Cheers Tommy for the post. Much appreciated. Take care.
Regards Neil

Comment is about Art House (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Niel, what gives for me a saver in the poem is the line: 'All the other counsellors avoided Janet like the plague' allowing us, with them (the other counsellors) to distance our-selves from the voyeuristic.

Tommy

Comment is about GRIEF VOYEUR (blog)

Original item by Nells

Hi There Anne, Thankyou for taking the time to read my piece 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' and for your kind comments. This piece was removed by accident and is now back again. It may or may not have had the audio when you last visited. Win x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

The fact that this poem contains my name made me read it.
In my experience, most bereavement counsellors have suffered tragic loss themselves. It might not always be the case but like minded (people who've shared similar experience) are often the best to talk to in these circumstances.

I thought about doing a counselling course myself as my friends seem to think i'd be great at it. I think i'd become too personally involved though, therefore taking work home with me. Maybe i'm not unlike the Janet in your poem after all.
Have to say it wouldn't be for money though unless it became a full time job.

Enjoyed this, it made me think how some people perceive an occupation as useful/helpful even and perhaps those who may never need it or simply cannot understand the need for it would think it's a rip off.

Janet.x

Comment is about GRIEF VOYEUR (blog)

Original item by Nells

Yeah man. I feel your pain. Larkin would have been proud.

Comment is about Art House (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Also terrific. How did I miss this last year? Thanks for reading and commenting on Waiting For Mummy.

Comment is about His love for me is like the sea, As deep as it is wide (blog)

Original item by Louise Fazackerley

I like this one Cynthia. The complexity of adulthood with all its hidden mystery and misery, seen through a child's eye. Very cleverly done.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Graham, always thanks for reading and commenting. I considered lengthily the usage of 'mummy' so often. Then I realized, from a child's viewpoint, perhaps at 3 years old, of 50 words used daily 40 would be "Mummy'.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Very strong emotions expressed well in this Mike.
The repeated lines slow it down which for me, makes it so much stronger.

Janet.x

Comment is about When We of Poverty, Where Next? (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Hi Yosh,there are good people in the world too, it isn't all negative.I think we should be aware of what goes on around us but to focus on the negative is usually to attract it.I lost my faith in human nature too once. My faith in God at the time, got me through by bringing the evidence i needed through humans. They were my 'angels'.
Thought provoking piece this however you perceive life to be.Janet.x

Comment is about EVIL IN PEOPLE...... (blog)

hi yosh,keep writing,but stay away from news progdogs.they bite!

Comment is about EVIL IN PEOPLE...... (blog)

On one level simple, on another, a conplicated piece. For me the most interesting themes in this are: the frustration of ageing; and the nature of defeat. Do we learn more from winning or losing /failing? I doubt that philosophers will ever agree on that one. Thanks for coming to LIVERpoetry launch, Dave. Hope I wasn't too pissed as MC ... I didn't have time for me tea, you see.

Comment is about More than a puzzle (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

A very picturesque poem this one i think Cynthia.It creates lots of vivid colours in the imagination.

Janet.x

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A vivid picture of human angst and maternal love is eloqently drawn here... and the lovely child's eye view of life too. Like this very much... makes me think.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

To be warm in personality as well as clever is to be cherished. I like your self awareness. Beware of people who are neither warm nor clever. There are quite a few of those on the poetry scene!

Comment is about Intellect Makes A Poor Blanket (blog)

A funny wee poem which also raises a contentious issue in poetry - the snobbery that occurs about use of rhyme. John Betjeman was brilliant at it - and some people sneer at him.

Comment is about Rhyme. (blog)

Loved your comment Annipoo ;-) I am awake and I should be asleep!!
TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you Steve for reading my poem 'Bound together'
and for your lovely words...

Francine x

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Regan

Thank you Sian, as always for your support and encouragement...
means so much!

Francine x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

Original item by sian howell

Hi Mingo! Are you an anagram? It's always good to catch me on a jokey day - my default mode is 'Joyous Black' I'll pop over to your spot and make a comment. Cheers.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Hi Kate, I love yer "Biscuit" poem - makes me mouth water!

Comment is about Kate Tym (poet profile)

Original item by Kate Tym

Hi Barrie, really enjoyed reading your poems - "Step Change" is me fave!

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Ha ha! I love this poem, and was also surprised when I heard your voice!!

Comment is about weather girl (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

i enjoyed the simplicity and the honesty of this. we all turn it on for the kids.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A delicate poem..... I wonder what goes on inside that head ;-)).... Fat feeders are good for when it's really cold plenty energy in them for the weight ratio.
Luv TC ;-) XX

Comment is about our winter visitors (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

First of all this is a lovely piece of work Cynthia bravo to you. Only negative for me was the repetition of mummy (five times). Two would have been great.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Home is drinking real ale in a warm old pub with your mates..... Though Provoking.... I miss my home.TC

Comment is about home? (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Hello Oz
Enjoyed your spot last night at the Terrier, especially the one about the Stones (cold not rolling). Might make it to Harrogate next week - if so, see you there.

Comment is about Oz Hardwick (poet profile)

Original item by Oz Hardwick

Hi Neil, Welcome. There is a lot more 'real poetry' out there Neil than you may imagine, this site has a considerable amount of it, check the writer's various blogs.
Tommy- : )

Comment is about A Policeman's Lament (blog)

Original item by Nells

Good poem Steve - point well made. Reminded me of E M Forster's story - The Machine Stops - about a future world in which we live in isolation never touching each other - so unnatural.

Comment is about Handle with Care (blog)

Excellent, Cynthia. A whole world is suggested, with just enough clues - the reader's mind races to fill in the gaps

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I almost lived the experience of this as I read it, Isobel. I wanted to throw "handfuls to the skies".

And, yes, water is to be "enjoyed on its own terms", being both vital for life and capable of killing it.

I liked the descriptions and the disturbing contrasts drawn.

Comment is about OASIS (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Neil, thanks for your nice comments on some of my poems. Glad to see you blogging! A good poem too.

Comment is about Nells (poet profile)

Original item by Nells

Lovely poem, and a subject and vantage point I don't think I've heard described before.

Comment is about Ode to Nomalungelo and Child (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

I've just read this and it reminds me of a prologue to a complicated Crime Thriller with the scope for a reader's implied and sinister thinking.These 4 lines -

With her nose on the wheel...

And walks slowly around the car,

Looking for ants, I think.

Nana’s gravel goes crunch crunch.


demand a reader's attention.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Mike. Great poem. I like the real issues and the way your prose is punchy and to the point.
Thanks a lot for your comments on my poem. The compassion has gone from the British police now. There used to be respect for the villains and the public and there was an unwritten code. All gone (sadly) Thanks for your comments and like I say well done on a powerful poem and great reading.
All the best. Respect, Neil G

Comment is about Namibian Dousing (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Hi neil, it is right for you to express your feelings about events from your past, no matter what role you played. It is sad, that many years ago, people really did trust and respect the boys in blue, but that society is so divisive now, that much of that trust has gone. All too often many people fear the police, yet when dirty work has to be done they are the first to be called upon. My heart goes out to you for the horrors that you have endured. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Stay well

Mike

Comment is about A Policeman's Lament (blog)

Original item by Nells

Steve, my sincere apologies. I can't get through to you via the other channel. Don't know why. I have chosen to share through this medium. I hope I haven't overstepped.



Perspective

They
Think
I am on the outside
Looking in,
Beguiled by questions …
Scholarship … intellectualism …
Erecting barriers against the sleeping spirit.
But I say:
What a strange thought.

I live to learn,
And learn to live
With understanding,
In the constancy of Spirit:
‘Is … was … and shall be …’
There is no sleeping!
And I wonder why they peer at me
With murky eyes
As ‘through a glass darkly’.

But who is boastful?
Humility
Is essential
To Truth
And Love.
It is hard to eschew
A sense of superiority …
Easily the greatest Lie
Of all Lies.

Cynthia Buell Thomas

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Regan

When I went to the "see more" and this popped up I thought it looked great! So colouful. And clever that you gave it some meaning.

Comment is about A Biting of Words (blog)

Original item by Paul Conneally

Happy New Year Gaia
Your comment is much appreciated.
I will email direct re performing The Sun Shone.
Steve

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Hi Ann
Thanks, as ever for the word. Still haven't got back to the laugh-a-minute stuff yet.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi John - re music for funerals! It's problematic choosing music for someone elses funeral. I had to make this choice, and of course it was at a time when you're in a state anyway. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" seemed perfect, indeed it was, the result is I can probably never listen to it again. Also, cos of the words, we had "The Whole of the Moon" by the Waterboys. I had no idea if M liked that song, but the words summed him up, for me anyway. He was probably up there looking down and tutting! I think I'd like "I can see clearly now" by Johnny Nash, as it is so cheerful. But some bastards have recently used it in an advert, which is off-putting! I could go classical and have A Lark Ascending, bit of a cliche, but it is lovely. Re Nick Drake, it's another load of songs that I haven't been able to listen to for a couple of years, but I remember particularly loving Northern Sky. xx

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

Thought provoking poem Steve. I like the last three lines particularly.

Comment is about Handle with Care (blog)

I LOVE this! Fantastic audio - perfectly read... nicely written and yes, I agree, one of your best!
This has to get a cherry for the words, the reading and the photo.
Well done Ann!

Comment is about If I had a horse (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Noticed that you are a Nick Drake fan (in another thread). He will be played at my funeral...along with John Martyn and Joe Satriani (it's 'one on the way in...one in the middle, and one on the way out...) although, if the rules permitted, I could easily have three from any of them.... It's a game we play on long journeys. My choices have been the same for many years.

What's your favourite?

Jx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

a powerful and potent poem. Good, strong stuff.

Comment is about Handle with Care (blog)

I've done a lot of thinking before actually commenting on this Dermot and i've decided not to go into what i personally believe. Tempting though it is.
So, in essence, i agree with you on the principle that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and that no-one should attempt to foist theirs on anyone else but discussion is good.

I think i got the gist of it.
Enjoyed the rhythm in this too.
Very thought provoking. Well done.

Janet.x

Comment is about Dogmatism (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Yep, the last one does it for me too. :-)

I love this poem. May i say one of the best i've read of yours so far.
Great audio too.
Janet.x

Comment is about If I had a horse (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Cynth.Yes email your poem inspired by "through the glass darkly"
stvregan@yahoo.com
I'l love to read it.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia
Comment appreciated.
As a voluntary worker in my local school, I often feel that parents are looking and wondering what an old gimmer like me is doing working with 6 and 7 year old children.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas