A poem that walks the reader home through gentle introspection. Lovely Yanma!
Comment is about When The Home Is You (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
The "Law and Order" and "Free Speech" brigade: they don't believe in it.
He has his admirers in the UK, God help us.
Comment is about The Emperor Wears a Badge (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
I'm so grateful that I was encouraged as a schoolboy to join our civic library.
I frequented a branch on my way to and from school, sometimes reading a book under the desk, whilst the teacher was trying to instill the joys of long division and fractions into me, and then having the book confiscated!
Then as an adult in retirement I was equally grateful to find books about music and walking in France which openend up a wealth of experience.
I wonder how many children today are as fortunate as I was?
Comment is about Books (blog)
Original item by Dawson
Great positivity once again Aisha.
It's Tuesday, and I'm still in one piece!😊
Comment is about Rise With Monday (blog)
Original item by Aisha Suleman
Lovely descriptions. Shame some of the lines seem to run out of track.
Comment is about WEST COAST MAINLINE (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Good poem. The closing couplet is excellent and I like "don't force the finding" too.
Comment is about When The Home Is You (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
Speaking of Cheering on Genocide, David,
I see the vile blubbermouth presenter on TTTV Trash Talk TV is trying to big himself up by mocking Greta Thunberg and her colleagues.
Comment is about Cheering On Your Genocide (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Nice one, Tom.
Speaking of bullshit, I've got a masters in the subject!
Comment is about Addiction (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Something rather profound there, Yanma.
Words would remain nothing more than marks on a page without a reader to interpret them.
Comment is about When The Home Is You (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah
Thank you, Uilleam. They are the most dangerous, although I'm not quite certain exactly who they are. Perm any two from several hundred, I guess.
Thanks, Auracle. Once boundaries are in place they are not easy to cross. Cela peut etre francais, ou pas. J'ai de la chance ici d'etre entouré par des francophones, mais il y a très peu de Francais (ou Francaises).
And my thanks to the many of you who liked this poem. I am thrilled and humbled by your interest and loyalty.
Comment is about The Fence (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
The title is so perfect, Tom. I am absolutely bowled over by this one.
Comment is about Tenderness (blog)
Original item by Tom
Thank you for this fine poem, Ray. I recognise some of this from my childhood, although my dad read the Daily Mail and would boo pictures of union leaders. Like you, the library was where I discovered so much. I remember wishing it was open on Sundays.
Comment is about Books (blog)
Original item by Ray
And what a beautiful one, John.....
Comment is about WEST COAST MAINLINE (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
A great performance, Tom. It's so easy to get addicted, and so difficult to stop. Let's try to help everyone out there.
Comment is about Addiction (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Emily Hunder
Tue 10th Jun 2025 08:29
This is a great way to celebrate the Stockton & Darlington's bicentenary! A novel and poetry event sounds engaging. It's interesting how a visit to George Stephenson's birthplace sparked the novel. Made me think about simple beginnings, just like how Papa's Pizzeria likely started. I wonder if the play will involve any culinary train stops? https://papaspizzeriagame.com
Comment is about Do the Locomotion! Novelist and poets mark Stockton & Darlington bicentenary (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Tue 10th Jun 2025 08:03
As the old Latin idiom goes, “Semel stultus, stultus semper” — once foolish, forever foolish.
Let’s hope we prove that wrong, before there’s no planet left to reclaim our wisdom on.
Comment is about God’s Concern (blog)
Original item by pallavitryingthings
Thanks, David.
Looking at the news concerning the Madleen, I've come to the conclusion that the UK is being run by criminals, on behalf of criminals.
It would appear that the Met Police are now in posession of SandCats which have literally been "battle-tested" in Gaza.
Protest against Genocide at your peril!
Comment is about Cheering On Your Genocide (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Not so much homo sapiens
More like homo stultus.😟
Comment is about God’s Concern (blog)
Original item by pallavitryingthings
Stay with us, working-class heroes.
We're in this together, Earth&Humanity.
We're in this together.
Comment is about Tenderness (blog)
Original item by Tom
as a fellow person struggling with bpd, this is such a relatable poem. i hope you heal well.
Comment is about I'm cursed. (blog)
Original item by mylie
When I read the reference to hem of the dress, I conjured imagery of the Bible story of the ill woman who touches the hem of Jesus's garment in hopes of healing. But then I wondered if the poet was referring to a beloved woman's dress. Marla's comment & poet Robert's response clarified this. Fun! Really enjoyed this poem, Robert.
Comment is about Prayers Everywhere (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Synchronicity! The 2 consecutively-posted poems entitled "Books" by Ray & Dawson inspire me to turn off Google and open my patiently waiting books. Thanks guys for these wonderful poems!
Comment is about Books (blog)
Original item by Dawson
A captivating poem, Ray. Clash of cultures betwern father and son, but poignant, funny and sweet. My extended family is an assortment of book lovers and telly lovers. I can relate to this poem!
Comment is about Books (blog)
Original item by Ray
Wow. You got me wowed with this one.
Your unique poetry gift has done something good here!
Comment is about BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (blog)
Original item by Naomi
Inspired by your comment, Uilleam, I googled the Madleen seizure to inform myself*; more heartbreak. Good on you to write a song/prayer, a powerful means to communicate and speak to the heart. (*I must confess with an apology, I don't keep up with the news much. My stalwart husband keeps me somewhat informed. I mostly read spiritual stuff.) After reading about the Madleen interception, I skimmed this essay on the Middle East in my feeble attempt to understand the horrific sorrow. Later I will try to read the essay properly, if I can summon the intellectual and emotional stamina. I keep praying. I give gratitude for peace activists. May the suffering lessen. Oh humankind, where is your salvation? No answer there.
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/03/ending-the-new-wars-of-attrition-opportunities-for-collective-regional-security-in-the-middle-east?lang=en
Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)
Original item by Hélène
And in the rooms of unspoken words
I hid the name of the unknown birds.
I proved that you exist in the world,
And this world shouldn't be pearled.
The snow didn't draw the picture.
I saw my face on another nature.
I looked for you for a hundred years,
Then I found you were my peers.
I found and knew I had a heart
That can't be cut and live apart.
I was afraid to have a choice,
I had to fly to hear your voice.
I closed my eyes and truly found
My heart beat to another sound.
I had a wish to learn how to fly,
And my heart made a new try.
The glass showed your name,
I didn't know how it came.
My love appeared on earth,
True love, without any curse.
©Larisa Rzhepishevska
Comment is about And In The Rooms Of The Unspoken Words ... (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
With the current knowledge, I'd type it's partly because of Japanese culture/influences.
At the risk of being totally&completely wrong, of course.
Comment is about The Nunctbubbles of Zip-a-dee-doo (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
'Suffering isn't wrong. Suffering is real.'
And maybe that's just another phase for me. That I'll be going through.
Saw many a restaurant come-and-go. That's a real kind of suffering. And tasty also.
Tasty also.........
Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)
Original item by Hélène
gd poem, enjoyed a lot. Maybe
Unlike the dog, I fail to fetch?
Comment is about Tenderness (blog)
Original item by Tom
Entirely coincidental that I posted a poem called Books just after yours. Yours has the advantage of brevity and rhyme and a memorable ending.
Comment is about Books (blog)
Original item by Dawson
My personal truth, Hélène?
I'm currently devoting all my creative energies into writing a song / prayer [based on an old traditional song], in support of Greta Thunberg and her "Freedom Flottilla".💗
I intend to publish the completed piece in defiance of Netanyahu's thugs, who have just unlawfully seized the Madleen in international waters, unlawfully detained her crew, and stolen her cargo of badly-needed aid for Gaza.
Comment is about Proclamation of a Journey (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Thanks for your likes:
Auracle
Rolph David
The Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” ship has now been unlawfully seized in international waters, her crew unlawfully detained, and her cargo of badly-needed aid for Gazan's, stolen.
Netanyahu and his criminal fascist thugs are acting with complete impunity witht the help of His Majesty’s craven UK Government.
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.21. Madleen] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thanks everyone for your likes
Helene
Auracle
Holden
Marla Joy
Red Brick Keshner
Rolph David
Stephen A
Aisha
Stephen G
and
Hugh.
Comment is about Sharing The Good Times (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
You have a warm, comforting style in this vivid picture of a crowded city street. Nicely done.
Comment is about The Beginner (blog)
Original item by Manish
Wonderful reflective poem. You paint a good picture of youth with its fearlessness and desperation.
Comment is about Highway 99 Revisited (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Double D for Diddly Dee?
Comment is about A Day That Changed All Days (blog)
Original item by Rolph David
Thanks Stephen,
As you say there is no shortage of things to be angry about.
Also thanks to those who have sent recent likes.
David.
Comment is about Pivot to War (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Thanks, Eduardo.
I wonder, is all that Hollywood-esque gun-pointing some kind of compensation for phallic inadequacy?
Comment is about The Shadow of Destiny (blog)
Original item by Eduardo
Thanks for your likes:
Red Brick Keshner
K. Lynn
The sheer physical courage, moral clarity and integrity of Greta Thunberg and her crew-mates shows up the British government and their fellow cheerleaders of genocide for what they are: morally bankrupt, abject cowards and hypocrites.
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.21. Madleen] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Brian sadly passed away on the 7th June 2018 just weeks before he was due to walk his daughter on her Wedding day.
A bottle of whiskey was set up on the day to remember him but I am sure in each and every heart would have wanted him there.
Instead we all toasted a well loved respected man.💗
Comment is about Sharing The Good Times (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you so much 🌷 @Leonard Morse 🌷the oil lamp in the dark image is subtle but quite powerful in its light. Most appreciated 🕊️🙏🏻RBK
Comment is about sleep on it (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Thank you Stephen, it is frustrating but I got off lightly compared to so many. 😏
Comment is about Diplopia (blog)
Original item by Freda Davis
Hélène,
That is just the way love is. Nice style.
Marla
Comment is about Just Be (blog)
Original item by Hélène
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Sat 7th Jun 2025 19:52
Thank you for sharing your poems it is very powerful. I hope writing poems gives you healing.
Comment is about prayer for sanity (blog)
Original item by Zodinpuii
Thank YOU Yanma Hidayah for taking the trouble to write with such intelligence and perspicacity about 'Regret'. Plath beat us both to it!
“Always with the queer regret, blurring all the other summers into a fine nostalgic brew - distilling all the tart sweetnesses into this one, with the sea of music skipping over the time, and the feeling in you very warm and it is our town, we all together, very sweet, all summer light, sometimes almost tearful because it is so moving all the time. The fluid color, the fluid sound, towards its ending... And now I am sitting here crying almost because suddenly I am knowing in my head and feeling in my guts what those words mean when I did not know the full impact of them in the beginning, but merely their mystic beauty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Comment is about REGRET (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Although I’m sure he thinks he can, Stephen.
And thanks for the Likes, Erasmus, Tim, Aisha and Maddie.
Comment is about RELIVING THE RAJ (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hélène
Tue 10th Jun 2025 14:12
This is a gorgeous poem, Yanma. Also enjoyed reading your comment about the underlying inspiration of your mom's light giving rise to your own spreading of light. My mom is in heaven (mom passed 12 years ago at age 84); I miss her every day but feel her light still shining upon me.
Comment is about Two Luminaries (blog)
Original item by Yanma Hidayah