<Deleted User> (6895)
Sat 23rd May 2015 23:07
Thanks all! xx
Comment is about Incision (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sat 23rd May 2015 22:02
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sat 23rd May 2015 21:57
Great dedication Jane to a true hero who wil never ever be forgotten.xx
Comment is about Alan (Henning) (blog)
Original item by jane wilcock
As an afterthought, Greg, have you seen any of Colin Gifford's books on UK railways. Great shots of the industrial areas in the sixties . Two reside on my bookshelf.... all the best.
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm so glad you enjoyed the tank graveyard. I tried one about pillboxes, but it didn't quite work. Plenty of atmosphere, which you like, I know! The final line perhaps was inspired by the Turner painting Steam Smoke and Speed(I think). Who know where these ideas come from, but that poem was an experience I had as a kid.
I enjoyed your poem Wrecks a lot. It drips with images of the sea.
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
enigmatic pencilling...
Comment is about ;) (blog)
Just Hanging Around
Surrounded by Art
Pictures observe us
Collective images smile.
Poetry replaces brushstrokes
When we depart
They all comment.
Makes a change
From oddball artists
Trying to paint.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Hi Jane
Nice poem, both thought provoking and well written.
Comment is about Alan (Henning) (blog)
Original item by jane wilcock
Knowing when to retire from the field - gracefully. That's the secret. In the meantime - for auld lang syne...
For all the things we might have seen
There's this tease of just what might have been!
And - serving as cruel fancy's factotum -
The niggling lust of a ageing scrotum!
:-)
Comment is about Don Juan in his decrepitude (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Jonathan Humble - a delightful riposte and a true heir to
the wit and wisdom of Spike Milligan. Like most comedy
films - however gifted and rewarding - this poetic equivalent will not be gaining any prizes in competitions, but it has more than that going for it: the priceless
ability to connect with us and make us laugh...an all
too rare occurrence in poetry today.
Seriously!!
Comment is about 'Self-schooled poet' Simon Armitage bids to become Oxford professor of poetry (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I found the attitudes towards poetry from this poet a
pleasing reminder of what inspires writers even today.
Politically, I'm unsure why he should find Nigel Farage/
Ukip "chilling". How far we seem to have moved - from a
proud self-regulating nation unafraid to take on the world
- to an easily frightened entity content to lurk among 27
other countries, many of which are former dictatorships
and failed communists states busy looking out for themselves with little obvious concern for this small
island nation and its wishes to revert back to sovereign
status and a TRADING nation - except when we threaten to leave and take our billions per annum contribution with us.
Perhaps Mr Wright could write (no pun intended) a poem
about the motives that saw virtually 4 million people
heed the message from Ukip about wanting the country
back.
Comment is about 'Poetry should have bite and snarl, but it's better for joy and sadness than anger': Luke Wright (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
An enjoyable and interesting piece! Thanks. :-)
Comment is about 'Poetry should have bite and snarl, but it's better for joy and sadness than anger': Luke Wright (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Steve,
I like the way - at the moment of waking - the inanimate drawer `knows` what has taken place.
The silent rising tide image suits the powerful serenity of the coming dawn.
I think Cynthia has the pith of of the piece with her comment about pragmatist/dreamer (the effect of those
late lines about the day being stacked away give the impression (to me) of a sort of apology in case the rest of it might seem to be over sentimental. (it isn`t)
Comment is about Shore (blog)
Original item by stephen smith
Thanks JC - tho' not quite so timorous in its final appearance.
Comment is about GOODBYE TO A LITTLE LIFETIME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I have my own memories of the days described in these
lines of a shock defeat. You would have thought that
the defeat of the French previously might have waved a
few warning flags but the Yanks (even now) believe that
fire-power is the be all and end all in warfare. I sometimes
wonder how the Brits, Aussies et al would have approached
the combat and its aspect of "hearts and minds" in a
part of the world where things material have to face
a very intransigent type of belief.
Comment is about birth of a nation (blog)
Original item by jeremy young
David,
An excellent title and very effective mood-setter which leads up to kind of drawing felt attraction.
The middle stanza is a really original way of describing a certain kind of weather (which suits the mood of the whole piece)
A (very tiny) quibble might be that the `burst`in stanza one doesn`t suit the mood of the rest of it.
Comment is about NOT REALLY A STRANGER (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Cynthia
Neat treatment of the boom boom end of the music of the spheres.
(made all the more effective by the last four lines kind of mocking your own thought)
Comment is about Moon Storm (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I think Graham`s advice about interspersing here is spot on.
Comment is about matrix (blog)
Original item by Zachary
Very sincere reminiscence.
For me, Line fourteen is a very fine line of poetry.
Comment is about 28 Years Later (blog)
Original item by Emma-Jane Stradling
Sat 23rd May 2015 13:51
I like this poem. It's written so well that I can almost see the scenery.
Comment is about TANK GRAVEYARD (blog)
Original item by ray pool
For a particular event Thomas?
Comment is about Take hands and march (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
I love your rhythm. Narcissistically, cause it's like mine ;)
Comment is about Fishing (blog)
Another great review Judy.
It was certainly an evening to remember. Mandy Coe was lyrical and Brian Patten, as you say, a legend.
I would like to join Julian in extending a big Thank You to Live from Worktown for this and all the other fantastic events they have delivered throughout the Festival.
Comment is about Warmth and wonder from Mandy Coe and Brian Patten (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I enjoyed many lines in this, Ray, such as "the sunset of world-weary time". But the final line is my favourite!
Comment is about TANK GRAVEYARD (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Sat 23rd May 2015 09:01
Nice poem... "Time wasted, time wasted, time wasted me"
Comment is about I realised i was me (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Hi Harry, this made me smile, like the poem song, songs like My old mans a dustman, another species under pressure at the moment!
Thanks for comment on austerity no more, yes VE stuff overlooked, glad you liked how I tied it in, cheers Jeff
Comment is about The floating voter song (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Very dark, powerful stuff Martin, enjoyed reading, ps thanks for comment on 'Austerity no more', more dark times ahead, Jeff
Comment is about How dark (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Hi Tommy, really enjoyed reading this, love the description ands sounds spot on, cheers Jeff, ps thanks fro reading and posting about 'Austerity no more' yes no great solution, I just hoped an alternative result may have been a bit better :-(
Comment is about Is this what borders do? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thanks, Steve. I think Dean Richards was the last of the great rugby "amateurs".
Comment is about THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A lovely review of a glorious evening of poetry, as luxuriant as Brian Patten's curls. Top marks to the Live at Worktown team, and a big 'thank you'.
Comment is about Warmth and wonder from Mandy Coe and Brian Patten (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Metaphor metaphor ( thinks)
Comment is about My God (blog)
<Deleted User> (9882)
Fri 22nd May 2015 19:05
works for moi ! x
Comment is about Incision (blog)
thank you Lynn - though I prefer to call them mules rather than clogs
Comment is about alive (blog)
Original item by jeremy young
As you usually do, you baffle me with these words. The first six lines I find incomprehensible but the remaining nine are really quite lovely. You are a Rubik's cube poet for me.
Good to see you back again on here.
Graham
Comment is about Now (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
So Luke said to my wife, 'I can't eat this beef stew.' My wife said, 'Shut up! It's custard pie!
Comment is about 'Poetry should have bite and snarl, but it's better for joy and sadness than anger': Luke Wright (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Lynn Hamilton
Fri 22nd May 2015 13:25
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 22nd May 2015 12:20
:)
an interesting subject on which I dare not comment !
However, may I suggest that in line 3 the first 'once' is not needed?
x
Comment is about something i must hide (blog)
Original item by muse
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 22nd May 2015 07:53
Thank you, Quadrya.
Comment is about DREAMING FOR ALL TO SEE (blog)
Original item by THE PEN AND THE PAGE
What a lovely memoir of an historic occasion, poetically speaking. I have just got in from hearing another poetry hero, Brian Patten, reading at the Live from Worktown festival. He talked of spending evenings chatting in his orchard with Adrian Mitchell, brandy and glasses to hand. You were there, and you remember it, David. Impressive!
Comment is about 'A tremendous sense of occasion': David Andrew on the Albert Hall Incarnation (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Yes and good ones at that ha :)
Comment is about THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I'm afraid these are just memories now, Helen!
Comment is about THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Now, now, Harry. Don't give in. We're both still Young Turks inside.
(An' what you doin' lookin' at yer scrotum for?)
Comment is about Don Juan in his decrepitude (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Made me laugh. A lot!
Comment is about THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Natalie, I really like this. It is very powerful and made me stop to question certain aspects of my own life. Great stuff.
Comment is about The Struggle (blog)
Wee sleekit cow'rin tim'rous beastie"! You're lucky you got one; they don't have a lot of moral rectitude!
Comment is about GOODBYE TO A LITTLE LIFETIME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Very topical, with reports of even more "well known" people
under investigation for criminal acts against youngsters when youth and its urges were in charge of barely lived lives.
Comment is about FALLEN IDOLS (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks - I am lost and raypool. It seemed somehow more
affecting that the little life should expire within view from
the regular "eyeline" from my chair rather than a hundred
and one other places out of sight and mind.
Comment is about GOODBYE TO A LITTLE LIFETIME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Tommy Carroll
Sat 23rd May 2015 23:44
There'll always be an England etc
Comment is about 'Poetry should have bite and snarl, but it's better for joy and sadness than anger': Luke Wright (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman