Always been more of a leg man myself, but let's be fair, you're on the money.?

Comment is about Braless (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Lovely poem again. Beeches seem to be your aphrodisiac!!! (Just joking!) Reminds me of places where I lived too. I can remember 'helping' to make stooks when a child, and how prickly the stubble was.Jennifer

Comment is about The Old Field Gate (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

Now I understand why you are enchiladaless!!

Jennifer

Comment is about Braless (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Far too much violence about nowadays. Perhaps there is no more than in Victorian days and the 20th century but then we didn't have it proposed almost as entertainment on the TV news. We have become so used to seeing and hearing about atrocious deaths that we have become inured to the horrot of it. Money made selling weapons has precedence over human life, as been only too evident recently.

Jennifer

Comment is about Kill Them All (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Really enjoyed this. Remember at my boarding school we were supposed to keep the window open at night, and one morning found our toothbrushes iced over!!!!! Now one could report that! Not sure about the softies in cotton wool - the nursery school ones at least. The teachers here complain that they don't stay long enough at home after an illness, as the Mums have to go to work. Do you remember chilblains too?

Jennifer

Comment is about Monochrome Days: (Poetry for Schools) (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Thanks Jennifer, I think it's the rhythm of it, it was stuck in my mind for ages.?

Comment is about Silver Shot Pocket Watch (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks Steve, I like the title too ?. And thanks Jennifer, sinister was definitely what I was going for.

J.

Comment is about Incline Lupine (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Agree with FMF - clever poem - the image it gives is still sticking in my mind.

Jennifer

Comment is about Silver Shot Pocket Watch (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

great title jason

Comment is about Incline Lupine (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Wow! Decidedly sinister! Great imagery all the way.

Jennifer

Comment is about Incline Lupine (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Hello Mc - thanks for the info about the poetry competition. I might send in the Pine poem. Thanks also for your nice comment - I can't bear seeing a tree felled for unimportant reasons . those pines are lovely but they do create some problems - the roots are on the surface, at least some of them, so they deform the tarmac which is dangerous for mopeds or bikes, especially in the dark - also if there is abundant snow, (not v often here) branches tend to fall off as they are top heavy. On Elba there are so many they are like green seas, and you don't realise how many villas are hidden in them - lucky b...........s!
Hope you are keeping well - Jennifer

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for all your encouragement Po, it is well appreciated.
Sometimes I have to hold myself back from being one of the MOB (moaning old bastards).

By the way I have not the faintest idea what AI & VR are?

Dave

Comment is about Monochrome Days: (Poetry for Schools) (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

That was my dad I think - he spent his life tramping the streets of Manchester for the 'Refuge'. I don' think that there are any of them left now
PS his shoes kept wearing out..

Comment is about MR. SHOPLAND (INSURANCE MAN) (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I end up talking to myself.
I am the only one
who will listen.

wink.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello again SM - I think your blog on the changes you've witnessed in your lifetime is one that can stand as a real
"life's witness" for future generations. It was a timely and
very relevant observation on just HOW much has altered
in my own long lifetime...and how we can tend to forget
just HOW much we have adjusted to - between a now very
distant childhood (post war rationing anyone?) and today's
cyber-world...from the wind-up gramophone and steel needles of family possession to the portable DVD and CD
marvels that are taken for granted today. Extraordinary
changes indeed - and it's a wonder some of us aren't more
confused along the way!! ?

Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on the bed with bare torsos to improve the work, which they thought had not gone far enough. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed. Sold for £2.5 million

. Wikipedia

Comment is about Accidental Curator (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I like it Ray, recalls being a kid in Manchester when we had REAL fog, you could knit it into blankets... One criticism - 'periphery' breaks up the rhythm IMHO -try 'edges' ?

Comment is about FOG BANK (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Jason
Thanks for your words.
I'm a little like you, in that I hear a lot of what I want to write in rhyme.
I started writing nearly 12 years ago, at the tender age of 60.
My first wife had died and I found it helped putting stuff down on paper, but I was put down a wee bit (by those more experienced) because my poems rhymed.
Whatever my writing is, I was saved (in a writing sense) by reading Langston Hughes's poems. I could actually understand them!
I persevered, and it was poetry that brought about marriage number 2. Much to be thankful for.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

What fun, kJ. Thanks for posting.
You're on my list of favourites now.
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Comment is about The Totter From Toulouse (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thanks for your comments on "pub". Sometimes life just swirls around us barely do we have control. I subscribe wholeheartedly to the absurdity of life as we live it. A kindred spirit is always welcome. Many thanks.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

Yes, absolutely right. I always write in rhyme just because that's how I hear it in my head and I just love the rhythm of it, but I love reading prose as well and to be fair, even if I didn't, who am I to judge? ?

Comment is about Rhyme? (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Absolutely love this favourite line, the Mallard and Goose. Brilliant ?

Comment is about The Totter From Toulouse (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

yes John. Hopefully I'll see you on the 14th.

Comment is about All His Geese Are Swans (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Po
Your omnipotent presence on WOL is spooky, it's almost as if you are not of this world. I've got a lot to learn. At present my biggest problem is navigating from page to page without having to start from scratch each time, but I'm getting there.

I can't figure out how to put the poem onto the Schools page, which is what I am striving for, without it crashing again? Then I can delete the copy from the main site.

Seems as though the school's page never really took off.
Let's hope your rallying cry mobilises the troops.

Comment is about Could you write a children's poem? (blog)

Original item by Poetry for schools

Thanks Ghazala, I'm really pleased you liked it. I was walking round at work today and half of it came to me then.

Thank you ?

Comment is about Drive (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I simply loved this one.....?

This could be the ride of your life.....beautifully written.

Comment is about Drive (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

"The Sun occulted." I love that line.

Comment is about A Nightmare Room Made Of Broken Glass And Spider's Legs (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi M.C.
Thanks for taking the time ...
I think I could write a book about some of the ways that the literati commented on the fact that my first poems only were written in rhyme.
As my latest tomb suggests I only started writing (anything) after my first wife died, 12 years ago. Poetry (if that's what I write) certainly helped.
Poetry also helped in me finding wife no.2, but that's another poem.
If it works, it works

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Paris and Po, I really appreciate that

Comment is about A Nightmare Room Made Of Broken Glass And Spider's Legs (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Wow....I enjoyed this. Really good poem

Comment is about A Nightmare Room Made Of Broken Glass And Spider's Legs (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Thanks Ray - that's very kind!

Comment is about Gyre Gulls (blog)

Original item by Rich

Thanks for your likes Philip, Jon, Anya and Paris !

Ray

Comment is about MR. SHOPLAND (INSURANCE MAN) (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I'm with this every step of the way Phil. An inner documentary sculpted with the guts and gore of experience - good bad and indifferent. I sense an isolation that the poetic mind can find itself in at times, and having read Camus myself know the fundamental flaws, and the restlessness angst of Kerouac. The last three lines are gold plated, making sense of the poem. The pub is a place to reveal and hide at the same time.

Ray

Comment is about pub (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Like SM, I always like the chance to smile - and even better when it's unexpected.
If you'd dragged in an unmade bed to put them on, you'd be famous!

Comment is about Accidental Curator (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

If it works, it works,
One man's meat is another man's poisson - as the French may or may not have said ?.

Comment is about Rhyme? (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

It's called self-assurance in certain quarters. ??

Comment is about Good Company (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I have written a few such poems and would be delighted to share them where they would be most appreciated.

The problem is I spent time keying one in on this page, only for the page to crash when I hit the upload key !

I have therefore just added it as a normal blog on the main site.

It is called 'The Cockroach' and is also tabbed 'Poetry for schools'

Comment is about Could you write a children's poem? (blog)

Original item by Poetry for schools

Another wonderful, inspirng blog, John. Your writing makes me want to pick up my pen once more. Thank you.

Comment is about Knowing your place: locating the poetry of landscape (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Perhaps it is a test? True love stands the test of time, yes? I like this line best... "As I walk down the street I feel your heart beat." Beautiful words for a hopeless romantic. ?

Comment is about Poof" it's gone away (blog)

Original item by Neil J Schwab

One for Well Spoken, Kev?

Comment is about All His Geese Are Swans (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

Thank you all for your feedback.

There really isn't a part two.
The best analogy I can come up with is comparing it with steelworks.....once the furnaces cool down men get layed off !

Comment is about Meltdown (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Hi Jennifer. Just a quick thank you for taking the time to comment on my last three poems. I'm glad that they amused you.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Thanks Lisa, Jennifer, and Frances. I didn't have anyone in particular in mind when I wrote this one. But I think we all know someone like that.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about All His Geese Are Swans (blog)

Original item by kJ Walker

I love to smile, and this did the job. Perfect

Comment is about Accidental Curator (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Congratulations, Paris

Comment is about 'Ice Skating in New Orleans' by Paris Tate is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Such a journey through life yes full of emotions and love the line ," like flies around shit" very Alan Bennet he also likes to shock with his language and the last line "the creased reflection of her image like spun gold " so poignant well done Jon

Comment is about Disturbing The Dead (blog)

Original item by Jon Darby

Thank you Raven Anne! I haven't had the chance to explore your work quite yet but I intend to! Good luck with your endeavor of putting your work out there!
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Comment is about Prophecy (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Very true Steven. We tend to immortalize the heroes. Thank you! ?

Comment is about Cha-Chi Legacy (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

heroes meant for heaven, but heaven screams for angels. my condolences.

Comment is about Cha-Chi Legacy (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

You are very welcome Lisa. I am glad that you found some meaning towards the reading. It is very refreshing to reach out to like minded people who eyes are also open to the realms beneath the flesh.
Although, I am sorry to hear about your father passing, often death is a beginning of a whole other chapter and I hope your chapter is a master piece. Like you said, it was a powerful awakening and becoming an enlightened one is a very rewarding experience that truly has wonders to offer you along your journey.
With that, I wish you all the best and thank you very much for the compliment. That too was very much needed ?

Comment is about RaNdoM Tarot Reading by RaVeN (blog)

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