Hi - thanks for the kind comments.
- "I'm not at all sure that true love exists. I think it is just a dream that people chase" - I think this is really sad - I just sat here 20 mins thinking what else to say, but I'm stumped.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Great rhymes in DW. I esp. like the half-rhyme of dismissive and kisses. The poem paints a strong character profile, down to the domestic chores which only narrowly keep one from wallowing in regret and the knowledge of how past affects present. Good work.

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

Hello Ray, thanks for commenting on Within Four Walls, Ros x

Comment is about Ray Morgan (poet profile)

Original item by Ray Morgan

Hello John..thank you for your comments on within four walls..you are quite right about the last line..i have removed it..thnx Rosalind x

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

A great feeling of fluttering, exotic elegance is evoked by this poem, Nicky.

It's the sort of writing that makes you pause in wonderment at the small things of the Earth.

I hope you don't mind me suggesting one change. I would take out the word 'sweetly' from the 14th line.

Comment is about Finale (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Cynthia

glad you like 79-81

did quite a bit of research for that one : )

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

OK Isobel - I won't give a shit then! ;-) xxx

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I recall your House of Crisps performance at The People Under the Stairs. It was ace. Cheers. xx

Comment is about Rachel Pantechnicon (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel Pantechnicon

Just listened to your audio clip. Lovely.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Amen!

Perfect that line "Is conquered..one cessation in time....and the moment is mine." All true artists now this moment--it is glorious. May the moment last forever.

Comment is about Let`s Hear It For Music (blog)

Original item by Cate

Hi,
Thanks for the comment..and if TC did cut your nose with a postcard, all I asking is: why were you smelling the postcard?

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

Never read this one before. It is powerful. Love the image of the smear on the windscreen - what a brilliant way of describing life! It would have been good if you could have found a poetic word for spunk cos seeds brings in the idea that we are causing the same cycle to repeat. Not sure what that word would be - shit works though so I wouldn't worry about it.

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I have substituted cum for shit - I did debate whether I should have replaced cum with piss or indeed spunk (whatever that is!) but came down on the side of shit. If you see what I mean.

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi, once again, thank you x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Love chasing rainbow's, great title too, there is an air of dogged determination with resultant inevitable wreckage in this....:-)
TC X

Comment is about Riding slipstreams (blog)

Me too same person, damned wrecking ball, we are here for you.
Luv TC X

Comment is about WRECKING BALL (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

You should make her come with you ;-) I like the ethos of this though, I think we are all long ditance travellers......
TC

Comment is about The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet (blog)

Original item by Mark Niel

Sounds really GREAT !! can I play in your band if I bang the Oil Drum ha ha.....Luv TC XX PS you have not stopped snivelling about your rotten snout for decades ha ha...

Comment is about Let`s Hear It For Music (blog)

Original item by Cate

OK - I'll post a lovey-dovey dewy-eyed one just for you - if I can find one amongst all the filth, that is.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

After all the fun of the fair, a woman really wants to be held. That is often where it all falls apart... Yeah - but still gaggin for it - right?

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I'm honestly not sure I get it, but the atmosphere, the mood, is beautiful. Perhaps that's all that is needed.

Comment is about She Waits in the Dark (blog)

Original item by Emma Robinson

Hi Cynthia - let me know next time you plan on visiting a Manchester venue - I would love to meet you, as would Cate.
Isobel x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

You've been out performing I see! Great! Which pomes did you do? Was it hard to choose what to read? Sounds as if it went well! I'm so glad! anniepoo xx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

still fresh as meltwaterwhile others turnbrackish or stagnant.Lovely!
Nice poem! Your thoughts made extra-intimate because you are stuck in a crowd, about to perform.

Comment is about The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet (blog)

Original item by Mark Niel

Thanks for kind comments on my dreaming fox. My grandma had a fox stowl - the poor fox seemed to end up with it's tail in it's mouth, when the stowl was put in place. As a small child I was fascinated of course!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Love the musical lines that woo us along your thoughts which always embrace us with 'immediacy' and 'intimacy' if that doesn't sound too daft.

Maybe you meant 'screech'. I wonder how many readers know what a 'boa' is. Probably more than I think. Have you any memory of women wearing fox pelts as ornamentation?

Comment is about fox dreaming (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann - you commented on my poem 'We'll find out way' that it summed up your life at the moment, and I guess Wrecking Ball is related to what you meant. I hope you do find your own way through - I'm sure you will but getting there is a hell of a trek, I know :-(

Comment is about WRECKING BALL (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hope you won't consider thsi tit for tat Cynthia - I happened to be discussing this with my brother, who loved it, over lunch. I'd skipped over it initially thinking it was a nature poem (you know what I'm like). Having read it through I see there are greater depths. I like TC's interpretation. It could represent a number of things - the acceptance of age and mortality being quite major for all of us. I think often when you communes with nature, you realise just what a small cog you are - like the rabbit or the grain of sand. This can make you fearful - it can also make you joyous as you consider the magnicicent scale of things. I feel that double edged sword when I look at the stars. A very thoughtful piece. I like it.

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I have someone very dear to me who wears that same hat. I do feel for you Ann. They say time cures all - I'm not sure - but we can only hope.

Isobel x

Comment is about WRECKING BALL (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Cynthia, thanks for the recent comment. I feel like that poem sounds a little naive now because I wrote it five years ago - but I guess that's exactly what it's about. I see what you mean about that 'wife and mother' line as well; but I included it because I know that's what she hoped for in her future - at least back then. Thanks again! Thom

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This is a definition of 'chasing rainbows'! Good powerful diction building a strong character. Nobody ever said anything about the necessity of 'noble'.
Fabulous title by the way. And you've been writing for only weeks? I cringe.

Comment is about Riding slipstreams (blog)

Simply super.

Comment is about The Man With A Cloud For His Head (blog)

Hi Nicky,
thanks for commenting on 'Zebrina.'
I do enjoy writing poems like this one. Can it be described as allegorical?

Janet.x

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Val,
thanks for commenting on 'Zebrina'.
These are the kind of poems i enjoy writing. I wasn't sure if it needed to be included at the end of the poem itself that Zebrina is a plant, as a twist for performance purposes. I always feel if the explanation is given before it spoils the end result but sometimes the kind applause comes before we have time to explain .
Hope that makes some kind of sense.
What do you think?

Janet.x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Anthony, thanks for your comment on Taj. Ive been looking back through your work and think it is excellent. I particularly liked the whale one, you could almost hear the whale music being sung. Lovely! I ll look out for your entries in future.
Cate xx

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

Original item by Antony Owen

T C is a muppet. He cut my nose open once with a post card! Cate xx

Comment is about To TC and the loud writers (blog)

Original item by Beulah

Hi Cate,
thanks for your comment on 'Metal Tiger Roars in.'
To be honest there wasn't much actual research done, it's a subject i'm interested in so was aware of the animals associated with the Chinese horoscopes.
I did work hard though on the syllable counts and trying to make it an interesting read for others too. I appreciate your feedback and if it's going to be performed i suppose i better do it soon or it will no longer be a valid subject. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

I like the darkness of this, the dampness, the allusions to the feeling of desolation. The word 'joy' is oddly juxtaposed Cynthia, however, with the word 'fearfully' it brings to mind more of a feeling of trepidation and excitement, more importantly freedom, at being able to slip away, to escape and submerge into the darkness. Very interesting use of the word, it works for me.xx

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Many thanks for your comment on my love sonnet John.

Isobel x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for your kind words on my love sonnet Val. I might give you a rendition of it at the Howcroft on Sunday - look forward to seeing you there.
Isobel x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Cynthia, thanks for the comments. Yes, I am ok, except for feeling fat, frumpy and 26 weeks pregnant, had a home and family break from everything. How are you? Well, I hope.xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Excellent stuff. I love a poem that bites you on the bum at the end...although I agree the last line is superfluous...and distracts me (with its tautolgical cliche) from the lovely lover's twist that preceeds it.

Goodstuff!

:)

jx

Comment is about Within Four Walls (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

I think this is a great poem. It's simple yet it conjures up a whole world. Very effective.

Comment is about Within Four Walls (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

Yes, like Ann, I was puzzled by the walking fearfully with joy bit ...

But overall, Cynthia, this poem evoked very well for me the following... mystery, human (and animal) vulnerability, escape from the world of man and artifice.

Plus, dusk, twilight, the gloaming etc are all my kinda stuff. Come to think, I'm also quite partial to sitting on damp rocks and crying.

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you for the Poem, I was touched by your sentiment ;-) You are kind, you asked about my sword.....in real life (whatever that is alleged to be in this crazy world we appear to exsist in ...)It is a live Samurai Sword, fully work folded blade and extreemely lethal, it is at your service ha ha ;-)Luv TC XX

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

Original item by Beulah

I can hear John Cooper Clarke in my head...I can't even read it without adding those caustic consonants to myself. It is a wonderful piece for performance poetry...which reminds me that there is a huge difference between poetry on the page and poetry out loud. A lesson I keep needing to learn.

The first time I read it I hated it. Now I love it!

:)

Grand.

Jx

Comment is about Going Tits Up (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Hi Kathryn, should imagine you'll have a few women doing the same! nothing wrong with a bit of fantasy and you've made the situation more intense with every line, good stuff Jeff X

Comment is about Her private pleasure. (blog)

If you hunt about on here there's quite a few similar poems (not that I have, you understand) but they are nearly always 'unsatisfying' as they rarely add anything to the genre. I can, again 'see where you are coming from' but I agree with Graham, you need to get a few ideas that are, at the very least, new to you. As a personal description of something, it's OK, but for me a poem has to fizz a bit...add something to the mix...smell of sulphur...or have an oblique empty hollow that others can pour their own stuff into. As Cynthia says...it's a fairly common pastime (well, it is in our household) so, go on....make it new!

:)

jx

Comment is about Her private pleasure. (blog)

Great stuff Mia, sounds quite a push-up tempo number ha, see you soon Jeff X

Comment is about Going Tits Up (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Kathryn, I like what you are trying to do with these pieces and wonder if you have read any of DH Lawrence's descriptions of passion etc. They might give you some great ideas.

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