Cheers Julian, the double 'as' was a mistake - wrote it on my phone.
Comment is about Invisible (blog)
Original item by Martin Togher
<Deleted User> (9591)
Sun 7th Aug 2011 22:08
John,
I missed it! - damn!- touche.
cheers
Comment is about Kopi Luwak (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your comments on Kopi Luwak, Tom. If you try some let me know what it's like.
Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)
Original item by Tom Harding
Was it my Kopi Luwak which made you tee-hee or had you got a feather fast?
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 7th Aug 2011 18:37
I,ve kept my groove under your kitchen table
all day.
chewing on one of your legs
-table leg that is.
and you never even threw me
a bone...or a snicker!
HMPHHH!
Comment is about groove around the kitchen - it's sunday! (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Andy
A very nice and complementary review.
Review is about Write Out Loud Stockport on 8 Aug 2011 (event)
Hello again Cynthia. Can I thank you for taking the time to comment on Apparition, and for the very generous comments.
As always you make some very constructive comments for which I am grateful.
I hardly ever qualify my work but only one thing I feel needs an explanation.
The poem formed the part of a collection about Angling. When one fishes into the late evening, the light changes imperceptibly, that is to say, you don't notice it until it has. Whilst I understand your comment and am happy for your observation, a fisherman would similarly understand mine.
Many thanks once again,
Graham
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I really am a "mollydooker" myself and was preparing a piece about it, now sadly usurped by this.
I didn't really understand the post so similarly cannot understand the fuss.
It looks to have been a right old grouchy Sunday! I'm with Ann Foxglove. Put the grooves on Annie, I'm on my way down there.
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
Gorgeous! Love the experimental style, full of rich diction, musical lines and penetrating images.
Comment is about Brown as Comfort (blog)
Original item by Gus Jonsson
Hi Kieren, great to see you on WOL, love 'Whatever happened to the heroes' you perform it well! cheers Jeff
Comment is about Kieren King (poet profile)
Original item by Kieren King
Dear Daniel, Your advice please. I am left handed and am unsure how to proceed with your request or for that matter where to find my tripe? I also live on a canal boat with absolutely no latin inscriptions anywhere on it.
yours very concerned, Winston
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 7th Aug 2011 14:15
Hi Shirley
re the last line
"Christ will open the door"
its how very hard a lot of people
(throughout the world)
find it so hard to walk through.
I,m still trying.
lovely poem
thank you.
Stefan.
Comment is about Christ Love (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Tripe is a perfectly acceptable subject for poetry: cowheel, slut, elder, honeycomb, all part of that interior world from which the best poetry springs.
Tell you what, even if this 'critique' was well-written - in grammatically correct English, properly punctuated, so forth - it would still not make any positive contribution to the valuable work of this website.
I respect your right to make a fool of yourself though.
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
Not many people could write a poem like this - give an insight like this Ray.
The difficulties of handling damaged children, the trying to get through, to connect, to support, without offering too much or long term disappointment.
I particularly like the trampoline verse and its underlying meaning. Without wanting to gush or back slap at all, I think you and your wife are a formidable pair - off the scale in terms of genoristy and human spirit. Don't seem to be able to put into words what I would like to say.
This poem is wonderful.
Comment is about Fostering (blog)
Conkers bring with them incredible nostalgia for our childhood. They just don't seem to be as widely appreciated now - along with marbles and merps.
This is a very moving poem. I was very touched by it - the gentleness of it all.
Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)
Original item by Nash
I'd agree with Ann, Tom and Stefan. And though I respect your opinions, I'd suggest that you go and occupy your own right and left hand in matters other than preaching the rights and wrongs of poetry...
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
<Deleted User> (6895)
Sun 7th Aug 2011 12:22
its all a question of-rightful-choice.
and its all a question of
respecting each others choice.
although I might not neccessarily
agree with yours-
I sincerely respect it.
and I thank you for your views.
Mr. Stefan Wilde.
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
<Deleted User> (9554)
Sun 7th Aug 2011 10:50
Hi Anne, never the grumpy. thank-you for your comments; you too deserve a peaceful Sunday.
Comment is about groove around the kitchen - it's sunday! (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
very good john. i'm down to one coffee a day now (from about six) so i try to make it worthwhile - i'll have to seek this out.
Comment is about Kopi Luwak (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
thanks ann, not sure i get the recent posts either.
i have one of those nodding fellows above in my kitchen.
Comment is about groove around the kitchen - it's sunday! (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
is this for real?
re your off limit subjects, here's what Yeats had to say-
“Sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.”
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
Why's everybody so grumpy on here!!! CHIIIILLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment is about groove around the kitchen - it's sunday! (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
I thought it was a free country? We can write what we like. (Typed with my left hand - not!)
Comment is about To Whomever... (blog)
This is cracking John.
Seriously though, I have been given 100g of this stuff. It costs £17.50 a packet (£175 a kilo). Haven't tried it yet. I'll need to try and forget this piece whilst I'm drinking it though.
Comment is about Kopi Luwak (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
thanx Ann for your nice comment. me and my pal spent 3 hours looking round thousands of graves for my mate's grave with no luck of finding it. the office at the cemetary is shut due to council cuts. i have to call up another cemetary and take it from there to get his plot number. very sad state of affairs. i lost touch with my lost pal's other mates. ill find his grave if its the last thing i do. yes i miss him very much. he took his own life and im very very sad still, over a decade on. i pray hes in a better place.
Comment is about for my old mate RIP (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
i like the images that you use. i would have preferred more depth to the subject. something to really get angry with and explore different ways that freedom of speech can be tampered with or outright refused. but poetry? its the most self indulgent form of proof that we have far too much freedom of speech and time on our hands if you ask me. go get a job ;)
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
hi ann, i like the economy of words in this. A very nice observation.
Comment is about by the roots (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Brilliant news Ann. Great opportunity to recruit for an open mic night?
Comment is about Ann Foxglove on the radio (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Your poems have really changed! I liked them then - and I like them now. Very much!x
Comment is about Cinema Poem (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
<Deleted User> (7075)
Sat 6th Aug 2011 20:19
In fact we have had 3 more members this week. So Phil you could be the 104th of 2011 if you like?
Comment is about Write Out Loud breaks new records (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
<Deleted User> (7075)
Sat 6th Aug 2011 20:17
Hi Phil, welcome to our pages. and thanks for commenting here and there. To join WOL fully you will need to create a poets profile. Look forward to seeing yours. Winston
Comment is about Write Out Loud breaks new records (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
thanks all.
Comment is about you are not bukowski and neither am i (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Hi Ann Thanks for feedback on the Hockney trees. Still tinkering with it really and have now posted slightly different version. I don't usually write to order - never thought I could - but was asked to do something for Ferens Gallery in Hull where this painting is now on display.
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
this is another good poem. i agree with the others, i like the way it spreads out and then focuses in again. good stuff.
Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)
Original item by Nash
i like the simplicity of both the ideas and the imagery... reminds me of Japanese poets like basho.
Comment is about O Sweet Confusion (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Very moving, in a gentle kindly quiet way. A friendly way I suppose. I was touched by it anyway.
Comment is about for my old mate RIP (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
I really like this, very atmospheric, and a creepy photo too (the angel, not you!) I almost feel you've said it all in the first three verses though. They make it cryptic, which I like. (You could tag it "ghosts" you know!)
Comment is about The Haserot Angel (blog)
Original item by STEVE RUDD
Is there a slight influence here of 'restrained' eastern/non western culture?
Maybe.
'The miles melt between us' certainly has an echo of the east to my mind; the mostly between the lines sentiments also are of that nature.
Understated- but not confined.
P.S
I like the units of sound in each line/stanza.
I almost forgot to say...I like the poem.
My Best
Chris
Comment is about On Ice (blog)
thanx for the comments Jules. yes they do, dont they, all to easily forget. Crowden is near Tintwhistle, think in Derbyshire. i can get there from where i live but cant give road names tho:/. google it, also theres a stunning song by Kirsty Maccoll called the Manchester Rambler. she collaborated with Ewan Maccall. check it out.
Comment is about varied sublime old 90s poems by nick (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
I like this poem. I like the fact that you are not blaming other for your problems.
I have often fallen into this pattern of behavior.
But with my poems it helps me to realize that most of my problems are caused and can be cured by myself.
Your poems are very good.
Shirley
Comment is about Crying out (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
<Deleted User> (8730)
Sat 6th Aug 2011 15:48
<Deleted User> (8730)
Sat 6th Aug 2011 15:46
People forget too easily what others have done for them
People is my favourite...
Where is Crowden?
Comment is about varied sublime old 90s poems by nick (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
<Deleted User> (8730)
Sat 6th Aug 2011 15:44
Very nice picture, apprropriate picture, good poem. Life is all about self belief......
Comment is about by the roots (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Ray Miller
Sun 7th Aug 2011 23:36
Thanks(belatedly) Dave and thanks Isobel.My wife is absolutely brilliant with kids - she's had a lot of practice looking after me, mind.She connects with them in hours whereas I take weeks.
Comment is about Fostering (blog)