Where Are All The Grassy Knolls When You Really Need One
sorenbarrett said:

Years ago I had hero leaders that I admired. Washington, Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, on and on but as I got to know the lives of each I found a balance just as bad as the good. Now I wonder if somehow in the murderer\'s and rapists I have known if there is something as good that balances that bad. Time will tell. I worry about a rash and impulsive man with too much power. It has happened before with bad consequences for many. I hope that history will tell us something different than what the present seems.

March 8th, 2025 04:30

Requiem For A Refugee
Thomas W Case said:

Powerful work, my friend.

March 7th, 2025 11:32

Requiem For A Refugee
Jerry Reynolds said:

A fine write, Neville. Childhood lost– Ghost of Tomorrow blowing on the wind. I am enjoying your latest book.

March 7th, 2025 07:38

Requiem For A Refugee
Poetic Licence said:

A very touching and sad write around the destruction around us and the destruction we cause and are part of, great write

March 7th, 2025 05:08

Requiem For A Refugee
sorenbarrett said:

An east wind, that of destruction, or so it is believed from Bible to present comes. You paint such a picture of devastation and need yet how easily we are diverted from help. Now the question that remains in my mind is that that gust that blows us away while working on our alibis, was that a wind of diversion or one of destruction. Either way this poem draws attention to the fact that we go through our lives not paying attention to the destruction around us. Very nice Neville

March 7th, 2025 04:47

Corporal B and Me
Tony36 said:

Excellent write Nevilie

March 6th, 2025 10:54

Corporal B and Me
Cassie58 said:

What a satisfying and positive outcome here Neville. Corporal B was a right mean bar steward. You though, deserved all the cheers and salutes you got from your mates. Did you ever see the 1965 version of The Hill? When I read your poem, my
mind drifted to that film, it also drifted to events earlier this week, well covered in the media. I smiled at your account of his car being wired up. Naughty, but very nicely done.

March 5th, 2025 18:23

Corporal B and Me
sorenbarrett said:

A great story in poem format Neville. As a child from 6 to 12 was bullied by a neighbor. Until finally fought him in front of a school crowd and lost. But following this he came to me and asked to be my friend, He came to me for help with homework through high school. The standing up not the winning seems to be the issue in this poem as well. Although not at all the same the standing up is the key to how one feels about themselves and that is to me the key. When you feel good about yourself others will follow. A poem of raw openness

March 5th, 2025 11:28

Corporal B and Me
arqios said:

That can’t be fiction at all! 🙏🏻🕊️

March 5th, 2025 10:02

Hold the Sugar
Cheeky Missy said:

Aww, how heartbreaking! Time has a subtle way of thieving so very much, as if the wealth not measured by gold is much easier to steal, I guess. Gorgeous and beautifully rendered with exquisite imagery and a painfully haunting poignancy. Thank you for sharing.

March 4th, 2025 14:40

This is Where Spring Begins – Haru Ga Hajimaru
Cassie58 said:

Love that image. His index finger tracing her name through a film of thin ice on window glass. There are contrasts here between cold and heat, which work so well. Plenty of symbolism and spring is a time for new beginnings and growth. A perfectly lovely poem Neville.

March 4th, 2025 02:44

This is Where Spring Begins – Haru Ga Hajimaru
Tristan Robert Lange said:

Love this and the formatting...brilliant. The opening is the title. Then the poem leads back to the opening. Love it! An easy fave for me, my friend. Well done! 🌹👏

March 3rd, 2025 17:12

Culled
spilleronsheet said:

Could feel the pain in those words…culling indeed in whatever rationale defined is painful

March 3rd, 2025 13:17

This is Where Spring Begins – Haru Ga Hajimaru
sorenbarrett said:

Once again Neville you invoke your mastery of symbolism and metaphor to enchant a poem. This one even feels oriental before one reaches the line. You have taken past and present, warm and cold, the foggy aspect of what is normally clear glass, ice and spring and tied them into a relationship with implied sensuality. A lovely magic trick conjuring up many a fanciful vision. Lovely

March 3rd, 2025 09:56

Listen Loud Just One More Time
Goldfinch60 said:

Sometimes they just do not hear Neville but in true love they know.

Andy

March 3rd, 2025 02:45