thank you jules yes they both work together the picture and my poem

Comment is about BENEATH THE TREES OF LILAC (blog)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

I like the line about ships dancing on waves. This poem is both happy and sad. I like the way you make reference to one more star in the sky. This is romantic and shows your deep sense of love. It's nice that you mention happy memories too. I once wrote a similar poem about my mum which made me both smile and cry.

Comment is about NOSTALGIA (blog)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

Welcome to Writeoutloud.... This is my favourite so far. You are right. Some people don't need to talk to communicate and show their love. I have lost that feeling as I was divorced six years ago but it works for my dad and daughter

Comment is about SILENCE (blog)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

I liked the romanticism and the desire and the picture really added to it.

Comment is about BENEATH THE TREES OF LILAC (blog)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

Hya Wez
Thanks for your comments on "Jaegerbombs" Pulled from memory, a memory most of us have if we're honest. Not wishing to descend into mutual appreciation, I have just read this piece and it's my sort of poetry. A story, good imagery tied together and knotted at the end. Nice one!!
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

Comment is about Wez Jefferies (poet profile)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Great piece Pete, really nice flow and some good rhymes in there, "Have you never seen a re-cycled kebab?" has to be my favourite line!

Comment is about JAEGERBOMBS AND KARMA (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

'The sea is rattling bones today'.

A great hook. Full rhymes. Assonance. And more going on behind the scene.

Nice one.

dt

Comment is about Cromer (blog)

Original item by Paul Sands

Nurikabe Nights is online now Dave - thanks again for the original challenge

page 82

http://thelooseleaftea.org/issues/

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Wonderful - love the use of 'entropy', and this piece is very close to my heart

Comment is about Entropy Song (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Haha - naughty naughty Tommy :D

Comment is about Chin up chaps (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

MCN - it's just the 'huge circulation' that's the problem is it? Ah dear me, those true-blue spectacles of yours fogging the reality for you again? Did you happen to see their headline yesterday? More than obscene. I've explained to you too many times now and and am starting to think you just do this for attention.

Attila - hope when you do this you put a plum in your gob ;)

Comment is about UK GIN DEPENDENCE PARTY (blog)

Original item by Attila the Stockbroker

John - if you work full-time it's impossible to do such a thing, so maybe step down off that high horse a little?

I'd agree with Julian but how to do that when curriculums are so rigid these days?

Comment is about Poems by heart help develop 'cultural ear', says Heaney (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Great review Cathy - still gutted I couldn't be there.

For the record John, I'd never have Isobel down as a left-liberal ;)

Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I keep a notebook next to the bed! Nice one! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Before i had a language. (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

I can relate to this. Well done. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about To Poetry... (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

Hello Yvonne.
I was advised by a friend to post stuff on here, so I did, a few at a time. Obviously not knowing how it works. Thank you for the advice on blogging. Also I am pleased you like the stuff I have done, you are spot on with FFS, I love reading that one. As I mentioned previously I am new to writing and am a totally accidental poet. I have no understanding of the structure of poetry or how it works. I sit, I feel, I write. Raw but real. Seeing that people actually read my stuff and give feedback is very reassuring and helpful. Sorry about the novelette. :0)

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Bloomin' cold in Cromer at this time of the year especially without a hat. Really sad that the lady walks on. A cleverly captured moment.

Comment is about Cromer (blog)

Original item by Paul Sands

love the line ' a rainbow of regret' XX

Comment is about BALLOONS (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

A good rant, definitely performance stuff.

Comment is about FOR FUCK'S SAKE! (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

HI Pete - just a thought -you seem to be blogging several poems at a time and I think this site archives a poem when you upload the next one so we don't get time to read the earlier ones as there's only the latest one up on show ( they also get archived on a monthly basis) I don't access the site every day so I've missed loads of yours ( I'm accessing them via your profile page.

Comment is about Pete Slater (poet profile)

Original item by Pete Slater

I enjoyed this train of thought and the lateral thinking - so many strands.

Comment is about EASTER. (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

Cool! Some great enigmatic questions. Sets one thinking.

Comment is about LOOKING FOR ANSWERS. (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

Hi Pete thanks for your message. I enjoy your style of poetry and am looking forward to a poem about repossession ( no pressure there then! ) Keep blogging. XX

Comment is about Pete Slater (poet profile)

Original item by Pete Slater

Hi Yvonne
Just like to say a heartfelt "TA" for your comments on my offering Home Sweet Home. It is an emotionally driven piece. This is happening to a friend of mine. As for cynicism I have to agree 100% with your observations. Governments present and past have become very adept at smokescreening and I agree (but this is a different matter) What about the people who have been repossessed? Another poem in the offing? I am afraid I am very new to writing and have so many ideas flooding through, I simply write what is in my head at the time. Thanks again for your comment, much appreciated. :0)

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

so i win the competition eh John - I guess it takes one to know one :-)
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Mike
really pleased that you liked ' the clown' and found time to comment - much appreciated
Ian

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Yup, very evocative words I'm sure many can relate too.

Keep posting

Mike

Comment is about The Clown (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Aye Indigo, this poem tells it straight. So does Tony.

Best wishes,

Mike

Comment is about PoLieTics - NaPoWriMo Day 2 (blog)

Original item by Ushiku Crisafulli

Kiss of death
to those below
brings forth eternal
love of joy.

Comment is about The Penultimate Battle (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

I like the way you have captured her emotions and the disjointed layout echoing the turmoil in her mind.
On a personal and purely emotional level I am with this all the way.
On a political level I am more cynical. I've never seen such public outpourings of empathy ( or is it pseudo empathy) for the families whose breadwinner is made redundant and whose mortgage company forecloses. They too have built up memories hopes and dreams.

Comment is about HOME SWEET HOME (blog)

Original item by Pete Slater

Thanks for your kind comments re 'the clown' - so pleased you liked it on both levels. Really appreciate your supprtive comments Yvonne
Ian

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Ha Ha - cruelly true and very funny. And whatever turns you on I say. Thanks for sharing your private photo collection with us.

Comment is about Don't Look Twice - It's Cellulite (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I enjoyed the song and love the words. Very clever. XX

Comment is about The Clown (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

great stuff. Poignant. It triggers a ream of questions. Well done.

Comment is about Traces of you (blog)

Original item by Andy Ainsworth

More than support the idea...
...why don't we, as poets, do something about it?
We're very good at throwing stones but why don't we each go into schools and volunteer our help with literature? I work with my local school and have co-written with them a school song.
I blogged a bit back to ask who else would pledge to do so. Guess the response - nada.
So let's just keep chucking stones shall we?

Comment is about Poems by heart help develop 'cultural ear', says Heaney (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I support the idea.

Comment is about Poems by heart help develop 'cultural ear', says Heaney (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Love this! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Water Underground (blog)

Original item by David Blake

Cracking review Cathy. Interesting points re representation all.
Personally I dislike the books' name - too much braggadocio about it - but truly admire its ambitions and achievements.
I also think that singling Dominic out for having 'contributed more than anyone' etc, is a little unfair to the many people who have contributed to Manchester's thriving poetry scene; which includes the 10 years of largely unfunded support given by Write Out Loud and its members.

Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you, Tony. That's very kind

Comment is about Traces of you (blog)

Original item by Andy Ainsworth

Alex: ' you change the world when casting a shadow.....' first line in 'Extract of thought' Yes I wrote it.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I am afraid that, as much as I also love learning poems by heart, I think that what is really missing is more time spent on inspiring youngsters to write and perform their own work; learning that by heart, too.
Giving half a million quid to Andrew Motion to get young people to learn poems is money wasted in my view; and it plays to the Tory agenda of Gradgrind education: creating recipients of others' wisdom rather than creating creatives. It reinforces the Fordist model of society, which in turn worships at the altar of capitalism's unacceptable face.
I can already hear Lord Derby yawning...

Comment is about Poems by heart help develop 'cultural ear', says Heaney (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

and thanks for your kind comments regarding 'In The Frame' Brian. I appreciate you taking the time
Ian

Comment is about BRIAN EVANS (poet profile)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

Brian
thanks for commenting on 'The Clown'. I'm pleased you liked it.
Cheers
Ian

Comment is about BRIAN EVANS (poet profile)

Original item by BRIAN EVANS

love it B

Comment is about Blonde Memory (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Some men within our own culture like big women too Dave - I know my brothers hate the stick thin look.

I like a lot of your poetry John, but I can't pretend to like this. I don't see the humour in it - maybe that's because I'm a middle aged woman with all that decay on the near horizon - though I'm not sure I would have liked it at 21 either.

Glad you enjoyed my bollocks poem anyway. That was me just having some fun with men's genitalia - lol, where there's a will, there's a way ;

Comment is about Don't Look Twice - It's Cellulite (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Short yet powerful. Well done. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Traces of you (blog)

Original item by Andy Ainsworth

Another gem from your prolific pen, John. Excellent, though cultures where big women are traditionally admired may not agree.

Comment is about Don't Look Twice - It's Cellulite (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Excellent review of what must have been a great evening. BoMP sounds terrific. Regarding ethnicity - risking Izz's eggshells - it's people from a Chinese background or heritage who have been missing in my experience. Haven't run across one, yet they have been present in numbers in the North West for centuries.

Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

In my earlier comment I was speaking mainly from a performance perspective. Black poets aren't well represented in the North West, hence I've only had opportunity to see and hear poets specialising in a street/rap style - highly successful poets, I might add.

I have no doubt that those poets and all black poets are equally capable of writing in perfect Iambic pentameter, or any style they choose to - I just spoke of what I'd heard.

I don't think it hurts to actively seek out poetry from different cultures, if in doing so you are producing a book that reflects the heart and soul of Manchester, with all its components.

If anyone other than John finds my comment patronising or racist, then I do apologise - it was not intended to be. Discussing ethnicity is sometimes like treading on egg shells - only for the brave or the foolish.

Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

2CV Shirt, Brilliant! x

Comment is about Julian Jordon, compere, October 2012 Photograph: David Andrew / Write Out Loud (photo)