nice stuff m8... for some reason i keep thinking you need a but on the last bit so 'every night i fall asleep / a stranger' becomes 'but every night i fall asleep / a stranger' - nice still.

Comment is about Man of Many People. (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

these are getting shorter and shorter, jeff. - nice - lol

Comment is about MONA LISA (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Interesting Christopher

I gather the ladybird can be a sign of good luck and fortune and that the yew also has many folklore connections. There maybe more to this little offering than meets the eye? Bishy Barnabee would appear to be Norfolk slang for the Ladybird and the poets voice is from that area (Blakeney near Holt)
How am I doing? intriguing, Winston

Comment is about Astute Coccinellidae (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Thanks for your comment Kealan. If you live in Bolton, you should try to make the next poetry night at the Howcroft - there is normally a good gathering of poets there - though most of them are a good bit older than you! Hopefully see you around. Isobel x

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

So what was the dog called?

Comment is about Always there never to be forgotten.... (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Yep - I certainly do have a lust for life - that lust seems to get more acute, the further I get through it...Thanks for your comment Gus.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

A distinct improvement on the last 'Room Available' poem Alain and good to see you posting poetry. So glad I've left behind all those nasty flat sharing nightmares - you can so easily lose friends once you have to live with them. An enjoyable piece.

Comment is about Unholy Occupation (blog)

Original item by Alain English

this is a great poem, very surreal haha nly messin, great news though, glad to see its doing so well, GREAT SITE.

Comment is about Site Stats for October 2009 (blog)

good work jeff, i dont know what love is, maybe its the mystery that attracts us all to it (even though we know its bad for us?)

Comment is about What is love?.... (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

enjoyed this back and fourth rythm, good topic answers are only statements we havent questioned yet

Comment is about Questions Or the Answers (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Very accomplished work Carol. I agree with Pete, some fine words.

Comment is about Gaggle me (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Hi Cynthia. Sorry I am late replying to you, I have limited internet access. Thank you for you feed back on Victim Empathy. The Bullying experience is true, However Although I wonder how it would be for me to confront the people involved-I havent actually done so. As the poem says, I feel it would fall on deaf ears if I did so. They would not accept that it had been that bad.
I dont live within the experience, but it does have knock on effects sometimes. It was good to get it all out in writing. Glad you like it.
Look forward to reading your work on here.
Take care em.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Matt

Thanks for the comment which is appreciated - will come back on the blog when I've had a think about it. St. George is terrific. There are a few typo's but who cares, it's wonderful

Comment is about Matt Panesh, Monkey Poet (poet profile)

Original item by Matt Panesh, Monkey Poet

Wonderful wonderful ... so wonderful I can smell the earth .... just wonderful

Gusx

Comment is about Samhain (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Hi Janet, I love the description in this poem

Comment is about A Fiddlers Tale (blog)

Wow so many poets, what a great site, well done write out loud!

Comment is about Site Stats for October 2009 (blog)

Thanks Pete for your generous comment

Comment is about Gaggle me (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Your poem reflects well the turmoil of a mind that has experienced loss. The memories will always be there but 'passion for life' is a biggy and sometimes allows us to turn corners.

Comment is about The Sun Shone (blog)

Only just found this Nicky, enjoyed it and can certainly connect with it!

Comment is about Apples and Pears (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Dave
Just a line to say thanks for taking the time to comment. Hope you had a good hol.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I was away when you posted this Steve and have only just found it. Powerful, and challenging even now.

Comment is about Complicit (blog)

I really like this - rich in associations and images which enhance each other. It builds a picture full of life and love which is greater than the sum of its parts. Excellent choice

Comment is about My Gaudi House (article)

Beautiful words Deborah
Freda

Comment is about Samhain (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Thanks Carol! Me and S/M enjoyed your company too! x

Comment is about Clare Kirwan (poet profile)

Original item by Clare Kirwan

I love the mystical quality and depth of your poetry Deb...

Poetic enchantment... : )
'Together we crossed the
wildest mountain passes
across moors of twisted heather
where bees rise on currents
of honeyed air.'

Comment is about Samhain (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

WoW! I loved this!

blog, blag, woof wag.
collect your essence on his lap

surreal and original

Comment is about Gaggle me (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Hi Gemma

Have only just come across this. Free verse isn't easy but your use of words here is powerful. It walks the reader right into the experience. The understatement creates a real tension. Just the one expletive when one can sense the urge to use ten - perfect.

I can connect with the content as can many of us for sure - hope things are looking up.

Comment is about Keep Talking (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Enjoyed this Nicky - Silence is something truly beautiful, especially up on the moors, with the sky for company - one other great natural phenomenon that gets ignored. Only just found this, coincidentally having just been told that a friend has had tinnitis for the last 20 years, which I'd never realised - she "suffered in silence"

Comment is about Silence (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

thank you neil thats very sweet of you :)

Comment is about layla turner (poet profile)

Original item by layla turner

I was looking back through this months poems and noticed this, don't know how i missed it at the time because i think its brilliant!

Comment is about The Taleban are skittin' me Nan (blog)

Original item by stephen smith

i really enjoyed this.. so cleverly written x

Comment is about Crisis in the Skies (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Nina, welcome to WOL. I enjoyed 'Jam', good story well told:)

Comment is about Nina Boyd (poet profile)

Original item by Nina Boyd

Hi layla, welcome to WOL. Your sample is a powerful piece of writing and blurs the divisions between poetry and prose. I look forward to sharing more of your work:)

Comment is about layla turner (poet profile)

Original item by layla turner

Hi Nikki, welcome to WOL. I enjoyed visiting your site. I enjoyed Material Comfort the most from your samples, very sensuous, I thought your use of language very effective. looking forward to reading more of your work:)

Comment is about Nikki Bennett (poet profile)

Original item by Nikki Bennett

Hi Nicky, I've just read Crisis in the Skies and I think it's fab. It's right up my street, I like the humour, the story, the structure - very good. Quite Blakeish but with a cheerful ending! Why the minimalist profile? I know you do much much more than just write.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Kealan, thanks for the enjoyment.. there's poetry that showers the reader with metaphor, and poetry that explores a single metaphoric situation. I hope you try both.. and keep writing.
Michael

Comment is about The Fires of Burning Midnight. (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Neil, thanks for your comments on Cemetery Gates, the reference to the dead lying in line is more a reflection of her not being able to move in in that even they aren't bothered that she goes back mourning day after day, all a bit morbid I know! cheers Jeff

Comment is about Neil West (poet profile)

Original item by Neil West

Hi Clare, love your poems. Thanks for a great day on Sunday and congratulations again on winning the Big Issue competition.
Here is a small ode to your kind friend

Thank you for the journey
Your pleasant company
Although your name is Sheila
You’re Muriel to me:)

Comment is about Clare Kirwan (poet profile)

Original item by Clare Kirwan

thats me then x

Comment is about From Beneath Hades. (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Looking forward to seeing some poems...
Winston

Comment is about Nikki Bennett (poet profile)

Original item by Nikki Bennett

John it would be a very different world if we were all focused on the future I think we d be savages with no reflection, guilt or remorse.
The mesosphere idea is just that 3 layers of night could be the equivalent of hell above us and perhaps heaven below just as you describe with you thought reversal pattern. Kealan maybe the greeks would have us in mesosphere as a form of pergutory. youre dead right we wouldnt be there breathing...not even the giants.
anyway back to earth...
Between courage and heaven
There are heroes in doorways
These are the lines reminding me of the homeless.What were you alluding to here?

Comment is about From Beneath Hades. (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Enjoyed this, good work. Ever heard 'Canons of Christianity' by Phil Ochs?
Cx

Comment is about Fear Theory (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Super poem; runs with the humour ball to a cheering touchdown! If it weren't so true, it wouldn't be so funny. Great observations.

Comment is about In Many Ways, My iPod Is Better Than Your iPod (blog)

Very good. Well argued with some very strong points and imaginative presentation..Thanks for the warning.
Check your typing so that your ideas are not compromised. eg religion; If 'you're' a hardcore Catholic ...

Comment is about Fear Theory (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Isobel,
Thanks for reading.Comments left on Ronaldo blog. Win

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Great response Steve. The darker side of the siren, from temptress to gutteress, to waking up on the Sunday morning next to a nameless face and not remembering what you did the night before after a cocktail of drinks -( not that I ever did that, more of the treat em mean keep em keen girl way back when I was younger).

Nice bit of grit steve, nicky x

Comment is about Siren on the Rocks (blog)

Powerful. Challenging.

Lessons of loss
loosens me, to the dot
of somebody's pupil
blinking me away.

Is a fantastic segment of words.
And now the TV dies and everyone stands for the national anthem. The BBC is closing down.

win

Comment is about Lessons of loss (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

no credit card. no iplod. :-)

Comment is about In Many Ways, My iPod Is Better Than Your iPod (blog)