I meant Ruth.
Can't wait for the energy of the full moon.

Comment is about F**k the Forgive and Forget mantra (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Soulful stuff about the unavoidable in life....with an appealing rhythm
to help put over the message - like the heartbeat itself.

Comment is about Heart Attack (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

A vivid vignette of how the view of the world allowed by improved
sight can be such a life-changing event.

Comment is about Eye Peace (blog)

Original item by Fred Nicholson

Poetry to my ears (or something!).
JC...I had this product mentioned to me by my consultant urologist
here in London, but having heard of it from chums (one of whom
found it affected his eyesight!), I gave it a miss and kept to nature's
remedies to combat the condition, especially as my latest PSA
blood check showed a reduced level (from the previous result), one
that was actually lower than that which saw me referred by my old GP in the first place!
My night time loo visits are down to one or less and I keep a watch
on things in a personal way that seems to satisfy the consultant
who was content to let it be as long as my (age related) PSA levels
kept to the "sevens"...which is the case so far. But then, age-wise, I can "give you" nearly ten years in the respect.
Moral: keep an eye out for side-effects and act accordingly. Your
body might thank you for it.

Comment is about RITES OF PASSAGE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oh Keith, you surprise me. This is so good. I have not known you as a rhymer and was half-way down before realising it. Well done.....

Comment is about Heart Attack (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

I echo Lisa, Tom - this is a very moving piece. Thankyou.

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

Original item by Tom

Of course, 52% of the population would probably take the opposite view.

I'm guessing you voted remain Tommy? If only all the remainers had actually gone out and voted we would not now be in this mess.

Comment is about Faraged (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Tom, so often we look the other way instead of head on into our pain, woe or loss. Yet there are others who just rant about it constantly.The hurt can be so much more for ourselves and everyone in our lives. We all experience grief and stress and we all experience it differently.
This is a very moving piece. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Lisa

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

Original item by Tom

Digging the Ginsberg quote. Keep going John, as all of your work is thoughtful and stunning.

D

Comment is about The Last Judgement (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

First of all I simply love the title Ruth. Clever.
Then you've captured a real life scenario rather well.
The intrigue is what sets this poem apart.

Keep going!
Raj

Comment is about *Tramsendental Love* (blog)

Original item by Ruth O'Reilly

Don, a froggy would a wooing go - need I say more! Nudge nudge, wink, wink - gosh those frog ponds pen and ink. ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Sorry John. Poor sarcasm. Mea culpa Keith

Comment is about The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you Rose.
Yes, good timing. Get your black stone out.

Must make time to read some of yours.
Love & Light.
Raj

Comment is about F**k the Forgive and Forget mantra (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Great poem this week's full moon energy is all about forgiveness- well timed poem?

Comment is about F**k the Forgive and Forget mantra (blog)

Original item by Chakraj

Thanks, Ray, for your kind words on 'Man on a Wire'. David

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you DB. Not many others on WOL think so, but we must continue to believe in ourselves. It is a necessary attribute of the poet - we cannot expect (nor, in my case, at least, want) any public recognition or financial award. So, Devon, your encouragement means a lot to me. John

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” — Allen Ginsberg, from Ginsberg, A Biography.

Comment is about The Last Judgement (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Sarcasm, I presume, KJ?

Comment is about The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

This is a wonderfully upbeat (unusually for you) piece and I like the change.

for me the whole is summed up by the last three lines.......

Don’t be a plan

Don’t be a don’t

Just be a star..............and you might well yet become one!

Comment is about Please don’t make yourself at home (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

computer screwed up this morning.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Charming seems too slight a term for these recollections.
How about "delightful"?

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Great poem on wildflowers!

Comment is about C Castro (poet profile)

Original item by C Castro

Beautifully crafted Cait. The emotion strings it all together rather well.
And whilst you seek new adventures with someone fresh there is an underlying yearning to recapture the sensuous moments of the past.

I used to live here Cait. Then went away and now I'm back to relish fresh talent like yourself. More pleeeease!
Raj

Comment is about Revocation (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

I love this as a lullaby. Calming and gentle. A stronger connection to time and I think that is important. Thank you for sharing.

Comment is about Sing Me To Sleep (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Graham - our young WOLer dk seems to have taken a liking to you....

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

Original item by Graham Sherwood

Morning Myescape.

Just stumbled upon your poems and it was a refreshing surprise. I like your simplicity and sincerety. Raw emotions perhaps?
I used to live here then took a break. But I'm back and would love to read more ofyour work. So keep going. For me,WOL is an open platform to express exactly how we feel, irrespective of peoples' comments.

Take care.

Comment is about lovers part (blog)

Original item by Myescape

Devon? You've changed hands?....

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Progress made
Don't complain
Poet Don
Don't be arcane

Poets like you
We do not need
We want progress
Not your breed

Get lost critics.......

Comment is about McMansions (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Cynthia
Utterly enchanting tales. I could vividly picture the scenes. I'd love to read more...loved the ice truck man and I could almost see the schools and the hospital.

More please!
Jon

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thankyou for reading and liking Rose

Comment is about McMansions (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Why do we write Cynthia? Because it pleases us. And that is reason enough........

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Simply amazing, John.

Comment is about The Last Judgement (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you John. Lily pads. Glad you liked. P

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

Original item by keith jeffries

Sounds a little like the CofE
Keith

Comment is about The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Hella stuff, Cynthia. Loved it, great movement, great contrast between the bygones (milk/bread deliveries by horse, the ice truck) and what we have today.

D

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you Fred. Many and sincere blessings to you, too, dear Sir.

God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses



PS...."Epi oinopa ponton," a phrase used often in Homer's Odyssey, means “upon the wine-coloured sea,” which the poem's English-language translators have often rendered as "wine-dark." Mulligan’s attribution in Telemachus, “snotgreen,” casts a sarcastic light on this venerated epic colouring of the ocean. But Stephen recalls the phrase in Proteus and restores its Homeric tinge: "oinopa ponton, a winedark sea."

Comment is about THE SNOT-GREEN (WINE-DARK) SEA (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

A Steep Street called Nostalgia is how I'd like to call it.
That panorama of childhood memories was so engaging Cynthia.
Would make a good series. Defo.

Only the other day I went on and on about my own childhood years to a friend. It's funny how we can recollect all the minute detail.
My Uncle Johnny was a great on for old tales although he made up half of them!

Coming back to your street in Brockville, how that crazy car didn't hit anyhting is beyond me.
Defies the laws of physics.

Raj

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Enjoyed this escapade of a poem - it gathers speed so to speak. My early memories of the Canadians go back to my Merseyside days when troops in dark green uniforms appeared locally where they were billeted in requisitioned buildings. Us street kids used to hang around their base - when the lads packed up to go back home they would dispense the loose UK coins jingling in their pockets and put them onto the ground for us. I guess they must have felt quite sorry for us looking so undernourished. Soon after our schools started to receive consignments of apples containing the vitamin C necessary for us to avoid rickets. Such kind people they were the Canadians. I felt they were rather understated heroes after all they did for us. What we would have done without them - and/or the lease lend arrangements set in train by Eleanor Roosevelt's earlier on - doesn't bear thinking about. Heroes all of them.

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

As I say, Graham it was quite deliberate and calculated.
I posted the original for Don below but I expect someone like you in your “grey” years will know it. ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1nPd7hezM

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

JC I thought the serious subject matter of your piece was enhanced by the purile comedy theme (sadly I couldn't bring myself to listen to your recording) Brilliant idea!

Without falling into the trap, of which I accuse others, I can only say that, remember for most, today's shock is tomorrow's chip paper!

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

“Boys! Boys!” (Olive Oyl Voice).
I certainly intended to shock. It seems to me that shock is a legitimate response to aim for in writing.
Analytically speaking (and to prompt discussion on the piece itself) I have used a number of devices.
The flippant tone of the narrator
The violent and very pictorial imagery
And (as I say in a comment below) the juxtaposition of this jaunty tune with the horror of its content.
Yes, I expect it to shock. What I didn’t expect was that there would be controversy about something so universally deplorable.

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

That's is exactly the point I'm making. It matters little to the poetry, in fact it reduces its impact, when those making comments extensively bang on about themselves and their experiences.

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

As is often the case with poems that aim for the 'controversial vote' the associated commentary always seems to overshadow the content.

I doesn't matter if the source material originates form several sources. it doesn't matter whether the police were security forces or not. It doesn't matter.

What matters is someone has written a strong and shocking piece about something that may well have happened over and over again and is graphically portrayed here.

When commenters focus on the quality of the poetry written and not on their own personal opinions/experiences we'll all learn much more.

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'm having a bit of fun, pulling together ideas that have been jostling
around in my head a long time. I believe that you carry your childhood within your heart and head throughout your entire life. There are other poems already logged on WOL that I intend to bring under the umbrella idea of 'The Steepest Street in Town'. It pleases me, and that is reason enough.

Comment is about The Steepest Street In Town (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Jon for your approval of this one. I Do find cats interesting and like their attitude, but I was quite put out on this incident!

Ok Devon, fear not, I have contacted Paul Emberson who deals with such matters and await results. I'll try to add audio to my next attempt. Cheers.

Hi David, thanks for going the extra mile mate, and I know you are an ardent watcher and nature lover, so you are the perfect reader in this case! I can follow your involvement in land areas and the thrill of surveillance - one's own patch does become an adventure playground for all sorts including oneself. The neighbour whose garden the cat comes through to get to mine has now got their own, so there might be a few fights coming up. Looking forward to that!

Thank you for looking in, Cynthia!

Ray

Comment is about ON WATCH (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Well, yes and no, MC. Let me put it another way. All the things I describe did happen. But the picture is not of the dead boy. I expect even Google thought a pic of that would be unacceptable.
And you’re absolutely right. I selected this old jovial music hall song quite deliberately for its horrific juxtaposition with the content.

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

my pa would love this Lisa, especially re ' a blues song ' him
( and the image that I get in mind ) being a massive fan of the original blue singers. the likes of John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters to name but a few in his record collection.

Boy! did those guys dad tells me love knocking back the kind of hooch you mention and while on stage in between songs.

I really would love to know that without the likes of them, would the Beatles aosend Stones have ever surfaced at all?

very doubtful. Great poem again Lisa.



Rose ?

Comment is about Trouble (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

JC - you've certainly put a cat among the pigeons (as usual!) ?
Artistic licence? Agent provocateur? Rabble-rouser? Stirrer?
They all come to mind when considering this blog and its intent.
Certainly, the effect of combining a famous old comedy song from
a time when such things were the stuff of innocent ribaldry with
such horrendous happenings makes its mark as, no doubt, you
intended. But to what purpose that is not already understood and
accepted by right-minded thinking anywhere?
No one would condone the death described or the actions of those
involved. The word "civilised" does have a relevance but it is two-way; as those who have faced a baying mob hurling objects that
can kill and/or maim from the safety of anonymity can surely verify.
"Civilisation" is often a thin veneer barely covering the structure of
our vulnerable man-made societies across the globe. It needs
buffing up not breaking down.

Comment is about THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A wealth of creative poetry will be on sale tonight in Martin Millican's new anthology.

Be on time or they might all be sold!

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery on Monday (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Sorry dk can't donate
Got no money left in my bank
No publisher will buy/sell my poems
My position? no publisher to thank

You're gonna have to rely on the donation
Spirit of WOLers here on the site
I'm sure you understand with no publisher
My financials are feeling bit tight

If you are successful with your donation-seeking venture enjoy Europe....?.

Comment is about If You Enjoy This Site (blog)

Original item by d.knape

thanks for reading my poem
"kids on a Beach"
I hope it did not hurt too much
like sunburn, it will go away after awhile.

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

Original item by Chakraj