then seven years more
Then add one more year
To even the score
This is the formula
For a century of bliss
But both have forgotten
They last time they kissed?
Comment is about Lost Love (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Spot on Martin (as per usual!)
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
Original item by Martin Elder
"I said that I loved her and it was love at first sight,
This seemed to impress her and luckily put things right.
My fifteen year itch seem to have kept our love alive,
Now we are still together,both a hundred and five."
Comment is about Lost Love (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Devon Brock
Sun 8th Sep 2019 21:07
John,
I want to remark primarily on one line in this poem -
"I do not envy the Chinese soldiers: thousands of miles from home and hungry".
At the core of this is empathy, that ability to see the one in the other, even if it is your enemy or oppressor. You expand on this elegantly in the final stanza.
Thank you for both reviving the Tibetan struggle for those of us who have filed it away, like disturbing images of self-immolation too tragic to gaze upon, and for the message remarked upon above.
D
Comment is about Lotus flower (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Keith. I'm glad that you enjoyed. ><>
Comment is about Long Days Disapearing (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
And what was your reply?
Did you let her walk away
I bet you wanted to cry
what on earth did you say?
Comment is about Lost Love (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
Thanks Don, Jason Trevor, Branwell and Ruth. May our all conversations be pleasant and profitable. ><>
Comment is about A Conversation (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Vautaw Thanks for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed it
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks for sharing this uplifting poem Ruth. Love it❣️
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Much better to have your own lived in face than a windswept cosmetic surgery style, stay unique.
Comment is about Funny Face (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Just yesterday's kisses on the face of today.?
J. x
Comment is about Funny Face (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sun 8th Sep 2019 19:20
Got a funny physog?
Write a funny weblog
Comment is about Funny Face (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sun 8th Sep 2019 19:15
There were Mugabes before Mugabe, and there will be more Mugabes in future. There needs to be an internationally agreed way of removing such leaders eg via the U.N....but all that happens is that the major powers take the opportunity to either support or oppose the tyrant and nothing actually gets done. Still, always a good theme for poets!
Comment is about Mugabe's Dead (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Nigel Astell
Mon 9th Sep 2019 15:22
Sub ject of Interest
Money Taker says
had a word
with Penny Pincher
she says
can members
donate £1.50
on Monday
if not
Only Joking says
expensive jewellery
stylish watches
only accepted
if you
can prove
full ownership!
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman