This one made me laugh. It's like measuring degrees of being politically incorrect.
Comment is about "Hey Woman" (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
Tue 15th Oct 2019 20:59
"I think I'm brilliant, or else I think I'm a nasty piece of work." - definitely can relate. I like this one!
Comment is about For fucks sake (blog)
Original item by Andromeda Bloom
Tue 15th Oct 2019 20:53
This one is cute. I love it. Thanks for sharing!
Comment is about Homemade Cards (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Tue 15th Oct 2019 20:50
I like the concept of this poem very much. I think it would be interesting to see how you could play with the image of that perfect circle shifting into something else, as the axis of the Earth suddenly shifts. Almost, in a way, like the breaking of glass.
Comment is about Portrait of the Moon (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
This is excellent - a short poetic story. It feels honest and heartfelt. I love it and this style very much. Thanks for sharing. T
Comment is about Untitled (stranger conversations) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Tue 15th Oct 2019 20:21
Thanks, Candice! This was such a spur of the moment poem... it all just needed to be let out.
Comment is about Untitled (stranger conversations) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Shoulda gone to Specsavers, Kevin.
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 19:20
Extremely moving.
I've been through this.
A poem to remember.
Hannah
Comment is about FOR A DEAD PET (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 19:18
So sad but often true. Very well observed.
Hannah
Comment is about MASOCHIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
John.
You could wear anything and make it look good, you handsome hunk.
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Brian - it would need to be XOS to fit me
Ray - I have also worn a skirt to a fancy dress night. It was revealingly short. I looked lovely.
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A double whammy Don I think you've got it bad. The lady in question only operates locally but over here we stick cards in newsagents. Poet seeks lady for poetic satisfaction etc....
Be my guest Kate. Life can be strange. Glad you enjoyed it
Ray
Comment is about MASOCHIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you for your comment Don
I like the way you rhyme
The jug part 2 to be continued
I will finish in due time
Lately I write straight off the cuff
The WOL is my word of cloud
Scribble, doodle, thinking Don
What words can me ...proud
But for now straight in from work
I will have to cook me tea
So once again I thank you Don
For your comment and repartee
?
Comment is about The Jug (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Interestingly you didn't mention kilts John which have never been in fashion except at weddings and committee rooms. As for the rest they passed the twat test as reported. I look cool in everything but I wouldn't expect anybody to agree. A real good enjoyable romp .
Ray
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 17:08
John...you could be wearing my old stuff!!!
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
You don't get much deeper than this despite the whimsical way you explore the subject.
How many people don't believe but want to believe, I wonder...
Comment is about You Must Believe the Bible Son (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Hello Don. Thank you for commenting on my poem.
I think we're all developing all the time as poets. I cringe at my early stuff but it was all part of a process or an ascent, to use your analogy - though I'm not sure I'll ever make it to where I'd like to be.
I used to live in Ausyralia. It's a beautiful country. You'll have to open an open mic night there! If you don't already go to one!
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
The irony, MC, is that I am the least fashion conscious person I know (and always have been). Although I do confess to having worn printed shirts and kipper ties.
Brian - almost all of my clobber is from the charity shops these days.
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Awwww thank you everyone. Its been a long time since I posted anything. That ugly little word 'work' got in the way, along with contentment which is even more destructive to your muse!
I wrote this on the train home after scrolling thro FB after a drunken night out. FB never ceases to baffle me.
There will come a time when I post again - hopefully before I cock my toes up! Now I shall endeavour to read some poetry ?
X
Comment is about Happy Returns (blog)
Original item by Isobel
This has been 'floating around my head' for years. Today, it wanted OUT! Ergo - here it is. Kind of a birthday gift to myself, I think.
And why not? All that 'Libra' stuff, you know. Who can say? The world goes round on 'maybe'' and 'perhaps' and 'possible'.
Comment is about Portrait of the Moon (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 16:13
Great stuff John. I started as a late mod and then went through all the phases you've described and loved them all...at the time!
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
JC -
this surely brought back a few memories for some WOL readers.
I spent much of my working life In a uniform and when out of it,
I relied on the old adage: style never goes out of fashion.
I even loathed "flares" and stayed with what would be disparaging
referred to nowadays as old fart's fashions. But the need to be a
Beau Brummel type was never a motivator in my dress sense
(should I explain for a modern young audience that the phrase
does not refer to cross-dressing?!). A button-down collar Ben
Sherman shirt was about as close to trendy wear as I ever got.
Moral: Good taste never goes out of fashion. ?
Comment is about I LOOKED A TWAT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A thought: perhaps it is too important a subject not to take literally.
Even more so in an age when the search for reasons (excuses?)
for so many abuses of basic common consideration occur and the
tendency to say "It's only because...(fill in the gaps)" has become
so frequent as part of society's general shrinking from the reality of
beastly (apologies to our dumb friends) behaviour in the ranks of
"intelligent" humanity. Real remorse doesn't require a catalogue
of lawbreaking to see it happen.
Comment is about the myth of rehabilitation (10/11/2019) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
Thanks, Don. But love seems slip-slidin' away towards the next
protest !! No money or inclination to pay consultation fees when I
am busy persuading others to go along with me - know what I mean? ?
Comment is about LOVE SLIP-SLIDIN' AWAY = theme for a song lyric (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Check that Greece is using huge coal reserves to offset its
disastrous economy costs by reducing imports of fuel. Is Extinction
Rebellion to be seen there?
Comment is about Climate Activists – Don't Disrupt Us (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
A charming essay into the innocence of childhood and the generation-hopping relationship that seems to work so well in
families.
Comment is about Homemade Cards (blog)
Original item by d.knape
It's a bit like being hooked on chemo,
There's always those who love to demo!
Not to worry about the "cause"
With pious posing that says "up yours"!
Someone's war or someone's "rights" -
There's always something in their sights;
CND - remember that?
Far from Russia and its Commissariat.
Or North Korea - run by mad hatters
But where such protest really matters!
But if arrests are to be had
Better where things aren't that bad!
………………………………………………..?
Comment is about POOR OLD LONDON (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I am an expert maths man
I learnt it all at school
Plus times nought is hundred
Dat's da golden rule
Hundred minus nuffing
Brings us back to nought
See, I am an expert Ruth
(Wait while I sip my port)
(12.30pm. Bit late for that Don.....)
One port hhelps me type propper
No ports (I getting tired)
Hundred times by nuffing
You need a maths consultant sir?
It looks like I am hired
(See what paying attention at school gets you Ruth?......) ?
Comment is about Calculations (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
dk is an expert
At writing silly cards
It all comes oh so natural
He doesn't find it hard
At all....
On other hand yours truly Ruth
I struggle hard with silly
Was never even smart enough
To think up 'silly-billy'
dk will come to our aid.... ?
Comment is about Homemade Cards (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Let's start a WOL crafting club where we send out Homemade postcards every now and then!
D.knape I bet you'd be good a writing a silly verse for those greeting cards
Comment is about Homemade Cards (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Dear masochist lady
I offer me to you
I love a bit of sex bang bang
Plus whips and chains (these too)
I'd like a brief-like courtship
I tell the truth, not lie
Your body is your weapon? yes?
I just can't wait to try ?
Comment is about MASOCHIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
This is what I like to see
Work just off the cuff
Will it go on more Phil
Or is this write enuff?
Kate is all a'wondering
How this will pan out
Will the jug become a pan?
You've left us all in doubt
As for myself you've left me
Feeling all perplexed
I've asked my friend, explain Phil's stuff
(He's answered back in text)
(But I'm still perplexed.....) ?
Comment is about The Jug (blog)
Original item by Phils Words
Many Thanks for reading Philipos, Nigel and Kate ?
Comment is about In short supply (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Sorry to hear you have been poorly loved your poem about those wiggly worms Monday night!
Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)
Original item by BlueGirlPoetry
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 12:31
You've brought me along for the ride Ruth
Comment is about In short supply (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Autumn crayons colour the leaves
Winter paints pure white snow
Singing Spring wakes sleepy heads
Summer sounds play everlasting love.
Comment is about In short supply (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Madness is the hitchhiker
car or train
bus never stops
Slender Man will find you
and take you
to a place
you don't want to go.
Comment is about October 2019 Collage Poem: Don’t Pick up Hitchhikers (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
So in other words 'they' support demonstrations so long as it is ineffective. Anyway how much are people effected by traffic?
Children crushed to death
Children thrown through windscreens
Children's lungs filled with toxic gass
all OK so as long as big boys don't have to wait 15 minutes fo a bus
or drive down a different road.
Comment is about POOR OLD LONDON (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Well written but I hope those feelings have passed now Ashley, they always do eventually.
Comment is about The Senses (blog)
Original item by Ashley Otto
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 10:29
Some great lines in these, the idea of lasooing words is great.
Comment is about Two Desert Poems (blog)
Original item by Michael Triandam
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 10:18
Ray, this is FANTASTIC! Very, very clever. I'd love to pop this on a dating site for fun.?
Comment is about MASOCHIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 10:13
The agonies of overthinking. Love it Fred. I can relate.
Comment is about "Hey Woman" (blog)
Original item by Fred Nicholson
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 10:12
<Deleted User> (22444)
Tue 15th Oct 2019 10:10
Love it Isobel, I too find it confronting when the profiles of dead friends seem to maintain a life beyond the grave.
Comment is about Happy Returns (blog)
Original item by Isobel
I enjoyed this Isobel and great to see you posting again. ?
It's strange and more than a little bit surreal the way people 'live on' in their digital lives even after they've left us. I wonder if people felt equally creeped out by photographs of loved ones back when photography was new to the world?
Thanks for sharing. T
Comment is about Happy Returns (blog)
Original item by Isobel
I thought she was a co-founder Graham. 35,833 viewings since 2009! That's gotta be ten exclams at least....?
Comment is about Happy Returns (blog)
Original item by Isobel
Thanks Brian. 'Reduced' flows better.
Comment is about Climate Activists – Don't Disrupt Us (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
raypool
Tue 15th Oct 2019 21:51
Well thanks Lisa and Jason , appreciated likes.
Thanks Hannah, you may well be right. It is sad when people reveal themselves in this way.
Ray
Comment is about MASOCHIST (blog)
Original item by ray pool