Thanks for the Likes, Kevin and Stephen.
Comment is about NOT QUITE RIGHT IN THE HEAD (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Can we pretend
it doesn't harm anyone
to keep on pretending
Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Clever play on words Aviva! ❤️
Comment is about Tossed Salad (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Beautiful romantic poem Nicholas. Love it. ❤️
Comment is about My love ... (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
Welcome to WOL, where lots word nerds and outcasts huddle to share poetic stories of despair and triumph. Write on! ~ V
Comment is about Salemrising666 (poet profile)
Original item by Salemrising666
Great awareness poem Hugh. ❤️
Comment is about Homeless, under 25 ?Centrepoint will find the right support for you. (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 18th Dec 2020 12:53
I like it. Had to read it a couple of times to get the fact that you'd jumped into someone else's skin. I could believe that you'd got the story first hand from the lady in question.
Comment is about Cracks (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
A succinctly tasty, little salad
Comment is about Tossed Salad (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Songs From The Umbra
poetry by Clive Culverhouse
a poem of self struggle where both sides within come together
Comment is about Songs From The Umbra (blog)
Original item by Clive Culverhouse
It sounds as if your love errs on the side of being perfect.
Either that, or she reads your poems
Or both.
Comment is about My love ... (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
Wise ways
You forged ahead before your time
Of which you should be proud
Knowing back then how plans unwind
Some still can't work it out.
Not yours to bemoan as others do
How their life's efforts came to naught
Or that they wish they'd earlier knew
Life of a freer sort.
For you instead, life every day
Feels like it's just beginning
No matter what others might say
To me that sounds like winning.
And life it is a learning curve
And we are as we're shaped to be
So we thus no pride or shame deserve
Of anything we've been.
Comment is about When I grow up (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
A poem which draws our attention to something which we might give little thought to but in reality can have a profound significance. We leave our foot print without knowing it. A poem which merits quite some thought in the way we regard others.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about A piece of you (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Fri 18th Dec 2020 03:28
If calories are your concern
then do not overeat
it's best to have a poem instead
their norishment can't be beat,
and while a steady diet of
may leave you feeling draineed
a daily poem is never a loss
and always yours to gain.
?
Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
I saw the documentary film of this man. Madman or genius, it's hard to fathom these acts. Intriguing, compelling.
Your piece here brushes his fame lightly, sympathetically, a nice touch.
Comment is about PHILIPE PETTIT HIGH WIRE ARTIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Love this peaceful poem Aviva! ~ V
Comment is about Finding Peace (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Welcome to WOL Agam from one hopeless romantic to another! I’m looking forward to reading your poetry. You’re off to a great start with Fireflies. Write on!
Comment is about agam rawat (poet profile)
Original item by agam rawat
Beautiful poem Agam. Thanks for sharing. ?
Comment is about Fireflies (blog)
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That’s why I’m vegetarian, too complicated being vegan! Great poem for the plant-movement. ?
Comment is about Vegans (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
Thanks Nigel. We had a good laugh here as you may have guessed (: ?
Comment is about Consequences XII and XIII (blog)
Original item by Andy N
I've always thought it is a design fault of Nature that you can't think of nothing. It would be so destressing.
Comment is about Perfectionism (blog)
Original item by Candice Reineke
Ha ha. Food fascism. I've always thought there was a gap in the poetry market for this subject.
Comment is about Vegans (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
Physical poetry, Stephen. I like that.
If wafting your arms about and jumping up and down at Open Mics is poetry, I don't see why a bit of rubber truncheoning isn't.
Comment is about Border Guard (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Nice story telling, Clyde. My daughter used to buy jars of lollipops for a couple of pounds. They worked out about a penny each. She sold them to other kids on the school bus for 5p each, Some mark up!
Comment is about Selling Christmas Trees and Roman Candles, 1950 (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
Thanks Stephen, glad you enjoyed it. The idea came from a memory of our first home, which was a Victorian terraced built in 1900. On the 1st night I stopped there, while I was fixing it up, I was sat in the armchair, left by the previous owner, having a sly glass or 2 in front of the coal fire & for a moment, out the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a door in the middle of a side wall. But when I turned, of course, it was just a solid wall. Anyway, something triggered that memory & this is the result! Thanks again for the comment & Like
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thanks for the likes for my silly little write.
Comment is about Boris Buble Says... Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Strange and threatening and very enjoyable.
Comment is about Border Guard (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
clever poem, I like it
Comment is about Two monkeys brought joy to the jungle at Christmas (blog)
Original item by hugh
Who'd have thought vegans had a bone to pick with each other? Funny bone I suppose.
Or that there'd be some beef between them?
Beef Tomatoes.
Comment is about Vegans (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 17th Dec 2020 17:12
A lot of truth in this piece. My daughter and her husband have become non meat eaters. Not exactly vegetarians, and certainly not vegans, but nevertheless we sometimes have to walk on eggshells a bit in conversation.
Comment is about Vegans (blog)
Original item by Nicholas
A really good poem, Stephen. Evocative and mysterious.
Comment is about A Silhouette in Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Philipos - thanks for the comment and good wishes.
BM - I think the word "bubble"
Might present rhyming trouble!
Besides, it's not very romantic in the seasonal sense. ?
Thanks are also due for the "likes" for this upload.
Comment is about CHRISTMAS SNOW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
This certainly resonated with me, bringing back those post-war
ration-book Christmases in the rural England I knew as a boy, waking
up horrendously early (for the adults, of course!) to scramble down
to the bottom of the bed to locate those stockings bulging with
hidden items that would be "laughed out of court" nowadays as
presents for kids. But then an orange or a bag of sweets were
rare treasures and eager little hands explored each item before
they were revealed and enjoyed. And there was always a BIG
gift to lead us into Christmas Day proper, with its family dinner and
a jaunt down the lane to "walk it off" before settling down for the
evening, with board games or silly card games to provide the fun.
Happy innocent days. Thank you for triggering the memories. ?
Comment is about christmas past, 1947 (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
Thank you Dean Fraser, I am happy it had an impact.
Thanks also to those who have clicked the like button for this poem!
Comment is about The Impact That I Have (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank you to everyone who has clicked the like button for this poem!
Comment is about A Moment Away (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
A neat topical parody - using a grand song to put over its message.
Love the"Boris Buble" (bubble?) association!
Comment is about Boris Buble Says... Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
You are what you are
And had the chance to be
Don't blame yourself
Comment is about A Don't Blame Yourself Poem (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Peace will always come from within
and then shows itself so well when reading this poem.
Comment is about Finding Peace (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thank-you Julie, you fit so much into those two small words. Thank-you for your daily offerings, I am reading. JD.
Comment is about A piece of you (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thank-you Hugh, and Aviva, for the comments. and to all hitting the like. thank-you also. JD.
Comment is about A chip off the old block (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thanks for the comment KJ. Thanks also to everyone for the likes. It will be here before we know it?
Comment is about The Week Before Christmas (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
A bit more of David Constantine's background: "He was born in 1944 in Salford, Lancashire, an urban landscape of factories, red brick terraces and mizzle-grey skies, the Lowry backdrop to his childhood with a nimbus of “visionary dreariness” quite particular to that part of England."
https://poetryarchive.org/poet/david-constantine/
He has this marvellous poem about women in the first world war
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/soldiering/
Our former blogger John Foggin speaks highly of him as well https://johnfogginpoetry.com/2019/07/09/my-kind-of-poetry-david-constantine/
You can hear David Constantine reading a number of his poems in his distinctive northern accent here https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=1081
Comment is about David Constantine awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Measured lines produced
different single visions mirrored
reflected by viewpoints
words develop collage image.
Comment is about Christmas 2020 Collage Poem: The Other Side of Love (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Upper-middle class tedium personified.
Comment is about David Constantine awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Philipos
Wed 16th Dec 2020 23:31
Gosh John, just visited your piece.
Very moving and I guess this appertains to WW1.
Thanks for sharing.
P
Comment is about Ex-communication (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Lovely direct and simple exposition of true memory - worked its wonders on me !
I have enough history to remember a rosy glow at Xmas.
Ray
Comment is about christmas past, 1947 (blog)
Original item by Clyde McCulley
it seems apt (for the story of life) that I can't remember how it started by the time I reach the end of it. I also think I'll have to read it quite a few times to unravel the story but this isn't a criticism of the poem, I just have very poor short term memory. Anyway it feels as if it is being told prettily and wittily and there's some really good moments in it.
Comment is about The story of life (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
Erika Montoya
Fri 18th Dec 2020 15:22
Can we pretend
older people
don't need to talk
about what wonderful things
they did when were younger
Comment is about Can We Pretend (blog)
Original item by Vautaw