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

Excellent. says a lot in a few words. I will read it again later.

Comment is about O Sweet Confusion (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I've read and listened to your poems and enjoyed them immensely; the voice really puts meat on the already flavored bone. As you suggest I would like to put my stuff on audio; I have the equipment but not the nohow. I would appreciate any help you can give me.My e-mail is:
tommcdonald@hotmail.com
Thanks John. Tom Mc D.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hey, I too have a a piece of grit in my eye! What a tender lovely REAL poem. Beautiful!!! And I agree with Ray's comment that the poem spreads out like a tree.

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Tee hee!

Comment is about Kopi Luwak (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like the basic message in this. My 'advisors' are always telling me: don't be so personal that you block the universal experience. Maybe that is true here too - perhaps a little aesthetic distance is needed. It's not easy.

Comment is about A Lovely Nightmare (blog)

Original item by Ushiku Crisafulli

Hi, Indigo,

My bio doesn't have much to quote from. There are interesting reactions in the 'Comments' of various poems, if you care to look, some quite complimentary. I'm looking forward to next week.

Comment is about Ushiku Crisafulli (poet profile)

Original item by Ushiku Crisafulli

respecting this poem
with a second reading-

I was wondering if 'no really'
inbetween "its okay(s)"
would give it a teensy bit more pitch.

there again
what do I know?

cheers Mr. R.

Comment is about C U LATAZ! (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Thank you for the kind comments, Val

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Cheers Ray

A stampsy was when your conker was dropped, the string broke, the knot came loose or fell to the ground for any reason - someone would shout stampsies and a barrage of feet would try to destroy the said conker - heartbreaking if you had a winning formula but slippery fingers

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

A wonderful poem full of tender moments and memories. Loved it Nash. Thanks.

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thank you for your insight on Mighty Love. M xx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

If I ever get close to a Bukowski stage my wife has orders to poison me. Homage or spoof or a bit of both? I enjoyed it anyhow, you've done it well.

act alone and in this manner - you've missed out "in"

Comment is about you are not bukowski and neither am i (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Enjoyed the poem, been there and done that myself. The poem kind of spreads like a tree itself, I guess. Ripples.
The sky grabbing the clouds and the two following lines, are lovely.Clown throwing sweets also. The capitalisation of Father and Brother seems a bit random.
What is a stampsy?

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thanks Laura - I should be working but this fell out instead...

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thanks Laura,

It's a long story but one full of dread and woe and a suddenly empty room :)

Maybe being longer in the tooth will help spur me on!

(Thank you though)

Nash

Comment is about Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Nash

I've been reading your book. Laura loaned it to me. Enjoying it!

Comment is about Martin Togher (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Togher

Oreet Neil,

Hope to see you at The Tudor again next week.

Comment is about Neil Fawcett (poet profile)

Original item by Neil Fawcett

Heh - I used to be terrified of my toys waking up in the night when I was asleep, and doing horrible things to me. I liked them being there in the day - should have just turfed them all out of a night!

Comment is about ghosties (blog)

Original item by John Embley

If any member wishes to review the next event, you can do so here (you need to be logged in to submit):

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/eventview.php?day=11&month=08&year=2011&eventID=696

Comment is about Wigan WOL Open Mic at The Old Courts (group profile)

Original item by Wigan WOL Open Mic at The Old Courts

This is beautiful, but I now appear to have a bit of grit in my eye.

I love how you move from the funeral and the memories, through to the hugely evocative lines about conkers (used to do ALL of that heh)...seventy niner, stampsys :) Ace.

Love it.

Comment is about Underneath the Horse Chestnut Tree (blog)

Original item by Nash

Howdy Nash

Just read your biog - ouch! Hope you do get up there again - I'm still fairly new to all this but bloody LOVING it :) Shame if you let that experience put you off any more

Comment is about Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Nash

thanks for your comments mate, not been in the reading mood lately but I'll see you around before long.

John

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hello Bella, thanks for your comments on Dreaming in Turkish. I do sometimes dream in Turkish which is where the title came from although not all of the poem. Hope you are well

John x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks Laura for your comments on Dreaming in Turkish, yes the cheap wine used to be thunderbird and is now 3 for 2 from Tesco :-)

John x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thanks, Ann, gives me the shivers too, and the shakes :-)

John x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi John, sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. You're very kind but I'm only standing on the shoulders of taller poets. I enjoy your writing very much, a modern Marriott Edgar methinks!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

love this!

Comment is about Easter Poem (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

gorgeous

Comment is about Love Poem (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Thanks Laura - read out loud is how it should be. but it's been so long...maybe one day

Comment is about Kissing the Alien (a boyhood dream) (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thanks Jules

Tom, I think I've been on that ship too. It's on the Gloucester Rd in Bristol and has big yellow sign out front that says Massage. Not only was there no kissing, i didn't get a massage either

Comment is about Kissing the Alien (a boyhood dream) (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thanks Jules, unfortunately I never got that opportunity but i know how lucky i was that i got to say goodbye at least

Comment is about Yellow Purple Blue (blog)

Original item by Nash

begs to be performed to my mind..I have not been in a Bukowski phase as yet..infact I am rather poorly read..I have a lot of reading to do. :)

Comment is about you are not bukowski and neither am i (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

When I say entertaining, I don't mean in a ha ha ha way - I mean in an enjoyable read way. I like poetry that I can understand - I like the way you looked back at the experience of a child, through an adult's eyes - I just connected with it. There is so much poetry that you have to bash over the head with a shovel to get the meaning from it. Sometimes it is nice just to read an experience expressed in a wry and amusing way. I didn't pick up on the plagiarism allusion. I just thought you were likening yourself to someone base and I liked the biblical allusion.

Yes poetry from our youth can seem naive. We are hopefully improving all the time. I cringe now at poetry I wrote 5 years ago.

Comment is about Peter Asher (poet profile)

Original item by Peter Asher

Hi Tom Thanks for the positive feedback on Chemo. I'll have to check out some of yours!

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

Original item by Tom Harding

...hello Greg...thanks for the comment on 'Dog Lane'...(in Kelsall)...don't know E.Thomas's work ..will 'google!'...cheers..chris.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

this is good - funny it brought to mind a documentary i'd watched as a teenager about people who claimed they'd been kidnapped by aliens. one guy swore he was taken aboard a ship of female aliens & ,according to his testimony, they had performed all manner of sexual acts upon him but however never kissed him.
for some reason the odd specifics of that always stuck with me.

Comment is about Kissing the Alien (a boyhood dream) (blog)

Original item by Nash

thanks Andy....I didn't know of E.Thomas's work, will have a look..cheers...chris.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thanks laura for the kind comment - i never usually go for that type of repetition but on this one i just couldn't help myself.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

thanks andy for the comment. i went through my bukowski phase about six years ago- never sure i truly left it. he's quite dangerous because he makes everything seem so easy and romantic.
i would consider reading it out at some point- but you right i think i'd struggle to make it all the way through.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

the curtains John-
they were not made by
Laura Ghastly were they?

cute story.

cheers.

Stef.

Comment is about ghosties (blog)

Original item by John Embley

The poem is beautiful! It's light like a feather! It flows so naturally,so gently.

Comment is about ghosties (blog)

Original item by John Embley

Up the Villa!

Comment is about TIME OF THE MONTH/FOOTBALL POEM (blog)

Original item by Nash

Aston Villa 1 Bayern Mucich 0. Hail Saunders, sitting on my prayer mat listening to the radio. Great memory.

Comment is about One Nil (blog)

Original item by Nash

Yes, Tsunami, nucvlear explosion?

Comment is about Nagasaki Shadows (blog)

Original item by Nash

Very poigniant. I have been in eleven hospitals myself and my mother died in Intensive Care. i held her hand as she passed away.....

Comment is about Yellow Purple Blue (blog)

Original item by Nash

Brilliant, I couldn't stop reading it. great ideas. Star Trek was good, so was Doctor Who... I like it all..... Kissing an alien, great idea...

Comment is about Kissing the Alien (a boyhood dream) (blog)

Original item by Nash

Very funny. I have a daughter named rachael alice clare...

Comment is about ghosties (blog)

Original item by John Embley

Hi Cynthia, am I ok to use an extract from your bio to promote next Friday's OpenMind: OpenVoice at An Outlet on Dale Street, Manchester? I've been heavily promoting quotes from/about the participants in the last few days and will continue to do so up until next Friday ahead of the second/final day of the festival.

Best wishes,
Ushiku x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I bet you had a bit of trouble telling her that curtains don't exist! :)

Comment is about ghosties (blog)

Original item by John Embley