<Deleted User> (13762)
Tue 24th Oct 2017 08:29
ooh, like this Desmond - kinda fits nicely with my current writing mood. Ta for posting. C?L
Comment is about Traveller (blog)
Original item by DESMOND CHILDS
Sorry to hear that, Philip. Especially as I always thought it was Man U fans who got a monk on when they lost.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Ray,
Isn't it amazing how childhood memories stay with us, so much so that we can easily evoke such times as if they happened yesterday. It's a cliché, but it's true.
Wonderfully read; the right side of wistful. A beautifully descriptive piece, and a lovely story too.
in trepidation I ventured forth
through unfamiliar blunted corridors..
Top of the class!
Suki
Comment is about DUO (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks to David and Stu for their generous and encouraging words. I honestly do not know how I generated this image, but in any event, it seemed like an excellent way to start a new day!
All the best,
Chris
Comment is about The Eye of Morning (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
A sort of eulogy on a past youth with its frustrations and expectations, and the heat adds flavour to those surly feelings. You seem to be a master of this retrospective stuff Martin, and we all love it. It gives us something to cling onto.
Ray
Comment is about Tramping (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Rose DiGregorio
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 21:41
I love this poem- so much feeling. A true love story.
Comment is about Matching Hands and Hearts (blog)
Original item by Reese
Loved this. It created great imagery. Thank you.
Comment is about The Song Of Trees (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Nicola Beckett
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 21:21
Every gun to a knife fight yeah like that
Comment is about Sweatshirt Weather (blog)
Original item by Reese
thanks for commenting on 'Safety Off' Harry - you got it
Ian
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
What a lovely atmospheric poem. Paints a picture on several levels.
Really bitter/sweet.
Jx
Comment is about 'Cooling Towers' by Tom is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 20:14
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 20:13
That is great. I am sure a lot of people could identify with that.
In my case, why do I always say 'sorry' to my laptop when I make a mistake, it never says sorry to me.
Hannah
Comment is about Technophobic Dream (blog)
Original item by Duncan McKenzie Ross
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 20:10
It must be one of the most difficult jobs.
Comment is about PITY THE MANAGER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 20:07
<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 20:04
A beautiful wistful poem. Enjoyed reading it.
Thank you so much for your comment on my recent poem, very much appreciated.
Hannah
Comment is about An Angel (blog)
Original item by David T Jones
I note there is a couple of Tottenham Hotspur fans... in light of recent events and its not that am a sore loser but im taking my ball back... in this instance, my like
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (16099)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 17:07
Beautiful images I could see myself there in a moment with you beautiful
Comment is about Under the Forest (blog)
Original item by Nicola Byrnes
Too true, MC.
And in fairness that was the most gracious I have ever seen Mourinho in defeat. So my "they blamed the pitch; they blamed the ref. Oh, how United squealed" is about Man U fans but which was untrue of Jose himself.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A true fan's talented take on an extraordinary result.
"How are the mighty fallen"
are words that seem so sweet,
But the way that men are measured
are by their manners in defeat.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 13:59
Well done Steve and the team. I remember finding a few dodgy listings when I was researching for my US trip last year. Never made it to any in the end but hey-ho.
There is a link to this article on WoL's Facebook & Twitter pages and I would suggest anyone involved in open mics, spoken words, Poems & Pints etc might like to share with their friends and relevant groups to help make the guide as comprehensive as possible.
https://www.facebook.com/writeout.loud.1/
https://twitter.com/WriteOut_Loud
Col.
Comment is about We've spruced up Write Out Loud's Gig Guide - but we still need your help! (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks, fellas.
Just subscribed, Greg.
Ray - Living in Nottingham until my 20's and Yorkshire since, I really only got to see Spurs play away at the likes of Forest, Derby, Leicester, Barnsley, Leeds etc. I was delighted to have been invited on a "corporate" by a Man City fan when Peter Crouch scored late on to give us a win. It got us into the Champions League at their expense.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think this is JC at his best; as the poem just rolls on like a ball into touch. Very pleasurable. I used to walk to the Spurs most Saturdays in 1970. I spent more on shoes than on the tickets. All changed today of course - those days of light tan sheepskins and random smoking all gone. In those days it was like going to a ballet to watch the choreography. All the best John!
I'll get my coat.
Ray
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You might consider posting this rather wonderful poem here as well, John, if you haven't already done so http://footballpoets.org/ They'd love it. Well, most of them would.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
That is one lovely photo on your bio. I'm hoping it's you. Re: your bio - like it too. I'm actually both, or was. No! Still am.
Comment is about Helen (poet profile)
Original item by Helen
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 10:36
Such great images - love this. I so remember the satisfaction of bursting blisters, well worth the discomfort ?
Comment is about Tramping (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 10:31
Hi Robert,
I really like this. My favourite lines are ‘A certain impulse/ To go for the throat,’ which probably says more about where I’m at than anything else, but I really enjoyed all of it - love the end as well, thanks for sharing it.
Comment is about 'Consins (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
This poem had that something special, that left as much to be imagined as it did explained. We want to know more but realise we never will. Just a clever piece of writing.
great work Tom
Comment is about 'Cooling Towers' by Tom is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 08:58
*let's out sigh of deep satisfaction* You had me tramping the fields and footpaths of the South Downs above Shoreham with this one Martin.
It's a beautiful poem of the man retracing the footsteps of the boy and the farting rasping blade of grass between the thumbs is just pure joyfulness. I still do it and it still gives me great satisfaction to control the vibration from fart to high pitched scream.
Great stuff in every line, you know how to put a smile on this boy's face. Cheers, Col.
Comment is about Tramping (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 08:35
Well done Tom, enjoyed reading this last week and good to catch up with it again here on the front page of WoL.
Comment is about 'Cooling Towers' by Tom is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
leah
Mon 23rd Oct 2017 00:58
REVIEW: JIMMY LEE AND OPEN MIC AT OCTOBER WRITE ANGLE
Jimmy's early experiences, shaped by deprivation and disruption, could have had him turn out any which way, yet his story is one that, whatever the world threw at him, he rose above it and thrived.
He's a great performer - telling Write Angle of the high and low points of his life but his songs tell it all. His lilting, melodious, natural delivery deals equally with hardship, nostalgia and sentiment. He captured all the feelings and wrapped them in tunes and words that had the audience engaged, empathising with each turn of fortune.
Burma Star told of his early childhood memories, full of hardship and change caused by his father's absence in Burma and the soldier's reaction to Jimmy's mother having a child while he was away - 'Never knew what fear or hate was until it came into my home'. In Hard Man, Jimmy finds a box of letters after his father's death and it contrasts the war damaged man with the sensitive youngster he was when he first went to the far east - 'Then I read his letters to his mum and dad from a frightened lonely soldier lad. From a red cross bed written while his wounds were healing'. At nine, Jimmy had an idyllic time with his playmate, Lucy Cartwright, riding with her on the crossbar of his 'bike without a saddle and a bell that did not work.' Only to have his romance come to an end when the Cartwrights suddenly moved away.
Jimmy joined the Navy at fourteen. No Flowers for Geordie tells of the death of his fellow trainee when they were sent to sea in the Suez campaign, and the harsh discipline at HMS Ganges - 'The 'bully boys' came nightly, did things a boy coundn't tell. But they made him write in his letters home: Mamma your boy's doin well'.
He was very well received by the audience, many of whom offered praise when they left. We'll be very keen to have him back. He has a lovely lilting voice- power and emotion with a strong range.
At the Open Mic, Chris Welch, new to Write Angle, read Martha Keys' Seeds of War and Seeds of Peace which talks of hope - 'maybe you could begin to believe peace can be as strong as the killing and the wrong we all have lived and died through'. Then, as a young boy, Colin Eveleigh played on the Portsmouth beach; in Munitions he explained how he collected shells left over from the war and had fun exploding them! - 'We tried to blow up a public toilet...'.
Phyllida Carr took Another Journey on the Bike, telling of riding to East Meon 'when the autumn day turned into night' as hurricane Ophelia came to Hampshire. Your reviewer read his Typhoons and hurricanes, about the 1987 hurricane that struck 'England's green and pleasant land'. Jilly Funnell's poem, Feather, dealt with her enthusiasm for the glamour and sequins of Strictly Come dancing – 'I want a partner called Evan with snow on his shoes. Who'll teach me the steps and the spins to use'. Her You Make Love a Slow Train poignantly told of unrequited love, while All the Way to America told of another enthusiasm.
In Scarsdale Switch, Leah told of commuters bound for the city 'in slim trim pinstriped suits classic skirts and gucci bags....' contrasted with the 'weary faced, bleary eyed, in woolie hats, worn torn coats... maids arriving to clean in 'the big houses hidden in lush greenery'. Then, To those who leave to Find Themselves – 'even artists on the roam from time to time, return to bring their dirty washing home'. And, In Eveready, another tale of unrequited love: 'Maybe there'll be even someone. Almost anyone would do. Someone who is always there. Who wants me just as I want you?'
Jezz played and sang Counting Crows' Gonna Get Back to Bases - 'But we only stay in orbit for a moment of time and then you're everybody's satellite. I wish that you were mine' and Tom Petty's You Don't Know How it Feels - 'There's somewhere I gotta go and you don't know how it feels. No, you don't know how it feels to be me'.
The raffle sponsor was Fez, Petersfield's great Turkish restaurant and a new-comer to Write Angle won the £45 voucher. We hope they'll come back and tell us about their experience.
nd next month, the irresistable Attila the Stockbroker takes to the stage and of course, once again, the Open Mic is there for everyone to take part and share in the entertainment! Every month another star. Always different but always great!
Jake Claret
Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 17 Oct 2017 (event)
Mine was Nottingham Forest v Tottenham. I am from Nottingham but am a Tottenham fan. Thanks for commenting, Philip.
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
The first full match i went to was liverpool v Huddersfield... night match i think...back in the early seventies...the old first division
Comment is about ...but lost to Huddersfield (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
As a lamp post light flickers on
mistaken for the sun.. tis the world we live in
Comment is about Now That's What I Call War On Terror Music (Volumes 22-33) (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Yep a good poem, some good advise over a cuppa .. look forward to more
Comment is about It all depends on Something (blog)
Original item by Simon King
Thank you very much Hannah, glad you could put up with my dubious delivery ... dulcet tones there not but all heart felt
Comment is about The Bedsit (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Thank you guys, means a lot..
Comment is about Multi coloured drum (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 20:19
Great fun and advice.
Hannah
Comment is about It all depends on Something (blog)
Original item by Simon King
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 20:15
Such a brave woman, I wish her every success.
Hannah
Comment is about Poet gives first reading after accident that left her in brace with broken back (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well, I thought you were a lapsed Catholic...
Comment is about Martin Thinks I'm Catholic (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 19:07
'We're part of the tapestry'.
Brilliant poem.
Hannah
Comment is about Sum (blog)
Original item by Rich
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 19:05
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 19:03
Poignant. So well described I could see the images.
The last line very important.
Hannah
Comment is about The Bedsit (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 22nd Oct 2017 18:58
very good Philip, love the overall rhythm of the piece. it works well, particularly with that last word. Silence!
Nice one
Comment is about Multi coloured drum (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
<Deleted User> (13762)
Tue 24th Oct 2017 08:36
empty the tanks
is what I would say
if I was a captive dolphin
made to play human games
Comment is about Dolphins (blog)
Original item by Simon King