Actually it didn't have anything to do with the painting Win. I was trying to put another photo on but it wouldn't obey! So as I love this one I put it on. I had just been sitting on my favourite rock on the beach and the texture of it inspired me. And I was trying to use the feelings of strength and happiness of moments like that, and the memory of them, to get through the bad bits. And to know the bad bits of life are the less important bits! ;-)

Comment is about ROCK (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This seems different from your normal poetry. Its cool.

Comment is about making graves to fall in (blog)

thanks for the considered comments winston, Just getting my head in gear again after a long hard winter

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

I like the fact that you can read as much meaning into this
as you want to.

Comment is about The Search (blog)

Original item by John Togher

Quels mots Monsieur Singleton !
Would love to know what and who your inspiration was for this...
et ne me dit pas que c'était le scotch ; )

Comment is about SCOTCH (blog)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

I love univocalisms. There's something about that 'one vowel' restriction which leads to the poem veering off in weird directions. Tom O'Connor defending Gordon Brown from a baying mob is such a good image...

Comment is about Jenni Pascoe (poet profile)

Original item by Jenni Pascoe

Thank you for your comment about 'Cling Film', Cynthia. Muchly appreciated.

I've had a quick scan through your stuff. And I likey very much. The one above captures a moment brilliantly.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel - thanks for commenting on the secret lives of woods.why is is you don't like nature poems. Maybe as I don't like political poems - I just can't explain why lol. Glad thisone struck a chord. Win x

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PS - I really like Anniversary as well - sharp & to the point - and very sad.

Comment is about Anniversary (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

"cherubim & seraphim"
many thanks for the comments - I wrote the words, but it is a true story. B

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

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"cherubim & seraphim"
many thanks for the comments - I wrote the words, but it is a true story. B

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

you must be very pleased with this - I know I would be. B

Comment is about snow texts (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Hello Wunderpoet! Thank you for your comments re shoes! I'm honoured indeed to have provoked such a lot of thought and analysis. Yes, the piece isn't about children, either :D!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello Cynthia, huge thanks again for the comment. Big Bang was written as part of a performance piece 7 years ago. I hadn't read John's blog when I posted it so it looks like serendipity!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi John, thanks for commenting on the woods thing. Its growing on me. Win

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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made me think of a birthing pool Carole! another lovely thing. Win

Comment is about swim (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

What a punchline Carole :-)briliant. Could the first bracketed line be (You do know I love you?)for slightly more impact

Comment is about snow texts (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Thanks for reading and commenting on the wood poem Carole. good to see you on WOL again. and Hey... Shhh... I can hear those things too (but don't tell anyone). Win

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Hi Isobel, we've enabled more commenting than ever on the April issue, but it was always our intention to try and limit immediate comment and take on board more letters and emails, which is more in keeping with a magazine format.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

A touch of the 'pastoral' spirit is never out of fashion, and you kept the mood intact.

Comment is about Springtime (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Hi Cynthia... let me try and elucidate - You know the feeling you get as a small child (Holding the hand of a parent) in a busy street maybe when everything is happening all around you in bigger / busier world you dont understand. You are just been guided along. Then for some reason you loose this contact. Everything suddenly gets turned up a notch and the child feels apart from not just the parent but from the whole world. the feeling in the poem is the same. You are in another world with all its rules and laws but can't connect, deafened and overwhelmed by its beauty and how it all works. Hope this rather waffling explanation helps. win x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This is good, Ann, entertaining. The whimsy turns rock hard very abruptly; a clever technique.

I must try this exercise one day. You have done wonders with your efforts.

Comment is about ROCK (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Perhaps the hardest human 'truth' to speak of honestly; and I think you have concluded the real fear accurately. For me, the whole poem is dramatically contained in the final four lines.

Comment is about My fear precedes me (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Any view from Chris Co on this? I know he is an Evertonian

Comment is about Stiff letter to the FA Premier League (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

I think it is dreadful that you should keep disabling comments on features. As editor in chief you should take responsibility for it. How can I write nasty things about you, otherwise?

Ms Angry (from Tunbridge Wells)

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

I guess this is a reflection on the painting. I always love this exercise. A tried and tested way of creating. keep posting Ann. Win

Comment is about ROCK (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Greg. Thanks for commenting on the woods poem. glad you liked. Maybe it could be a folkie type song? ! Win x

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Ann, it was an experiment. The picture is a self portrait by a friend and I stared at it for a while and wrote 'portrait' so it is purely about what the image said to me rather than the person in the painting. He is painting something inspired by one of my poems, so it will probably be a big miserable mess :-) thanks for your interest!

John

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ann. glad you liked my latest offering and thought it was Ace, surely that should be Acer? (groan). Win

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thick and Lovely words you canalmost hold. Win :-)

Comment is about The Search (blog)

Original item by John Togher

Bravo dave ! Win :-)

Comment is about Stiff letter to the FA Premier League (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thanks Racheal, Ann and Louise. Louise no I have not read this one out. Stuff like this rarely sees the light of day. Perhaps I should..............

thanks for reading.

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

thankyou for your comments on my poem :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

thanks for the commments on my poem , you know i cant do long ones. so short is all they ever are :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

thankyou lovely louise for the comments on my poetry . glad you like them

oh just read the fraud thing , really i dont write much , or often , just sometimes and i have no idea what i am doing.. it just sometimes happens is all i can say

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

Original item by Louise Fazackerley

I liek this. I have now learned to reign in my intrinsic urge to structure structure structure and instead enjoy your skill with language and image and words and pictures in my little head. have you performed this?

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

i like ruins best, the best. i like the daydream and the other world you portray. good stuff. ps. i used to think the girl in your profile pic was me- in a younger, different sort of life x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I love the end stanza and how the rhythm of the poem spirals down to it. And I like the structure of it and the familar imagery that almost but doesn't quite venture into cliche. I bet your perfomance of this is boss. Excellent!

Comment is about Springtime (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

you fraud! there you are, at the tudor, always telling me you like to watch, and here you are creating all this lovely stuff. i don't come on here enough- i missed your work before. and i love the stuff i've just read. more please. and if you want- i could team you up with a performer who could read out some of your work at my new night 'the papercut' that is, if we can't persuade you to get up urself. big love xxx

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

another beautiful poem. i like the 'woman to water' bit- it makes me think of a swan landing and the reference to menopause makes it all real somehow. i want to connect. dead good x

Comment is about swim (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

'drifts of losing you pile upon my heart'
what a heartwrenching, beautiful end line. i very much like this poem and the bracketed 'inner-voice'/subtext device.

Comment is about snow texts (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Very poignant. I am presuming that the bracketed words are implicit thoughts, not text. Some ideas work really when shortened.

Comment is about snow texts (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

A life without faith is a scary one indeed. I like the starkness of this and the image of bodies rusting...

Comment is about The Search (blog)

Original item by John Togher

fab!!

Comment is about Neck (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Lifes not long enough to find all, is it? I love this thanks, jane

Comment is about The Search (blog)

Original item by John Togher

Thank you, Andy, for your beautiful comment on my poem
'Is it not enough...'

What exactly do you mean by '...unless it is lost in translation a little - lol'

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

I love the feeling of being free to wander off, both mentally, and physically...

Comment is about Hunger Hill Farm (blog)

Original item by Tom

I just listened to you Rachel, and you sounded fab!
Loved your poem 'Spring Cleaning' too...
Flashback 80's - LOL

Comment is about Ceci n'est pas une poeme... (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thank you, as always, for your fab comments. Your poems are gorgeous, fun, unique and energised. Always!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

It's lovely! What was the fool doing with it in the first place?

Comment is about snow texts (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole