Hi M.C.
Thanks for your comments.
I was attempting to lift peoples spirits along with the temperature.
Like you - I am a "Man For All Seasons"
Comment is about Here Comes The Summer (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Hello Amy
Welcome to Write Out Loud.
I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.
Thanks for already uploading a picture of yourself.
Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.
Graham Sherwood
Comment is about Amy (poet profile)
Original item by Amy
Hello Dan
Welcome to Write Out Loud.
I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.
If you haven’t already added a picture to your profile please try and do so. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.
Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.
Graham Sherwood
Comment is about My Deerboy (poet profile)
Original item by My Deerboy
Hello Hari
Welcome to Write Out Loud.
I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.
Thanks for uploading your picture. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.
Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.
Graham Sherwood
Comment is about Hari Das (poet profile)
Original item by Hari Das
This is a really elegant mix of emotional rawness and a telling which has a distance emotionally. This piece really affected me and gathered me in. All good things, Rosie
Comment is about FATHERHOOD GONE AWRY! (blog)
Original item by Tricia Hague-Barrett
I would be upset if my attempt to `suss out` for myself what it was about Marianne`s poem that affected me should be read as an approval of `difficult` poetry.
Unlike those poets who live in their own private unintelligible metaphysical world her figures have a hard to get at- but ultimately intelligible - allusion to what she is `saying` in this poem.
However, in my opinion, she does herself a
disservice by the way she puts together those
figures...Readers will take a little trouble to understand, but the poet should come some way to meet them.
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Hello MC
Thank you for your comment regarding 'The Place Where Only Dead Men Sleep' it was appreciated. With regards to 'The Menin Gate' I should have added that I was fortunate enough to watch this on television relating to the gun carriage and the children with the soil.
I found that your words relating to the horses 'It's horses quiet - as if t'were known, They had forebears of their own' coupled with the appropriate music and bugle call in your audio version a wonderful touch. Kind regards.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 13th Jun 2014 21:48
despite being a HATER of football I am also a lover of poetry-like this!x
Comment is about WORLD CUP WIDOW (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
Hello Daniel - thanks for your comments on "Bowden
Hill". As the song goes: "Ah yes...I remember it well." I have many happy memories of those
distant Wiltshire schooldays and I understand
that Bowden Hill is one of the recognised "hill
climbs" in today's competitive cycling world.
Having read your poem "The Place Where Only Dead Men sleep", I can appreciate your affinity with
"The Menin Gate".
Lest we forget!
Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran
'Dark like his heart, and glistening silver...'
A good insight on how an object can influence a persons mind. I liked this.
Comment is about The Ring (blog)
Original item by Amy
The Cure, Midge Ure and Wigan Casino without Northern Soul. Really enjoyed this and some great inferences to excellent music. Love it.
Comment is about Rock n' Roll Love Poem! (blog)
Original item by Jeffarama!
Just discovered the title and had to look to see if it was the Bowden Hill between Chippenham and Melksham off the A350. Very pleasantly surprised to find it was. Lovely insight into bygone days without cycle helmets and brought back good memories of cotter-pins, punctures and centre-pull brakes. Enjoyed this and The Menin Gate very much.
Comment is about BOWDEN HILL DAYS (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Rhythmic, vibrant and in your face. She certainly captures this Brazilian Football Fest... and I bet she can explain the 'offside' laws. Wonderful observations.
Comment is about 'It's still a game that anyone can play with anyone, anywhere': Hollie McNish captures that World Cup moment (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
that last line 'chocolate cake' is mad but kinda finishes the piece off perfect.
great stuff.
when's volume 2 coming out of the collage pieces, john?
Comment is about Willpower - June Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
really enjoyed last monday guys. really made me smile. the really short poems suited everybody.
already looking forward to july's.
see you all soon.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
it was good ....
Comment is about Tricia Hague-Barrett (poet profile)
Original item by Tricia Hague-Barrett
Fri 13th Jun 2014 08:25
Marianne, very happy to be left hard work to do as a reader. Never let that challenge prevent you from saying what you want to say how you want to say it - there are lots of difficult poets around, especially modern ones. Don't compromise your self-expression. We will all get from your work our own stuff...everything is only a reflection of self.
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Harry's 'analysis' is impressive. And your subsequent approval of it speaks volumes. I must miss so much.
But I do find Beauty - a cognizance of life, shared with great insight and sympathetic interweaving of time, space, matter and myth. I admire your scope of connectedness to all forms of human wisdom.
Comment is about Death (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Charming metaphor, like an incantation, that could be for any 'threshold' situation, real or imagined. Skilful diction and sustained metre/rhyme control.
Comment is about The threshold folk (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
Hi I really liked Piazza very different
Comment is about Adele Ward (poet profile)
Original item by Adele Ward
Thank you
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I really like this. For me,it's not easy to follow through individual lines, but then it suddenly drops into your mind whole. I think that your premise is: Listening dominates the 'projected' five senses, perhaps because it is the only interactive sense, like shared views/debate? Or not.
......
Just read your impressive profile. You'll like it here on WOL; it's a very supportive site. The lack of comments does not mean no admirers.
Comment is about The Sound of Photographs (blog)
Original item by John Eliot
Girl, you are GOOD. Capturing with such strength, and destroying so effectively, barriers between the simple and the complex. I so admire your scope.
Surely even the title ALARM is loaded with meanings.
Comment is about Alarm (blog)
Original item by Jane Ozkowski
So another 'man and cat' poem is in the eternal ether, and it's every bit as good as any prior ones.
Which famous illustrated Christian book has the picture of the monk/scribe sitting with his cat? Is that the one with the monk's little erection sticking up? Copying was tedious work.
Comment is about Pur(-ef)fect (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
Lol you see my eyes truly are bad :)
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Thanks so much that typo must of happened when I pasted Ta very much as I never noticed
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Oh, help!
Check out 'bits of glass' - just a typo, but it would look better corrected.
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
This has passion and considerable beauty. 'nocturnal theatre of my dreams' and 'metaphors in my soul' are lovely images.
Comment is about Your lips... (blog)
Original item by Noris Roberts
Not a great poem just a bit of fun but thanks for the comments folks :)
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Thank you, I couldn't agree with you more.
Comment is about What is today? (blog)
Original item by Outside of Comfort
Hi Richard - don't get back from hols until around midnight on Friday - so can't make Cadence until S
aturday PM session
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Love will cancel the fear
A Father who has left
Will still always love you
Because he has never stopped
Each time you start crying
He guides the hand that
Will wipe away your tears.
Comment is about What is today? (blog)
Original item by Outside of Comfort
Hi m8 are you going to Cadence Friday night
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
May the spring of hope lead to a summer of peace
and a safe future.
Comment is about Spring Meets Summer (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
I think the title took me back to those hazy
endless days when Jerry Keller sang a song with
almost the same title when I was a teenager.
Certainly, the sentiment stays strong, with the
sun always lifting the spirits. But there is
still something sneaking into my mind that tells
me when enough is enough - and I long for the
brisk breeze of autumn and those swirling leaves
about my feet. Not for me those perpetual blue "California skies".
Comment is about Here Comes The Summer (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
From adversity can come a life-enhancing reversal:
the determination never to be like the types who
inflict cruelty on others, usually the helpless
or dependent. In-family cruelty is somehow worse
because it seems self-fulfilling down the
generations UNLESS there is the will and the support to defy the pattern and save those coming
after. One of the greatest compliments that can
be paid to a human being is the simple adjective
"kind". How tragic that so many don't recognise
that or aspire to it.
Comment is about FATHERHOOD GONE AWRY! (blog)
Original item by Tricia Hague-Barrett
Thanks for a great review Cato. I must say I find the cover rather intriguing and quite Hebridean. Perhaps it is a bit dark tho. Thanks again.
Comment is about Moontide: Niall Campbell, Bloodaxe (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It is one of the kinder aspects of ageing that
it's usually a slow process of acclimatisation.
The sudden loss of a faculty is always shocking
but in general...
You have to adapt, you have to adjust,
Until your body goes to dust!
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Intriguing in content and construction...an
analogy of just about any of the hard choices met
in life, mental and physical.
Comment is about Hand of dust (blog)
Original item by Christopher Dawson
Travis Brow
Thu 12th Jun 2014 06:34
Thank you Harry.
Comment is about DARK AND WET ONE WINTER MORNING. (blog)
Very good twist on the perception the reader holds. Well, very good twist on perception period.
Comment is about Pur(-ef)fect (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
M.C.
iF UKIP has its way your points will be met
1...we will rule ouselves
2...Immigration will be soley our decision.
3...As Stella Creasey is trying to point out our home-born staff just never arrived in time to grow and be trained for the positions, so we will have to use all those billions we save from getting out of the E.U. to pay for new immigrants to come over (but it will be purely our own decision) to man the NHS. Our politicos will - as always - keep splurging our money on home-grown jaunts and various international visits
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Difficult to `suss` this.
I like, though, that introductory stanza and the
line:
The way sadness slowly slides from a broken heart
Comment is about Alarm (blog)
Original item by Jane Ozkowski
Keep smilin` Richard and don`t let the blurry
b...stards grind you down.
Comment is about Hard Of Hearing (blog)
Original item by Richard Alfred
John F Keane
Sat 14th Jun 2014 15:58
I was thinking of doing a large single book of them, Andy. Each one sums up each evening very well.
Comment is about Willpower - June Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL