every line in this poem Jackie is brilliant.xx

Comment is about Giving In (blog)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

Is the Collage Poem for March in exile? or what!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello Eleni,
Very impressed with the youtube clip, very original and fine words too.

regards,

Graham

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Thankyou Brian for your lovely comments Wendy

Comment is about Brian Hodgkinson Jr. (poet profile)

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Thankyou jack lots of memories still to come I hope . My head is full of things I would love to write down ,time will tell Love wendy .

Comment is about Jack purvis (poet profile)

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I agree with Jackie, that's very moving, quite brought a lump to me throat, it did :/ You have a very original way of writing that's quite intriguing.

Comment is about White Field Green Sheep (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Very moving.

Comment is about White Field Green Sheep (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

oh you romantic Liverpudlian! beautiful! x

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

'MASSIVELY disguised incapabilities'....tell me about it!
very powerful,moving poem P&S.

x

Comment is about seeing blindly (blog)

Yeah :)

Comment is about WE RUB ALONG. (blog)

You really do write the best love poetry I've read on here, Harry. Deep respect to your "Research".

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Harry, I absolutely LOVE this poem! It's wonderful. It could easily be taken for one by e.e.cummings. Wisp as a sea frond; merry-dance flicker; Friendly as help your smile was, welcome-wide .....just gorgeous :) I really hope you write more in this style.

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

your kind of 'contagion' Natalie is a delight to contract!
brill poem-your Majesty!xx

Comment is about Queen Me (blog)

no way can one beat the simple pleasures of life eh folks?
many many thanks you all. Welcome to the new boy Brian! we hope you enjoy your time on W.O.L. xx

Comment is about Paper star (blog)

Hi ian.

You forgot the last line

"I'ts being so cheerful that keeps me going"


Of the gates to the back breaking factory?

Comment is about Wide Is The Gate And Broad Is The Road (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

A re-post,
significantly revised.

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Why thank you Jack. You're missing nothing, not driving. Bloody M6 - wacky races!

Comment is about Jack purvis (poet profile)

Original item by Jack purvis

Ha - cross posting :)

Thanks for y'note on me tree pome :) I was having a bit of a go at Wordsworth's idea that we lose our 'visionary gleam' when we get older. Remember I mentioned it in The Raven that time? Anyway, fuck Wordsworth :D

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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Mmm - lots to like in this piece Ian. Some of the sonics are just wonderful, right from the start:

A sky bleached like old bones
dug from damp earth on an autumn morning.

For me, it sometimes leans too far into the world of supernatural that you love to occupy, this for example:

Grotesque shadows disembowel before him,
letting loose the dizzy demons he keeps hidden.

BUT - then you have these lines which make it great again (for me, anyway):

And when those slow, heavy feet come down
the pavement shakes and dust drops from the clouds.


Interesting choice of structure - what inspired the couplets?

Title's ace too.

Comment is about Wide Is The Gate And Broad Is The Road (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Will read this to our grandchildren

Comment is about Grandma, You'll Always Be Here (blog)

Original item by Chris Briggs

Thank you Wendy

Comment is about My Memories (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Wow. So much in here, snatches and gasps of ideas and back-stories. Kind of mirrors that behind-the-hand whispering that goes on in small communities (I'm from a village, I recognise it heh).

Loving the really clever vernacular. Brings to mind Annie Proulx's genius touch with dialogue.

I think this is a very clever poem, the flow is perfect, and I think it would work well on stage as well as on the page.

Comment is about Circus School (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

I really enjoyed reading this up until that last stanza. It kind of brought me up short. There seem to be words missing, blanks, absences. I'm not sure if that is the intended effect on the reader? It's the 'why should it' line that jars the most.

Comment is about . (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Excellent interview - nice one Louise! :) I believe that absolutely - the taking poetry to the people, it's one of my big beliefs too. And we are not alone.

*massive kick up the bum*

Will that do? ;)

Look forward to seeing you perform this at some point, and good luck for the bid!! Woohoo!

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Original item by Greg Freeman

This is so true....you have manage to put into words our thoughts...love it !

Comment is about Let Me Out, Let Me In (blog)

I like the nuances here with the flashes of real life. Very well done poetry capturing life. Thanks, and bravo.

Comment is about Harry Cliffe (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

I'm a sucker for rhyme, especially when it's lyrically sound with an edgy message. You got those here. Thank you.

Comment is about Don't Blame Others (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

altruistic even! x

Comment is about Paper star (blog)

Sweet poem. I like it.

Comment is about Paper star (blog)

Thanks, chaps. Not my usual kind of thing, but it seemed to lend itself ... more interesting than most of the editorial content of the magazine, I have to say.

Comment is about The Oldies (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Harry - many thanks for your comment.
JC - I think of "September Song"!!

Comment is about TREES - a re-post to welcome Spring (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Neatly and sparely done M.C.

Comment is about TREES - a re-post to welcome Spring (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Julian,
When I think of those poor unsuspecting innocents
who politely listen to me reading my bloody stuff, I feel so grateful that I would do handstands for them.

Entertainment!...It`s got to be entertainment!


(we do it for the `kick`, why shouldn`t they get a bit of pleasure also?)

Sounds like you`re having a good time.

Comment is about Open mic and music at the Bowery - and a Seamus Heaney poem on the subway (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Patricia.This is super! a very interesting,alturistic take on letting something go without feeling sad.

Sings to the affirmation of life.Yes indeedy! x

Comment is about Paper star (blog)

somewhat biographical Rose.Your corrective suggestion agreed to and made.xx

Comment is about Greyscious in grey (blog)

Thank you Lea, thank you Tommy, I appreciate your comments. I half expected to be pulled up over 'gloam'. I knew it should really be 'gloaming' but it turns out Keats used 'gloam' so I took that as an auspicious precedent.

Comment is about THE DAY DONE. (blog)

Tommy,

It is about the electronic machinery available in workshops to make joints in wood etc. You just input the dimensions and the machine cuts it out for you. Now available in a small workshop not just in the big ones. Wondering where the traditional wood working skills will go longer term?

David

Comment is about TOOLS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Hi David, don't be at it, what's the last two lines about then? ;) Tommy

Comment is about TOOLS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Hi Travis, you've produced a quality piece here, with a gloriously clever last line. Tommy

Comment is about THE DAY DONE. (blog)

Trouble is, if they can remember, they probably weren't there. David?

Comment is about Last Word festival looks back at legendary 1960s poetry 'incarnation' at Albert Hall (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

thanks Jack, I don't often write humorous poems, but I must admit I rather like this one :)

Comment is about Lick It (blog)

Thanks Jack, much appreciated :)

Comment is about I Think I Know You (blog)

Fantastically creepy! I love 'like a scrabble of beetles on porcelain tiles'. Thanks for sharing :)

Comment is about Nocnitsa (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Hi Nat, sometimes the briefest poems shine the brightest...this is lovely xx

Comment is about Migration (blog)

You can find more of my poetry on line including some videos by simply searching on SUBACCHI POET.

Comment is about TOOLS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

Hi Chris, this is so sweet, I hope I have a grandson who feels like this about me one day xx

Comment is about Grandma, You'll Always Be Here (blog)

Original item by Chris Briggs

I really like this one - great opening image - A waterfall of emotions in a crumpled suit - and the rest, great!

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

Hi Travis, I love this!! So clever :)

Comment is about THE DAY DONE. (blog)

Took me back. Well written

Comment is about The Oldies (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

A picture painted with words

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