Hi Ann - many thanks for both of your supportive comments on Reliquary - I'm pleased it worked for you at least. x

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Hi Ann, you're right about the lovers statue, that's at St Pancras as well, far bigger than the Betjeman, and very tacky. It's also on the upper concourse, passed by almost no one apart from those on their way to the Betjeman bar (including me, occasionally). I don't know Paddington, must check it out sometime. Betjeman certainly loved Cornwall!

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Ann, thanks for commenting on I Dreamed You Were Little Again. The kids seem to provide me with a fair bit of inspiration recently.
I find it quite cathartic to wite about it. It does seem to genarate a lot of power from such a simple structure.

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Ann, thanks for feedback on the 'Silence' poem, I have re-read it an d may put it down on MP3, thank you for taking time to read and feed back to me. Pete.

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Thanks for your positive comments on "Moon". xx

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Hi Ann 'Half-Light', crepuscular eh - a new word for me - Half-Light always has a special meaning to ex-service folk who traditionally rouse from rest in expectation of an enemy attack x

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Hi Ann - thank you for commenting on Half Light - perhaps we share an odd side that likes peering into the dark x

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hi Ann, been reading your stuff. i like the way your eyes see things and look deep, fixated upon the vision. do you write as you walk or just rush home quick and get it down?
I enjoy your poetry because it's true, and nothing like mine.

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there was a series in the 70's - The Lovers - & his girlfriend (paula wilcox) used to refer to anything like sex as "Percy Filth"

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Are you laughin' at me?

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thanks for the comments & No - it's not rude. It really is time you had a shag Ann - you're seeing Percy Filth round every corner :D
(nice peter)

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Hi Ann - re: SOUTH EAST LONDON TRIO and Scent of a Maiden - really do appreciate your kind comments on both of these xx

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Hi Ann, thanks for looking in on 100 Ways to Fold a Serviette. Full explanation on blog entry page. Win X

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Ann, I'm not getting through on your email. Please send a few words again.

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Thank you for visiting my poem and sharing your feedback. You are most appreciated, Ann.

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Thanks, Foxy.

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Ann, I know you've turned off comments for In Ealing, but I just had to say that the last stanza is one of the most powerful things you've written, and the poem as a whole is very effective and moving. "Angry with angels" is arresting ... might be a good alternative title.

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Hi Ann, thank you for recent comments on my poems, you are very kind. (By the way, forgot to say, we both love palaminos!)
Just read your " Lament for a dead badger", I so identified with that one, as the times we drive past bloodied animals when out and about, and just want to bury them all, but so impractical in our busy lives... Love, Lynn xx

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Thanks Ann x

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Hi! Thanks Ann x

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Hello Foxy,
Seems I've been a bit heavy-handed with my bloggin'.
I don't think the site firewalls and stuff could cope with my formula! It kept telling me my posting had failed so I just kept sending it!
Anyway, the sums add up!

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Hi Ann - thank you very much for the comments on Vespers - and Bryopsida. Your kind encouragement is always a welcome boost x

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(waiter)
has anybody seen the eyes yet?
Thanks for the comments.
Ann - his name was Al - Al Dente - I gave him a tip, I said "more salt in the spaghetti" -but it didn'ae work

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Hi Ann, finally managed a wind turbine poem! see todays blogs. Win x

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For me, it's an excellent poem - but IMHO doesn't need the last bit.
I think it could end very well like this, or similar

....how my life has changed
I need you to walk the cliff path with me again -
I get lost when I’m out there on my own.

xx

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Hi Ann - I can see that you've disabled comments on your latest - a lovely sad poem - but I thought you need to know that this is superfluous, as its obvious from the rest that they're gone - just my 2 cents !! xx

and as sit and think all this,

I realise that all the people
that I want to see today are gone

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Ann, your interest in archaeology so fits with my admiration of your deep imagination, I am flabbergasted I never considered the association before: a digger of the past, and digester of the seemingly insignificant to make a comprehensive whole. It was screaming at me. I greatly support the explorers, but often quail at their preconceived conclusions.

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Hello Ann.
Thanks for the comments on Red Lady of Paviland.
I think if you studied about the Red Lady you'd know that the supposition on which I base the poem (killed by a mammoth) is a bit of a stretch. More likely a regal ritualistic burial.
Also, the cave was miles (perhaps hundreds of miles) from the sea.
Anyway, once again, thanks for your thoughts.

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I dont know about cute, but I sure am "cuddly" - since I stopped smoking 6 yrs ago !! xx

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Thank you Ann x

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Purely for the dual sakes of alliteration and perversity, I was willing the last line to end as:
It seems to me a sad and lonely walk
Betrothal, birth, baptism, betrayal.
The dramatist's tic, perhaps? But that would change it toward a feminist poem; or not. In fact, I can see an entirely different poem emerging from the last three lines. Shades of Gray's famous Elegy, both written in/of a Gloucestershire churchyard.
I love that idea of "who has walked this path?".

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I'm wondering how many variations on a fox you can come up with? Will we get to see one skinned and wrapped around a neck one day?

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Thank you for taking a look at my Manboobs. I wouldn't want you to think, though, that the picture was of me!

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Re; BLM I think we should suggest a series of poems on embarrassing leave behinds x

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'Claire on Tues'..thanks Ann..a pre-smoking ban night in a folk club a few years back..I must be healthier now..chris...(where's your Cornish accent?)

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Hi Ann - thanks for your comments on Trio - ashes eh? The Royle Family Christmas programme was all centred around that subject this year don't know if you saw it - but amid the humour that comes from tragedy there was a positive message that eventually it is time to scatter the remains - which is a kind of letting go - as one famous poet said, 'it is only by letting go that we get them back' glad this poem resonated x

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Thanks for your comments on Hierarchy of Evil.
To nose it is to lop off the best end gooey bit before anyone else. It's a crime of humongous proportions.
As every gentleman knows (some ladies too!) you should cut along the side of your wedge so everyone gets a bit of the nose.
So let me know if you need any help with your wedge. Noblesse oblige.

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Ann: (Threesome) Always nice to have your company albeit imaginary and so pleased you enjoyed the poem x

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Hi There, To read 'Jesus Unplugged, An explanation' please visit the blog entry. Thx. Win x

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Ta muchly Ann x

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Hi Ann,
Thanks again for the comments. I liked your 'Sad Observer' comment - it feels like a fitting tag line for me!

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Hi Ann - thank you very much for your supportive comments on Perambulations - look forward to your next masterpiece x

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Ann, thanks very much for your kind comments.

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hi ann,
thanks again for the kinds comments and also the very nice encouragement!

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Re; Enterprising Ants - I couldn't agree more Ann - nature always has a reason for doing things however horrifying we might sometimes think they are x

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Always look on the bright side of life. You could be young and ugly, or old and ugly, or made out brown paper that someone's just set fire to.

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Hi Ann - glad you were cheered up a little by Love Thy Clergy thanks for comments - was sorry to hear about your cat and hope you perk up soon x

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hi ann, thanks for the very kind words. i've been enjoying your audio poems. particularly 'salty girl.' very nice. your voice reminded me of vashti bunyan.

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I have indeed been compared many times to Leonard Cohen, and to David Beckham. I think they've said I play football like David Beckham and write poetry like Leonard Cohen.
No, my wife says they said it the other way round.

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thanks Ann x

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