Thanks Devon! That's an interesting question...I think definitely! TV and before that radio and before that the press...Politics, modeling, business... Even the housewives in the neighborhood, either it was recipes or fashion they all had to struggle to stay in the surface... The frickin' struggle for evolution, survive or get extinct, eat or be eaten, be the Aplha or die fighting... Crawl out of the ocean and grow legs and lungs before that other fish does! Yeap, definitely an ancient thing!
What do you think? ?
Mae

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Well said, Mae - and with style. Makes me wonder if this phenomenon existed before the internet. Any thoughts?

D

Comment is about The Benefits and The Perils (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Hi Lisa! Have I said I love your work already? If not, let me remedy that! I LOVE your work! X.x.?
Mae

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Excellent! Loved it! So smoothe and unforced and so very very true!
Thank you ?
Mar

Comment is about THINK (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

I love acrostic poems! Loved this! Kudos Lisa!?
Thank you?
Mae

Comment is about FEEL (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Yes, and do you notice his smug chin up posture - reminiscent of Il Duce?

Comment is about Hate on Tap (blog)

Original item by Linda Cosgriff

thank's M.C. for pointing out my error. There again and I'm sure you will agree very much the same injustices.


LS.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Bold! Loved it! Congratulations ! ?
Mae

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

Original item by Stuart Buck

I will just think of them getting away Lisa just like Martin says - - -

otherwise any furry bits on the lawn and I start to think of why I have not seen those wild whirlwind wonders wearing away the bark off racing track tree.

Comment is about The Chase (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Don, thanks for posting this. I agree that more awareness needs to be brought to this topic. I, too, know what it is like to be in "chains" and I admire your courage to be open about this. Great poem.

Comment is about Confessions of a Diagnosed Manic (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

cops at the door
my only crime
my poetry.
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Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

If Jesus came down here
He'd wear what we call thongs
Perform his water/wine bit
To all the Aussie throng

"Flip flops?" he'd think we're bonkers
Who ever told you that?
Some UK WOLers told us
Seems like they've told you tat

He broke the loaf (feet thong-wise)
And fed the multitude
They satiated (all in thongs)
J prayed (in thongs) outside

Disciple 1 What's this flippy floppy about?.....
Disciple 2 Dunno? Baby fishy's?.....
Disciple 3..These Brits have some funny ideas.....
Jesus: Join me in a prayer to the 'Thong'
All : Sure thing Master.......

Comment is about Flip Flops (blog)

Original item by d.knape

What is beautiful is your comment! Really! Don't waste that stuff on comments, write them down! Thank you so much my multitalented friend?
Mae

Comment is about Mirror Says (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thanks heart! Same here! Good to have you back
X.x.?
Mae

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

So powerful and haunting.

Comment is about for you and your girl (blog)

Original item by Mila F.

Ah, delightful! Very clever. Whoever is tending the bar in my brain really isn't doing a great job, ha ha.

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Ah, the mirror. A light and dark poem that has the catchy rhythm that is just enough to thinly veil the eyes that blink slightly out of time with our own. Beautiful.

Comment is about Mirror Says (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Reminds me of a poem my auntie used to tell me. I've forgotten most of it but it ends in the little girl chasing away the monster by telling it she eats them. Then finishes by eating her brother's model train. How come children's rhymes are so bizarre? I love this one though.

Comment is about Muffets And Spiders (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Very beautiful! A powerful combination of themes not often linked.

Comment is about Strange Tides (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Thanks, Martin. I love bamboo and made a pretty challenging trip to a bamboo forest in China. It was challenging because I had to navigate multiple forms of transportation with very limited communication skills. I knew a tiny bit of Mandarin, but the dialect was completely different in the south. It was worth it, though. A friend in China told me about Su Dongpo because of the shared interest in bamboo.

Comment is about Whispers of Su Dongpo in Bamboo Sway (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Thank you Martin, Devon and Don for your kind comments much appreciated. Thank you Rachel, Keith and Liza for the likes, much appreciated.


All the best des

Comment is about different windows (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

"I am the happiest person you will meet.

I am the saddest person you will know."

These lines are powerful and relate-able to me. Great poem. ---J

Comment is about Untitled (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Branwell?
thanks for visiting my site
it is a sight for
sore eyes!

Comment is about branwell kent (poet profile)

Original item by branwell kent

It's easy to make 'digs' when you're a deleted user, 22247. Come out and show yourself.....Anonymity does no-one any good

Comment is about Silly Sex Poem (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

So clever Desmond. As said by Martin and Devon the rhythm and rhyme is excellent. I particularly like the tight two-beat line rhythm.....

Comment is about different windows (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Don
What ye think ye’ve got all wrong
It was Fester all along.

Comment is about THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oh yes they will! I've had cats that were viscous squirrel killers. I won't tell you what they did to them?

Comment is about The Chase (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you so much dear Lisa! ?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Mae, this is outstanding!

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

I love the notion of love being all scabbed up and then the wound being opened again.
Nice one

Comment is about Space Cowgirl (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

I always think it funny when you see a cat trying to catch one and you know it never will.

Nice one Nigel

Comment is about The Chase (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

There are some fabulous lines here. Not least

'I saw them on their phones always waiting for love'

wonderful

Comment is about Summer walks (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

Martin, Thanks for the comment on "Dove Out Of Water". I respect and value your input. Take care ---J

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Grabbed me at the first line - a rock-solid minute detail. Dr. Marks at his finest.

D

Comment is about Messing about in boats (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

You say much here with so few words which I have to confess makes me deeply envious Keith. Those opening lines unfold themselves and the poem so well


Nice one

Comment is about Being (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Yes, great use of rhythm and rhyme. I particularly like the opening stanza - the "you" hiding behind the a thin mask. It ties in nicely with "masquerading" later in the poem. I get a sense in this poem that we are all "posers". Which is true, in a way.

D

Comment is about different windows (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

It certainly does Lisa. trouble is now days I just to think there is a enough of it to do all that I want to
Nice one

Comment is about THINK (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

There seems to be a real philosophical twist to this one Randy.
Nice one

Comment is about Whispers of Su Dongpo in Bamboo Sway (blog)

Original item by Randy Horton

Mae, thanks for the kind words on my profile. And thank you for encouraging me to try my hand at a sonnet. It is precisely these exchanges that help all of us in our craft and expression. Now, how about that sestina.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

Original item by Mae Foreman

You have put rhyme to excellent use in this well crafted poem
Nice one Desmond

Comment is about different windows (blog)

Original item by DESMOND CHILDS

Not the gloomy colours of uneasiness, sadness and urbanity.

What a great line from a great poem . A superb tale well told
Love it

Comment is about Messing about in boats (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

good, funny poem

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Oh oh ... the cops are here!

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks David. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is not my concern here. We should all be pointing the finger at those in positions of authority, who had it within their grasp to stop the sufferings of children, and deliberately chose not to do so - fearful of being called racist or of 'offending' special interest groups. These girls were working class, poor, vulnerable, often in local authority 'care' (sic) and we, as a society, turned our backs on their exploitation, abuse and suffering FOR YEARS AND YEARS. Those in power MUST be called to account.

Comment is about Jailed for Journalism (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you kindly Do.RoThY. Sometimes, I feel the rhythm of a poem before I have the words. It was so, in this case. There was an echo in my mind of these words by the bard: ‘Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.’ Shakespeare, (As You Like It – Act 4, Scene 1)

Comment is about Forget-me-not (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Branwell,

your really ought to try an orgasmatron (mains supply, not battery operated) as it obviates the need to be upside down or in any other adopted position. The results are quite exhilerating or so I am told. I am uncertain as to whether they have two seaters as my great great uncle only has a single seater. He hankers after a tandem model if only to see the expression on the face of the other. He says it gives him a good rattling.

Keith

Comment is about Silly Sex Poem (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Hey Bran hasn't anyone told you sperm doesn't travel uphill. I think Mindy expressed this in a more novel way.....

Comment is about Silly Sex Poem (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Thankyou Keith, now don't feel bad
When I upset the WOLer cart
Writing edgy upset stuff
Laced with tar-tipped firey darts.....

The truth seldom attracts friends...A wise saying Keith

Comment is about Man Arrested (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Ought neglected to be not?
Excellent clique Min eh wot?
Wot has gotta lotta plot?
Clique clique do see dot

(This poet's poetry's bloody shot...)

Lisa clicked a clique like
Butterflying on his bike
He's a learner in this genre
Clique Lise an' good onya

Clique learners (of WOL type)
Out of woodwork, come you out
Show your skill upon our screens
Don't be shy, clique your route

Comment is about Clique. Wot? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Ah, now it makes sense! No reason for apologies, please! The language barrier sometimes makes it hard for me to pick up colloquialisms, that's why I asked! Plus it's a lovely imagery, shrinking down and submerging into a fantasy! These things are MEANT to get you carried away! ??So feel free to roam into all my fantasies my dear Mindy! ??
Thank you ?
Mae

Comment is about The Bluebird and the Wallflower (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman