and so say all of....well me for a start.

Comment is about For the volunteers @ Caernarfon castle - May 2017 (blog)

Original item by Pamela Peach

interesting 'work in progress' Adam and I will be interested to see where it might go next should you post a revision. Clever idea that indeed makes for much mulling.

Comment is about Mulling It Over And Over (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Well read Connor but I won't be joining you in this particular form of escapism any time soon. However it is always good to read poetry on subjects not normally presented here on WoL and you have a masterful way with words which is admirable and entertaining. Keep it up Mister.

Comment is about I Have A Fetish For Escapism (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

Superb poem Laura.
It has both the moral and intellectual honesty that challenges distorted and corrupt views.

We need more like you.
Raj

Comment is about Jacob's Ladder (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

first and last two lines are very effective and sandwich the poem nicely.

Comment is about Come what may (blog)

Original item by Wardah

Beautiful Wardah and a fitting sequel to your earlier poem.
Look like your calling the shots now.
I like the assertive tone.
Game on!

Raj

Comment is about Come what may (blog)

Original item by Wardah

In contrast, MC, The Big Issue vendors are cheery politeness personified.

Comment is about MENDICANTS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Makes me think... wow ! this universe is vast..
And me...i so small.... i need to grow into the space before me

Comment is about Creation's Quantum (blog)

Original item by Rich

All too familiar Raj... But at least my turnaround time is improving. Life goes on ?

Comment is about Mind Games (blog)

Original item by Wardah

Hi, Laura..I have so much to say that I hardly know where to begin. So, for all the stubborn mules in the church, I'll leave it at, "keep your rosaries off my ovaries."

Good to hear someone speak up,

Rachel

Comment is about Jacob's Ladder (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I love the line "husehd in silence steeped in deceit" - it is luscious.

Real counterpoint to "whispered sweet".

Go beyond words.

Comment is about The Loss (blog)

Original item by Phils Words

The honourable Mogg
Has dropped a cog!
He should have used caution
When discussing abortion.

Comment is about Why has everyone gone quiet? (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

A street recliner in bin liner,
(While you finger fifty pee!)
Has his hand up
'cos he can't stand up...
As he hopes for something free!

And how right you are JC - a smile costs nothing yet
creates something of value to giver and receiver.

Comment is about MENDICANTS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I think that JRM has got it wrong with his "point of conception".
The health, wishes and well-being of the mother should
take priority before a life-form that is dependent on the
womb and its owner until capable of being born alive.
The law defines infanticide and child destruction, using
time as a guide, but there are times when a mother's
needs must prevail over all else - and that can see
abortion being chosen as a course of action.
I suspect the hand of religion in JRM's view, primarily
the RC stance against contraception.
JRM has much to say that is worth listening to and
considering, and being seen to be wrong on a topic
doesn't make him a bad man, merely one with an
opinion to be challenged and argued against.

Comment is about Jacob's Ladder (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

The theme for Monday night is - - -
using language from one situation in a completely different setting - - -

Fire all Torpedoes

Enemy sighted
target set
loading up

Firing torpedoes
direct hit
no survivors

Action stations
command given
dive, dive

The submarine
under pressure
dark depths

Swirling whirlpool
tossed turned
too late - - -

Daddy pulls
out plug
bath finished!

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Good Luck to Nicola Hulme who is doing a book launch
Saturday Sept 9th 12pm - 2pm at St. Barnabas Church in Bredbury Stockport!

Any books not sold please bring down to the meet up on Monday night - - -thanks

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm glad someone likes it, David.

Ray

Comment is about VENUS FLY TRAP (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Steve,
Also only Just `caught` this now..

I like the way the end confirms the beginning. The paradox (and the `human condition`) Is that they - and the middle of the poem - are both paradoxically true.

(I like the emotive force of it as a `performer`...I would love to hear you actually read it...particularly that final line)

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks for all your comments, much appreciated?

Comment is about The 2nd Parakeet (blog)

Original item by gavin turner

Powerful revelation. A poem that stays in the mind.

Thanks so much for your comment on my poem The Letter.

Comment is about HUG (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi David

Did you? I can imagine what a conversation about this with my daughter would be like ?

Eloquent? With that education, I should bloody hope so! He's dangerously old guard, can't stand the fella, and it drives me mad when people chuckle at him, like he's just being a 'bit funny'. He's not. And agreed - not fit for office at all. And to think he's being whispered about as a replacement for the walking corpse. God bloody save us.

Cheers ?

Comment is about Jacob's Ladder (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Heh. I direct the honourable gentleman to my posting this morning ?

Comment is about Why has everyone gone quiet? (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Hi Eseosa some stuff going down in this piece. How's it going?

Comment is about Awake (blog)

Original item by Eseosa

Fantastic poem by John - 'crazed forgettings', 'autopsy scar on the belly of the country'. And Martha - 'Each at each other, one of us forever.' Worthy winners both. Well done.

Comment is about John Baylis Post's 'Track' wins Write Out Loud's Milestones competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Pertinent and plangent - a timely reminder to get something
done to stop this decimating dangerous event in nature
from progressing.

Comment is about 'The flowers ... will blaze one last time and go out' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

They say "money talks" and sometimes I think (especially
in consideration of our wonderful but fast fading countryside) that we should ignore its jabber.
David - some words from my own past come back to me:
Cynicism is the last resort of idealism. And, no, they weren't from the inimitable Oscar Wilde!

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Ray. Scarred optimism... that's definitely my kind of town. ?

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks Stephen ?

Comment is about out side (blog)

Original item by Becky Sowray

Hey, Colin! I was feeling so serious last evening that I had to have a little laugh. The first time I watched that movie, I almost fell out of my chair, I laughed so hard.

I came up with part of the title after remembering an incident with a nurse connecting me to an IV. Somehow, she lost grip of the tube she'd stuck in my arm after removing the cap at it's female end and gave out a nervous laugh when it began to flail about like a tiny fire hose. Well, the rest of the title is me laughing with her.

Anyhow, the movie makes a great statement about religion and the fickle fascinations of man. Man and his myths remain archaic, no matter how modernized they seem on the surface. And, I firmly believe that the only reason the church isn't still burning people at the stake is that its violence is no longer state-sanctioned and it has to convince converts into its control rather than being able to legally coerce them through overt measures.

Hope you laughed as much as I did,

Rachel

PS
Glad you enjoyed, David.

Comment is about HAHAHA--it's only blood you silly nurse (or, more serious reflections upon M. Python's Holy Grail) (blog)

Original item by nunya

I'm afraid I'm one of those 'critics' who is unable to offer a critique (and rarely do), but may I say how much I enjoyed the poem.

Comment is about out side (blog)

Original item by Becky Sowray

Very pithy, very true and very well expressed.
Thankyou.
Richard

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I really like this poem. It shows the cynicism of those who put economics before the Environment.

Comment is about THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017 (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you Ray for your comments on my poem. Much appreciated

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Thanks for stopping by David and Col. Nice to have your support.

Ray

Comment is about HORSE TRADING (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Colin, thanks for you insight into my poem. I do appreciate your comments, thanks.

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

I hear you Rich... i recognise your words..unclutter the mind madness of noise and pick out the postive.... like you do

Comment is about Divided (blog)

Original item by Rich

Thanks Ashley, like words breath can be sweet too.

Comment is about Greyhound (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Just seen this for the first time Steve. It gets life by the balls and squeezes and brings a tear forth. I especially respect the idea of kicking in the TV and the lines leading up to that, because I suppose TV is a sort of sop to keep our minds spongy and diverted. Bitter sweet and a very recognizable sense of scarred optimism just coming through in spite of the mood of the piece.

Ray

Comment is about last out of Pandora's box (and last to die) (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

A very original idea to transfer the suffering onto the tree that supported the hanging Desmond. Like double disgust and so neatly expressed.

Ray

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Nice bit of fantasy from the cabinet of Dr Caligari perhaps Lynn. Nice light touch for a subject that toys with our feelings somewhat!

Ray

Comment is about WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

I feel that teachers must have also felt browbeaten by the "duties" such as writing reports and many of them as I recall were fairly sadistic. A burden conveyed no doubt to parents who were supposed to have an input too. A sorry record as you say, entertainingly written!

Ray

Comment is about Report (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Hi, thanks for sharing.

Comment is about Addiction (above and beyond) (blog)

Original item by Phils Words

Yeah a bit crazy. My son gave me a poetry assignment book. The assignment was to start with the opening that August Day and make up a medication that does not exist. That is where this came from lol

Comment is about WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Nice one Wardah. Familiar eh?

The warning bells ring...

Let's have another please.
Raj

Comment is about Mind Games (blog)

Original item by Wardah

Thank you Wardah. She deserves it. Glad you like it.

Comment is about M'am your poem is served (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Hi Stephen
A great poem and I'm sure you speak for many with the sentiments you have set out so clearly.
Underneath every line of your poem simmers the yoke of "failure" which some of us have had to carry after being crushed by the waterfall of negativity poured over us at a young and impressionable age.
Thankyou for writing it and for writing it so well.
Richard

(What? Me, bitter? Nah!)

Comment is about Report (blog)

Original item by Stephen Mellor

Thanks Graham and Colin

I loved the dodgems too but no battle scars for me!

Comment is about Fly like a Bird land like a Stone (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Photographs ...pictures of time, painted in words...words sublime... tick tock... tick

?

Comment is about Calendars clocks and snapshots (blog)

Original item by David T Jones

Hey, foul breath is just the definition of life undressed.

Comment is about Greyhound (blog)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Ciran wrap gripped tight around the throat
i breathe, i choke.
i tripped and felt my stiff ass neck broke

Internally vibrating, emotionally fucking penetrating

Acceptance is forced to be, eyes wide open- i see you are personally damaging to me

I've traveled along side your competition within this rat race.. Ill invite death to keep up with my continuous pace

Dead from within but my daily struggle is still faced

Comment is about The Weeping Tree (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS