I've seen it and liked it! Thanks Big Sal!? Big compliment!

Comment is about Prophecy (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Reminds of Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, a masterpiece of cinema to be sure.?

Comment is about Prophecy (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Very funny. Loved it.?

Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Thank you for all your support, Lisa. You're a gem.?

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

Original item by Lysa d

Great poem and structural format. It oozed rhythm and thoughtful words.?

Comment is about Calon Cymru (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

David 'tanned teeth'! I'm keeping that one for the pub.
Tommy

Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

You should be a screenwriter/playwright, David. I'd pay to laugh at one of your shows.?

Like Diogenes himself turned in his grave to give one last hurrah.

Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Thanks Tommy and Jacob. So many people so keen to protect their possessions, homes, advantages, money etc. So unwilling to share with the less priviliged. And we all end up with nothing! J

Comment is about Property is theft (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Your rhythms highly resemble songs in their cadences and flow.

Great work on all your poetry, Jason.?

Comment is about Out There (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

What a true concept for your sample.

Welcome to the site.?

Comment is about Jane Walnut (poet profile)

Original item by Jane Walnut

John it's always the same at the 'front'
even when you're at the back of the queue. But as both my granddads used to say 'there's more of us than them'. Tommy

Comment is about Property is theft (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Delightful, beautifully expressed and uplifting. 'Be still and know that I am God' - wonderfully translated into your own experience, and honest. I so admire 'honest'.

Comment is about To know God (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

An ageless message delicately put. Nicely done.

Comment is about Lonely Lady on a Tram Every Morning (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

'genteel'? You've got to be joking!

Comment is about My neighbour had a fluffy cat. (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Delightful, and insightful.

Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

I had two “aunties”, MC, who were best friends. Actually, one was my auntie and the other her friend. They lived together and slept together at my grandma’s. It was only when I was in my 40’s that I cottoned on!

Comment is about I DON'T MIND HELPING OUT IF THEY GET BUSY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I can also rhyme
I do it all the time
But don't describe mine with an 'f____'
Don't wallow in the grime ?

Comment is about The Temple Builder and the Pimp Cup (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I’m of the same mind. And I think this is one of the first times I’ve heard you use ‘bad’ language. Now it’ll surely snow.

Comment is about Property is theft (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

There you are.?

Comment is about Attila the Stockbroker (photo)

I enjoyed the repetitive reference to "busy" in this blog.
I'm beginning to wonder about Sooty and Sweep now!

Comment is about I DON'T MIND HELPING OUT IF THEY GET BUSY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

You're either downright nosy - or there yourself. ?
In my 8th decade I have the following to say -
If you keep yourself in self-help health
You won't be pillaging others' pelf.

Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Reminds me of a lesson from the Coen Brothers.?

Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Common sense is gone dk
Replaced by common dumb
Gullible and dumb-like
Ready to succumb

You gotta have a new one
To keep up with the Jones
Nah, you're old one's no good
I'm 'fraid it's not two-tone

No it isn't common sense
To keep what does still work
We have to buy from sellers
To satisfy their perks ?

Comment is about Common Sense (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I believe you've kicked out a belief
Said "So long mate, I just don't need you"
You're now in a state of non-beliefness
I hope this works well for you too ?

Comment is about BELIEF (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

To oversee such a journey is poetry itself.?

Comment is about Enoughness (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Positivity in all things.?

Comment is about Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur leads way as poetry sales soar by 12% (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Love those last two lines. Inscriptions upon an eternal mind.

Pure excellence.?

Comment is about Angelus Bell (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

That's ironic as hell that people are complaining that the site is 'going downhill', yet when one of the best writers on the site gets Poem of the Week no one shows up to say a thing.

Well, here's a second congratulations on behalf of people that actually notice things.

WELL DONE RUBY.?

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Half-hearted’ by Ruby (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Jennifer you've coined a new word...brilliant.
I will definitely find an excuse to use it.
Gives me a pre-mortgasm just thinking about it !

P.S.
The answer to the age-old question "How was it for you?"
"Rotten."

Comment is about Is there sex after death ? (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Damn it...I should remember that , but I don't.
Probably because most winters up north are severe.

I have seen photos of south east england during the winter of 1962. Spectacular shots of the frozen sea at Herne Bay and even an amazing gigantic frozen wave at Whitstable in 1940.

Thanks for re-kindling my interest.

P.S. Have you tried to buy a pair of thermal gloves recently ?
I think they are "changing hands" at black-market prices.

Comment is about TIME TRAVEL (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier David. We have to treasure our odd corners - I guess the tourists like them too - there will be imitators and attempts to hijack them. Think of the Queen Mary and London Bridge for example.

Cheers, Ray

Comment is about INSPIRATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks for liking my Drinker poem Jennifer. I hope you're enjoying the site at the moment, I'm afraid I'm not. It feels to me like a graffiti site; I've said it now. Inspiration is hard to find.

All the best, Ray

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Presumably she might have mortgasms?

Jennifer

Comment is about Is there sex after death ? (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Thanks Po & Sal. I wrote it at the time of a previous eclipse, which I managed to snap from our house, looking through a spruce tree in the neighbours garden. BUt I now realise that I was thinking.of an eclipse of the SUN, which does silence all the birds.... took me about four years to realise that! (Thinks.... prat!)

Comment is about Watching the Eclipse (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

Nothing quite measures up to a walk in the woods to find our place in the world. Beautiful verse about two things I hold dear. Thanks for sharing. ?

Comment is about To know God (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

anything that gets young people reading poetry is a good thing. not a fan of kaur, read through milk and honey and found it paper thin, but if a single person uses it as a gateway to sharon olds, charles bukowski or walt whitman, it can only be a positive thing.

Comment is about Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur leads way as poetry sales soar by 12% (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Couldn't agree more.

Comment is about To know God (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Thanks everyone for all your comments - it's really encouraging, so thank you. ?

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Hello stop. I am writing stop. via telegram stop. so as not to stop. add to your upset at the use of phones stop.

Don't be lonely, I read your lovely poem on a busy street in London on my phone. Via technology you reached out and climbed inside my head! Isn't that wonderful.

Comment is about ELDERS (blog)

Original item by Ty

Spending days (and nights) on the floor reading poems and having rhymic flings sounds like poets gone wild to me. Let us all flock to the Temple from now until spring! ?

Comment is about Latest Temple Publicity Material (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I enjoyed this poem.

Comment is about To know God (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Thanks! ?.. I will! :)

Comment is about Try (blog)

Original item by Dragan Bozilov

Thanks!

Comment is about Thursdays at the expensive cafe (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Powerful as a shot of mezcal.?

Comment is about Jelousy (blog)

Original item by Shonda Hurley Bell

Thanks Big Sal....
?

Comment is about Into the Woods (blog)

Original item by Shuchi Batra

I myself would settle for a good ol' book of rhymes and a pimp cup.?

Comment is about Latest Temple Publicity Material (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Great piece. Excellent title too.?

Comment is about Into the Woods (blog)

Original item by Shuchi Batra

It may have sounded cool Dave
In essence it was hot
A lovely pair round manly ass
(How long before he shot?)

(Shit Don you'll be kicked out of WOL - too risque
It's all your your fault Dave)

Now where was I....?

Now you can tell the kiddy
Them kiddywinks at school
That Don your friendly poet
Says no it isn't cool ?

Comment is about Innocence (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Spoken like a true member of the human race.
Literature and education will ultimately prevail.

Comment is about Only literature (blog)

Original item by Hasmukh Mehta

hahahaha... I laughed out loud..

Shuchi

Comment is about Innocence (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan