Nobody wins or loses and kindness is never in vain x

Comment is about You Win (blog)

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Oh dear...... X sending light x

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Jordyn, as always, thank you for the like.

Comment is about You Win (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

Keith, if my pain can help bring healing or understanding to someone then it has not been in vain. Not that I welcome it or want it.

Comment is about You Win (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

A poem with some very powerful expressions which leave the reader under no misapprehension what is taking place. This poem is revelatory at a time when gender violence continues unabated. A powerful poem.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about You Win (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

Abdul,

This poem has a special quality, seldom found these days, whereby the reader is immediately brought into the scene with the writer.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about What light from yonder window shone? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Thanks to Nigel for the like. Always great hearing from you buddy (:

Comment is about A Tanka and a Haiku about the rain (blog)

Original item by Andy N

The Zombie was one, Nigel as you should have would have guessed. I'll not reveal the second (:

Comment is about Consequences (Part 1) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Quite a walk around there, Nigel if you ever fancy it must admit. Thanks for your response.

Thanks also to Bluesky.girl and Mocosy. The picture and piece was wrote just around the corner from where I live (:

Comment is about Behind You (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for the like, Stephen.

Love your response Nigel. Thoughtful as always.

Comment is about Disappearing in the midnight air across the meadows (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Yes Graham children will always be monstrously affected by virtue of their vulnerability and need for total support. They can of course be trained to hate for the same reason. ad infinitum.

Your comment is most welcome John, I tend to write short stuff mostly, if only to save energy.

Thank you Jennifer as always. Sometimes as with this one I start with an image and work it up - this began with just a hot day like a slit.

Thank you all Vautaw Jordyn and Stephen for your valued likes.

Ray

Comment is about SAND DEVILS (blog)

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Paul I'm sure that you're aware of the source of one word associated with madness. I won't say more.

Thanks for the like again.

Comment is about What light from yonder window shone? (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

Emeka,

Thank you for your comment. It is much appreciated.

Keith

Comment is about Catapulted (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

AH flowers - ever the euphemism for beauty and growth, or even tragedy and loss as in McCrea's, Flanders Fields, where the poppies blew row on row, between the crosses of the fallen in that dreadful earlier war around the Somme and western front and where the larks still flew bravely in spite of all the chaos and the mayhem.

Enjoyed your poem. P. ?

Comment is about Planted Seeds (blog)

Original item by curiousdud3

Lord of the Manor. Arise Sir Stephen.

You sort out the riffrafs.

Enjoyed it.

Comment is about Agony Street (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

After the moment, decides a lot. The moment is where our senses are subject to our emotion.

Great work Keith

Comment is about Catapulted (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Googled the flower and you are correct Jennifer it is Cistus, only problem is it is called magenta rock rose not hot pink.?

Comment is about Hot Pink (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Thank you Tom, Kevin, Paul, Jordyn, Ruth, Stephen and Amatul and also the reticent for your comments on this poem. They were constructive and much appreciated .

Keith

Comment is about Catapulted (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Who knows? He may become Matt Hancock next time. OK, maybe not.
All the best
Steve

Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Lovely rhythm to this, Peter. The pros and cons of brambles!

Comment is about Bramble (blog)

Original item by Peter J Matthews

Welcome to Write Out Loud, Peter!

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Original item by Peter J Matthews

Thank you so much Keith, Jennifer, Stephen, Jordyn, Vautaw, Abdul and Julie for the likes. Very kind of you ?

Jennifer; yes escaping my small apartment has been essential this year and the walks around the outskirts of sunny Sheffield have saved my brain. I hope you've manage to get out and about?

Stephen; so pleased you should say that. I wondered if this might be too personal and specific to my experience to mean anything to anyone else, so thank you!

Julie; thank you too. I'm lucky to live somewhere with so many great views. The fact that every single step I take in this city is either up or downhill is completely worth it for the views alone. Let alone the exercise.

Cheers all ?

Comment is about Holly Hagg (blog)

Original item by Tom

Very well written, and very sad! Liked 'his heart cooled in the ice of their bed'. The old problem vividly presented!

Jennifer

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

This is the first time I have encountered your poetry which I knew within seconds came from the heart. The poem is in many ways cathartic which is important for yourself. It is also a brave statement when one also takes into consideration your biography. It will spur others to be more positive about themselves.

I share your personal difficulties but not in such a complex manner. I can therefore express empathy. Keep on writing and do so with courage and honesty. In so doing you might well liberate many others in a similar predicament.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Don't want to hurt (blog)

Original item by curiousdud3

Powerful, well constructed stuff - as expected from this particular source.
The ease with which virtue assumes its pose is always entertaining if not entirely credible in the real world. The humanity invoked ignores
the inhumanity that encourages this ongoing story of strangers in
search of...what? The fact that the great civilised lands of Europe
are used as stepping stones rather than destinations for newly
found freedom and safety is sidestepped. One might guess why
this situation is not addressed, even before considering the very
real aspects of security, health and social integration here in the UK,
a country less than half the size of France with a population that matches that of the latter. ?

Comment is about Otherness (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

For those of us fortunate to move from day to day free from pain, it
is almost impossible to imagine how it must be for those who have to
live with it. I recall a girl at work in the past who suffered from this
particular affliction and how it would affect her. Various "remedies"
were discussed as well as things to avoid that might cause its onset.
Having the occasional headache is hard enough to bear and that
has to be a guide as to how migraine can do so much to damage
the quality of life with its arbitrary arrival and delayed departure. ?

Comment is about 'When relief blossoms so sweet, so unassuming' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks, Jennifer. I think that having wealth must be a wonderful
thing IF you are a balanced down to earth individual with a sense
of how to enjoy life. It doesn't go unnoticed that many rich folk will
indulge their material wants (NOT needs) - when spreading their
wealth around could add so much to life for others as well as giving
themselves a real reason to relish getting up each day. The
Victorian philanthropists could teach us a thing or two in that respect.

Comment is about WEALTHY PEOPLE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you, as ever, Keith and Cathy and Paul. Keith, I hope it makes more sense as you read it again. TS Eliot said: "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." Also close thanks are due to: Jennifer, Anmolpreet, Stephen and Tom.

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” — Carl Sandburg, from The Atlantic, March 1923.

Comment is about Way (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I tried for two years to push doom/gloom from WOL
Without too much luck or success
It's not how I see poet me fitting in
It's humour I'm looking to address

Comment is about Sylvain Dornon the Stilt-Walking Baker. Well I'll Be.... (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Rebirth indeed!! I hope it stays this way to build a brighter future and a love filled life ahead.

This is beautiful.

Comment is about Relapse (blog)

Original item by Elle Shaine

Rebirth of a pheonix

Comment is about Relapse (blog)

Original item by Elle Shaine

Good thought. Come out of doomy gloomy moments and rejoice. Life is precious so let's have some music, dance and rock n roll....common be happy n cheerful. No one's gonna be hurting if you use the pen to write the pinks instead of blues.....hey you....well expressed.

Comment is about Don't want to hurt (blog)

Original item by curiousdud3

We have had too much gloom and doom here on wol. Please return with your adventurous rides, roller coasters of fun and laughter. Create a sky of happy times in here and keep developing your website side by side.
You're definitely missed here.

I some how feel stilts could be beneficial during covid times only worried how it'd be to run if some one does achch chhuuuoooo.....hehehe

Kindly elaborate???

Comment is about Sylvain Dornon the Stilt-Walking Baker. Well I'll Be.... (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Paul thing are never the same again.

When water in a bowl is stirred invitably some is spilled.

No matter how hard you try to mop up and pour the spilled water back the water level in the bowl shall never be the same again.

The new horizon that will appear after this pandemic is brought under control shall not be the same as before.

We shall have to adapt or perish.

Thank you for your usual astute comments and the like.

Comment is about Curse of social distancing (blog)

Original item by Abdul Ahmad

I think he was walking on his bagettes?

Comment is about Sylvain Dornon the Stilt-Walking Baker. Well I'll Be.... (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Like every good walk, worth the effort to get to the appreciate a view. I enjoyed this walk with you.

Comment is about Holly Hagg (blog)

Original item by Tom

a very intense piece this one Keith
talk about being lost in the moment

loved it

cheers Kevin

Comment is about Catapulted (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

May you deserve this, more and everything good.?

Comment is about Worth (blog)

Original item by Melan Drifter

Thank you S. For taking the time to look back and read.

Comment is about My Place. (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

“I feel free like the breeze.”

I paused a moment and imagined what that might feel like. Beautiful imagery!

Comment is about Unrestrained (blog)

Original item by Shifa Maqba

I love this! I feel more wild when I’m out in the woods. I would spend my days there as a child.

One of my favorite lines is “I always wave back.” Thats so great.

Comment is about My Place. (blog)

Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth

Jordyn, thank you for the like.

Comment is about Am I Enough? (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

Paul, I’ve been working on that. I grew up in the church being told what and how I had to believe. I’m finding things out on my own. I prayed years ago that my faith would be authentic and I believe God would have it that way.

I’m running ahead trying to catch up with you.

Comment is about Am I Enough? (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

I read the apocrypha when I was younger, but that’s been a while.

Comment is about In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts (blog)

Original item by Shehariah

Thanks for the comment and likes, writing isn't exactly my forte.

Comment is about eyes (blog)

Original item by Liam Osaneo

Very good Simon....

Comment is about Crescendo (blog)

Original item by simon lucan

Well constructed and well rhymed Ian.....

Comment is about Otherness (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

spending every last penny to escape the hell of their lives and when they finally get here they find the placed populated with the same fascist, bigoted, uncaring fools that they were trying to escape from - that's life ?

Comment is about Otherness (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Blue skies darken
leaving no clues
to the unseen ripples.

Comment is about Disappearing in the midnight air across the meadows (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks Keith, and thank you Jennifer, I do like a bit of inspiration and optimism.
Night always gives way to day as day does to night.

J. x

Comment is about Dawn (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss