Thank you Colin!

Comment is about Chalklands (blog)

Original item by Kim Whysall-Hammond

"To eat to be happier
The body gets flappier "

Those lines are going to stay with me as I eat today!

Comment is about A little something to eat (blog)

Original item by Wonderer

A very fine poem.

Comment is about Earsplitting (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Astute, kind and witty, Ray.

Nice one!

Suki

Comment is about O TO BE A POET (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I'm not a dog owner myself as one of my children had an allergy to pet hair but always fancied getting one. good poem Paul, an enjoyable take on dog walking

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

This is an interesting perspective of a night bombing raid I presume from the second world war which makes it a good poem. Nice one Keith

Comment is about Air Gunner (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

This is one of these poems I just want to read again and again. It is so rich in description and what it says.
fantastic

Comment is about Earsplitting (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Wow this is a really strong poem. I can feel the conviction coming out as I read it. I particularly love the line

Follow the bigots racists and ‘snack’
Upon the flesh of the young

Fabulous poem

Comment is about No Place For Angels (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

This is a very brave and open poem. I am presuming from the title that the poor thing could well be referring to both the baby and the mother, sorry if I am stating the obvious. However there is something of beauty in the stark reality of this piece. Love it

Comment is about THE POOR THING. (blog)

Original item by kanini Beatrice

This really feels heartfelt and has the rhythm and pace of a song, putting me in mind of Annie Lennox singing 'No more I love yous' Nice one

Comment is about Last poem that I will right for you (blog)

Original item by Gelo leysa

very nice Mikhail. I particularly love the line
'chords of flowers echo in the sun'
many congrats on POTW

Comment is about 'As if the song would come again' by Mikhail Smith is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hearty congrats on POTW Mikhail. Having the extra author background is always a bonus and at the time of posting I have to admit this one slipped my full attention. The article also prompted me to read your fascinating bio and note you have been on WoL since 2012. When I get time I will take a look at your previous blogs as it seems your last contribution was back in 2015. Hopefully the POTW accolade will encourage you to write and post some more sooner rather than later. All the best, Colin.

Comment is about 'As if the song would come again' by Mikhail Smith is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

'quick catch up on the news' is the line that stands out for me in the way that it links the first half to the second and applies to both, a cunning trick indeed. I like also the dog as marital umpire - perhaps that's why just about everyone owns one these days? Woof growl grr!!
Col.

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

very enjoyable David. As Edmund Blackadder once said: 'C is for Contrafibularity'

Comment is about Dictionary (acrostic) (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Ha ha ha. Cheers Hazel,

I have always had high regard for
Aung San Suu Ky.

Raj.

Comment is about Are you out there? (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

So sorry for your loss, beautifully expressed. Well deserved poem of the week.

Comment is about As if the song would come again (blog)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Thanks Colin.

Comment is about Time (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

Well, Ben I thank you for picking up on this and your straightforward response to it! Glad you enjoyed it.

I enjoyed your travels around my poem Col. You're right to point out all the foibles and fancies and I sense a wide eccentric taste spectrum , which I fully concur with . I agree us poets do have a drive to express; if only it was as simple as my pretend formula!

David, my mate - pithy and precise with a soupcon of ironic humour which obviously works perfectly !

Mark, thanks for going the extra mile with your assessment.
There's not much we can do about Hollywood and its hijackings .

Cynthia, nice and precise and worth a lot thank you.

Love to all. Ray

Comment is about O TO BE A POET (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I played till I was about 24, MC. In my later career I often did talks on Team Building and a simple message I put forward was "Play Rugby". It's about common threats and common goals. You play together, drink together and fight together. It's as near as being in the army as you can get without running too great a risk of dying.

Comment is about THE GOBBLER AND BLACK DOG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I live this poem.xoxoxo

Comment is about 'As if the song would come again' by Mikhail Smith is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Aung San Suu Ky. Bit old for you but sure she would meet your requirements.?

Comment is about Are you out there? (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Is it? Are you sure?

But there's no quarrel with your power to move words to move worlds. The poem is outstanding.

I often wonder whether a really clever person recognises the fine line between creativity and madness. Intelligence is such an 'iffy' arena of human understanding. Just a general thought, connected to the title, I think.

Comment is about my pain and sadness is more sad and painful than yours (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

The freedom of inter-related thought here expressed seems very innocent and endearing, totally engulfing. With a fine flair for words. Much enjoyed.

Some people find such ecstasy of colour consciousness (or watching clouds etc.etc.) only through drug use. Other persons seem to carry such intensity in their very genes. And it always needs an outlet through artistic mediums.

Comment is about Rainbow Dream (blog)

Original item by MyDystopiA

Terrific in concept, execution and intent. YES!

Comment is about A Sin Of Omission (blog)

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

A beautiful subject sensitively, artistically handled. Much enjoyed.

Comment is about Late Summer (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

A lovely idea to explore.

Comment is about Summer Twilight (blog)

Original item by Roy Chetham

Well put, about very important issue. I really enjoyed 'gassy stomachs and minds'.

I really must find time to check out more of your work.

Comment is about A little something to eat (blog)

Original item by Wonderer

Clever, bright and funny.

Comment is about O TO BE A POET (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I spent the final few years of my schooldays at a Wiltshire
establishment which favoured rugby over soccer and will
agree that you have to be good sports to take anything
from the former, in whatever context. The sports master
was a player for Bath RFC and managed to double as a
part time English teacher, a source of ongoing
entertainment since he was involved with the sister of
one of our class and wasn't above a bit of verbal sparring
with the lad to entertain us on occasions! I never did take
much about English from those
long-ago classes!!

Comment is about THE GOBBLER AND BLACK DOG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

There certainly seems a degree of truth in the reversal
today of those famous lines of yesteryear and we are now
encouraged to...
"Cry and the world cries with you,
Laugh and someone will moan..."!
But modern poetry is not alone and it is easy to see that
Hollywood remains the prime example of misery and failings
of the human condition being awarded prizes when
comedies and the like, however skilful and uplifting, are bypassed.

Comment is about O TO BE A POET (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Only too true, and accepted by both parties, unchallenged. My lifetime has seen many dogs as friends, beloved companions. You get back what you give out. Delightful poem.

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Clever, and punchy too. Much entertained.

Comment is about Dictionary (acrostic) (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

A tender and honest poem, with a great message.

Is the pseudonym Greek? What is its translation?

Comment is about My Bundle of Joy (blog)

Original item by Mnemosyne

An entertaining connection - to remind us of the extraordinary achievement in compiling a dictionary
- one of the most informative volumes connected to any
language and worth frequent forays into its pages.

Comment is about Dictionary (acrostic) (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Anyone who has owned/kept a dog, or has relatives who
have that experience, will enjoy this lively little canine
view of its world.

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Thanks Ray, I was wondering about that. Duly edited.

Comment is about Dictionary (acrostic) (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Good to see your thoughtful and refreshing takes on life again Paul. This reversal of minds reminds me of cats, being generally thought of as more cunning than dogs, so your poem is breaking that mould I feel. A clever idea.
There's a goodly amount of psycho bonding with pets, and a love that's non demanding. I wonder that the great leap in evolution has not created more distance , but there we are!!

Aythangyow. Ray

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Thanks Keith for your wonderful comment and for inspiring me to continue with writing...

Comment is about Mnemosyne (poet profile)

Original item by Mnemosyne

Thanks Colin. Will have a look for that programme.
Now added the title ?

Comment is about A Fair Exchange (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

It's been a while Paul. Hope you are well.
Well worth a chuckle!!

Here's one for you:
I’m a dog trainer. Before I met with a new client, I had her fill out a questionnaire. One question asked, “Why did you choose this breed?”

My client responded, “I often ask myself this very same question.”

Cheers,
Raj

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

Hi Paul
Lovely poem about humans through a dog's eyes."thinks he's in charge but you don't see me picking up after him"

Funny and all the better for being short and concise
Jon

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

I have to go now but will pop back later. Good to see you around Paul.
Col.

Comment is about A Dog's Life (blog)

Original item by Paul Waring

so if any of us here on WoL have a computer issue and need some friendly advice... ?

seriously though, I enjoyed reading this and look forward to delving into some more of your computerised thoughts in due course.

all the best
Col.

Comment is about First Bytes in Computing (blog)

Original item by Peter Roe

Kevin and Colin,
Thank you for your comments. Great minds think alike Colin as I had intially written fuel but let energy go instead. Point taken and thanks. If it should rain here soon I shall refrain from flashing as the Guardia Civil are not fans of nudity. Much appreciated. Keith

Comment is about The Heat of the Night (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

what a wonderful justification for our dismal climate albeit completely unfair that we should suffer for the Italians' viticulture industry. Did you watch that programme recently about the bunch of Brits hoping to make a go of it in Tuscany?

thanks for posting David - very much enjoyed. I think it deserves a title tho - suggest using the rather delicious quote from Galileo Galilei?

C?L

Comment is about A Fair Exchange (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

What a beauty of a poem Tom - I love the way the swallows become the divers. I almost wanted them to become our own children in the third stanza - making the most of the last of the summer evenings to stay out late in the garden, swooping around with arms outstretched in imitation.

I totally adore swallows, house martins and swifts - swifts being my favourite because of their sickle shaped wings and the fact they spend most of their lives up in the air even sleeping on the wing. And they screech and scream too.

I'm wondering when you wrote this Tom and could you not have held it back till Late Summer? But I'm glad you did post it today - as I said before, it's a beauty.

Thanks,
C?L

Comment is about Late Summer (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

oh gosh I love this I do - it has everything I need in a poem and having grown up in Sussex between the coast and South Downs my mind is instantly transported back to the childhood landscape that was my outdoor PlayStation or Xbox - before any of that stuff was invented.

beautiful - my kind of poetry Kim. Ta.

C?L

Comment is about Chalklands (blog)

Original item by Kim Whysall-Hammond

Our recent humidity was broken by a storm a couple of nights back and the air is now fresher and refreshed. Sultry nights make for a good theme in poetry and as Kevin said you painted the scene well. I wonder if 'fuel' instead of 'energy' would make the 'gecko' line a little less syllable heavy. All the best Keith.
C?L

Comment is about The Heat of the Night (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

good to see you back posting Lynn. Hope all is well on your patch of the planet. Your poem mentions rain, well we had some fierce downpours here the night before last and with it the most amazing lightning that just went on and on. Everything now looks green and vibrant after its nitrogen rich energy boost. May the sun shine and your flowers grow tall and strong and beautiful.
C?L

Comment is about Time (blog)

Original item by lynn hahn

I often think writing poetry is one of the weirdest things we can choose to do in life and standing up reciting it is the second weirdest. But like all unfathomable needs it becomes almost obsessional and now that we don't have to obsess about hunting and gathering the whole day through we can give ourselves up to these daft obsessions - like cycling in lycra, twitching, train spotting, car booting, collecting ornaments of pigs. Nothing can stop us. Hang on, it's Sunday, best nip to the car boot and get me a chipped china piggy to put in my hermit's cave next to the railway tracks where the birds nest and there will I recline in vestments of the finest lycra as I pen an ode and pretend to be a poet. Did I mention my depression?
C?L

Comment is about O TO BE A POET (blog)

Original item by ray pool