Thanks for your comment Rachel. Where've you been?? You obviously don't have a serious addiction to WOL - perhaps I should take up smoking LOL.

Hope to see you at a venue sooner or later. I might even brave the dreaded Preston wordsoup, if not...

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Very sad but beautifully constructed and packed with original and very evocative imagery.

It leaves me wishing there was something I could do other than read and comment.

Comment is about Hope (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Lovely words Marc Welcome to Write Out loud

Comment is about Marc Anthony (poet profile)

Original item by Marc Anthony

Very telly rather than showy - but I totally approve of that!!!

An interesting observation of how we interact. I'm not sure I would have given it that title or that last line but I do like your thought processes.

I'm pretty much with you on self revelation. I am suspicious of people who tell me their life story, unsolicited, in the first 5 minutes of meeting them. Also of those who want to know all about mine. That doesn't mean to say I'm disinterested or a closed book. I just need time to know who I'm talking to.... That inbetween time should be spent getting on with it or enjoying 'the now', as you put it.

A very original subject matter.

Comment is about growing Up well (blog)

Original item by Beulah

a great poem max

Comment is about For Ways To Not Fall In Love (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Carpe diem : )

Joyeuses Pâques aussi.

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Original item by Beulah

sounds like a man I recently met. Oh call me pleaseeeeee!ha ha
nice one and I like the title

Comment is about For Ways To Not Fall In Love (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Very moving... so true.

Joyeuses Pâques : )
xxx

Comment is about widow (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Rachel surely I must have the buttons! It's Sunday-'polls' have closed! Also ''with'' will have to be replaced with ''was''. ps I too purchase 'eggs' on the Monday :)

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

How about a globulatiousness of frogspawn! Only jokin'! A glistening tumult? A gelatinous wobbling? I could go on and on! And what's with Tommy's "with" replaced with "was"? Is the Ann he's talking about me? And what IS he talking about. I fear I have missed something! Also, going back to taxidermy, I am not on Facebook. xxxx

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Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Oh Stef, how sweet you are to defend me but I didn't mind John's comment. We mud-maids are used to this kind of personal abuse! xx

Comment is about widow (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I love buttons...It's Sunday! applications must have surely closed?...Also Ann as an addendum: ''with'' replaced with ''was'' NOW, I must have my prize, or I will scweem and scweem!

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thank you Ann & Janet :) I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Comment is about For Ways To Not Fall In Love (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

I agree with the sentiment of Rays, no football match should be played on a day ending with 'y'.
Having said that, your poem's great and captures all the well known phrases. Three cheers for the Cliches!
(the team and the fans that is) :-)

Comment is about Manchester United 1 Chelsea 2 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I love the Haiku and to bring life and death and human frailties together on one has my vote for a good one.
:-)

Comment is about widow (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is great. Easy to read and simple to associate with. :-)

Comment is about For Ways To Not Fall In Love (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Playing the fool is the biggest thing you can do.

Highland coo to gal below:
"I'm trapped behind something I cannot make sense of... it's lines are a thick straw, which, I cannae crawl under.
Oh to be a bee on it's final breath of air.
...I'm lonely - do'th it show? Please tell me you care... about me standing day by day
folk flashing my eyes; keen to walk away.

(SILENCE)

Oh gal, you've no words to give me... mais draw a sign to say
'head to field three of highest Skye and shoot the coo today'..."

Gal:
"je voudrais... mais... I'm stuck in a feckin' mirror - is this unclear..?"

(And so the coo chewed et le lady stood)

x

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Enjoyed, John. You forgot the one about not liking games played on a Saturday, or any day of the week ending in a "y". Who d'you support then?
A Villa fan

And why didn't Vidic get sent off at Wembley?

Comment is about Manchester United 1 Chelsea 2 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

What a lovely poem Max.

Comment is about For Ways To Not Fall In Love (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Ann
I'm not the greatest fan of haikus but I really like the sentiment. I think Stafan's nailed it "bitter-sweet". Just noticed though - I think your bush could do with a trim!
Keep posting.

Comment is about widow (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

that's very sad about your partner dying. my kick-start was similar but not as dramatic - we parted amicably as she wanted babies & I didn't - but it took me 2 yrs to get over it & was my one & only true "broken heart". I started writing some time later, still with a broken heart. I've since been very happily married these last 8 yrs but I still have the urge to write & I feel I've written better stuff since - so I wouldn't give up on it or assume that if you are happy your creativity will necessarily die. only my 2 cents :) B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Good morning Kath and family,happy Easter.This is a very poignant and deep poem,obviously personal yet despite that,it is beautifully, excellently composed.Best regards Kath. Stefan-x

Comment is about the me inside (blog)

Hi there, thanks so much for your comments on my 'War is ..' poem - glad you liked it.
Cx

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

Hello Alison

Thank you for you comment... Dilly dancing...seems to have pleased people... it must conjure happy and pleasing images. Good for them!

Now, your reference to Terry Pratchet... has me at a loss... but ...hey ho...

Once again many thanks

Augusta xx

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

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In heaven maybe? ;-) xx

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi again - a "dangerous" idea just came to me - why dont you send me what you think of as your best couple of poems & I'll see if (to me) they are as good/better than coromandel. we'd both have to agree in advance that you & I might not like the answers though? B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann- I was going to ask this same question generally in "discussions" but I thought it might get too convoluted, plus, I was already pretty sure I knew the likely outcome - a hundred different opinions. Your ideas basically mirror my own, but it is difficult to know what to do. I've been published in a few printed chapbooks, comps & online, but often the editors dont publish the stuff that I sent as my best but usually one I threw in as an afterthought. I dont think it is a vanity to want to be published, to me it is more about some form of communication. The same thing also happens to the acknowledged masters - the Mona Lisa was not generally well-regarded when he painted it, but Leonardo saw it as his masterpiece as it's the only painting he took with him wherever he went. Now, we all recognise it as a true masterpiece. Without wishing to pile on the compliments, you are doing very well writing stuff like Coromandel if you are new to this - I dont think there is much that anyone on here could teach you about writing. but do YOU think coromandel is amongst your best stuff?? One of my best poems just popped into my head whilst I was driving - I pulled to the side of the road & scribbled it down ona bit of paper in about 30 seconds - it wrote itself really, all I had to do was record it - it was as if I hadn't really written it at all. anyway, thanks for answering my question that I am not alone in trying to tackle this mystery of what other people perceive as "the good stuff". all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I can relate to this, ' to be separate from myself so i can think '. I have to wait for those feelings to pass, cause it always does. It makes me think about something i heard 'don't put yourself down, theres plenty of other people willing to do that for you '. Donna x

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Thanks Tommy, I haven't had much computer time recently but will have a mess around with said poem... thanks for taking the time to have a think, it's appreciated. I think you're going to win the Easter Egg at this rate, it will probably be a Cadbury's Buttons one bought cheap from sainsbury's tomorrow and I will tell you how it tasted! :)
x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Just dipped in and read yours, Augusta ... and feel ashamed to call mine poetry!

Comment is about Friends (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

This one made me laugh - I love Ann's finely balanced comment sticking up for the female population! Do you really have 5 sheds John? What on earth do you get up to in them? If you get chance you should check out Pete Crompton's profile. He posted a poem about his garden shed not long ago - telling us what I suspect you get up to... and I'm taking it that's a red hot poker, you are man handling there...

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Original item by John Coopey

But a literary heritage does.... one absorbs different influences from different genres as one goes along, and this poem could almost be in the classical vein if you took out the line "my voice is that of a washing machine gurgling"...yep your youthful face could really have written this.

Comment is about For My Unloved (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Are you being suggestive, Isobel?! I have "performed" this once and it didn't go down well. It was in a library, which didn't help, and there were tuts from some in the audience, abhorred at the vulgarity. Anyway, at present there's no sound on my computer!Thanks for the comments.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Very succinct, John, brevity's the soul of wit, and all that.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Good Evening Alison

Rare and wonderful words...


Despite her huge and scary bosom

Augusta xx

Comment is about Friends (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Great observational piece...

...an 'Instant' hit.

Augusta xx

Comment is about Coffee and Critics (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

And how does one start even...

An amusing read Ray and some very inventive rhymes! It would be good to have sound attached - I can imagine you performing well...

John - i love your little ditty - nothing weak about it!

Comment is about How Does Everybody Stop Having Sex? (blog)

Hi Cate

Druids are on the whire side of the night...these wee little beastie demons... were deadly, evil and whilst red in colour they were black hearted and satanic.


Hope you sleep well after all that.

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments.

Augusta xx

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

Interesting poems Anna, your imagery is really effective. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favourite but Norfolk Sunk appeals to me, the structure of it really reinforces the still and/ or lifeless atmosphere.

- Josh

Comment is about Anna Percy (poet profile)

Original item by Anna Percy

I don't think age really comes into it. If you can write then you can write. I am almost twenty-one, I've collected many experiences. But thank you all the same on the comment about my youthful face :)

Comment is about For My Unloved (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

hi Ann - many thanks for the comments about "with hindsight". It's strange really though - I wrote all of these poems over the last 15 yrs & posted some of the ones which I thought were my best stuff - with very often little or no comment. Then by chance I posted a few on a totally different tack which were much simpler, easy to understand & these seemed to be better accepted, though IMHO they are not my "best" stuff. do you ever find the same? The one of yours which I included on my site - Coromandel - is sublime but didn't get any more comments than many lesser works by others. I've been aware of this quandary for many years - to the extent that I even wrote a poem on the subject.... but still, it's a mystery. Is it that others just don't "get it" or is it that some of us like Rossini & some like Abba - I just don't know. All I do know for sure is that it is wonderful when someone else does "get it" as we intended. all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like it too - the line Cate quoted is superb. It is a quirky piece - it has echoes of something but I can't think what. An enjoyable read.

Comment is about For My Unloved (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

So do I. There are some lovely lines in this . I particularly like "I will not crush the stars into lanterns to light your darkness" This is a very mature piece of writing from someone so young looking... I look forward to reading some more
Cate xx

Comment is about For My Unloved (blog)

Original item by Max Wallis

Thank you for your wonderful comments on Lemon Pips. As a newish poet, with no background in poetry, I am often flummoxed when one particular poem seems to reach people, then another does not. To me, I can never tell which it will be. This, of course, is a problem if I ever intend to send poems off (hopefully) to either a competition or a publisher. Will I one day know which of my poems works? Is this just me or does it apply to everyone? Or should I just hold to what I think are the better ones. I am often gobsmacked by the reaction to certain poems which, for me, took little work. Or should I say concious work. It is a puzzle! But thank you again for your input which I always value!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia-lovely poem re a particular level of poverty-but with great respect,I partly agree with Winston,but from personal experience I could easily advise you on a much deeper level,ie-weeks on end-not days without food-blocked up toilets-doors hanging off-mental and sexual abuse-watching parents near killing each other-literally having to boil grass to have something to eat-on occasions also having to walk tens of miles to relatives,to get food.the list goes on-and believe me,much deeper! bit different from hand washing clothes etc? And of course there are the even much poorer people,who would make my past life seem like luxury! poverty is? mmmmmmm good question.Absolutely no disrespect to you dear Lady,but I was only pointing out to you my view,having unfortunately lived it.But in its self,a beautiful poem,as yours always tend to be.Thank you-Stefan-x

Comment is about Poverty Is (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I don't think infused coffee beans have made it down to Cornwall yet! I actually liked the first verse best. Do critics ever add anything to a poem? Except their opinion of course! xx

Comment is about Coffee and Critics (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cyn - "Dreams" - thanks for the comments. it's based on a true story & the crux is that if you want something badly enough, you can sometimes make your dreams come true & the narrator is just telling that tale. B

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks for your allusion to Aristotle - who the hell was he? He sounds profound - I shall have to do some research! LOL

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

John, try leavin a message on his profile, im sure his email was 'woodenhorse@tiscali.co.uk'
hoping all is well with you, been too long

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

Original item by John Turner

I like the caustic humour in this. Some people will swallow anything but no-one will ever pull synthetic wool over your eyes Cynthia! A most original analogy. Critics to opinionated, yet not always clued up individuals. I like it - though I found the first 3 lines an odd introduction - not sure I fully got that bit.

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