By the way, I would like to ask you if it is right "drink to that" or " drink for that" ?
Long time ago, when I was a student, I've writthen a short poem:
Your eyes - my eyes.
Your lips - my lips.
Our eyes have met
But lips not yet.
Let's drink for that!

Comment is about No, I Am Not! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thank you dear M.C. for yor support! :-)
I believe you. :-)

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Cheers! :-)

Comment is about No, I Am Not! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks Laura.
Much appreciated

Ken xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Pension life longer than working life. The economics of Micawberism?

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I'll drink to that!
:-)

Comment is about No, I Am Not! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Tattooed dog owners
heavy lifting arms
supermarket plastic bags
filling up with
tinned pet food
leaving food bank
total balance nil.

Comment is about Food Banks Are Bad (blog)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Options we have many
making the right one
is coming down tonight
to W.O.L Stockport meeting

the theme - - - options

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport on Monday (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your comment Laura.

This poem's ending is sublime!

Did you know there was a statistic that around 10% of Twitter activity was related to Justin Bieber a while back.

Share this on Twitter - you'll find many interested eyeballs! :)

Comment is about Judging Justin (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

This is really quite - well, seems to me it could be read as quite sexual. You filthbag! ;D

An interesting piece - nicely ambiguous.

Comment is about Close Reading (blog)

Original item by cbyrne

Thanks for the sympathetic remarks Isobel.

It might seem horrific to you, but snacking gravy off the chest is a survival instinct, and shows that one is still capable of independent living post 80.
Women, I might add, have the added advantage of possessing natural contours for the channeling of gravy reserves.

"I could go on"

Iv'e lost it haven't I! Ken.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Quite simply dreadful, whatever the politics, that someone should be killed in this way just for expressing themselves.

I never cease to count my blessings that I live where I live and was born with such freedom.

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

logging off Gary-we'll catch you later for a chat-cheers dude!xx

Comment is about Rythm (blog)

awtww thanks Karin!we aint saintly but we aint too sinful!xx

Comment is about February Morning (blog)

Original item by Karin

glad it is only a poem and not a real story.xx

Comment is about Rythm (blog)

Glad you enjoyed this Jan. will look at your posts now :-)

Comment is about Preen (blog)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Thank you Chris, for having the temerity to articulate what I shied away from. Maybe, indeed.

And maybe if we weren't at war with Iran (which we are - for by the US's own definition - the current economic sanctions we are imposing constitute an act of aggression tantamount to war) the current regime would have much less excuse for dealing so viciously with any form political opposition.

Surely the best way to commemorate this brave young man's life (and those of his comrades) would be to celebrate and cherish his poetry? But look as I might, I have found no example of it. Nothing, anywhere.

I hope this changes. I would prefer to savour his own words, albeit in translation, than listen to the vacuous words of those enlisting him in their cause post mortem.

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I don't think I have to explain the joke.

Comment is about No, I Am Not! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

lovely poem, very gentle words

Comment is about Preen (blog)

Original item by Winston Plowes

in a tyranny poets are jailed if speaking the truth, except for poets who sing and tel of
the strongman´s prowess and kindness

Comment is about English PEN rallies support for jailed Cameroon poet awaiting appeal (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

What an intriguing and interesting review, Frances. I love your notion of the woodpile as memories - fuelling our future? - reinforced by the lines of Donleavy's that you quote, and which made me shiver. Fascinating stuff. It made me want to read the poems within the shed. Not just a male thing then?

Comment is about A Shed for Wood: Daniel Thomas Moran, Salmon (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Chris, ill pass your details on to Norman Warrick

Comment is about Katie Sheila Haigh (poet profile)

Original item by Katie Sheila Haigh

It was an effort in cheering up
what is the uselessness of ones
latter years.

The next episode,will be a "jolly" description of ones final exit,as environmental friendly,powdered detritus.

(It's bein so cheerful as keeps me goin) Cheers M.C.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

It's just a poem. But thanks.

Comment is about Long way down (blog)

The arts nowadays are just various ticks in the usual left-wing boxes. Canonical references, structured form and rational argument are all reflexively disliked. Truly, we live in the age of the LCD.

Comment is about Top poetry magazine editors explain 'the art of choosing' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Terrible.

I wonder what Iran would be like today if we (Great Britain) and the United States had not overthrown their democracy in 1953 and installed the puppet Shah dictator?

If it wasn't for us overthrowing the a democracy and the democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh in order to steal their oil industry, maybe, just maybe this regime would not be in power.

Equally maybe, just maybe if the United States had not militarily backed the aggression of Saddam with weapons of mass destruction, maybe just maybe this regime wouldn't have strengthened its power base and hold upon the country.

Lessons if ever they were needed, that it is the people that suffer from the fall out and long term ramifications of aggressive imperialism, hegemony and wars of proxy.

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Katie, sorry for the late reply, only just seen the message. Yes I read at the Ring O Bells the night Mothers and daughters did the guest spot. I read a poem called footprint. Hope you get the reply in time for whatever was needed.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Katie Sheila Haigh (poet profile)

Original item by Katie Sheila Haigh

Thanks for looking in again Starfish. I can't seem to write much lately, maybe its the rain . .
all the best, Steve

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

Not the very bestest Beatle song Solar, but I do much prefer their older stuff!

Comment is about The coldest Morning (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

See - the zealots of Iran
Who tremble at the words of a man!
Isn't it odd
How they worship their God
With hate - and not love -
When they can.

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Won´t go to the woods when it´s dark, promise. ;) (You seem like a lovely couple by the way.)



Thank you so much Starfish! Yes, it´s been somewhat nightmarish but I noticed that I actually felt better after having written about it, seeing it a bit from that poor guy´s perspective.

Comment is about February Morning (blog)

Original item by Karin

Thanks a lot! This seems like an interesting place and with a wide variety of people and kinds of writing.

Comment is about Karin (poet profile)

Original item by Karin

what authorities do not understand they kill

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

How terrible. One more evil act by that awful regime.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=17602

Let's not forget him or his courage.

Comment is about Poet is executed in Iran for 'propaganda against system' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

"same-sex copulation" - you haven't pulled any linguistic punches there, MC!

Comment is about OUT WITH THE "IN" CROWD-or IN WITH THE OUT CROWD (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I've always thought that we only ever pay back our debt of gratitude to our parents by investing it in children who only ever... etc etc.

Comment is about My Hero (blog)

Original item by tina

I only came off mine once, Gary, but it was a write-off. These days I've gone back to a push bike and I reckon that's even more dangerous!
Enjoyed the rhythm throughout; it works well when the subject is about the rhythm you can't dance to.
My only reservation would be "my legs did smash". For me, "did" always sounds like scansion packing.
Enjoyed. Keep posting.

Comment is about Rythm (blog)

Enjoyed this, Linda.
I might have been tempted to have pulled some of the groups which rhymed near to top down the list to maintain the feel throughout.
On another front, I think Edwina was right about tattooed dog-owners.

Comment is about Food Banks Are Bad (blog)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

And thanks from me because I want to enter it, too!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Good all round, and that:

`I thought of your skin,

Safe inside the coffin, now

No longer agony to move

Around in.`

very impressive indeed.

Comment is about Frank (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Crying out for music.

Comment is about Walkin' Man (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Hello Starfish. What are you doing sat in here all on your own?
This is rather an empty room compared to the one next door.
Many thanks for your comments. My moment of fame among 6-year olds has been short-lived I'm afraid. My daughter has sacked me off in favour of something she found on YouTube.
(...and I am a bit "fictional" with the historical facts)

Comment is about The Tudor Kings and Queens (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I had to laugh, Harry. I mean - I really did have to laugh. Good on yer.

Comment is about The Parable of the Shitty Little Ingrate (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you very much :D

Comment is about My Hero (blog)

Original item by tina

John,
As the son is a mature wine drinker, doesn`t answer, and no mention is made of his doing any work for his father, or anyone else, and as he is not described as ill or disabled, one can only assume that he feels that his claim to entitlement is due soley to his blood relationship with his father…(the good old bank of dad).

As such he is indeed a sponging and ungrateful little turd.

(this one`s headin` for a record)

Comment is about The Parable of the Shitty Little Ingrate (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

there is no retirement age for poets

Comment is about Jazzman John Clarke, October 2013 (photo)

indeed

Comment is about OLD (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

Thank you all for the comment, it is just a poem, though I have been off my bike a couple of times, I have walked away.
ThankS
Gary.

Comment is about Rythm (blog)

I have had so many scary experiences on my bikes, I shudder to think about them now. I remember once on a dual carraigeway that was quiet but had been recently resurfaced and covered with chippings, I wound the gas back and to my total astonishment, a farmer walked out into the road, put his hand up and a huge posse of cattle crossed the road in front of me! How I got out of that without crashing I do not know! You poem brought it all back!
Best wishes,
Steve

Comment is about Rythm (blog)

You sentimental soul, you.
I shall google that song too; it's a new one on me.

Comment is about The coldest Morning (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins