We all have strong values that are surprisingly weakened by the idea of a cup of tea and a cigarette lol
Comment is about I Nearly Need (blog)
I really would have liked to fit more in, however it would have had to have been a lot larger but then if it was larger it would not have worked, thanks anyway David. Enjoy if it's bearable
Comment is about Magnus (blog)
Original item by PatricioLG
Thanks David, Laura and Patricio. I spent a lot of time on this one trying to get it right.
Your comments are much appreciated.
Comment is about Dark (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
sounds great. I love the sparseness in the way it is set out as much as the use of words.
Comment is about No RSVP Required (blog)
A powerful piece Ray. I particularly like the line 'with a hatred of light'
Comment is about THE DAY THE CLOUDS CAME (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Beautifully put Graham. I love your description.
Comment is about Summers End Turvin Moor to Cragg Vale (blog)
Original item by Graham Ramsden
This is great Stu. I particularly love ....'fuelled by dollar and decay and the cancerous open wound'...
I like the way the whole piece flows as David says the tumbling sense of this. I agree this would make a fabulous piece to perform. Are you coming over to the North west again any time soon.
Fantastic
Comment is about bile (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thanks, Ken. He had excellent wordplay. I thought "In My Garden of Love" was magic.
("Gus the Gardener's gone now and you went with him too
The fungus here reminds me of the fun Gus is having with you"). Incomparable.
Comment is about A TRIP TO THE ZOO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What comeback Cynthia?
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Cyn the foto is of Roisin and myself :-)
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thank you very much. Much appreciated x
Comment is about He's a Poet (blog)
Original item by Michelle
Fabulous! Practice x a million and the best of luck for it :) I'd love to see film of it if you can get it too.
Comment is about bile (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Such a pleasure to have real authentic detail and to see the variety accessible in a walk . A hint of David Bellamy as I recall - grubbing down in the undergrowth.
very enjoyable Graham.
Comment is about Summers End Turvin Moor to Cragg Vale (blog)
Original item by Graham Ramsden
I think what you and others are going through is a disillusionment of established religious orthodoxy, leading to a cul de sac of pointlessness. Me too; I've always sought loopholes - can't see the point of pomp and holier than thousand thees and thys or their foreign equivalents.
The death throes are in place -just a matter of time.
very nicely expressed. Ray
Comment is about bile (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Cynthia, it almost feels like the old and new testament messages, obviously religion applies to both, but the inflexibility comes in with the old. I say, out with the old and in with the new. It's a shame churches only have one door in -there should be other ways of surprising the establishment . An endless topic!
Ray
Comment is about A Hard Line (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
It tells a tale that can be read while leaving ones imagination open to divulge as deep as it needs to unravel a perfect picture... Wonderful
Comment is about Dark (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Surreal Ray, very heavy, almost as if one could touch them.
Comment is about THE DAY THE CLOUDS CAME (blog)
Original item by ray pool
im going to perform this and 'once upon a sea of blissful awareness' next month in wrexham. im already taking a very deep breath...
Comment is about bile (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Oh this is excellent. Hugely evocative, and very exciting. Well done!
Comment is about Dark (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Oooo! Biffed me in the nose this. This would make an amazing performance piece. It builds beautifully. I would be ranting my fucking head off by the end of this. Do it do it do it.
Comment is about bile (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Mmm yes I like this lots too.
there are letters in the black of flying birds
and flowers chatter in a woodland breeze
quality that ^
Comment is about He's a Poet (blog)
Original item by Michelle
Kind of balance, such as yin and yan, scales. Karma, what goes in must come out, the reason I never watch horror films
Comment is about A Hard Line (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
this is excellent and reminds me (in theme not tone) of one of my favourite passages from 'a scattering' by christopher reid. i'll paste it below.
twists of griddled succulence
tweaked from their shells with a slack
twang of reluctance, chewed,
then chased down with a wine
described on the menu as black.
Comment is about Picking snails by moonlight (blog)
Original item by Graham Ramsden
excellent. will read more of your stuff.
Comment is about He's a Poet (blog)
Original item by Michelle
Another one from my new pamphlet. This poem refers to the application being considered by North Yorkshire County Council from Third Energy to frack for gas at Kirby Misperson in Ryedale. You can get the pamphlet from my website http://www.birdbard.co.uk/bookshop.html
and it's also on Amazon and Kindle http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1519178085/ref=r_soa_w_d
Comment is about Fracking Hell! (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
Hi JC Great rib tickling stuff
I over dosed on white noise indulgence one day, and was so depressed decided to finish myself off with aspirin
But thank God I felt better after the first two.
(Old Benny Hill joke)
Comment is about A TRIP TO THE ZOO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I must find time to catch up with your work. This is delightful.
Comment is about He's a Poet (blog)
Original item by Michelle
Your comeback is totally brilliant, utterly confusing, very cathartic. I shall treasure it.
The child in your photo is very beautiful, like the portraits of many mediaeval 'Mary's', all big, clear eyes and rosy lips in a pale face. It could be a boy, but same comment - no difference. And you don't look so bad yourself, of course.
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Lynn Hamilton
Wed 18th Nov 2015 22:43
And a marker pen!
Comment is about No RSVP Required (blog)
ThanksMC. I did this in the great British tradition of saucy postcards and as a sort of homage to Benny Hill. (And as an antidote to some of the self-indulgent, self-important white noise you get on this site).
Comment is about A TRIP TO THE ZOO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tommy is thinking:
why do posters
refer to themselves in the third person.
I have tried to,
so has himself.
When both are speaking
in the third person,
he himself, finds,
that they are himself,
asking themself why?
Can two people converse
in the third person?
Tommy finds it difficult
to quote directly from
a third person's point of view
while speaking to the third-person
themselves.
We wonder if one's first-person
obligates the second-person's
directly attributed pro-noun.
I myself think that we should
-Tommy is speaking directly
here-
avoid all confusion
in such matters
by using the first-person
when writing or speaking
to the reader,
as one will find that
he or she wonders
if they themselves
are also confused.
Yours (or is it ones)
Tommy Carroll (himself).
words foto and himself
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Lynn Hamilton
Wed 18th Nov 2015 20:39
Thanks for reading, commenting and seeing the picture, I saw (he looked quite content - his loved ones, understandably, were not). xxxx
Comment is about Black Velvet (blog)
Thanks chaps. It was quite scary just the wind, but then the cut as well! then the candlelight - how could I go wrong? I tried to convey a mix of gothic and modern, a challenge!
thanks for reading.
Comment is about POWER CUT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Uplifting within the content of the grief - life MUST go on.
I'm reminded of the Kern/Hammerstein song of WW2 -
"The Last Time I saw Paris"..when that great city had
fallen under the Nazi jackboot.
Comment is about Paris, 13 November 2015 (blog)
Original item by Dorinda MacDowell
Nice, gentle love song with a satisfying pay-off, that could be rewarded with a tune to match.
In verse 2 I would have been tempted to use something
like -
"You're the rhythm to my rhyme" - for the last line.
But that's me being subjective...nothing more.
Comment is about Answer to a Prayer (blog)
Original item by Allen Jo Mathews
Fun to see this sort of post - not always the easiest to
try yet alone complete.
Comment is about POWER CUT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Animal crackers!
Always great to see you bang on form - or banging on
about form!
Comment is about A TRIP TO THE ZOO (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks to all who came along to Readaround. ACE funding permitting please watch this space for news of our return in 2016.
Review is about Beatnik Boulevard presents 'Readaround' on 13 Nov 2015 (event)
<Deleted User> (8659)
Wed 18th Nov 2015 14:10
A beautiful poem Lynn, wonderful.
Comment is about Black Velvet (blog)
too true it gives one time to think though. :-), this damn wind has broken my shed. How small we are
Comment is about POWER CUT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
yes you certainly do write with feeling, so do I, there's an honesty in that. Well done
Comment is about Allen Jo Mathews (poet profile)
Original item by Allen Jo Mathews
<Deleted User> (8659)
Wed 18th Nov 2015 11:50
Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for popping by and leaving your comments on Leisure. The original by W.H.Davies is one of my all time favourites too-many a time those are the words which spring to my lips when stood in a wild and windy place. And his first book,Diary of a Supertramp has been an influence on how I've led my life since first reading it forty odd years ago. But 'massacre'? That was not the intention and I believe that Davies would've approved.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
actually, the longer i stay away from professional kitchens the more i fall back in love with food in general. i think the same can be said for most careers. they sap the joy from whatever it was you once loved (usually the reason you entered the career in the first place). glad you liked the poem! the worst thing about the wife being pregnant is that i promised i wouldn't eat a steak until she could!
Comment is about bite (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
raypool
Thu 19th Nov 2015 21:14
Fill your boots Daniel. I wholly agree with this , we don't need propaganda to spread like the proverbial ordure. Ray
Comment is about CROC OF SHIT (blog)
Original item by Daniel Dwyran