"Kedgeree" ? Never had it...so good! (as Private Eye liked to misquote Super-Mac back in the day). Sounds like a song by
Frank Ifield. ?

Comment is about In Time For Your Brekkie (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks for your appreciation, Cynthia
?

Comment is about Your Happiness is My Happiness (blog)

Original item by Suko Waspodo

A wonderfully dark tale.

Comment is about THE INN AT THE END OF A LIFE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Cheers Big Sal. There's a certain comfort in rhyming, as you know; mine is like a big slipper compared with your fakir mat if I may make so bold! I re posted this as it fell off the end of the year.

Thanks for liking too Brian.

Ray

Comment is about THE INN AT THE END OF A LIFE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I read this poem to a passer by,
He said,
"Going to stop right now ,don't want to die ! "

Comment is about Have a happy smoke free year (blog)

Original item by hugh

From one Aussie to another, happy New Year Don.

Comment is about In Time For Your Brekkie (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

An innocent moment beautifully capture. Made me laugh and remember how I'd done the same in a bath with my boy cousins. ?

Comment is about How Do Girls Pee? (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fascinating. That's how new life starts - with curiosity. Nobody really knew at the beginning, then.... BUT nowadays it all gets explained to kids, without any fun, without any mystery. Is it better or worse? Who knows? But I think, as an adult, that something is lost that will never return.
Beautiful evocation of what it was like to be innocent.

Comment is about How Do Girls Pee? (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

On this side of the world Don we don't have brekkie...we have kedgeree, kippers and Kelloggs.

Comment is about In Time For Your Brekkie (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Have a happy smoke free year

Comment is about Have a happy smoke free year (blog)

Original item by hugh

Why thank you Cynthia

Quite a compliment from you.

My grandpa use to say "it's better to be stupid for a minute than for the rest of your life!" He encouraged me to question things. It seems to annoy some people lol.

Comment is about MONEY AGENT (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Happy New Year to you as well, Lynn. Here's hoping the next one is better for everyone.?

Comment is about MONEY AGENT (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Beautifully woven tapestry here, Ray. I will return to read more for the New Year, that you can be sure of.

Comment is about THE INN AT THE END OF A LIFE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A good deed a day makes an abundance at year's end.?

Comment is about Have a happy smoke free year (blog)

Original item by hugh

Great piece. The style is eclectic.?

Comment is about Two Instead of One (blog)

Original item by cam

Great rhythm.?

Comment is about Infinite (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

A little poem, full of power. Often the real treasures of our 'work'. And good poems are 'work', as well as inspiration. Words, the exact right word, and combination of words, they take effort. I have always had a thesaurus close to hand, as back up to my brain when searching for the 'best' word, or words, to express my ideas.

Do you dislike titles? Or is this more like a diary? Rather intriguing, actually.

Comment is about Tuesday, December 25, 2018, 11:58 PM (blog)

Original item by hk

Nothing like the healing power of a cuppa. Love this Fred. Happy New Year.

Comment is about The Magic Cure (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Music, and musicians, hold incredible power don't they? They give us the soundtrack of our lives.... So that when we hear a piece of music, we are transported back. I was deployed overseas with the Australian Army and on our visits to remote villages, we would often play Tracy Chapman. When I hear Tracy now, it takes me right back and I can smell the jungle and betel nut. Truly wonderful Cynthia, thanks so much for sharing that moment.

Comment is about The Day Elvis Died I Cried (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fantastic Cynthia, a unique and interesting description of the miracle of our bodies at work to sustain us. Happy New Year.?

Comment is about Christmas Eve Miracle (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hannah, I'll try to catch up with more of your work this 2019. You have 'style' in writing too, which is impossible without sincerity. And ideas worth sharing.

Anya's advice is excellent.

That is an interesting photo on this bio page, obviously not a selfie. Full of 'message' it is, open to individual interpretation. Presuming it is you, of course, bold and bare breasted. Correct me if I'm wrong. And I do mean 'bold' in a most complimentary way.

4:00 A.M. can be a magical hour for new ideas to surface. And be put into action. Poets must have a source of personal 'magic', call it whatever you will.

Comment is about hk (poet profile)

Original item by hk

Thanks, I was literally pouring myself a cuppa when I got the idea for the poem?

Comment is about The Magic Cure (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

I want to catch up with more of your poetry this year of 2019. Your have depth, imagination and style. Time doesn't always allow, but I'll try.

Comment is about Suko Waspodo (poet profile)

Original item by Suko Waspodo

Very interesting, deep thoughts with arresting imagery.

Comment is about Your Happiness is My Happiness (blog)

Original item by Suko Waspodo

HI! Welcome to WOL. A new screen comes up at midnight, both monthly and yearly as it happens. I'll try to follow some of your work in 2019. WOL casts a world-wide net of poets and their poetry. You will enjoy the site. Thanks for translating from the Norwegian.

Comment is about nale (poet profile)

Original item by nale

This could be a family, a school, a prison, even a religion. It is a fascinating, strong work! Kate is right on!

Comment is about The research is mixed (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Only too true, and beautifully expressed. You must have reason to 'know' you will be 'alone'. It doesn't seem like speculation.

Comment is about The Day Will Come (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Maybe even more like 'essential', because it often isn't 'easy'. A fine thought this New Year's Eve, in England.

Comment is about It's Easier to Believe (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

You are one sharp cookie, Lynn. Even writing such a piece emphasizes this absolutely. Money and trust are strange bedfellows. I wish you well. Challenge everything without fear. And don't give a damn if you get flack. Or feel like a shrew. It's your future, not anybody else's.

Comment is about MONEY AGENT (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

A LOT to read into.?

Comment is about compile: root manic (12/;/2018) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Always - so much passion and pain in a few magnificent lines. I salute your power to 'communicate'. And no title - 'Make up your own, if you have to have one,' says Tommy.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

An absolute bonus for tonight, and the accent is ingenious. I'll probably still be smiling hours from now.

Comment is about Victorine (blog)

Original item by Alan Travis Braddock

Great thought to pass 2018 into 2019. May I suggest that you repost it tomorrow, such a positive note to start our whole new year on WOL. It's really worth a big readership that's not likely to happen tonight.

Comment is about Richer in Giving (blog)

Original item by Larissa Pereira

Great diction.?

Comment is about February 4, 2016 (blog)

Original item by a.k.

Sorry; I still can't make a monthly donation, except via PayPal. I go through all the rigmarole of entering name, card number &c&c (I've tried about 6 times) and it STILL wants me to generate a PayPal account. I am NOT going to do that because I don't want any more people messing with my money than I can help.
WOL doesn't need the middleman.
I am trying to give you money, monthly.!! Can you not get it sorted?
PS When I start to enter email &c, in the above I get a generated pick list which includes my password in clear, my alias and an OLD email address that WOL should not know.. THe WOL software is messing with my PC.

Comment is about A Christmas message, and an appeal (article)

Inclusive? Please refer to the final verse...
The best of times for all to see -
Cheers. ?

Comment is about NEW YEAR CHEER - a lyric (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks po I like that. No courts, paper or violence. Just words and empathy. That’s what we need

Comment is about As will I (blog)

Original item by Reggie

Hey, high five!

Comment is about New Year Rhyme (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Horrible thoughts I regret it already yet my end won’t change. Justice...

Comment is about As will I (blog)

Original item by Reggie

Happy New Year Knapey. And leave that girl next door alone...she's half your age.

Comment is about New Year Rhyme (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Don - Happy New Year
While the rest of us are front end
You'll be at the rear

Comment is about Happy New Year Everyone (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Let's see if we can rhyme your 'new acquaintance' up a bit Po

May new acquaintance ne'er be forgot
For the sake of poetry rhyme
I'm almost fast asleep my friend
I'm going zonk this time

zonk zzzzzzz ?

Comment is about Happy New Year Everyone (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks so much, greatly appreciated.

Comment is about The Long Notes (blog)

Original item by Chris Bainbridge

Now Kirsty you've gone pulled a swifty
You've morphed into Happy Hiker
A good replacement which I approve of
I'm glad it wasn't Harley Biker

Can you imagine the thoughts I'd be left with?
A Kirsty all jacketed in studs
Riding atop a big Harley
Instead of hiking round in the mud

Hello Happy Hiker ?

Comment is about The real fool (blog)

Original item by Happy Hiker

There's soooo much baggage carried around by the term Mother. Many a serial killer has been made from the most twisted ones .... As a mother I hope to limit my dysfunction and not project my own fears or desires on my kids... It's a tough job for sure. I always love your poems Rachel, and this certainly provoked thought. Happy New Year to you.

Comment is about sexism (blog)

Original item by nunya

Kirsty537 I'm a pleb from Down Under
I try not to be a source of ridicule
I absorb all WOL wisdom that appears on my screen
And deliver poems I think that are cool

I'm not in a Speakers Group, but if I was
Telling others I wouldn't care anyway
I'd just shrug my shoulders and say go get lost
Cos I'm untouchable 10,000 miles away ?

Comment is about The real fool (blog)

Original item by Happy Hiker

Happy New Year Rachel. Anything that ends with .....ism is dodgy on all sorts of levels. Mothers huh? Fact is, none of us'd be here without one. I like the pin-prick image, like insect stings, enough to drive you mad. John

Comment is about sexism (blog)

Original item by nunya

Ta Kate, happy chappy Jingle snappy.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Kevin

Thanks a lot for your kind words for my poem ??

Comment is about kJ Walker (poet profile)

Original item by kJ Walker

Looks like I've gone jumped the gun Po
New Year is still one day away
Your flaming galah is still dizzy
Bloody hell Po what more can I say?

As I type this it's 10.22 here
People anxious, waiting midnight
To watch fireworks welcome new year
Can I keep myself 'wake till they light?

yawn.....

My problem' s I'm sipping some white wine
Replying my answer to Po
It's making me quite sorta sleepy
(Turn on the telly Don, wake up for the show)

groan...?

Comment is about Happy New Year Everyone (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews