Some men create gods that don't fend for themselves.God has created men.He is God of all gods.

Comment is about Realizing His kingdom (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

Harry - there should definitely be more poetry about Liz's assets, rather than her acting ability!
Rob

Comment is about A valentine for Cleopatara (blog)

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There is nothing as such 'Your God' say Our God.It is Our God that brought everything in to being including you and me. If you are "Foolishly Bold' to stop clicking with your instinct and sense there is an Omnipresent,Omnipotent and Omniscient God it is up to you.Even birds praise the Almighty God at the break of dawn.
Unless you mend your ways in time this truth will dawn on you just before the angel of death shake hands with you!

I am not talking about religion But the Almighty, God of all gods.

Comment is about Realizing His kingdom (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

excellent jeremy. the second verse is just wonderful. 'how nice to take a knife to you'. brilliant stuff.

Comment is about Letters Found (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Hi Ray Glad you liked my truimpet poem. That might be it on the musical instruments for the moment. They are both part of a long sequence inspired by metals, so that's the real connection, and not so much the music. Still, as I'm a big jazz fan I had to drag it in!

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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A round of applause for this one, with its old fashioned feel.

Comment is about Letters Found (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

Thanks all for the comments.

Robert, what you say has made me realise that I`ve not quite `got` what Liz`s Cleopatara was about...How about : instead of the last two lines:

Your breasts soft breathing sanctuary temples set
To guard the impetuous, passionate heart between.

Thanks for inspiring me (and getting the sand out of them):)

Comment is about A valentine for Cleopatara (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thanks, Harry. I have to confess it's an old post; in fact the first thing I ever wrote (No 1 in my Greatest Hits Album!). It owes everything, of course, to Marriot Edgar - the italicised lines are a lift from his.
I'm indebted to Greg Freeman for the introductory line about "fixture congestion".
For a loada nonsense it does, surprisingly, have some historical accuracy!

Comment is about THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Harry - me thinks you speak of the Liz Taylor characterisation of Cleopatra. What a beauty!
Rob

Comment is about A valentine for Cleopatara (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

John,
twenty six stanzas of sheer comical dialectic genius,

you`ve brightened up my night!

(After failing to towse out a miserable old git one)

This is completely un - toppable

Thanks! thanks! thanks!

Comment is about THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

*tossers

Comment is about Blind Love (blog)

Thanks for reading and commenting Ray. I wrote this with the toasters in mind that shine their laser pens into pilots eyes and the sick thrill they seem to get from doing such an act. X

Comment is about Blind Love (blog)

lovely Aju.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Angel (blog)

Original item by Aju

If it still works, Harry, you should use it (both poetically and anatomically speaking).

Comment is about A valentine for Cleopatara (blog)

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ditto PeterRay's comments - I like that we don't encounter the body but we find 'sleek entrails of car body parts' which is such a great line - the whole second verse is word perfect - great stuff Ray.

Comment is about DEBRIS FIELD (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I enjoyed reading this poem. I liked the sense of approaching, seeing and moving on, all with an air of mystery.

Comment is about DEBRIS FIELD (blog)

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i love the jaunty clip of this ray. i have just discovered carol ann duffy's book the worlds wife which is brilliant and some of the wordplay is quite similar.

Comment is about A BAROMETER FALLS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

i do indeed. a lovely little boy (5 days old).

do check out paris:texas. its an amazing film and a great soundtrack.

Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

This says to me how humorous and vulnerable the situation between the sexes can be and how transient the desires.

Ray

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Thanks Stu for astute observations - this has "dredged up" some fine comments from those I admire greatly .
When the creative flow is sluggish it is nice get the support you need to keep it all going! Ry Cooder, a master of that style , i'll check out Paris Texas. Sorry my reflections on the past career are embittered to an extent. Patronage has always been an irksome necessity to artists but I made my pot when the interest rate was 13 - 15% on loans! Have you a new addition to the family? Congratulations !

Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

What a cool thing to be doing. Congrats!

Not, of course, that either poetry or philosophy will do a damned thing about environmental degradation and impending ecological collapse. But still, a marvellous thing to be involved with.

Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Harry AS everf your commenmts are much appreciated.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thank you Stu, it's most kind of you

I should thank the BTL atheist types at the Guardian for sending me off in search of what chastity actually means - it's just a shame they don't do the same ;)

Comment is about The Virtue of Chastity (blog)

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Glad you liked my hero SDtu. All my recent poems are connected in some way to metals and I wrote thgis one after a friend challenged me to write something inspired by the fictioinal metal in Captain America's shield.

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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You're too kind, Cynthia and WOL is a great platform with it's combination of text and visuals.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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I wonder if Wayne Rooney would be up for creosoting my fence, Graham?

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

also this is wonderful ray. i stopped to marvel at one of the finest rhymes i have ever read, but then kept reading and scraped out loads of cynicism, anger and weariness.

great stuff. i love ry cooder by the way, especially his soundtrack to paris:texas.

Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

you rhymed barracuda with ry cooder!

Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

love this jeremy. its sensual and sacred and manages to blend physicality and spirituality. i like your work because i never quite know where you are coming from. i also enjoyed edens loss very much, but for some reason i cant comment on it. probably just a glitch but you have my applause anyway.

Comment is about The Virtue of Chastity (blog)

Original item by jeremy young

'I am touched by so much pain
that in some way,
I can only recognise it as love'

those three lines alone encapsulates the hell you must have been through Michael.I wish you well on your road to possible albeit slow recovery.Be strong!

Sympathy.

Jemima.

Comment is about No Intellect of Mine (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

A wonderful Wolverhampton write-up, Steve. It sounds as though it ranks alongside some of the longer-standing great poetry nights.

Comment is about Riot of poetry plus two laureates at City Voices in Wolverhampton (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Bon voyage David! Wooo - so exciting! Have a wonderful time.

Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Howdy Cynth

Thanks for reading and commenting so insightfully, as per usual!

The 'bather' was my mother, it was me beside the bath, called in. You may remember we had a 'difficult' relationship. She was in one of her depressed times and seeking emotional comfort from me. Excruciatingly uncomfortable for me. I've not been able to bleach it out of my mind so thought I would throw it down on the page, try that. Interesting that you sense a 'missing element' - you've seen my attempted distancing/separation, both at the time, and now.

Hehe - yes, I did like that finish to your Wind from my Window poem :)

Thanks again :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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lip service is all you'll ever get from me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7JsZlZ_1i4

Comment is about Lip service (blog)

Original item by Eric Broke

As this poem seems to have been hijacked by the THFC "I remember when" brigade, here's my two-bob's worth.

My old next door neighbour used to run a paint/decorate business in the sixties and used to give Bobby Smith some moonlighting work during the week between matches.

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Haha!! Thanks Ray I'm glad you enjoyed it! Xx

Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Congratulations David,

(I won`t say a word about woolies) :)

Keep the site posted about the goings on there

Comment is about Write Out Loud's David Andrew heads off for philosophy stint in Iceland (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Sturridge for Kane, Harry? Let me think about that......

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

No, thank you Jemima (:

Comment is about Space (blog)

Original item by Taylor

John,

We`ll swop you: Sturridge for Kane.


(alright, so it`s a joke....)

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I think this one gets much more sincerely to the heart of it, Tom.

I done Cleopatara, because she`d been dead for two thousand years (and couldn`t complain about the style)

Thanks for your comment.

Comment is about Love in Your Eyes (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

hi Leo.And unfortunately how common the last line in the poems is.P&S

Comment is about Happy Valentine's Day (blog)

Original item by Leo

Yes, MC, I too remember them from the early 60's. My first hand experiences were mostly limited to seeing them at their away matches at Nottingham Forest or Sheffield Wednesday - close to home.
I was lucky enough to have seen Blanchflower, Mackay, Smith, Greaves et al.

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A "Hymn to Him" - to borrow from the title of a song
from a famous Lerner & Lowe musical.
Good to see an English player leading the way in a
famous game largely peopled by foreign players. With
Kane and Vardy up front, our national team could be
entertaining as well as competitive in the future.
I am old enough to remember Danny Blanchflower's time
with Spurs back in the late 1950s/1960s - something of
a "golden age" for that famous North London team.

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

blimey, I just turned the thermostat down after reading this. It makes my eyes water (so does the poem).

Most enjoyable Vicki.

Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Harry still might become Champion of the World, Wolfgar. No-one comes to mind with a better claim.
This frightens me a bit, Simon. I've been around long enough to cope with the Despair; it's the Hope that does for me. As Mark Lawrenson once said, "Tottenham never let you down". I fear the implosion.

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hehe! Yes the innuendo is intended - and I thought about titling it something like 'guilty pleasure' & putting a line in at the end about sherbet lemons .... But then decided it was more ironic to titillate the reader as they were imagining something else but knowing it was actually about sweets!! Maybe I'll rework it! And as to writing porn ..... I'll add that to my list of things to do! Thanks for your comment Wolfie xx

Comment is about Sherbet Lemons (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Great to see this John. We could win the Double this year! Or even the Treble if the Europa League counts...

Comment is about HURRI-KANE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

David, you have as always exposed the underbelly of motives that epitomised the time, in which I indulged my capacity to pay the mortgage with some sense of offence I must say. A sense of fair play certainly never prevailed in that climate. However, there was loads of work ! Thanks for your interpretation. Your word irrelevance feels harsh but is accurate.

Greg, Thanks for your eagle eye on this; much better to have the subtle approach. I feel more tales bubbling up - at my time of life it feels like a magnus opus on a tiny scale.!!

Comment is about SHIP'S MUSICIAN (blog)

Original item by ray pool

After the kill thirst for death quenched
she holds him
till fresh orders come through.

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