Trevor - why not? Join the club!
Comment is about A COMEDY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Yes, I love the musicals and can't wait to get back in a theatre. I have tickets for Blood Brothers that have been postponed twice now - latest date projected for mid-May. Fingers crossed.
Comment is about The Greatest Show (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Never mind the brouhaha! Isn't the English language wonderful? ?
Comment is about KERFUFFLE (blog)
Original item by d.knape
? Nice clerihew. ? Might be tempted to have a go myself.
Comment is about A COMEDY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
<Deleted User> (18980)
Mon 8th Feb 2021 17:17
She may have been eager
to try Swarfega
Apply generously, don't be meagre.
Comment is about Sister of Toil (a farewell to a workmate) (blog)
Original item by andy simons
Ray, I don't know whether you are familiar with the term 'tontine' but I often think my friends and I should have entered into one some years ago for some added incentive.
Comment is about LOSS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you, Julie. Yes, it is sad to think of all the wonderful things that have had to be cancelled.
Comment is about The Greatest Show (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (13740)
Mon 8th Feb 2021 16:26
Andy, your poems belong to a humourous genre of which you appear to be a master.
Keith
Comment is about Sister of Toil (a farewell to a workmate) (blog)
Original item by andy simons
Witty and rhythmic - a very appealing combination.
Comment is about Long Psychic Parrot Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
The fear of "difference" still remains within the human race. But
things are improving; indeed - have improved to the extent that the
applied identity is no longer whispered and kept in the shadows,
subject to criminal action. But with that comes responsibility and
awareness of respect for others' health and well-being. Human
happiness demands as much. .
Comment is about Oh My God ! (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thanks so much for looking in and liking Jordyn, Mark, Aviva, Holden and Nazia.
Graham, I do envy that prosaic approach. I remember my mum being "anaesthetized" in her 90s to the passing of friends. I lost a friend recently to covid, the day before I had my jab. What a lottery!
Ray
Comment is about LOSS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
It should be noted that the "campaign" against stop and search was
primarily from "communities" that see much of this sort of crime,
reminding me of the poacher launching a campaign against a gamekeeper! What is not grasped is the fact that crime affects us ALL, directly or indirectly, and its prevention and deterrence our collective responsibility.
Comment is about A Stabademic hits London this weekend !! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thank you to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?
Comment is about Down But Not Out (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Stephen Coombe
Mon 8th Feb 2021 12:18
The questions trail right down in this poem, while the answers hang on the wire. Isn't that a most honest way for poetry to be, and the way in which it does best good? Let's all keep asking relevant questions, because that's where common humanity has its proper business.
Comment is about Bhanu Khapil wins £25,000 TS Eliot prize with collection about immigrants and hosts (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Looking for my spectacles was one of my woes,
Found them in the end, they were on my nose.
Comment is about Senior Moment (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks for the profile message Joshi, I've only just spotted it. I'm so pleased you've been making some positive lockdown discoveries. Exercise and hiking has been mine (in fact I posted a poem called Holly Hagg about just that). WriteOutLoud is a great place to share your work, there are lots of really supportive and encouraging souls here. I think you'll enjoy it.
Comment is about D Joshi (poet profile)
Original item by D Joshi
Thanks for the comments and likes.
Thanks branwell, I was hoping the repetition worked.
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Who's a clever boy then? A very entertaining read, well done!
Comment is about Long Psychic Parrot Poem (blog)
Original item by branwell kent
This is a poem I like as a gay person as it sends a clear message that being gay is not a question of choice or being taught how to be gay or that there is such a thing as conversion therapy. As the poet describes, sexuality is formed in a synonymous situation with the creation of the soul, when a person's real identity is created. It is unique to that person.
Thank you for the courage to address this subject as it is so often filled with misconceptions and misunderstandings.
Well done and thank you
Keith
Comment is about Oh My God ! (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Too true. It's not my jam. I want to say what I want to say, but you could keep fame, for my liking, which is good because I won't have it.
J. x
Comment is about Fame (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Mon 8th Feb 2021 03:07
As long as you remember
to come to WOL
you are okay!
Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)
Original item by julie callaghan
Aviva, that is actually a very good senryu -- it can be less than 7-5-7, but not more. And the expression was powerful.
Comment is about More Senryu (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Screen one
very rude
Screen two
shouting loud
Screen three
keep me
Screen four
minutes noted
next meet up
keeping it secret.
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thank you for the kind comments on my poem.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Good poem, I like the repetitions
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
samuelddarden
Sun 7th Feb 2021 23:10
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Review is about Austin Poetry Slam on 21 Apr 2015 (event)
Aviva, that leaves me waiting for the words in anticipation !!
Great job, Post some more please
Comment is about More Senryu (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
I preferred the first of these but they are all good.
And yes, I do have some too, not precisely senryu but sort of.
Here's an example so you can see what I mean, not quite on topic to be senryu but...
Relentlessly dragged
from their peaceful slumbering;
a handful of words.
Comment is about More Senryu (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thank-you Aviva, Have any of these yourself?
Comment is about More Senryu (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
The concept of haiku and senryu is similar to Japanese watercolor painting. They can capture a bird or a branch in one dash of paint. They don't rework it. It is like a mini-photograph, but depicts so much by what it doesn't say. Often with Japanese haiku, there is a paradigm shift in it too. I enjoy it, though don't do it well. Yours is very good. Keep it up.
Example of a master:
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
"first snow:
not even enough to hide
all the dogcrap"
Comment is about J.D. Trying Senryu ?? (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Thanks Brian, I have a few more nice ones I would like to share, be watching.
Comment is about J.D. Trying Senryu ?? (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Excellent senryu. Captures a mood powerfully. Would be great on a valentine to a lover.
Comment is about J.D. Trying Senryu ?? (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
JD, thank you for your comments. I think poetry should always be edgy but never personally offensive. I certainly do not want my freedom to impinge on someone else's right to their opinion. I come from a viewpoint, as do others. I seek to respect all but require the same for me. Otherwise, others need not engage, and that is a kind of respect too. I would suspect that this respect is what the mods require here. If ever I overstep their standards, I am okay with them warning me or having me delete my content.?
Comment is about My Writing Senryu (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Lucky for us that you are motivated to share your work, I enjoy all of it Brian. Thank-you. Senryu is what you call it? I have some in my collection but most will not pass the moderators approval.
Are you there moderator? stand by on your delete key !!
J.D. has some challenges, (i will start with a tame one)
Comment is about My Writing Senryu (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
I appreciate comments, likes, kudos, but these have nothing to do with my motivation for writing.
If I were the only human on planet earth, I would write just what I have written. What a wonderful freedom this is.?
Comment is about My Writing Senryu (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Thank you very much Keith
Comment is about Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin (poet profile)
Original item by Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin
I would love to have been there.
Keith
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Welcome to WOL. Your introductory poem is to be applauded as it deals with love as something all embracing and free of inhibitions.
Keith
Comment is about Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin (poet profile)
Original item by Luis Francisco Hernandez Martin
Thank you M.C Newberry for commenting, I agree with you about the points you made.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Check the determination to impeach a private citizen, clearly contrary
to the actual wording of the Constitution - hardly likely to be aimed
at the essential political unity needed to benefit the country..
That is merely the most immediate step in a backwards direction by
the members of this well-to-do Party.
Speaking of which - as he floats around in his private jet while
thousands are now reported to be losing employment:
John Kerry
Makes merry
While the jobless poor
Are shown the door.
Comment is about A CONTEMPORARY CLERIHEW (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I don't need to follow the news anymore.
All the important stuff gets a poem on WOL anyway ?
Comment is about The Parish Council Meeting (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Hello Ray - I sent you a reply via WOL about obtaining an online
copy of your photobook, but have not received a reply. Did you
receive it?
Cheers,
MC
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
A theme for life perhaps. I like the sequence of couplets and where
they lead.
Comment is about Status (blog)
Original item by Scattered Sun
A genuine expression of contrition is always welcome and serves
to diffuse many awkward situations. Sadly, there is a tendency to
apologise by public figures when a more considered approach to
previous utterances and/or behaviour might have prevented the
perceived need to do so.
Comment is about How Far Sorry Goes (blog)
Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari
The cost of fame is the price you pay for losing your personal
privacy. For those who seek it, there must be a reckoning that no
amount of retrospective complaining can counteract..
Comment is about Fame (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Nigel Astell
Mon 8th Feb 2021 18:42
Last two lines
To buy all those tickets
I need to win the lottery - - -yes yes yes
Comment is about The Greatest Show (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan