Nigel Ah look I see your Soul there now all fully recharged No more I- Soulation! Just keep those bears under control we don't want them going mental screaming all over the place ?

Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Don it sounds like the only Christmas Jumpers in Australia are the Kangaroos!

Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Ruth
needing a recharge
soul has returned
talking to someone
finding without text
a meaningful conversation
mentally unbearably painful
hard to maintain
without screaming again.

Don
Orstralia sounds good

Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks Ruth
working on the darker side of Christmas once again
with my gangland boss Krampos, he has got me filling up sacks with bad kids then getting other members of the gang to take them away.

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

‘If it makes you feel better, it wasn’t in vain, was it?’

Once again, Cynthia, you have used your talent to make me laugh. Thank you!

Comment is about Christmas Cake (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

“Much to do about bugger all!”, Po and Don.?

Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Good golly gosh! the Bard, Macbeth?
Way too posh for me
And what's this high-falutin' thing
Hyperbole-bolee?

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Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Don wherez Roze?? I'm worried too.

Comment is about Does No-one Know Where Rose Is ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

How intense!!! Romantically beautiful... ?

Comment is about If It's LOVE (blog)

Original item by DIYwrites

Oh yea Don!! How clever?? ?

Comment is about The beginning!!! ? (blog)

It takes a lot of courage Alexandra to open your inner self on the open stage to strangers. As said I have written openly about my bipolarity for a while now. I know the problem. What will others think of me? I was told by family it's personal Don, keep it to yourself. I think opposite. How can anyone understand bipolars if no-one talks about it? You can't. To me it's now education. As well as cathartic.

Don

Comment is about Outside of Herself (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

You've posed a deepish question Joe
Is God a he or her
Or her or he (vice versa)
Does it bark or purr?

I've heard no woofs from up above
Can any purrs you hear?
Not getting any sound effects
(Maybe you got blocked ear)

No sign from above Joe. Maybe a him/her hybrid?

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Comment is about Perfect Strike (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Christmas Downunder

Our friends all send us Chrissy cards
Bedecked with snow and holly
And riding on his snowy sleigh
You guessed it, Santa jolly

Forget it's 40 degrees and everyone's sweltering
We all dance round, be jolly (make out)

We open Chrissy presents
In paper tree'd and snowy
You guessed it Santa stars again
All centre-put and showy

Forget it's 40 degrees and everyone's sweltering
We all dance round, be jolly (make out)

We sits ourselves down for our din
Roast turkey, chicken, duck
It's bloody hot, still 40 deg
All I can say is f......

Forget it's 40 degrees and everyone's sweltering
We all dance round, be jolly (make out)

I'm sure card/paper sellers
Must know some Chinese guy
With piles of cast-off Chrissy stuff
Us suckers always buy

Looksee Aussie Aussie Plenty Santa. Going cheap......

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Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Very true, Don. It can take a lot out of a writer to be open about themselves being the subject of a personal and/or delicate poem - well, that has been the case for me anyway. But it is definitely rewarding.

Comment is about Outside of Herself (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Welcome to WOL Joe! Thanks for reading my poem. I'm looking forward to reading more of your work.

Comment is about Joe Marcello (poet profile)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Or maybe men are just more likely to stand under trees or hold metal objects at the time. Be careful out there Joe! ?

Comment is about Perfect Strike (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Thanks Don, sounds like a Christmas book is a callin' you to be written! I always wonder what it's like having Christmas in hot weather like you do.

Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Clever Do.....

Comment is about The beginning!!! ? (blog)

So good Ruth....

Here's my little Christmassy tap tap contribution

That tap you heard on window Ruth
Was really our friend Santa
You didn't hear red Rudolph
Doing little canter?

Of course you didn't Ruthy
He won't come tap tap tap
Until the eve of 25th
Till then there's quite a gap

He's gotta oil n grease the sleigh. Rudolph needs a nose refresh (fades to pale pink in 12 months). Elves gotta be rounded up and brought back from hollies in Bali (and an acceptable paying contract sorted. One year they went on strike over pay. Can you believe that Ruth?). He's then gotta send the team out to all the charity shops and collect gifts for the kiddies. I hope he don't leave you a secondhand trike in error.

As writer of this 'drivel' I get as much pleasure as you the reader. Maybe I could publish my own book 'Drivel According to Poet Don'

Followed up with 'More Drivel.....' 'A Whole Lot More.....

Who's this driveler Don Eth?......

Dunno pet. Some oddball from Orstralia.....

Isn't it Ostrailya Eth?.....

Not according to my cyclopedia pet.....

I told you Google is the latest update Eth.....

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Comment is about I-solation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I am an offbeat poet
I writes so diffrently
I buggers up me grammar
Where are you Rosalie?

And Do says hehehe....

Thalia's giggling.....

Lucy, our LMS Head of Publicity, downs another double whiskey.....

Sheesh Rose I need some stabilization therapy....My women are getting out of control...where are you?

Go check your WOLer inbox girl
What's that? It's broken down?
You haven't told the WOLer techs?
No Rose, my mind's quite soun

Thale? She thinks I've gone off the rails.....

What's this all about Eth?....

Dunno pet......

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Comment is about Does No-one Know Where Rose Is ? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hello? Ruthy's back on board
Spiders are her thing
Arachno...? What's she on about?
Ring a ding a ding

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Comment is about Spinning a yarn (blog)

Original item by hugh

This sounds great.... Medical perfectionist on their way....thnx for sharing Donny dear!! ?

Comment is about Brains to Practice On (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

This is beautiful!!!

Comment is about Above The Fluttering Butterfly (blog)

Original item by ZTK Space

Indeed, MC. But Boris elevates this to an art form. The main difference between other politicians and Boris is that they know they have lied. Boris, like Trump, can’t tell the difference. What he says just serves a purpose.
Po - that’s just a hyper bowl.

Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Really enjoyed 'The Spirit of Christmas' in this month's Printed Words, very witty! What with that and your Halloween piece you're definately a bit of a 'Gangsta Poet' me thinks! ?

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Hugh, this is just something else.....Arachnopornia!?

Comment is about Spinning a yarn (blog)

Original item by hugh

I earn a lotta pennies
Then put them in my piggy
Bank so they will mount up
Form pile real very biggy

No-one will ever bleed me
Cast iron, with no way in
Hey mummy, wanna buy a car
I'm buggered, just can't win

Who taught you the awful word Johnny?.....

My teacha mummy......

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Comment is about CHARITY AND CHARITIES (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I am a little xaggerator
Happy as can be
I xaggerate for dinner
Breakfast, lunch and tea

Others like me xaggerating
(I never ever lie)
I tend to over-xaggerate
But don't know really why?


Wot's he on about luv?

Dunno pet...They breed 'em strange down there....

Oh....

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Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Reality check: All politicians (and others in public life) can lie.
A former cabinet secretary was more restrained when speaking of
"being economical with the truth"; intriguing when considering its
antithesis of that equally well-known public convenience (?) known as "exaggeration"..

Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Po. It will all come out in the wash next week.

Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The Goat's Lair

Wandering lost spirits
live in the forest
hidden from view
haunting forgotten Christmas souls
follow devil's path
finding a mass grave
small children's skulls
littered crushed broken bones
you have entered - - -
The Krampus cave.

Christmas just got darker on this Krampus theme

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

this came to me
while waiting in a Waiting Room.

Comment is about Waiting Room (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Onto the rubbish dump indeed, Don.

Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I am a little Britty train
I love to carry Britties
From one side of our Britty town
To 'nother Britty city

What's that? The rails bit slippy today?

I am real good with slippy rails
(As writer pauses, thinks
How to finish this verse off
Rinky dinky dink?)

Someone's just accused me Rob
Of being kinda racist
My train it only carry Brits
I guess they're right , let's face it

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Comment is about It’s another failed day on Northern Rail (blog)

Original item by Rob Baylis

Yep I'm gonna vote for Borri
He's a top-notch mate
He knows how to top-notch well
Lead us through the gate

Yay!

Lead us all the way Borriiii
Do your LBJ
Lead us all to victory
Hip hip hip hooray

Yay!

Wot's that? he's a liar?
Don't ya worry mate
Borri's on the right path
Through the garden gate

Yay!

Wot's that? The gate opens on to the rubbish dump?

So? Wot's that got to do with it?

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Comment is about COS HE'S A LIAR (BUT YOU'RE NOT BOTHERED THAT HE LIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I am a little poet
Oozing full of love
Generated in me
Not come from above

My love is super simple
Simple as it gets
Despite we've never meeted
Never meeted yet

Thale says I'm improving.....

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Comment is about I love you forever!!! (blog)

Thank you for commenting on one of my recent poems. It is much appreciated.

Keith

Comment is about LeGou (poet profile)

Original item by LeGou

When I first read it, I thought someone was both dad and grand dad to the same person.

Comment is about The Dire Consequences of Room-Temperature Tea (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Welcome Joe. We could all use more smiles! ?

Comment is about Joe Marcello (poet profile)

Original item by Joe Marcello

Does that mean men are also six times more likely to win the lottery? Hey God, what’s up with that?! ?‍♀️?

Comment is about Perfect Strike (blog)

Original item by Joe Marcello

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Comment is about I love you forever!!! (blog)

Thank you Donny dear ?

Comment is about Heart-felt!! (blog)

I like this....

Comment is about Heart-felt!! (blog)

Confusing Dad and Grandad Ran
Needing sort in head
Is due to drinking tea-gone-cold
Have this not you read?

And you a man of great learning ?...

He must've missed it somewhere along the line Don....

Drink your coffee before it goes cold. You don't want to go deaf.....

Must have missed that somewhere along the line Thale...

And you a man of great learning ?.....

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Comment is about The Dire Consequences of Room-Temperature Tea (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Now Randy, FLAIR and Philos
With Cyn produced burst laughter
You've got the magic formula
For what WOL needs, is after

It seems......

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Comment is about Interminable Questions and the Invariable Dimensions of Certain Coffees (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

It's gratifying to read about Richard de Hawtree as I like to call him as he is a genuine scholarly and witty eccentric with that special touch, whose work I am often hearing from my position as part of the Dempsey and Windle entourage, and what a pleasure it is, with his languid and witty delivery always in evidence at readings. Anyone other than the truly learned will have difficulty keeping up with his arcane knowledge applied for one and all, but his enjoyment of his subjects are nevertheless infectious.
Lovely resume by the way Greg.

Ray Pool

Comment is about The Night I Spoke Irish in Surrey: Richard Hawtree, Dempsey & Windle (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you kindly dear Cathy. Carl Sandburg, a glorious American poet, wrote that: “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 The solitary rose of your breath (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you Po!! ?

Comment is about Breathe!!! (blog)

And lovely it is too! ?
Never mind - grandmothers are supposed to grow old (dis)gracefully! ? Personally, I use "merde": not too many people speak French!

Comment is about Christmas Cake (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I absolutely burst out laughing! You have such FLAIR! Philosophy will do that.

Comment is about Interminable Questions and the Invariable Dimensions of Certain Coffees (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton