Hi Cate... Belated thanks for commenting on 'Descent Into The Maelstrom' Not sure on the length issue. In fact it was a struggle to write it to this length. Win

Cate, thank you for taking the time to read and comment so nicely on 'C'est la vie...'
It was a bit of a challenge to write given it had to be about ten different people, and only five words per line.

Francine x

Hi Cate, Nice to see you're still here, strumming away : ) Thank you for reading and leaving kind comments on my post The Dunes. Debz x

Hi Cate - "pearls" = thanks very much for the lovely comments. all the best. B

Thank you so much Cate for the lovely comments on
'Pandora's Affliction'...
So I have a style now - LOL
I will try and break free on my next one ; )

xxx

thanks for commenting on BIG DIAMONDS :)

Thanks for comment on mine Cate. I see we are both asking questions. 'That'll do Babe'.

Hi Cate - many thanks for your kind comments (sunday best) B.

Hi Cate,

Thanks for visiting "Neil" and your comments. I guess it's a story that's haunted me all of my life. It was a strange and somehow comforting experience to write about him and share it with people. I guess the truth of the story makes it more powerful. Perhaps truth is, as they say STRONGER than fiction. I'm pleased it touched you.

Regards,
A.E.

Cate, thanks for your comments on my poems.That's just the kind of criticism I like to hear.If I were more skilful I'd be able to blend poetry into the narrative seamlessly, but as you say, it's too prosaic in parts.

Hi Cate, Thanks for your comments on ';-P'. Yes some people are conjoined with their phones arn't they... they are worshiped objects for us as are those blackberry things. Are we missing something here? are people more interesting / important?

Cate, thanks so much for your comments on Gloria.

Thanks for comments about the Chinagrass music of Mamer. I volunteer at a local arts centre so get a chance to see lots of people, tonight for example I'm seeing martin Simpson.

Hi Cate Thanks for your kind comments about the poem. Glad you like it.

Hi Cate

Druids are on the whire side of the night...these wee little beastie demons... were deadly, evil and whilst red in colour they were black hearted and satanic.


Hope you sleep well after all that.

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments.

Augusta xx

Hello Cate

How lovely your comments are, almost as sad as the poem.

I agree with every thing you say, the world becomes a frightening place for many of us as we grow confused and infirm.

Thank you once again.

Augusta xx

Hi cate - thanks for comments- read through your poems. I like your sunflower theme (all in good time I hope) as I have also written about them.

So Sorry Cate... When I say Grey what I meant was very dark white.

Hope that makes amends
Augusta xx

Thank you for commenting on Teardrop, is there any chance for some training on a Nose Flute ha ha..... Lots of Love TC XXXXX

Hi Cate ~ enjoyed reading 'let's hear it for music' ~ there's a lot of true stuff in there ~ good poem methinks

kindest regards
R2$

Hiya Cate. Thank you for the comment on my protection poem. I wrote this at christmas and when I read your beautiful 'If I Could' it reminded me of it, so I went and found it in my notebook. I love that they are on the same theme....maybe we are on the same wavelength as Janet said earlier in the month. Glad you enjoyed it, I really loved yours.
Rachel
xxx

Thank you so much Cate for your wonderful comments on our poem 'Unstoppable'... Isobel and I had so much fun working on this : )

Francine x

p.s. Ha ha hemisphere vs continent ; )

Hi Cate, thanks for taking time to comment on 'Blue Planet' - much appreciated - best wishes Dave

Cate
Thanks for the kind words about my Uncle Fester.
I've been doing this as a performance piece about a month but support it by revealing books with Fester's Old Title crossed out and Bill Shakespeare's replacing it. I thought it needed this help so I was bit loath to post it bare, as it were.
I'm wrestling with the audio files at home so if I'm successful I'll try to add a reading to it.
Also just read If I Could. Beautiful. Mine are teenager/early twenties now, but the old saying is very true; "When they're young they break your arms and when their older they break your heart".

Hi Cate and thanks for commenting on yet another of my poems. 'There to Here.'

Janet.x

Hi Cate, thanks for commenting on Maybe. Much appreciated x

Hi,
Thanks for the comment..and if TC did cut your nose with a postcard, all I asking is: why were you smelling the postcard?

Hi Cate,
thanks for your comment on 'Metal Tiger Roars in.'
To be honest there wasn't much actual research done, it's a subject i'm interested in so was aware of the animals associated with the Chinese horoscopes.
I did work hard though on the syllable counts and trying to make it an interesting read for others too. I appreciate your feedback and if it's going to be performed i suppose i better do it soon or it will no longer be a valid subject. :-)

Janet.x

thank you for your comments , always a pleasure to know that at least someone likes my work

Avast there young Cate,you have shivered me timbers with your piratical observations re 'piering'-heres raisin' a noggin'o'grog to ye!-Stefanxx

Thanks Cate. Pregnant, frumpy and fed up Cate, had a break and concentrated on the family and home for a while. How are you?xx

Hi again Cate It just means I'm very grateful for your kindness and am very glad you like the poetry. It seems to get a bit busy here on a Sunday morning and I'm supposed to be working!

Hi Cate, thanks for the feedback on 'For You' glad it struck a chord,
Rach
xx

Haigh a Chait!
Ta me an-bhuioch leat ar do chinealtas agus ta athas oram go bhuil suim agat ar mo fhiliocht! There's a bit of Irish for you. I hope I've got it more or less right! Just thanking you for the kind comments and glad you liked the poems.

Hi Cate Thanks for leaving feedback on the poems. I like your own Sunflowers very much. JUst been to a funeral myself recently that was very tense.

Hi Cate,
thanks for commenting on my poem about Miles Platting. I like 'gritty' and Northern, although we could do with some real grit around here lately eh!

Janet.x

Hi Cate,
thanks for your lovely comment on my latest blog. Hope it's getting easier where you are in the snow. The Taj looks mighty inviting.
I enjoyed reading it and glad you included the reality element as well as the beauty and the dream of visiting such a superb monument.

Janet.x

Thanks Cate, for the very kind comment, it's very much appreciated.
Rachel
x

Hi Cate
It was great to meet you last week, along with the rest of the clan.
Gaudete is very much a favourite of mine, and you were particularly good.
I loved the comment you left with the photo of me by myself, when you refer to the fog. I think the photo was taken in the fog. Even I'm not sure whether it's me. Perhaps I look better from a distance.
Even with Isobel, there's only one person worth looking at (and it's not me). Why do I always look like a dribbling idiot? Rhetorical question.
I thought Isobel's reading of my poem was terrific. Just wish I could have listened to it myself, but I go a bit blank when I get on a stage.
Hope to see you again soon
xx Steve xx

Thanks Cate you are most kind...did you notice what I did with each line? if not take another look, I was just trying to set myself a little challenge. sian x

You are so right cate... but suddenly I realised I was only 12 and what do boys do... sorry... love Christmas really ..
just don't like all the sticky sweetness ..

Thanks again

Gusxx

Many thanks, Cate, I am glad you enjoyed Camel and I. My children are grown up so I am resorting to my niece to read it to. My daughters friend, Grace, has produced a few illustrations for me. Your comments are always vaued. Best, Jane

Hi Cat,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

Thank you Cate x

I liked the poem Eer Olive , Belicose with the cadence of a bull terrier on LSD ;-)

yeah, for silence is a sad un! not sure where that came from! came out off no-where somehow..thanks for commenting!

Thank you Cate for taking the time to read and comment
on my poem 'Out of the darkness...'
Yes, sad and reflective... a longing to escape...
to be free...

Moi x

I appreciate all your positive comments. They encourage me to continue writing from my heart.
Many thanks - Aziza.

Hi Cate, thanks for taking the trouble to ask me about the Jaberwocky poem!! Good fun! I have read your poetry on the blogs and enjoyed it. some of it is definitely song. My favourite though has to be sunflowers, so evocative.

What have I done?

Thank you Cate. There is a sense of moment in Newborn , it kind of holds you. I am not sure I meant it to come out that way but glad it did.
Olives pumps is fun and clever, much liked.

Thanks Cate for your comment, agree with you entirely. Also agree with your response to Tony, but daren't add a comment in case I put my oversized size 5 directly in a big pile of dogpoop!:-) Didn't think that we posted poems for just for praise, I know I don't, I enjoy the criticism and not everybody likes the same flavours, although it is nice when we do get it right.

Thanks again Cate.
Nicky xx

Rain in England ?. Cate whatever are you thinking.

Oh joy! Thanks for comment on mine Cate! I would not have found 'Eer Olive's Pumps without!!

Hi Cate
There are one or two on the list that may be do-able.
Prizes for the best suggestion.

Thank you , you are very kind.

Cate
Thanks for the comments on my "70 Metres Dash". It really was true - I did keep comimg last. ("The Charge of the Light Brigade" is true as well - don't ever get electricians in your house to do some work!
Since you commented I took the opportunity to look at your stuff, ("Eer Olive's Pumps"). We seem to have a similarity of style - heavy meter and rhyme, light content.
Post some more.
John Coopey

Hi Cate
Thanks for the comment. I was in my 'rebel' years when I went to SA, but knew nothing of the ways of the world. The only things that bothered me were pop music, football and the odd? girlfriend. I know, now, that I knew nothing of apartheid. It was an illuminating period of my life.
A lot of the black South Africans had Biblical names. I think they were more Christian than the rest of the inhabitants.

Thanks for the comment Cate, 'double bummer' when your are working till four thirty because the only quiet time in the house is after 10pm......and then the youngest decide to wake up at 4pm, and by the time you have settled them by 6, the next wave errupts, and the rest of those beautiful little blighters come 'a bouncing' on your bed, pinching your pillow, sticking fingers up your nose and in your ears and throwing dodies and bottles with deadly aim, that normally bounce off your head!!:-)

11 cups of coffee later...........school run, and third wind takes over. haha.

nicky x :-)

Thank you for reading "Losing Interest"

I'm glad to find it well recieved by somebody.:)

Hi Cate
John Darwin brought me down to earth. I'd forgotten voting goes on until the 6th.
Is this a case of premature alliteration?
Dosh on the way
Steve M. ;-)))

Tra bloody La it like bein picked on by the Kray Sisters!!

Gusxx

Hi Cate
Glad it brought a smile.
Again, loved your story of the Pumps. My humour only comes in short bursts (old age)
Steve M.

http://www.songlyrics.com/radiohead/weird-fishes-lyrics/

Hi Cate

here's your starting point : )

steve x

Hi Cate. I'm pleased you liked Locusta, I hesitated about posting it as I worried about the imagery being a bit, erm, blokey? Not one for Sylvia Plath fans maybe!

thnaks for your comment on 'plum' Cate. i loved for whom the wheel turns :)

Hi Cate

Thanks for your coment on No Pankies. Sorry you didn't make it on Monday. When are we getting something more from you?

Thanks for your comment , it's nice to be appreciated. I too have been involved in the dance bit , many ,many many years ago I used to teach dance. Anyway less of those long lost distant memories------, THE WHEEL STILL TURNS.
Kind Regards
Spencer

Hi Cate: I like the pertinent use of rhythm in "For Whom the Wheel Turns"...and which kinds of music and dance are you into?

Hello Cate, thank you for your lovely comments on my poem Shoormal, hope all is well with you, Deb xx

Cate,
Re: For Whom The Wheel Turns:
'I would agree with you that the concience has its own way of "pay back" but I would like to think that for those who have no conscience, there is a higher order, a sort of cosmic "equalising" which applies to all things. This was what the poem was about.'

I totally agree Cate...
I believe that even if you don't have a conscience - you will eventually get what you deserve...
What goes around, comes around : )

Your welcome Cate.
Bernie

Hi Cate thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on 3am

steve x

Hi Cate
Thanks for the comment. I'm presuming chilling is ok?
This came to me after looking into a room used by Age Concern, where all the easy-clean chairs were set out around the wall. One other visitor couldn't bring themselves to go in to the room because of the memories it brought back, visiting her parents.
It just made me think
Steve M. :-))))

Hi Cate
Kind of you to comment.
Unfortunately no-one seems to have written what you're supposed to do after the deal's gone down.
Steve M.

Cate - thank you for your recent comment. Unfortunately, my camping days have only just begun.

D

Hi Cate
Thanks for commenting.
First of all I couldn't beat your Blog photograph (I'm not sure I phrased that correctly)
Secondly, if I'd put a photo of my bum on the Blog, it may have started a riot
Thirdly, if I'd put a photo of the sort of bum I saw on the bus, I'd have probably got crucified.
Us men just can't win
Steve :-))))

Hi Cate

Thanks for your comments. Yes it was hard - extremely chewy and odd. Even though I hate waste, the attempt had to be abandoned. To top it all I forgot photos could be posted with blogs. A pic of the sad little object would have made a nice addition

Hello Cate,
thank you for your recent very kind comments on my poems דבורה and Virtuality..yes, hope is an uphill struggle sometimes and sometimes it slips away into the mist again..but then a new view opens up in it's place so it was worth the climb..I am trying to play that same violin but i have snapped 2 strings and anyone hearing me might be the ones to cry..never mind..it's fun : )) thanks again, debz xx

Cate, I removed my very personal comment from "Sunflowers' only because I thought it interfered with your poem. I should have posted it here, under your PP.

Many thanks for your comment on my poem. I have had a good read through yours - you have a varied style.

Thank you for your very kind words about my work. Warmed the cockles of my heart!

Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

Hi Cate
Thanks for your comment on my revisitation to Time Flues. I've eaten humble pie (a large portion) for CBT. Whether she's still my friend, I'll have to wait and see.
The funny thing is, the original version was quite different to what I would normally try.
Is there a home truth in that?
Steve :-))

Hi again Cate, just a quick thank you for your comments on "Jimmy The Dog"
Bernie

Thanks Cate for your comments on "Imagine"
Bernie

Hi Cate
Re Gramps - Not mistakes, just opoetunities to learn! I am terrible at spelling and punctuation but am learning (I think) sometimes others mistakes leap out when you would never see them yourself. Win x

Never knew him at all - he died before I was born.

Hi Cate
Thankyou for your comment on Second Chance. You are right we all bring baggage with us which we carry forward when moving on.
Regards Yolande

Thanks for your comment on Imagination. Your observations are correct.

ThanX Cate for comment on Someone in particular - its gone far better than I imagined and love performin it so did it again tonight lol, good to see you as always Jeff X

Thanks Cate for your comments on"Know It All"
Bernie

Thanks Cate for your comments on "Fish"
Bernie

Hi CAte, thanks for commenting on Turn Away. No, they're not children of the future, although I like your take. more they are children of the past, adults of the future,children raised by grandmothers, becoming drowned in things they can't quite handle.thanks again Cate for taking the time to read and comment, Deb xx

Hi Cate, good to see you in NB! Great news you're up for the gig at Wigan!! Excellent you're on, look forward to hearing you!! Jeff X

Hi Cate!
Funny you should mention dream, because my poem 'Elusive' was actually inspired from a dream and a current situation...

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment - it is very much appreciated!

Francine x

Hi Cate,
And thanks for taking the time to have a look at my scribblings - I really appreciate it and I'm pleased that you enjoyed them. I guess my remarks in the "Crimes against Poetry" thread were meant to be a little provocative - it's often a good way to get a discission going! :-) There are no absolutes in poetry, one person's taste is just that - very subjective. I hope there is room for every imaginable kind of poetry in the world, it would be a much poorer place without it.
I am very envious of your musical talent, something that I have none of unfortunately. You also write very well (some people are just such smarta***s!) I like the strength, determination and resolution you show in "What Do You See? . . . If I had to have one tiny quibble, it would be with the last four lines:

Listen.

I am coming.

Do you

See

Me?

Simply because it seems to be a mixture of the senses - listen/see rather than listen/hear - look/see. But it's minor and of no matter. I enjoyed your comments on the thread too - hope we can discuss more. Everyone has opinions and if we don't debate these things we don't learn. Great to hear from you.
Regards,
A.E.

Cate

Could you enlighten me about things disappearing at the end of the month, please - I'm new, haven't noticed anything going and don't understand. Email if you don't want to clutter up this space. It's just mechanics so I'll probably delete it if you post it on mine once the penny has dropped.

Thank you

Dave x

Hi Cate

Thanks for commenting on Light in a Wood. Agree with what you say - sometimes there are feelings which words can't capture - the ongoing challenge of poetry. When are we going to get something more from you?

Dave x

Hi Cate,
thanks for your recent comment on my poem'Syllabic nightmare.' I did add my response to the comment box beneath the poem but i like to thank the poeple personally too.

Janet.x

Cate
thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my poem "Hanging loose". It is always encouraging to receive positive feedback.

Hi Ctae, thanx for that, yes like getting it off my chest and will be reminding you of it when you start with the kids, Ha! Nice one, hope to see you soon, I'm bit behind so catch up with your latest poem soon, see ya Jeff X

Hello Cate. Many thanks for your kind comments about the two recent pieces. I'm very glad you liked them and felt moved to comment. Graham.

Hello Cate, thank you for reading and sending your kind comments on my piece The Traveller. you never know you might like her to bite you..next time you need a blood test...Happy Solstice on Sunday..deb xx

Hi Cate - thanks for reading and making comment - you're on the right line : )

steve

mp3 added to urdu poem :-)

Hi Cate, thanks for taking the time to comment on the series i just put in the chat. Yes i am an ex service man. I did operational tours in several countries. i decided to share my imagery and experiences in here because some people call me a little selfish with my experiences. So i thought, in the dead of night when no-one is logged on, i would write some poetry that will tell a story. Alongside the poetry is the imagery of a soldier or two and all the manifestations of what was seen some years ago. The photographs placed with the poetry are all from my own lens. And the soldier you see sitting on the radio or on the road with the tribal men and women, is me. Over the next few days i will write more, to tell a story. Not all good, but i hope, by the time i have wrote the story and shown the imagery, it will have a positive effect not only on myself, but on the reader too. There is much conflict in the world at the moment, for ex soldiers like i, we still live it every day. my hope is that this little collage of writings and poetry from my own experiences, will result a grand finale. Glad you are interested, it seems hard to generate that interest in my work at the moment. Watch this space and more will come.

By the way, i like Keats myself. I was taught his work at college. But i beg to differ his opinions on children who prematurely die and dont experience a full life.

be well cate, and thanks for taking the time.

Mike

x

Hi Cate. Thanks for looking at Oil & Cheese / Chalk & Water. Left some answers under the blog entry. Winston

I was really touched by your comments in Stockport, the way you came and sat next to me and said all those nice things about my work...it is very heart warming and I look forward to having a longer conversation next time about culture :-)

Thank-you for reading, and commenting on 'Close' - glad you enjoyed it.
Cx