Oh my God, superb! You're like a contemporary Alain Ginsberg! I love the repetitions, my favorite element in fact. I loved it. Bravo!?
Mae

Comment is about Frogs (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

It has an entrancing ritualistic quality that gets you in the zone, with that circular movement... Great work Adam! Now that would sound awesome in audio! I look forward to hear your recital! Perhaps accompanied by a rhythmic simple drum, like bongos!
Excellent ?
Mae

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Adam, first of all I apologize for taking too long to read your work! Secondly, WOW!!! You are excellent with prose! Kudos! ?
Mae

Comment is about A Question (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

I usually choose this one to read at open mic events where often there are just singer songwriters playing guitar and I'm the only one that reads. But I haven't an audio file for this one. I will add.

Comment is about A Question (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

First of all thank you all! I did try to clean it all up before you had the time to comment!

Adam, there is no risk my friend! Yes of course it's "your"! Thank you! I'm stopping by your profile my friend!

Don, what can I say! Other than "that's an awesome dictionary and I want it!" "Handstiched shocks!" There are no words on this one, put a smile in my face! Now "whateverette" is a new age as you said form of poetry, very radical ?

Devon, fear not! Don't hesitate correct me! I wish it were about commas, but it turns out I'm not a very good poet. When it comes to precision I suck! And while we are on the subject I shouldn't be allowed to type either!


I don't know if it's just me but sometimes I feel like I've forgotten the language!

Thanks all! ?
Mae

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

The silence I struggle with the most is the silence of no response...of ghosting....of wishing to know what another thinks or feels but being cut off from that. I think about how different that silence is from that of a boardwalk on a hot summer day that weaves through headlands on the edge of a continent at a time of day when neither breeze nor bird nor insect speaks. That kind of silence is a blessing.

Hope you don't mind if I borrow my comment and go edit it into a poem.

Comment is about truth or dare? (even no answer is an answer) (blog)

Original item by nunya

Thank you for this wonderful imagery and sound. I kept hearing Buena Vista social club playing in the background.

Comment is about unemployable (blog)

Original item by nunya

That was so wonderful to read.
Thank you.

Comment is about The Man Who Thinks Too Much (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Enjoying the rhythm and intimacy of your poems.

Comment is about Dare to dream (blog)

Original item by Alta H Mabin (Ally)

a poetic description that I think will take some beating. Beautiful!

?! Keith






Rose ?

Comment is about A Reverie (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Mae, greatly enjoyed especially ... a lustrous web for pomposity to dwell.

Friends do tell each other if there is something in their teeth or if their collar is twisted up but ...I understand the trepidation of doing so here. At risk of appearing ignorant and hoping you might still read my poems, long as they are, did you mean to say...wear you festive....or did you mean your festive...

now I am nervous

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

all the thumbs I have are upturned in your honour Lisa-pity I ain't got more than two. No doubt you will be wearing that crown again.







Rose ?

Comment is about 'Happy Tuesday' by Lisa C Bassignani is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm surprised no on else said it but here it is, Good for you.

I enjoyed the call and response quality.

Comment is about Good for You (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

Really good.
It reminded me a bit of "desiderata-Max Ehrmann", which I've just reread.
I've tried a couple of times to write a poem in this style and failed miserably each time.
Thanks for posting
Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Walk The Paths Well Trodden By The Brave (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thank you Devon, Trevor, Ray, and Jemima. Your encouragement means a lot. Looking forward to reading your works.

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

The tragedy of star crossed love breaths life into a poet’s pen. ?

Comment is about Firefly (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Devon - you got nothing to worry about. Oscar Wilde spent a whole afternoon adding a comma then taking it away. There's still hope for you yet. I think there's a rhyme of mine about this dang comma dilemma on my profile. My grand entry to WOL?......

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

And I thought handstitched shocks were the latest thing. It says so in my New Age dictionary. Even says they were invented by a Mae Foreman whom I acknowledged in the dictionary. Looks like I'll have to extract it - 'she said she'd had too many drinks at the the so-called time of invention'......

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Lol, Mae, I spotted a few, but I recollected that my first comment on WoL, though praising the poem, mentioned the absence of a comma in an otherwise well punctuated poem, after which I was promptly chastised. Please, pardon my trepidation.

D

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hey
Mae
Like what
You say

Rhyming's nice
(Used more than twice)
You don't need
My advice

Now Mae, you'll be surprised to learn 'M15t8k3s' is grammatically acceptable according to my New-Age Dictionary (which I wrote) but 'whateverette' is not. It suggests 'whateveritis' (current tense) or 'whateveritwas' (past tense). The author didn't think 'whateverette' made much sense.

Wearing shocks brings added shock value to parading pant-less.

Line six would bring tears of joy to Edgar Alan Poe........

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Yes, yes, I understand. There is an artist who inspired and continues to inspire me to this day, the one who set me right. He is not dead, however, just long gone down the road. Funny thing, maybe some sorta crazy synchronicity, is that I was putting a poem together about him this morning, but I scrapped it. Glad you put this one up. Much better than what I had working.

D

Comment is about An old-fashioned sonority (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

So far I've spotted and corrected 5 or 6 of them! Damn, I feel stupid! ??

Comment is about M15tak3s- A Whateverette (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank ee kindly De-Von. This was a poem originally inspired by recollections of a poet who put me wise many years go and is now dead. The 'GD' connotations just kinda grew. I do/did like the Grateful Dead but I don't think I'd qualify as a 'Deadhead'. Happy Trails! J

Comment is about An old-fashioned sonority (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Though I have never been partial to "the dead", John, this poem is quite beautiful for which I am grateful, as always, for your music. And though I never been a fan of "the dead", John, those parking lot carnivals were a blast.

D

Comment is about An old-fashioned sonority (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

So can a song be a poem, Don?

Comment is about SITTING NEXT DOOR TO BORIS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

d.k.,
No therapy is needed as I am armed with a mighty fountain pen, writing paper and a blotter, not to mention a black telephone with a cable and a wireless set at my elbow.

Keith

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

John,

Perfectly composed. Faultless in its description. Every word a gem.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about REQUIEM (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Congratulations, Lisa.

Comment is about 'Happy Tuesday' by Lisa C Bassignani is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Brian. I'm louder than Keith in case of doubt. We all know one don't we? thanks!

Thanks for that Fish, I don't know why it won't work, I did what you suggested but it bombed when the poem came up on the site. I'll try again, might be a fluke.

Don, You might hear this guy in Oz from here. Yes the rhyme is integral to the humour. Cheers.

Thanks Trevor. My supposition is God had his day off so that power tools could be invented. !

Thanks Binte and Branwell for liking.

Ray

Comment is about ONE OF THE NOISY BOYS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Well said Mark. I only read The Fake News these days...it's more fun.

Comment is about THE GLOBAL MEDIA (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

M:C:,

a poem full of wisdom which encapsulates an explanation and warning of what has become a daily diet created to generate anxiety, despair and depression in unlimited amounts. Let us not be intimidated or manipulated by this.

Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about THE GLOBAL MEDIA (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi again Ray! About Nihilistic Poem- only just clicked!!!! Confess to being a 'cabeza di cocco'. Had a laugh anyway. Jennifer

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

From Wendy Freeman. WLB. For Dave Reeves VIPRIP.

Let us Celebrate, yet let us Weep, it is allowed, a loud.....noise/embarrassment/wet/nuisance/ tears/unavoidable/privilege..
tick where applicable.. or delete where necessary.
I donate my favourite Dave haiku, from What Lies Beyond- Haiku Hike 2017, for wet weather walkers everywhere.

rain rain rain rain rain
rain rain rain rain rain rain rain
rain rain rain rain rain

What Lies Beyond, last performed in 2018 at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, in Waste Time-Ado, which was an interactive response to T.S. Elliot’s poem: The Wasteland Exhibition.
Dave performed as the Bradford Millionaire from the poem, he had The Top Hat for every occasion.

He was total joy to work with over the decades, and immensely hard working.: Raw Edge Magazine, The Talk Show at M.A.C., Extreme Writing workshops various, Radio Wildfire, and much much more.

My last email to Dave 18/7/19
“ are you still in England, wandered about you...hope all is.....Wending.”

Words have since failed awhile, but now herewith:-
an imaginary double act performance ditty, for the kitty. Dave playing harmonica and interjecting.....where inclined as he did so well.
Props include top hat, talcum powder, stick.
For the very ONE and only ONE....Dave Reeves,with deep gratitude, love and peace

Harmonica Blueshaze

What Lies Beyond?
what LIES
he's not dead
he's in France avoiding
politics, with a squeeze box
busking, harp -ing on, in
a Top Hat
about This -state of the world
or That- the Time for is
before done and dusted.
A stiff walk up a mountain
or a gentle slope would do
get some fresh air down you
and do the Write thing
DO

Wendy Freeman.

Comment is about Tributes paid to performance poet, musician, and historian Dave Reeves (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Ray! so sorry about all the fuss over 'tiredly'. I didn't read your comment, but I would have thought it was quite normal to suggest it didn't exist - np at all.
Loved your 'Genesis' am still seeing the despairing face beneath the ice - such an unusual image. Will get nihilistic when have time, or start quackling - if easier!
By the way, things have picked up, I would say - referring to the graffiti period.
Jennifer

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

It seems I am under the mistaken impression that WOL is a 'poetry' site. It seems I can write anything I want. Doesn't have to have any poetic characteristics at all e.g. stanzas, rhythm, rhyme, meter.

Might try some jokes. Non-poetic of course......

Comment is about If I were a memory (blog)

Original item by Magic

No rhyme
This time
Like poem
Real fine.......

Comment is about Out To Pasture (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Stanzas! And with rhyme! Now that's what I call poetry. ....

Comment is about SITTING NEXT DOOR TO BORIS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Tech is easy
if you're young-
if old
it only adds
confusion.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

a technophobe?
are you in therapy?
you can be helped
with counseling.
confess your sins
say your penance!

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

not sure what you mean here.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Beautiful and so very much worthy of being considered as the poem of the week. Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

I like the implication of natural joy that comes with circular and spiral movements so reminiscent of nature itself, and you have captured it so well. I am not a fan of formal dance preening but this is something entirely different!

Ray

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

I like the realms in which this poem operates - the organic nature of dance is conveyed very well. Trevor

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Adam - "spirograph"! Such a glorious toy. To me, this whole poem centers, pivots, and dances on it.

D

Comment is about Dance (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

A solution that requires the aid of those profiting from the disease as much as the cure will always come at as high a cost as possible. Thank you very much for your comments.

Comment is about Rats (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

You bring me fodder
Food for thought
Don't ever stop
Don't leave me nought

Cat plays with mouse
What's this dead rat?
Cat waits for mouse
While on it's mat

This could go
On and on
Have to go out
Be back, not gone.......

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

Original item by d.knape

We embrace all styles of prose writing on WOL,

Comment is about If I were a memory (blog)

Original item by Magic

I like this Ankita.....

Comment is about Tale of tiny wings (blog)

Original item by Ankita Srivastava

Why is this on a poetry website? It has no characteristics of a poem - rhythm, rhyme or meter. It is just a very long monologue with a story format. This is not a comment either way as to it's content. It is not 'poetry' so how can one be expected to comment?. Hence my question, why is it on a poetry website?

Comment is about If I were a memory (blog)

Original item by Magic

What an excellent form. And having recently and always pruned Budlia am happy to know of the suffering of others.

Comment is about New Buds (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany