It's lucky for them that voting went on into the evening, after their getting up time.

Comment is about WINNERS AND LOSERS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oops, pressed a wrong 'un.

Comment is about WINNERS AND LOSERS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This is one of my favourite poems and particularly like being "in cahoots with the sun".

Comment is about I'd Be Queen Of Myself (if I weren't anti-monarchy) (blog)

Original item by Seanin Hughes

Many of them have already voted twice! I call them the "Press Reset" generation

Comment is about WINNERS AND LOSERS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

An engaging piece Noris. I like it very much.
Hooks the reader from start to finish.

Did you consider having "Liberty Screams" as the title?
You got off the blocks well with those two opening lines.

More please!
Raj

Comment is about Scream… (blog)

Original item by Noris Roberts

Hi Raj thankyou for your comments I love to listen to the birds singing I also try talking back you might think I'm mad but who cares at least they answere you . Regards Wendy .

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

Original item by Chakraj

I hope the 18-24's can feel someone else's piss running down their legs now.

Comment is about WINNERS AND LOSERS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

No better way to start the day Wendy. Birds have a magic of their own.

I like the simplicity and honesty of the poem. Birds do things so naturally, unlike us. When they sing, they sing.
They do not need an audience. They don't care if they sing well or poorly. Birds do not take singing lessons.

Nature is our best teacher.

Raj

Comment is about Song Bird (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

This is a beautiful poem, if you have time, please check out my blog.

http://www.poetrywithahighschoolstudent.com/

Comment is about Monument (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

thanks guys. to be honest, this has been is in my thoughts to do for months now and the trigger simply came that the night after that terrible event in Manchester,

Comment is about From 1996 to 2017 (An emotional history off tragedies in Manchester looking at things from the outside) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I certainly agree with the title my friend Rose has given you Wendy.And how well deserved it is.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Who Is Driving Our Taxis (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Harry - thanks for another considered rational comment on
WOL. From a personal point of view, this Englishman cannot understand why his countrymen & women would
want to be subject to the whims and wishes of a motley
assortment of johnny come lately lands that seem to
make it their aim to scupper our individual "asks" at any
opportunity - individually and collectively...bearing in
mind the "all for one" rule for decisions that exists in
the EU. Sorry, but that's not my idea of freedom after
what my father and his folk went through, and certainly
not what our billions (per annum contribution) are worth
despite the scare stories about losing the EU market and
travel comforts. Are we so reduced in self-confidence -
now supplicants/servants to creature comforts and convenience in an age when even the word "poverrty"
has lost its original meaning in the mouths of politicians
and proselytizers?

Comment is about LAND OF HOPE AND JACKANORY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Carnage of Hell

Useless to explain
loss of life

Grief so intense
no reason acceptable

Evil lurks behind
each terrorist act.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

The day after the tragic bombing in Manchester
twenty two roses were left on the steps of Stockport Art Gallery.

Covered with Love

Twenty two roses
cold stone steps

Symbol of peace
heavy hearts converge

Each frail petal
soaring so high

Covered with love
into heaven above.

The theme for Monday night is evil and with so much emotion running high both in Manchester and London
there will an overflow of upset and anger to put into verse for our poetry.

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

Original item by Greg Freeman

very useful advice indeed our guardian angel Wendy!
lot's and lot's of love to you dear Lady.




Rose ??

Comment is about Who Is Driving Our Taxis (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Kevin & Colin, Thank you for comments and points which have been taken. This is why I became a member of WoL. Prunes are good too. Thanks. Keith

Comment is about The Wind (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Yup, I'm now caught imagining too............

Comment is about Midsummer (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

perhaps try writing it without so many 'Welcome to a place where' - the repetition of which is hard going for the reader. Something like this:

Welcome to a place so secret and scarce,
where love dwells and people swear.
A place where allusion is key to misleading love
and people all around hide from the truth.

Welcome to a place where tennis shoes have thrones
and your own shoes carry pillows.
where boys and girls portray men and women,
but the parents don’t know they started the trend.

etc. Hope that helps Sameeha ?

Colin

Comment is about Welcome to a Place Where... (blog)

Original item by Sameeha Ali

me too - hot and sultry

Comment is about Rainy Night (blog)

Original item by Sharvari

to expand on Kevin's suggestion, maybe dividing this into 3 or 4 verses each beginning with those first two lines. Your poems Keith often take this one block pattern but would perhaps be enhanced by a bit of verse division.

good idea for a poem and no, I don't know - but beans and cabbage tend to help! ?

all the best
Col

Comment is about The Wind (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I am imagining

thanks

Comment is about Midsummer (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

very well thought out Rik - the image of the church altar triptych (check spelling) sits well with the three haikus, each with three lines.

I think the whole could be neatened up by shortening those long 'date' lines. Firstly the year is somewhat irrelevant to the reader as in the third you state 'It's a year later' - so personally I would ditch that. Secondly, possibly shorten the month as follows to bring the line length nearer to that of the haikus:

Aug 16 (the voice of sorrow) or
Aug 16 - the voice of sorrow

Church has just ended.
I return home, emptiness.
Summer is ending.

Just a thought. Hope you don't mind me saying.

I don't know why but I have always been fascinated by triptych art so it's interesting to see it used here in a literary way. I messed around with the format a couple of years back myself. Here are some links if you would like to take a look:

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/skiptych-by-colsibabes.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/skiptych-2-by-colsibabes.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/october-trilogy-by-colsibabes_4.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/palleteyesed-twixelated-gagged-2-by.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/three-colours-trilogy-by-colsibabes.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/blah-bored-bang-by-colsibabes.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/johnny-by-colsibabes.html

https://colinhillphotopoems.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/deep-blue-by-colsibabes.html

all the best and thanks for posting,
Colin

Comment is about Lamentation Tryptich (blog)

Original item by Rik Hall

Mums are always right, but how are you to know that if you don't push the boundaries.
This tale reminds me of the time that I sailed down the river Don on a block of polystyrene. It's the daft things that you do that make you who you are.
This poem made an enjoyable read.
Thank you Kevin

Comment is about Mum Was Right (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon

I really did like this one.
If you don't mind a suggestion from a total novice- you repeated the first two lines at the end. It MAY have worked it you also repeated them throughout. Maybe not, just an idea.
Cheers Kevin

Comment is about The Wind (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Refreshing poem with some lovely structural features. I loved it.

Comment is about A Seaside Scene (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

M.C.
Getting all the unpleasant stuff about triple locks and selling homes for care costs into the mix must have sounded like a cunning plan (when it looked like a walkover)...but the `best laid plans...etc`.

I usually give the benefit of the doubt to the hard-pressed police...But that a guy who had already been reported, and then appeared on the television with that black flag making himself so ominously clear was somehow `un-watched` to the extent that he was able to stab people later makes me wonder what use was made of the intelligence. How did it get as far as it did? I think many people are wandering.

It certainly contributed to May`s defeat.

Listening to them all wanting to rescue the `very best` of what we can save of Europe, makes one want to sit down vacantly sucking one`s thumb and murmur ` If we`ve already got all this stuff, then why on earth are we leaving it`?

Parliamentary sovereignty was ceded to `the people` in a
referendum So if - at the end - either side feels it is losing, why not another appeal to the people?

That`s what Farage is thinking about now (but only if he thinks he might lose again)

Comment is about LAND OF HOPE AND JACKANORY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I really like this. A great poem.

Comment is about Rainy Night (blog)

Original item by Sharvari

Great idea!

Comment is about A Seaside Scene (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Nicely Rhymed David,
I like that second stanza, it makes you feel actually sorry for them.

Comment is about A Seaside Scene (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Cheers and I'm glad it resonates with y'all :)

Comment is about Quote stealing! John 1:5, the bible (blog)

Original item by rseed

Her range of talent deserved more time to flower and
flourish. The photograph accompanying this news shows
a caring thoughtful person looking out at a world that
was to fade all too soon from her gentle gaze.

Comment is about Poet and novelist Helen Dunmore dies aged 64 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I keep getting drawn back to this poem, Connor. There's some lovely lines in here....

Comment is about The Somewhere: Lucifer (blog)

Original item by Connor Lannes

Tightly constructed, and packing a punch! Nice work, Neil. ?

Comment is about Records (blog)

Original item by Neil Robertson

Here a link to where I posted my poem:


https://storybird.com/chapters/welcome-to-a-place-where/?token=pnmr3hcqjj

Comment is about Welcome to a Place Where... (blog)

Original item by Sameeha Ali

Please Give me some feedback, this is something recent

Comment is about Welcome to a Place Where... (blog)

Original item by Sameeha Ali

Politics today is never less than interesting! Well done, Harry, for a considered eminently readable view of the
situation. I see that Paul Nuttall has resigned as leader
of Ukip and returned to his duties as an MEP in the
north. As for Farage, I think he mentioned the possibility
of another referendum rather than suggested it when I
watched him being interviewed overnight (I was up through the night to see the drama unfold).

Comment is about 15 hours (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks both ?

I noticed the tired mistake when I was editing and just left it. Perhaps that's why. It was painful enough to watch them try.

It feels weird to read this back now after the result.

Comment is about Red (blog)

Original item by Candi

Tommy,
What a magnificently `muxed ip` situation we have all managed to get ourselves into!

Before Corbyn celebrates too much, we should remember that Atlee`s landslide in `45 was followed - after `51 - by three successive Tory victories. (and Atlee had actually won his election...not come second).

The Tory`s manifesto error in revealing their intention to
recover some taxation from the `Never had it so good` pensioners (plus the police cuts set against the terror attacks) had a lot more to do with Labour`s lift in
the polls than any return to `the old true socialist values`.

The problem is that all those voters who were pro or con on the Brexit issue are inextricably mixed up, all over the place in all of the parties....so where do we go on that one now?

I know that Farron`s idea of having a second `brexit` referendum went down like a lead balloon in the election...
But guess who is suggesting the same thing now?...none
other than Nigel Farage!

Given the feelings on that subject and the narrowness of the referendum (and the election vote) we are in for a right hotch potch when Parliament starts again.

What price a second referendum?

You couldn`t invent this kind of stuff...it`s straight from never never land!

Comment is about 15 hours (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

well, sometimes its about chicken soup!?

All very true indeed. Listening skills are such an important trait in relationships.

Comment is about For a Friend (blog)

Original item by Louise Clarke

Nice one John.
I think they will grudgingly bend backwards and be DUPed (UP).

Raj

Comment is about Majority Matters! (blog)

Original item by John Andrew Nield

Really beautiful. Well crafted and uses some powerful imagery. X

Comment is about Golden Hues (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

Thank you Andres

Appreciate the kind words

Comment is about Light breaking through (blog)

Original item by Neill Barnard

Thank you, Michaela. I really appreciate that. You are very welcome.

Comment is about Self-Sabotage (blog)

Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont

Splendid!

Comment is about IN THE NAME OF LOVE (blog)

Original item by kanini Beatrice

Thanks to David Tom and Joanne , Ray and Keith
I nearly didn't post this feeling that it was too emotional but I felt quite a strong reaction to all that has been happening recently and being somebody who is more naturally melancholic, my wife describes as somebody who's glass is always half empty this was quite a departure for me.

Thanks again to all really appreciate you taking the time to read.
Love and peace
Martin

Comment is about I have seen (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Wooooow... That's a very nice piece there. Actually, Those are the kind of thoughts that arise in such situations. Big up gal!

Comment is about GIVE ME A REASON (blog)

Original item by kanini Beatrice

Thank you Emer, for your kind words.

Comment is about To You I Come (blog)

Original item by Kathy Cammarota

I really liked this poem. actually that is exactly the feeling during the whole period. thank you for reminding me to look forward for 'her'.

Comment is about FUTURE DAUGHTER. (blog)

Original item by kanini Beatrice

I'm keeping everything crossed Tommy - including me buns.

Comment is about 15 hours (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

my grandmother's favourite tea ?

Comment is about The Pekoe (blog)

Original item by Michaela Sheldon