Terrific read. Smooth, subtle story-telling, especially the rescue scene with its calm retrospective manner.

Comment is about MAN TRAP (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Last two lines were an anti-climax to me, and I cringed on behalf of this very clever poem, that you felt it wasn't complete in its last full line.

Your poem and I beg you to release us from them!

Comment is about Sylvia (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

"Oozes over me like oil" goes to eight syllables...unless you adopt a deep-South accent, "all."

I've never dared this form myself. It's challenging. Well done.

Comment is about Crimson (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I've seen quite a few of these over the years, I mean, not into double figures, but a few and never really thought about the story behind them. I will now. Excellent poem Ray.

J. x

Comment is about MAN TRAP (blog)

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Hi Cait, just wanted to say, superb samples. I mean, really superb.

J. x

Comment is about Cait Abbott (poet profile)

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Comment is about Joanna Halliday (poet profile)

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Thanks, Jason.

Comment is about Poverty (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thank you dear Jon?
Mae

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Ring Around the Poison Ivy' by Mae Foreman (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Thank you Jane for all your kind words!?
Mae

Comment is about Beast in Pain (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

Well said Mark. He was a great character. Taking his lead I started calling my wife The Booby until she knee'd me in the balls. They've got no sense of humour have they?

Comment is about BIG MAC (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Peter
I have been reading some of your poems, such gentle evocation, lovely

Comment is about LOVES NOT LOST (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Could this be David Attenborough and Brian Cox stuck in a lift, running out of air Stu? No I thought not. I love the whole image and the playfulness of it. It could even be a dig at the pomposity of gurus at least I hope it is, they often deserve it!

Ray

Comment is about the bird and the puddle (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hi Mae
I have read some of your poems and congratulations on poem of the week. I absolutely adore this poem!

Comment is about Beast in Pain (blog)

Original item by Mae Foreman

thankyou for all the lovely commentsxxx

Comment is about Astranought (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

Congratulations, Mae ❤

Comment is about The Poem of the Week is 'Ring Around the Poison Ivy' by Mae Foreman (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

There are so many things I would change about this piece but I find it incredibly compelling. If this is a example of your work I am very impressed.

Comment is about easy roads (blog)

Original item by racha

It's gratifying that readers can identify with the same feelings I had when going back to those early days, and knowing that the same process goes on today for good reason.

Thank you Peter, you are very kind, that is how I like to work for sure!

Thanks Devon, it's nice how this works through other eyes and triggers similar responses. I'll take that as a compliment - (the Heaney comparison). AFN was another gem of the time playing big band favourites.

Cheers Jason - our imaginations are so alert as kids and can prime us for future repetitions.

Hi David. I love Sailing By, especially on lonely motorways at night. Great that you can share such esteemed memories with me; thanks mate.

Hi Brian. All those names were goodies but mysterious areas unknown to most landlubbers. You've picked two that remind me of shark edged cliffs.

Kevin, whatever turned you on that's ok - I hope it was one of those chromium jobs with a hexagonal head and a morse code button. Luxury.

Thanks Jennifer, another hopeless romantic.

Graham, I loved the balance of the voice under any conditions, and they had to be spot on. Even more powerful when the weather was adverse.

Hi Martin. Dare I say it, but the enunciation was perfect and controlled which brought a sense of authority, (a bit like the speaking clock). As for Billy Cotton, wakey wakey!!

Rachel, Jon and Do. thanks for stopping by (and sailing by).

Love yus all. Ray

Comment is about SHIPPING FORECAST (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Great tribute to a great character. He was larger than life and just like you said if his wife had hated the, "Booby," reference, I'm sure she'd have made that quite clear.

J. x

Comment is about BIG MAC (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Delightful, if sad.
Some things can be seen to add up to a huge sum even when you haven't yourself listed all the bits.

Comment is about BIG MAC (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

"She rips across the sky like lightning bolts across the night."

Favourite line amongst many favourites.

J. x

Comment is about Valiant Valkyrie (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Five lines that carry way more emotional content than five lines should be able to. I really like the way you've expressed something so stark in such a succinct, direct way.

J. x

Comment is about What Was Left of Me Is Now History: (blog)

Original item by Wallflower

Thank you for your kindness.

Comment is about What Was Left of Me Is Now History: (blog)

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Devon, oh Devon, "extracting joy like a bent alchemist?"
Love it.?

J. x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Jabberwock, oh, Jabberwock - first you're a thief of the breath, now you are extracting joy like a bent alchemist slinking away in the night. Wonderful poem and thought. I think that as we age, a differing set of priorities preside, a healthier outlook I suppose. Some may find it hard to cast off the shackles of bitterness, but those that do, live their ends to the fullest.

D

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

And there is nothing more valuable than here and now. There are no pockets in a shroud, as they say.

J. x

Comment is about What I Have (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

Thanks Dorothy, that's very kind of you.
I'm not often completely happy with most of them, but I quite like this one, so thank you very much.

J. x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

The trick is having enough relative to your need. And that doesn't
include the luxuries many think of as being necessities these days.
It used to be called cutting your coat according to your cloth.

Comment is about What I Have (blog)

Original item by afishamongmany

Don- As you can see I can spell; I just don’t know when to stop.
Jason -Luckily not a When Harry Met Sally moment.

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I read your [profile. very interesting.i am on face book as hasmukh mehta . i wrote abt 22000 poems on www.poemhunter.com as hasmukh amathalal

Comment is about Sarah Louise mcnee (poet profile)

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thank you devon for reading and commenting my work

Comment is about easy roads (blog)

Original item by racha

Currently having a coffee in a Tesco cafe, funny how few people appreciate someone laughing out loud in public! ???

J. x

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

That is a tragedy.

Give me love for a moment and I will sacrifice all the worlds treasures for eternity.

Excellent poem.

J. x

Comment is about Poverty (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Cheers, Tom.

Comment is about Poverty (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Using the same format of the six word lines
I have put together something hotter myself called - - -

The Forbidden Zone

I will bring it with me on our August meet up to show you.

Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)

Original item by BlueGirlPoetry

I have put together a poem called Protesters of Poverty
which I intend to read out in the first half of our meeting.

This along with the other poems read will give our guest of the night Greg Nowell a taste of what Stockport W O L is all about!

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

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm pleased you picked up on that. You're not as inept as I thought. You can even spell long words.....?

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

We certainly push the boundaries of ineptitudinessness.

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

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Wow Robert, this is excellent.

Comment is about Poverty (blog)

Original item by Robert C Gaulke

Thanks Don, odd one this, didn't really start with an idea, I just saw the word atrophy with its definition in a dictionary while I was looking up something else. To be honest I like writing that way, when you don't know what's going to come out of your head next, but it seems to happen rarely for me. I think the last one that was like that was, "A Stone For The Miller." ?

J. x

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

This is good Jason. I didn't register the rhyming till half-way through....

Comment is about Atrophy (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I have a sneaking 'spicion
It's you, Jason, to blame
Infecting hallowed WOL site
With silly nursery games....?

Comment is about Mary Had Wristwatch (anyway, who started this nursery rhyme caper?) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Love it ???

Wicked nursery rhymes are go!

J. x

Comment is about Mary Had Wristwatch (anyway, who started this nursery rhyme caper?) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

i think they are beautiful but unfortunately anything vaguely green that comes near me tends to die so i just go to garden centres to stare at them instead.

Comment is about the bird and the puddle (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hey John WOL needs it's raunchies
Politically incorrect
It's called 'Let's push the boundaries'
No matter how inept

Now give our Mindy half a chance
She might be into raunch
Don't worry, just get on with it
Just go fire up, relaunch

(Min's a sweetie. Don't fret....?)

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Constant rhymes keep coming
However they're not penned
We've moved into technology
Keyboarded, then press SEND ?

Comment is about Mary Had Wristwatch (anyway, who started this nursery rhyme caper?) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

And you too, Mindy. Though you might find much of my stuff a bit raunchy and not politically fashionable/correct.

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Leon now you mention
Mary did give yell
Seems your little mouse did
Make her drop her cell

Not only was her wristwatch lost
She didn't hear her cell
Ringing for arrangements
For next lay-sell

(This is deteriorating fast Leon. Why did you let your little mouse on the loose?.....)

Comment is about Mary Had Wristwatch (anyway, who started this nursery rhyme caper?) (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Delighted to make your reading acquaintance!

Comment is about DOING IT TWICE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Great use of word and sound repetition Racha.

D

Comment is about easy roads (blog)

Original item by racha

hickory-dickory-docking Don, do you happen to have seen my pet mouse anywhere by chance? ?

Comment is about Mary Had Wristwatch (anyway, who started this nursery rhyme caper?) (blog)

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