i like this...i ll leave poetry on the bill for your next meal and watch you work out its percentage charge
ill write it on your mirror in lipstick, in words red and bold and large...write it in your comments where you think that it is all about you, and write it on on your tv screen so you cant watch any of the programmes that youre used to...
it can go on ;)
vandallous.

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

I didn't read this first time around cos I thought it might be 'sloppy', well duh me!

Cold cruel ending there - very 70s Alice Cooper!

Comment is about Valentine (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Ever heard that Cramps song, Bend Over I'll Drive? I think you'd like that.

Comment is about Car Crash Blowjob (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Aye, sweetly poignant this Janet - but if I get Manic Monday stuck in my head for the day after this, I'll be bloody haunting YOU! ;p

Comment is about For the Good Times (blog)

Thank you Ann x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

thanks Andy :-)

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Ahhh sly bugger, you did! :D Ace

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

Nope Tommy - I can still see Middle East, to the bottom right of this poem, there's a hyperlink to it

Like this much more now that you've edited, btw :)

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

whoops theres my vandalism, on me own poems lol Thanks for you comment

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

Ha,ha - I like it.Course, you've forgotten the sonnet on the dusty car-bonnet.

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

Thanks for your comments and Rachel well it was a dream well a day dream and regards to me spelling im a creative writer not a educated one its one thing i need to sort out well thats why i prefer slaming then writing but thanks for your comment love your work and love to hear more ;)

Comment is about Dream (blog)

Original item by Burns

Hey Melanie the poet who didnt know it ;) Thanks for your comment its good to know when people can get lost in my dream, keep in touch
Peace

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Melanie Coady

Hehe - had me chuckling this, bet it's great read out loud.

Did you mean to misspell the title btw?

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

Have you managed to sort it now?
Paul explains it better than I - and also all the other changes WOL has recently implemented -

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1068&NewsGroupsID=26

Cx

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi there

WOL chat has a few little foibles that can make conversation challenging. I'm guessing from the long silence that you navigated away (there's no turning back sadly)and I was talking to myself (cut & pasted below)... hope it was of some help. You can message me (or any of the admin. team) if you're still having problems

Cx

'a few changes on site yes -

if you got to your profile

on the right hand side you will see your last few poems - you can access any one by clicking on it

the way blogs display has changed

so only your latest blog will show up - but the others are all there

if you go in to your latest blog

you will see underneath

all your previous blogs for the month in blue

we were trying to find a compromise that would suit those who were finding the many blogs difficult to navigate but at the same time not restrict those who like to write more

oh - and chat on here is hopeless so if you've navigated away from this page ... you can't get back and i am now talking to myself'

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Yes very good, I like poems about life and death.

Comment is about That is all (blog)

Original item by David Mac

Love is lijke that, a mixture of hate and desire.

Comment is about I Love You, I Love You Not (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Very meaningful as usual

Comment is about My generation (blog)

Nice and dreamy

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Chris!
Thank you for the comment on 'Funny Boned' I could not view it and now that I have re-submitted it (slight edit) the submission 'Middle East' has disappeared! Has there been a change in the 'format'?

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Sorry about this folks, this poem (slight edit) was unavailable for me to view and I tried to access it to no avail, however Chris WAS able to view it. I do not know what is going on here. :o/

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Superb.
Cx

Comment is about Funny boned (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Elaine I'm glad you liked the poem.

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Nice one Kath again - particular liked the first two lines... good stuff xx

Comment is about Dreamer (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

love it, janet.. one of my favourites of yours so far and it's also defo one to be read / performed i think owning to the beat with it... top one!! xx

Comment is about For the Good Times (blog)

Hahaha this is great :)

Comment is about Valentine (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Hi Elaine,
Thank-you for reading and commeting on 'autumn' - very much appreciated.
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Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Such odd fragments we remember - you have caught this so well, Janet.

Comment is about For the Good Times (blog)

This poem has great rhythm and wonderful imagery. I found it both joyful and yet very sad too.

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Still liking this series very much - each one adding to the last. Your imagination is able to make such wonderful, mythical tales from this setting. I am looking forward to the next one already! Enchanted or secret gardens surrounded by a dangerous wilderness is a very ancient theme. It contrasts heaven and hell, gods and mortals, rational and irrational, Eden and the Fall - so much for the audience to enjoy. I love the idea of the merging of the male and female principles - it is a version of god that I find very appealing - combining all in one without prejudice or stereotype.

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #5 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

good poem Charlene-keep the faith,like you there are lots of young people doing amazing unsung things in todays society-xx

Comment is about My generation (blog)

Really good story encapsulated here, Kenny. Like it a lot.

Comment is about Valentine (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Hi, dear Charlene! We all try to be the best. But! Is it possible to say that this or that generation is better or worse? In all generations there was something good, there was something bad. And... all generations are so different. Can you tell me what generation was the best?

Comment is about My generation (blog)

Great poetry Cynth - one of your best!

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Well isn't this charming?! Lol x

Comment is about Car Crash Blowjob (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Re; Kismet - thanks again Laura for the re-assuring follow on

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

True, so true.
but.... the brighter side to this little philosophical quandary is that whatever we do with our lives, whether brain surgery, saving kids in Africa (like Gary Glitter maybe :D ) or pissing our days away on cider in a freezing bus shelter - each life is as "valid" as any other... that there is no "better" version of events, only different ?

Comment is about That is all (blog)

Original item by David Mac

Phew ! - I thought for a moment we were going to have an unhappy ending !
(I love happy endings)

Comment is about Car Crash Blowjob (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

It's so easy to let outside influences colour our world, to be so care free, to be aware but refuse to be sullied, to live a full life anyway - I could weep!

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Lovely poignancy...

Comment is about For the Good Times (blog)

Purely for the dual sakes of alliteration and perversity, I was willing the last line to end as:
It seems to me a sad and lonely walk
Betrothal, birth, baptism, betrayal.
The dramatist's tic, perhaps? But that would change it toward a feminist poem; or not. In fact, I can see an entirely different poem emerging from the last three lines. Shades of Gray's famous Elegy, both written in/of a Gloucestershire churchyard.
I love that idea of "who has walked this path?".

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

No

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I'm wondering how many variations on a fox you can come up with? Will we get to see one skinned and wrapped around a neck one day?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Brilliant imagery and the contrast in emotions is spot on in my opinion. Great observations of the cultural differences.

Is this inspired by the big fat gypsy weddings theme? It feels like that to me :-)

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Already you think deeply, as Francine says. I'm really glad you are expressing these thoughts in the poetic form. Poetry can't even exist without the inspiration of productive, personal thinking first. 'You can't attack what is already gone' is very good.

Comment is about Cosmic law (blog)

This is superb, Dave. What an amazing 'race you are running'; and then, being inspired with insights, you are so motivated and capable of sharing your visions with friends. It is a privilege to read these poems.

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #5 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Isobel,
Thanks for reading and commenting on 'autumn' - always much appreciated.
The last two lines don't work - just not quite sure what I want to do with them. The point was (kind of) supposed to be about the finality of it for us ... or something. Need to edit it anyway!
:)
Cx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you for reading and commenting on 'autumn' - I agree that the last two lines definitely need work, still considering which way to go with them.
How are you? Hope you are well.
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I love this Cynthia! By the time you'd got to


"She pushed a beat-up baby pram

Carrying a peanut butter sandwich, two books,

A cheap blanket won at a church fair,

Eyeglasses wrapped in toilet paper,

And a tambourine"


I was totally smitten by her! xx

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas