Brilliant stuff and V1 is a cracker!
Comment is about The Bride Wore Blue (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
Thank you so much for your responses. Such moments string like jewels around the heart because we all share them, no matter when or where we live.
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I love the sincerity and intensity of this piece Vanessa.
Well done.
Raj
Comment is about To begin again (blog)
Original item by Vanessa Grosz
A splendid piece Cynthia, beautifully culled.
I must say you have distilled the very essence of childhood tales at their nocturnal best.
I vividly remember that great grandfather's clock keeping me awake, until I learnt to see it as a sweet substitute for a lullaby.
Here's something to ponder over -- A Buddhist friend once said to me "you will only notice the presence of a clock when it stops ticking".
Raj xx
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (13762)
Sun 4th Mar 2018 09:25
great fun - reminded me of the Stereophonics song Too Many Sandwiches - another wedding that didn't quite go to plan. But then how many do?!
Comment is about The Bride Wore Blue (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
Very pictorial. Chris. You couldn’t point out the granny for me, could you?
Comment is about The Bride Wore Blue (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
I really enjoyed this one Chris. It painted such a picture.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about The Bride Wore Blue (blog)
Original item by Chris Bainbridge
Ruby
Sun 4th Mar 2018 03:11
Thanks Cynthia!
Comment is about 'Dear Sad Friend' by Ruby is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 19:09
I am so sad to read this.
Losing your work is a terrible loss.
Try to rewrite the ones you can remember and put them on here. I should like to read them.
Hannah
Comment is about Lost (blog)
Original item by Jakob Robinson
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 19:04
Delightful.
Absolutely loved it.
Hannah
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
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Sat 3rd Mar 2018 19:01
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 18:58
Son Dun Too today, MC.
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 17:52
Chris I was immediately attracted to your poem because hablo un poco espanol and then found the piece enjoyable.
Comment is about Role Reversal (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Lovely this Trevor.
I can't wait for summer, I've seen enough snow for a lifetime.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about Love Of Summer (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Ha-ha, JC...very droll. But maybe "Son" you aren't too far
off about players' names in this context.
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A snapshot of a winter world with its page unwritten. As if it is ready to start everything over, like spring.
Comment is about Courtyard In Snow (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Lovely piece. Invokes (for me) a long gone Enid Blyton childhood, so reassuring. Really enjoyed it.
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
It is definitely interesting. Very 'rap' in style, and well held together for a long piece.
Comment is about He Who Has Ears (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Delightful, softness and strength in so few lines. 'Lovelight' is a splendid concept. Why have you titled it as 'Lovesick'?
Comment is about Lovesick (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
D. Lee, welcome to WOL. Perhaps your experience here will become your present. That is a lovely photo. Is it you?
Comment is about Andrea Lee (poet profile)
Original item by Andrea Lee
Superb. Splendid start to the day.
Comment is about Courtyard In Snow (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
This is very interesting. Some super metaphors. 'sky dominating parent' is superb.
Check 'silhouette' since it is right in the first line, a great word that stands out.
Comment is about Crying (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
What an absolutely charming piece CBT. Night noises are something we are all disturbed by.
Quite recently (permeating my dreams) I could hear a baby crying, it turned out to be a couple of distant cats squaring up to each other in the night.
Love the idea of frogs sounding like stars! Oh that they could sing to us!
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I find real sincerity of feeling and an innate elegance of expression. The combination is a writer's dream. Well done to you and to the WOL person who picked this work.
Comment is about 'Dear Sad Friend' by Ruby is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 09:57
Jakob it's a bloody shame but it is spilt milk now. I know that may sound harsh, but think positively...it's an opportunity to start again...perhaps develop new ways of writing, alternative styles etc. Good luck and keep your chin up!
Comment is about Lost (blog)
Original item by Jakob Robinson
Very funny. I could just imagine Victoria Wood herself doing it.
I liked the repetitions
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about fatal attraction (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
I've enjoyed reading your poems, Eve, but this one will particularly stick in my memory. The choice of words and their rhythm match the sentiment, with which I wholeheartedly agree.
Comment is about Earth thoughts (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Thank you so much! I will look up the egg. You've made me curious. Oh, and I checked out some of your pieces. Pretty dope. Makes me want to know more about you, what shaped you as a writer. Anyhoo, thank you for your interest. All the best to you!
Comment is about Orchasm (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Hi Colin,
Very much so. By June/July temps are anywhere from 10 to 20 C., rain every second day, often heavy but short-lived. People looking miserable - I'm sure you know the drill.
Off to the Canaries, Minorca and Greece, followed by the UK and Ireland - whoopee!
Chris
Comment is about Give it Sweetness (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
Big Sal
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 00:14
Is this a poem about Brandan or Trump?? Haha!
Comment is about Brandon Breath (blog)
Original item by Karl MacIver
Big Sal
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 00:09
Find something to believe in if you can. Like yourself, or poetry.?
Comment is about Gospel (blog)
Original item by Andrea Lee
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:56
More good reads. You should look for the sky in an Araucana egg, so many hues of beauty in nature, it's impossible to capture them all - good choice of words here.
Comment is about Orchasm (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:53
I would kill for a diamond tipped stylus. Vivid imagery, and what a great read!
Comment is about My Love For You, Earth (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:51
Sometimes a bad feeling is the hardest to shake. Good poems!
Comment is about Super Sticky Glue (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
thanks all. Loved that Kate Bush video, it's a great subtle poetic album.
Yes looks like the recent snow has got me thinking- and moving on at least to some day time poems!
Comment is about Morning Thought (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
“Soon Don Long”, MC? Who does he pay for?
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sad but true..Tanks for sharing.
Comment is about the smell of snow (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
I got drunk in a
Portland bar
thirty minutes after
I had exited my
girl-friend's car,
she text
to tell me
that she had
finished with me
and that that was that.
I sat drinking
pouring tears
into my whiskey
a guy with an
English accent
joined me
we had a good time.
I bought all the drinks
as I remember.
I left alone drunk.
A couple of days later
I went back
to the same bar
and stood in
the same place
as previously-
I then realised that
I had been talking
to a full-length mirror.
Words and foto Tommy Carroll
Comment is about Portland bar (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
really enjoyed this - great use of rhythm and rhyme
Comment is about Camel through a needle's eye (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
<Deleted User> (16099)
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 19:28
prayers to you always ..let a healing begin..and I will always be here for a listen to applaude you.. to read and cheerish each and every word that you write..hello new poet friend
hello..
Comment is about Bloody Showers (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
When I hear "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana I am sometime revisited by the first time the video came on in the student lounge. Someone said something like "Turn that hard rock crap off!" Then Grunge happened and everyone was on board. This poem was inspired by those thoughts.
Comment is about Staring at the Concept of a Word (blog)
Original item by 220August
More thought-provoking quality from across the pond.
Comment is about 'He was at his work bench, a rich man straightening nails' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
From his reviews alone, praise is due to Greg Freeman for
his contributions on WOL. It will be interesting to see
the output and style from his replacement.
Anyone from the Daily Mail? ?
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Timely - with a universal moral somewhere in there. Stick it out for the best result if possible? Meanwhile:
Today's footballing softies
Soon don long sleeve and mitten.
They'd probably insist on balaclavas
To keep hair from being "frost bitten"!! ?
P.S. VAR should be kept for goal/goal line dispute only.
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sun 4th Mar 2018 13:15
Very powerful. Every line.
Hannah
Comment is about Poisoned (blog)
Original item by frey