Thank you Cynthia I really appreciate your kind words and Sal thank you as well.

Comment is about Whispers (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

Nick, Very well expressed. Keep at it man. Keith

Comment is about Punk Rockers Don't Sing The Blues. (blog)

Original item by Nick

Thanks Lynn. You will be pleased to learn that I haven't done that with an old coat again

Comment is about Waking up my people (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hello Gabrielle, thank you for this poem as it is a breath of fresh air and brimming with optimism. Very therapeutic. Keith

Comment is about New Beginnings (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

Great thoughts well put. Final two lines are an excellent closure. You write with flair. And 'flare' too, actually.

Comment is about Whispers (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

True and vibrant, all-embracing and inspiring. Great title. I'm glad you're here on WOL.

Comment is about New Beginnings (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

Hello Cynthia,

out of the mouths of babes and sucklings............ I remember teaching a confirmation class to children and asked them if they could name something they could not see. A little girl replied, ¨the wind ¨.Seeing is not believing. Thank you for this as it speaks volumes to today´s world.
Keith

Comment is about 'My Song of God' by Ewan Thomas Holt, Age 11 (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Love the honesty of your bio. Welcome to WOL. I'll try to catch up with more of your work. I do think your background of personal writing really shows in both confidence and style.

Comment is about Gabrielle Renee' (poet profile)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

Much enjoyed. An great idea well executed with clarity and craftsmanship.

Comment is about Warrior (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

What a line: 'a man who drank the stars' and then 'before a dancing Irish hearth' . Seriously hoping the reader uses the same vowel sound for 'stars' and 'hearth'. IMO, a great idea expressed with superb imagery and craftsmanship.

Comment is about A Song for the Fragile (blog)

Original item by Chris Hubbard

Am I proud? Oh, yes! It was a class assignment from Religious Studies, and he was despairing about writing a 'song', never mind the content. I reminded him that a poem is a 'song' too. And he was off! He dictated and I transcribed. Every word is his, exactly as he spoke it, falling naturally into format. His amazement was a joy.

Multiple religions for age 11 must be difficult to handle, by teacher or pupil. So much to try to understand.

Both of my grandsons are writing. Marley, 24, has read at Sale, Manchester. Am I proud? Oh, yes!

These boys are thinking. Poets are thinkers.

Comment is about 'My Song of God' by Ewan Thomas Holt, Age 11 (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Hannah,

Many thanks for your feedback. As always, really appreciated.

Suki

Comment is about Two Minutes To Midnight (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Watcha Ray,

Perhaps we are ghosts in another's dimension? Who knows?
It could be that there are other life-forms usually outside our visual spectrum that occasionally become visible. If human consciousness exists outside of us as well as within, perhaps a remnant of that consciousness remains behind sometimes after we have "passed over".

Lovely poem. You certainly got us thinking..

Suki

Comment is about RESTLESS SOULS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Good Morning Fred,

Thank you for this poem as it clearly comes from your inner self. You espouse what many feel who spend a good part of their lives meeting up to the expectations of others. A good piece of work. Keith

Comment is about I’m a little bit scared (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Great stuff Shirley,
Please have a butchers at my ‘Macho Male Tale’. I think great poetry minds think alike. Well done.

Comment is about Presidents Club (blog)

Original item by Shirley-Anne Kennedy

Hannah,
thank you for such a kind comment. The lady in question was my grandmother. I loved her dearly. Keith

Comment is about An Orderly Woman (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Good Morning Chris,
thank you for this valuable comment. It is much appreciated. Keith

Comment is about Three Score Years & Ten (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

A wave of the inevitable washed over me as I read your poem John and I enjoyed the feeling despite its distaste. ?

Comment is about When the poet ceases singing (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Hi Keith,

I find many parallels here to my own (and I'm sure many others') approaches and experiences of living this life with intent and purpose. It's certainly no "snack"!

The conundra and Gordian knots at the heart of many people's struggles are, I think, ultimately impenetrable. The best we seem to be able to do is to take each day one at a time.

Best wishes,

Chris Hubbard

Comment is about Three Score Years & Ten (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

LOL I love the poem and also got a big chuckle from your comment about your rain coat being wound around the fan in your auto. That would be a fun poem.

Comment is about Waking up my people (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you Martin. I Sorta worked off the Battle Hymn of Republic.

Comment is about JUST AIN'T THAT STRONG (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Thank you!

Comment is about TO MY LOVE (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

I like the format of this one. Very easy flowing.

Comment is about Whispers (blog)

Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

She sounds like an amazing woman.
Exquisite writing.

Hannah

Comment is about An Orderly Woman (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi Karen. Thank you for the comment on Restless Souls; I try to practice intonation and inject gravitas on audio readings; I feel rather lightweight in the acting stakes, but there sometimes is a sweet spot , maybe this was it! I hope to see you Monday. I have a rough copy of my new pamphlet too.

Ray x

Comment is about karen izod (poet profile)

Original item by karen izod

Life can feel like a prison. People do crazy things to try to feel 'free'.
This poem explains the situation very well.
A poetic guide. Well worth several reads.

Hannah

Comment is about CONSIDERATA (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Clever and well thought out.

Comment is about Summer - Time (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

We lived in a house once with a kitchen you thought twice about going into !
I love this poem, spooky but not too scary.
Thought provoking.
Great.

Hannah

Comment is about RESTLESS SOULS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I like it.

It has sole.

Comment is about Lord and Sharman shoe factory; Pemberton (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

I like it.

It rhymes, which always helps.

Comment is about Karma (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

This is a great story well told. Almost feels as if it should be told around a winter's open fire.
Love it

Comment is about The Man on the Mountain (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

this would appear to have a personal resonance for you Lynn which I think makes it all the better.
Lovely

Comment is about TO MY LOVE (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Marvellous Lynn has a real gospel feel to it. definitely feels more like a song
Love it

Comment is about JUST AIN'T THAT STRONG (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

I know that room intimately...
Your words skillfully paint a a very familiar picture

Comment is about The room at the back of my brain (blog)

Original item by Charlotte Colvin

Thanks Rose. Strange as it may seem, I have encountered this in my murky past... ?

Comment is about I Like You But (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Hi Ray!
Loved restless souls! Agree absolutely that 'it's us that are haunted'. Often if those left behind have a guilty conscience about something .......! Many people have unexplainable experiences though. I went to visit a war cemetery here, on the way to visit a son in hospital. There were a great many Ghurkhas, - the only mountain troops the allies had, and I felt sorry for them so far from home. Then, I found my son with a book open on his bed, where there was one word written in capitals, so that I just couldn't miss it. It was 'namasthe', the Hindu 'hello'. Too much of a coincidence"! Also I'm Scottish, and Scotland is full of ghosts.In Italy they see Madonnas, we see ghosts! All the best, Jennifer

Comment is about RESTLESS SOULS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks Ken ?

Comment is about 'Presidents Club' by Shirley-Anne Kennedy is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

how familiar that taste of rejection. Nice one Mr A.




Rose ?

Comment is about I Like You But (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Ray,

I find your poem intriguing as also is David´s response to it. The presence of kinetic energy and the activity of poltergeists have been studied at some length by those interested in the paranormal and the Church´s Ministry of Deliverance. (exorcism). I have had personal experience of such activity which cannot be excused or ignored. One example comes to mind of a building occupied by several elderly people which experienced objects being moved involuntarily, damp patches and cold areas in certain parts of a room, a lift which operated itself during the night and residents who experienced physical trauma in their rooms. On investigation it was discovered that there had been two deaths in the building, one of which had been a suicide and the other a death where the deceased had left an item of hate mail for his family. An act of exorcism ensued which completely cleared the situation. Therefore I can only conclude that there exists, what Ray has written in his final stanza, to be true.

I believe in things seen and unseen and do so with a very open mind.

Thank you both
Keith

Comment is about RESTLESS SOULS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

hello Ray

just listened to your latest audio piece - restless souls, beautifully read to go with the mood. Like the new photo too!

Karen

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

I really like this one Jennifer, it conjures up a sort of flagellation . With respect, I feel the last line tends to short circuit the image and leave us wanting . I would leave it out (IMO). Either that, or add one more line in a sort of answer to it might work as well.

Ray

Comment is about Casualty (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Splendid, well deserved Shirley-Anne,

Ken.

Comment is about 'Presidents Club' by Shirley-Anne Kennedy is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hello MC.
My dad was from Edmonton and brought me up on a diet of Danny Blanchflower, Bobby Smith, Jimmy Greaves et al. Being a Nottingham lad I only got chance to watch them at the City Ground and a bit further afield at Sheffield and Leicester.

Comment is about JUST ONE TOUCH (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Col ?

Comment is about roots and branches (blog)

Original item by David T Jones

I'm spurred (ouch) to ask how someone in the wilds of what
is known as "north of Watford" became a fan of this London
team - to be able to write these entertaining paens of praise.

Comment is about JUST ONE TOUCH (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A timely reminder that we can do little but with huge effect
if we retain basic care and consideration for others. It
used to be called "good manners" back in the day - and,
unlike much that is witnessed today, gained a nod and a
smile of thanks as a reward. In short, human inter-action.
in action!

Comment is about True Gentleman (blog)

Original item by Isurugi Noe

Amazing. Such emotion in your writings. Love it.

Comment is about Punk Rockers Don't Sing The Blues. (blog)

Original item by Nick

Thank you for this review, Steven. You have long been a great advocate of pushing the experimental boundaries, and this sounds like a good book to help us do so.

it reminds of a tutor I had once, about whom the group complained that his lectures were difficult to understand, to which his riposte was, in terms: if I just use the language you already know, how are you going to stretch yourselves to learn anything new?

Comment is about Atlantic Drift: ed by James Byrne and Robert Sheppard, Arc (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you Hannah,
I've been a long believer in Karma, even before I actually heard the word for the first time!

Comment is about Karma (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

I love reading your poetry David. That first line had me hooked, trowel in hand, ready to dig into the past. Beautiful. Cheers. Col.

Comment is about roots and branches (blog)

Original item by David T Jones