This was a naughty one for Christmas, Laura. Glad you liked it. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones too. Xxx

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks 'Write Out Loud' for your support and kind words, if you'd like to hear our setting of Sassoon's 'The Dug-Out' (read by Siegfried Sassoon himself) and Owen's 'Anthem', here is the YouTube link http://youtu.be/G3KhDx9fjdU Merry Christmas all
Walter Wray (LiTTLe MACHiNe)

Comment is about A happy new year to all - and here's a look back at the poetry of 2014 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

ohhh! pained poetry!and about the profane language-that really fucking annoys us! We can't stand bastard people who bleedin' swear!

xx

Comment is about Fuck You (blog)

Original item by Spoken_Thoughts

Sorry, about the language. I was really mad.

Comment is about Fuck You (blog)

Original item by Spoken_Thoughts

Hope you don't mind, I liked the idea of your topic...So I added on a little more of what popped in mine. :)

So then what is life?
Is it an example to lift from earth to moon?
An imaginary tale of a storyteller from that moon?
Shall be a gift of a noon chirping on a clock.
But what sense does it dot if the I was never to be written.

What is life?
A secret addition of a joke hidden.
A curse, none the less, but of wise man's words bitten.

What is life?
A feeling emerging from one tale to the next.
War being fed to the hungry of powerless heads.

Comment is about Undead (poet profile)

Original item by Undead

Word of advice, it's not all about sounding sophisticated. It's not really about the big words with the big deep meanings. You can have a simple basis of the English words, just gotta twist them around to make it a little more tricky. I don't have a high vocabulary myself. But sometimes just understanding how to mix the words will help a great deal. Good luck with Blue.

Comment is about Mark Cacho (poet profile)

Original item by Mark Cacho

I like it

Comment is about Dumping a fantasy (blog)

Original item by Alexander Hume

thanks for your lovely comment , the bit you mention is about loss at sea and how we feel open in the presence of nature

Comment is about WHILST THE SEA SINGS PRAYERS (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

A Muslim Calvinist... whatever next.

Comment is about 'Muslim Calvinist' Imtiaz Dharker wins Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

(last four couplets)

....and all the same to you chuck!x

Comment is about This Christmas (blog)

Steve,

Thanks.

As background, this was written end of celebrated big freeze of winter 1962/63 - I'm really that old.

The other protagonist could be pretty cold-hearted, also.

Comment is about Delirium in winter: the destination of snow (blog)

Original item by David Andrew

As for me I always enjoy listening to your poems, to your voice, John. Thank you very much and ...
Merry Christmas!

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

You are so good, M.C.Newberry! Thank you very much for all the wishes. But ... it looks that ... sometimes not everything depends on us.
Merry Christmas!

Comment is about The 22nd of December (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

It's not so easy to make the right choice.And who will tell me if it is good or bad? For me it doesn't really matter if you are Christian or Muslim. There is no a supreme religion or nation.They say that man is God's creation. But...to my oppinion today every person creates himself without waiting for the kind Elf.
Anyway, good poem, I like it.

Comment is about CONSIDER THIS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for the reminder about the time of darkest
winter and the slow lengthening of the days to come.
Now - a long-distance note of greeting at
Christmas time -
"May hope and joy return to Ukraine
May its people be free from hardship and pain
May its future burn bright with an unquenchable
flame
And may its children stand proud and rejoice in
its name."
Merry Christmas!

Comment is about The 22nd of December (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

A most unusual production with the sad cruel inevitability of a wild thing meeting death
given a haunting interpretation.
I remember during a hike across the highlands
of Scotland finding the body of a large crow (I
think) that had been caught in a trap (that had
not been inspected as it should have been) and
had died a lonely and protracted death. I
would have kicked the person responsible for that trap and for his neglect! This post brought it back to mind.

Comment is about Song for a dead gannet (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

It's a hard life for us poor men - especially
when women wish it was harder! :-)
One man's mate is another man's poison - if you'll
forgive the misquote.

Comment is about A Fool (blog)

Original item by Spoken_Thoughts

Hi Anthony! Thanks for kind comments on my gannet song.Hope you have a great Christmas!

http://youtu.be/n0D48VeegOg

;)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Laura - thanks for the lovely comments on my gannet poem. I managed to record it myself using a programme called Garage Band on a friends computer. It's the first time I've recorded effects and stuff myself - loved doing the echoes! The only instrument I used was a little child's xylophone, just tapping two or three notes. Setting up all the echoes you get lots of accidental rhythms going on. Hope you have a great Christmas! xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

And Amen to those lovely sentiments Noris!
Same greetings to you and yours-ENJOY!xx

Comment is about Christmas... (blog)

Original item by Noris Roberts

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' Gray - pleased that you liked it - cheers mate ;-)

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

Original item by Gray Nicholls

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' mate - here's a toast to you and yours for the festive season - hic ;-)

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' MC - I will raise a glass and cheer you this very evening - hic ;-)

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

thanks for the comments on 'wee dram' Laura - yes, I reduced the swearing at the Old Courts as I knew it would offend your delicate ears ;-)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

soooo cooool! my previous reference to 'lukewarmly'was due to early morning 'head fuzz'..got my Preeti's mixed up with my Natalies!

It was a word Preeti had used (now changed) in one of her poems.'Fool me' I think it was,that she has rewritten.

Off to join the stampede now-see yer later chuck!

x

Comment is about Being Real (blog)

I agree ! No one can guide you better than yourself if you learn to listen and trust your inner voice or hunches. Or gut instincts. Love your work for being honest,and, unpretentious !

Comment is about Guiding Star (blog)

Although the fear is that the Grey Horse will eventually become just another 'gastropub' - we passed just such an establishment, completely deserted, on our way to R&M on Thursday night - the owners, Young and Co, have held out the possibility that poetry could return to the pub at some point in the future.

In an email reply to Write Out Loud, Young's business development manager, Jeff Bygraves, said: "We have been actively trying to recruit new tenants for the pub since Richard & June, who have been our tenants for 14 years, gave us notice in May on the grounds of Richard reaching retirement age. Although we have had numerous interested parties, no one has as yet come forward with a suitable proposal for the pub.

"Richard & June are due to leave in the first week of January. As we have no new tenants, we are taking this opportunity to close the pub and carry out some essential remedial works to the building, including some roof repairs, which may require scaffolding to be erected. During the time of the works, we are hopeful that a suitable new tenant will come forward.

"Regarding the Rhythm & Muse nights, or indeed any other forms of live entertainment, these will depend on the business plan of the new tenant, and whether they see it as part of their overall plan. I would suggest that, once we have a new tenant in place, the organisers of Rhythm & Muse introduce themselves to the new tenants."

Comment is about 'Hot spot' Rhythm & Muse goes out with stylish finale of poetry and music at the Ram Jam (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Awesome start, but how about the A2345 straight living people. you know, the ones in inbetween.
Or the cheeky jacks who get lucky flirting with a tenner.
Yous should build on it dude.

Comment is about On the Cards (blog)

Original item by J F Keane

haha thankyou Mr Jack. :)

Comment is about Just another day (blog)

Original item by Quiet Comet

I'm after you!
Is it just me, Dave, or do I see the dead hand of Good King Wenceslas melody ringing through this?
Anyroadup, top notch stuff even if, like Ian, I haven't a clue about Breaking Bad - I'm Homeland myself.

Comment is about Breaking Bad for Christmas (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Could be a child's nursery rhyme, Laura. An audio would be brilliant.

Comment is about Pritty Little Boy (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

It is often the case that the old ones are the
best! Like old friends, they are always welcome
back.

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A bit of festive whimsy, MC. I confess it's a re-post from a Christmas Past.

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Sacre bleu! C'est un Joyeux Noel nonpareil, n'est pas?
Hurrah for the hand that comes down hard
Three Christmas cheers for Pere Fouettard!

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

oh for gawds sake!put that theasaurus and dictionary down!

Dead good piece of Audoire'ation..tee hee..tion.x

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

Thank you for reading and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it
;-)

Comment is about Barefoot (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

Predictable, yes! - so I wish you all a very blessed Christmas............
See you next year!
Love, Dorinda x

Comment is about Cards - December Collage Poem (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Feedback?
I'll give you some feedback!
Stand up and take a bow Natalie.... a superb piece of work :)

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

Lovely! I wish i had thought of it :0

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

oh my goodness! That's very graphic!!

Comment is about Whte Ashes Black Magic (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Yes - it's been too long! After getting Of Lilith and Anthony finished and up on Amazon though I just wanted a good bit of rest and relaxation!

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you for your comment! Work in progress that one and going to be a lot longer so will post it in it's entirety once it's done : )

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Are you serious Natfastic?
you may have been a touch too drastic
we only want to pay libation
for this piece that ends in 'ation
comments here are like hen's teeth
and meant to give you self-belief
please don't think we're being trite
we think it's a bloody good write.

© Graham ;-)

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

New poetry collection
New hot lover
New year coming - - -

About time you came back!

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

Original item by Katy Megan

To answer T.C's comment:
I take the view that religion as we know it
is a man made concoction that chooses to pick
& choose teachings of love and forgiveness
or ignore them when it suits - as in Peshawar.
Whether that occurs in the present Middle East
or elsewhere can be a subject for an opinion,
especially when it indoctrinates infant minds
that grow in stunted form to kill their own kind in mass murder.
That applies to the two dominant religions
at this time: Christianity and Islam...in
particular, in societies that still seem
held back under the leash wielded by their religious leaders and their selective teachings.
Arrogance on stilts? Tell them!

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Agree about the capitals. They do not make sense when reading it through albeit a poetry license thing too.

Comment is about Tree of Life (blog)

Agree with Cynthia, shorter cleaner lines would make this incredibly powerful.

Well done, HannahMary

regards,

Graham

Comment is about A poem youll never hear (blog)

Original item by HannahMary

Great stuff Dave. But be careful you'll have JC after you!

well done,

regards,

Graham

Comment is about Breaking Bad for Christmas (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Super, but I would have liked another couple of lines. Don't be so mean with us please

Well Done,

regards,

Graham

Comment is about For An Afternoon (blog)

Original item by A.M. Clarke

I'm sorry I don't understand Collects prayers and sweep seems wrong to me too.

Love the brevity and can almost feel the sea breathing in this.

well done David.

regards,

Graham

Comment is about WHILST THE SEA SINGS PRAYERS (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor