hi, Val. Thanks! I was wheezing when I wrote this!

Comment is about From a Collier's Hand (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

Hi, Zuzana. What a lovely name! Thanks for commenting.

Comment is about The Journals in the Shed (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

Hi, Claria. Thanks for commenting. It isn't, but it could be, and maybe should be; thanks for the idea!

Comment is about We've got Your Favourite for Tea (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

"The truth from the Bible" - a questionable statement.
The poem would probably be better without rhyme.
;)

Comment is about The Banishment From the Garden (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

I loved Working Class Blues

there is so much talent in the north west.
we need to bring it all together one day for a big northern poetry extravaganza.

Comment is about Richard Brooks (poet profile)

Original item by Richard Brooks

Hello, Helen

You have quite a job here done! Wonderful Anthology for children...WOW!!
I love the colourful book. Certainly, it fits every library in a school system.

Congratulations!!
Zuzanna Musial

Comment is about 'We Are Poets!' Anthology: Libraries and Stockists. (blog)

HI Dai, This is an interesting little poem. Is it part of a larger story? Thanks

Comment is about We've got Your Favourite for Tea (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

HI Tomas, This is a nice poem, very biblical, and always good for a reminder.thanks

Comment is about The Banishment From the Garden (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Hi Phil,
This is a wonderful love poem, so romantic!

Comment is about River of Love (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Hello Tomas ~ this poem is excellent, very profound. You based this write on the truth from the Bible, which is so good to read. Adam and Eve story in a Garden of Eden well written. The picture makes your poem complete.

Great write!
Zuzanna

Comment is about The Banishment From the Garden (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Hello Philip

Beautiful romantic love poem. It is always great pleasure to read your writes. This one is warm, and create a pleasant feeling in my heart.

"""You who has truly blessed this mortal soul
You who has changed this half into a whole
Slipped through angels nets, from God's love, for I am blessed"""

"You are truly blessed"-and are really great with these type of poems. Enjoyed immensely.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

Comment is about River of Love (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Mark,

I really liked ' I wish I was a fat man dancing', very fast and enjoyable to read. It sort of works it's way up to a frenzy towards the middle. Made me smile

thanks

Ally

Comment is about Mark Underwood (poet profile)

Original item by Mark Underwood

Hi Tomas,
thank you for your comment on my poem.

Your poem 'Big Eye Blinking Blankly' is very powerful and exposes us here in our luxurious existence.

I like the way you switched it around at the end where the table are turned and how we might feel in the face of starvation.

Extremely sad to read but so true

thanks for sharing

Ally

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

ah the list for bills etc, takes time to learn, takes a few major mistakes to see its value.

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Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Hi Tomas, Nice poem you have written,great subject.I dont know if there is an answer to this, desperation makes for doing things one would not do otherwise.I can understand how , you can detach the mind and heart from an act, but its not easy.

Comment is about For Sale: A Soul and A Body Whole (blog)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

A nice poem, well constructed.
The rhyme comment from Tomas seems to miss the effectiveness of the final couplet. Not all poems have to rhyme.
All the time.

Comment is about Letting-Go (article)

I think that hunting is a bad sport too,,, only the ladies look devine in those jodphurs. "So you like to kill foxes?" I ask one. She says yes... and Im not going to let a chicken killer stop me ketting into the scratcher with this fime mare!!!

Comment is about Seamus Kelly (poet profile)

Original item by Seamus Kelly

why like?!!! Love the poem. Was in the Isle of Man in 1999 and 2000 on holiers, lovely place, terrible rain, lovely sun, but the place ws expensive!!!

Comment is about Shelley Ann Dwornik (poet profile)

Original item by Shelley Ann Dwornik

"Making Hot Chololate" is a great peom: it tells a story and it rhymes. The only place it falls is where is uses the same words to make the rhymes each time, but is forgivable due to the beauty of the poem and the poems message of how you'll encourage your grandchildren to create as in write, and create as in dont be afraid to show emotion.

Thumbs up all round.

Comment is about Helen Shay (poet profile)

Original item by Helen Shay

I enjoyed it as a read, though it would have been better had it rhymed.

Comment is about Letting-Go (article)

I too am on Poem Hunter as is Anthony Sullivan a friend and fellow writer of mine. I loved your Ode to the Poet.. the words flo. very well though you dont use rhyme. I look forward to reading more of you in the coming months/

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

HI, Richard

Thank you so much for the comment on my latest poem. I am looking forward to read more of your poetry. Like I said before you have a wonderful talent with words!!

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Richard Brooks (poet profile)

Original item by Richard Brooks

Richard

Shall read,
"""your poems are based on fact from the present."""

Sorry ...Zuzanna

Comment is about Working Class Blues (The doorstep Killer) (blog)

Original item by Richard Brooks

Hello, Richard

The poem reflects on family’s life these days. It does not matter where we are located. There are visible signs of the self-destructions either luck of proper income, small apartment, not enough income to purchase basic needs. "Cigarette in hand” and the baby that is only 10 month old…?
Well you have colours in this poem. You are indeed very realistic and your poems are bass on fact from the present. I have enjoyed reading your write, it is thought provoking. You write well…Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Working Class Blues (The doorstep Killer) (blog)

Original item by Richard Brooks

Hello, Dai Miles

I really enjoyed reading this poem. It brought a lot of memory from my past when my grandfather planted an orchard trees. Lovely write… It makes the reader feeling at home.

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about The Journals in the Shed (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

That poem is superbly beautiful. Simple, perfect and reminds me of my youngest sister, at five years old, flick drying her fingers (as she had seen Mum do) on an occasion when she had been allowed to use some nail varnish!

Comment is about Letting-Go (article)

Thanks for reading & commenting on my poem
Paul

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Dai, welcome to the poetry site. I enjoyed reading your poems, they are different.

Comment is about Dai Miles (poet profile)

Original item by Dai Miles

Powerful stuff, Dai. It says it all.

Comment is about From a Collier's Hand (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

Good choice, Sally. I will go and read more of Helens work.

Comment is about Letting-Go (article)

Hi Alison
Welcome aboard the WOL site.
I love the way you talk about the 'artless office enviornment' in your profile, the way you say that...I can feel the frustration. Maybe theres a poem there! ?

Loss on paper -
makes me feel of those moments of self analysis
or realisation of what has become

almost like a tide that came without notice
or perhaps a withdraw of the tide to leave nothing.

and you look at what you have, and it all seems empty.

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi there!
Thanks for that, I agree on the tempo tempo tempo!
when actually up there reading it out thats what would happen, I would prob speed it up. I found when making recordings at home its really hard to start kicking off! Ias theres no poetic environment the poetry workshop (my kitchen!) is too tranquil! so I dont get the meat to get my words around, thats why most of my recordings are the slow ones.......


I find the poem changes too when I read it back, I add things - a good thing as often missing gaps are completed.

thanks for listening

when you going to a poetry event?

Comment is about footballers wives (blog)

hey Dave
it was just a pic that looked unique!
something about it

Saw you at Wigan on THurs and I forgot to mention this

Comment is about the picture of David and Lynda (blog)

Thanks. Hope you're evening's a success, without the violence..!

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

No sticks? I'm going then.

BTW, I love the opening image you create in Loss On Paper.

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Morag, even the physical shape of your poem screams 'woman' which only enhances further your ability as a poet to project what you want to say. Your ode expresses great depth of character and made me smile inside. Thanks for sharing. Ally

Comment is about Woman (article)

It was a great night. Glad Paul was able to get photographs off the night... Alex was crazy in particular but what a set!!!!

Comment is about Stevie Turner at Freed Up, Green Room, Manchester Feb 2008 (photo)

Very evocative, nicely done. I love the idea of giving the words a rest by putting them in the poem!

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

A very thought-provoking poem Mr Malpoet. 'more died than people in that bomb". How right you are. You have written a 'huge' poem, with just so few words.

Mel
x

Comment is about Death (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

A perfectly enchanting poem Niel. I love the imagery.

Mel
x

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

Hey steve

I heard you perform this at the Green room and thought it was fab. Like Dominic I love the line "galvanised slinkies". it give the reader a very strong image.

Mel
xx

Comment is about Drinking absinthe (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

ok not sure how that happened, sorry

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

Hey Monkey, watcha doing, I was hoping to sell that to Hello Magazine with "my story". And what's with the"tinyurl" Blacburn? My url's as big as anyone else's. Bastards!

Comment is about the picture of David and Lynda (blog)

Peter, like Clarissa I can't hear them, my laptop has stopped dealing in sound, but by God the idea of Kare Bush and a Mixed Grill is making me salivate. To paraphrase John Clays "more please". Must go and make myself some toasted cheese,(with Branston Pickle of course), oh Kate, the appetite you inspire in a man.

Comment is about 2 new audio poems (blog)

Hey Steve we need to hear more of these sessions, or is it just difficult to remember them?

Comment is about Drinking absinthe (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

He's not throwing up, but bowing submissively to the ghost of the Old Boars Head

Comment is about Freda Robinson at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton March 2008 (photo)