Golly gosh! Lisa's sprinkled me with stardust
I'm blushing from head to my toes
I'm glad our techs have not yet skyped WOL
My blushings would all be on shows

It seems, Lisa says, I'm from Dominus
One of the masters of WOL?
I even go back to the Romans!
(My greatgreatgrand-daddy could've been Cicero?).......

Comment is about Don At Work – Please Do Not Disturb (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Laura,

Congratulations and well deserved for a highly imaginative poem.

Keith

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Doomy-gloomy's catching Fish
You better look out it's a bugger
It catches you when you least expect it
And clings like a leach, it's a hugger.......

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

what fun!

Comment is about That Gal Gladys (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

Again I will state this morning...
Always be proud of who you are!

Don, abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines. Don, and dom, is derived from the Latin Dominus; a master of a household, a title with background from the Roman Republic in the Antiquity.(Wikipedia)

Comment is about Don At Work – Please Do Not Disturb (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Some poem Peter T. - I don't know what they were playing but I was certainly hearing it.
Go well
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Comment is about HANGING FROM THE RAFTERS (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Thanks Everyone! You should always be proud of who you are.


Rose, I was always told there is some Native American blood from my mothers side. She was 1/2 Italian and allegedly French-Canadian and Huron Native American. There is no-one left on her side to confirm so only a DNA test will tell. My father's brother recently had one done and we are apparently a smidge Somalian also...! Thank you for noticing! Ultimately, it's not what 's in us that makes us. It's what we put forth.
❤

Comment is about How I Came to be an American (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

From poet's heads
to seeing eye
hard to believe
we so contrive
We write despite
a reason why
the poem part truth
and part a lie.

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Hi Adam - glad I caught this one. Need to chew on it a bit but love those last three lines.
May you also find your fish.
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Comment is about Beauty In The Scales (blog)

Original item by Adam Whitworth

Oh Don good on you for trying to get fly
Fun 'n' Frippency (ah the old penncys I remember them well) and defy
This sad bad earth's gravity.
Even if like Icarus your wings get scorched
At least you lit a noble torch
Trying to dispel the gloomy doomy waves
That around us swell.

A smile, a frown a dance around.
A joke, a jest, a sober quest.
Life is short, death is sure
Sing sad, sing glad but don't ignore.
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Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Laura, really liked this one: It's clever (but not too clever) and profound at the same time. Thank you for this excellent piece.

Peter T

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hi Lisa. I thought you looked a bit Native American'ish! but hey, thank god those, over-sexed over here yankee doodle dandlers WERE over here just when we needed them to prevent Adolf from kicking our butts.

A lot of anti-Amercan thinkers need to remember that.

Enjoyed the read mucho




Rose ?

Comment is about How I Came to be an American (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Very funny.

Comment is about My Family And Other Natural Disasters (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Hi Laura. Congratulations on being awarded POTW. It was well deserved.
We all post on WOL for the same reason, and that is to get our work out there and read by as many people as possible. As the week goes on these posts move further and further down the list and become more difficult to find.
Not-so the POTW, that stays the first thing that you see when you log onto the site, and remains so for a whole week. It's a nice accolade to receive, and it's ridiculous for anyone to suggest that you shouldn't accept it.
I don't see POTW as a competition, but even if it was, what's wrong with that? People do enter poetry into competitions. It's another way to get your work out there.

Sorry for rambling.
What I meant to say was congratulations, loved the poem.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Heartbreakingly beautiful. ?

Comment is about Ghost In The Street Lights (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

It's nice to see others coming out and identifying themselves in their work. Not always easy on an open stage with an audience of strangers......

Comment is about How I Came to be an American (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thank You Mae?

Comment is about How I Came to be an American (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thankyou Sebahate and Devon for giving me this line:

'you created the world / you intend to ruin it"

I wish I knew the rest......

Comment is about Heroinës (blog)

Original item by Sebahate J. Shala

I like this John. 'Fraid Devon has out-alliterated me for comment so won't even try......

Comment is about SWAN LAKE (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Jemima is all for supporting (hooray!)
Our poor mixed-up brother Downunder
So often we struggle to work out
What's going on his head, we all wonder?......

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I don't know what it is, John, in your words that takes me away from the gritty day to day, my friend, but they do. Another place, perhaps. Another far from the grease, and gristle and grime.

D

Comment is about SWAN LAKE (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

This is good hk.... I hope the lifeguard came to your rescue......

Comment is about Friday, June 21, 2019 11:48 AM (blog)

Original item by hk

Very interesting words and music Tommy.......

Comment is about Semi Tone (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I'm left wondering here?.......

Comment is about What's in a Name (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Thank you for your work and I look forward to more of it. Though I do not speak Albanian, through sounding it out, the music of that voice, that language, is breathtaking.

All the best,

D

Comment is about Sebahate J. Shala (poet profile)

Original item by Sebahate J. Shala

I had to google translate this one and even the automated translation is beautiful - 'you created the world / you intend to ruin it". Glad I took the time. Of course, a translation, particularly one that doesn't mirror the music of the original cannot do justice to the rhythm and rhyme structure of the poem.

D

Comment is about Heroinës (blog)

Original item by Sebahate J. Shala

Thank you to those who read and commented on this poem. I am most grateful.

Keith

Comment is about A Flame never extinguished (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Tommy, when I read the title "Semi tone", I am immediately thinking "half step". That smallest musical movement, imagined in a kiss, that gentle leaning in. Good stuff.

D

Comment is about Semi Tone (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

To such prison walls may I never be condemned,
I scarce been inside even as a visitor,
May my life be full of every easy mend
I’ll take your advice, and rather die before

Comment is about The Inhospitable Hospital (blog)

Original item by d.knape

There’s really only one way to find out if this sentiment still holds with the public, 3 years on from when it was taken, MC. You may still be right. Or you may not. The reluctance of Leavers to prove their case implies to me that they fear the latter.

Comment is about "ALL LIES AND JEST" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

JC - I'm only too aware of when I am being deceived/lied to,
hence my determination to bring to attention the activities of
who led this nation into being shackled to a political power-driven
entity allowed to take precedence over our parliamentary sovereignty (now being bandied about as some corrupted reason adopted by various occupants of Parliament to thwart our departure from the EU). The lies you refer to appear to target the sum on
the Brexit bus...still argued about: some saying it's less...some
saying it's actually more. In point of fact, it can't be denied that the
UK is a very substantial contributor to the EU - an organisation that
seems resistant to proper examination of its accounts (which, of
course, includes our money!) and threatens members who go
public with penalties/loss of generous pensions etc. etc. for
their temerity in publicising the less than democratic basis for
its existence and activities.
Remainers may wish to continue to cavort to its tune! The rest of us are happy to ignore the invitation to the dance. ?

Comment is about "ALL LIES AND JEST" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I took a bonus of delight in hanging this on the structure and rhyming pattern of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem “ The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo”.

Comment is about TRUMPETRY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Keith - it is always a pleasure to know something resonates in such a personal way. Thank you.T

Comment is about STILL LIVES, DISTANT VOICES - a love story in 4. acts. (blog)

Original item by trevor homer

Having read that you are experiencing some difficulty in blogging, Wendy, please get in touch and, I will do my best to help you. Jemima.

Comment is about Wendy Higson (poet profile)

Original item by Wendy Higson

In my opinion Don, there is nothing wrong in putting seriousness on the back burner for a while, after all, I think we need to remember the freedoms of speech as long as it doesn't aim to be personally offensive which this is not. Thank you. Jemima.

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Now dk you've captured my interest
(Was just about to hop into bed)
You have a great habit of doing this you know
Just forgive me if I suddenly go zzzzzzz

Now where was I? Oh yes

I have been in hospital dk
(I fell off a ladder, near dead)
But Caroline the nurse pampered, petted me
She even looked after me in bed

Just joking dk. Thought you'd ask for her next time hey?

I did experience one piece of torture though
This male nurse completely body washed me
Until I regarded myself as a Roman
Being pampered by my slave, did he be

zzzzzzzzz zonk........

Comment is about The Inhospitable Hospital (blog)

Original item by d.knape

DoRoThY's first face looks like it's spewing
The last one looks like it's in shock
The middle I just can't quite work out
A pooch with brown nose and two eyes?......

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

prison or hospital?
which is worse?
I hear prison food
is not bad
but the beds
are lumpy!

Comment is about The Inhospitable Hospital (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Graham appears to be dumbstruck
Oh dear! he says, oh dear! oh dear!
Don't worry Graham DoRoThY's given thumbs up
Put your feet up and just have a beer

??? From DoRoThY. imagine these are up-thumbs Graham......

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Rose I'm getting to like you
To madcappery let us both drink
Whoever put this poem (?) together
Is very much missing a link

But we like the poor mixed-up soul....

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Cheers all ?

I only blogged this cos I was putting it in for a comp and wanted some feedback, heh.

Do you think you'll ever be able to make a comment without a barb or three in it David? Or ever actually feel happy, I mean, really happy?

Comment is about 'Log In*' by Laura Taylor is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thank you so much, Rose.

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

Oh yes, for sure, ha ha. I have some elements of modern war with imagery from crusaders and it's kind of a take on war in general, the death inflicted by those who believe in a cause. But you are right, some of the fun in poetry is trying to make something that makes just enough sense to create meaning while being lost in confusing imagery. All the same, thank you for the comment!

Comment is about Modern Crusader (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Well I've read it a few times and whilst I like it I have no idea what it is about. Perhaps that's the appeal?

Comment is about Modern Crusader (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Oh dear!

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I'm very sorry to have declined your offer to chat but I was just in the middle of something. No problems chuck, I'll catch up with you in the near future.


( hope nothing is wrong )





Rose ?

Comment is about Wendy Higson (poet profile)

Original item by Wendy Higson

it's my absolute and great pleasure in echoing previous comments Jon. One I would most certainly class worthy enough to be POTW.






Rose ?

Comment is about The Quiet People (blog)

Original item by Jon Stainsby

one to swoon to Keith. Really beautiful and sensuously deep.









Rose ?

Comment is about A Flame never extinguished (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi Lisa. I meant as through the eyes of an expert which I am most definitely not. Ta muchly.







Rose ?

Comment is about What is Art & Who is an Artist (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I'll drink and drink and drink and drink to this promotion of madcapity


the word behave is dead
as far as I'm concerned.




Rose ?

Comment is about WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews