Thank you for commenting on Lies Keith. I particularly enjoyed you likening lies to rain everyone gets wet. Very apt..Taylor ?
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Hi everyone! - Someone wrote a while ago about Work Town who were asking for submissions. I cannot recall who it was, so am asking whoever it was if it's a "reputable" organisation? (I must be getting more suspicious in my old age hey!) Thanks! - Dorinda x
ps: Nigel - Next time we're filming I'll bring the eyeliner!!! x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
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Fri 5th Oct 2018 14:14
sounds very much like my kind of place Keith. Thank you. Jemima
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
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Good theme - always worth our time, especially when given
this sort of treatment.
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Remember me...the most any of us and our dogs can hope for when we're gone. The words are finely framed by the
song (unknown to me). Both do their job so well.
Comment is about Meg (blog)
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Thank you for your nice words! It was just that really, a rhyming idea, just for fun! Still, simplistic as it may be, I meant every word! ?
Comment is about A Rhyming Idea (blog)
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Common sense appears to come in snorting fits and starts
Catching comments from the likes of me - condemned to be old farts!
But old enough to remember those days of mini-skirts
Designed and worn by women with men allowed to be flirts.
But men then had enough to see to occupy their time
And note - "insulting behaviour" was even then a crime.
And there's no way in the wildest mind
That indulging in upskirting
Can be less than criminal and anywhere close to flirting!
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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Thanks, Jane
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Taylor,
A clever and powerful poem as it contains the unvarnished truth about human dialogue. Lies are like the rain as everyone gets wet.
Well done and thank you,
Keith
Comment is about Lies (blog)
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Well done, Jane, a really lovely piece which is wholly convincing at all levels and should be read often for its universal relevance
Peter T
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
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Robert loved the poem I, like most miss my father dearly, but as you so eloquently worded it the loss of a mother is in some ways indescribable.Thank you..?
Comment is about memories are new (blog)
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Hello Greg,
Thank you for your interest in this article which is part of a series, of which there are six with three more to come. This should take them up until 11 November.
The poem is one of my own which I wrote a couple of years ago, inspired by a photo I saw of the Somme during the aftermath of the battle.
As you so rightly say the subject is vast and I can only scratch the surface. I shall read with interest the information you have given me.
Keith
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
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Beware of lies
Lies can hide anywhere,
Under a table or under a chair.
Behind a tooth,
Away from the truth.
Undetected never found,
In the sky,underground.
Beware of lies they can trip you up,
Be careful you don't buy a pup.
Do some research before you proceed,
Detect the lies before they feed,
Upon your bank balance and leave you skint,
Look into their eyes for an honest glint.
Inspired to write this after enjoying your poem.
Today we can say ,"The lies have it".
Comment is about Lies (blog)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
This is a huge subject that you're tackling, Keith. Who is the author of the poem that you quote here, please? Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney are two more war poets that are also worth a mention, and of course there were a number of French and German poets, too. I'd also like to recommend a war anthology, although it covers a century of wars as well as the first world war, the Bloodaxe one published back in 2014 and edited by Neil Astley https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43187
Comment is about Poetry & The Great War, a series: 3 The Battle of the Somme (article)
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elPintor
Fri 5th Oct 2018 12:19
By the way, thank you, Ferris. I don't know where my manners have gone these days.
Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 11:31
You're safe Don...today in the UK it is Non-alliteration Day.
Why not...there's a day for everything.
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
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My guess is Brian will try to out-alliterate me ?
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
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It has become clear to me, WM, that you have to say the right thing.
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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Thankyou, Don and Taylor.
I rather like the idea of this poem being removed like my previous one for saying exactly the opposite of the previous one.
Arse and elbow would spring to mind.
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 08:57
An important poem because everyone should be allowed to be who they really are without abuse or fear.
On the surface we are a tolerant culture but it isn't always the case.
Thanks for this Keith.
Hannah
Comment is about Old and Gay (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 08:47
The rhyming in this is so wonderful to read.
I enjoyed every line.
Hannah
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 08:27
Beautiful Jon! A wonderful theme! Enjoyed it!??
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Thank you all,
In answer to Ferris´question; yes it is more or less autobiographical. My sitting room is in the poem. Jane, thank you as I agree wholeheartedly that homes are for expression and not impression. We invest something of who we are in our homes.
Thank you all again
Keith
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 5th Oct 2018 08:11
I love this Keith!?
Homes are for expression not impression!?
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
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Politically correct....the world has indeed gone mad..good poem with a nice twist of ..the literal....thanks John..?
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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Congratulations Jane your poems are very good love reading them and all others on WOL lots of love Wendy .x
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
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Rude of me not to thank the likers, too.
Therefore, thank you,
Jon
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Skirts they go upping and blouses go down
All things are happening in Uppingham Town
Adenaline's rising, boy's can't keep it down
John says be wise boys, and just settle down
Boys
Now John you are taking
Our fun all away
Victorian times
Have gone, passed away
John what are you trying
To do to us boys?
Of Uppinham township
Who just want some joys
We just wanna let
Our adrenalin run free
And upskirt our girls
You undertand? You see?
(Think I better stop John....Thanks for giving me something to let my mind run wild on ..?)
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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Thank you Anya, Keith, Taylor, Ferris and Don.
Ferris, I took the inspiration for this from the Elvis Costello version, but I will definitely listen to the Brinsley Schwarz version.
Jon
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 03:41
You can feel the emotion seeping from the lines. Great piece.?
Comment is about Missing Soul (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:35
Change up from your usual topics, but it was a great read.
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Comment is about {Evil Venom} (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:32
You always have the best songs/instrumentals to accompany the best poems John.
So many good lines here it makes it difficult to nail down a favorite one.
Solemn and beautiful at the same time.?
Comment is about Meg (blog)
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elPintor
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:25
Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:23
Really enjoyed the singular theme that you ran with the entire time. Made it that much more enjoyable to reach the end.?
Comment is about A Rhyming Idea (blog)
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...I don't want the responsibility...
Comment is about memories are new (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:21
elPintor
Fri 5th Oct 2018 01:11
Robert, I just heard of how a continual increase in dark energy could tear apart the stars and matter as we know it...
Are we, as physical beings, really the only sentient entities?
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elPintor
Fri 5th Oct 2018 00:57
If I could like a comment, Ferris, I would do just simply that--as I'm sure you know, overexposure leads to absence of curiosity.
Comment is about IS and IS NOT (blog)
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As bad burned as scalded, Ferris. The last one was ironic but deemed literal. This one is literal but will it be deemed ironic? Or maybe it's a subject one is barred from writing about at all. We'll see.
Comment is about UPSKIRTING 2 (blog)
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This is so good Jon ?
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Count me in Dorinda!
Needs more make up Nigel
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
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We live in hope Jon..thank you great poem. ?
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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Lovely poem Keith..thank you..?
Comment is about Welcome to my Parlour (blog)
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Jon,
Thank you for this as you have given a theatrical description of what ails the world but including the prospect of hope.
A good poem indeed and thank you
Keith
Comment is about Peace, love and understanding have left the building (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 4th Oct 2018 20:19
Avishek, your unique style really shines through in this lovely poem. Profound meaning intertwined with impressive vocabulary creates an intriguing read. I especially enjoyed the last 5 lines. Bravo!??
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Don Matthews
Fri 5th Oct 2018 14:28
It seems I have out-done Brian this time
I'll accept it's your non-alliteration day
But I can't accept avoidance from rapping
And joining these kids as they play
(Shame on you....?)
Comment is about Again and Again and Again (blog)
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