Thank you Gus for your lovely feedback on 'Enlightenment 82' will stop an d read your work soon and leave a note :o)

No Gus - a shaggy old buzzard!! xx (Field Boundaries)

thanks for your comment on Untitled - you bastard. How did you know it was about you really ;)

Thanks for your comment on my latest. I'm not doing a tit for tat on your latest. I had bookmarked it to return and slap a comment on. I like that style of poetry - amongst all of your styles.
Things quite busy at work - end of term madness and all that. x

Glad to hear you still take an interest in the themed poetry project - even though you chose not to get involved much in the last one.We will probably do somthing in the autumn, if there are still any poets left on here by then. Not too sure about that theme though. I'm getting the waft of smelly carpets and rancid ginger biscuits...

you know me too well with my boozing stories! lol

you performing for jeffarama this time?

Cheers

Andy N

Gus, do you need to take out the 's of 'She's tongues pearly teeth'? I knew what you wanted; it is a very good observation.

ah, Gus...care to join me for some subtle and achingly funny call and response poetry at the next possible WOL night in Hebden?
Meri :)

thankyou Gus x :)

Us females tread a difficult path - how to have fun without being considered lightweight or vain....
Glad you liked the pic - let it never be said that I bow to pressure...xx

AND ANOTHER THING! ;-) In Poetess, the verse I don't like so much and would have cut, Chris Dawson (whose opinion I very much value) says she likes that bit the best. So what's a girl to do?? Maybe it's best to write then leave for a month then take another look, but I simply cannot do that. When I write something I like to get it out there, then it's on to the next one.

Hi Gus - thank you for commenting on Poetess. Editing (editting?) scares the whatever out of me, I don't know why but that's probably a common thing with newish poets who haven't studied writing poetry. It's the fear of losing the good bits perhaps. If I try and edit this one, may I put it here as a comment on your profile page and see what you think? Or is there an editing school I can go to! ;-) xx

Hi there,
Thanks for your comment on 'Play Me', glad you liked it.
Cx

(Re Pandora) Gus! Pasties aren't nasty! How very dare you! (Speaking as an inhabitant of Kurnow.) But I wondered that too. All Greek to me! And I like your poem.

Gus!
youre back!
greetings
missed you at Wigan was hoping to catch up.

"I wanna be a part of it, NewYork NewYork|!!"

Thanks for your comments about me looking a twat. I appreciate your support!

Re Blackthorn (mine's a pint!) Oh! You saw me coming back from the beach then did you Gus? Thanks for listening! xx

hello you :)thanks for commenting on my poem ... I wonder if it will be another eight months before i write anything else ? not that it matters eh :) suns out no snow now


punctuation is for cissies :)

Greetings Gandalf-geezer Gus, gyring and tweezerless/I'm toujours tapping tapping tapping/my poem-world's sense-tensile mapping/though neighbours knock and me they're slapping/for my relentless tapping tapping.

Congratulations on doing so well at Wigan Slam!

Upon reading 'Where do we go from here' I thought to myself I bet this is good performed on the open mic. It also has a gentle wisdom without lecturing, lyrically persuasive too.

Thank you!! xx (Doe/Doh!)

LOL
Well then how would you suggest making the point perhaps a bit clearer?

Tu me fais toujours rire... et en plus je t'adore ; )
xxx

Re:Poem 'Alone'
'Well jeez Gus... the girls get it ; )

'Saw the reflection' can be both his and hers - an understanding/connection of their souls...

'Felt the connection
As he glanced right through'... Too intense so is afraid to acknowledge the connection...

It was written to be interpreted as either only her perception or a shared perception...

Gus, your such a dear doll! xxxx

How I have missed you!

Thank you as always Gus for your input and comments on my latest,
'Into love's shadow'...
I did edit... not sure about the one line though - we'll see.

Merci : )
xxx

Thanks for your comments on my funfair series, much appreciated

Hi Gus, xx hope your well. Love the new pic of you! Keep writting, you are the best!! xx your yankett ha

Lovely photo Gus, who is it?

Hi Gus - thanks for commenting on Botany. I didn't really want to say microscope so much as magnifying glass but it didn't fit! I wanted to describe a sort of Victorian botanist identifying the flower. What else could he use? A note pad maybe?

Merci beaucoup Gus pour tes commentaires sur mon poème
'Bound together'...
Je suis toujours ravie quand ce que j'écris te plais : )

xxx

Never realised you were so musical Gus. Yes, I could well imagine you on the horn...xx

Thanks for your comment on my latest Gus - you will most definitely see me in the New Year. I hope to get out to Bolton or Middleton, if I don't see you before in Wigan. Happy New Year x

"Tightarse'

: )

Thank you for your pithy...and entirely appropriate comment upon my latest offering. You don't know exactly why it is so appropriate, but, suffice to say that, due to recent 'surgery' I have a six inch scar....just where the sun don't shine!

Following my first foray into swimming...today...I do indeed, have an exceedingly tight arse.

They tell me it should loosen up soon!!

: )


Jx

thank you Gus, for taking time out from Grandfatherly duties and sending me your lovely supportive words once more,thank you, Debz xx

Whatever the stance I think she got a hole in one Gus.

Gus, many thanks for your kind comment.
How come I have favourable comments from 2 of the most objectionable gits on the site ?(Aikman and Emmerson by the way). I begin to worry.
I read the poem at Sowerby Bridge last night, but was met with a degree of stone-faced hostility from a small female claque. Freda takes it in good part, and knows that it's so obviously tongue in cheek (or is that a bit risque).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Gus!
I will have a glass of French Merlot in your honour tonight after my candlelight yoga class : )
xxx

Merci beaucoup Gus pour le compliment sur mon Poème 'Taken'...
Tu ne peux pas savoir à quel point ça me fait plaisir : )

Moi xxx

Hi Gus
WOLOP - Congrats
I demand a recount, though how one could recount zero I don't know.
A sour loser
Anon

thank you Gus, for your very kind comments on Kilim,as ever, they mean a lot to me and I am happy and appreciative for the support you send my way. Thank you for the offer but alas, i can't fly anywhere, they took my passport and won't let me back into the country if i leave it, because i smuggle good looking Turkish people inside rugs..Debz xx

Yep - I certainly do have a lust for life - that lust seems to get more acute, the further I get through it...Thanks for your comment Gus.

Yes - I see. Hope you are enjoying the half term - though you don't have little ones. The weather has been so changeable - sunny one minute, grey and overcast the next - hard to keep them happy. Look forward to seeing you around. xx

thanks Gus.........nice ter hear you did a bit o' dousin' with yer hose!...lolx

Glad you liked it. minx. :-)xx

Twas my first, Gus. Lost it to the Howcroft! Will always hold fond memories.

So your a dutchman then? lol.

Thanks for commenting. Nicky x

Hi Gus
I truly appreciate the comment.
I used it as a kind of verbal dyno-rod. Silly little thought, but sometimes (too often) the brain goes into 'off' mode, and needs a gentle nudge.
I also love!! a vanilla slice

Merci toujours Gus pour tout de ton apprentissage ; )
J'ai fait quelques changements à mon poème 'Out of the darkness...'
j'aimais bien ce que tu as proposé, mais pour moi ça changeait un peu
trop le sens...

Moi x

theres just certain people in the world, you meet them from time time, they are rare, they make it all worthwhile.

Thanks for your encouragement, never fails to touch

Thanks for comment on 'Rose Dog Gus. I hope Shirley was real. As Thatcher once said: "Everybody needs a willy" - and a place to put it, of course, Mrs T.

Hi Gus
good job on the stalker poem. Ihave mininised it further. Perarse to far! interesting exercise. Win x

yes , to your comments about a fishmonger , cold dead things , slabs , all those ideas instantly in your mind

i am fine , taking lunch break at uni :)

Thank you Gus, hopefully the the layers of my dermis are delightful too.

I enjoy your poetry, I like pieces that make one step back and think.

Hope you are well

Nicky.

gus - cheers for your reimaging off 'Fly to the moon' - really enjoyed it - lot more to come on this piece as i am gonna be ruthless on the editing soon, but will credit you with a thanks when this poem is on it's next draft as you have helped loads.. p.s. - you comin' to poets and.. next month still (let me know and I'll hold you a slot)

Hi Gus,

thanks as ever for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

Ello Gus, thank you for reading Shoormal and making your kind comments, I'm happy to see you're back here again, and you're front..ha ha..sorry i nicked your bad joke..Debz xx

Gus , thank you for your comment on my piece.

I am quite taken aback at the responses to it, I feel that my pain is no more than any other's pain who have suffered through the loss of a loved one.

Some say that 'time' is a great healer, but is it the time that heals? Or do some of us just develop broader shoulders and thicker skins? Or others of us just block it out?

Darren thinks that I shoul change it from the first person to the third person. Would be interesting to know what you think.

'Where do we go from here' really interests me, however I fear that, at this late hour that the analytical blob in my dull grey matter has snuggled up to the nonsense blob and once the two of them get together I spew forth a skip load of twaddle. The concepts of time and place and time and existence fascinate me. I

Hi there,
Thanks for your comments on my recent poem - you're right - no-one is much better than nobody. Appreciate your help.
I'm ok thanks, recovering from a recent op - not the one we discussed, but something that was a little more pressing. Been a bit fed-up, but been greatly helped by some of the lovely people on here!
Hope you're well?
Cx
btw - think you should take one of the photo's Darren posted of you on f/b, as your profile pic - you look very good in them!

Ey-up back Gus
Thanks for the comment/suggestions for Life-Line.
I only placed Masturbation where it is as I thought that this is/was when it became a full-time occupation (also because of the Tony Blair Ed; Ed; Ed speech)
Constipation did occur to me but I found it hard to squeeze it in (or out for that matter)
Many other ....ations came to mind after it was written, but I tend to try and keep my 'poems' as they were when they came out of my fingers.
I am humbled by your comments
Thanks again
Steve M.

I'm not a fan of your new profile picture Gus. It reminds me of the morphing Voldemort from Harry Potter - you are far prettier than that!

...But you know how much I adore you!
Tu sais que j'adore les gens fous ; )

Oh you are a foul man, but I love you!

Thanks for your comments Gus. Yes, I guess if one can believe in the virgin birth, one can also believe it possible for a busy mother to write half decent poetry - I'll have to try harder - now where have I heard that line before???
Where have you been hiding - hope to see you at the Tudor on Thursday or I shall be forced to make the journey to some nasty part of Manchester again.

Hi Gus, I can't remember if I thanked you for your lovely comments on Virtuality. No matter, i thank you anew because you are kind to have taken the time to post them, Debz xx

Good evening mr J, thank you very much for your kind comments on my poem דבורה. Do i have the right to return ?..not sure but if this weather keeps up i might give it a go.. thank you again, debz xx

You know me well Gus - I'm all for love not war - that shag jag sounds rather good fun...

Gus you are incorrigable, or should that be inflammable? no i was not aware that you are now the possessor of a beard but i am now. I am much relieved that you would not push me into a fire. Obviously you don't know me well enough..give it time and you might..how did you know i drink wine and watch bats? i must have written it somewhere..tis true..i do..i'll be careful to watch out for strange poets blowing agin me on windy nights from now on.
very interesting about your poems about the winds and Captain Jack. i consider myself well informed now. when can i read t'uthers?
oh and thank you for your comments on Unfinished.Once more, muy apreciado,oops, spaniards cropping up again..Debz xx

hola Gus, thank you very much for your kind comments on Virtuality, much appreciated as ever, Deb xx

Dear Gus

Just to say thanks for your well-considered comments on my poem. I'm delighted that it appealed to you. My memories of 'I Got You Babe' are slightly hazy. I was only three months old when it came out. I must remind myself of its finer details.

With best regards from New Malden

Rachel P

Oi !

Thanks for your lovely comments on 'Cramping my Style' Gus and the great advice. I was a bit unsure about whether to include some of the singing parts (particularly the Queen ones) so perhaps didn't sing them with enough gusto. Will try to correct that next time I do it - I do have the lung capacity! LOL
Isobel x

Thanks once again for your encouragement. It always means so much. My ankle bones are healing well.

Merci Gus pour tous tes commentaires positifs sur mon poème 'Elusive'...
Je suis inspirée de mieux faire chaque fois...
Contente aussi qu'il t'a plu : )

Francine x

oops, mixing Italian with Spanish..

gracias Gus.. ..si.. Neruda.... suspiro ...

Hi Gus, thanks for your comment on my poem The Body Builders Lament. Your acerbic wit always makes me chuckle!!
Cate xx

Hello Gus...thank you so much for your comments and encouragment...praise indeed coming from someone of your status...
Knowing you as I do if you say it you mean it..
Ros XX

I know all the beauty secrets Gus but thanks for the advice ;-)

Ha ha!
Je préfère un verre de vin rouge...
sinon... lait de soja... je suis végétalienne ; )

Moi x

Although i used to get the M/boro train from Leeds, i got off before it reached it's destination. I have navigated thru it in an automobile a cupla times and stopped there once to go to that museum near a park with big black metal gates.
No,further west I be. In't North Yorkshire Dales. No city for miles and miles. lotsa sheepses and prettyness but not many shopses.Thing i made was cos of one of your lovely comments on my words. see ya, debz x

Your just naughty so Naughty! Your poems make me laugh all the time. Your latest is great!I think we all need a "shaved brazilian". Would be cleaner, cooler, less mess, all around a better deal for all.Tell me, do men sport a "shaved Cuban"? My own sick joke, Im sure, as I giggle and wonder if anyone else would get it.? xx

thank you Gus, for your kind comments on Blackwater. I was going to come down for the next WOL but Winston told me it isn't on in july. The poetry in the woods thing looks good on Saturday but is it going to rain i wonder? I was hoping to see you at the last WOL night i went to, April i think it was. I was carrying with me a small thing i made for you but it returned back up north again and now it sits on my desk. it will travel with me by train in August for the next meeting unless you are off travelling the world that month. thanks again, deb x

Merci pour tout ce que tu fais...
Je t'adore : )

..hello Gus...or is it Sherlock ?...a few years ago I spent time researching the family tree and came across gr.gr.gr. grandparents who came from Cork and settled in Kelsall in 1835..the more I found out, the more poems I began to write about them, in this extract they're ghosts. Is writing style in the 'genes' do you think...very odd...although I'm pleased you spotted something. (I was born in Lytham)...cheers.. chris...(if you click on 'myspace' link at the top the first song 'Rosanna' is about them).

hi Gus, thank you for your comments on the Traveller..not sure if you meant the blood/bite or a piece of steak...with a nice chianti... tptptp.. Happy Solstice weekend, deb xx

mp3 added to urdu poem :-)

sí, son amapolas Español,
muchas gracias Gus
Deb xx

Hi Gus, you'd be most welcome at the Bards of New Brighton. Love to hear yoiu perform with us. We meet second Monday of every month, Magazine pub, Magazine Brow, New Brighton, starting 8pm. We are all open-mic sessions, and everybody gets to perform. Feel free to do us some of your sauciest!! Steve Regan (Bards MC). PS Next meeting Monday 8 June.

Thanks for your comments on 'Close' Gus -
Glad you like it.
Hope you're well?
Cx

oops, sorry Gus, I really didn't mean it was you, it just popped into my head cos i was thinking of transport..wasn't thinking of much really..just sillyness..no offence intended. : ((

Thanks Gus, I have edited it. xx Buttercup

Hi Gus.. Mal is a well known wasp sucker I feel. Though if he was low, he was consistently low. If you dont give yourself any room for improvement then you're snookered I guess. Not sure never been a judge? Win

You were BRILLIANT the other night at the slam! You were robbed by - as we dubbed him on the night the judge 'Mr 5' :D x

Hi Gus, thank you for your very kind comments on my April blog, Scar. Twas very good of you to take the time to read and comment. It's about a place i go and sit by on the moors, am glad i posted my thoughts on it now, : )) thanks again, Deb

I love yours too Gus!
Jeeez... you give me a lot to think about...
I am so overwhelmed...

Need to escape...

Thanks for your comment Gus, I really appreciate it x

Me? Naughty?
Oh!
I believe that I have been led astray...

Thanks for your lovely comments Gus - particularly the one on my bollocks poem - I have a quirky sense of humour and wasn't sure if the subject matter was to many people's taste so quickly overblogged it but was glad to hear someone appreciated it!
Izo x

Hi Gus, thanks so much, I can always count on you for a few kind words. xx

also, the poem that I was referring to last night was 'Girly gup shup' which you missed but is on my profile :)

love the duckpoem copiedand pasted it :)

Gus LOL... Yes the Marsh Marigold is apparently locally known as the Bulrush. Someoneonce told me that this confusion started with a famous painting of moses in the bulrushes which featured the reedmace. It was the actual basket that was made from the bulrush which is commonly employed in basket weaving. Regards, Win x

Dearest Gus, looking forward to the audio, got a week off in July that I can pencil in to spend curled up with your whisperings. fondest regards from softest lips Vix

Hi Gus, Just read your comments on my comments on Mal's poem. Thank you. I totally understand your anger and lack of words. I will write about this one day for you and for everyone else who feels strongly. This is a powerful site for people with things both difficult and beautiful to say... lets keep it that way. Win x

Awww... merci Gus...
Sois toujours complètement honnête avec moi : )

You are such a charmer Gus - you can call me Mademoiselle any day.

Glad you enjoyed Back Fat - thanks for the chip comment but not this one not autobiographical (unlike the beastiality material). I've just noticed your OCD poem - gutted - I'd already started penning the stuff about only having the volume control on even numbers and having to tap your left hand if you tap your right, but then you need to go right, then left, then right-left-left-right...etc... all of course comes with dire consequences if you don't.
There's no hope for me....

After some reflection, I changed my final comment on 'I wish I was...' I think we maybe do meet halfway. I do like your poetry Gus - I think it brings out the man in me - is that cos I had a very strong mother and a weak father or is there a man in every woman just waiting to get out? I'll have to ponder that one.

Thanks for your comment Gus - I've lost the footnote - will blame you if I end up with a delegation!!!

It's because I get impatient...
and don't like waiting around for answers ; )

Ah ha... found it on your blog...
See... I can be resourceful when need be ; )

Hmmm... 'un bâton de pain français' c'est bien original ça ; )
Je comprends un peu mieux votre critique... merci...
j'ai cherché mais je n'ai pas pu trouver le poème que vous avez mentionné...
pourriez-vous me l'envoyer : )

Thanks for commenting on my wonderful poem, I appreciate it

I can't seem to let it go because I feel that I need more of an explanation...
'somehow lose a certain quality in the creative sense'
Merci Gus...

got a high metabolism ;) eat everything!

mehndi is henna ...I just get bored with English words and like to add some masala mix for rhyme : )

I truly appreciate and welcome your comments and suggestions Gus...
it means so much... and you are so right about your observations...

Merci Gus...
so that does that mean you did not agree with anything else?
And you never answered my previous question...

Alors là je ne vous crois pas du tout!
Ce ne pourrait pas être la conjecture!
Vous plaisantez... n'est-ce pas?

Good luck with your appointment. Hope it goes well Gus. Thank you for your valued comments on recent works. Much appreciated and noted.

Facsinating! What an absolutely amazing place to live. Do please email me some novel snippets -- I would love to read them. Thank you for your elucidation. And I was playing about with the karma/kama thing due to sometimes having some very silly moments. That was one of them. Oh yes, sometimes I am a mess of giggles. The Ian Banks Wasp Factory reference (sorry, it's rude of me to presume everyone has the same reading list) -- and this is a spoiler -- the protagonist is raised as a girl, tells the story as a girl, but is actually discovered to be, in a very wonderful and awry denouement, a boy. Virginia Woolf's Orlando lives through several centuries and changes sex every time the era shifts. They might be interesting references for you -- both are damned good reads and have a lot to say about sex and gender.

Merci... that is quite a lofty place for me to be ; )

I see where Moxy is coming from with the tenses as I read through a few more times...
I get you - so I understood, but analysing each line you go from past to present and back again too many times...

I always enjoy reading your work and you have great style...

The KaRma Sutra, though... wouldn't that be something? I like the book for box. Was it a box room you recall? What about the devil's picture book? And what is your fascination with evil? You make it sound (con)sumptuous. Just wondering.... Strange how a room from childhood ends up relocated in the mind. Still unsure about the lunging timelines/tenses. How did you manage to signal these in the original book? You didn't do an Orlando or a Wasp Factory? And how different is the idea in poetry? I'm fascinated by ideas that seem to flit from medium to medium, each time altered or undermined. And why did you use the word 'liken'? Excuse interrogation. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

No - I wasn't trying to say too purple! - maybe a tad mauve? a little lilac, perhaps? :-)
It's a bugbear of mine, I'm afraid, overuse of adjectives. English teachers everywhere constantly tell children to use lots of nice descriptive words, and the longer, more obscure, more fancified those words are - the more gold stars the children are given. I'm as guilty as the next man for using 96 words where 3 will do - I love the sound of my own voice! - but....
I think a story should be able to stand on its own, with adjectives giving colour and depth to it. The 'remove all adjectives, make it make sense, replace only those that provide colour and depth' exercise is a very useful one, and certainly helps 'tighten up' your prose. And god knows! - everybody's better off for having their prose tightened!
Cx

Hello Gus,
thank you for your kind comments on Springtide, sorry for the delay in responding, life and stuff getting in the way, deb

Merci beaucoup Gus...
I struggled a bit with that line and my only problem is too many so's
(I use it a lot!) and ending the previous line with 'you' and then starting the next with 'you'
Je ne sais pas... I sort of like a bit of a jolt in the middle... I have revised others so who knows - I may end up doing so eventually with this as well...

Thankyou gus for your lovely comment : )

Im dabbling in free verse at last. xx

PS: I promise is brilliant - I wish I had it on my fridge. : Dxx

Thankyou gus for your lovely comment : )

Im dabbling in free verse at last. xx

PS: I promise is brilliant - I wish I had it on my fridge. : Dxx

Merci...
Il y a du sens dans ce que vous dites...
plutôt dit: Est-ce que c'est pour le mieux ou le pire?

Je vous corrige un peu...

'Oh oui, ma Francine chérie,
Vous finissez par me connaître meilleur.' (mieux)

'Est-ce que ce pour le plus mauvais j'est de la merveille ?' Je suis désolée, mais je ne comprends pas du tout ce que vous voulez dire...

p.s. I liked the first picture much better as it was more mysterious and showed the tower... ; )

Merci Gus...
Hahaha... vous me faites toujours rire.
Le secret est de choisir une seule position ; )

HI Gus, thanks for your comment and yes and much more. I was in a major mind funk the night I wrote that poem. I had read so much, I was sick, and so tired of world games.Yeah you got it and its more then that, but boils down to that.The poem before that one is about the same thing, but more leaning on false world religions. Im christian, however not part of any one group, and Id never join up, not with what I know about them all. xx thanks for reading it, hope your ok.

Hi
Thanks for your comments on Requiem - always pleased when somebody even reads, even better if they like it.
Hope you're well?
Cx

Gus i can be so slow , i only just got the pickled onion joke :))))


and now its getting more and more tempting to use it :)

Oh my! I never knew! The things we learn...
Thanks for enlightening me Gus ; )

thanks Gus for your comments , fiddling with poem ,
kisses

Ooh la la... you may be right ; )

Hi Gus,
slams are like that.
I enjoyed it and i judged the Wigan one last year, it it's not an easy job because you just don't know what's coming next and the theme of each performer is so very different from the others, it creates a confusion because of the range of emotions projected.
Those who performed in the second half had a better chance to adapt to the audience responses from the first half. Personally, i'd only taken along the work i intended to perform. It went down a storm at Wigan, which reflects the mood of the evening really. I accept that and would still do it again.
I hope you will too. See you at Wigan on Thursday if you're going to be there. :-)
Janet.x

Ha ha... un flirt... moi?

Merci beaucoup pour vos mots gentils Gus...

J'espère que vous me permettez de vous corriger un peu votre français...

'Vous sont très aimables'... doit être:
Vous êtes très aimable.

Ce n'est pas grave...
de toute façon je vous ai compris ; )

Hi Gus,
Thanks for your fulsome praise of "The Watercress Girl". Entirely undeserved really, it's just a piece of Victorian Gothic fantasy, but I hope entertaining. I, like others have mentioned, like your "lips" logos too! Your missing has a "Music Hall/Variety Theatre" quality to it - I can easily imagine some old time song and dance man tip-tapping his way through it with cane and straw hat, complete with suggestive winks and gestures! Max Miller etc . . . now there's an idea for your next performance . . . ;-)
Regards,
A.E.

Hello Gus, thank you for your comments on my Sky Iron in this new equinox. I hope your Spring thus far is sunny and blossoming. Deb x

Oh thankyou dear.

Ah you went to below the belt - I was going to go but alas couldnt in the end - did I miss out lots? x

Hi Gus

Thanks, as always, for your comments on 'Coast...'
I was written last year in Newquay but it's been tweaked a little since then. As we all have I s'pose?

Yes, I have many faces.

Good morning Gus, thank you for your kind comments, as always, much appreciated, Deb x

Hello Gus, thank you for your kind comments on my poem. It was good to see you perform your King Tut in person last week and to have a giggle, normally it's the other members of my Jordan clan who giggle at fartyness, it must have become infectious, oh dear. : ) Deb

Hi Gus,

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

steve

Hi gus thanks again Sian x

Hi Gus i mistakening deleted your last comment re my Beware the Flowers....my fault. i wondered if you could re list it as I enjoyed reading it . by the way the poem does not in anyway indicate my true feelings about men....or does it? Sian X

It's great! As you know I love toilet humour. Yes, there will definately be some severe liver abusing on 19th - glad you can make it, get your ticket now as I'm on a mission to sell out!

Thanks Gus,
Have you any suggestions as to a final solution -start a war in the Balkans perhaps-big drugs problem on our streets coming from there -good excuse, like Afghanistan !

Hi Gus,
Thanks for your comments on 'Initial Name', much appreciated. Have left a bit more on the comments page of the poem.
I've never met a Gus, but my great-grandfather was Alfred Augustus - he stepped on a mine in 1917 in Ypres.
Cx

Hi Gus, thank you for your input and suggestions for playstation- they're greatly appreciated. x

Hello, many thanks for the comment, always useful to have a different perspective and yes, that line does sound alot better...it flows well, so thank you very much! :)

would like to help you co-host your new night Gus.
Love your profile pics, have you a list of them? I would like them as wall art, if you saw my house you would understand why.
Pete

I am based in the South West, I don't perform anymore, I used to work as one half of a juggling duo and sang too. I have thought recently that it would good to try 'something' again in the performance field...however, whether I will feel confident enough to do this is quite another matter. I did discover recently that there is a regular poetry evening at our local. I have been toying with the idea of just going to 'see' what it's like.
Sian X

"Where do we go from here?" just read this- you have such a great mastery over 'turn of phrase', a very natural flowing way with words, you just don't seem at all frightened of 'letting go' so to speak and your piece was an enjoyable read.
Sian X

thanks Gus, I posted 2 comments to myself last night instead of you, a wee bit tipsy hic again!

Hi Gus

Glad you like Davids Wish. I wrote it for my little nephew after his dad (a climber/skier etc) died suddenly and didnt get the chance to say goodbye...

Best wishes
Maggie x

Hi Gus
Being new to the site i hope you didnt mind my comments about The Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Its so refreshing to come on this site and see such original work.

Take Care
Maggie

Hello Gus, thank you for your comments, I'm happy you could see what I see, I also like to find myself lost once in a while. I very much enjoyed becoming lost in your Sun, Moon and Stars, Deb.

Hi there,
Thanks for your comments on SNAFU. To me, it felt angry - perhaps it's all in the eyes? :-) I'll work on sounding angrier!
It really is appreciated when you, and others, take the time to read & give feedback. I was verynervous about posting that soundfile - I recorded it at least a dozen times, trying to get it right; in the end I thought, post ithis now! - because I knew I was getting to the stage where I'd think oh I'll leave it for today, and so it would go on.
Anyway - nice to hear from you.
Cx

Hi Gus,

Thank you for your comments about my poem. I feel that I'm beginning to find my voice in my poetry, and it's awesome :)

Like the new picture.
Cx

Hi Gus.
Thanks for taking a peek at "...not the only fruit." It's a very clumsy tongue-twister, but was great fun to construct. I guess writing something with that volume of rhymes is more akin to a crossword than poetry.
I really enjoyed the simple beauty of images in your "Yellow Dress" btw. Or was it beautiful simplicity? Probably both!
Regards,
A.E.

Very different - your new photo - has sort of left me at a loss for words - which is unusual.
:-)
Cx

Glad you approve - but Dear Jonny is, in fact, darling Larry.....:)
Cx

Please see latest blog - any more to your taste?
Cx

You're absolutely right - and I'm working on it... really I am! I am getting there. And should you ever meet me I don't think you'd find me maudlin at all, I'm writing that out. Though I didn't think One Touch of Nature was maudlin - I wrote it as a thank-you. And look where it got me when I started writing about shaving pu.....cats!
I do appreciate your comments and criticisms, and thank-you for reading them.
Cx

Hi Gus, Thank you for your encouraging comments about my poem, I agree, I think I've turned a corner with my poetry. Belinda x

Hi Gus
I will always co host if you need help with that

I am a fan of 'where do we go from here'
great poem mate

What are you insinuating sir?
Cx

Are you suggesting I have little imagination? - it's one recording - you might sound like Terry Thomas in real life! and anyway I like my Dylan's! and furthermore what in hell's name are you complaining about? .... you've never even remarked upon, let alone complimented my voice!
:-)
Cx

Love the killer heels by the way. How do you walk in them? - I can't .... I always look as if I've lost my horse.
Cx

Tried to 'chat' again, but couldn't make it work - story of my life.
Cx

glad you like my stories and dramas !

near heaton park train station?

Whereabouts? I used to live near St. Mary's church.

Thank-you for your appreciation of my lumpy culinary effort!
And Happy New Year :-)
Cx

Hi Gus,
SPongebob Squarepants is a dramatically over-rated and annoying cartoon character which in my opinion promotes stupidity at times within children and more notably adults

thanks !

oops! a P.S.
If you're writing YOUR story, whether 100% autobiographical or embellished, remember that to everyone else it is just a story. We are all the most fascinating people in our own lives, doesn't always follow that we are fascinating people - the more autobiographical your writing is, the more difficult it can be to keep some onjectivity!
Cx

Some advice I was given years ago - may or may not come in useful ...
- Do a re-write, strip away every single adjective so you are left with just the skeleton, put back only those that make a difference to what you want to say.
- If you are really, really, really impressed with what you've written - put it in the bin.
- Prefer the anglo-saxon.
Would always be delighted to take a look at anything you've written.
You know the Clough? - whereabouts are you?
Cx

Sorry about spoiling your illusions about reading snowmen .... guess tonight is not the best night to tell you about Father Christmas then?
Hope you have a good 'un too.
Cx

Actually, I do have a poem about snowmen flying, but that's not the Christmas one for 2008! I'll post it later! Have a great xmas, m8..

HI Gus, I have met and dated such pigs.But when their true colors came out, it was over. Its amazing, how some can hide, how they really are for a time.Its a pitty when you love them, and think they just had a bad day, or that they will change, they wont change. great poem you have there.

Thank-you,
Cx

Not me C... Far from it.....wish I could take ya for a whatever you drink to discuss it ....moreover to convince you I believe in what you say without question.I find you refreshingly forthright and strong..... Dont get many of those to the pound these days.... I know that I could be counted among the most ardent of your fans.

X Gus

No need to apologise - I rarely take offence. Trying to square up - bit of a wimp, always worrying about upsetting other people, now trying to consider if they're upsetting me. Sorry to hear you find me intimidating, maybe just too intense? :-)
Cx

I think there's some sort of telepathy thing going on here - last week when I was playing with some lines around the theme of ' You took my music from me & now I want it back, y'bastard!' - you posted your musically based 'Fat Elvis'. And this week I've been scribbling my 'Men! Can't live with 'em! Can't shoot 'em!' verse, and here you are pipping me to the post again with your mcp rap! Hey ho - back to the drawing board.
Just to warn you - next week I'm probably going with the themes of visiting relatives for Christmas, and maybe a rousing chorus of If you think my family's barmy - take a look at yours. 'Tis the season to be jolly, after all.
Cx

then where has it gone?
Cx

When I logged on earlier today I saw a song you had written, which I thought looked interesting. I didn't have the time to read it properly or comment, and now I've come back - I can't find it. Did I imagine it? was it not yours? Am I seeing things? Can you answer these pointless questions?
Cx

No need to apologise - it's an excellent piece, and I think, I am not alone (on here!) in using poetry as a sort of therapy. Do you know the song Everybody Hurts by REM? - it tends to get sung in an angsty way, but if you listen to the lyrics it is actually saying ... get over it for God's sake - you're not unique!
Does everybody know what S N A F U means, do you think?
I agree about spreading the love and the smiles and I'm taking the tablets in order to keep doing so!
Commiserations about the golf course, but keep that grin fixed!
Cx

Hi Gus,

sounds like an interesting book...

Hi Gus, to answer your question. A place called Rutherglen (A borough at one point) on the edge of the city centre. Comes under South Lanarkshire. I love Edinburgh too. Used to go there a lot. I keep intending to go to the open mic nights in Glasgow when I visit the family. Maybe this December I'll make a special effort. It's bound to be full of interesting and strong characters I'm sure!

Gus I just want to say I thoroughly enjoyed your performance about the (in)ability to excetute a bowel movement at FREED UP - it was simply marvellous.