It is definitely interesting. Very 'rap' in style, and well held together for a long piece.
Comment is about He Who Has Ears (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Delightful, softness and strength in so few lines. 'Lovelight' is a splendid concept. Why have you titled it as 'Lovesick'?
Comment is about Lovesick (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
D. Lee, welcome to WOL. Perhaps your experience here will become your present. That is a lovely photo. Is it you?
Comment is about Andrea Lee (poet profile)
Original item by Andrea Lee
Superb. Splendid start to the day.
Comment is about Courtyard In Snow (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
This is very interesting. Some super metaphors. 'sky dominating parent' is superb.
Check 'silhouette' since it is right in the first line, a great word that stands out.
Comment is about Crying (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
What an absolutely charming piece CBT. Night noises are something we are all disturbed by.
Quite recently (permeating my dreams) I could hear a baby crying, it turned out to be a couple of distant cats squaring up to each other in the night.
Love the idea of frogs sounding like stars! Oh that they could sing to us!
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I find real sincerity of feeling and an innate elegance of expression. The combination is a writer's dream. Well done to you and to the WOL person who picked this work.
Comment is about 'Dear Sad Friend' by Ruby is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 09:57
Jakob it's a bloody shame but it is spilt milk now. I know that may sound harsh, but think positively...it's an opportunity to start again...perhaps develop new ways of writing, alternative styles etc. Good luck and keep your chin up!
Comment is about Lost (blog)
Original item by Jakob Robinson
Very funny. I could just imagine Victoria Wood herself doing it.
I liked the repetitions
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about fatal attraction (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
I've enjoyed reading your poems, Eve, but this one will particularly stick in my memory. The choice of words and their rhythm match the sentiment, with which I wholeheartedly agree.
Comment is about Earth thoughts (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Thank you so much! I will look up the egg. You've made me curious. Oh, and I checked out some of your pieces. Pretty dope. Makes me want to know more about you, what shaped you as a writer. Anyhoo, thank you for your interest. All the best to you!
Comment is about Orchasm (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Hi Colin,
Very much so. By June/July temps are anywhere from 10 to 20 C., rain every second day, often heavy but short-lived. People looking miserable - I'm sure you know the drill.
Off to the Canaries, Minorca and Greece, followed by the UK and Ireland - whoopee!
Chris
Comment is about Give it Sweetness (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
Big Sal
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 00:14
Is this a poem about Brandan or Trump?? Haha!
Comment is about Brandon Breath (blog)
Original item by Karl MacIver
Big Sal
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 00:09
Find something to believe in if you can. Like yourself, or poetry.?
Comment is about Gospel (blog)
Original item by Andrea Lee
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:56
More good reads. You should look for the sky in an Araucana egg, so many hues of beauty in nature, it's impossible to capture them all - good choice of words here.
Comment is about Orchasm (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:53
I would kill for a diamond tipped stylus. Vivid imagery, and what a great read!
Comment is about My Love For You, Earth (blog)
Original item by Dyphrent
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 23:51
Sometimes a bad feeling is the hardest to shake. Good poems!
Comment is about Super Sticky Glue (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
thanks all. Loved that Kate Bush video, it's a great subtle poetic album.
Yes looks like the recent snow has got me thinking- and moving on at least to some day time poems!
Comment is about Morning Thought (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
“Soon Don Long”, MC? Who does he pay for?
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sad but true..Tanks for sharing.
Comment is about the smell of snow (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
I got drunk in a
Portland bar
thirty minutes after
I had exited my
girl-friend's car,
she text
to tell me
that she had
finished with me
and that that was that.
I sat drinking
pouring tears
into my whiskey
a guy with an
English accent
joined me
we had a good time.
I bought all the drinks
as I remember.
I left alone drunk.
A couple of days later
I went back
to the same bar
and stood in
the same place
as previously-
I then realised that
I had been talking
to a full-length mirror.
Words and foto Tommy Carroll
Comment is about Portland bar (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
really enjoyed this - great use of rhythm and rhyme
Comment is about Camel through a needle's eye (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
<Deleted User> (16099)
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 19:28
prayers to you always ..let a healing begin..and I will always be here for a listen to applaude you.. to read and cheerish each and every word that you write..hello new poet friend
hello..
Comment is about Bloody Showers (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
When I hear "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana I am sometime revisited by the first time the video came on in the student lounge. Someone said something like "Turn that hard rock crap off!" Then Grunge happened and everyone was on board. This poem was inspired by those thoughts.
Comment is about Staring at the Concept of a Word (blog)
Original item by 220August
More thought-provoking quality from across the pond.
Comment is about 'He was at his work bench, a rich man straightening nails' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
From his reviews alone, praise is due to Greg Freeman for
his contributions on WOL. It will be interesting to see
the output and style from his replacement.
Anyone from the Daily Mail? ?
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Timely - with a universal moral somewhere in there. Stick it out for the best result if possible? Meanwhile:
Today's footballing softies
Soon don long sleeve and mitten.
They'd probably insist on balaclavas
To keep hair from being "frost bitten"!! ?
P.S. VAR should be kept for goal/goal line dispute only.
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nick, Instead of a curtain call how about a few encores. Dip the pen back in the ink well and keep writing mate. Keith
Comment is about Curtain Call. (blog)
Original item by Nick
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 11:36
isn't a Perth winter a bit like our UK summer Chris? Wherever you're heading north to - enjoy! Colin.
Comment is about Give it Sweetness (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 11:32
well it never quite materialised in my part of the UK Tom but I've done plenty of sitting and watching and pondering - actually I do a lot of that with or without snow! I see you've moved on to morning poems from the night ones?! Good stuff. Col.
Comment is about Morning Thought (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 10:34
This is really deep and it's awful that anyone has to know this feeling.
Comment is about Bloody Showers (blog)
Original item by Eden Louise
Ruby
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 03:39
Thanks a lot Ray!
Ruby
Comment is about 'Dear Sad Friend' by Ruby is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Big Sal
Fri 2nd Mar 2018 01:50
Fuck this shit indeed. ?
Very worthwhile reads you have collected, and your sample lends itself to catching attention and holding it like a candle.
Comment is about Eden Louise (poet profile)
Original item by Eden Louise
Sorry Eve, but the first thing I think of is that three things leave brown stains on sheets, curry and chocolate being two of them, which does not bode well for nocturnal bliss! You need a 90 decree setting to get that lot out. Enjoyable read!
Ray
Comment is about curry hurry (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Your writing has touched a chord and resonates simply and truthfully Ruby, it has a winsome quality, an almost cinematic moment registered. Glad to see you as POTW.
Ray
Comment is about 'Dear Sad Friend' by Ruby is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Greg,
Wishing you all the very best for the future, and it's good to see you will still be involved in some capacity, including helping your replacement(s) settle in.
Cheers!
Suki
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Colin and David,
Thanks so much for your feedback and observations.
Yes Col, the science fiction element is there, but like you say, only just. I have a horrible feeling it won't be too long now - 5g is just around the corner, and 3d television isn't too far away we are promised. Lucky us.
David, you're not kidding. All is product. Think of telethons: tragedy and comedy: a starving child then a clip from The Office. A celebrity: "Don't go to the pub tonight, look here!".
I wonder if we get the media we deserve. Stopped watching Question Time a long while ago..
Cheers again!
Suki
Comment is about Far Away In My Living Room When We Have Real 3d Television (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
A nice sense of reverie of the white world. It is good to test ourselves and as you say sample the possibilities, like the seduction of a white duvet.
much enjoyed this one Tom.
Ray
Comment is about Morning Thought (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
As usual, a veritable font of useful information.
I'm surprised you haven't written a whole manual of this type of "survival" prose!
On another matter, it was good to see those northern softies dispatched in the snowy cauldron of Wembley the other night. And not a HC in sight!!
Comment is about TALE FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Top man, Greg.
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
leah
Thu 1st Mar 2018 11:40
FEBRUARY WRITE ANGLE WITH OPEN MIC & STEVE POTTINGER - “THE BEST POET WE HAD YET!”
That's what was said by some of the audience about Steve Pottinger. When he went to sell his books at half time, a queue formed and he sold all but one! During the break, several of the audience sat reading the books they'd bought....they loved his poetry! For his part, Steve Pottinger said “you realise you have some excellent poets in your group,” (referring specifically to Dick Senior)
Steve holds strong views about society, politics, everything. Yet he manages to put these across with humour. He said, “I was trying to write a poem about Brexit and it was just coming out as a rant.” What he actually wrote (apologies to Lewis Carrol) was Stabberjocky”: “Twas Brexit, and the slithy Gove did....” He doesn't rant, even when serious, as in Kate's War, about Kate Sharpley, a munitions factory girl who lost everyone in WW1, when Queen Mary was presenting medals, she hurled '”this consolation back shouting out loud, 'keep'em yourself, if they mean that much to you'.”
He celebrates ordinary people and their ways: in England, no grandiloquent Royal Throne of Kings, Sceptred Isle, but “You are not dead, just evolving...quoting Benny Hill and Shakespeare.” His quirky humour and sense of the ridiculous is seen in his love poem, You Ask Me Where I want To Live, My Love, “...this is where I want to live, my love,with you, eating impossibilities for breakfast.....”
At the open mic, Colin Eveleigh spoke of writing a 'more light hearted poem' and came up with the lilting, 'Seaside Dip', 'English Summer' which told of an “August, flipping icy cold” and slow progress into and out of the sea. Richard Hawtree explained his poems were so complex, this time he'd write a simpler one, but the more he wrote, the more difficult and obscure it became. His Marginal Sonnet dealt with the old belief that, in winter, birds don't migrate but hide in holes in the ground.
He was suddenly approached by an audience member who said she loved his work- where could she find more, did he have a website, had he published...his latest, 'O Poem' was just published in 'The Honest Ulsterman'. Other recent poems appear in: 'SOUTH', 'Anima', 'Banshee', 'Boyne Berries', 'The Penny Dreadful', and 'Snakeskin Poetry'.
Dick Senior, (highly admired by Steve Pottinger), followed with Learning to Swim. “One day, the wind and the sun debated which was greater.” They vied to have a man take off his jacket; the wind tried but the man pulled the jacket tighter; the hot sun made the man take it off. In a second section, a “father with no patience with patience threw his son in the deep end....where he had to be hooked out like a failed fish.” However, taught by a friend's father “boys became fish...not drowning but smiling.” He finished with The News, three news items described with sardonic humour, the first of which dealt with “a town that would banish bully beggars.”
Andy Forsyth's untitled poem told of life in a squat, finishing with “then click! The f-----g electric ran out.” Sue Spiers likened humans to birds: “City folk in crisp white shirts with suits of black dread – magpies of the bank”. Your reviewer read Be My Valentine addressed to Write Angle's surprised founder: “I love you, Leah. But not because – AND you're beautiful”.
In Leah Cohen's, Rose, her father calls their Bronx flat “The house of disappearance.” In it, “Everything is dull and grey. No paintings, plants or pets. They dirty things, she says, They make a smell.” So her daughter “vows when she grows up, to fill her house with all those things.” Too soon the father's heart skips a beat and the rose lipped sex kitten becomes Miami Ballroom Queen...” Piers Husband's To Disappear tells how, one morning, he decides to leave without telling anyone. He goes on a mystical journey, meeting an old man who leads him to a wall with a door: “Behind this door all the people you've known and loved that have been taken from you; they're on the other side.” He does not open the door to join them for a picnic” and, next day, when he retraces his steps, he finds “When I got to the wall, there was no door”.
Every Write Angle evening is different and special in its own way but this one really did show the talents we have at our Open Mic as well as the extraordinary qualities each of our guests bring to Petersfield. It was truly a great evening with its own special energy. Everyone was exhilerated and left feeling good.
The raffle prize, a meal for two at excellent The Hamilton Arms Nava Thai was won by one of Write Angle's regulars and we're delighted that he finally got to win it!
Jake Claret
Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 20 Feb 2018 (event)
Thanks for your messages, Laura and Jonathan. I've had a wonderful time doing the news job. And I won't be quitting Write Out Loud entirely - I still hope to co-ordinate the book reviews, and will be carrying on as organiser of Write Out Loud Woking, of course. I should also mention that there will be no question of my successor(s) having to jump in off the deep end - there'll be plenty of technical advice and help on offer, to get you settled in.
Comment is about We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Thu 1st Mar 2018 05:38
Trevor Alexander
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 12:40
Lovely piece. Invokes (for me) a long gone Enid Blyton childhood, so reassuring. Really enjoyed it.
Comment is about My Mummy Can Do Anything (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas