Too crap to blog but you did ask!

Just for you Mr TC
(Top Cat tune keeps springing into my head)

Winky Face

Emotion without words
How does that work?
Display happiness with
A smiley face
Slighty abuse
Or amuse with
A winky face

Show sadness with
A downturned U
When you are so
Downturned
U don’t even know U
Are U

;)

On second thoughts I might blog. One glass of wine and it's starting to look ok ;)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Great and honest attitude and what a fighter. The very best of luck in Manchester tomorrow Jackie. Hope to see you perform next time.

Comment is about Jackie Hagan: 'I figured I might as well milk the one-legged thing' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

LFC

ynwa

Comment is about Hillsborough 96 (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

good stuff, Ian. as i expected when i started it, i really enjoyed this. top stuff m8

Comment is about Once Upon A Time (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Put together a poem for the theme of humour
but not sure about the title of The Laughing Policeman
was going to call it The Hairy Banana!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Love this!! I spent a lot of time on a roof when I as a kid - brought it back :)

Comment is about Danny Nucci 0637 (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Hey, hope you're doing ok, absolutely know what the negative loop stuff is like x

Comment is about Zach Dafoe (poet profile)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Love the plays on words and the raw emotion - gutsy poem - I struggle to be in most moments. Like this one a lot x

Comment is about table scraps 2306 (05/07/2015) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Downstairs we are for one night only under the theme of poetry humour.

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

quality and nothing less.x

Comment is about table scraps 2306 (05/07/2015) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

love it! x

Comment is about DONT GIVE UP (blog)

Original item by Autum

Autum, your poems portray a wretched life, and i can't claim to understand, but quite how you manage to find the energy and the will to write, and post your work, is, dare i say it, both admirable and humbling. This is a shocking poem, but it's clever at the same time. Keep at it.

Comment is about 10 Down to 1 (blog)

Original item by Autum

This is brilliant!

Comment is about Love Me; Let Me Be (blog)

Love this!

Comment is about Looking for the sky (blog)

Hi Michael. Thank you for your feedback. You are very kind an enthusiastic, which is good :) I am pleased that you enjoyed my work.

Comment is about Michael W. Lankford (poet profile)

Original item by Michael W. Lankford

Thank you for your lovely comment on "The Poetry Bug"! Was really nice to hear x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thank you so much!!!! ?:)

Comment is about What is an alcoholic? (blog)

Original item by Autum

Hello Andy, thank u for always being so supportive and kind ! Much appreciated....

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hmm.... I actually have a poem called 'Winky Face' somewhere lying around.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Lovely, Preeti. x

Comment is about Fishing (blog)

yeah, would be interested in hearing a recording of this also as it definately deserves to be recorded.

the short short lines at the end really work well for me here in particular but it's a good un all round

Comment is about My Bedroom Floor (blog)

Original item by Genevieve

lot of good stuff here, steve.

the use of because works really well here.

excellent m8

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

last line really works Preeti.

gives it a very different meaning.

works well for me that.

excellent

Comment is about Fishing (blog)

Welcome to Write Out Loud, Melissa. Glad we were able to get along to your recent performance at Poets and Players in Manchester http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=48352

Comment is about Melissa Lee-Houghton (poet profile)

Original item by Melissa Lee-Houghton

haha-this morning I feel like Michelle has got me on a lead,taking me for a walk to all her choices..but in this case,I,m glad she did! x

Comment is about Looking for the sky (blog)

and I am in total agreement with Michelle.Terrific! x

Comment is about What is an alcoholic? (blog)

Original item by Autum

When oh when? I like this very much.
M:)

Comment is about Looking for the sky (blog)

I don't have any clever words to offer. This is a compelling read. x

Comment is about What is an alcoholic? (blog)

Original item by Autum

hi friendo

thanks for reading me a while back. I haven't had much time to float along this site in a while, but I glance at it and your comments always do good to bring me back.

hope this message finds you well. :)

Comment is about Jacqueline Phillips (poet profile)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

thanks for the comments on 'National Wealth Service?' Harry - I think you are right - but that doesn't stop the idealist in me wishing that you are wrong - cheers
Ian

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thank you for your wonderful feedback! I write on an impulse...cannot explain what drives me to capitalize or not :0

Comment is about Michael W. Lankford (poet profile)

Original item by Michael W. Lankford

Graham, thank you. Made the change. I was not too sure !
Thank you again.....

Comment is about Fishing (blog)

This is really impressive Preeti, I like it a lot. It's brevity but straightforward phrasing. I don't like the last line, make it one thing or the other.
Great work.

Comment is about Fishing (blog)

Thank you Colin, much obliged. I started this sucker seven years ago and thought, at various stages, it was complete; I was wrong.

Comment is about SEEDS. (blog)

Nice one Travis. Especially like the rain running from verse one through two and into three and reappearing at the end - 'puddles traffic ploughed' - 'slick umbrellas' - 'filthy spritz'. Cheers. x

Comment is about SEEDS. (blog)

Thank you for the feedback, folks.

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Lots going on! :)

Comment is about Poetry at St Ives launches Cornish festivals spree (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Been there; still there, in fact; no plans to leave either.

Comment is about bedsit (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Well sustained and nicely laid out, Steve.

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks for posting this Steve, absolutely great, and so good to have a guy saying this stuff :)

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

xlent! x

Comment is about Danny Nucci 0637 (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

I soooo agree with Michelle.And then some! x

Comment is about Severed (blog)

Wazzap yongbludz. You realise we are over 200 years old between us? I reckon, MC, we'll get telegrams off the queen. She'll be 130 when she sends mine. Harry - I bet you treasure yours from the king.
Laters.

Comment is about OLD AGE KICKS (RLS) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Absolutely bloody brilliant. Your poem makes me want to go! The only thing worse than the advert itself, was the response from the company who created it! Really liked this.

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

I wrote this in response to the 'are you beach ready?' advert. Nuff said.

Comment is about why you are #beachready (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Competition results from the Ledbury festival website: Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition Results 2014

The results are in at last and I am delighted to announce that the winner of our poetry competition for 2014 is Jonathan Edwards with his poem ‘Servant Minding A Seat for his Master Before a Performance of The Rivals Covent Garden Theatre, 1775.’ Second places goes to Jacqueline Saphra for ‘My Friend Juliet’s Icelandic Lover’ and third place to Laura Seymour for ‘Cutting Chips’. In the 12 – 17 age group first place goes to Isla Anderson for ‘Letter for a Postbox Filled With Rain’, second place to Helen Ridout for ‘Poems Written in the Dead of Night’ and third place to Katharina Dixon-Ward for ‘Tube’. Finally in the under 11 age group first place goes to Poppy Smart for ‘Leonardo devinci losing the plot’, second place to Christy Fielder for ‘Teardrops’ and third place to Lilly Lees for ‘Where Reality Ends’.

Comment is about Deadline nears for £1,000 Ledbury festival competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

You can rely on the hardline Tory
To sell you a hardship story.
And as for message from Labour:
It's guess who you might get for a neighbour.
The yellow in Liberal Democrat
Tells you all you need to know about that!
The newcomers who say "Brits - get a grip"
Are the purple in your face lot - Ukip!

Comment is about The floating voter song (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Suck it to me baby!!
A powerful anthem to all our yesterdays - well, those we can remember.
Hey JC...
whatever else you may have lost, you still seem to have
a good pair of lungs to help you make it through the night!

Comment is about OLD AGE KICKS (RLS) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Just to cheer you up John,

Just been reading the ages on a pensioners obituary list for a local car factory:

The first six:...88, 87, 93, 87, 76, 103.

(I don`t know how that young feller got in there)

But I bet you, none of them can sing like you!

(those medical bastards are trying to make us live for ever)

Comment is about OLD AGE KICKS (RLS) (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

'BECOMING AN ANIMAL IS SOMETHING TO BE EMBRACED' SAYS SUSAN RICHARDSON AT APRIL'S WRITE ANGLE!

April's Write Angle brought a full house; the audience from as far as New Forest, Shoreham – to see Susan Richardson, from Wales – her 3rd time with WA. 'I love coming here to perform', she said. ''I always feel so warm and welcome'.

Hard to describe the evening – you had to be there. Susan is sharp, vibrant, dynamic, original, bringing her love of Shamanism, involving altered states of consciousness to encounter and interact with the spirit world and channel transcendental energies into this world. She shared stories, myths, personal experiences, through her poetry and prose;- such as a young girl, abandoned by her family, thrown into the sea from their kayak. She tries to climb back on, grips the side of the kayak, and her father chops off her fingers. She sinks down, becomes the goddess of the sea, each of her fingers, a different variety of fish. She then has to power to decide who's been evil to the environment, and punishes them. 'Do not mistake me for a mermaid..... Do not harpoon me with pity...'

Interested in metamorphosis for years and obsessed with extinction of wild and beautiful animals;- Susan tells of 'The White Dove', inspired by a French fairy tale about a baby girl child cursed by a witch. If sunlight fell on her face before her 21st year, she'd turn into a deer. As she's about to be married, it happens. However as her prince is a hunter, he finds her living in the woods. Susan interrupted herself, 'I know she loved living there' (everyone laughed) but she had to follow her destiny and marry the prince. 'Let my words be bright with animals'.

Susan believes 'becoming an animal is something to be embraced. 'From animal to human'. She spoke of shape shifting. A former snail becoming human and having issues. He must wear sunglasses. He has a human feeling he was born in the wrong body. At the end he's successfully all mole. 'If you're French, my revenge will be especially slow'. Then, a Sorceress who created a huge bubbling cauldron of inspiration for her son and left it with her servant boy, meant to stir but not taste it, which he does. It incurs her wrath and she chases him while he tries to escape, each changing themselves into other animals. Finally she becomes a black hen and pecks him up.

Susan dreamed she had become a penguin. With skin tingling, she went off garlic, crisps, samosas, red curtains, - her fingers bend. Tears taste of fish. She makes a nest of pencils and string. Then faces the hard new truth between her legs, and hatches the egg! She spoke of the first written metaphor, and how animals are used in adverts. 'We name cars after them. We personify in various ways.

There was the lion's argument about superiority of humans. Humans have language. Animals don't. 'If a lion speaks, we could not understand him. We'd correct his grammar. We'd insist he speak English instead of Lionese. He'd say 'take a degree in my language of strangling, ungulate and rangulate with vultures for the meat. Then we'll talk'!'

The audience was won over completely. The 'human/animal' applause said it all! We look forward to having this amazingly creative performer with us yet again!

Meantime, the open mic was pleased to have Dave Allen back. It took him 'over a year to write the poem'. Based on a photo of himself as a boy....and a glider with a one meter wing span, he made, called 'The Dragon Fly' – on its test flight – 'sharing with brothers Wright'. The Dragon Fly flew high. Smash! The crash broke the plane. 'Back then, this boy had dreams. I wonder now if they're still living on the wind'. Wonderful wistful poem!
Chris Sangster, inspired by a Shaman visiting him, wrote, 'The Channelling'. He played guitar singing 'Guardian Angels', told of a child almost run over by a car moving on its own. 'They 'guide us day and night...Guardian angels, watch over me'. Then, gave a good descriptive view of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. Chris brought to life, its rich history, including its kingdom, monuments.

Michael Sherman chose Easter as his theme. The most looked at things including daffodils – He caught the sunlit flowers. He Googled and found kittens, shopping and debt took first place in peoples' interest. He read 'Eulogy to the black bird', following it with 'If there aren't blackbirds in heaven, I may not go' 'Surely a master of nature's music''. Then on a religious theme. 'I felt him enduring the pain...his mortal journey finally shed'. And an excellent poem, 'A Million Starlings'. in a wanton ballet' about Winter which he hates. 'In Secret'. Seagulls wail a constant hunger...' wonderful poet!

Bruce Parry did a very humorous, 'Day Out with Garmin Satnav'. He 'humanised' it with a conversation between them. The Satnav became confused. Very humorous. He played a Welsh tune, 'Valley of the Lambs' on the Dulcimer. Lovely sound. Finally, read from his father's book of childhood memoirs, while his mother produced the drawings – about Moses, the night watchman.

Jamet Turner read poems from her book, proceeds of which will go to 'Jacksplace Hospice for young adults', including' Searching for the Mist' and I cry to the Mountains', as well as 'Self-Catering where she went on a 'self-catering' holiday, which ended not quite as expected! Audi Maserati started with, 'Cheese matures and people just get older'; then read a poem about a 16 yr old soon to be 17!' Followed by 'Timing is Everything;- 'Imagine Jean Luc Goddard in a room with Aristotle, Billy the Kid, and Buffalo Bill, discussing the world.....they polished off the biscuits and sorted out the world'. He played the ukulele, doing 'Strange Animals' including a 3 eyed chicken, 3 headed snake...and 'The Waving Woman' love song. Audi's amazing to watch, no matter what he does!

Robert Redford, one of 4 Shoreham Poets sang 'A Bar of Soap', performed against a CD. 'We changed the World'. About grand hypocrisy', greed, and a need to change things.

Big Jay, another Shoreham poet, attacked the politics of wealth vs poverty. 'No one's helping the poor while the richer get richer'.

Niall Drennan produced a new immigration questionnaire 'what's your real name? What have you got in your pocket? You packed this bomb yourself?' (clever..but sad) . 'I started to start smoking so I'd know when sex was over'. He performed a poem about his mother 'hardly knowing him'.

AP Staunton' phone conversation he had in 1981 in Brighton, called 'I won't keep you hanging on the telephone'. 'The rent's okay...everything's okay...you sound Northern'. 'I am', he said. 'How Northern' she asked. He's a noddie. Carries bricks. She wouldn't take him. They're a truly good group – politically orientated to making it a better world.

It was a really good evening – eclectic and fun. Almost everyone commented, as they left, how much they enjoyed the evening! And, one of the Shoreham poets won the raffle for four free meals at 'The Links', Liphook. (How convenient as there are four of them)! Hopefully it will bring them back! And we know they'll love The Links; the food and ambience. It's a great place to go.

Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 21 Apr 2015 (event)