Thank you ! Love your intro !!

Comment is about shennyboom (poet profile)

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Yes...love teaches no lessons. Except love. Your emtions pour forth without any deception

Comment is about A Learning Love (blog)

Thank you everyone ! So kind of you all.....I am feeling empowered !

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

thanks Rose.A nutshell is probably a good description of what this world may become if we continue listening to the 'blind men'

Patricia.xx

Comment is about Man (blog)

the absolute truth in a nutshell.x

Comment is about Man (blog)

Thank you for your comments Mikhail much appreciated. If I ever did, there would be no need to pay!

Comment is about Mikhail Smith (poet profile)

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Steve,Rose,Preeti,Harry.We thank you all so much. xx

Comment is about The way to learn fuckall (blog)

such a cool actor eh Preeti.Thank you.xx

Comment is about Shit brained angel (blog)

Hi Nat, it is uncanny how I will be either thinking about something or write something and then read your latest stuff and it will feel like maybe you're in a similar place - I really like & appreciate it - kindred spirit type stuff, thanks :) x

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Hi Nat, I really like the repetition in this one, and my favourite line: Snapshots snipe at your ankles
And the pace is great too, xx

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Hi Jeremy, I have nothing intelligent to comment, but just want to let you know I enjoyed reading this, as with your others. It painted a very clear picture for me - and I am completely ignorant of what warham fort is, but googled it after reading this and was thrilled that I had 'gotten it'. Thanks :)

Comment is about warham fort (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

im impressed!

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

... please publish your diaries, I'll buy it ...

Comment is about Take Away Love (blog)

Preeti, you are stunning! And don't deserve to be left waiting by anyone - good for you! X

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

This is really powerful, Mitch, thanks for sharing x

Comment is about DOUBT (blog)

Original item by Mitch.C

I really enjoyed this Ann, thanks for including the audio - it's beautiful and haunting x

Comment is about Whitechapel Ladies - new audio (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Love it

Great build up to an even greater finale

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

Brilliant and nice to put a face to the name!

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

Thank you, Tilly. I'm happy my lines gave you pleasure.

Comment is about THE PRIMROSE - a re-post for the renewal of Spring! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

You're welcome Mr Bastard.

Comment is about Zach Dafoe (poet profile)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

OMG! the poem is brilliant.The OMG! is my response to your STUNNING photograph.Of which I am NOT jealous one little bit.I am jealous one massive bit! x

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

Thank you for your comment a couple of weeks ago. Have been absent for a while
Jack

Comment is about Wendy Higson (poet profile)

Original item by Wendy Higson

Just lovely :)

Comment is about THE PRIMROSE - a re-post for the renewal of Spring! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Fuck you indeed!! Nice one Preeti.

Comment is about Obligatory (blog)

hahaha,
Surprisingly, I was perfectly sober when I wrote First Laugh, Last Laugh.

But I'm pretty cuckin' fut now, eh?

Cheers.

Comment is about Mitch.C (poet profile)

Original item by Mitch.C

I love such coming of age pieces !

Comment is about I Used to be Defensive (blog)

Love the way your brain works. Or runs

Comment is about First Laugh, Last Laugh (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

You were drunk when you wrote this and it seemed to make sense at the time eh!

Comment is about First Laugh, Last Laugh (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Yes indeed, Shirley. In our writing we can be who we want to be.

Comment is about I Am not a Great Writer (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Welcome to Write Out Loud, Myriam. Enjoyed your striking example of a specular, 'mirror' poem.

Comment is about Myriam San Marco (poet profile)

Original item by Myriam San Marco

Nice song-like rhythm and good rhyming in your message. One small caveat:
why not include "a" before choice to keep the rhythm in
line 7?

Comment is about I Used to be Defensive (blog)

An intriguing mixture of the mundane and the mystical in
an off-kilter rhyme pattern. Who is calling - and why the
feeling of certain cessation in more than one respect?
We are left to ponder - like all good mysteries.
Alfred Hitchcock would get this!

Comment is about Division Street (blog)

Original item by Tom

Well done! As a Devonian who recalls a similar sort of
publication about my own county I can well understand
your personal satisfaction. Nice one.

Comment is about Me in myCornwall Magazine (blog)

Original item by Abigail Elizabeth Ottley Wyatt

Thanks JC - a favourite short poem is Housman's
"Loveliest of Trees" - and I stay with the belief that
for some things "less is more". Neither trees nor flowers are in need of flowery phraseology.

Comment is about THE PRIMROSE - a re-post for the renewal of Spring! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

the cooling, damp leather of the couch, soaked in my history, always giving me back the scents of familiarity.

the dirt collecting in the microscopic cracks, stubble, and folds of books; the filth that lives in gypsum rock walls. I've never really been one for detail. I've never really sought to be 100% clean because of how much life is in the dirt. As far as we know, the afterlife is in the ground. Transcendence is not fighting the soil as you return what you owe to it.

blurred lines, like a kaleidoscope -- no matter how much closer you look, there are fractals upon fractals. the line is still blurry under a microscope, so it's better to accept that some things are a little bit right and a little bit wrong simultaneously. then you can believe that this is true for all things, equidistant from true and false at their ideological core. such is beauty; such is the crucial, human flaw that drives everything.

when things break just a little bit, but are still useful.

the green that returns every year, no matter how stubbornly I cling to the idea of being miserable forever. when the sun hits those leaves, you can almost breathe it in, saturating yourself in the fleeting desperate cycle of live that is living in this clime.

the feeling of pens on envelopes that will never be delivered.
the thrill of when they go missing -- maybe they will, then.

reading the velveteen rabbit in everything else.

laughing in that ugly, uncontrolled, unphotogenic way. The kind that makes you hurt and tear up and becomes increasingly precious. The weight of years may fold up our skin and steal our strength, but that laughter has an exponential potency.

going hungry, then eating a good meal, drinking a good drink.

the company of perfect strangers: rediscovering old friends.

all of this is important to me.

Comment is about Let's Talk, WoL (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

very nervous. now available with audio.

Comment is about Late Night Acousma (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Yes, let's. You have an intro I'd love to pinch, btw

Comment is about 14/30 (04/01/2015) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

You have a way with words. Pseudo intellects don't. So impressive !

Comment is about keanu Reeves 0926 (3/24/15) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Congealed. Half eaten. Brilliant, again, Lynne.

Comment is about Take Away Love (blog)

Stunning.

Comment is about Late Night Acousma (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Really, really enjoyed reading. Fantastic.

Comment is about Late Night Acousma (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Thank you again, Mr Tommy Carroll, for your comments, which after reading your fantastic way with words is much appreciated. I can tell from your comment that you also see - there is a difference - maybe it's because we share the same Northern grit? x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Simple rhythms for a simple flower. Very apt, MC. My prims and pollys are looking good.

Comment is about THE PRIMROSE - a re-post for the renewal of Spring! (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks, Graham (somewhat belatedly). Nice to be here.

Comment is about Tom Phillips (poet profile)

Original item by Tom Phillips

You can find more of my poetry including some videos by searching on line for SUBACCHI POET.

Comment is about FIELD GUNS (blog)

Original item by David Subacchi

'can I afford to say whatever?' er..not to the bearded man in the white robe,thats for sure!

Another good 'un dude! x

Comment is about Die tomorrow (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Greg, you are probably right. I just thought it rather strange that the judge used the fact he 'didn't quite grasp what it was about' as his main criteria. 'Most of all'.
Also, I've got a whole lot of questions to ask about this poem- for one, how does silence 'crackle'?
I didn't enter the comp so I'm not into sour grapes. I don't mean to be rude to the writer, just thought this poem needed so serious re-writing and am not sure how it won £5K. The judges report certainly does little to enlighten me.

Comment is about Roger Philip Dennis wins National Poetry Competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Ms Hamilton hi. This is good. A clever, humorous -if dark- allegory (if?) done with an impatient " is that a fact" smile. Impressive turns in your phrasing with some delicious lines. Well wrought. Esq.

Comment is about Take Away Love (blog)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was about an old lady going down to the pub to get her flagon refilled with cider. For some reason I thought of the novelist Jean Rhys in her later years.

Comment is about Roger Philip Dennis wins National Poetry Competition (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

PRESS RELEASE - KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON, a new collection of poetry by Trevor Maynard

Release Date: November 28, 2012 (updated Feb 2015)
Contact: Trevor Maynard, poetry@trevormaynard.com
Website: www.trevormaynard.com

From a biscuit crumb on your lover’s lips, to the death of a Princess,
to the formation of galaxies far far away, human is our condition, life is our journey,
and come agony, joy, or even world-weariness, people, let’s just keep on keepin’ on

Introduction
What a person writes is universal, because they themselves are human, and this can be words of ecstasy, of profound happiness; or it can be the depths of depression, the loss of love; or it can social commentary – putting the world to rights; or merely shooting the breeze – accessing the lexicon to have fun; but all in all, one thing poetry is, is emotional truth.

Synopsis
The book consists of sixty-three poems divided into five chapters, written on or before 2012, with an appendix of author’s notes on thirteen of the poems, four articles on poetry craft, and notes on the authors work as editor of THE POETIC BOND.

The Chapters
BLACK DOG, exploring the dark corners of the soul, where our fears live, and where redemption is scant.
PANOPTICON, the all-pervasive watching eye of society, we are not alone, and Big Brother is out there and to be engaged in battle.
OBSVERVATION, the writer watching is not separate from his surroundings, they are also part of it, and the humanity of the writer gives their work its universality.
LOVING, what is mankind without love? These poems explore the deepest truth our existence, how we love and are loved, and the complication of human relations – as they are apt it say in the movies nowadays “it’ complicated”.
ANSWERS, yes, this is a poetry book that asks a lot of questions, that makes a lot of observations, but it is also a book of seeking answers. We are not just individuals in a pool of mud forever climbing ladders that sink deeper; we are the individuals, the ladders, and the mud.

The Articles
SMELL ME A POEM – Exploring poetry from the perspective of our sense of smell
POETRY AND THE WAR ON TERROR – is the purpose of poetry to do more than bear witness
INSTANT POETRY – an example of the process of creating a poem from stream of consciousness
MY PROSE IS MY POETRY – examining the difference (or not) between poetry and prose

The Poetic Bond
Trevor Maynard is editor of The Poetic Bond, an on-going series of poetry anthologies garnered from new media, social and professional networking, whose purpose is evolve organically a collection of poetry based on the emergent consensus of work submitted in a three month time window. To date, four anthologies have been published in paperback, with the fifth, open to submissions from 31 March until June 30, 2015.

Ten plays by Trevor Maynard have been performed on stage in London, Edinburgh and Touring
Trevor Maynard combines complicated thematic material and unites fractured images with a sure hand. (Review for The Stage, 1990)

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