this is so satisfying to read. perfect words, perfect length.

Comment is about Visiting Hours (blog)

Original item by A.M. Clarke

cant believe no one has commented on this. its brilliant. the whole second verse is stunning.

The celestial dance shatters as the marbles of the universe scatter

be still my beating heart. best thing ive read on here for weeks.

Comment is about The Way the World Ends (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

clever and funny ray. for me, hemingway had the best idea;

“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.” — Ernest Hemingway

i always try to do this and it works a lot of the time.

Comment is about SWEET FUCK ALL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

great this. i love the way your writing seems to cut out one part of a bigger story and leaves the reader wondering. its great, true poetry.

Comment is about unbroken (blog)

Original item by nunya

i like this a lot, especially the last line which is excellent. very clever and well written

Comment is about The People and The Trees (blog)

Original item by Chandler Phipps

Thanks Martin. Your reading and comment is appreciated.

Lynn x

Comment is about Realised (blog)

Thanks for alerting us to the vibrant poetry scene in Hull with this interview, Steve. I think both Mike Watts and Peter Knaggs namechecked Jim Higo's important contribution to it all when they were Poem of the Week winners. Must get up there in 2017, if not before.

Comment is about Away With Words: end of the line, start of something special (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... and then some! Love the richness of this, and it's eco-utopian vibe. You weren't getting boring at all, Suki ...

Comment is about 'You Should Have been Here Yesterday' by Suki Spangles is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Rose much appreciated. I think that is so true when you say 'there for the grace'

Cheers Nigel

muffled lost souls
sold out to feed
anothers pride
anothers ideal of what life should be like
not the life they would choose

Comment is about Under the bed (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

You have definitely found your style and voice in writing and in this format . A great pice Lynn

Comment is about Realised (blog)

this definitely has a nice flow and feel to it. Nice one

Comment is about Visiting Hours (blog)

Original item by A.M. Clarke

Stimulating observations - many thanks thus far.
There will always be minorities within majorities and
politics offer the surest way of addressing differences.
But the coming chance to change what has been
challenged is one of the most important decisions in
our history and I am confident that proven historic ability
to forge a fighting spirit will see us through should the
decision be "out". A contrary decision will not leave
us any opportunity to avoid whatever the forces of
federalism have in mind for the future and show us
here just what impotence in defining ourselves means
within the steamrolling reality that will undoubtedly come.

Comment is about THE ENGLISH SEE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Exactly David..

I fear and hate sometimes the living of a life that steps by choice from the bounds of work, pub, telly, work, Friday...

Living life brings so much beauty but also intolerable pain yet I have never been in a horrific frightening situation that I hadn't chosen. In fact some i've leapt into with enthusiasm.

And that is true for so many isn't it?

But I think its worse to be thrust into these circumstances. Its better to be able to blame ourselves than others. Less frustration and anger.

Comment is about Undo the knot and paint me a portrait. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

So true, Trevor! An enjoyable read, well done.

Comment is about Kids! (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

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Comment is about Free school (blog)

Original item by brandon sproule

Why does humanity take priority over every other creature? why is everything ecological directed to the comfort of the human race? Ninety percent of the protestation regarding fracking is fear of the damaging effect on house prices and loss of pretty aspects

Farts from an ever increasing population of human dominants with their ever expanding inward looking brains will make it a far quicker process toward Armageddon than simple fundamentalist animals persisting with their old fashioned hard wired remits

Bad husbandry will see the end of life, sooner than later.

Comment is about 'Following the Money' by Tim Ellis is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I`m with you on this one M.C..

Let those Taffys and Jocks speak for themselves :)

(If we leave the E.U. the Scots will be off like a rocket)

If - as some say - the ultimate E.U. aim is a pan- European state the obstacles would be enormous.

The only historically unitary things which the European states might have (faintly) in common would seem to be their distantly original common descent from the Roman empire, and their equally distant connections with an ancient Eastern or Latin Christianity which was itself split
by the Reformation.

I can`t see any of this having any effect whatsoever on the various Nationalisms which have developed since (and which have been mainly the causes of the wars we have endured.)

It might be said that the principles of the French Revolution might bind us together - but I doubt it.

The presence of Russia at the edge, with it`s recently economically collapsed form of Marxism and historic form
of Orthodox Christianity is an enigma. Its geographical
situation as part of the European land mass would seem
to make it a natural for future connection of some sort.

I`m sorry for going off a bit but your insistence made me think. If we`re eventually to `come together` where`s the glue?

Comment is about THE ENGLISH SEE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A real loneliness and abandonment I feel Tom. Minimalist but with all the right ingredients. Sensitive and exceptional.

Ray

Comment is about 3 am (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

"England expects..."
I have no compunction in putting forward a view as one
of the majority in the UK. Others (check the Scots) are
just as ready to speak out for their own origins and
aims. Indeed, their history makes no bones about
seeking allegiances beyond UK shores to further those aims.
In life, I'm as guilty as the next man of things of which
I am ashamed, but the fact that I am English within the
UK is not one of them.

Comment is about THE ENGLISH SEE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thankyou for your reveiw but after i get out of school i want to see your poems but i will be posting more because it seems i have found some more of my old poems

Comment is about I fell in love with... by Zakiya Johnson (blog)

Original item by Abstract Mystery

Well, Rob, I was going to ask you if your pacemaker was up to seeing me in your office, ha ha, but having just read your poem "Passion", I don't think there's any case to answer!
Yes, I did enjoy
Lynn xx

Comment is about Temptress (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you very much, Rob, glad you appreciated. x

Comment is about Joys of nature (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you Tony and Thomas. You are right Thomas, this one was sent just before blogging, by text, to where I needed it to go, so that I could let them know.

Lynn x

Comment is about Realised (blog)

Hi Thomas and David. Thank you for your kind comments and reading. Very much appreciated

Lynn x

Comment is about Kaleidoscope (blog)

Lynn - i found it haha! You are naughtier than I thought you little minx. I think you should step into my office (Grey Room) for a good reprimand. You might also like to check out a piece I did a while ago 'Passion' which could be paired alongside yours. http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=36126 Enjoy xx
Rob

Comment is about Temptress (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Lynn - painting with words again! This piece is like a Monet or the less well known Nancy Medina. Vivid images of the colours adorning this period of the year. Love it.
Rob

Comment is about Joys of nature (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Graham - certainly few would argue than coal is less damaging than gas in any form, but with the world teetering on the edge of climate catastrophe it is irresponsible to be opening up any new fossil fuel fields. We have to leave carbon in the ground and invest in renewable energy sources. The argument that "fracked gas is cleaner than coal" would only ring true if a fracking company bought an active coal mine and closed it down, otherwise they are just adding even more CO2 to the atmosphere. Fracked gas is less efficient than conventional gas because of the huge amount of energy that is expended to smash up the rock more than a mile beneath the surface.

I'm aware that many historians hold that the Vikings were no less civilised than other cultures of their period, but the popular image of them as a horde of barbarians raiding Britain from the North Sea was an irresistible simile for the mood amongst demonstrators in Scarborough last month.

Comment is about 'Following the Money' by Tim Ellis is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you very much for your kind words, Chrissy, much appreciated, and thanks to Jemima for liking.

Comment is about Joys of nature (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hey, David,

The scene is very basic, but I was doing my best to convey, simply, the feeling of a brief moment.

There is a great sense of inter-connectedness within nature..it almost seems as if we've forfeited our place in it sometimes, though.

It's always good to hear from you,

elP

Comment is about rainmaker (blog)

Original item by nunya

Hey there,

We all have our lessons to learn about love, or what sometimes masquerades as "love"..

This piece transitions along very well and has a clear structure..and a great summary at its end..

Enjoyed reading, Abstract,

elPintor

Comment is about I fell in love with... by Zakiya Johnson (blog)

Original item by Abstract Mystery

Thanks for your kind comments Helen. I don't fly any more , mainly its the claustrophobic environment rather than being up high !

Sounds like a philosophical and practical approach on every level David. I once had a cake laced with marijuana coming back from Africa and still couldn't drop off to sleep. Thanks for your interest.

Ray

Comment is about FEAR OF FLYING (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Sometimes, I think, MC, that Man screws Nature.
Tony - my mate has a rule that if it takes longer to cook than to eat - it wasn't worth it.

Comment is about CORKSCREWS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you both x

Comment is about Spontaneous human combustion (blog)

Original item by Matt

Thanks Emily

Comment is about Dirty little butterfly (blog)

Original item by Matt

What an amazing example of your vivid wordsmithing

Comment is about Kaleidoscope (blog)

Great Rhythm. Really great work

Comment is about Bit, Healed, Itchy not Bleeding (blog)

Original item by Corr Lens

One gets screwed by Man and Man gets screwed by
Nature.

Comment is about CORKSCREWS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This felt very much like a slow song that speaks to someone the moment they need it most. Loved it

Comment is about Realised (blog)

Having just sent you a message John, I see you haven't posted on the blog yet.
The best way is to write your work on a word document and the cut and paste it into the blog via "add blog entry" from the top of the home page. You will have to sign in first.

Regards,

Graham

Comment is about john short (poet profile)

Original item by john short

Why thank you young man!

Comment is about And So. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Hello and thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment on one of my writings. You are very welcome here. I read your work, it's quite dark but very interesting. Hmmm.

Comment is about Prabhat Chhetri (poet profile)

Original item by Prabhat Chhetri

Yes I agree with you Harry, I wasn't sure of the picture to be honest with you anyway, I usually think about the picture this time I just threw it in.
Thanks for the comment though.

Comment is about Have a shave (blog)

Original item by PatricioLG

Enjoyable.

Comment is about Sun Bleached Bones (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Love this!

Comment is about Dirty little butterfly (blog)

Original item by Matt

Cool.

Comment is about Spontaneous human combustion (blog)

Original item by Matt

Human cries
blowing unheard
as cruel
death winds
sway feeble
grass stems
they eat.

Comment is about Under the bed (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Glad you enjoyed it, Tony..thanks for commenting.

elPintor

Comment is about roi (blog)

Original item by nunya

I felt anxious reading this! It has a great flow and I particularly like 'the sky is a pocket of trust'

Comment is about FEAR OF FLYING (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Nice rhythmic feel and enough left to the imagination to be satisfying.

A real goodie !

Ray

Comment is about Visiting Hours (blog)

Original item by A.M. Clarke

If deafness is the curse for any musician, then memory
loss is surely the curse for any poet.

Comment is about 'They show up when I think of them, as if they always are waiting for me to remember' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman