This says to me how humorous and vulnerable the situation between the sexes can be and how transient the desires.
Ray
Comment is about Blind Love (blog)
Thanks Stu for astute observations - this has "dredged up" some fine comments from those I admire greatly .
When the creative flow is sluggish it is nice get the support you need to keep it all going! Ry Cooder, a master of that style , i'll check out Paris Texas. Sorry my reflections on the past career are embittered to an extent. Patronage has always been an irksome necessity to artists but I made my pot when the interest rate was 13 - 15% on loans! Have you a new addition to the family? Congratulations !
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
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What a cool thing to be doing. Congrats!
Not, of course, that either poetry or philosophy will do a damned thing about environmental degradation and impending ecological collapse. But still, a marvellous thing to be involved with.
Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Harry AS everf your commenmts are much appreciated.
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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Thank you Stu, it's most kind of you
I should thank the BTL atheist types at the Guardian for sending me off in search of what chastity actually means - it's just a shame they don't do the same ;)
Comment is about The Virtue of Chastity (blog)
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Glad you liked my hero SDtu. All my recent poems are connected in some way to metals and I wrote thgis one after a friend challenged me to write something inspired by the fictioinal metal in Captain America's shield.
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
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You're too kind, Cynthia and WOL is a great platform with it's combination of text and visuals.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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I wonder if Wayne Rooney would be up for creosoting my fence, Graham?
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
also this is wonderful ray. i stopped to marvel at one of the finest rhymes i have ever read, but then kept reading and scraped out loads of cynicism, anger and weariness.
great stuff. i love ry cooder by the way, especially his soundtrack to paris:texas.
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
you rhymed barracuda with ry cooder!
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
love this jeremy. its sensual and sacred and manages to blend physicality and spirituality. i like your work because i never quite know where you are coming from. i also enjoyed edens loss very much, but for some reason i cant comment on it. probably just a glitch but you have my applause anyway.
Comment is about The Virtue of Chastity (blog)
Original item by jeremy young
Tue 16th Feb 2016 16:19
'I am touched by so much pain
that in some way,
I can only recognise it as love'
those three lines alone encapsulates the hell you must have been through Michael.I wish you well on your road to possible albeit slow recovery.Be strong!
Sympathy.
Jemima.
Comment is about No Intellect of Mine (blog)
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A wonderful Wolverhampton write-up, Steve. It sounds as though it ranks alongside some of the longer-standing great poetry nights.
Comment is about Riot of poetry plus two laureates at City Voices in Wolverhampton (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Bon voyage David! Wooo - so exciting! Have a wonderful time.
Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Howdy Cynth
Thanks for reading and commenting so insightfully, as per usual!
The 'bather' was my mother, it was me beside the bath, called in. You may remember we had a 'difficult' relationship. She was in one of her depressed times and seeking emotional comfort from me. Excruciatingly uncomfortable for me. I've not been able to bleach it out of my mind so thought I would throw it down on the page, try that. Interesting that you sense a 'missing element' - you've seen my attempted distancing/separation, both at the time, and now.
Hehe - yes, I did like that finish to your Wind from my Window poem :)
Thanks again :)
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Tue 16th Feb 2016 09:17
lip service is all you'll ever get from me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7JsZlZ_1i4
Comment is about Lip service (blog)
Original item by Eric Broke
As this poem seems to have been hijacked by the THFC "I remember when" brigade, here's my two-bob's worth.
My old next door neighbour used to run a paint/decorate business in the sixties and used to give Bobby Smith some moonlighting work during the week between matches.
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Haha!! Thanks Ray I'm glad you enjoyed it! Xx
Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)
Original item by Pixievic
Congratulations David,
(I won`t say a word about woolies) :)
Keep the site posted about the goings on there
Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sturridge for Kane, Harry? Let me think about that......
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Mon 15th Feb 2016 21:47
John,
We`ll swop you: Sturridge for Kane.
(alright, so it`s a joke....)
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think this one gets much more sincerely to the heart of it, Tom.
I done Cleopatara, because she`d been dead for two thousand years (and couldn`t complain about the style)
Thanks for your comment.
Comment is about Love in Your Eyes (blog)
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Mon 15th Feb 2016 19:49
hi Leo.And unfortunately how common the last line in the poems is.P&S
Comment is about Happy Valentine's Day (blog)
Original item by Leo
Yes, MC, I too remember them from the early 60's. My first hand experiences were mostly limited to seeing them at their away matches at Nottingham Forest or Sheffield Wednesday - close to home.
I was lucky enough to have seen Blanchflower, Mackay, Smith, Greaves et al.
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A "Hymn to Him" - to borrow from the title of a song
from a famous Lerner & Lowe musical.
Good to see an English player leading the way in a
famous game largely peopled by foreign players. With
Kane and Vardy up front, our national team could be
entertaining as well as competitive in the future.
I am old enough to remember Danny Blanchflower's time
with Spurs back in the late 1950s/1960s - something of
a "golden age" for that famous North London team.
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
blimey, I just turned the thermostat down after reading this. It makes my eyes water (so does the poem).
Most enjoyable Vicki.
Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)
Original item by Pixievic
Harry still might become Champion of the World, Wolfgar. No-one comes to mind with a better claim.
This frightens me a bit, Simon. I've been around long enough to cope with the Despair; it's the Hope that does for me. As Mark Lawrenson once said, "Tottenham never let you down". I fear the implosion.
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hehe! Yes the innuendo is intended - and I thought about titling it something like 'guilty pleasure' & putting a line in at the end about sherbet lemons .... But then decided it was more ironic to titillate the reader as they were imagining something else but knowing it was actually about sweets!! Maybe I'll rework it! And as to writing porn ..... I'll add that to my list of things to do! Thanks for your comment Wolfie xx
Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)
Original item by Pixievic
Great to see this John. We could win the Double this year! Or even the Treble if the Europa League counts...
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
David, you have as always exposed the underbelly of motives that epitomised the time, in which I indulged my capacity to pay the mortgage with some sense of offence I must say. A sense of fair play certainly never prevailed in that climate. However, there was loads of work ! Thanks for your interpretation. Your word irrelevance feels harsh but is accurate.
Greg, Thanks for your eagle eye on this; much better to have the subtle approach. I feel more tales bubbling up - at my time of life it feels like a magnus opus on a tiny scale.!!
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
After the kill thirst for death quenched
she holds him
till fresh orders come through.
Comment is about The Silencer (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
I have much to catch up with, but not today. Cheers. I hope Dubai was for pleasure.
Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)
Original item by David Cooke
Actually, I thrive on discourse, providing it stays free of the premise that there is only one right answer to anything, and hence personal antagonism or a sense of personal superiority. And that includes me too.
Sometimes, in watching 'The Big Questions' on Sunday morning, after Andrew Marr, I just get up and walk out of the room. You can clearly tell when the subject has reached an impasse, and nothing is going to be learned by anyone through further discussion. Body language, often more than words, is so telling of an intransigent attitude.
This sounds like a Monday morning homily. Sorry about that. I'm reading up a bit again on St. Anthony ... fascinating man and monastic precedent.
Cheers, Cynthia
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
Original item by Katy Megan
I like that change, Ray. Your body of work about musicians on the road - and on the river - is really taking shape.
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Dare to believe, Graham. We've still got Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea, and the Arse to contend with yet, 2 at home and 2 away.
Only a nipper, Tom. I'd have been 9.
Thanks for the comments, guys.
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for reading David. It really tested me to capture the stuff. Apparently mercury was used as a cure for syphilis in the Victorian times and led to terrible complications. I often wonder if there might have been a link between this and Jack the Ripper - not an impossible scenario.
Cheers Ray
Comment is about A BAROMETER FALLS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Greg. I sweated over the metre and chopped it about, because as you know you can ruin a poem if it doesn't feel good. I have noted your astute comment and a very fine point you make. I have altered it and I think this gives still a slight sense of us being the puppets of the masters as it were!
The tragedy of the collision was on all the minds of us at the time . On another occasion the police dropped us off at Wapping where the River fleet is based. Apparently there was a colossal number of suicides in the river during that time, the late 80s.
More musical stuff to come. Appreciate your reading.
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Nice one Harry - Spoken like a true Caesar
Comment is about A valentine for Cleopatara (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
This may be emotional striptease.
Is the subject trying to overplease the reader.
Does it mean that the layers are false and the reader is unaware of the facade?
Thought provoking.
Well done with this new stream of work Alexandra.
Comment is about Layers (blog)
Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis
Well it seems you've started believing JC!
If we can stick it up the Arse, I think we could do it.
Good to hear Hurrikane! I don't think Bob D will sue you, I've heard he's a Spur too!
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Nice one John - I remember 61 lol. I was just 6 and saw the victory bus. Come on you Spurs :-D
Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Some great poetic music in this as well as the songs, Ray; the Silver Barracuda and Ry Cooder, for instance. Important details, such as Wapping new stairs. I wondered about "Thatcher's spawn" ... is that too spelt out, do you need it with the yuppies and the ad-men as well? Just a thought. For me, the Marchioness and the Bowbelle are the brooding presences lurking in the darkness behind all this.
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Indeed Wolfie - we write therefore we err (occasionally!) Thanks for commenting xx
Comment is about Humans & Poets (blog)
Original item by Pixievic
Hi Jim Glad ytou liked the sax poem!
Comment is about Jim Trott (poet profile)
Original item by Jim Trott
Hi Greg Thanks for appreciation of Wolfram, although I'm not quite sure if I've got it right yet. I have been tinkering with it quite a bit.Not sure I need to drag Ted in at the beginning, but then rhythm goes to pot when i take him out. I'll have to let it mull a while!
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Greg Thanks for appreciation of Wolfram, although I'm not quite sure if I've got it right yet. I havcce been tinkering with it q
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
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I agree totally. I distance myself as much as possible and try to be a critical friend to my own poetical alter ego! I do find it a bit surreal though and most of the time can't quite believe I come out with the things I do. It's like its been written by someone else.
I don't think it's narcissism. All creatives have to be a little self indulgent to get the words onto paper, but most (and I include myself in this - are a little in denial of or play down their passion......)
I would love to have the confidence to join a writing group, but this forum is perfect as I can engage and not worry about facing anyone in "reality" : ) wouldn't you agree?
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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Stu Buck
Wed 17th Feb 2016 12:49
i do indeed. a lovely little boy (5 days old).
do check out paris:texas. its an amazing film and a great soundtrack.
Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)
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