I really enjoyed this poem, Marianne. Quite intriguing and dark with a glimmer of hope in that last stanza.

Comment is about Muses (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

should have sent it to are you being framed

hope to see you next Monday

bye for now

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thank you andy for your kind words... appreciate it :)

Comment is about dream (blog)

Original item by Lory Gaur

Its everywhere lol - I know that it can be rough and it's dying on it's backside but my year wouldn't be the same if I didn't go :-)All the things that some people hate about it I seem to love

Comment is about Blackpool, October (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

you make blackpool sound awesome

When I went there I got ID'd and some hero tried to jack me for my scant pennies.

The penis tatt is a bonus.

Comment is about Blackpool, October (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

"all their ghosts"...

a subtle yet powerful poem about a story that hasn't finished and is alive as ever. thanks for sharing!

r.e. ypres. did you ever see the chris moyles episode of "who do you think you are?". well worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9cW5DSpHUo .

Comment is about THE MENIN GATE - 11/11/2013 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

great poem about an important topic. thanks for sharing.

Comment is about The Badger (blog)

Original item by Starfish

Thanks Kenneth - it really helped me at a tough time to express them

Comment is about Dearly Beloved (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

I like this. Those four verses speak volumes

Comment is about Dearly Beloved (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

Very struck by this, Thomas. Thank you.

Comment is about Epiphany (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

Thank you so much - very kind of you to say so :-)

Comment is about Dearly Beloved (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

I still think they'll make top 4, don't you?

Comment is about WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELIES? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Lovely, well done Jane,
best wishes, Steve

Comment is about Dearly Beloved (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

A fantastic night with a lovely atmosphere, excellent poetry.
The readers were Ken with his comedic poems, Marion Tong with her poem about the smoking gorilla, Nick who gave us a Luftwaffe rear gunner's take on shooting down a Lancaster, and Eileen Earnshaw who had written about a decidedly suspect Snowman.
I picked up that theme with my translation of a Jacques Prévert poem about a bonhomie de beige who rather foolishly sits on the stove.
The hosts were Lorraine Charlesworth and Norman Warwick, better known as HER AND THE POET and the special guest was Catherine Coward who called on Norman to perform with her under the name of DREAM PEDLARY, based on a poem of that title by Thomas Beddoes Fellowes. this turned out to be a mesmerising, theatrical poetry/song blend that deserves a wider audience. Wintry Words is an amalgam of some of Catherine's original works and some of Norman's, blended with Norman performing the song elements to great aplomb, as the local papers used to say.

Review is about Write Out Loud - Middleton on 5 Jan 2014 (event)

I guess I'm getting used to it these days John. As they say - it's a funny old game . . .

Comment is about WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELIES? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks andy for the comment.

ill defs have a look at changing it :)

Comment is about just that little bit harder (blog)

Original item by emmy92

...There again...

Comment is about WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELIES? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

They were! Sitting there wishing I was anywhere else was turned into being very glad I was there :-)

Comment is about Swan Flies Over Roundabout (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

Thank you so much :-) I am enjoying myself immensely already

Comment is about Jane Burn (poet profile)

Original item by Jane Burn

thanks Nigel. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

thanks Nigel. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Welcome to WOL Jane.

Comment is about Jane Burn (poet profile)

Original item by Jane Burn

Hello and happy new year Harry!

Thank you as always for reading and commenting on "shoot the puppy".
I did angst over using this as a title but it was one of the main sentiments that kicked it all off.
The subject was left a little open for interpretation, I prefer that. I may qualify that on my own blog site at some stage.

I can see what you mean about the separation idea. But once the bread is on the water etc etc.

keep well and have good fortune for 2014.

Graham

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

thanks Winston. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).

Hope you enjoy the book. It's not one of my high brow books, as I wrote it for Cathy really but she loves it and that means the world to me.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

thanks Gray. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol)

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

Original item by Gray Nicholls

thanks guys. glad you all like this. it is a bit of fun although most of it is true in particular the best about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol)

Comment is about Dropped Phone Call (blog)

Original item by Andy N

No apologies needed, Harry. I had a good laugh
at the content - surely the best medicine for
complaint!!
Wasn't Mrs Braddock on the receiving end of WSC's
barb in response to her accusation that he was
drunk? "You, madam, are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning!" (or near enough!).
You had to be up bright and early to get the better of him in such verbal sparring!

Comment is about CON (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A momentary interaction between Man's mundane
habits and the ever-present wonders of nature.
I'll bet someone's troubles were forgotten for
the few brief magical seconds vividly recorded here!

Comment is about Swan Flies Over Roundabout (blog)

Original item by Jane Burn

My apologies M.C.
I meant the Jack Braddock thing for the blog section (I must have been reading yours,

(It wasn`t a plug for Labour - honest!)

Comment is about CON (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Defeat is no problem to a Spurs fan, Anthony. Despair is easy for us; it's the Hope that I can't bear. Credit to you for commenting on my FB blog. You were the only Man U fan who did! No matter - they'll be out in force if you win today!

Comment is about WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELIES? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

What? No poems about yesterday's results John? Tee-hee!

Comment is about WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELIES? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi David THanks for comment on the Clouds poem. I just went where it took me. I was brought up as a Catholic and the idea of heaven. I've now got three MUslim grandchildren. I don't believe in heaven any more so it might just be saying that heaven is what you want it to be, possibly!

Comment is about David Blake (poet profile)

Original item by David Blake

I like this Andy. It takes one so vividly into the situation, into your mind and into the other person's life.

Comment is about Dropped Phone Call (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi M.C. The aliens want a quiet life & probably observe us with amusement lol
Happy New Year :D

Comment is about Two Zero One Four (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

What woman wouldn't be delighted upon receiving such a tribute?
Form and content are equally pleasing.

Comment is about Plain Man's Valentine (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Greg,
What a wise and true poem celebrating a
mutually tolerant and appreciating marriage!

Thanks for posting it.

Comment is about Plain Man's Valentine (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

My friend Frank Jaye wrote this poem for his wife Jean. It was read out at his funeral last month, along with John Betjeman's exuberant poem 'Seaside Golf'. Frank's career was in industry, and before he embarked on that he was a trainee reporter on the Daily Worker, which later became the Morning Star, and a cinema manager. After retirement he got involved in poetry, as well as golf, and passed me an entry form for a local poetry competition which made a great difference to my life. I post this poem with Jean's permission, and in respect and admiration for Frank as a poet and friend.

Comment is about Plain Man's Valentine (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

slice of life, andy. can tell you love your other half from this although the teasing stops it going overboard. well done m8. enjoyed this.

Comment is about Dropped Phone Call (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Chris, remarkable that you found my poem The Reluctant Volunteer, nearly four years after I first posted it! You're quite right, there is a lot more to the story. I've written other poems about it, and maybe there are still more to come. My father ended up working up on the "death railway" in Thailand as a POW. There's a new film, The Railway Man, just come out, that I hope will paint a more realistic picture of it than The Bridge on the River Kwai! Greg

Comment is about cbyrne (poet profile)

Original item by cbyrne

Sorry All and thank you Harry

The I was a typo it should have been I'll now corrected.

Ian G.

Comment is about OFF (blog)

Original item by Ian Gant

Thanks for commenting John. Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything is one of my favourite books. And I won a 5CD set of it, read by Bill B himself, in a poetry evening raffle. I listen to it regularly - the combination of things of wonder and human eccentricity is irresistible. Apparently he is an agnostic. Given what he writes in the book, that seems surprising, but each to their own.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for commenting Harry. Interesting that introversion or extroversion might be seen as gender-related because really they aren't

Are you going to run a competition? No pressure

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thanks for commenting Winston. It's a long time since you blogged on WOL which is a pity

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Liked this. Another simple and real poem rooted in the real world. Just ordered my 'hard copy' on Lulu. Looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

Comment is about Dropped Phone Call (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Dave, What a great concept for a poem :-)

Comment is about Building and hiding (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Enjoyed this, Dave.
The first couple of pages of Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" are a real showstopper for me. You can take it as purely scientific or something more spiritual, the choice is entirely the readers.
Either way, once you've read those few pages it's very hard not to go on.

Comment is about Building and hiding (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

only one place for this poem-
top shelf! off to preen,behind closed doors(ha)x

Comment is about Building and hiding (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Liked this - last verse is great. Got a feeling that there's possibly more of the story to add to this one.

Comment is about The Reluctant Volunteer (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

PLEASE NOTE: Pink Lane Poetry and Performance Nights ceased 1 year ago.

Review is about Pink Lane Poetry & Performance on 13 Feb 2014 (event)

The 'Template' is epic!

Comment is about Marksy (poet profile)

Original item by Marksy