Hmph - you'll have to do one for the male equivalent now John - let's hear about all the old beer bellies n todgers you have to scrape up with a spatula :)
Comment is about Don't Look Twice - It's Cellulite (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I must say, Y, whenever I get the train back to Doncaster from London I seem to get in a carriageful of people visiting friends and relatives in one of Doncaster's prisons.
Comment is about Citizen's Lament (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I know where you are coming from John - I did a double take when I read about that 'fly in the ointment'. If I were black, disabled, gay or of any other minority group, I'd hate to think that I was making up a quota. Poetry is about words - it really shouldn't matter what skin it comes from.
Having given it some thought though, I'm wondering if Cathy means that she wanted a broader kind of poetry in the book or work that reflects the multi-cultural diversity of Manchester.
Without wishing to stereo type, I do think that black poets write great contemporary poetry; they have a lot of soul and rhythm and offer a different view on the world. I think having them adequately represented would definitely give the anthology more depth.
Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (6315)
Mon 1st Apr 2013 19:33
Really, really good.. :0
Comment is about It's easier not to love (blog)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
<Deleted User> (9882)
Mon 1st Apr 2013 19:10
Have you been peeking in my cupboard?
And blow this maturing lark - I'm going to immature!
Comment is about The Cupboard of Death (blog)
Original item by Charlie Sparkinson
<Deleted User> (6034)
Mon 1st Apr 2013 18:16
thank you Brian
Comment is about self portrait as alphabetical yoga. (blog)
HI JULIE TO ENERGETIC FOR ME BUT LOVE IT B
Comment is about self portrait as alphabetical yoga. (blog)
like it julie , beautifully written,kisses B
Comment is about Love. (blog)
Thank you ladies! Here's to ageing like Stilton. I aim to be blue, stinky and incredibly delicious.
Comment is about The Cupboard of Death (blog)
Original item by Charlie Sparkinson
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment is about The Cupboard of Death (blog)
Original item by Charlie Sparkinson
Hi Charlie, this is so true, although on your last point I think a few of us last well beyond our use by date. We bought some well aged Stilton the other day and in spite of information about how many years it had been aged, it still said "use within three days of opening". I hope I will be a Stilton and keep maturing well.
Comment is about The Cupboard of Death (blog)
Original item by Charlie Sparkinson
HI I THINK I`VE JUST MET HER TINA WHO? LIKE IT A KISS B
Comment is about Inner Demons (blog)
Original item by tina
LOVE IT TINA, VERY WELL WRITTEN, KISSES B
Comment is about another summer of discontent (blog)
Original item by tina
HI TINA YOUR HORMONES WERE RAGING YE, BUT I ENJOYED KISSES B
Comment is about Him (blog)
Original item by tina
I'm not so sure you would want to solve my 'gropexxxx' conundrum. Suffice it to say that 'quaint' was a chaucerian clue!
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Not sure whether you are refeing to my sensibilities or my condition after a bottle of Pinot Grigio - taken, I might add, as a direct result of my despondency because I cun't solve your little Gropexxxx puzzle!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
How on earth can they tell if someone is white or not from their poem or name? Must a black writer be called Winston Kwesi Mbobo to pass muster as a 'black' writer? Must their poems be full of hackneyed ethnic stereotypes to be considered?
Comment is about The best of Manchester: poetry heaven at the Eighth Day cafe (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Freda,
Thanks for your comment on my poem, I think your comments on my style were pretty much bang on :)
Wez.
Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)
Original item by Freda Davis
hello MC,
"Who had a hand in it"... Very good.
I think it's open to a wide interpretation!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I'm afraid you are a little too delicate, Yvonne, to enter my competition on Gropexxxx Lane!
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Hello Ian,
I think you win this week's quiz on Gropexxxx Lane!
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Ha ha, nice ending. This poem hovers between rap and more traditional styles of poetry. There are a lot of thoughtful lines, and a few rhymes that were just for the sake of a rhyme maybe? I like 'leave me like the second half of your cigarette/ Like a regret you just want to forget. '
Comment is about It's easier not to love (blog)
Original item by Wez Jefferies
thanks for your kind comments on 'in the frame' Yvonne, I am, as always, very grateful for you reading and appreciating
cheers
Ian
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
thanks for your comments on 'in the frame' john - i've tagged it for the competition, so hopefully it will get picked up
cheers
Ian
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for the comments on 'in the frame' Isobel - good point about funerals - might change that line to 'Parties'
Cheers
Ian
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Hello Nithin - welcome to WOL - I've enjoyed reading your poetry.
It occurs to me that you may like to put some of your poems into the blog section, rather than in the comment area of your profile page - they are more likely to get read there.
Once people start to leave messages in your profile section your poems will disappear if they are just in comments. If you put them in the blog section they will be filed in date order and more accessible.
'Make Blog Entry' is at the top right hand side of your screen.
Hope you enjoy WOL.
Comment is about Nithinpurple (poet profile)
Original item by Nithinpurple
On melancholy
O 'melancholy, your hectic chill for human's soul,
You with your dismal presence, any spirit does descent;
Unto dreams of tranquil, restful,
Moist, and sometimes of direful views they went.
Enigmatic woven waves are your curls,
You traverse in each mystery we bent,
Where life is few configured amid wild whirls,
Until deaths, mild eyes meet us in an airy haunt.
Nithin purple
Comment is about picture (photo)
Original item by Nithinpurple
Out with the old and in with the new - love it!
It would never be chucked out if it were mine - I find moving screens distracting in a lounge area - I prefer the traditional fixed photo fame.
I must admit to never having taken piccies at funeral though ;
A very enjoyable read.
JC - it's not over till the fat lady sings - I haven't seen a list of poems for judging on yet...
Comment is about In The Frame (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
To Her Beauty
If 'beauty' Be the self satisfied pride she bears,
Each Fly do wing around her cherubic sweet face,
As they; lovers seek what her anonymous covers,
And dream them in a transient trace.
When 'beauty', a self possessed pride, you Worn,
Each fly does wing around your wilt grace,
As what lovers opine, 'how your beauty haste flown;
As falls the man in his transient race'.
Nithin Purple
Comment is about Nithinpurple (poet profile)
Original item by Nithinpurple
On Fair Compassion( XIII )
If ruth,a king like guest in we well move,
In fact do guide we,this green wide globe,
This comrade godly he,and tell him prove
A stranger he,who captures bleak and doom
His arms do comfort depress and regrets
If truth is true,and mercy heart each bloom
Dear soul,you golden leaf from heaven's art,
And pour you bliss to whom who seek full sense
Yet gloom is man,how heavy his mind cart.
How Fair your Shelter, which exclude sorrow,
You sore in pain,and supplies endless spring,
Inspirit's my world with joyous,tender shadow
Compassion you for life,you melt in each dream-
Of trouble and save as my father do.
Nithin Purple
Comment is about Nithinpurple (poet profile)
Original item by Nithinpurple
On Desire
No rules ne'er rest your pinions,but low hope;
To wake my wondrous thought's in many and many
And your wander alters minds madden swipe.
Your cottage fill of dreams, of freshness wing,
Which power brake your noble flow,and how?
O' my sweet, sweetly touch; when ever you sing!
Let me spread your secret cipher,with emotes,
Most colored yours,still man needs you,do you?
So, though he mortal sleep in still your shades,
With somber ideas here, too far wish I glide
From this world -sour with hopeful Ecstasy
Let soul is pure,but Here is mine that fade
Misfortune leads despair with fear desires,
Your beauty utterly falls; nothing wakes?
Nithin Purple
Comment is about Nithinpurple (poet profile)
Original item by Nithinpurple
My poem MUD across this great tribute to Jack Larkin Jones. Under the bridge Garston L19
Comment is about picture (photo)
Original item by tina
<Deleted User> (9882)
Sat 30th Mar 2013 18:35
I would like you to know Lynn,
you have inspired my current and angry
anti-oil thieving poem.
When are you standing for election Lynn?
I did say ELECTION! haha!
take Stellas assumption to heart
and stand by with the frying pan
in case my joke gives Mr.Wilde any ideas!!.
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
I was referencing those guilty (convicted or otherwise). Those playing no part in acts of pedophilia are not being referred to.
''extremes are never valid because they lack the potential argument of persuasion.'' I think 'extremity' depends upon your position in any argument. Is it extreme to want that ALL poverty be removed?
I for one subscribe to the values proffered by James Connolly:
''...’Tis passing strange, yet I declare
Such statements give me mirth,
For our demands most moderate are,
We only want the earth.'' Tommy
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
JC - it was reported recently that, contrary to the view touted today about the UK always being the land of the immigrant, that its homogeneity was, in fact, the reason why we were so effective in war - and that at the time of WW2,we had a mere quarter of a million or so who were identified as immigrant not indigenous.
Centuries before, Queen Eliazabeth 1st had actually
enacted control over immigration in the interest of
the social well-being and stability of her Realm. No
wonder latter-day politicians don't seem keen on history. In my lifetime, the world understood the word "English" and had a conception, often to the point of ridicule, of what it meant. Now, our own politicians seem shit-scared of the word and loath what it represents.
Harry - I don't go with your feeling towards Prince Charles. He seems to me a man who is well aware of the world around him, its problems and its dangers, and he's not afraid to stand up and say his piece to politicians when, as is often the case, they move themselves beyond the public ability to hold them to account. King Edward V11 occupied a similar position under his own mother, and was widely suspected of being lightweight and unfit for purpose as king...until, that is, he proved "them" wrong in no uncertain way, to become a much-loved successful monarch of the people.
Comment is about A QUESTION OF FREEDOM (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
tony sheridan
Sat 30th Mar 2013 15:15
Tell it as it is Lynn! Nice one! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 30th Mar 2013 13:36
Oh wow..you have out-done me..clever, clever idea and it works so well.. :)
Comment is about In The Frame (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thank you very much, Aaron.
Yes, you are right about Labour - apparently only 43 of their MP's voted against.
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 30th Mar 2013 13:25
ooo...And with every glance I take the more it luster lingers...like that very much.. :)
Comment is about Thoughts Are Things (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Thank you Stella for your kind comment. Must have missed the frying pan episode, haha. x
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Ooh you wicked man, Stef! Lol.
Mind you, I know that feeling... ;-)
Thanks for comment xx
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
<Deleted User> (6315)
Sat 30th Mar 2013 13:20
whooosh...I like you angry Lynn!!...I wonder if Stefan is recovering from the thwack Trish bestowed on him with that frying-pan?
Smell the coffee indeed! :) x
Comment is about Wake up Britain and smell the coffee! (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Thank you everyone for your kind comments xx
Comment is about Snowy Window (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
John Coopey
Mon 1st Apr 2013 23:11
Love the form, Freda.
I appreciate the skill which goes into saying what you want when you have accented syllables to manage along with rhymes.
I'm not normally a great lover of political poetry (I can't help letting the politics get in the way of the verse) but thoroughly enjoyed this.
Comment is about Entropy Song (blog)
Original item by Freda Davis