Hi Wolfie

All good things come to those that wait, apparently. Thanks for reading. x

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Hi Vicki

Thanks for reading (something I've been guilty of not doing recently) and commenting. x

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Thank you Lizzie, much appreciated. x

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Thank you R Miller, I look forward to reading some of your work along with adding more from my archives.

Comment is about BALLPOINTING FOR DAD (blog)

Original item by GeeProcessor

I agree with the comments about your telling a good story, and having a gift for an ending. I'll watch for more of your writing being posted.
M:)

Comment is about Jim Trott (poet profile)

Original item by Jim Trott

Jim - welcome to WOL. Loving your work so far. Lets have lots more please.
Rob

Comment is about Jim Trott (poet profile)

Original item by Jim Trott

Jim - love the animalistic quality of Aisha and equally the quality of the writing.
Rob

Comment is about Aisha with Beads (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Jim - a ripple from a distance disrupting the peace, like a butterfly effect. Nice concept, beautifully crafted.
Rob

Comment is about Martha Street (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Jim - Raymond, more a Walter Mitty than Che Guevara I would think. I like the story telling, but felt short changed with the last stanza coming far too soon. Any chance of adding more before that ending?
Rob

Comment is about The Rebel (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Jim - a dark tale of the unexpected and yet there is a foreboding throughout. I love that this is possibly the first act or chapter to an overarching story. Let's have more as soon as possible.
Rob

Comment is about Nicole (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Hi Alex

Thank you for your comments - I'm very pleased you liked them. It's a real compliment when it comes from someone whose writing I admire :)

Comment is about Alex Smith (poet profile)

Original item by Alex Smith

Tom - how many times in how many parallel universes does the same chain of events play out? Like the piece and the thought provoking topic. Nice one.
Rob

Comment is about It’s A Funny Thing (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

As I am sometimes wont to say, 'shitting hell!'. Whoof - big goosebumps!

Beautifully crafted, acutely observed (which I strongly suspect is internal with a little added poetic licence, clearly!), and with what us round here call a 'killer ending'. 'Cept in this case it really is :D

As Stu says, you have a way with endings. You're a natural storyteller Jim, and I do love it when we get fresh meat with real talent! :)

*awaits more secrets*

Comment is about Nicole (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

Tom - I really like this. Great observation, impeccably described.
Rob

Comment is about Winter Kitchen (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Morning Jim

Y'welcome :)

Ha. I haven't worn one for over 10 years ;)

Comment is about Jim Trott (poet profile)

Original item by Jim Trott

Aah, once that line has been crossed eh?
Rob

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Very nice

Comment is about Winter Kitchen (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

lovely this ray, especially winged and flitting thaumotrope which is a sexy sentence indeed. tinges of farce and longing. which could be the title of a shite rock bands debut album. im rereading now and its unfolding like an origami lotus. will report (pun intended) back later.

Comment is about WEATHER GIRL (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Cheers Yvonne for your generous comment on Monsoon wind. Tommy

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Lie this poem

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Simple, beautiful, invites fond memories into one's cranium :)

Comment is about You and I (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Whoa. Powerful in its pure simplicity. Love it!

Comment is about Open Heart Surgery (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Hi Noris

This is really well written.

I love the intensity of your work, even though it sometimes leaves me blushing - but perhaps that's just down to my sheltered upbringing, long ago, ha ha.

Comment is about Vibrating in the unison of the scream of passion (blog)

Original item by Noris Roberts

Thanks so much for your feedback everyone!

I'm new to this but am challenging myself to write a new poem every week

Looking forward to reading everyones work :)

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Lovely poem, my favourite is the second verse. Just slightly. Xx

Comment is about Craved (blog)

Love this, it reminds me of now. I'm glad you walked away xxx

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Thanks again Martin - yes a hard thing to realise that endlessly waiting for all the 'one days' soon adds up to a lifetime!

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Ah yes! Thanks Rob!! Corrected! That slipped though my edit!! He claimed that once we were 'friends' we couldn't hurt each other - but in fact he hurt me more as a friend than he ever did during our brief liaison!

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

savage and brilliant. you have a way with endings. there is near-imperceptible nastiness running through it, then you just seem to twist the knife right at the last. same with the previous one of yours i read (aisha with beads). this one is left open ended and makes me wonder two things. what were the other three secrets, and how does the narrator know so much about him...

Comment is about Nicole (blog)

Original item by Jim Trott

I love the explosion of imagery paired with simmering rage! I feel like the relentless disconnectedness of it is perfect for expressing unwelcome memory. Really nice!

Comment is about Perspective (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I love your style of writing Eric. Very deep and reflective. I really like the meditative vibe to this piece. Keep up the great work. Emer

Comment is about Breathe in this moment (blog)

Original item by Eric Berard

seems you may already be acquainting them if they hold your quill Not dipping your ink too by any chance?

I might have had a chance in this quiz - I know one of the answers.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I need to acquaint them with their full range of duties, MC.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Yvonne - aha...you get it.
TC - I prefer "Sacre Bleu!"

Comment is about SAME THING (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Who'd have thought a poem about a quiz
Would turn out to be such a wiz?
That's 'cos JC knows his biz
Hurrah for Coopey's Groupies!

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments guys, very much appreciated. You are partly right Laura about the age reference. Although it just poured out of me so to speak, I realised that it is me in a reflective mood from where I have come from to where am now. I also have a tendency to be a bit on the melancholic side at times.
Thanks again
M

Comment is about Beige (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

As Stu and Vicki have said there is some great imagery here Rachel. I also caught a hint of an almost Jerkyl and Hyde quality about this with
'I can't control the beast you see he's all I now and love'
Great poem.

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Sounds like you made the right decision Vicki. Sadly one day rarely comes to pass. I like the way you have positioned it almost like a whirlwind romance.
Nice one

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Yes, Yvonne, it's a bit of a puzzler. I thought "hold our quill" might convey a bit more than intended. And "quill" is not really a forced rhyme. Really. Honest.
Hello Vicki. I'm rather smug about winning last night's quiz with the lowest winning score ever.
It's not the ale which causes our loss of memory these days, Raypool; it's the age of our grey matter.

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Vicki - should that be ' I knew that you would make me cry'? I love the seraphic touch line, and the mystery of why he/she would not believe you? Pray tell.
Rob

Comment is about Foreboding (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Thanks Rob - this was written awhile ago & you'll be pleased to know that I did 'walk away'! X

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Vicki - a helpless illogical love can destroy the besotted as easily as a car crash. Unfortunately most hearts are bound to have breakages. We can only hope the head doesn't suffer the same fate.
Rob

Comment is about Decisions (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Hi Cynthia

Just a short note to let you know how much I have enjoyed reading your sample poems.

In particular I like "The Dream-footer". It conjures up such strong images. The joy of the bare-footed dance and its release made me nod and smile.

I'm looking forward to reading more of your work, both past and future. There are so many good poets on this site!

:-)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Excellent rollicking descriptions and spot on with theme and variations with a dash of sexism to spice it up, all in good humour!! I only went to one quiz in my life, and found it distressing on account of my minimal drinking habits and my colleague's gargantuan ones. He was so pissed he lost all memory.

Nice one. Ray

Comment is about COOPEY'S GROUPIES (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This has a gorgeous serpent like quality , embodying an elusive and mystical theme. Not sure where the ideas spring from, but it reminds me perhaps of Kahlil Gibran or the Arabian Nights. Worth a detailed read.
I enjoyed it a lot Jeremy.

Ray

Comment is about the muslim's tale iv (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Hi Rachael
there is some wonderful images and lines in here
sugared suns peppered with hate
^^ wonderful
as vicki mentioned, acid tongues spit twisted words is also fab.
the last line is very clever and ties the whole thing up.
confession - i dont much like this kind of poetry (woman-man, heartbreak etc) but this is one i'd come back to.
excellent.

Comment is about Queen of Sorrow (blog)

Original item by Rachael J. Low

Whoop whoop!! Well done matey xxx

Comment is about Stepping up to the mic: Steve Pottinger is Write Out Loud's new chief executive (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Big thanks to you all for your lovely comments. It was such a huge experience that I had to somehow process it, and the best way for me to do that is through poetry. I think I aged about 10 years that night, mentally and emotionally, and I hadn't known how I was going to feel when it finally came around. It was totally different to what I imagined. I never even liked classical music prior to that!!

So anyway, thank you again, and thank the universe for poetry, eh?!

Comment is about The Melting of the Ice (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Laura

Thanks for your review of "The Rebel"

:-)

Jim

ps I don't wear a watch. Does that give it away, I wonder?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I really am sorry to be so late to respond to these magnificent poems, but at least I did in the end, and I am very happy to have read them. They're so dense and multi-layered, with a harsh core of the kind of brutally honest self-awareness that is incredibly rare in people these days. I am in awe.

Comment is about New Farmer (blog)

Original item by Alex Smith