No charge for the tutorial, Starfish.

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks S.F. for your very kind remarks.
I don't like to use my leisure time being serious

Cheers K.E.D.

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for the added explanation of terms used. See, I said WOL was an education.

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very poignant tribute to your father. Lovely.

Comment is about A Bigger Man Than Me (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Comatose and Dave - Many thanks for your kind comments.
As for your wife having a large amount of Viking in her - how lucky for the both of you!

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Sad, but very, very powerful.

Comment is about He knew the score (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

As Izz says, great analogies for just losing it. It holds out the hovering threat that it could happen to any of us and leaves the reader wondering what it could be like (or possibly uncomfortably reminded of what it was like)

Comment is about He knew the score (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

I really like this Steve. It stands well in the blogs next to Shirley's poem. Two people writing about how much their dads meant to them - and writing very well.

Comment is about A Bigger Man Than Me (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Some poems seem to punch the reader in the stomach and this is one. So few words about something so massive, but so effective.

Comment is about Difficult Haiku (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Excellent, John. Captures the historical reality well. I was only reading recently about how the monks took Cuthbert's body away from Lindisfarne because of the raids, which terrorised people for years.

PS I married a Yorkshirewoman and am sure she has some Viking in her.

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I really enjoyed reading this.

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Nigel,

Thank you for your comments on my poem "Happiness". This time of year is especially difficult. The fourth anniversary of my Fathers death is Dec.9.

Thank You once again,
Shirley

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Hello M.C.

Thank you for your comments/poem for my poem "Happiness?". This time of year is especially difficult. The fourth anniversary of my Fathers death is Dec. 9. Your comments have helped.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for explanation,we all been on the internet and looking in dictionary's we couldn't find it !

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello love, just stumbled on one of your poems and added comment, WELL DONE X

Comment is about Jade Eloise (poet profile)

Original item by Jade Eloise

Very good mate

Comment is about One for the couple at the back (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Quip coming, Ian:
Large portion, you say? Then it's certainly not mine. (Boom, boom)

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

good poem Simon - full of telling images
as for the conspiracy theorists (and MC knows my position on this) you can read as many money making theorist books as you like - but it's like the Jack the Ripper mythos - the simplest answer is probably the one that's right - in the case of the Ripper it's most likely to have been done by a 'nobody' who died before he could decide to stop - in the case of Kennedy it's the lone gun man - read 'four days in November' by Vincent Bugliosi for a more realistic - less sensational - viewpoint (it's his account that is used in the current film 'Parkland')this highly respected and much published author states 'Oswald did it and he acted alone'

Comment is about Kennedy (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

good stuff john - I always feel I've got rather a large portion of Viking in me - i'll leave you to provide the quip ;-)
Iabn

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

20011! I never noticed that one, MC, although strangely it might be relevant to my most recent posting 'Voyager' inspired by a great video clip of Carl Sagan's called 'A Pale BLue Dot which an old friend of mine from way back recently sent from Vietnam where he's been living for years.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello there - thanks for taking the time to
comment on my poem about the murder of JFK.
I've added to my opinions with comments to be
found on Simon Austin's poetry blog "Kennedy".
Oliver Stone's film was a tour de force of movie
making and whilst he may have not been able to
fill in all the gaps, I follow his belief that
Oswald was hardly a lone nut. JFK made very powerful enemies for a variety of reasons.
P.S. I note in your "bio" above you mention
"In The Distance" with a date "20011"!!
Now THAT'S the sort of immortality any poet
would die for (sorry!! :-))>

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

JC - Interesting to read in his book - just
published: JFK- An American Coup D'Etat - Col.
John Hughes-Wilson (ex-MI6) mentions (p.137)
that on the 11th October 1963 - a month or so
before his death - JFK had (quote) "signed a crucial National Security Action Memorandum, number 263, signalling his intention to pull
1000 troops out of Vietnam by the end of the
year and eventually run down the US's commitment to Vietnam."
Col. Hughes-Wilson continues: "We now know that Kennedy was seriously considering getting
all U.S troops out of Vietnam by the end of
1965, after the presidential election. There
were only 16000 American soldiers in Vietnam at that time, so that removing over 1000
represented a significant withdrawal."

(We should remember Vietnam also represented a
significant source of revenue for certain
business/military power-brokers).

On a matter of presidential assassinations (and
attempts), I find it worth mentioning that
ONLY JFK's was effected "at long range).
ALL of the others could be called "Up close and
personal"...much more in keeping with a lone
nut and his/her obsessions. JFK's demise had
all the hallmarks of a military style organisation and planning...and the grotesque
failure by the SS and FBI to follow basic
chain of evidence procedures (even destroying
vital evidence) only adds to the suspicion
that powerful hidden forces were at work that day.

Comment is about Kennedy (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

I wonder if this one is inspired by what's happened in the world of cricket?

Great analogies for just losing it here. The important thing is what's going on behind the eyes - very sad.

Comment is about He knew the score (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Hello, what does 'reddit' mean ?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Jarrow was sacked by the Vikings in 794, the year after Lindisfarne (the island; not the band).
"Walha" or "Waelsh" was what the Saxon invaders 350 years earlier called the indigenous British (literally = "foreigner")
"Sais" = Saxon. From whence the Picts call us Sasanachs.
"Wyrd" was the pagan Saxon concept of Fate.

Comment is about If They Come (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Yes - I could never understand that mother of young kids, who went off to conquer some dangerous mountain and died in the process. I mean, what is the point? Even it you do it, so what?

I'd get much more enjoyment from writing the perfect poem - which still eludes me... each to their own, I suppose.

"Crazy people,
buried in the sky."

That sums it up perfectly for me - though I can see some sadness in the way people strive to achieve - at such a personal sacrifice.

Comment is about People who climb K2 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

thanks for the update MC - got the Anthony Summers book 'Not In Your Lifetime' to read next - offers an alternative perspective to my own. I must have about 20 programs sitting on my Sky+ to watch that have been on various Sky channels in the past fortnight - will probably archive them to DVD as I watch them - just need to find the time
Ian

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Isobel
thanks for the comments on 'Glam' I know what you mean about the tainted stars - it wasn't just glam though - you should read some of the stuff the big bands like Zeppelin and Motley Crue got up to!!!!!
I still love glam rock - it was the music I listened to when I got my first record player, kiss, long hair and attitude - so it will always be MY music - irrespective of the arseholes who have muddied its name
Ian

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for the comment (and correction) on 'Glam' Laura - amended and glad you liked it
D'Ya wanna be in my gang? ;-)
Ian

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

thanks for the supportive comments on 'Glam!!!' Starfish - I'm pleased you liked it
Ian

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

thanks for the comment on M.I.A tomas - much appreciated
Ian

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

agreed-tis indeed!x

Comment is about Poem: For Your Review (blog)

Original item by Joseph J. Breunig 3rd

Thank you for commenting on 'Beano.' Appreciated. P.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

no change there then John ;-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

I have a similar but opposite memory of dropping No 2 daughter off at University.
We lugged all her stuff up 3 flights of stairs while she nattered to the other freshers in the communal kitchen.
We'd done everything we needed after about 2 hours (unpacked, positioned furniture, hung pictures etc) and I was ready to come home.
Our Gert on the other hand continued to fuss and do stuff for another 2 hours - she couldn't bring herself to leave!
Now they've both left home to live with boyfriends. We had to buy them a house apiece but it was worth it.

Comment is about Touch and Go (blog)

Original item by Cate

I Looked A Twat.

Comment is about GLAM!!!!!!!! (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

I don't suppose we'll ever know.
I do feel though that his assassination prevents history from evaluating how he would have conducted the Vietnam War (he had just committed 16000 "military advisers").

Comment is about THE DAY THEY MURDERED JFK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Enjoyed this, Simon (if "enjoyed" is the right word). This was one of those pivotal moments whereby everyone around at the time remembers what they were doing when they heard the news.
MC certainly details correctly the suspects and, although I'm normally no great fan of conspiracy theories, I agree that the lone gunman (Oswald) is a hard one to swallow.
What I also feel is that assassination polished his legacy. Had he lived he would have had to have perpetuated or escalated the Vietnam War (having already committed 16000 "advisers" or withdrawn in ignominious defeat (like Nixon and Ford).

Comment is about Kennedy (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin

I wish

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Reddit.

Comment is about How many more frogs ? (blog)

It must take a particular strain of motivation to want to test yourself in this arena, Dave; where not even experience and skill are guarantees of success, only of improved advantage.

Comment is about People who climb K2 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for your kind words. The poem was written as a response to the Sylvia Plath poem "Hardcastle Crags" near Hebden Bridge which she always found oppressive.

Graham

Comment is about Over the Edge (blog)

Original item by Graham Ramsden

I watched Oliver Stone's JFK the other night. I wonder when, if ever, the truth will be fully revealed and who the perpetrators really were.

Comment is about THE DAY THEY MURDERED JFK (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Well done, really nice piece,and very true X

Comment is about Love Is No FairyTale (blog)

Original item by sash

Brilliant!

Comment is about Monkey on the park (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Brilliant!

Comment is about Monkey on the park (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

I like this X

Comment is about Sex Addict (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

I must arise and go now...
:-)

Comment is about If I were a proper poet (blog)

Original item by Gray Nicholls

Thanks for looking in on my JFK offering. As for the truth, somebody knows it, but they're not talking! All the best,
Steve

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

You've painted this tragic moment well Simon, best wishes, Steve

Comment is about Kennedy (blog)

Original item by Simon Austin