thanks for the comment on 'walkin' man' John and. yes, I'm on it - just released a CD of poetry and songs and this one is being lined up to be recorded for the next one - I'm thinking a Seeger/Dylan folky tune :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

hey John - thanks for commenting on 'cheap whore' - I'm not sure I agree wholly with your view that we keep coming back for more - some audiences are much harder work than others ;-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello John

It's so nice to hear from you . Your reference to my insistence on three..'cames' was for a feeling of emptiness, I was endeavouring to find atmosphere,echo and repetition in addition to a smouldering ravishing beneath the greenwood. Oooh ...whoops.. just felt the urge, the temptation to utilise yet another .....oh well it 'Came' and went.

Meanwhile John, I have no doubt you will keep up your good works...and look forward madly to seeing you soon.

lots of love and best wishes .

Augusta xx

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

JC - you may recall commenting on my post "Fallen Angel" to the effect that you were waiting on the tune.
I have to tell you that I woke up early (too b....y early) yesterday morning with a tune
running through my mind which I somehow knew
would fit. The downside was getting out of my
warm bed to sing a version of the two into my
tape recorder...knowing that if I stayed abed,
I would fall asleep and forget it next time I
woke up. The price we creatives pay for our
efforts!!! Anyway, I am arranging for it to
be recorded by my usual excellent source and
hope to post the completed product on WOL in
due course.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

No steam trains going past Surbiton Lagoon, John, more's the pity, thought they weren't far away, of course. A whistle in the distance.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for commenting John. Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything is one of my favourite books. And I won a 5CD set of it, read by Bill B himself, in a poetry evening raffle. I listen to it regularly - the combination of things of wonder and human eccentricity is irresistible. Apparently he is an agnostic. Given what he writes in the book, that seems surprising, but each to their own.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

My "selfie" - no chance in a photography
competition? So cruel!
Then again at least I don't appear to be asking
if anyone has seen my boat?!!
Seriously, I always enjoy these little exchanges
- they make WOL so much more fun ...and help keep me on my toes - for which MANY thanks.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello John,
Thank you for the nice comments on my "91 Word Story of My Life".
It was a little hard to get the story in 91 words.

Thanks again
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the comment John.

No ones perfect I suppose.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for reading "The Badger". Glad you liked and took the time to comment.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi JC - your comments on my own for "If They Come"
remind me of a pal retired back to Cumbria with
name (and belief) that suggests certain overseas origins: Swainson!
I was impressed to discover that our greatest
queen - "Good Queen Bess" - actually acted to
limit immigration (when the population wasn't
many millions) in the interest of the
social well-being of her people. Pity our modern leaders don't seem to possess the same
sense of responsibility or purpose at a time when it has increased five fold and brought with it problems in a similar ratio!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for explanation,we all been on the internet and looking in dictionary's we couldn't find it !

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello, what does 'reddit' mean ?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for commenting on 'Beano.' Appreciated. P.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

no change there then John ;-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

I wish

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John,

Thanks for your comments on my "Another Two Line Horror Story." LOL! I think of myself as twenty years younger. That is until I look in the mirror.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks for the comment on 'all hallows eve' john - surely a picture of Gove keeps everyone away from the door - not just the kids ;-)
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the comment on our school was haunted, only posted this afternoon in a rush, forgot to change a line, anyway done it now, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Just read the ikea poem , very clever, can't help but sing as you read.

Ste Bee

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comment about "Lonesome Rail".
Always appreciated from yourself with a track
record of your own!
The song will get a month's promotion through
November on www.ukcountryradio.com.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

John - re: Full Contact - my face and body would tell you that you are absolutely correct :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks for your kind comments regarding the winterfylleth & graffiti poems John - sorry i'm a bit late in responding - I'm getting a bit behind due to other commitments at the moment - so in catch up mode with the thank you's - anyway, very kind of you - cheers
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

This is what I was really after -thanks for looking in chez Steve though;

As I was going up Pippen Hill,
Pippen Hill was dirty;
There I met a pretty Miss,
And she dropped me a curtsy.

Little Miss, pretty Miss,
Blessings light upon you;
If I had half-a-crown a day,
I'd spend it all upon you.

(thought there was more to this but apparently not . .)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Every worthwhile writer borrows. It is amazing how inspiration can be encouraged by the most(I nearly tapped in "moist"!) unlikely places. I found myself undergoing an MRI scan earlier during which I was placed in something resembling a torpedo tube for 40 minutes and occupied the time making up songs to the sounds of the various weird noises the machine emitted. Don't see a hit in any of them, though!! :-)
Cheers - and thanks, as always, for the lift your work provides. Such a pleasant change to be positive and mean it when knowing of the fractious precious types on WOL who trot out insults like "troll" at the drop of a hat when the comments are not the 100% approbation they seek. Your latest piece on the Daily Mail was interesting, but that newspaper is a byword for emotive stuff that plays to those who think the country has gone to the dogs since WW2. The BBC can't let a week go by without featuring the title in one of its programmes...and not appreciatively! Check "Mock The Week" and "Have I Got News For You", as well as some dramas of late. What fun!!!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello John
Re: Cottage Sleaze, I was referring to an earlier comment. Certainly, a beautifully written piece, though. Starfish.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Poland was very different to Syria - it wanted to be rescued from its aggressors - as did most countries that Germany invaded.

In Syria you have a sizeable proportion of the resident population hostile to western intervention and non Muslim led action. In my opinion, any long term solutions there would have to include Arab involvement.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Maybe you got the wrong hole ;)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

I recall those lines in that song about watching
the girls go by..."You can't go to jail for what
you're thinking..."
Just as well perhaps! But it certainly livens
up some posts on WOL.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Many thanks for the positive comments about my
two most recent posts. Funny but although I
"dabbled" in such stuff during my working life,
it was only in retirement that I got stuck in
and found I could get it together...albeit that
revision (very unromantic!) is usually essential
before I'm happy. Wish I had your ability with
the guitar though!!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks for your kind comments on 'she wore pink' John - I honestly believe we would have had a safer and more prosperous world had JFK had the chance to shape American policy more - no Vietnam, racial harmonisation and a policy to rid the country of poverty - perhaps that's why the bastards shot him :-)
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

John
Thanks for your (kind) comments on `Susan`

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John.

Came across the aquillrelle anthology from a couple of years ago that my daughter bought for me after I'd had a poem published. Wondering if there were any other W.O.L poets listed, I looked,and there you were, your contribution being the excellent little epoch about the mine disaster.

Wonderful entertaining stuff yours! never read a bad one. I get the impression you find it easy?

Unlike me, many more pages deleted. than survive.

Ken.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John,

I do agree with you about the word "Did" in my poem "Daddy". I posted a second version "Daddy edited version." I just left out the word did.
Thank you for your kind comments. But actually my Dad passed on Dec.9 2009. I have only recently been able to write about it.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello JC - I can get the words and a tune
together but you have that extra ability to
accompany and perform your own stuff. Long may
it be so!!
P.S. I'm having DKJC promoted on a Hotdisc
compilation that gets sent to Country music DJs
around Europe and beyond in September. Nothing
ventured...nothing gained - as they say. Plus -
it's also promised a few online plays on www.ukcountryradio.com then. Bring it on!!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments John and for listening to my lastest entry.

Rhyme is not dead yet and though it might be outmoded in some quarters, the proverbial man on the street still enjoys it. I do hope your rhymes are not changing!

Karen.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments on my two latest posts. You alone seem to take the trouble to approach the need for "balance" on the subjects involved. The idea that "racism" is essentially attributable to "whitey" is nonsense and needs an occasional poke where the sun don't shine!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

You are more than welcome and thank you too for your comment re my boy :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Fireball XL% eh? I liked Stingray - "Aqua...Aqua Marina..." ;-)
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John,

Thank you for your comments on my poem "I Have the Right to Write. LOL! My husband loves this poem and asks "Where should I kiss you?" I tell him to behave.

Thanks,
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi JC - I've just enjoyed a long weekend in the glorious (home county) surroundings of coastal South Devon - with a balcony overlooking Lyme Bay and breakfast in the sun on said balcony each morning! Delightful!! So - now back to commenting on WOL. I think that the older "as is" Bob Dylan would enjoy your versions of his youthful efforts. Looking back, they were certainly products of their time...managing to find a slot in the young minds of those days. In the 60s I owned that LP (the title eludes me) with him and a pretty girl arm in arm walking some New York street on its cover. But I was still following Rock and the timeless artistry of a certain Ol' Blue Eyes and never followed up.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

and I'm not telling you where to hold a saddo's balls ;-)or did I misread your intention?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

cheers John - I'm 'not just a hat-rack' eh? I have no idea what you're on (about)but you are quite correct - my rack is not just for hats
;-)
Ian

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

If you want your third prize (an inflatable toy ;) then email me your address :)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

HI John
We've just been to another wedding - went in our wellies with trowel and plant pots! - there was a typo on the invitation!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

know them all well john - quite a regular in Boons in my day. Now frequent a superb pub just behind the Raj Poot called Fernandes Brewery Tap - real ale and no music - bliss :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi John, many thanks for your lovely comment on my piece "The Last Song."
I havn't actually written anything for a while, but got such a buzz out of trying out my old skills that I might just be forced to start writing again!!
Cate xx

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

JC - indeed, the fates smiled kindly on the location of your unwanted mechanical failure. Thinking of the alternatives is enough to make a soul give thanks. Ages ago, I was the owner of another sports car when, on a winter slip-road to a motorway, I found myself and car suddenly sliding out of control across invisible black ice towards the embankment that dropped a good many feet to surrounding fields. As I was hanging on for grim death,the ice ran out, the wheels gained traction and I was spared the drop and the likely vehicular somersaults that would have probably sent me to an early demise. I too gave thanks on considering the possible outcome that evening!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

aye up John - thanks for the comment on 'the project' - we are human - therefore we are ungrateful :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

John,
About`effs.
The `effs in your stuff always have a smile on their faces (particularly when it`s an `effin smile. And are always straight and humorously to the `effin point...keep `em comin`

Like this

Poor Larkin! - the man was out of luck
His life a sheer catastrophe
If he never even had a fuck
Till after nineteen sixty three

(I`m not annoyed at all the pointless and humourless stuff...just bored.)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Wicked man !! Lol : )))

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey