Hi Ann, this is really lovely. Enjoyed. x

Comment is about arrival (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi .C.B.
liked the rhythm.

took a few readings
to get the gist.

especially liked-

"not even a reliable witness
in my own accounts"

I can relate to that...sshhh!

best to you Mr.B.

Comment is about Orphic Mystery (blog)

Hey Dave,
i like your opinion on Explorer, it helps to know how a poem comes across because sometimes we put parts of ourselves in them that we're not fully aware of, so thankyou.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Wow. Wish I had a fraction of your talent. What great imagery. I agree with Rachel. It's simply lovely.

Comment is about He Heard The Stars (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Ooh, mysterious!

So many questions left unexplored leap at me with the last lines...

Some lovely images here Kealan and the aforementioned mystery has me re-reading - nice one.

Comment is about He Heard The Stars (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

it took me about 15 yrs to write the 400, so if you're doing 50 a year then you are doing a lot better than me !
sometimes I couldn't write anything for months then half a dozen all at once :)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I think this is splendid...you capture that 'office' feeling so well...lovely disctiptive lines too :)

Outside
the trees are burning
And the sun is pushing
Shadows from the Doric pillars

yup this worked for me :)

Comment is about Office (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

If only it were so! Life doesn't seem to get very heroic these days. I like this, interesting and sad too somehow. I don't know if it's good or bad when imagination takes you away from the real mundane world - good I guess. I remember having to do the washing up when I was 7 cos mum and dad had chicken pox (which they got from me.) I pretended all the knives and forks were people and they'd drown if I didn't rescue them from the washing up bowl! It made an adventure of it.

Comment is about Office (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Ah -- apologies, Larisa -- hope my reference to Russian caused no offence -- I had a friend , a long time ago, Sveta, who came from Kiev. and I recall she was very proud of being Ukrainian, as opposed to Russian, even before Glaznost and Perestroikha -- she taught me a (very) little Russian -- I believe she married a Russian prof. at Durham University ... sadly, we lost touch over 30 years ago. I also had a Polish girlfriend, in my very early youth, called Danka (Danuta) -- many happy memories! -- I loved her mum's cooking!

Comment is about HAPPINESS OF A MAN (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mr. Obolonsky! Pure me some wine, please! And .... I am not going to commit a suicide.

Comment is about HAPPINESS OF A MAN (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Congratulations on the recent performances/radio stuff Ann. You're getting to be a right celeb! Graham

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Larisa, thank you very much for your lovely comments about Apparition. I have never won anything before so this is a surprise. Graham.

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Ha ha ha, ooer Mr., what are you like?!! Lynn xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

evenin' Lynn.

I got a bit carried away
with me little self
and I didnt want to offend you
despite knowing you can take a joke.

but I will give you a clue-
its to do with the 'bucket' we mentioned.

I thought of the song-
'theres a hole in my bucket...etc
and how useful that hole could be-lol!

nudge-nudge!

ooer missis.

best regards Lynn.

Stef.xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

She was from Poland.

Comment is about HAPPINESS OF A MAN (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

My blood is mixed. My mother's mother was Anna Adamska.

Comment is about HAPPINESS OF A MAN (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks for kind words, Mayrenissa :)

Um, not sure the photos would be a pretty sight these days, John! ;)

Aw, Stef, I shall be forever wondering what you deleted now! Thanks a lot xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hmmm ... nice. It kinda reminds me a little bit of the start of Anna Karenina, but from Mr.Oblonsky's viewpoint! Is that your Russian blood showing through, Larisa?

Comment is about HAPPINESS OF A MAN (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

oo-er Missus, nudge, nudge :) (mother earth)

Hi - Like I said to ann Foxglove - I'd just run out of poems - I'd posted the (very nearly) 400 I'd written over the last few years, so, until I wrote something else .....

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi David, thanks for your comment on Nectarine. Certainly heat-weariness, if not world weariness! I suppose it's about age, too. I'm always a little suspicious of poems I write on holiday about where I'm staying ... postcard poems, I call them. But I enjoyed doing it. Also enjoyed giving your poems from In The Distance a proper read while I was out there, too.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

IMO this is really good social commentary.
For my money it is poetic, yet stated and correctly tough and edgy.

If it was much more poetic it would feel less stated,less real and fail.

kick ass!

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Cause and Effect (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I loved you tonight. I leaked tears of both varieties.
Brilliant.

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Thanks all.
Ann- it's not autobiographical, thank goodness.Yes, I'm not wholly convinced by those lines. They maybe belong in another poem.

Philipos - I like Betjeman, though it's not at all fashionable to say that, is it?

John - I have, John, and I know what you mean.

Francine. What the last line tries to convey are those mostly futile efforts to recapture something long dead by returning to "where it all began". The more I think about it the less it works! Ha!

Dave - "closes with a snap" - is that a pun?

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

Glad you liked New Yorkers, John. I get a lot of my knowledge of history from the works of Bernard Cornwell. I'd just finished reading The Fort, about the defence of Majabigwaduce, which prompted me to do the poem.

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

Original item by John Embley

Glad you liked New Yorkers, Dave. I get a lot of my knowledge of history from the works of Bernard Cornwell. I'd just finished reading The Fort, about the defence of Majabigwaduce, which prompted me to do the poem.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

mornin Lynn.

"anywhere you like"

I believe Phuket is a nice place
just be careful how you pronounce it!

deleted my previous comment
-too rude

I,m ok now that I,ve taken me tablets.

cheers Lynn.

Stef.xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

John, you're a mine of fascinating information and little-known facts with a nice way of putting them across.
I'll never stop wondering what new stuff I'm going to learn, even at my age!

Comment is about New Yorkers (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Ian.
I very much enjoyed this poem.Even though I was a 70/80s adolescence, I still found similar traits. I guess some things will never change.
By the way, I've posted this link onto my facebook page.

Comment is about A Sixties Adolescence (blog)

Original item by Ian Gant

Hi John, have just finished reading a big tome on this subject and was surprised that there would not have been a British Empire as we know it had it not been for this war and the one that followed on called the American war, which spurred us into Canada, Oz, Jamaica, Bahamas etc.

Your poem reminds of those times in depth and it always surprises me that in spite of their independence how the yanks in general love our Royals, strange eh?

Comment is about New Yorkers (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Powerful, poignant, resonant. As Francine says, it flows very well. And it closes with a snap!

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

Fascinating - nice one John.

Comment is about New Yorkers (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very interesting - I like this!
I have to agree with Banksy.

Comment is about The Little Red Ball (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

This flows nicely. I can also relate to such a place.
I have to agree with Ann about the questions...
I don't understand the last line, 'and bitten now seek hair of dog.'


p.s. I looked it up and I guess it has something to do with hangovers...?

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

I enjoyed reading this... Thanks for the history lesson ; )

Comment is about New Yorkers (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

The first few lines makes my heart melt... it's really good to fall in love...


http://tinyurl.com/3qcxwkx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I don't know if it works or not John; I've only ever done this poem at stag do's. Without any response whatsoever, I'm glad to say.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Enjoyed this a lot Russell.
Not an obvious fusion - rap and pantoum, but no question that it works.
Difficult in such short lines to maintain the abab rhyming discipline.

Comment is about the dead done gone and did it again (blog)

Original item by Russell J Turner

You wouldn't post the photos of you in the bikini, I suppose?

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

...or a factory-farmed chicken.

Comment is about The Little Red Ball (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

You've been to Weston-super-Mare, the?

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

Thank you Mr. Black, nice to know you can smile :)
Thanks Stef, bucketful on its way, but think it might be empty by the time it reaches you!! lol.
Lynn xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

pretty bloody good, ole timer :)

Comment is about arrival (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hallelujah !

Comment is about The Second Coming (blog)

if you've ever been in love you'll already know the answer to this one...

Comment is about The Little Red Ball (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Kealan - many thanks. B (mother earth)

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi - many thanks. B (mother earth)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Glad to be here!

Comment is about Fifi Fanshawe (poet profile)

Original item by Fifi Fanshawe

I know that journey quite well,'Is it the presence of an absence or the absence of a presence?' Sensed the rhythm of Betjeman too.

So descriptive and will resonate with many I am sure. Some really nice images here but even the wistfulness and meloncholia work quite well.

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

Ouch - makes me glad I'm on my own! I might leave out the lines about presence or absence if it was me, it takes us away from the chilling description of the anniversary. But I like it a lot.

Comment is about Reserve (blog)

lying on my front
I need to ask you

to pass me a bucketful
-of cold water! lol!

best one yet Lynn.

Pwoah!

Stef.xx

Comment is about Missing The Magic (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye