John, thank you for your comment. You are right, my mistake. Thank you. Keith
Comment is about Absent (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Hello Alan, go online enter Banksy and chimps in Parliament. You nver know you might recognise you MP. I have seen my chimp. Keith
Comment is about Banksy (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
I love the exposition of your thoughts and findings Peter. Much respect due to your attitude; what I think stands out to me is the experimental nature of the song within the context of the times. I would guess it was written as an indulgence and a curio, much as "Let 'em In" was . Quite heady with nostalgia as per Penny Lane. The use of the small band instrumentation helped to set it in in stone. I can't really sense Lennon's influence here!
On my 64th I was doing a gig and played it in the band room !
It gave me pleasure that you were grateful for the time ahead, which I'm sure you will share wisely with us all.
All the best Ray
Comment is about WILL YOU STILL NEED ME,WILL YOU STILL FEED ME? (blog)
Original item by Peter Taylor
Thanks Jennifer for coming back and rectifying your deletion! An almost biblical delay but highly welcome with the revelations you make. This must have seemed highly blasphemous to some, but, hey we must bravely post. Your comments are like an exoneration.
Ray
Comment is about CEREMONIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
My entry was by no means a caution/warning just an observation made from a long serving WOLer!
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Kerala Governorate is in South India .. It is evergreen .. full of beaches .. lacks .. historical and amazing geographical locations .. moreover .. the Keralite people and so kind that they offer help and assistance if you ask for.
Comment is about Kerala Visit (blog)
Original item by Farag M. Afify
Thanks for the comment, Jennifer...appreciated!
And belated thanks to all of you who "liked" this entry..
Comment is about HERO AND COWARD (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Don - would you vote for Australia to be run by the countries of South East Asia - even assuming you weren't grievously misled along the way?
Cheers,
MC
Comment is about WHY? On the eve of March 29th 2019 (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Feels like a bit of poking from Woking! ?
I wonder sometimes why any creative line that can offer large cash
rewards often totalling many thousands of pounds in prize money
-noted on numerous occasions in the WOL news section, has the need to seek substantial cash support from the public purse (the Arts Council for example). The poetry world is a prime example of this conundrum.
Comment is about Poetry publisher hits appeal target in just two days after losing Arts Council grant (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A strange phenomenon, this is true,
Happens to me as well as you,
The solution of mine is to simply not care,
Wear mismatching socks as I dare!
I've heard it said and almost believe,
Where they go when they leave,
They take on a new shape and form,
Into extra Tupperware lids they transform!
Comment is about Lost Socks (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Well said and true! My sympathies Becky... I know this probably makes no difference but you and I bothe know that being European is not in your blood (by an accident of birth) nor on your passport. As long as there are people like you speaking their minds loud and clear with precision, vision and civility there is still hope.
Solidarite!?
Mae
Comment is about My Brexit Poem (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
dk I know the problem
But please spare thought for sox
With little minds they lose their way
And suffer painful flummox
I gotta watch myself dk
Just comment on your poem
And not get lost like little sox
And create one of my own
Just look at like's you'll see me
Enjoying what you've writ
A good poem of holey? sox
To which I've add a bit ?
Comment is about Lost Socks (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Never saw the chimps parliament, is it illustrated anywhere?
Comment is about Banksy (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Ok, I like it - although I think it would be just as effective if it had been in a more conventional format - but that's just my preference, it's yours not mine.
Comment is about EVEN KEEL (blog)
Original item by cindylee loucks
Silence is an under-valued asset.
Your reading of A Motherwell Romance was enormously poignant. Thank you.
Comment is about Etchy Mary (poet profile)
Original item by Etchy Mary
Thanks Jon and Etchy.
I imagine Jim would have been thrown out of his own wake for being drunk and disorderly. The women would want him to stay but the men insisted he go. As his father was an admiral, and as Jim had an adventurous spirit, I think he would have set out by sea to see how far he could go. Edward Lear showed enormous prescience when he wrote in the mid-C19 an account of the future adventures of the ghost of Jim Morrison:
The Jumblies
BY EDWARD LEAR
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Comment is about The Doors of Perception (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
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Fri 29th Mar 2019 11:42
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Comment is about Poets who read at the launch with Patrick Osada, centre, at lectern (photo)
aadil
Fri 29th Mar 2019 11:36
Comment is about Elvis McGonagall (photo)
Thanks Jennifer. You will have gathered I'm pretty happy-go-lucky. Write in rhyme (often humourous) with a grain of truth
Don ?
Comment is about Bureau'rats (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Graham/Brian
We all have histories and emotions which can be sparked off at any time. Perhaps the lot of a poet? I do see the point of keeping comment to the piece in question though. That's what the comment box is for. It's nice to see you keeping an eye on things Graham. Your job is voluntary and can't be easy at times.
Don
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 29th Mar 2019 10:31
Sorry Graham, I normally toe the line when you come on and give such advice, but at the risk of being moderated/suspended...
Don's piece above is very forthright in telling us not to be afraid of being controversial, to break convention, to introduce new ideas. All I have done is to highlight that when I did just this he was equally forthright in his condemnation of my piece and my attitude. I think I am justified in pointing this out, which I have done in a logical way without excess emotion.
If however you want to take action please do so.
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi Ray! Must have managed to delete the comment - no loss some might say! Here they see Madonnas, bleeding or weeping usually, and if they catch on it ups the incomes of local residents enormously!
The farmer's wife will run a B n B, the sons act as guides, daughters have a restaurant - cousins taxi and bus services, and everyone else can sell beads and other tat from Taiwan as souvenirs.
Keep up the good work, Jennifer
Comment is about CEREMONIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Can I please add a pennyworth of comments to this thread. I have been on WOL for ten years (give or take a month) and in almost all cases where emotions become raised it is the comments about the work and NOT the work itself that becomes the issue. It is so easy to attack the writer and not the content of his/her work and the usual result is moderation/suspension.
If poets here on WOL could stick to the content when commenting and writers acknowledge those comments as valid, life would be simpler.
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hi Don! Lovely comment -they drove me crazy when we had a family business, and you couldn't even say what you thought of them, 'cos the fines got even bigger!!!!! My husband once did simply put a figure (correct) on the wrong line, and was severely punished for it financially! My son got a good job as a rep, but the company wouldn't sign the contract unless he was registered as rep at The Chamber of Commerce. There they wouldn't register him unless he had a signed contract!!!!! Talk about Kafka! We invented a no. saying it was temporary, so he got his contract, and then he registered and we gave the firm the real no. They incite you to devious methods.
All the best, and I enjoy your stuff.
Jennifer?
Comment is about Bureau'rats (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Thanks Don, for the like on Bureau'rats.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks for the like on Bureau'rats Jon. Jennifer
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Correct. I did disapprove of your subject matter in 'This Fling I'm Having, as did others. You also encouraged others to write on more controversial topics. You also agreed accepting flack was part and parcel of writing controversy.
I did not disagree with you writing on a controversial topic it was the topic and the way it was done that I and others disapproved of.
Looking at 'The Need For Approval', Is this 'controversial' deserving of the title 'disapproval'?. Hardly. The only 'controversial' thing seems to be some poor hopeful reader wondering about sex in the afterlife. ?
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 29th Mar 2019 07:28
Don - it's interesting that this piece is dated January 2019. When I posted my poem 'This Fling I'm Having' on 5 January, which covered the controversial subjects of misogyny and obesity, you made it quite clear in your comments and in follow-up private messages that you disapproved of my subject matter.
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A few months ago I vaguely remember a WOLer wondering what sex would feel like in the afterlife.
Comment is about The Need For Approval (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I have a Greek colleague who told me about these people. Thanks for this poem.
Comment is about Himalayan Greeks (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I love this, John. Great, as always.
Comment is about The Doors of Perception (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I really like this poem. I wonder what Jim Morrison would have done at his own wake. Can you write another one about that?
Comment is about The Doors of Perception (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Fri 29th Mar 2019 05:56
Hi David, I’m glad you like the idea of my poem and much appreciate your response of depth. There does seem to be a lot of people in this world suffering from self delusion. I think it is a problem we will always have. Once again thank you for your comments.
Thank you Rachel for your like, much appreciate.
All the best des
Comment is about To purloin with finger snatch (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
The ratcatchers have been scared into submission
By this vicious of sub-rodent rat
Who sit high and mighty on their swivel chairs
Cos that's where society's put them at ?
So is it our fault?....
Comment is about Bureau'rats (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
steven arthur
Fri 29th Mar 2019 01:59
steven arthur
Fri 29th Mar 2019 01:59
steven arthur
Fri 29th Mar 2019 01:58
Congratulations.
Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'The Dolphins Seemed Unfriendly' by Dominic James (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
cheers ray. this got picked up for pub really quickly so thought i'd try it on here but i fear its not in keeping with the current trends on the blogs. never mind, it only took 30 seconds to post! hope your keeping well, do let me know what you think of my book!
Comment is about short poem after chronicling the lessening of sentience in my mothers emails during the past year (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thu 28th Mar 2019 23:17
Socks that we wash
leave us in doubt
when two go in
only one comes out.
wink.
Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Thu 28th Mar 2019 23:14
Socks soft and warm
can comfort souls
the thicker the sock
the less the holes.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thu 28th Mar 2019 23:05
agreed.
especially at my age
it's nice to get home
where all your stuff
is right where you want it.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A really excellent piece of work in itself as it extols the harmony that comes from mastering materials and the urge to do that - integral to man's purposefulness. Happiness will follow and a commitment . I wonder how many displaced and frustrated people were deprived of such nobility by the machine culture. Work cooperatives are great for mutual benefit. Take the Arts and Crafts movement for example. Sorry to go on, because in your poem you make such a valid contrast to that ethic, that is wonderful thinking and so clear.
Ray
Comment is about WORK IN PROGRESS.......... (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
Interesting the contrast of the first line being so definite with the
almost elusive details Stu. Like a picture framed event.
Ray
Comment is about short poem after chronicling the lessening of sentience in my mothers emails during the past year (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Really liked this - the way you have built it up symmetrically. You can hear the yearning in it too. Great writing.
Jennifer
Comment is about Wish You Were Here (blog)
Original item by Dragan Bozilov
Jason Bayliss
Fri 29th Mar 2019 19:21
They're in collusion, there is no doubt,
These socks that went in but never came out,
Though you wouldn't know, wouldn't see at first glance,
They're forming a gang with lost underpants!!!!!!?
J. ?
Comment is about Lost Socks (blog)
Original item by d.knape