Not sure how I mistook Big Sal for Po (or anyone else) when I know you have no fear of marching into the inferno where few dare to tread. Thanks for your support Jacob. You are awesome! ?
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Big Sal
Sun 27th Jan 2019 16:01
The biggest question of all and still no answers will be provided.
The 'gods' have given us all an SAT in another conceptual language entirely.
I only hope I don't fail. But I will.
Comment is about Growing older but no wiser (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Sun 27th Jan 2019 15:57
Excellent thought-provoking piece, Alan.
That's often my only hope when writing poetry anymore, is that it will be preserved in some way, shape, or form after I'm long gone.
??
No stone is too small to NOT make a ripple of some effect.
Comment is about Coins in the Trunk (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Big Sal
Sun 27th Jan 2019 15:55
I don't think Po has seen this gem yet, Vautaw.?
My pen name is Big Sal, but you can call me Jacob if you wish.
Sorry though, I can't be Po. He's too cool for school and fools like me.?
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Ghazala, That lonely girl was once me, but now I am content with my own company. It's a lovely place to be. Just me, a quill, and the sacred tree.
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Lonely girls have no fear, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because we are not afraid to explore the crevices of our mind or world and rather enjoy the adventure. We are rarely bored. A curse because we can get lost there if we don't take care to protect our soul. Thanks Big Sal for guarding the gate with brimstone. ?
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Big Sal
Sun 27th Jan 2019 15:12
Never fear the dark or the monsters within it.
They should fear us.
Fire begets magma.??
Comment is about The Void (blog)
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<Deleted User> (16837)
Sun 27th Jan 2019 15:09
By the way who is this lonely girl....i could relate the words to myself....sage u, lonely me.....?
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
So true Ghazala. My observation and experience has been that we rarely heed sage advice but wish we had in hindsight.
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Big Sal
Sun 27th Jan 2019 15:02
Lovely piece, as usual from your end.?
Comment is about Of Flesh (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Sun 27th Jan 2019 12:36
Tom's silly itis !!
I like it!
?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (16837)
Sun 27th Jan 2019 09:33
<Deleted User> (16837)
Sun 27th Jan 2019 09:27
Time teaches good lessons that preaching can't teach. Few blows keeps the head awake for the rest of the time.
caring words, i hope she pays heed on time...?
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Pen names gives us wings... love that insight Big Sal. I could spend the rest of my life studying great poets and being inspired by their works. I'm putting Voltaire on my list!
Comment is about Pseudonyms (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Po, Love it when one muse inspires the other! That's how this poem came to be actually. I agree, having our poems read is important, but getting it out of our head so we can rest helps too!
Comment is about Pseudonyms (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Yes Ray, I too loved the open platforms.
The expression 'running to catch the bus' was literal in those days.
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 23:43
I think so, but who knows.
Comment is about WoLF poetry competition winners announced! (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Sat 26th Jan 2019 23:02
Jacqueline Bisset !!
(an actress, before your time.)
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
the bray of your half wish
Yes, Ruby, the half-educated male lack of response to female sexuality. The more I read your poem the more I like it.
Or a blown out barren fire forgotten
To hold on to
Like an ancestral deserted dream.
রুবি আপনি সৌভাগ্য কামনা করছি
Rubi āpani saubhāgya kāmanā karachi
John
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Half-hearted’ by Ruby (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 21:31
Eeee they got me all scurred!!!
Like the Rollin' 20s are going deep. . .
Keyboard warriors.?
Comment is about Snake'ssssssss (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Gosh, Tom and Larry I've not met
Least I 'aint met yet
I guess one day they'll come along
And little me beset ?
Comment is about When You Cannot Speak (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 20:21
I appreciate you saying so, greatly.
I am humbled.?
Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)
Original item by Lysa d
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 20:15
?It's a silly rhyme but I had to get it out of my system!
Comment is about The Right Thing To Do (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 18:01
Bang, bang, goes the gun.?
Cowboy movies suck I think, most are cliched beyond saving. The one saving grace for me is “No Country for Old Men” by the Coen Brothers (don’t know how cowboy it really is though). A couple others worth mentioning, Django Unchained was a good one. DiCaprio played a sadistic Candy.??
Even the old James Bond movies are still kick ass by today’s standards though. But hey i’m a biased little bastard today.?
Comment is about MURDER MOST FOUL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 17:57
? I loved the intelligence of it all.?
Comment is about The Right Thing To Do (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Join the club Mark - no special privileges, but plenty to ruminate on!
Ray
Comment is about ENDINGS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Too close for comfort David; bring back the open platform I say!
Ray
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
GF - the update is appreciated. I wish this project deserved success.
Comment is about Afresh, afresh, afresh: publishers seek poems for anthology on trees (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Intriguing in its essential meaning (to me anyway).
There's no use pretending:
To fate we're all bending;
What's a life made of
but beginning and ending.
Comment is about ENDINGS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you all for taking the time to comment.
M.C.
I remember spending farthings when I was a kid. I especially liked the one with the Robin on the reverse.
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
This has me thinking "Ogden Nash meets John Betjeman".
DGC could stand for Definitely Good Comedy.
Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Looking out of the window in each of the four panes of glass - - -
I can see all of these poems.
Comment is about 4 x Short Poems (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Ha-ha...the wife will probably hope it continues so she can get more
words in without you being able to interrupt or disagree.
Your condition brings to mind an affliction apparently suffered by
the odd contributor to WOL - "Tom's-silly-itis" - a relation to your own
affliction but not recognised by its sufferer who aggravates it by
spouting gratuitous tosh of a "sore" nature.
Comment is about When You Cannot Speak (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Sad, full of feeling. Thing to remember is that you yourself have value, to others, yes - but also to yourself.
Comment is about All alone (blog)
Original item by Rachna
Thanks David. I shall wait with pocket watch and waistcoat.
I Appreciate all the likes thanks folks!
Ray
Comment is about ENDINGS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 11:34
Perceptive piece filled with great imagery.??
Comment is about The song that never ends (blog)
Original item by old shoes
Big Sal
Sat 26th Jan 2019 11:29
Still pent up on what is and what isn’t a poem eh?
Maybe start your little club up again so you aren’t so alone, seeing as every time I invite you to join us you straight up ignore me like your bestie Brian does.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Comment is about Spruiking for the Temple (a light-hearted satire) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Clever Po. ?
Comment is about Spruiking for the Temple (a light-hearted satire) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you so much for the kind words, Po.
Comment is about Arborial Winter Repose (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I'm always on the lookout
To see what I can see
To add a bit of interest, spice
To my poetry ?
Comment is about Spruiking for the Temple (a light-hearted satire) (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks Big Sal, sorry I didn't catch your comment earlier. I appreciate the complement. nothing to get someone feeling good like a few of them. thanks again
Willow
Comment is about The Promise (blog)
Original item by New Shoes
<Deleted User> (21291)
Sat 26th Jan 2019 03:40
Thanks Sal, do you know I'd never noticed that until you just mentioned it.?
Comment is about Out There (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
victoriavautaw@gmail.com
Sun 27th Jan 2019 17:17
Love this one Adam. Beautiful. Haunting. Raw. Real. Thanks for sharing. Adding to my collection of greatest hits!?
Comment is about Sudden kinship (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth