Agree with Lynn, clever.
Think he will have it easy. Certainly will compared to his victims.
Comment is about WANDSWORTH WUFFIAN (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
Chris Co: Long time, no see :) Thanks for the comment, really appreciated. Coat of Snow is one of my favourites and a bit lighter than my usual rants! lol
Comment is about Coat of Snow (blog)
Original item by Shirley-Anne Kennedy
Daniel: Thanks so much for the feedback on the video version. It's made my day :)
Though I'm becoming more confident 'performing' live now I have a heck of a long way to go. I am much more comfortable letting the poems and words to the business.
Comment is about Coat of Snow (blog)
Original item by Shirley-Anne Kennedy
I'm glad it showed Dave. Given the subject I did spent a very long time - only seemed right.
I was not sure whether I was right to spell it tiers or tears given the wish to convey both. In the end I went with the former in the hope that people reading would feel the latter and understand the duality.
I suppose the key is to give of your best with such delicate and important subjects.
You were missed at Wigan, hope all is good. Maybe see you at the next one?
Best of
Chris
Comment is about 9/11 (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
Thought provoking work Alexandra.
Some lovely words too. particularly like candy-like diction etc.
On the wider issue of the poem, we all have to elevate words to be more powerful than our actions. People can hurt with words too, so having control over strong words is important when writing.
If your piece is in any way biographical (you allude to that) then I'm glad that you have exchanged blades for words. Keep writing!
regards,
Graham
Comment is about Actions vs Words (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
There was a time years ago when the Krankies were forever on television... if you didn't have a TV and lived in a wigwam you might not know who they were;)
Thanks for your kind words Tommy. Much appreciated.
Comment is about HAWKEYE THE NOO (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
This is wonderful. I love the structure, it's as if the old voices are still echoing down the halls
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
This is a brave text to publicise, well-done.These are very true points within our society you have picked upon
Comment is about Difficult Emotions (blog)
Thank you Candice! And no problem
Comment is about Alexandra K. Parapadakis (poet profile)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
(said in a stiff slightly confused manner lacking all natural inflection) ''I am from planet 5K-J890 Alpha and I know not what 'pocketsofhisponderingexhale' means, please explain please.
Comment is about Evenings, when in love with an artist. (blog)
Original item by Charlotte
Wonderful. Makes me want to tear up everything I ever wrote. Dave
Comment is about Fibonacci on the last school run (blog)
Original item by CathyLCrabb
I don't get the TV reference Danny...otherwise quite clever and moderately hilarious. ;)
Comment is about HAWKEYE THE NOO (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
I like the ambiguity in this. Good luck with Diggers. Dave
Comment is about Snipers (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Good choice of words. I bet you spent some time over this. Dave
Comment is about 9/11 (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
I read this several times to fully appreciate it. Excellent. Good luck with Diggers. Dave
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
How Beautiful. The imagery of our world and the detail of what you see just stands out so well. Very nice!
Comment is about Naturally simple (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
hahahah, yeah I meant scrabbling. lol
I read over these and still miss the odd one.
Thank you x
Comment is about Enveloped and doped (blog)
Original item by Quiet Comet
Hi Shirley-Ann,
Loved hearing you read this poem at Middleton earlier in the year, well written.
Best of
Chris
Comment is about Coat of Snow (blog)
Original item by Shirley-Anne Kennedy
Memorial...if only there was more.
Warmest wishes Candice
Chris
Comment is about 9/11 (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
You're a cheeky bleeder Tommy Carroll! :D
Comment is about Evenings, when in love with an artist. (blog)
Original item by Charlotte
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 12th Sep 2014 16:10
feeling like doing that gets one at times-
re/i.e.-the bastard/s
who set fire to the Manchester Dogs home
Comment is about The Kill (blog)
Original item by Lopt the Treacherous
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 12th Sep 2014 16:05
quite sensuous-love it!xx
Comment is about Baby, I think I might be falling..catch me? (blog)
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Fri 12th Sep 2014 16:03
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 12th Sep 2014 16:01
Always with you in your hurt Mikey-for certain!
(one tiny nit-pick)
..'pissing AGAINST the wind'..? xx
Comment is about Pissing Against The Wind (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 12th Sep 2014 15:56
Really nice piece Q.C.-
did you mean 'scrabbling?
xx
Comment is about Enveloped and doped (blog)
Original item by Quiet Comet
Thanks for your comment Evenings when in love with a painter.
You're right it was a smoky evening! I'm happy you could feel that. :D xx
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Love this. Great visions with the video version. Coat of snow and changing fashion. (But remains). Buttons, stitches and the heart drawn in the snow.
Great work.
The rhythm, speed, volume and pitch is right on the button... (no pun intended S-A) ;)
Comment is about Coat of Snow (blog)
Original item by Shirley-Anne Kennedy
Thank you folks.
What's really spooky is that my first thoughts about the photo were to do with babies/hospital/prison. I'm not sure why - it just 'felt' that way. So I thought I'd write something along those lines, and then halfway through thought to myself 'Ah. What if it's an old office block or something, and someone sees an old filing cabinet?'.
Soo - I asked Richard where it had been taken. He told me it was the hospital wing of a derelict orphanage in Preston!! Brrr!!! That felt pretty weird. And when I looked it up, it turned out to have been run by nuns. It's a fairly safe guess those kids didn't have the easiest of lives,eh?
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Glad you are not... Keep 'em comimg.
Comment is about Difficult Emotions (blog)
Thanks Natalie. Red Wharf Bay is one of the most beautiful places on the island (Mon Mam Cymru). To forage, prepare and cook for a loved one makes it even more special. :)
Comment is about COCKLES (FOR YOUR HEART) (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
The picture adds to the mystic feel of this work. It could be the cloisters of any great religious building. I love the interchange between prayer and nursery rhyme. Fantastic.
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Travis Brow
Fri 12th Sep 2014 12:48
I hope you're not lonely, depressed or suicidal.
Comment is about Difficult Emotions (blog)
i agreee with greg here, this does feel different to some of your earlier stuff (which i do love i will state) but i still love it.
excellent.
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
excellent stuff. i can really see this.
particularly like 'pockets of his pondering exhale' but a top piece all round.
Comment is about Evenings, when in love with an artist. (blog)
Original item by Charlotte
excellent piece but i do love the image of swallowing silence in particular at the end.
Comment is about Swallow Silence (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
says a lot in four lines, really like the image of fleeting clouds on a free horizon.
Comment is about Thoughts (blog)
I don't know how I missed this first time around!
Oh I LOVE this! The gleeful delight that rollicks around each line in the mid-section made me smile as wide as you did :) Twiddly belly :D Fantastic!
This is a such an evocative exciting piece - I have twiddly in my belly just reading it.
Also, like Is, brought up in the same conditions, I am so far from precious about germs I positively encourage them. That, and I am incredibly idle and would far rather lie on my back having a good old think than waste away the day doing bloody housework!
Comment is about Back To Basic Bacteria (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
You're breaking new ground here again, Laura. Exciting stuff.
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Cheers Laura for your wonderful review of 'Scots wha hea!' ;)
re your further comment- I find the 'debate'(on Scottish independence) both interestingly provocative and outrageously deceptive. It really does just pip Oscar (Precious) Pistorius' trial for mendacity, incompetence and contempt from the leading 'players'. If it were not for the seriousness of the issues involved it would be hilarious.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Laura: I find the 'debate'(on Scottish independence) both interestingly provocative and outrageously deceptive. It really does just pip Oscar (Precious) Pistorius' trial for mendacity, incompetence and contempt from the leading 'players'. If it were not for the seriousness of the issues involved it would be hilarious. ;)
Comment is about Scots wha hae! (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
''Glad you're 'loving this' Natalie.'' ;)
Comment is about Scots wha hae! (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
brilliant Lauara - I think this is my favourite one of the Richpix series so far - I love the way you've integrated the nursery rhyme and prayer into this - so that something we relate to as comforting in childhood and later life becomes eerily threatening in the context of the setting. I think this one really would work well as a performance piece as well - with my 'recording' head on I would love to have a stab at putting some backings to this with those distant, eerie children's incantations :-)
Comment is about Corridor of Song (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Ohh I like this, very much. Simple, delicate, and yet as wide as the freedom within it. Beautiful poem.
Comment is about Thoughts (blog)
Ladies have you no house-work to do?
Comment is about Evenings, when in love with an artist. (blog)
Original item by Charlotte
I have to disagree M.C. I find the 'debate' both interestingly provocative and outrageously deceptive. It really does just pip Oscar (Precious) Pistorius' trial for mendacity, incompetence and contempt from the leading 'players'. If it were not for the seriousness of the issues involved it would be hilarious. ;)
Comment is about SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE - an English perspective (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hello Muse,
Welcome to Write Out Loud, we hope you are enjoying the site and we're really looking forward to reading some of your work. I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.
It would be great if you could upload a picture of yourself, it’s really good to see what our fellow poets look like.
Have a good look around, there’s always lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free to do so, it’s often the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s usually somebody who’ll help you out with any problems that you might encounter, so just ask and someone will get back to you.
WOL is a friendly, creative and unassuming place, so welcome from all of us once again.
Graham & the Write Out Loud Team.
Comment is about muse (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Thu 11th Sep 2014 23:37
this poem does what a windy day does to my socks-
do I need to tell you? ;0) x
Comment is about What a Foreign Concept (blog)
Shirley-Anne Kennedy
Sat 13th Sep 2014 19:36
Touching Chris.
Strange reading the comments from Dave Carr and yourself. I read it as tears even though I saw tiers. Hopes that makes sense!
Comment is about 9/11 (blog)
Original item by Chris Co