naughty Mr Ray. Time for your medication. Someone will be along shortly to give you your bath. You'll like that I'm sure.

Comment is about WHOOPS APOCALIPS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

so good

Comment is about looking backward (a sign during the day) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Seems like all women visiting you here lol! Good luck.

Write more Mr. Chakraj ?

Comment is about She blows hot, blows cold (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Visiting your page just now @ date: 072917

Here I am
Liking and commenting without hesitating
For a friend I met
In Write Out Loud
A gig I never forget
So as the name Chakraj
Be blessed and be merry
And may life be good to you!

xx -MGS

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

Original item by Chakraj

so nice to see genuine,honest,pure poetry like this Raj.



Lotsa love my friend.


Rose ?+? for good luck!

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

Original item by Chakraj

Hey, Stu..so glad to see you post. I always look forward to reading your work and am reminded with this latest just exactly why that's so. Such graceful use of language with just that subtle hint of elevated eroticism--quite beautiful, and without the slightest hint of pretense.

I thought of this just after reading...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyUkqlF8HjU

The movie is, The Band's Visit, and (for me) the actress, Ronit Elkabetz, encapsulates beautifully the character you've drawn.


So good to see you, Stu..all the best..

Rachel

Comment is about there is an ocean behind your eyes (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Apparently that is poetry. Lovely, parody, innit Ray?

Suki

Comment is about WHOOPS APOCALIPS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Stu,

I can only echo what David has already said..

Hope you are okay. Take it easy, friend.

Suki

Comment is about there is an ocean behind your eyes (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

and include me too please Wendy as one of those who cares.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Suffering Long Term (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Hi New Shoes - thanks for your comment, really pleased to connect.

Turnign things around is key.

Comment is about Perspective (blog)

Original item by Rich

Thanks for dropping by Kevin. Yes, it is that simple! It's a horrible feeling too.

David, The sad thing is when we are here and waiting for something we feel we need or deserve and are invisible. But hey that's fantasy after all. Actually it isn't.

Well thought out Old Shoes well spotted. Thanks.

Thanks Col glad you liked the simple stuff this time around!

Suki, I loved your comment here. On a serious note, it does take a leap of faith to leave things unsaid and respect the reader to enter in as you seem destined to do.

I'll check out Uncle Albert C. So much still to read.

Love to all for time taken . Ray

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

What a joy Stu to see the seismic pleasure of your words in this offering. David is so right In mentioning the capturing and expanding analysis of possibilities of moments. This is just wonderful . Sometimes hard times can result in an up shift of quality of this type, and may I say this may be the case here. Maybe not but there is a suffering at work in the lines.

I also look forward to you ticking my workboxes too !

Ray

Comment is about there is an ocean behind your eyes (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Powerful in its meeting and melding of insistent life forces
for good and ill. The lines that have cancer ringing the doorbell pack a poetic punch.

Comment is about 'Each year he dug, bulldozed, and set fire to those determined vines' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Stu - Sorry to hear about your recent troubles. I hope they are now all behind you.
I like this return piece and the maternal longing of the 'waitress'. Might I suggest one, small change?
In my head the 'stretched skin' line sounds better as

'stretch marks, teary eyes and tantrums'

but feel free to ignore me. Let's have many more mate.
Rob

Comment is about there is an ocean behind your eyes (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

hello all. due to some severe upheaval in my life of late i havent managed to read as much of your work as i would have liked. truth is, this is the first thing i have write in what seems like forever. i hope your all well and look forward to getting back to normal as soon as possible.

Comment is about there is an ocean behind your eyes (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hey there Colin, always glad to see your comments on my stuff!

So really what I wanted to go for in this poem was discussing this feeling that I went through during darker periods in my life.

I used to feel like my suffering and pain was a show for everyone to enjoy, as if hurting me and making me feel bad entertainment, and suicide would be the final act. I used to even think I deserved it because of how deep into a hole I was.

I chose the title Ringling Brothers because of the connotation that they've been 'dead' for quite a few years now, as are my feelings on that topic.

I ope that I might've cleared some stuff up!

Comment is about Ringling Brothers (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

I like this. No wacky punchline, and no bolt-on profundity - other writers might be tempted. A. Case of beer winging its way to you. Camus comedy. Excellent, Ray; excellent rays.

Suki

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

3 good comments here already and I agree with them all.

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

your thoughts and words have a nice flow Ameya and I am enjoying reading them. Thanks for posting. Colin.

Comment is about Desolated desert rose (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

Hi Connor, I'm intrigued, can't quite pin this down. I think maybe the title is throwing me because Ringling Bros closed down a few months back yet there is this suicide theme which I'm trying also to connect. I like the poem, the subject matter is different and that in itself will always attract me like a moth to light.

I have to say I have never been a lover of circuses especially those that 'train' and perform animals. With dwindling audience numbers and a society less accepting of these acts of 'entertainment' perhaps the noose was gripping evermore tighter around the Ringling/Barnum neck. Am I getting closer? I wish the same for SeaWorld and other aqua prisons. Empty the tanks. I hate to see animals held captive and (ab)used for financial gain.

thanks for posting and piquing my interest.
Col.

Comment is about Ringling Brothers (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

If anyone has a poems about music: jazz, skiffle, so forth, we are looking for submissions for such poems to be displayed on posters in shops, pubs and cafés during the Marsden Jazz Festival, and for a fortnight either side.
Submissions here: https://www.writeoutloud.net/competitions/poemsinshops

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Lonnie was mine too! Rock Island Line, the Battle of new Orleans, and my first record, My Old Man's Dustman. They don't make them like that any more (thank goodness?)

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

good?

Comment is about Anticipation (blog)

Original item by Louis Audet

fine

Comment is about Ringling Brothers (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

choose to see the opposite feeling from the one that holds you down, dress them all up like clowns and enjoy the show. it will truely turn a frown upside down and a new mind, much like a child's will grow.

I connected with your poem

thanks

New Shoes

Comment is about Perspective (blog)

Original item by Rich

I like how you used nursery rhyme in an event that created hope and wonder and then adult hood came in and brought it to disappointment.

tick tock

New Shoes

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

No worries, Leon! Nothing was too much trouble for a poem about a subject so close to my heart. Lonnie Donegan was my earliest pop hero.

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I was expecting a bit of a punchline. like him waiting under the clock in the train station while she waits under the clock in the bus station. but no, it looks like he's just been stood up. I think we've all been there.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Re 'Vertices' Cynthia
you have a good grasp of the verse but does it resonate?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

No Cynthia you have a good grasp of the verse but does it resonate?

Comment is about Vertices (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

A very warm welcome Maxine.I have browsed through your poems and though as only a novice myself,may I say that I find the quality of them is of quite a high standard.

I'm convinced that you will do very well in receiving plenty of comments and notifications.

Kind regards.


Rose ?

Comment is about Maxine (poet profile)

Original item by Maxine

good

Comment is about Eyes (blog)

Original item by Pao Oli

fine?

Comment is about Desolated desert rose (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

Harry - it's a fascinating aspect of life for future generations. Even emerging India is trying to equate its
recognition of advanced work practices with the need to
provide employment for its grotesquely "generating"
population. The West has long led the way in the
creation/invention of devices that make life easier and
this facility impacts on the "need" for human participation
in a widening range of work practices as time marches on.
The UK has its own place in fresh approaches to life
and leisure: the huge income from the entertainment
industry being one example of how an ability to forge and profit from new markets has always been a homebred
asset. Long may it remain so.

Comment is about Just trying to help. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

M.C.
Just drawing attention to the blindingly obvious reason for the presence of all these `aliens`

Hammond - at Davos - reckoned that what he called the fourth industrial revolution was going to mainly effect skilled workers (he jokingly hoped that he will have left the chancellorship before they had time to automate it.)...what is going to happen is the obsolescence of skills and the stagnation of real wages...wait till that hits us!...(we aint seen nuttin` yet)....There seems to be a growing distance between who is providing the robots, and who is
getting the economic profit from them.

Comment is about Just trying to help. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

man, I did not see that coming, lol........
But surely a very strong message, actually even the well known writers or any other society figure, have done things that were out of the ordinary, and well many still follow them as it was something Godlike; Writing has its own freedom, why confine to things that could use a different approach for a change, besides, poetry got one plus point, write without restriction, cheers ?

Comment is about Shit, I burnt the dictionary. (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

lovely write, well love is one of a kind, not to mention the veils it uses to disguise itself often times, cheers ?

Comment is about To my Angel who waits (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Really intriguing - a bit complex but so interesting in the 'triple story' it evokes - the mental and physical and emotional conjoining at a 'vertex'. And the 'all-seeing eye' poking in at the end.

Or maybe I'm completely 'out to lunch'.

Comment is about Vertices (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Ta Suki for your appreciation of "Bill Hicks" indeed top man. Tommy

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Cheers dystopian poetry fans!

David - the poem was in part inspired by Machiavelli observing that people in caves see shadows on the wall, but its source is a hidden flame. Or some thing along those lines.

Ray - cheers for the Poe compliment. I enjoy reading a bit of Poe now and again. I will check out the film if it is on TV, Thanks.

Here's this for you both. Inspired by Poe's Dream within a Dream.

https://youtu.be/Q4E1zMLghhY

Comment is about And The Heretics Weep (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Love the layers and expressions of pain summed up by the word 'delete'.

(Are you really just 14 years old? Saying that, I do remember my teenage angst and still have the notebooks to prove it.)

Comment is about Child's play (blog)

Original item by Rhianna Blake

Good! Can definitely feel the depth behind this poem.

Comment is about Child's play (blog)

Original item by Rhianna Blake

My words every time I feel my life is a mess.
-Tiffany

Comment is about Let's Part dear Crazy Heart (blog)

Original item by Wardah

There seems to be a recurrent theme of death...

I like the references to food one can almost taste it. U make death sound delicious. That is certainly an interesting concept.

Comment is about Saporem vitae (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

Thanks for the comments Ameya I'm glad you liked it ?

Comment is about Weary Traveller (blog)

Original item by Wardah

?for leaving me dangling in a wonderful space.I also ?'d your POTW.

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

I'll 2nd that.

Comment is about Daisy Chains (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

before I'm given the big E aka my marching orders whenever that may be,I would like to thank all those who have commented.

And to Greg Freeman in particular for having struggled with my incapability to send through the Q&A's in time,but nevertheless sorted the problem out after getting his breath back from a long train journey! How's that for support!?

Much appreciated Greg! you'll have to choose a seasoned punter next time! haha! and thanks for the updated gig info,will check it out in the near future.

Sorry I didn't clarify which of the three poets work I'd like to have taken with me-'tough question!' as Parky says in his ad.So I'll take Mr Larkins wonderful work.

In conclusion,may I wish everybody on WOL good luck regarding the next headliner.

Thanks ALL in admin for the pleasure.Will I be chosen again? Pigs might fly!

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you fans. I always like to attack a theme when no-one is expecting it, so I thought i'd catch Santa with his pants down seasonally. I think Santa may actually be Christ in a suit and hat but with an insane smile. He does fulfil a promise if only temporarily but only if we believe, and I can't really change either into a believer or into the suit, even though I am the right age now. I much enjoyed your comments Col and David sparky to say the least. I remember doing a poem about Punch and Judy another example of worrying cross dressing. Thanks Emer for liking!

I'm just off for the medication - things are looking up!

Ray

Comment is about WHEN SANTA COMES TO STAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Missing from the scene,?

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon