Excellent storytelling (about a story teller), Brenda. I've come across one or two readers at open mics who had audiences mesmerised.
Comment is about The Story Teller (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
Thanks to everybody for your likes and comments. I am glad you liked it. It means a lot.
Love and blessings to all
M
Comment is about Wise guys (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
An entertaining poem which I am able to relate to as it describes those feelings I had prior to retirement. I now have my deal and it is lovely and warm
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Deal (blog)
Original item by Keith Byrne
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 18:47
Hey save me summodat white lightning juice-
right up my spinning street 😋
Rose 💋
Comment is about A Few More Lines? (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 18:38
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 18:26
👍 and SNAP! RE your title and mine tonight
Rose 💋
Comment is about Dance (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Wow! So many likes, totally unexpected. Thanks Frederick K, John C, New shoes, Stephen G., Holden and Pete. This of course happens every year, but never fails to cause this same delight. Thanks again, very encouraging.
Comment is about A Mellow Yellow High (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
John, Kieth, Stephen A. and Bethany many thanks for reading and for your likes.
Rose - praise indeed - thank you
Thank you too to Uilleam and Helene your comments are valued.
My thanks also to Stephen G and Tom for your encouraging comments.
Comment is about RUNNING THE GAUNTLET (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
This is excellent Flyntland. I read it a couple of times to fully savour it.
Comment is about RUNNING THE GAUNTLET (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Ha, Martin, this is great. The idea of M & J being 'on the run from the feds' is so wryly brilliant.
Comment is about Wise guys (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I like this Nadia, so impassioned and honest of feeling. I especially liked "I've gorged myself on food and love and someone else's emotions" Great line.
Comment is about she knows that she loves you, how can I tell you (blog)
Original item by Nadia Coia
I very much enjoyed this poem. "baton down ye flailing hatches," was a particularly delicious line. 😀
Comment is about Words (blog)
Original item by AccidentalFun
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 14:27
Ha! remind me not to accept any party invites from either of you two. Only joking Leon and Uilleam. Thank you.
Comment is about A Few More Lines? (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Front man is as dumb as the audience he pleases
Oh so true!
Comment is about Front man (blog)
Original item by Ghazala lari
We never forget them- they've just been given a load of seed.
Our pub landlady wonder why there are always pigeons knocking around-her heating's going through the roof, and the pub next door serves food-job done!
Comment is about FOR THE BIRDS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Is your post the shape of a turkey leg- or have I a fevered imagination?😁
Comment is about My 12 Days of Christmas (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
And a single iridescent peacock feather
Slowly floating down through the air
From his fireside chair
A lovely picture.
What a gift to posess.
I must content myself with reading Thomas the Tank Engine to our little one!
Comment is about The Story Teller (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
Thanks Holden. I really appreciate your kind comment 😀
Comment is about The Christmas Card (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
And outside the world of getting and spending.
Seeps into these wet Morecambe streets.
Nice lines.
Comment is about Morecambe, 1970. (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Last night's best bitter-and a double whiskey-surprised it's not illegal that stuff!
Comment is about A Few More Lines? (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 11:18
KOOL! KEWL! KEWALL! KOOWUL!
MAMA LOLA AINT NO ONES FOOWUL! 😈
LS
Comment is about I Am Done (blog)
Original item by Mama Lola
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Tue 13th Dec 2022 11:15
WOT EVER YERON-GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! 😅
LS
Comment is about A Few More Lines? (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Thanks John, Keith Holden and Flyntland for your welcome likes.
Hi Stephen, I do like to get in to a scene and this is one such! The mind wanders but the speedo checks up as you spotted. I often wonder about the necessity of travel, and for many it is a pain in the proverbial. I had to cover great distances doing gigs, many at night to return. It's in the nature of man to wander of course.
Thank you Graham for coming along for the virtual ride, all conjured up from long memories of gigs. Motorways in particular encourage that mindlessness, the endless uniformity.
Thank you Uilleam. Interestingly, if you try to focus on fast near objects it makes you realize the truth of speed rather than the long view. I love the idea of photographing it where possible! We could do with more walking for the benefit of mind and body.
Hi Jennifer, i'm glad you picked on that, as it seems to embody the long reach of travel. Cheers!
Ray
Comment is about TRAVEL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Talking of things footbally.
I've just been sent a joke on my phone.
Picture of Father Cristmas and his sledge and a football lying in a heap on the ground.
"There I was flying along minding my own business, when I got hit by this effin' football".😟
Oh dear!
Comment is about RESPECT THE REFEREE (A VILLANELLE) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 13th Dec 2022 01:44
Very cleverly written, and humorous, John! 😂
Comment is about The Christmas Card (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thank you Uilleam, & I think you may be right. When I was growing up I called every neighbour Aunty! And we all helped each other. Changing times.
And, Thank you John! Nice to see you're back as well with some of your mind bending & brilliant poetry! I think I was on the up for about a day, now I'm back down lol. But thank you for buying my book, it's very much appreciated. I keep changing the format & grammer slightly, maybe one day i'll get it right 😅 Thanks again 🌈
Comment is about Woodchip (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Story telling is a great art and those gifted with it can mesmerise an audience into total absorption. This poem flowed well with a sense of anticipation .
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The Story Teller (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
A poem with deep felt emotion running throughout line after line. One of those poems that can easily cause a few tears to be shed.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Whisper my Name (blog)
Original item by Clare
I love this. My Grandfather was a travelling storyteller and your story sums his life up perfectly!😁
Comment is about The Story Teller (blog)
Original item by Brenda Wells
Thanks Uilleam and Jennifer. Much appreciated. I think I've picked the right week to put out this poem on Writeoutloud. 😂
Comment is about The Christmas Card (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Loved the first lines in particular, Ray. Remember watching the long, slow fields ......... many times.
Comment is about TRAVEL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
How very true Keith. Wisdom is now out of fashion, and advice is perceived as interference. Agree with MC about money, as he says a lot of good can also be done with it. Depends how it was earned too. Great writing.
Comment is about Wisdom (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Unfortunately have sent off one, at least, this year with the same thought! If she isn't the postie will get a tip this year if you put any notes in it.
Comment is about The Christmas Card (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Definitely frightening and grim, but also very beautiful. Like Uilleam, loved the first two lines, which express the end of autumn, beginning of winter so well.
Comment is about What's Past Is Prologue (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
Always wonder how they manage to keep warm as well as fed.
Nice poem, as always.
Comment is about FOR THE BIRDS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Nice one this! Used to teach the original to my primary school English classes, as singing it kept them busy for ages.
Jennifer
Comment is about My 12 Days of Christmas (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
It was indeed the Fairweather French, MC.
It is amusing that we gloat over our victories at Agincourt and Crecy without realising that we lost The Hundred Years War. That is why they are in France and Britain is not.
And they have, of course, won 2 football World Cups (and are about to win a third) whilst England has won one.
Comment is about RESPECT THE REFEREE (A VILLANELLE) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much, Brenda. I hope that you and your group will enjoy the book. I think your approach of taking the poems slowly is quite right. Odd though it may sound, I tried to avoid making the content too unpleasant, preferring to present the tragedy of war in a more ironic or indirect manner. However, the collection is inevitably not a light read, though I hope that there is an element of optimism, and even humour, in some of the poems.
Once again, thank you for your support.
Comment is about Ukraine poetry book published (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
You have pitched this perfectly, Martin. Nothing sounds forced or false. A fine poem indeed.
Comment is about Wise guys (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I came across Stephen's book on Amazon recently and purchased a copy.
It really is an excellent collection, absolutely packed with poetry that works on many levels.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the variety of the poems and the sharing of stories.
I very much hope that it's widely read.
Congratulations Stephen
Comment is about Poet whose work was read out by MP publishes collection (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you, John Yes, I think that war can change people, and sometimes, if they are lucky, for the better (often for the worse, of course!) . When my dad went into the army in 1939 he was a factory labourer; he came out as a civil servant. However, it is a mistake to join a war expecting it to improve your lot, because disappointment is just round the corner.
And thanks to New Shoes, Uilleam, Bethany, Flyntland and Hélène.
Comment is about Funfair (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you for doing this Stephen.
I've bought a copy and am slowly reading my way through, they're poems to be sampled slowly, given the gravity of the subject.
I will mention the book at my poetry group this week and wish you every success with the venture.
Comment is about Ukraine poetry book published (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Beautiful, deeply moving poem. Thanks Adam.
Comment is about What's Past Is Prologue (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
John Coopey
Tue 13th Dec 2022 23:09
There's an old saying, MC, that if you see a group of crows they're rooks. And if you see a single rook, it's a crow.
(or is it the other way round?)
Comment is about FOR THE BIRDS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry