Thank you Colin

Comment is about Heterabnormal (blog)

Original item by Matt

incidentally, i read a fantastic line today in a book by andrew mcmillan and can find no better place to quote it than here...

'when he came he made a sound that still hatches in my throat each morning'

nothing to do with your poem but a fine line i think you'll agree.

Comment is about SHE MOVES WITH MYSTIC GRACE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Joyti, You're forgiven. If there's a free t shirt and a sticker involved.... I'm in that gang! I'll bring the cheese grater.

Lynn x

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

fists of force legitimize.

that is a fine line to be read out loud.

Comment is about SHE MOVES WITH MYSTIC GRACE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

excellent. ray has summed it all up nicely. like a literate peeping tom. great stuff.

Comment is about A Crescent (blog)

Original item by David Blake

As a Spurs fan of 50+ years, like Graham, I am hoping for an unlikely Leicester slip-up. But if it can't be the Mighty Spurs as champions then I root for the Foxes.

Comment is about FOOTBALL CRAZY (blog)

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Thank you Jemima

Comment is about Crawl (blog)

Original item by Ande Norvel

Angela,whhattt! no chips!? come on,please!

haha.

Lovely!

Rose.x

Comment is about Recipe For Angela (blog)

Original item by Angela McCrimmon

Angela,
A lovely `breath of fresh air` antidote to a lot of the
`nobody knows the troubles I`ve seen` stuff we`ve been getting on here lately...thanks.

Comment is about Recipe For Angela (blog)

Original item by Angela McCrimmon

You'll be delighted to see that Leicester survive
If only via the effort of an outrageous dive
I for one will be happy to see your team croak
If we can get three points tonight up at Stoke!

Comment is about FOOTBALL CRAZY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

During this unfashionable club's unexpected success, there
have been a number of 1-0 scorelines - hence my
interest in seeing whether it would continue against West
Ham. I discovered later the score had turned to 2-1
in favour of the latter club - only for Leicester to get a
very late penalty to draw level.
To be fair, as far as footie is concerned, I'm more of an Arsenal fan...and that's only because my sister and her hubby follow the club.

Comment is about FOOTBALL CRAZY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Honey drips, parted lips; heat and sensuality, works for me, like it.

Comment is about wetting her lips (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Cheers Andy

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Lovely subtlety and turn of phrasing make this a must-see. I like the idea of voyeurism and suburban mayhem, almost a sense of gratification. I'm with you all the way.
Ray

Comment is about A Crescent (blog)

Original item by David Blake

A perfect description of sensuousness and anticipation Tommy. Very enjoyable - reminiscent of the Magnum adverts if I may say !

Ray

Comment is about wetting her lips (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Both: I changed the title, as I realized there might be a sexual connotation - a whole different ball game. xx

Comment is about SHE MOVES WITH MYSTIC GRACE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

thanks for comments Lynn and Wolfie.

My aim with this was to give a feminine credence to the mystic east (if that actually exists today) and maybe point out the threat of western influence or the benefits of it in its bringing women's plight into the open. A complex issue and not to be taken lightly. Prophecy would fit in certainly , and I wanted to indicate a sense of history spreading back and then meeting an obstacle. I think a lot of problems today are the result of a sort of buckling of opposing forces mostly subconscious with all sorts of mayhem as a result.

I hope that does not confuse - it almost confused me!

Ray x

Comment is about SHE MOVES WITH MYSTIC GRACE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

cheers guys. i had a workmate who went to cambodia a few years back and encountered some pretty dark stuff there. men living in hotels (for fuck all money), hiring young girls every night (again, for no money) and drinking the place dry. its a big culture over there, or it was. tragic really.

joyti - you are bang on! he's the worst one.

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Lynn, is he asking "whose gang you want to be in" please forgive me I couldn't resist. If I met him I would skin him alive with a potato peeler.

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I have visions of a British holidaymaker, filled to the brim with alcohol, stains on his shirt and leering.

Thanks Stu! ;)

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I rolled down this piece Ray. If that makes sense. Lynn x

Comment is about SHE MOVES WITH MYSTIC GRACE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Yummy! x

Comment is about wetting her lips (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Well if you put it that way, I suppose I'm not on the Southern Comfort yet. Perspective is a wonderful thing! Thanks guys.

Comment is about Looking through other people's eyes (blog)

Original item by Nicola Hulme

Beautiful. I enjoyed this, Tommy.

Comment is about wetting her lips (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

great little poem Ande.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Crawl (blog)

Original item by Ande Norvel

thanks ray. the song just appeared on shuffle and this is what came out!

the deerhunter, what a fine film.

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I'm crash landing on your profile page Stu. I came in low to avoid detection and now I walk unaided to meet and greet a poet whose comments always cheer me up. I'm flattered that you consider The Boghole a triumph. I love the word, it has a Seamus Heaney credibility for me, and of course can be a rectal equivalent. I never once thought of cancer but in this context would be about as scary as you could get.

Thanks again. Ray.

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Exceptional, Stu. A crushing of innocence or at least its conversion into something sullied like the history therein. I was thinking of The Deer Hunter.

Ray

Comment is about holiday in cambodia (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

ive read this three times now and each time i can see something different. i can totally see cancer, i can totally see writers block and im imagining some train ride to hell. i think this is a triumph. and now all i can think is how wonderful the word boghole is for the rectum.

Comment is about BOGHOLE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Why can't I write something frivolous and trivial and everyday or pseudo impressive or blatantly expressive
and funnel all those lovely gratifying satisfying ego boosting tickety boo comments into my insatiable inbox?

Thanks Wolfie , you're the one, but then you know that.

Comment is about BOGHOLE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you both!

Well, I think most women do really, LCPTB ;o)

And Rose, goodness thanks for 'girly' - don't get called that too often at my age, ha ha.

Comment is about Lukewarm Lover (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

you could see Nigel's influence on this piece (:

but top stuff as always

Comment is about April 2016 Collage Poem: Riddles (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

great stuff last week.

already done my piece for next month.

see you then.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

very you but very very well wrote

Comment is about Phantom Pubic Prowler (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

thanks Martin. Yeah, i think you could tell it was me. was thinking about putting it out under a alias, but i think people would have realised it was me (:

but thank you

Comment is about The Heaton Park Tunnel Mystery (blog)

Original item by Andy N

thanks guys. one of these kind of pieces which got wrote fairly quickly but yeah...

Comment is about The Pusher (blog)

Original item by Andy N

thanks guys. hope to get this on the stage soon with my band

Comment is about Inbetween Stations with David Bowie (blog)

Original item by Andy N

thanks guys. great doing these again. missed the characters i must admit.

yeah, i will amend this Laura defo.

Comment is about Ghost Story III (Part 1) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

thanks Lancashire... NaPwriMo tends to bring more unusual descriptions off me (:

Comment is about Ghost Story III (Part 16 and 16B) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you Lynn, its not dissimilar in construction to some of yours but where you have the beauty and finesse of a stiletto, I tend to wave a big fuck off broadsword.

Comment is about Write now every day. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Blimey Wolfie - that is scary but luckily my intention was more mundane - an internalisation of lack of inspiration in creative efforts, so yes writer's block. All dredged out and the mood blackening sort of thing ! So you were right . Got a bit carried away, and your interpretation would have been spot on if that had been my plan! So go with the writer's block . Boghole was a rather dark title.

Ray

Comment is about BOGHOLE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Hi Stu

Have to agree with the above. Great piece.

Lynn x

Comment is about cruel sea (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Hi Phil

I really, really like this.

Lynn

Comment is about Write now every day. (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

'raw attraction ensnared me at the start' Beautiful!
as the rest of this poem is.Nice one girly!

Rose.x

Comment is about Lukewarm Lover (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

This puts in my mind of a quote I once heard about the difference between like and love. When you like a flower you cut it and put it in a vase. But, when you love a flower you water it!
I love the line, "He will no longer look at as if he sees the sun in your eyes".
M :)

Comment is about You'll know when it's over (blog)

Original item by Dana Lee

I like this a lot. Mainly because I'm no great fan of Greggs! :)

Comment is about Chicken sandwich at the Langham (blog)

Original item by Gareth Glyn Roberts

An apt comment on the "know what's good for you"
preachers who infest our lives and encourage the
paranoia in vulnerable minds.
"If you choose the food that you enjoy
The know-alls will very soon employ
Advice they say is what you need
To get the best health from your feed.
But I like the wisdom in the declaration:
Moderation in everything - including moderation!"

Comment is about BACON BUTTY (blog)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

A heart-tugging evocation of a situation surely met
by some on any given day. I agree with CH about using
the first line (as written here) to close this piece and
give it maximum effect.
"Then carefully she put the clothes away
and went to bring her angels home from school...
the day that she was told that she would die."

Comment is about The Mother. (blog)

Original item by Ronnie Leek 1

Hi Ray Thganks for comment on Rare Earths. It is a bit of a whopper! I've had a bit of a tinker with it since, but nothing too drastic.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

Original item by ray pool

Lol - some clever lines here - made me laugh and reminded me of shorties I used to write and sometimes still do but keep to myself - hope you have some more to share another time?

Comment is about A series of very short poems and non poems about nothing special (blog)

Original item by Matt