The next chapter.
Tonight I feel the need. Everyone has a birdie. Mine tell me I am better. I listen and I know. I prefer the book closed, You do not no everything.
Wednesday 31st August 2011 11:11 pm
Envy
Slowly gliding
upon gentle waters
absorbing warmth
and sunshine
from the sky
Tall grass swaying
breezes fluffing
soft feathers
friends land
splashing
and bob for food
Startled
from my reverie
by the jangling
of the phone
I turn from
my office window
Sighing as the boss
calls my name
surprised
I realize
that a mallard
I envy
Photogr...
Wednesday 31st August 2011 7:41 pm
Also by Lisa Milligan:
Fences | Color | The Patient | Fidelity | Waiting For A Star To Fall | Pink Tulips |another kiss
Another kiss you’ll never have
you used to say to me.
When I was busy,
feeling tired,
and I would turn away.
If I had known how few
those kisses were to be
I would have spared the time
to give those kisses free.
So now I send those kisses back
ten thousand fold to thee
yes now I send those kisses back.
Wherever you may be...
Wednesday 31st August 2011 6:14 pm
Also by Ann Foxglove:
on porthcurnow beach | china horses | arrival | help please :) | fat seal | the rub | groove around the kitchen - it's sunday! | by the roots | rallying | suggested profile pic for bashful poets |Sleep
She reaches out, and the covers heave;
a thick sea moving east, morning peaked, and unforgiving.
Turning,
an arm releases the sounds of being far away.
He talks to her in his sleep.
She sits, her knees pulled up to her heart,
bent, taken. The still air attracts her gaze to the wall,
an exact silver,
and she draws her arm up across the running...
Wednesday 31st August 2011 3:17 pm
The Chants Of Insects
It occurs in the slur of morning
When the birds have been fed
And survivors of the feast
Wriggle and squeak on the surface.
Bits of insects roll and search
For pieces of themselves
In the bloodwet grass
As the sun bursts.
Waiting for the rain
To soothe and manoeuvre
Those that are left
Chanting on the grass.
But they are not afra...
Wednesday 31st August 2011 3:06 pm
Also by Kealan Coady:
So | Children Of Ghosts | He Heard The Stars | In The Dead Of Sunlight | Sprawl | The Little Red Ball | Odium | Nightbird | Nothing Happens For A Reason | Early Learning | If Women Grew On Trees | Kill The System | Gullcry On The Harbour | Death To The Literati | Wolves And Matchboxes | The Laughing Neanderthal |Fantasy or Reality
May have to aplogise in advance for this one! Or just blame Stefan and John Coopey for encouraging me! ;)
I denied it was happening,
Couldn’t be happening,
I couldn’t be feeling this way.
It wasn’t on the cards for us.
I would be detached,
Impartial, come what may.
I would just be your landlady,
Crabby and out of bounds.
I’m sure this is w...
Wednesday 31st August 2011 12:39 pm
Also by Lynn Dye:
Longing | Missing The Magic | The Aftermath | Love | Summer Seasons |What Tempo Portents
Wednesday 31st August 2011 3:17 am
Also by Dave Dunn:
Munee, Munee, Munee... | When We Share | No End To The Show | Stacy's Mum |Foundations
Built a cliché house
on overheard sand
opened windows wide
life blew whistles in
took my breath
for granted
sent a shiver down my
jelly walls
percussive cutlery
spooned forked carved
thin air
home sweet
collapsed
l...
Tuesday 30th August 2011 10:45 pm
Also by Michael Scott:
All night gas station |Wedding Anniversary
We’ve witnessed special highlights and some awkward moments too
As more than thirty August anniversaries by us flew;
But there’s no-one I would rather spend my life with more than you;
I love you, Judy Coopey, and suppose I always will.
Tuesday 30th August 2011 10:37 pm
Also by John Coopey:
I Hate Your Bastard Dog | New Yorkers | Hic Haec Hoc Hunc Hanc Hoc | Eddie | The Scourge of God | Kopi Luwak | The Ghosts of Bamiyan |MUSTANG poem shortlisted in a comp...
...and will be published in a book called UPLIFTING MOMENTS
MUSTANG
Born out of diverging needs and used in battle, american airframe and english merlin engine creating a machine quite unlike any other. At home six miles above the earth protecting silver lumbering B-17s from murderous nazi fighters, down on the deck filling the krauts full of lead dont tell m...
Tuesday 30th August 2011 12:19 pm
Also by NICK ARMBRISTER:
poems read by me at Ring o' Bells pub, Middleton 28/8/11 | Laughing Crims poem | ANGELICA STRIKES | NICE POEM FOR A FRIEND AND HER MAN | STRONG ANTI LOVE POEM BE WARNED | RAGING RIVER POEM | poems from my complete 15yr poem collection (free download for a bit) | taiwan poems | SPARROW poem | jet fighter air war over the desert | THINK poem | unreal poem on a crazy sad event | living in your car poem | met a nice gothgal and also could have been killed 30/7/11 | COLD WAR POEM | for my old mate RIP | a new poem | varied sublime old 90s poems by nick | STUKA POEM from the other side | death and shipwrecks | CIRRUS pagan poem |Though Police
Thought police, no one can avoid them,
Thought police, are out there, thinking ,
thinking how to catch your thoughts –
skulking in alleys and doorways,
hanging on your every deliberation,
tuning in by wireless connection,
seeking out any unrest, any deviation
from the new norm, the new speak
… the new order.
Thought police created and empowered
by to...
Monday 29th August 2011 5:03 pm
Alarm Bells Story, as performed at Spark in the Canal Cafe Theatre, London on Monday 7th February
Monday 29th August 2011 4:14 pm
Also by Alain English:
Two Open-Mics to take us into September... | Manorlogz Entry - A Tale of Paul Hunter | London Poetry |Between Christmas & New Year
Monday 29th August 2011 3:36 pm
Also by Tom Harding:
Office | Brief Poem 08/08/11 | Cinema Poem | you are not bukowski and neither am i | Spring Comes | Like A Stranger Bringing Bad News |Edwr and the Hart
We had no words for “metaphor” or “simile”
That night in the hall; the fire’s smoke
And crackle blazed colour into our faces,
The Skald sang ‘Edwr ran after the hart,
As swift as the river runs’, and that was that.
We feasted on its muscles, lights and guts
Ate ourselves full to stupor, then we drank,
Drenching our lips with honey of the kill;
Drew Edwr on the wa...
Monday 29th August 2011 2:47 pm
Also by STEVE RUDD:
The Haserot Angel |Mabel's Basque Man and the Stolen Cowshed Romance of Josie the Viking Princess
I don't get to keep any (young) man for too long and especially when that Josie the Viking Princess steals (most) of my dramatic thunder. This Gorka the Great, swept into my cowshed and mangle life like a twin tub on double rev and Princess Josie got between us, like washing line sheets blowing in my egotistical wind...so, back to the bottom of the washing basket (no Basque men in there!)
h...
Monday 29th August 2011 2:16 pm
Also by Hilda Sheehan:
Mabel's Basque Man and the Stolen Cow shed Romance of Josie the Viking Princess | Mabel and the Tiger in a Toy Ice cream Van of Extreme Excitement!!! |My Florence
Half a millennia of footsteps
crossed this courtyard,
five centuries of ghosts
hang around in doorways
as a bright, new moon
sits low in the sky,
offering no prayer
to small devils that spit at stars,
or a lost woman
who follows a different path.
Florence is full of magic boxes
spellbound by humanity,
and centuries of Christ.
Yet secrets hide behind huge doors
and ...
Sunday 28th August 2011 10:32 pm
Which story
If I were to tell my story, which story would I tell,
Of a brightly painted glory, or a shadow haunted hell
Sharing in the same location, period and cast,
Differing in where the tales begin and in the words delivered last.
There'd need be no deliberate inconsistency in terms or actual plot and
Yet some facts, just out of focus, will seemingly be forgotten.
Like in two sh...
Sunday 28th August 2011 1:57 pm
Also by Mark Mr T Thompson:
Some of my favourite quotes defining poetry - What is/are yours? | If being obtuse was an art form it would be called poetry |Starkey:
The Treachery of Images René Magritte
Saturday 27th August 2011 2:33 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
An abstraction of events |El condor no pasa.
El condor no pasa.
Dawn was a slobber drooled from fangs of giants.
We willed the canyon clogging mist to shift.
The Colca River roiled beneath the silence,
muffed in cloud. Snow-caps snarled. We got shoved
about by tour groups, guffawing and looking miffed
to see no condors. Us, we found some plusses,
hummingbirds, sierra finch, Andean swift,
...
Friday 26th August 2011 10:03 pm
Considering Colour
The types of radiation which make up
The electromagnetic spectrum are -
In ascending order of wavelengths short to long -
Gamma rays, x-rays, ultra violet rays,
Light,
Infra-red radiation and radio waves.
Only the Light Spectrum is humanly visible.
It permits seven basic colours to our underdeveloped eyes -
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet –
...
Friday 26th August 2011 4:27 pm
Also by Cynthia Buell Thomas:
O Sweet Confusion |TWICE BLESS`D
PEGGY
You ask me how it was she beguiled
My love her love to crave?
She only fixed her hair and smiled
And took my heart for slave.
For it was such a lovely smile,
So wonderful to see,
That it seemed – for one brief while –
Her soul smiled out at me.
We`re wed now, and my grateful heart
Grows gladder every day.
And ...
Friday 26th August 2011 2:52 pm
2011 One Love Reggae Festival A Truthful Dishonor Not about the Reggae
2011 One Love Reggae Festival
A Truthful Dishonor Not about the Reggae
Looking at the future with a smile! Indeed, life is filled with so many struggles so to smile is one of the only options we have as to not go totally insane. The UK 2011 One Love Reggae Festival was held in the location of Hainault Forest County Park, an area in the London Borough of Redbridge in Northeast London. Fo...
Friday 26th August 2011 2:39 pm
SPAM TO INBOX
Has anyone else got spam messgaes in your inbox on wol? I certainly don't appreciate bullshit messages from people trying to get me to send money, pictures etc!!
I don't know how they could have access to wol messages unless they are a member and if anyone knows how to block them, please tell me.
IF YOU ARE THE SPAMMER, GO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO MAIL YOUR CRAP!!
Th...
Friday 26th August 2011 9:09 am
Also by Kath Hewitt:
In a land of broken dreams |The End of Summer (I)
Thursday 25th August 2011 11:39 pm
Also by Andy N:
My hometown |HAPPINESS OF A MAN
Happiness of a man is not in possibility to chose a woman out of a million,
Happiness of a man is in possibility to allow himself to be with the only loved one.
Out of millions there are hundreds of beauties.
Out of millions there are hundreds of jealous.
Out of millions there are hundreds of desirable.
But… they are not loved.
Out of millions there can be only one...
Wednesday 24th August 2011 6:46 pm
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
MESSAGE FROM SIRIUS | I KNOW WHERE THE SOUL IS | A Horse Become the Pegusus | NEVER TALK TO A STRANGER | Can't Be Indifferent | SINFUL SOULS | The Ghosts |Orphic Mystery
Wednesday 24th August 2011 5:47 pm
Getting Our Taxes Back
I was recently asked to write and perform a poem about The August Riots of the UK for a 'Fight Back Debate' in which the young people of Bolton discussed their opposition to both the criminal acts of the young people involved, and the media's focus on youth involvement to the extent that young people have been misrepresented.
This link contains a video of my performance:http://www.thebolto...
Tuesday 23rd August 2011 6:08 pm
Reserve
It fills the room in which we dine
at tables doomed for eight or nine;
the champagne glasses deftly clinked,
though champagne isn't what we drink.
The chicken textured rubber duck
and vegetables are overcooked;
rain dribbles down the window-panes,
the walls exhibit aged stains.
The waitress frowns, absorbed, remote;
you make a sound, you clear your throat.......
Monday 22nd August 2011 6:57 pm
Tattoo Suzi
You left a lovely tattoo mark on our grey cloud world
Tatoo Suzi
your lovely bones will rattle on down the dirty streets
of Camden Suzi
where the bees go sleep at night only your hair knows
your hair Suzi
we can drink up in the skies by the railtrack bridge
your bridge Suzi
Break the broken heart
paint the damned soul dark
shut the shut down mind
...
Monday 22nd August 2011 12:40 pm
'ThePoetry Spoke' - Guest Poet- Chester's award winning Kemal Houghton- Open mic- £20 prize!
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music night-
This Wednesday night- 8pm!
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide and view the photo- we're the venue/wine bar that has all the ivy going on lol.
...
Monday 22nd August 2011 10:31 am
The Second Coming
Christ has got a Facebook page,
a new account on Twitter.
He’s taken latest photographs,
to publish them on Flikr.
JesusChrist.com
will alert yer first by text.
Send a message to yer e-mail,
dates of where he’s touring next.
Put yer name down for subscription,
to “Jesus Christ events”.
Signed exclusively to SKY
ITV & Beeb are vexed.
Both Oprah & Jay Leno,
batt...
Monday 22nd August 2011 1:06 am
YOU - not a poem, just felt like it.
There are billions of people in this world, and billions of cells in each person. Those cells came together by fate, or choice, to create each one of us.
YOU could search your entire life and never find another person who looks
just like YOU, thinks just like YOU, has the same experiences as YOU and feels the same emotions as YOU in the same way that YOU do. YOU may not be a world chang...
Sunday 21st August 2011 11:36 pm
the dead done gone and did it again
the dead done gone and did it again
the dead done gone and shredded your heart
the dead will whistle their one refrain
the dead they tear your song apart
the dead done gone and shredded your heart
the dead paid the piper but forgot the tune
the dead they tear your song apart
the dead will be your playmates soon
the dead paid the piper but forgot the tune
the dead mar...
Sunday 21st August 2011 12:39 am
Also by Russell J Turner:
we have eaten them all |The Air is Still
The air is still, quite
The freezing touch of his hand
Death is by my side
This audio was provided by my husband Scott
Sunday 21st August 2011 12:03 am
Also by Shirley Smothers:
Anger | Christ Love |She passed a smile suggesting
I let her eyes seduce me as she glanced across the bar
she passed a smile suggesting her apartment wasn't far
calmly and collectedly I held that higher ground
but all the while internally my will it slowly drowned
I was full with raw emotion that could never be denied
when hearts collide it can never be denied
With a look that told her everything I lead her o...
Saturday 20th August 2011 1:07 pm
Also by Christopher Dawson:
Rap aration |Tightrope
Standing, with the heel of his left touching the toes of his right,
In the dying dark before the dawn he can see
A path stretching between the platforms.
The steel against his skin is taut, tight, but it seems so far.
Imagined wings sprout from his spine, see-through against the sky,
The feathers fanned against the stars as they snuff out one by one.
His wings feel...
Friday 19th August 2011 4:14 pm
The Friend You Lost
accept
let go
empathise...
There have always been two sides
relax the pains
loosen the hurt
you’re not the only one
you’re not the only one
who couldn’t cope
Forgive
see common ground
smile
at peace...
of course the other burned too
just imagine what they went through
moved too fast? Awful timing? Yes
you weren’t the only one
you weren’t the ...
Friday 19th August 2011 12:54 pm
Also by Tom:
Ashes Blow Over All Things |Pumps
(Just a bit of fun for Francine)
Above vaulting box
Hot and steamy pumps take flight
Endorphins released..
Friday 19th August 2011 11:36 am
Also by Isobel:
The Haves and The Have Nots |The Station
Thursday 18th August 2011 2:47 am
Also by Christopher Anthony Leibow:
Homecoming | She Leaves Me Small Gift | This Thing | Summer 1968 | Harpo | Cienfuegos Cigar Company | Dominga Corazon | Banvard's Folly | Of Love and War | Her Subtle Lean Left |Hippy
I was a bit of a hippy for a while
With chants of make love not war
A flower child wanting to be free
And didn't like the law.
Communes sprang up everywhere
There was always a place to stay
Homeless wasn't a problem
Like it seems to be today.
Our elders often frowned
They didn't understand
We were young and alive
And living off the land.
...Wednesday 17th August 2011 9:13 pm
For a Friend
This is the beginning,
the birth;
in fast/slow motion,
the start of your new amour.
A loving for your all;
devotion, just for you.
In the day before today,
in the day after tomorrow,
in the core of all your sorrow,
my mind will walk with yours.
In the light of your depth,
in the face of your strength,
in the reach of your k...
Wednesday 17th August 2011 2:38 pm
Also by Laura Taylor:
Cause and Effect |The 'A' Factor
With my perfect children
And my perfect wife,
I will live a thousand years
With a favoured life.
My past is legend,
Fixed firm in stone.
My future, my millennium,
As yet unknown.
I am cuckoo in human form,
Able to roam,
To spread my wings,
To make wherever home.
I have a vision,
Perfectly sound,
Which I am free
To exp...
Wednesday 17th August 2011 10:11 am
305.
A fire trailing wrath of God & more consequentially my wrath.
This chamber rests cold,
flags south to where its latest victim lies
...callous and repining recent events.
To smite me prepare to face all elements,
having all abilities forced on you;
Ten Commandments and all.
This chamber is 44. inch steel that encircles
a shell case of chaste supposit...
Tuesday 16th August 2011 4:49 pm
Also by Memoir.:
Donna Louise. | Lost In the Sauce. |Heptonstall Chapel
These stones have stood two hundred years and forty more
And scan Hardcastle Crags across from Heptonstall,
Hoist high above the Hebble's ferny forest's floor
But they may fall.
Though Wesley preached to hundreds in this hallowed place,
This wayside chapel, gaunt-boned, gritstone octagon
Whose generations worshipped, prayed and gained God’s grace,
May soon be g...
Tuesday 16th August 2011 10:24 am
Also by C Richard Miles:
Bus Ride to Hebden Bridge |Beyond The Green Gate
Sunday 14th August 2011 10:03 pm
ENGLAND 9/8/11
UK rioting, London’s burning
Spreading to many city postcodes and other locations,
Police on the beat, patrolling the streets
No means an easy feat, but we won't accept or admit defeat
Communities actively cleaning up fast the aftermath of destruction,
Past dark animosity built up to eruption, resourcefully a huge task ahead
But don’t let it fill one with dread, instead ...
Sunday 14th August 2011 5:44 pm
Sparky
I thought I heard a scratching at the door
Familiar scrabbling across the floor
I thought I saw the curtains move and yet..
Do dogs have ghosts I ask myself? – You bet!
Friday 12th August 2011 5:00 pm
Also by Dave Carr:
Reading, Rioting and (A)rithmetic - a villanelle |Sticks & Stones
`
If sticks and stones can break bones
and bombs and guns can kill
then a poet's pen and words can likewise murder
but heals wounds in its sublime expression;
Our differences fade with each line of verse.
Hence,
Being read, and quoted, and handed out!
That is the poet's true reward.
On shall poetry live, and within its soul
the poet in whose...
Friday 12th August 2011 2:00 am
now what?
none of my teachers ever liked me infact they'd tell my younger sister that im thick
childish!
not everyones parents had a sheltered childhood
"Money In Here" written on mancunian bin
NOW WHAT?
ITS GOING OFF!
the lost generation are looting on the high street
DON'T pretend your shocked
GOD YOUR A GOOD ACTOR
pure kids active in new trainners playstation 3 5...
Wednesday 10th August 2011 4:15 pm
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