Shadwell, thanks very much for looking intently at Jubilee. You're right, the middle stanza was added later, and could be removed. But it is true that the Queen and Prince Philip take their breakfast cereal from Tupperware cartons, or at least according to a documentary made quite a long time ago now. I wrote it to get a debate going; I do think there should be a place for 'political' poetry, but it's difficult to get the tone right. I did feel for her freezing in the royal barge, and look what happened to the poor old Duke. You wouldn't inflict such things on anyone else their age; social services might want to know about it. Enjoyed your Damien Hirst poem, and the feelings expressed. Sounds like the art critics are beginning to turn on him. Greg

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I love your stuff. I assume you are treading the open-mic boards with these? if not, you shouls. nay, you must!

Superb: Is Am barred? Excellent.

Is that really your name, or your stop on the DLR?

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No, no flowers were harmed in the making of your comment! (By the way, I only happened on your comment cos I was looking at who'd updated their profiles today. If you want someone to see a comment it's best to put it on their profile page not yours :)

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Thanks for the background. I was just looking at the nuts and bolts. Hope I didn't tread on any flowers.

Regards

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Thanks for reading, Shadwell. I appreciate the feedback. I think the way it was written was to contrast a real but flawed (i.e human) person with an idealised man (Maxim de Winter.) It was a written as a gesture to this person (now no longer around, sadly) inspired by once more being at the place where we gazed up at the "posh" hotel while on our walk along the south west way, all scruffy and windswept. Happy days!

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Hello and thank you for the welcome, Ann. Yes, I will put something up in the blog section eventually, and hope to crit as good as I get. I'm looking foward to being here.

btw, I like what DH does with butterflies but most of the rest of it leaves me scratching my head.

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Hi Mr Smith - welcome to WOL. Love your poems on the profile - I went to the Damian Hurst show the other day actually - it seemed to be full of mums and dads squeezing pushchairs in between the calf and its mother. Good to get folk interested in art at an early age I guess... I rather like DH though, I have to admit. Hope you put a poem or two on the blog section.

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