Love this last line especially about unrehearsed steps running joyfully into the day. It's also a great metaphor of what we all need to do right now as well!
Comment is about Daughter (blog)
Original item by JJ
Sat 16th May 2020 19:45
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Sat 16th May 2020 17:07
With stocks at rock bottom investors have as usual turned to gold and the price has shot up. But what will happen after the goldrush?
Comment is about Only love can break your heart (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I thought this was a great poem and was mesmerised by the reading. I love the way it builds and builds, until the last verse nails it.
Comment is about BEAT THE DRUM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sat 16th May 2020 16:51
The myth of medusa was always one that saddened me for medusa did nothing wrong but be beautiful, its very refreshing to see her find love in such a modern and comical rendition of her tragic fate.
Comment is about Heart Of Stone (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Sat 16th May 2020 16:45
This poem is so raw and powerful, the words put to use in eloquent symmetry while not failing to ever lose purpose of the main gist of the poem makes it so very unique, the possibility of redemption even for the worst of sinners throughout all religions is what gives people hope and teach them to be better.
Comment is about Still Hope (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Sat 16th May 2020 16:21
As a person stuck in the busy city whose soul is always yearning for the mountains, this vivid imagination helped take me back to the only place on earth where my soul was offered some respite, thank you.
Comment is about Landscape (blog)
Original item by Robert Neest
Yes, Greg, that was the one that got me started again after all that time. I had eight amazingly prolific years in which I must have written getting on for 300 poems until three years ago I stopped again. It is all a bit of a mystery to me. It seems to me that the real poems come unbidden and I don't need to chasing after the ones that don't need to be written.
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for the kind comments lads - appreciate it ?
Comment is about Heart Of Stone (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
<Deleted User> (18118)
Sat 16th May 2020 13:35
Wonderful poem.
Tragic how that brave generation has been so let down.
Hannah
Comment is about Escape (blog)
Original item by simon lucan
Hello Po, thank you for the welcome and for your kind words about my poem.
I've actually been on the site for a while but due to a technical glitch haven't been able to post anything recently, however I'm pleased to say a kind soul at WOL helpline has restored me and I hope to find my way around and read the wonderful words of likeminded people like yourself.
Hilary ?
Comment is about Hilary Walker (poet profile)
Original item by Hilary Walker
Sat 16th May 2020 11:27
my wife says
if I don't behave,
I'll soon see the inside
of my grave!
?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Lovely tale of regret. Reminded me of this poem by Betjeman, Tom.
https://lisaboo83.tumblr.com/post/120437791380/pershore-station-or-a-liverish-journey-first/amp
Comment is about Jetty Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
Your first poem after a 20-year gap, according to Facebook, David? Dylan as a writing prompt ... seems fair enough.
Comment is about Stereogram (blog)
Original item by David Cooke
Thanks, Po. The beat was provided by me tapping a bodhran I have which I bang at the end of the drive on Thursday nights. An unusual hobby, I know.
Comment is about BEAT THE DRUM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Love it! Reminds me of a mermaid. Siren of the sea! ❤️
Comment is about Jetty Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
I agree with Don here that the imagery and spice of it kept the reader’s interest and the rhyming works. ?
Comment is about Jetty Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
D, To learn more about the statues, google “Kissing Rocks Dogpatch USA “. Maybe I will write a poem about them someday!
Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)
Original item by Vautaw
Welcome to the WOL family Liam! So glad you decided to share your art here among friends. I’m enjoying your collection already. Write on!
Comment is about Liam Osaneo (poet profile)
Original item by Liam Osaneo
Love this uplifting piece Liam. We all need a friend like this! ?
Comment is about friend (blog)
Original item by Liam Osaneo
Wow! Stunning piece Dominique. ?
Comment is about Life's tears (blog)
Original item by Dominique Lucas
Poetry takes us to that magical place where love lives forever. Heartbreaking, beautiful, raw... Write on my friend.
Comment is about Only love can break your heart (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Just joking when talking 'bout injections
You people believe all what I say
Just gimme a break (have a giggle)
I'm making US great hey de hey
?
Comment is about Trump. What Virus? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
This is interesting.
I usually am not attracted to long poems. I fall asleep halfway.
When I got to the line 'her summer dress riding high' I thought hello? a bit of spice could be coming up. (So read on Don....)
I did, and suddenly 'her dress was barely there'. (interest develops...)
What next I thought?... 'in one movement I was shirtless' ...(go Tom)
Then 'in another she was naked'
Then the climax 'as our bodies coalesced'
You needn't worry about not holding my attention in a long poem with spice like this peppered through it Tom.
Re the rhyming - to me it doesn't have to rhyme throughout. You have thrown in some for a bit of variety. i like that. As a rhymer meter is important to me. It has to flow and bounce along (even if not rhyme). You do this well.
I like your couples time/rhyme, sewn/stone, breaths/coalesced, side/spied, quickly/folly, grip/slip, thunder/armour, grows/close
Don't put yourself down. I like your peppered rhyming here.....
Comment is about Jetty Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
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Fri 15th May 2020 22:09
This is a beautiful dream come true. A happily ever after fairytale. Heart satisfying write I must say.
Comment is about Meet Me By The River (blog)
Original item by Lee Franks
I enjoyed the entire poem, but there was one line that I fell for;
"There was lust upon our minds as a veil upon a bride." Reading that left me smiling.
Well done.
-J
Comment is about Jetty Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
This is beautiful? Well done.
-J
Comment is about Life's tears (blog)
Original item by Dominique Lucas
Done that, poetry as I see the situation Trev Style, the truth as Trev sees it, not everybodys but mine
Comment is about 'Be bold and be brave': that's the message from competition judge Andrew McMilllan (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sent mine
Comment is about Please help us spread the word, to raise funds for our beloved, brave, tireless NHS staff (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Her eyes
sees
His eyes
bringing hope
despite the
overwhelming odds
another life
is saved.
Comment is about Behind The Mask (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
So true Don
thanks for your likes
Moon girl
Alive-sunflower
Stephen Gospage
Ruth
and
Aviva.
Comment is about Thank You N.H.S (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I keep asking myself, what is wrong with the single word "fatalities"?
Comment is about BADLY, MADLY, SADLY (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A hearty (and deserved) tribute to those keeping the rest of us going.
Comment is about BEAT THE DRUM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you guys, plenty more to come, love writing these. ?
Comment is about A Cheetah Ate A Pizza (blog)
Original item by Lee Franks
This had me thinking of the "blue chord" that resonates with certain
emotions. More "medicine for the mind".
Comment is about INSTANT HIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Marvellous stuff and nonsense, Lee. There should be more of this on WOL rather than the worthy navel-gazing we see so much of.
Comment is about A Cheetah Ate A Pizza (blog)
Original item by Lee Franks
Ha-ha...not too far from reality, that's for sure.
Remember...
It's not you they wish to save
But the trouble of taking you to your grave!!
Comment is about Non-Essential (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Welcome reason to smile at both the content and form. Nice to get
a happy ending (of a sort) too.
Consider Medusa
Snakes alive...
She's no loser!
Comment is about Heart Of Stone (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Ruth O'Reilly
Sat 16th May 2020 22:27
Beautiful poem Victoria, great warmth. Yes the most important things are never forgotten. Just like the way you may forget a name but never how well a person makes us feel.
Comment is about Forgetfulness (blog)
Original item by Vautaw