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Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Bad Language. Welcome to WOL. Winston

Comment is about Bad Language (group profile)

Original item by Bad Language

Hi Tony, Welcome to Write Out Loud, Winston

Comment is about Tony Hickson (group profile)

Original item by Tony Hickson

The two voices seem to me to be a woman looking at herself from the outside (as others see her) and then expressing how she feels (from the inside.) Not sure about Nev the Rev - made me think of Midsummer Murders for some reason! But I like the poem.

Comment is about Joan (blog)

Thank you, Stef and Patricia. :)

Comment is about A Haunted Portrait (blog)

Great poem Andy and like this mini series you're building up!

Great stanzas about the swallows and the last one but all good mate!

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you Philipos, Harry and Stef & Patricia.
And even when you do get the pension it's not enough! Must get off my soapbox and go to bed!! Cheers medears xx

Comment is about Pension Crisis (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Some really well-thought out put-downs here. Enjoyed.

Comment is about Risky words (blog)

Brilliant laugh, love it, Harry. x

Comment is about FOND THOUGHTS (a scouse I `oper) (blog)

Thanks all. I posted this on PG a while back, Steve, and someone got very heated over me ending the poem on "super!"But it's exactly the kind of thing that's on the school stickers kids bring home these days.Super Listening!That's why it's there.

Comment is about pinhead (blog)

Tried free verse, but never sure if the reader is `getting` it.

Sometimes it performs well, voice (like the pictures sometimes) overpowering the words.

The final test is the words on the page, read down the page for what is meant...in other words: does it work, bit like comedy - if they laugh,you`re a comedian!

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Original item by John Coopey

indeed Lynn
it is those who have paid in all their lives
and the shoddy way they are treated
that causes people to be so angry.

what a shambles!

our best to you

Stef&Patricia.xx

Comment is about Pension Crisis (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

a very clever and different take
on a ghostly theme.

enjoyed by

Stef&Patricia.

Comment is about A Haunted Portrait (blog)

lots of images to play with
in this excellent poem.

thanks for sharing

Stef&Patricia.xx

Comment is about Joan (blog)

nicely written Miss M.

we especially like
"I would hate to think
that BLEEDS into my writing too"

clever!

our best to you.

Stef&Patricia.xx

Comment is about Risky words (blog)

Poor thing! Just goes to show - we are all prone to love-attacks!

Comment is about Charles Loves Julie (blog)

Original item by John Togher

I thought of a modern day Joan of Arc, punishing her lungs with cigarettes, a martyr to some lost cause.

It isn't an easy poem to follow - there seem to be two voices - or at least disconnected thought. I enjoyed it though Stella - it is an interesting read and those last 4 lines carry a powerful punch.

Comment is about Joan (blog)

Well I'm most surprised you didn't get him to rap one off John... riding on a tyre swing is quite tame by your standards.

Your story works well as an analogy for unrequited love. The picture of him sat alone at the end is such a sad one though.

Comment is about Charles Loves Julie (blog)

Original item by John Togher

Hi Laura, the folk-club you refer to is called "The red lion." It's in Newburgh just below Parbold. Feel free to drop in any Monday night. (except bank holidays)it starts at 8.30pm. Straight up the stairs. (Room at the top.)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

This has my vote and especially the last stanza. Stunning inset piccy. Enjoyed.

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Wow, leaves the reader wanting to know more - suggests a triangle of sorts. You have a typo in line 14 (view). I liked the mystery suggested in this.

Comment is about Joan (blog)

Expert sting in the tail there Kealan, nicely written

Comment is about Euphrasia (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hahaa - excellent, had me laughing this :D

Comment is about FOND THOUGHTS (a scouse I `oper) (blog)

Lovely Anne - and you do manage to convey a sense of peace with this, which is a nice touch :)

Comment is about peace (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I hear ya sistah! I've now been shown a way to actually get some sleep at night - an ex Buddhist monk taught me, and it actually works.

Good luck with it - I feel your pain

Comment is about Sleep (blog)

Again, I like the simplicity of this, but I think that may be a little typo in the last line? Should 'no' be 'know'?

Comment is about The next chapter. (blog)

Hmmm - I really like the simplicity of this, and it reminds me of sprung rhythm, in fact, I would say it was SR. Nice one :)

Comment is about The tightening vice. (blog)

Ha - agree with Steve on the last line :D

Interesting piece Ray - intriguing choice of subject

Comment is about pinhead (blog)

I feel (in a little part) I am taking your journey with you through your writes Ann..that is a rare and special feeling which I appreciate very much indeed :)

Glad you felt this way..

And thankyou for your comments on Sushi too x

Comment is about peace (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Great poem Andy - that photo is rather lush too.

My fave lines:

Autumn hadn’t
built itself up
as it normally did
but fell unexpected
from the skies
choking summer
until it fizzled away.

Can really feel it, nice one :)

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

This is lovely, velvety...I absolutely love that first stanza - spiced percussive hazel girls,
with eyes like warm chocolate cups - wow

Comment is about The Death of a Tree (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Pleased I came by this one..I do enjoy writes that allow the readers imagination to roam free.. :)

Comment is about Did you brush it from your hair? (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Oh Chris P ... WELL DONE to you and you have such RAW and RARE talent and you certainly don't MINCE your words. I find all this SPAM rather hard to DIGEST. But two out of over nine hundred members is a POULTRY amount. I also find it hard to keep aBREAST of the tech world although we all need to gird our LOINS and KNUCKLE down to fighting this and not to CHICKEN out. If it gets iGNAWED we will be out of the PAN and straight in the FIRE. But enough of this TRIPE lets get BACK to composing GAMEs with words towards which we all have a LEANing...

Comment is about Spam, spam, not-so-wonderful spam (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Meant to comment before - I really like this.

Comment is about Making Sushi (an oldish one tweaked) (blog)

I really like this, Andy, very good. x

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I enjoyed this too, Tommy, very good. :)

Comment is about D Minor (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Melanie - thanks for the comment over 'End of Summer II' I'm glad you like it, - pretty well sums the weather up round at the moment - lol xx

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Melanie Coady

Glad you like it, Melanie - pretty well sums the weather up round at the moment - lol xx

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

brilliant hun xx

Comment is about pinhead (blog)

wow i loved it hun xx

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Who's this Cheku?

Comment is about Poetry Slam (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very very good.

Comment is about pinhead (blog)

I love it!

Comment is about The Death of a Tree (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

"A moth brushes the afternoon,
grey flecked hair from mouth to wing".

You know I have always admired your work Marianne. To get a couple of lines like these into a piece is all I ever want in my work. Clever words indeed.

Comment is about The Death of a Tree (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Brought a big smile to my face this did Harry!

Comment is about FOND THOUGHTS (a scouse I `oper) (blog)

nice stuff, Marianne.. I'm a particular fan of the last stanza here (oppositee to Ray I know - lol) but enjoyed the full piece..x

Comment is about The Death of a Tree (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

last line works well there particularly, kealan but I enjoyed the full piece.. A

Comment is about Euphrasia (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

And stranger how we remember such things many years later.

Thank you for reading this. :)

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