Really nicely put Keith. Great work.

Comment is about A Flame never extinguished (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Many thanks for your thoughts, Don and MC.
It seems you fall into the camp of those that don’t care you were lied to, MC.

Comment is about "ALL LIES AND JEST" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'm joined by fellow rhymer
Your influence is catching
A latent rhymic bug in you
Ray, appears it's hatching....

Comment is about TIES THAT BIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Can't win 'em all ?

My rule: never upstage the poet

I really did like yours better.......

Comment is about HOPE (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Beautiful, Keith

Comment is about A Flame never extinguished (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi Keith, Thanks very much.

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Hi Leon, thanks so much.

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Nice try tho Don. ?

Comment is about HOPE (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thank you for your kindness.

Comment is about Untitled (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Thank you for your kindness.

Comment is about Strange Tides (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

A poem for when you're indoors in a comfy armchair, perhaps by a
log fire sparking and flaming in its comforting glow. Nice one.

Comment is about Let's Pretend (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

All politicians tell lies it seems,
Relying on our hopes and dreams;
Successive PMs did the same
Treating truth as a fool's own game
Giving parliament's sovereignty
Away with no mandate we could see ,
And now "sovereignty" appears in use
To defy what the voting majority choose,
Like some fool's gold its new minted wealth
Now pays for the years of deceit and stealth. ?

Comment is about "ALL LIES AND JEST" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Females often feel the need
To cut us to the quick;
Revenge for Eve caught apple scrumping?
Handmaidens of old Nick!

Comment is about TIES THAT BIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Very welcome - I will be going to bed with a smile! (late reading this).

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I can't believe my cotton sox!
A poem devoted to me
I feel all warm and glowy-like
All full of frippery

I am a little puzzled Fish
About this Gladys chick
It seems she wants to upstage
My Alice, her picnic

I've heard that Lite Relief contains
Far too much sugar-sweet
It's pastime is teeth-rotting
Take care when it you eat......

(Dedicated to Fish and WOL's Fun 'n' Frippery Movement) ?

Comment is about That Gal Gladys (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

Not living in the U of K
I thought Boris was beaut
With tousled hair so blondish-like
I thought him rather cute

You've gone mucked up my image John
Boris, you say has shooted
The people of the U of K
But I still think he's cuted.......

Jest joking. I lie not.

Comment is about "ALL LIES AND JEST" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Branwell you've no need to fret
Cos poets are protected by law
No alien grab or kill-virus jab
Awaits you behind your front door.....

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I do like this Keith.

Comment is about A Flame never extinguished (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Eternity
Over
Happily
Pained

Having
Trouble
Feeling
Strained

(I like yours better Lisa)

Comment is about HOPE (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

This is very clever Ray
Metaphorically
The shoelace that off-balanced you
I did not get to see.......

Unfortunately

(I was out meeting friends)

Comment is about TIES THAT BIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

When I say love Ray I wouldn't want you to think this means something deeper than it should. I mean it in an esoteric sense...a word I don't understand the meaning of but will look it up shortly.

I've been out tonight and met a few friends...Stella, Miguel and John Smith.

Comment is about TIES THAT BIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

cheers Devon.

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I agree with Keith on this, a funny, very funny ride. And, yes, a bit of "The Out Of Towners" in this - Jack Lemmon & Shirley Maclaine! Great fun way to close out a day. thanks, Branwell.

D

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Bloody love it Ray, and BTW I love you too.

Comment is about TIES THAT BIND (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I dream of an alien adducting my wife to no avail

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Thank you very much, Keith. Appreciated

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Branwell,

Brilliantly funny with excellent rhyming. It reminds me of an old film called " The Out Of Towners" who on a visit to a big city fall into every calamity imagineable. Well done. A great poem.

Thank you

Keith

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Well deserved, Laura. "Even to the end, you were 21 again". Dressing on the "salad days". And BTW - the double fist of love!

D

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Jon,

A splendid piece of poetry which, although brief, is concise in its message. The line " A voiceless legion tethered to anxiety " is an absolutely incredible description of the marginalised and despondent. As I read this poem my mind was drawn to the plight of Jewish people in Europe during the days of Hitler´s tyranny.This poem leaves me breathless without adequate words to do it justice.

Very well done. One of the best poems I have read this year.
Thank you

Keith

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

without any doubt Jon a veritable masterpiece. Brilliant!

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

fabulous and then some

Comment is about Preservation (blog)

Original item by Sarah Dar

I cannot, nor do I want to, stop reading this.
Marvelous

Comment is about Strange Tides (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Excellent.

I hope you'll keep posting whenever the urge hits )

Rachel

Comment is about Preservation (blog)

Original item by Sarah Dar

Well-penned Laura. I love the way you precis the whole process of fabrication, as we invent and reinvent our lives - brevity is the soul of wit!

telling and retelling, embellishing

unconsciously; truth became fable,

myth, became passwords,

indelible, inked in the mark of a man

John

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thanks Devon! Don't you just love rocknrollas? I'll say that though, for a rock an roller he's surprisingly humble to the point of shyness. He looks kinda nervous, doesn't he?
Loved the interview and the song. Now it's not exactly on the same subject but it reminded me of a piece I wrote a while ago, called "Consume or be consumed" . It's mostly about consumerism.
You were right I enjoyed the video and especially the song! ?
Mae

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Insinuation and imagination are all you need for a good poem - thoroughly enjoyed it. T

Comment is about Messing about in boats (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

There's a strong sense of tension here Tommy, in having all that behind you like a denial, but a ghostly feeling of longing I often see in your work. A suspension of realisation that feels like a betrayal.

Very poetically satisfying especially the having to share someone in this way.

Ray

Comment is about As if to care (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I think you are quite right. Sad really. Alienation as a social norm.

You wrote "eat or be eaten" in a previous comment - gonna share some fun music with you. The video is long, but the song is at the very beginning, enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7kHDIDsVXQ

D

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

You know...I think I'll try to make that into a haiku or tanka or whatever ti can be turned into! Thank you Devon! ?
Mae

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank you!

A

Comment is about Ocean eyes (blog)

Original item by Astrid

High high quality poetry here! Excellent Tommy!
Thank you?
Mae

Comment is about As if to care (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Fantastic imagery, Tommy. Choosing only to show the sunset, the waves and footprints was a genius stroke, and provides the foundation for the final stanza. The labor put into this poem is evident, but the read is silky smooth. Thanks.


D

Comment is about As if to care (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Precisely. That complicates things even more! If perception of reality was obscure, misunderstood, intentionally misled and tampered with before, imagine how distorted it must be now.
Makes you think? Plus you can trust virtually nobody so one may feel the need to get wrapped in themselves, to keep everyone at arm's length. Ergo we learn to live alone, worse yet as loners.
Isolation of the individual grows fatter and vaster until it becomes alienation as a social phenomenon that includes or rather "excludes"everyone.
"Almost friends but all alone" like the "Say Something" song by James says!

"Isolation for my salvation,
Equals
Alienation for the nation"

As I would rather put it... in a literary incantation amidst a session
of obsession and elation for alliteration ??
(Such intense gratification!)

Mae

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

That is one taut poem. When I read it aloud, it pushed a snide tone - particularly those last two lines. Thank you.

D

Comment is about Ocean eyes (blog)

Original item by Astrid

I think right on the money. Yet now, that dynamic extends for beyond the immediate neighborhood, into who we want to pretend to be, not as easily sussed out.

D

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thanks Devon! That's an interesting question...I think definitely! TV and before that radio and before that the press...Politics, modeling, business... Even the housewives in the neighborhood, either it was recipes or fashion they all had to struggle to stay in the surface... The frickin' struggle for evolution, survive or get extinct, eat or be eaten, be the Aplha or die fighting... Crawl out of the ocean and grow legs and lungs before that other fish does! Yeap, definitely an ancient thing!
What do you think? ?
Mae

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Well said, Mae - and with style. Makes me wonder if this phenomenon existed before the internet. Any thoughts?

D

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hi Lisa! Have I said I love your work already? If not, let me remedy that! I LOVE your work! X.x.?
Mae

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Excellent! Loved it! So smoothe and unforced and so very very true!
Thank you ?
Mar

Comment is about THINK (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I love acrostic poems! Loved this! Kudos Lisa!?
Thank you?
Mae

Comment is about FEEL (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani