Thank you

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Original item by Katie Sheila Haigh

Thanks for the comments x

Comment is about Katie Sheila Haigh (poet profile)

Original item by Katie Sheila Haigh

Nice one Lynn. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about heritage sun (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Trust me, I believe many people, myself included, concur with the sentiments of this poem. This actually sounds like a song. That's quite fun. While this should go down alright in the live circuit, you may want to look for a few specific examples of such influential figures abusing their power or trust, and where they spend obscene amount in areas that are almost hilariously unrelated to the best interests of the people they claim to serve.

Comment is about World Leaders. (blog)

Hi Nicky (a little more presumptious than "Hello Nichola" but you will have to excuse me) -
I do appreciate your positive remarks about my
latest post. Poetry/verse is all things to all
people, but I subscribe to trying to leave them
with something they can enjoy and, hopefully, want to remember.
I have been reading your own profile poem "Stuff"...how very true! It led me to
paraphrase the first line of a favourite Gershwin song...
"It's very clear, our stuff is here to stay"!!
:-)
Best wishes.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Thanks, Nichola.
We are given no choice in the opening of life's
account(s) and that seems presumptious of old
Mother Nature.
Some suffer personally and financially and over-draw to their cost, whereas others manage to enjoy happiness and fulfilment without straining their credit. I wish you all the best among the latter.

Comment is about SETTLING ACCOUNTS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for your comments on Malcolm's Memorial Walk, MC. It's funny about some blokes and poetry ... they're a bit surprised when you suddenly reveal a penchant for it after years of being apparently 'normal'. Actually, long-standing friends, male or female, can be a bit like that, I find. They think they know you, and then ... sorry, maybe I'm straying off the point.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Meant to comment on this earlier, John. Much as though I'd been expecting to chortle at AVB's anticipated lack of success at Spurs, I have to hand it to him here. Two impressive away wins, plus QPR at home. If this kind of thing goes on, he may even calm down on the touchline when results go his way! Greg

Comment is about Man U 2 Tottenham 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

John, thanks for your words on Malcolm's Memorial Walk. It's dawning on me that I've written a few poems about walking, and they all have that undertone of, will he last the course? Thanks too for confirming that I made the cut for the York anthology. It's nice to be included, because I have lovely memories of the place. Have duly sent off for my copy!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Sid - quick note to say that I am really enjoying your poems on here :) thanks for posting them!

Comment is about Ray Miller (poet profile)

Original item by Ray Miller

Nice poem. I like the liquorice shtick.
Which do you prefer?

Still stands the library you loved

The library you loved still stands

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

Thanks, chaps. In my head someone like Billie Holliday is singin' it. Because I surely can't.

Comment is about Black Market (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Hi Sarah Clare - a very warm welcome to WOL. Look forward to seeing more of your work on her :)

Comment is about Sarah-Clare Conlon (poet profile)

Original item by Sarah-Clare Conlon

Cheers Tony - your comments are appreciated :) Best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Lining The Pockets (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks for commenting Anthony - I've yet to record the audio and that is often the time when editing occurs, so I may yet return and tweak this if I find it helps. :) Best wishes, Dave

Comment is about The Raceless Man (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks for commenting on the audio Tony - I do plan to record some more soon :), I will go and listen to your song next - best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks for your suggestion Dave. I have uploaded the song version of "First Class Ticket" Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Have just come across this, Andrew, and I think it's masterly. So well-observed - "the rows of pop-socked legs / this great flotilla of zimmers". And how much of it all comes down to money. One of the most successful poems I've read on Write Out Loud in a long time.

Comment is about Old Money (Fete Day at the Old People's Home) (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

The old library became a museum. This little film is made funny by the absolute incredulity of Betjeman's interviewer. 'Surely this building is a monstrosity?' he says, and the poet calmly explains the craft and value of art nouveau.

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

This journey takes us through some dark places via some wonderful language, and I'm so glad we get that ray of sunshine at the end.

Comment is about myspace (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thank you Hugh for your comment. I must say I am just finding my way back round WOL. There are so many new and interesting people.x

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

Thank you MC, for your comment on my piece. There are times when cathartic release is your closest friend. I felt, I thought, I wrote.... I felt different. Emotion is so selfish, for want of a better word.

I have been reading some of your work. I really enjoy the way you have a knack of seeing beyond things..... and creating an image out of something, (which could be mundane) and then forcing the reader to create his/her interpretation of it. I read your last posting four times and each time I found something more.

Well done.x

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Cynthia Buell Thomas! Where are you? Do you realise I have a HUGE clear platic bag full of constant mutterings and jibberjabble? For that I thank you. I may send them to you and see if you can decipher the constant rambling of a feeble and harrid mind :-)

How are you my lovely? I have been integrating myself back into the heady realms and striving to keep a low profile, but I have finally got to face the fact that I always have too much to say.

My final addition to the family has the unfortunate affliction of being a mini-me.

I hope you are well? I will be in and out of WOL on a regular basis now I have 2 whole hours a day to spare to put my constant rudimentary ramblings into some form or shape.

Love to you.Nicky x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

How simply and wonderfully put... we live on borrowed time from the day we are born until the day we die. We withdraw happiness and pay back with pain or sorrow.

Do you not think that the interest rate is too high?

Comment is about SETTLING ACCOUNTS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you very much to everyone :o)

Good point, Harry, if you tell someone five times they are not fat... !!

Comment is about Who Ate All The Pies? (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Such beautiful and moving words from the lips of a loving mother.Well done.

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Original item by Nicky Burrows

Laugh..... love it. one of my cheeks are aching from laughing, the one I landed on when i fell off the bed. Anthony I wait in anticipation to hear what you would call your pet dalmation.

Comment is about Zulu the zebra (blog)

Original item by hugh

All the more effective for its restraint in the "double whammy" of grief implied, if I could only rid myself of the nagging suspicion of what "I promise" might mean for Mummy!

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Then there was the cyclist who hit a zebra crossing when hurrying to see a horse race.
Keep them coming Hugh. Laughter is a great
antidote to today's doom and gloom.

Comment is about Zulu the zebra (blog)

Original item by hugh

This is good! Not only that, the recitation itself is
spot on. 10/10 in both.

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

Thanks JC - that was exactly the style of song I aimed for. Hallelujah!!

Comment is about THE RIGHT ROAD - sing gospel! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I can hear Ken Dodd cracking this in a show!
Creating a chuckle in verse is a gift...keep at it!

Comment is about Devour and Crunch (blog)

Original item by hugh

Who are yer? who are yer?

Comment is about Man U 2 Tottenham 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

'Ey up, Browny.
What's tha doin' writin' verse?
I's'll etta keep mi eye on thee.

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

Just spotted your earlier comment on "The Week We Should Have Played The Lottery". Scarcely believable but true.
I told a work colleague about it when I got back home. He said "That happened to me too!".
Sh*t!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Enjoyed this, MC. It captures the atmosphere of a southern states baptist chapel rocking on a sunday morning.
I myself have not been able to stop singing "Oh Happy Day" since Tottenham beat Manchester United.

Comment is about THE RIGHT ROAD - sing gospel! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Love the audio posts. More please. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

The third line. The photo of those children running jumped straight into my head. Please keep posting your poems. Take care, Tony

Comment is about Lining The Pockets (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Hi Dave,

I really liked the idea/sentiments in this piece. The rhythm/meter is a little lumpy in places and I think it would be improved greatly if you sorted that out - it wouldn't take much. But hey, it's your piece, and, if you're happy with it . . .

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about The Raceless Man (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Enjoyed you sample poem Jade. The progression is excellentand you include some apt and original ideas and imagery. You should blog it!

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Jade Eloise (poet profile)

Original item by Jade Eloise

A lot to like here Kealan.

"pan the frame of colour and write the shadow down."

A very arresting image.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Summer Darkness (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Sid,

Put me in mind of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" - which can't be a bad thing. Very well constructed with apt rhythm/rhyme. It would be good to have an audio, or hear this set to music. A fine poem.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Black Market (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Hi Hugh,

I'm enjoying you witty ditties. Coincidentally I once had a pet zebra - I called him Spot.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Zulu the zebra (blog)

Original item by hugh

Hi Andrew,

The esteemed Sir John would, I'm sure, have approved! Very cleverly done; especially to find 14 rhymes (and not forced either!) for "here." Excellent - just like those little black "cakes."

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

This should be printed on cigarette packets! Nice one Hugh! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Smokey Thoughts (blog)

Original item by hugh

What is the old library now? And by the way, I like this.

Comment is about New Library at Pontefract (blog)

Original item by Andrew Brown

Well done,a pleasing and clever leap into the past.

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Tree swings are tricky things Tony . .

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

These stores are now known as car boot sales! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Something for Everyone (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I enjoyed reading this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about The cruet set (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman