Thank you Lynn, I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Thanks Wolfgar too.
Comment is about To Dust (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
thank you both for your kind comments. I try, as we all do.
Stay creative!
Mike
Comment is about A Violent Snub (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
By the way, Larkin's poem about the falseness of advertising is called 'Essential Beauty':
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be. High above the gutter
A silver knife sinks into golden butter,
A glass of milk stands in a meadow, and
Well-balanced families, in fine
Midsummer weather, owe their smiles, their cars,
Even their youth, to that small cube each hand
Stretches towards. These, and the deep armchairs
Aligned to cups at bedtime, radiant bars
(Gas or electric), quarter-profile cats
By slippers on warm mats,
Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares
They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise
Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam,
Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes
That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made
As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home
All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs
Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs,
And the boy puking his heart out in the Gents
Just missed them, as the pensioner paid
A halfpenny more for Granny Graveclothes' Tea
To taste old age, and dying smokers sense
Walking towards them through some dappled park
As if on water that unfocused she
No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near,
Who now stands newly clear,
Smiling, and recognising, and going dark.
Comment is about September 2016 Collage Poem: A Better Place (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
elPintor
Mon 12th Sep 2016 21:36
Mally sure did give me a great laugh. I believe he could be a former instructor of mine from college..much too smart and much too little time for physical affectation.
elP
your piece is a neat little reminder that we each have our part to play..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDJxEPRDek
Comment is about "Mally" (blog)
Original item by Rick Gammon
elPintor
Mon 12th Sep 2016 21:09
You have a fantastic imagination and a beautifully unique way of expressing deep-seated things that are delicate and kinda hard to touch..these last two pieces really show it off.
elP
Comment is about infinity (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Absolutely and what a slippery process it turns out to be.
Comment is about Crossing lines (blog)
Original item by Estelle Haward
Hi everyone! Just to send apologies as I won't be at WOL this evening - so much going on, I really do need a rest tonight! Also Maggie asked me to send her apologies, too, as she isn't too well at the moment...
Have a great evening!
Love and blessings from Dorinda x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thankyou, Estelle. It didn't much perception on my part. I just wrote what I saw.
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Cutting to the bone! Love it! Love the line "they will make a symphony of new colours, new feelings, new tastes". Missing out on what is in the euphoria of creating a better and new and more user friendly world.
Comment is about Adolencia- from my new collection MUMB (blog)
Original item by CathyLCrabb
thanks very much estelle. im glad you enjoyed it.
Comment is about infinity (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I like the idea of ocean breath and wish you had developed it further. Don't be so mean with your work, you tease us!
Comment is about Ocean Breath (blog)
Original item by Estelle Haward
Very cutting and funny at the same time. Death on our own terms. Love it.
Comment is about Inappropriate (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Such a true and sad picture of a reality of today. Well penned. I like the lines "the looks at him, over her empty latte".
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Such beautiful use of words. Love the line "with a vacuum between my heart and gut". Such a true description for the feeling of smallness and diminishing in the infinity of all...
Comment is about infinity (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Love it!! The words bring up amazing photographs in my mind.
Comment is about Sorrento (blog)
Original item by Anna Ghislena
Sad and true and funny at the same time. Love it.
Comment is about The Grammar School (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
You anger has been beautifully spoken through this poetry, well done .
Comment is about Last call (blog)
Original item by Jay
Glad you revisited, such hilarious visions in my head now.
Lesson learnt, overdose on poetry but limit booze.
Comment is about The Grammar School (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I posted up a previous version of this many years ago, when I first started blogging poems on WOL. Thought I'd revisit it.
Comment is about The Grammar School (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you very much Ali. It is soul wrenching to just disintegrate without the people caring noticing.
Comment is about Estelle Haward (poet profile)
Original item by Estelle Haward
Yes this got me thinking - which is the best emotion for a funeral? As for the music, well just put what the deceased liked.
Comment is about Inappropriate (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thanks Stu. You flatter me. It was just a bit of luck I was there to report what I saw.
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
great poem Andy - I laughed more than once at the clever rhyme - and love the cloaked message this sends - very good poem
Ian
Comment is about I Will Not Drink in Wetherspoon's (blog)
Original item by Andy Humphrey
Andy,
As neat an embargoing piece of exact end-rhyming as you would see in a lifetime!
(But what`s that `respectfully` doing in there?)
It`s great the way rhyme punches the repugnance home.
Comment is about I Will Not Drink in Wetherspoon's (blog)
Original item by Andy Humphrey
David,
Whatever the theme, I admire the way you can rhyme it into shape. Keep `em comin`!
Comment is about Vowels (blog)
Original item by David Lindsay
Congratulations on winning POTW Alexandra, and thanks for sharing this poem.
Comment is about The Plight of the true Snow White (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Thanks Stu, Tom, Karen, Suki for your welcome comments. At my age I look forward to every day !
Karen, you are right , this should be Alan's offering next time live !!
Comment is about SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Welcome to WOL. I'll get back to you. Up to my ears in stuff at the moment. Is the picture of yourself?
Comment is about Lewis da lyricist (poet profile)
Original item by Lewis da lyricist
really good. how adeptly (and infuriatingly) you turn your pen from comedy to humanity.
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
One of the most satisfying things about being involved with the WOL site is seeing young poets developing their styles and improving piece by piece to eventually produce thought-provoking, clever work.
I'm really pleased to see Alexandra's work put in the spotlight for a week and I hope it results in her growing further as a serious young poet.
Well done, enjoy your week.
Comment is about 'The plight of the true Snow White' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wonderfully playful but with a message attached Andy ! I can hardly believe that a brewery would align themselves with this touchy issue nor any other large corporation, but then again didn't Cameron authorize massive funding for house to house remain bumf? Where will it all end. As for Wetherspoons they do definitely pull out the cheapo card.
Regards Ray
Comment is about I Will Not Drink in Wetherspoon's (blog)
Original item by Andy Humphrey
Here comes Monday - Got Friday on my mind - Nice one Ray
Comment is about SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND (blog)
Original item by ray pool
what fun!
can I hear an Alan Bennett voice writing away here?
Comment is about SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND (blog)
Original item by ray pool
elPintor
Sun 11th Sep 2016 00:28
Thanks all..glad you liked this. I really enjoy the opportunity to write in this forum.
I had a few metaphors in mind when writing this, and besides that, I'm fascinated with black holes.
elP
Comment is about night vision (blog)
Original item by nunya
elPintor
Sat 10th Sep 2016 23:48
Hey, Ray,
Thanks for your comments on my writing--on "night vision" in particular. You have a notable talent for expressing your personal observations..I really like the way you pour your thoughts out.
elP
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Excellent stuff Andy! I haven't drunk in there either since the referendum, although to be honest I didn't used to go in there often anyway because there's better pubs in Harrogate and I'm not that broke.
Comment is about I Will Not Drink in Wetherspoon's (blog)
Original item by Andy Humphrey
Ali Ibrahim
Sat 10th Sep 2016 21:33
Very smartly writen and very powerful and emotionally charged...
Comment is about Estelle Haward (poet profile)
Original item by Estelle Haward
Ali Ibrahim
Sat 10th Sep 2016 21:30
Not crazy about your poems but loved the "such"
Comment is about kristine (poet profile)
Original item by kristine
I quite often get a feeling of awe when reading your stuff elP and that must be a good thing. Always open to interpretation like a delicate spider's web that can be destroyed when touched too roughly. Left alone it hangs suspended and attractive.
Ray
Comment is about night vision (blog)
Original item by nunya
Thanks, guys. I watched them at a beach-front bistro in Bournemouth yesterday.
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This is wonderful and grotesque in a sense because of the implication that money talks. It feels like worship instead of love, a circle of ego serving.
Just for the record, I owned a pair of Raybans (got cheap by a friend with contacts in the trade) and I experienced no spin - offs!
Really excellent stuff. Ray
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
An interesting assortment of lines and images, pleasingly
put together to leave a rewarding realisation of how life
provides its own creative context to see us through - with
a most satisfying resolution to boot!
Comment is about 'Growing Up' by Eva Curless is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
She's his sugar
He's her daddy!
It certainly works for some.
Comment is about THE LOVERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Smiles are always welcome and I found one on my face
reading this! Thanks Harry.
Comment is about (: A Sunday Thought :) (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Noetic-fret!
Mon 12th Sep 2016 22:45
thank you all for your kind comments and yes, we should all be kneeling before the trees that in essence, give us breath.
Stay well all
Mike
Comment is about Charred (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!