Thanks kindly Hélène, WOL is quite the place to be. 🌷
Comment is about silver threaded web (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Love and best wishes for 2023.
Comment is about Dear Friend, So Much Grace (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Love and best wishes to all for the new year.
Comment is about By Day Sun Pins You Down (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Love and best wishes for the new year.
Comment is about Song for the Old Year (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
All my love to you and yours for 2023.
Comment is about Happy New Year (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Time will not wait
the past moves on
so should we.
Comment is about New Year's Eve Haiku (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Thank you, and the same to you Julie.
Keith
Comment is about Happy New Year (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Many thanks for your kind comments, Ray, Uilleam, Steve, and Hélène. And for the Likes, Nigel, Frederick, Chris and Holden. A very happy new year to you all.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Love this! The poems on WOL on the cusp of the new year 2023 are full of beautiful imagery. Thanks Frederick & all WOL writers!
Comment is about silver threaded web (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Beautiful!! So vivid I felt I was there.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Yes, like Graham & the others, I found this to be a powerful poem. Really vivid imagery & deep sentiment. Like Uilleam points out, so so different from tech devices. I suspect Mrs. Binfield would have a pleased smile on her face to see her little prayer book rescued & cherished. Well done Ray & thank you!
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I have one almost identical but with a blue cover dated 1960
"Be a good soldier" was taken from the lesson for the day..
Hold onto it Ray
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
As an activist and a renegade I applaud this poem
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Justice (blog)
Original item by Chris Bunton
A masterful poem of epic proportions which speaks for many of us who have become disillusioned in the eternal hope for something better and more just.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about In My Life Time (blog)
Original item by Chris Bunton
Thanks Keith (Jeffries) Happy New Year! 🌷
Comment is about silver threaded web (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
A timely theme for the arrival of a New Year when we are
exhorted "Out with the Old/ In with the New".
Passed - but not handed on
Its journey focusses thoughts upon
A move that guarantees an existence
Continues through humane persistence.
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Glad to see that you saved it, Ray, even if it does live in 'Pious obscurity'. I'm sure that it's quite grateful.
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
A very evocative poem, Greg. The (relatively new) moon in conjunction with a planet or star is a wonderful sight.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
A very powerful poem, David.
Best wishes.
Comment is about This is the Body I Love (a year of terror 2022) (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Thank you for your positive comments, Keith. As a general rule, I don't like the removal of statues but I can understand this one. Hopefully, some solution will be found, perhaps involving a museum.
And thanks to Frederick, Greg, Jordyn, Uilleam, Your Royal Poetess, Rudyard and Flyntland for liking this last poem of 2022.
A happy new year to everyone.
Comment is about Odesa (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Learn to love your ownself first
For if you can't love yourself
Then it's impossible to love others
So true!
Comment is about "LOVE" (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
Beautifully and thoughtfully crafted with good imagery.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about silver threaded web (blog)
Original item by Red Brick Keshner
Oh gorgeous Northumberland, with that beautiful coast.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
The pocket book with its red cloth cover
well thumbed by a neighbour's hands
Such items speak to us in a way that no mobile or PC screen ever could.
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Do not be silent!
I will not be silent.
I will refuse to "go gentle into that good night"
Comment is about UNTIL THE AFTERGLOW (blog)
Original item by Terry McArthur
Lard an gin
Must try it sometime!
Comment is about Icelandic poem: said in the voice of Bjork (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thank you Keith. I do tend to get more than a little cynical at this time of the year. i always value your comments
Thanks again old friend
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Full of romantic undertones, it's easy to build a picture and sense the passion behind your move Greg. Up north feels almost as far away as Jupiter itself! Enjoy your new year together....
Ray
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks, Graham ... and a happy new year to you, and all at Write Out Loud. Living up here is changing the kind of poetry I write, at least at the moment.
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It’s beautiful up that way Greg, lucky fellow.
Jupiter was really showing off wasn’t it. I need an app to help me recognise the planets these days.
Lovely evocative piece. I see you’ve also got dolphins up there now!
Happy New Year
G
Comment is about The wind in the dark (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This struck a chord Ray. Can’t really explain why for some reason.
Happy New Year
G
Comment is about A SENTIMENTAL SOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
more prevalent than ever before as now, apartheid is placed in the subliminal conscience of yourself they never want you to get in touch with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s
I have a dream too MLK. xxx
Comment is about Never Say It's.......... (blog)
Original item by ZTK Space
I remember him being carted off against Portugal, Greg, but the damage was done against earlier teams (Bulgaria rings a bell).
And thanks for the Likes, Frederick, Nigel and Chris.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you to all for your 'likes' and also to Graham and Stephen for their comments. They are all much appreciated. Keep on writing folks
Keith
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you Uilleam for your effective protest in support of my view. I wonder that millions can be so misled, it has me scuttling into dark corners of discontent.
Thanks for looking in, Brenda and Frederick!
Ray
Comment is about LOST AND GONE FOREVER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Marvellous stuff, John. He was certainly kicked out of the World Cup in '66.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Rose, Hélène, Stephen, Flyntland and Keith. Flyntland, I think my mood was certainly not manic, more a low level depression that lingers. Rose, I do hope that your derrière is responding to treatment! WE can wallow in emptiness or try to fill the void - that's why I write poetry.
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
Comment is about Empty (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
"it's short term remember", are the words that stand out for me in this poem. The need to realise that we are only passing through as all is transient. This should spur us on to be positive and make good use of the time we have.
A philosophical poem about life's journey with a good sense of optimism in it.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Introspection Trilogy (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Stephen,
Well rhymed and well written. This does not come as a surprise as the Ukrainians are endeavouring to establish their national identity, their language and culture without the influences and memories of the past. They are also inspired by anger for what they have suffered.
A topical poem with a good sense of awareness.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Odesa (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I like the physicality of this piece, Keith. It highlights the contribution of body and mind to what is finally produced on paper. Thanks.
Comment is about The Writer writes on (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thankyou, Graham and Stephen. Another one of his famous misses was when he lobbed the Czechoslovak (I think) goalie from the half way line. He looked like man chased by a ghost.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A great tribute, John. His greatest moment that I remember was one when he FAILED to score - selling the Uruguayan goalkeeper an outrageous dummy in Mexico '70 and just missing in the side netting. I'll look for it on you tube. Happy New Year, in spite of the sad day.
Comment is about No. 10 - A Villanelle for Pele (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Indeed, John. A blast from the past which hasn't aged at all.
Comment is about CANTO CORTADO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Martin,
this really is a work of art as you have turned the festive into a lament. Perhaps this was not your intention. As Christmas approaches I find myself wishing it was already over and done with. The same goes for the New Year. Surely all this frenetic energy and spending does not constitute joy. When it is all over we are financially worse off, suffering with hangovers and with the winter left to face and deal with. I somehow feel that we have forgotten or lost the reason for this festive celebration.
Thanks for a well thought out and truthful poem.
Keith
Comment is about Queues, queues, queues (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
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Sun 1st Jan 2023 01:36
Lovely poem Julie and such a beautiful coloured species of bird.
Thank you.
Comment is about Mandarin Ducks (blog)
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