Oi! I heard that!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I'm delighted to hear that there is a simple explanation for you disappearing like that :)

Re photo - any will do - how lucky are you not to be visually challenged - like what John Coopey is... ;)

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

...that comment about trying to find a photo that does justice...
...best keep looking!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Isobel,
Your chat request kept coming up and I kept ticking `allow` but nout happened and as a computer thick `ead I didn`t know what to do next.

(I presume it was to do with old stupido deleting himself off the profiles by accident)If it was anything else let`s know.

(I`ll add a photo when I can find one that does Justice, homage, adoration, etc; to my immense good looks)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for your comment on my FB poem Cathy. Yes - speaking to the wall is a strange concept - you ARE speaking to yourself - but at the same time everyone you ever knew - from the person you met in a lift a day or so ago to someone you haven't seen since your first job 20 years ago... Facebook is a crazy crazy place!

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Sexy lady
Seductive glasses
Poetry book
Would love
To borrow
Mind you
I might
Just get
Stuck on
Page three.

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

Original item by Katy Megan

Thanks for your comments on "You've Met The Met", Laura.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hello Harry,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met". Time was when the NUM were a significant if not enormous power. In their time, leaders like Gormley and Scargill were names everybody had heard of; likewise Vic Feather or Len Murray.
Who knows who the President of the TUC is these days, let alone a piddling little union like the NUM.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thank you very much.

Comment is about Winter Yields (blog)

Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met". My own role in the strike as a manager was to help staff the pits on a care and maintenance basis, preventing them fopm gassing up or flooding so there'd be something for the miners to come back to!

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Food for thought, MC.
...and an honest form too. No pretence of "free verse" by the ritual chopping of prose into little lines.

Comment is about MAN MADE RELIGION (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

No regrets
Sounds bullet proof
But I'm not sure.

Comment is about Should I tell her? (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

There is a weight that a poet bears
although there along the edges the answers are scarce. There is a soothing undertone to this poem that allows what is not yet seen to comfort the begging heart of understanding. Thanks for sharing.

Comment is about dead sheep (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Having someone written into your life, that is so powerful and a union so intimate it is divine.
Thanks for sharing!

Comment is about Reflection (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Liked this katy,
my problem is usually the other way
If I had said no
instead of yes!
Best wishes, Steve

Comment is about Should I tell her? (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

I like this, well done

Comment is about Ghosts (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

She's fab XXXXX

Comment is about Isobel, October 2012. Photograph: David Andrew / Write Out Loud (photo)

Hi Cynthia thanks for your comment on Robert Burns, I like a lot of he's work.
Hazel

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

"Brave or stupid?" you say.

BRAVO GIRLY!! we say.xx

Comment is about Utterly disobedient poetess... (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Hi again Shirley and thank you so much for the wonderful news regarding little Isabella.

It has no doubt lifted your spirits as well.

An awful thing for the whole family to have to endure.Good luck and good health to you all.

Patricia and Stef.xx..XX for Isabella.

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Hi Lynn,

Thanks as usual for your comments on 'Paxos'

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for the comments on Paxos. The 'He' is the stick insect... he was awkward and not at all graceful and therefore seemed naturally a male!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

In times our forebears lived, not we,
Protection came from family,
There was no safety net to hand
Or other help in that other land.
Posterity will judge the deed...
Of "evil" men, there is no need.
The road to hell is trod unmentioned,
A highway for the well-intentioned.

Comment is about Atos - not a toss! (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Katy. This poem is very.....** thud**...[Wakes up on floor].........[Looks at computer].........**thud** Take care,Tony.

Comment is about Utterly disobedient poetess... (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Like I said, Tommy, that's the problem with polaristion. Consider this; if the story had ended with the bobby nutting the collier would it have still been "an amusing anecdote"?

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

John
there were indeed 'cruel bastards' (your words) among the miners- a 'cruel' and dangerous and underpaid profession that breeds both resentment to their exploitation and pride in their work. This condition can be found generally among sections of the working-class. But that is a secondary issue- too many people ignore the main issue of pit-closures, pay and conditions- any talk of such is, frankly - a distraction.
As for Scargill '' I wouldn't trust his wisdom on things he knew nothing about (the science of fuel technology).''(your words) The NUM had employed creditable scientific reports on such matters, supported by the scientific community generally.
On the tactics, yes there were things he should have done - giving Welsh miners the chance to discuss and campaign amongst themselves - before putting to a ballot.
Also there was discontent. In the 1982 strike ballot over threatened Welsh pits (the Yorkshire area, which came out first in 1984) voted against. This caused some confusion and bitterness among South Wales miners at the start of the 1984-85 strike. John the working class are not a homoginised group but will need a clear, resourceful and strong leadership.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Loved it as much as you did.xx

Comment is about The Armed Man (blog)

Original item by Anna Grinter

I do have some catching up to do. What an impressive profile.

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

I like this a lot, very clever. Last year I found an anthology of Robert Burns' work on a Church Fair table, all of 50p. There are more than 550 poems/ballads/songs in it. I'm a bit overwhelmed, but I pick my way through gradually, as the spirit moves me, for he is an acquired taste to absorb in the tens per gulp.

Comment is about ROBERT BURNS (blog)

Original item by Hazel Connelly

Welcome to WOL from me too, Carla. I found this beautiful, some lovely turns of phrase, as has already been mentioned.

Comment is about Every new dawn (blog)

Original item by Carla Tombacco

STILL WAITING!LOL!XX

Comment is about Utterly disobedient poetess... (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Good one, Tom. Enjoyed this.

Comment is about Paxos (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

WE only need one word to describe this-




STUNNING!xx

Comment is about Every new dawn (blog)

Original item by Carla Tombacco

Carla, this is good. Would you consider:

'among the skeins
of our tangled hearts'

The last two lines seem just a bit out of sync. Comments are always only my opinion.

Comment is about In the maze (blog)

Original item by Carla Tombacco

WIT-WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOD THE COMMENTS!!!(EXCEPT THESE)
PATRICIA,QUICK!
AVERT YOUR EYES-PASS ME SOME NEW BATTERIES FOR MY PACEMAKER AND TURN THE PRINTER ON!!

OH!I'VE COME OVER ALL UNNECCESSARY.XXXXXXXXXXXX!!

(DEFINITELY A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND..ER..)

MORE PLEASE!HAHA

Comment is about Utterly disobedient poetess... (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

I like the immediacy, the 'world in a grain of sand' concept. Great imagery pulling in all kinds of related ideas. Is the 'He' the 'stick insect' which furthers that metaphor and impact? Or did 'I' become 'He', perhaps unintentionally. Genuinely interested.

Comment is about Paxos (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Lovely Shirley!
And thanks for the reply on our page.
Sincerely hope you are feeling much better.
Feel very welcome to drop by whenever.
In the meantime
rest assured that we will be thinking of you.xx

Comment is about Sweet Isabella (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Cheers Lynn for comments on our page.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

ditto the above.xx

Comment is about Winter Yields (blog)

Well said, Lynn. About the here and now.

Comment is about Atos - not a toss! (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Great observation, beautifully projected.

Comment is about Accrington Victoria Hospital (blog)

Original item by hugh

Excellent !!!

Comment is about Atos - not a toss! (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Nice one Lynn! Every line is spot on! Take care,Tony.

Comment is about Atos - not a toss! (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Tommy,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met".
Arthur Scargill didn't know a lot about the things he should have known about (Leadership, the tactics of a strike, etc). I certainly wouldn't trust his wisdom on things he knew nothing about (the science of fuel technology).
The problem with polarisation is that you necessarily see things depending on your own perspective as sitting between a set of cruel bastards and the horny-handed heroes. I can assure you there were plenty of cruel bastards among the blokes I worked with.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Happy New year Cynthia. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Happy New Year (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This is great stuff! More in this style please. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about SECIOHC (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I love the canals and I love this poem! Well done. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about the rustle of reeds (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This, together with 'The Clock' and 'Handwriting' are beautiful examples of poetic awareness. Their language. Their pacing. Their deeply secreted themes. Some wonderful imagery too -
"my fingers like broken chess pieces,
my knuckles; bird skulls cracked
by those spent women" being just one example.

I don't know why but the final line 'the spring will be here soon' seems almost TOO definate when married against the equivocalness of your imagery. 'A spring will be here soon' maintains the enigma to the end - and beyond?

Wonderful writing.


Give my regards to G.

Comment is about Winter Hour (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Well, it's your poem, MC, and you make your points well. Don't get me started on the current government though! :-)

Comment is about WHERE ARE YOU GORDON BROWN? (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Tom, for reading and responding to my poetry. Your interaction is most welcome and greatly appreciated. I will get on to your other poems as well, time permitting. It shall be a busy year! Good stuff unfolding. See you 'round the site or better yet on our poems. Cheers.

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

Original item by Tom Harding