Well actually it was created this morning to ward off cougars and bears on my walk with my dog lol. I have been making up little songs so the wild life does not come and eat us. My dog Beau agreed with the message this little ditty imparts.

Comment is about MORNING WALK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Hello Jane, Don's Princess here
Meowing meowing 'way
I'm glad that someone noticed
It is our Special Day (also)

Meow'ayee.....Meow'ayee

Princess has been to Cat Yodeling School ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLG2wtE7TM

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Martin

Comment is about At Present (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

I think this has a sort of Bukowski feel to it, bleak and ironical. Nice touch the lawnmower - everything has to look right with some people.

Ray

Comment is about Corner Man (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Highly original and entertaining. I saw Janice and Donall only yesterday and they remembered you from the Bar des Arts. Congratulations for POTW. Enjoyed the poem a lot.

Ray

Comment is about 'Edward Lear rewrites The Flea by John Donne' by Marnanel Thurman is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Mike Took

like your samples Daemon. keep posting. I look forward to more

Comment is about Daemon Cantrell (poet profile)

Original item by Daemon Cantrell

Dorinda
I have just seen your post regarding Christine. So sorry to hear the news. Will be praying for her family

Love
Martin

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Wonderfully written and heart warming Taylor
Nice one

Comment is about Nan's Lippy (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

A beautiful poem Hazel, which for me started off as I read it as a metaphor for life in the way our lives can be so fragile. But that is just me
Interestingly I read somewhere that a mayfly only exists for one day in may when it hatches.
Anyway I love the poem

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

I always like your poems Adam as they have a real pace and rhythm to them which accompanies the poetic inflection you place into your description
Nice one

Comment is about At Present (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Very nicely put. How easy it is to judge others, their circumstances and what they are like but what we think we see outside our own little worlds.

Nice one

Comment is about Corner Man (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks for the double take, Taylor ?

Comment is about Tyranny digs its own grave (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Enjoyed this poem. Thanks Jon a good read
(twice) ?

Comment is about Tyranny digs its own grave (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Not sure this quite what John Lennon had in mind about doing it in the road. But none the less as Colin suggests maybe you should produce a white album Lynn

Nice one

Comment is about MORNING WALK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thanks, Martin.

Comment is about Tyranny digs its own grave (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

very clever poem Jon. I like the idea of him digging his own grave.
Nice one

Comment is about Tyranny digs its own grave (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

is this from your white album of poetry Lynn? I like it.

Comment is about MORNING WALK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thankyou, Cynthia.

Comment is about BREAST FEEDING IN PUBLIC (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Congratulations! An interesting read. ?

Comment is about 'Edward Lear rewrites The Flea by John Donne' by Marnanel Thurman is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Thanks to Colin for liking

Thanks to David and Cynthia for reading . I always value more input.
Cynthia thanks for pointing out my typos. I am afraid I am very lax in such matters so I always appreciate you picking these up.

David thanks for being so thorough in your comments. I do find cities and towns both quite stimulating and exciting for writing. Manchester rarely fails me in that regard where as central London is great on one level but makes me suffer with sensory overload. I take my hat off to any one working there.
I take your point about Whitechapel. Although I am not familiar with it my sister in law use to reside off the mile end road and that had a great buzz of activity, although I don't know what its like now.
As you say extreme temperatures does seem to do strange things to people. Watch this space .


Thanks again guys
Much appreciated


Martin

Comment is about Sunning themselves (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hi M.C.,
Believe it or not my one eyed nanna yodelled too..she taught us to yodel as children.

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Today is also National Cat Day!

I heard it on the radio!

Yodel, yodel, yodel?❤

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Hazel, A wonderful piece. I found myself nodding all the way through. Yes I can relate.
Lovely. ?

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Encouraging! Gives hope that freedom, even if only for a while, will be hers. Love it! Thank you, Jane?

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

A paradigm of emotions. Well done again.?

Comment is about WOULD YOU? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Like an inscription scrawled on an oak - concise and poetic enough to last a lifetime.?

Comment is about MORNING WALK (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Enjoyed this very much - a real sweep of canvas, killing details making a whole, and expertly executed. Great ending.

(Take a quick read to squinch out a couple of typos: eg. probably Hell with a capital to go with Eden?)

Comment is about Sunning themselves (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Excellent little ditty, making a huge point. Just like the old nursery rhymes.

Comment is about BREAST FEEDING IN PUBLIC (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This could go badly awry. I'm not familiar with the 'video' mentioned, and could easily take the work entirely as the author's personal stance, venomous, fixated and dangerous.

Is the photo intended to be a clue?

Comment is about Brexit Boy (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks John for reading and commenting. I have to say I do like a little bit of reliability in my life, but my wife doesn't , although I think we balance each other out without resulting to being boring and I think as I get older I am loosing up. But I know what you mean about the extremes of having your whole life mapped out.
Thanks for reading and commenting

Comment is about Bored (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Funny, funny, funny, mostly because it's so true, true, true.

Comment is about Too Much to Ask (blog)

Original item by Hazel Connelly

Kate - thank you very much.

Brian - they have found fossils of Dragonflies with 30 inch wing spans that are 325 million years old! Now that is amazing.

Frances - i have a very loose definition of 'a few short days'

Cynthia - Both! When I heard about the life cycle of the dragonfly I related immediately and decided it was time to stop forever re-inventing myself and to accept that this is who I am, this is what I do, these are my people, these are my places - it's time to stop and enjoy this and this and this.

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Gosh Brian! that dates us. "I re...mem...ber..yoohoo...

Why don't they give us a chainlink here to dear old Frankie.. Now 80 and probably yodeling his sweet cotton sox off to the delight of all nursing home dears. You're right Brian, I thought I was hearing things, but I'm not. It's very faint. Wobbly faint voices all yodeling together. Ah, Frankie, you're a legend. Good British stock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgm0KNICGcU

Sing along with Frankie Brian....I...re...mem....ber...yoohoo...

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

it's almost as if he's dyslexic...

i listened to a bit. interesting certainly and i do enjoy a challenge but crikey. not sure i could last 3+ hours...

Comment is about Brace Yourselves. This is Holy Shit from ZatarS (article)

Original item by Mike Took

The 'polymath' misspells more words than Dan Quayle.

Comment is about Brace Yourselves. This is Holy Shit from ZatarS (article)

Original item by Mike Took

I like the way you made the 'action' short and sharp. No extra fill-in stuff. Bare bones. I was drawn in to the very end. ?

Comment is about Corner Man (blog)

Original item by d.knape

"More than just a woman ." - indeed. A writer with emotion and a message to send. Here's hoping you continue to write.?

Comment is about vanessaorina (poet profile)

Original item by vanessaorina

With your pen, you can do anything you put your mind to. A writer's aspirations bleed on the page when they write, and yours are very clear. Nice job on such a thorough piece of writing, I enjoyed it.?

Comment is about PAGES OF MY LIFE (blog)

Original item by vanessaorina

Your bio is great, and your poems are very entertaining to read. Here's hoping you keep doing what you do best.

Comment is about Christine Renshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Christine Renshaw

Great titles to all of these.?

Comment is about Nick (poet profile)

Original item by Nick

Reading the emotions you put into your poems makes me take an honest look at myself and my own words and ask, "Is mine emotional enough?"

Comment is about Nan's Lippy (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

It's been a good 4 years or so since you put this up, but it has aged well and was quite an enjoyable read. Another one from your way.?

Comment is about Food Banks Are Bad (blog)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Sounds very interesting and worth a writer's time to invest in something like this.

Comment is about Sabotage Reviews Looking For a New Director (article)

Original item by Mike Took

Excellent how you formatted a shanty into a poem. This and "Running Down to Cuba" are the ones I'll probably remember most.?

Comment is about The Last Shanty (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Insightful, and sharply developed. Fact or a major metaphor? Or both?

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Famous Aussie yodeller from yesteryear - Frank Ifield

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Maybe we are of the old school MC - doing the job properly and being proud of it is paramount. It tells the world what counts to us. I am embarrassed to let people know I don't care enough to check my spelling is correct.

Wot ever's 'e talkin' about? ?

Comment is about Spelling Errors (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Well I'll yodel be
No yodeler did see
Down here where I do exist
In good old Australee

You sure it is worldwide?
A yodeler I did tried
To find a'yodeling in my town
I did look far and wide

No Julie Andrews echoes
I heard from my dear hills
I even op'ed my ears real wide
To search for yodeling rills

Maybe the Yodely people
Thought we too holy-dodle
To 'preciate the subtleties
Of well-called holy-yodels ?

Comment is about WORLD YODEL DAY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Of course you're not offending, and I'm glad you enjoyed the poem Taylor. Means a lot knowing I can put something out and have people enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.?

Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

Hopefully more than a few short days, Hazel!
That's how I felt this second time around - very relateable poem and such a clever approach.

Comment is about Into the Blue (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge