There's a bit of a crowd here but I'd like to join in and agree with them, Ann. It's interesting that the poets who like it have such different styles themselves - you've written something here with a very wide appeal. Is it going in Anthony's Happy Competition?

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

LOVE THIS : )

Comment is about Love Is What You Need (blog)

Original item by Tom

Fascinating to read - full of resolve.
The romantic in me loves this...

'i was scraped off the road
and lifted in the warm arms
of someone
a man ill never see
as close to god as there can be'

Comment is about hope (blog)

Beautiful. Agree with what Marianne says - it's my favourite part too.

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Fascinating and controlled.

Comment is about The Witch's Brew (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

What interesting sounding words!

Comment is about Grunkling Never Gets You Anywhere (blog)

Such a great little piece of inspiration!

Comment is about Seizing the Moment! (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Richie, thanks for your comment, you're right, I've changed that line on Impossibility now.

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Thank you and bless to Richard. Glad you enjoyed the performance at Black Drop. Keep i touch

Comment is about Richard Young (poet profile)

Original item by Richard Young

Hi Shirley, just checking this out. Bang on with the sentiment. You've probably heard off the Big Issue magazine for homeless/jobless in the UK.

There is this wrestle with guilt each time we pass and for me probably many times in a day but no one is capable of giving every time.

Oddly enough, I was thinking of writing a poem from the perspective of the non-giver with all the thinking processes entailed.

It is a deep deep problem which our modern world has failed to solve for a catelogue of reasons.Your poem helps to draw these issues out in cameo style. Well done.

Comment is about Homeless (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

great poem. i love the last few lines. a womans paradox.

They feel her pulse and decide,
reign the veins in
and position the bridle –
take her to the water to drink

love these lines, the bit bites x

Comment is about The Witch's Brew (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hurray, she's back! And quoting boy's comic characters. Why does Minnie the Minx come to mind?

And 2001 - Top film. Sheer genius from Kubrick. the scene in which Hal is slowly disabled and starts singing Daisy is unforgettable.

How did I get on to that?

Comment is about WOL favourite adapts Rabelais for Radio 4 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Crikey Ann, this sounds like Shakespeare! Lovely words, lovely rhythms and so gentle. Best one yet??

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Marianne, you know what I'm going to say don't you. It's like listening to opera in Italian. I don't understand it but its wonderful.

Comment is about The Witch's Brew (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Are you related to Rambling Sid Rumpo by any chance Stella. Fascinating read!

Comment is about Grunkling Never Gets You Anywhere (blog)

Moxy Moxy Moxy - I love you! We need you! Hello! :)

Comment is about WOL favourite adapts Rabelais for Radio 4 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Absolutely lovely Ann - like the new name too :)

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Wow - fantastic poem. Love the quiet anger shown within, and the absolute hypocrisy that surrounds the issue. 'keeps her sin visible' - one of many great lines.

Comment is about The Witch's Brew (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hahaa - funny stuff Stells!

Comment is about Grunkling Never Gets You Anywhere (blog)

Hi Cynthia, appreciate your further generous comment on 'Passing Clouds'. Hadn't heard from you in a while - been anywhere good?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

haha - many thanks martin & much appreciated the comments. all the best. B (kissing gate)

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Good one, Stella. Sounds more Lewis Carroll to me, but just love it! :)

Comment is about Grunkling Never Gets You Anywhere (blog)

People keep on telling me, 'we're all alone.' I'm all alone and think it's bullshit; I just can't see what it is that connects us all. I think I might be blind to something. Alors, c'est la guerre, non?

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Beautiful poem, Ann and beautifully read. xx

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hiya Lynn
re: 'Impossibility'; some of the stanzas work really well even though they don't scan. [p'raps 8 beats to each line?] However I did trip several times over,
'Soon we expect to meet again,
I wonder will it be with a kiss?'

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I, like you think where we live
is all we've got [to share or give.]

Comment is about MAN MUST CARE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I don't give a damn who puts what where for giggles and kicks as long as they enjoy each other. Does this poem betray a small mind? I don't think it does. Keep on rockin', John. Although why only 'batty boys and women skim newspapers from front to back' - which used to be the only way I could stomach reading NME - is beyond me. Eh bien, c'est la guerre.

Comment is about Advancin' Back (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I think possibly reading too much Hitchhikers Guide Philip?

:op

Comment is about Grunkling Never Gets You Anywhere (blog)

It is wonderful..light, sweet and airy..when home-made the bought stuff does not hold a candle to it..served in a very thin glass tumbler, sugared and put into the fridge to cool it's magical..ok ok perhaps I am gushing a little too much but I do like it!

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Hi Larisa - cheers for your kindly comments. And by the way - 'SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING': lucky whoever to have someone feel that way about them. A simple, spare, well-crafted poem that says it all and more.

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Never had elderflower lemonade. Wot's it like?

Comment is about On The Light of a Match (blog)

Me again: just read Dave's comment - sharp mind, that lad - and I agree: I'd love to hear this read out. With a candle under your chin and an eldritch wind blowing...

Comment is about Death Doesn't Do Automated Doors. (blog)

Holy mo Stella this [2nd version] bowled me over. 'You left/in stages/in loose teeth/cool fingers' and 'Feathered/cloak/sharp/talons/shriek/into/
action'...what are you trying to do? Frighten the life out of me? Or into me?

Comment is about Death Doesn't Do Automated Doors. (blog)

This is quite wonderful Ray..

Comment is about Portrait (blog)

Enjoyed it, very sweet.Were you not tempted with "for morning rest"? To give the rhyme.I think the repetition of the title works very well. I'm less convinced by another smile another smile content.Just one would do me.
smile stretches like a cat - that's good and it's nice how the smile seems to be acting independently of its wearer.

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

How could we fail to be content on listening to this recording.

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

A lovely read and what a lovely reading Ann!

So almost safe...just love that..

:o)

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I love your reading voice!!
This is a beautiful poem, I particularly love - "Smile knows no matter that it is not meant for pleasure grows and echoes in another smile another smile content."

so true.

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Tom,Re family circle , Thanks fo that. Yes it is an unusual one and it was born through a very specific experience. Wasn't sure therefore if it would stand alone without more indepth knowlege of its origins. Glad you liked the 'mono slabic' H

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Beautiful, a truly inspired price. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Comment is about Portrait (blog)

Love that last line

Comment is about Portrait (blog)

Haha Steve - thundercats! :D :D Cheers fella

Ray - oh noez, I must have missed that memo!! Probably bunking off at the time ;)

Comment is about Tigerella Warrior (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

You can always edit your poem. You won't lose the comments if you just go to edit.

Comment is about Nick Coleman (poet profile)

Original item by Nick Coleman

Thanks for your words on Woodlice. Yes, you are very right about title - a last minute change that I regret.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Great - the blood on the tongue sends a tingle!

Comment is about Portrait (blog)

Thank you Isobel, Stella, Francine and Larisa, apprreciate all your comments. :)

Comment is about Waiting (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I can't pretend to have much of a clue what this is all about, but I like some of the lines
a sinner full of scars and a faded brutal pale, for example. What I do know is that you ought to have a good reason to be ending lines on of, the, and - I can't see any.

Comment is about Tigerella Warrior (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Like your Owl poem, so accurate of them. I see our barn owls most evenings as I walk across to feed the cows

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is beautiful, Mike.
Thank you : )

Comment is about A Simple Seasonal Wish (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

ps Have you bought that Perspex shower cubicle yet John?

Comment is about The WOL interview: John Siddique (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman