Ian I think you pose a genuine query. Worthy of several readings. Tommy
Comment is about Bordering On The Rediculous (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Newberry your ignorance is bliss (haha)
Comment is about Bordering On The Rediculous (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
And so do I really like this. It's beautifully written, .very sensitive
Only today my husband asked: Do you remember all the cats we've had since we were married? Right out of the blue, the question was. I went down the shortish list, reminding him of the when's and where's, each one in order, name, colour, etc. He was impressed, but he had missed only one. We are 'cat people' too, but we no longer have a pet. It seems odd that I have noticed this poem this evening.
Comment is about Cat (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
This is great Tom the words say it all ' lassoed in snapshot'
Comment is about A Quiet Night At The Telescope (blog)
Original item by Tom
Rob Cullen reading the short story The Choice at an event in Aberdare Town as part of the project A Fall into Grace - collection of Welsh love stories organised by the artist Jackie Chettur.
Comment is about 12096487_895091137246170_1936098560814082598_n.jpg (photo)
Original item by Rob Cullen
Cheers Steve - yeh, you're in for a real treat! It's beautifully produced too, and 'feels' like an album, in that the tracks flow into each other to tell the story :) NB: don't listen to it on a comedown ;)
John - wooo, didn't know about that! Will deffo be along for that.
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
You can find more of my poetry on line including some videos by simply searching on DAVID SUBACCHI.
Comment is about AFTER MASS (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Thu 17th Dec 2015 10:42
Hi Stu, thanks for commenting on Shining - bit of a rant without too much art to it, I think, but I do appreciate you taking the time :)
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thu 17th Dec 2015 10:36
Hi Cynthia, Thanks for your comment on Anticlimax. I'm always so pleased that you've bothered to read my stuff, so I don't think you're comment is dopey, and am just glad you enjoyed it.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
this is great!
Women are smiles. Love wears wellies.
Telephones are sexy. Children are dead.
this is just my kind of poem. seemingly unlinked lines taken from various places then placed delicately to extract a tenuous (should that be subtle) overall link.
great stuff.
Comment is about Hats off to the 60s: December 2015 Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
very good. cant really add much to davids comment. as a society we consume news in much the same way we consume the x factor or strictly and, sadly, it is created for us in much the same way.
Comment is about Napalm death (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
It was good meeting you in St Fagans with David! What a day of readings and listening! I loved taking part in A Fall into Grace and there's talk of a continuation by some people and others who were not apart but attending!
Comment is about Suzanne Iuppa (poet profile)
Original item by Suzanne Iuppa
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Thu 17th Dec 2015 08:09
nice words - thanks for posting this Tommy
Comment is about ...Thyme (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
thanks guys. martin iu quite agree. having lived in tallinn just before the euro and easyjet hit, then returning for my honeymoon two years later, the place was completely different. i havent been back in 3 years but it is now said to be the same as riga and prague before that. a great shame as tallinn is the best preserved medieval city in europe and is/was a quite extraordinary place.
Comment is about The Flower Ladies of Tallinn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I would certainly welcome a greater spend on those other areas you cited, MC, but not from the health budget. Welfare I don't understand, not having an informed opinion on it (as i suspect many of its supporters don't). Personally I would be happier to pay more tax to fund the areas you cite.
My last line I don't really buy into - it's just a good saying bought into by those who have never had to make hard decisions.
Comment is about IF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A fantastic piece of work, hopefully to be performed on a much bigger scale (sort of) in Wigan next year.
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This is like taking a peep into somebody's life through the window. Ray's right you do it so very well. nice one.
Comment is about Radstock road (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
simply but effective in all that it says and what it evokes. Love the difference between 'gloved in cold fingers and shivers of heat'
Comment is about Distance (blog)
This reads just as well as hearing you read. I am glad you read it Monday. Nice one
Comment is about 12 days after Christmas (blog)
Original item by Andy N
This is a gentle thought provoking poem Stu. I love the scenario of the flower ladies. Call me old fashioned but what I find sad as much as anything is the more cheap flight destinations are opened up the more places available for drunken Brits to invade. Good poem though Stu
Comment is about The Flower Ladies of Tallinn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Memories never fade, they just take a bit longer to be remembered... : )
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Hi Cynthia, your observations are bang on, as usual. This is a poem I wrote 20 years ago and found in a notebook on the weekend. A very different Katy back then....
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thank you Mikhail, Cody and Cynthia! I know I was gutted that I missed the Christmas open mic! I was on my way back home Leeds that night. I'll be there in January, I'll have to introduce myself to this mysterious 'somebody Curless!!'
Have a good Christmas too :)
Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)
Original item by Eva Elizabeth
Tim,
I so often read a poem on here and admire the theme but have doubts about the execution, that to feel the opposite is a strange feeling.
While agreeing that we should use reasonable resources to ensure we leave the world a better place for those coming after, I balk at a human dying for an arboreal. (even in such excellent rhymed and rhythmic verse)
I look forward to one day hearing that you`ve been crowned as the worlds foremost vegetative laureate.
Keep smiling :)
Comment is about Tom's last poem (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Wow... the last collage poem of the year was certainly a good one.
Comment is about Hats off to the 60s: December 2015 Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Neat?
You betcha' man!
Comment is about A Subaltern's Love Limerick (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
JC - to take up your point about taxation.
I would reverse and redress the %s paid to welfare and health.
There are thirteen other debits shown on my own tax
summary, including environment, education, national debt
interest, housing and utilities, transport, and defence.
For a start, the amount paid to environment is nearly
fifteen times LESS that the welfare debit; that paid
to education down to half that sum; that paid to the
national debt interest five times less; that paid to
housing and utilities over sixteen times less; that paid
to transport over eight times less, and that paid to
defence nearly five times less.
Any of these would obtain my approval for a substantial
redress in my pensioner's tax burden, in particular the
environment, education and housing/utilities.
Well, you asked...:-))
Comment is about IF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Great review, Laura. Can't wait till my CDs arrive....
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I just laughed at your "as vacant as a hotel in Leigh" , and you appeared on-line ( spooky! ) .. nevertheless you've written on a serious and troubling subject for many people .. excellent.
Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)
Original item by Eva Elizabeth
We missed you last Thursday Eva - and you missed a good one! We even had a newbie called somebody Curless... I thought you were related but he assured me you weren't.
Have a good Christmas anyway. xx
Comment is about Eva Elizabeth (poet profile)
Original item by Eva Elizabeth
I suppose it begs the question, MC, "What would you want your tax spent on?"
Comment is about IF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Andy, mate, this is fucking BRILLIANT :D :D One of the funniest and cleverest xmas poems I think I've ever read :D You really have gone from strength to strength over the years that I've known you :D
A teeny couple of typos to sort out though.
4th line, 2nd verse - temper, not tempter
6th line, 4th verse - seven, not sevens
Fantastic! I would love to hear you perform this!!
Comment is about 12 days after Christmas (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Its really really Amazing..it is so lucid ,that one can visualize the scenario..
Comment is about Tom's last poem (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Thank You so much Ray..I don't have any real brother..but now I have brother from another mother..and thats why poem is written with influence of feeling from heart..
Comment is about My Brother (blog)
Original item by Ravi Tanna
My tax return arrived recently. The "welfare" debit was
the largest slice of the cake - around 25%, with "health"
second at app. 20%. The listed other social essentials to which I still contribute in my pensioner's existence fell way behind these two to make up the remaining 55% or so
of the amount paid. There is surely a need to address this unworkable state of affairs, and the sooner the better if
the shit is not to hit the proverbial fan...and I don't mean
the footie variety. :-)
Comment is about IF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Andy,
I can imagine the growing gales of laughter at you reading this one :)
(and imagine what you could do with those true loves at
the end of the stanzas)
Merry Christmas.
Comment is about 12 days after Christmas (blog)
Original item by Andy N
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=53009
As requested for you m8.
Speak soon.
Enjoy christmas (:
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Clinical lines.
Lines 6,7,8 say it all.
Comment is about Distance (blog)
Well I'm so delighted you got this one Stu. A ding dong ride in the arena I'm used to. The back stage can be revealing believe me. You've completely got the idea here and I know you're a fastidious reader so thank you.
On a certain level Elvis was a flag to American dreams - and like so many of them they end up flushed away. (Or should I say bombs away). Sorry for the black humour.
Ray x
Comment is about ELVIS LIVES ON (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Stu for your interest on this. Pretty much the incongruity of weather in consideration of the image that Christmas espouses, and constant radio music in its honour . all to jazz up the expectation of present buying etc (the red carpet) and the caves are simply the shops. All pretty dysfunctional stuff!! cheers Ray
Comment is about CAVES OF TEMPTATION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
brilliant ray. so tragic and funny. there is great juxtaposition here, both personal (the new and old elvis), musical (the crowds played to by both elvis' show the lack of perceived 'culture' nowadays, and a more global scale (lines 4+5 in verse 5). missed this when it first came on, but glad i peeled back.
Comment is about ELVIS LIVES ON (blog)
Original item by ray pool
intriguing. the last two lines are great. you know, i will own up here and say i have no idea what it is about which I like. enlighten me!
Comment is about CAVES OF TEMPTATION (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thank you Erin for your response to "Strangers' meeting." Tommy :-)
Comment is about Erin (poet profile)
Original item by Erin
A real close up - gritty and factual. You do it best Tommy. Ray
Comment is about Radstock road (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Just picked up on this and it has a simple immediacy and delicate quality which conveys a strength of feeling and quite moving for me. Well done - the final lines are the wrapping with the present!!
Ray
Comment is about My Brother (blog)
Original item by Ravi Tanna
Great quality and finesse with a sort of humble tragic twist. Something for every taste in this - you always have a way of demanding curiosity which is so nice Stu.
Ray
Comment is about The Flower Ladies of Tallinn (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
JG - glad u enjoyed it. It's always a pleasure to provide
pleasure!
JC - it was tempting to include the weed but it's so well
known as a modern "no-no" and I decided to let it be...
even tho' it was hard to resist (like fags themselves :->).
Comment is about OPERATION OVERLOAD (or D<FOR DEMISE>-DAY!) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Yet another poem from my climate change themed pamphlet "Speak The Unspeakable". This one was first published in my book "On The Verge". Both publications are available via my website.
http://www.birdbard.co.uk/bookshop.html
Comment is about Rhino swansong (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Julian (Admin)
Thu 17th Dec 2015 18:51
Louise performed this for us at Risk a Verse - see review - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=45661
and it was probably the best piece of performance poetry I have witnessed. The capacity audience was mesmerised, so get along to see it as it is a brilliant piece of theatre and writing.
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman