Thank you for the recent likes...

I appreciate your involvement in my nonsense.

David

Comment is about Synesthesia (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

everyone needs time
to think
it is me time
nothing selfish about that.😎

Comment is about Day 21 (blog)

Original item by SunFlower

Hi-kool!

Comment is about Haiku-ish Cyclist  (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

Many thanks Uilleam for your feedback😊
Thanks for likes: Holden, Manish, Auracle & Tim 👍

Comment is about My Girl In Pearls (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Another slight tweak this morning on account of my limited and disrupted education.

Thanks to Trevor and Cryptid for the likes.

David RL Moore

Comment is about The Dead Wood (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

A great poem and possibly my favourite version of Raglan Road.

Sorry, this is my definitive favourite.

https://youtu.be/ZIqr1Ge8Z5w?si=qsDqSbW9UpZHtzl7

David

Comment is about The morning of the day (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Nicely done.

I enjoyed the metaphors particularly; the album almost full, fingers tracing memories, the patina.

Comment is about The Grace of Age. (blog)

Original item by Clare

Perhaps it has, Uilleam. Write Out Loud has spent just shy of 20 years learning, and learning... including Robert Graves' famous quote:
There's no money in poetry, and there's no poetry in money either.
Learning is one of the finest things life offers us, in my view. Have a look at Borges' poem You Learn.
Too long to reproduce here, but it (in this translation) ends:
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth…
And you learn and learn…

With every good-bye you learn.

Comment is about Radical poetry publisher Andy Croft to close Smokestack Books (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you for the early likes Tim and Landi,

There is a slight alteration to the text which is not yet reflected in the video.

Thank you for your reading and support.

David RL Moore

Comment is about The Dead Wood (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Uilleam, thanks! I’m glad you found the questions interesting. I’m flattered that Dylan Thomas came to mind while reading my poetry. That line really does resonate with his message about fighting against death. It’s such a deep reflection on how we confront the end of life.

Comment is about Why be common when I can be different? (blog)

Original item by Eduardo

Thanks Sarah.
I was never a "doggie person", but I can well understand the place such a pet can have in one's life. I have photo of my mum at the age of about 10, sat beside her wire-haired Scotch Terrier-she was always talking about it.XXX

Comment is about Oscar (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

Thanks to Tom, Stephen, Holden and Reggie for the likes.

David RL Moore

Comment is about Synesthesia (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Uilleam, I don’t think anyone has the balls to say what they really think! 😂

Comment is about Total Testicles (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

What, no comments!

Comment is about Total Testicles (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Commercially, paper publishing is extremely difficult and hardly profitable. Operating on the margins even more so. Even running a website like WOL does not come cheap otherwise we wouldn’t ask contributors for donations.
If it is the quality of the content on WOL to which you allude, very little is banned unless it is viewed as contravening our Code of Conduct and T&C’s.

Comment is about Radical poetry publisher Andy Croft to close Smokestack Books (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Mmmmmmm....?
Has WOL got anything to learn from this?

Comment is about Radical poetry publisher Andy Croft to close Smokestack Books (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Nay lad!😉

Comment is about The Donkey Set The Table (blog)

Original item by Clive Culverhouse

Thank you Uilleam.

There's is a purposeful communication. Thanks for reading.

Comment is about Silently walking (blog)

Original item by Luke

Thanks Larisa,
I like the way you turn a leaf into a person telling a lesson for life.

Comment is about My Way (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Very deep that, Mike,
and in so few words.
Love it.

Comment is about Shhhh... (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Lovely last two lines, Clare.

Comment is about The Grace of Age. (blog)

Original item by Clare

Thanks Luke.
"These birds say more than I ever could, "
That reminds me of some of my thoughts whilst out walking recently.

Comment is about Silently walking (blog)

Original item by Luke

Thanks Eduardo.
Some very interesting questions there.
"Regret flares up when death’s drawing near,"
That line reminds me of Dylan Thomas' poem "Do not go gentle into that good night,"

Comment is about Why be common when I can be different? (blog)

Original item by Eduardo

@Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh, Does it sound like that?😅 Actually, it's a metaphor for a phase I went through, kind of a quarter-life crisis thing.
By the way, thank you for being nice to everyone😊

Comment is about The Last Carriage (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

A strange relationship, what with nuts and frogs and all that.😏

Comment is about Strings (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

The makings of a ghost story?😧

Comment is about The Last Carriage (blog)

Original item by Yanma Hidayah

Lovely Tom-a real pearler.💗

Comment is about My Girl In Pearls (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Many thanks Larisa & Tim for your perceptive comments. 🙂
Thanks for likes: Auracle, Holden, Aisha & Tobani / Nataiella 👍

Comment is about Life Is A Circus (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Wise words Aisha ✌️

Comment is about A Beautiful Change (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Just my creative response to your question. Ruth, well done😊

Comment is about Which Tomorrow? (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks Uilleam, As I say it's just a bit of fun creative writing based on book titles, my challenge to myself was to write the piece based on their exact spelling so nothing political is going on here. I do appreciate that once you put even the simplest form of art out there in the world it's open to a variety of interpretations so it was interesting to read what it evoked for you.

Thanks for your kind words Tim and Nigel another fantastic fun& frolics poem 😃

Comment is about Which Tomorrow? (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

You may, thanks.

Comment is about Old soldier to the rescue (blog)

Original item by Kevin Vose

It's B.Liar's:

"Toomorrow and toomorrow and toomorrow"...misspelled by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing but death and misery for innocent Iraqis.
Bill Shakespear-ish

Comment is about Which Tomorrow? (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks Kevin, he gets around, does Eamonn McSwilly, it was only last night I was drinking with him and that Miss Hornsetta Hauntingdon-Hamel in the Conny Club...lovely melons, if I may be so bold!

Comment is about Old soldier to the rescue (blog)

Original item by Kevin Vose

Spend spend spend
Buying best sellers
For my poem
Blank page of
No inspiration joins
Credit card zero.😫

Comment is about Which Tomorrow? (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thank you Ray and Uilleam and to Aisha for the like.

Written some time ago now but not posted here. Tweaked a little, and here it is.

David RL Moore

Comment is about Synesthesia (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

An all too familiar story, David.
Yes Ray, a way of life indeed...about which a friend has recently confided in me in "matter of fact" terms...a story made all the more harrowing through the sheer mundanity of its narration.

Comment is about Synesthesia (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

What appeals to me here is the almost nursery rhyme style that packs such a punch and says things we dare not even think as a way of life that applies to a vast swathe of couples in domestic environments where most abuse of individual rights is acted out.

How much bitterness can we swallow, I ask.....

Ray

Comment is about Synesthesia (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle-jangle morning I'll come following you
'Cos I just love the cut of your jingle jangle jib.

Comment is about The Jingly Jib (blog)

Original item by Clive Culverhouse

I read this poem and was really moved by it, Clare. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Comment is about My Name is Anne. (blog)

Original item by Clare

And thanks to Tom, Ruth, Tim, Aisha, Steve and Auracle for liking this.

Comment is about Langue de Bois (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks very much, Tim & Uilleam, for your kind words of encouragement. The way our country's led is criminal, and the manner in which our rights have been stripped away, stretching back as far even as William the Bastard's usurpation of the Anglo-Saxon throne, and on through the land rights of the 18th. C, the persecution of the Luddites, Levellers and Diggers, to the increasingly oppressive labour laws of the 19th, leading all the way to our modern policing and anti-terror bills, is immoral. Phew! I get carried away. I'm an old-school anarchist, a libertarian socialist, an advocate of revolution so please pardon me my spleen. To paraphrase the mighty Bill Hicks, if we don't evolve past our current mode of social organisation, we're doomed.
Crikey, i need a soothing poultice, or powder, or whatnot, now!

Comment is about JUST A FOOTLOOSE RANT (OR, ANARCHY UNMASKED) (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

I agree with Yim. I also always saw a hidden sorrow in clowns' smiles.

Comment is about Life Is A Circus (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Martin, I’m sure you’re aware the word “rant” is sometimes (but rarely) used in WOL comments in a derogatory or perjorative way, usually by those with nothing useful to say!

Cambridge English Dictionary. “rant: to speak, write or shout in a loud, uncontrolled, or angry way, often saying confused or saying silly things”.

I see nothing silly, confused, or uncontrolled in what you’ve written. It is justifiably angry and loud in tone. If poetry be the food of love, write on, out loud, I say.

Comment is about JUST A FOOTLOOSE RANT (OR, ANARCHY UNMASKED) (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Thanks, MC. Kids can indeed be cruel. And thanks for the Likes Stephen, Tim, Tom and Ruth.

Comment is about POETRY IN MOTION (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Takes me back to younger days and wending my uncertain yet
accurate way home along busy London highways after a party
or other celebration in the distant past. Usually the outcome of
mixing drinks. Bad choice!

Comment is about Too Much Ale (blog)

Original item by Tim Higbee

Entertaining as always. Most of us can probably remember a kid
who was somehow "different" to the rest of us in our herd
instinct childhood. Sadly, some got more than their fair share
of mickey-taking and I think even kids can feel remorse and back
off on occasions. I like to think so, anyway.

Comment is about POETRY IN MOTION (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Cue the howls of "Oh no, how will we manage if we upset the status quo?" When what we effectively have had for years is anarchy and unaccountability in government, whilst we, the plebs are forced to toe the line.

Comment is about JUST A FOOTLOOSE RANT (OR, ANARCHY UNMASKED) (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

I would like to think we are more humane today in our treatment of people, but I'm only being hopeful. Thank you for sharing, Clare.

Comment is about My Name is Anne. (blog)

Original item by Clare

I have always seen clowns as a form of hidden sorrow. This captures it well. I have an old one titled A Clown with a similar theme. Yours I believe is much better written.

Comment is about Life Is A Circus (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan