Just spotted your earlier comment on "The Week We Should Have Played The Lottery". Scarcely believable but true.
I told a work colleague about it when I got back home. He said "That happened to me too!".
Sh*t!

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Hi Anthony

Thank you - glad you liked.

I love Genesis - sent shivers down my spine!

Katy

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Hi Anthony Turned my plough into pen knibs long ago.

It's as well your quite a few miles
away from Carol Klein, I hear her neighbours
complained about the bad smell she was giving off

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Thanks for your comments on The Week We Should Have Played The Lottery and Man u 2 Tottenham 3.
Fergie on insufficient injury time "It denies you a proper chance to win a football match".
I think he really does believe that the purpose of injury time is to allow Man U to score and not to make up for time lost through injuries!

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Thank you for reading my poem. Many thanks for your responce. Take care Tony.

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Hey, thanks Anthony, for your note on Should We?

Just get so bloody angry at people who insist on saying it, over and over again - 'ohh it's pointless, never makes a difference' blah blah. And yeh - you're bang on with the Hillsborough reference. Yesterday was momentous...really didn't expect that kind of result. So so pleased and proud of the people who fought for all those years. Like a lot of Merseysiders, I knew people who were there, and it's been beyond infuriating and frustrating that the Authority's version of events was believed by so many people for so long. And now the truth is out. There MUST be criminal charges for all involved - the Attorney General cannot, in the face of all the evidence, refuse a new inquest.

Cheers :)

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Hi Anthony, thank you for the witty welcome ;-) and perceptive review of the first poem I have penned in quite some time.Live long and prosper friend ;-)TC

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Morning Anthony

Many thanks for your note on Purple. I shall certainly pass the pipe of erm 'peace' around ;D

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Hi there

Glad you got something out of my 100m effort. Yes I think it looks a lot better in my chosen font which I couldn't reproduce here.

Win

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Hi Anthony, Glad you liked my sprinting piece. Yes the text uploader is a bit crude and I do have other versions but I think it still comes accross ok. Thx Win

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I look back on the Olympics with nostalgia - to a time when I HAD time to sit around and watch telly :) I loved watching any sport that involved dance and beauty so ice dancing and gymnastics were my favourite. Gymnastics seemed to change from an artform into a child tumbling exercise though - the new breed were all very supple and skilled but lacked the elegance.

So whilst I appreciated art, you appreciated wet T shirts and shorts - hmmm - typical man ;)x

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@ Anthony: I do- whenever i'm in my cups!

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hi Anthony
thanks for the little ditty (re Wait for Weight )oh the joy of our English language!

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Like i said in the intro, 'no disrespect intended'. I like Devon, my mother's side of the family are all from Devon (don't think i could live there though personally, i'm a city boy through and through). The despair in the poem is more to do with the fact his car's broken down and he's stranded and doesn't want to be stuck there anymore. Not because he's in Devon.

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O hail, winner of ye WOL competition!
Cynic - moi? I'll plead to that occasionally, but with mitigation!!
Cheers.

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Swipe me, Anthony: this is so good it tore a swathe through the primal depression that's been ringing [knelling?] in my ears these past few weeks; first it spoke to me - succinctly, damned-near perfectly weighted [life requires some uncertainty, after all] about darkness, and that 'trapped', futile feeling common to this wintry condition - see, I felt I could understand/share Neil's suffocation, albeit as metaphor; and then, in rifling through that bag with you I recalled with an almost bittersweet wistfulness the kind of 'ephemera' which, paradoxically, do so much to add some meaningful texture to our lives. Before I read this I felt quite bereft, was beginning to feel betrayed by language, that it had lost its power completely to communicate. I may be wrong: perhaps, thanks to this narrative/reflection it hasn't quite 'joined the bleeding choir invisible' yet, after all.

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Congrats Anthony - you won the serendipity comp! You are being very modestly quiet about it! Maybe you are away. You've had lots of nice congrats messages on the blog where it was announced but not on your page it seems so it's possible you don't even know. Well done!! It was a really good poem and a good reading of it too. xx

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A. E., I am not cynical, exactly. Why does that word have a 'bad' vibe; it's not fair! But, I did look up the source of 'serendipity' after all, and what apparently was bugging me was the absence of the element of 'sagacity/wisdom....etc. in the original idea as Walpole used it. And the fact that the 'accidental finder' was always diligently looking for something entirely different. Neither of these two aspects was included in the given definitions. Ergo, they fell far short of Walpole's intentions in his coinage, (which came out of a personal letter,so I read). I am not basically a 'wet blanket'. Oh, I am crushed!

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Thanks Anthony - I may be smarter than I thought but I still can't fathom out how everyone does those linky things. But it don't matter now! :)

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Hi Anthony - I'm having a bit of trouble (Betty) putting the details about the WOL comp poems onto the blog about voting. I'm wondering (as you did it last time) how do you get the link for people to see the poem? If you find my blog about the comp you'll see my problem! (I HATE TECHNOLOGY!!! Actually, it hates me!) xx

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Thanks for the comments on "Charity Marathon Row" Anthony. Yes, the blisters needed soothing. We're not talking about my hands!

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Hi Anthony,
Thanks for commenting on 'The Cock and Bulldog Inn' i do like writing in the narrative style, it ties in nicely with performance poetry i think. And everyone likes a good story right?
Kind regards 'n' all tha'.

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Dear Anthony

I just wanted say thanks and acknowledge the impact your comment made to my poem 'The little things destroy us'. You are always honest and have an owls eye for what works and what doesn't. I have changed it now and its very tight with a new stanza on Thatcher.

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'direct thought transfer' is on its way, you know, for us all, rather than the select few. Have you been keeping up with the newest 'science', where brain waves alone make recognizable sounds that can be understood as words, and therefore thoughts?

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Thank you Anthony, for your comments on Woman in the Mirror, which made me laugh. :)

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Cheers chuck for y'note on Leaving Home. Yeh, was about freedom of all kinds - bloody loved it. Happy days :)

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Thanks for dropping by and commenting on my Valentine poem Anthony.

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Hi Anthony
'And...'
I'm very appreciated of your kind comments.
I wish I could take the claim for having spent hours crafting the poem, but I just went upstairs to bed one night, and there it was, just waiting for me. It must have been the altitude.
Regards
Steve

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Glad you liked "Platform" AE.
As I said in my own later comment on it, it's not really a poem.
I shall, no doubt, return to my more usual and more challenging stuff on the timeless issues of tits and bums shortly.

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Anthony, thanks for the welcome to the web site. I enjoyed 'visiting neil', very powerful, moving and sad.

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Hi Anthony

Thanks for your note on Equus :) Yeh, once I looked up a list of horse breeds, the names were so poetic that I just had to use them...and of course, the geographical areas they originate from are just as poetic! Serendipitous? ;)

I tried to sneak a little analogy in with enslavement in that last verse as it goes...do you know the origin of the phrase 'all the pretty horses'? If not, well, it's an African American lullaby, sung by a female slave taking care of her master's children, and unable to look after her own due to that. Worth looking up if you don't already know it :)

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment - I like the rhythm too :D

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Thanks for the comment on follow the Herd.
I had somehow missed reading/listening to yours and just been catching up on them - totally knocked me out. That last one of yours when part through I realised who the boy was, that was a shock.

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Thank you (Touching the Void. I think, Anthony, that I may have repeated myself because it was the subject chosen for a writing excercise, and I didn't even know I was doing it. Well spotted and commented on. :)

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Thanks for the comment A. much appreciated.

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Hi Anthony.

I'm jealous,Your famous already with initials above every hospital door in the country

I'd be a very happy man if I were able to churn out quality stuff like you.

Just one criticism. You need to improve your woodworking skills,(the chair)

Thanks for your appreciation of my little effort.

Ken

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thanks A. i really enjoy the commenting aspect of poetry reading and its always a good opportunity to write x

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Sometimes I can be opinionated in a very calm and dignified manner. Other times you can't really hear my opinions for the ringing in your ears!

Can't seem to get my profile picture to change - I'm giving up.

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Hello AE. Glad you liked "Serendipity and Happenstance".
(Only just tumbled to the pun of "immaculately conceived".

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Thanks forcommenting on Kranp AE. I'm sure my turn from the dark side of smut will be only temporary.

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You've given me an Idea for such an event Ant- hmm...Anyone interested in performing it get in touch. Tommy

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@ John: :o)
@ Anthony: I do- whenever i'm in my cups!
@ Winston: ;o)

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Cheers for your note on I Can Try chuck, appreciated :)

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Anthony,

Thanks for looking at my space lines

I liked that muscle line for the relationship between rustle/muscle and then over/other but it is a very strange image. Maybe your muscles feel differently in zero G.

win

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Thanks for commenting on my Clituris, AE.

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Hello AE. Thanks for your thoughts on Father and Son. Perhaps I should have entered it in the "Joyeux" competition. The idea of those ladies sitting on my face is extremely uplifting.

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Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

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Glad you liked "Dear Sarah and Samantha", AE. I will say this about Santa - he might only come once a year down the chimney but at least he embraces diversity. He doesn't care if its the front or back flue.

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Hi Anthony,

Just wanted to say how extraordinary a poem 'Visiting Neil' is - and I felt that before I read the full story.

Reading it for the first time tonight (and then going back over and over it) I know that it has become one of my favourite poems and it will stay with me forever.

Your words are imaginative, conjuring instant pictures in the mind; you express yourself with a rare beauty and depth. Heart-rendingly gorgeous.

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Hello Anthony
Your comment is much appreciated
Meldrewesque? I honestly think you may have hit the nail on the head.
No hiding from the truth sadly

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your comments on When I Was Nine - I'll let you know when the surgical reconstruction's finished!

Fifi x

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