Ron, Your experiences, though bad, have made you into a beacon, not only of the Lord, but a means for you to use your written talents in His service. Write some more please. Thanks. Keith

Comment is about Ron Stier (poet profile)

Original item by Ron Stier

Grotesque and wonderful Rick . This is a live reading condensed onto the page. I love the flamboyant liberties of the lines . I'm reminded of the film The Crying Game in a certain sense of the details..

Ray

Comment is about Last Summer in Co. Clare (blog)

Original item by Rick Gammon

cheers ray. i spent ages (well, an hour which is a lifetime for me) writing something for world poetry day, then jotted this underneath. after eating a sandwich, i discovered i liked this far more and decided to erase the other from existence.

Comment is about dear richard, (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

A distillation of social unease and dystopia, and a sense of shifting alliances. Big trouble ahead for you Stu!

Glad to see you coming on again.

Ray

Comment is about dear richard, (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thanks, MC. I'm afraid age had not diminished my fascination for female nooks and crannies. Only these days I can't for the life of me remember why.
(I'll ask Harry).

Comment is about HAVE I PEAKED TOO SOON? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Here's your sequel to Lynx outburst Laura....

The Axe Effect. Then you got something to compare with.

Good whinge.
Raj

Comment is about No Fragrance Allowed (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

brilliant ray. as for lorelei, i can only think of this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3diz8I0AVVk

from one of my favourite bands.

Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

*hides his freshly purchased can of lynx*

Comment is about No Fragrance Allowed (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I am so glad I grew up through the 50s into the 60s -
arguably the most prolific era for consistently popular
song hits that still get played today - and remain as
"listenable" as they were then in the heyday of the two
and a half minute single. I was also fortunate with an
elder sister who loved Frank Sinatra and the door opened
to an equally wonderful alternative style (and musical past), and the ongoing discovery of so much more that
had gone before, including the big band days of Miller,
Goodman, Barnet, the Dorsey brothers and so many
others. Play on!!

Comment is about TAKE ME BACK TO ROCKN'ROLL - a re-post for a reason (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hair today...gone tomorrow?
May be the cause of angst and sorrow!
Your self-analysis is deserving of respect and, with
certain reservations, sympathy. But, of course, it
comes with the benefit of hindsight that age brings.
Such is the cruel reality of life. Keep scribbling while
you're dribbling!

Comment is about HAVE I PEAKED TOO SOON? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Brian,
I have read most of the poems you have submitted to this site and some over again. You are very talented indeed and I think you need to know it. Your writing skills, ability to express yourself and the style with which you write has a unique quality. Please write more and more. I have enjoyed and in some cases learned something from your words. Thanks. Keith

Comment is about Brian Belyea (poet profile)

Original item by Brian Belyea

Brian,
This is an incredibly powerful and frank poem the like of which I have not read before. The style you use adds to its gravity and the impact on the reader is almost too much to bear. Yet I thank you for it. I can tell it took courage to write but you have written well. Thanks again. Keith

Comment is about Abuse (blog)

Original item by Brian Belyea

Along with Buddy Holly they were to my mind the most influential songwriters of rock 'n' roll.

Comment is about TAKE ME BACK TO ROCKN'ROLL - a re-post for a reason (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

No may have even offered a submission had I known about it.

Comment is about Outer Hebrides to Offa's Dyke: 'Best of British' anthology to be launched (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Dyphrent, welcome to WOL. And LOOK! A first poem chosen as Poem of the Week. Congratulations! That's a record, I think, and a real honour.

The poem following your 'bio' is very intense with some fine ideas. I really like 'presuppositions, prejudices and pride' an excellently alliterated list.

I take it that you feel 'possessed' by poetry. I think that most of us contributing poems here, and reading other works on site, know exactly what you mean. It's a great common denominator that ties us all together.

May we know where you live?

Comment is about Dyphrent (poet profile)

Original item by Dyphrent

A very interesting work, like a chant with drums or clapping, and dancing, the subject 'song' being thrown from singer to singer to insert their ideas as they can or wish, thinking on the spur of the moment. Thoughts sometimes seem elaborated by the next person, or dropped entirely for a new idea. Any effort to rhyme is highly respected.

Perhaps that is why the word 'man' seems to embrace both a 'male person' and the idea of 'mankind'. This is a really complex understanding perhaps not grasped by 'all the singers', and they can contribute only what they 'know'.

My thoughts have come from this perceived spontaneity.

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

HI David, you pose a physical/metaphysical question - in order to answer I must resort to self cannibalism. Just a matter of taste.

Thanks elP an intriguing parallel there. I am thinking "mermaid" myth connecting with the sea ( where you buy the rock). Hope that meets you half way!

Old Shoes, well spotted, the poem was a sort of trip in a way. No offense, and thanks for troubling.

Colin - what a great track - sends me into more thinking. That's the beauty of comments like yours, often a challenge.

Ray

Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

This is indeed a world created within another that spins forever creating yet more worlds everytime we put our poetic minds together.

Comment is about March 2017 Collage Poem - Internationalism (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

I sent a version of this to a former girlfriend (strictly platonic) her response? A well considered, "Yuk!"

I guess it's a boy thing/girl thing ?

Comment is about Last Summer in Co. Clare (blog)

Original item by Rick Gammon

I see this poem as having been written by a very liberated woman who is not afraid to write down her feelings towards either her 'man' or her ideal of a 'man' and what is wrong with that? Us male poets waffle on endlessly about the beauty of 'woman' but when a woman celebrates her vision of 'man' in this way she should not be unjustly berated but celebrated.

this is a bold poem with strong sentiments, it looks you straight in the eye without compromise. I don't know the writer's cultural background but it has the beat of tribal Africa mixed with the deep south songs of the cotton plantation slave. It's not often we get such a poem as this here on WoL.

well done Dyphrent.
Colin.

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I thought the ending was too twee so removed the closing line "Your father whom you never really knew?".

Comment is about In Passing (blog)

Original item by Rick Gammon

Nice one Maria.

I like the way how the central message of 'thank you' strings together all that you wanted to say ...ending with a positive transformation.

Raj

Comment is about I'm better now (blog)

Original item by Maria Renea

What a delight. She feels part human and part landscape.

Comment is about the dance (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

Hi Ken. thanks for comment on "Grimstone Low"
I'm going to rework the ending
cheers kevin

Comment is about ken eaton-dykes (poet profile)

Original item by ken eaton-dykes

hi Harry. thanks for comment on Grimstone Low. I will re-look at it and alter the ending
Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Maybe a more liberated woman would have added some less complementary adjectives to that list of undeserved flattery describing "Man"

Or was "Man" mistakenly intended as a generality for the wonder that is Mankind ???

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

as you have all commented, a good beat to it. Ken, your comment as enigmatic as the poem, which I suppose was your intention?

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Graham, Tom - we're all too long in the tooth to know that it turns to rat-shit in the end.

Comment is about THE PROMISED LAND (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Steady on JC I nearly started tapping my foot! A bit early for fist pumping!

Comment is about THE PROMISED LAND (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Come on you Spurs - Go Harry go go go lol

Comment is about THE PROMISED LAND (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

very very clever, Linda. would suggest reading it out at Stockport but not sure how you would manage it.

still class x

Comment is about On Censorship (blog)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Just a general note to say that some Stockport WoL members will be holding workshops from 1 PM on Tuesday 21st March for World Poetry Day. All visitors welcome.

Comment is about Rescheduled Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks. That's my real name, yes and all the work is my own.

Comment is about Times Five (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

I think Ken must have forgotten to type some actual words into the comment box rather than just a mysterious question mark.

Great poem this - it has a fab deep beat to it that I would love to hear performed.

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

elP mentioning Lorelei reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGys3RfRog

Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I hope no one takes offense to this, but I think its a really good trip if you know what I mean.

Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Loved it! And a salutary lesson: never get yourself into something you can't get out of! (And learn the exceptions later! ?)

Comment is about Picnic (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

"Lorelei is a feminine water spirit, similar to a siren or mermaid, which is rumored to send sailors to their death, by luring them near cliffs with her beautiful singing voice..
Lorelei, a rock in the Rhine River, the subject of many legends, poems, and songs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei_(disambiguation)

elP

--the first thing that came to mind...

Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks all,
I think it was the jelloid giganticism of that photo in John`s poem that made me (even at my age) recall all my old memories about when they used to be genuine.

John...???...the mind boggles...I bet you`ve made a lot of very knowing wives smile to themselves.

Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

I like the way you describe in you Q and A dancing with words. This is totally what this does. A magnificent poem.
Well done.

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I guess that "calm" equates with the detached frame of
mind needed to make unpalatable decisions in war. But
who knows how a man sleeps at night in later years?
Do those many faces and the sounds of combat return
to provide a ceaseless commentary on the decisions
taken in other risk-filled times?

Comment is about 'He was a calm man, a useful attribute for sending young men to their deaths' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Juan,
Thank you for this. I loathe the terms 1st and 3rd worlds. Perhaps one day we can all live in the same world. I believe in the dignity of the human being. Today on TV I saw a man in his fifties who had just been deported from the USA back to Mexico. He was alone in a crowd of people in a similar situation. He was in tears. He had left his son behind in the US. What mean spirited people do this? Thanks again. Keith

Comment is about A Chasm too Great (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

This is so open to interpretation that if there was a rating system here at WOL, I would rte it 5/5 stars...I love the back and forward imagery of the high first world life and the
low third world life...

Comment is about A Chasm too Great (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Really awesome flow on this one...I wonder why you have the J Cole at the end...Is that your real name or is this someone else's work?

Comment is about Times Five (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

a good choice this week. i was a fan when i first read it and subsequent rereadings have got better and better. a booming heart and a questioning beat. great poetry.

Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Good Post M.C. Tommy

Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

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Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Your motive for tit tweaking at eighty-seven years of age can't be for reason's carnal. If it is, for God sakes tell me what you're on.

Is it the Scouse air we get second hand in Manchester on the prevailing wind?

Great stuff!!

Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Nice one Maria.
Quite like your analogies and subliminal cynicism certainly comes through.

More please!
Raj x

Comment is about Object (blog)

Original item by Maria Renea

Thanks, MC. I ran out of ideas in the last line.

Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey