Fantastic poem by John - 'crazed forgettings', 'autopsy scar on the belly of the country'. And Martha - 'Each at each other, one of us forever.' Worthy winners both. Well done.

Comment is about John Baylis Post's 'Track' wins Write Out Loud's Milestones competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Pertinent and plangent - a timely reminder to get something
done to stop this decimating dangerous event in nature
from progressing.

Comment is about 'The flowers ... will blaze one last time and go out' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

They say "money talks" and sometimes I think (especially
in consideration of our wonderful but fast fading countryside) that we should ignore its jabber.
David - some words from my own past come back to me:
Cynicism is the last resort of idealism. And, no, they weren't from the inimitable Oscar Wilde!

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Ray. Scarred optimism... that's definitely my kind of town. ?

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks Stephen ?

Comment is about out side (blog)

Original item by Becky Sowray

Hey, Colin! I was feeling so serious last evening that I had to have a little laugh. The first time I watched that movie, I almost fell out of my chair, I laughed so hard.

I came up with part of the title after remembering an incident with a nurse connecting me to an IV. Somehow, she lost grip of the tube she'd stuck in my arm after removing the cap at it's female end and gave out a nervous laugh when it began to flail about like a tiny fire hose. Well, the rest of the title is me laughing with her.

Anyhow, the movie makes a great statement about religion and the fickle fascinations of man. Man and his myths remain archaic, no matter how modernized they seem on the surface. And, I firmly believe that the only reason the church isn't still burning people at the stake is that its violence is no longer state-sanctioned and it has to convince converts into its control rather than being able to legally coerce them through overt measures.

Hope you laughed as much as I did,

Rachel

PS
Glad you enjoyed, David.

Comment is about HAHAHA--it's only blood you silly nurse (or, more serious reflections upon M. Python's Holy Grail) (blog)

Original item by nunya

I'm afraid I'm one of those 'critics' who is unable to offer a critique (and rarely do), but may I say how much I enjoyed the poem.

Comment is about out side (blog)

Original item by Becky Sowray

Very pithy, very true and very well expressed.
Thankyou.
Richard

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I really like this poem. It shows the cynicism of those who put economics before the Environment.

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you Ray for your comments on my poem. Much appreciated

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Thanks for stopping by David and Col. Nice to have your support.

Ray

Comment is about HORSE TRADING (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Colin, thanks for you insight into my poem. I do appreciate your comments, thanks.

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

I hear you Rich... i recognise your words..unclutter the mind madness of noise and pick out the postive.... like you do

Comment is about Divided (blog)

Original item by Rich

Thanks Ashley, like words breath can be sweet too.

Comment is about Greyhound (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Just seen this for the first time Steve. It gets life by the balls and squeezes and brings a tear forth. I especially respect the idea of kicking in the TV and the lines leading up to that, because I suppose TV is a sort of sop to keep our minds spongy and diverted. Bitter sweet and a very recognizable sense of scarred optimism just coming through in spite of the mood of the piece.

Ray

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

A very original idea to transfer the suffering onto the tree that supported the hanging Desmond. Like double disgust and so neatly expressed.

Ray

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Nice bit of fantasy from the cabinet of Dr Caligari perhaps Lynn. Nice light touch for a subject that toys with our feelings somewhat!

Ray

Comment is about WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

I feel that teachers must have also felt browbeaten by the "duties" such as writing reports and many of them as I recall were fairly sadistic. A burden conveyed no doubt to parents who were supposed to have an input too. A sorry record as you say, entertainingly written!

Ray

Comment is about Report (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Hi, thanks for sharing.

Comment is about Addiction (above and beyond) (blog)

Original item by Phils Words

Yeah a bit crazy. My son gave me a poetry assignment book. The assignment was to start with the opening that August Day and make up a medication that does not exist. That is where this came from lol

Comment is about WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Nice one Wardah. Familiar eh?

The warning bells ring...

Let's have another please.
Raj

Comment is about Mind Games (blog)

Original item by Wardah

Thank you Wardah. She deserves it. Glad you like it.

Comment is about M'am your poem is served (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Hi Stephen
A great poem and I'm sure you speak for many with the sentiments you have set out so clearly.
Underneath every line of your poem simmers the yoke of "failure" which some of us have had to carry after being crushed by the waterfall of negativity poured over us at a young and impressionable age.
Thankyou for writing it and for writing it so well.
Richard

(What? Me, bitter? Nah!)

Comment is about Report (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Thanks Graham and Colin

I loved the dodgems too but no battle scars for me!

Comment is about Fly like a Bird land like a Stone (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Photographs ...pictures of time, painted in words...words sublime... tick tock... tick

?

Comment is about Calendars clocks and snapshots (blog)

Original item by David T Jones

Hey, foul breath is just the definition of life undressed.

Comment is about Greyhound (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Ciran wrap gripped tight around the throat
i breathe, i choke.
i tripped and felt my stiff ass neck broke

Internally vibrating, emotionally fucking penetrating

Acceptance is forced to be, eyes wide open- i see you are personally damaging to me

I've traveled along side your competition within this rat race.. Ill invite death to keep up with my continuous pace

Dead from within but my daily struggle is still faced

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Thank you, Lynn!

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

if trees had feelings. There's a palpable sense of having no control over one's destiny - the tree growing and spreading its arms to unwittingly become the hangman's tree - like a person locked inside their body and unable to communicate their wishes or feelings, only able in the end to watch their own slow decline. So much sorrow so very well expressed. Thanks for posting Desmond.
Colin.

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

no don't delete it! It's only a flesh wound on the pages of WoL.

Comment is about HAHAHA--it's only blood you silly nurse (or, more serious reflections upon M. Python's Holy Grail) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Ha! wasn't sure at all where this one was heading Lynn - I hope I don't catch anything by leaving a comment! Thanks for the smiles. C?L

Comment is about WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Please do pardon. I'll probably delete the title of this before GMT breakfast time. But, for now I'm just having fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DCAFUerzs

..or maybe not.

Comment is about HAHAHA--it's only blood you silly nurse (or, more serious reflections upon M. Python's Holy Grail) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Beautifully communicates the fears of a father... Lovely poem...?

Comment is about Infant woman (blog)

Original item by Phils Words

Love this one ? she's a lucky lady ?
Keep them coming ?

Comment is about M'am your poem is served (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

I love the connection between dripping water and your mind... It's really creative...

Comment is about Passing poem (blog)

Original item by Phils Words

'Cold' beautiful poem, feelings and images.

Thanks for your comment on my poem The Man On The Corner.

Comment is about Misha'yel (poet profile)

Original item by Misha'yel

DTJ....am sure that moment will come again... just tred more carefully...

Like it

Comment is about David T Jones (poet profile)

Original item by David T Jones

As David says, fragility comes across here and a sort of delicacy I feel which is the lightness of being in your poems.
It intrigues me that you specify the time so precisely, it gives the reader a sense of the immediate, as if time itself is fragile.

Ray

Comment is about 2.38 am (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Why thank you Colin.

Comment is about YOUTH AT MY DOOR (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thanks Hannah for adding a fresh face to the comments - this wind stuff all just rushed into my head (for a change).

Ray

Comment is about LATE SUMMER WIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Coo, luve a dove Lynn! Doves get a better press I suppose!

Ray

Comment is about PIGEON POST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A lovely poem Adrian
Thank you

Comment is about 'Transient Beauty' by Adrian Metcalf is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

thanks so much for your comment. bless.

Comment is about Fireworks (blog)

Original item by Misha'yel

Thank you Ferris Colin Stu Ray and Lynn For reading and your comments . Also thanks to Kim for liking.
I wrote this after snatching a few days away with my wife in Anglesey in July. The weather was far from perfect as in the case of British summers, but it was time away from people and expectations and all the associated stuff that goes with that, so I don't particularly care about the weather.
I know what you mean about the violins section Ray. I don't always understand what I write sometimes, But it seemed to fit.
Thanks once again to you all for reading this and your encouragement
much appreciated
Martin

Comment is about Rested (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

I like the tag as much as the poem Nigel. I remember getting a split lip on the dodgems with my dad as a young kid not properly strapped in. I was always wary after that.

Comment is about Fly like a Bird land like a Stone (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thanks MC

I still believe in gradual evolvement toward a "United Utopia" at least it would be less comfortable for the jackals.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks MC

I still think a gradual shift toward a "United Utopia" would at least make it less comfortable for the jackals

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

welcome to WoL DW. Your three poems presented here seem connected with an obvious back story which makes for intriguing reading. In a way you don't need to tell us further personal details as the mystery is what makes them all the more compelling. All the best, Colin.

Comment is about Fight for redemption (blog)

Original item by Destiny Walden

ah so very good Tom, enjoyed immensely. Thanks.

Comment is about 2.38 am (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

once again, and at the risk of repeating myself, I have to say your poems often take me back to a time and place, often in my youth when I was discovering so much about life, people, the world around me. I am now sitting in a particular bedroom in Brighton remembering a past love. Thanks Tom, but best not linger there too long!
Col.

Comment is about The Moon Tonight (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding