Congratulations to Hannah, Lynn. She has a good imagination and feel for suffering.

Kids tend to be very modest. My old mum ended up waltzing into my daughter's school and bearding the teachers with the whole story... I've a feeling she'll be ringing up the local papers next :) x

Comment is about World War II by Hannah (My 9 year old granddaughter is published!) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

M.C.
Your middle stanza makes me think about how only humans can certainly experience the self-pity that comes from the frightening fore-knowledge of the inevitable approach of death.

Comment is about HAWK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you Greg and Harry. Yes, I am very proud and told her she should be too, after her saying on facebook that she is embarrassed! Kids... lol

Comment is about World War II by Hannah (My 9 year old granddaughter is published!) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Congratulations to Hannah (I bet you`re proud of her!)

Comment is about World War II by Hannah (My 9 year old granddaughter is published!) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

John,

Re that penultimate stanza: - You lucky swine! (so speaks a guy that had two - yes two! - prostate operations while doing a geriatric degree at Uni)

In answer to the unspoken question: Yes you still can...but it`s different.

By the way that `lost weight` and `prostrate` is a superb bit of double syllable rhyming.

Keep us chuckling - nay, howling! - please.

Comment is about There's Allus a Dribble That's Left (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for looking at The River, Rachel. I'm glad you liked it. Greg

Comment is about Rachel Bond (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel Bond

She's chosen a really powerful subject, Lynn. My congratulations to Hannah. Greg

Comment is about World War II by Hannah (My 9 year old granddaughter is published!) (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

jhuuuubbb%$£

That's Fnurk for seeya ltr dude!xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I think Nick might be missing out there.... give me the dark alley and the feisty woman any day of the week!
I liked the poem and the photo!MS

Comment is about inFLUence (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Thats Fnurk language Lynn,for.....
Roald Dahl eatcha 'eart out!.xx

Comment is about "KRUNF!" Says The Fnurk (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

hahaha...Oh John! (you funny..funny man)...
I enjoyed your 'Guest Poets' spot at The Poetry Spoke (the whole audience did)..'yer did us reet proud'...it was good to hear and see you again!.

I loved and laughed at this poem (no surprise).

For entertainment and timing plus content ( I would be holding up a board with 5.9 on it if I was an Ice Skating Judge)..I have just been reading Stanley Holloway's Arthur and Albert poems/monologues and for me (funneee)....... (I know he was a Lancs Lad and you are from Yorks)But there are a lot of similarities...

My best regards to you and Judy - Graham :-)

Comment is about There's Allus a Dribble That's Left (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Yvonne,

Would love to hear from you if you're still interested in helping out in Cleckheaton on 22nd June.

Thanks

David

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Thanks for the comments Nick- "melancholy" certainly sums it up .
Andrew

Comment is about Weeds (blog)

Original item by Andrew Barnes

this is an early poem i wrote, not crafting words or sentences so thanx for the observation Yvonne. its not intended.

indeed Nick, it can be 3 movements, click, boom, dead.

Comment is about SNIPER (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

Plenty of great stuff in there. I see you've been to Ibiza then! Wonderful wordage compiled to express and hit the euphoric zone. Well played, ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about White blood. (blog)

Original item by Danny Metcalfe

You're always great at mixing Yorkshire vernacular and the queens English to comic effect. The poem seems to parody; one might say take the piss out of itself :)

Hilarious John.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about There's Allus a Dribble That's Left (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Making verbal love to OJ must be the right of everyone in the hospital. Does your nurse know you're out? It was fun, Ta muchly, Nick.
ps. The April fish is now resting for another year.

Comment is about My Only Love (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Like it. Unusual subject.

Comment is about inFLUence (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Grand Stuff from the sonnet king. How you turn an ordinary into a special is a rare skill. Keep 'em coming. Ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about On first looking into an A to Z (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

I didn't know you were this fiesty Yvonne. Don't want to meet you down a dark alley!
Brilliant idea getting back at the beasties. ta muchly Nick.

Comment is about inFLUence (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

'memories' + 'an image from behind' and her words in past tense lend the thought that the gardener is no longer tending? Bright coloured imagery of a piece that bears a deep melancholy feel. Ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about Weeds (blog)

Original item by Andrew Barnes

Patrolling country, cliff and city - alliteration abounds and pigeon pie for the hawk's tea one hopes, ta muchly Nick.

Comment is about HAWK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Aha, the sonnetster returns ( or gets lost)
Those of us with two left hands salute you and recognise a brother in distress (or detour or diversion or decoy). Excellent treatment of the subject. I enjoyed it.
By the way as a complete change of approach to being lost have you read Les Barker's 'Napoleon’s Circular Retreat from Reading'?

Comment is about On first looking into an A to Z (blog)

Original item by Marnanel Thurman

I like. I like the brevity: you say all that is necessary - watchful prey, deadly dart. Great.

Comment is about HAWK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Ah, a light handed touch ( so to speak)on an age-old ( or is it old age?) problem.
This ode brought a tear to mine eey
On how you have problems with pee
For strange to relate,
I've a similar state
Whenever I laugh, then I wee.
XX

Comment is about There's Allus a Dribble That's Left (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the comments.

Comment is about the pins don’t work (blog)

Original item by Glyn Pope

"Sorry, JC, but surely the issue
Is why you don't wipe it dry with a tissue?"
:-)
These lines certainly bring a tear - but of mirth I hope - to gentlemen of a certain age
who travel in hope..and occasionally suspense!
Well up to the usual high standard from this
always welcome source.

Comment is about There's Allus a Dribble That's Left (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Astrology and medicine combined bring us a doctor who can ... for the foreseeable future!
Don't forget to write the good write, Ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Hi MCN, Ta muchly for comment on Taste of Time, instants are the important bits that can be captured. A few good moments may help dispell those sour morsals that we all carry. Ta muchly, Nick.

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I like the dark imagery in this.

Comment is about the pins don’t work (blog)

Original item by Glyn Pope

thanks alot for your comments mike, we are facing the issues of corruption in south africa, we overcame the apartheid regime and now we are facing a new challenge, and one day we will win this battle

Comment is about A Place Called Home (blog)

Hi Andrew - welcome to WOL. I love your poem, really touching. You'll find more people will see your work if you post it on the blogs. Hope you enjoy the site and will become a part of it!

Comment is about Andrew Barnes (poet profile)

Original item by Andrew Barnes

Hehe - me and my brother used to dare each other to eat all kinds of stuff - mouthfuls of mustard, food full of salt, that kinda thing! :D

Oh and right backatcha - it's a pleasure to know you too, you're a very interesting and intelligent woman, and you write the bestest comments ever ;D

All that talk of codes got me thinking too...ended up writing a poem that started off on that idea and went, ooo, somewhere else entirely ;D

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wow.

Comment is about White blood. (blog)

Original item by Danny Metcalfe

Nick, I love the shipping forecast !!

Finistere
Dogger Bank
South Utsire
North Utsire

A meaningless mantra at bed-time of great beauty.

Comment is about Provisions August 1767 (blog)

Original item by John Duffus

Hi M.C.
Thanks for taking the time to look at 'Out'. It's much appreciated

I have to say it's not autobiographical (I hate bigots), but sadly there are still many folk who aren't too far away from what the poem says.

Fortunately it seems to have been taken the right way, but I was half-ready for a slagging from those who don't know me

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Isobel
Thanks for looking at 'Out'. I'm not too sure where I could read it - I was half-anticipating a bit of abuse, but I hoped that it would be seen for what it is.
A friend of my daughter has a gay brother-in-law and he is going to his stag, and it was this that formed the start of this thing.

I read your offering, and honestly thought you'd been carried away by some Wigan hunk

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you very much Innocentia, that's very kind of you.

Comment is about I Admit I Am Ambivalent (blog)

haha - thanks, you made the connection, The Tumbril hints at the darker purpose to all this ... and yes, an untruth is a product of greater refinement than an halftruth forsooth, therefore it will cost a person a guid six Scotch Shillings for one, the halftruth is but two ducats (one Scotch Shilling)

Comment is about Provisions August 1767 (blog)

Original item by John Duffus

great one Andy i really enjoyed it..

Comment is about I Admit I Am Ambivalent (blog)

whether it was a poem or song it was music to my ears...

Comment is about LOVE'S NOT A WORD I CARE ABOUT (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

' “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves''.... Here’s Tom with the weather.'...Bill Hicks
:o)

Comment is about Danny Metcalfe (poet profile)

Original item by Danny Metcalfe

Interesting list. I'm a tad worried about the purpose of the tumbril though.(but maybe tis innocuous since there be no mention of a guillotine)The juxtaposition of fiddles,lyres and untruths is great.Do untruths cost more than halftruths?

Comment is about Provisions August 1767 (blog)

Original item by John Duffus

Hi, Roy welcome to the site. I’m an ex nurse and did my training in 1962 when I think we cared more for the patients that is done today. Had many a bad word with a ward nurse when my brother was in hospital. Finished up bringing him home to look after him with my wife, also a retired nurse.

Your sample poem added a little more knowledge to my old brain. Didn’t know about the old X-ray films.

Comment is about Roy Marshall (poet profile)

Original item by Roy Marshall

Thanks to WOL for keeping us updated. I think Allison has been to Manchester through the Library programme, but I'm not certain. She has an embracing smile.

Comment is about Allison McVety wins National Poetry Competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Laura, I am hopeless at codes, or nearly so, or mostly so because I just don't want to be bothered. If I had to, I would, like the runes of lost civilizations and stuff, but - for fun! - I'd rather drink soya sauce. (which I did once on a dare from a nasty, but very handsome, boy cousin, and oh -I was sick - sick - sick! I could not resist a dare back then, and I'm not sure I'm that much more mature even now.) BTW, I get real pleasure from knowing you personally, and enjoying your input on WOL.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thank you Ann. One of the benefits of being a middle-aged occasional radio 4 listener is hearing programes which give me ideas like this.

Comment is about Roy Marshall (poet profile)

Original item by Roy Marshall

Hi Roy - welcome to WOL. Good poem - really interested in the explanation too - I didn't know that - what a great idea for a poem!

Comment is about Roy Marshall (poet profile)

Original item by Roy Marshall

Thank you for your welcome Greg. Hope to meet up, maybe with Chuck Berry and Carol Ann Duffy in a bar during the Olympics...

Comment is about Roy Marshall (poet profile)

Original item by Roy Marshall

Welcome to Write Out Loud, Roy. Good to meet you at the Troubadour - and good to see you here! Greg

Comment is about Roy Marshall (poet profile)

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