Grandstand in black and white featuring vintage cars being driven up a muddy hillclimb by a husband and wife team in victorian costume. She would sit and bounce on the bonnet for extra purchase. Meanwhile, on itv, wrestling with jackie pallo, mick mcmanus and billy two-rivers. They don't know they're born.
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think the rental for our TV was 7/6d - less than 50p - per week. Ah...those halcyon days when "Grandstand" was in B/W and snooker wasn't featured!
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Julian, they don't know they're born! Why, in my day...
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Looking every bit the French Lieutenant's woman, Yvonne Brunton returns to our shores as a visible poet!
Comment is about Poetry profile heist – case solved? (article)
Original item by Julian Jordon
Really good this, Dave. Excellent in fact.
Comment is about The 3D Printer (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Which came first, Dave, the wheelbarrow or the Williams which, as we all know, is a formula one racing Carlos. And, who is the wheel nut here?
Comment is about Depends (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
If WriteOutLoud is the "high street" of the poetry world, to continue the precious stones analogy, I am the "Ratners." Not even worth the insult of a brick through the window . . . boo-hoo . . .
Comment is about Poetry profile heist – case solved? (article)
Original item by Julian Jordon
You had Stilton? Luxury!
All we got was Fanny and Johnny. Note to our younger viewers: I am not making this up.
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hey Anthony, you are so wrong. You are a diamond geezer, a cut above the rest. It is out of respect for your oeuvre that your work has been left alone. Trust me, I know of what I speak. I have been making this sort of stuff up for years.
A. N. Twerp
Comment is about Poetry profile heist – case solved? (article)
Original item by Julian Jordon
I sit here now, after reading this, sobbing into my tepid coffee and contemplating whether my life is worth living. Plagiarists avoid my work (like the plague) and no one thinks my profile is worth stealing. Goodbye cruel WOL . . .
Comment is about Poetry profile heist – case solved? (article)
Original item by Julian Jordon
Our neighbours had an original pay-per-view set. You put a shilling in a slot and it gave you an hour or so of telly. Forward thinking or what? This predated Sentanta, ESPN and Sky by half a century!
I think these should be re-introduced to see how the viewing figures for cookery, house renovation, holiday, celebrity, and "talent" programmes would stand up if you were spending money on them directly.
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Haiku is good, whatever season. Thanks for sharing!
Comment is about Angry Autumn (blog)
Original item by David Blake
Sweeping verse and amazing visual. Is that one of your photographs? Loved the composition of it, the receding triangles is like the golden mean projecting into the horizon, layer by layer. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Way Out By the Rapeseed Field (blog)
Original item by David Blake
lovely stuff, tracy. both me and cathy really like this - one of both of our favourites of yours so far. very skillfully told. be proud of yourself here as it is very good stuff.
Comment is about As it flows (blog)
Original item by Tracey Bucknell
really enjoyed this, Jamie although i am wondering whether you need both the second and third stanza as removing one may sharpen it's impact even more but good stuff either way, m8
Comment is about Quieter (blog)
good structure here, John is dead right with this. Clearly a skill here at work with this piece. good stuff, m8
Comment is about Beneath The Watch Tower (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
And you ask why I don't live here?
Honey, how come you don't leave?!
Comment is about Soul Music (blog)
Original item by Ray Miller
Once of a day you could warm up your stilton in the back of a telly. Ahh me!
Comment is about Progress and The Diggy Box (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think a wing nut is most appropriate here. It has to be a little nut to emphasize its importance but a little white nut? You'd be thinking Tommy Steele.
I added a chicken. Some people are hard to please! :-)
Comment is about Depends (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
Kenneth Eaton-Dykes
Tue 19th Feb 2013 21:43
Hi Ian.
Great poem, I particularly liked the second verse.
Keep 'em coming. KED.
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Whoa, Ian!
This made an impact on first reading through its imagery and iambic pentameter.
But it made an even bigger impact second time round as I anticipated the ending and the images dropped into a better understood context.
I suspect you know what you are doing.
I think you will like the work of Ian Gant and Thomas Thurman on this site.
Keep posting
Comment is about Beneath The Watch Tower (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
tony sheridan
Tue 19th Feb 2013 19:05
Love this. Take care, Tony.
Comment is about when roses bloomed (blog)
tony sheridan
Tue 19th Feb 2013 19:02
Great poem! After a walk in the countryside I often get pen and paper! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about As it flows (blog)
Original item by Tracey Bucknell
Hello Nigel,
Thank you for your poem/comment on my short story "The Emergency Room Visit."
I like your poetry. Good writing.
Thanks
Shirley
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Hi MC
Thank you for your comments on my short story, "The Emergency Room Visit". This story needs work but I like it.
Thanks
Shirley
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi Dave :o) I think you have hit it spot on. I wanted to evoke a feeling of regret and in-consequence. The brief emotion when finding a lovers note between the pages of a seldom read book.
Tommy
Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hi Dave :o) I think you have hit it spot on. I wanted to evoke a feeling of regret and in-consequence. The brief emotion when finding a lovers note between the pages of a rarely read book.
Tommy
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Tommy, you don't need to 'impress the reader', they are already impressed!
: )
Jx
PS and I still don't think the lines need an extra syllable, they work fine without it when I speak them out loud.
Love your stuff!
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hi John :o) You raise an interesting point re the 'it' in the first two stanzas. The placement and inclusion of 'it' is to impress the reader of the stress of the lines and by its use causes the line to flow more rhythmically. I appreciate you raising the point.
Tommy
Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)
Original item by John Aikman
Hi John :o) You raise an interesting point re the 'it' in the first two stanzas. The placement and inclusion of 'it' is to impress the reader of the stress of the lines and by its use causes the line to flow more rhythmically. I appreciate you raising the point.
Tommy
Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanx everyone So kind :)
Comment is about The Sea Creaks (blog)
Original item by jean lucy thompson
Time stops as
the leaf falls.
Wild grass stirs
a dog sniffs.
Fucking nettles sting
forever it seemed.
Comment is about The Oak Tree at Hatton Locks (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
This is the one I've already flagged up to you Julian. At the moment that link is only working if you have an admin password.
As far as I know, it is being looked into by our technical people. It definitely hasn't been deleted - it's just invisible for now!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Here it is MC http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/yvonnebrunton
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Glad it went well guys. keep the reviews coming!
Review is about Until the Light Goes Out on 4 Mar 2013 (event)
Hi Ann. Thx for the comments. In this case it felt right to use the lines unaltered. I was suprised how much of a flow was achievable using over 70% of first lines from recent blogs which should be about entirely ramdom subjects.
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
You have a fresh voice!
Comment is about A Poem Is Just Ink in the Shape Of (blog)
Original item by Irina
I like this because it's different. It appeals to me!
Comment is about One Night I Stole a Purple Balloon (blog)
Original item by Irina
JC - I have tried to locate Yvonne B. by clicking on her name when locating comment by
her - and also by searching under her name. In
both instances, there was no sight of any PROFILE PAGE or place where I could see I was able to leave a message.
I hope you can resolve this with Isobel - apropos my previous comment about my own problem with "permissions". ALSO - does YB
HAVE a profile page - as seen in yours and mine?
If not, has this been deleted and does she know? As I said before...weird!!
Cheers.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
JC - as a matter of interest, I have been in
touch with Isobel (moderator on WOL) about having that "permissions" issue with another
site (from a post on I tried to read from 13/2/2013 - "All Grown Up"). In that instance, she said the user profile had been
deleted and that the post in question had
hung around for whatever reason and should go in due course. Weird!
I will pass your message to Yvonne and hope
I don't get a repeat of the problem myself when
doing so.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Nothing flaky about this bowl of fun!
Comment is about Cereal Killer (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Haha! You should write a poem about the kite Ray :)
Comment is about One Night I Stole a Purple Balloon (blog)
Original item by Irina
Neat, although I don't think it needs the 'it' in the first line of the first two verses. They just seems superfluous to me. I mean, what else would you be referring to other than the wind or the sun?
Lovely little poem, though.
Just a thought.
: )
Jx
Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Only just found this. It captures a kind of wistfulness amid impermanence very well.
Comment is about The paint and the past (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Provocative. It's certainly less difficult, but still not always easy. Even harder if trans.
Comment is about The Gay Dinosaur (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
it can be tony :) thank you for reading it :)
take care too :)
Comment is about The Void (blog)
Original item by Tracey Bucknell
thank you tony , i'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Comment is about The Language Of Love (blog)
Original item by Tracey Bucknell
Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment. As a matter of fact this text on memories and oblivion is very recent and I'm going to work on it, trying to improve some lines, if I can... Maybe it results a little experimental and bizarre at the first readings. Or maybe it simply sucks :-)! Yet the "sprung" effects as well as the enjambements are intentional. I often use (also in Italian) lexical or semantic deviation as poetic licence (the "foregrounded figure" with the language on the background), verbs normally not related to a subject or an objet (like "listen to a gesture" "the seat of the point of view" or similar) and so on. But I' m not a native speaker of English, though I love this language, so your advice is always very precious to me. I agree with you, originality is important. Everybody should tell his or her own soul and not someone else's.
Comment is about The purple play (blog)
Original item by Carla Tombacco
Deborah Jordan Bailey
Mon 18th Feb 2013 22:41
thanks Dave :)
and thanks Cynthia.. it was just my line of thinking, pessimistic maybe, trying to be stoical if what seemed to be something turned out not to be or just changed along the way.Like some journeys turn out when you're not sure where you're going anyway,could go one way, could go the other,or yep both roads could well merge into one. Guilty of B&W thinking again,me.
Comment is about Walkabout (blog)
Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey
tony sheridan
Wed 20th Feb 2013 19:56
Love this! I relate to it. Great punchline! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Polishing a Turd (blog)