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

Hi Andy. Ann F's comment just about sums it up for me. Glad you liked mine - a bit drier than this, though

Comment is about Patience (blog)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Clever and funny poem, though I do share Cynthia's sentiments. It must be tough up there in the media spotlight and there's some things money can't buy. Thanks for commenting on my little haiku

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

I love the imagery, especially the first stanza.
Better watch which ghosts you invite in though, you might end up with an orchestral manoevre in the dark and a cat playing chop-sticks.

Starlight.x
ps. sorry, couldn't resist. It's a great poem.

Comment is about I am lifting the piano with one hand (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I can see what Graham means in the beginning of his comment but after a couple of reads i think it's quite fascinating. I come cross lots of single gloves and often wonder about the wearer.

Can't quite place my fingers on what i like about it but i do. Gets a thumbs up from me.

Starlight.x

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Love this poem.
Foxgloves are a nuisance when they decide to invade your garden and yet supposedly ward off negative earthly and nature spirits.
Great analogy used here.

Starlight.x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

This irritated the hell out of me to start with, but I seem to have come around to like its persistence.
Lovely idea but I would have liked more narrative between the red glove references. Although less is perhaps more?

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

The key here in surely the "last" wolf?
There is an element of the passing of one thing into another, a changeling perhaps. Renewal I think, in clever allegorical prose. I might be wrong but this is different stuff Sian, and much deeper and thoughtful. I like your new work. Graham.

Comment is about Alpha Male (blog)

Original item by sian howell

oooh, i really like this Gaia. It flows like melted honey but i taste the bittersweetness of it. I think I knew him once.. debz x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Very topical! I see many single, deserted gloves at this time of year. Someone needs to pay them a bit of attention and you have done!
I'm posting up my 'digitalis' foxglove poem on my blog especially for you! I went to Grasmere with some friends a year ago. The narrow roads were a mass of foxgloves and we started talking about their medicinal qualities...how they can kill or cure. Hope you like it. Thank you for buying my book. There's another one in the pipeline.

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment John. The soundscape is my son's work and he happened to do it at the same time I wrote the poem and I thought they might go well together. They do, in part, but I think I need a rewrite of the words and he'll take my vox sample and do something a bit better then my poor attempt.

Not sure about gamble instead of gambol - is it really archaic? Perhaps my alleged obsession with sheep has something to do with it :(

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

Just the best Paul
Loved it.
Love all the distortion and confusion.
would be good to rig the sound fx into PA on an open mic event, a live train station set-up.

You could use a korg sampler etc into the mixing desk.

brilliant.

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

Here here to your comment re gangs! I think gangs are nasty things. Since I joined WOL I have been made to feel welcome, and it's a new home for me, a new poet. Then suddenly there's this feeling (from the old guard?) that maybe i won't be belonging here after all - too many poets!!! How many poets can you get on the head of a pin? (Or how many poets can change a light bulb maybe!) lol af xxx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thank you for your comments Gaia - I love your stuff, it's so good to see you here again - I've got your book!!! xxx

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Hi and thank you for your comments. I've just visited your profile page and read some of your stuff. It's uplifting and sparky. Wow, foxglove...is that your real name? I had a mild obsession with foxgloves. Now ferns have taken over! .

Comment is about my cat's audrey hepburn (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Lovely poem Gaia. An unusual image, full of positivity and grace!

Comment is about I am lifting the piano with one hand (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Hi Steve, glad to see you again at 'The Puzzle' and as for your request...yes...I'd love to read the female voice-part in 'The Sun Shone' at the next Puzzle.

Comment is about The Sun Shone (blog)

Very smooth and measured, Cynthia. Although the clause "But not necessarily unsatisfying" confuses me, whereas 'Ann' just loves the line. I'm not sure if it's meant to be confusing or I'm reading too much into the adverbial and the negated adjectival particle?

I've read it a dozen times now and it makes some sense. It may be the conjunction 'but' that muddied my waters - I took the liberty of inserting 'yet' instead of 'but' when I read it and this didn't appear to alter the meaning but made sense to me. I'll shut up.

Either way - I enjoyed it!

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks for your comment Cynthia.

I understand your concern 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 Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This poem certainly is clever, and topical.
But, I feel for the anguish of all the characters so exposed. How could I ever know the kind of stress involved in the private hearts of each 'player' in this little drama? I'm certainly not about to jump on any 'Nanny nanny boo boo' wagon.

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Another cracker C. You must have superb editorial skills...you never post a poor one!

For me...'If you can expound cause and effect, you do not understand at all' has particular resonance...and the last three lines...just, Wow!

Thank you.

Jx

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ann, never saw it; thanks much. That made a nasty bump on the log. Don't know where the 's' went. Corrected to 'Is'. Also, 'scratchings and cacklings' are 'Writing and talking' ad infinitum about 'what love is', always in the subjective mode naturally.
Thanks, too, Starlight.

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi John. I remember you from Bolton. Next time we will have a chat, keep up the good work as treasurer, Win

Comment is about John Armstrong (poet profile)

Original item by John Armstrong

Hi Ann, They are not all anonymous but not really sure if there are any WOL members down there? Is AE that way inclined? I will try and fin out.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Jeff
Thanks for your comments on Ghazal (her dad).
Snap! Mine is also 9. Win x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

derrr..i'm confused..logic escapes me..but i don't like rules except the ones that work like; 'keep away from the edge of the platform fast train approaching.' or 'keep away from small children' although freedom of choice should be a rule as well.but that's probably what you just said...i'll get me coat..

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Pleased you enjoyed the Quirky Verses - both true stories. After reading "Our Gert" I bet you and Ian Macmillan are never seen in the same place at the same time. I think that's a compliment.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Ann, I enjoy reading your stuff, nice thread of humanity running through it. Keep posting.

thanks

John

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I don't know if a poem has to be aimed at anyone. On the one hand I guess the point of a poem is to communicate, and that implies it does have to find someone to communicate with, but also, a poem can just BE. I see this poem as a tribute to someone who has died, and a comment on the pointlessness of that death, not a lecture to all the youths who carry knives, who, as is the point you are making Rodney (I think), will never read this poem.

Comment is about POLICE - DO NOT CROSS (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Thanks for the comment, all of the poets are published and in point of fact only 3 poets are from wirral. The rest are very well known!

Comment is about The Knowledge - December (blog)

Original item by Martin Nelson

Hi Belinda, nice little poem here, might see you at wigan again! Jeff X

Comment is about November (blog)

Original item by Belinda

Hi Isobel, really enjoyed this, great work, the travel theme is like my latest romatic poem (train in piccadilly though not a plane!), appreciate you having a gander if you havent already.

Drought over
Rain clouds burst
For all that was lost now found
For all that was and will be…

Marvellous Isobel, see you at Wigan Jeff X

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Beulah, have to agree with a lot of this even though my daughter is 9 and still believes, not for long! I suppose its nice up to an earlier age than 9 but I'm not sure why we want to continue deceiving!

Oh well, I just wish they would only start it all in december and not august! You should read my 'Do they know its christamas poem - think its in my dec 08 blogs, happy new year! Jeff X

Comment is about At the Core (blog)

Original item by Beulah

Good stuff Bernard - thy shoulder and thy art, hath twisted the sinews of this tart's heart.
Cx

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Cythnia, lovely description and mystery, enjoyed reading it, best wishes Jeff

Comment is about Girl in a Lake (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Nicky, beautifully written, really enjoyed the great descriptive imagery, Jeff X

Comment is about Finale (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Dave, great idea, enjoyed it, mite see you at Wigan cheers Jeff

Comment is about Feed me, feed me now (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I'm sure Moxy did!

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

Thank you Malcolm, I think you mean Shitsville's too good for me!

Loved the Tyger rip off - very funny.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

Ah, yes, very romantic. Thanks for taking the time to read my verse. I know that mood in yours, waiting in a busy station and yet really theres only two people there, wonderfully atmospheric. Best, Jane

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Hi Kealon, I'm just catching up as usual, really enjoyed this, powerful feeling of satisfaction at the end, great work, Jeff

Comment is about At Least We Tried. (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Deb, great stuff, agree with the rest here!!! Jeff X

Comment is about Kilim (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Dirty old man. I think you should get off. You are too good for Shitsville.

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

I've always felt you have a lot of the Wolf spirit energy about you, as you know.
Beautifully written. x

Comment is about Alpha Male (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Very neat and right up my street.
Love it!

Starlight.x

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Len, how ya doin? Enjoyed this, as Steve said you could put stanzas 2 and 3 together, I would have speled out 200 in letters too, looks better, apart from that great stuff, love the moon! Jeff

Comment is about On my way back (from school) (blog)

Original item by Lenford White

Ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!
Love it, Dave

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Jeff Dawson


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Powerful, gripping read Mike, and so sad, but well written, no holds barred unfortunately all too common, and as a father of a 9 yr old daughter something I cant comprehend, best wishes Jeff ps thanx for your sincere comments on 'Journey of your life', I remember the cafe!

Comment is about We Once Was Animal (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

There should be a ban on banning things. There ought to be a law against passing any more laws.

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley