What an unusual poem - fantastically interesting structure, and 'confetti fication' - love that!

Comment is about ...and in conclusion (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Apologies Francine - I went a bit flippant, probably embarrassed by not really understanding. Now that you ask: not sure if I WANT to be a Philistine. . . it's a sort of default state, on occasion. Anyway - changing the subject - Your logo (do we say avatar now?) is in a class of its own. Formidable!

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Merci à toi aussi, je suis très contente que t'as lu mon poème 'Today is Full Moon' et écouté ma musique! Et la fille près de la tour Eiffel est très sympa! :)

Comment is about Francine (poet profile)

Original item by Francine

It took me forever and a day to get to the bottom of your page!

Thanks for popping in, and welcome back! It's been a while, huh?
Nice to see familiar faces reappear!

So, explain to me what you mean by wanting to be a Philistine...

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Rich use of language Gus; great expression.
Thanks for kind words a few years back. Power to your muse.

Comment is about We Are Missing You (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hi Tommy, I popped into thank you for kind comment on mine, a few years back, BUT utterly arrested by the poem! An area of 'life' that fascinates me. Your approach very creative (need a better word). Thanks.

Comment is about ...and in conclusion (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Dave - back after a few years so first must thank you for kind comment. I love your word plays. This one has a lovely irreverence like the old sea-side post cards. Yo are clearly loving retirement.

Comment is about The manikin and the mannequin (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

HI Cate. I see your visits are rare, but thanks for nice words a few years back that I left hanging. (I wasn't giving her madge pleasure - honest. Your poem rich. Both warm and chilling.
you got it right.

Comment is about The Last Song (blog)

Original item by Cate

Are you licensed to use such a dangerous weapon Cynthia? Popped in to thank you for kind comments I left hanging, a few years back.
Have a hug.

Comment is about Crash (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Greg. There is an energy in there that is all your own. It is getting past the words to me. Thanks for kind comments some years back.

Comment is about Phoenix (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Francine,I am itching to be a Philistine (no, I AM a Philistine) I am itching to release my Inner Philistine to say: "I DO love my own voice" but I won't. Sorry I pushed off and left kind comments hanging. Mea crappa. A very etherial concept. Not easy for my kind of bloke.
But I sense a ripple in the Force. Bon!

Comment is about Echo (blog)

Original item by Francine

Hola Isobel! Where is the trampoline? Just not the same. Oh, alright, the poem: I guess the Spaniard has as many names for his Chorizo as an Inuit for snow? (Incidentally I am impressed that you can differentiate, buttwise, between all manner of protrusions!) Oh - yes, the poem. You are as naughty as Betjeman (we dun him this evening at the Newbury Poets' Workshop) but it rollocks (as in rollocking) as 'one bashed out' should. Muy bien (or similar).

Comment is about Touch and Go (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Harry- re ''Wandering expositions''April 2013 your advice: 'Why don`t you fix line eleven?' would then remove/fix the point of the preceding line, it being a stand alone conjunction ''where'' where the word where is indeed a stand alone conjunction! Tommy :)
as in -

''...There are stand alone conjunctions
in hope that it amazes
where
in solitude it functions
in contrived schematic phrases...''

This allows for the humorous play on the isolated nature of the conjunction ''where''

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

I couldn't immediately see one, Isobel. It may be because, I think, they produce an anthology of the top poems. But if I spot it I'll put in the link. I suppose, with Wendy Cope as the judge, a funny poem stood a good chance this year! I've put in an additional link to her full comments, as they make very interesting reading.

Comment is about Daisy Behagg wins £5,000 Bridport prize (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

More dirty pictures, please.

Comment is about In The Arms Of Morpheus (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I thought Morpheus was to be found on the Westgate Run.

Comment is about In The Arms Of Morpheus (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Rollockin' stuff, MC. I could hear yer Man in Black.

Comment is about LONESOME RAIL (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Is there a link anywhere to this poem Greg? It sounds right up my street ;)

Comment is about Daisy Behagg wins £5,000 Bridport prize (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Fabulous -a very novel idea -Best wishes, Steve

Comment is about By the Book (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thank you Cynthia, and for pointing out my typos. My brain has been misbehaving of late.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Cynthia,and yes I deserve a rap on the knuckles for typos.

Comment is about The Other Side of the Wall (blog)

Original item by Nick Coleman

We needed a Judge to score from one to ten but - - -

Linda you were not there!

Comment is about Stockport WOL Prompt 9/9/13 (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Thank you for reading and Philipos - thank you for ploughing through! That seems a long time ago now but I have fond memories of it all coming together! x

Comment is about Ineffable (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

*** PLEASE NOTE ENTRY IS £4 ***

Review is about Jibba Jabba on 24 Oct 2013 (event)

Greetings Cynthia: Thanks for your comment on I USED TO DANCE. Word-weeding is a process that assumes inferior words and I don't want to be so judgmental. http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=39137
J. Otis

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Expressing new-found wisdoms in verse is a time-proven exercise of truly thoughtful persons - since forever.

Comment is about Love Is No FairyTale (blog)

Original item by sash

Went to Youtube for this poem
Much admiration for the consistency of theme and
the way it tells a story. No wonder Sir Alex
was impressed!

Comment is about 'Made from grit and granite': Tony Walsh's stirring poetic tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

The rhymes are cleverly hidden by the stanza structure, and come to life best when spoken aloud. I really think they'd be easily missed in a rapid read.

Comment is about URBAN LULLABY (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

A cleverly-constructed, tight little poem with a strong message.

Comment is about poor Private Manning (blog)

Original item by John Ling

Hi, Lynne. Good poem, as always. Love your posts.

As I was reading I just kept leaving out all kinds of unnecessary words. Have a finger-flicking good time and toss out several - IMO, they interrupt rhythm and your driving intent.

Comment is about The biggest crime (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Well done. Some superb lines throughout, finely crafted. I especially appreciate 'To be the model and the muse.' - like a definition of the ARTISTIC LIFE in one gulp.

Hurrah for your poetry form too. I have used this structure also, for several works.

Comment is about Just For Today (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Nick, I'm surprised no one has commented on this poem. It is quite haunting, brief and strong. Maybe it was the 'a kisses' and ' 'cos ', and people just stopped reading. Small things like that will do it. Fact is, 'a' is just a typo, and 'cos' you could have left out completely and won a better line - more compelling. Be sure to proof read after posting. But we all still make errors.

Comment is about The Other Side of the Wall (blog)

Original item by Nick Coleman

This is delightful, and a point so true.

Maybe a bit of word-weeding would be great, but the whole effect is super. I think I was 'satisfied' at the conclusion of the first stanza plus the 'bugaloo' line and the final stanza. Mind you, then I would not have had: 'I used to pray/On dance floors all over north Alabama' - which is superb. Perhaps I will share with you my poem about the power of dancing. You're a kindred soul.

Comment is about I USED TO DANCE (blog)

Original item by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

Hi Shirl

Improbable your transparent,it's more likely cross eyedidness brought on by molecular degeneration or alcohol promoted illusion. the most frightening, scary, diagnosis, in your case is, O.M.G. there's nothing wrong with you at all.And your couplet doesn't rhyme either.

only joking Ken

Comment is about Two Line Scary Story (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Hi Izzy

I never went away. just been dormant. jealously reading uploads on W.O.L from some very clever contributors xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Looking forward to this, David.

Comment is about Patience Agbabi at Long Poem magazine reading (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

With more than one marriage, they could always
be singing...
"Aisle be seeing you - in all the old familiar places...
That this step of mine retraces - but not with you!"
:-)
P.S. Pity the Dad in your picture isn't wearing a
bow tie.

Comment is about Today's Wedding (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

cheers Ian for the info on 'Sporting Life'wow! but hey! what a fantastic film and what fantastic acting by Messrs Roberts and Harris!read the bio on Rachel Roberts,but stand by with the kleenex-tragic!take care matey and keep those great poems rolling off the production line(pretty please!)xx

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

'listen to my music in tiny little pieces'

very moving words,
and sums up albeit only part of the daily struggle
your son has to endure.

Please relay our thanks to him wholeheartedly
for these three poems that do a great job of showing how very brave people like him are.

Lots of love to him from us.

Patricia and Stefan.xx

Comment is about Comfort in patterns (blog)

Original item by Ian Beckett

'Under the influence of a memory'

enjoyable poem David.xx

Comment is about The Climb (blog)

Original item by David Blake

I'd say that genocide and persecution live on because of inherent weaknesses within man - that and certain kinds of cultures where absolutism is tolerated. I'm not sure that man will ever totally learn from the past. All it takes is for demand to outstrip supply and one day I think we all might be back there - with a different victim maybe.

I've just read a fictional book about witches in Medieval times, which was based on true life facts. The thought occurs to me that evil behaviour doesn't jut disappear. That capacity to look for scape goats, to vent anger through barbaric cruelty - it can't just evaporate -it just gets repressed.

This IS a powerful poem. Long may we remember just how low we can be rendered.

Comment is about Forever Let This Place Here Be (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

this 'topic' makes our!!!!blood boil!! lets just kill EVERYTHING(like we are doing with each other) and see where that gets us.

Imagine,a world without wildlife? forget it!

Thanks Steve.xx

Comment is about Badgers! (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Good poem with very strong sentiments with which I wholeheartedly agree. I've just visited Berlin and found the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe very compelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe

The German authorities have to be given credit for putting such a very large memorial right in the middle of their city, which makes it impossible to forget the past. While governments are prepared to be that courageous, perhaps there is hope.

Comment is about Forever Let This Place Here Be (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

Nice one, John. Interesting that she took his name. That used to be automatic, but not now. If it does happen, the wife may mention making life easier for the kids rather than tradition or finding it romantic. Some ethic communities have never done it. Will it survive as a practice?

Comment is about Today's Wedding (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Norman will be compering at the Ring O Bells Middleton open mic.Sunday next 27th October as usual.

Pass it on.

Review is about Write Out Loud - Middleton on 27 Oct 2013 (event)

Time to worry is when the bloom of youth wears off and the only attention received is the offer of a seat
(Without panache)

Very funny.

Ked.

Comment is about Touch and Go (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Enjoyed this very much,
especially the loving bits between the rows.

Ken

Comment is about Today's Wedding (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you John, and yes, very true.

I feel the biggest mistake that any society can make is to forget the past, to forget just how far evil can go if left to its own device. I visited Auschwitz a few years ago, and whilst the place was exceptionally sombre and upsetting, it is somewhere that everyone must visit, to try to understand the horrors that happened there, so that they may never happened again.

Unfortunately the past is often all too quickly forgotten, which is why peresecution and geneocide lives on.

Comment is about Forever Let This Place Here Be (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

Errrr - you've got me there John! I was trying to keep it to ten syllables but going over to 11 here and there - some of them may have had feminine stresses but I wasn't too hard on myself cos I just wanted to bash this one out. I'm busy writing panto at the moment - oh yes I am!

Thanks for dropping in. Yes - I can imagine you've had your chorizo out in public before now :)

Comment is about Touch and Go (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Chorizo, Isobel? That lets me off the hook.
Nice rhythm to the poem - dactylic or anapaestic or something like that (3/4 time).

Comment is about Touch and Go (blog)

Original item by Isobel