Harry's said it for me. Nice one, Ian.
Comment is about A Step Towards Winter (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Enjoyed this Harry. You certainly know how to appreciate a woman
Comment is about Geraldine (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Fantastic. I will listen to everything today.
Comment is about VISIT TO THE AUDIOLOGY CLINIC, 1973 (blog)
Original item by Rodney Wood
Thanks, Isobel! In an interview with the Telegraph Roger McGough talks about envying the Beatles for their clothes sense, and how Paul McCartney dated McGough's first wife, before he married her.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/9903323/Roger-McGough-on-discovering-poetry-his-mothers-influence-and-envying-The-Beatles.html
Comment is about Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles: ed. Bowen, Furniss, Woolley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Kenneth Eaton-Dykes
Sat 2nd Mar 2013 00:44
Hi Ian.
One of the nicest pieces I've read for a long time, excellent.
Ken.
Comment is about MARCHING (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Liked stanza eight...and all the rhyming.
Comment is about MARCHING (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
nice sonnet,
Liked the human/landscape reflectivity of the two sections (how the last six lines `answer` the first eight)
Particularly liked:
`The knife of age has cut into my face` and the use and position of the word `yet`.
Knowledgeable use of the sonnet form.
Comment is about A Step Towards Winter (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thanks all for the sympathy
...especially Yvonne :) ...I was mortified that no-one noticed.
Comment is about stay and cruise (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Well we poets don't have to be shrinking violets do we? And we can tag our material.
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
Original item by Katy Megan
tony sheridan
Fri 1st Mar 2013 18:40
Beautiful. The last three lines! Well done! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about A Step Towards Winter (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Enjoyed 'Walking Home' will Mum and Dad be joining you on the last lap to renew your bin liner waterproofs and a new sock for the brass?
Comment is about Simon Armitage heading west on new poetry trek (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks Greg I have always tried to include the natural world in my work.
Comment is about Graham Ramsden (poet profile)
Original item by Graham Ramsden
Just wanted to say how much I like these two beautifully-observed poems, Graham. Your experience as a former countryside officer, I guess. You don't waste your words; your language is very exact. I like that.
Comment is about Graham Ramsden (poet profile)
Original item by Graham Ramsden
Thank you for your comment! I was really wary about posting it! : )
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
darren thomas
Fri 1st Mar 2013 12:00
Thanks for your recent comments Laura. Your profile pic is ace. [:^[-)
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
thanks francine :) yes resigned :( i put a slightly more optimistic last line :p
Comment is about Corinth (relist) (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
I love the way this flows Paul, cheers.
Comment is about Served by the Slice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
WOW.
There is so much emotion in this... and I feel more resignation than anger too. Great internal rhyme and flow!
Comment is about Corinth (relist) (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
Beauty is in the eye of the consumer.
Enjoyed this it highlights a huge problem in the western world where the search for perfection results in a criminal amount of waste.
Comment is about The Supermarket Veg Approach to Romance (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
There it was, gone! I appear to have been in the same boat.
The trials and tribulations
Of high tec I.C.T.
A puzzle wrapped in an enigma -
It's all a mystery to me.
Comment is about VANISHING POST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks Yvonne, I am very fussy about my cup. I also have a favourite at my fiancee's house and at my parent's house I have to drink out of one with mum written on because the other don't feel right in my hand or against my lips. x
Comment is about My Favourite Cup (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
It is a truth universally acknowledged that we all have a favourite cup and woe betide anyone else who uses it. A delightful little ode.I've never thought about the gender of my cup before. Thanks for an enjoyable read. xx
Comment is about My Favourite Cup (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
Just as long as there is some lead in your pencil, Johnny boy!
What's this about my disappearing from WOL ? That's the second time that's happened recently.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Frederick, it was worthwhile just for your kind words.
Comment is about My Favourite Cup (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
Ah, there you are, Bonny.
I'd not been able to get at you for a couple of weeks.
Many thanks for your kind comments on "Frowns of Silence".
What I want to know is this: what were we boys doing at school when they taught you girls such classics as "If you don't know, I'm not telling you." and "Just imagine; when we're married we can do this every night".
Woodwork, I expect.
Who would want to learn such deadly lifeskills when you could be making a pencil case instead?
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
That was pure joy to read! Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about My Favourite Cup (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
Thank you kindly for your much welcome comment on my poem.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Hello MC,
Glad you liked my rip-off of a Simon and Garfunkel classic. I once heard someone do, "Fridge Full of Muddy Water" about a canal walk.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hello Dave.
Glad you liked "Frowns of Silence".
Where do women hear the phrase. "If you don't know I'm not telling you"?
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Now then, harry.
many thanks for your advice on "Frowns of Silence". I take it you've endured more than your fair share of Coventry!
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Well John, there was this one time...
Comment is about You will be mine! (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
I kick myself when I post something the last day of the month; only to see it vanish into the ether the following day!
Comment is about VANISHING POST (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
It was never that easy for me, Martin. I usually had to buy them lots of cider!
Comment is about You will be mine! (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey
Moonlight Wishes
Eyes like yours
will sparkle like
night sky stars.
My love I
have for you
holds a galaxy.
Moonlight wishes shine
constantly glowing inside
only outside dims.
Comment is about The One I Love (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Hi Ian - exaggeration in real life equals poetic licence in another! But your lines surely ring bells with those who suffer.
Cheers...
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Thank you for reading, I am very close to this subject so appreciate your positive thoughts x
Comment is about Thin (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
I'll just echo what others have said because this isn't the sort of news feature you can easily ignore.
It brings home to you just how lucky we are to live where we live. For all its faults, we still have the right to protest peacefully - and I can't think of a more peaceful way of protesting that through poetry.
Comment is about Qatari poet's life sentence cut to 15 years (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Enjoyed reading this Greg - nostagia indeed!
Comment is about Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles: ed. Bowen, Furniss, Woolley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for your kind comments on my 'neighbours' piece Yvonne. I may have exagerated the circumstances a little for dramatic effect (I don't have a cat!) ;-)
Ian
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
thanks for your comments on my 'neighbour' piece MC. I may have exageratred the circumstances a little for dramatic efect ;-)
Ian
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Cheers, Julian and Frances. In perhaps another indication of the importance of the Beatles to our collective national memory, there were newspaper taxis at the closing London Olympics ceremony last year.
Comment is about Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles: ed. Bowen, Furniss, Woolley (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Ha ha - fancypants new title! :-D
LOVE the subject matter!
I think the revised version is stronger.
(SEE - I told you I had some catching up to do!)
Comment is about Prism in Shade (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Really love this - especially the last verse!
Comment is about Electric Blue (for Avital) (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
This has put a huge smile on my face! :-D
Comment is about Frowns of Silence (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Seething with sensuality. _ A rainbow sandwich?
Comment is about A little bohemia in Warwick (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
A simple truth, well expressed.
Comment is about seasonal liaisons ( senryu ) (blog)
Dave Bradley
Sat 2nd Mar 2013 19:35
Delightful!
Comment is about My Favourite Cup (blog)
Original item by Martin Bailey