Thank you x

Comment is about A week's walk away (blog)

Original item by Samantha Howard

Thank you both for your comments. I'd like to think I'm clever but it was an honest mistake Cynthia. It is ment to be "too much" although now you've pointed it out in both contexts I think I'll keep it as is haha, thank you for the insight.

Comment is about Coming back to you (blog)

Original item by Alexander Watson

Thank you for the enthusing feedback

Comment is about You break anew to make (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

So much for the holy lands !

Comment is about NEW NATIVITY. NEW HOPE (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

HAHA yes, I love it.

Comment is about Mothballs n Piss (blog)

Original item by Jeff

I like this, and I take my coffee black

Comment is about Which Dick Ordered the Caramel Latte? (blog)

Original item by Jeff

Hi Laura. Thanks so much for your congrats on POTW. A wee bit of the old kudos goes a long way! I hope you enjoyed your trip down south. The home fires are definitely burning. Trouble is I found some queen wasps on a lot I ordered, and they ended up flying round the lounge!
Happy Xmas m'lady. x

Ray

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I like the ending of this a lot "like a clock you only notice, when it stops ticking", very good line

Comment is about Tick, Tock. (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Patricia and Stefan, thank you so much! As per my bio, I have barely written anything for 20 years until all my work disappeared last year. Long Gone percolated in my head for almost a year and then finally came together this past week. I was delighted to read your comments. Paul x

Comment is about Long Gone (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

I love writing. It's not just a passion or a way to relieve stress. It's the way I want to change even if it's 1 person, the world.

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Original item by Leigh Tiffany Love

good stuff!

P&S.xx

Comment is about Destructive me (blog)

Original item by Youthfullyxx

we loved this Dan.Welcome to WOL,hope you enjoy!

P&S.xx

Comment is about Every (blog)

Original item by Dan Picc

great piece Paul,and all summed up brilliantly in the last two lines.

P&S.xx

Comment is about Long Gone (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Very relevant in this old world of ours. Patience and understanding
are of such importance in the human condition.
I place them alongside tolerance and kindness...comprising the essential
lubricants needed to oil the wheels of our ongoing existence together.

Comment is about You break anew to make (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

This reminds me of a fondly remembered enjoyable and often illuminating column in a now defunct London evening newspaper - the sort of thing that Charles Dickens might
have written if he had been around. The warm sharply
observed humanity shines through.
Merry Christmas!

Comment is about Lady on a Tram (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Bloody hell this is going some Suki. A fantasy spectrum ride through the technicolour bullshit. So much here to pick up on. For cleverness I have to mention eau de colonial and many others too numerous to count. A telling account of a commercial hayride. An uneasy blend of west and east. Goodness gracious me old fruity. That reminds me that I saw an Indian Elvis at a Diwali festival once!

Ray

Comment is about Bollywood National Anthem/Bollywood Bleach Cologne (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Welcome to WOL. And 'Peace' to you too. That photo up top reminds me of Bermuda so much; there is nothing like a coastline, however meagre the water.

Comment is about Alexander Watson (poet profile)

Original item by Alexander Watson

Much enjoyed the velocity and tight word control at the same time.

Do you mean 'too much - I miss you.'? Or are you very clever with 'to much - I miss you'?

Comment is about Coming back to you (blog)

Original item by Alexander Watson

I bopped from assonance to assonance, through alliteration, half-rhymes, and senses enveloped, and arms put around me. Heart-warming and clever - you do the best epiphanies Cynth ?

Comment is about Lady on a Tram (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ah cheers Becky - heh, thought this might be up your street ?

Comment is about The Doppler Effexit (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I like the idea of this. To be honest, I think the first thirteen lines strike hard and deep, and the poem could effectively jump right to the final two lines. Although the 'ice cream man and blue eyes' is a very intriguing image.

It's a strong, universal and personal subject you have shared. Keep writing.

Comment is about TEARS (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Another little story from 'Brief Encounters'. For the Season.
I don't elaborate/decorate them at all, as they are so delightful exactly as they happen.

Merry Christmas from me, to all the writers whom I enjoy so much.

Comment is about Lady on a Tram (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Talented writer, personable performer and nice chap. Well deserved.

Comment is about Richard Scott and the Emma Press win £5,000 awards (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

clever woman ?

I do like the formula at the front, love it when a poet mixes science and words ?

Comment is about The Doppler Effexit (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Howdy Ray - sorry, not been around much, but just catching up and wanted to congratulate you on your POTW ? Well done, and thoroughly deserved ?

Hope your home fires are burning ?

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

I love this Harry. I am embarrassingly ignorant of the rules of sonnets, for some reason I can't keep them locked in my head, but I can feel the structure alright in this.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Every now and again, you pull a poem out of your bag that hits me with a big hammer. This is one of them. The choice of language here, the selected words and how you've structured the lines, all go towards creating a tangible atmosphere that completely conveys feelings, sensations, and place.

Marvellous. That first verse makes me want to say it out loud.

Comment is about Cold Hearted (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Amen to that. I kind of like the reliability of change.

Really enjoyed this - simple, concise, to the point, about the single most influential concept in our lives, and the thing that people fear the most.

“It’s time we changed the way we change”. It really is.

Comment is about Just Be. Here. Now. (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Thank you all for your interest. LCPTB, It's very possible I would have a similar poem in this style but it doesn't come to mind with so much that I post! I feel that these days places like this are rare and usually just pulled down, putting the idea itself into the past.

Thanks, Col. Glad you liked that line, I hunt for the right words so often to maximise effect!.

David, to try to dignify your probing interest with a reasoned response, I believe you can see layers in stuff I do, and these may be just me dipping into the subconscious without really being controlling of it, more like a vessel for possibilities. Your views certainly make complete sense, and I couldn't contradict any of them.
I do like "slow release!" I suppose I wanted to depict something unreachable (a common theme) and a reason for sadness I feel. Regret may be there, but also a sense of age looking back on things gone past. Curiosity mixed with depression . I like to write with a sense of longing.
in 1980 I lived in a house with an overgrown garden - too busy to tend it, and I stumbled on an old cat bedded down. I took it indoors, and it died overnight . Gutted I was and felt sorry for myself too as I was lonely at the time. THat memory I drew on here.



Very kind of you to give so much thought and appreciation! Ray x

Comment is about THE OLD COTTAGE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

love it!

Comment is about A week's walk away (blog)

Original item by Samantha Howard

Hi Cristian,

The mundane (work, obligation, duty, etc.) does seem to be a prison at times. I'm a painter (as if you couldn't have guessed) and feel the need to transcend the physicality of my work constantly. In younger days, I cherished the freedom of movement allowed in the skilled trades (somewhat skilled). Though, now that I'm well into middle-age, I need something a little less strenuous. All of that aside, there is a deep need to be where I feel I could be most effective at the time. And, I stress, "at the time"--what I feel is probably subject to change.

That said, "freelance" opportunities can seem pretty attractive--if you can stomach the instability/insecurity. If the hustle is your only hope, then float on. If you're hustling because it's the only thing you know, then maybe sit still for a while. Forgive me if I've been talking to myself...

By the way, grey is the most popular color chosen by our most affluent clients--even five shades of it in a 4,000 sq. ft. house..effin' boring, eh?

Some most valuable comments..thanks.

elP

Comment is about freelance (blog)

Original item by nunya

Titles always force me to examine my own opinions and bias toward the title's subject. Then, what a poem thereafter says about that subject forces another examination, namely, a comparison between my thoughts about the poem's title, and what the poet has to say. It's at this point that I remember why I love poetry: it's transcending nature that helps my mind escape the prison of my view of life. When a poem, such as this one is so distant from my assumptions with regard to it's subject, I feel a sense of wonder waiting to shake the staleness of my life. For this poem, the freedom that freelance can offer seems like an inviting remedy to the depressing greyness of my warehouse job.

Comment is about freelance (blog)

Original item by nunya

Larisa,we are SOOOOO happy to see you posting again! We absolutely LOVE this poem.Keep on writing! Lots of love to you and all the folks in Odessa.

Patricia and Stef.xx

Comment is about Cherry Tree (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

lovely Ray - nothing like exploring a tumbled down house, or mind.

favourite line? - a cage of laths unleashed.

Col

Comment is about THE OLD COTTAGE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you. It's when I realised it was over. Just keeps beating, indifferent....Jeff.

Comment is about Heart (blog)

Original item by Jeff

I love that sample! Jeff.....

Comment is about MyDystopiA (poet profile)

Original item by MyDystopiA

Thank you Andy.
I write to share, to nourish and generate energy. Feed
back like yours inspires me to reach out even wider.

We are after all one universal tribe.

Be Blessed!

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

Original item by Chakraj

Love that Nicola. Flow in the love stream of your spiritual class.

Yes, the two rivers can be separate in entity but can reach delirious heights when they join together. Let's call it "collective consciousness".
It certainly needs practice so it become your new way of life.

Continue to magnetize and manifest what you desire.
Om Shanti and thank you.

Comment is about UNIVERSAL TRIBE (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Thanks to all, poets and audience, for the fabulous festive fun we had at the New Inn last night. Fourteen readers - our highest total since our opening night back in May - included three Write Out Loud Woking debutants - Tricia McNamee, Amel Oudjida, and Kitty Coles. The full list of poets was: Jonathan Pressey, Tricia McNamee, Geoffrey Pimlott, Michael Cutchey, Karen Izod, Andy V Frost, Amanda Briggs, Amel Oudjida, Peter Taylor, Lorri Pimlott, Kyle McHale, Ray Pool, Eddie Chauncy, and Kitty Coles. The audience included am-dram friends from Send Amateur Dramatic Society - thanks for coming! Highlights included a Christmas performance poem from Amanda Briggs, a collaboration between Karen and Ray on a joint poem about their old school in Ashford, co-host Rodney Wood's festive garb, and fellow MC Greg Freeman being rescued by his wife Gillian, who found the rest of the Journey of the Magi on her phone, and allowed him to complete his reading. Happy Christmas - and see you back here in January 2017!

Review is about Write Out Loud Woking on 19 Dec 2016 (event)

"biological rhythm", I like that

Comment is about Heart (blog)

Original item by Jeff

Just read this Harry and I quite agree about the format allowing a sort of meandering poetic explanation for such personal affairs. I feel it like a very expensive mattress that you lie back and float through the poem!

A really good sentiment and honest too.

Ray. Happy Xmas

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

In giving this another airing I was struck by the way the sonnet form allows the nuancing of emotions with a kind of forethought, afterthought, and then a sort of summing up.

(It could be an argument, counter argument and decision...
all kinds of differing things)

It also lets you play around with the rhyme between the differing.

No wonder Shakespeare fancied it so much.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thank you, a subject we fear even seeing the image of, but for me, something I felt I had to address, so I could move on. It forms part of three poems which are interlinked and written at the same time.

Comment is about Saintly softly (blog)

Original item by AM Cash

Hi Stephanie, Like you I have written about the "vote" and two of my poems on here are on the subject. One written before we knew, We are European and the other after called No. This is interesting times and writing about them is something worth doing. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Comment is about Stephanie Blythe (poet profile)

Original item by Stephanie Blythe

Harry
many thanks for commenting on 'Advent' - glad you liked it - your comments are always helpful, constructive and insightful - I really do appreciate them. I like the 'why hast thou forsaken me' twist and will have a play with that if you don't mind me using it(?).
Hope you're keeping well - and best wishes for Christmas and the new year - hope to see you somewhere soon
Ian

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thanks for commenting on 'Advent' Mike - I'm really pleased that you liked it - hope you're keeping well - best wishes of the season mate
Ian

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

RAj,
I like your sample work and I am looking forward to seeing more. The subject of human interaction is close to my heart and something I have tried to cover in my own work. Let you I have only just decided to share it on here. Good luck! Andy

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

Original item by Chakraj

Great poem. Yes the present is important. People come and go. Some return. Some are important for a season, some a lifetime. The past can be a teacher, the future a guide. Hold on tight! Enjoy the ride. My reiki master says change is constant. But a door is different to a wall, doors can be locked bolted, left ajar, opened when needed. Too many people have walls around them or draw bridges . Zen proverb, let go or be dragged. X I Like your style

Comment is about Just Be. Here. Now. (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Yes. I attend a spiritual class. I go tonight. I've been reading about twin flames and how they can be separated. Where they reach a higher consciousness when together. Also it is good to be alone. Some need to be for healing and spiritual growth but then to be with another who enhances that and you reach a greater consciousness, it's not just the mundane or 9 til 5 then that's magical.

Comment is about UNIVERSAL TRIBE (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Deep!

Comment is about Saintly softly (blog)

Original item by AM Cash