Really like this Rosalind, as it leaves a lot to the reader's imagination...

Comment is about Within Four Walls (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

I agree with winston, this one has an otherwordliness about it which is appealing.
Cate xx

Comment is about Sacred Well (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

You know me Francine - it's never too early for a glass of wine! x
Sorry Paul - I shouldn't hijack your poem for a bit of fun. The poem does lighten you up though - an amusing read - we've all been there.

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

'One Poison Drives Out Another ' Strong imagery. I enjoyed your choice of metaphor's and the neat twist at the end. Be yea afraid of innocent looking Foxgloves ;-)
TC X

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Isobel!
Tu es trop marrante!
If it weren't too early - I'd drink a bottle of Merlot with you!

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

I have read this many times Sian, and you always have a way of constructing different ideas into your poems.

I also agree with what TC says... very mystical feel to it ; )
Francine x

Comment is about Alpha Male (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Then maybe that's your limited edition phone, Francine and those are my leopard skin sneakers...

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

This seems a bit surreal.
I have been on this train... many times before.

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

This is a fabulous little gem!

Comment is about Haikkuish- Ballerino (blog)

Original item by stephen smith

Hi Ann
this had an etherial quality (esp at the begining) for me. great stuff.
Win

Comment is about Sacred Well (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

yes I enjoyed reading this a few times like darren to fully absorb the piece. I particularly liked the ending which seems to take control of the situation and say "look, I know that I love you...all of this other 'stuff' is just superficial " Oh by the way re: Alpha Male yes I paint wolves actually and work as an artist in Glastonbury. I too have an interset in Native Americans - their plight today and their fascinating history and culture. Sian X

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Dave.... Tickled by this, Win

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

No Thermo, you'd have to marry me first! ;-)))

Comment is about Sacred Well (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

The Well of Souls Foxglove ;-) I would drink my fill ;-)) yet not put my finger into your beguiling flower ;-)
TC X

Comment is about Sacred Well (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment Martin.

Riverview is a very pleasant evening and you have attracted a good variety of talent. Congratulations. May 2010 see continuing success and growth.

Well done too on producing 'Wirral's Winter Words'. A very nice book and a great achievement.

Comment is about Martin Nelson (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Nelson

Thanks Julian - apposite ditty. Still have no idea 'where it went' or what is going on.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Thanks for all the comments. I have put some gaps in (a technical term) that might help to break it up a bit, and therefore, make sense or flow better. I wanted the repetition to keep drawing the reader back to that wretched little red glove - the insistence of the mute object.

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Martin - thank you for reading my poem. I appreciate comments like this as I have not been writing very long, so try to take these on board. AND I have never read in public - yet! Hope to, although I live in the west country and there's not much that I've found, esp as I have NO CAR. Actually, when I read this poem out loud (to me and my cat) I think it sounds OK. The repetition (lost glove) which someone else commented on was to try and emphasise the presence of a mute insignificant object that just keeps somehow calling you back to pay it some attantion. Maybe it doesn't want to be a lost glove. Maybe one day I'll venture oop north and read it to you! ;-) Or are you in Wales?

Comment is about Martin Nelson (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Nelson

A nice little poem but I must admit that, maybe because I've not heard you read in person, I found the layout a little disorganised and hard to follow.

I'm seldom any good at defining the best way to read a poem unless I've read it several times. On the 5th reading of yours I still find it a little jarring to me though.

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

It has been a few days since I've looked through the blogs. Let me second Chris' comment, it was great to see you at the River View, and also great to see Chris too!

Once again you make commentry on current events with comedic eloquence.

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hola foxy Lady heh heh ;-) I am turning an idea over in my mind, just missplaced my Sorcerer's pen for the moment..... watch this space ;-))
TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

'I contemplate the scratchings and cacklings'

I am considering 'appropriating' that line with the expedient of adding an 'r'.

The 'scratchings and cracklings'...add a 'cooked pig's bum' motif that I find irresistible. I don't think it could be regarded as 'plagiarism'....just a referential nod in the direction of a greater talent.

: )

Jx

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Came back to this to view other comments.For me, this poem can be interpreted in two ways.1. as Ann interpreted it, as a fantasy lover.2. as i originally thought, a poem which has been stuffed in a drawer to be found and still loved by the author. That would explain Ann's confusion about scratchings and cacklings of presumptive opinion. (critique and comments) ?
Incidentally, i love that line too Cynthia. I like the way it rolls around the tongue when emphasis is placed on ''not necessarily.''

Starlight.x

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Good Evening Jeff
I do hope you are warmer now after reading Voyeur.

it seemed to make quite a few of the older geration a little hot under the collar, but hopefully no trouble for you.

Thank you once again for your encouragement and comment
Augusta x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Good Evening Andy
When I stop writing I know it's complete.


I have tried many times to expand poems and ended up with over written and over thought waffle.

Mostly after red wine and an argument with a partner.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and taking time to read.

Augusta x.

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Oh! Tommy
Offer me a weekend in Paris or Rome and I'll melt and with just a little coaxing would reach boiling point...

Augusta x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thank you for comments re; Hunter's Moon' Sometimes on wooded walks I feel this enormous history of legend and myth... and you are right it is quiet chilling, Like the Teddy Bears say... 'Don't go down into the Woods Today
Thank you again so very much for your encouragement and comments.

Augusta x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Yes indeed, a maiden fair, a virgin , but not for long I suspect, poor girl.
Thank you for reading Ann
Augusta x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Cynthia,
thanks for your comment on my poem 'Qercus Robur.' and noticing the typo. (bows = boughs)
Mucho appreciated.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Dave,
thanks for your comment on my poem, 'Quercus Robur.'' Appreciate your honest opinion. I did want a sturdy feel to the whole so decided to restrict the flow by using a syllable count. I have a tendency towards over-flow otherwise.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on 'Quercus Robur.' Very much appreciated.

I think i missed and haven't heard you read ''Final Appointment'' and ''Rebel'' poem, both of which i love but particularly the former.

Hopefully see you soon,
Starlight.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Ann,
thanks for your recent comments on my stuff.
They're really appreciated.

Love ''The Dray.'' aand ''Take me''.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

i love your Epiphany Gaia very well written and full of vivid imagery that i like very much. youre very good at writing:)

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I always think a single lost glove on the trail are sad little gloves, somehow symbolic of the transient nature of lifes convoluted path. Thoughtful one Ann
TC X

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

nice stuff, dave.. if i didn't confuse myself - i could ask you a fistful off questions over this!

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

good one, paul.. remember this from Sale... Any reference to the R.E.M. song?

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

any chance off a tesco shopper poem or a sainsburys shopper poem.. hey - i can see a series coming here! lol nice piece however

Comment is about The Ballad Of The M&S Shopper (blog)

can relate to this in large parts, katie.. i think there is some lil edits here and there you can do to make it sharper, but i did enjoy it..

Comment is about Daily Grind of Commuting 24/11/09 (blog)

Original item by DKlastro~*

enjoyed this cynthia.. nice stuff indeed..

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

has a great beat to it, Gaia - gotta say.. nice one x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I expect I have the wrong end of the stick but, for me (I love that phrase cos I can just say how I see it even tho that may be wrong!) the "but not necessarily unsatisfying" means the pleasure you can get from a fantasy, and I see this could be a reference to physical pleasure. The way I see it is that the woman fancies the man and has built up a secret fantasy life around him. He doesn't know, is ignorant and innocent. Then he finds out. He's a sort of victim of her secret fantasy love. But that's just how it reads to me. Would like to know if I have misread it, Cynthia.

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Barry, a good riff on W.H.Davie's famous poem, one of my favourites, though I always blench at the line with the ovine and bovine references.
Excellent, and thank you.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Full of a sense of loss and concern for the person who has lost the glove. For some reason the word blood kept running through my mind, although it doesn't appear in the poem. I think it's there, though

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann, thanks for liking The English Teacher. I wrote the first version of it a couple of years ago when I heard that he had died, in his late nineties. The regular alcohol intake seemed to have done him the world of good. Greg

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like both the sentiments and the language in this, Cynthia. Skillet is a wonderful, satisfying word. And "she held the spatula like an exclamation mark." Just right

Comment is about A Wonderful Day (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia. Thanks for your kind comments on The English Teacher. I see you're a teacher yourself and I agree, I don't think Ofsted would have thought much of him! But he was the one teacher at my school that inspired me. Not exactly The HIstory Boys, but that kind of thing. As a result I switched to English in the sixth form and started writing poems while I should have been revising for my O-levels. Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ann, you have been busy. Many thanks for reading do many of my poems and extra thanks for commenting so positively.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is one sexy poem! Brill, as always. xx

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Thanks for your comment on the Tiger poem. Personal problems are a misery for the people involved and privacy is also important.

Both of these things are altered by the involvement of the individual in their own use of their character in the promotion of their business. I have put a brief reply in these terms on my blog.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for your comments Cynthia and Dave

I understand your concerns about privacy. Every private person has an entitlement to it, but if you have built a career worth a billion dollars on the basis of your public profile, and your personal characteristics are used as part of that income generation, then your life has been exposed to comment by your own decision. Tiger Woods' personal problems are also the problems of Tiger Woods the multi million dollar corporation. The two things are inseparable and that was his choice

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet