Funny! It's always a pleasure to read your poetry. It made me smile.
Shirley
Comment is about I Had A Bream (Fishermen's Tales) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hello MC,
Glad you liked "Michael Seen Flora". A true story as my mother told it. She had no doubts.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
hello Cynthia,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Michael Seen Flora".
Of course, it isn't really a poem at all. It's a piece of prose I wrote and chopped up into little lines.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Many thanks for your thoughts on "Michael Seen Flora". Your recollection of the howling dog reminded me of a seance me and some mates did when we were teenagers when our dog who had slept in his basket through most of it suddenly leapt up and ran out howling into the kitchen at the very moment that the Christams Fairy fell off the tree behind us. Scary, or what?
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
So sad that they all grow up and flee the nest and now she will make her own,and a meat eater she as become no more quorn.
Comment is about Invite To Tea (blog)
Yeah, I've been without Ruth ever since I took up poetry. Ruth was beauty, beauty was Ruth...
Comment is about Vive la difference: Tennyson's heirs and Thatcher's children (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
"Ignorance"..."hypocrisy"?
You stay in your one-way street if you want to.
Family of all murder victims have their own desperately painful reasons for remembrance and regret and the need for justice.
THEY have my respect and sympathy.
End of story.
Comment is about One Of Us - A Stephen Lawrence Tribute (blog)
Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson
Although I am fortunate not to have to identify with the aspect of death in this context, it does manage to evoke some distant memory of elderly relations and their homes...like entering a mysterious museum full of silence and times past, with coloured baubles and little ornaments that spoke of other lives lived and other experiences long since the stuff of memory. Children have their own pass into that world - as if nature is preparing them for what lies ahead. I can certainly recall feeling and understanding beyond my actual years when I look back now.
Comment is about The Candy Train (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
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Tue 30th Apr 2013 14:42
'and-somewhere another night died'
!!!!!!!!!!!
great poem.x
Comment is about Drunk (Spinning Wheel Blues) (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
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Tue 30th Apr 2013 14:31
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Tue 30th Apr 2013 14:30
Congratulations Frances!
Comment is about Write Out Loud's reviews editor wins poetry award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
There is a lot in this, Michael, a lot to consider, and it's well worth reading. But it is long, and in some places repetitive, which may be on purpose for effect. If you could harness your strong ideas and powerful words a bit more, the poem would be very impactive. It's a difficult subject that needs an audience.
Comment is about The Worst We All Feared (blog)
Original item by Noetic-fret!
Cheers folks!
Haha Isobel - ooo I very much doubt it ;D
Must read that book actually Darren...
Comment is about Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Why the photo anyway, I did wonder? Murder implied? If so, not really fair.
Comment is about How do women escape? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Tue 30th Apr 2013 12:39
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'll probably take your advice and put it back on tomorrow.
Comment is about Crab Fisherman (blog)
Original item by connor.may.cm@gmail.com
Harry, check 'Hopelessly' - just a typo.
Comment is about Posthumous (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Really good, plain and effective, a great marriage of fine diction and intrinsic poetical skills.
Consider reposting tomorrow, because this blog will disappear overnight as May takes over. It will be in the April slot. but I'm not sure how many readers go back. And this should be upfront for a few days.
Comment is about Crab Fisherman (blog)
Original item by connor.may.cm@gmail.com
Fantastic.
Comment is about Write Out Loud's reviews editor wins poetry award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Greg.
Comment is about Write Out Loud's reviews editor wins poetry award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well done indeed, Frances!
Comment is about Write Out Loud's reviews editor wins poetry award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thx Harry - your words are appreciated I'll pass them on to Nat and Glenys too.
It will be great to see you and Yvonne and hear your poetry.
The room we have; last Friday The Christians played there - it's a top notch place for us all.
Best
Chris
Comment is about ThePoetry Spoke is back Fantastic NEW Venue - (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
Chris,
I never had a doubt...congratulations to you, Glenys, and Natalie for the work you all put in.
See you there.
Comment is about ThePoetry Spoke is back Fantastic NEW Venue - (blog)
Original item by Chris Co
An also within all this political debate there is a really tight clever little poem that gets its point across. Well done Steve
Comment is about £10 million for this? (blog)
Original item by steve pottinger
They weren't by any chance trying to sell Margaret Thatcher annuals at the time, were they ;?
I've read that Ray Bradbury book and can't for the life of me remember a thing about it - it must have been good.
Glad to hear that a free press is just that. Congratulations all, on raising it from the ashes.
Comment is about Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Does poetry make us ruthless? Mmm. Now there's one well worth mulling over.
Comment is about Vive la difference: Tennyson's heirs and Thatcher's children (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Alex the foto is of my blood on the bedroom floor- after an epileptic fit.
Comment is about How do women escape? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Félicitations Laura pour ton inclusion dans l'anthologie !
Interesting and informative article - good job!
Thank you for sharing :-)
Comment is about Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Good luck everyone
with the theme
of a good
old political rant
Tories too right
Labour hard left
stuck in middle
miss a turn
till you make
up your mind
on second thoughts
you May not!
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Letting Go
Notes of sin
stuffed in handbag
open the window
let them go
wind of change
will blow hard
scattering far away
from the bed
of emotional scars.
Comment is about The last night remembered and spent (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
darren thomas
Mon 29th Apr 2013 12:40
I'm reminded of Ray Bradbury's book 'Fahrenheit 451', especially as the book contains 45 poems!
Nice one Laura!
Comment is about Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hey Richard, Cheers for your comments on TWO a.M.-nice one mate!
Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)
Original item by Richard Alfred
Bookshop burning sends a shiver down my spine. Too reminiscent of what we thought was a bygone era. Great article Laura. I hope we can help through this.
Comment is about Write Out Loud regulars in collection supporting fire-hit bookshop (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Just a quick note, Mays Night will be the usual fourth Sunday but due to a prior booking Junes will be the 30th.
Review is about Write Out Loud - Middleton on 28 Apr 2013 (event)
I occasionally get the impression that performance poets would like to have been rock stars, but never learned to play the guitar. Just occasionally.
Comment is about The Word on the Street: Paul Muldoon, Faber (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Short and savage, every character a victim, even the eye witness. The title is excellent - that electric fencing between wishes, needs and action.
Comment is about How do women escape? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
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Mark Mr T Thompson
Tue 30th Apr 2013 20:05
Your first post is ridiculous in its ignorance,as evidenced by the factual inaccuracy, provocatively emotive language and offensive parallels which you choose to draw. The idea that the number of blows involved is how we compare crimes is so childish it as to make you look like a the bigoted troll you really are. You have consistently ignored the criminal and possibly fatal actions of the officers involved. These are what sets this murder in a different category.
Hypocrisy "The poet has the opportunity to remark on what goes unremarked - and can perform a valuable function in addressing perceived wrongs for those who OTHERWISE would be ignored, forgotten or abandoned" from the man who wrote a poem about the biggest media funeral in over a decade!
Do the victims of institutionalised racism have your sympathy and respect? What about those that have to fight to get the justice that they need? Those that know that it is because of racism they have lost a family member AND been denied justice.
Please do feel free to avoid coming down my one-way street, unless you have something intelligent to say!(all though if you did, I would assume your account had been hacked)
Comment is about One Of Us - A Stephen Lawrence Tribute (blog)
Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson