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Rich

Thu 24th Jan 2019 17:35

Thanks everyone for all your comments - it's really encouraging, so thank you. ?

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Bonaparte's

Thu 24th Jan 2019 17:08

Hello stop. I am writing stop. via telegram stop. so as not to stop. add to your upset at the use of phones stop.

Don't be lonely, I read your lovely poem on a busy street in London on my phone. Via technology you reached out and climbed inside my head! Isn't that wonderful.

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Thu 24th Jan 2019 16:57

Spending days (and nights) on the floor reading poems and having rhymic flings sounds like poets gone wild to me. Let us all flock to the Temple from now until spring! ?

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Bonaparte's

Thu 24th Jan 2019 16:16

I enjoyed this poem.

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Dragan Bozilov

Thu 24th Jan 2019 14:05

Thanks! ?.. I will! :)

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Robert C Gaulke

Thu 24th Jan 2019 11:44

Thanks!

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Big Sal

Thu 24th Jan 2019 10:49

Powerful as a shot of mezcal.?

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Shuchi Batra

Thu 24th Jan 2019 10:36

Thanks Big Sal....
?

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Big Sal

Thu 24th Jan 2019 10:18

I myself would settle for a good ol' book of rhymes and a pimp cup.?

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Big Sal

Thu 24th Jan 2019 10:07

Great piece. Excellent title too.?

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Don Matthews

Thu 24th Jan 2019 09:14

It may have sounded cool Dave
In essence it was hot
A lovely pair round manly ass
(How long before he shot?)

(Shit Don you'll be kicked out of WOL - too risque
It's all your your fault Dave)

Now where was I....?

Now you can tell the kiddy
Them kiddywinks at school
That Don your friendly poet
Says no it isn't cool ?

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Dave Caplan

Thu 24th Jan 2019 08:21

Spoken like a true member of the human race.
Literature and education will ultimately prevail.

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Shuchi Batra

Thu 24th Jan 2019 07:32

hahahaha... I laughed out loud..

Shuchi

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Dragan Bozilov

Thu 24th Jan 2019 00:22

Astonishing!

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Dragan Bozilov

Thu 24th Jan 2019 00:14

Thanks a lot!!

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 23:14

Beautiful lyrics and melody. Transcendent. ?

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Big Sal

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 20:05

Positive vibes!??

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Big Sal

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 20:04

That’s even more hilarious than people pissed off over other people’s poetry.

Nicely done, David.??

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Stu Buck

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 19:53

all i could think of when i read this beautiful lunacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuHI9-_Moig

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raypool

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 19:22

We only see what we wish to see and the rest is illusion or fusion. Ray

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raypool

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 19:17

Genius .how can we follow this?

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 18:51

Me too! Isn't life amazing? Thanks for the reminder! ?

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Dragan Bozilov

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 18:18

Thanks!

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jennifer Malden

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 18:16

Hiya D K. Have an ear from each, and am quite happy with that!!!!! Thanks for reading my stuff.

Jennifer

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jennifer Malden

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 18:05

Beautiful . Very evocative - one last iced tear - soft white cloak of crystal shine - lovely. Will read it again and again.

Jennifer

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Greg Freeman

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 17:40

Write Out Loud have got in touch with the organisers, who say that the guidelines were altered and there is now a new link - and a new deadline, 30 April.

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Tommy Carroll

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 17:24

Cheers Mart for the comments on 'Elliot'. Daniel is showing his admiration for my impersonation of Biggy Smalls.

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Tommy Carroll

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 17:17

Cheers Mart, a 'rock' in the Wirral. Daniel (my son) showing his joy at my impersonation of Biggy Smalls.

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Big Sal

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 16:13

Reading this was like watching Carl Sandberg watch 'The Twilight Zone' in IMAX.

Great imagery, Alan. The lines form a verbal form of sfumato equally well as they haze the differentiation between the actual and the perceived.

Two thumbs up.??

(I love that last line too.)

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Stu Buck

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 16:00

always good to read your work zach, it breaks up the monotony

i need audio of this to be played over a loudspeaker in a motel room adjacent to mine. i think that is the best way to digest your words

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Big Sal

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 15:57

Beautiful, non-pretentious, and deserving of being read much more widely.

Loved this piece.???

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Big Sal

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 15:56

Evocative of several introspective thought processes, all leading to the same release valve.??

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Tim Ellis

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 14:50

I’ve made a video with an electronic mix of this poem now (it only took me 3 months!) You can watch it here https://youtu.be/uepRXd6EYH4 I changed the title to Fix The Climate, thinking it sounds more positive.

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Dave Caplan

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 14:09

K.J.
God knows how you managed to produce such an epic, but I got totally embroiled in it.

The Smegroyds are a dysfunctional family of losers and cadgers, but you can't help but be smitten by them !

I loved it.

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Dave Caplan

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 13:47

Shuchi,
A tragic tale of unrequited love.
An experience like that destroys your faith and trust in human nature.....but time is a great healer.

Well done.
Regards,
Dave

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raypool

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 13:45

Point taken bud.i was trying to be unimpressive as life often is.. but honesty means fuck all on here and if you can fake sincerity you'll get followers,. Upwards and onwards to dignity, ! Take care David.

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Don Matthews

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 11:18

It might be -3 where you are
And Boris yes he is quite a twat
Would you believe here it's 45 tomorrow?
And Po, that is bloody-well hot

I'll bet Boris's lover's real hot too
Renowned for her spin-doctoring around
She's blond and has Boris besotted
A hot one our Boris has found ?

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kJ Walker

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 06:47

Very funny. Original subject matter, handled with great humour.
Cheers Kevin

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Shuchi Batra

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 05:42

Oh my god.. your sample is one of the best depiction of the world where we all live in..

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Shuchi Batra

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 05:37

such a brilliant work..

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Shuchi Batra

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 05:35

I can correlate with the emotions.. how the world has created stereotypes and how badly everyone pushes to fit everyone else.

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Dave Caplan

Wed 23rd Jan 2019 00:22

Thanks Don. Perhaps there is still hope for me yet, 'though with my hang-ups I doubt it.

For example, I would rather donate a kidney to a sick pig than have to stand up and recite in front of an audience.

Many years ago one of my limericks came runner-up in an arts literary festival and I was sent an invitation to read it and collect my prize at the forthcoming awards ceremony. I almost shit myself just reading the letter. I wrote back something to the effect that due to my recent bout of Avian flu I was still radio-active. They forwarded the prize by post.

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d.knape

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 23:38

how long has it been since
you've seen your sons?
hahaha

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d.knape

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 23:37

"keep your hair on"???
what the heck does that mean?

hahaha

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Don Matthews

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 23:33

MC you now know 'bout three brothers
Who make looking at them us cringe
(Unfortunately one is still missing)
Embarrassed he's come off his hinge?

Sorry MC I got sidetracked
Was meaning to tell you 'bout another
Have you guessed what goes rhyming with 'tother'?
I've yet to scare you with their mother

I'm sorry there Po if you're nightmaring
But all creatures great/looking shit
Have equal opportunities of sharing
There place on WOL site, each one bit ?

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Don Matthews

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 23:14

Dave

I know how you feel about posting something controversial or P.U.
You feel anxious about what the comments might be as you scroll down to them. The important thing for me is being unconventional. This is how new ideas emerge. Stick to the safe and one stagnates.

Don

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Don Matthews

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 23:07

A mutual orgasm between
Two interlocking and both quite dead corpses
Is natural for two, six foot under
Just practising their underground courses ?

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Dave Caplan

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 22:14

Thank you all for the kudos.
I always find it a bit nerve-wracking when I submit something a bit controversial and non P.C.

Dave

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Dave Caplan

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 19:00

A resounding Hear ! Hear ! to that sentiment.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 18:35

Let me pose this question -
Which is preferable - assuming being tired has no eternal meaning...
An end without sex - OR
Sex without end? ?

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