Wonderful welcoming poem, Eve! Thank you for this one.

Comment is about Sparklers in the dark (blog)

Original item by eve nortley

Thanks Devon, I wondered if anyone would notice that, to be honest I just thought it would look apt and didn't expect anyone else would see it.

J.?

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Stunning Jason. This reminded me of Don Juan telling Carlos Castaneda that his death rides on his left shoulder. I also like the shape of it - reminiscent of a teardrop.

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

As Don says it can take a lot to bear what you feel about yourself. We all too easily get bound by the negative comments that are made about us or simply by no comments which we can assume all too easily as negatives thoughts. Well done in sharing this. But you have no reason to own this just as Dorothy has stated.
I look forward to reading more of your work
Nice one

Comment is about Inner Voices (blog)

Original item by ByteSize

Thank you for the comments ? I remember this feeling well.

Comment is about Return To America (blog)

Original item by Tom

I just love the fact that you don't take yourself to seriously and so clearly push through all the bull with so few but clear cut words. Something of which I am jealous of because I will just go on forever


Nice one Ray.

Comment is about TEN ON THE SPHINCTER SCALE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Not in the least Cynthia. I love the way that you start off so gently in the first verse and then suddenly change gear and become more thrusting and forthright.
great poem
Nice one

Comment is about Mind in a Cage (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

"stuff existing beyond a meatbag"! Great poem on the nature of reality. I often think that nothing exists without perception, play little mind games with it - so this hit me solid. Great Job!

Comment is about the nerds are onto something, kinda (blog)

Original item by Lucas B. Foley

You raise some interesting points in this poem about the effects of one culture upon another despite themselves. In 9th century Spain the different cultures of Islam and Christianity tolerated each other even in certain cities at different times. It was the moors that had embraced Greek philosophical thinking, maths and science reintroducing it into medieval Western Europe.
A wonderfully crafted poem
Nice one John

Comment is about SUFI (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks Martin, I've always felt it was like this. One day me and my shadow will meet and I hope I can welcome it like an old friend, but I suppose that all depends on timing and circumstance.
And thank you Lisa and Do.RoThy for liking.

J. x

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Although I think sometimes the more I see the less I know, its a great poem
Nice one

Comment is about X X X (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

OOO you're good!?

J. x

Comment is about X X X (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Wow you have opened up a big subject here around truth and what isn't. In simply terms for me it is around perception and expected perceptions by an individual. Two people no matter how much they may agree about what they see or not will rarely share the exact same perception. Crikey getting a bit deep here. Think I will stop while I am ahead.
Anyway a very well constructed and crafted poem on a thought provoking subject
Nice one

Comment is about Seeing Things (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

The subject of death has been wonderfully described in the poem on a subject that is potentially difficult for most of us at different times. It is hard to imagine what some folk go through.
Nice one Jason

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

What a nice review! I'm actually thinking of reciting it! I'll get to it when I'm done with exams!
Thank you Martin?
Mae

Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Fabulous Mae. It has a wonderful rhythm that makes it bounce along with some uncompromising words to hit the reader between the eyes. This would certainly be a good poem to perform live.
Nice one

Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

That comment rocked!
Thank you Jason???
Mae

Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Yep and she's back! And still brilliant. Mae I absolutely love this. It's just got a beautiful, hard, cynical edge to it, like if you got a grown up to look through the looking glass and they came back and said, "Actually mate, all your sheep are wolves."

J. x

Comment is about Funny, Funny (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thanks for the support Rose! ?
And dilly dilly is now in quotations...no law suits please...its just 'good clean' fun.?

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I'm sorry for your loss Graham. The poem tries to express how I feel about death. The knowledge that the only absolutely definite thing from the moment you're conceived is that one day you'll die and that, if you can, you have to try to be alright with that.
It seems to me to be almost like people and their demise are born together and seperated only to be reunited somewhere further down the line, or in some cases not so far. Those of us who get some time should consider ourselves lucky and really strive to get the most out of life, and then, hopefully, somewhere way down the line, we will meet with our demise again, but hopefully be able to welcome it as an old friend who's been patiently waiting for us, ready to reunite.

J. x

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

You may be down under mate, but you grumble like a Pom ?

Comment is about This Ain't No Aussie Launchpad Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Early Starter v Seconds Out

Early starter
collage note
sets off

Seconds out
being written
Last line

Folded over
knockout finish
then overlaped

By none
other than
early starter!

Comment is about June 2019 Collage Poem: Going Back in Time (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

It is an incredible piece that really does seem to walk us back through time to sunny 60s beaches and mini skirts, perhaps hinting at a lost or secret history in the process.

Comment is about June 2019 Collage Poem: Going Back in Time (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

This reminds me of my thoughts on the twin that never made it.

Comment is about Me And My Mortality (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Back Home

Quick buzz
door opens
art gallery
back home
poetry flows
once again
instead of
strong ale

theme for next time
It's all greek to me!

Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)

Original item by BlueGirlPoetry

As long as that Roman isn't Tiberius though, eh? What he demanded of his 'tiddlers' doesn't bear thinking about.

Comment is about 7-Up: Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible (blog)

Original item by Richie Muster

no probs regarding your right to rant Lisa after all, we are SUPPOSED to be living in a democratic society are we not? loved the soap ref by the way, but watch out for the ad-man and HIS Dilly Dilly plagiarizing rights! ?






Rose ?

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

thank's Fred, not only for a great poem but also for the hard voluntary work that thousands of others like your good self are being left to deal with

and thankfully, that folks like you I believe REALLY do carry out these unpaid and more than often not so easy jobs FOR love and sharing.

more power to your kind community efforts and to your writing.




Rose ?

Comment is about When did I sign up? (A Carers lament) (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Your story certainly provides a point of view and perspective
but there are always two sides to a coin of any currency. We hear
much about Powell's "infamous" speech in which he put a voice to
the fears that saw a postwar Britain start changing from streets to neighbourhoods to larger habitations to a degree not known previously, with today's UK - but mainly England - affected to the
extent that the old closely knit social existence - good and bad -
was being dictated by outside influences. Today's Brexit situation
provides the latest example - when we have talk of Parliamentary
sovereignty as a reason to stop a "no deal" departure but no
mention of the fact that this was handed over years ago by
the incumbents of that place to the influence and control of the
EU without referral to or a mandate from the UK electorate.
The irony is that the generosity of this old land of free thinking
in accepting refugees (now more accurately "migrants" since they
by-pass other civilised lands en route here) threatens to upset
the centuries-old establishment of a society largely at ease with
itself - with violent crime and social disorder at a level not known before. Buzz words like "islamophobia" now appear to keep the
cauldron bubbling with no nod whatever given to the fact that
those holding religious belief of that sort were allowed to enter
the country in the first place and permitted to extend a religious
belief and code of behaviour at odds with that of the host nation.
When in Rome etc. seems lost on those who want to have their cake and eat it too. How can assimilation be achieved if it is
perceived as "all take and no give" in an already over-populated
entity doing its best to accommodate so many disparate demands
on its increasingly over-stretched hospitality?

Comment is about A villanelle for the cup that cheers: Julian Jordon's poem accompanies Refugee Week animation (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Good golly gosh! we have some rhyme
I'm quite so well impressed
A WOL Humour Society?
Has WOL now birthed some jest? ?

Comment is about This Ain't No Aussie Launchpad Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I especially appreciate the line, "..a close second to online harassing"--so much for subtlety.

Rachel

Comment is about TEN ON THE SPHINCTER SCALE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Most clever

Comment is about A Dying Art (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Don, you do protest too much
about the lack of levity
on our lovely website
and its melancholic brevity

One would think it’s only Ozzies
who can rhyme and grin and smile
as they get a rise from pommies
thinking it’s worthwhile

By calling WOL’ers English
It’s another major faux-pas
most members are from global climes
just like where you are!

Perhaps we’re not just tickled pink
and do not share much fun
unlike you lucky Ozzie boys
we do not get much sun

So take it easy on us
don’t be a great Galah
celebrate our serious side
we come from near and far

One thing we will all smile about
as we shelter from the splashes
we’ll definitely all be British
when we smash you in the Ashes

© The Write Out Loud Humour Society

Comment is about This Ain't No Aussie Launchpad Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Good heavens! What 'gent' posted Bridget
Don't he know WOL shines wisdom and class
To think we all stoop to such rubbish
He oughta be kicked in the arse ?

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Jason, I keep saying there's not enough humour on the site. I keep adding my bit where I can ?

Comment is about Crimson (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I await with interest

Comment is about This Ain't No Aussie Launchpad Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Don, a well considered reply is currently under construction. Watch this space!

Comment is about This Ain't No Aussie Launchpad Don (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Thank you, very kindly, Martin )

Rachel

Comment is about X-Y (blog)

Original item by nunya

Too bold? I don't think so...

I watched the better part of a documentary late last evening that brought up a similar idea--that there can exist a tyranny of thought in minds that refuse to be challenged.

When I heard it, I said, "A HAH!" and "of course"...

Be bold )

Rachel

Comment is about Mind in a Cage (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

For me it is simply beautiful Rachel


Love it

Comment is about X-Y (blog)

Original item by nunya

Good, glad to hear it.?

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

A fine piece of writing--really a rarity.

Rachel

Comment is about The end of interest (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Don't worry Don, I'm more than happy with a bit of humour, let's be honest there's not enough of it in the world anyway.?
Oh, and thank you, glad you liked it.

Also wanted to say thanks to all those that liked it's very much appreciated.

J. x

Comment is about Crimson (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

BS

Bearing on WOL
Your innermost soul
Takes courage and guts
But helps make one whole

Sharing on screen
Your troubles and pain
Takes courage and guts
You share, we all gain

I know you can do it
Of that I've no fear
You have got the courage
To go on, persevere

D

(As DoRoThY says, keep sharing. The best medicine)

Comment is about Inner Voices (blog)

Original item by ByteSize

This could be a personal cathartic poem about yourself or not. Either way it is a good to see your effort in raising awareness to the problems of dementia.

Poetically, I liked the repetition of the line 'Every day seems like the same day'

Comment is about Days of Dementia (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

I appreciate the measured tension I've found in much of your writing--it's a raw yet elegant quality that makes blunt force unnecessary.

I hope that makes sense, Alexandra.

It's good to see your writing recognized here,

Rachel

Comment is about 'My Point is Circular' by Alexandra Parapadakis is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Jason, you're haiku t'was working
Me up to a sorta hot end
Her syrupy voice oozing o'er you?
While her crimson lips did, yes, descend?

What is a poor guy gonna think of
When led up this sexy-like path?
You shattered my working up visions
'Twas a dream, a let-down aftermath

Jason. You'll have to forgive my mind. It sometimes gets out of control. Just told it your poem is serious and behave. It just laughed at me. I'm cursed.....? Seriously. I liked it.

Comment is about Crimson (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks Jason. I'm not going anywhere ?

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I do hope that doesn't mean you're leaving Lisa, you'd be missed, by me for a start. ?

J. x

Comment is about Yikes! (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thanks Wayne. Good luck on WOL. John

Comment is about Wayne McLellan (poet profile)

Original item by Wayne McLellan