Jolly good! Has inspired me to put a song on later too (ear plugs in!) x

Comment is about Everybody's Gone Serfin' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you my dear friends for all your comments, for help. With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

sweetness? sweetness i was only joking when i said...

im more your golden delicious type
sour until im ripe
i bruise less easy
my juices not such a peasy squeezy
famous for my beauty
like a home cooked pie
stick your melba and your schnapps
and your fuzzy furry lie
we all know that youth is wasted on the young
and its fleshes only last a moment on the tongue
peachie come here im going to squish ya
my apple trees growin in the garden
make love, make cider let the wood harden
cover them up in toffee wish ya would wish i could just kissya..pardon?

Comment is about Short but not so sweet. (blog)

Larisa - now I know that "The Fat Duck" is a
restaurant, I understand the meaning. Maybe
"That stove is in McDonalds" would have meant
a quicker understanding for a guy like me! :-)
Keep those poems coming.
Best wishes.

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Oh - and I like the song! Clever...shades of
"1066 And All That".

Comment is about Everybody's Gone Serfin' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The Normans also went to Ireland to cause trouble. The word "English" would not havemeant a lot in a country of hitherto varied kingdoms busily adjusting, enduring and adding old foes to its fold. The Irish had no such ideas and paid the price. There are times I wish I was born of Irish blood - if it wasn't for the fact that they've now suborned their freedom from "us" to foreign domination removed from these shores without so much as a fight worth the name. Where are you now, Arthur Griffith? Spinning in your grave, no doubt.

Comment is about Everybody's Gone Serfin' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

love this pic, great night. snatch you mufty w*nker!

Comment is about Roger and Co, cast of snatch, Hoylake 2011 (photo)

One place we stopped was that isolated cottagethat features in many pictures of Glencoe - butwe still managed to find somewhere to have a drink! But I know about the rain (in the Cairngorms) tho', thankfully, not so much of being bitten by the bugs. Maybe I was not to their taste!Man leaves his footprint in so much that it isalways welcome to know there are places whereit seems to be - even if it isn't quite - absent.

Comment is about STREAPS BOTHY - a memory of hiking in Scotland (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi Larisa.

With respect,may I say I understand
what you mean,but it might be helpful to-you-
perhaps if you edit in the word-restaurant
after 'Fat Duck'

Its not easy at all for you
but you do very well nevertheless
with the English language.

best to you.

Patricia and Stef.xx

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Absolutely wonderful, John. A cracker, I laughed out loud, several times. So many hilarious lines ... "hanged, drawn and quartered / on your resume" was my favourite. Great song, brilliantly appropriated. Come on everybody, let's make this a Christmas number one!

Comment is about Everybody's Gone Serfin' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Heh heh - she would catch me snaffling all the peanuts...

Comment is about Best venue in world, Glassfire's Bar Hoylake 2011 (photo)

All photos taken by Stella Jones

Comment is about Best venue in world, Glassfire's Bar Hoylake 2011 (photo)

But other times
I just want things to stay
the way they are

What a lovely ending, Andy. It sounds to me like someone is rather in love...
It's great to see happiness celebrated. So often we forget to do that, yet turn to poetry in times of sadness.

Hope to see you at a venue soon.

Isobel x

Comment is about Now and then (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thoughts make our words;
Words make our thoughts.

I like the the way the two can be inverted - it's so true about how poetry comes to us, out of the blue, sometimes when we are doing the most mundane of jobs.

You've got the whole essence of what it's like to be a poet in here. Crafting those thoughts and words into anything beautiful can be tortuous. But when you do get that 'someting-possibly-glorious', just how rewarding it is?

And what a great metaphor you have in the title Cynthia! Great to see you posting again. x

Comment is about Making the Bed (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Immigrant groups coming to Britain typically start on the bottom rung of the economic and social ladder and, in time, possibly after a number of generations, are assimilated into the social mix. "The trouble with the Normans was that they had no intention of coming over here to scrape a living running late-night takeaways...And they didn't need other immigrant groups to work as their servants either. They had a very specific group of people in mind for that. The English." (John O'Farrell "An Utterly Impartial History of Britain".

Comment is about Everybody's Gone Serfin' (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Dear Larisa, they just trying to help! as I am,Perhaps Winston administrator can help, he is very nice and helpful! 'Stove in Fat Duck' means the cooker (stove) is in the Bird ( a Fat Duck) I never heard of restaurant sorry? very few famous restaurants people will know? In London, The Ivy, famous people go? but not everyone lives in London? I think M.c. Newberry, meant link yo your name? Odessa Ukraine? maybe not read your profile, If i can help anytime xxxx

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I have memories of it pissing down and then being bitten to death when it's not, but in it's moment it is a truly beautiful place and your poem captures some of it's melancholy, Rannoch Moor being one of the most desolate places on earth.

Comment is about STREAPS BOTHY - a memory of hiking in Scotland (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hello L.
If someone is held in high regard for something (they've done something good) they are said to be in the "good books". If they have done something bad they are in the "bad books".
If a wife was not home when he returned she might leave her husband a note saying "Your dinner is in the oven". If he had done something wrong she might have fed his dinner to the dog! So hence the joke would be that she leaves him a note saying "Your dinner is in the dog".

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks for that Peter. I feel a little guilty accepting any credit for this though. Reviewing the launch night was a pleasure, as was meeting all the people who have worked on the project for the past year. I'm sure I speak for Joy also, when I say how privileged I feel to have been involved in this small capacity, via WOL.

This cause is also close to my heart. Dear family members and friends have suffered/do suffer from type 1 diabetes, so I have good knowledge of what you live with day to day.

I'm really grateful for your contribution Peter. I think it helps for people to hear first hand exactly how it changes a person's life.

Let's hope a cure is on the horizon.

Isobel x

Comment is about Calendar boys: Write Out Loud at the naked launch (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I like the ideology behind this, and the last phrase is great. TC

Comment is about OPPOSITES: FOUND (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

Hello, John! As far as I understand it's a colloquial English. I don't know it. Please, explain those phrases.
I mean the dogs and the books. lol

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hello Larisa. There's a well-known saying in English that when the husband comes home "in the bad books" the wife says to him "Your dinner is in the dog".

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I seem to remember somewhere in Tolkien he says that the word "hill" is so small a word for something so huge and old.
There seems a theme, which I think you've already remarked upon, of man's lack of footprint on the Earth.

Comment is about STREAPS BOTHY - a memory of hiking in Scotland (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Not so, Old Buddy!
I had root canal treatment last year after a week of toothache agony (my dentist couldn't do anything until the swelling had gone down). I was so happy to lie there and let her inject me with happiness. I bought her flowers afterwards. (In that half-hour window I would have married her!).

Comment is about NO ONE LOVES A DENTIST (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Isobel. For involving yourself in such a worthy cause. Diabetes is a slowly debilitating disease and can realy get you down at times. No matter how well you control it it is always there in the back of your mind whenever you eat, think about going out and even when you don't want to eat or do anything it has an influence.

I've been a type one for over 32 years that equates to over 58400 injections and believe me it needs sorting outwith a cure. Well done, X

Comment is about Calendar boys: Write Out Loud at the naked launch (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you all for your kind appreciation.
I am encouraged and as a regular walker in the countryside there is sure to be more of the same to follow. Mixed with some deeper and more provocative stuff though mind.
I have made a slight amendment to the last line where a word was missing, did no one notice?

Comment is about Escape to the Country (blog)

Hi, Stella! It looks as you are not a customer of the restaurants.Me too. But...while writing this poem I found it in Google.

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hi Larisa :)

I have never heard of The Fat Duck restaurant at all I must go google it..

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Just to get things going again,
What if the pressure and the `involvedness` of the present sovereign debt problems force us to join closer `willy nilly` to a more fiscal Europe?

What then?...would it be money conquering democracy?

Hairy, aint it!

Comment is about Roy Harper and the politics of poetry (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

It looks as our mentality and sense of humor are absolutely different. I would like to ask the other Englishmen if they understand this humor. I think that the sense of humor is an international feeling. And...it doesn't really matter where you live: in Ukraine or in England. Though I've heard that English humor is tough. Am I right or wrong?

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Oh, no! You didn't understand me. That wife sends her husband to a quite well known restaurant in Great Britain-The Fat Duck.And ...there was nothing on the stove at home. And...I can't understand: What do you mean by 'Ukrainian link'?

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Larisa - I could understand the food being in
some fat duck - but not the stove. Is there
some Ukraine(ian) link I'm missing?

Comment is about A Quarrel (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks Carol! Yes I miss the naughtiness! though not cocking his leg on my curtains! Bless xx luv to Charlie.

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

Original item by Carol Falaki

I,m very pleased to say that Emlyn will be performing some of his poetry at our Kaleidescape event at The Walker Art gallery in Liverpool tommorrow and judging by this little gem , we are all in for a fair treat indeed .Tony Kehoe (facebook) sundays at sudley (facebook)

Comment is about Intoduction (blog)

Original item by Emlyn

I'm afraid those "Isms" have beaten me Larisa.
I had a pond of fish that have all been eaten by an otter! Oh, for a bitch that pisses in my garden instead!

Comment is about Terrorism And My Garden (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Right, can I put this arse away now?

Comment is about Calendar boys: Write Out Loud at the naked launch (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you, my dear friend!

Comment is about Terrorism And My Garden (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks, chaps. I guess my greatest sadness is that I shall never be 22 years of age again.

Comment is about Nothing Cosmic (blog)

Thanks for your comments everyone.

I'd agree with Dominic that page and performance poets cannot easily be compared - in particular how they engage and connect publicly. I'm delighted that Victoria gave us further background to the creative process behind the calendar as well as its perceived goals. The calendar is indeed a work of art and the words of those beautiful poets lift it above and beyond accusations of tackiness.

I'll let you know how we get on with the raffle Victoria. Wigan is a warm, rumbustious venue - I know it will get a great reception. x

Comment is about Calendar boys: Write Out Loud at the naked launch (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

haha!
brilliant Larisa.xx

Comment is about Terrorism And My Garden (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hey John,

It never occured that you could get over to the Wirral- I thought Wigan was a trek.

We'd love to have you as a guest poet though!

We don't have an event in December
(we do have a party- your invited
9th December).

Thinking about weather and travel- what month would be best? Feb/March?

Chris

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

There is a very good poem in here : )
Like "don't walk on the fields" and the drums in the first verse that echo and echo through the poem. Great atmosphere; I would make a tad tighter on the page, though imagine it to be a very good performance piece.
Wrote on a similar theme a poem called "Opium", so I appreciate your sentiments.

Comment is about Christmas Comes Early (blog)

Thx for reading/commenting on my last poem Elaine.

Great performance at Poets Corner- congrats!

Oh and perfect judging imho, I loved Steve Smith's poem and the humour of Hara's poem- great balance.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Thx for reading/commenting on my last poem Dave- appreciated.

Hope to see ya at the next Wigan.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thx for the comment on my last poem John- appreciated.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

My apology for the late reply to those who have kindly given their time to read and comment since I was last here.

Thx John, Lynn, Dave and Elaine- very much appreciated.

The judging is very difficult Elaine- but you did a great job. imho you couldn't have picked more worthy winners/poems- very well thought and balanced!

Comment is about Why does mankind wage war and kill? (blog)

Lovely poem- Harry.

I love the way this reads aloud reading it to myself. The sounds are so right! and the sentiment is very nice. 'a gold Septembering'- now that is an image.

P.S

I like a lot of religious poetry, even if I am not remotely religious- funny how life can be lol. Oh and personally I like your original version best- just shows you how subjective poetry is.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about BON VOYAGE (blog)

fly-on-the-wall and in the dark.
I like the deliberate ambiguity/lack of clarity.

It makes the reader work and can be interpreted differently each time it's read.

I concur with Dave. This seems very much a modern response to a modern life.

P.S

Congrats on the performance at Poets Corner- a fine display of poetry.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about An Ending (blog)

Original item by Elaine

chosen words Roy.. gets one thinking...

Comment is about All Wise Men Are Dead (blog)

This has a hint of Lawrence Binyon about it.
There is music in the mist of desolation- at least there is here!

My Best

Chris

Comment is about OLD SOLDIERS - a poem for Remembrance Day (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry