Hi Win - thanks for the nice comments (the rose)
all the best. B

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Win
Thanks for your thoughts on Sleep Easy.
I get a bit miffy when I hear people talking about sending all the Poles back and I'm tempted to wonder "Does that include all the ones buried here?"
The idea for the poem comes from 13 Polish war graves in St Mary's Cemetery in Hucknall, where I'm from.
The photo is a bit of a stretch though. Apparently it is on Wood Lane in Hucknall and commemorates a plane crashed in the town piloted by one of the many Polish airmen stationed at the Rolls Royce aerodrome there.

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GHAZAL

congratulations on your win win . i had read it a while back, but as i am quiet to comment on folks i dont see face to face very often :)i thought it a lovely poem x

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Hi Winston, thanks for your comment on my little november sixth poem. It was just a topical moment.x

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Hi Winston, thank you for commenting on "Invisible". I was inspired by your excellent blog entry called Ghazal. I didn't think my own effort as good, but hoped it complied with the form. Ah well, nevermind. :)

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no , thankyou Winston :) x

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Cheers for your comment on Currawong, Win

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Thank you Winston :) x

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Hi Win, thanks for commenting on 'Congruence.'
I'm enjoying writing the short poems for now. I was kind of hoping that i had done writing about flowers for a while :-)

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Thanks for comment on Mannequin.
Did you see Hebden Bridge on Inside Out last week?
Dave

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Hi Winston, thanks for the good luck...I'll need it, can't decide how best to numb the nerves...alcohol or beta blockers? Lol!
xxx

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Hi Winston - just read on mondays i fall in love and liked it lots !

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Winston - I put a comment on my own blog but just wanted to put a big 'thank you' here too - your comment was exactly what was needed, and I've changed it now. Deffo works better, but as mentioned on mine, I don't know what to do about the first line so I'm a-gonna leave it

Oh - and cheers for the heads up on the competition - I'll give that a go! :D

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Are you mutating into a post box Win?

Thanks for commenting on my poem "BE!" I put it upon the blogs after giving it a 21st birthday party. After some drinks it burst into tears and said it never met anyone any more and that I'd left it unloved in a cupboard for all those years and wasn't it time I introduced it to real poets. So thanks for being a pal to this poem, it really needs one and it hopes you visit again soon.

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Thanx Winston I am pleased you enjoyed the 'Umbrella Tree'.... Bit of different pace for me but I enjoyed composing this piece'

Once again many thanks.

Gus

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Thank you Winston. I don't think I knew what I was writing till it was all over i.y.s.w.i.m. massive thanks for reading and commenting and I love the 'peek-a-boo' profile pic!
x

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Hi again

If I could have posted up the original, I would have - I kept it for ages, and only lost it when I moved house. I see what you mean about the rhyming being less strong at the end - I was trying to avoid too much obvious rhyme, as the Smoke poem had been that way and I wanted to experiment with departing from that a little :)

I'm having a bloody great time playing around with all kinds of stuff anyhow, with no techie knowledge whatsoever :D

I hope you enjoy the NMH album - you may find it takes more than a few listens to fully appreciate it. Bit of an acquired taste. It's quite a strange album, and is not what it first appears to be. Interesting back story to Jeff Mangum too.

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Thanks for the comment on the shopping list Winston. I was only recreating a list I found years ago in a checkout bin, but am intrigued as to why you think it is less strong towards the end? (welcoming all constructive criticism, I'm no diva! I've only just started!). I kinda wanted it to degenerate and lose a bit of rationality, as that was the nature of the original. That piece isn't something I think I would have thought up by myself, unless I'd found that list, and it was only Steven's comment that made me remember it :)

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Is your profile pic you in your Ned Kelly outfit? ;)

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Hi Winston,(Peek a boo):-) thanks for your comment. It's really appreciated.

Just been reading your samples here. 'On Mondays I fall in love' and 'coming home without you' are superb. x

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Winston, I have a poem based on the postcard you distributed to me. I'd really like to share it, but it must have the picture to make sense. How do I put this picture up on the Blog screen?

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Yes, I noticed the graffitti everywhere said BLOODAXE. Not a ref. to the poetry publishers I don't suppose!

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Dear Winston as you've been kind enough to leave positive comments about my poems I thought you might like to check out this link to some poems of mine on You Tube, at least it will increase my count from single figures!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5DFRyKC60&feature=related

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Thanks for your comment on Called You Babe, Winston - am glad you enjoyed it :) Did put this comment on my blog, but not sure if you saw it or not.

Have you heard that album at all? It's actually my favourite album, ever, and I speak as a lifetime music anorak who has never once been able to say for certain which album is my actual favourite (or even my top 20 favourites!) :D Well worth a listen or 50. Jeff Mangum's a genius, imo.

Anyhoo, it played a major role in this love story, and continues to do so :)

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Thanks Win
I suspect you're there on merit whereas I paid my way in!

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Good evening Winston-very grateful for your reading and commenting on'Day out' yes indeed,the sea is evocative and beautifully luring! my best regards to you Sir-Stefan.

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Hi Winston, my thanks for commenting on 'Tribute for John' - as Ray Connolly observed in his 'Unimaginable' John was the most articulate rock star we have yet seen - difficult to do the guy justice. Best wishes, Dave

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A splendid name indeed, Win. Two more of my heroes - you and Churchill!

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Love these two lines: "Brighter than wet fairy lights" and "I screw myself into a chair like a cat
And wait for you to stroke me"
I don't have to think about how I feel about them, I just feel :)

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Hi Winston, thanks for your comment on my recent poem. Much appreciated, as ever. TB

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Thanks once again for your very supportive comments. I appreciate where you are coming from!

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Winston, Many thanks for your kind comments. I have been playing around with formal structures lately, although not always successfully!! "Necklace" is an attempt at tanka. I have just taken some time to read through your samples. I really like your work very much indeed. "On Mondays I fall in love" - very much appreciated the haiku structure which worked perfectly! I like the range of your work. I found "ON SEEING A BOY'S FACE" very strong. The site is a pleasure: people are really supportive and I have found real benefit from the constructive criticism that has been offered.

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Thanks for your comment Winston - I look forward to hearing it!
Yes - I find reading other people's poetry on here a great inspiration - Cynthia's often gets me thinking. Normally I don't finish them - it works well if a chain of thought just happens to co-incide with your every day life. x

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Hi Win. Glad you liked Tomboy. Thanks, Greg

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Hi Winston

Glad you've joined in with 'Bullet' - in such an interesting way too! Thanks for the suggestion. Whoever does it next may well take it up, but I'm actually quite optimistic about people voting - we'll see come Friday and the weekend.

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Thanks for your comments on my daughter's poem Winston. I don't think the site lends itself that well to kids - there is a lot of adult content and some very serious poetry also. She is growing up fast though... I'm quite sure she'll be on here one day. x

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Hello Winston, i'm sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking. I want you to remove my profile from the website. There isn't a problem. I am highly unlikely to perform at the events so it is surplus to my requirements. Thank you for your kindness.

Jayne

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Hello Win, apologies for tardiness -- you were very kind about a dab of odd music I posted: thank you. I wanted to say how much I loved your gently powerful ghazal for Pakistan. You have such a lovely lyrical voice, all your work is touched by a shiver of magic. Moxy xx

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Thanks for the extra interest, Win. Glad you told me, since my email doesn't direct me to the source anymore. 'the little leaf' has since been revised a bit, (not yet posted) to be more directive. How egotistic is it, that I come back to my own work and think, 'I like that' as though I had never written it at all. This is a big confession!

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Hi Win,
Thanks for comments and it was good to meet you at Hebden Bridge.
Enjoyed your set too.
Dave

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Hi Winston, thanks for commenting on 'Sweet Nothings' :)

Cheers, Dave

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Thanks for your comment. You are right about my intention.
I enjoyed your Picasso poem. I have a copy of his The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems which is interesting but a bit too surrealist for my taste. Good luck with your book launch

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Dear Winston Thanks for taking the time to comment on Soap. Glad you liked it!

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I liked it all Win! xx

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Hi Winston

thanks for taking the time to look at the images on the site - and yes to be by the sea indeed - tis a sweet dream eh :-)

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Hi - "That black place" - thanks for the comments Win. reading from Anthony just above - have you seen Mercy Street video from Peter Gabriel - makes me shiver just thinking about it - wonderful words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs35CBGOxbc all the best. B

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OK Winston, thanks for the tip. It is probably the one that meant the most to me when I wrote it.

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Thank you winston... for sipping from the stained glass of the past.

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Hello Winston. The ghazal is from a poetry site called Poets Graves and was written by a chap called Ben Johnson, who despite the name, isn't famous.I didn't you - or anyone! - had such a passion for ghazals.

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Winston. I've managed to create the link to th ghazal:

I buy them merely for the smells of books
and days disappear in the spells of books

In the sun with a hat and a hardback
I draw refreshment from my wells of books

As a teen my brain was aflame with them
I walked about deaf from yells of books.

For bullies whose brains get tangled with words
I pray there is reserved a hell of books.

At night I was lulled by the wave of words
hissing in my ear from the shells of books.

The notes scribbled by previous readers
genetically alters the cells of books

Faced by the mountain of the works of men
Solomon wished he'd not heard tell of books

The media insists our modern age
will create the final farewell of books

A trail of bent spines and scraps of paper
marks my progress through the pell-mell of books.

Exhilarated I rode the white whale
of Ahab through the turbulent swells of books

Oh Ben your sadly sagging shelves reveal
you can't resist the hard sell of books.

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