Thank you, Shuchi for your comment in my profile. It is much appreciated. ?
Comment is about Shuchi Batra (poet profile)
Original item by Shuchi Batra
It isn't much that you ask
and yet inhibition can be a curse
as I know only too well.
A lovely sensitive piece Cynthia.
Comment is about Lonely Lady on a Tram Every Morning (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 20:37
You’re one of the only consistent limerick writers on the site, David, and humoUr is always a welcome sight.?
Comment is about David Gabriel Caplan (poet profile)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 20:26
Thanks for the like Jon!
Jennifer
Comment is about No Prozac (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Thank you fellow scribes.
I'm a great believer in the Readers Digest byline
which states 'Laughter is the best medicine'
Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Lovely poem. Really meaningful
Jennifer
Comment is about Calon Cymru (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Tom Johnson
Fri 25th Jan 2019 19:52
Are the winners listed in relation to the ‘wanderer’ themed competition...?
Comment is about WoLF poetry competition winners announced! (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Hi DK
Master Wen was very insightful.
So sad to hear about his recent accident;
I've warned him before about jogging with headphones on.
Comment is about Sage Advice (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 19:44
Congratulations Laura. Good to see you in December in action.
Nice one
See you again soon
Martin
Comment is about WoLF poetry competition winners announced! (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
I've seen it and liked it! Thanks Big Sal!? Big compliment!
Comment is about Prophecy (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 18:26
Reminds of Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, a masterpiece of cinema to be sure.?
Comment is about Prophecy (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Very funny. Loved it.?
Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 16:07
Thank you for all your support, Lisa. You're a gem.?
Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)
Original item by Lysa d
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 15:32
Great poem and structural format. It oozed rhythm and thoughtful words.?
Comment is about Calon Cymru (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
David 'tanned teeth'! I'm keeping that one for the pub.
Tommy
Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 14:50
You should be a screenwriter/playwright, David. I'd pay to laugh at one of your shows.?
Like Diogenes himself turned in his grave to give one last hurrah.
Comment is about Mutual Admiration (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Thanks Tommy and Jacob. So many people so keen to protect their possessions, homes, advantages, money etc. So unwilling to share with the less priviliged. And we all end up with nothing! J
Comment is about Property is theft (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 13:57
Your rhythms highly resemble songs in their cadences and flow.
Great work on all your poetry, Jason.?
Comment is about Out There (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 13:46
What a true concept for your sample.
Welcome to the site.?
Comment is about Jane Walnut (poet profile)
Original item by Jane Walnut
John it's always the same at the 'front'
even when you're at the back of the queue. But as both my granddads used to say 'there's more of us than them'. Tommy
Comment is about Property is theft (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Delightful, beautifully expressed and uplifting. 'Be still and know that I am God' - wonderfully translated into your own experience, and honest. I so admire 'honest'.
Comment is about To know God (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
An ageless message delicately put. Nicely done.
Comment is about Lonely Lady on a Tram Every Morning (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
'genteel'? You've got to be joking!
Comment is about My neighbour had a fluffy cat. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Delightful, and insightful.
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
I had two “aunties”, MC, who were best friends. Actually, one was my auntie and the other her friend. They lived together and slept together at my grandma’s. It was only when I was in my 40’s that I cottoned on!
Comment is about I DON'T MIND HELPING OUT IF THEY GET BUSY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I can also rhyme
I do it all the time
But don't describe mine with an 'f____'
Don't wallow in the grime ?
Comment is about The Temple Builder and the Pimp Cup (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 01:24
I’m of the same mind. And I think this is one of the first times I’ve heard you use ‘bad’ language. Now it’ll surely snow.
Comment is about Property is theft (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 00:42
There you are.?
Comment is about Attila the Stockbroker (photo)
I enjoyed the repetitive reference to "busy" in this blog.
I'm beginning to wonder about Sooty and Sweep now!
Comment is about I DON'T MIND HELPING OUT IF THEY GET BUSY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You're either downright nosy - or there yourself. ?
In my 8th decade I have the following to say -
If you keep yourself in self-help health
You won't be pillaging others' pelf.
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Big Sal
Fri 25th Jan 2019 00:03
Reminds me of a lesson from the Coen Brothers.?
Comment is about Due back soon. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Common sense is gone dk
Replaced by common dumb
Gullible and dumb-like
Ready to succumb
You gotta have a new one
To keep up with the Jones
Nah, you're old one's no good
I'm 'fraid it's not two-tone
No it isn't common sense
To keep what does still work
We have to buy from sellers
To satisfy their perks ?
Comment is about Common Sense (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I believe you've kicked out a belief
Said "So long mate, I just don't need you"
You're now in a state of non-beliefness
I hope this works well for you too ?
Comment is about BELIEF (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Big Sal
Thu 24th Jan 2019 22:07
To oversee such a journey is poetry itself.?
Comment is about Enoughness (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
Big Sal
Thu 24th Jan 2019 21:59
Positivity in all things.?
Comment is about Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur leads way as poetry sales soar by 12% (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Big Sal
Thu 24th Jan 2019 21:56
Love those last two lines. Inscriptions upon an eternal mind.
Pure excellence.?
Comment is about Angelus Bell (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Big Sal
Thu 24th Jan 2019 21:55
That's ironic as hell that people are complaining that the site is 'going downhill', yet when one of the best writers on the site gets Poem of the Week no one shows up to say a thing.
Well, here's a second congratulations on behalf of people that actually notice things.
WELL DONE RUBY.?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Half-hearted’ by Ruby (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
Jennifer you've coined a new word...brilliant.
I will definitely find an excuse to use it.
Gives me a pre-mortgasm just thinking about it !
P.S.
The answer to the age-old question "How was it for you?"
"Rotten."
Comment is about Is there sex after death ? (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Damn it...I should remember that , but I don't.
Probably because most winters up north are severe.
I have seen photos of south east england during the winter of 1962. Spectacular shots of the frozen sea at Herne Bay and even an amazing gigantic frozen wave at Whitstable in 1940.
Thanks for re-kindling my interest.
P.S. Have you tried to buy a pair of thermal gloves recently ?
I think they are "changing hands" at black-market prices.
Comment is about TIME TRAVEL (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier David. We have to treasure our odd corners - I guess the tourists like them too - there will be imitators and attempts to hijack them. Think of the Queen Mary and London Bridge for example.
Cheers, Ray
Comment is about INSPIRATION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks for liking my Drinker poem Jennifer. I hope you're enjoying the site at the moment, I'm afraid I'm not. It feels to me like a graffiti site; I've said it now. Inspiration is hard to find.
All the best, Ray
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
Presumably she might have mortgasms?
Jennifer
Comment is about Is there sex after death ? (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Thanks Po & Sal. I wrote it at the time of a previous eclipse, which I managed to snap from our house, looking through a spruce tree in the neighbours garden. BUt I now realise that I was thinking.of an eclipse of the SUN, which does silence all the birds.... took me about four years to realise that! (Thinks.... prat!)
Comment is about Watching the Eclipse (blog)
Original item by Alan Travis Braddock
Nothing quite measures up to a walk in the woods to find our place in the world. Beautiful verse about two things I hold dear. Thanks for sharing. ?
Comment is about To know God (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
anything that gets young people reading poetry is a good thing. not a fan of kaur, read through milk and honey and found it paper thin, but if a single person uses it as a gateway to sharon olds, charles bukowski or walt whitman, it can only be a positive thing.
Comment is about Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur leads way as poetry sales soar by 12% (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Don Matthews
Fri 25th Jan 2019 21:51
Yes, it worries me
Comment is about TRANSFORMATION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry