This is beautiful. Reminds me of Echo the Elephant.
Comment is about Thembi (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
<Deleted User> (9882)
Tue 12th Nov 2013 21:25
<Deleted User> (9882)
Tue 12th Nov 2013 21:23
With all on here I sniff the sniff.....
......However, should that very royal-looking letter drop through my letter-box tomorrow...
......????
You must be jokin!
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Indeed, Cynthia.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Is that what causes thunder and lightning, Tomas?
Comment is about Your God and My God (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (11585)
Tue 12th Nov 2013 17:11
Thank you for your comment on my poem.
Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Nope, there would be a massive ego clash!!!
Comment is about Your God and My God (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
There are no victors in war, that is the only truth...
Comment is about M.I.A (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Three nice poems. Thanks for sharing...
Comment is about Passion & Pleasure (blog)
Original item by Ian Beckett
All time moves with or without us...
Comment is about Morning (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
beautiful.
Comment is about Your eyes (blog)
Aesop was very wise.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Isobel, I got my email back as DaemonMail.
It's been a hectic week. We are both coming, and we are really looking forward to the occasion, both as a visit with you and a chance to share poetry at the Tudor.
We are aiming for 3:30-4:00 p.m., schedules permitting. Let us know if this is convenient. We'll call from Victoria Station to clue you right in, so that there's no hanging about.
How do I access you via email privately?
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Isobel,
I knew I recognised that bum from somewhere...Let`s think...Skiathos `75?
Good night at the Spoke thursday.
Comment is about Touching...and going (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
More on Thomas Chatterton:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Chatterton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chatterton
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Cannery Row is a fantastic book. Although it is an 'old' book, it feels completely modern in its style and attitude.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Great meeting this evening!
As promised, the books I have of John Steinbeck are:
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
The Wayward Bus
The Red Pony
The Long Valley
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday
The Pearl
Travels with Charley...
D. x
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
thanks again Harry - 'eclipse' sounds a bit to obvious - I was hoping 'trial & tribulation' might get a few folk scrambling for a dictionary or Wiki. This was another one I adapted from a short story I've written - and boy is THAT dark - way too much detail to put into a poem unfortunately.
I do enjoy it when you start to autopsy my stuff - I always think when I'm hitting 'post' - 'I wonder if Harry's going to get to the bottom of this one?' I suspect we're currently in an honourable 'score draw' position :-)
cheers again
Ian
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
sounds good MC (the Kennedy stuff) I'd spotted 3 programs on Kennedy this week - 2 are on terrestrial but the National Geo channel is doing a dramatized documentary on it tomorrow night @ 9pm also - so the old Sky+ is going to be taking more hammer. I also got a really good magazine with an interesting feature on JFK in general and the assassination in particular - it was a regular monthly one called something like 'History' well worth a look at if you're in WM Smiths.
Glad you liked 'A Step Towards Winter' I've also written a bookend piece called 'Step Towards Summer' which is in my new poetry collection and also a CD of music I'm releasing in the next couple of weeks - I'll be posting on Soundcloud when we finish mixing - I know you're into your music/song writing - I'm also a massive fan of Johnny Cash - watch this space as I'm working on a poem about him and will post on WOL soon
cheers
Ian
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
thanks tracey. one of my favourites and one i always enjoy doing with the guys.
for the record too folks - this is my about my uncle percy who was killed in india in action in 1941 leading his men into the gates of machine guns.
Comment is about Tracing Planes (blog)
Original item by A Means to an End
Hi Cynthia! Thank you for reading and comments.
Will take note of suggestions... want 'pages' in even though it does seem clumsy because I am talking about rolling papers - they are very slim pathetic pages if one was to use them for writing material ... although Kerouac wrote a book on toilet roll so who knows!
Hope you are well xx
Comment is about Notes (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Sorry Izz. People are welcome to have a go at the theme of course. But the dates aren't shifting. From what some people have said in the past, having only 6 poems to consider will be a help.
If the competition has done nothing else, it's brightened up an already good night at the Spoke, with you and Harry airing your contributions. Great fun.
Comment is about Touch & Go Competition - Voting (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
<Deleted User> (10832)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 22:48
Well personally I prefer her in duck egg yellow.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I couldn't be on the list if I tried...
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (10253)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 20:49
Here's my poem for 'em
I wonder when my invite will come
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=39728
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 20:30
works ok for us two,too.xx
Comment is about A Falling Of Conciousness (blog)
Original item by Tj Steele
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 20:25
breath of fresh air!xx
Comment is about Poem: Avoiding Hell? (blog)
Original item by Joseph J. Breunig 3rd
A few spoken word poets will be representing Contemporary poetry at the palace, Kadijah Ibrahim, Ali Gadema, Joelle Taylor and Myself will be adding the urban flavour.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (10832)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 19:11
Well I thought this was gonna be a rude little ditty so Im a bit disappointed, as must be Alice.
SW1? acquiescent metrists? Whats this all about? I suppose some would like the mystery you've created here.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
I wouldn't go down, not even with Alice
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
MCN it depends how many puppets you want. PS good words that sound like a reply to an ultimatum.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
I enjoyed the pithy way in which you put your
point of view. However...
there is a "Master of the Queen's Music" as well
as a "Poet Laureate". Better surely to have
recognition that helps and not hinders the progress of the arts and brings them to a wider
audience - by association with an institution that is known throughout the world.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
ps You didn't travel around Spain in your younger youth, by any chance...
Comment is about Touching...and going (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Superb poem Harry. This went down a storm at the Poetry Spoke. Very, very funny - but well written too - and that's not an easy combination :)
Comment is about Touching...and going (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
What's your hurry Dave? Can't you give everyone a little extension - or even a big one ;)
It seems to me like the competition is just taking off. It's like someone lit the paper and off it went. Surely it would be worth waiting just a couple of weeks for more entries?
Comment is about Touch & Go Competition - Voting (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Was it Groucho Marx who was reputed to have
rejected the idea of being a member of any club
that would have him?
I feel the same about much modern poetry.
But I'd love to hear what the Duke of Edinburgh
has to say!!
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Just so long as the threshold for defining "rich" is above me, eh?
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Graham Sherwood thinks that Tommy Carroll should pull himself together and be himself.
There you go Tommy, that's better.
Clever work by the way but I prefer yours!
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (himself) (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Here we go again. The haves and the have-nots are at it again. The best way of treating Royalty is to ignore them and they then become insignificant surely?
Thank God none of you are on the list. You'd all be too grand for WOL then eh?
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This effusion of confusion is no intrusion!
Like it.
Comment is about A Falling Of Conciousness (blog)
Original item by Tj Steele
Hi there - the illustration you use for this blog
brings back a memory for me. My brother - in the
Royal Engineers at the time - brought back the
same type of item from Germany in the 50s: an SS dress dagger. The blade was Solingen steel
- beautifully engraved with the words
"Deutschland Uber Alles".
I risked the brother's anger by swapping it at
school - can't recall what for now!
Comment is about Lorraine (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
The poor and disadvantaged will always be with us as long as we have charities.
fuck charities tax the rich
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Starfish
Wed 13th Nov 2013 08:16
Like the rhyme and the humour of this poem. Great stuff.
Comment is about I Blame It All On TESCO (blog)
Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh