Laura
I am so sorry, I couldn't afford to travel to Liverpool last Tuesday.
Hope to see you around ?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

The real hurt was admitting what I did wrong. I hope I wrote it in a way that makes you all aware of the intense sadness and pain.

Comment is about SELFISH (blog)

Original item by invisible

really loved this one to pieces Desiree.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about flawless (blog)

Original item by Desiree

great to see you back Ian.Loved the poem.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about The Last Laugh (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

"lest we forget" Larisa.Lovely poem of rememberance to the fallen.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about The Victory Day (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thank you Ray

Funnily enough, I did think for years that I'd been 'saved' for something special, for some reason, because I should have died given the extent and nature of the attack and injuries. I later found that that too could be a common experience after trauma. That we look for a meaning for our survival. When it's shown to us that our lives can be lost and worlds turned around in just a few seconds or minutes, that changes Everything. Makes life more precious too so y'know, swings and roundabouts and that ?

Comment is about I 'Did' Want To Talk… (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

At last... a song I remember clearly!

But those white-clad fattos were vicious, John , vicious!

(we had a club of `em)

Comment is about SIX WOOD WIZARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the comments folks.

(but -after - skipping through the blogs...isn`t there supposed to be some sort of a general election going on somewhere?)

Where is everyone?

Comment is about Evolution...ism (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Hi Col,
Many thanks for your feedback!

Really it was just a fun piece triggered by overhearing this mother-to-child conversation. Isn't it amazing what strange seemingly silly experiences can trigger..

"Belisha Beacon and Me" - you get a bottle of champagne just for the title!

Takeot easy,
Suki

Comment is about It Was Similar To The Resurrection Oh But Not The Same (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

love this Adam especially "certainly as all clouds have urgent business elsewhere" wonderful poem! Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Love Begins At Fifty (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Thanks Suki for your valued comment - another point of view of the basically ungraspable!

Ray

Comment is about REGRET FOR A LOST PAUSE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Laura, your poem and candid comments to David together with his poem and his comments about it frankly are wonderful in how they portray how to cope with life in its darkest days, not only that but to rise above it and find a purposeful meaning out of it all. It just hits me how bloody lucky I have been. I think the best of us get shat on from time to time and if not by nature then by people. What to make of it all? Sometimes I feel that to write about tragedy is itself just pissing in the wind unless you have been so afflicted yourself, as indeed you both have.
Perhaps that's why I just paddle about in safe waters.

Ray, with love and respect.

Comment is about I 'Did' Want To Talk… (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

A beautifully constructed poem Cynthia. I particularly like the metaphor of the flower and the sun, as though the sun is the observer and the flower the observed, and all that is observed should be subjective and allow to flourish in its own right. Was that the intention? If not please accept my apologies for the misreading!

Comment is about Beauty (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I agree Nicola - - -

Mad crazy people so overcome with pleasure
all with love and enthusiasm for poetry
then decide they must all party together!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Beautiful piece Mr Waring

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

True expression inside a fantasy dream
encounters the many thoughts of others.

Comment is about May 2017 Collage poem (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Hello, Martin, David, and Ray...

I have to admit to you that I have a habit of placing somewhat obscure references within my writing because I'm never really sure as to how to approach some subjects. It just seems that there are things that can't really be given a name.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

Rachel

Comment is about undivided domain (blog)

Original item by nunya

Good morning, Laura and Suki. Thank you both, kindly--it's just a product of too much contemplation, I suppose. I admire your work, as well, and your congrats are much appreciated.

Rachel

Comment is about 'To earth we return' by elPintor is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hey thank you David, that's a mega response, and yeh, I accept everyone deals with their shit in different ways. But thank YOU for your honesty and courage too.

I got diagnosed just over 20 years ago, and was offered anti-deps almost immediately, and then again when I became suicidal. I refused but they still forced a script on me. Never cashed it in. CBT at a Women's Aid refuge did the trick in the end, bloody hard work though.

Anyhoo - I reckon the best cure is cathartic poetry ?

Comment is about I 'Did' Want To Talk… (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Having read David's 'Do You Want To Talk' poem, this is kind of my own response to that question. I've only written about this once before. Is it cathartic? I suppose so. The talking did help though. We all react differently, eh?

Not the best poem by a long chalk, but couldn't 'not' write it.

Comment is about I 'Did' Want To Talk… (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

It's great the way poetry can capture a moment or person from decades ago and make them live again. It is like a time machine, in many ways.

Comment is about The Grammar School (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Suki, thank you. And you are so right about the music memories. My first one was My Boy Lollipop (1964) by Millie on the radio. Every time I hear it (or even think about it) I can vividly remember my 6-year old self in the bath on a summer evening singing away for all I was worth.

ah.....the birth of my love affair with music ?

OK. Back to reality now!

Paul

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

May I just say what a wonderful night of poetry it was last night? There were some outstanding pieces read. It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to be part of it xxx

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Finally made it back Suki and have to agree with all the previous commenteers. I feel there is a hint of Zappa-musing and narrating, like his between chorus story-telling. I might just have to dig out Apostrophe or Over-nite Sensation for my own trip to the grocery store this morning. What an appropriate time to finally read this. Is that what hippies call synergy? I wonder what conversations I will overhear? Probably elderly shoppers aisle-blocking and discussing their latest hospital visits. Get out the way! Coming through!

oh, and any poem which mentions Belisha beacons gets the thumbs up from me. I once wrote a poem called 'Belisha Beacon and Me' - a rather surreal piece of nonsense which will never get posted here! I'd been reading Boris Vian and Peake's odd third part to Gormenghast.

time to go shopping.
Col

Comment is about It Was Similar To The Resurrection Oh But Not The Same (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Congratulations Stu on getting published! This will be on my "to buy" list. At the moment I have over fifteen books that I have bought but haven't read yet!

Anyway, best of luck with it!

Laura, nice review! Hope you are well too..

Suki

Comment is about Casually Discussing The Infinite: Stu Buck, Snow Leopard (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Sometimes some of us feel a little bit like lost prophets of our own lives; slightly bewildered, perhaps a little mad, waiting for that "thing" to drift by again. Beautifully rendered Ray.

Cheers,
Suki

Comment is about REGRET FOR A LOST PAUSE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Paul,

This reminds me of a poem you wrote a while back that I also really enjoyed - about that heady mix of memories of family meals/cooking.

Thinking again about this, memories of meal times shared can be as powerful as music memories - you know, where a song takes us right back to a particular time or place.

Food for thought!

Cheers,
Suki

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Thanks John, lovely comment and welcome once again to WoL. I hope you continue to post your stuff.


Thanks Raymondo. I solemnly promise not to mention tobacco (oh, damn it, I just have). Aythangyow - v.v. much.

Thanks chaps,

Paul

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Hi Keith

Thank you for your comments today - Enlightenment is obviously the first poem I've posted on here so to get your kind words was much appreciated.

Regards
John

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi John
As per our earlier conversation the following are the contact details regarding 'Read regional 2017' it would appear be an initiative to encourage people to both write and read books and poetry within the context of the library system with some sponsorship from the Arts council. there is a website
www.newwritingnorth.com and there is also a local contact listed for Stockport Rachel Broster, senior Librarian
Rachel.broster@stockport.gov.uk
much of the other representation seems to be heavily in the North East and also Yorkshire with only Blackburn, Cumbria and Stockport representing the North West.
It maybe that central library may want to encourage a poetry session there! Hope this is of interest
Martin

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

Original item by J F Keane

You probably know already how much I admire and enjoy your poetry. So glad you have won. Brilliant, and well deserved!!
Suki

Comment is about 'To earth we return' by elPintor is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks, Ray. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Roger Daltrey plays these days.

Comment is about SIX WOOD WIZARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Señora elPintor, this is such a beautiful poem. It has an almost tragic sadness. I keep on reading it over and over again as it evokes so much thought. Thank you indeed. Keith

Comment is about to earth we return (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thanks for commenting on 'Coming Home' and 'The Devil On My Right Shoulder' Cynthia - I like that you think the former could be a Beatles lyric - might have a go at that cos I'm going into recording studios again shortly :-) as for the choice of' right shoulder' - well I wrote the verse and had the idea of an angel on my left shoulder and a devil on my right shoulder - more as a political statement - which worked even better when I went looking for a picture to go with the piece and found the one used (which luckily had the devil on the right shoulder)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Having just an idea of losing the mind and not able to look back was my plan, and I'm so grateful to get your likes and warmth of appreciation.

Thanks elP David and Martin. x

Comment is about REGRET FOR A LOST PAUSE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Animal magic and a standoff between nature's inheritors in tooth and claw elP. It's great to contain so much in so few words.

Ray

Comment is about undivided domain (blog)

Original item by nunya

The glue you use to stick your poems together is the very best kind Rick. It speaks of the big heart and the resoluteness of acceptance in the largest possible way. It can't fail to please , as I am finding with your great book!

Ray

Comment is about Shirley Died Today (blog)

Original item by Rick Gammon

Wonderful John. I think Roger Daltrey would be impressed. I must say I find the bowling apparel quite hysterical and deserving of your poem . I had a mate who was OCD on the game and had spares of everything while they were being cleaned. Can you beat that?

Ray

Comment is about SIX WOOD WIZARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It's true I think Paul that nostalgia brings relief owing to the mundane qualities we feel surround us in modern life.
One of the reasons may be that our senses have been largely deprived driving things into the imagination or memory. But then you would know that!
I still remember horse drawn carts and London trams, steam engines and the smells of household products. Not to mention tobacco (I told you not to mention tobacco).

Nicely detailed and presented as always.
Aythangyow. Ray

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Fabulous David. A neat comparison made and has the ring of truth . Being a musician these openers were always referred to as "gig spanners." Things change of course but the message lingers on.
Ray

Comment is about A PIECE OF IRON (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Dear Invisible. Beautiful words of anguish and regret so well expressed. Thank you Keith

Comment is about SELFISH (blog)

Original item by invisible

thank you for reading and liking my poem silence...?

Comment is about Rich (poet profile)

Original item by Rich

Thank you for reading and appreciating my poem silence....?

Comment is about Karen Ankers (poet profile)

Original item by Karen Ankers

I honestly wish I could say this is just a writing, but my thoughts were itching to get out of my head. I cannot express how upsetting it is knowing this has happened to other people. the pain was so much for me. I am so sorry.

Comment is about my rant (I'll regret this in the morning) (blog)

Original item by invisible

Brilliant! Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Playing (blog)

Original item by Susan Greene

clever! clever!clever! and very much enjoyed Juan.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Sigh, (blog)

Original item by Juan Pablo Lynch

Times gone by...beautifully captured

John

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Thanks Col, possibly spotted richard, you like that I recall ?

Paul

Comment is about That Thing We Call Nostalgia (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Hi John, thanks for posting this imaginative and evocative poem that tells a touching story.

A warm welcome to WoL. Keep posting!

Paul

Comment is about Enlightenment (blog)

Original item by John Walton

Hello John, Thank you for this poem as it proves my belief that behind every poet there is a philosopher. The verse and style of writing are all beautifully crafted. Thanks. Keith

Comment is about John Walton (poet profile)

Original item by John Walton