I like this Martin.

Comment is about Everything rusts (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Once again the lyrical content of your work shines through beautifully Damon

Nice one

Comment is about Words of The Waiting Man 31 (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

A fabulous heartfelt poem which certainly draws the reader in in a very real way. It is hard at times to let them go to move on in the world.
Nice one

Comment is about the passing of a king (blog)

Original item by Charles Schlee

Short and not so sweet but - a grim sadness still shines in the gloom of the text. Cleverly constructed Sognare. Tommy

Comment is about Alzheimer’s (blog)

Original item by Sognare Gloire

Martin this is strange now
Why you cannot pee
Next-door streams should make you go
Automatically

Pavlov with his dogs showed
Next-door running pee
Will power-suggest your bladder to
Undo, and go free

Methinks you're fighting nature
(And what would Pavlov think?)
Attempting to disprove him
At the pisshole sink?

Ray I must apologise
Commenting not on poem
It's Martin who's to blame for this
Distracting me, ho hum......

Comment is about WAITING - FOR URINATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you for an awesome review Jason! I call this style the "Jason Bayliss"! It has just the best rhythm. But it was tough .. I don't know how you do it.
Thank you my friend ?
Mae

Comment is about The Summer of my Dismay (Volume 27) (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Thank you Don! ?
Mae

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Anxiety is both beautifully written about and wonderfully explored in this poem. Anybody who has not really suffered this can truly understand how crippling it can be.

Nice one

Comment is about Anxiety (blog)

Original item by Mel Shield

Well where do I start? I know, brilliant. Love it. The subject matter, the rhythm and imbued tempo, the lovely rolling rhyme within rhyme and then there are so many really clever lines that it's hard to break them down. I love the imagery of,

"Granite are the waters of the earth, the sands of time blazed to charcoal,
blurred with the grime of the millions; only a dime per redeemed soul!"

And the line, "Steadily the manicured hand wields a plastic holy cross bathed in diet coke." Is just a little thing of beauty.
Really, really like this, the style suits you.

J. x

Comment is about The Summer of my Dismay (Volume 27) (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

It is a sad fact of life for a number of people. I fully understand having had a father who had suffered with a similar affliction.

Comment is about Alzheimer’s (blog)

Original item by Sognare Gloire

Ray I have just stumbled upon this and can totally relate to not being able to pee at will when surrounded by other chaps in a public utility which is often far from convenient!

Nice one mate

Comment is about WAITING - FOR URINATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

A lovely little poem, says so much without saying much at all

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

This is about my great grandfather...

Comment is about Boots 2 (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet

A favourite poem to me
Is one word actually
It's meaningfully lit
And just entitled 'Shit'

Read in different ways
Produces different feelings
Can be quite revealing
Also unappealing

What a shitty poem........

Comment is about #11 (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

I'll make my excuses and leave
This poem behind in my bank
For another day maybe to think on
At moment I'm drawing a blank.....

Comment is about Should We Legalise Prostitution? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Perfect two-line poem Ray with rhythm and rhyme....

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I usually can't get into long poems but this one held me to the end.....clever, different, and well done

You mixed me up a bit though Cynth
With mononucleosis
I thought it was to do with
Rab-bit myxomatosis

I obviously don't know
One 'osis' from the other
I've done my kissing for today
So mono will not bother

Just have to keep an eye on Peter....

Comment is about SCHIZOPHRENIA (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sigh...
Why?
No he
Mar-ry

Sigh....

Comment is about Will You Marry Me? (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

Echo to Martin Mae - very clever

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

No problem. It would seem we have a common interest.

D

Comment is about The bringer of plurabilities (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

So much I thank ye. Yeah that voice'd be associated with rural parts of SW England now, but then , it'd be the voice of ol'London town. I have an abiding fascination with historical linguistics, ties in with demography, as well. Thank yer kindly DEvon.

Comment is about The bringer of plurabilities (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I love the way you have rounded this one off Bob. I often feel quite child like about a number of things then realise that those people who I see as grown ups maybe at least as old as me or even younger.
Nice one

Comment is about My Half-Life (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thanks again, everybody. Thanks to all the poets here on WoL for sharing so many great poems. Your words, rhythms and forms give me new inspiration to explore. I am feeding off you.

D

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Now Birds Ravage The Cherries' by Devon Brock (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I wondering whether there is still a desire to be back out on the road again. Or is this just a play on words
Anyway
nice one Ray

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

As you say Cynthia a strange one who would not like ice cream , but there are those that don't . I love that line about the 'intruder in my mind'
An excellent poem from the pantheon of rich memories you have
nice one

Comment is about SCHIZOPHRENIA (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you Martin! ? I'm not particularly happy with the title though, but then again, I can think of nothing better! I appreciate the support, thank you!?
Mae

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Very clever Mae. I love it

Comment is about Wake Up And Smell Reality (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

John, a great place to go hear that voice in a near pure form is Tangier Island, VA. The same seven families have lived there since the C17. I spent a wonderful weekend there back in the early '90's, just listening. They were quite isolated for several centuries, being 14 miles from the nearest major landmass. Here is a link to a brief video. Listen and enjoy'

D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

Comment is about The bringer of plurabilities (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Dreams are what keep us going.
A lovely poem Hasmukh

Comment is about Real fool (blog)

Original item by Hasmukh Mehta

I've been trying to learn piano...not necessarily my forte. Definately fun though and challenging ????

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ray, fabulous pun in the title.

D

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Congratulations, Devon

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Now Birds Ravage The Cherries' by Devon Brock (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Ghosts of moments past in stressful times can come through unexpectedly. I still suffer from the stress of bombing when a child in Liverpool and certain subsequent events relating to explosions in the armed forces etc. Fortunately my partner understands, and sometimes her 2 doggies look at me knowingly and wag their tails as if to say, 'It's Ok'. 'It's Ok' we still love you. And then they start slobbering all over me. It's weird but so is the storehouse of the human brain. You are not alone with your inner turmoil world believe me. P.

Comment is about SCHIZOPHRENIA (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

My first and favourite poem is 7 words long and doesn't rhyme...think it just needs to be meaningful sometimes tbh x

Comment is about #11 (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

Oh, I don't know Mindy, I like a bit of vagary,
I think it adds to the mystery.?

J. x

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Yes Cait, I like it too, I hope I made that clear in my original comment.
Actually, I just responded on another poem, much the same for brevity, and mentioned a French one word poem I was pointed to called, "Pousse," (Hope I've spelt that right).
Once I understood the context of that one word poem it became a huge favourite for me.

J. x

Comment is about #11 (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

I wrote a 2 word, "Short Poem," called Tempus Fugit, and then someone told me about a French one word poem called, "Pousse."
Once I understood the context of, "Pousse," it because a real favourite of mine, so I say, yes Mindy, it's a poem.

J. x

Comment is about PIANO IS MY FORTE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

So glad you said that Sophie. I was trying to write it so that it naturally reads in that quick, hurried way, and of course when I read it to myself that's exactly how I read it, but wasn't sure if that's how it came across to others. Really pleased, it sounds like the tempo I was trying to write came across ok.

Thank you,

J. x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

This has an amazing rhythm to it. Rlly impressive an immersive. It reads aloud with all its dissonance and many rhymes very quickly and therefore adds to a theme of life rushing by x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks to Cait, Eve, Mindy and Lisa for liking, sorry it's taken me this long to acknowledge, (On nights, so a bit out of it with tiredness ?).

J. x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Cheers, Mindy! R

Comment is about My Half-Life (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Blimey, Brian- we can't go on meeting this way. I enjoy reading this by the way in public.

Don, cheers. As long as it works, and of course it doesn't always.

Laura, praise indeed. Thanks.

Another view across the divide, thanks Mark.

Jason, my eyes are watering at least, thanks.

Jon, Trevor and Lisa thanks for the likes.

Ray

Comment is about WAITING - FOR URINATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thanks for reading and liking this Devon, Do. and Graham; appreciated.

Ray

Comment is about SUMMER SEASON (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Is it me, or is there a bit of mass hysteria going on here?

Comment is about #11 (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

A vivid vignette of what must have been so often known in conflict -
but especially the "Great War"...the so-called "war to end all wars".

Comment is about Boots 2 (blog)

Original item by Dean Fraser - The Quantum Poet

To be a prostitute in the UK is not illegal per se. As a famous lady
of yesteryear observed on a connected subject - "just as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." Soliciting..e.g.
importuning for the purpose of prostitution is the obvious example. Basically, it becomes a nuisance when it enters the political and
public consciousness, especially when coercion is used to live
parasitically off its practitioners and can evolve into vice rings et al...
the favourite target of Sunday newspapers of old whose reporters
were famous for "I made my excuses and left."

Comment is about Should We Legalise Prostitution? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Dk it looks you been bit slack
Letting screens get holes
For little flies to buzz right in
And on your wife, make goal ?

Comment is about The Wrath Of Wives (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I'm with Sophie Cait. And I stick with my original comment. I like it.....

Comment is about #11 (blog)

Original item by Cait Abbott

haha that's a nice idea mindy Newton
I agree it's quite a cruel ending
but I believe in the afterlife
they will all be up there jamming with no earthly burdens attatched xx

Comment is about The Band With Five Hands (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee

Very sad but so well written

Comment is about a life shorter than a day (blog)

Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee