Many thanks John, still feeling my feet in this world so reassurance that I've made a start is lovely!

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

A little like what is happening in my town, though I am pleased to say that here it is on a lesser scale.

Very poignant stuff. I really like it.

S xx

Comment is about Goodbye Central Library (blog)

Original item by Andy N

This is definitely dark. Chilling and scary

Comment is about sampler (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Two Fingers

Hey, Graffiti Exchange Rate:
how many daubs to the doodle or dribbles to the spurt?
How much quantum to the chromatic sub atomic tag?
Me, I took my spraycan palette to the Broadway ticket office,
Knocked on the glass divide like the Spectre of the Rose I am,
Twisted a pink jet into the cashier's face
And hosed her till she was cockeyed indistinguishable,
For which she gave me tickets to the show.
At its conclusion I
Went onto the street where Pigment was manifest and bold,
Imagined the room inside the spraycan cooked up to bodyheat,
Saw the savage sepia genie inside
Attempting to snap the feed tube, the one
Drawing colour from the well into the nozzle.
Of course I had to stop him or lose the shade,
So I shook him till his body splattered into spectra.
His infrared face and chrome yellow conversation loitered
Till I tampered with his breath.
Two Fingers did it.


Hatta. Early morning off-the-cuff spieling. Back to bed, now, with a cup of tea!

Comment is about Take Two... (article)

Mmmm this is quite sad, and I would call it a dark poem, despite what others may say.
Love TC XX

Comment is about sampler (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you Paul,

glad you enjoyed it :)

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

Original item by Fatima AL Matar

Wow, Alison.
Powerful imagery.
I really like the rhythm too, and the sense of anticipation of rhyme which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't.

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Dave
I thought I'd the monopoly on writing a loada balls!
Very good - keep posting.

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

the audio is very quiet so turn up your speakers to listen

Comment is about the innocent cliffs (blog)

Original item by chris dommett

Hello Kathryn,Tis a nice poem, especially the final two lines and the 2nd verse. Corner bound, centre bound should be hyphenated?

Comment is about White lillies. (blog)

Oh yes, you just all go ahead and chortle away, but it's no joke having a stalker as lean and hungry as Kate Moss.

Comment is about A Model Husband (blog)

Football - the beautiful game.
I take it Ann that you are not an afficianado (football, rugby or cricket). I'll save my poem about the offside rule for another time.

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

A lovely poem Kathryn. And so full of hope!

Comment is about White lillies. (blog)

I think this is beautiful. I can certainly relate to an awful ot of it and know that the feeling that none of that matters to them is a wonderful one, it makes everything pale in significance. Nicely done x

Comment is about The Cape (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

Hi Fatima,
just heard your interview on Tony Stringfellow's show - excellent, well done¬!

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

Original item by Fatima AL Matar

Greg, thanks very much for your comments on Fame of a Sort. I've just read your Dance On poem. That has a killer last line too!I don't suppose The Shadows were Rock'n'Roll, really. I liked the strolling forwards then back and the intellectual smile. They did look rather nerdy.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

The "fat-balls thing" is the only bit I DO get!!! Little birdies in the garden eat fat balls. And they don't like football either! (As far as I know . . . ) Forgive me, but is it football or rugby of which you speak?

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Loved it, football + poetry = ecstasy.I have to admit, I don't get the fat balls thing. You could maybe have done summat with dropped balls.

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

I'm sure you're looking forward to the World Cup, Ann! Great football poem, Dave. But what about the sad end of goldenballs?

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thank you for your comments on "Heartfire" and for letting me know what lines you liked best. I truly feel that way myself.

Lisa

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thank you so much for your comments on "Though The Demons Are Waiting" - very much appreciated!

Lisa

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

The bleedin' football season never finishes does it?

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Hold on. The football season hasn't finished yet.

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

This is such a lovely poem and so moving. Brings back some sad memories for me too of the pain my dad went through but also some good ones. It really is excellent the way you have gone about this.

Comment is about The Colour of Death Is Gold (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

You have a great voice and a lovely accent. I sometimes found the music too distracting though, esp in the final poem, which was my favourite. I just listened to it again, and it is a really beautiful poem and reading. I don't think it needs the music, and I think you should have the words printed on the posting if you could face doing it.

Comment is about More video poems for you to enjoy... (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Excellent!
I love it.

Comment is about A Model Husband (blog)

Hmmmm the cricket season has begun already?

Comment is about A study in balls (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Quite entertaining...
This made me laugh ; )

Comment is about A Model Husband (blog)

Yes I think I should get me one ha ha.... save on dishwasher tablets hee hee ;-))
love TC XX

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Oh yes and then there was aunt Clara too.
Why did she marry him?
Well... it's obvious the man absolutely adores her and loves her twitchy little nose. :-)
As good a reason as any i would think.
xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Quite right too!! (I esp like the last verse - really made me chortle, and I don't often chortle!)

Comment is about A Model Husband (blog)

Ah.... but its the good days that make the bad days bearable. Poor you if you forget them all!
Cate xx

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hey, thanks for your comment. I like "I like ruins best" the best :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I used to drive home from work late at night, Dave, and often wanted to change channels when I listened to my thoughts. Music - especially John Martyn - used to help keep them at bay. Greg

Comment is about Forgot (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I've just come across this, Ray - rather belatedly, admittedly - and I think it's excellent, with a killer last line! Greg

Comment is about Fame of a sort (blog)

Janet...
Tabitha was the little girl ; )

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you, Cynthia, for your comments on "Heartfire", however I don't understand your question or what you mean by propaganda. Drop me a note when you have a moment. Thanks.

Lisa

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

It is good, Lisa. The prior two comments were also mine as I read. What exactly are you in now: 'because maybe then I'll be able to stop thinking of you'? That sounds very real; the other stuff is more like propaganda.

Comment is about Heartfire (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

It is the bad days that get stuck in your craw like a forked fishbone, and slowly starve you of happiness.

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Thank you for your commens re Culver Cliff Cynthia... most encouraging.

Once again many thanks
Gus xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

hi John... It may have been a telephone experience I can't remember possibly not?! I wonder what sort of music would accompany this one?

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

Original item by John Darwin

I would rather do both.
Forget a bad one and remember a good one.
;-)

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

This is great Ann.
Reminds me of the tv programme with Samantha in Bewitched. Was the cat called Tabitha or was that the aunt?

Janet.x

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

this is a shorter piece than your previous ones that i've read, kathryn but the language is spot on here.. you should try writing like this more often, stripping it down seems to get it a sharpness.. keep em coming!

Comment is about A coming vengence. (blog)

i suspect you maybe able to remember this one m8 to perform.. i know even with my bad memory - i would have a chance! lol good stuff otherwise

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

I see your tadpole obsession continues! ;-) xx

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

This was as far as i got with this one.

Graffiti

insults and appraisals
colours bright emblazoned
in amongst a mass of
other scrawls
names and declarations
of love and admiration
cover all the spaces
on the walls.
A new way of expression
for a younger generation
of which most people
are apalled.

Comment is about Take Two... (article)

Oh yes you can go! Im a forever young at heart person, and Ill go, take friends or some ones kids, does not matter. Sure I think kids do have loads of fun doing the disney trip, I remember it well both trips!Im going to sea world this year and shliterbahn a water coaster park!Dont have any really little people to take, but darn it, I love feading the dolphins, and water parks are a blast, as long as I have sun screen!Take Claires kid! he would love it!

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

Hi thanks Clarissa and Francine, No the poem is a fantasy. I saw advert for Disney and wondered if you had no kids could you still go

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

'the father of all pain is solitude.'

It's a killer line in the context of this piece Peter. win

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