Hi, Ann! Thank you so much for your comment on my poem "The Sea". With warmest wishes, Larisa

What other - bad? (Tehe!) ;-) xxxx

as to the poem for moi? Stef-with bated breff-n loadsa the other-xx-(Gxx)

Even though I sometimes find your music taste wanting-as the ideal dancing partner I will always find you totally irrestistable-bolero anyone? or better still,the Foxtrot! shove a rose twixt yer teef Foxo n c'mere!! (and dreams on.......)love you-Stef-xx(G-xx)

Eagle spotting-while Scotting! on hols recently-or did I see the ghost of Cedric after too much consumption of the 'malt? yer never can tell-Scotland....mmmmm! Stef-xx(Gxx)

More in keeping with the purpose of WOL-please please read-if you can get your fragile milky white digits on it,a war poem by Seigfried Sassoon-The Death-bed...blow-away!!! or another absolute fave fave fave of mine-The Hill-by Rupert Brooke-tearjerking stuff.Thanks Ma Scroggins-Wildey-xx(G-xx)

Hello Ann, thank you for your comments on 'Stars' and 'High Tide'. I am also of course taking into account your question of the word 'obnoxious' in 'High Tide' I will try to think of a way to rephrase and will likely change it when I've decided on the alternative, most likely at a later date.

- Josh

Hi, Ann! Thank you very much for your nice comment on "I am a woman". I've changed the end of the poem. Would you be so kind to read it again?
With warmest wishes, Larisa

Hi Ann-thanks again for comments on me'mucky'poem-very kind and funny of you-have a nice evening-Stef-xx(G-xx)

Good morning Sugar-danke for dunkin'as long as you shared the bath with a 'friend' to save water! you prefer love over dosh?-no way! I prefer love-and-dosh-hee..hee.re 'nob'-as in a mans dangly thingy-no k required! see you in the course of time-yours truly-Pagliacci(Caruso) Wilde-xx(G-xx)

Hi again Ann-I do apologise for my clowny comments on your wonderful poem-German youth-I was trying to make you laugh,as you sometimes do with my poems-but on this occasion I came all over in Basil Fawlty style-what a nob! it really was a very moving poem indeed,for which I thank you-regarding the translation-Fur Dich-xx....For you-xx.....Baby,Komm' in meine arme...baby can I hold you? so you see,the comment was,nt too clowny-but I really do love making you laugh-am I excused Miss? thanks Ann-and it was lovely to hear from you again-speak soon(in English)your good friend Stef-xx(Gxx)

Hi Ann,sorry it has taken so long to get back to you, my new arrival arrived a mere 3lb 8oz, bless her but doing wonderful now, I am just about to look and see if the site is still as discursively apathetic as it was, there are so many intelligent and talented, and very opinionated people that frequent this site I was taken aback a little to see that discussion was a little lacklustre to say the least. Hope you are well, take care, Nicky.x

Thanks for your constructive help on Walking the Shore, Ann! I remember you and Ray ganging up once before on another poem of mine, and you were quite right then, too! I see your thoughts are turning to the beach for your latest. Very evocative. Must be the time of year ...

Hello Ann, could I just thank you for your kind comments on Melancholium. I always read your work, although not always comment. You have very good eyes for a scene. Graham

Hi Ann, thanks for your comments on my latest Ghazal... not writen one for ages so thats nice to do. and thankyou for correction to typo. changed it. glad you felt moved by it. win. x

Ann, I happened to read your comment to Pete, about 'secrets' in poems. I think that is a superb way to express it: every poem IS a secret waiting to be unravelled by the reader. I think it is often just as much a 'secret' to the writer. What a great observation!

Yessss! I missed my kitchen dance this week-even though my bizkit was limp-I,ll rub some Shalamar on it-tee hee! or-I could your rub the imagined essence of you all over my Herculean chest-mm-m! Stef-xx(Gxx)

Good evening Ann-re my recent poems-perhaps their sadness was brought on by my sadness at a lovely Ladys absence-who could that be,one wonders? as long as you are back in the fold having enjoyed your truancy,thats all that matters-lots of backlogged kisses for you!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxStef-(Gxxxxxxxxxxxxx)'henjoy ones evening.

Hi, dear Ann! Thank you very much for your comment on my romance "Don't go away". Ann! I am just touched. Your words really encourage me. I'll try to tape another Russian romance and would like to hear your opinion. And the main point is: it's not the question of my voice but of the words in this or that romance. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Good afternoon Ann-just called in to say hello-and hope you are well.hope to hear from you soon-best regards dear-Stef-xx(Gxx)

Good afternoon Ann-assuming that you are enjoying your daughters company,hope you both have a lovely time-speak soon-lots of love-Stefan-xx-(Gxx)

i am glad you like my poem about poets , it's all a bit of fun but isnt it true

Have just listened to smokey bacon and the robinsons-BORINNNNNNG! next time make it 'Rollin' by Limp Bizkit! umph!Stef-xx(Gxx)

Hello Ann, thankyou kindly for your comments on my lil' ol' entries. It truly makes it worthwhile to see people are reading my 'musings' of sorts, I only hope in the not too distant future I can return the feeling.

However, as your already blessed with wonderful admirers - it may be difficult than first conceived, nontheless many-thanks and take care.

If MOdOm will allow this,'er 'umble servant to say obrigado(portuguese for ta)re my airy little poem-hand halso hapologise for being hignorant,re your sad song you chewsed for me from yewchewb-what was the title? I can,t get the link you posted-just put the song title on and I,ll weepalongafoxglove-its not the bleedin cangle dance is it!?-the queerhawk(wife)loves that audio sample! see ya-don,t wanna be ya-Stef-xx(Gxx)

Annie poo,
I missed you too!
I love your picture by the way, beeeeyyotiful you are!
Spring Cleaning was always there and I'm glad you liked it...been reading some of your recent work and I'm entranced. Rose Quartz is incredible.
xxx

Moochual feelings Mother Foxglove! I,ll slow my run down,so you can catch up to me-try and time it,so it is when I,m running through deep grass in the park-woo-oo! and YOU dusting!so you don,t have servants-what a shock!okeydokey-trainers/short(tight)shorts on and-off into infinity!!!!!!!!!!!or praps just up t'hill! lol!(nice to see Rachel McGladdery back by the way)loveya-Stef-xx(Gxx)now don,t hold me up any further! BYE!

Good morning wonderful poet'ess! hey,is,nt it alright for those posh village people who own 'new fangled 'pooters! and get to see lovely foxes walking about.thanks for enquiring as to my weekend break(in gorgeous shrewsbury)have a brill time with your daughter,and Gems is more than welcome to all the kattykisses I send her.off for my morning park run-so 'al sithi later me owd duck(well not too 'owd!)cheers lovely girlie-Stef-xx(Gxx) ps-I listened to your audio 'Lady bedsocks'(lol!) was really enjoying it,till you bawled out the last line-making me jump out of my skin!lol! hope that gives you a larf!

Thanks you ladies... I wouldn't dare do a follow up...but I know a a poet who may??

Perhaps it may be offered as a lemon drizzle prize subject..


LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE

I'm sure Isobel and Francine could arrange that... I'll send the cake overseas if it comes to it... Whatya think ???

Gus xx

Love the audio on ladys bedstraw Ann! It's great to here the poem read in your voice and thank you for the comments on Finger in the Dust. It was about a home destroyed by fire, I'm glad you got that :)Thanks again xx

I can't reply to you Janet as you have disappeared, but you may see this. Just to say that I'm very sorry that you've gone. A sweet good soul has left the building! Good luck! xx

Hello Ann, yes the eye is a bit 'in your face' isn't it. Hazel is the colour, as near to my own as i could find. Green/brown.

Sorry you won't see it again though. I have decided to depart from the site. Keep up with your writing and keep on blogging. No-one can ever accuse you of not having a good comment to poem ratio. It shines from you how much you enjoy the site and interacting with others on here. You remind me of me when i first joined. Unfortunately, the buzz has died as well as the inclination to write.
Bye and thanks for looking in.
Janet.x

Hi Anne, thats fine, thanks for your comments on the Nature poem, the meanings are simply one of people decaying as well as buildings etc, Im sure you already understood that, I was just reflecting back on your cat poem and how that too had layers, great minds think alike! x

thanks Anne on the 'natures seventh seal'poem, I'm hoping you can find some hidden references in there. there are gems for everyone in it.x

Thanks for your comment Ann. I thought you were a french speaker for some reason - must have been that raunchy poem about having fun in Paris! Glad you enjoyed the sound of it, anyway. x

Yea, I Know - I was just having a bitter and twisted moment! xx
haha - don't we all ? - you sound like you're pretty well sorted to me. all the best. B xx

Good morning Ann-hope you are in good form this morning.thanks for reply re youtube etc.I,m nicking off for a few days as from today-try not to be too heartbroken-best regards-Stefxx(Gxx)

Hello Ann!Thank you for your comment on dandling the baby!I created the music 2 days ago (and the new on my profile) for a show I'm doing but thought they sounded rather daffy when placed with an image. Yes, the granddad does look like Hugh Gaitskel! I hadn't noticed till you mentioned it. And I absolutely love your audio piece -- it's beautiful, mesmerising, and there's something mysterious and ritualistic about it that makes it seem a tad threatening -- as in a kind of bewitching. All your work has the thrilling fizz of enchantment about it. xxxx

Hi Ann-I,ve been on yoochoob-'Tell him' was by Billie Davis.Cor! she was a beaut-nearly as nice as you! do you remember another song she sang,call 'Angel of the morning'-?-lovely song and an apt name for you! unless you kip on the wrong side of the bed(your own..boo-hoo)hope you do have a peaceful night-see you on the morrow-all the georgey best-Stef-xx(gx)

was,nt 'tell him' by some other bird? all those years ago,when you played them on your steam powdered dansette(oh! poem there Ann!)ta loveydove-dreamboat-xx

Thanks Ann for your heartwarming reply.I think people like that must have no compassion and don't think about the effect that comments can have and its a case of ..kick a dog when it's down..I am so glad that my inner strength kicks in but just think of the poor soul who doesn't have that inner strength ..no I don't want to think of that as it is so sad. I send love back to you ...Bernadette x x ps. my view is people have the option to not offend so why do it,and keep an open mind don't forget to read between the lines x x

we got to Alma by means of your adressing me as-dreamboat-or was I dreaming it in the miggle of da mornink'-sad re poems reality eh-gonna read it a few times-very inspiring re spin offs-(forgive the unintended pun-really)terrible tragedy.And so re Alma-do you meant to say I,m as old as your Pa!-lol! Stef-xx

Hi Ann just noticed your comment on my blog entry ..Hopeful Recovery...Thank you so much for fighting my corner for me .At the time of the entry I was going through a relationship breakdown and was very emotionally charged which reflected in my poetry. I hadn't long joined WOL.and had already expressed that I was a novice.I looked up the person concerned's profile and it spoke volumes to me regards his character this did make me feel less upset but nevertheless I didn't submit any entries soon after that as at the time of reading that comment it really stung and knocked my confidence a little.I can now happily say that I am now over that period in my life hence I decided to try again this week and I am more than pleased at the positive comments that I have received so once again thank you...Bernadette x x

thankye for your comment... it's always good to see your happy face

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Thanks Ann for your positive comments .If you go to my blog entries you will see my full reply . I am still finding my way around the site and am not sure where to put what ! thanks..x x Bernadette Herbertson

Hi Ann thank you for the lovely comment, sorry I had to make you go to my home page to say so, I had a bit of trouble loading it, I must have pressed the wrong button or something.Luv TC ;-) X

You should try being me for a day - greasy hair, adolescent spots and wrinkles to contend with! They can map the human genome but they still can't cure acne - unbelievable...

getting on a bit ?? - hang on - where's me other glasses....

thanks for reading my poem Ann, I wrote it fast, and went away for a few days. Another poet has kindly edited it since , I might publish it . That has been interesting to see someone else fettle a poem :)

Hi Ann, thanks for comments on "Flesh". I often do put in the odd humorous comment, so the "too hot to handle" line was intentional, but if any of the rest sounded comical then it wasn't intended! I shall post a free verse version as well.
Lol, love your comment on him being a language teacher! My REAL guy is the one who started to snore in "Warm Embrace", so this guy could be anything really, though I did say French AFTER A FASHION! Lol, Lynn xx

please refer to me as Blind Pugh,in future-shudda gone to SexSavers! re rangy/rangey/lone ranger..can you Hexplain and put this old 'eart out of misery...and bleedin' BOREDOM! gerron wivvit! talk about milkin' a joke....hee..hee Wilde Stefan-grrr

Ann. Ta for your comments on Anything Goes. It's one of my Leonard Cohen impressions.

groovin' ms. Foxy

Hi Ann - thanks for your kind comments on 'Excess memories :) As you say it probably isn't a typical example, though I do tend to go with the mood of the moment.

Best wishes, Dave

How nice to wake up to a load of blimmin typical Foxglove cheek! and all I,ve ever done is to be on constant standby for you when you struggle with spellings-but I am very grateful that you have plumed my 'elmet,despite the pain!this middle distance you mention..how far is that from St Ives? and is it really as rundown there as they say? and finally I would like to know if you have managed to stay off the wine this morning-your friend and hero-Mr reformatory school boy Wilde-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Ann - but you're barely out of your teens yet !
(crimplene & tweed)

Hi Ann-I purposely made that mustache(nearly moustache!)to check if you were paying notice! lol! ta lovey-catch you later-Mr.W-xx

Memo.to one very desirable young St.Ivean wench-dear MADdam,my most profound fanx for observations re 'used'as for my erect sword(not the pork one)it was there to protect your most feminine 'onour and to keep unworthy male scoundrels from beating me to your buzzems-I shall eternally and yea verily(again...yawn)remain in a high state of sexual excitement at the very 'menshun of thy name,albeit somewhat imagined(am I right Gertie Scroggins?)I have now rescabbarded it and replaced it with the photo you see of my sexually attractive self,which is actually a projected image of how I shall look when I actually get to the age of ninety-in seventy years time-until then,my gossamer wing-ed delight-keep a place for me on thy cliff edge rock-seat, one day,Somebody might just sit alongside!yer never know yer luck(now wheres me suitcase?)I remain dear Lady(ah!)your bed chained servant-Commander Wilde Ist battalion the Salvation army apple corp(se)take this slavering kiss on account,till I darken your doorstep-X-ps-I,m not quite sane by the way,did you notice?

you are too funny for your own good-or anyone elses...thank evvens! nitnite chuck-zzzztefan-xx

mustachioed/moustached?? take your pick madam! but NEVER..moustachaeioud!good job your beauty makes up for your lack of spelling capabilities..ex-grammar school girlie! and as for whatever happened to 'Mr Handsome'-is that comment good or bad? lol! MouStefioed-xx

no tent life for me young Lady-I can never get my herculean shoulders through the openings(of the tent)heres a hanky in the meantime-aint time mean! tata for now Fox Anngloves-xx

Hello Ann,
Cheers for reading and commenting on 'How To Fix A Broken Man'. I've replied in the comments section of the poem, but I'll also tell you here - the 'marine on the beach' line was something Darren wrote himself in the comments under the poem, I haven't edited the poem since first putting it up and that line was never in the poem. He's a sneaky one that Mr Thomas.

Glad you enjoyed it! Even if you read lines that were never there! x

Thank you Ann for reading my latest, i know it's quite a task lol You were right about the missing word - i hadn't seen it despite several read throughs lol

You!!! you make me sick with your worldy knowledge! eyebrows...my left foot! I wanted the (w)hole of her! yum-yum! aw!!being rude on a Sunday!now put that wine away and get yer nightshirt on! NOW!!!!Stef-xx(Gxx)

oh I am impressed! and oh! was,nt she a peach!(Julie Driscoll)another starter for ten-what was her backing group called? mmm-now then! smartypants!-Stef-xx(Gxx)

ha! re last comment-your memory serves you well!(who sang that then? ah-ha!you are funny Ann-thank heavens(to murgatroyd)exit stage left-whose catch phrase was that then? ah-ha-arrrr!lottser luv-Stefan(snagglepuss)Wilde-xx(Gxx)

shoodoowop? wottdattden?

Hi Ann, hope you are well? Thanks for commenting xx

Thanks for commenting on my latest Ann. If I don't always thank you, it's because I tend to make assumptions with people I feel I know. x

Good morning Ann-nipped on to send you a big 'ug n kiss-may the day be kind to thee-nipping off now-Stefan-X-(Gxxx)

Oh yes m'dear I do have teef-one-I use it for central eating-hee..hee.
I also have a large organ-all the young ladies gather round it at summer solstice and adorn it with nettles-ouch! S(teef)an-xxx

see if this raises the corners of yer pie-hole(mouth to you)only to make yer chorkle(not mine by the way)

A flea and a fly in a flue
were imprisoned
what could they do
said the flea let us fly
said the fly let us flee
so they flew through a flaw
in the flue.

big kiss wiv teef in-Stefan-X!

A funny poetic reply do I see
from a lovely being that art thee
with normal dialogue shall we
disperse
make future contact in verse
I,ll be mum and pour tea.(twynings!)terrarr-Stefanski-x(Gxx)

OK! a groat it shall be-mmm,groat...rhymes with scroat,old goat...

I,being a lonely old scroat
for Anns favour,it cost me a
groat
when she tried to inspect
my phallus erect
she said you might as well
get yer coat.

that was based on a true
story,(I once dreamed about)best regardo,s dearie-Stefan-x(Gems-xx)

Hi dearie-I was,nt referring to the spots/freckles/freckmore/frecklesses on your beloved countenance-twas yea verily the cheeks that fall in behind-(ooer missis)damn your beauty!-you remind me of a porcelain stattuete-cold,and unapproachable-(except from the rear)one day I will take you away from all this madness of the crowd.How much will it cost me-I do have a post office account(mainly plugged nickels and washers)now where are those little blue pills-Stefan Bonaparte-x

Good morning O paganish person.Once again,my little efforts belittled moreso by a candle-dancing naughty nymph! I happen to belong to the poetry police.You can expect a knock on your door shortly,and it won,t be Morse,it will be me,(real name Inspector Dick)-and thats Worse! I look forward to savaging your next pohwims wot yoo ryte.You only get one kiss today for your cheek(the one with spots on)cheers gorjuss-Stefan-x(Gemma-xx!)

Hello, Ann! Thank you very much for comment on "Two souls"

Hi Ann,
Thanks for all the comments. (Even on the stuff that isn't up your street.) Liked your poem about the hound. What about the speckled band? Did it die in the safe?
Dave

Good evening Ann-(and Gemma!)thank you for kind comments on'Opening break'hope you are both well-Thanks-Stefan-xx

cheers ...we dig your foxy photo too...

grazie, Ann, per il tuo commento genere di 'Hamsihagos' Deb x

Good evening Ann-re 'Frailty'you are too kind-for which I am very grateful.My thanks and very best regards-Stefan.

Hi Ann - thanks for commenting on "It only Ends Once", nice things pop up when least expected (A cliche but true)Nice new pic by the way :-) win X

Ah-ah! so there you are(poetry)re choo-choo,s-indeed I did work hard on this-hence it being worthy of a dedication to a beautiful inspirer-thee! you really had my long suffering wife and me'self up in arms over your unusual absenteeism! wife suggested you might have been doddering about on the beach musing to yourself and inadvertantly fallen under the hooves of the donkey rides-I dissagreed saying it was more likely one of your hang gliding strings snapped,sending you off course-straight into the arms of George Clooney,sunbathing on Blackpool beach? thank heavens you are still blessing us with your pleasant presence-I now need to once again have a cold shower from the effects of looking at your STUNNING picture-what a BABE! thanks Ann-Stefan

That's a lovely pic Ann - your eyes look very blue!

Just copped your cheeky comment re 'me motor-ah well,some of us are getting newies soon-but I wont show it off-will send you valley car-less pix soon-you blummin stunner! ta Ann-Stef-x

OI! whats your game?looking all foxglovey glam! remember my weak heart if you don,t mind-phew! give me warning next time-S-S-S-SSTEF-X

Oh what a beautiful photo! You luminesce! xxxxx

thank you Ann : ))

I've changed emails: moxycasimir0@googlemail.com
Just been on a storytellers' course and discovered I'm a jester! Play, silliness, joyous craziness --- that's my bag! Or, I am that bag!

A very good (zzzz)morning to you Ann.It would seem that we both must look like(as me' poor old 'faytherr used to say)two baggy eyed bullies! lol! hence the popping of pills for me last night-not a habit,only when its necc. one hastens to add.Where might I ask is the excuse-you note for your week-ends absence? or were you giving the cranials a rest from composing? look forward to your forthcoming one.I hope your day goes well and thank you for commenting on my insomniac'al rantings.And yes I did change the ending,as it gave nme something to do for five more minutes-lol! thanks Ann.Stefan-ps hope you did,nt fall to sleep reading this waffle!

Good evening Ann-one new valley pick coming soon(without the motor!)and more importantly,were,nt you such a cute child! hope all is well down your neck of the woods-sorry for so much waffle today-my very best regards to you-Stefan.

A-very!-good morning to you Ann.Apart from your kind remarks on my school poem-your kindness and forgiveness blows me away! you REALLY are a loving person.And like myself,people could help themselves by taking a leaf out of your book-indeed!re comments on poems it is a shame when many brilliant poems blogged(IMO only)don,t get the recognition deserved.There again I think along the way,most are at least read which to me is sufficient enough.But when we comment on poems its wrong I think to expect the person in question to then feel obliged to comment on our poems.That would lose the quality of comments maybe? While it is nice to recieve comments,I think we,ll survive if not(don,t mean that nastily)after all its wrong of us to assume each of our poems are masterpieces(like I personally think ninety nine percent of yours are-sincerely!I love-all-the poems(every single one)on here,in their own way they add to inspiration do they not?but I would never-never-imply any of them being of lets say,lesser quality.Lets allow people to be able to improve,like myself,as we go along.Pardon the waffle,but I,m just trying to voice a fair opinion.Thanks for adding happiness to my day-the same must go to you,from me with many many thanks-Stefan.

I don't think she saw me scribbling in my notebook, Ann! That poem and the one I've just posted tonight came out of two days of travelling on the trains of East Anglia. They're only fragments, really, and I suppose I should have worked on them more, but what the hell! Glad you liked Angel Hill

In case you are interested - Chris Co came first, Pete Crompton second, and Stella (a poet on here) came third.
I was pleased in that I know I performed well and the audience liked it - you can't ask more than that. All the winners were very deserving!

Good morning Ann-off out? then have a really nice day dear-thanks again Stefan.

Thanks Eagle eyed Ann, that was a genuine spelling mistake, have changed it on the blog entry. win x

Hi Ann, Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment on 'Coming Home Without You'. A lot of us find ourselvs in this situation. The 2 bowls with their chocolate milk tears were actually there as I walked in and they stopped me in my tracks. Win x

Hi Ann, belated thanks for your comments on Descent Into The Maelstrom. Its just about the spiral of a man who losses touch with life and its comforts. Win :-)

Good evening Ann-thank you very much for nice comment on naughty school days.I can say with all honesty it is not a repeat-lol! would,nt dare incur your wrath,and be put in the corner with a pointy hat on-imagine teachers trying to imply that rule today! I think best not to extend the story of my other school days-approximately a thousand-in reformatory school-turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to a young scallywag that I was then-unlike the gentleman I am today(yeah rite!)thanks ever so much-Stefan.ps-did my yarn amount to one hundred lines? yes? oh Ann,you need to get out more! (me jesting)

Yes - was planning to do that Ann. I did loud and ranty at the Wigan slam and they seemed to be looking for quiet and thoughtful - knowing my luck it will be the other way round this time!

Thanks for your input - tis appreciated!

Hi Ann - "pearls" - many thanks for the very kind comments. B

Your wish is my command!

Thank you Ann, both for comments and for sharing your poem

hello ann , thankyou for reading and commenting on my peg poem :) my sister collects vintage laundry tackle and displays it at farmers events , so she was really chuffed with the poem :)

Ann! Thank you for your comment on "Child". I was just looking at a small child another day and thought that i'd be annoyed if people stare at me, even lovingly, when i sleep.

I like your "Pink"! It's about pain, but pain small, curable and self-inflicted, so it's quite comfortable to read, although of course u feel sorry for poor burnt person :-)Unfortunately it was about yesterday's weather - and now - back to normal! X

Just looked now, didn't realise you meant today!! When i had looked on the net for the definition, one was 'a collector', i took that context.
urgh! such a confuddled morning today!! xx

Hi Ann, i honestly haven't seen that, i had written the word down months ago but wasn't able to do anything wqith it. I go back to my notepad sometimes and just sort of look at the words i have noted down and see what happens. Reaverman came from that x

Hi Ann. Thanks for commenting. Hope you understand if I don't always say thank you. The WOLosphere could get awfully clogged up. That survey of yours sounds really interesting. More power to ya!

Hello Joyous, Magnanimous & Glorious Poet! Thank you for your very generous comment on my biog. Life is one dickens of a doozy, ain't it?! Merry hours and funny days to you :) PS. I love the new photo. What are you staring at in the distance? xxx

Hi Ann,

I had hoped the nursery rhyme type thing worked! Thanks for your comments. I kind of do believe in evil as an 'living' entity but i think it's a sketchy area, particularly in a child so young. Does make me want to know more though. Look forward to seeing yours soon x

Hello Ann. Glad you liked Brown Study. I should imagine there's too many people on WOL for a similar exercise to be successful.I'm not in touch with that poet any more. Her name is Suzanne and she lives in Finland. Not much help really is it!

Hi Ann, thanks for commenting upon my sub-aqua fairy tale :) Glad you enjoyed it - best wishes, Dave

Thanks for your comment on my latest Ann - I've stuck an explanation on the poem. x

"..and as your toes you flex,
sense there once stood as you,
tyrannosaurus rex!"

Thankyou eagle eyes. Win ;-)

Good morning Ann.love your new picture.you are as beautiful as your poetry-pardon late thanks for comments on'flawless blush'-Stefan.

Hi - Ann - yes I guess we should WALOP. Only problem being that people must email me with poems they feel worthy of nomination, for us then to all to vote on a winner. I have only had a couple of people do that so far. Do you have a list for me? If so, do email me... I will put a reminder up tomorrow. I guess Pandora's box may end up on two lists - but that doesn't matter, since the original idea was just a bit of fun.

Hi, dear Ann! Thank you very much for congratulating me with my birthday. Your birthday is on the 26th of May, isn't it? We are really spiritually very close to each other. My congratulations to you. We say here: better late than never. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Hi Ann,
Thanks for your very generous comments on 'Play Me' - you're up the right tree, so to speak, though - no, sadly, no lover present.
You should definitely post yours! - I love Sheherezade! :)
Cx

Hello, Ann! I would like to thank you for your comment. I enjoy reading your poems. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Hi Ann, I think the running order for Women of the World is fine; I'm surprised you haven't had more comments. Funnily enough, the last poem I posted was the first one that I had written for more than 30 years!

yee har miss foxy... thankye for 'patience 'n'all -done gone gotten them thar Jethro Q. Walrustity gnomes up agin' jus' for yoo hooo - next up's gonna be techno gnomes innit

;)

Thanks for your comment Ann, much appreciated.
Cx

Found this today, made me laugh out loud...

"For those of us who cannot spell
I name this website ROL"

x Win

Hi Ann - "later than you think"
thanks for the kind coments. B

thankye Ann for taking time to listen to "Country Girl"

- I appreciate that ; ) x

...& yesh I concur with your initial findings ( although Greg was concerned that i was possibly becoming elegiac... )
yet twoof can indeed be strangler than friction cos it were all right "bullocks" t'be sure ~ with 100% added BSE t'boot from a country Ermintrude... 'kin left me best wellie in the mud as well I did...

x

Hi Ann - liking your new photo :) Best wishes
Dave

Thankyou so much for the comments Ann!!
Take care x

Oops I normaly call you Annipoo ha ha my wife's twin is called Anne so you see my fingers think they know how to spell better than me !! except the don't ha ha...TC XX

Hello Ann
Just got your comment on my page about abandoning ship.
Please don't.
I haven't followed all the thread I commented on as I've had two problems. Firstly, I was in Scarborough on holiwags so I could only respond by mobile text and secondly, I've got worms computer virus kinds) so I haven't been able to log on when I got back home.
Anyway, I don't know all the thread, the heat etc. All I'd say is you seem a nice person and the site would be poorer without you.

Love your fluffy bunny TC XX

Thank you for your comments Ann, I'm glad you like it. Really like the ruins poem, brings back memories of childhood and the way you see the world

Thanks Ann, it's nice to be appreciated :)
Cx

Hi Ann,
Thanks for commenting, glad you like Avon calling. You were right about the loo by the way xx

I enjoyed reading your poems on here, Ann,especially Why Can't I Find a Man who can Dance. (I never found one either!!) Love the Dray too!

Thanks for letting me know Ann - take care :) Best wishes, Dave

Hi Ann - you are very welcome, a lot of inspiration comes from reading and I like to acknowledge that :)

hi anne. thanks for all your astute comments on my poetry.
regarding the frustration toward men who cant dance I completely relate. as a ballet dancer in my youth the competition for the usually only male dance partner was fierce and I developed a well honed skill of relating to gay men :) In irish dance the male dancer always won everything and given the best parts and treated like gods cos they were so rare...in swing roc or any salsa type classes women would snarl and fight each other with bitching if they had to share their husbands with excess girl dancers specially as men like to dance with me cos im good! although some men just get that ole thing 'id rather f*** my dog than dance with you' dont worry i dont actually have a dog;)but the best dance of all for me is the argentinian tango...i still dance it as its open to all ages and is the most sublime intuitive dance between partners. i was fortunate enough to claim the best looking, best moving man in the room. Clive...i miss him so but hope to meet up again at the next big milonga then sweep the room all caught up in the thrill of it all...ah.
i love that you write about dance x

Please don't Ann; not on my, or indeed anyone's account. I meant what I said. No one should ever feel thay have to quit because of the words/actions of others. We all add our own colour to this place, and it would certainly be a lot less colourful without you around. Love your new pic by the way, reminds me of something I once wrote ...
Take care of yourself,
Best regards,
A.E. X (and Albert, of course X);-)

thanks Ann x

Hi Ann - thanks for the very kind comments for both of the last 2 poems. B

They have gone to a a poem orientated planet in the 5th dimension of course... ha ha I thought you would have know that !!Love TC XX

Oh, I definately will then! Haha!

Do not put your gorgeous mush on-some lousebound oaf will steal you off-of-me!! and I will go hoff hin ha huff! shh-pretend we,re not friends-otherwise the blindfold goes on!! haha!-oh you make me laugh!! thank WOL!!!! Stefano-De-Buggerlugs....xxxxxxxxx

Good evening fair maiden! thanks most spiffingly for comments on-on and on and on and zzzzzz! haha-still replaying your Laurel video-so so clever and stunningly read-goes without saying to ask you to keep them coming-so I won,t say it..hee...hee-Stef-xxxx

Grrrrrrrr all you like-one day I will tame you-believe me! love-Steffs-xxxxxx-ps sleep evades-muscle toning does not! wheres me weights!

Catch you later-TIGRESS!!! haha!-Stef-xxx

Thanks Ann-catch you tomorrow-lots love-Stefan-xxxxx

Hi Ann-you suggested that I should not be blue-its a damn sight better than being grey-it colour codes with the-summer?-skies as well-thanks Stefan.

Good evening-this is Stef control to Major(ette)Ann-have you taken your protein pills and put yer 'edphones on??-love-Stefanoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx+x

Thanks for the link Ann - yes it did go on a bit - I guess sometimes you just have to be there! It is good to see old traditions being kept alive though. So much of our culture is now influenced by American TV.
I had a good bank holiday anyway - for once made a trip South that didn't involve painful traffic jams each way. Perhaps the bad weather put people off travelling!
Hope you had a good one. x

hey up Foxface!! there is no ending to your cheek(its that long too!!!)haha!! behave!! Stefferlytiss-xxxxxxxxxx

Ta for your kind words, Ann. There was a pop song many moons ago that had a fade-out which included the lines "Keep on dreaming!" Wish I could remember who sang it.Maybe it'll come to me. * I prefer the romance of the north to the south. Mind you, I know there are plenty of windswept moors in the west country as well!

*Remembered it. Never Had a Dream Come True, Stevie Wonder

and you call that an excuse?? you'll never make Poet Laureate at this rate :)

Durr - now I feels a proper ijit.
I'll go & stand in the corner of the class where I belong.
No - I never did read it, but it certainly makes sense & your poem even more vibrant. Well done ! Your next mission - if you decide to accept it - is to write a limerick about Seaborgium - and no, I've not just invented it ! B

Hi Ann - MORE INFO - great poem - & I'm not just saying that because.....
BTW - nothing wrong with a little "doggy style" anyway if you get my drift :) Also - phosphorus for a hound of the baskervilles might have a certain "logic" anyway, because (pardon me if you know already) phosphorus glows in the dark - hence the name - so that'd be decidedly spooky at night seeing just 2 eyes bounding across the moors towards you !! I think that would certainly get MY attention :0

Thanks for laughing-with. For your next imagining: 'Lunch with the man I never met'?

Hi Ann - Edward - I dont think he's died. Calcium - I really dont know - it's just the feeel of the word - the shape of the word in your mouth. A bit like how some guys look really dapper in a bow tie & others just look a complete tw*t. And he does look like a chemistry teacher - dont you think? all the best. B

Ann, thanks for your kind remarks on Analgesic. I'm not a smoker myself for 20 years. I do feel, though, that the focus on smoking has gone over the top. I think it's a form of displacement; we'd do far better to restrict the use of the motor car.Wine is the most wonderful thing in the world. Apart from football.

Yes - I am lucky that I don't put weight on easily, despite eating everything that's bad for me. I do have a definite marsh mallow bottom though - thankfully the pics on here never show that!
Re the male body - you and me both on that score! LOL

Hi Ann. Thanks for the advice. I managed to sort the format out. on that latest blog.Cheers. Your ever grateful nephew. Ken.x

Hi Ann. I didn't intend it to be in one great lump, just the way it turned out after pasting.Anyway it's nice to find I have a surviving relative.Great Aunts are very thin on the ground at my age. Ken.X

ay lass, tha's reet - if we all had a good gawp every now an then t'world'd be a much better place. just off fer me tripe & whippets...

Catch on quick don't I. Ken E.D.

Hi Ann - "Amongst Equals & For Now" - many thanks for your kind comments. The latter could indeed be a cat looking at a king - I never thought of that - but it was just me, on a first date, gawping. B

good 'ere innit

you hear 'bout 'vaughn williams? he,s had title of classical piece changed to 'lark ASHending! tee hee
-ok me is off tu the hee-hee-lands-'al sithee soon jimmy...Stef Mcwilde-hoots mon!theres a moose loose a..(oh shut up,Wilde!!!)xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

may the bread rise up to greet you
may the wind not come out the back!
may the sun shine through the ash
may the rain not fall while jogging
until theres meat for tea,
may God send you to where palm tree,s grow................
..on a one way ticket!!haha! love
ya dudechops! Stef-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello Ms Foxglove! Yes, being an obsessive imaginer and vegan (oh but I sometimes sneak the occasional organic milk yoghurt/organic full milk tapioca pudding!) means I'm in a perpetual state of horror. I was thinking to rectify this by taking a course in taxidermy. Arghhhhhhh!

A very good afternoon lovely Lady.Hop I find you well,this fine day.A late brekky now and then get me mince pies fixed on'Blackthorn'
catch you later on today-cheers big ears----Stef-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Ann-thanks re me poor old Pappa
-what a waste of a wonderfully educated life--thats the old demon booze for you.Sad to see anyone in this state.Off on the Rossendale road now-catch you soon-Stef.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ann, do you ever get the impression that poems are read so 'quickly' that responding comments are really off the mark, as much as comments are appreciated. This is a personal question.

if ever there was a cad and a boundah-verily tis thee oh taker of the urine!!!!haha-funnychops! Stefxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Gloria? well its one of them there doxolgy fingys aint it mate! and the uvver Gloria woz a tart works darn ar chippy who knows how tu batter cod(pieces!) Stefaneeto-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good morning my favourite poet(ess)not actually up the dodgy ladders yet.Had big lie in! oh me 'owd bones!What a lovely creaking sound they make!Get bunging some more of your good gear on here dude,I need
a good read with 'me brekky!Catcheth thee later...Stefan-xxxxx

Thank you Anne

you are fartoo kind and long suffering...

Thanks again
Gusxx

It makes my day when I log in and find a new blog entry from you.

Hey you! you did,nt say fanx for the matching muffin!!...hee..and..ho! Stefan-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good morning Ann-thank you for commenting on 'unkindly remembering'indeed sombre,but sadly based on closely related true 'episode'And no don,t let the divinci foxglove code get broken,otherwise...HELL TO PAY!! ha! lots of love-Stefanxxxxxxxxxxx

Hey Ann, thanks, X

I always keep abreast of the times!

were you able to stick that $£$&**** that fell off,back on?

have you ever seen the size of my $%$^((^%%%^^^-? its humungus!(or is that fungus?) $$&*** knows!

oh! go and £%$^%&^&& yourself!

No need to take that tone of voice!! ;-)

And the same to you with ;pmjkmn544877777%%%%5 on!

Good morning precious! slept as though beneath an angels wing-ta! On hearing first Cuckoo,I win! you seeing first swallow,makes it a score draw.At the museum don,t stand still too long,people might mistake you for an exhibit! a bulging bag of kisses-Stefano-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Ann, it was an experiment. The picture is a self portrait by a friend and I stared at it for a while and wrote 'portrait' so it is purely about what the image said to me rather than the person in the painting. He is painting something inspired by one of my poems, so it will probably be a big miserable mess :-) thanks for your interest!

John

Hi Ann. glad you liked my latest offering and thought it was Ace, surely that should be Acer? (groan). Win

thankyou for your comments on my poem :)

i like ruins best, the best. i like the daydream and the other world you portray. good stuff. ps. i used to think the girl in your profile pic was me- in a younger, different sort of life x

Thank you, as always, for your fab comments. Your poems are gorgeous, fun, unique and energised. Always!

Just reporting in my dear Lady to say,hope you had lovely day-I wonder how Rachel went on,on Lancs radio?-catch you later Ann-lotsa lerv....Stefan.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do stop mumbling on about deleting!!and yes I am off to lay(not anally)lots n lots of bricks-When my Sunhouse is ready for the grand opening-I may invite you to cut the ribbon-lovely Rhondda day here-Aldi,s first for my shopping-ya got ten minutes dood to spout any more further bullshit-haha! then I,m having it away on my tuttsies! Stefan the Builder(of all things wobbly-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Haha!!! oh you lovely little hignoramus norvegicus! Carol Ann Duffy is the poet Laureate! God bless your enclosed little Cornwall world.By the way,this 'ere animal lover forgot his animal loving manners in not asking how your cat is and patting on the furry cranium-Gem! so heres a pat-n-kiss for her--pat-pat-xxxx-later Mad-am-Stefxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mmmm better than being down in a sewer - on the end of a skewer! (Oooer, sounds like we're back in Dogshite Alley!) bye bye my pet (rattus) xx
P.S. Carol Ann who? I bet she took longer to write her though! I'm the fastest poet in town! xx

psst! Carol Ann Duffy read her-VOLCANO-poem on radio 4-It could be better than yours....FIGHT!!! Ill be your second(without the towel though woo-oo! Stef.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Oh! as Victor Meldrew would say-'I don,t believe it!I,m being sincerly honest now,those are MY favourites to-oo-oo! And oh! if we could indeed be together for a thousand years,my strange little girl,it would always be sunny! cop for this bag of kisses(no tongues mind!)on account,till our precarious path,s meet again-until such time,my bonnie Lass,keep ye trossachs warm and do put a clean vest on in case you get run over by a sight-seeing bus.Porridge and fruit time now-MWOAH! BE HAPPY my Darling-Stef.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good morning my dear friend.Hope you slept well(dreaming of me!)I honestly can,t get the links you kindly sent.Is it possible to just give me the titles?
I,m very curious to see what your choices were.Hope also very much that your day goes well.Morning excercises for this old duffer now.Catch you later,sweetness and light!(don,t laugh!)Stefan.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Ann - i've already left this comment somewhere, but I screwed up. Yes - both Foal & Botany are very good indeed, but for me Coromandel has it all - perfect. B

hey cobbychops-I tried again-no suck-cess? I thought the link was in blue? hey up! I just seen a gremlin running out the door-larfin-??????? try again after I finally get me gonads scuffed-Stef-ps this is gonna make me ill!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

oh my sainted painted aunt! the elastic band in me pc has snapped mayb-hang on to ones hollyhocks you hottentot!-Stef-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I,m gonna be up to my gonads in Stranglers links-THAT DON,T BLOODY WORK!! give me stwenth!oh I,m off to was me gonads 'int baff!(and the rest of my Herculean fizzykew-ahem...scuse me...Stefculees-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

bet its La folie! ken not? no yer kent!oh that made me cho'rkle-Stefly-xx

OH!!!! YOU LITTLE KREEP!!! ok I,ll believe you like the 'stwanglers!
but is that as much as you like Mrs Mills and Tessie'o'Shea?haha-lets dance!!! as Bowie sings!! wheres me kloggs?-your yummingly-oojit-xxxx

Once again Mad-am,you have sought yea verily to commenteth on my diversities(ooer missis!)as to my BURNING desire to yea verily and gadzookingly make you the subject of every forthcoming piece of artistry(ha!)My intentions Mad-am, were quite honourable enough,and with goodly heart and reasoning.Be assured oh doxy from shite alley,I do not now,nor yea verily see thee as a stubble faced yobbeth,only as the softest sweetest,fairest,kindesteth,most beautiful Rose that ever graced the garden,and yea n wotsit again wouldst my heart dearly love to pluck you! (pluck!)so repose upon this beloved footnote(foot!)my sweet thingy,if one could attach flowers and choclates to every dedication thenst verily would that be my ongoing desire-there would be p+p to pay for though,as I need most of my ill gotten gains for various beauty products,as you can see,it has been moneyeth well spent has it not-to end this most excellent piece of correspondence,I would asketh thee this question-do you think I,m going mad,if verily your answer be yea,then I better slingeth my 'ook before I go even maddereth-until then hearts desire,I bid you a fond adieu-the nuthouse opening hours are seventy'o'clock till twelvety past six-(now,where are those pills?) I remain your obedient fingy-Mr Stefan-Erasmus-Wilde-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ann, thanks for your kind words. We happened to be camping in a forest last week when the election was announced, hence the politics.

My Dear Madam,please find enclosed,a warm velvet box of thanks,and a piece of my heart,for your kindly observation and long worded(not winded)commentario on my poem,of which I dream constantly that you could be the subject of that and every forthcoming poo-em.I remain Mad-am,your most loyal and undeserving friend,whipping boy,old smelly goat,and the next best thing to sliced bread(when its gone mouldy!)I shall continue to hold you in great esteem,with praise of all heartfelt nature.As to further comments,my dear lady,be careful not to wear out the tips of your dainty digits by having to send me such extensive comments in the future.I worry something 'orrible that you may overdo your lovely little self in so doing.I bid you the most fondest of farewell,s my dearest.I must away to horse now,my porridge awaits! have a lovely day,MY precious girl....Ahem!...Mr Wilde of Rhondda Cottage..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

if that poets image is what a doxy looks like,can I have two groats worth please? I knew you were blummin 'gorjuss! and I can,t see the green wellies-fond farewell Madam.I remain your 'umble servant and whipping boy....ahem (again)Mr Wilde D.F.C-M.B.E.-BBC 1&2..X

Coo-ee!!! wherefore art tho? I sincerely hope you are ok-missing you like crazy,as the song goes-have you won the lottery and gone abroad? have you made another hit song about gem and been snapped up by Max Clfford? come on lovely girl! don,t leave me/us in suspenders! ahoy there Cornwall-have you seen this woman-always has a pen and paper in hand-and a wine bottle in her pocket.Small height-refined looking(looking)size 12 party dress-green wellies-woolly hat-shaved off chin hairs-only three warts-tattoo of 'I love Stefan the bastard'on her right washerwomans arm-carries large woochopping axe under her anorak-has been known to tie men to her bedpost till they relent-writes extremely good poetry-says that her greatest inspiration is someone called Wilde?-haha! only trying to make you laugh lovely Lady-may we see thee soon? sincerely hope so-I,m filling up....sniff....sniff..Steffers-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Boo! still got 65 of your lovely comments left! ta for your deletion of your understandably angry comment on my dedication to you-grrr to you and all-my FRIEND!
keep calm love-you will have your water boiling! love you-as ALWAYS!-Stef-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Its happened again Ann! emails going into 'Spam' in my mailbox????love-Stefan-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Ann - thank you for commenting on 'What's In Store' - much appreciated :) Best wishes, Dave

Hi Ann, thanks for taking time out to read and comment again. My appreciation is yours!!:)

LOL - that sounds like my kind of song! I have been known to bash out Hey Big Spender, when I've had a few also! I'm planning to do an Edith Piaff soon - you might appreciate it since you are a french speaker - am a bit nervous about posting it though - I might take some flak for being elitist. The things I wanted to say just wanted to come out in a different language - perhaps cos it was too raw - who knows? I seem to remember you having a good singing voice - we should get together and do a duet! Take care.
Isobel x

Thank you Anne ... You obviously have not heard my singing voice.

But thanks all the same....

Yer lovely

Gus xx

Ann - you are the marrying kind, just as I am unfortunately. The bit of paper that signifies a marriage isn't the important part; it is the committment to someone through thick and thin that constitutes a marriage - you had that. So did I, until life became truly untenable - it took me half a life time to give up on it though - more the fool me, perhaps. I do hope you find someone else to share your life with, whether that involves a bit of paper or not.
Isobel x

Ah! Marriage! The man I lost and I were never married Isobel. I think this poem just comes from how I feel seeing couples everywhere. They seem to be more in evidence around bank holidays! I don't think I'm the marrying kind. Miserable selfish old loner, that's me! ;-) Did try it once a million years ago. And I know that marriage is not a bed of roses etc. Maybe that's the trouble - I just want a bed of roses!!

Hi Ann
Thanks once more for commenting! :-)

I only dip in quickly and only comment sparingly now, but you are right, I guess I must be shallow too
TC XX

How wonderful about the crow! I love all birds but especially corvids! And owls! I must confess that I bought an old taxidermy crow and a raven on Ebay. They are so beautiful and full of character. The raven dates from around 1910 and has a wobbly head! I hope this doesn't upset you or your crow, but I feel that I have given them a home here with me. One of them might appear in a poem tomorrow if I feel like it! xx

Thank you for the happiness :) I never thought I'd marry and have no idea how it happened. But it did. The wedding was absolutely awful, though. Then my cousin asked me to run away with him minutes after the ceremony, which was a bit of a surprise since he's gay.

You are simply and beautifully ageless and timeless.
As for crows, well, one crow. I've a hand reared crow with a crooked beak. She had a severe chest infection and throat parasites as a chick -- they scarred her crop so she can't store food in it and we have to feed her till round 11pm at night in winter. Her crooked beak grows unwieldy twice a year and we hand feed her then, too. She didn't have wings for a year. just sort of stick things. Her feathers have recovered but she's stunted (due to the parasites). She was going to be put down by the vet but we persuaded him to let us take care of her. She can't go free because she'd starve and because she was so young when we got her that she thinks we are her parents. She's clever and playful and extremely gentle. She kisses my face and hands and hides her toys down my collar. A wonderful bird! So I smell of crow(s).

Thank you! I will search for Flook and immerse myself in his politicking-kicking world -- he sounds a joy. Have a sumptuously creative weekend. xxx

Ann

I'll dance with you lady !

Ann
It is a bird indeed.
I don't recommend however that you google "goatsucker"!
Myth has it that the nightjar suckles from goats at night. I've never seen one while I've been at it.

Hi Ann - I agree on reflection that there is something there that could be better. I like your version as well, but in that case I think that (somehow) it would need another syllable in line 4. I think I'll have to mull it over, but thanks for pointing it out. I must admit that quite a few people have in the past pulled me up over a change of tense in a poem (as if the tense MUST remain constant throughout) but I don't see why. Many of my poems are like the spoken word, or a conversation, so the tense may well drift as (say) it brings a past recollection into the present discussion. Anyroadup, I agree that I need to work on this one. Did you ever decide on your own "best" poems so I can see if they are as good for me as coromandel? all the best. B

Hello, I'll be posting my stuff in the gallery again soon. Had a bit of a arghhhhhhhhhhhh (as we all do from time to time) but your lovely message has brightened my day and lifted my spirits. Thank you. xx

Thank you very much for the kind welcome and comments on my poetry. I very much enjoyed reading through your own.

Cheers ^_^

Rob

Hello Ann, thanks for the comment on Lucy.Just spotted your audio poem on Jukebox...brill and fab :)
x

that's very sad about your partner dying. my kick-start was similar but not as dramatic - we parted amicably as she wanted babies & I didn't - but it took me 2 yrs to get over it & was my one & only true "broken heart". I started writing some time later, still with a broken heart. I've since been very happily married these last 8 yrs but I still have the urge to write & I feel I've written better stuff since - so I wouldn't give up on it or assume that if you are happy your creativity will necessarily die. only my 2 cents :) B

Hi again - a "dangerous" idea just came to me - why dont you send me what you think of as your best couple of poems & I'll see if (to me) they are as good/better than coromandel. we'd both have to agree in advance that you & I might not like the answers though? B

Hi Ann- I was going to ask this same question generally in "discussions" but I thought it might get too convoluted, plus, I was already pretty sure I knew the likely outcome - a hundred different opinions. Your ideas basically mirror my own, but it is difficult to know what to do. I've been published in a few printed chapbooks, comps & online, but often the editors dont publish the stuff that I sent as my best but usually one I threw in as an afterthought. I dont think it is a vanity to want to be published, to me it is more about some form of communication. The same thing also happens to the acknowledged masters - the Mona Lisa was not generally well-regarded when he painted it, but Leonardo saw it as his masterpiece as it's the only painting he took with him wherever he went. Now, we all recognise it as a true masterpiece. Without wishing to pile on the compliments, you are doing very well writing stuff like Coromandel if you are new to this - I dont think there is much that anyone on here could teach you about writing. but do YOU think coromandel is amongst your best stuff?? One of my best poems just popped into my head whilst I was driving - I pulled to the side of the road & scribbled it down ona bit of paper in about 30 seconds - it wrote itself really, all I had to do was record it - it was as if I hadn't really written it at all. anyway, thanks for answering my question that I am not alone in trying to tackle this mystery of what other people perceive as "the good stuff". all the best. B

hi Ann - many thanks for the comments about "with hindsight". It's strange really though - I wrote all of these poems over the last 15 yrs & posted some of the ones which I thought were my best stuff - with very often little or no comment. Then by chance I posted a few on a totally different tack which were much simpler, easy to understand & these seemed to be better accepted, though IMHO they are not my "best" stuff. do you ever find the same? The one of yours which I included on my site - Coromandel - is sublime but didn't get any more comments than many lesser works by others. I've been aware of this quandary for many years - to the extent that I even wrote a poem on the subject.... but still, it's a mystery. Is it that others just don't "get it" or is it that some of us like Rossini & some like Abba - I just don't know. All I do know for sure is that it is wonderful when someone else does "get it" as we intended. all the best. B

Hey, i,m glad someone likes my character in 'Space dust', as she is sweet and mis-understood, haha. Thanks x

Hi Ann - you be a daffodil if you want, but they dont do a lot, now do they? whereas monkeys on the other hand stuff their faces all day, pee all over their cellmates, have copious sex - often with other species; oh, hang on a minute, maybe I was thinking of jodie & ken there.

Anne Thank you so much you are very kind... I've tried to get a Longfellow feel to my poem... so consequently it needs to be beneath instead of Neath... Yes that would be lovely lets go Dilly Dancing on Friday...

Once again many thanks.

Augusta xx

Happy April Fool's Day to you, too! Hope you play lots of tricks and don't get fooled yourself. xx

Hi Ann - "laying on of hands" - thanks for your kind comments. all the best. B

Ann
She puts me in the shed!

hello Ann, I am glad to be back too!
I emailed my friend who does taxidermy and she said she'd be happy for me to give you the link to pictures of her work..but it's on facebook and I don't know if that'd be useful to you or not. Let me know and I'll comment the link to you.
x

Glad you found the links useful, Ann. I suppose it would be a long trek for the newspaper boy, up to your row of cottages! As it happens, there is no mention of either award in the print version of today's paper - just yards of politics and other stuff. Greg x

Ann, thanks for your kind words on First to Depart. Appreciated,.

hi - "the beauty queen" - many thanks. B

Thank you Anne for reading my poem reference to my grandfather's Scrotum. and in particular the last line.

You are very encouraging and ... prolific...you probably written another ten poems becuse the clocks have gone forward affording you more datlight thinking time.... whoops... another poem... oh here comes another...

lucky girl it takes me ages.

Thanks again
Augusta xx

Heel Ms Foxglove, a graphic novel is a comic! Pictures (they call it 'artwork') and words (they call them 'captions')... I imagine the medium might appeal to you.

Thanks Ann,I have been introspective and a wee bit crap of late....feeling springier now so hopefully I'm on the up again. My mum likes that poem too, I will make Chris take me up there again today...see what's changed this sunday!
xxx

Full bodied and a little too vintage, unfortunately.... LOL xx

Thank you for your comment Ann. If I could play the guitar I would. :)

Dear Ms Foxglove, I'd like to invite you to a Mass Euclidian Moony Wedding, Yours in anticipation, Diana. x

You realy should try a little more sex Anne ...aid doing nothing you are starting to go green.

you know what they say... iIf you don't use it... you'll lose it... believe me ... right now I know the feeing...

Thank you for all of your support on my blog.

Augusta xx

hi - "my love" thanks for the comments. B

You're hiding behind the sofa?! That's where Dalek nits congregate/lurk when they've fallen off their host! They're a nuisance to get out of your carpet and their eggs survive for millennia. Send Fanny The Indian Cow to track them down with her long, cow tongue! She's adorable, by the way!

Hi Ann,
I hadn't thought of it as 'tortoise and hare-like'. Maybe revisit it in the future but unlikely. :-)

Ann
I'd be delighted to have you on the team.
I always wanted to find a woman who knew about horse-racing and the Bible - a bit of a niche fetish.
I do have, however, as you know, an "entry fee".

Thank you Anne and the joy of joys they are non fatting... unless of course you follow them too closely.

Augusta
xx

Ahoy Ann, many thanks for yer comments back in February. Apologies for the delay in replying, I have been on a long voyage. Mingo.

Hi Ann, I'm glad you liked the Kingfisher poem. Final lines are very important, I think. I added the last line some time after I'd written the rest of it, and found that it had changed the meaning in some way - but that I thought it worked. Btw, I must say that I find the new profile picture quite distracting! I don't think you had been showing us the mud maid's best side before! Greg x

Oh yes and then there was aunt Clara too.
Why did she marry him?
Well... it's obvious the man absolutely adores her and loves her twitchy little nose. :-)
As good a reason as any i would think.
xx

Hey, thanks for your comment. I like "I like ruins best" the best :)

LOL x

Yes, I'm in with the group photo somewhere. Can't quite remember which one's me...
Love your blogs and poems as always, sorry I've not been online much due to heaps of work so behind with my comments and 'hellos'!

Hi Ann, Thanks for your comments on 'con tented' you guys seem to be writing a poem on camping memories on the blog entry section. might have to expand this short one! Win

Hi Ann,
Thanks for your comments on 'Scar', they are much appreciated. I have left a brief explanation on the poem, if it is of interest.
I don't always comment but I always read your work with interest.
Cx

Incidentally, I just read your samples and I'm afraid I can't help with you finding a man who can dance. I did this "short" some time ago:-

Mi verse, most times, is full of rhymes
(It helps wi’ mi romancin’)
And all my rhythm’s in mi poems –
There’s none left fo’ mi dancin’.

Hello Ann
Many thanks for your comments about "Yggdrasil". I've never thought my voice was terribly impressive but thankyou anyway. Probably like everyone else I thought it was rich and deep - until I heard it on a tape recorder and then this this thin, flat timbre comes out!
I have to confess I got the idea for the poem from reading the Bernard Cornwell Saxon Chronicles - a ripping good boy's read with lots of battles and fighting and more fighting and battles. I even poach completely the line about "weaving a darker cloth" which stands out a mile for its quality compared with the rest.
Anyway, once again, thanks for commenting.

Yes, that was what had caught my eye - thanks!

Hi Ann - need your help again! I'd like to be featured and it says to submit profile, but when I hit that, it looks like I have to fill out my profile again. Will that create a duplicate? Thanks, as always, for helping me out.

Lisa

Thanks for commenting on my poem, Ann, much appreciated.

Thanks Ann - and again also many thanks to any of you who may have clicked on a widget or link to this track on

http://www.reverbnation.com/revtwosheds

Although the track on my profile page is the same as this - We havn't been promoting this track PANNING FOR VIBES [ music Conrad McQueen / words Rev.Two-Sheds ] but it has still risen another 69 places this week to no.40 in the 'OTHER' charts on reverbnation.com - so maybe the OTHER charts on reverbnation could have a poem at No.1 -
I have now been putting it about a bit [oooer missus] and also linking it to write out loud too .

Although you can obviously hear the track on this site - if you did click on the reverbnation link and played it there - maybe we could get a poem to be No.1 in the 'OTHER' charts on Reverbation

Conrad McQueen is in my top friends on

http://myspace.com/revtwoshedsmuzak

If you are a poet reverbnation.com is a good place to place recordings - I have 35 or so there - it is also safe there and you can use the widgets and stuff to post your songs on all different kinds of sites automatically, it is an easy site to use...

you can easily sign up to it by clicking onto my profile page there... have fun - record your words !

Hi Ann,
yeah, i drive a taxi. :-)

Hi Ann, yes indeed - Omaha beach, etc & yes, pips on the shoulders denote rank. thanks for the comments. B

Hi Ann.
I've not been active on the site for some time. Must do something about that!

Hi Ann - "the end of the road" thanks for the comments. B

Thanks for your comment on "Beauty". And I love your "Take Me". Lived it, loved it, lost it....!

Hi Ann, was just going to say thanks for your kind words, but was diverted by the previous comment on your profile. I also loved Michael Bentine's flea circus as a kid. Your dad made a wonderful contribution to the exuberance of life. Greg

Wow! Wow! I'm blown away! Your dad was a great man - we are not worthy etc...Feel proud to blow his trumpet, he obviously worked with some of the best!!!

Michael Bentine - yes, I remember 'It's a square world' it was wonderful - I was thinking about it when I wrote the 'Flea circus'

Murray And Sod, the Buffalo Bill and Wyatt Earp of the Oceans. Or the Posh and Becks? Or French and Saunders. Hatta x

Thanks for your recent comments, they really are very much appreciated. :-)

Janet.x

Thank you -- again! I meant to say, after you mentioned about the road accident themed restaurant piece that, yeay, I am a vegetarian. On the pip of being vegan. And, digressing wildly again, I am delighted you really like my whale mini-song. I've begun creating heaps of them, little audio moments that might be songs or something remotely musical. But they are a pretty new departure for me, more a leap into the dark/noise. I hear them in my head, get a bit obsessed with them, record them (messing with my voice). I really can't tell you how encouraging it is that you like them so much. But how sad to have a dead whale on the beach -- I couldn't have helped carry its bones (too squeamish/weepy and my own bones are going somewhat awry and seem skittish about carrying me around, so I'm considering creating an ex-skeleton or bamboo body scaffolding). I'd have been blubbering my eyes out (oh no, what a terrible pun). It seems right that the local museum should preserve some of it, but mightily suspect that people would take lumps of its bones home as garden features. I also sponsored/adopted a whale called 'Sod'. Yes, it was really called, 'Sod.' I thought, yes, I have been thought of in similar terms by some people, so I shall stand up and be counted as a friend of 'Sod.'

Hello! How lovely of you to comment on my oddments. Thank you so very much. Not sure how they emerge or why or from where, but they do. And 'pique freans' and pique-a-knees, and Little Bo-Pique, pique and mix, piquenic are all dancinf to the muzak of time. 'Pique' is hurt pride, dented vanity, a moment of sharp ego-puncture. "Pique' is misused a lot at the moment, usually by being lumped into the phrase 'It piqued my interest/my interest was piqued.' And my quick brown decaffeinated urban fox jumped out of my daydreams. Hey -- your poems are incredibly vibrant and wowser. You seem to be able to flit from joyous comedy/tongue-in-cheekiness to pastoral melancholy. What a range! They're flipping fab.

Ta for your comment on 'Your smile' - I've never performed this poem so I might try it shouting v. loud indeed as you suggest

Hi Ann
Following your suggestion, Fiona has put up another six photos in 'Picture this'. These new ones are much better I feel and give us more to work with
Here's the link...
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=8985

Hello
thanks for reading my poems..BlueBerry is an old one but a favorite,
Donna

Hi Ann

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

A month will fly by for you Ann - it will drag dreadfully for me. I have tried to do this quietly before but it didn't work. If I do it publicly I might stick to it - I'd look a bit of an arse if I snook back on in a week's time! I think I will end up living in a tidier house and will hopefully write more poetry - we'll see...
I don't think you are arrogant for wanting to leave your poetry as is BTW. It is always a difficult balance - once you open yourself up for crit - it can become a total free for all and you wonder just where the original poem went to. There is a thread for people to post work that they want crit on - no-one seems to use it though.
Take care and continue having fun!
Isobel x

Thanks for your comment on Wall of death.

Hi Ann, thanks for your comment on 'Mona without Lisa.' :-)

I see where you are coming from when you say the last stanza isn't perhaps necessary. I was messing around with an idea when i wrote it and as Andy says, it is multi-layered.
Too many layers to actually describe as i see them and others might see something completely different so on this occasion, i'm sorry but i'll have to leave you guessing or wondering what it is about.
The title in itself is suggestive ie; what if? Would the painting have been any different if it had simply been called Mona? How many times was it stuck in a corner before being worked on again? and if it had included more detail or colour would it still have become a masterpiece? Did it start out as a sketch or even a poem before before becoming a painting?

So many questions and yet who really knows the answer and what becomes of it. Maybe the artists themselves were flabbergasted in that just one of a million drawings would become so famous and yet to them it had so many faults and might only have been done on a whim and painted in a day or less. :-)

None of this really explains my poem and i doubt for a second it will become a masterpiece but the last stanza has to stay for all the reasons above.Not all readers of poetry are academics or write poetry, just as not all appreciators of art can paint but we all have imagination :-)


Janet.x

Hi Ann - thanks for the 2 recent comments. Tinseltown = just the US west coast generally - L.A, Hollywood, SanFrancisco. Based around a true story of the Golden Gate Bridge "jumpers" as they're known to the local 911 services. B

Happy St Pirans day to you ;-) I confess I had to look it up as it is a Celtic Cornish festival ;-)
Love TC XX

Thanks for the comment Ann. No I wasn't living with the pigs, but they did a lot of grunting outside my little caravan, especially the night they had been given a load of silage, which they seemed to treat mostly as play material

Have I got second sight or have I got second sight! ;-)

You said - the two people meeting at the art gallery. That made me think of two people meeting for the first time after answering a lonely hearts ad. And realising they are not for each other. (Thats exactly what happened!). Win x

Hi Ann, thanks muchly for your comment on Brain racing. I;m not really sure why i even blogged it really, just a spewing of my thoughts at the time, sometimes it just feels that way, you know? x

Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions on my mouse poem Ann! I shall take your comments on board.

Hello Ann, how lovely of you to visit my page. Thank you for your lovely comments. I've just been reading your work and it's gorgeous! You have such a range from the wry to the pastoral, and all with a clarity and energy and lilt. Magnificent!

Hi Ann did you get the book okay?

Ann - I have changed my pic to a Koala bear having a bath / drink. Hope you like him... Unfortunately all the other info in my profile seems to have disappeared! Win x

that's alright you derserve it...
I think it's months of toil well spent... wish i could write 'em short 'n' pithy, 'cos no matter how I try it always ends in diatribe...

I vote best poem of the year so far by Anne Foxglove [but i am dyslexik so tend to only read the shortest ones - but this get's my vote]

"Life is crap
i'm in hell
men are turds
women are as well
the weather's shit
and i'm too fat
you're a git
and i'm a twat"

ha ha - this is ace

Hi Ann. Thanks for your comments on 'Ghazal' recently. More detailed comment left on the blog entry if you wish to view it. Thanks Win x

Ooh Ann, I did! I have only a hazy recollection of the night (it was my birthday so I may have had a little glass or two) I got applauded and have had some nice feedback which was lovely. I have now caught up on my ironing so may frequent th'site a bit more ...till next week's ironing starts threatening to bury the children!I love the Ladybird poem by the wayCheersRachxxx
ps I read 2 new ones I wrote for Preston is My Paris (a local zine), they wanted contributions and I can't resist that, one of them, 'Brief Encounter' got published in it and they were launching the issue that night so I had to read my contributions, Next time I'll do stockings nude.....but for stockings(possibly!)

Dear me Ann! You really don't like creme eggs?! I didn't know there was such a person lol glad you were tempted though! x

Hi Ann
"Somehow sweet, somehow chilling. A lonely slightly odd love poem."
- it harks back to a time long ago when I was indeed lonely & probably slightly odd as well !

Hi Ann, thanks for the welcome and the comments. I love "the dray" gorgeous imagery. I Look forward to reading more.
Cheers
Steve

Hi there Ann, thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my poem,I'm totally new to the site and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, I just keep flipping about from page to page reading - is that the jist of it? I love 'where can I find a man who can dance?' I can picture the opals and the graceful swooping and closeness...I can also picture the swarfega men, I own one myself and he's not a fan of dancing :-) x

Thanks for the comment Ann,I was feeling rather bleak too when I posted it up(Big Birthday Blues) but now I've embraced the whole thing and am feeling much brighter...and the sun's just come out too!
Cheeers
Rachel
xxx

Dear Ann Again thanks for your kind comment on the poems. You were very quick. I only put them on before just before your response! I've also checked out your own Cornish Holiday poem and enjoyed it very much. I recognize lots of those details from when we took our kids off to holiday homes.

Thanks for your comment, Foxy. May I call you that?! I can hear Bob Dylan himself singing your Valentine's Blues song, save perhaps the tickling feet line. I reckon these words would easily fit around 12 bar blues. You should get together with a musician and perform it as a spoken word piece. Get a little riff going. Buy a cigar just for the occasion. And be sure to wear your heart on your sleeve.

I've just noticed the audiofile; I'll check it out.

Yes it's my own back garden during the recent snow fall. The pic is probably the only airing it will get outside my computer so thought i'd use it while Winter's still here. :-)

and yes it's good to have a change.x

Hi Ann, thanks for your response.
I'm a dog, like a faithful Labrador, loyal and a little too trusting sometimes which causes me all kinds of inner turmoil but as i grow, i'm becoming more accepting of who i am and a bit less accepting of those who would take advantage of my good nature and generally take the p**s. :-)

My whole outlook on life has changed very recently and i'm enjoying the changes so my poem does reflect that for my Chinese symbol.
The ''element'' does make a difference to characteristics in an individual. Some of the websites you look up only ask for the year of birth but the date and month gives a more 'in-depth' and i feel, more accurate assessment.

The poem was written purely as an exercise for me to practice writing in a more technical fashion. Not sure if anyone has noticed that or simply don't want to comment on the technical aspects. I can't blame them really. I've given them all some flack in the past on here. :-)
I wrote a piece which has a more spiritually guided influence but it wouldn't be suitable for this website as it isn't poetry.
Janet.x

thank you Ann. She was only about 2 years old when she got hit by a car. She was fully grown but so small,delicate and very loving. I hope you still have some happy times left to spend with your little cat.

Thanks for your recent comments, Ann. Your amazing output is an example and inspiration to us all, especially me! Greg x

Hi Ann I got your cheque today and thank you as well for the p&p that was very thoughtful of you. I'll post your signed copy of 'My Father's Eyes Were Blue' today and hope it inspires you.

Ant x

Ann, as I understand 'cum' it is the woman's orgasmic fluid that flows freely after effective sex.

A nice light touch Banksy. (Hopefully that's what she said too!) ;-)
Oh yes - short fingernails and all.

Hi Ann, thanks again!! Wistful maybe, a nun? never heard that one! Ha ha XX

Oh Ann
When there are so many lovely things in this world to feel...

Please don't feel jealous.

Thank you for your lovely comments

Augusta x

Hi Ann, Amazing profile pic. Thank you for the warm welcome -

Hi Ann,

Thank-you for the tip. I'm not sure how that works. Here is a poem for you to read.

Carrying you

There is an eternity in that hand
when your fingers wrap around
the shakier experience of mine.

You feed, stop, smile, and look
so new into the old corrupt world.

You look into our eyes and just
register above the moon of food.
Your mother’s breast glides you
punch-drunk through the waves
of her nourishing milk-ocean.

The feast strengthens, empowers,
the great quench ennobles us all.

We are your parents, the well
that nourishes you, you disarm us.

We look at those small moments,
a mosaic-microcosm of you,
and we relish the tiny achievements.

Each step of development, we go
with you in awe of the wondrous,
of the greatest goal, of the banal.

And our prize is your smile,
the scent of your wisp of hair,
the touch from the minute
in those hands already creased,
folded for the toil ahead of you.

Our burden is to lessen the load
on your soft back.
We carry you happily
in the embrace of hope.

I paint with you in my arms.
I paint the future and carry you with me.

Thanks Ann, I felt cauterize was about the only thing that could be done! I take it you like a bit of 'felting' now and again then lol x

Hi Ann Thanks again for positive feedback. This is a companion piece to my funeral poem Valediction. I had to write it, but I had a difficult relationship with the person involved, so it's difficult for me to have any idea about the poem's merits, so your comment is appreciated.

Hi Ann

You shouldn't feel a wuss. Everyone feels self-pity sometimes. The question is whether one embraces it, and it doesn't feel like you do - or you're hiding it well if you are. Your poems just seem to say "This is how it was and that is how I feel/felt" and they usually do it skilfully and sensitively which people appreciate very much

Hi Ann, thanks for commenting on "And Eagles were Kings" - It is surrising how a different set of eyes can see things and I hadn't realised that it would work without the long verse, but it does. Thanks for taking time to read and comment. Seamus

Ann I'll find a man to dance with you but not me I dance like a monkey on jumpleads.

Your poem on dancing was very romantic and you won;t be the last girl waiting to be asked :)

Hi Ann Now you're talking. Of course I know that one. As you can tell from the poem I was addicted to Solid Air. I remember that I had this tape I made with Solid Air on one side and Bless the Weather on the other. It really was a tired loop of tape because I didn't have a lot of music in France and I must've played that tape thousands of times. There was a point where I'd had enough of being over there and I played and played The Man in The Station, doing my John Martyn drawl to the bit where he sings 'I'm catching the next train hoooooome'. I also love the later track Serendipity and was quite please with myself for getting it into the poem. If you catch up with the YouTube footage it's devastating. The recent biography is a great tread and sort of inspired me to write the poem in the first place.

Hi Ann Glad you're a fan. What album is the Wild Geese on. I don't know that one.

Hi ann - coromandel - thanks for letting me include this really great poem - if you want to you can see it here. thanks.ian. http://www.poemsetfree.com/index.php?page=favourite-poems-by-other-authors

Hi Ann Thanks again for kind comment. It wasn't an easy time. She was a very difficult old woman who was also quite a stirrer. Still, makes you realise what life's really about.

Hi Ann, I understand entirely why you don't want to change Wolf Rock and feel a bit bad now at suggesting you tinker with it. Anyway, it is a marvellous poem and wonderful title, and has inspired me to think about a part of the world where I spent many childhood holidays. I can hear the waves against the side of the rock. Greg x

Thanks for thecomment Ann. I agree with you about the sadness of old people losing common references . I feel that very strongly when with my ancient grandma, she speaks quite strong Lancashire Dialect which can be hard to understand for non-speakers. I am trying hard to keep using some of her words..especially in poems actually, so that they might continue. I think I could go on about this whole language and age debate all night... d'ya fancy popping round, I have wine? Lol!Rachelxxx
Edited to add: I love Mousehole, I read 'The Mousehole Cat' (kid's book) to my lads years ago and it made me cry buckets it was so beautiful, one of the loveliest days of my life was getting to visit it for real.

Hi, thanks for your comment on 'fourteen years'. I have to say tho i have never painted my front door that much lol x

Oh My Word! I have only just spotted the person in the grass on your photo....that is amazing!
Rach
xxx

I see. That branch of my family were from Callington and Duloe. I explored tin-mines when we used to go camping in Cornwall, I found a piskie..

Hi again Anne, are you from Cornwall? that's weird..have been tracing my family tree and my maternal grandfathers'family are all from Cornwall, going back a long way. Sea-people. : )

Hi Ann.. Indeed it is a buttery man lol.win

Hi Anne, Happy Imbolc..slightly belated : ))
Thank you for your kind comments on Spinerette. You are correct, spiders are possessed of spinneret's, but the one in my poem although being posessed of some of the attributes of these fascinating little organs, is not one of them. She is someone who draws out silk in her own way...I think she is from Cornwall..or Brittany...a Celt of the ancient race of which the two countries are connected. Thanks again,Debz xx

hi Ann. Thanks for lookin at my toast! Where is the sculpture in your new profile pic... its amazing!

thanks for the cooment ann.

Wow - 'Take Me' is brilliant, love the repetition makes for a convincing argument. Great work!

Hi Ann, great comment! Made me laugh. I agree about that line too - was just being lazy and not fixing it, I will have to think of something more self explanatory or something which at least makes sense! Cheers, Thom

Hi there Ann thank you for your comment it really boosted me. I hope my experience on WOL will be as good as yours. Dana

Hi Ann

Surprised that link hasn't worked - here it is again
http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

She's at St Austell April 2nd (tel 01726 879500) and Penzance April 3rd (tel 01736 365520)

Dolphins! If I wasn't married, there would be dolphin wallpaper in the bathroom. What marvellous creatures.

Wow!! Now you are talking REALLY spooky because it is my Birthday as well!!! I wrote that offshore 4 years ago on my Birthday!! Yes I agree it would flow easier I will change it.... thanks for the advice ;-))
Luv yer fellow Birthdayer lets PARTY on the 26th ha ha
TC XX

Hi Ann

Thanks for the steer to Bridget St John - excellent. She is on tour, which you may have spotted -

http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

Have you ever run across Dory Previn?

Thanks for the thing you said about my Grandad being around, I was so touched. Maybe I just need to write it all out and then he'll go quiet for a bit.
Love
rachel
xxx

She ran the Chippy too!

:)

Jx

Thanks again for your considered comments.
The word 'eutectic' comes primarily from the realm of 'physical chemistry' and is about boiling points and melting points of compounds and mixtures...that was the first clue....but I wouldn't expect most folks to get that one...I took out a whole verse about how I had to bite the line through and consequently ended up rather close to his tearful face...which was how come I could taste his tears and his breath (he always smelled of sherbert...his gran ran the local sweetshop!). When I took out that verse it suddenly became just funny...rather than funny/sad/longing/...Ho Hum.

I have no problem with funny...just was aiming a bit higher...or lower. :)

Back to the drawing board. Thanks (as always)

:)

Jx

Glad you enjoyed 'Martin'. Thank you. Sadly (it is a true story) we never went fishing together again. No-one seems to have mentioned the homo-erotic subtext...which is a shame as I wrote it to submit as my final piece for the OU course I've been doing. I've obviously edited it too hard and removed the tension and longing from it. There was a verse where I bit through the line and brushed his cheeks with my lips...but that was just tooo flaming obvious. When I removed it it turned into a comic piece in a flash. It had sounded rather tender up unitl then.
Glad you liked it though. It's still a poem!

:(

Jx

Hi Ann, many thanks for you recent comment. Means a lot. Regards, Thom

thanks for your comments on my poetry.

Ann- thanks for your comments & I agree - we all want to be loved; the ones who play it cool are only fooling themselves. Banksy

Dear Valkyrie
Where did that come from?
Anyway, thanks for the amusing 'comment'.
A sign of my old age? But I really did see a small child (or maybe a midget) on patrol in the middle of Huddersfield, in the middle of this week. Well, that's what I think I saw.
xx Steve xx

Hi Ann

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

Re Your comments on the audio on 'On Seeing A Boy's Face'Glad you liked it Ann. I have used it before (as has garside if I remember rightly) It is derived form an onlne piece of software that converts text to speach. You may need to spell words differently to get the voice to pronounce the words as you want them however and alter gaps and pauses etc. I used it here because I felt the faltering awkwardness and non human remoteness of this voice reflected the difficult subject I was writting about. It is a voice without empathy or opinion. Win

tee hee, your comment made me giggle. I'd imagine it'd chafe if you were tempted! One day I'll tell you about the epilator fiasco!Thank you for cheering me up.
Love
Rachel
xxx

And its good morning from me,And its Good morning from her('thingy' wot I am married to)re-Gone People-muchas grassyarse,Madam Foxgloves.Does it take you back,all those ninety nine years?Them woz the days eh?-another ta and tattybye for now-have a WOLy good day-Stefareenoxx

Hi Ann, I've just been having broadband issues and my annual post christmas slump, it involves eating chocolate and feeling sorry for myself. I saw a snowdrop today though so the only way is up!
love
Rachel
x

Hi Anne, thanks for your comments- I empathise with 'Why can't i find a man who can dance?' we'd all like that, it's a lovely poem.

Good afternoon Foxychops-ta massively for comments on-Inspiring confusion-but pray do tell what be'eth a rhytmn,in said comment?(jest me jesting A.F!)You are the kindest of the kindest kind-and not bad,to boot!(but not literally i hasten to add)-lol!Stefsanut.

ah! but there you see Ann! the difference twixt the genders.The stronger gender(MEN!)always look at the mantlepiece while stoking the fire.Perhaps not,if the Mantlepiece had nothing of interest on-lol!And if for one minute you belive my joke of Men being the stronger gender,thats what that was for sure-a joke! all praise to kitchen ladies(wives)bottle washers(wives)and clever people who can multi-task while sweeping the floor with a brush,you know where!(wives) all hail the female i say.As for Octopussy comment,that tends to tickle me.ten(dsto)tickle me! oh please yourself!haha!best regards Stefan.

Good Dafternnon A.F-ta for commentitting on-the chopping away of dead(not good)wood.in truth,neither am i scared by or fail to love all living things.if i were to kill even an insect accidentally,it would mean a years wearing of hair shirt and giving myself a cat'o'nine tailing for breakfast every one of those days!loved moon girl-would have commented(very kindly)on separate posting.but i did,nt have the space-teehee!this is ground control to major laugh&major stare&major barbercutyer'air-hemisphercally yours-Commander of all things insane-Stefan-over.

My petite pup says woof-thank-woof-you-woof-very-woof-much! Stefan

hI ANN, NICE POEMS!

...hello Ann..thanks..don't know why it's in a paragraph?....'hand on your arm' is because she touched the coffin..they kept showing it on the news, after the plane landed.

Oy Oy, I'll attempt to fuse our words for the mail poem

Hi Ann, Ta 4 the feedback on "Grieve Voyeur". I think the point I was making is that if you go from being a morbid spectator to a paid counsellor in order to fulfill a need to experience grief there comes a time when you are going to get rumbled. I am sorry you didn't pick this up.I will have to rethink the draft.
Kind Regards, Neil

thanks for commenting on 'a biting of words' - paul

Hi There Anne, Thankyou for taking the time to read my piece 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' and for your kind comments. This piece was removed by accident and is now back again. It may or may not have had the audio when you last visited. Win x

Loved your comment Annipoo ;-) I am awake and I should be asleep!!
TC XX

Hi Ann
Thanks, as ever for the word. Still haven't got back to the laugh-a-minute stuff yet.

Noticed that you are a Nick Drake fan (in another thread). He will be played at my funeral...along with John Martyn and Joe Satriani (it's 'one on the way in...one in the middle, and one on the way out...) although, if the rules permitted, I could easily have three from any of them.... It's a game we play on long journeys. My choices have been the same for many years.

What's your favourite?

Jx

hi there ann, i sure am keeping myself safe from my scarey thoughts ;)hehe

Hey, thanks for your comment. Where abouts in Cornwall are you? I am quite new to the performance poetry circuit. Just found this site today.
Rich x

Hurrah!!!thicko me has remembered to reply to your blog re my airyfairy poem.Thanks chummychops for nice comments and kissywissys-I,ll share the interest-xxxStef ps-lovely pic too,in geegee poem-clipclop-topothe shop!pps-in a race which would win?The Arab,cloudhorse,or painted pony?that should have been,which would whinnie-teehee-SWXXX-my smackers are getting bigger by the minute-ooer!missus!

..hello Ann..thank-you..I used the blackbird for two reasons..if 'man' disappears from the planet all the flora and fauna and planets will carry on regardless, they have no interest in any religion, and I've never seen a blackbird being instructed on how to build a nest, we don't understand how they know..therfore they are an obvious creature to take us by the hand and explain the universe, something no 'man' will ever be able to do.

Hi Ann,
thanks for commenting with your thoughts on Snow People poems.
It's the kind of comment i was hoping for.
The first is my first draft and as it came out on paper. The second is when i started messing around with it. I'm hopeless at editing and often do too little or too much.

Janet.x

Hi Ann
Thanks for ever welcome comment. I've added an explanation comment, so those who read know exactly where I was coming from
xx Steve xx

Hi Ann,
yes i agree with you on your audio.You achieved your aim. Well done.

Janet.x

ps thanks for your comment on my poem about Miles Platting. I have done a few similar ones a while ago. I enjoy personifying places and sometimes animals/birds too.

Saw old Edgar many times from mid 60s onward! Out Demons Out! Ironically I've never seen the Exorcist.
Here's a link to a great version of Out Demons Out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-v2EyG52Y

Ann. your wishes have been answered re our recent conversation about the text editor... (And incidentally mine too). Win

That would be greatly appreciated if you could

We are on same wavelenght with your idea '0 unread' , i had similar feeling/sentiment i wanted to capture. Do you want to write one and we can splice the 2 together? A project? ..I have not YET seen ajoint or HYBRID poem in here so we may be the first? Send it to Dermot for his magazine section

"It's steam trains, plugs and sockets they admire,
a trip to Wickes will really light their fire.
In boiler suites and steel toe caps they go,
a pencil stuck behind the ear - they charm me so!
Arms up to elbows in old oil and grease,
Swarfega like a perfume to their nose.
How I love men like those!"

Swarfega Stuff Poet Foxglove!

..thanks for th'comment...no it's not bitter...just summing-up life a bit....I like your 'dance' poem...if you google 'stepmoth' and go to my 'myspace' you can select 'Easy when y'dancin' and hear me singin' on said subject....doesn't mean I can dance though..!!

I bet you aren't that much older than me.... anyway, maybe you just had more discerning televisual tastes...I might try and find it on youtube unless they've burnt all the footage....they ought to have!
Rach
x

Aw. ta fer the comments chick!I have been reduced to drinking , though in my case the dregs....crap whisky, one measly measure left too. Send me some champagne down the modem!
I love you too

Racheroo
xxx

Hello Annipoo ;-)) I have been busy drinking eating and having a good time, so no time for WOL, I am back in the Gulf now ;-( so I expect to be reviewing your stuff soon!! I will give you a hard time ha ha...... maybe even post something myself !!
Love TC ;-) XX

Arr, thanks for your comments Ann! Never mind me leaks - I've been captaining a sinkin' ship for some time!

Thanks Ann, sorry it made you sniffle, most chuffed you liked it though.
fankyoo,
Rachel
x

I like your style! :)
Particularly like, finding a man who can dance, and Twit-like.
Really hope you get to perform soon, is there a night near you?

Hi Ann,
I love the song too and I wish I could say that I was responsible for it in some was but alas, I cannot. Other than the title means the same as the title of my poem and I feel a deep connection to the song and her voice. I play the wooden flute though so maybe I could learn the song as well and put my version of it out there in cyberspace one day. Hope you're ok in this snowy weather : ) deb xx

thanks for your comment - yes it was fun doing the filming but the editing took forever

I like you thinking like you do! : )

Thank you for making me feel welcome here, and for the lovely comment on my blog.

I read all your blog postings, and I enjoyed the time I spent there. I like ruins too, and a lot of your poetry is a bit like reading my own thoughts. Looking forward to more.

Hello Ann, thank you for your kind words on Villtur Augu and my other poems too. I am sorry to hear of your loss. Two years ago is not long,I hope time if nothing else,can help to ease your sadness. thanks again, Debz xx

Hi Ann, yes I was here before, I've just re-instated my personal profile - thanks for your kind remarks, glad you liked 'I had a name'.
Cx

Hi Ann, Sorry yes the2 cats (Bubble and Squeek) are fine. They had a bout of regurgitation a couple of weeks ago but have now thankfully ceased. They do not like going out in the snow ! Win x

Thanks for the comment Ann - I'm not just cool, I'm freezing!

Hi AnnRe Googlize. Actually wobble would not be allowed here. This one is taken from my calculator series. The alphabet used is derived from letters on a calculator read upside down. So 0 = o, 1 = i, 2 = z etc E,h,s,g,L,B follow.Here's another -

Zoo Shloo

Geese gozzle,
bees hibe,
hogs boss,
eels loobe.
Eggs.
Eggs…
Shhh
Eggs sigh.

Win

Ann, I so know what you mean about the poem on the back of the fag packet syndrome. I wrote one in half an hour the other day while the kids were pestering me and I was hugely pleased with it. Others I work on, like really work and they just don't have that 'feeling'...weird innit!
Rachel
xxx

Hi Ann,
yes i changed. Trust me, it's only a google image. :-)

Happy new year.
Janet.x

Do you mind the fact that everyone always assumes that the poems we write are based on ourselves? This is such a strong, personal poem, but you could have invented the scenario. I feel that I'd like to write a poem and leave it open as to whether it is based on me and my experiences. If you write a novel about a mass murderer, people don't assume you are a nmass murderer. Or is it that poetry is always a sort of truth? Don't know. lotsoflove ;-)
Ann, couldn't agree more with your comments above posted on Rachels blog entry... thats what poets do isn't it? If people assume you are writting from personal experience then thats a bit of a leap surely? Win

Helloooo,
re your question about the reader assuming the poems are autobiographical, I don't particularly mind. It does feel a little exposing but it's my choice to post them on here isn't it? I admit some of my poems are autobiographical, some aren't, some of the things I write about happened to people I know but not to me personally. I think readers will always assume there's a back story themselves anyway whether that's poetry or prose. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in asking me that by the way.
Love
Rachel
xxx

Hi Ann, yes I did have a good Christmas, thanks, including a nice walk along the river beside Hampton Court! Hope you had a decent one too, and very best wishes for a happy and creative new year. My one worry is ... is it really wise to be undertaking a coastal walk in this weather? Hope you're keeping an eye on the forecasts ...
Greg x

Thanks Ann, I shouldn't be such a good cook lol! :) off to read your latest in a min.
Thanks
Rachel
x

Thanks for the comments and feedback

Thanks Ann for looking in on my profile page.
The wren was a very enterprising little bird that rode on the eagle's back until it got too tired to fly any higher. So although some would praise her for tenacity and cleverness, enduring the trial issued to her, others would say she cheated. The thing i love about the wren is that she doesn't gloat. She simply goes her own merry way with grace and humility.

Starlight.xx

Hi Ann
thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

"Take me" is VERY good.
Apricot Man - great as it is - left to our collective imaginations.

Merry Christmas Ann, awww your message gave me a big smile and a little sentimental tear in my eye! I agree,
Best Festive Wishes
Rachel
xxx

Happy Christmas Annipoo ;-))
Luv TC XXX ;-))

ThAnK Ye FoR YeRz GroOVy CoMMeNt ... x

Hi Ann,
'Glennon' refers to Dermot Glennon who has written a classic poem about murdering his wife and keeping her body in the attic.
http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/dermotglennon

Mote it be, so it is, it is done ;-))
TC XX ;-)

Thank you Anne for the comment and wishing you a Merry Christmas. Stephen Smith

Hi Ann, thanks again for 'looking after' me and leaving lovely comments. It's truly very much appreciated.
Rachel
xxx

thank you Anne, for your very kind comment on Bedouin, Debz xx

Hi Ann, thanks for the kind comments so far and the tip about posting gradually. I just wanted to get a handful up and then I'll add to them as and when I can in future (one at a time!). So far it seems like a great place to read and share stuff, so quite exciting really! Thanks again, Thom

Hello again Ann,
I agree with the "on the bus" and anywhere anytime inspirations too. both "Copse" observed from the motorway and "From a train" etc are testament to this.

Hi Ann
Now why did I have a bet with myself that you'd be the first to comment.
I just fancied an antidote to the usual claptrap about Xmas

Nope! Still up. Sounds like I might have got more than you though - I didn't get up 'til 4!
Cx

Thanks for reading Camel and I, Ann. My daughters best friend, Grace, does me the pics for my poems. I love them, too. I enjoyed reading Sacred Well recently and wondered if it was Mother Shiptons cave, Naresborough.

Ann, I hope you keep writing. You have an unique view and voice, methinks.
Michael

Hi Ann, Thanks very much for your comment on The Balloon, I have just had a quick look at your poems and really enjoyed them, I was moved to tears by Bereavement, it is so raw. You communicate that pain so well.
Cheers
Rachel
x

Hola foxy Lady heh heh ;-) I am turning an idea over in my mind, just missplaced my Sorcerer's pen for the moment..... watch this space ;-))
TC XX

Yes indeed, a maiden fair, a virgin , but not for long I suspect, poor girl.
Thank you for reading Ann
Augusta x

Hi Ann,
thanks for your recent comments on my stuff.
They're really appreciated.

Love ''The Dray.'' aand ''Take me''.

Starlight.x

Hi Ann, thanks for liking The English Teacher. I wrote the first version of it a couple of years ago when I heard that he had died, in his late nineties. The regular alcohol intake seemed to have done him the world of good. Greg

Ann, you have been busy. Many thanks for reading do many of my poems and extra thanks for commenting so positively.

Hi Ann, They are not all anonymous but not really sure if there are any WOL members down there? Is AE that way inclined? I will try and fin out.

Hello Ann, I enjoy reading your stuff, nice thread of humanity running through it. Keep posting.

thanks

John

Good evening Ann

Thank you for having a read of my stuff. I'll give blogging a go sometime yes.

I wasn't sure whether it was justanotherspaceforapoem or a place to subject WoL poets to the minutiae of my rather insignificant existence. I think it is the former.

Fortunately... for all of us!

Have a great tunesday


J

Dear 'quiet widow'
Hospital; Bereavement; Ghost House? catharsis?

My/our old house is let, and I don't want to even look in the window.

Beautiful poems though.
Steve M.

Ann
I keep making a resolution that I won't even look at Discussion groups; then I think "ok, I'll just risk one eye" and then, before you know it, you're sucked back in.
I shall resolve to keep my resolve.

Steve M.

ps
I neither smell of oil/engines, nor am I able to put one foot in front of the other. What chance I?

Ann
It was a quick 'in and out' military operation, trying to save young lives.
;-))

Hi Ann
In entering the Discussion forum, I hope you are aware that, under H&S guidelines, you have to wear fire retardant under-garments.
There is often some of the most personally vitriolic c**p posted, claiming to be 'discussion', that there are some (I mean me and at least one other) who will no longer join in.
I wish you a joyous journey thru the WOL site

Steve M.
p.s. I don't smell of oil and engines (just thought I'd mention it) ;-))

Hi Ann, thanks for your kind comments on my little Haiku 'On Mondays I Fall in Love' This formof poetry is a particular favourite of mine. Win x

Hi Ann. Thanks for your comment on my poem 'Patience'. I've only just come across your profile. Really like the Dancing Men poem. Portrays stereotypical men. We're not all like that though - but I do like Wickes (and B&Q, and Focus). Bugger.........maybe we are.
Andy
x

Hi Ann, Thanks for looking at Social Algebra Alphabet. and for putting things right in your comments! lol win

Hi Ann,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

Good morning Ann

I enjoyed the dancing poem and the array of gentlemen that abound in it v much. The descriptions are clever, believable and familiar. I recall 'wearing' a pencil behind my ear once (for emergency villanelle-writing-on-the-bus you understand) and someone assuming I'd be good at carpentry! I can't even put up the Christmas Decorations let alone shelves!

It's a great poem Ann and there are a lot of great observations in it. I think Goethe appreciated the dance just as much:

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~ Goethe

look forward to reading more of your stuff.


Joseph

Hi Ann,
Thanks for the kind comment. i think in that picture- i'm pausing before the blank page, frozen in fear. i may have been stood there for several minutes. either that or i'm getting a coffee.
I like the repetition in your poems. I see desire and nature are the same here. Do you read much Ted Hughes? i felt a lot of him when I read your poems.
Thanks.

Dear Ann,
thank you for commenting on my poem -you have seen the heart of it....I struggled with the word "Un-amputatable for a while , trying several others , but used it because it's an ugly word and when you think of someone you have loved and still love and wish you could see,but can't, it hurts and you could in one act brutal cut off that wish so it would no longer be painful...then, the longing returns with the pleasurable memory...that's love.Loved your 'dray' and thanks for bringing the smell of swarfega to mind...in that tender ,dancing poem...hmmm, your poems are so gentle ...it makes me realise how hard-edged a lot of poems are...hmmmm somethign to ponder..
Steve Smith

Hello Ann
Thanks for your kind comments about my poem. I enjoyed reading yours just now. I like the picture of the "Wilkes ' man and the turn around at the end of the poem. I like your bold approach and look forward to reading your poems and blog in more detail - Pauline

Hi Ann, thanks very much for your comments on Sandy Denny and Andy Williams. I suppose I'm wistful only in the sense that she died far too young. I do agree that Who Knows Where The Time Goes is a wonderful song, and there are so many others too. Originally I had the idea of writing a whole sequence of poems about musicians I admired, but these two were as far as I got! Maybe when I take the redundancy ... Greg x

Hello Ann again ;-)) I saw the comment's on your last poem what a great response !! I am glad you enjoyed the Solstace poem, otherwordly was it's intention ;-)) You can call me anything you like ha ha I have had a few variations !! however my real name when I am not hiding behind an alias is George ;-) By the way it was ME !! who spelled ' Rebellious ' incorrectly in your blog ha ha.......
G X

Hello Ann, I am sorry for your loss, there are so many people writing on here, its difficult to know someome until perchance they enter your consciouness, I thought 'Why can't I find a man who can dance?' lovely in its totality, yes you are right men do smell of oil and engines ;-)) we are all the same, I drill for the damn stuff. ha ha We seldom get time to dance, too busy being crushed by the wheels of life and it's obligations.
Keeping on dreaming and being you ;-)
George

Hi everyone!Hello Christopher. It's interesting that you enjoyed the first bit of my dancing men poem. I like the last bit, think the first bit is a meant-to-be cliche, and the two lines that join them are a bit rubbish - don't flow, too clunky, unless you say them in the right rythmn! I wrote the poem as a love letter to practical, scruffy, unassuming anorak type men, ( I used to work surrounded by them, in a previous existance) and the bit I think works for me are the last two lines. Or maybe the last three words!

I need a man who'll dance with me.
We'll meet in moonlight and I'll wear
a green gauze gown with pearls and opals in my hair.
He'll love me straight away, he'll be entranced
and then we'll dance.

I need a man who'll dance with me
and without effort he
will lift me up as in our mutual joy we twirl.
He'll write me poems, give me flowers perchance
and then we'll dance.

Enjoyed that, embraced it, so seldom can, good stuff!

Can we just leave it there though.

C.

Hello Dave - many thanks for your comments - er... have I spelt lie wrong? Have I made my poem more deep and meaningful - if so - must have done it on purpose! Wracking my brains to work out what else I've spelt wrong - or should that be racking? Thanks again, xx

Oh yes! I see what I did!

Hi Ann

Welcome. To my shame I don't often check out new members on the site, but am glad I did in your case. I really liked these - all of them! Looking forward to seeing your Blogs

Dave
PS Is that a typo in the second line of The Dray?

Hi again Ann, This is grim behaviour, especially for an 18 year old ! Ihope you make her clear it up... Win

Hi Ann Foxglove... I see we have a mutual admiration for Gaia Holmes. she is not a prolific poster on WOL but is as you have commented an amazing poet who can capture moments like no one else IMHO. Win

Hi Ann , I also like ruins and enjoyed your little gem. Keep posting and enjoy exploring the site. Winston