Poetry Event Samuel Oldknow in Marple August 16th

The list of Ten

First on the mike
then a quick dash
first at the bar
drinking just a few
otherwise poet one will
be far too intoxicated - - -

to hear any poetry
flat on his back!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Attila is being noticeably silent, I see...

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

So very true!! Love it

Comment is about Gender Enjoyment (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

this new boy suggests somebody needs to pay respect.Am I right?

Comment is about Hermione's sly wink (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thank you Kimberly, Rose, Jemima and Kim, much appreciated.

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Reading glasses are the worst, Phillip, I have 4 pairs and still manage to misplace them all, ha ha.

Thank you very much for your kind comments, much appreciated.

Comment is about SCATTERBRAINED (acrostic sonnet?) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Lovely heartfelt poem, Jeff. Constant pain must be hard enough to bear without the doubters.

Comment is about No Surrender (blog)

Original item by Jeffarama!

A very clever poem!! Love the personification of brains with wings flying away.... Plus.... My brain is scatterbrain.... Im always putting things down then 5 mins later forget where i put it

Comment is about SCATTERBRAINED (acrostic sonnet?) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Harlow to Newfoundland would be my preferred choice!

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hear hear ---and a fine poem too.

Comment is about Re-clad (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Love it! ?

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks Suki for your thoughts. Yes, i'm quite looking forward to a freezing of assets - not my own of course! The cat name was probably inspired by Gormenghast who knows.

Graham, yes I agree about the facelifts in London - gradually starved of character and the death of small business ; after all it was all an amalgamation of small villages at one time. I think the Black Friars would be well put out. I have some photos of my mum and dad courting on Epsom Downs! Thanks so much your comments are appreciated.

Eagle eye Col. Quite right sir about nametag! What have you been on recently? How about Gutentag the friendly German. Glad you liked the cat - I only put him in as a sort of adjunct to an otherwise bleak offering.

Love all round. Ray

Comment is about THE NINE ELMS CAT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I think sadly what you are referring to here Mark is the rise of the amateur - everyone king for a day mentality. It is tempting to think there is a voice for everyone, but is pissing in the wind to be recommended? It is if people think it is acceptable. Maybe vast profits have something to do with the conception. I have seen the sinking down of the professional in all walks of life, as I'm sure you have. In a larger sense, it is very convenient to have people's energies dispersed in this harmless way and not put to more sinister causes. Are we sleepwalking? Not 'alf!!

Ray

Comment is about MUCKING ABOUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks so much!! I agree. ?

Comment is about Later, I Promise (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

Harry - thanks, as always, for your welcome comments.
I enjoy and respect them
At the outset - once the trading deceit was discarded,
I was of the view that Parliament - without a proper
mandate thereafter - was aiding and abetting the
surrender of its own primacy to the evolving political
edifice across the Channel, at best impotent and at the
worst unwilling when successive governments insisted
on signing up to treaties binding the UK ever closer to
the EU. This progress was the most reprehensible time
in recent UK political history as the electorate was
duped and drawn into the EU web by the process.
No wonder any talk of referendums was mocked and
rejected as contrary to the "primacy" of Parliament!
We need not spend too much time on the reasons when
the actions taking place saw the occupants surrender
their mandate to represent the people whilst keeping
from them the truth of what was being agreed and done - and what was being planned - in their name.
Now, much is made of the primacy of Parliament and you'll
forgive my asking where was it when it was needed and
the occupants were acting in a manner that Cromwell
himself would have rcognised when he addressed the
Parliamentarians' behaviour of his day and called upon them: For God's sake, GO!
As for the US aid in WW2 - essential indeed - but then
the reality was no doubt understood by the American
government: That with a powerful Nazi Germany on
one side and a resurgent Japan on the other...the
reality would be the likelihood of a devastating linked
attack on the US from west and east by those two countries at the height of their military powers IF the
UK and the Commonwealth were left to act alone,
with the real risk of surrender by the latter being the result.
Self-interest has always been at the forefront of US strategy but fortunately we have been able to achieve
advantages through our joint history when push comes
to shove. Long may it remain so.

Comment is about THE VIEW FROM HERE (2) (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

"Sin and simpletons are clearly synonymous-
Logging online and remaining anonymous!"

I love your style and honesty.

Comment is about MUCKING ABOUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

In a land of pure imagination, everything sure seems to have gone grey.

Comment is about What Have We Become? (blog)

Original item by Azreal

M.C.
(I`m in perpetual `catch up` mode at the moment.)

In the referendum Parliament surrendered it`s precious primacy to the vote of the people.

While the leavers were promising us that (none existent)
weekly three hundred and fifty pounds for the N.H.S. the Remainers were forecasting fearful uncertainty.

Fearful uncertainty is where we are now ...and -seemingly - will be for some time in the future.

When Chamberlain tried to appease the vastly superior might of Germany he was (despite the later `ashamed` criticism) right to do so. We only declared war when we had no other option. (and Hitler promptly confirmed the wisdom of Chamberlain by promptly whacking both the French and the British armies off the face of mainland Europe.)

Of course the American `Hats` - enormously aided by the might of their industrialised `cattle` - came over (after the Nazis joined Japan in declaring war against them) and rescued us.

British virtue during those difficult years was endurance -
not this swashbuckling stuff that the leavers are talking about.

The rest of Europe has well learned the lesson of what it was that was ailing them in those former years and are taking steps to mend themselves...I hope Britain stays with them.

(Is it just my imagination...or does the word Nationalism sound more belligerent than the word patriotism ?)

Comment is about THE VIEW FROM HERE (2) (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Sorry - I know this is a serious subject - but I laughed myself silly right to the end!

Comment is about It's you (blog)

Original item by CathyLCrabb

great to see you back Lynn and thanks for the laughs.Jemima.

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

loved every bit of this Michaela.May I suggest that you complete the line 'Logic has the best hiding place' like that rather than starting the next line with 'place' I think it would read a little better.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Later, I Promise (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

hahahaha! indeed!





Rose ?

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

welcome back Lynn!




Rose ?

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

nice flow and word usage / paring - much to admire and come back to. Keep writing like this and you'll not go far wrong.

Comment is about Mind Murmur (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

forget 3D and HD - we need Smellavision !!

*takes a deep breath*

I think 'nametag' is two words - I initially read it with three syllables as in some Eskimo name - Nametag the Seal Hunter perhaps ? Like Nanook of the North. Now there's a tale - Eskimos on the Thames building igloos during the next ice age - when the Gulf Stream has been shut down by a melting Arctic. We're all dooomed!

as Graham said - Good work!

and as Suki said - Screwforce the cat..Brilliant. In fact that verse is brill - 'his bowl in a caring foreman's corner' brought a tear to my eye. Honest guv.

Cheers,
Col.

Comment is about THE NINE ELMS CAT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

My word, Suki. You were up early (or was it late to bed?). Many thanks for your kind words.

Comment is about THE RINGS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks also Kevin and Leon for your very kind comments.

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Goodness, I hadn't thought about toilet time, Graham! Ha ha, thank you kindly for your comment.

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

essential piece of fun

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Great fun. I really enjoyed this.
Cheers Kevin

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Great observational post Ray.

I returned to the Blackfriars area recently after an initial visit in 1970, what change! For a country boy like me (even though I live in the modern town of Milton Keynes) London is best viewed from afar! Epsom Downs is a good place.

Good work!

Comment is about THE NINE ELMS CAT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Clever words, well done!

Comment is about Closest companion (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Hahahaha! You better hope they're not when it comes to toilet time! Hilarious Lynn

Comment is about THERE ARE ELEPHANTS ON THE ROOF (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I love the idea of...

"Dawn heard giggling

in the hushed approach of rain"

What an absolutely lovely thought!

Comment is about Attention (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Hi John,

Witty, original and illuminating. Enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.

Suki

Comment is about THE RINGS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Ray,

Screwforce the cat..Brilliant.

And the new riverside apartments, nice to look at, but cost a king's ransom, often have plaster board walls - and some house only ghosts, as they are often bought for their "value", and then left to "appreciate".

Anyway the dollar will crash at some point and we will have the reset of resets, and poor Nigel's stomach will probably develop more serious ulcers..

Suki

Comment is about THE NINE ELMS CAT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Michaela,

Congratulations on winning PotW. I like the humour in this too. Nice one!

Suki

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Congratulations on 'Poem of the Week'. Well deserved. ?

Comment is about Study Abroad (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

Thanks Martin - what triggered this was an ad. for pay tv. You could almost taste that "go binge" implying eating at the same time. Gross mate.

David , thanks. A sort of hypnotic response - I know what you mean. Often a technique in live readings to lure the audience into accepting crap.

Ray

Comment is about WATCH TV (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Why Hi elP, don't I really like just totally get that, you know? Fascinating stuff on the clip and it shows you that the accents haunt us. Vive la difference though for me. I'm learning the Donald Trump impression , maybe i'll put the voice on one day !
Thanks x

Comment is about IT'S FUN TO BE FROM THE NORTH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Looking forward to some British inspired poems during your stay here. Congratulations on POTW

Comment is about Study Abroad (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

so pleased Michaela that you have been awarded the WoL POTW accolade. I've been enjoying your postings since you joined our merry gang a little while back.

I think Ray summed up nicely my thoughts when he said you 'have a lively and curious mind which expresses itself in an interesting style'. That's a great compliment and also a wonderful foundation on which your writing and other interests will surely grow and flourish. Good luck with your 'study abroad'.

all the best,
Colin

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Without expounding too much--because I'm sure it's much the same anywhere you go--here's an example...

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

elP x

Comment is about IT'S FUN TO BE FROM THE NORTH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Suki, it is indeed a funny old world, and this a funny site too. It is nice to be able to express most things - no secret thought police. Thanks my friend.

I'm curious now elP what your version may be - is it rednecks v ivy league? Thanks for commenting.

Ray

Comment is about IT'S FUN TO BE FROM THE NORTH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Congratulations Michaela,beautiful poem.

Comment is about Study Abroad (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

This is another chance for me to applaud your writing Michaela. You have proved to have a lively and curious mind which expresses itself in an interesting style. This piece is packed like a suitcase with an imagined future. May it bring you the best of what you wish for.
(Again thanks for all the likes).

Ray x

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

There's a really Good statement here Ray with so fees words. I agrre, I know I waste too much time resting sucked into the screen

Comment is about WATCH TV (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Congratulations Michaela you have certainly captured an element of Thomas in this poem
Well done on POTW

Comment is about 'Study Abroad' by Michaela Sheldon is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I don't have a horse in this race, as it's said, but we have our version here in the States..how droll and very clever.

elP

Comment is about IT'S FUN TO BE FROM THE NORTH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Oooh, saucy Ray!

I've had it from all sides: From Liverpool, living in London, and being of Indian origin, I tell you I have seen and heard it all. You either laugh or you will cry! What a world.

Suki

ps As you are reading this I'm outside nicking the hub caps from your car, even though I can't drive..

Comment is about IT'S FUN TO BE FROM THE NORTH (blog)

Original item by ray pool