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trumpin crack blast is a gas,gas,gas!


.....coat time?.....;0)...x

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Love this, Laura, very funny! :-)

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hahaa Harry - quality! :D :D

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

PS: have just posted on my FB homepage seeking other attendees.

Comment is about Last Word festival looks back at legendary 1960s poetry 'incarnation' at Albert Hall (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

When first arriving in Stockport
I was the new boy.

Feeling isolated unable to speak
I found myself in exile.

Which is the selected theme
For Stockport Write Out Loud.

Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Well, Greg has taken me down memory lane: let's wait and see what he found there.

And, yes, if we can find any other attendees that would be good.

Comment is about Last Word festival looks back at legendary 1960s poetry 'incarnation' at Albert Hall (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Brilliant. Your mind is a place I'd love to visit.

Comment is about When You Used to Love Me, I Loved Myself. (blog)

Original item by Corr Lens

This is pure genius. I'm overawed.

Comment is about In the Immortal Words of Bullshit- I Present to you... (blog)

Original item by Corr Lens

"Why create when you can sleep, dream

Why sleep when you can create, dream

Why ask when you haven't got a choice

Why choose when the outcome remains the same'

This is modern day angst at its best! Hard hitting realities.

Comment is about Bad Cab, Bad Company. (blog)

Original item by Corr Lens

Thank you so much for reading and your lovely comment!

Comment is about Corr Lens (poet profile)

Original item by Corr Lens

I don`t know how I missed this!

Laura and Andy are right to use the words rich and dense about it.

(Andy`s instinct is also right about stanzas.)

Comment is about The liberation (blog)

Original item by Marie-Anne

Amazing word choices. So impressed.

Comment is about Illumi-Not-I (blog)

Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont

I love this poem. Thank you for sharing the feeling, it is familiar to me.

Comment is about Anji Droxaen (blog)

Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont

Good one Laura!

Your idea is not at all squalid
Think of our excreted `solid`?
How useful it is to the nation
All re-cycled to fertilisation.
And spread over meadow and fen
Till we all masticate it again.

Your idea is really quite smart
When you start thinking of it:
We eventually eat our own shit
So why not combust our own fart?

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I like this; nice and compact with some great lines.

Comment is about In School (blog)

Original item by James Roper

Ive been here. very straight forward and clean. Love this.

Comment is about Us/We (blog)

Heh - cheers you two :)

I surprise myself sometimes with the sheer volume of renewable energy I can produce! ;D

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Well, I have to say that the 'sitting on it' and the work you've put into it clearly show. It is really well crafted. More of this sort of thing! ;)

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Very funny - loved it. :-D

Comment is about The Farty Party Manifesto (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Bit of a rant going on there guys, but then poetry is definitely the place for a good rant. I did find those last two lines a little predictable though, I was almost waiting for them. Personally I think I would have left them out. But that's just me. Thanks for sharing :-)

Comment is about A whatever message to God knows who,from who does'nt know why (blog)

Hi Andy, thanks so much for reading and your comment !

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Laura, the one-legged dancer is metaphorical in its feeling of unsteadiness and the rest are analogous to uncertainty :) I don't know how to explain better ! Graham, thank you. Also thank you for finding me beautiful :0 Tilly, you are very generous ! Andy, thank you for reading, as always :)

Comment is about Us/We (blog)

Whatever happened to that stuff like grease-proof paper, Harry, which just seemed to "spread the wealth" so to speak?

Comment is about RING OF FIRE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Indeed we are, Ian.
When I shave in a morning my own dad looks back at me.

Comment is about Dexteram Patris (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I hope it's a peaceful Spring, Larisa.

Comment is about Happy Spring! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Rose,thanks for the non-curved ball comment.Harry.....uh? what? eh? pardon?..if only I could speak your language.Stef-(with one F)

Comment is about A whatever message to God knows who,from who does'nt know why (blog)

Quite different from your usual styles, Harry. But I think it works. I like some of the antiquary-style of language but I thought the Pity/probed/prised etc alliteration a bit overcooked.
Interesting issues of free will raised by the content.

Comment is about Precipice (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

John,
Concerning your ring of fire:

Could I recommend my thirty two ply, Teflon-coated, non
stick, finger-proof, indestructibles (which one pulls
through from the front continuously until a clean sheet is sighted)...they`ve never failed me yet.

Thanks for the laughter.

Comment is about RING OF FIRE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Dave,
Think of the Roman soldiers...they got forgiven.

But, for Pete`s sake don`t tell saint Wallmart that you are thinkin` of worshipping at saint Tescos! :)

Comment is about Slapping Christ’s face (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Steff,
have you been going to the same church as Rose?

After this hurricane has struck and you`re stood there explainin` why you wrote all that poetry about a straw house and tryin`to defend yourself on the `strength` of those rickety last two lines don`t stand anywhere near me. :)

(I`ll be tryin` to pluck the wool out of my eyes)

Comment is about A whatever message to God knows who,from who does'nt know why (blog)

What a wonderful analogy Preeti, I like this very much :)

Comment is about Us/We (blog)

Hi Larisa-lovely picture,lovely poem,and above all,a lovely Lady.x

Comment is about Happy Spring! (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

well 'modernised' that man!x

Comment is about Precipice (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

haha! great ending Stef!x

Comment is about A whatever message to God knows who,from who does'nt know why (blog)

aye up - thanks for the kind and supportive comments on 'Dexteram Patris' Laura. It's one I've been sitting on and couldn't get the tone quite right - and originally I was concentrating too much on the chair that's set apart - once I got he 'busted' line it clicked into place.
good spot with that full stop - I deliberately spaced those lines like that and then left the chuffing full stop in - aaghhh!
Appreciate your comments as always
Ian

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

thanks so much for your kind comment on 'Dexteram Patris' Jacqueline - much appreciated x

Comment is about Jacqueline Phillips (poet profile)

Original item by Jacqueline Phillips

thanks very much for the kind comments on 'Dexteram Patris' Gray, pleased that you liked it mate

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

Original item by Gray Nicholls

A recent discussion blog reminded me of how you can get
alliteration, internal rhyme, and (via the use of a kind of invisible ceasura) allow differing line lengths
by `modernising` some of the old forms of poetry.

That`s the reason for this one.

Comment is about Precipice (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

that's what you call a short poem! lol

good stuff. like it.

Comment is about Needs and wants (blog)

Original item by giovannie

uncertain at the end of this is a really interesting end.

good stuff.

Comment is about Us/We (blog)

one of my friends has got a poetry book of his. i read it once. it was very spock like, i must admit! lol

Comment is about Farewell Leonard Nimoy, actor, director - and poet (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman