Beautifully spun yarn loved it. I can picture grandad very clearly...?
Comment is about Grandad (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
No one in modern comics could effortlessly create a definitive image like Ezquerra. Exhibit A:
https://goo.gl/images/d4jFei
Comment is about The Master - for Carlos Ezquerra, 1947-2018 (blog)
Original item by J F Keane
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 15:53
very accurate lines indeed Janey and very much enjoyed. Thank you. Jemima.
Comment is about love is not (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
JC - by all means. let us continue to agree to disagree.
I won't insist that you go away and come back with the
result I want! ?
The apparent intransigence of the EU might just be founded
on the fear that other nations (that word rankles with its federal mindset) might take to their heels too if the UK is
allowed to slip free from the "project".
Comment is about BORIS THE BIDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think they're all safe and sound now back at school. I posted this sat outside wait for the end of the school day. Never again!
Comment is about Why the hell did I agree to this (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Gosh that was split-second reactions Big Sal! ?
I guess haiku don't take long to read...I think my style needs work though.
Comment is about Why the hell did I agree to this (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 14:55
I think this was written in desperation. .?
It's all good Becky, throw in the towel, crack open a fresh tea, and remember that you might have forgotten one of those kids running around.
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Comment is about Why the hell did I agree to this (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 14:52
Powerful cover.?
Comment is about Synonyms-for-OTHER-Bodies-Poetry-Book-Cover-Daryl Sznyter.png (photo)
Original item by Daryl Sznyter
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 14:27
I don't know if I should have, but your sample 'Mistress' made me chuckle a bit.
Great pieces collected so far.?
Comment is about Amy McAllister (poet profile)
Original item by Amy McAllister
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 14:25
I like how you compare you using your own initials without having to do anything to obtain them other than steal that shit!
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Everything is free when you don't pay for it!!!?
Comment is about INITIALS (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Some would regard this poem as cynical but it is the unvarnished truth.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about INITIALS (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Hang in there Damon. And please don't hurt yourself, no matter what you do it won't punish the people who hurt you, it will only hurt you more. And nobody deserves that. Be the bigger person, find yourself outside of them. Forgive them and let them be. I know it might hurt to hear but chances are that nobody will bother to knock some sense into you. Not because there is something wrong with you, it's just the way life is. BUT the very fact that you ask for someone to knock some sense into you makes me think you already have the sense! You're crying for help. You must really be in pain... I get that and i'm sorry. But the truth is only you can save yourself. Love yourself. Life is beutiful. You just can't see it yet. And when you save yourself and emerge to the surface with your head up high thanks to your formidable struggles everybody will respect and revere you. Because you'll have the wisdom of a man who knows how ro fight. Trust me, I speak from experience. Death is not the answer. Keep writing!
Comment is about I'm sorry, I'm trying (blog)
Original item by Mikey V Kinsey
This poem is very poignant and powerful. I have a poem about memories of my mum too , chokes me up everytime I read it out x
Comment is about Mama (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Thanks for reading and commenting on 'The Language of Trees'.......... I kid you not in Settle go up constitutional hill to the ancient woodland and there is a talking tree
Comment is about Janey Colbourne (poet profile)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
Thank you so much for your kind comments on 'The Language of Trees' Christine x
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Many thanks on commenting on 'The language of Trees'
Christine x?
Comment is about hugh (poet profile)
Original item by hugh
<Deleted User> (9882)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 11:56
if he isn't a prime example of someone who is completely off their trolley I don't know who is!
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Rose ?
Comment is about Trump (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
<Deleted User> (9882)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 11:52
nice thoughts to carry into the chillier days ahead Jon.
Lovely!
Rose ?
Comment is about Summer calm (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
A great poetic protest.Well done.
Comment is about The Voice of the Commons (blog)
Original item by Janey Colbourne
I sit in the garden and hear the trees talking,
As the wind in their branches are powerfully stalking.
They spread out from their roots in a variety of ways,
They were placed there for us to passionately praise.
Comment is about The Language of Trees (blog)
Original item by Christine Renshaw
Beautiful words! Excellent?
Comment is about The Language of Trees (blog)
Original item by Christine Renshaw
Indeed I have! Often ?
Comment is about The Language of Trees (blog)
Original item by Christine Renshaw
Absolutely delighted for you Jane. Well deserved poet and poem of the week...congratulations..Taylor xx ??
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
ECONOMIC FACTORS MAY TAKE SOME SPRING OUT OF THE EASTER BUNNY STEP THIS YEAR. Say quickly ten times Brian in American newsreader loud declamatory fashion...?
Comment is about Newsreaders (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I think you sum this up well at the end with
'this is only really another small step for man'
And we do take such small steps in the belief that we should always be world changers
Nice one Rachel
Comment is about bodies in orbit (blog)
Original item by nunya
Absolutely beautiful Tommy. It is so good to know that you are a man of many styles and voices.
Nice one mate
Comment is about Monsoon wind (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I agree with Ray definitely thought provoking which kind of raises that eternal question what is truth, that which is so often manipulated to suit the needs and beliefs of others like a certain individual across the water.
Nice one Tommy
Comment is about Starkey (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 09:42
I note you resisted the urge to write your piece in upper case Don.
Comment is about Newsreaders (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I’m afraid I disagree with you completely, MC.
I have built up a grudging respect for TM. Despite her personal views of Brexit she has tried to make practical sense of the voters’ wishes to leave.
Farage has no plan, nor Davies, nor Johnson, nor Corbyn, indeed, nor yourself, MC.
Apart from throwing stones.
Comment is about BORIS THE BIDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 09:07
Thank you for your comments on Koi Pond.
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Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19421)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 09:06
Only just found these!
Great work and a fine array of tributes.
Fiery Jack was the first record that I ever heard on The John Peel Show in 1979, the rest is history....
MES was a fine poet, and I still can't believe that I can no longer have the excitement of looking forward to a new Fall
album.....
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about Three Short Poems about Mark E Smith (blog)
Original item by Andy N
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 08:28
I had to look him up as I'd never heard of him...and with good reason as it seems he was an illustrator of things that I have no contact with. But I like the tribute and the structure of the poem JF.
Comment is about The Master - for Carlos Ezquerra, 1947-2018 (blog)
Original item by J F Keane
<Deleted User> (19836)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 08:16
A flawlessly written tribute!?
Comment is about The Master - for Carlos Ezquerra, 1947-2018 (blog)
Original item by J F Keane
Thank you, Anya, Jane and Big Sal.
Your encouraging words mean so much to me.
Jon
Comment is about Summer calm (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (19421)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 07:15
Eh! What's your point Ray?
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Nice one
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about SIMPLE FARE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (19421)
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 07:07
Good work Jane - well done you....
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Cheers
DJB
Comment is about ‘Second Chances’ by Jane Briganti is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
The message is clear and rhymed to please folk like me.
My late mother used to say about some: "Too clever by half". Therein lies the danger - of layering a message a
shade too much by using "terminological inexactitude" (as
J. Rees-Mogg said of J. Corbyn recently in Parliament).
I endorse the value given by other comments to use of subtlety. although, like irony, it can be missed by
inattentive unaware minds. But that's their loss and should
not dissuade a writer from its practice and the pleasure it
gives to others.
Comment is about SIMPLE FARE (blog)
Original item by ray pool
elPintor
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 01:16
POV on parenthood past eighteen or so?
@Mark, I don't want to give the impression that I'm waiting for an extended family by setting up homestead, so I'm moving right along. Somehow, I'm sure that tension is one of the few things that brings about change. If it be so, then I wish just a bit for him--just enough.
A hard rain...
John, have you seen her performance in the stead of that Nobel Laureate, Bob?
If you have, I suppose you already know that it's right down to earth and fantastic.
..cleaving to these remnant bits of what is in danger of becoming part of "the old world",
Rachel
Comment is about a letter to my son--for now... (blog)
Original item by nunya
Like his admired biographical subject, BJ seems the sort to
be flexible in his political career when it suits his aims.
We can forget how WSC changed sides but not always his
views over a long career when moved sufficiently to act.
And yes - I'm long enough in the tooth to remember the
musical source of your own inspiration - even once
owning an LP of rock opera "Tommy" when it came out.
The problems for the present Conservative and Unionist
Party began when its hierarchy felt they could play with
the hopes of an electorate that looked optimistically to
a common trading zone - and insisted on pushing on regardless in support of the unspoken aims of the EU "project"...uncannily reflecting the schism in pre-war UK politics dividing those who had opposing ideas about
Nazi Germany's worth and long term intentions.
And perhaps BJ sees himself as today's WSC against
Theresa May's Chamberlain? Politics takes no prisoners
and it's sometimes wise to suspend belief!
Comment is about BORIS THE BIDER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
elPintor
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 00:28
Thanks, everyone, for reading. I've had an intensely busy weekend that's just now coming to an end, though I hope to reply to your well-thought comments, Mark and John, as soon as I emerge back to the world of words...
Comment is about a letter to my son--for now... (blog)
Original item by nunya
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 00:15
I had not heard 'verdant' in a long while. Great piece Jon.
Comment is about Summer calm (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 00:14
Great choice of words, even though every single word of this piece would be beyond the little man's grasp - from the first word, all the way to the word "a".
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Comment is about Trump (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Big Sal
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 00:10
The golden eiderdown line is excellent. Whole sample piece is great.?
Comment is about Denice Jaunzens (poet profile)
Original item by Denice Jaunzens
Our October's upside down
It warms us up for summer
Which when it finally does come
Can be a bloody bummer
I like your simile John Coopey
Enter lamb and exit lion
But cos we're living upside down
Our lion leaves us fryin' ?
Comment is about OCTOBER (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Taylor Crowshaw
Tue 2nd Oct 2018 16:30
Been there Becky tough.....love the poem..thanks Taylor?
Comment is about Why the hell did I agree to this (blog)
Original item by Becky Who