Laura you are now officially my favorite poet on this site. That is all. x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I like this very much indeed Chris. In some ways it reminds me of marriage vows, and there's some excellent wordplay in there. This will perform brilliantly I reckon.

Comment is about Life (blog)

Original item by Chris Co

Where did you get that cartoon? Brilliant way to get a dig at the communities secretary's lack of appreciation of poetry.

Comment is about Four poets and a pasty at Chorlton Irish Club (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Come to think of it, it was on this very bus station that I persuaded my wife, as she became, to 'go out with me'. I made her miss the bus. Definitely a poem there.

Comment is about Don't miss the bus: perform at Preston's threatened landmark (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Given you are writing about the age of steam, I should think you were 'chuffed' Dorothy! And because the poem is superbly evocative; cue the Rachmaninov piano concerto, or is that the next stop north?
I remember the older Preston bus station, and long considered this one a brutalist aberration in comparison. In fact I was on a bus that crashed as it came into the old bus station, en route to Ambleside. It is odd, being old enough to have lived through the whole life of a municipal building.

Comment is about Don't miss the bus: perform at Preston's threatened landmark (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Well thought and captured Tommy.

Comment is about Scales (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks for your feedback John.......AND for giving me the opportunity to unashamedly plug my opus -you want to know about the Great White Prawn? Details of how to buy the novel are on my website (see the link on my profile), it's all in there!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

This is excellent, love it. The rhythm is beautiful, and the content poignant. You've got so much in such a brief poem - LOVE the repetitions and how they work.

Nice one our kid!

Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Ahh now, I watched this yesterday, direct from the Guardian site, and thought it was excellent. In fact, I wished I'd have known about it so's I could get me neb in hehe :D

Aye Chris, I thought the same, when he was wandering round rambling to himself hehe - proper identified with that.

Do you ever look back at the first drafts and copious notes from poems, and think 'Jesus wept, I'm so glad I changed that bit'? :D

I've never been to any of the Liverpool nights, which is daft really, cos it's a train ride away, not even 30 minutes. Must get me arse along one of these days.

Comment is about The night Liverpool poets put on a show: see the video (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you Yvonne :o)

Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanx Yvonne :o)I appreciate your comment.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Thank you very much. Years ago i heard a feature on the radio that mentioned an archaic word used to describe the sheen on the bird's wing. I wrote it down somewhere but i've never been able to find it.

Comment is about How We Used To Live (blog)

YAY :-D
So now that means I have to actually participate...

Comment is about Cat Competition Extended Deadline (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Feb 13th - balancing bad luck with good perhaps. I'll put it in an email on the 10th.

Comment is about Cat Competition Extended Deadline (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I didn't realise there were so many good things about working! I'm glad you enjoy your current job John. My dad was a church warden in his day and I know what you mean about a church breathing.

Comment is about Going Home Time (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Lovely, but sad too. The repetition is so effective.I love this it has such an ephemeral feel to it.

Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

So What's the new deadline for voting now, Dave?

Comment is about Cat Competition Extended Deadline (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Chris :o) You are near the mark- my intent is to show that there is no 'stasis' in a relationship but force of events -however caused- keeps the relationship under some sort of pressure. And how that pressure causes a 'loss of balance' within a relationship. ''No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man...'' Heraclitus . Tommy

Comment is about Scales (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Oi, smart toff. Wots wiv the big words then?. I can't bloomin' pronounce
syllabically-challenged, let alone spell it.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Now this is a place I want to be, a scene I desire to soak in. But only if it be as described by the, inscribed by you poetry. Thank you for sharing.

Comment is about The Rapids. (blog)

Thanks Isobel! I am sure there a few more tales waiting to be told as legal tender passes on from hand to hand, stories of hearts & dreams, both bright & grim, of hope & grief. It may just be the beginning for this humble piece of writing. You kind words are most appreciated & always welcome.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Chris,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise...".
The kids (they're both in their 20's now) made me up a collage for Christmas of old photos of us when they were little and a few of my poems about them. This was one of them.
I got some of that man-dust stuck in my eye.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

Original item by Chris Co

Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Samantha Louise...".
It's a vicious rumour that I've done any "effortlessly touching"!

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello Old Fruity,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise and the syllabically-challenged Sweet Sarah Jane".
Wotchafink to the threads then, eh? You never lose it!

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

It's all about perspective! I remember those days well. Mine know to let sleeping dogs lie now - but it WAS nice when they all used to fight to get a space next to me in bed :(

Comment is about The Giant Slayer (blog)

Original item by Ged Thompson

Nice one Cathy. Your kids partners are every parents nightmare - there's just no choosing for them.

I love the delicacy in this. And I also like the way the poem leaves me building the background story.

Comment is about My son's first love (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Lovely piece Frederick - and what stories they could probably tell. Great food for thought!

Comment is about Legally Tender (blog)

Fascinating insight Ray.

I love how the title weaves its way through the poem, the names seeming so incongruous for that type of hospital. It also introduces some humour into the poem, and a humour that doesn't undermine the serious nature of the subject matter.

'Nobody could bury the hatchet becausewe’d forgotten the word for spade.'

Your final two lines made me pause for thought. Are you talking about the staff or the patients here?

Comment is about Wards (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

The Dead Good Poets’ Society, quite apart from having the best name in the poetry business, was the benchmark for open-floor poetry nights that followed and became the current, thriving national scene. When establishing the original Write Out Loud, we consciously used their approach as our benchmark: open, eclectic, welcome, inspiring, edgy, grass-roots. Published poets, poetry publishers, rappers, political ranters, you name it, all got their five minutes at the mic.

Mind you, it was not all worth emulating. At our - Dave Morgan and I - first visit to the Dead Good Poets’ Society there was a poetic punch-up with words being ‘exchanged’ rather than shared. We were hooked, then left.

Reading at the Dead Good Poets’ Society is one of those 'things you should do before you die'.

Comment is about The night Liverpool poets put on a show: see the video (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Awwww its that kid again! enjoyable poem.x

Comment is about The Giant Slayer (blog)

Original item by Ged Thompson

A very very nice piece indeed.x

Comment is about How We Used To Live (blog)

Unusual subject.Enjoyed.x

Comment is about Legally Tender (blog)

Thanks for that vote of confidence Ged :))

I can be weird at times. I often see humour where others see grossness, but pathos where others see humour.

This piece isn't supposed to be reflect schitzophrenia - I haven't written that poem yet but I think it would be a whole lot sadder.

It's my attempt at satire. I am talking to the wall on FB. They've recently started adding questions like 'how are you?' 'What are you doing', 'How's it going?'. I just started answering them and then continued it into a piss taking piece.

I think Facebook is a place where people kill the time that is slowly killing them. It is full of tosh that we all trawl through, trying to find some meaning. That's about it really. Still want to keep me as a friend? ;) Thanks for taking the time to comment.

x

Comment is about Sermo ut parietis (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for all the comments. Yes, the last three lines refer to two of the four plagiarised poems, Ray, about damselflies and deer.
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=33701
Good to see you back.

Comment is about The cat, the damselflies, and the deer (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I like this. I wonder how many miles they go? How many places they visit? Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Legally Tender (blog)

Ha! Like this.

Comment is about A Haiku: Political Correctness Gone Mad (blog)

Original item by Mark Niel

A timely comment on an ongoing law enforcement conundrum. The criminals deserve to have the key thrown away.
They come, take and run,
It's what they do for fun,
Caring only for themselves and their pleasure.
Their deeds are their own,
Rotten seeds that are sown,
And the innocent reap measure for measure.

Comment is about To chase or not to chase ?That is the question. (blog)

Original item by hugh

This brings to mind the time dealing with a seaman who'd hanged himself in his hostel cubicle in the early hours of the morning. Our efforts to cut him down were rudely interrupted by an angry shout from a waking resident down the corridor to "keep your ******* noise down"! We heard no more so we assumed we were successful in complying with the unseen demand of one who was "on the surface" so to speak, and who would, no doubt, have agreed that it was preferable not to have known.

Comment is about Jumping the queue (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Mine are very soft and smooth thankyou :)

Looking at your comments, I see you are a handy man yourself!

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Shades of the great Milligan!! But I do believe he
could do worse. To put it baldly: with a life out of kilt-er, he might be living in "Wig-on"!
Go-on - let's all get in the mood!!!
:-)

Comment is about Where (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

Yvonne
many thanks for your kind comments on 'Snowblind', they are much appreciated
cheers

Ian

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

This is good Dave, has a nice 'sound' too; bet it'd be good as a live piece
best wishes, Steve

Comment is about Jumping the queue (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Super and topical. He may not be on WOL anymore but his legacy is obviously stimulating creativity ( as opposed to his simulating creativity)I love the way you worked good ol' T.S.E.into this. Well done.

Comment is about The cat, the damselflies, and the deer (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Wonderful Great analogies. It's all amazing. I'm under its spell.

Comment is about Snowblind (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I love the bit in the Park. It shows how truly idiotic, yet required the process often is. Waking up with perfect lines or the perfect idea, that happens, eureka moments happen. But more often than not, we write and talk nonsense, trying to find out what we, or the language of an idea/the poem is trying to say to us. No wonder so many great poets, don't like the public getting anywhere near their workings haha. The end will always justify the means - Theroux did really well. Good video too.

Comment is about The night Liverpool poets put on a show: see the video (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

You may have stayed on the surface but the current in the poem runs deep. Quite chilling and sad.
Great interplay of words too.

Comment is about Jumping the queue (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I love the title alone :D

Enjoyed reading this Greg - some cracking phrases in there

Comment is about The cat, the damselflies, and the deer (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

The address and telephone number for the Qatari embassy - for anyone out there who might know how to approach this;

1 South Audley Street
London W1K 1NB
020 7493 2200

Comment is about Qatari poet jailed for life to hear appeal verdict this month (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm crossing you off my friends list, your weird

No hang on, I'd be a hypocrite if I did that I'm weirder

You can stay my friend for now

Not because your not weird but because I'm weirder and I love you

Its a strange one this Isobel you do get the picture of a schizophrenic argueing with his/herself. I like it but I dont know why???

Comment is about Sermo ut parietis (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Enjoyed this, och aye.

Comment is about Where (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman