This shouted out POTW to me straight away for its vigour. You are almost there at the gigs with him! This poem couldn’t have been written without the expletives, it wouldn’t have been real.

Well done Beno!

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Well told, Kev. You kept me wondering throughout if it was serious or one of your comedic sagas. Excellent rhymes too - panache/tache.

Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Kevin,

You are back on top form with one of your best. You really excel with these poems. I enjoyed it greatly.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Well told KJ. A case I was not familiar with.

Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Steer into the skid Don.

Comment is about Rudder, Drive (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Jeronth,
Thank you for reading my poetry it is so very much appreciated. ?

Comment is about jeronth (poet profile)

Original item by jeronth

Nearly missed this one.
Enjoyable read.
Your descriptive powers are so good.
I felt that bone chill you get after a couple of hour in the garden. Those multiple fleeces weren't enough were they. You needed that fire.
Good one, your wife staying out of the way. ???
May a recommended composting! ??
Beno

Comment is about THE INCINERATOR, ON A LATE NOVEMBER DAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Good one. ?

Comment is about Liar, liar, pants on fire! (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

This is great.
So many clever and beauty lines.
Really resonated with me the first two verses.
The last three were verses are very skillfully done.
I like:
Compulsion to be clockwise and clean
Fabulous filigreed filth
It could almost be two poems for me, as I found the feel of the first and second half different.
Beno

Comment is about Essence (blog)

Original item by Chris Bainbridge

What a mixed up bunch we are
Keith's infected, see?
Anya's infected to the max
And Po's got STD

Dk says he's cured as HAM
Methinks he's off with birds
It seems I've also cured myself
No longer lost for words

Thankyou dk for pulling out
Poetic thoughts from all
We're happy little poets, yep?
Join in, let's have a ball

(who let this Aussie into the country ? ?... Brian, it's all your fault. He hasn't commented so he won't know I've said this)

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

That is so nice ?

Comment is about Roses (blog)

Original item by jeronth

I really liked this!
I am also Jewish and was not raised in a religious family, so I could really feel what you were speaking about. Thank you for your words!

Comment is about Wednesday November 14, 2018, 1:51 PM (blog)

Original item by hk

This is lovely!

Comment is about Thaw-Irkhet-if (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thank you so much, Steven! ?

Comment is about mothers (blog)

Original item by ha'azinu

cured,
as in HAM.
which
I am.

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

LFW???
no way.

ad lib.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

I love the beauty in this!
❤

Comment is about mothers (blog)

Original item by ha'azinu

Sadly Fred rhyming is out
Rhyming is out of fashion
But if we lived in Shakespeare's day
It would be all the passion

I'm pleased you've made attempt submit
Of three rhymatic poems
Do not give up, not give up hope
You could still win, and show 'em ?

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

If I could speak to my mind, I’d ask it “what the fuck are you thinking”

Comment is about Wrapping my Thoughts around the Mind (blog)

Original item by FruFru

Think I have LFW at this moment

Lost For Words ?

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Ta Po ?

Comment is about Suicide or a Bacon sandwich ? (blog)

Original item by PatricioLG

Watch out Wolfgar, there's a new boy in town.
This is the best poem I've read, ever.
I'll leave it at that.
Beno.

Comment is about Saddleworth Moor (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

Awesome dude.
I really enjoyed this poem.
I will follow your links and try and read some more of your stuff.
Beno.

Comment is about The Headingley Taps (blog)

Original item by Joe Williams

Thanks folks for the comments. Appreciated. Taylor, have you entered the WoL competition? I have but being a rhymer I expect the usual rejections on my 3 submissions ?

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thanks lol, no just ramblings of an old fool, confused some might say ?

Comment is about Re-think (blog)

Original item by PatricioLG

Desmond,

This really has caught my imagination. I need to go away and give this intriguing poem some considerable thought.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about Cleave (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

It's completely bonkers off the scale, but I sort of like it.

Was that you Patricio that I hit with my bike?

Comment is about Re-think (blog)

Original item by PatricioLG

Thank you Po (I love the Monika). I enjoy this type of writing a poetic story written in rhyme..

Comment is about Beyond the Trees (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Thank you for all the likes and comments.
Trevor and Anya, I agree we should recognise how fortunate we are.
Big Sal, Haiku is good fun to write and can still make an impact.

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Great analogy.

For once, someone else made me laugh more on your poems than you did.

Po, you need to get that checked. I hear constant attention can help curb such an affliction in abundance.?

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks, Kevin. January (hopefully) it is.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

John, it's gems like this that we are going to miss at Well Spoken if you "blob" again.

see you in January

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

congratulations on POTW Beno.
I missed this one so I'm glad of the second chance.

I loved the energy and drive of this. I found the language a bit fruity, and I don't think I would have been so bold to use so many expletives as that myself. but this is not a criticism. of course you should speak in your own voice, and this particular poem wouldn't have worked without those words included.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

I guess we have to be thankful that we can stay warm indoors.

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

touché Alan re my verse on Brexit.

Tommy

Comment is about Alan Travis Braddock (poet profile)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

What a great organic poem, a ripe seed-pod bursting with poetry.

Don't know about the nouveau riches occupying London though, aren't they just the rich rich?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/25000-cheapest-flat-sale-london/

Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Happy to be infected

Keith

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

cheers both. i hope your doing well wherever life finds you

Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

What a balls-up ?

Comment is about Jackie And Frankie (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Thanks to Jon, Darren and Anya for reading and liking!

Big Sal, I think the pleasure of a fire certainly goes way way back, even before nostalgia was invented ! Thanks.

I'm glad you thought so Taylor. Especially as it feels like a man's world!

Hi David. A thoughtful interpretation, and one which bears scrutiny. I was quite absorbed and challenged by the task, and reading it does make a comparison with that degradation you mention. I seriously wonder if that led to any PTSD - although perhaps a sense of relief or duty might have been uppermost.
I often think how inadequate are the trappings of funerals crematorium style and think an open fire would be far more civilized. That would of course require a much broader and more inquisitive mind at work. I love the phrase Fuehrer's carcase. Versatile I feel.

Thanks Kevin. As I implied to David, I was absorbed, but these things can trigger other thoughts. I was not deliberately aware on that level myself. I try to infuse my audio with a distinctive approach, thanks for liking that!


All the best to one and all.

Ray

Comment is about THE INCINERATOR, ON A LATE NOVEMBER DAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

"Any country that is willing to sacrifice its freedom for financial advantage deserves to lose both". Words from a US president
that are worth bringing to mind at this time. The country needs
only to hold its nerve IF May has complied with the severance
demanded by the referendum vote.
Go back to the original concept of national sovereignty. The Tories
under Macmillan decided to discard the Commonwealth for a
European "Common Market" - opposed by Atlee who accused
them of abandoning our allies in the WW2 conflict that supposedly saw the origins of the political entity that is now the EU - but
which began incognito as that "Market". During my lifetime, I've watched as the original went through the stages of "European
Economic Community"..."European Community"...to the "European
Union" - with not a peep from successive UK governments busy
signing up to these changes ultra vires - since this was beyond the
mandate they had from elections because at no time was the public
consulted about the power transfers taking place and thus it was
a stealth policy of want of truth, deceit and dissembling by our own
elected representatives In government...opposed by others who
were accused of being disloyal and worse by government leaders
(see John Major and his "bastards" reference for a sample) -
and even now their modern equivalents - like Jacob Rees-Mogg -
are accused of "extremism".
The primary players of the EU - like Juncker - have no elected
origins and cannot be voted out of office by the peoples of the
countries of the EU. It is a political entity that serves itself - not
democracy as we understand it. It is not our way - and maybe, just
maybe, the referendum vote belatedly reflected that realisation!

Comment is about I have NO idea (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks, Taylor. I’m not a religious person (in a worshipping sense) but I do resent the commercialisation of Christmas. And peddling of shite.

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Press the red switch and and the special effects team will make it snow while everyone sings jingle bells jingle bells while I find which page I am on!

Comment is about image3.jpeg (photo)

Original item by Stockport WoL

No cure D.K. EVER......?

Comment is about Testing Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Clever repost Alan ;- )
Tommy

Comment is about Brexit: A learners guide (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

thanks for the comments on 'falling down the cracks...' Mark - I find myself falling behind in responding to comments again - so sincere apologies for my tardiness. Yes - the pain of diet and the sweet joy of a new pair of jeans - life is built around such small things :-)
Ian

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Fourth stanza sums it up for me John..excellent poem and very pertinent..?

Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Loved this Fred, very meaningful and thought provoking poem. Taylor x

Comment is about Androids 2 (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

I was about to tell you how fun I now think haiku are to write - and then I read Anya's comment and realized she's right with all the solemn truths in a cold world.

Either way, both are true, and thank you as well for the well wishes.??

Comment is about Winter Haiku (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Good one Don informative and humorous excellent...?

Comment is about Blog (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews