Thanks. That's my real name, yes and all the work is my own.
Comment is about Times Five (blog)
Original item by MyDystopiA
I think Ken must have forgotten to type some actual words into the comment box rather than just a mysterious question mark.
Great poem this - it has a fab deep beat to it that I would love to hear performed.
Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 20th Mar 2017 08:28
elP mentioning Lorelei reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGys3RfRog
Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I hope no one takes offense to this, but I think its a really good trip if you know what I mean.
Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Loved it! And a salutary lesson: never get yourself into something you can't get out of! (And learn the exceptions later! ?)
Comment is about Picnic (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
elPintor
Mon 20th Mar 2017 00:07
"Lorelei is a feminine water spirit, similar to a siren or mermaid, which is rumored to send sailors to their death, by luring them near cliffs with her beautiful singing voice..
Lorelei, a rock in the Rhine River, the subject of many legends, poems, and songs"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei_(disambiguation)
elP
--the first thing that came to mind...
Comment is about RHYMING ROCK (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks all,
I think it was the jelloid giganticism of that photo in John`s poem that made me (even at my age) recall all my old memories about when they used to be genuine.
John...???...the mind boggles...I bet you`ve made a lot of very knowing wives smile to themselves.
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
I like the way you describe in you Q and A dancing with words. This is totally what this does. A magnificent poem.
Well done.
Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I guess that "calm" equates with the detached frame of
mind needed to make unpalatable decisions in war. But
who knows how a man sleeps at night in later years?
Do those many faces and the sounds of combat return
to provide a ceaseless commentary on the decisions
taken in other risk-filled times?
Comment is about 'He was a calm man, a useful attribute for sending young men to their deaths' (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Juan,
Thank you for this. I loathe the terms 1st and 3rd worlds. Perhaps one day we can all live in the same world. I believe in the dignity of the human being. Today on TV I saw a man in his fifties who had just been deported from the USA back to Mexico. He was alone in a crowd of people in a similar situation. He was in tears. He had left his son behind in the US. What mean spirited people do this? Thanks again. Keith
Comment is about A Chasm too Great (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
This is so open to interpretation that if there was a rating system here at WOL, I would rte it 5/5 stars...I love the back and forward imagery of the high first world life and the
low third world life...
Comment is about A Chasm too Great (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Really awesome flow on this one...I wonder why you have the J Cole at the end...Is that your real name or is this someone else's work?
Comment is about Times Five (blog)
Original item by MyDystopiA
a good choice this week. i was a fan when i first read it and subsequent rereadings have got better and better. a booming heart and a questioning beat. great poetry.
Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
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Comment is about 'Man' by Dyphrent is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Your motive for tit tweaking at eighty-seven years of age can't be for reason's carnal. If it is, for God sakes tell me what you're on.
Is it the Scouse air we get second hand in Manchester on the prevailing wind?
Great stuff!!
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Nice one Maria.
Quite like your analogies and subliminal cynicism certainly comes through.
More please!
Raj x
Comment is about Object (blog)
Original item by Maria Renea
Thanks, MC. I ran out of ideas in the last line.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This has shades of the Carry on films Harry. Nicely entertaining and indulgent - you really needed a manual !
Ray
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Here's to the Tierney brothers, Michael and the late much
missed Kieran from Co. Galway, who ran two of the best pubs here in Marylebone, one long gone and the other
now under threat since their departure, one from life and
the other from their memorable double act as genial head barman and loquacious landlord. I'm looking across at a photograph of Kieran in auspicious sporting company that includes a bearded but still youthful George Best in
happier days "at the bar" of The Duke of Wellington in
Crawford Street, London W1. The smiles of the faces
rewind time for me as one of the regulars after work in those distant days.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
No problem I've just come off Spotify. I will return.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hopefully, it will do justice to its subject. But I never saw
it coming...did you?
Comment is about Outer Hebrides to Offa's Dyke: 'Best of British' anthology to be launched (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
It's so often what is NOT said, isn't it??!
Another hoot from the well known weaver of words - and
in perfect rhythm (almost to the end).
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I can't find it Wolf only a song about St. Patrick was a gentleman. tc
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Ta Wolf You've given me sufficient details.
Comment is about Plastic Paddies (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks David - it is hard to justify any depth to this offering, it is full of holes in terms of a serious assessment; but I feel that may be a lone position and one that may well antagonise. Of course we must meet serious matters with wise heads, but what is wise when we rely on experts to do our thinking?
There is a parallel in the inhuman burning of the holocaust
because it was an institutionalised position . We can always burn a newspaper or indeed eat chips out of them(retro) without crime but then think also of the Nazi book burning.
You are right to allude to a laissez faire attitude; although perhaps we are too wound up by the media not to notice every nuance of decision making . Alas, what are we to do?
As for the job position, I think you refusal said a lot about your sanity. Mind you the 1.4 mil would come in useful.
Ray
Comment is about THE TIMES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Harry - I was once accused by a woman of copulating with her while she was asleep. I'm not proud of that but in my defence, she was not asleep when I started.
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
'Today' Harry that would be considered more than just a slip! Tommy.
Maybe a broken nose was going too far
as for teeth
I rest my case. TC ;- )
Comment is about Touching....and going. (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/don-meredith-no-resignation-1.4028557
Comment is about Sad senator (blog)
Original item by Louis Audet
I think you have got it in a nutshell SS . Because children are in need of acceptance and love they are malleable ; it is not until later that the shell develops and the subconscious start to play tricks. Life itself demands a trade-off just to survive. I think those monsters come back to haunt us.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Ray
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Many thanks for you thoughts, Emer and elP.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I really liked the way the story unfolded.
whenever you pass a homeless person it's all too easy to forget that they have a back-story. often it is just that one simple tipping point, that has put them there.
a great piece of writing
cheers Kevin
Comment is about Bag Of Bones (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Oh thank you my dear.
Always good to get positive response.
Raj xx
Comment is about Play it again Andy (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
<Deleted User> (16513)
Sat 18th Mar 2017 07:41
Not about the length but it's the quality. Small but terrible poem. xx
Comment is about Ssssh, there's someone speaking (blog)
Original item by Chakraj
<Deleted User> (16513)
Sat 18th Mar 2017 07:38
Hi elP,
I know. That's cats for you..
Cheers for the feedback. Glad you found it amusing - that was the aim.!
Suki
Comment is about I Lost The Thread (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
Hi Ray,
It's a form of psychic violence - denying children their own dreams by imposing upon them the unfulfilled wishes/desires/dreams of their parents' own childhood yearnings. Cruel irony. I agree with elP too.
Suki
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Linda,
Censorship has being rampant since 9/11 - Patriot Acts 1 and 2.
What's also as insidious was Obama in 2012, through the revised NDAA, legalising propaganda on the US public with the nullification of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948.
Your redacted poem sums up some of these issues nicely.
Suki
Comment is about On Censorship (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
elPintor
Sat 18th Mar 2017 01:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XRfDZYHrBc
--my contribution to the conversation...
elP
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
elPintor
Sat 18th Mar 2017 00:24
Hi, Paul..I read this when you first posted it while on my lunch break at work and it's remained with me since. There isn't much that I can say that hasn't already been said in the comments, but it does have a Radiohead sort of feel.
..this song came to mind when reading. It's only loosely related, but I hope you like it anyhow..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKbRslydU0
elP
Comment is about Memory Thief (blog)
Original item by Paul Waring
Hello MGS. Yes, she is real. She is my sister.
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks elP for your considered thoughts. I agree with you ; it is often the adults who impose themselves often without wisdom or listening to the inner child - my own experiences were with teenage step children, so I'm not directly qualified, except by intuition.
The Paul Simon song is wonderfully to the point.
Ray
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you Wolfgar, Graham,Paul, John, Suki, Martin Laura and Cynthia for taking the trouble to comment upon my poem. My poetry is inspired by the poets of the past. No more so than John Donne: "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace/ As I have seen in one autumnal face". Elegy IX: The Autumnal
Comment is about 'Drinking where the river bed is dry' by John Marks is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (16513)
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:30
Aghast! to the picture size, is it real? is this allowed to post here?
sorry just asking...
Comment is about REAL WOMEN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
elPintor
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:21
"like an elusive freak mouse
waving some cosmic entanglement tickling stick"!!! Hah!
That is a great phrase among many..I have to laugh. It's funny and true and written with real flair for imagery.
..and that cat--why do they like to settle themselves right in the middle of a book when you're trying to read?
elP
Comment is about I Lost The Thread (blog)
Original item by Suki Spangles
elPintor
Fri 17th Mar 2017 22:05
It's sad, really--the entire poem. I mean, to impose upon a child's innocence so completely must be a kind of abuse--like cramming them into tiny little boxes and force-feeding them through tubes. Maybe the analogy is a bit of an exaggeration, but I can't help but think of how much talent gets squashed by adults who think they know so much, yet fail to see just how contrived and stupidly over-complicated they've made their own lives.
That's my rant for the evening. It's a very thoughtful and well-written piece, Ray.
elP
ps..I first read this while at work and Paul Simon came to mind..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1D3-tY9PuY
Comment is about DENIAL (blog)
Original item by ray pool
John F Keane
Mon 20th Mar 2017 12:18
Just a general note to say that some Stockport WoL members will be holding workshops from 1 PM on Tuesday 21st March for World Poetry Day. All visitors welcome.
Comment is about Rescheduled Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman