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Comment is about O C D (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I know exactly how this feels. Thank you for putting this pain into words, and keep up the creativity. Create something beautiful when bad things happen. It's the ultimate way to appreciate that self destructive emotion, and convert it into a positive passion.

Comment is about Divorce=Loss (blog)

Original item by Richard Alfred

Time to smooth out the kinks? :-)
At the time of the decision over joining the "European
Community" in 1975, the Treasurer of the "Yes" campaign
is reported to have said:
"The whole thrust of our campaign was to depict the
anti-Marketeers as unreliable people - dangerous people
who would lead you down the wrong path. It wasn't
so much that it was sensible to stay in, but that
anybody who proposed that we came out was off their rocker or virtually a Marxist".
Fast-forward to the present administration and Cameron's description of today's "antis" as loonies and
fruitcakes. Does that approach seem familiar?
Now - define the difference between "free trade" and
"harmonisation" (EC choice) - in meaning and cost.
Finally, outside the EU, a place with the World Trade
Organisation presents itself; inside the EU, it does not.
As for the process employed to get us this far:
I remember the deceit, then the denial, then the
dissembling, then finally the decision - as originally
planned! This is NOT OUR WAY and now we can
act - with far more knowledge and awareness than
we had previously - to get our bearings and our
future back.

Comment is about SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO? (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Wow thanks chaps :)) -
Graham thank you - I started writing this while listening to a cello piece - it stuck with me!
Jemima - thank you so much I'm glad you liked it!
And
Stu ...... praise indeed! I'm glad you stuck with it! It's not my normal style I thought I'd give it a go - so Thank you indeed xx

Comment is about Sea Dreams (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Our Guest Poet Patrick Bond prizewinning poet from Lewes. Patrick has years of experience as a poet and reader, and student of John Clare, as well as nine years as a Forest Worker. Winner of the 2013 Torriano Poetry Competition

Review is about The Poetry cafe on 11 May 2016 (event)

A harrowing piece Alem. It's awfulness came through after several readings. Tommy

Comment is about The better evil (revised) (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

Ha-ha!

Comment is about Psycho-babble, doggy paddle (blog)

Original item by Peter Ray

Thank you Martin, Graham and Peter. Means a lot to me.

Comment is about Ego (blog)

I really like this, Trevor. I love the last line especially :)

Comment is about I Thought I Knew You (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

I think that the country are with you on that one Sian. ;-))

Comment is about Sian Bird (poet profile)

Original item by Sian Bird

cheers ray! to be called hitchcockian is quite a thing.

Comment is about the jackdaws... (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

this is really good. my wife made me watch that film and i think this poem has more creative merit. maybe the book is better...

Comment is about Is The Fault In Us? (blog)

Original item by Abi Thomson

this is as far from my cup of tea as you can get but its beautifully written and does have some great lines in it and loads of imagery and assonance. 99 out of 100 of these i start and dont finish but this one i read in full and im glad i did. i love the closing lines to. nice to have you back.

Comment is about Sea Dreams (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

Short, sweet, nice.

Comment is about Ego (blog)

My sort of poem. Real.

Comment is about A mugging (blog)

Original item by Andy Smyth

Wonderful Pixievic! Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Sea Dreams (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

A poem about Hillsborough seems appropriate this week, and this one is just excellent. Great work, Peter.

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

so lovely to read real poetry Katy,for which we thank you.

P&S xx

Comment is about Immortal Soliloquy (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

fave line-

'there is always time to spend destroying you'

and the rest was brilliant too.

P&S

Comment is about Playing Thin, Thin and Loose (blog)

Original item by confirmstatushere

we just popped on to high five and collect a laugh and a little tear.

P&S

Comment is about A mugging (blog)

Original item by Andy Smyth

"The murmur of the surf plays in her ears like muffled
notes bowed on a cello"............

I like those words a lot!

Comment is about Sea Dreams (blog)

Original item by Pixievic

In a class of its own Stu for sheer descriptive lines - perfectly captured like a Hitchcock moment.

Ray

Comment is about the jackdaws... (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Good to see you posting Preeti.
Short and sweet and an interesting idea.
Can wounds fly deep?
I like the brevity though.
More please!

Comment is about Ego (blog)

Haha, aww thanks Rose. I'm not a Manc, I grew up near Blackburn but live in Huddersfield now. Bokkle is possibly better but it's not really how we say it. It's more like bo''le, but you wouldn't be able to read that and I couldn't think of another way of writing it. Which other poems did you read of mine?

Comment is about We're off to Never never land - Paracetamol, cucumber sandwiches and the Lost rent boy (blog)

Original item by Matt

..sounds like navigating treacherous terrain in a tentative vessel..so sad that a journey is sometimes incompletely understood until experienced.

This hits hard..thanks for putting it up.

elPintor

Comment is about Tips for my Daughter, How not to get raped, pt1 (blog)

Original item by confirmstatushere

Well what can I say... From near relegation to winning a premier league title within 12 months. Fairytale ending. :)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I get the picture of a lawyer preparing a case. The final line is particularly weighty.

I've read a few of your latest poems and really enjoy the spacing tactic you use in your presentation..it moves like a camera shutter..a very effective device.

Thanks for putting up the great work.

elPintor

Comment is about Cigarette Burns (blog)

Thanks, Martin and Rose, for reading and your comments. I'm pleased that you found the metaphors compelling.

elPintor

Comment is about nightfall (blog)

Original item by nunya

An inkwell of darkness is fabulous. Nice poem

Comment is about nightfall (blog)

Original item by nunya

I love your description of what you did with arborio rice. very good Stu

Comment is about arborio (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

How beautifully put Preeti .

Comment is about Ego (blog)

I particularly love the use of the word carcasses in this poem as it has some many possible interpretations.
Fab

Comment is about Cigarette Burns (blog)

Thanks Stu , Maria and Dorinda much appreciated. It was kind of a nod towards Shakspeare, although would not pretend to be in the same league as the great man. Though I may try writing some more in a similar vein.
Thanks again
Martin

Comment is about sleep (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

Thank you... Your comments are always pertinent and gratefully received.

I think the pertinent line is killers killing legalised. Its always the de humanising of the enemy that make them targets.
The Israeli arms industry is now huge. And practices its devastation in small wars with small neighbours.

The recent attacks on Ken Livingstone by the Jewish lobby that has bastardised the use of the phrase "anti semitic" to silence anyone who speaks out against Israeli foreign policy.
Was my motivation for pen to paper.

Comment is about Warsaw 1944 Ghetto (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

hahaha! another triff tale Matt,but yer cudda put bokkle not bot'le,or are yer not from Manchestaww?

bung us anuvver un soon pal!


Rose.

Comment is about We're off to Never never land - Paracetamol, cucumber sandwiches and the Lost rent boy (blog)

Original item by Matt

Hi David

Thanks and you do. I just observed, emptied the ashtrays, refilled the coffee cups and never judged.

Lynn x

Comment is about Cigarette Burns (blog)

"sleeps in a snare of silence" and I read this poem in a barnful of awe!

love it!


Rose.x

Comment is about nightfall (blog)

Original item by nunya

Blind Labyrinth is an electroacoustic music duo and we found this poem through this blog. With Pauline Sewards's permission and collaboration, we set this poem to music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03clWwOfeQ

Comment is about Synaesthetes night out at Cafe Oto (blog)

Original item by pauline sewards

Definitely an inside job, Stu. Great study with humour and tiny obsessiveness perhaps, all very worthy. I got a couple of old prestige stainless steel pans with copper bottoms still good after thirty years , and I think the food retains more flavour than in the teflons.

Much enjoyed. Ray

Comment is about arborio (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgIcklGKQs

Comment is about nightfall (blog)

Original item by nunya

Good for Lucy Nice poem Hugh

Comment is about The loneliness of Lucy (blog)

Original item by hugh

WoW! An amazing piece of work!

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Re S#n right, correct and bloody hope so. Love in perpetuity Tommy (ahem)

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Makes me a bit anxious reading this, like I can feel it.

Congratulations, Peter.

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

The touch of this piece Ian has 'The Mezzanine' by Nicholson Baker about it- not that it is purposefully so. It resonates. Tommy

Comment is about Head In Hands (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

A lovely poem.
I don't know the story behind the inspiration for it, but the poem can be attributed to so many other losses, which is what I really like about it.

Congratulations, Nicola.

Comment is about 'Rose Petals' by Nicola Beckett is Write Out Loud's Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Sigh...

Comment is about Your emptiness (blog)

Original item by Maria

Like a scene out of a movie... I can see a lot of people who live and communicate like that, which makes it both humorous and relatable.

Great pick for poem of the week. Congratulations, Mike.

Comment is about Write Out Loud's first Poem of the Week: 'The lovers' by Mike Watts (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

This is a great piece of writing and 'tasers' me every time i read it.

Comment is about 'Airways, Breathing, Circulation' by Peter Knaggs is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

ah creepy *do not look at the dark corner*

Comment is about Old House (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander