<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:03
Ray - apologies to go off at a tangent but as you mentioned Devon I would like to say something about him and about contributors in general. I could be wrong, but it appears in retrospect that Devon was here to download his back catalogue as many have done before him, and having done so he has gone taking his work with him. It's a pity he didn't stay as he is very talented and I am sure he is able to write poems 'on the hoof' so to speak as many of us do.
I also note that el Pintor has gone.
Comment is about PAST CONTENDERS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Don Maybe you can read Manchester Evening News online instead be up North in spirit with us
Comment is about Breaking news,passenger flies plane from Manchester to Alicante (blog)
Original item by hugh
With Devon now no longer a member of the site it seems that the title of this poem is peculiarly apt. I feel that in his honour as a vigorous contributor he deserves a response however. Devon, I have spent years as a pro musician too and this has a poignancy for me getting to know different aspects of show business and the music world. I hope you might read this. Thank you and goodnight.
You are right to spot sadness here Adam, behind the social aspect of the aspirations a sort of failure exists. There can be an overlapping of comedy and drama both of which can portray failure or success. Thanks.
Thanks Mark. A resume in rhyme will work every time.
Cheers Don . I had you down as fairly sophisticated. Glitzy, even.
Maya, Graham, Jason and Ruth, I'm grateful for your likes.
Thanks all.
Comment is about PAST CONTENDERS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Well I'll be, now know you two
Both live closeby to Manch
Sorry, I don't, can't cup with some tea
What rhymes with Manch? ranch
Top-class rhymer this boy....
Truth or lie? Ruth. (strewth)
Not April 1 therefore true
Deductive thinking my girl... ?
Comment is about Breaking news,passenger flies plane from Manchester to Alicante (blog)
Original item by hugh
Ah Didn't know you were in near Manchester Hugh, So am I!
Comment is about Breaking news,passenger flies plane from Manchester to Alicante (blog)
Original item by hugh
Yeh read it in the Manchester evening news today.Lots of dramatic poetic potentials in the paper.I love Manchester,frequently there, so much happening.
Comment is about Breaking news,passenger flies plane from Manchester to Alicante (blog)
Original item by hugh
This is a true story? Oh wow impressed how you've told it in a poem.
Comment is about Breaking news,passenger flies plane from Manchester to Alicante (blog)
Original item by hugh
Have you ever seen, "American Werewolf in London," Lisa?
"Stay off the Moors lads, beware the moon."
Now that was moorland!?
J. x
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Hugh
I like your rhyme. Particularly the last line. EAP would be pleased.....
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
A spooky mist surrounds the moors,
And through the fields and woods it tours.
A ghostly blanket slowly spreading,
Darkness drivers driving dreading.
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Well done,you've certainly made hay with your words.
Comment is about Hay (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks Ruth, it almost wrote itself this one.?
J. x
Comment is about Mirror Mirror (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
No probs Amanda Let me know when you want me to submit it
Comment is about Mixed Messages (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Enjoyed this poetical reflection of today's general self obsessed attitude Jason?
Comment is about Mirror Mirror (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Could you send this in when the Printed Words submissions re-open?
Comment is about Mixed Messages (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Thanks Ruth, I wanted it to show sharpness, glad that came across.
Mirror, Mirror. Written on Feb 20th.
Thanks,
J. x
Comment is about The Cutter (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Martin, we all have the dreams of a child when we're children but as an adult have to put away childish things, quite sad really, it would probably be a better world if we didn't, but it's a harsh world for the childish.
Thanks Ruth for liking.
J. x
Comment is about Fairytales (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
I liked your observation of the 'sharpness' of life in all it's forms. Which month did you write Your Mirror piece? I can't find it
Comment is about The Cutter (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 11th Sep 2019 17:04
Don - No....does anyone?
Comment is about Where Are You My Publisher? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Brian
You didn't really take me seriously now...
did you?.....?
Comment is about Where Are You My Publisher? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 11th Sep 2019 16:39
Don Nearly every poet on this site and on every other poetry site would love to have a publisher. The market is very crowded...only the best will achieve it.
Comment is about Where Are You My Publisher? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks to Avishek, Mae, Lisa, Devon, Julia, Ruth and Chrystel for liking.
J. x
Comment is about The Cutter (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Sheesh! it's in Latin, do you mind Joe!
You provide an interpreter as well?
Oh sorry, your name's Virgil not Joe then?
Oh bugger, I've muffed that, oh hell ?
Comment is about Bloke Walks Into a Pub (blog)
Original item by Joe Williams
Chrystel,
A clever little poem which is so very true.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about My bad! (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
While I will take the liberty and say this
What I say could be true but it's not
You saw someone, thought here's a nice hunk
It turned out you were wrong, idea shot ?
Comment is about My bad! (blog)
Original item by Chrystel Roberts
A succinct timely reminder of how simple pleasures can mean so
much. The tang of newly cut grass, the aroma of morning coffee,
the smell of hot toast, the scent of freshly ironed cotton sheets.
These lines demonstrate that less may be all you need.
Comment is about Hay (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you immensly for your comment Raj ferds , woman are just as needy as men ?❤
Comment is about A lady in the streets but a freak in the bed (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Thanks Keith.
I've never been to actual moors, but I have lived in New England my whole life and I imagine that the salt marshes and rolling hills of northern Maine and the Atlantic Provinces are very similar.
Thank you Don and Thank you Jason
And thanks to every one else for stopping by❤
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
John,
So beautifully written with an illustration which is so very appropriate.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about An adamantine distress (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Lisa,
My childhood was spent in the Pennines and this poem is an accurate portrayal of what to expect at this time of year. Your poem took me back in time.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
The more that jeans will cost you
The longer they will last
The makers and retailers
Don't lie, make profits vast
I bought mine at a top jean shop
They said they'd last forever
Six months they've now got holes galore
(They lied, made profits vast...)
Comment is about Labels (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet
This poem came about when overhearing two teenagers in a jeans shop discussing which label is the one to wear and how the ones which last year were apparently cool, are now tragic to be seen in. And the jeans all looked pretty much identical as far as I could ascertain!
Thanks for the appreciation...much appreciated ?
Comment is about Labels (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet
Is greed a thing we're born with?
(To varying degrees)
Some with little some with lots
Can someone answer please?
Or are we born greed-zero?
And nurtured into it
Depending on environment
Can someone help verse writ?
I guess it's the same question
Are we born with the seeds
The seeds of good and evil?
I ask my questions, plead......
Comment is about Turning my back (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Greed and commercialization have taken over
No longer are things done for love
Society is spiraling downwards
From where it once stood far above
Yes, I agree with you Ankita....
The level of TV it is sinking
Sinking to cater for the mass
More blatant, more sexual, more violent
Society is becoming more crass
Yes, I agree with you Ankita.....
Don't apologize for how you are feeling
WOL's website exists for your thoughts
Yes, focus is now more on money
Love's now lost, it's with money we're caught
Sad times.......
And yes, I agree with you Ankita....
Comment is about Classic and commercialization (blog)
Original item by Ankita Srivastava
I won't show anyone my ID. Or my SUPER ID......
Comment is about How old? (blog)
Original item by hugh
The man with the scythe came wandering by
Swinging it nonchalantly
There came down a spider and.....
(Oops, start again.....)
The man with the scythe came wandering by
Swinging it nonchalantly
He said Don it's time to cut down the hay
I said it needs sharpening.....
(He didn't know what to say Ruth. Just sulked away in silence.....) ?
Comment is about Older (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Bloody right I will, he can bugger off.?
J. x
Comment is about Older (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Oh I do love a tanka, and this is an atmospheric pleasure Lisa.
J. x
Comment is about The Moors (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Bless you Rose thank you so much. Much appreciated
Thanks also to Tom, Nigel and Rachel for liking
Comment is about Smoky joints and hard bitten smiles (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thank you for your kind words my friend. ❤
You always understand my poems and it's very much appreciated
Love and light to you x
Comment is about No time to pause (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
How old?
A woman walks into a shop to buy some beer,
The shop assistant asks,"How old are you my dear?"
"I'm 40 years old,believe you me."
"Well I still need to see your ID."
She showed her ID. and was well within the age range.
Gave him a note and said,"Keep the change."
After she left his colleague was told,
"It works every time when you ask how old?"
Comment is about Older (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hi Mart, re Purgatory & Limbo: Purgatory is a place of punishment before being sent through the pearly gates whereas Limbo is a place for those who have died before being Christened but have not sinned. ? Tommy
Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)
Original item by Martin Elder
Philipos Thanks for reading... Yes a bit of fantasy here, but more so about coping with old age or living longer perhaps. For some the scythe becomes a scalpel... That they run towards.
Glad to see how it got your imagination going!
Comment is about Older (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Don Matthews
Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:06
Jason
It would have pleased you greatly writing this. As you imply, it simply fell out by itself. I get pleasure writing and reading my rhyming work.
I got great pleasure reading yours. There are so many good lines here:
"Physically I'll stand alone, but digitally have 10,000 friends."
Gosh, every line is good.....
As a rhymer, I feel you have excelled your self here. Well done.
Comment is about Mirror Mirror (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss