Thanks M.C.

Expected hate mail

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Thank you for your kind comments on my poem for my sister Carol. It was her birthday on the 26th of this month hence the tribute, funny how thoughts of people you love pay you an unexpected visit.

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Hello M.C.

Thank you for your comments/poem for my poem "Happiness?". This time of year is especially difficult. The fourth anniversary of my Fathers death is Dec. 9. Your comments have helped.

Thanks,
Shirley

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20011! I never noticed that one, MC, although strangely it might be relevant to my most recent posting 'Voyager' inspired by a great video clip of Carl Sagan's called 'A Pale BLue Dot which an old friend of mine from way back recently sent from Vietnam where he's been living for years.

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thanks for the update MC - got the Anthony Summers book 'Not In Your Lifetime' to read next - offers an alternative perspective to my own. I must have about 20 programs sitting on my Sky+ to watch that have been on various Sky channels in the past fortnight - will probably archive them to DVD as I watch them - just need to find the time
Ian

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Thanks for commenting on my poem. I'm considering the 'ravaged' suggestion. I did have ravaged initially, but then I thought ravished is a signal to the past, that he hasn't always been old and unattractive and that once he was indeed ravished.

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sounds good MC (the Kennedy stuff) I'd spotted 3 programs on Kennedy this week - 2 are on terrestrial but the National Geo channel is doing a dramatized documentary on it tomorrow night @ 9pm also - so the old Sky+ is going to be taking more hammer. I also got a really good magazine with an interesting feature on JFK in general and the assassination in particular - it was a regular monthly one called something like 'History' well worth a look at if you're in WM Smiths.
Glad you liked 'A Step Towards Winter' I've also written a bookend piece called 'Step Towards Summer' which is in my new poetry collection and also a CD of music I'm releasing in the next couple of weeks - I'll be posting on Soundcloud when we finish mixing - I know you're into your music/song writing - I'm also a massive fan of Johnny Cash - watch this space as I'm working on a poem about him and will post on WOL soon
cheers
Ian

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Thank you for your constructive critic.

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Hello M.C .. thank-you .. it's my b'day shortly, and 'beyond the gate' suddenly dropped into my mind .. let's not dwell on it M.C . The clock and all the relevant atoms are fading away.

4th Nov. yes I looked at Mr Tennyson .. I was at sea for five years so crossed a few bars .. everything links together ..

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Hi MC, thank you for the comments on Inner Demon, they are very much appreciated.

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Many thanks M.C. on your comments on the poem Top 10-Non movers. I began to get into music in the early eighties with the new wave scene. Bands like the Specials, Police and Madness where I then progressed into rock and metal music. But I also appreciate music from the sixties-The Big Four, stones etc. I even like some of todays music Adele etc. I just feel that today with MTV etc that chart music today has become formulaic and stale relying on looks and glamour rather than raw talent. And as for Rap and Hip Hop music,it has progressed from a brute force which was incisive as the punk era into a formulaic splurge of singing about cliched lifestyles, style but no substance.
I agree with you variety is important enjoying music ranging from Adele right up to Napalm Death.

Cheers for your comments

Dean

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What ho, MC!
Glad you liked "Today's Wedding". I see a lot of them (and funerals) as verger at Selby Abbey. I often wonder how they'll turn out - the weddings, that is. (The funerals are more predictable).

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Hello MC,
Many thanks for your thoughts on "For These", Said The Father. My own thoughts are that, anthropologically speaking, we haven't come so very far. Indeed the dinosaurs didn't get so far in the millions of years they were around; it's expecting a bit much to think we can move on much in a few thousand.
With regard to "Wtf?", despite the tongue-in-cheek ending I really do think the word is worked to death. Isobel's quite right when she asks if we dilute the usage of words at the extremes of our vocabulary, how to you then express extremes?

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thanks for your kind comments regarding the cuckoo waltz poem MC - sorry i'm a bit late in responding - I'm getting a bit behind due to other commitments at the moment - so in catch up mode with the thank you's - anyway, very kind of you - cheers
Ian

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Many thanks for your comments on Mental Health victims. AS a mental health sufferer myself I found this subject therapeutic to write about. Many thanks Dean.

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My God! It looks as you are the only one who understands me. With love and warmest wishes, Larisa XXX

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I am so sorry that I couldn't reply at once. But...your comments mean so much to me. I would like to thank you and... tell you that... your comments inspire me to write and think. With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

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Thanks for dropping in on 'Pretty Girl' MC,
best wishes, Steve

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Thank you for your comment on Just For Today, glad you liked! Katy

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Hello MC,
Thankyou for your kind comments on "I Collect Money" and "Venn Diagrams". I've just posted a rugby poem in a 'tribute' to Johnny Cash. I see you've already commented for which I thank you.
I knocked it up while I was on the rowing machine at the gym - they say we men can't multitask.
Keep bouncing back.

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Abuse and deletion. These bear an uncomfortable
resemblance to Stalin's behaviour towards those
who stepped out of line:
abuse - followed by elimination.

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Go away MCN

Removed your comment - stop trying to show off

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Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze". I have to confess that some of the lines were not entirely my own!

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Thank you for your suggestion in 'Naughty but Nice' gratefully accepted.

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Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "The Masterly Strategy..."
I agree the situation is complex, not least because aiding the rebels might bite us on the bum. And it is wise to consider consequences.
There are, though, in my opinion, some actions so vile that the right thing to do is to do the right thing and live with the consequences.

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MC
interesting stuff,
The 'Reclaiming History' review is based on the 1000+ page full manuscript - whereas the 'Four Days In November' is a condensed version that covers just the 4 days of the 2 (3) murders. I haven't read the full manuscript but may well do now because, as you say, that review sounds very interesting.
Hope you enjoy the read - I came at it with an open mind and really enjoyed it - couldn't put it down and felt like I was watching every scene - a really good writer and a really good read - keep me informed on what you think and if it changes any of your perceptions - I would be interested
Ian

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as always MC, we seem to disagree.
I could shoot down (ouch) virtually all your suppositions about this murder - but it would simply be by referencing Vincent Bugliosi's book - so rather than fill space here I really would urge you to have a read of it and see if you remain so sceptical of the lone nutter theory.
Also - the Stephen King book 11-22-63 is a damned good read if you can stand the fictionalisation of events (but, I suppose you already have) - cheap shot :-) once you get started with the similies there's no stopping)
unlike some of our other disagreements of view - I'm not particularly precious about my views on this one - just pointing out a couple of damned good reads
cheers
Ian

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Hey MC
sorry it's been a while me getting back to you - been in sunny Dorset on holiday :-)
interesting stuff regarding the whole JFK 'drama' - must say that I am an avid reader on the whole topic and consider the ultimate 'bible' on the various theories etc to be 'Four Days In November' by Vincent Bugliosi (I highly recommend this as a captivating read - if you haven't read it already)- which basically disproves every crackpot conspiracy theory that anyone may choose to believe (good grief, I even read recently that they are theorising that vice president Johnson set it all up!)anyway - my own take on this - having read the books, seen the videos, listened to the theorists - is that it was, indeed, a lone nutter - and all the rest has been allowed to fester thanks to the ineptitude of the federal and local investigations.
I felt sorrier for the wife and kids - that picture of Kennedy's young son saluting the coffin has got to be one of the most heart-wrenching shots of the whole sad mess.
thanks for commenting - interesting stuff

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hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed my Squitters and my confession of dishonesty, Them as Lives Longest Learns Most. (In truth, I never went on any marches and was certainly no good with women).

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Thank you for your comments on THE FOLLY OF YOUTH MC. Much appreciated. I was that youth. (Still am inside my head, just wiser I hope)

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Hello there,

thank you for your comment regarding 'The Thief of All Creation.'

I have posted a link for you here which i think you will enjoy. I wanted to post this on the actual poetry blog itself. As someone who mentions from looking above, i think you will enjoy this post. But, don't reach for the handkerchief until the end, when you may just 'get it.'

Aye, we always seem to come back from the brink, but i fear this time, we have moved too fast and too ignorant to restore this planet to its former glory.

Enjoy the link

Mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBMIra45lU

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thanks for your comments on 'she wore pink' MC - appreciate it
Ian

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Hello M.C.

I was unsure about the word "Did" in my poem "Daddy". Thanks for your input. I have a second version "Daddy edited poem". I just left out the word did. Thank you for the nice comments.

Shirley

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Go for it MC.
F**k the detractors.

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Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "WriteOutLoud Women Blues".
I have to say it's not a patch on your Johnny Cash tribute.

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Thanks for your comments on Grumpy Summer and thanks for listening.

Karen.

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hi m.c. - thanks for the comment regarding peterloo. it's a piece that means a lot to me and is still in flux a bit but pleased you liked it.

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Hello MC,
Glad you liked "Lending". It does seem starnge to me that Angela Merkel (who is, after all, wanting to give Greece some money) is villified for doing so!
Re your piece on Mauretania, it makes sobering reading for anyone of a liberal disposition. You add a challenging perspective which we should all consider before undergoing our usual self-flagellation on all matters racial.

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Hello MC,

Thank you for your comments on my poem "I Have the right to write." I had fun writing this and get a variety of comments.

Thanks
Shirley

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Hello MC,
I very much appreciate your take on the North-South divide vis-a-vis 1066 and William the Frackin Conqueror.

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Hi M.C.

I told you a few weeks ago that I had written a not so great poem telling people where they can kiss me. It's titled "I Have the right to Write."
Not a great poem but it express's my opinion.

Thanks,

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Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "The Rhymes They Are A-Changin'".
Again, another one I wrote for Bob Dylan which he never used!

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Hello M.C.
Thank you so much for your encouragement. I do like this short story, "So Very Alone." I have an even longer version which is a little more descriptive.

Thanks,
Shirley

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hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Morning Star". As a trainspotter in my juvenile days give me "Evening Star" any day.

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Thanks for looking in on 'Life' MC. I misread your comments about sins that are red as 'read' and had a vision of me at the pearly gates and st Peter with a clipboard checking through a list of my past indiscretions (it was a considerable list)
best wishes, Steve

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Hello M.C.
Thank you for your comments on my poem "My Mother In Law, My Mom". It's not my best work but heart felt. I like your poem about your Mother too.

"It's a while now since she passed away,
And time has hurried on,
But still I hear her softly say
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'

With each and every passing day
I sadly think upon
Those quiet words i heard her say:
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'

M.C. Newberry

I just had to share this so others can read it also.

Thanks
Shirley

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Thanks for looking at 'Yourself' MC. Its another one of mine thats not quite right yet. I was feeling rather cynical when I wrote it but sometimes its good to explore ones other side -ones other self-
Steve

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I think you need to be able to empathise to 'get' certain types of poetry MC - to understand why people from different walks of life, with different experiences should write and think differently to you. Clearly some people are able to empathise better than others.

I am glad you have decided not to leave any further comments on Mark's poetry. I think you've made your feelings amply clear to everyone on many occasions.

Let's hope we can all now move on.

Isobel

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At the request of the previous contributor to my profile and his instant deletion of my comment - I have discontinued any further attempts to maintain an online exchange of views about the content of his most recent poem - in particular, its closing line.
Readers may draw their own conclusions.

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Mr Newberry.

We disagreed on a previous occasion, to the point where I found your argument so objectionable that I asked that you do me the courtesy of not commenting on my work again.

I have never had to ask ANYONE not to comment on my work on this site, or any other before. But the way in which you seem to enjoy attempting to provoke argument with ill-informed, emotive and inflammatory remarks, was quite unique for my interactions on this site. I left all those comments there and responded, point by point, to opinions that in places I found condescending, but found I might as well have been talking to myself as there was little evidence my comments were having any impact, despite my real world experiences being very different to your own.

Yours were the only comments of their type and a least one other person seemed to to think your behaviour that of cyber troll. That is to say, confrontational, unpleasant and less interested in creating debate than sowing discord by upsetting people.

As a result I asked you not to post. You grudgingly agreed, whilst making a dig about how it was a waste of your time, but you did agree.

So when I find you making the same points, even referencing the same historical events, of which you know I am fully aware, I was shocked and saddened.

That you felt it appropriate to post five times in 62 minutes, mainly repeating yourself, makes it clear you feel you are an incredibly important person, to whom people must listen. It is not an opinion I share.

Please make this the last time we have any contact, unless you wish to end with an apology, which I sincerely doubt.

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