Hello Tim, thank you for your comments on my words,Trust. I am happy you liked it,Deb x

Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, I know, a box containing something dead seems macabre. however, I often find butterflies in one of my sheds, which have tried to escape but become trapped in cobwebs. I try to rescue them but often it is too late. I couldn't help myself and wanted to see the beauty of their wings and preserve them in a little tin. There was still so much life in the colours even though their little bodied were hollow. The silver wires are their proboscises, probosci or whatever, i imagined probing my mind instead of a flower. I love butterflies and I wanted to appreciate the beauty of their wings before they faded. Deb.

Comment is about Trust (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Hi Winston, I know, a box containing something dead seems macabre. however, I often find butterflies in one of my sheds, which have tried to escape but become trapped in cobwebs. I try to rescue them but often it is too late. I couldn't help myself and wanted to see the beauty of their wings and preserve them in a little tin. There was still so much life in the colours even though their little bodied were hollow. The silver wires are their proboscises, probosci or whatever, i imagined probing my mind instead of a flower. I love butterflies and I wanted to appreciate the beauty of their wings before they faded. Deb.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

I like this a lot. It has atmosphere and a sense of mystery.

Comment is about Trust (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Congrats Andy! I think John Peel is indirectly responsible for me starting to write poetry. I remember an evening, many, many years ago, listening to the JP show on a tranny under the bedclothes as you do when you've got school the next morning, when I heard this odd Mancunian voice reciting a poem called "Twat." Before then I'd thought poetry was all corners of foreign fields and wandering lonely as a cloud, but hearing John Cooper Clarke I learned that not only could it be fast, funny, rude and irreverent, but also, if you were really lucky, you could get yourself played on the coolest show on Radio One. I still keep trying...

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Had mixed feelings after reading this.. A subject (Butterflies and Moths) that absords a lot of my time. They are remarkable insects and yet for me I would not relish opening your box of dead beauty. I spend a lot of time trying to capture this beauty on film and may be having another exhibition in Hebden again soon. Don't get me wrong though Deborah, I do like the words of your poem and I guess the end could be interpreted either way... "Oh Wow" would say enough for me too. Butterflies are a difficult subject to tackle without cliches...what are these threads of silvered wires? Winston

Comment is about Trust (blog)

Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

and again on 9th April when our readers will be -
MIKE BARLOW,
JO HASLAM,
LUKE KENNARD

Comment is about Huddersfield Poets Still at Albert (article)

Ace! just ace!

Comment is about The Greatest Gig Of All (article)

Hi Daniel


Thaks for your comment. Childs play? Are you crazy? 'Corporate Christ' is a bit too close to home for me these days and has really made me think, and as for 'Poetry Bomber' - how much do I wish I'd written that one myself?

Fantastic pace and rhhythm, fresh, different, edgy; respect what you do, because its good!

Can't wait to read more

Sis x

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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Hello, thanks for the kind welcome and feedback!
I'm impressed by the very thoughtful and supportive commenting I see within the community here.
I'm even more impressed by the volume of interesting, amusing and moving writing.
On the whole I'm very glad I inadvertently stumbled on WOL. Pity I can't remember what I was actually searching for... but I don't care anymore!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Leaving aside the basic theology - i.e. that we live in a fallen world where personal happiness isn't really to be expected - this poem (wrongly, in my view) conflates humankind's greed and increasing social isolation with addiction to religion.

Deep in the heart of almost every human is a yearning for the divine. We might not fully discern what it is, but it is usually there.

There are very few genuine atheists in the world.

However, the poem describes well several aspects of the human condition which poets are right to explore, so for that reason, Daniel, I'm very glad you wrote it. Cheers.

Comment is about Corporate Christ! (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

great poem I have an answer in the form of a poem!
Call yourself alive
Every moment you are dying in your skin
Your not eternal
Though the fires of hell are infernal
And the path to hell is paved with good intentions
Regret is path easily met
To regret your entire life you might as well be a walking abortion!
Regret , regret nothing!

Comment is about UNTITLED 2 (blog)

Hi Daniel - I enjoyed this one.
I suspect the catholic church has made more money out of religion than either me or you will ever make - but don't get me talking about religion!

Comment is about Corporate Christ! (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hi Steve - yes, I did post something. It's back on now, but tweaked a little. It didn't 'feel' right after I'd originally posted it.

Your contributions are adding some much needed life into the site. Well done.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Regan

Love the audio recording of The Watercress Girl, - nicely read.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Merci beaucoup pour vos mots gentils Gus...

J'espère que vous me permettez de vous corriger un peu votre français...

'Vous sont très aimables'... doit être:
Vous êtes très aimable.

Ce n'est pas grave...
de toute façon je vous ai compris ; )

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hey Antonionioni!
I am so envious of you going to Paris!
Take me with you! I am so in love with Paris...
I left my heart there and I desperately need to retrieve it!

Hmmm... Guitar love story... I once tried to learn the guitar, but I became quite impatient... and frustration followed... and eventually gave it up... like so many other things.

Comment is about Guitar love story (blog)

i enjoyed reading this- i too can definately relate. i particularly liked how succinct and rhythmic it is. i think you can really develop from here. i'll look forward to more stuff x

Comment is about UNTITLED 2 (blog)

Anthony
many thanks for your kind comments on my samples, and for the welcome.
Cheers
A

Comment is about Alan McKean (poet profile)

Original item by Alan McKean

'keeping huge fires stoked', sounds like fun sound like hot stuff, like it a lot.

Comment is about a thought somewhere in england, 2009 (blog)

Light, made me chuckle at the keyboard line and dogs... great obscure comments. loved it. Winston

Comment is about a thought somewhere in england, 2009 (blog)

Three things:
1. I can totally relate
2. This is beautifully written
3. It made me cry

A fantastic piece of writing.
x

Comment is about UNTITLED 2 (blog)

Hi there

I can't begin to tell you just how much I love this one. It just flows and the rhythm is perfection.

I think this is my favourite so far, and I really wish I'd written it, lol. Well done!

Take care
x

Comment is about LIFE IN FREESTYLE (blog)

Your poem 'Forgotten'
is very thoughtfully written...
makes you pause, think and feel
for innocent victims everywhere.

Merci aussi Andy pour ta remarque
sur mon poème 'Paris'

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Haha. Thanks Janet. Drunk is more helpful for me.

Comment is about Boring (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Alan,
And welcome to WOL. Lots to enjoy and identify with in your samples. Particularly liked "Dell Boy" and "Inside Out" - especially as I have two cats! Hope you have fun and get to know the people here - they are a friendly bunch and very helpful. Look forward to reading more of your work.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Alan McKean (poet profile)

Original item by Alan McKean

Hi Malpoet,
it plays at right speed on mine too.
Yep we all need a touch of spice in the drudge of our day.
The portia peels spuds line is a bit of a tongue twister for me. Certainly if i were reading it out loud, i'd have to be sober. :-)
Janet.x

Comment is about Boring (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

I've read this several times and i relate to it in many ways but i also find it just a tad confusing in some parts. Maybe that's the thread running through it, i'm not sure. :-)

I do like it.
Janet.x

Comment is about That horrible night. (blog)

Aye. It's a hard life when work takes you travelling across the globe. ha ha.

Sorry. couldn't resist the little quip.
I've often wondered why people (me included) call writings of poetry etc.. is work.
Something we're supposed to enjoy.
Whatever happened to the happy work-force?

Love the theme and oddly enough, your attitude to it. A little at odds with mundane necessity. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Another working week (blog)

Loved it! Especially the line about finding boxfuls of e-mails to be similar to minefields!
Your frustration "shines" through!

Comment is about Another working week (blog)

Very nice Antonionioni...
I can totally relate to this...
At times you don't know what and where
to begin...

Comment is about Another working week (blog)

thanks Anthony,
trouble is anyone employed by the nhs who attempts to whistle blow or protest in any useful way against such abuses, now runs the risk of being victimised. According to bbc 4 'Today' this morning, if Jackie Smith gets her way, anyone who dissents in any way against what this government is doing runs a serious risk of being branded an enemy of the state !

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Antonionioni,
Ah the futility of modern working life and wage slavery - a worthy theme. When viewed in the context of wider fulfillment and happiness just how important is it? Not very I would hazard a guess. We are all becoming the automata of corporate interests and fast losing our individual identities. Perhaps poetry may save us, we certainly need some new ideas. Noble sentiments, well expressed.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Another working week (blog)

likin the orbs

Comment is about After Russia turned off the gas, poets at Write Out Loud Hebden Bridge, Jan 2009. (photo)

an amazing collection of poems.!
an amazing profile piccy

we salute you.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Regan

Hi Anthony,
George Clooney. He's ok i guess. Brad Pitt does nothing for me at all. Johnny Depp however is another matter altogether. Phew!

Thanks for your lovely observations on my Mandolin poem. I had the same thought about the Rod Stewart connotations but i do love that song anyway. I wrote the poem while listening to a meditation cd and the mandolin was part of the instrumentals.

Janet.x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks Anthony

Your work is good and very diverse. I will continue to follow it.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Gus,
Thanks for your fulsome praise of "The Watercress Girl". Entirely undeserved really, it's just a piece of Victorian Gothic fantasy, but I hope entertaining. I, like others have mentioned, like your "lips" logos too! Your missing has a "Music Hall/Variety Theatre" quality to it - I can easily imagine some old time song and dance man tip-tapping his way through it with cane and straw hat, complete with suggestive winks and gestures! Max Miller etc . . . now there's an idea for your next performance . . . ;-)
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hi Malpoet,
And thanks for your comments on "The Watercress Girl". Your feedback is most welcome. I took a stroll through your stuff and particularly enjoyed "Bobbing and Peering" - I have also found that the issue of prostitution is such a fertile source of material for poetry, I guess it's the concept that we are able to "buy" comfort from those who perhaps most need it theirselves. Also liked "Dad", althogh found it a little uncomfortable as it is close to my own experience of a relationship (or lack of) with my own late father. The ending sums it up perfectly, "Shame I never knew you. I am curious now you are dead." More power to your pen Sir!
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Paul,
Thanks for posting this. It's an intriguing foray into the detached mind of the terrorist's technician. The one thing that I feel is missing here is that we learn nothing of his motivation; the only fanaticism evident is that for his work/craft. Can someone really be so far away from the consequences of their deeds purely to satisfy a need for exactness and precision? I would liked to have looked a little deeper to find some evidence of what drives him.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about An Expert (blog)

Hi Stuart,
This poem drips with futility and sorrow. You describe the atmosphere and situation all too clearly, with the meaningless and ineffective bureaucracy and paper-thin resources which are struggling to make a difference to damaged and fragile souls who deserve and need more. One thing came across very starkly - the absence of any kind of love or affection, something that I guess most of the kids have never experienced. Instead we put them in a zoo and label them. What has our society come to, when this is all the remedy we can think of? A raw and touching piece of writing.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Home (blog)

Original item by Stuart A. Paterson

yea thankyou winston I guess I was trying to get across the idea of being alive but dead without the person I love!

Comment is about endless living death without you! (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Interesting piece Paul,
the same could be said about writing a poem and the effects of others opinions on it.
I like the end where it implies, ' I don't really care what they think.'

Janet.x

Comment is about An Expert (blog)

Hello Gus, thank you for your comments on my Sky Iron in this new equinox. I hope your Spring thus far is sunny and blossoming. Deb x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hooray for the return of head butting pandas. It gets bloody boring on here at times. I bite people occasionally, but it's not a lot of fun really. You are needed.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

Greetings! The instant message box was teflon coated and my words slid off it like water off a Offa. It wouldn't let me respond -- so you just had a Wonderwall of green-ink. Hello there! How are you? Ever so pleased you're keeping the tone effervescent and anarchic and paterphysic and prancey. Joy to your world, oh Honoured Malpoet!

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Jeff

Thanks for your comment about Different Dad. Also thanks for putting on a great night at Bolton. Myself and Maggie had a really good time and I see that you are planning another already for May so well done.

Cheers
Seamus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Why Thank you kindly Mal...the lips thing is a bit of a fetish ...lovely mouths....pretty lips ... and sexy shoes ....grief I'm begining to shake again.....

Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

Original item by Malpoet

I often yearn for that kind of brevity. Very strong impact. As with lots of good poetry there are many questions raised in a few words, but passion and feeling come through and one is left wondering about the nature of the relationship with the friend.

Comment is about incoming (blog)

Original item by garside

Steve, in just a few lines you convey so many powerful themes and symbols. Great poetry. Some heavenly thing was surely upon you when you wrote / re-wrote it.

Comment is about incoming (blog)

Original item by garside