Thanks Ann

Comment is about Patterns in darkness (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

And a very Merry Christmas to you too .....
Cx

Comment is about There’s something going on making me feel fearful (blog)

Hi Ms Goth! This poem is very complex, I feel, and almost reads like a message from you, hoping to belong on this site! Do write us some more, and welcome! Love coalesce and acquiece!

Comment is about Goth Chick (poet profile)

Original item by Goth Chick

Most of the photographs taken by Rachel Bond. Group photo taken by Simon Ellis and photographs of Rachel by Jeffarama.

Comment is about Rachel Bond at the Howcroft, Bolton December 2009 (photo)

sensitive yet down to earth - a good combination!

Comment is about Season\\'s Sonnet (blog)

Original item by stephen smith

love it mate...so we have students to blame for Subway..probably true...

Comment is about Pete the Temp (poet profile)

Original item by Pete the Temp

Hi there, Thank you for your supportive comments. I love this piece. The repetition works well all the way up to the 5th stanza. This is because you have used the word glove twice very close together maybe say "garment" then glove to end with. i love the idea of highlighting the life of a lost glove in this way. you have done a good job of it. The feeling of being lost is strong here. happy Christmas! x

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Beautiful, deep simplicity. lets the reader own the piece too. It accounts for all our missing pieces. They are safe in your poem. Happy Christmas em x

Comment is about something\\'s lost (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Too much here to comment on Steve, this is wonderful. you prove time and time again that rhyme is not a dirty word.
Lovely stuff. see you at the writing group in jan! hapopy Christmas! x em

Comment is about Dirty Weekend (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

Yay yay ;-)) lets dance about and get merry ha ha...........
TC ;-)

Comment is about solstice day (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Lovely warming poem Ann, have a cool Yule. I second the yay for RATM x

Comment is about solstice day (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello Dermot, being fairly new to WOL I have just discovered you because of your recent blogg, and I am reading your poems and I like them very much. Esp this one, so far! Nice to find you! ;-)

Comment is about Patterns in darkness (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! And hooray for Rage Against the Machine! They've made my day!

Comment is about solstice day (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

OUCH!

Comment is about Opening (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Reminds me of someone i know and love.
Brilliant she is too.

Starlight.x

Comment is about a different sort of person (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello Rachel, with regard to tips on freelancing, send me an email (off the site) in the New Year and I'll try to answer any questions you might have. Bang a few questions on a list and I promise to reply. Graham

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

My goodness , I am grief stricken. and moved to tears.

You have a wonderful ability with composition and words.
Augusta x

Comment is about Little Clock (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Yes, I joined face book once and found everyone had 137 friends and pics of themselves being sick at parties. Bring back the pirate. thanks

Comment is about Dreamtime (blog)

Original item by Horace Thespider

Wonderful.. every pull and stretch and knickery moment...really superb.

I see how it elicits want, how my finger's unconscious fumble stirs.
Such a sensuous occupation

Augusta xx

Comment is about Stockings (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

A great story, perhaps the stars are all souls and the vaccum full of chatter!

Comment is about Star Songs (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

You're back! LOL

I couldn't visualise most of this... as such thoughts were causing me physical pain!

Comment is about Opening (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Lol! Thanks for the comments...as for the stockings video.....well I'm performing it in Preston on tuesday evening, I appreciate it's a bit far to travel and all that, but they generally get filmed by Norman Hadley and bunged up on youtube, although it'll just be me reading it, unfortunately I'm a little too new to performance to actually do the burlesque thing, tempting though it is. If you like, I'll 'comment' you the link when it's up.
Thanks again
Rachel
x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Andy. Glad I amused you - I am a bit of a clown and love the social side of this site. Not to be outdone I've posted a further comment - just agreeing really. Is that a wedding outfit you are wearing in your profile piccie? If so, I hope you fare better than Winston's poor victim....
My ex was an IT manager. I am amazed that you manage to combine programme management with poetry - you must really hate your job...x

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Beautifully expressed Shane!
I miss the snow, but you let me experience the affects of it again : )

Great line:
'Mystical gentleness, and the silence is golden'
x

Comment is about THE SILENCE WHEN IT SNOWS..... (blog)

Thanks for the comment, thats a good idea I think i will change it, thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you Rachel.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thank you Stephen.

Comment is about stephen smith (poet profile)

Original item by stephen smith

Thank you KC.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Thank you Dave.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thank you CBT.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Methinks thou dost protest too much. Any poem with an intentional 'kick' is surely ironic (I would have thought, 'kicking' being its very essence). Moralizing is not always a bad thing. You are too good to be under-rating yourself. Who are you trying to impress - or dis-impress? (Ha! New word of the week.)

Comment is about Dave Morgan (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Hi Isobel, Your comment on Win's "Decree Absolute" regarding '....it's all his fault' had me grinning from ear to ear. Nice dry touch. I've posted a follow up comment, too.

Dzien dobry !!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi John,

This is (for me) dripping with succinct cynicism and the ingrained human trait of judging by first appearances. I'd like to see you write another - from the busker's point of view. Nice one.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about The Busker (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Hi Ann,

It's good to be able to slip yourself into a different persona now and again. I rather like the one you've chosen - she sounds like fun!

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about a different sort of person (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Yep - I like this one too Dermot - it is funny.

Comment is about Variation and fugue (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Indeed, "such a reverie in lingerie."
When will the video be available? ;-)

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Stockings (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hi Rachel,

Some carefully chosen words and phrases here; put together they perfectly illustrate the enduring pain and singular tragedy of such a loss. Very well crafted.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Little Clock (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Francine, that's lovely. I'll write one later today and post it on here.

Comment is about Variation and fugue (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Hi!!! Thanks so much for your comment i really appreciate it....i jus opened my blinds this morning and thought wow!! Inspiration! Lol....im gunna av a sneaky look at some of your stuff....thanks again i look forwarf to more of your comments!! :) x

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

I really like this poem it captures just how I feel when it snows, it brings out the child in me ha ha...... It is snowing as I write this.... love it Christmas great!! ;-))
TC ;-)

Comment is about THE SILENCE WHEN IT SNOWS..... (blog)

I have woken up to fresh snow this morning so this was lovely to read.
I love the line 'God is in the snowflake', one of those "wish I'd written that" moments.
Rachel
x

Comment is about THE SILENCE WHEN IT SNOWS..... (blog)

Jeff, thanks very much for liking Don't Look Away. It's one of what I would call my postcard poems, ones I work away on in the hotel room in the early morning when my wife is still asleep. I think it has a lot in common with your atmospheric poem Napoli, particuarly looking at the picture. I also like The Journey of Your Life, because I'm a sucker for trains and stations. They just provide moments of such great drama, of life-changing movements, of reunion and separation. Best wishes, Greg

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Hi Sheridan,I'm very much like you in that I use my writing as a tool for sorting out stuff that's going on in my head or in real life. It's got to be healthier than it lying around in there like undigested food Poetry, like probiotic yoghurt for the brain Lol!Some very deep stuff in your samples. Brill!Rachelx

Comment is about Sheridan (poet profile)

Original item by Sheridan

Thanks lotsly for the comments Isobel, they're hugely appreciated. Glad you put your stockings on (virtually) with me....now then, people seeing this comment who haven't read my poem will be Sooooo Intrigued by that comment won't they? tee hee!
Thanks again, and glad you enjoyed the poems,
Rachel
x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Me too Ann, me too! I'd have leopard skin knickers on me washing line! :)
Rachel
x

Comment is about a different sort of person (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann, thanks again for 'looking after' me and leaving lovely comments. It's truly very much appreciated.
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Melissa, great writing here and a lot of truth -The cruelty of mankind
is to be blind to innocence
love this line, cant argue with that! best wishes Jeff X

Comment is about Blind Innocence (blog)

Wonderful bit of writing Sian, nice one Jeff x

Comment is about Hopes and Dreams (blog)

Original item by sian howell

A long poem is difficult to read off the internet (as opposed to off the printed page) but then large themes - such as the stars, which have fascinated poets, mystics and philosophers since the dawn of human existence - are worthy of long pieces.

Cynthia, this is a great poem, spiritually charged and written with appropriate passion.

I gazed at the starts the other night in the garden of a hotel in Chester. I saw their majesty, and the hope they offer to humanity at this downbeat time in Earth's history, and I too was filled with awe - and with resentment that we can no longer see them properly in the over-populated, light-polluted territories where most of us reside.

The world is full of cynicism, and the poetic community is heavily afflicted by pretension and clunky (failed) attempts to be clever.

But you have taken a big theme here and delivered on it poetically, describing beautifully a powerful epiphany. All power to you.

Comment is about Star Songs (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Sian, how ya doin? enjoyed this gritty determined number best wishes Jeff X

Comment is about Sticks and Stones (blog)

Original item by sian howell