Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 20:56
Sly with a hint of humor, and ending on a powerful note. Very well done.?
Comment is about Bag of Cats (blog)
Original item by Starfish
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 20:54
Those first 4 lines grab the throat and pour some gin of inspiration down it. Great sample and rhyme.?
Comment is about Eric James (poet profile)
Original item by Eric James
Thanks for your comment Rachel. Cute! I appreciate your stopping by. Be well.
Ray
Comment is about SIMPLE FARE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 20:51
furnishings of who you are Keith I think but definitely no man cave by any means. Very cosy and quite similar in decorative tastes to my joint.
good gear m'dear!
Rose ?
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 20:44
jeez, Taylor! with this one, you are way up in the stratosphere lady! what a turn around! ?!
Rose ?
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
I love this - what a riveting read. . . .Reminds me of someone I know.
Comment is about Fred (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Well this seems to be a conversation piece! Thanks for the interesting discussion and especially thanks for all the compliments about my poem. Of course there are a lot of big issues regarding the future of humanity and it’s not possible to tackle them all adequately in one poem. My main point in this one is that if we show young people a little more faith and notice their positive traits they are more likely to live up to that. Every generation worries about their children, naturally.
Comment is about Respect to the Snowflake Generation (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Thanks Martin I appreciate your thought.
Thanks David, see above!
I'm very pleased you like this Big Sal. We have a different way of expressing ourselves, so respect there.
Taylor, that is a compliment. I do that if I'm drawn in to a poem.
Avishek Jon and Rachel, thanks for the flowers!
Ray
Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi David. It's fortunate when you know a person on a deeper level than is possible just online, and can explore the light and shades of meaning in poetry, which as you say we got to grips with. My use of the word "nipple" was the sticking point and some may consider rightly that it has a overtly sexual connotation out of line with the poem. My point was that with an intimate bonding there became a greater descent at the end. We agreed that!
Babies come about through sex, and get gratification and bonding from the mother. How can it be otherwise?
I'll leave it there, thanks everyone!
Ray
Comment is about EPITAPH (blog)
Original item by ray pool
The cement of hatred...enjoyed this poem Avishek ?
Comment is about Fool (blog)
Original item by AVISHEK GHOSH
Fri 5th Oct 2018 18:55
Congratulations Jane, well deserved POTW. You’ve been writing some great poetry.
All the best des
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Another great piece .Read several times.Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
The only choice we have keep trying...?
Comment is about Shirley (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Lovely Shirley sorry I missed it...?
Comment is about Winter (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Thank you Big Sal for your continued support...it is always welcome..?
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 16:06
I hope you don't think I am criticizing you in any way by saying this Taylor (I've always quite enjoyed your poetry), but you seem to be improving your poetic voice in ways that I see immense growth and inspiration pouring forth from. Judging by the comments, you seem to continue to inspire from your humble abode across the sea (from me at least).
Like I said on the previous poem you posted, this is another one of your best. The voice you project is so confident, so comfortable in its own shoes that it makes it hard to nail down a favorite line or idea.
Keep up the great work, I know more people will soon listen.
?
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Thank you, M.C. and Big Sal.
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 16:02
Definitely one of your best pieces Taylor. Each line held significance, and more than that, each line fed into the next by virtue of emotion and lyrical quality.
Nice rhythm to it as well.?
Comment is about Sat Here Thinking (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 15:57
Congrats to her and hers. Hope poetry stays with the young ones as long as humanly possible.
Comment is about 12-year-old Ide Crawford named St Pancras International's 2018 poet laureate (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 15:55
Excellent piece Jon. I could see the stage MC standing there with the crowd booing wanting to take more advantages.
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 15:53
The therapeutic benefit cannot be overstated.
On top of that, there's a Sylvia Plath excerpt in one of my favorite songs of all time, so I can see why young people like her. I'll be 25 next month, and one of the rappers here in the US that I listen to often, felt the need to insert her voice into one of his songs.
Excellent listen and it came out beautifully.
?
Comment is about Young Poets Name Sylvia Plath Top Poet of All Time (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 15:44
Not many people nowadays use 'thee' in their poetry, but you made it work pretty well. Whole piece is good.?
Comment is about Katlego Maake Jr (poet profile)
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Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 15:43
Rose-colored glasses make nostalgia and memory seem that much better. Great piece knape.?
Comment is about Bad Memory (blog)
Original item by d.knape
You are so right D.K. mothers do grieve the letting go of their children from the moment of their birth...I have written one about the actual time of a child's birth, might be inspired to put it up at some stage.
Thank you so much for this excellent observational piece of poetry. T.C. ?
Comment is about School Bus (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It seems I have out-done Brian this time
I'll accept it's your non-alliteration day
But I can't accept avoidance from rapping
And joining these kids as they play
(Shame on you....?)
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you for commenting on Lies Keith. I particularly enjoyed you likening lies to rain everyone gets wet. Very apt..Taylor ?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Hi everyone! - Someone wrote a while ago about Work Town who were asking for submissions. I cannot recall who it was, so am asking whoever it was if it's a "reputable" organisation? (I must be getting more suspicious in my old age hey!) Thanks! - Dorinda x
ps: Nigel - Next time we're filming I'll bring the eyeliner!!! x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Fri 5th Oct 2018 14:14
sounds very much like my kind of place Keith. Thank you. Jemima
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Good theme - always worth our time, especially when given
this sort of treatment.
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Remember me...the most any of us and our dogs can hope for when we're gone. The words are finely framed by the
song (unknown to me). Both do their job so well.
Comment is about Meg (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you for your nice words! It was just that really, a rhyming idea, just for fun! Still, simplistic as it may be, I meant every word! ?
Comment is about A Rhyming Idea (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Common sense appears to come in snorting fits and starts
Catching comments from the likes of me - condemned to be old farts!
But old enough to remember those days of mini-skirts
Designed and worn by women with men allowed to be flirts.
But men then had enough to see to occupy their time
And note - "insulting behaviour" was even then a crime.
And there's no way in the wildest mind
That indulging in upskirting
Can be less than criminal and anywhere close to flirting!
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks, Jane
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Taylor,
A clever and powerful poem as it contains the unvarnished truth about human dialogue. Lies are like the rain as everyone gets wet.
Well done and thank you,
Keith
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Well done, Jane, a really lovely piece which is wholly convincing at all levels and should be read often for its universal relevance
Peter T
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Robert loved the poem I, like most miss my father dearly, but as you so eloquently worded it the loss of a mother is in some ways indescribable.Thank you..?
Comment is about memories are new (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Hello Greg,
Thank you for your interest in this article which is part of a series, of which there are six with three more to come. This should take them up until 11 November.
The poem is one of my own which I wrote a couple of years ago, inspired by a photo I saw of the Somme during the aftermath of the battle.
As you so rightly say the subject is vast and I can only scratch the surface. I shall read with interest the information you have given me.
Keith
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Beware of lies
Lies can hide anywhere,
Under a table or under a chair.
Behind a tooth,
Away from the truth.
Undetected never found,
In the sky,underground.
Beware of lies they can trip you up,
Be careful you don't buy a pup.
Do some research before you proceed,
Detect the lies before they feed,
Upon your bank balance and leave you skint,
Look into their eyes for an honest glint.
Inspired to write this after enjoying your poem.
Today we can say ,"The lies have it".
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
This is a huge subject that you're tackling, Keith. Who is the author of the poem that you quote here, please? Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney are two more war poets that are also worth a mention, and of course there were a number of French and German poets, too. I'd also like to recommend a war anthology, although it covers a century of wars as well as the first world war, the Bloodaxe one published back in 2014 and edited by Neil Astley https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43187
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
Original item by Mike Took
elPintor
Fri 5th Oct 2018 12:19
By the way, thank you, Ferris. I don't know where my manners have gone these days.
Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)
Original item by nunya
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 11:31
You're safe Don...today in the UK it is Non-alliteration Day.
Why not...there's a day for everything.
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
My guess is Brian will try to out-alliterate me ?
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
It has become clear to me, WM, that you have to say the right thing.
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
John Coopey
Fri 5th Oct 2018 21:20
Quite, MC.
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey