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Thu 26th May 2011 10:02
<Deleted User> (8730)
Thu 26th May 2011 09:48
We have both escaped the dirt
Comment is about An Advice (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
<Deleted User> (8730)
Thu 26th May 2011 09:45
I like it. I wrote one called My Phonebox. It is on here somewheere...
Comment is about the telephone box and second sight (blog)
Original item by Daniel Hooks
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Thu 26th May 2011 09:44
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Thu 26th May 2011 09:43
cynthia, what a fabulous profile picture.How are you?x x
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thanks Greg. It does seem a world away in terms of its innocence, doesn't it? I remember going to London on the train several times with my mates to go to Waterloo or Paddington to see those "foreign" regions. 13 years old and going to London on our own? These days you daren't let you kids go to school on their own till they're 21!
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Really enjoyed this, John. If you 'cabbed' one it was a C with a ring round it, n'est-ce pas? The saddest, most poignant line in this for me was "Lidl replaces the old Hucknall Central". If anyone wants to know how and why the country's gone to the dogs, they should read this poem.
Comment is about Trainspotting (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think striving to be something/someone you are not is a hopeless task.
Comment is about Sheridan (poet profile)
Original item by Sheridan
Love this, Ann, very poignant. xx
Comment is about from a distance (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Thanks for comments Elaine.
I haven't read Femme Fatale.
Perhaps next time I'm in the French quarter of Wigan...
Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)
Original item by Elaine
Hi Isobel. Thanks for the comment on Femme Fatale.I've never read it out at the Tudor - only just wrote it but you gave me the idea some time ago.CheersPS I liked your Yeung Sing Hotel poem.I think I've stayed in one like that.Dave
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
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Wed 25th May 2011 16:34
Tribalism 1, Football 0
Comment is about Manchester United 0 Barcelona 2 (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This opens up a whole new world of possibilities... If you really fancy someone you don't stand a chance with, you can stand close to them and immerse yourself in their dead skin cells instead - lovely...like the ideas in this poem. x
Comment is about Atoms get around (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Your Ian Allan was your bible. You entered up new spots back at home from your jotter, with carefully ruled underlines. I got my first one in 1963 - it cost me 11/6.
Comment is about Trainspotting (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
AE
Re Fergie - it goes down well at Anfield though
Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
Wed 25th May 2011 10:50
Wed 25th May 2011 10:46
no- this is a first posting :o)
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
You'd better go to work on a poem called Ode to a Banana now. And shape it like an egg!
Comment is about ode to a egg (blog)
Original item by John Embley
got it in one Isobel- :o)
Comment is about Did you brush it from your hair? (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Don't cut it Ann. Can I send you an email with some observations?
Comment is about from a distance (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Hi Dave,
You're right, I did have some of you - but I coughed it up and spat it out! :)
Scary idea - well expressed.
Regards,
A.E.
Comment is about Atoms get around (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
No - it's not naughty Cynthia - you are right and you are also the second person to pick me up on that.
I've just been brought up by a Victorian mother and have a school boy sense of humour so struggle to talk about the intimacies of sex - have never managed to write about them. Alan's poem is wonderful because he manages to write about it without sounding smutty or corny.
Orgasms rule - every man and woman should have them - multiple if possible!
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
thanks as always cynth, for ur very kind words and constructive critisizm. theyre always welcome and appreciated.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thanks chaps. Poem wrote itself I guess. I did edit a few bits and pieces out. Then found some clues that give it a bit of meaning (for me) though still keeping it enigmatic. I was going to say "leaning into the wind" but "leant to the wind" I like; it sounds like you could mean the person was lent to the wind, their spirit maybe, or ashes. We are only lent to each other after all. Message in the bottle could refer to trying drinking as a refuge too.
Comment is about from a distance (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
@Cynthia: I went there. I hadn't seen that one before. Yes. The same horn. Absolutely. Makes me go weak at the knees. I commented accordingly.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
Nice one. I get it. I totally get it. Spaced-out post-coital chat where nothing really needs saying. She always knows that - feels that - more than he ;-) but often guys (both amazed and dazed) blurt out something somewhat crazed). Her face: seraphic. Yesss. Perfect. (Oh, how I love those moments - long for them - live for them!)
Comment is about the perfect word (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Alan, check out my poem 'the perfect word' (not too far back) and read it in the sense of sex; in that regard we are tooting the same horn.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
Indeed, Cynthia. (Although I think Isobel was being a tad ironic with the word "naughty" :-) Would you care to expand on your comment (only if you want to?) I like where you were going with it; and I believe that poetry should stimulate thought processes and even discussion...
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
It's not naughty! It expresses insight into a relationship which far exceeds mere coitus.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
What we all need is an orgasmatron - do you remember that old Woody Allen film? Then we wouldn't need to worry about whether our relationships are cemented or not....
Only joking of course! This is a naughty poem - got me thinking about all kinds of things unrelated to the weekly shop. x
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
@Dave: Thanks for the kind comment. I'm glad it "doesn't fail". Erectile dysfunction would make a sad poem indeed! :-)
@Isobel: Hehehe! Only a poet could put Asda and orgasm in the same context! I love it. And I know exactly what you mean. Makes Asda worthwhile. The fleetingness to which I was referring is the intensity of the orgasm and hugely loving afterwaves. Impossible to capture and hold at that level - although the spin-off effects live on and even cement a relationship.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
It's lovely Alan. Orgasms are wonderful things but you've hit the nail on the head with the emotions felt afterwards - the joy, the feelings of love for that partner, I guess. Whether it is 'fleeting bliss' I suppose depends on the relationship - but certainly the intense feeling of it is. You just can't feel the same traipsing round Asda together.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
Tee hee - the comment you left on my profile made me really chuckle. The date did seem a bit odd but I wasn't confident enough to have ever question it LOL. You are right in what you say about religion/faith also... x
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I agree with Banksy ... that when you're writing on this theme you produce, perhaps not surprisingly, some of your most powerful work. The short lines are really effective; you're not told too much. You may want to play around with it; I wouldn't necessarily change anything. And I love the idea of a message in a bottle.
Comment is about from a distance (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
wow, kealan.. top banana all round m8.. this is top, top stuff... love in particular the last two stanzas - would love to hear you perform this sometime also
Comment is about Thought Mutation (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
cynthia raises a good point there, ann, i do agree but i wouldn't scrap those two stanzas... perhaps build them into a different piece as they are all lovely.. enjoyed reading this a lot x
Comment is about from a distance (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
some excellent stuff in this, Kath...
I particularly like 'A constant unravelling in myself / too long to wind up again' but for me the piece is perfectly pitched and made me wish i'd wrote it.
surprised you've never been seriously tempted to perform when you have stuff like this.
hope you are good otherwise.. i'm hoping to get my first new piece up soon for ages and have a few to follow straight after xx
Comment is about Crying out (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
hi thank you all: @CBT- no Cynthia I have never published this work. :o)
Comment is about War-chest (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
<Deleted User> (4235)
Tue 24th May 2011 00:24
Thank you, Ann. :)
Thanks, Cynthia. It's a bad habit of mine to start sentences with And, but I'm slowly breaking out of that. Thanks for the advice. :)
Comment is about Gone Gray (blog)
You'll probably get some 'interesting' comments on this Alan, but it's actually a very fine poem. It's ambitious and doesn't fail.
Comment is about Orgasm (a sonnet) (blog)
Original item by Alan Morrison
Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thu 26th May 2011 10:14
Nicky, this is just plain spooky! I was thinking of you on the weekend, and told myself: Find a few minutes to contact Nichola just in case she still pops onsite occasionally. I am fine generally; had a close call with an appendectomy in late January but recovered remarkably, and am still spitting fireballs at everybody - about everything (just spitball-size - no dragon stuff). How are you doing with your enlarged family? Your work will be so welcome when you are able to share with us again. Never give up jotting things down, even on envelopes. Just keep them jammed in a clear plastic bag if necessary, for future reference; they will be valuable fodder for your skill. Enough from me. Love always.
Cynthia
P.S. I love the picture too. What do you think - a coveted persona? Like so many of us women? Interesting thought!
Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)
Original item by Nicky Burrows