I agree with Kevin, Clare. I admire your work so much.

Comment is about Circumspect (blog)

Original item by Clare

Thank you M.C. & John for the always encouraging comments. Inspired (if different) by the song attached! 🌈

Comment is about The pretty, little flower girl (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Aye, Uilleam... through the ages, the weight of duty and scope weighs heavy on those whose daily decisions the rest of us rely on. Thanking you kindly. 🌷👍

Comment is about prehensile pledge (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

I can resonate with this poem, Sarah. Well written and constructed.
Thank you.

Comment is about PAY AS YOU GO (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

“I’d already forgot”. It only gets worse, Sarah Louise.

Comment is about PAY AS YOU GO (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

Many thanks, Stephen, Uilleam and Grace.
Yes, Stephen, the reaction at Oxford is hugely disappointing. When I was a student we welcomed contrary challenging opinions as part of intellectual critique. Cancelling them is the first mile on the road to burning books.
“Phallusy” Uilleam. Excellent. I’ll pretend I wrote that.
“The Good Old Days”, Grace. We give our ages away!

Comment is about THEN SHE WOULD ROW, ROW, ROW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Back of the net, John! Er, sorry ...

Comment is about Quality Punditry (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

Wow! I feel ordinary again. Love so much in here. Particularly 'in an overcoat wind' and 'the blue 2D pencil sketched man
lies with his skinny paintbrush hands'.

Comment is about A DAY IN THE MIND (5 scenes seen on a day trip) (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Thanks for the comments, and if I ever do get famous, I'll sure let everyone know how 😁

Comment is about Almost Famous (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

There for the grace of god and all that for my own club. Best of luck getting 'back'. I know it took a long time last time...meanwhile the poem! Really like it, tells a very heartfelt story for something you love but at the same despise because of the money. I throughly agree!

Comment is about The Bottom Line (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

OMG! what a truly wonderful all round performance John!
I think if Leonard Sachs had read and heard this you would have been signed up for a spot on the Good old days instantly 😂

oh Leonard! ( assuming that you are still with us? )
please bring back that much loved program so that I need not have to get to see the old progs ( but thankfully so ) on Y/Tube

Comment is about THEN SHE WOULD ROW, ROW, ROW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

It does indeed Robert!

Comment is about Insouciance (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

I think I'd run out of papyrus before I could match that Rob.👍

Comment is about A DAY IN THE MIND (5 scenes seen on a day trip) (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Thanks for a good belly laugh John.
The triumph of biology over phallusy.
Rowlocks to all that bollocks

Comment is about THEN SHE WOULD ROW, ROW, ROW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, JD. A bit like a souped-up Whitsun Weddings (without the weddings). A fine, evocative ride.

Comment is about Returning home on the Flying Scotsman 1983 (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

I loved the quirkiness of this, John. I remember escaping from the lounge with my mum at the care home, to get away from Jeremy Kyle and other daytime TV at 200 decibels!

Comment is about The Escape Committee (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

Three cheers for satire, Uilleam.

Comment is about Urine Extraction (blog)

Irresistably brilliant and funny, John. (I should keep away from the Oxford Union, though).

Comment is about THEN SHE WOULD ROW, ROW, ROW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for this splendid poem, Tim. I rely mostly on trains now. Took the TGV to Paris last week. 80 minutes. No one can beat that.

Comment is about My life on track (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

Thank you so much, John.

And thanks to Hugh for liking.

Comment is about Playtime (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Saharan palm tree pages
laced with a guitar riff secret...
I'd love to spend just 1 minute inside your mind, Rob. 😅 A Wondrous trip 👏

Comment is about A DAY IN THE MIND (5 scenes seen on a day trip) (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Yes Uilleam, I'd go everywhere by train if I could but sadly there is usually a reason I can only drive, such as that the train doesn't go there!

Comment is about My life on track (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

I love that word.

Comment is about Insouciance (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

SO COOL!

Comment is about Insouciance (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

😂👍

Comment is about STOP SIGN (blog)

Original item by Short Attention Span Poetry

You Rob will never know how very very pleased I am to see you and your very very readable and inspiring poetry back on WOL
cheers!

Comment is about A DAY IN THE MIND (5 scenes seen on a day trip) (blog)

Original item by Rob Cohen

Thank you, one and all, for the comments and "likes".

Comment is about CARPE DIEM (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A pretty tale, embodying the morality it deserves in the best
tradition of such things. Evil will come home to roost.

Comment is about The pretty, little flower girl (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Superb! Great title, great resolution.

Comment is about Why to this court this case you did bring ? (blog)

Original item by hugh

Serious? yer avin' a laff!

The Heege Manuscript which ‘pokes fun at everyone, high and low’ is among the earliest evidence of the life and work of a real minstrel

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/mad-and-offensive-texts-shed-light-on-the-role-played-by-minstrels-in-medieval-society

Fellow WOLers, you must never be boring,

For the high and the mighty need lowering,

Now you stand on the shoulders

Of piss-takers who’re older;

Truly ancient extractors of urine.

Comment is about When did performance poetry get so serious? (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Totally agree!

Comment is about If there was a rain like such (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

😂

Comment is about Why to this court this case you did bring ? (blog)

Original item by hugh

Hear, hear!😏

Comment is about Why to this court this case you did bring ? (blog)

Original item by hugh

Thanks JD.
I wonder just how much of the original there is left after countless "restoration" jobs?
And how many steam engineers / craftsmen are there still working who are capable of carrying out such work?
From time to time, a magnificent sight on the East Lancs Railway.
https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/about-us/the-flying-scotsman-at-elr/

Comment is about Returning home on the Flying Scotsman 1983 (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Thanks Cody.
I sometimes find that concluding lines tend to sum up a piece; they serve as a "target"-and then I build up around them.

Comment is about Writers block (blog)

Original item by Cody Roach

The beauty of Nature is healing, I love the sound of running water in gardens and in the wild.

Comment is about Circumspect (blog)

Original item by Clare

All the more poignant for its simplicity, Stephen.

Comment is about The pretty, little flower girl (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thanks Tim.
I must say, I prefer to take the train rather than drive, when I can.
Driving through the Lakes for instance, beautiful as the scenery is, I need to keep my eyes on the road-so frustrating!

Comment is about My life on track (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

Very evocative, JD. Its whistle is very distinctive, like a cracked copper kettle. One of my own recollections of train travel was being unable not to watch the mesmerizing rise and fall of the trackside telephone wires. Are they still there or has technology seen their demise?

Comment is about Returning home on the Flying Scotsman 1983 (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

A lovely picture of Forget-me Nots-saw masses of them the other day.
A very sad piece John.

Comment is about RHAPSODY IN BLUE (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Another marvelous piece from WOL’s own “war poet”.

Comment is about Playtime (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

thank you, Bethany,

Comment is about Returning home on the Flying Scotsman 1983 (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Thank you all (John, Uilleam, Manish, Kevin, Keith, Hélène, Graham and Stephen A) for these kind and fascinating comments. I agree that one can play vigorously as a child without becoming a violent lawbreaker and it's also clear that many women can be aggressive and commit crimes.

Neverthless, there is an undeniable link between boys' belligerence and the nastiest manifestations of violence in society, culminating in war.

War correspondent, Graham? That's kind of you ,but these people are brave (and often quite young). I think I'll stick to poetry for the time being!



And my thanks to Telboy, Clare and K Lynn for liking this poem.

Comment is about Playtime (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks are due to Keith, Uilleam, Hugh, Bethany, Kevin & Matilda. Rules are there to be broken. As Emily Dickinson did so long ago in her beautiful poem: "Because I could not stop for Death."

Comment is about My body is a pebble (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you for taking the time to read & comment on my little folkloric tale, Kevin, Stephen, Manish & Uilleam 🌈
And for the likes Hugh, Moonlight & Clare 🌹

Comment is about The pretty, little flower girl (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

A colourful poem if ever there was one, Helene! 🌈

Comment is about Painting with Words (blog)

Original item by Hélène

JD you have put me in first class!

Comment is about Returning home on the Flying Scotsman 1983 (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Succinct & brilliant as usual, Stephen 👏

Comment is about Playtime (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Lovely stuff, Clare 🌈

Comment is about Circumspect (blog)

Original item by Clare

Thank you for your sweet words, I appreciate them a lot! 😊-Oizys

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