Thank you MC Newberry for your lovely comment on "Nature" :)

I am so happy to be here to learn from all of you!

Preeti

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

What brilliant imagery.

Comment is about Twisted Harvest (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Laura,
Thank you for your comments on "Nature". I have added another verse and it does seem more complete now :)
Thank you for reading.
Preeti

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Original item by Laura Taylor

Really nice..

Comment is about A Woman's Charm (blog)

Really nice...

Comment is about A Woman's Charm (blog)

I don't know how I managed to miss this as I scrolled down, but thanks to Cynthia commenting I've now read it. Can only echo what others have said Is - a lovely poem, this. And I know just what you mean ;)

Comment is about Turning Over Stones (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Isobel, I have missed your work so much. And especially the ones that relate directly to your kids. They just scintillate with the common experiences of us all, brilliantly interpreted through your own skill. This comment is downright OTT, but I don't care.

Dig Fancine's French! It looks impeccable. (Not surprisingly, of course, and only as near as I can remember.)

Comment is about Turning Over Stones (blog)

Original item by Isobel

I once got locked in a supermarket overnight, took all my strength not to start necking all the expensive booze and smoking all the ciggies, I did end up exiting through one of the fire doors though setting the alarms off pmsl needless to say the manager wasn't happy the next day :)

Comment is about Growing Old Disgracefully (blog)

I wrote one about it all and still perform it to this day. Mine has a line about faking dementia in it too :)

I plan to steal as much as possible and drink expensive booze from the tesco shelves, blame it on my dementia ;)

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Pauline, you're working your finest in these lines - countless original expressions evocative of time and place, with cutting precision. And, I think, posturing 'what exactly is the definition of "society" and "work"?' I find that your poems always have an agenda, outright, or thinly disguised.

I'm sure glad that I'm backtracking a bit. Check out 'lacquered'; I'm pretty sure it has a 'c' - but could be wrong. Or maybe either is acceptable.

Comment is about How to leave Soho (blog)

Original item by pauline sewards

I think most of us want to grow old in that way Laura, I can see myself becoming more and more like Compo from the last of the summer wine in my twilight years or something from a Benny Hill sketch ;)

Comment is about Growing Old Disgracefully (blog)

Now why does this make me think of Tribute by Tenacious D?! :D

'his wings unfurling' puts me in mind of Milton's Satan too.

Comment is about The Crooked Beast At The End Of A Crooked Path (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I've sometimes wondered if I'm God too. Really. And I know that hunger of wanting to be everything, everywhere. Perhaps we ARE God!

Comment is about Wishes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

You are the master of such teasery though Tommy - it's something you excel at. The reader never ever gets the whole story - and I for one love that.

Comment is about Hockey anyone? (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Totally agree!

Comment is about Growing Old Disgracefully (blog)

Delightful, funny and clever. And deliberately structured! What more could a quick read ask?

I'm really surprised that no one else has come on board with a comment. Don't take it personally: summer is a busy time. Never take 'no comment' seriously, because you have no idea how many persons have read and enjoyed your piece.

Comment is about Better Days (blog)

Original item by Jonathan Barnes

Andy, how refreshing - deep thoughts simply put, and with the confidence of harnessed style elegantly expressed. Seeing this type of lovely verse still practised is a joy.

Comment is about TENDER GODS. (blog)

Thanks for sharing this information; it makes a difference in my understanding of the world, raising and erasing respect equally. Sometimes, men of our human race seem no more than tribal animals, but women are sisters everywhere.

Comment is about 'Lioness of Iran' Simin Behbahani dies aged 87 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Brill poem-brilliantly rounded off!.x

Comment is about Look at me (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you Starfish, i'm pleased you like it.

Comment is about TENDER GODS. (blog)

couldnt agree more

Comment is about Help (blog)

Original item by .L.m.P.

a very intriguing piece and i definitely felt a 70s spy theme coursing through this one, camel coloured suits with leather patches on the elbows, horn rimmed sunglasses. a time when smoking was absolutely compulsory at any time in any room before during or after any activity. thanks for posting

Comment is about Algiers (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

i cant remember the last time i even read a paper on the bus let felt compelled to buy one from a shop or stand, you have hit the nail on the head with this one :-)

Comment is about No More Page 3 (blog)

Original item by Charlotte

good stuff mate appreciated my music taste is very diverse and wide ranging (dance to dvorak or dependent on the day blues to buffalo) and currently listening on soundcloud ;-)given that im not too prolific in my offerings im not on here as often as i might be but i shall continue to frequent from time to time and have a read (and a listen) keep on keeping on :-)

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks Alan - glad you liked Gods Of War - not sure if you're a metalhead - but here's the recorded music version to be included on a new CD covering all the war poems I've published on WOL (some of the others are also accessible from the link and are more folk-orientated :-) https://soundcloud.com/the-man-at-the-back-1/armistice-gods-of-war

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

Original item by alan barlow

i love this and think the picture accompanies the piece beautifully a very evocative piece, thankyou for creating it

Comment is about Armistice (Gods Of War) (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Obviously Rachel ;) thank you for your comment re ''Beelzebub'' I hope you are keeping well. :)

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thanks for the nice comment Candice.

I re-posted this piece as a sample of meaningless twaddle, that even I as the author can't find any sense in. I re-posted it in support of Phil Fletcher's recent comment regarding what he describes as PC "pretentious crap" I consider this to be a perfect example.

My own style of poetry is old fashioned, with an easily identifiable rhyming theme, and usually takes me anything up to a fortnight to compose. This one took twenty minutes

Comment is about Candice Reineke (poet profile)

Original item by Candice Reineke

thanks for commenting on 'Armistice (Gods Of War)' Starfish - very kind of you & pleased that you liked it - where the heck have you been? hope everything's OK
Ian

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

sorry mate - I'm in catch up mode as usual - not been on WOL for a couple of weeks - thanks for your kind comments on 'Gods Of War', it didn't get much of a response - you're right - maybe I post too much and too quickly, so folk feel a bit embarrassed to keep commenting - or maybe it's not that good - :-) - still, it's good enough for me - really appreciate you taking the time to comment
Ian

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks for commenting on 'Death Of A Poet' Tommy, glad you liked it - I'm really pleased with this and the other war poems I've put to music - just finishing the recording sessions tomorrow with a Dylan cover and then I need to concentrate on the pamphlet/book that I'm putting out with the CD - the poems/artwork/photo's should make an interesting package.
Cheers
Ian

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks again for commenting on 'Death Of A Poet' MC - I'm really pleased with this and the other war poems I've put to music - just finishing the recording sessions tomorrow with a Dylan cover and then I need to concentrate on the pamphlet/book that I'm putting out with the CD - the poems/artwork/photo's should make an interesting package.
Cheers
Ian

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks again for commenting on 'Death Of A Poet' Harry - I'm really pleased with this and the other war poems I've put to music - just finishing the recording sessions tomorrow with a Dylan cover and then I need to concentrate on the pamphlet/book that I'm putting out with the CD - the poems/artwork/photo's should make an interesting package.
Cheers
Ian

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thank you for writing this. I certainly have been there too. Many poetic/creative types have the "melancholic" temperament (if you haven't studied the four personality temperaments, google it...it's quite fascinating)...but the melancholic personality type has a propensity to feel things so deeply - emotional highs and lows that the other types don't necessarily feel. Of course there are a number of different factors that can lead to depression, and I recognize that it is a very debilitating disease for many. But it was a relief for me to discover that part of my tendency towards those mental/emotional lows was simply how I am wired.

Comment is about Depression Is A Killer (blog)

Hilarious! Very clever x

Comment is about Oh Katy (blog)

Original item by Quiet Comet

Oh I can relate to this so much! !! i like 'Darkness overwhelms me, doubled with dreams, my thoughts racing my heart bursting at the seams'
Great piece x

Comment is about Wide Awake (blog)

Original item by Quiet Comet

So true. Beautiful.

Comment is about Dreams collide (blog)

Original item by Quiet Comet

Bummer, isn't it! Hope you find your true love. Hope we all do :)

Good one

Comment is about The same but different (blog)

Original item by Quiet Comet

Super.

Comment is about All I Want to Do is Write (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

Agreed. You seem to be stuck with some, but they're family :)

Very nice!

Comment is about Family (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

Haha :) I so agree.

Haikus are overrated. Hyped.

Good one!

Comment is about T'hell with Haikus (blog)

Original item by Candice Reineke

A re-post from a long time back - just because.

Comment is about Wishes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Damn, I wish this wasn't true, but you're right. Thanks for the reality check ;)

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Original item by Charlotte

I never wish to be thirty too, Charlotte!
Let's remain the age we are
Let's hit
All the neon bars
Drive all
the fancy cars
Wish upon
some pretty stars

And now I've run out of rhyme :)

Great piece again!

Comment is about Thirty. (blog)

Original item by Charlotte

Hello Toby W,

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.

Thanks for having already uploaded 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.

The Write Out Loud Team.

Comment is about Toby W (poet profile)

Original item by Toby W

Hi Andy, thanks for your comment on "All I Want to Do is Write". I enjoyed your samples, especially the lines: "Listening to bus wheels like stray thoughts./ Looking for seagulls like clues to a great mystery." Beautiful similes :)

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

This is so true! Beautifully put :)
Great read.
Preeti

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Original item by Charlotte

Thanks so much for your comment on 'Reluctant Return' it's a great boost to know people can relate to your work. Made my day x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

not sure who wrote as it says profile n/a at top, but wow..

Comment is about A Woman's Charm (blog)

almost reads like a story this one, natalie. really draws you in. excellent.

Comment is about It's Happening (blog)