what took you so long MC? *wink*

Comment is about TILF (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Cameron needs to change one major policy - his procrastination towards a referendum for the UK
subservience to the EU - to ensure victory in
the next election. But he was John Major's bag
carrier in other days - and we know JM's word
for the EU rebels in those Tory ranks. I take
the view that Cameron is playing a double game
- with the EU holding him hostage in the end.
Only those with drastic memory loss would wish
Labour's financial idiocy back in power. I
prefer they keep their spendthrift hands out of my pockets.

Comment is about TILF (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Hello Daniel, i've just seen part of your recent comment to Cynthia, noting your first poetry reading. How did it go?

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

Martin - Thank you very much for your comments on 'C' The Lanterns. I must say your reply about the brass rubbing in York had me giggling for ages! I always read and enjoy what you write. Keep them coming and keep it real.
Daniel

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hi Cynthia
Thank you very much for your encouragement on 'C' The Lanterns. I am glad you enjoyed it.
I would also like you to know that whilst reading through a back log of items in WOL I discovered your article on Performance Poetry.

http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=38987

Forewarned was indeed forearmed.
Wonderfully written article and superb checklist for anyone attending an event for the first time.
Having read your article and taking on board the very salient points, this week I made my first poetry reading, (albeit at a local folk club), and entered the 'Poems on a Beermat' competition. Thanks again.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

great stuff...vey atmospheric

Comment is about Listless (blog)

Original item by Richard Alfred

hmm...wind turbines eh? lovely language mate,esp the last verse

Comment is about Wind and Tide (blog)

Original item by Richard Alfred

Hi Tommy I really enjoyed your poems :)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Aaron amazing words :) Can't wait to see more of your work :)

Comment is about Aaron Dinsdale (poet profile)

Original item by Aaron Dinsdale

Melancholy, but no less lovely for that.

Comment is about Circles (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

This one's ace.

Comment is about The Meeting (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

I can't pin it down, and perhaps i shouldn't try, but there's something weirdly enchanting about your work.

Comment is about Prelude (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

I like this one too.

Comment is about The Fool (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

I like this.

Comment is about The Visitation (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

Martin it is not easy to appreciate another's work, it requires a distance from the words and their intent. I appreciate your time and effort in their thinking. Thank you. Tommy

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

.. Hello Cynthia ... quite an analytical yet positive response in your comments .. I must ponder on't all awhile .. back in a mo !!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Should I recognise the man? This title reminds me of Yehudi Menuhin or Issac Stern. Are you Jewish? Polish perhaps, as well? For me,that would sure explain a lot of your indepth poetry.

Comment is about School Music Class with their Violins. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

'We Draught the World'. What a clever poem. More than that - ingenious. Your thought relationships are a sheer swing of innumerable connections.

I had to sit and think. Finally, I studied the picture. I knew it was very relevant, like it MADE the title. Perhaps I'm way off course, but this did work for me. I was really puzzled.

Comment is about Small Picture depicting a Hydrographic Draughtsman 5” x 3”. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

You are now probably a bit less wordy.

Comment is about .. extract from my first morning ... (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

OMG - what a wanker! Push and pull! ... and HER purse! How much time has he got! What a sod!

Really funny, clever work - but that poor girl.

Comment is about “Darling! Are you in the bath?” (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Hilarious!

Comment is about the middle dot indicated part of a complete thought (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Heartbreakingly simple - and deep. It captures the freedom of childhood and the continuity of family and homeland. Smashed with reality. The picture is ingenious, but really awful. As could be said about all wars.

The title is brilliant.

Comment is about ... in ancient woodland. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

It IS powerful. It reminds me of history - written by the conquerors - and written by different inflections so that you are never sure where simple truth actually lies. Plus - trying to interpret ancient events through modern archaeology etc. etc.
And then - regardless of interpretation - the sheer human pain of the event so recalled.

Anyway, that is how it strikes me.

Comment is about Brausebad. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

The conclusion is interesting 'there are no gods' when, in the first stanza, you use the strong expression 'uncleansed of sin' as though the god-idea was very strong in your psyche.

Did you do anything for 12-12-12?

It is an interesting structure, very. Is the 'limp' and 'hop' in the metre scan deliberate? To emphasise your point?

Comment is about 4-12-12. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Substance and wonder... personal or historical... art or reality?

I love the illustration. I've seen similar before, but have no specific knowledge to tap into - an electrical circuit? Or a read-out diagram of a beating heart? It looks like an 'early' diagram. Electricity and heartbeat are so closely allied.

Comment is about PIC-USB-4550-sch. (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Passion, power and philosophy. Ye gods! what a mix.

Comment is about ".. beyond the gate ?" (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

You most definitely do 'get your meaning across' without a 'dig'. Trust yourself.

Thank you for responding, because I know I have more crust than burnt toast and it can really get me into trouble.

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

thanks for the kind comments on 'an angel bathes...' Cynthia - now I'm in a quandary, I like those last 4 lines because that's exactly what I wanted to say - but I also trust your observation about trusting my reader - but do I - every one of them? I'm not sure I get the meaning across well enough without the 'dig' at the end....so - a dilemma

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

thanks for commenting on 'an angel bathes...' Martin - still no photo I see -haha - glad you liked it
Ian

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks for the kind comments on 'Thor' Daniel - I'm in catch-up mode again ,s o you may hear from me again shortly
Ian

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

hmm- it bares rereading Marianne. I'm not sure there is only one narrative employed here. Even mischievous text to what end I know not. It bares, as I say, a rereading. Tommy

Comment is about Burns (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

I am perplexed by the obsession with the "far
right" when contemplating the brutality that can emerge from those with control (or the wish
for that control) over others. This trait is
too wide spread to be limited to a simple one-trick slot. What about the Stalinist death camps and their untold millions of victims - and the Pol Pots of this world?
The beast always walks among us and is too well
camouflaged to be readily categorised. The
political difference seems to be that of
national and supra-national border ambitions.
And the conflict arises! Sadly, its history
and geography has seen Europe as a cradle of
conflict, long before anyone adopted terms like
"far right". Race and territorial ambitions
have long been the real primary sources of war.

Comment is about Survivors: ed. by Thomas Ország-Land, Smokestack (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

"Drunk and naked in a graveyard." ! Can I use that?

Comment is about Steven Dark (poet profile)

Original item by Steven Dark

I'm reading this again Nat- Images are forming... Tommy

Comment is about Saviour No More (blog)

I'll be cheeky hear Nat: I keep getting ''...Gave me back those rhythm and blues'' help me out hear Nat lol Tommy :)

Comment is about All Shook Up (blog)

This could be ''Twelfth Night'' Tommy :)

Comment is about Delamere Forest (blog)

Is this mad-cap Nat? Tommy :)

Comment is about House Faces (blog)

Thanks Julian :)

Review is about Write Out Loud - Middleton on 27 Jul 2014 (event)

Natalie and Ged,
Another belated thanks for the comments.

(I tried to posh it up by calling it an `Urban Dialectal` but they still didn`t publish it)

Comment is about YOU CAN`T WIN ANY WAY (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Hi Helen.My daughter(19)really doesn't mind which attire I step in or out of,so long as it has at least one pocket for my purse that she more times than I would like,has a not so little dip into.

awww bless-yeah right!

Good poem.x

Comment is about Love (blog)

Many thanks to both of you, its good to be here

Comment is about Welcome Home (blog)

Original item by Vic the Temp

That's a lovely snapshot of a character and of a memory. The beauty of poetry is that you can do it all in so few words and engage a reader, whether you choose to rhyme or not.

I love the way you chose to end it - life carrying on, the way it just does...

Comment is about Auntie Rose (blog)

Original item by Attila the Stockbroker

Helen, I just can't get enough of your poetry! This one especially is just so lovely to read and has left me beaming. :)

Comment is about Ode To Eva (blog)

My stuff doesn't have to rhyme
(Or at least not all the time)
And, Philip, I'm most forgiving...
Poetry earns me a good living :)

Comment is about Auntie Rose (blog)

Original item by Attila the Stockbroker

glad you liked it, Nigel.

I've updated it now to make it 15 pieces

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

glad you liked it, John.

I've updated it now to make it 15 pieces

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

Original item by J F Keane

glad you liked it, Linda.

I've updated it now to make it 15 pieces

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43470

Comment is about Linda Cosgriff (poet profile)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Hi Tommy
really like this, particularly the lines
' sometimes with the back door open,accepting the light to pool on the wall and floor and fresher air to stare'.

Comment is about This time on a sunny day (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Daniel
like this one, certainly had me laughing reminds of the brass rubbing centre in York where some wag has removed the b and the r. Thanks for your comments on switched off.

Comment is about 'C' THE LANTERNS (blog)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

Hello Cynthia .. yes I've probably been hidden in the mist, my footsteps occasionally audible, most likely just footprints I'll leave behind .. thanks for the comment on '27/7/14' .. I wrote or rather 'tapped' it into the keyboard quickly while looking at that postcard for sale on ebay .. the last resting place of all forgotten objects, probably went for 99p !! .. cheers.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas