I really like it. Yeah, there are a couple of spelling mistakes but I do that loads too. When words are flowing, you have to keep going.
I would just do a re-read when you've finished but loved the poem!

Jason.

Comment is about Casino dreams (blog)

Original item by Leah

Then be happy with the gamble you’ve taken, MC.

Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I guess pissing on little girls on tape and grabbing pussies is never quite enough to alienate most Americans nowadays.

Shit, Kanye wants to run for president and Trump supports it, why don’t we just dig up Walt Disney to use as a damn coat rack?

Things are never too far fetched when dealing with fools.

Glad you said it, Lisa. He’s like a damn cult leader.?

Comment is about R. kelly (blog)

Original item by Lysa d

It's funny, I'm a crappy gardener, I don't know my grass from my elbow but I love the tranquility of it.

Mind you the poem is about making love, but seems to switch quite well between each metaphorically, at least I hope it does.

Comment is about The Garden (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Refreshingly different . leading to a sort of inevitability draws us in, and the last line of each verse gives it a nice twist.

Ray

Comment is about I Know My Killers Name (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks Jennifer, it is the hardest, most heartbreaking and most rewarding, joyous job in the world, but I think as long as you can laugh and talk, you're probably doing alright.

Comment is about That First Day (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

An effective use of a staccato style , the reverse of flow. Conjures up the mood of the season. Congratulations Rich

Ray

Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Potential’ by Rich (article)

Original item by steve pottinger

That's why I love that saying, "Always tell the truth, or at least try not to lie." It never helps in the end.

Comment is about Little Lies (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks Dave, that I am.

Comment is about Come In, Come Home (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Don't worry, although we all have health problems, (and I have a few), I wrote that more with someone else in mind.

As for my outlook, I refer you to "There Is A Box." (I'm fine ?)

Comment is about I Know My Killers Name (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Don't go without a fight!

Comment is about I Know My Killers Name (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Nice one.
You are a true child of the wilderness.

Comment is about Come In, Come Home (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Web of lies...a chain reaction, an unbreakable cycle....so true!!

Comment is about Little Lies (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

The last line left me wondering?

Comment is about I Know My Killers Name (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I know what you're trying to say Don, albeit with muddled thinking. We are punching way above our weight so it's inevitable that our position in the world will slip.

Comment is about UK's Best Days (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Hi Lisa my breathlessness has come from falling on deaf ears for a great number of years keep up your good work love it Wendy x

Comment is about BREATHLESS (blog)

Original item by Lysa d

Hi M.C., that's fair enough, I can respect that. Although I would consider it an equally "personal" response to the situation.

BW

Comment is about My Brexit Poem (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Thank you for your comment on The Matriarch John. I loved the poem you sent..x

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

Original item by John E Marks

"Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught."

Henry VI Pt 1

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

Original item by John E Marks

Great control of metre/rhythm. Love the musicality of this Martin. John

Comment is about Another hot night (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you Martin for all of your positive comments on my effusions! John

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Elder

Hello Taylor. I loved this and it put me in mind of 'Binsey Poplars' by the great English Jesuit poet GM Hopkins:

Binsey Poplars
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

felled 1879

My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh and following folded rank
Not spared, not one
That dandled a sandalled
Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow & river & wind-wandering weed-winding bank.

O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew —
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being só slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc unselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene.

John

Comment is about The Matriach (blog)

Original item by Taylor Crowshaw

If we had always "played safe" our national story would have been
very different and we need only remember it's a vote to be able to
decide things for ourselves rather than wait on 27 other agendas to
decide for us. Why would that appeal to the English - let alone the rest of the UK? The story continues.....

Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Loved reading this?
Amazing job x

Comment is about A Fine Line between Living and Death (blog)

Original item by April Emmeline

Hi again BW - as I mentioned elsewhere: in my working life I took an
oath of allegiance to our sovereign lady, Queen Elizabeth, her heirs
and successors, and - unlike certain UK politicians, past and present,
I do not consider it to be transferable to the EU, its heirs and successors. As for "common sense" that depends on your state of mind and sense of history.
Regards, MC

Comment is about My Brexit Poem (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

I'm sorry, M.C. Newberry, my comments - intended to explain the strength of my stance in the poem, and maximize the joke about my 40th birthday - and indeed the content of the poem itself could be misconstrued as me seeing this from only a personal point of view. I am of course also able to see that leaving the European Union is/will be an extremely negative thing for all concerned, and most particularly Britain - and I imagine as usual the poorest will suffer. I wish for all our sakes there was the possibility I could be wrong, I really do.

Have a look at the introduction to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - an example of a European project with very laudable aims and intentions concerning mutual understanding and respect: not all European projects are about self-serving politicians and power grabs.

I find it a little ironic that you say "the hidden process of deceit and want of truth that was employed by our own elected politicians" - I thought at first you were talking about the Brexit referendum. I guess you mean the first time around.... but then, we are talking about politicians after all. Let's face it, most people that rise to the top in that kind of job are not actually fit for purpose as the fact that they got there at all, in such a system, means they only have their own self-serving interests at heart. The only true democracy can be the one suggested by Arther C. Clarke in "Songs of a Distant Earth". I don't think self-serving politicians are any MORE of a problem in Europe than they have certainly been endemic and chaos-causing in Britain in recent years (and possibly forever).

Anyway, whatever you think of the reasons and methods we ended up in Europe, it was rather obvious that trying to extract ourselves from an organisation set up with such financial and legal intricacies - necessarily, if it was to have mutual benefits, projects, collaborations etc - was going to be an expensive and unnecessary nightmare.

For sure I'm not pretending France is in a better place at the moment. They seem to have bred their own specific species of rich-serving tax-break politicians.

You may have the better of me in terms of eloquence in expressing these things, but you will never persuade me that Brexit is a good thing, on any level. And as far as I'm concerned that's not personal self-interest or pig-headed idealistic naivety, its pure common sense.

Comment is about My Brexit Poem (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

I don't know how I missed this Stu. All the magic comes through. Vivid and highly coloured with just a glimpse of some turbulence and lovely to see you on here!

Ray

Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Stu,
Thanks for the link to humankindjournal.
I scanned it quickly, then went back and read it again.
The question is whether or not I have enough material that would meet their criteria, but it certainly has given me something to mull over.
I'll keep you in the loop if anything develops.

Regards,
Dave

Comment is about Haiku X 2 (blog)

Original item by David Gabriel Caplan

Alo Fettig is not a real person.

About twice a month, Write Out Loud gets sweeped by spoofers, hackers, and fraudsters. If you ever get it again, don't even bother replying.

They all say the same thing and all are phishing for info.

Just a heads up.?

Comment is about Bonaparte's (poet profile)

Original item by Bonaparte's

Which still rather begs the question why you would vote for something which you don’t know how it will turn out.

Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I think the same thing everytime I have to obey an irrational law not based on evidence.

Comment is about Brexit---Members Only (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I think the same thing everytime I have to obey an irrational law not based on evidence.

Comment is about Brexit---Members Only (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I think the same thing everytime I have to obey an irrational law not based on evidence.

Comment is about Brexit---Members Only (blog)

Original item by d.knape

I hope I have the luxury of being able to choose a peaceful death.

Comment is about No Lingering Death (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Alo Fettig, I tend not to contact people on such a hazy basis. What can I help you with friend?

Comment is about Bonaparte's (poet profile)

Original item by Bonaparte's

Cynthia
You should host a cookery programme that gives us tips on Porridge making... You definitely have a passion for it!

As you say habit is a funny thing. I remember my Mum heating up milk for Porridge in a small saucepan and making it totally in the pan, only at breakfast time mind!

Now, I cheat with Porridge sachets and heat them up in the microwave in two minutes. I could actually easily enjoy a bowl at any time, but upbringing and habit tells me otherwise if I try to change this.

Interesting and funny!

Jon

Comment is about Good Old Plain Porridge (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

JC - the word "sovereign" seems to have been lost somewhere - supplanted by convenience. How interesting - with no hint of irony
evident - to witness the present French finance minister talk of "sovereign Europe" in his interview on "Hard Talk" (BBC News
Channel) while his own country is seized by riots that protest against
their leader as a "president for the rich".(read "elite"...a word that
is more accurate in the EU power-grab scenario).

Comment is about THE RUNAWAY TRAIN (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Keith
Really liked this. An appreciation for things we take for granted rings loud and clear.
Thoughtful as always

Jon

Comment is about A Royal Box (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hey Keith
Very uplifting and hopeful dare I say it, at a time when hope seems lost.
Jon

Comment is about The Cloud of Fear (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Your opening comment about the process making "life significantly
difficult on a personal and professional level" reminds me of my
sister who, with her late husband, decided to leave England and
live in France. Her response to the situation has also been based
in how it affects her "personally". Fair enough.
However, this ignores the hidden process of deceit and want of
truth that was employed by our own elected politicians acting ultra vires and taking us into a pre-planned political power-grab that
clearly had/has no time or interest in the peoples of the nations
drawn into its stealthily spun web in which the likes of the present
French foreign minister (in a country rapidly seeing its own
leader as "president for the rich") can talk about "sovereign (sic)
Europe" without a hint of irony. Clearly, sovereignty has a
different meaning for such arrogant and self-perpetuating political posturing that has no real interest in "the peoples" of the individual
countries it purports to represent (reality translation: RULE).

Comment is about My Brexit Poem (blog)

Original item by Becky Who

Hi David. I appreciate your experience in the field and how it has coloured your perspective; those that will listen may learn , but to what avail? Life threatening events can or should be life enhancing but who can say . My poem was a dig at the sofa psychologists and those who pretend depth of caring as if it was an ingredient in a selected meal.

I'm sure by now that the moderators have run out of moderating capacity too. We'll have to see whether poetry itself is on trial and found guilty through lack of discrimination.( Another word that has been hijacked). A mind that is discriminating makes true choices.

Hi Big Sal, Thanks for the glowing report!

Hi Jennifer; we are a curious lot aren't we, but learning is better. I expect there are many who would prefer to open their paper today to find carnage instead of someone walking.

Thanks all!


Rich, Jon, Anya and Becky thanks for the likes!

Comment is about IT'S ONLY RIGHT (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi D

Hope you are feeling better, the theme is based on a new exhibition that Katherine from the Art Gallery wants us to get involved with.

All the details can be found on the January Write up

Hope that helps

Nigel x

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

I will never think of acid rain the same. Great metaphor. So glad you learned to dance in the good rain for it will heal your soul. ?

Comment is about Acid rain (blog)

Original item by Dana Lee

Clearly, human interaction depends on where and when. The
streets of Delhi are not comparable with those of Tunbridge Wells.
Too much of a good thing can be as unhealthy as too much of a bad thing. So let's settle for a little of what you fancy does you good.
I am content to chat to my local acquaintances of whatever sort
but not too much or too often. Another adage comes to mind:
familiarity breeds contempt. Who wants to meet the town bore - let alone be thought of as one?! As for the Internet: I was a late
arrival but let me say this -
I have no intention to be rude
But I rather like my solitude;
To view the world on a glowing screen
To see but yet remain unseen.
(Unless you are the social type
Who can then log on to Skype!)
………………………………………………..

Comment is about Losing Personal Interaction (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Great writing - every line is so profound and true.

Jennifer

Comment is about Wisdom (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thanks for the likes - Charlotte, Big Sal and Ha'azinu. Juxtaposition from B S - wow! Had to look it up! (Don't tell on me)

Jennifer

Comment is about A meteor (blog)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

Lovely poem - really moving. It's almost impossible to be a mother/father and a Mum or a Dad in the sense I think you mean. The real core of parenthood is that you loved the little boy and now respect the man.

Jennifer

Comment is about That First Day (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

not sweetly play'd in tune! Great poem -Jennifer

Comment is about Robbie Burns warned - (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Absolutely! Hope this doesn't refer to something present in your life?
Jennifer

Comment is about No Lingering Death (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Remarkable. Your words hit my soul as strongly as the acid rain chipped away at your's.
What a fantastic read. Well done ?x

Comment is about Acid rain (blog)

Original item by Dana Lee