Indeed, it happens to me all the time
Comment is about Thought Shot (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Beautiful - lovely to find someone who cares so much about family in this day and age. Wonderfully expressed without any mawkishness.
Jennifer
Comment is about Anything Less Wouldn't Do (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
I made a slight change.
Thanks to all.
Been out of it for a while, good to be back.
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Really brings back Old London. Have you ever read The Maul and the Pear Tree by PD James? It's a report of a grisly murder at London Docks. I had a relation who lived up in Sutherland, and when a raven died at The Tower they used to find another and send it down to London! Cross me heart etc. etc. Great atmosphere.
Jennifer
Comment is about TOWER RAVEN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Liked this one Ray - agreed with GS about finding a rhyme for Clackmannan!
Jennifer
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Really liked this - in death a dominance - had they sought to fly - how they have fallen.
Jennifer
Comment is about Leaves (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
Beautiful evoquative piece John and wow Roy Harper that name took me a long way back to my Birmingham days. Didn't realise that he had 'made it' and had a long career after those eary days.
Thanks
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Comment is about Another day (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Music, poetry, love, sex - how do we disentangle them? Do we need to?
"Music and silence, point and counterpoint; the rhythm and metre of sound brought to measure
Infuses speech, enlivens poetry."
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Hi Don - this elecro-magnetic communication comes to you from the outer reaches of my cosmic brain box. How did it get there? Ah, it was sent, it came and now it done gone went.
The theory of The Force fails of course for force is only horse power and too impersonal a rational to rely on, to fly on, thinking to escape the fate that awaits, thinking to solve the human situation.
All power, from horse to electro-magnetic, kinetic, frenetic, torque, talk, comes from A Person. The One who came as a son and got the job done. In Him we are made one and the angels do hum the song that saves, the poem of the brave that will run and run into and through the new age to come.
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Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Beautiful. If it wasn't for the title I wouldn't have known what it was about. ?
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 26th Oct 2019 16:45
Isn'tlington elite!!!
Comment is about IT CAN BE RIGHT IF YOU'RE LEFT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sorry to tell you this Don, but you're still asleep. It's all a dream.
Comment is about Don't Let Thoughts Go (Poof!) Fly 'Way (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 26th Oct 2019 16:40
Enjoyed all the rhyming Ray, wonderfully contrived. A good time piece with no mention of Harry and Wills' spat, mental health issues, press intrusion etc.
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Respect for getting Clackmannan into a verse! Watch out Pam Ayres!
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
'No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness.' said Aristotle.
Perhaps I can add some of us are more madder than others?......
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Comment is about Untitled (misfits) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Sat 26th Oct 2019 15:03
I would agree with you - I think he was just very creative. Although, I'm a firm believer that all of us creatives are just a little mad, anyway.
Comment is about Untitled (misfits) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Sat 26th Oct 2019 15:02
Thank you! Yes, I can see where you are coming from though. We do look at the same ocean ? Hawaii is very beautiful. Your friend is very lucky!
Comment is about Untitled (cold water) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
JC - I always enjoy the sparring and the good humour that still manages to prevail. Thanks for enlivening this precious often
precocious (and occasionally perplexing?) site.?
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
She's rolling her eyes again.....
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Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hi Brian - What a barking good idea lol. T?
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Hi Ian - Long time no hear. Hope you are well. I am still working at GA from time to time . T ?
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thank you for reading my work, Robert.
Comment is about A darker shade of grey (blog)
Original item by Alta H Mabin (Ally)
I love this poem so much John. I feel the same way about music. It indeed enlivens poetry. Your words create a sweet symphony. ?
Comment is about The speech of angels (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Last comment/rhyme so clever Ruth.......
Comment is about Robotic (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Nigel really? Well we've had a lot of rain tonight so guess you were dancing starkers then.
Of every clothing item
A human
May be stripped
Lest we'll
Not be frightened
Of words we're
Still equipped
Comment is about Robotic (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I think you and Thalia is a fling that's going to stay secret only you and everyone else at WOL knows about it....she doesn't have some Hercules of a husband hiding does she?
Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
I've had a little fling
Spiritual that is
With my sweet Muse Thalia
They're bonding she and his
(Hello Thale, we got an admirer?.....)
Ruth, my star sign's Aquarius. Having a fling in November gonna give us future problems?
What's your star sign pet?
She's just rolling her eyes Ruth....
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Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Clever Ruth.....
Philipos - Thalia is keen on your fishing idea. They don't have lakes on Mt Olympus so it's all new to her. Just have to caution her about the byting electric eels....
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Comment is about Floating On A Raft (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Interesting Emilia. I think there's more to this than meets the eye......
Some people think Lewis Carroll was high on drugs but I read he just had a highly imaginative mind.
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Comment is about Untitled (misfits) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Those electric eels byte at your reel!
Comment is about Floating On A Raft (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Vautaw & Desmond thank you for the like
Comment is about Monday Morning sigh (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Brian - I'm beginning to lean more to the prosaic side in my latter years of poetic journey and feel your last comment has a better poetic feel than your original. To me. A sorta recent Coopey-style feel......
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Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
Sheesh there John, UK seems shot
Going down the gurgler, wot?
Stanzas, rhyme. you've done me proud
Now THIS is poetry on Write Out Loud
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Comment is about MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Winners are grinners, Brian.
Comment is about MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 25th Oct 2019 21:25
At least you can still laugh John
Comment is about MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 25th Oct 2019 21:23
Hugh, your comment is better poetry than the original poem.
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
I whole heartedly thank you Keith.
Comment is about a Living Paradise (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
The clocks go back on Sunday,an extra hour in bed.
But shorter days and colder nights,winter lies ahead!
Three yellow weather warnings have been issued by the met.
A 24 hour deluge of rain we are about to get.
Floods are expected due to leaf blocked drains,
A dark and dismal cloudy sky over the U.K. reigns.
Comment is about The clocks go back on Sunday (blog)
Original item by hugh
Philipos
Fri 25th Oct 2019 18:46
Thought fairies - so unpredictable - here one minute and scarpered the next. What's so irritating is when they don't come back at all having allowed something to chase them off. P. ?
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Yes, I know. I really do rely on a high degree of tolerance among WOLers. I am grateful.
Comment is about Thought Shot (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 25th Oct 2019 14:25
I'm thinking of changing my name to Brian Fido.
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Ian Parker
Fri 25th Oct 2019 13:48
A masterpiece Tom - you've captured the essence of Doolan beautifully.
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Fri 25th Oct 2019 13:42
Thanks, Don and Ruth! Ruth, yes, there is a quote by one of my favorite poets (Rudy Francisco) that goes something along the lines of "I tell myself every hour can be happy hour as long as I'm on this side of the ground". Overall I know this isn't my best work (I've been struggling recently - I think it's because I try to write poetry only around 5 am or so, but that's ok, it's all a part of the process.
Comment is about Untitled (ghostwriter) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 25th Oct 2019 12:59
It'll be automated by then Graham. And I'm old enough to know the CS &N track.
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Fri 25th Oct 2019 12:10
Do not give in
keep a Stiff
upper lip.
Comment is about Body Shaming (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Lisa C Bassignani
Sat 26th Oct 2019 20:17
I hope that's not my horoscope Ruth! November is tough. As a Capricorn I never did get on well with Scorpios.
Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly