Express who you are - no matter the reception. As elPinter says Racha. We write for ourselves. Like it ? - great. No? - tough. Go fly a kite,

Nice too make your acquaintance.

Don ?

Comment is about racha (poet profile)

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One of my best

Comment is about “The Man and The Whisper” (blog)

Original item by Andres Arias

It's amazing thank you for sharing ❤

Comment is about “The Man and The Whisper” (blog)

Original item by Andres Arias

thank you i will

Comment is about eternal slumber (blog)

Original item by racha

great piece. please do follow my blog and support elizabethogunrinola.wordpress.com

Comment is about Peace (blog)

Original item by Nicola Byrnes

great piece. please do follow my blog and support elizabethogunrinola.wordpress.com

Comment is about eternal slumber (blog)

Original item by racha

Title caught my attention, but I stayed for the poetics.?

Comment is about Headphones and Wine bottles (blog)

Original item by Rebecca Leivesley

Beautiful, artistic pictures and poem.?

Comment is about Jade Cuttle (poet profile)

Original item by Jade Cuttle

Poetry is a wonderful medicine. Much more powerful than people give it credit for, and what a powerful sample you have here. It's 100% true. ?

Comment is about Ebonie Camp (poet profile)

Original item by Ebonie Camp

Stay strong throughout.?

Comment is about Losing You (blog)

Original item by Justine Ramos

No problem, and each of the poems you have posted so far have such substance that it feels like more elaboration can not only improve an already great piece of art, but also bring it to a level that would require a bit of deciphering and more re-reads. Don't get me wrong, they're already great to read, but improving should not be relegated to only when we feel inadequate as writers, but also when a great piece can be made even better. If you feel they are good as is, then well so do I?. A good read is a good read, but a great one will never hurt.?

Comment is about Addiction to Deal (blog)

Original item by Megan Pieroway

This takes me back, Keith. My US high school education in typing was never so vivid as that received from a strong Eastern European female type later in life--truly drill-like and unforgettable.

Rachel

Comment is about The Videomatic Tutor (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Lovely comments, thank you -thoughts of Brief Encounter inevitable with railway themes I guess!

Comment is about Lines (blog)

Original item by Chris Bainbridge

Hey Big Sal, I really appriciate that, what do you mean by wanting to hear more! Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks again!

Comment is about Addiction to Deal (blog)

Original item by Megan Pieroway

What can I say Pat. Perhaps an online bicycle bell might do it! That's a real compliment thank you.

Thanks Brian. Your humour precedes you. That is one way of looking at it certainly!

Darren, I had those last two lines the other way round, but like some tweaking seemed to make a difference. Thanks.

Hannah, absolutely right, and it's not that expensive to get that feeling.

Brian, thanks for the platitude.

Good man, Suki. I suppose good design can free us up to the bigger pictures.


Thanks Graham, you've seen more than the obvious in the poem, i'm grateful.


Thanks for the likes Col, Hazel Kevin Ruby and Anya - all of you!



Ray

Comment is about BICYCLE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Just for a minute, I was reminded of The Green green grass of Home in the metre Mike. Is there a feeling of being condemned by non belief? to be caged up by falling short ? Just a thought. Well put together and compulsive reading.

Ray

Comment is about Windows (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thank you.

Comment is about The Oyster (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Thank you for reading and taking time to respond.

Comment is about Almost a Prayer (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

this is the best..... thank you

Comment is about The Oyster (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

a beautiful write..in life I am right there with you and you have been a blessing to me..

Comment is about Almost a Prayer (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Don hi, the second verse is an attempt to buy drink in a pub/bar ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Don hi, the second verse is an attempt to buy drink in a pub/bar ?

Comment is about Practical pronouncements (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Now then, Newberry, you play fair,
Pretending to forget Mayfair;
I’d bet my bottom dollar you
Well remember Penthouse too!

Comment is about IMAGINE MY SURPRISE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

the Oreo company stop making them

Comment is about Whatever Happened To Oreo Cakesters? (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Thanks Brian and Darren for great comments. Yes I do remember Mrs Merton saying that, hilarious! And yes Darren stuff ‘em! Cheers

Fred

Comment is about Why Does it Have to be So? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

like this poem and it reminds me of one I wrote about a year ago... called Burning Desire on my blog page. So many metaphors to do with fire and flames around subject of love...
m x

Comment is about Love is Fire (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

I remember Tit-Bits and Parade
But at my age the pictures fade,
There were others, I recall,
But names are lost now - one and all! ?

Comment is about IMAGINE MY SURPRISE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Yes, it’s good to see Brian still posting. I too thought he might have an embolism, Don. Luckily he’s too old to get excited.
What the likes of me and Brian get up to takes place mostly in our heads these days.

Comment is about IMAGINE MY SURPRISE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Brian

baird/prepared is perfect sense for a rhyming couple.

All for poetic license but don't know what you mean here ?

Don

Comment is about Windows (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

''Freedom is not when the Master let him go, it was when the Master said ''Yes'' and he said ''No!'' ...Rage Against The Machine:

Don't tell me what to do. Get lost. Sorted.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Tommy

I am new and just stumbled on you - as one does round here. I'm here to learn, contribute and have fun.

No-one else has commented here so I've nothing to go on. The first verse is subtle and clever. I like it. The second one escapes me. I cannot see the 'message. Am I missing something ? Or is it I live on foreign shores and don't understand UKians ?

Don ?

Comment is about Practical pronouncements (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Don - Firstly, why not poetic licence?

Secondly - I think Mike is from Liverpool, as was my dad, where bird is pronounced baird I believe.

Comment is about Windows (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Now John

Why did you have to go and put a picture like that on your post ? You're lucky Brian didn't have a coronary. Notice he jumped at the bait and has crawled all over the post.

Also John,

What the heck do all you guys get up to in the UK ?

Don ?

Comment is about IMAGINE MY SURPRISE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Like Brian and Keith - this is very good. You set up a good lilting rhyme pattern, I was nicely into the rhythm and then suddenly you introduce a line which doesn't rhyme and is out of place:

"The storm rages around me, suddenly I don’t feel so
prepared".

I don't know whether you intended but on another tangent I felt unprepared for this sudden change in the rhyme structure, as you did for the storm. If intended I thought it rather clever

Don

PS. Unless you meant bird/prepared the rhyming couple

Comment is about Windows (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks for the like Colin

Don

Comment is about Karen Dalton Same Old Man 1971 (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thanks, Wood. One from my back catalogue of Greatest Hits. Are you a time traveller? I posted this in 2011.

Comment is about The Line and Square (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Could do with those girls on the image of Negatives - - -
on the door tonight at the Oldknow.

Good luck to all who are coming down should be a great night!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

a place of clerical mayhem in the hands of men

There are echoes of the musicality of the typing pool - that mixture of the human voice and the music of machines - throughout this excellent poem. Well done Keith.

Many good wishes

John

Comment is about ‘The Videomatic Tutor’ by Keith Jeffries is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

Like the poem Fred.

I agree with Keith and would add - if it is meant to be then stuff everyone else!

Comment is about Why Does it Have to be So? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Young girls do get attracted to older men for various reasons, seldom the sort of love they would feel towards someone of their own age. In an older man they can see success, power, intelligence, wealth etc and see them as a father figure, particularly when they have missed this in their home lives.

Remember Caroline Aherne as Mrs Merton interviewing Debbie McGee? "Debbie McGee...what first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels"

Comment is about Why Does it Have to be So? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Don,
You are more than welcome as your honesty in verse is so very refreshing.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about We Want to Join Your Loop (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Keith,

Yes you are correct and I feel when we get older it gets more confusing. In my case it’s because I still feel 18 in my head which comes out in my personality, but that’s it, because I’m classed as ‘old’. Really appreciate your kind comments. Cheers

Fred

Comment is about Why Does it Have to be So? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Great stuff Keith!

Comment is about The Rainbow Arc (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thanks Kevin,
I am forever pondering on our mortality. I gather that Emily Dickison was similarly disposed. Your comments are always appreciated and valued.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about The Rainbow Arc (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Wow...

Comment is about Whatever Happened To Oreo Cakesters? (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Thank you guys, much appreciated. That's definitely not my grandma in the picture, she was more "rounded" and formidable. Sadly I don't have any photographs of her to show you, so you'll have to use your imagination ?

Comment is about The Washing Line (blog)

Original item by Nicola Hulme

Padded out or what!?

Comment is about Whatever Happened To Oreo Cakesters? (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

so whatever happened to Oreo Cakesters Damon?

Comment is about Whatever Happened To Oreo Cakesters? (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Very smooth and succinct. You paint a picture and the last two lines are great - especially as we are left not knowing if you are happy or sad with the situation. A window of my own and home suggest happiness, but full of lonely people is more despairing.

Comment is about Windows (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Best lines for me are
I'm not perfect. Don't tell me what to do.
Honesty is empowering.

Comment is about Runner (blog)

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