good stuff.. enjoyed this

Comment is about Valentine's Day- A Little Folly (blog)

Original item by Beulah

This kind of thing happens to humans too.
It does 'feel' cold.
Nice one.

Janet.x

Comment is about The watcher (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Thankyou both!

Comment is about The watcher (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Re Collision Course - thanks for commenting. I wrote this yesterday and didn't really like it. It's not a very "me" poem maybe. I did ponder long and hard about "cum" as it's a word I don't like the sound of! As to gender specific, I guess I was looking on blood as being more of a woman's word somehow.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I did ponder long and hard about "cum" as it's a word I don't like the sound of! As to gender specific, I guess I was looking on blood as being more of a woman's word somehow.

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Amazing what the mind's eye can conjure up in a moment of lethargy? (if i may use this word?)
The vision of dust-mites in multiples made my skin crawl but i agree with Cynthia, it's a great poem. I like the individual thoughts coupled with images.

Janet.x

Comment is about husk of dust (blog)

Original item by owen calvert

Super, Isobel! Like a butterfly out of a chrysalis this poem steps into a different world.

And, yes, Dave, I too think Isobel should be included in WOLOP choice.

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

I think this is fabulous. Ideas and minute observations which are visible and invisible, cheek to jowl, joined with finesse. The precise words/diction are provocative.

Comment is about husk of dust (blog)

Original item by owen calvert

It is good, Ann. I guess 'cum' must mark it a woman's viewpoint. To be honest, for the universality of this idea, I wouldn't use 'cum' to make it gender specific.

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Very interesting concept, and penetrating. Life issues encapsulated. Diction and images are clear and strong. I really like it.

Comment is about Midges in my head (blog)

Original item by Moira Eribenne

Super, Dave. Immediate, fast and honest, right to the end. Especially the end.

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

Original item by Dave Bradley

I missed this one ha ha... and I thought you were Mrs Prim and Proper Cynthia !! ha ha... it's a hot poem and I like the word unsurprisingly heh heh Way to go Cynth.......TC XX

Comment is about Vanilla Sex (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

You are a naughty naughty Annipoo ha ha.... I had better restrain my comments on here though ... ha ha
luv TC XX

Comment is about BIKE (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Dave, glad you like 'Laundry Day' Yep "Red Dwarf" helped assisted with Cillicone Heaven. I mean "where would all the calculators go?" take care, em

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I want a copy of that book, really I do,I am going to look for it on fleabay ;-) I also read Jonathan Livingstone Seagull a long time ago, I had forgotten all about it, I seem to remember really enjoying it, it was a bit sad at the end I think, wonder what happened to it?.luv TC XX

Comment is about Love and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I think this is one of your best yet, I really enjoyed listening to you perform it at thet Tudor last night.... Rock and Roll Issy ha ha
luv TC XX

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

I liked this, especially as far I am concerned there is no such thing as inanimate matter. nice one.TC

Comment is about The watcher (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Brilliant Annipoo.... but on that riotously rapid journey do we discover any new intermediary states of being or building blocks of existence ???
Luv TC XX

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Beulah, he sounds like a right shit head that guy ha ha......
luv TC XX

Comment is about Valentine's Day- A Little Folly (blog)

Original item by Beulah

Heh heh nice one Dave it was good at the Tudor last night, I think the Iron Maiden should be reserved for the shit head's who break into your car !!! TC

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

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi again Antony. Left a comment on your recent blog entry. Thankyou.win

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

Original item by Antony Owen

Thanks Dave for your comment's I very much enjoyed the evening and meeting with you and Chris too ;-) I will come along again next time I am in town, maybe even bring something to read ;-))TC

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Best before end had some good images in it. I listened to the recorded piece too and you have a mellifluous diction which for a midlander is quite hypnotic. You've worked really hard at your poetry and I know from my own book launch and tour it is harded to maintain an identity than to get one so I want to congratulate you on your successes mate.

Keep in touch and hope to see you in cov one day.

I'm going to post (just for you) a poem on a yorkshire fellow I wrote about called "the blooding of charlie pike.

That's not a hint for you to comment but if you want to read it then its on today's blog.

Thanks for your comment on tree people.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

A funny one Dave - this went down really well at the Tudor last night.
Perhaps you should consider moving far away from Mordor....
Haven't ever been broken into or had anything thieved in Wigan - the gigs are never cancelled without notice, either!

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

Original item by Dave Bradley

Bike - Thanks for comment Win. Wasn't sure about the handkerchief verse. "I want to be your hankie" sounds a bit daft maybe? I debated whether to say snot rag! Maybe that would have been going too far in female debasement due to adoration concept of poem! x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

So... We have a poem in itself here -

I want to be your coffee cup
pressed against your lips
I want to be your leather belt
pulled tight around your hips

Loved it Ann. win x

Comment is about BIKE (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Daniel...this left me cold. Thats good I think. (Given the subject) nice work. Win

Comment is about The watcher (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hi Owen... Liked the strangeness in this. those little mites. Win

Comment is about husk of dust (blog)

Original item by owen calvert

Hi Thomas. An excellent, deeply personal poem. Glad you're keeping posting

Comment is about Love On Borrowed Time (blog)

Original item by Tom

You've done it again! Another cracker.

Comment is about collision course (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

phew.. good stuff, isobel.. am well impressed by that.. bet that took you ages to write! very very good indeed x

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

you should also do one on your favourite food that makes me you err... lol

Comment is about what shall i have? (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Get back to me! 'D be nice to speak.

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

A nice light touch Banksy. (Hopefully that's what she said too!) ;-)
Oh yes - short fingernails and all.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Naughty but nice Banksy. I bet the only gaps you find now are in your hairline or teeth... in fact looking at the evolution of the species, you might just struggle to fit a palm anywhere, let alone without touching. After reading you and Cynthia, I definitely feel inspired to write something risque... xx
Some women just do have that particular "gap" morphology.
Write away - we're all waiting to hear what women really want - we now know what cynthia wants ;)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi cynthia - irony - in both yours & my poems (vanilla) - its difficult to know how much to tell the reader - I've been accused of being both too obtuse & then again too obvious - it is a difficult balance to get right. I liked your poem because sometimes it's good to hear a woman talk dirty & just come out with it & say what she actually wants. In my poem the last verse is the reply from the woman saying that Her desires are darker still.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Ann, thanks again!! Wistful maybe, a nun? never heard that one! Ha ha XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Oh Ann
When there are so many lovely things in this world to feel...

Please don't feel jealous.

Thank you for your lovely comments

Augusta x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Winston and many thanks - again!! x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Hi, thanks for commenting on ' help me'.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Ann, Amazing profile pic. Thank you for the warm welcome -

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Im really glad I found your work. Ive not commented individually about the poems as I would like to take my time doing that but just to say thay I really admire this body of work. Awesome

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

Original item by Antony Owen

Lovely poem, I really feel I'm sitting with you in your chilly kitchen. (I see you've got the hood up again. Makes you look like a rather wistful nun!) ;-) xx

Comment is about In the early hours (blog)

It's funny but these were my other half's favourite books and tho I tried to read them i'm afraid I couldn't get on with either of them!

Comment is about Love and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

An exceptional poem Isabel.
Thy talent does thee proud.X

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

great image and idea this one Kathryn. Win

Comment is about Help me. (blog)

Powerful indeed. One I'd like to come back to

Comment is about Help me. (blog)

Shakespearean! Magnificent

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

I think you've demonstrated by now, Izz, that WOLOP isn't an ego trip, but something you're doing for the common good. For February at least, I propose that the rule that we can't vote for you be scrapped, as this is too oustanding a poem not to be in the mix. Any seconders?

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Cynthia, thanks for your generous and thoughtful comments on The Tide and the Light. You're right, it has taken some time to emerge in this form. A version of the first stanza was written as a poem in its own right three years ago, a paean of praise to the modernist De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill; my impressions on seeing it when I was alone. Last year I added the rest.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas