I hoped you enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the holidays!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I never liked the Moody Blues - well, apart from Go Now - but I sure did enjoy this, John.

Comment is about Nights in Prestatyn (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Larisa-hope you dont mind but I never disclose my email adress-but you certainly have my vote on your poem 'Escape'-hope it counts!

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thank you J Sirrah for the comment. I wanted to write something sweet in your profile, but....couldn't find it.
Are you an incognito writer? Anyway, I am happy to know that you enjoyed my poem. Thank you very much. With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Our Mistakes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Error and omission rectified. Thanks, James

Comment is about Canada's McCaffery and MacCormack in Leeds and Manchester (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Look forward to seeing people both nights. The Manchester night is 8th June at 7pm. not 7th June as it states here. 7th June is in Leeds at 6pm.

All good, James

Comment is about Canada's McCaffery and MacCormack in Leeds and Manchester (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Enjoyed this very much.Thanks:)

Comment is about Our Mistakes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Larisa,I like this poem the best out of the four that you have done for the 'Escape'competition-since I prefer not to engage in any competitions-tell me how I vote for you-love-Stefanxx

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Just joking Greg. I get my bus pass next year. I didn't realize it was going to make the front page!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Profile up-date:
I put 'Comfort' on at the Unity and it was a great success - due to great actors and support from other poets.Since put on a one-hour play called' Trip to the Cottage'(4 venues) and wrote a version of the Tempest set in a Garden Estate -'The Garden of Doctor Prosperous' in blank verse.Hope to stage it in August. Doing readings still and like to keep up with 'Writeoutloud'

Comment is about stephen smith (poet profile)

Original item by stephen smith

A belated happy birthday lovely Odessa girl! Stef.xx

Comment is about Today Is My Birthday (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Love this - Hope to hear this performed sometime.

Comment is about Babies first words. (blog)

lovely poem Larisa-as nice as the golden domed city of Kiev-wow!!! love-Stefan.xx

Comment is about Our Mistakes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hi, dear Dave! May be you have noticed that I've written 4 poems for the competition "Escape". I certainly need your support. I think you know what I mean. Voting started! I wouldn't like you to say that my poems were the best but your comments and voting is very important for me. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks for liking it. Hot Nigeria and hot fiancee! You are lucky!

Comment is about Our Mistakes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Oh, nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't mean any sexual undertones here. I wanted to show how beautiful and romantic a real love could be.

Comment is about My Love (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I like the first line and the repitition.....

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like the structure and the sexual undertones.

Comment is about My Love (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

funny

Comment is about Another Luimneach [ˈl̪imʲɨnʲəx] Ephen Stephen (blog)

Memories of two toddlers

Comment is about Babies first words. (blog)

I like it. My fiancce lives in Nigeria.

Comment is about Our Mistakes (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I see you've definitely got a bee in your bonnet about consumerism at the moment Pete!

There's no doubt about it - the younger generation are bigger, much bigger. I think we gorge them on vitamins as well as convnience food - they are even added to breakfast cereal - if you are already having a balanced diet, you are overdosing on them.
Once knew a vegetarian mother who took comfort from this fact because she didn't cook meat and her children wouldn't eat cheese or any of the food stuffs that gave them what they needed...

I like the pathos tht you have also managed to inject.
'Even when I’m down
I buy a happy meal
After all who doesn’t want to be happy'

Plenty of good lines in here - should rant well:-) x

Comment is about Babies first words. (blog)

Sometimes the greatest things come in the smallest sizes. Kudos to you, Kath Hewitt...

Comment is about Lonely Hill (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

So very pleased that you liked my poem'Adagio' Alan.Love your profile page-even the shirt! lol.And absolutely love your poetry.thank you-S.W.

Comment is about Alan Morrison (poet profile)

Original item by Alan Morrison

Thanks for the empathy on The Clackety-Clack, Dave

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for your comments on Trainspotting, Lynn.
I enjoyed constructing the rhythm and the abab wasn't as difficult as I thought it might be. I think the longer lines (alternate 12 and 11 syllables) helped, although maintaining the discipline of feminine "a"s and masculine "b"s was a challenge!

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Cynthia

Thank you for your comments on Colours - a true account of a poor old chap whose legs just gave way under him and I happened to be first on scene and helped him through it

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Alan, many thanks for that, and particularly the link.In honesty I must say that I don't read much of the work of the Acclaimed, I'm far more likely to research their background and character. Having read that one I can see why my effort made you think of Cummings' piece, though in mine there is no thought or concern of another man at any time, or of the leaver's future contentment. What I sought to conjour was the thought that in setting free this was a continuation of the relationship, the giver having fulfilled their part and understanding that.

Comment is about Walking away (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Nice one. Selflessness in love often comes at a cost - especially when it means giving freedom for the other to walk away. It's a perfect subject for poetry because of the irony, contradiction, paradox and delicious melancholia. Thanks for sharing.

PS: e.e. cummings (my favourite poet) wrote a great one on this subject which always has my eyes raining tears. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-may-not-always-be-so/

Comment is about Walking away (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Shadows were lost
across trenches
treasuring the sun

I love this part it conjures a beautiful image.

:)

Comment is about Lost Shadows (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for your comment Laura. Yes - the Escape theme has been rather heavy - for me it was also too similar to the Freedom theme. Nonetheless it seems to have produced plenty of good pieces - which proves that there is no end to the fountain of misery we all drink from LOL. Hope to see you around soon. Isobel x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Ha - very funny Dave, enjoyed this :)

Comment is about Femme Fatale (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thanks for your comment on Escape, Dave. Sorry it's taken me so long to come back to you - life's been all over the shop just lately.

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thanks so so much Lynn for comments on 'Beloved,he waits'.It is for a friend of the family,a young lad,who died from having cancer.And as stated in the poem,was extremely brave indeed.I would like to have named him but that is too personal to his family,which I understand.Glad you too enjoyed Porthcawl-we had a very nice lunch with the ever so kind hard working Ladies of Trinity church,in the town.My gosh.they have so many activities! many thanks again Lynn.Catch you again sometime-Stef.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks for your comments on "Cider"-good to make you "feel good"!
BTW-I know all about Neil Moss-used to do alot of caving myself; mainly in South Wales.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks for your kind comments on "Cider" : )

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

'kin brilliant. Wow! Love it. You made me drop my bus pass!

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Great stuff, Ann, enjoyed this very much. (Agree with some of your last comments too, about older people lumping you in with them, ggrrr.) xx

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Well actually, it was about panning for gold in Wigan ;-) Glad you enjoyed the sedimentary layers. x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Should I take this off? Enemies I don't need. But that is a terrible thought to have - about a sport!

Comment is about Wembley Woes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Steve, Dave and Andy. Cynicism sometimes being right and sometimes being funny - yup, two good points it's impossible to dispute.

But to BE a cynic - if that's what a person IS, in their essence - that feels wrong. The cyncism has then devoured its owner.

Comment is about The Cynic (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks Isobel (Rebel...) I must say I don't do drugs either, and I'm not bi-polar thank god. Keep falling in love though - damn! I'd LOVE to do more performance stuff, it has (the little I HAVE done) made me feel more confidant. But there's very little going on down here that I can get to. But I'm always saying that - I should maybe try and start something. I'm feeling great, but I've got to the stage where little old ladies at bus stops come up to me and start saying "Of course, in OUR day" and inwardly I go "FUCK OFF!!!" And women in my pottery class, if men/sex are mentioned, say "Thank god all THAT'S over!" and I want to say "Hang on a tick!" It all started last Saturday when someone at a writer's group I go to was surprised I needed money for the bus. She's DEAD MEAT! (Actually, she's very nice - I'll forgive her one day!)xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I must say I don't do drugs either, and I'm not bi-polar thank god. Keep falling in love though - damn! I'd LOVE to do more performance stuff, it has (the little I HAVE done) made me feel more confidant. But there's very little going on down here that I can get to. But I'm always saying that - I should maybe try and start something. I'm feeling great, but I've got to the stage where little old ladies at bus stops come up to me and start saying "Of course, in OUR day" and inwardly I go "FUCK OFF!!!" And women in my pottery class, if men/sex are mentioned, say "Thank god all THAT'S over!" and I want to say "Hang on a tick!" It all started last Saturday when someone at a writer's group I go to was surprised I needed money for the bus. She's DEAD MEAT! (Actually, she's very nice - I'll forgive her one day!)xx

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Great production Ann - you've definitely got the voice to do that kind of thing.

I'm definitely not giving in to age - have had more fun in the last 4 years than ever really! Performance poetry has helped in a big way - it gives me the high some might get from drugs or booze - don't do enough of it though and it's a habit that needs feeding...

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your generous comments on The Clackety-Clack, Cynthia. Always nice to get positive feedback, but when it is also phrased so beautifully ...

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Spot-on verdict, Cynthia. It was beautiful to watch, but I think no English fan could entirely relish our best team being so completely destroyed. What did that say about the rest of us?

Comment is about Wembley Woes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I like this because you can read a lot into it...

'The feeling is back, the aching is back, the wanting is mine, the Devil is my friend, almost convincing me, to just give up, to just let go.'

Comment is about Houdini Song (blog)

Original item by Tom

Cool!

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

class!

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove