Thu 7th Feb 2019 11:51
Your words ring true
no more enchiladas,
after my braless remarks
I'm now a pinata!
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Sisters are supposed to love and share:
which half of him do you want.....the top or bottom?
Sorry Lysa. Couldn't resist it ?
Dave
Comment is about Mistaken (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Stop it, Kev! I've got a cracked lip.
Comment is about The Totter From Toulouse (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
I love a prose poem! This one is a great one too! Love the story!
Hoorah for John!
Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about The swinging bridge (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
We don't seem to get them like we used to, Ray. I remember my mam telling me she got lost coming home from her cleaning job at the shirt factory once. It was only round the corner from our house. She said she sat on the kerb and cried until a bloke helped her up and brought her home.
Comment is about FOG BANK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I know the feeling. Excellent words you put it in!
Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about Pain (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
A man should always look inside a woman's heart. It's scarcely his fault if her tits are in the way.
(You'll have the thought police after you!)
Comment is about Braless (blog)
Original item by d.knape
'Taking offence' has always struck me as one of the most pointless sentiments, MC. I respect the tolerance you have of our differences. Keep posting.
Comment is about DIVERSE DETERMINATIONS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I believe I am an old soul who has offered my service to earth to spread as much love as possible. I am no saint but my intentions are ALWAYS pure ?
Comment is about Ghostly encounter (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Jay a giggle a day ' keeps the depression at bay?
Life's to short to waste a day with out a good laugh.?
Phillip its always good to see new faces, freedom is great ?(lol)
Comment is about Guilty pleasures (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
We can bring the horse to water
But we can not make him drink.
We all see when the time is right, our destination is the same but our journeys differ. ?
Comment is about Ghostly encounter (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Spooky and atmospheric Ray.
I live in a tiny rural village.
Pub gone, no shops; ancient church and graveyard view from my window. Plenty trees and creatures of the night. I hate the fog !
Comment is about FOG BANK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Laney, just read your biography and sample. Really like it. I suffer with dyslexia too so know how frustrating it can be. All I can say is it might take us a bit longer to write things but as long as we enjoy it, it's worth doing. Looking forward to reading more of your work.
Jason.
Comment is about Laney (poet profile)
Original item by Laney
I found your wording so therapeutic Chris,
almost as if time stood still in idyllic rapture.
Dave
Comment is about The Old Field Gate (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
What titters when you take a hold
isn't always gold !
Nice one DK
Comment is about Braless (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (16099)
Wed 6th Feb 2019 21:36
and I would have given anything to of been able to walk and talk with you there...under sky kissing sea yes it would of truly of been a blessing of you...
Comment is about I could have stayed home (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
I am knickerless but guilty of the same pleasures
Comment is about Guilty pleasures (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Memories Jennifer, memories !
I sure do remember chilblains as a regular winter occurrence on my tootsies.....extremely sore.
In those days all our schools had outside toilets (shiny toilet paper) and used to freeze regularly in winter....what joy when the janitor had to close them 'until further notice.'
Comment is about Monochrome Days: (Poetry for Schools) (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Hi Keith
First time I've read this. I can feel the aching for Spring to hasten, and for fresh inspiration.
It's especially true I think, for lots of us at this time of year, to feel the 'dull grey blanket envelope us' and to feel low on motivation.
A great Poem that addresses these issues and reminds us to re awaken ourselves.
Comment is about Winter´s Doldrums (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Every time I read this it cracks me up. Absolutely brilliant!?
Comment is about Guilty pleasures (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Powerful imagery about things most of us take for granted, a reminder of our mortality, and the beautiful role poetry plays in it all. We are all indeed lucky to be here in this space and time. Thanks for sharing John. ?
Comment is about Just deserts (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Lovely, Ray. really brings back foggy days. Remember in Glasgow driving along at night in a haar with the passenger door open to avoid running over stray drunks who had toppled over into the gutter- those were the days! I also had a grey horse who I couldn't see in a midlands field as she was fog colour! She came up behind me and snorted grumpily, wanting to get back to a warm stable!
Jennifer
Comment is about FOG BANK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Always been more of a leg man myself, but let's be fair, you're on the money.?
Comment is about Braless (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Lovely poem again. Beeches seem to be your aphrodisiac!!! (Just joking!) Reminds me of places where I lived too. I can remember 'helping' to make stooks when a child, and how prickly the stubble was.Jennifer
Comment is about The Old Field Gate (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Now I understand why you are enchiladaless!!
Jennifer
Comment is about Braless (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Far too much violence about nowadays. Perhaps there is no more than in Victorian days and the 20th century but then we didn't have it proposed almost as entertainment on the TV news. We have become so used to seeing and hearing about atrocious deaths that we have become inured to the horrot of it. Money made selling weapons has precedence over human life, as been only too evident recently.
Jennifer
Comment is about Kill Them All (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Really enjoyed this. Remember at my boarding school we were supposed to keep the window open at night, and one morning found our toothbrushes iced over!!!!! Now one could report that! Not sure about the softies in cotton wool - the nursery school ones at least. The teachers here complain that they don't stay long enough at home after an illness, as the Mums have to go to work. Do you remember chilblains too?
Jennifer
Comment is about Monochrome Days: (Poetry for Schools) (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Thanks Jennifer, I think it's the rhythm of it, it was stuck in my mind for ages.?
Comment is about Silver Shot Pocket Watch (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Steve, I like the title too ?. And thanks Jennifer, sinister was definitely what I was going for.
J.
Comment is about Incline Lupine (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Agree with FMF - clever poem - the image it gives is still sticking in my mind.
Jennifer
Comment is about Silver Shot Pocket Watch (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
steven arthur
Wed 6th Feb 2019 17:34
Wow! Decidedly sinister! Great imagery all the way.
Jennifer
Comment is about Incline Lupine (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Hello Mc - thanks for the info about the poetry competition. I might send in the Pine poem. Thanks also for your nice comment - I can't bear seeing a tree felled for unimportant reasons . those pines are lovely but they do create some problems - the roots are on the surface, at least some of them, so they deform the tarmac which is dangerous for mopeds or bikes, especially in the dark - also if there is abundant snow, (not v often here) branches tend to fall off as they are top heavy. On Elba there are so many they are like green seas, and you don't realise how many villas are hidden in them - lucky b...........s!
Hope you are keeping well - Jennifer
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for all your encouragement Po, it is well appreciated.
Sometimes I have to hold myself back from being one of the MOB (moaning old bastards).
By the way I have not the faintest idea what AI & VR are?
Dave
Comment is about Monochrome Days: (Poetry for Schools) (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
That was my dad I think - he spent his life tramping the streets of Manchester for the 'Refuge'. I don' think that there are any of them left now
PS his shoes kept wearing out..
Comment is about MR. SHOPLAND (INSURANCE MAN) (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Wed 6th Feb 2019 16:47
I end up talking to myself.
I am the only one
who will listen.
wink.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hello again SM - I think your blog on the changes you've witnessed in your lifetime is one that can stand as a real
"life's witness" for future generations. It was a timely and
very relevant observation on just HOW much has altered
in my own long lifetime...and how we can tend to forget
just HOW much we have adjusted to - between a now very
distant childhood (post war rationing anyone?) and today's
cyber-world...from the wind-up gramophone and steel needles of family possession to the portable DVD and CD
marvels that are taken for granted today. Extraordinary
changes indeed - and it's a wonder some of us aren't more
confused along the way!! ?
Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Mellor
Two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on the bed with bare torsos to improve the work, which they thought had not gone far enough. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed. Sold for £2.5 million
. Wikipedia
Comment is about Accidental Curator (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I like it Ray, recalls being a kid in Manchester when we had REAL fog, you could knit it into blankets... One criticism - 'periphery' breaks up the rhythm IMHO -try 'edges' ?
Comment is about FOG BANK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Jason
Thanks for your words.
I'm a little like you, in that I hear a lot of what I want to write in rhyme.
I started writing nearly 12 years ago, at the tender age of 60.
My first wife had died and I found it helped putting stuff down on paper, but I was put down a wee bit (by those more experienced) because my poems rhymed.
Whatever my writing is, I was saved (in a writing sense) by reading Langston Hughes's poems. I could actually understand them!
I persevered, and it was poetry that brought about marriage number 2. Much to be thankful for.
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
What fun, kJ. Thanks for posting.
You're on my list of favourites now.
?
Comment is about The Totter From Toulouse (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Thanks for your comments on "pub". Sometimes life just swirls around us barely do we have control. I subscribe wholeheartedly to the absurdity of life as we live it. A kindred spirit is always welcome. Many thanks.
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Yes, absolutely right. I always write in rhyme just because that's how I hear it in my head and I just love the rhythm of it, but I love reading prose as well and to be fair, even if I didn't, who am I to judge? ?
Comment is about Rhyme? (blog)
Original item by Stephen Mellor
Absolutely love this favourite line, the Mallard and Goose. Brilliant ?
Comment is about The Totter From Toulouse (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
yes John. Hopefully I'll see you on the 14th.
Comment is about All His Geese Are Swans (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Po
Your omnipotent presence on WOL is spooky, it's almost as if you are not of this world. I've got a lot to learn. At present my biggest problem is navigating from page to page without having to start from scratch each time, but I'm getting there.
I can't figure out how to put the poem onto the Schools page, which is what I am striving for, without it crashing again? Then I can delete the copy from the main site.
Seems as though the school's page never really took off.
Let's hope your rallying cry mobilises the troops.
Comment is about Could you write a children's poem? (blog)
Original item by Poetry for schools
Thanks Ghazala, I'm really pleased you liked it. I was walking round at work today and half of it came to me then.
Thank you ?
Comment is about Drive (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (16837)
Tue 5th Feb 2019 19:25
I simply loved this one.....?
This could be the ride of your life.....beautifully written.
Comment is about Drive (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
d.knape
Thu 7th Feb 2019 11:55
Legs or breasts
jump start the heart,
both are delish
like chicken parts!
wink.
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss