Glad Muddy reminded you of something good you saw back in the days of yore. Now of course I expect you to tell me about it. Best wishes.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
Terrific, pounding poem, Alison. Cold Helvellyn. One of the best I've read here in a long time
Comment is about Tough old boots (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles
I may have to do two. One to get the malaise and angst out and another, more fun one.
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
LOL - don't let it bother you Alison - it's the poet in you desperate to get out. I suppose if we were meant to be comedians, we'd all have big smiley faces painted on us at point of delivery... just hit me with your angst! xx
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
Eeek, my first draft is heading down the soulful and depressing route. How have I let that happen?
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
No - 'Feet' please - I thought that would be the easiest thing to spell. I hope we get as many entrants as yours did. Sometimes less serious topics stimulate the mind less...
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
This looks like fun, Izz. Better than my miserable old theme.
How should entries be tagged? Podiatric?
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
John - just nosied at a comment of yours on Rodney Wood's page and have to tell you that I am deeply envious!! You got to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee! They're heroes of mine, I would have given my right arm to have seen them. You'll have to tell me more about it whenever I next see you
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
There are some painful, well-observed truths in this, Rodney. And I like it that your final line is optimistic!
Comment is about WORKSHOP POEM (blog)
Original item by Rodney Wood
Thanks for your thoughts on Prestatyn, Rod.
Commenting gave me the chance to look at your stuff.
Your Muddy Waters poem reminded me of a gig I went to as a younger man to see 2 old blokes, one blind, one lame (bit like the bible parable) with a combined age of 146. Best concert I've ever been to - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee.
Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)
Original item by Rodney Wood
Agree with Francine here - proper hits home with that last line. Love the childlike simplicity to this poem - simple, but heartbreaking.
Got your message re socialising - no worries chuck, if you ever do though, give us a shout :)
Take care x
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
Cheers John for comments on Ohrwurm and W/T/C.
Would be real interested in that piece you mentioned re earworms!
See you in a field on Friday :) Freaky dancin!
Comment is about John Togher (poet profile)
Original item by John Togher
Thank you everyone, really appreciate your comments x
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
telling tales of dynamite and gunshots - fabulous phrase I'll have running around my mind all day.
Comment is about Freedom Fighter (blog)
Original item by Alanna Rice
I agree about writing to a theme so thank you for providing some food for thought. I hadn't realised there was a prize involved for the last one, took me a little by surprise! I'll take a good look at the FMBs and see what I come up with ...
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
I did an art-piece using earworms but of the lines and words 'earworming' their way around a poet's head in composition.
A few on here (Isobel, Ann Foxglove) donated their recordings and I create 'earworms' of them. I'll dig them out at some point and put them up somewhere on't web.
Comment is about Ohrwurm (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Great poem. Captures those emotions well. Strong lines.
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
That would be great Andy!
I must confess that I once wrote the most miserable, depressing, cathartic poem ever with shoes as the central metaphor for an unhappy, mismatched marriage. Which just goes to show that us poets can turn anything into sheer torture if we choose to... I won't be inflicting a second one on you though :))
I should add that I am not just soliciting happy clappy up beat poetry. A good balance of poignant, sad, funny, zany is nice. There is a definitely a place for serious poetry. Most of us have been there - experienced something sad - it is what connects us and should be expressed without fear. I was relieved and heartened by the response I had to mine. x
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
Hi Isobel.. Interesting choice for a comp.. I've got a old poem wrote on that from ages ago which I never blogged about a friend's shoes which I'll have to re-write it.
Did enjoy doing the last one, must admit (was away so missed the voting)..
In the meantime, everybody good luck! x
Comment is about Shoes, Feet and all things Podiatric (blog)
Original item by Isobel
<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 6th Jun 2011 21:56
Very very clever-indeed!
Comment is about Nowt nor Summat? - That is the Question (blog)
Original item by John Embley
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Mon 6th Jun 2011 21:16
Hi Elaine-belated thanks for comment on my poem'Embedded'.
Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)
Original item by Elaine
Hi Cynthia - Thanks for your kind comments on 'Nowt nor Summat?'
I've been reading 'The Strangest Man', the biography of Paul Dirac, a British theoretical particle physicist, which led me on to read a bit deeper, and from what I can gather, all we see seems to be the result of the manifestation of mathematical entities rather than real stuff ... maybe (my head hurts!)
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I really think your poems are getting better and better.x
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
Very moving work John. And a belated welcome to WOL.
Comment is about 'The Missed' (blog)
Many thanks once more. Hope you are well x
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
Original item by Andy N
Thanks Cynthia..feedback is vital to reflection and development and much valued.
very best,
Moira
Comment is about Cabats (blog)
Original item by Moira Eribenne
You just know too many languages Francine - the more you know the easier it must be to confuse them - you'll be telling me off in Italian soon and I won't be able to challenge you :)
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
LOL - None yet!
I got confused... because I am LOST.
Oh là là is right - les mots sont français aussi, mais pas dans cet ordre... : /
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Oh la la - how much merlot have you consumed today M'selle? Unless I'm mistaken that's Spanish!
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
You make a powerful impact with how you have gone from the third person to the first at the end.
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
There were many good ones...
Félicitations Isobel et Alison !
Comment is about ESCAPE. Result (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
You translate the emotions beautifully, Laura.
I love the use of the saying 'que sera sera' which expresses the things that are out of our control.
I also like these lines:
'To blur the jagged edge'
'Wish I could annihilate
Obliterate
Eradicate'
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
The children are blameless. The greatest tragedy is that they can't see this at the time when it really counts.
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
Lovely work Laura. Great words and imagery. You express so well what we would all do if we only could.
'I try to offer solace, in the hope it might take flight'
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
I like the humour in this also. It's pretty shitty when you are in a that situation and you have to give feedback to someone - even harder if you find something funny when you really shouldn't. Well observed!
Comment is about WORKSHOP POEM (blog)
Original item by Rodney Wood
Thank you for organising the competition Dave. I feel a bit embarrased winning with my entry since it was a bit prosy and probably garnered more than one sympathy vote. However, every cloud has a silver lining and I'm really looking forward to choosing the theme and running the next one. I hope to have it up here by this evening. I know it is 'hard on the heels' but I think enough people are motivated to write to a theme. If we leave it for a month we will also be into full holiday season, where there won't be much interest anyway.
Would just like to say that I would have voted for Rachel Bond's had it been up there and believe also that it would have won. It was hard hitting and poetic in the truest sense. I can appreciate her reasons for removing it though.
Keep your eyes peeled for the next them peeps - I'll get it up here as soon as I can get my son to download a piece of music with it - and it won't be on a miserable topic either! xx
Comment is about ESCAPE. Result (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Mon 6th Jun 2011 15:30
Thanks for the feedback Rodney.
Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)
Original item by Rodney Wood
<Deleted User> (8730)
Mon 6th Jun 2011 15:17
I just read it again. Still poigniant.
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
<Deleted User> (8730)
Mon 6th Jun 2011 15:15
excellent, kath.. your style really is coming on here - i was haunted by this totally.. x
Comment is about Blameless (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
I'm pleased too I got a mention with it, considering I thought it was only a slight poem and would be too mushy for the comp.. Goes to show...
Well done Alison and Isobel.. Now I look forward to the next comp... x
Comment is about ESCAPE. Result (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Like this, Laura.. You are really pulling good stuff out at the moment - particularly like here - I see tears traversing tracks but the piece is a good un..
Top stuff over G & V last thursday too.. I was really impressed.. A x
Comment is about Wine, Tears and Consolation (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
I like this, Rodney.. How quick did you write this in? Most workshops I have been or go to usually don't have excercises like that where I bet it took ages to write.
Like the humour in it thou..
Top stuff, M8
Comment is about WORKSHOP POEM (blog)
Original item by Rodney Wood
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Mon 6th Jun 2011 13:42
Thanks Cynthia, it feels good being able to put a smile on someone's face. I've written far too much dark and dreary stuff.
Just read Worshipper of the Moon -feels very siritual and inspiring- are you/were you a pagan or a Wiccan by any chance?
Comment is about Worshipper of the Moon (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
You've nailed this alright!
Comment is about Nights in Prestatyn (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
That's an awesome poem, beautifully crafted, and expresses the frustration and background perfectly.
Comment is about I Just Want A Job! (blog)
Original item by Brian Wood
Your words dance into the mind, always with a flashy choreography all your own, and a bite in the message. Is the masking tape to shut you up, or the other person? Or am I naive about all the purposes of masking tape?
Comment is about Words That Sigh (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Rodney Wood
Tue 7th Jun 2011 17:06
I'm always amazed at how people can gets around sites so easily. I do remember seeing Muddy clearly but if asked who I first saw I would have to answer truthfully Frank Ifield.Sad eh.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor