thanks Rose.Might polish this one up at some point.xx

Comment is about After you chucked me (blog)

Thanks John. I hope they still do and you don't have to revert to any other substances!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

I really enjoyed this Tom, a love poem with a twist and you really managed to convey that love with those descriptions of the small things which come to mean so much, such as hands brushing against each other.

Comment is about I'm Not Here (blog)

Original item by Tom

Super writing, you sent me back in to my rose hued childhood. Thanks :-)

Comment is about To Tenby (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

A very poignant moment for you, Maggie. Please accept my condolences. Greg

Comment is about Why I love Larkin - by Grayson Perry, chair of Ted Hughes award judges (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Wonderful! I love the flow of this poem; it really gets at the fugue state of childhood. It reminds me of a poem my friend just sent me for the first day of spring: In Just- by E.E. Cummings. Anyhow, great stuff!

Comment is about To Tenby (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

in total agreement with Patricia and Stef.Beautiful! x

Comment is about Following your steps... (blog)

Original item by Noris Roberts

went back peddling.Came up with this real gem of yours!


x

Comment is about After you chucked me (blog)

This woman likes Larkin. One of my favourites is The Mower:

'Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
is always the same; we should be careful

of each other, we should be kind
while there is time.'

Quite poignant right now as I heard this morning about the death of my first husband and the father of 'sunny girl' in Zones of Avoidance.

Comment is about Why I love Larkin - by Grayson Perry, chair of Ted Hughes award judges (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Many thanks to The Rev'd Richard Stamp of Victoria, Australia for asking permission to include this poem in his Bird of the Month newsletter and for supplying some excellent photos - one of which is included as an illustration. To any of the newsletter readers who may have checked this out - welcome and thank you. And thanks to Julian for this website which makes this sort of thing possible. Dave

Comment is about Not a tit at all (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thank you Arquious for sharing this.Surprised that there hasn't been more interest shown.Some wonderful descriptions! xx

Comment is about World Poetry Day (blog)

Original item by arquious stotious

The eyes and smile always did for me, Lynn. Love the running analogy of drugs.

Comment is about Narcotic Lips (blog)

Hi Preeti. Thank you for your kind comments about my words. Still finding my way around the site and not sure why everything is coming out twice and not quite right (think that's due to fat fingers when commenting by phone)!

Comment is about Idols (blog)

Powerful to the extreme.

Comment is about Breasts Gone Wrong (blog)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

Thank you Jacqueline ! Jacqueline is a lovely name :)

Comment is about Jacqueline Phillips (poet profile)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

This is love at its addictive best...self-destroying limits which can bring one down...love the desperation

Preeti

Comment is about Narcotic Lips (blog)

A very good question, Ken :) I dont know about life, but most peoples days do begin on the bog ;)
Enjoyed it alot!

Comment is about Does life really begin on the bog (blog)

Hi Preeti, I really enjoyed this too, I like the layout, and just keep coming back to read it again. Also, thanks for commenting on Borderline, I really appreciate it x

Comment is about Idols (blog)

'Clarksonite' love it! x

Comment is about 2.5 minute lasting&93 million miles away smile (blog)

Very atmospheric Andy! Like it and look forward to writing a part

glad you like my why don't you get a life II yes bit more of a rant with my JCC head on but bit angrier!!!

hope you like latest poem, Build a fire, its the poem/song I played for you and Petrova ;-)

Comment is about Prologue 2 (Ghost Story II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Many thanks, Jackie and Lynn. The point is (which you can't expect everyone to get) that the joke is on me.

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for that Rose.Yes,you will always,always get the 'Clarksonite' with his brain dead cjd entourage in tow-wherever you go.Our warmest wishes to you and your mum.xx

Comment is about 2.5 minute lasting&93 million miles away smile (blog)

Sorry you found 'I dream About Love' too sad. I suppose it is in a way. Here's something about love thats a bit more upbeat:
http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=39005

Thanks for looking in,
best wishes,
Steve

Comment is about Jacqueline Phillips (poet profile)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

Well itmade me laugh - cheers for that :-)

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The poolmight be shallow but the poetry is deep. I too enjoyed this, thaks for sharing Preeti.

Comment is about Idols (blog)

There was plenty to go round Natalie, you should have called in!

Comment is about Another Grumpy Sunday (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

It's a bloody fear of the future and very well written.

My mother said to me a couple of years ago "how old am I next year"? "One hundred and ten", I said, she laughed loudly, as I kissed her on the head.

I've just copied and pasted that!

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

What can I saw apart from that is a fantastic piece of writing.

Comment is about Triangular Trade (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

However shallow the pool as long as there is hope. I enjoyed reading your words.

Comment is about Idols (blog)

However shallow the pool as long as there is hope. I enjoyed reading your words.

Comment is about Idols (blog)

Yes just a teaspoon to a pint of vodka

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD POETRY DAY (21 MARCH 2000)

Paris, March 15 {No.2000-22} - On the occasion of World Poetry Day (March 21), celebrated for the first time this year, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura is launching the following message:

"Among the many different forms of human expression, poetry has a major and distinct place. It has always stood apart in the temple of literature. The ancient bards often expressed themselves through this rhythmic construction of words.

"But poetry is more than a rigid codified literary form. It is the basis of every branch of literary and artistic expression. Do we not say of novels, paintings, musical compositions and films that they are poetic?

"Poetry is not very demanding; a voice or a sheet of paper are enough to give it life. We meet with poetry at all times and in all places, thus proving its universality and transcendental nature.

"Every culture identifies with its poets through their ability to give life to its underlying yearnings, it most secret dreams and its shared hopes.

"Yet, poetry is also an incomparable means of intercultural understanding. Learning it in his earliest years helps an individual to develop his sensitivity, deepen his understanding of the complexity of the world, to understand others, through the refinement of art and to steady his feet on the road of life.

"Since its creation, UNESCO has developed a programme for the translation of poetic works from all over the world to make them available to the greatest number and so participate in international dialogue and understanding.

"And so, celebrating this first World Poetry Day, I invite the authorities, associations and civil society everywhere to do everything in their power to restore poetry to its traditional role in the life of the community in order to pursue its universal vocation in the service of cultural diversity and peace in the world." 

Comment is about World Poetry Day (blog)

Original item by arquious stotious

We got a great view of it in a cloud free sky here in Selby. It didn't darken as such but the light had a quality about it redolent of sunset.

Comment is about Menage A Trois (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Have you been at the Sanatogen again, Dykesy? That's maudlin' juice.

Comment is about Does life really begin on the bog (blog)

sorry guys I haven't commented on this neat little piece earlier,but as you can see, I got distracted by the man who codges old songs up and calls it poetry-yeh right-ugh! bigtime.

Later guys,when I have stopped laughing!x

Comment is about 2.5 minute lasting&93 million miles away smile (blog)

thanks for proving my point school boy.

YAAAAWWWNNNNNNNNN...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thankyou, Rose. Good to know you've been reading my stuff.

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I could have bet money on your predictable response.
You have overused it too many times in the past.

Kind observations? no!-pitying observations!

Now back to actual poetry-thank FUCK!

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Many thanks for your kind observations, Rose!

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

'those other senile twits'-!I cannot believe you have used those words to describe poor people like those in the picture,suffering the pangs of old age and all the terrible ailments that go with it.

Not to mention being knocked about and abused in other ways as we have seen all too often in the media.

I find your description,schoolboy'ish,Clarksonesque
and being the daughter of a Mother who is going through this horrific time in her life,downright disgusting and personally offensive.

I am more than surprised nobody else has complained before now.

'these other senile twits' is NOT in anyway a self put down that has been mentioned.I had no stomach to listen to the audio.

Not ONE iota of sympathy or compassion has been stated in any one of the comments.What does that tell me about where it and common sense have gone to?

to the dogs,obviously!

Think on about what hardships some of these Ladies and Gentlemen have already gone through before you make fun of them in the future.

It is highly likely that some of their courage,sacrifices and sufferings would put the likes of you to shame.

There but for the grace of God go you-for now!

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Many thanks for your thoughts Ken, MC and Harry. Despite our deterioration we are all still carrying our bats (in Our Gert's case Old Bat).

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Your suggestions are so welcome, Pat, Stefan and Ken ! Thank you so much :)

Comment is about Blow Me (blog)

The ordinary made extra-ordinary. A small parade of
passing time captured for us to contemplate and,
perhaps, identify with in our own lives.

Comment is about Vase (blog)

Original item by CathyLCrabb

A rewarding vignette of life perfectly in tune with its subject.
Funny thing about Delius: although he is regarded as an
"English" composer, he reportedly had no particular
affection for this country and spent much of his life
elsewhere. My own favourite among his work is the
earlier youthful "Florida Suite" - with some delightful
melody to enjoy. There is a bargain version on a Naxos
CD which is real value for money.

Comment is about Trombone Voluntary (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

But, as Noel Coward famously wrote (in so many words):
"Why do the worst people go travelling
While the best people stay at home?" :-))
The downside of all this travel is the pollution, not to
mention the possibility of creating envy among the
often poorer nations visited...even to the risk of attack
and worse. In an age of TV and PC when visits to far
flung places through one lens can be made available to millions in their seats at home, do folk NEED to travel?
In other eras, except for few explorers and evangelists -
and excluding armies bent on conquest - most people
lived their lives contentedly in their own backyards.
One wonders if they felt deprived or believed that "home
is best" and just didn't care that much? Certainly, the
world was a more settled contented place in so many
ways before mass tourism (travel) and the TIME to participate in it arrived in our lives.

Comment is about Faces From Far Away Places (blog)

Original item by Victoria Vliek

Behind the kind but vacant stare
It troubles us to find
What used to be an active brain
Is now an empty mind.
............................................
The photo takes me back to the last months of my own
mother's life and the old folk who occupied the lounge
where she stayed. Visiting was like entering another
world - truly...like God's Waiting Room.
Thank goodness for humour - that saving grace of the
human condition!

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Sharlie,
Unusual take on a kind of criticism causing decay...causing mulch...causing... (those last three lines)
...some sort of a sprouted revenging irony.

Somehow (to me) `beauty` doesn`t belong in it.

Comment is about I'm Dead Inside (blog)

Original item by Sharlie

Like that: `March to our own drums`

Comment is about digital effrontery (blog)

Original item by Wimpole Street Devils

I like the delicacy of this Ian. (particularly stanza three)

Comment is about Menage A Trois (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Ken,
Will you stop it!

In the last fortnight I`ve been to see three of my (old)
friends...who have all fallen and broken something!

and she`s takin`me out dancin` (well...shufflin`) tonight in the Legion!

You`re just what I needed. :)

Keep right on till the end of the road eh?

Hope you`re keeping well.

John,
Nice, funny self put down.

(the picture reminds me of the audience at some of my recent gigs)

Comment is about 20 YEARS FROM NOW (blog)

Original item by John Coopey