Hi Cynthia
You may recall we met at the recent sixties themed event in Stockport; our daughter ran you and your husband to the station as it was chucking it down with rain! Your husband dropped one of his gloves in her car, and I have kept it safely for you, but since I'm not planning to visit Sale WOL in the immediate future, I cannot personally pass it back to you. However, if you'd like to let me have your address (is this allowed on WOL site?), I will gladly post it back to you. I'm just glad it's not freezing cold or his tiny hand would indeed be frozen! Thanks - Dorinda (WOL Stockport)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

appreciate that...thank you

Comment is about New Beginnings (blog)

Original item by kimafia Jones

Incredibly impressive with so much almost insane imagery and conjuring up a whole gamut of public school fantasy and reality - hard to separate them but that is the appeal for me. A real feast, with overtones of the very best poets I have read.


Ray

Comment is about UPON LEARNING (blog)

Original item by Chris Hardy

Hi there. Thank you for stopping by and reading two of my writings. I'm glad that you liked them.

Comment is about Monami Kundu (poet profile)

Original item by Monami Kundu

Well, what a fabulous review of what was clearly a fantastic night, Laura. You certainly have us all jealous by creating a sense of the atmosphere, I am sure others will agree. Brill.

Comment is about Linton Kwesi Johnson and Hollie McNish in Liverpool, 2016 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

hahahaha hahaha (wipes tears from eyes)

Comment is about HUMAN FRIGHTS (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for your comments on this piece.
LCPTB strangely I enjoy travelling on trains. It is as much about seeing humanity in a completely different environment.

Nicola I am glad you liked this piece. I was in two minds whether to post this or not and kept tinkering with it before hand to make sure it sounded O.K.

Thanks again guys

Comment is about In Dickens (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks for liking Snail intelligence Vicki. A bit of nonsense but as long as it makes you think, that's okay !.

Ray x

Comment is about Pixievic (poet profile)

Original item by Pixievic

Aye up Ray - so pleased that you liked and took the time to comment on 'Splendid Is The Flower' I seem to be getting a bit reflective in my old age - glad you 'got it'
Cheers
Ian

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

thanks Martin, glad you liked it

Comment is about First Love (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Hi Lynn , looking at the poem again maybe your right, thanks for comment

Comment is about First Love (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Thanks Phil.

Confidentially assured, where necessary, at all times.

Lynn x

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

Thanks David A1 for noticing that; fancy not knowing I had them though !

Yes martin, my mum's house had them - murder to paint and as you say warped to hell and draughty . Room 101 basically. Thanks for that.

Comment is about HOW LOW CAN YOU GET? (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you guys. I wrote that in college and want to work on revising it some. But the form is so hard to revise. :)

Comment is about Nursing Home (blog)

Original item by Shonda Hurley Bell

I really like this, and could be wrong but I wonder if it is the love of a mother from one so young.

(Mind you, not judging by the picture! Haha.)

Comment is about First Love (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Beautiful poem, Trevor, love this.

Comment is about Fancy (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

I really like this, Trevor. It must be how many homeless are feeling. Good stuff.

Comment is about See Me (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Two goodies here, Andy, well done. I very much enjoyed, and must admit, I often write just for fun too.

Comment is about Daft (blog)

Original item by Andy Smyth

This had me smiling. I can certainly go along with the thought of...
all those Mullahs and others not keen to leave this Earth
but busy sending others out to die for all they're worth!
Witty tongue-in-cheek stuff with a sting of reality.

Comment is about Satisfaction (blog)

Original item by terry ireland

Words to be born
read with uttermost seduction
poetry that will ravish
body yearning for love
now satisfaction is overflowing
in pure gothic blood.

Comment is about La Petite Mort of Creativity (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

This is a great poem Anna. I love the way it rips along at such a good pace with a wonderful rhythm and narrative flow all of it's own. A good one to perform live I would think.
Thanks for sharing this

Comment is about The No Through Road Trip (blog)

Original item by Anna Ghislena

This is lovely Katy but makes me feel it is more a song than a poem. Particularly like the opening line

Comment is about La Petite Mort of Creativity (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

I love the opening line 'The sky is tragic rippled with fire'
Fab

Comment is about flat (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Crittall windows, there is a blast from the past Ray. I remember them well. awkward metal things that used to warp in the heat. I love the grim reaper in the white coat.

Comment is about HOW LOW CAN YOU GET? (blog)

Original item by ray pool

An interesting take on first love. Nice one David

Comment is about First Love (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

A moment caught in time here Trevor almost frozen. Fab

Comment is about Fancy (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Martin, I absolutely love this poem. I haven't the eloquence to do justice to your craft. I do hope you are extremely proud of your work, it is truly beautiful.

Comment is about In Dickens (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thanks Rose - always good to get a bit of feedback. These were just daft, a bit of fun. Probably not poetry at all, the purists will be snarling, but it makes me happy to write whilst unemployed and worried about everything else under the sun.

Been reading some of Colin Hill's stuff and they make me laugh. I like poetry/verse/whatever that doesn't conform and is not up its own backside. Some of my stuff rhymes (when I make the effort), but a lot is just a brain dump imagined at 4am in the morning.

Anyway, as always, thanks for even bothering to comment. Good or bad, it is always good to know what people think. I just write for fun mainly, but I do have some serious ones too (see my blog). Basically, at the moment, I just find it a Cathartic process. Always.

A

Comment is about Daft (blog)

Original item by Andy Smyth

I've no doubt their handlers have ways to make sure those blasts go off in the event someone has a moment of unsurety. Or else we would hear more about these "unsuicided" suicide bombers.

Cool thought, though, and well put together.

elPintor

Comment is about Satisfaction (blog)

Original item by terry ireland

Thanks for the kind comment kimafia.

I'm enjoying your stuff - 'Dance' works - can you make a longer poem?

Comment is about kimafia Jones (poet profile)

Original item by kimafia Jones

Busted again..! x

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thats a winner Lynne... (i'm the secret Judge) ... (but don't tell anyone).... (or maybe i'm not)

"I will write what I want where I want." thats poetry baby!

Respect the humour.

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

clever(always)comical (always) am I envious(always)

but do I enjoy Andys poems?(always!)

Rose

Comment is about Daft (blog)

Original item by Andy Smyth

I don't use this site, very often, as it does not have the capacity to give me positive feedback when I want it !! Another 'irritation' is the advertising of USA sites !! Most of us have neither the money or desire to travel to the USA purely for some poetry performance !! Why don't they form their own 'Write Out Loud' !! They have no place on a British site. Whose was this cockamaney idea in the first place ???

Comment is about joe ranter (poet profile)

Original item by joe ranter

Wow, you are going back, to The Sweet Green days, when there were but 7 or 8 of us members of Write Out Loud.

A truly lovely piece of writing Chris, and what a fascinating background background. Thank you.

Comment is about 'Tourdion' by Chris Stevenson is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

profile poems are great.. will have to have a look at the rest defo but excelent.. x

Comment is about Edwyna Beaumont (poet profile)

Original item by Edwyna Beaumont

Ps. What do think the odds are on POTW?

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

Sorry Lynn for misinterpreting your work.
I merely meant that if the topic was placed on the discussion pages, it would stand a better chance of being debated in a wider forum.

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

agree wholeheartedly with you Graham.

P&S

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

Hi Graham. Thanks for you inbox message confirming that the judges will not reveal their identities.

I will write what I want where I want. It's a poem and it's just a bit of fun!

Lynn x

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

the title drew me right in.

A "graphite beam" bearing observer and a muse..it seems a well conveyed tribute to enamoration with the peculiarities that coexist with the ordinary.

It is almost as if it were our perceptions of who (or what) we love must be treasured and guarded as much as the object of love itself.

I like it.

Comment is about sometimes the only way to react to this life is to find hope in stupid things. (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

POTW has been running for only 3-4 weeks or so and has been well received.

Perhaps this thread belongs on the discussion section and not amongst the blogs!

Oh! And by the way Lynn, this is meant to be fun and each nominated poet does have the right of refusal.

Comment is about POTW concerns (blog)

hi kimafia.Hope you get to win dude.

P&S xx

Comment is about New Beginnings (blog)

Original item by kimafia Jones

Lovely work, Chris. I particularly like that last stanza! And thanks to you I now know what a 'tourdion' is, too.

Comment is about 'Tourdion' by Chris Stevenson is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

cheers david. the shape just grew naturally. it took quite a long time to work out the different anagrams (dont know if you'd noticed but everything is an anagram of the first line).

Comment is about sad news (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Lynn check your PM

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Now this POTW (in my opinion) is a positive example of well earned notoriety.

Wish I were capable of producing such a fresh approach to this eternally well worn theme. Excellent

Comment is about 'Tourdion' by Chris Stevenson is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Could somebody answer my previous question please?

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hahaha! Love it xx

Comment is about SNAIL INTELLIGENCE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Beautiful ugly - love that xx

Comment is about sometimes the only way to react to this life is to find hope in stupid things. (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck