Sacre bleu! C'est un Joyeux Noel nonpareil, n'est pas?
Hurrah for the hand that comes down hard
Three Christmas cheers for Pere Fouettard!

Comment is about LE PERE FOUETTARD (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

oh for gawds sake!put that theasaurus and dictionary down!

Dead good piece of Audoire'ation..tee hee..tion.x

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

Thank you for reading and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it
;-)

Comment is about Barefoot (blog)

Original item by Twilbury Wist

Predictable, yes! - so I wish you all a very blessed Christmas............
See you next year!
Love, Dorinda x

Comment is about Cards - December Collage Poem (blog)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Feedback?
I'll give you some feedback!
Stand up and take a bow Natalie.... a superb piece of work :)

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

Lovely! I wish i had thought of it :0

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

oh my goodness! That's very graphic!!

Comment is about Whte Ashes Black Magic (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Yes - it's been too long! After getting Of Lilith and Anthony finished and up on Amazon though I just wanted a good bit of rest and relaxation!

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thank you for your comment! Work in progress that one and going to be a lot longer so will post it in it's entirety once it's done : )

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Are you serious Natfastic?
you may have been a touch too drastic
we only want to pay libation
for this piece that ends in 'ation
comments here are like hen's teeth
and meant to give you self-belief
please don't think we're being trite
we think it's a bloody good write.

© Graham ;-)

Comment is about Feedback (blog)

New poetry collection
New hot lover
New year coming - - -

About time you came back!

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

Original item by Katy Megan

To answer T.C's comment:
I take the view that religion as we know it
is a man made concoction that chooses to pick
& choose teachings of love and forgiveness
or ignore them when it suits - as in Peshawar.
Whether that occurs in the present Middle East
or elsewhere can be a subject for an opinion,
especially when it indoctrinates infant minds
that grow in stunted form to kill their own kind in mass murder.
That applies to the two dominant religions
at this time: Christianity and Islam...in
particular, in societies that still seem
held back under the leash wielded by their religious leaders and their selective teachings.
Arrogance on stilts? Tell them!

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Agree about the capitals. They do not make sense when reading it through albeit a poetry license thing too.

Comment is about Tree of Life (blog)

Agree with Cynthia, shorter cleaner lines would make this incredibly powerful.

Well done, HannahMary

regards,

Graham

Comment is about A poem youll never hear (blog)

Original item by HannahMary

Great stuff Dave. But be careful you'll have JC after you!

well done,

regards,

Graham

Comment is about Breaking Bad for Christmas (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Super, but I would have liked another couple of lines. Don't be so mean with us please

Well Done,

regards,

Graham

Comment is about For An Afternoon (blog)

Original item by A.M. Clarke

I'm sorry I don't understand Collects prayers and sweep seems wrong to me too.

Love the brevity and can almost feel the sea breathing in this.

well done David.

regards,

Graham

Comment is about WHILST THE SEA SINGS PRAYERS (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

I would have liked some shorter lines here and there and the couple of times successive lines rhymed threw me a bit too.

A great piece of writing though using sailing/boating terms to document a relationship.

well done Judi!

regards,

Graham

Comment is about Shipwreck (blog)

Original item by Judi Strega

*double thumbs up*

Nice one! :) Great poem too!

For some strange reason though your link didn't work. It is correct, it just wouldn't follow through to the page. Weirdness.

Comment is about Poem published on poetry24 (blog)

Original item by Gary Smillie

Alexandra, crikey!

I think it would have been better not to have used the title line in the piece.

To me this is an allegory for cleverly disguised total supplication.

Heavy stuff indeed.

best regards,

Graham

Comment is about "I want to eat your cancer" - Nirvana (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

In retrospect I agree about the title Ann.
With the picture (although I never like pictures to accompany a poem) you could have got away with calling it just Gannet.

Incredible musical background, really eerie!

Once again its good to have you back on WOL.

Graham

Comment is about Song for a dead gannet (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

The last line is wonderful. A simple description of expertise.
Loss of one's place is a difficult issue to deal with,and watching the change in our parents can be similarly difficult.

A lovely idea.

regards,

Graham

Comment is about Work (blog)

Original item by David Cooke

I like the idea and the brevity of this.
Hope offering silence is a good line too.
Didn't like the number of "borders" in verse two (three in four lines) but this could be changed easily.
Nice reflections at the finish.

Well done Tommy,

Merry Christmas and regards,

Graham

Comment is about What borders do (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Interesting inference re "suffer...minds that are free" considering the abuse and slaughter of innocents by the Christians for 2000 years. Even as I write priests and nuns abuse children and Christian militias have been responsible for atrocities in Beirut in the recent past. But that is conveniently forgotten in order for the poem to rhyme. Arrogance on stilts, but then it is Christmas.

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thank you M.C., thank you Daniel. My mother has a friend who has a difficult life and i heard the young woman utter the words 'god willing' in relation to her ongoing problems. It's hard to be complacent in the face of others' struggles, and it leads me to examine my own happiness.

Comment is about GOD WILLING, SHE SAID. (blog)

Hi cynthia
Thanks for your comments on a card from home, much appreciated. Look forward to seeing you again at Sale next month.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I would like to believe that the pakistan government will sit up and listen at last. we can but hope and pray.

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Hi M.C. thanks for your recent comments on 'A card from home' much appreciated. I glad you got the gist of it. I am in the process of writing a reply. Then hopefully I will put the theme of the first world war to bed.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

The evil Taliban,have definitely,scored an own goal.

Strange as it may sound,I think a lot of good will come from this terrible atrocity.

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

While looking at the picture and listening to the song,I was very much moved.

In fact,almost to tears!


Very,very moving,and hauntingly beautiful!x

Comment is about Song for a dead gannet (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

excellent stuff, ian with a nice ending. good stuff m8.

Comment is about A Wee Dram (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

shocking events in Pakistan, M.C. I agree with you here

Comment is about CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Shades of the passion of Elizabethan poets...
albeit that I am uncertain about the final line.
from "that's the way troubadour goes". But this
is a subjective comment from a lover of rhyme.
I'd rather have passions grow!

Comment is about Tryst (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Slainte!
A poem to make you feel as warm as toast!

Comment is about A Wee Dram (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

"A 'Touchdown' for the good guy"

A very articulate piece of work James.

Comment is about Advice (blog)

Original item by James Roper

Andy.. very profound and your work always leaves me with food for thought.

Comment is about GOD WILLING, SHE SAID. (blog)

Many thanks, MC. And to you and yours, of course.

Comment is about Dear Sarah and Samantha (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you all very much for your very kind and welcome comments on Portreath. They were very much appreciated.. althought the work itself was a little 'tongue in cheek' and the contents very much a little of wind against tide!
(Sorry for the long delay in responding to your kind comments and thank you for the feedback).

Comment is about PORTREATH (blog)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

The eternal question of the individual's place in the scheme of things - brief and to the point.

Comment is about Tree of Life (blog)

A sustained and impressive example of the concept
of being willing to give up life through love so another might live. Powerful stuff.

Comment is about "I want to eat your cancer" - Nirvana (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

SPOOKY!we blogged a poem quite similar to this one,and with a similar picture..('Having played his part')-17th Jan 2012.


SPOOKY!SPOOKY!SPOOKY! xx

Comment is about Song for a dead gannet (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Good advice is worth a try
Tho' often met with rolling eye
:-))
I enjoyed the supercilious choice of enhanced terminology to make the point.

Comment is about Advice (blog)

Original item by James Roper

Thanks, Ian. Your comment is valued.
And a Happy Christmas to you, too!

Comment is about THOUGHTS AT CHRISTMAS - a re-post (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

The ability to be profound in a few lines is a
gift given to few. These lines are brief yet
pose a conundrum that lingers in the mind.

Comment is about GOD WILLING, SHE SAID. (blog)

The Georgians and Victorians knew enough to
value the pleasing effects of "good cheer".
These lines are equally pleasing and bring
good cheer of their own. Appreciated!
I've had my share of wee drams at Christmas
down the years, usually as chasers with
pints of ale. The one spirit of Christmas
Past that nearly did for me was brandy.
Never again do I want to lie abed with the room spinning around while feeling unable
to move.
It was enough to make me promise myself
never to touch that particular drink again.
Cheers!!

Comment is about A Wee Dram (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Pass on the good will - that's always a great
Christmas message to coming generations.
Compliments of the Season to you, J.C.

Comment is about Dear Sarah and Samantha (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this Natalie; i wouldn't mind the odd comma or colon though, being a sucker for pauses.

Incidentally, i'll ask you the same question someone once asked me; why do you start all your lines with capitals?

Comment is about Tree of Life (blog)

Thank you El Jafari.

Comment is about GOD WILLING, SHE SAID. (blog)

Puts me in mind of Bjork does this!

Lovely - as Anthony says, very atmospheric. The recording's ace - loving the stereo back and forth effects. Really quite haunting, and there's an instrument used in the background (a scraper of some kind maybe, or electronically produced) that actually sounds like the movement of sand (or it does to me, anyway).

Excellent :)

Comment is about Song for a dead gannet (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Mmmm - wonderful poem, hugely evocative, cracking imagery.


ps - I didn't think there were quite enough swear words in your xmas poem ;)

Comment is about A Wee Dram (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley