fine

Comment is about Ringling Brothers (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

choose to see the opposite feeling from the one that holds you down, dress them all up like clowns and enjoy the show. it will truely turn a frown upside down and a new mind, much like a child's will grow.

I connected with your poem

thanks

New Shoes

Comment is about Perspective (blog)

Original item by Rich

I like how you used nursery rhyme in an event that created hope and wonder and then adult hood came in and brought it to disappointment.

tick tock

New Shoes

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

No worries, Leon! Nothing was too much trouble for a poem about a subject so close to my heart. Lonnie Donegan was my earliest pop hero.

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I was expecting a bit of a punchline. like him waiting under the clock in the train station while she waits under the clock in the bus station. but no, it looks like he's just been stood up. I think we've all been there.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about THE APPOINTMENT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Re 'Vertices' Cynthia
you have a good grasp of the verse but does it resonate?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

No Cynthia you have a good grasp of the verse but does it resonate?

Comment is about Vertices (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

A very warm welcome Maxine.I have browsed through your poems and though as only a novice myself,may I say that I find the quality of them is of quite a high standard.

I'm convinced that you will do very well in receiving plenty of comments and notifications.

Kind regards.


Rose ?

Comment is about Maxine (poet profile)

Original item by Maxine

good

Comment is about Eyes (blog)

Original item by Pao Oli

fine?

Comment is about Desolated desert rose (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

Harry - it's a fascinating aspect of life for future generations. Even emerging India is trying to equate its
recognition of advanced work practices with the need to
provide employment for its grotesquely "generating"
population. The West has long led the way in the
creation/invention of devices that make life easier and
this facility impacts on the "need" for human participation
in a widening range of work practices as time marches on.
The UK has its own place in fresh approaches to life
and leisure: the huge income from the entertainment
industry being one example of how an ability to forge and profit from new markets has always been a homebred
asset. Long may it remain so.

Comment is about Just trying to help. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

M.C.
Just drawing attention to the blindingly obvious reason for the presence of all these `aliens`

Hammond - at Davos - reckoned that what he called the fourth industrial revolution was going to mainly effect skilled workers (he jokingly hoped that he will have left the chancellorship before they had time to automate it.)...what is going to happen is the obsolescence of skills and the stagnation of real wages...wait till that hits us!...(we aint seen nuttin` yet)....There seems to be a growing distance between who is providing the robots, and who is
getting the economic profit from them.

Comment is about Just trying to help. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

man, I did not see that coming, lol........
But surely a very strong message, actually even the well known writers or any other society figure, have done things that were out of the ordinary, and well many still follow them as it was something Godlike; Writing has its own freedom, why confine to things that could use a different approach for a change, besides, poetry got one plus point, write without restriction, cheers ?

Comment is about Shit, I burnt the dictionary. (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

lovely write, well love is one of a kind, not to mention the veils it uses to disguise itself often times, cheers ?

Comment is about To my Angel who waits (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Really intriguing - a bit complex but so interesting in the 'triple story' it evokes - the mental and physical and emotional conjoining at a 'vertex'. And the 'all-seeing eye' poking in at the end.

Or maybe I'm completely 'out to lunch'.

Comment is about Vertices (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Ta Suki for your appreciation of "Bill Hicks" indeed top man. Tommy

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Cheers dystopian poetry fans!

David - the poem was in part inspired by Machiavelli observing that people in caves see shadows on the wall, but its source is a hidden flame. Or some thing along those lines.

Ray - cheers for the Poe compliment. I enjoy reading a bit of Poe now and again. I will check out the film if it is on TV, Thanks.

Here's this for you both. Inspired by Poe's Dream within a Dream.

https://youtu.be/Q4E1zMLghhY

Comment is about And The Heretics Weep (blog)

Original item by Suki Spangles

Love the layers and expressions of pain summed up by the word 'delete'.

(Are you really just 14 years old? Saying that, I do remember my teenage angst and still have the notebooks to prove it.)

Comment is about Child's play (blog)

Original item by Rhianna Blake

Good! Can definitely feel the depth behind this poem.

Comment is about Child's play (blog)

Original item by Rhianna Blake

My words every time I feel my life is a mess.
-Tiffany

Comment is about Let's Part dear Crazy Heart (blog)

Original item by Wardah

There seems to be a recurrent theme of death...

I like the references to food one can almost taste it. U make death sound delicious. That is certainly an interesting concept.

Comment is about Saporem vitae (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

Thanks for the comments Ameya I'm glad you liked it ?

Comment is about Weary Traveller (blog)

Original item by Wardah

?for leaving me dangling in a wonderful space.I also ?'d your POTW.

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

I'll 2nd that.

Comment is about Daisy Chains (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

before I'm given the big E aka my marching orders whenever that may be,I would like to thank all those who have commented.

And to Greg Freeman in particular for having struggled with my incapability to send through the Q&A's in time,but nevertheless sorted the problem out after getting his breath back from a long train journey! How's that for support!?

Much appreciated Greg! you'll have to choose a seasoned punter next time! haha! and thanks for the updated gig info,will check it out in the near future.

Sorry I didn't clarify which of the three poets work I'd like to have taken with me-'tough question!' as Parky says in his ad.So I'll take Mr Larkins wonderful work.

In conclusion,may I wish everybody on WOL good luck regarding the next headliner.

Thanks ALL in admin for the pleasure.Will I be chosen again? Pigs might fly!

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you fans. I always like to attack a theme when no-one is expecting it, so I thought i'd catch Santa with his pants down seasonally. I think Santa may actually be Christ in a suit and hat but with an insane smile. He does fulfil a promise if only temporarily but only if we believe, and I can't really change either into a believer or into the suit, even though I am the right age now. I much enjoyed your comments Col and David sparky to say the least. I remember doing a poem about Punch and Judy another example of worrying cross dressing. Thanks Emer for liking!

I'm just off for the medication - things are looking up!

Ray

Comment is about WHEN SANTA COMES TO STAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Missing from the scene,?

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

all right


That paper that held years and years of age,?

Comment is about Child's play (blog)

Original item by Rhianna Blake

good

Comment is about Saporem vitae (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

It is intresting how we keep certain values/things but later throw away because we create better ones hey? But we forget how important those things may be to other people around us. You hit the meaning on the nail, Colin!!

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

thank you for reading ?
Well, no one is quite ready, but still they are ready; besides we will halt at our grave, when it is time for us to rest for eternity, until then, I'd say we sway our feet and enjoy the life dance instead ?

Comment is about Waltzing towards my grave (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

You rock me, daddy-o. Eight to the bar.

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Comment is about Music Formerly Known As Jazz (blog)

Original item by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

Lovely to see you soldiering on Wendy.Much love.Jemima.

Comment is about Fools Rush In (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

For me,a very very moving piece Connor and so well read.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Daisy Chains (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

life is a continual
dance with death,
we flirt with him
and he with us,
but am I ready
to be waltzed
to my grave?
oh no!
oh not just yet!

Comment is about Waltzing towards my grave (blog)

Original item by Ameya.

bit early Ray!

More and more Santa has come to represent our self-centred greed for consumerism. It's time he swapped his red cloak for a green one but can the masses be persuaded? I thinks not. The glaciers will melt and we will all be clinging to that landfill mountain of unrecyclable glitzy packaging, floating migrants in a swirling gyre of throwaway plastic.

Hang on, maybe Santa is Christ returned having a good old piss take as our mortal sins cast us ever more closer to hell's fiery pit of eternal damnation? And to think, all it took was one bite of an apple.

How's that for an interpretation Raymondo?

Merry Christmas!

Col.

Comment is about WHEN SANTA COMES TO STAY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

nicely thought out and written Terry.

Comment is about Winds Return. (blog)

Original item by terry l shuff

this reminds me of an old mirror I once had which I turned into a great work of art (lol). I scratched a poem into the varnished frame and added some embellishments. A few years later I got bored with it and threw it away much to the shock of my family - I had no idea they liked it that much and I was shocked at them being shocked. Anyways, we were all left with a blank feeling including the wall where it used to hang. Nice work Michaela and no doubt nothing to do with my interpretation. C?L.

Comment is about Blank Feeling (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

awww lovely poem Tiffany.

pining for anyone? right! I (Stef) won't be long.Just pluck me nose hairs and put me teef in and I'll be knocking on your door shortly!

in my dreams of course!

P&S xx

Comment is about Solitude (blog)

Original item by Tiffany Wright

Hi again Leon.Nice to get a slice or five of your poetical travels.I once did open mic at the Boars head pub in Middleton (aptly named in my case) my erm..performance went...........................down like a rather heavy balloon!

and never mind that foreign brew,get some Yorkshire tea down yer gizzard!

Enjoy the accolade'ing ride while you can-man!

Stef, (of P&S) xx

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Mark. It is certain that the practitioners of the art of entertaining do need to have scope to portray all emotional ranges, but their own experiences were often lonely and hunted by the life itself. Still, it was good money and kept them out of factories.

David, thank you for giving me the inspiration for this poem. I picked a role and gathered my poetic wares in a seedy bag of pick and mix. The clip is exactly right. Pants down time - Rod Steiger was wonderful. He portrayed W.C Fields once. I was told once that when Tommy Steele was top of the bill at a theatre -he peeked through the curtain to see how many were in house. An aged comedian tapped him on the shoulder and said: "That's it son, you bring 'em in and we'll entertain 'em."

Thank you Harry. Always nice to get your affirmation - from a master of the genre. I tried the conservational mode as I felt it was more in your face.

Suki, good to hear from you on this one. I chose a tired Liverpool accent - passable I hope. So many comics used to come from there until it started to become respectable and self consciously cultured.

Col: I so much enjoyed the Alexei Sayle show, magic and the outfit so right. I remember a resident host in a club I worked in called Ron Twist. He used to pace the stage nervously and always say: "It's comedy over this side, and tragedy over here." The band regarded it as their duty to keep a straight face.

Love to all and especially to all the likers!

Ray

Comment is about VARIETY ARTISTS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Any generation of a population will die off in time - making
room for its own offspring. Today, the unstoppable
advances in mechanical and electronic devices designed
and intended to relieve humanity of onerous work will
also ensure more space and reduce cause for concern about perceived falling numbers of the said offspring.
Hardly a real need here in the long term for legions of
aliens looking to escape the responsibility of their own
lands and origins. The robot will reign supreme!
Brave New World indeed!

Comment is about Just trying to help. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

very thoughtful and expressed the weariness of life so precisely, good write ?

Comment is about Weary Traveller (blog)

Original item by Wardah

connection and disconnection, questions we all ask but fail to answer. Again, well put Adam.

Comment is about Passing By (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

excellent, well put Adam.

Comment is about Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtrhKEk0Y8

Comment is about VARIETY ARTISTS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

great title Fred and some very good lines in what appears to be a slightly stream of consciousness type of poem. I would be tempted to pluck out those very good lines and make one very good and more cohesive poem. Thanks for posting. Colin.

Comment is about streets I’m too familiar with .. (blog)

Original item by Fred Dutch

Hi Ray,

I agree with both Harry and David - poignant and weary journeyman being darkly ironic. Wonderfully read too.

Cheers
Suki

Comment is about VARIETY ARTISTS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Rose gave us the great news Leon.If it hadn't been for her,we would have missed the opportunity to congratulate you.

So,CONGRATULATIONS!

P&S xx

Comment is about 'Skiffle' by Leon Stolgard is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman