I like this theme - and the touch of Liverpudlian tenderness.

Comment is about The Little Flower Boy (blog)

Original item by Ged Thompson

thank you all x

Comment is about The Armed Man (blog)

Original item by Anna Grinter

I like your type of writing and I enjoyed reading some of your poems :)

Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Eva Elizabeth

Morning Martin. Thank you for your lovely comment on A&E. So chuffed the words formed a picture. Thanks once again.

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Morning Tommy. Thank you for reading A&E and your comments. Yes you read it absolutely spot on. I was very undecided about blogging that piece but your comment reaffirmed my decision. Thank you.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Loss is an absence hard to fill.

Comment is about A&E (blog)

Hello Andy, It was great to meet you too and thanks for taking the time to read, your advice and listening round the back!! I really enjoyed listening to everyone on the night - you all read so well. I will check out Jeff's night. Is it on the same day as the Wigan event in the afternoon?
You obviously have been writing for a while so I will grab a cup of tea one Sunday afternoon and have a proper read.
Lynn

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thank you jackie - I'm pleased it made you laugh.

Comment is about elliott poems 1 (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Thanks do much guys for your comments. I feel mega smiley now. :-)))))

Comment is about BRAIN BUGS (blog)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

I really enjoyed reading this, as Natalie says, you definitely have talent. The image of his poem literally being eaten, popped into my head as I read that line, although I am sure you meant it in a more metaphorical kind of way, and it made me laugh out loud.

Comment is about elliott poems 1 (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Once again Zach, you truly moved me with this poem. It has an economy of words, without that superfluous excess which so often interferes with the flow and theme of a work, and it managed to, for me, paint a full and detailed picture of both situation and emotion. You should be proud.

Comment is about shared (aug/sept 2013) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Great images Jane, you've not written for a while! Thanks for your comment on Build a Fire, glad you like it, ps its Bolton WOL at Brooklyn this sunday, be nice to see you :-)

Comment is about Love in the Cosmos (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

Thank you Harry. Your description of the poem's ''delicate hesitancy'' is bang on. That's exactly the feeling the poem grew from.

Comment is about UP FOM LONDON. (blog)

*sends angel*

Comment is about elliott poems 1 (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

best times of our lives eh Martin? were you any good at decking on the park roundabouts to impress the girls?

nice trip down memory lane! cheers matey! x

Comment is about There was a time (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

I didn't know about Donne, Harry, but confess I read something similar in a comment from Anthony Emerson who posts on here from time to time and whose comments are well worth reading.

Comment is about Legs (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This is clever.This is hilarious.This is my kind of place.
You'll recognise me if you see me there.I'm the one wearing the armour! ;o)....fab! x

Comment is about beer house bust up (blog)

sorry phil only seem your comment now , i would say walking as the words have time to fit what you see , if you see what i mean , thanks for comment

Comment is about David R Mellor (poet profile)

Original item by David R Mellor

You and Donne both, John...you and Donne both.

Comment is about Legs (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Travis,
I agree completely with John`s comments on this.

I tried re-doing it in longer lines and couplets but it lost completely, the delicate hesitancy you have managed.

I like the sense of danger in that `banking`

There is an overall wistfulness about it which makes it feel like a letter that was written - but never sent.

Enjoyed very much.

Comment is about UP FOM LONDON. (blog)

Thanks very much John.

Comment is about UP FOM LONDON. (blog)

Deep, meaningful and heartwarming. Its a good poem :) well done

Comment is about Live Long, Die Old (blog)

Original item by Aly Hatcher

Ian,
A nice shiver within an atmospheric experience.

Comment is about In The Halls Of The Kingmaker (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Witty woman!

Comment is about Louder Than Words (blog)

Original item by CathyLCrabb

This is the full example of what I was trying trying to do as a mix of (controlled) free verse within rhyme in the old discussion blog.

(I`ve revised it a bit)

Anyone got any other (controlled) examples of a different way of doing it?

Comment is about Everyone knew but me. (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Lynn, hi. After several readings a sadness transpired. How easy it is to be 'not there'. Am I reading this work correctly? Restrained loss well penned. Tommy

Comment is about A&E (blog)

Thanks for asking...
I live for the feel of sand and grass under my bare feet, steadying me, holding me here
For how my children still believe a hug from me can cure any hurt and the pure softness of their skin when I touch them
For hot baths on cold nights
For twilight, when everything I have to do is done and I'm free to dream
For those precious times when my mind relaxes and the words come through condensing something big and gangly into something pure and beautiful.
For listening to unbearably beautiful songs, (Famous Blue Raincoat) (the Queen and the Soldier) and bell birds
For moments of truth, births, deaths when all the bullshit falls away and no longer matters
For kindness both given and received, and those precious solitary moments when you can unwrap those kind words or a touch and savour them again
For warm sun on bare skin
For wild winds, actually for any kind from the gentlest breeze to the cyclonic
For trees that dance for me
For dancing badly and with abandon
For singing badly and with abandon
For dancing and singing badly and with abandon at the same time
For sore muscles that remind me I'm here
For dreams so vivid they have to be real
For the smells of freshly mown grass, rain on a hot day, and bush fires
For silence
For stillness
For eating olives
For having my feet touched
For daydreams that come true

Comment is about Let's Talk, WoL (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Love it!

Comment is about My Memories (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Don't take a holiday from your writing it's very good I did and now I'm 70 Wendy x

Comment is about How it is (blog)

Original item by Sharlie

Thank you very much Wendy your feedback means a lot!

Comment is about This is not a phase (blog)

Original item by CodyLoveHateBlake

Well done with your writing you captured my mind love wendy

Comment is about This is not a phase (blog)

Original item by CodyLoveHateBlake

I remember that time as well when bills and adulthood was mnot a reality and being a kid was sp freeing love your poem.

https://www.createspace.com/3976581

Comment is about There was a time (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

This is a great poem Lyn. I can just picture the scene in A and E

Comment is about A&E (blog)

He was a Glaswegian with a burr to stir porridge
What a great line Cynthia. I love it

Comment is about The Glaswegian (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This is excellent. I think I would like to be found 'open mouthed neath a beer flowing tap' !

Comment is about beer house bust up (blog)

agree with Jeff too, Eva. really enjoyed both of your pieces at Wigan. you were one of the best poets on the night certainly. keep writing and hope to see you down the road again sometime. Andy N x

Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Eva Elizabeth

The theme of Easter for tonight takes me back to - - -

My Night as a Bunny Girl

Party of fancy dress
Blonde wig in place
Holy nylon fishnet tights.

Sweet talk Easter Egg
Passed out strong wine
Dark chocolate sandwich bed.

Giant Mars bar unwrapped
Soft centres Walnut whip
Shell shocked home quick.

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hello John,
thanks for your comments on petrichor. I'm not too sniffy at my age either.
Let's hope we keep the Hurrycane! Another season etc etc!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks JC.
Interesting that those in sport don't get the eulogies in
verse that would have been their reward from past
generations. He is certainly among the more deserving!

Comment is about THE VOICE OF SUMMER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Andy, for your comment on Night Watch.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for the comment on 'Crow' John. I love the personification and animality crossovers. I didn't know the charm of finches, but there are some great ones around. I may pinch this one in the future!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

"unfathomably deep" - brilliant, Travis. Perfect combination of mystique, meaning, rhythm and rhyme.

Comment is about UP FOM LONDON. (blog)

Excellent tribute, MC.
I can just remember the great man's playing days, Even then he struck me as a sport (in the old fashioned sense of the term) and a gentleman.
I ranked him alongside Bill McLaren and John Arlott as one of the great understaters of sports commentary.

Comment is about THE VOICE OF SUMMER (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Indeed, Ken. "Quaint" as they say.

Comment is about Legs (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

''ride mahout.../and tug reluctant'', lovely phrasing Jeremy.

Comment is about dawdling (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Thank you Lea; one from the heart.

Comment is about UP FOM LONDON. (blog)

Oo-er what a carry-on

Comment is about Legs (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks Preeti and Rose.xx

Comment is about Running on empty (blog)

Thank you! Your poems were great too! x

Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Eva Elizabeth

Hi Eva, welcome to WOL, great to see you at Wigan, really enjoyed your poems, great performance too, keep writing and hope to see you again soon Jeffarama! x

Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)

Original item by Eva Elizabeth