<Deleted User> (18118)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 12:26
I know I shouldn't but it made me laugh.
Brilliant piece.
Hannah
Comment is about mildred (blog)
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Rhyme can deliver any message from comic to serious. A multifunctional poetic tool. A tool I enjoy wielding and using it to shape my writing ?
From The FUN BUS to Death Row rhyme offers extremes for exploration.
Comment is about Just Kill Me (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 11:20
Like it Taylor but the question is...when are you going to
re-point that wall?
Comment is about The Fledgling (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 11:16
Love it Taylor...all young must eventually spread their wings and fly!❤ Beautiful
Comment is about The Fledgling (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 11:10
Don, you've crossed over...well done! You really can rhyme about everything?
Comment is about Just Kill Me (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 11:01
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 10:59
Torture Darren? You don't know the half of it...they put him on Don's Funbus twice a day!
Comment is about Just Kill Me (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19421)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 10:55
A different take for you Don.
No matter what anyone has done, no matter if you believe in the death penalty or not - there is no excuse for this torture (I don't mean your poem ?).
Good work....
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about Just Kill Me (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks Kevin for the like !
Comment is about AT THE END, OR IS IT THE BEGINNING? (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Jennifer & Big Sal,
Thank you for taking time to comment on this poem. I value your remarks.
Keith
Comment is about In promise of the Seasons (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
We have to let go eventually.
Jon x
Comment is about The Fledgling (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 09:01
A beautiful picture painted in words. Thank you Jon ?
Comment is about A flower in bloom (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
A beautiful poem, thank you ?
Comment is about THAT SPACE IN MY HEART (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19421)
Fri 24th Aug 2018 07:17
Wow Peter - what a lovely poem! Some absolutely wonderful lines and great use of words.
Fantastic from start to finish...
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about THAT SPACE IN MY HEART (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 24th Aug 2018 00:55
Great title and piece. Thoroughly enjoyed the imagery as well.?
Comment is about In promise of the Seasons (blog)
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Big Sal
Fri 24th Aug 2018 00:49
Can be taken in multiple ways. Great analogy, and great poem Jon.?
Comment is about A flower in bloom (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thanks all for the wonderful comments! ?
Comment is about Be infinitely infinite into infinity (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 21:07
Thank you for the like Taylor. Much appreciated thanks
All the best des
Comment is about We’ll meet again (blog)
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Big Sal
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 20:58
Very unique in format with a build-up and release of tension. Could be adapted to an acrostic poem, several types of Japanese poems, and many others with how it is written. Nice one.?
Comment is about Dark to Light (blog)
Original item by Christine Renshaw
Always so kind.
Thank you, Anya xx
Comment is about A flower in bloom (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Big Sal
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 20:55
When conflicted with oneself, the mind is always under siege. Peace of mind is worth attaining. Good poem here with a lot of emotion being tugged at.?
Comment is about THE FIGHT FROM WITHIN (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 20:41
Very clever! A good piece of advice for wanna-be-comics!?
Comment is about A Good Stand-Up Comic (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19836)
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 20:10
I love this Jon; the words flow beautifully and I feel as though it's blooming before my very eyes. ?Jane
Comment is about A flower in bloom (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Just to say this was something I typed out without a lot of thought , it came out in a rush, so didn't think too much about it. Sometimes that can happen, or you can sweat to get everything just so; I think we all have different ways of writing. Anyway, i'm chuffed to get different responses guys.
Big Sal, thanks for looking in and for your opinion. Ironically also the end of his life!
Douglas, sometimes life itself may feel like a sad joke. Cheers.
Darren, very kind to just say how you feel - that's worth a lot to me.
Taylor, i'm glad you liked the poem and thought it worked. A pleasure to connect of course.
Thanks additionally for liking, Ruby, Brian and Kate !
Ray
Comment is about AT THE END, OR IS IT THE BEGINNING? (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Very sad Ray but wonderfully written..kept me holding my breath until the last word. Powerful..❤
Comment is about AT THE END, OR IS IT THE BEGINNING? (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I am laughing Hugh..what a tonic..thank you..?
Comment is about An examination twist (blog)
Original item by hugh
So creatively thought out and written...thanks Don liked it..?
Comment is about A Good Stand-Up Comic (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
I’ve always had the knack of knowing what buttons to push, Graham.
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Judging by the commentary JC, some of your best work yet!
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
“The pain” is set to last for 50 years according to Rees-Mogg.
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Taylor,its nice to meet you.Thanks for the feedback.I love your writing,'her heart' is a favourite ?
Comment is about Taylor Crowshaw (poet profile)
Original item by Taylor Crowshaw
Thought I'd try and write a list poem
Comment is about Dark to Light (blog)
Original item by Christine Renshaw
I think we can deal with the "difficulties" and I'm optimistic about the eventual outcome. No gain without pain etc.
Onward and forward towards a waiting new world -
beyond the old with its historical and ongoing current
restrictions on our national entrepreneurial skills. ?
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
So are you happy with how it’s going, MC?
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A charming nostalgic "nose" into the past.
I had a bus conductor's outfit (with ticket punch!) for my
5th birthday but I have NO recollection whatever of ever
asking for it. Kids can have short memories about such things. But I still have the photo somewhere of me wearing it!
Comment is about Fifth Birthday (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
OK in the best of all worlds but therein lies our human difficulty.
Remember the saying "Blood is thicker than water" - the
maxim that encouraged our first duty to family. Does that
take precedence over our duty to others - and more to the
point, does it take it further beyond those who are from
other origins? How to differentiate when human relationships and connections come under strain? An
ongoing conundrum facing humanity.
Comment is about Skin (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Keep issuing those prescriptions for laughter, Hugh!
Comment is about An examination twist (blog)
Original item by hugh
thanks everyone (Desmond, Hannah,Brian,Jon,Anya and Kate G. It's not to be taken seriously, but as an answer to Ray's Onomatopoeia, can't remember how to spell it! That's definitely an infinitely superior poem. Glad you found it amusing anyway.
Jennifer
Comment is about oxymoronic poem (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
I think you're being a bit greedy with your desert island luxuries Anya. You may have to post your WOL messages in a bottle and hope it washes up on our shores.
You have proven to be an irrepressible member of our community and we are all enlivened as a result. Well done on this new POTW, it is thoroughly deserved.
Graham
Comment is about ‘The Black Heart’ by Anya is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
A vigorous and interesting exchange of views. However, I
am saddened at the lack of self-belief and confidence in
continuing where our forebears led the way - and the
inability to interpret the basic premise of the word
"freedom" fought for over many centuries in our past
by those who went before us. The idea that their sacrifice
should result in the occupants of Parliament handing over
their electoral role to rule by foreign committee controlling
our laws and how we live our lives would be anathema to their idea
of freedom. Certainly, immigration - or rather the lack of
CONTROL with its perceived threat to work opportunities
and a creeping sense of loss of national identity, already
diluted to accommodate the sense of welcome to those
who choose (and that's the operative word) to come here
- has been influential in the vote to leave the EU. The
actuality of anyone from across the Channel from whatever origins being able to add huge numbers to an
already strained social infrastructure certainly focussed
minds. No bad thing! To those who say - let's be run
by others we can't hold to account, I say "more fool
you" - and that's being generous.
To those who see this in purely financial terms, our
annual exports are reported as £550 billion per annum,
with only a very few instances of more than 50% going
to the EU with all its restrictions on UK trade as PART
of the "club". One of those is tobacco, with a certain
Kenneth Clarke MP - former deputy chairman of British American Tobacco (BAT), a very vociferous "Remainer".
Once again, I recall the warning of Thomas Jefferson:
"Any country willing to sacrifice its freedom for financial
advantage deserves to lose both".
As for the Irish border situation,
It's worth checking the speech by
DUP leader Nigel Dodds (whose
father was a customs officer) given
to the Bruges Group recently about the Irish border question and how
it should not be a problem in reality.
Meanwhile - on with the motley, as the saying goes about a jester's
apparel.
Comment is about BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (19421)
Thu 23rd Aug 2018 09:39
Wow Ray! That is wonderful, really strong words and very powerful.
Not sure what else to add, I am sure there should be more....
Cheers!
DJB
Comment is about AT THE END, OR IS IT THE BEGINNING? (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hugh
Fri 24th Aug 2018 12:31
Well done Anya ! On W.O.L you play a big part,
Writing lovely poems straight from your heart.
Comment is about ‘The Black Heart’ by Anya is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by steve pottinger