Thanks for your comment on Obit. Not based on anyone. Grew out of a writing group idea and the sense that most obits are about the great and the good, not ordinary folk. Love your haikus. XX

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Thanks for comments on Burns Night. Those Jocks know how to have a good time. Are you a black belt in Origami?

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What is your new profile pic? Is it a stealth Fox?

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Thx for the kind comment on my childhood poem Ann- appreciated.

Chris

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dont know about you being called W.Gummidge..I know what I call you-and its nearly all expletives! such as....Chudgy-Wudgy...possibly arsepain..hee hee..keep making me laugh,I might be under the patio soon...Mr. Sillypants.xx

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my assumption of you being hinterested in taxidermy was due to the fact i could see straw sticking out of your ears and nose..or is it just grey hairs...hee hee..or brain endz? the latter more likely(only jesting one very quickly hastens to add) oh you make me larf...sometimes...ooer! ta chickamungus...fingy.xx

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aww what a shame about yer Aggie-so your cottage featured eh..did,nt know you lived in Hostria..re the beacon? some kind of stuffed dummy? well heres a nydea...when I joss it you can have me stuffed and take its place-then when you get hangry you can come up and kick my straw filled ariss.,hee hee...a lerv thing...thats me!xx

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Good afternoon Ann-sorry for late response to your very encouraging comments on my last three poems-was busy-driving for four droning hours down(or up?)too many miles of motorway-hence the long lie in-the consolation of the drive was the accompaniment of a lovely lovely yellow(cheeses coloured you would say)Moon,smiling ever so sweetly-wowsers! thanks again darling-means so so much..Stef.xx

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Thanks for your thoughts on Wrong Road Roun'. I confess I never did a stint underground although I had 21 years in the industry.
Incidentally, it's not so bad being in a confined space - I'd hold your hand.

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Thanks for your comments. Although I was playing a little, it was an exercise in trying to take clichés and make them new/different.

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..hello Ann..thanks..it's about our first house (demolished) and the paved corridor in the cellar which ran out under the road to where the coal was delivered..spooky.

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Hi Ann thank you so much for you comment on my recent poem. Glad you liked it :o) I read Towards America and feel you paint a wonderful picture of Cornwall. A place I would love to visit, and even more so now. Thoughts of that brave little dog swimming towards America will stay with me. Like it a l lot. em

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Hi Ann - re The Tumbler - daft I know but so incongruous I had to write about it - glad you liked it though x

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Ann
Thanks for your comments on Night Mail.
I am, of course, joking about Auden's original - it's a rocker.

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ta funnybird for commentarios on me giggle poem-now accompanied by an explicit foter of moi!-all the georgey-Stef'oldy.xx

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Thanks for your comments on The Fairies, Ann. It is different, but is one of those that had to be written at the time. Please accept my belated condolences about Gemma - and hope your walking plans bear fruition this year! x

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Hi Ann, If I didn't write this sort of tosh I may well be bitter. A release valve maybe :-)

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Thank you for your cruel comments on my emotional poem Pit Pony. I would have thought you would have empathy with an old miner what with all your tin mines down there.
Ah tin... we used to dream of tins of something, it was so hard existing on coal dust mixed with muddy water- not very appetising admittedly but a good sourceof carbon.

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gawd knows re bugginton blues-one minute fine-then next all 'ell broke loose-but being the calm youthfully capable man wot I am,I just stopped short of putting me bloody foot(which was,nt actually bleeding)through the ******* screen-but hey! dont you being worrying your pretty little head over moi-you have enough to do-gallivanting!..ta though chuck-SW.xx

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one did indeed have said gee gee doing a plop all over the proceedings-and the bugger still aint stopped galloping! ta for concern-Mr Grrreygrumps.xx

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Hi Ann - re; Freshfield Sands - yes places do move our thoughts and usually because of who we're with at the time - appreciate your getting in touch x

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hi Ann-thanks for all recent comments-just back from warring with the computer gremlins-big lot of dead good regards-SW.XX

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Hi Ann thank you for your comments on Wind-Blown Tree - I don't know why it is but I always feel there is some kind of tragedy when I saw a tree blown over - a life pulled out of the ground to rot whereas mankind rots beneath

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Good Morning Ann

I really think you should be putting less salt with your cooking if your dinner smells like the sea...

Thank you so much for your wonderful and well thought through comments’;

‘Wave over Wave’ is very simply about a man who’s long life and eventual death was always within a kiss and a wish of the sea.

Once again I thank you for reading and taking the time to comment on my work.

Gus xx

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God, I'm such a dummie - I sent the reply to you into my own mailbox - Duurr - here it is -
HaHa - I could only tell you what I personally find totally irresistable (and I don't think there's any secret as such) & it'll doubtless be a lot different to what those football-swilling, lager-watching "lads" out there want... but I do know it's not the whiff of burning broccoli :D
I bet you wimmin are the same as us men in this respect - sometimes I see a woman and, even to me, she's not even "pretty", but by God - I really could jump her bones... it's a good job we're all different.
david warner - he just played wallander's dad in the kenneth branagh version - and very good he was too. But if I wos a wimmin - I'd go for something really obvious like Al Pacino, Robert Downey, etc - Sean Connery .

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Thanks for your thoughts on Doing It Twice. Give me a call if ever you stub your toe!

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Hi Ann, lovely to hear from you! My tootsie is quite a bit better now, thank you, I finally returned to work this week. Fortunately, my new anti-virus thingy has sorted things out for me, so no more trojan horses! I've only written one poem since Christmas and that was about the trojan horse... Hope you are enjoying a good start to the new year, Ann xx

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"Oh, I'm just waiting for Mr Right"
- Ann - you might be better with Mr Right-now !!

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Hello Ann - thanks very much for your comments on the Leaving of Liverpool and Muntjak always great to get your feedback and much appreciated - yes and especially sad about the expectant deer x

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oh so! you intend to gad about-whats new there then! as to walking the southwest way-that wouldnt be in the direction of the cliffs edge would it? hee hee...getting up hills?why walk up them when you can walk down them?..tee hee take two(stop me if I get too funny)and as for liking to be free spirited-you are a dead big lot more free spirited than Queen Freespirit herself-thats so easy to see in all your vastly-vastly-vastly improving poetry.The consolation,for the want of putting it better regarding Gems is that she is no longer suffering-and that thought you, as I do, with 'me little golden Yorkieboy (Pepe) must cling to-ok? and yes when the youth of spring takes your hand,be assured the cobwebs once more will dissipate-you have my word on it! enjoy your day Ann-if I dont see you before Christmas-all the Georgey(best)love-Stef.xx

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Good morning Ann-clear the decks for action shipmate-I,m about to give you a waffling broadside!

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Hi Ann-you suggested I keep going? I need to in order to catch up with you! in twenty years! oh don,t start mopsing-keep up the needy momentum(for everyones sake) love-Stef.xx ps-wheres that new rescue kitten then?

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Me again, Foxy.
We might look a little chavvy supping mouclade from a cup. It's a spicy, curry-like, dish of mussels. But for you, Foxy, I'd sup it out of a cup.

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'Ey up, Foxy.
Thanks for your comments on Senior. It's all autobiographical as you expected!

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Society's it is :)
Ta muchly x

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Thanks Ann, what would you suggest instead of societal?

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Happy Christmas anticlimax-and WOW!! are your poems getting more dead good?!?!?...you betcha! all blowaway treasures!!! the Crown must be yours..if only I couldst verily attend the coronation! bazzin regards shipmate-(do not venture too near to crumbling cliff edges dearie...Mr S(jacket)Wilde.xx

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Great last blog entry Ann, They say the most rewarding things come when least expected! we will see, there are lots of us looking out to sea. Win X

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Keep singing, Ann, and keep beating that drum! Greg x

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Ann, thanks for reading Ghazal (In snow), Of course it is the hardest thing to get enough rhymes before the refrain and more difficult still to make them sound 'unforced'. In a traditional performance the audience would be all attension waiting to see how clever or inovative the poet is when each rhyme is revealed, rather like a punch line in a joke. Win

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Thank you for your kind comments on my comments! :-)

I just read Towards America again and it reminded me of a day when I was in the Scilly Isles and I was at the furthest point west in the UK (apart from Ireland, I guess) and the sign said 'Newfoundland' was the next stop, so I swam out for a couple of hundred yards and enjoyed the sensation of swimming towards North America...Canada.

Thanks for the memory.

:-)

Jx

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LOL Ann, its a lyre! Win x

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Hello Ann - re; the Hard Seat - thanks for commenting - I will keep a look out for your one of similar genre - good look with it

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Hi Ann - thank you commenting on The Haunting - I did tweak one of the words as you suggested plus others - much obliged for your help

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Hi Ann, thanks for such a close reading on Sappho. glad you feel its an improvrment. It's not a piece with a great deal of hidden meaning, it's just what you make of it I think. In fact "a very hot, steamy and sexually charged christmas dinner" is pretty close to what was on my mind. Ooh HOT! Sappho was one of the 9 ancient Greek lyric poets from Lesbos and for some is also pretty hot and for others an iconic figure. She has a prettty interesting life story and there is a painting in the man chester gallery which is my fav painting in there. see it here -

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sappho.htm

Win X

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Hi Ann,

Thanks for reading and commenting again x

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Thank you Ann for reading and responding to my poem, "Consumption." And you were right, it tasted quite good. Now all I need is someone bold enough to read it out loud so we can post it up on youtube or some other venue. Cheers! Frederick

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Thanks very much, Ann. And a very happy new year to you too x

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PPS - Ian Gant - (whose poetry I like very much) prompted a rather sarcastic/humorous? remark from me about Albert with his horses head handle. Have you read it recently? - this is genius for me (but I dont think he ever was made poet laureate)
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/albert-and-the-lion/

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BTW - for what it's worth - who do you think would be most likely to be picked-up & widely published on WOL?
(IMHO) - John Aikman & Ray Miller.
Why? because they follow the rules. All supremely well-crafted, clever, well-thought-out. But has any of theirs ever caused me to shed a tear ? No. Because that's not what the establishment are looking for. So how DO the Hugo Williams & John Burnsides of this world do it ? Genius, yes, but also a lot - a real lot - of Luck, that's all. just my 2c. xx

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