Ha,ha is that your alter ego Nigel? ?

Comment is about Full Moon Rebirth (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Leaves us thinking our purpose of life on earth. More spiritual than materialistic. Great share.

Comment is about Full Moon Rebirth (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Suirauqa the witch
reads your poem
while making a spell.

Comment is about Full Moon Rebirth (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I'm always standing Idling thinking about earlier words, very relatable!

Comment is about Pronoun (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

Thanks Adam Glad you liked it

Comment is about Full Moon Rebirth (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Super inspirational...well rhymed.
Thank you for sharing

Comment is about Full Moon Rebirth (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

For me...the lines

But I need you expelled from me

The possession of obsession

were the kernel of the poem and the way the poem rushed was perfect it felt like an attempted escape...

I hope it was successful the writing...i mean it was absolutely successful as a poem conveying the feeling but hopefully also a success in the sense of bringing the poet to a better place...healing I guess is what I meant. Glad to gave found your work.

A.

Comment is about Words of You (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

I like the idea of dream habitation...seems like a lot can 've done with that concept. What you have done is lovely and sad and sweet. Thank you for reading my poem Pronoun. I hope you have a chance to read a few more. In A House with Feathers it us the house which is dreaming...would love to know what you thought.

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

This poem I cannot dk
Pull forth flippancy
It is too serious/meaningful
To try and flippant be

Nice and true poem
(Says he with old limbs creaking....)

Comment is about Like Trees (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Tell you what dear Ruthy
A problem I have got
50's pushing it a bit
'Bout 3 a day's my lot

You ask so what's the problem Don?
System lets one a day
Stay upon the blogslide
Post others? Sends away

To profile bank.....
Moral - don't post more than one poem each day
And get frustrated like me....?

Comment is about Deal or No Deal (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I bet you end up with over 50 new poems a day Don!

Comment is about Deal or No Deal (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I recently went to a Comedy Writing Workshop Andy, and it sparked me to try and write something a bit humorous?

Comment is about A Dating Conversation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Cheers Andy, I started using this tree as a focus for mindfulness & meditation since last winter, then they go cut it down! I was so upset, but at least I got one last gift of an instant poem out of it! Glad to hear you take your time over your poems too, I usually do.

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Short lines
Yes, like
Long poems
Dislike....

Comment is about Deal or No Deal (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks for your feedback Andy I appreciate that, this is another one that just came to me quickly when I was watching the news, poetry writing is definitely a mindset, a way of being!

Comment is about Deal or No Deal (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

This made me smile too, Ruth.

Comment is about A Dating Conversation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Clever piece, Ruth. Sort of title Amanda would come up with here (:

Comment is about Thinking Man's Crumpet (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

that would have took me ages to write, Ruth. I am sure a slow writer, but i can relate to that seeing trees cut down. Sometimes they get cut down for no reason atall. Good stuff (:

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

like your use of short lines here, Ruth. Works well within the voice of this piece. Good stuff (:

Comment is about Deal or No Deal (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

great stuff, John (:

Comment is about Washed Out to Sea (blog)

Original item by J F Keane

wowsers! fucking fabu-fire power-lous Lisa.









Rose ?

Comment is about Don't Sell Your Soul Part I (re-post) & Part II (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

What an amazing collage poem: I can see I missed an excellent meeting!

Comment is about August 2019 Collage Poem - 'Washed Out to Sea' (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Contact made now WOL Control
The wire has just been fixed
A shortage under sea occurred
The wires got sorta mixed

Our Don and Rose now reunite
A happy WOLer pair
All set to do their thing again
And poem what they dare......?

Comment is about Dedication to the Rose of WOL (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

holy moly Mr Mattews! considering I'm about as important as anyone else in the WOLWORLD, you have made me feel like a real poet-

yeah right! ?

but thank you very-GREAT! ( a joke )




Rose ?

Comment is about Dedication to the Rose of WOL (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hey Do. Rose didn't phone me
To say I'm off to Barb
I could've wished her happy hol
And pack bikini garb

Perhaps she's taken rehab leave
In sunny Barbados?
I could've recommended best
Rehab spots becos...

You won't believe this Do my friend
I checked out rehab spots
In sunny sunny Barbados
And yep, they have got lots....

Anxiously awaiting Rose
Yours
10,000 miles away.....?

Comment is about Dedication to the Rose of WOL (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

extremely sensitive write. lovingly expressed.

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

I think someone's playing around here Alexandra. Ignore them.....?

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Is it cleva or cleaver? Dunno. Mind you, I could be way off track....?

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

This is one good mind teaser. the start is as good as the end. Enjoyed the piece!!

Comment is about Peek-a-Boo Blue (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ooops...I meant 'clever title'.

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Clver tile Alex. And then it unfolds in a gentle, romantic song.
Is it real? Or is it a fantasy?

Keep going.
Raj

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Clver tile Alex. And then it unfolds in a gentle, romantic song.
Is it real? Or is it a fantasy?

Keep going.
Raj

Comment is about Will you be mind? (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Ooooh Cynthia. Love it.
It's got a few ingredients that make it charming -- a sensuous analogy, intrigue, deception and playfulness. I see that cheeky girl in you emerging again.

"And bathe my soul in your surreal Blueness".
My kind of finale.

Raj x

Comment is about Peek-a-Boo Blue (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

What has happened to Rosy?
She in rehab still smashed?
Come on girl, present on screen
Don't let our hopes be dashed

I know that you can hear me
10,000 up the wire
Call me anything you want
Prefer I do Sir Squire

Rose I will not let you
Escape my WOLers clutch
I do like smelling roses
I like it very much.......?

Comment is about Dedication to the Rose of WOL (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

He says go left at roundabout
The one that is desired
I wanna go right at the other one
The one that's undesired

I dunno what I'm doing now
Drive on the left, or right?
Shit! here comes a squareabout
(Should I be saying shite?)

Comment is about Pronoun (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

There must be people on here who think I'm bonkers! This just came pouring out with a huge smile and a tickling tongue. I kid you not!

Comment is about Peek-a-Boo Blue (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ruth, I like being quirky
Uniques me quite nice
Would rather be quirky
Cos murky ain't nice

I've been using rhyme for 2 years now and you get to know combinations like quirky/murky. Like anything I guess. Repetition, repetition, repetition......?

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Nice one Don, you have a talent for immediately taking inspiration from whatever you encounter & weaving it into a quirky little rhythm

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

You've seen through me Ruthy
I'm dumb as I look
Will take any bait
Jump on any hook

Once you do know me
My tongue-in-cheek ways
You'll know how to take me
Be not led astray.....?

Comment is about Thinking Man's Crumpet (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Short and succint
Poems I find
Quickly come out
To the pen from ones mind

I'm lucky I guess
The style of my rhyme
Is short and succint
Does not take much time......

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks Don, This is the fastest poem I have ever written! It just popped into my head after my favourite tree was cut down yesterday afternoon.

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Well Don this is a poem of comparison, it is about body dysmorpia or general insecurity where she sees all these beautiful women he knew just before he meet her on his phone, and thinks 'I'm just not good enough to be with him'. But then she remembers that even though she isn't pretty like a model, he loves the conversations they have so it doesn't really matter what she looks like to him he enjoys what's going on in her mind that fascinates him!

Comment is about Thinking Man's Crumpet (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Thanks both. I struggled (and am still struggling) with the first verse, I knew what I wanted the first and last line of the verse to be but couldn't quite get the rest of it to work; ash inside an urn inside a box in a hallway: an Inception-level nightmare!

Comment is about Don't Look And It Won't Hurt (blog)

Original item by Tom

Welcome Danny! You have talent. Let’s see more of your work.

Keith

Comment is about Danny Giesbrecht (poet profile)

Original item by Danny Giesbrecht

In the country in which I live...we drive on the right side and there are no lefts at roundabouts. I realized after posting this for all the folks on here who drive on the left that part of this poem might get lost in translation.

Comment is about Pronoun (blog)

Original item by Adam Rabinowitz

I'm now clearly thinking
Should I be date drinking?
With this guy who's causing
My heart plummet/sinking?.....?

Comment is about A Dating Conversation (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

You've got long brown hair, Ruth, not blonde?....?

Comment is about Thinking Man's Crumpet (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

How could I not
Respond to this Ruth
This wisdom you've written
This wisdom, this truth.....

Comment is about What I learnt from a tree (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

I have no children (school age)
They've all packed up (fled/gone)
They couldn't stand their parents
They've gone, fed up, they're done

I whimper whimper (Trevor)
Why did they so us hate?
They didn't even sup with us
Before they shut front gate

I've suddenly seen light (Trevor)
Their noise caused so much grief
They wanted to relieve us of
So left for our relief.....?

Comment is about School’s Out (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Food lover here responding
Ocean? Whatever's that
I come here for to shovel down
Me food and dat is dat

Ocean lover responding
Belinda, just dipped toes
I felt this feeling way deep down
We both know how it goes

I see this foodie shovelling
He's doing selfie shot
Bloody useless human
Of which I'm glad I'm not......

Thanks for this Belinda. I remember crab delicacies at Fishermans Wharf on visiting San Francisco. But I have an avid dislike of selfies (Shame on you Don. We Aussies invented the term 'selfie'....?)

Comment is about Ocean City Marland (blog)

Original item by Belinda Sue Kiser