Your poetic finger is on the pulse of so many interesting people, social situations, historical events, and way beyond the immediately obvious - social commentary almost sly but always with penetrating scope.
Comment is about Captain Webb (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
I think you are right upon reading through with the change made and saved (Thanks). Glad it is liked, many thanks for your encouraging comment.
Comment is about Skid row (blog)
Original item by Paul Letch
Paul - as a songwriter as well as a writer of verse, I really like this. Those first two lines are tops! If you could alter the last "personalised" verse, this would be a great country song lyric in the style of the late great Johnny Cash...albeit he would probably have sung "bum" and not "scruff"! :-))N.B. - You don't need the apostrophe of possession in "sigh's in the first verse.
Comment is about Skid row (blog)
Original item by Paul Letch
Hi Nigel. Tweeted them all as i wrote them all down before but glad you like them.
My favourite is probably the second too, must admit but am pleased with all of them.
All was wrote listening to Scott 3 and Scott 4 by Scott Walker.
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
thanks guys. All were wrote listening to Scott 3 and 4 by Scott Walker.
Comment is about 15 short short poems for heatons twaiku (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Hi John. Tweeted them all as i wrote them all but glad you like them.
All was wrote listening to Scott 3 and Scott 4 by Scott Walker.
Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)
Original item by J F Keane
Andy
Great stuff, I will start rolling them out now.
Comment is about 15 short short poems for heatons twaiku (blog)
Original item by Andy N
I like them all Andy N
But if I had to pick one it would be - - -
Catching dreams
You reflect on your youth
Writing songs for nobody.
I hope you can tweet them all to the twitter account.
Comment is about 15 short short poems for heatons twaiku (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Here are my 9 little poems for Heatons Twaiku, Linda.
May do some more 2moro but here are some to get you going
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470
Comment is about Linda Cosgriff (poet profile)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
Here are my 9 little poems for Heatons Twaiku, Nigel.
May do some more 2moro but here are some to get you going
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Here are my 9 little poems for Heatons Twaiku, John.
May do some more 2moro but here are some to get you going
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470
Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)
Original item by J F Keane
Here are my 9 little poems for Heatons Twaiku
May do some more 2moro but here are some to get you going
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
been good to get back into these again after too long a spell of been missing from you guys.
Comment is about July Collage Poem: 'Grit' (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Remember that the Heatons Arts Trail is running this weekend. If you want to tweet a poem celebrating the works, remember to include @heatonstwaiku in the header. My account will be notified and I will retweet your poem to followers of the heatonstwaiku account.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
yes
Comment is about Freedom Sky (Haiku) (blog)
So parents have problems with poets also? ;) Tommy
Comment is about Math (blog)
Original item by Becka Brush
Thanks Daniel for your comments on switched off
A part of me was reminded of Glenn Close in Fatal attraction when she sat in the apartment just switching the light on and off the whole time.
Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
Nice one I an it conveys so much to so many across time,as we repeat the same old things.
Comment is about An Angel Bathes In Tears (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
I wouldn't be so cheeky Helen. But I still don't understand what the poem and your response is about. humour me please :)
Comment is about Fifty Shades...... (blog)
...took what as a statement Helen, may I ask?
Comment is about Fifty Shades...... (blog)
Lucky mr Grey
Comment is about Fifty Shades...... (blog)
Return to base Helen?
Comment is about Fifty Shades...... (blog)
...thanks for that speedy response Mikhail- I webbed the word and it was confusing and awful. Tommy
ps I was born in Liverpool and still am (born) and living there. Lewis's and all- (been thrown out of the cafe for messing about)
Comment is about Mikhail Smith (poet profile)
Original item by Mikhail Smith
Hi Tommy .. yes , I came across the photo of the gas chamber door and it said the word above might have been added later. I imagine a girl stumbling against the wood, so confusing is probably the correct interpretation.
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hiya Ian I forgot to thank you earlier for ''I leant against the wall'' cheers mate. Tommy
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
I hope the weather holds for the Heaton Moor Arts Trail this weekend!
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
'Old' no as relevant then as now. Keep writing, keep writing more. Tommy
Comment is about Dole Q Blues (blog)
Confused yet powerful, I'm at a loss. Tommy
Comment is about Brausebad. (blog)
Original item by Mikhail Smith
I confess to schadenfreude when reading this
entertaining post. For ten years I owned a 'van (holiday home!) and recall one August
when it rained virtually every day. But I was
in my own company and felt more sorry for the
holiday makers with only limited vacation time,
struggling to and from their vans in bedraggled
misery. I think the local bar did quite well
though!
Note: Shouldn't it be "virginity" in line 2 of
the 4th stanza?
Cheers
Comment is about The Weather ruined the rest (blog)
Original item by Gray Nicholls
Utterly Butterly....
...I'll get my coat! ;)
We are all searching for the meadow filled with golden dreams.
(Great haiku)
Comment is about Summer Hues (blog)
A peaceful world is the best aim - but it seems
that ever since Cain and Abel were at odds, Man
has been following their example. The strangest thing about war is that much progress
seems to follow its horrors - a sort of awful
"leaps and bounds" scenario. Maybe it is our
fate to be aware yet be captive of our tendency
towards taking advantage or taking a position and not budging. Is this some form of cosmic
joke at Mankind's expense? I sometimes wonder.
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Great article and I share so many of her views. The world was stabbed with a thousand flags to divide not connect us.
Comment is about Waving the flag: why poetry has a big role to play in political protest (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Your three lines sums up my feelings right now lol ...I have many 'must not's and should not's' but there is one 'will not' and that's substitute butter for any spread. Tommy
Comment is about Summer Hues (blog)
...someone has allowed me to Helen, but I'm weary of telling her. Tommy
Comment is about This time on a sunny day (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
thanks for compliments..i will be deliveriung something soon...x
Comment is about static (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
thanks Ged, really encouraging to have this feedback :)
Comment is about After Southerdown Storm (blog)
Original item by Bel Blue
Really enjoy your style Ged, indeed poverty leaves little time to philosophise.
Comment is about Palaces of Words (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Thanks Daniel
A part of me was reminded of Glenn Close in Fatal attraction when she sat in the apartment just switching the light on and off the whole time
Comment is about switched off (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
HI Dominic Glad you like MIles in Paris and explored the music on YOutube - some great stuff there! David
Comment is about Dominic James (poet profile)
Original item by Dominic James
You can find the results and read the winning poems here http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners.html
Comment is about John Evans to judge £400 Welsh poetry competition (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Thu 24th Jul 2014 18:20
<Deleted User> (6895)
Thu 24th Jul 2014 13:20
Rach-when the effing eff are you gonna come on again and blow us all out of the effin WOL water?
make it soon girl-love your stuff-MASSIVE TIME!
yours-two soppy Bond hungry scroats.xx
Comment is about static (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
Well, you've got me wishing I was there Greg. Great old write-up, he said, jealously.
Comment is about Coolest place to be? Finding shelter in Latitude's poetry tent (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
marvellous - and it makes a scaffold out of the stage. From your poem, to you-tube, and back again, computers have their benefits, but curiosity would have got me there in the end.
Comment is about Miles Davis in Paris (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
bloody vikings
Comment is about Thor (He's A Jolly Good Fellow) (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
The superb title drew me in to a plethora of witty inunendo, politics, folklore and the 'warm glow' of the memories and pleasures of do it yourself Scandinavian furniture.
A great big smile and "Ride of Valkyries" sounding in my head for the rest of the day.
Brilliant!
Comment is about Thor (He's A Jolly Good Fellow) (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
A very sensual moment in time so elequently captured. Like one of those scenes from a subtitled black and white film at the Cannes Film Festival.
(I know it doesn't need subtitles but hope you get what I mean in the most nicest way).
Imagination working overtime. Wonderful.
Comment is about A Lover's Touch (blog)
Helen.... I knew what you meant first time.. no problem glad you get it. Just pleased to bring a smile to anyone with these current political and world events....and I don't mean the games in your hometown. ;)
To smile. It uses less muscles than a frown!
Cheers Helen.
Comment is about 'C' THE LANTERNS (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
Interesting, I like it. A rich page to start from. Peter Pegnall did a short series that fits in here, if the link works.
Poems suggested by phrases from Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night'
A Scherzo of Colour
Bougainvillea against a plaster wail,
pink lips parted in desire;
a pool of blood in the doorway.
Lap it all up.
If you prefer black and white,
a touch of evil -
fly a dark kite
hieroglyph of agony.
Season of Missed Chances, 2009
Comment is about In Losing (part 2) (photo)
Original item by Pity-Poetry
Cynthia Buell Thomas
Sat 26th Jul 2014 15:14
This is really 'cute' - what a word! But, it is mind tickling, if - even for two seconds - the reader tries to make the connection in logic so categorically stated. It made me chuckle.
Welcome to WOL. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Comment is about Math (blog)
Original item by Becka Brush