Alan J Ripley

2022-01-24
Sorry to here about your lose.
Thanks for sharing at such a sad time.

2022-01-24
Hi Ken.
Off the cuff explains exactly how my mind works,
I don't mind telling you that off the cuff.
Thanks for posting.

2022-01-22
Told one fiesty diabetic octogenarian who was waiting to go,
What I heard on radio. If you have diabetes, it would knock
Seven years off your life! She laughed at that.
Your story reminded me of that. Thanks for posting.

2022-01-21
I always wonder what tree I would be?
Either a son of a birch or a son of a beech.
Think I'd like to be a idle flower tree,
Looking out for others as they have done for me.
You had me at rusting thoughts and rotten feelings,
What a lovely poetic line

2022-01-20
What a lovely sad poem

2022-01-20
Yes ken.
Maybe he could play the scarecrow,
In a remake of wizard of Oz.
If I only had a brain.

2022-01-17
Dr Martin Luther king,
One of many that spoke up for all
That couldn't speak for themselves.
Greatly loved greatly missed.
Thanks for sharing this lovely rememberance
Poem

2022-01-16
Don't put to many candle's on the cake
Don't want to start a fire.
Many happy returns of the day Ann.
From Alan and his tribe.

2022-01-14
Pets are more than pets, There part of our family.
Sad and poignant poem

2022-01-14
Sometimes I just love to read the poem within the poem.
Work of art, Love lorn heart. It's nice to be able to share your
Poems with like minded people on poetbay. mine just go
From bad to verse.

2022-01-14
Maybe you could start a petition, save the doodles.
That great russian philanthropist ivercold used to order
A bowl of doodles. Even me mum used to shout
Come on stop doodling about. Even one of my cousin's
Caught the doodle bug during the war.....

2022-01-14
My favourite mixology is, Rum & blackcurrants
With a full measure of Dubonnet over ice.

2022-01-12
Love this poem
Brings back so many childhood memories.

2022-01-06
Hi Stan, hope you're still out there.
Brilliant poem as most are that I read.

2022-01-06
Good morning Afrodite, Sun peeking through clouds.
On this cold new day. Being ordinary is the norm,
When you can't afford the heating to keep you warm.

2022-01-06
There's no age to this poem

2022-01-01
Hi Ann
I agree entirely with John,
What's past is past. Best foot forward.
Always look on the bright side of life,
( Wish I'd written that ).
Happy New Year.

2022-01-01
Dear Shannon
We have all suffered life's like that,
Please take solace that your not alone.
Sometimes friends are closer than you think.
May you have a happy new year.

2021-12-31
It's poems like this that
Makes my day brighter,
Gave me a rye smile. :-)

2021-12-30
I know how you feel,
Thoughts that remain never shared,
Need an outlet poetry is mine too.
Nicely written.

2021-12-24
Have a very merry Christmas,
Elle. Here's hoping all your wishes come true.
From Alan and the rest of his tribe x .

2021-12-14
Why do you doubt yourself,
There's no need to guard.
The gates of hell night and day,
When it's time a chariot Will come.
To take you the other way,
That Will be many years from this date.
Is not a trek through Thermopylae,
Something that you would hate?.
Put your penny's away, This I know is true.
The ferryman will never come for you.
P.s. Liked the poem. X

2021-12-14
I was looking for amen
At the end of this
Lovely prayer
Merry Christmas
Tom

2021-12-12
Wife asked me what a innuendo was,
I told her it was an Italian suppositorie.
Still waiting for her to clout me,
It's nice to think back to what
Could have beens.
Thanks for sharing.

2021-12-07
Dear AFRODITE
Have written a small dissertation
On merry Mary may I publish it as a poem?

2021-12-01
Nice

2021-11-24
I find that life's a struggle
Death grips those whose
Life's are in a muddle
Your writing's great
So even if you're minds
Feels a little befuddled
So please except from me
One big poetic cuddle

2021-11-22
Good morning Afrodite.
My, I probably shouldn't have said it,
This is the first poem that I have read,
That truly spoke to me as I read it.
Your written word is more than fine,
I'm not to sure about your last line,
Let me think about it.

2021-11-21
Thanks for posting

2021-11-21
Your comment made me laugh
I've only just finished writing it.
Thanks again.

2021-11-21
Bravo Ken
Did you know when people
Stick them down a plug hole
It takes days for them to die
If only we could do that to some people

2021-11-20
A lovely poem about the atrocities
Committed by a bunch of moronic
People Who think there always right
No matter the cost of human
Suffering. Thanks for posting
Sorry I would read more
Of her poems but I get
To emotional at life treated
With no regard
Thanks again Zoya zaidi

2021-11-19
If you were a flower
Which one would it be
There's no point in asking
I've already gone to seed

2021-11-16
Some wounds never heal just tears
As you fall into a destructive mood
Another guilty day not yours just theirs.
The more I read the more I understand
I like to read your writing
Was this your cunning plan

2021-11-14
Two adopted children have come into our lives
We and there new parents love them dearly
Shame there mother didn't feel the same
After their dad died. We all deal with grief
Differently. Theirs many more out that deserve homes.
It's another way to complete your family
As for your writing's I like them

2021-11-14
Two adopted children have come into our lives
We and there new parents love them dearly
Shame there mother didn't feel the same
After their dad died. We all deal with grief
Differently. Theirs many more out that deserve homes.
It's another way to complete your family
As for your writing's I like them

2021-11-14
Thanks again Ken
Well worth the read
As I stroll through my life

2021-11-14
Very true ken,
Very true.

2021-11-14
I can relate to this,
In a family of four.
We live apart together.

2021-11-14
Hi Tom
We all sometimes,
Playback within our minds.
The choices of could have,
This poem brought this to the fore,
Thanks for posting.

2021-11-13
Although it's many a year
Since you wrote this
Was wondering if romeo
Is using same line
Loved the way wrote this.

2021-11-13
Death is easy
Life's a struggle
Keep those horrid
Thoughts away
Hope you know
Your loved anyway
By all the people
On poetbay x

2021-11-12
Thanks for sharing,
Your never alone.
Doesn't matter what others think,
Although they may not say it.
Remember your parents,
Will always love you.

2021-11-07
Kirk to enterprise.
Very funny,
Now beam down
My clothes.

2021-11-07
Kirk to enterprise.
Very funny,
Now beam down
My clothes.

2021-11-07
Sweet

2021-11-05
It was James Blish that wrote star trek
He never gets a mention

2021-11-05
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
There weren't many happy memories
In my child hood still looking for the
Great escape song though.
Pickle I have a pickle, but it's a dollar
To a nickel, that when I'm kissing,
Go on I'm kissing.
She is the one girl for me.

2021-11-04
So true

2021-10-25
The moon of wisdom
Is loved by the warmth
Of the sun
And the coolness
Off space.