Comments received on poems by Goldfinch60



Beginner to Winner.
dusk arising said:

Well we all started somewhere.

P.S. I dont live in a wellie in Glos but in a house in Worcester. My son just moved away from gloucester also into the forest of dean... coincidences rule.

November 18th, 2020 09:34

Beginner to Winner.
ANGELA & BRIAN said:

ANGELA HERE ~ Gut Mitwok Onkel ANDY ! On lunch break catching up on MPS. Thanks for a cool piece of Chet Jazz - sooths the nerves after a Busy Morning in the Aquaterapy Pool ! Loved the Poem reminding us we are all on the *Competitive Ladder of Life* ! Brian & I are still on our *WAY UP* but Im hopng my next role (post COVID 19) will be as a Mother rather than *Head of Physiotherapy* !

Blessings & Peace to You & Yours
Love ~ A & B & Smokey 💛💛💛

November 18th, 2020 08:11

Hippies.
Doggerel Dave said:

Certainly hit a chord there Andy: Great response. Ideals close to perfect (including those of a liberated sexuality) so I\'m not going to argue about how it played out now. Just enjoy the moment.
Take care, Dave

November 18th, 2020 06:02

Beginner to Winner.
orchidee said:

Good write Gold.

November 18th, 2020 02:35

Hippies.
ANGELA & BRIAN said:

ANGELA HERE - Good Evening Uncle Andy - Thanks for the 60s Video & Poem ! By the time (80s) Brian & I were born the 60s Sexual Revolution was the Norm ! Growing up in the 21st Century - The Pill (& alcohol) was universally available - Pornography was rife on the Internet and Radio & TV were more sexplicit. The majority of Teens were sexually active and those who opposed *Free Love* were labelled Prudes & Spoil Sports. Of cours you would NOT expect BRIAN & I to be advocates of *Free Sexual Love* ! We were both raised in Christian Homes and accepted the BIBLE as our Guide for Life. I was 28 when I met BRIAN and still a VIRGIN. Some MEN rejected me because of my morals and I was accused of bein FRIGID ~ MOI ? Brian accepted that and respected my Virginity until we were married. He also respected my Parents who are very devout Catholics. Brian (33) was also technically a VIRGIN and when we were engaged I became a Member of His Evangelical Church where he was a Deacon. We had an important role as YOUTH LEADERS and had to set a Standard & Example to the 30 Teenagers in our Youth Group and Brian was also as a Student Counsellor in the College !
There are four levels of Human Love. ONE The Love we have for our Friends - Neighbours & Colleagues TWO the Love we naturally have for our Extended Family. Then there is Sexual Love between Couples and then there is Spiritual Love - AGAPE - between God & His Human Creation ~ MANKIND. We believe extending SEXUAL LOVE (EROS) universally to everybody & anybody is unnatural and devalues the sacredness of Male & Female Virginity and devalues Marriage which explains why there is so much Maritial Unfaithfulness & Unhapiness & Divorce !

Blessings & Peace to You & Yours
Love Angela & Brian & Smokey ! ! !

November 17th, 2020 17:20

Hippies.
dusk arising said:

Well they had a point, I was too young at 15 in the summer of love to really understand them and as my post today shows i had enough problems of my own.
But i do believe the hippie and similar themes from the sixties did move us along...All you need is love.... and ... imagine.... are songs which contain wonderful ideas upon which to dwell.
Comapared to the 1950\'s, the general public in western society contains far more people inclined towards making peace not war.
As christianity falls from being forced down the necks of our children a more natural spiritual feeling of peace, love and togetherness becomes apparent. The countries and societies where religious dogma is still infused upon the masses demonstrate quite the opposite.

November 17th, 2020 10:16

Hippies.
Michael Edwards said:

Make love - forgotten about it all - must get the manual out.

November 17th, 2020 09:04

Hippies.
L. B. Mek said:

totally agree,
though with a reminder to enjoy the pleasure\'s of life with one eye on safeguarding yourself against irreversible consequences

November 17th, 2020 05:31

Hippies.
Doggerel Dave said:

Not going to disagree (my favorite stance) with any of that. Just wish...nah - not going there...
Stay cool man
Dave

November 17th, 2020 04:56

Keys Lost.
L. B. Mek said:

fun read Andy

November 17th, 2020 04:05

Hippies.
Neville said:


What a message... it became my mantra many moons ago.............

November 17th, 2020 03:44

Hippies.
orchidee said:

I don\'t know - it might be too \'swoony\' - free love. I\'m in me shelter anyway - in me sheltered life! lol

November 17th, 2020 03:03

Here We Go!!
Trenz Pruca said:

I enjoyed the poem. While I have long given up on the idea of a transcendent being or even a discernable purpose, I do, however, enjoy ritual especially if accompanied by music.

November 16th, 2020 15:50

Keys Lost.
ANGELA & BRIAN said:

BRIAN HERE ~ Good Evening Uncle Andy ~ We love PP & M a bit of genuine simle & mystical FOLK MUSIC in the midst of all tayihat cacophanous Rock & Roll. You*ll never br richas a Folk Singer but You*ll always be Happy ! Im too young to lose KEYS always in RH Trouser Pocket. Angel on the other hand has *Handbags* so big you could lose and Elephant in them. At least once a week she comes to me tearful saying *Honey Ive lost my KEYS* My initial repost is *Have You looked in Your Bag Angel ?* *Yes* she sobs *Twice*. I daren*t tip the Bag out (it would take a week to repack it !).My hand is a *Key Diviner* I reach down and search the bottom and within seconds I *Feel the familiar shape of TEN KEYS and rattle them TRIUMPHANTLY ! She is soso pleased she almost wants to take me back to BED ~ but (alas) she is late for work already ! The only time I failed to locate ~ she had handed me the *WRONG BAG !* C.est la KEY !

Blessings & Peace to YOU & YOURS with LOVE
Angela & Brian & Smokey Cat 💛💛💛💛💛

November 16th, 2020 15:16

Here We Go!!
Goldfinch60 said:

Such a profound comment LB. I used to be part of the christian organisation, I was a Chaplain at one time but when my wife was taken by dementia and eventually passed I had to question organised religion and when I gave up it was like a huge weight had been lifted.
I still have Faith in My Spirit and that will never change, it is organised religion that I see as leading people up a garden path.

Andy

November 16th, 2020 08:23

Here We Go!!
L. B. Mek said:

I recognise the disdain emanating from your words, I know it well.
Like all ‘Industry’s’, push comes to shove: when profits are down, moral decency, restraint and common-sense reasoning: ‘is dashed out - da window!’

The quicker we humanity ‘Dissociate’ faith from religion, the simpler it will be to ignore all the BS that clouds and frustrates.
My \'two cents worth\' suggestion to help decipher between the two are:
\'Faith\', is a system of belief (usually at individual level), designed to support and provide tangible ‘trust’ in something/anything greater than the morosely dreary - that is reality.
\'Religion\', is a self-sustaining industry that trades in the one commodity we humanity can never get enough of, or ever - run out of: \'Hope\'. Newly or well established organised institution’s in that market provide services and trade their version of \'Hope\' in exchange for \'charitably - untaxed, donations\'.
Though subtle, there is a profound difference. One may have ‘Faith’ and be without religion or one may have ‘Faith’ that the religion of choice provides the best ‘Hope’ for their personal salvation.

So, I agree with the sentiments in your write Andy (for what it’s worth), but targeting one ‘Industry leading entity’ for being the ‘best/worst’ is tantamount to provoking reactionary defensive mentality’s, that yields nothing more: than ever more entrenched ‘stubbornness’, from those who refuse to hear/see logical reasoning: that their chosen \'Religion\' (any & all) isn\'t deserving of the \'blind Hope\' they entrust it with, it must ever be questioned and it\'s human frailties held accountable.
Every entity within the industry of religion, claims their ‘Hope’ will make their believer’s more immune to all the bad in our reality, that is at the core of their sales pitch.

All I advise is we discuss incendiary subject’s/topics, however freely - with broad brush strokes. Let’s try and not devolve into the ‘us & them’ battled fields of ‘Amygdala’ driven - reactionary mindsets and have MPS consumed by the minority who can’t tolerate opposing ideologies.
Anyway, I’m sorry for waffling-on in your comments section, every time I write something like this I promise to not ‘get involved’ but then I see the tell-tale signs of opposite side’s - squaring up on their peremptory battle fields and I sigh: watching history repeat in real-time.
I personally, choose to have \'Faith\', that we human\'s are more than our deficiency\'s and the underlying \'Hope\' we have in \'Love\' can always insure \'common sense\' will prevail: however belatedly and costly, that may sadly be...


November 16th, 2020 07:38

Keys Lost.
dusk arising said:

Tell me about it, after chemotherapy had it\'s way with my memory cells last year, I could forget my name.

November 16th, 2020 05:26

Keys Lost.
Neville said:

I know that feeling too... I also remember once in a desperate rush to get to an interview, I made a snatch grab inside my pocket for keys .. wrong pocket and ended up in casualty ............................. N :)


November 16th, 2020 03:28

Keys Lost.
Doggerel Dave said:

Nicely paced Andy.
The gut wrench I experienced between lines \'Keys lost!\' and \'Keys found,\' was as real as when it happened to me. Pulse still up, hands not steady, will recover...
Dave
And Peter Paul and Mary - they\'re back!

November 16th, 2020 03:14

Keys Lost.
orchidee said:

Good write Gold.
Yes, we may forget something from 30 seconds ago, but be able to recall something easily from 30 years ago!

November 16th, 2020 02:53

Here We Go!!
dusk arising said:

Historically the organised christian churches, especially that catholic bunch, have taken time to catch up and change their rules. Things the churches tortured and killed for have now become OK by them. That in itself shows just how false their set of beliefs and rules are.

But there again, these churches were set up by men who wanted to (and succeeded in) controlling an uneducated and ignorant people in the days when the world was flat.

Their spin on spiritual matters is definitely full of falsehoods but still some parents are so stupid that they allow their children to be brainwashed into a fearful belief of the christian churches way.

Well, let the fools congregate, that\'ll thin them out a bit..... and get christians ostracised by the public.

November 15th, 2020 07:08

Here We Go!!
ANGELA & BRIAN said:

GOOD MORNING UNCLE ANDY ~ Thnaks for sharing Carmina Barunda. It is very dynamic and it went down well @ College when they performed it as part of their Christmas Program ! Love improptu performances & Flash Mobs ~ AMEN. Because we are Young & Blessed ~ and were raised in Devout Christian Homes we have a strong personal Christian Faith. Our Faith is important in our day to day life and we receive Guidence from the Scriptures - Fellowship & Prayer. WE cant blame God for Gobal Warming (and its consequences) it is Anthropogenic (aggrevated by Leaders like Trump who put the Economy before the Environment !) and We must (& can) reduce it by reducing CO2 etc. Angela & I have studied Biochemistry and (to some extent) CORVID 19 is also Anthropogenic. *Live Meat Markets* in unhygenic coditions ~ Mans greed for cheap PROTEIN with no regard for *Animal Welfare or Hygeine*. Sow a Wind reap a Whirlwind ! God created MAN with the intellectual Capacity (& Responsibility) to control the Environment ~ because of Greed - Selfishness & Ignorance ~ Man is failing badly. We respect your rejection of the Chrian Faith (which was big Part of Your & Joyces lives) because our Faith has not been tested (yet) to that extent. You (and al Your Family) are in our Prayers and we are encouraged by your Positive Belief the Joyce & Yourself will once again be reunited in the Spiritual Dimension were Joyce now is. Virology can solve the problemof COVID 19 and in the Year (2021) a vaccine will be produced Globally & normality resstored ~ AMEN. We just *Hope & Pray* that we learn by all our Mistakes. Does Mankind really undestand ? *If we destroy Planet Earth ~ There is NOWHERE ELSE to BOLDLY GO* ! Science FACT is a billion miles away from Science FICTION ~ Amen ~ Thanks for caring & sharing

Blessings & Peace to YOU & YOURS
Love ~ Angela Brian & Smokey 💛💛💛

November 15th, 2020 05:41

Here We Go!!
Doggerel Dave said:

Andy - Like flash mobs do you? Here\'s an oldie that I hope you and orchidee might enjoy - if you haven\'t already seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AlphabetPhotographyInc.
(go straight to utube and popthelink in there)

look after yourselves Dave
PS: not entering into any religious discussion today, thank you!

November 15th, 2020 05:29

Here We Go!!
orchidee said:

I think some of it (not all of it) is a judgement for our cruelty to animals - where the Covid thing started off.
There is much good done to animals too though - RSPCA, PDSA, etc.
A blessing in disguise, minimally? Yorkshire Ripper caught it. Comments of \'rot in hell\' followed his death.

November 15th, 2020 03:26

Here We Go!!
orchidee said:

I agree too that \'organised religion\' is a farce.
There is common sense too.
Surely meeting together when we are not to do so, is being unloving and un-Christlike? Then it changes to being tempting God - \'let\'s try Him out; see if He will protect us when we still meet these days\'.

November 15th, 2020 03:23

Here We Go!!
Michael Edwards said:

Quite fitting given my posting today. If you don\'t accept the God premise to start with the argument becomes a pointless distraction - if you do then all the points you raise are so valid.

November 15th, 2020 03:14

Here We Go!!
Poetic Dan said:

Things have definitely gone a foot my friend, from my own life experience it always has!

I can\'t thank you enough for sharing your experience over the years, as I\'ve read your words again and again!
It let me know it\'s okay to go your own way, our beliefs are ours and no one else\'s to gain!

Like I just said in another reply to you, at the front page of my book of legends that keeps my heart true!

This art we share makes us bulletproof....



November 15th, 2020 03:12

Such a Good Start.
ANGELA & BRIAN said:

God Evening Uncle Andy ~ Thanks for sharing such a cool piece of Jazz. Weve been busy clearing up the Garden today ~ Responsibilities of Married Life ! All we aks for in these COVID DAYS is a Day that both starts & ends WELL ~ AMEN. There is a lot of Good Jazz on BBC Radio THREE ! Was that where you heard it ?

Blessings & Peace to YOU & YOURS
Love Angela & Brian & Smokey ! ! !

November 14th, 2020 17:18

Such a Good Start.
Dove said:

Nicely Written! Good day to you! Keep smiling

November 14th, 2020 11:32

Such a Good Start.
John Prophet said:

What a great way to start a day. 😀

November 14th, 2020 08:15



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