I'm a bit p*ssed off with Nature at the moment. I've got an otter or a mink getting into my garden pond. It's eaten its way through 70 fish, some of them specimen Koi carp. B*st*d, b*st*d otter. I set a rat-trap only to find it next morning half-way down the garden!
Rant over. (Nice poem).

Comment is about autumn egg (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Stef & Tricia, thank you for your comment, and hey, I believe you are right - how about "sheepishly" instead?

Colin's fine thanks, though his memory still isn't great - the doctors couldn't find anything wrong anyway - so I guess that's the main thing.

Thanks again,
Love, Lynn'n'him xx

Comment is about Colin's Memory (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

hallo Ann
thanks for your continued support
i enjoyed listening to you on Do The Write Thing
i like the soothing tone of your voice
im addicted to wol too
thank you take care

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

that gixer is just like mine - got 3 bikes in the garage right now - I Have had as many as 7 in the past including 2 ducatis (916 + 996) & 2 RC30s. I was out on the gixer just yesterday. Keep up the good work !!
Brum Brum........

Comment is about The Rhythm of the Ride (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

thank You Stella- :o)

Comment is about Five degrees of separation (19th Oct 2011) (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

best thing to do for promo of calls for submissions is to submit to news@writeoutloud.net, preferably with a jpeg image.

Comment is about Little Lark Press (blog)

Original item by Lisa Zaran

Hi Harry, agreed. How do we want to live, might be the question to which we need an answer rather than politicians assuming all the time, especially ones who have not a clue what it is like to be poor, to not have the confidence or financial givens that the silver spoons bestow.

Comment is about Roy Harper and the politics of poetry (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

very moving poem Lynn-but!
(and with great respect)
lose the word 'shamefully'

not poor Colins fault
but I do get the sense of shame
he might mistakenly have felt
at the time.

how is he now?
might I ask.

certainly hope he overcomes the problem.

love

Stef&Trish.xx

Comment is about Colin's Memory (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Many thanks Lynn
for comments on 'dazzled or dulled'

love

Stef&Trish.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

You dont look miserable or old? I enjoyed Fantasia! It came across as a spirit was with you?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I luv your poems! Must take you forever, I smile and wait the next line,I think you put an awful lot into them!

Comment is about Jack Pascoe (poet profile)

Original item by Jack Pascoe

Love the journey..that walk is wonderful..did you then take the ferry?

I hope such smiles attend my departure.
I want no cross...corker..

I think I know that bloke with the parrot..wonder if it was the same one I saw with the bunny on a lead and the parrot on his shoulder?..and the Stone Roses reform as Westlife break up..good news all round..

Comment is about Five degrees of separation (19th Oct 2011) (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

The ending makes me think of rushing clouds? I love the beautiful picture, thankyou

Comment is about It's The Way (blog)

I understand the sentiment, I would be torn too! I enjoyed the rhyming too xx

Comment is about A Walk with Asylum Seekers (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

'Only Fond'! I love it. Thinking Back! especially last verse, funny and enjoyed reading it!xx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Enjoyed this, Ann. It's fascinating how things that are out of kilter in Nature resonate with us.

Comment is about autumn egg (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Julian, good topic,

Shelly was talking beyond his brief,but you do have a point about political poetry.

It shouldn`t be about rounding up the usual suspects and subjecting them to a Kylie-style rant.

It should be about defending what (for want of a more acceptable term)are spiritual values - points of generally accepted national self-respect...in other words the effect of policies
on people (and not only the financial effect)

This should be more `poetical` to deal with than long rants about `poverty` in these days.

Comment is about Roy Harper and the politics of poetry (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Phew! Quite a schedule. Enjoyed reading this and following links to see some of your videos. As an English teacher, the Troilus and Cressida project interests me a lot. Hope it goes well.

Comment is about The diary of a spoken word bird (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I love the thought in this Cynthia - you are such a philosopher and deep thinker - I love that quality about you.

I'm not sure you needed to turn this into a poem. It would work as well as an essay or just a piece of writing and would probably have given you more freedom to explore those ideas. I think the ideas are quite deep for it to work as a performance piece. I certainly had to think hard about it and that is hard to do without seeing the words before you. You'd definitely have to choose the right venue to perform it in, at any rate.

I love the end where you look at the children of the future, perceiving us as so backward. It kind of puts us in our place!

I very much enjoyed the read. xx

Comment is about evolutionary kindergarten (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

And you wonder why the kids grew up terrified of you!

Comment is about The Things We Do For Love (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Nice one about wandering about in the `negative cpability`

(and enjoying it)

Enough connections in it for the imagination to get a grip on.

Good!

Comment is about Sometimes I Am Not Born (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Cynthia Phew! (That`s a compliment)

Read this after reading Winston`s piece about poetry and legislation. This seems to demonstrate how difficult it is to philosophise a poem (too much needs to be included)

To me, sections five and six are the most powerful.

However, I think many of us are too ready to accept the reality of biological evolution and to extrapolate the theory (it is only a theory) on to inappropriate things.

For instance, given the direction of recent embryonic experiments, it`s far from certain that `those things of which we have not even dreamed` will be quite as pleasant as we hope.
(I`m thinking of the fashion for ensuring that your children will be boys, and not girls)

Well worth the reading though - thanks!

Comment is about evolutionary kindergarten (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This is such good writing Ann..out of place and time.. x :)

Comment is about autumn egg (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

That sometimes we are someone else

And sometimes

We are not at all.


How small we are...super read

Comment is about Sometimes I Am Not Born (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

This work varies from introductory 'free-fall' thinking to its conclusion with some reasonably organized sentences, with combinations of both in-between. I have used minimal punctuation, so reading aloud would make it easier to follow (if interested). I think it is foremost a performance piece.

I am married to a black man with fraternal twin daughters - I could have gone anywhere with the theme. But it is the 'big picture' that really challenges me.

Comment is about evolutionary kindergarten (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I'm enjoying your poems very much - you have a wide range - all good interesting stuff. The Neanderthal poem = my fave!

Comment is about Nick Coleman (poet profile)

Original item by Nick Coleman

I thought you may care to have a look at the outline for my play, it is posted in my blog and I am open to opinions, and I live in greater manchester, more specifically rochdale.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

I wasn't born! But I had a rebirth? I enjoyed your poem, It says what it is,I enjoyed it too, because it doesn't rhyme? thankyou for the comment 'freak of nature' I appreciate it very much, I hope i can stop rhyming as i gain more confidence.

Comment is about Sometimes I Am Not Born (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Oh, this is all too familiar, Dave - don't you just hate it when that happens? Enjoyed your poem. x

Comment is about File not Found (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Just to say that I share your observations about "free poetry" being prose with chopped-up lines. I like to think of this form in the
context of newspaper reports. In many instances, they read the same way. Some twit
once referred to Kipling's "If" (voted the UK's
favourite) as "doggerel" in the London Evening
Standard. Clearly a person with little command
or control of the English language, let alone
imagination.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

And your comment made me laugh! Thank you Stef. (I'd forgotten that song when I wrote it, perhaps I'll rewrite the first line now! Lol.) xx

Comment is about Proposal (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

i really enjoyed this. i know that empty egg feeling...i like the idea of the egg out of place and fragile, the mystery of it. like the silver light and the way that plays through the viens in the image. great x

Comment is about autumn egg (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

thanks all x

Comment is about pictures from magazines (blog)

#I,d love to go
a-wandering
with a Lynn Dye on my arm,
and as we strolled
through the undergrowth
I would.......look out!
heres comes Patricia!

haha! good poem Lynn

Stef'n'Her.xx

Comment is about Proposal (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I like the way you craft your write here Rachel..made me very thoughtful..nice one lady :)

Comment is about pictures from magazines (blog)

Breakfast Pots made me laugh! want to read some more. x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

I just read M62! brings back many shared memories on that motorway! I went to School in Rochdale, I still have 3 brothers living there, I moved to Preston and spent many happy years there, until 1992, I moved to Lancs from Scotland when I was 11 years! I liked The Roses divide? very clever xx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Sexuality's good enough for me.

Comment is about pictures from magazines (blog)

Neat, MC. Clever alliteration "tolling, tale, tell, when, was, well". Nice rhythm. Keep the faith.

Comment is about SUNDAY SONG (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I got out of it the fact that you are attracted to men in spite of yourself. It would make a lot more sense to love a woman - cos they are less likely to hurt you in the same way - but that is not where your senses lead you.

I liked the idea of running a mile in the wrong direction - right up to his face - it made me smile. I also like the way 'I can only hurt' could be interpreted in two ways.

Your poetry is instinctive - it obviously just pours out of you - and there's never anything cliched about it.

Comment is about pictures from magazines (blog)

went to the last gig here over summer, great time. hope it goes down well tonight. Good to see more non licensed venues. sorry couldnt be there :(

Review is about Guitar n Verse 4 Tyldesley! on 22 Oct 2011 (event)

yes of course... its really whatever you want it to be, its about love and sexuality, the rest is up to you.

Comment is about pictures from magazines (blog)

read this first thing today A lovely way to start a sunny day :-) Win

Comment is about It's The Way (blog)

Dear Otis, thank you so much for your comment on my profile page, means a lot.

I'm in painting mode right now and haven't visited WOL for some time but will return to read your poetry when I can set some time aside to take your words in.

Look forward to this.

Best wishes

Ally

Comment is about J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang) (poet profile)

Original item by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

So perceptive, so just the way I'm feeling...
No1 fan

Comment is about It's The Way (blog)

Thanks Steve and Alana, your comments made me smile. :)

Comment is about Proposal (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Luck you! Can you share? haha xx

Comment is about Proposal (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Yes! Something is coming! It's a global question. It's true! But...please, explain: What's that: lots of layers here. Who are they?
What do they display? It looks as my English is really very poor and...in a lot of things I am not sure.

Comment is about Something is Coming (blog)

Original item by Charlotte Henson

lot of layers here, Charlotte and i think a little different from previous stuff i have read and a piece that deserves a few reads which i think is a good thing..

My favourite segment is:

'Watch as trees twist
To hieroglyphic shapes
And pylons conspire
In their own electric language.'

Top stuff - keep it coming! x

Comment is about Something is Coming (blog)

Original item by Charlotte Henson

Enjoyed this. I had to read it a few times to get the rhythm to work. I like the bubbles of sound image and sirens that furnish the ears and leave the eyes vacant.
Good subject.
Dave

Comment is about Summat and Nuffin (blog)