Hi again! I hope you'll let me know when your book comes out. I'd like to buy a copy (well, that's one sold anyway!)

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi John, thanks for looking at and commenting on my 'Metal Tiger Roars in' poem, and from a different angle too.
Although i don't take kindly to abrupt, harsh critique, i do appreciate and value the considered approach and comment on the structure and technical merits. I've only very recently started to practice with meter based on Stephen Fry's book i have to add. Most of my poetry is written after quiet meditation so i feel it is more spiritually guided. Even that appears flawed because the human element naturally takes over when writing the piece.

I see what you mean about the ending of the poem. I believe that even a tiger would have some vulnerability when injured, literally or in the metaphorical sense. :-)

Thanks again, I needed a comment like yours to spur me on. I worked hard on it and it's the longest piece i've ever written so good to know it didn't go lame.

Janet.x
ps. I like your bio, i can relate to some of it.

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

Original item by John Turner

In full agreement with the other comments here. Gorgeous stuff

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Nash

Ohhh, she is beautiful. I tried to put up a picture of my Ronan on her poem but it's too big and I need to wait for one of my children to do the necessary technical stuff!
Lovely,
Rach
x

Comment is about Gemma (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Isobel, I must have missed the ads you mention about shoes and flats etc...
I wouldn't expect to see that either on a poetry website unless it became necessary in order to keep the site up and running and even then, i would imagine some sort of payment to advertize them would be put in place.
I for one, hope that never happens here but sites have to move with the times and when they aren't paying for themselves, something has to be done.

Sorry, i'm rambling i know. :-)

I do think it's a good idea for gig-organizers to get the word out in blogs. Some of the new poets on site might not have got around to the gig-guide yet.
It seemed to work for the Buskin' for Beer' gigs last year. I believe they had good turn outs. Perhaps partly due to the extensive ads in various places.

It's good to know what's going on in the Southern communities too.

Janet.x

Comment is about Note on Blog Entries (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Thanks for the comment Ann,I was feeling rather bleak too when I posted it up(Big Birthday Blues) but now I've embraced the whole thing and am feeling much brighter...and the sun's just come out too!
Cheeers
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks Andy, yes, I used to live in Fleetwood, I miss it actually....a bit....sometimes!
Rach
x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks Isobel, I like Wigan actually, you're never that far from greenery are you?
Cheeeeeers,
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Steve, wow I love both pieces here and your blog is fantastic. I'd love to see and hear stage play performed live.x

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Nash

See you've been reading the papers' again Ant? :-)
Do you still write a sonnet a day?

Janet.x

Comment is about Climate change change (blog)

I can smell the fish and the sea from here. Pity Fleetwood always seems so grey. I like how you picked up on the 'red' sweaters to warm it up a bit. I don't know if that was intentional but i saw red in the geraniums. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Dear Ann Again thanks for your kind comment on the poems. You were very quick. I only put them on before just before your response! I've also checked out your own Cornish Holiday poem and enjoyed it very much. I recognize lots of those details from when we took our kids off to holiday homes.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Actually, I escaped a couple of years ago.Where I live now is Chocolate Box pretty but sometimes you need a bit of bleak don't you? I miss it sometimes.
Cheers for the comments,
Rach
xxx

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

It sounds like a delightful place to live LOL - I'd love to see what you might write about Wigan - we don't even have the sea air to freshen things up!
As ever, fresh and interesting imagery in here.
Isobel x

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

i am guessing you live in fleetwood??? i remember last time i was there a few years back - didnt' stop raining all the time and i got soaked about six times! lol

really enjoyed the poem however.. i wouldn't say it was nice, but i did enjoy as it is very clear x

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

nice stuff.. did throw me a little that you split Prime Ministers on separate lines, but considering i think it's one of your sonnets - understandable.

Comment is about Climate change change (blog)

good luck, alan also.. what i tend to do is always hold some pieces back from blogging if you are looking at a book (mine is hopefully about done - waiting for printers and at least half off the poems in it haven't being seen on these blogs before).

Comment is about Note on Blog Entries (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Re the falling in the water thing. I see it not as men have this frame of mind, women have that one, but maybe poets/artists or would-be poets/artists have this frame of mind and un-poets/artists have the other way of looking at things.

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Well described bleakness!

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hi Steve - welcome to WOL. Interesting poems with good imagery. I love the slipshod tears. Hope you enjoy being part of WOL.

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Nash

Its time to look at the data.weather changes. the world changes, its history, its in the earth. if they can make money from you, if you believe in their data, then they make millions upon millions, and you become more of a slave.very important question, who pays the scientists? good poem

Comment is about Climate change change (blog)

no messing round. i like the bravery here. nice evocation of the true cradle of civilisation.

Comment is about Vanilla Sex (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

the natural thought pattern- feeling the venom slide like the slow exhaling of breath. well done for putting it down.

Comment is about Feelings on my car being broken into (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

many thanks for the kind comments.
concerning that particular line-
my defense, this comes from the experience of actually telling the li po story to a girl friend and her mother. they joked how stupid it seemed, to die in such a way. they were joking of course, and conversely drunk at the time, but the point resonated. women, in my experience have a practicality and vividness towards reality that passes men by or at least seem less victims of -isms and drunken flights of romance.
a broad sweep i know.

- side note i was reading the collected interviews of bob dylan- he was asked about the song 'Sweetheart like you' which contained the ideologically challenging line-
'A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong. Taking care of somebody nice. Who don't know how to do you wrong.'
his defense- he was addressing a certain type of woman 'I'm not talkin' to Margaret Thatcher or anything.'
needless to say all the women here are poets and probably not the Margaret Thatcher type.

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Hi Andy,
you are right..I meant the valentine to be funny; but as TC says he sounds like a real shithead; not like you of course!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

you have a great voice.

Comment is about Valentine's Day Blues (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment, Foxy. May I call you that?! I can hear Bob Dylan himself singing your Valentine's Blues song, save perhaps the tickling feet line. I reckon these words would easily fit around 12 bar blues. You should get together with a musician and perform it as a spoken word piece. Get a little riff going. Buy a cigar just for the occasion. And be sure to wear your heart on your sleeve.

I've just noticed the audiofile; I'll check it out.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Wonderful humour! And the picture just makes it! S x

Comment is about Going Tits Up (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

In my intial comment I was following on from Janet. I was a little alarmed that blogs might be used for advertising anything.... Whilst I find Alain's panto and poetry gigs totally acceptable, there have been advertisements on here of late that whilst proving amusing, would be tiresome if allowed to proliferate.
I would therefore like Paul to clarify just what the site rules are on advertising of shoes, boots, flats etc.

I mistakenly thought that discussions was the place to air opinions. It appears that I was wrong. Apologies for any confusion caused Alain. I do wish you all the best with the publishing. As I have said before, if ever you take any of your productions up North, I would be very happy to come and see you.
Isobel x

Comment is about Note on Blog Entries (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Another great poem, Tom. I comment before reading any other viewpoints. These are simple words expressing deep ideas with undeniable finesse. 'wobbling moons' is suberb. The 'hounds' of war? Or 'hounds' in chase of anything with intent to kill - people, places - or poetry?

Having duly read the other comments, I think the second verse about women and their general disgust for folly is more true than not, especially if the folly-doer is drunk. Generally we don't see glamour in inebriation.

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

It is right to say that one should air ones views on blogs, that is what they were designed to do. The fact that a lot of people use them for poetry is incidental. Discussions is as much an area for posting and discussing poems as Blogs has become.
So Alain keep on doing what you are doing with the complete approval of site admin

Comment is about Note on Blog Entries (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Me? I love it. I have no idea what the 'it' is, maybe a pub for all I know; but the concept is powerfully transferable to any concrete object or abstract idea. And Hooray for the vocabulary!

Comment is about The Nine. (blog)

My latest is written in Iambic Pentameter too with some eleven syllable lines with weak endings. Not strictly rhyming. I'm not sure i got some of the line endings right or some of the Trochees and it might be out a bit on some of the punctuation. I really don't know and to be honest, i'm not even sure i care any more. It wears me down.

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Yes it's my own back garden during the recent snow fall. The pic is probably the only airing it will get outside my computer so thought i'd use it while Winter's still here. :-)

and yes it's good to have a change.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Andy, thanks for your lovely comment on my Chinese New Year poem. It's always appreciated.

Janet.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on my Chinese New Year poem. I'll let you into a little secret... I was born in the year of the dog and have other animal instincts linked in. :-)

I doubt very much that ANY of my poetry will EVER be described as 'wonderful' meter etc.... but if that was the only reason for me writing anything, i probably would never write again. It's just not my genre...
but YOU have a gift and a wonderful talent for writing which is recognized by many on this site and so the comments are well deserved. Keep it up but most of all enjoy it.

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Rachel, thanks for your comment on my Chinese New Year poem.
I was born in the year of the dog too but have other animal traits linked in.

Janet.x

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hi Val, thankyou so much for your recent comments.
and i'm really sorry. I forgot to wish you a very happy birthday for yesterday. :-)
Here's wishing you many more.
Janet.x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

I guess I am just a folly-follower! In all my relationships I seem to be the one who'd fall in the lake to catch the moon. All the lovely men in my life would have been fiddling around with the boat, or a map, or a torch, or a compass, or telling me how many zillion miles away the moon is! But I guess that's why I loved them! Ooops . . SPLASH!

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

HI Cynthia - thanks as ever for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

re Exegesis - tis a part of something bigger yes : )

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

a folly of many a poet !

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

In true Mia Darlone form. gr - e - at! or should that be GR - E - AT!

Janet.x

Comment is about Going Tits Up (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Hi Alain and good luck for your work being published.
Personally, i think it's good to see people using the blogs section to advertize or simply to air their views. Isn't that what a blog generally does? Even some poetry does that. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Note on Blog Entries (blog)

Original item by Alain English

This really affected me emotionally.
I see where you are coming from. In reply to your own comment, i suppose it depends on the type of poison used as to whether or not the poisoned can forgive. Unfortunately, life and relationships has turmoil and tests/trials. The general idea being to overcome them. When one or other seemingly cannot do that, a line has to be drawn. Very sad and very true.
To be human is to err..
Janet.x

Comment is about Letting Go of the Lotus Flower (14\\2/10) (blog)

Original item by John Turner

I think the best thing about this is that it does leave the reader wondering what it means to the author.
It works for me on more than one level.

Nice one.
Janet.x

Comment is about In Between The Raindrops (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

I love this poem.
I also love folly (good natured folly anyway.) :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

really lovely poem, really enjoyed reading it..perhaps the bullfrogs are just concerned that if they don't croak continually, silly pranks may lead to their dearly beloved asleep for a thousand years :-)

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding

Oh - I touch type so I'm very fast. Next time you would be best to send a quick message like Hi just so the other person knows you;ve connected. Best get on now - need to entertain the cavalry (the kids). Bye for now.
Isobel x

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

Not sure what went wrong with chat Joshua - it doesn't work sometimes. Not sure if you read what I wrote - nothing you wrote came across - unless you went off to open a beer or something....LOL
Take care. x

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

Sorry Dave, I have to come in to support Ann. The fact that Ann and I can both appreciate the ideas behind this poem tells me that you just can't blanket all woman with such comments. I'm guessing I know who the rasping bullfrogs might be echoing....
Nonetheless I like the crafting behind the poem and the thought that went into it.

Comment is about Defense Of The Drunken Poet (blog)

Original item by Tom Harding