<Deleted User> (13762)
Thu 19th Oct 2017 19:35
I stayed in the old part of Valencia for a month or so some many years ago and have very fond memories of the city plus ones of almost being mugged by gypsies and watching the druggies try to steal the cassette radio from my VW Beetle. Fortunately neither succeeded. Thanks for sending me back to that time with this poem Tom. Col.
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Thu 19th Oct 2017 19:28
you have me reaching for my old Gong LP's David ?
Comment is about Acid mothers Temple, Lewes, 18/10/17 (blog)
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Thanks to both Graham and Frances.
I wrote this poem many years ago, and it remains one of my "old friends," as I like to call them. The Jarrah and Karri forests of the South West, and the coastline from Busselton around to Cape Leeuwin (and far beyond) are as majestic and glorious as anything I've seen elsewhere.
Chris
Comment is about And Now I'm Old (blog)
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A very poignant piece David - Give and you shall receive. T?
Comment is about So many are falling from the skies, of comfortable lives (blog)
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Thanks to all those that liked When the Tables are Turned
Comment is about When the Tables are Turned (blog)
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Ryn
Thu 19th Oct 2017 14:29
Very good I really enjoyed it.
Comment is about 'How to Catch a Fish in the Solent' by Helen Elliott is Poem of the Week (article)
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Nice one Laura - You will go down fighting. T ?
Comment is about Burn and Rave (blog)
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Frances Macaulay Forde
Thu 19th Oct 2017 12:58
Hi Chris,
I don't know if you're at home in WA at the moment or visiting UK as you've said you will be doing both regularly.
So I wondered if you find yourself in Ireland or the Cliffs of Moher may I recommend you pop into a lovely little bookshop near there: https://www.facebook.com/TheSalmonBookshopLiteraryCentre/
If you have time and she's in - introduce yourself to Jessie Lendennie who also runs Salmon Poetry: http://www.salmonpoetry.com/about-salmon.php
She's mentioned she'd love to meet more WA poets and please give her my best regards. ?
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Frances Macaulay Forde
Thu 19th Oct 2017 12:47
Hi Jane
I have also survived several episodes of extreme violence and sexual assault. I chose to 'metoo' although I didn't give any history, as I did not want to 'rake it up', like yourself. I can live with it now, but actually detailing it is not what I need for the sake of good mental health.
However, I think the point of it all was to show to everyone who wasn't aware of it, the horrific reach of sexual assault and harassment. I already knew it would be pretty much every woman I know. This has confirmed it. But more - it has shown the people who were unaware of the extent. And it has shocked them. Which can only be a good thing, if we are to effect any change in attitudes at all.
Good on you for writing this. I almost did one myself, but am currently trying to drag myself out of the doldrums with a funny poem.
Comment is about #notavictim (blog)
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They have become my favourite three words, it's like the world speaks in the language of grown ups on Charlie Brown!!!
Comment is about Blah blah blah (blog)
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<Deleted User> (17847)
Thu 19th Oct 2017 12:05
<Deleted User> (17847)
Thu 19th Oct 2017 12:03
Chris, this transported me back to Margaret River 2008. I can still remember the first look at the ocean at Cape Leeuwin and getting lost in the colour of it all.
You've also got the trees and the birds bang on!
Good work "mate"!
Comment is about And Now I'm Old (blog)
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Not sure a nod of the head or a smile would be admissible as evidence in court afterwards, MC.
I think a checklist like you're given at the Blood Transfusion Service is the way forward.
I hereby give consent to
Copping a feel
A bit of diddling
The Full Monty
Etc
(Tick as appropriate)
Comment is about "ME TOO" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh JC....you irrepressible romantic!
But your point is well made. Women feel insulted if no
hint of an advance is forthcoming - and make out they're
insulted if it suits them when one is made. Their best
weapon against a male boor is either avoidance in the
first place or a withering verbal put-down if things get
that far. Wits of the past like Dorothy Parker and
Mae West knew their stuff and a man respected and accepted what he got - or didn't, as the case may be.
Perhaps a man might carry a form of poetically framed
consent which can be slipped across a restaurant table
- along with the bill (surely acceptable in this age of
equality?) when the hour and the opportunity seems suitable? No need for verbal misunderstandings -
a nod or shake of the head and a smile for either would suffice.
But it's all about timing, isn't it?
Comment is about "ME TOO" (blog)
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I still have some bank issue small bags full of the old one penny coins - instant reminders of so many long lost
machines in amusement arcades and on station platforms.
These lines bring back those days - as does the update
of "sixty years" on.
Comment is about PENNY ARCADE (blog)
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Thanks Colin .. Certainly not as deserving as your last POW .. That is talent and I'm not worthy .. I'm just an amateur ..
Comment is about Reading (blog)
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the whole feel of the piece is wrong...
Comment is about Kensington and Chelsea (blog)
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Hi Hannah
Thank you for the feedback.
I think many women and men have been intimidated, hurt and subjugated by others - as you say, sadly.
But I don’t think we should be saying metoo and hashtagging it on social media.
Just by saying metoo, is like saying I am a victim and I don’t think we need to be victims. Also, a hashtag on Facebook is trivialising something that really goes a bit beyond the limitations of social media.
Hope that made sense.
Cheers Jane
Comment is about #notavictim (blog)
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another beautiful poem Stu. The lines from
'the last garden where the rain catches in the necks of the black roses' to the end are magnificent.
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Wed 18th Oct 2017 20:50
A great poem Ray.
I love the work of Philip Larkin.
Hannah
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Wed 18th Oct 2017 20:44
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Wed 18th Oct 2017 20:41
<Deleted User> (18118)
Wed 18th Oct 2017 20:39
A very strong poem and I do understand the title, it's positive.
I think many people can say 'me too' sadly.
Assault, intimidation goes on in every sphere. Glad you shared.
Hannah
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 18th Oct 2017 19:49
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Wed 18th Oct 2017 19:47
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Wed 18th Oct 2017 19:43
I think Larkin was very good at being Larkin - a bit like Clarkson.
Comment is about LARKIN ON FILM (blog)
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Hi Philip thanks for taking the time to comment on the Smegroyds. You really wouldn't want them moving in near you.
Cheers Kevin
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I get a warm glow when that happens David. Makes me think of greater things. Cheers!
Thanks Greg; I enjoyed trying to capture that mournful look in a poem - the advantage is I don't have to be as good as Larkin ! As you once said, just aim for that quality - and also I love monochrome photography.
Ray
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 18th Oct 2017 19:06
blah blah blah - 3 of my favourite words
Comment is about Blah blah blah (blog)
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I had lunch with an old school chum today who remembered seeing the Mersey Poets perform in Liverpool, and Brian Patten streaking across the stage. Eagerly, I asked for more details, sensing perhaps an article looking back on it all for Write Out Loud. Sadly, the streak was all he remembered.
Comment is about Roger McGough and Little Machine, Farnham, 2017 (article)
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Cheers Steve for your warning re Wittgenstein
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Cheers Steve. You've made my day. ☺
Comment is about Wittgenstein (blog)
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This is a very cleverly thought out piece Tom. I love the repetition and the slight changes (mad bad sad) in them.
Good work
G
Comment is about Cooling Towers (blog)
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Enjoyed hearing this at Write Out Loud Woking on Monday night, Ray. You've caught something there. As someone who remains fascinated by Larkin, despite everything, like many others, I've seen the film, got the book.
Comment is about LARKIN ON FILM (blog)
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Laughter is the best medicine - so they say. So, why does
it never get the plaudits that are awarded elsewhere?
Just as Hollywood rarely gives Oscars to comedy, so the
same attitude prevails in humorous writing in prose and
poetry.
It's something akin to melody in music: rejected and
resented by those who have no ability to create it .
Comment is about Roger McGough and Little Machine, Farnham, 2017 (article)
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Nigel's liveried clothing is becoming legendary.
Comment is about Well-versed pupils are stars of the show at Marsden's poetry jam (article)
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Helen,
Nice to read you again...Away a bit now...but I like the way this little fourteen liner nods to form as it strolls along.
Comment is about 'How to Catch a Fish in the Solent' by Helen Elliott is Poem of the Week (article)
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Hi Philip, a lovely comment that means a lot, thanks !
Comment is about HUNTERS' MOON (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 17th Oct 2017 20:41
This is beautiful, the eagles, the dingos.
Filled with great imagery.
Hannah
Comment is about The Traveller's Eye (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Tue 17th Oct 2017 20:38
Very moving, beautiful poem.
Hannah
Comment is about Death Is The Only Song (blog)
Original item by Tom
Hunting down the words, the ferrel poet delivers another killer ensemble of script that bites and tears at the imagination...
To much, ? ok i like it ..
Comment is about HUNTERS' MOON (blog)
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Good points all, Suki. I always admired Poe as having a streak of black humour in with the depression. Thanks for that. I'm in good company. Sometimes in a poem you think "this makes no sense," as I did with this. A suspension of disbelief can be good for the poetic soul though.
Ray
Comment is about GROSS ENCOUNTER (blog)
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Yahoo!
Comment is about 'How to Catch a Fish in the Solent' by Helen Elliott is Poem of the Week (article)
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Philip Stevens
Thu 19th Oct 2017 19:52
Loved listening to this briillantly delivered
Comment is about Dragging my Life to School (blog)
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