I can really identify with this, along with the idea of inkwells that we used to put iron filings in at school or somesuch. Well done for all that detail, spot on!
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Another fan, Stu, with this one. Touching and nostalgic, a time capsule of a sophisticated time , further down the line from the original big screen euphoria! Ray
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Helen Helen Helen you are showing the signs of an intelligent mind. Be careful now or you may develop a touch of quality of purpose. Hug tightly your ups and downs. At your service, Tommy.
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What a nice poem. I agree with Huw very atmospheric, but it left me wanting more
Comment is about top hat (blog)
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Hi Andy
Thanks for your comments on 'Not from round here' It is based on an event that happened to me as a student walking back to the car loaded with books as opposed to just loaded! He was quite insistent that I came form London and was happy when I agreed. Hope to see you next week.
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<Deleted User> (5011)
Tue 30th Jun 2015 18:27
What an interesting few days for northern poets and universities. In Lemn's (Norman's) case, a wonderful, inspiring journey from being (quite literally) a son of Wigan to this lofty position. Manchester will be the greater for it.
Comment is about 'My aim is to inspire and be inspired': Lemn Sissay voted in as next chancellor of Manchester University (article)
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Hi Stu
Thanks for you comments on 'Not from here' this is related to an event that happened to me a few years ago as a student I was walking back to the car from the university library loaded with books. He was quite insistent that I was from London !
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
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I applaud the consistency of the imagery in pursuit of an "ideal". We are conditioned in so many ways in this life,
so let us relish the imagination to support the hope of being blessed with that which we seek.
In recognition of that hope, as the late great Dave Allen used to say, clearly mindful and respectful of its many
and varied meanings: "May your God go with you."
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
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excellent, martin. enjoyed reading this.
Comment is about Not from round here (blog)
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Hey that's brilliant :) Sounds like you enjoyed it too :) xx
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a well written account of something i dread (or that is how i interpreted it). i always get stuck talking to people i dont know and who alarm me.
Comment is about Not from round here (blog)
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Tue 30th Jun 2015 10:14
Yippee indeed, Cynthia. I was set against Mr A for quite a while because of his (then) stated antipathy to the idea of 'performing' a poem.
It would be incorrect to equate modernising with performance. Yeats saw poetry as "an elaboration of the rhythms of common speech and their association with profound feeling", and I think Armitage is keen to speak plainly to his listener/reader, and alert to the intimacy of that relationship. He is fully aware of poetry's oral provenance, as all poets should be. "Mere air these words, but delicious to hear" Sappho.
His reading in Washington, that I was lucky enough to witness and report on, was a masterclass in how to present your work clearly without in the least dumbing down.
Comment is about Simon Armitage wins Oxford professor of poetry election (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hi Tommy, I am starting to wonder why I bothered coming back. The site is riddled with 'poets' who do nothing but critisize the work of other poets!!!
There is nothing I hate more than people who think they are better than everyone!
If I disappear again, you'll know why!
Helen x
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
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"kiss gently, kiss briefly kiss often"
Tommy hi
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A point well made Lynn. Ouch!
Comment is about MAKING A POINT (blog)
thank you so much yall that means a lot i will keep posting believe you me
Comment is about Should i (blog)
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so beautifully put as usual Tommy. The emphasis on leaves and litter together with paint and puddles works so well.
Comment is about the paint and the puddles (blog)
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That I promise Mr Astell!
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Hi Autum
There is so much power in your poetry as personified by this poem. Keep putting on the blog. I look forward to more.
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Hey, hey :)
Thanks for giving me a little push to read a formal piece. I read Her Scent on Silk at open mic last night. Went really well :) x
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You sweet stray nymph
your wild wayward desires
cease they must not.
Comment is about Sweet Light (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
thanks all for the kind comments. it gives me much needed confidence!
Comment is about burial (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
great stuff Stu. It is really the threat and challenge of individuality turned inward or not being received . The metaphor expresses it perfectly.
Comment is about burial (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
HI RAy Glad you liked my Charlie Parker poem!'
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I'm glad you like my simple poem Rachel - the fact that some people wear their faith like a new pair of glasses that last the rest of their lives. I like this poem of yours as it has an expansiveness and at the same a feeling of loss, and a condemnation of material things, essential to a wider view of life!
Comment is about day sky (blog)
Original item by Rachel Bond
like this..the pace faster and desperate as you describe the fog. cool
Comment is about burial (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hi Stu Thanks for kind comment on Teatime Bulletin!
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Oh, dear, Oh dear,
Far from wishing to cause controversy, I re-posted this as a personal reminder of my own, Christian Ideal of marital happiness.
I own absolutely that such a happiness is equally possible to any atheist or any other `ìst` whatsoever. (according to my lights God makes this kind of stuff available to anyone who strives for it)
I don`t mind the comments widening it, but would wish (seeing that this is a poetry blog) that they made any
points about it using the words of the poem.
These are `àbout` an urgent desire for attractive and sexually physical female beauty (including the child -bearing aspect of it), and a recognition that life afterwards would not be all a bed of roses, but end in final happiness.
I was half-expecting to be accused of indulging in an impossible kind of starry-eyed optimism...but there you are!
My - amused - concern about all this recent same-sex stuff is about what happens when they start suing for the restoration of `conjugal` rights. Or (the way it is going) when some starlet pleads to be allowed to wed her chihuahua.
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Thanks david. I have suffered from the big 'D' for many years, possibly all of them, and it has only been the last years or so i have sought help. I have found poetry to be the best therapy I can get. its a form of cerebral emetic unlike anything else.
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Lynn Hamilton
Sun 28th Jun 2015 15:12
Hi Helen, I'm pleased that you picked up on 'melancholy'. Tommy
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Hugh this isn't the right forum to have a serious discussion about monotheism or atheism. I do not castigate anyone for being of a religious bent. One of my closest pals is a vicar. But you are wrong in your attestation:
"a good relationship founded on the loyalty of love is truly a gift from The Almighty".
I did have a choice and I chose well.
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Hi Helen, I'm pleased that you picked up on 'melancholy'. Tommy
Comment is about the paint and the puddles (blog)
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Hi Graham. I have re-wrote this piece a number of times over the last 5 years and most changes have been concerning "tears" & "pain" and countless rejigging around them. Even the use of "pain" in verse 2 was rejigged after posting half-a-dozen times.
The wind it tackles
The leaves and the litter
The leaves and the litter
The leaves and the past
The sun it dries
The paint and the puddles
The paint and the puddles
The paint and the past
I saw the land quickly approaching
the bend in the river
that soon would be passed
I saw her look
I knew she was leaving
The leaves and the puddles
The paint and the past.
The original posting.
Quod pleno non compleuit sed abandomed
Comment is about the paint and the puddles (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Can't agree Hugh, sorry. As a confirmed atheist married for 44 years now I'm living proof you don't need an idol to believe in. Love exists in everyone. It's just the finding of it!
Comment is about A poet at prayer (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Good work Tommy.
I would have liked the first three (perhaps four five six) verses to have been identically repetitive before the last wonderful gathering up verse to summarize it all.
I like the style, well done.
Graham
Comment is about the paint and the puddles (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
The first thing that I can tell you is that I wanted to have Spinning Mule Elk Mill in the letters of the poem.
So I wrote it as an acrostic poem so that every first letter would spell that out.
Then I wanted it to sound like the mill, so I took the noise from recording of a mill with a spinning mule in.
And then I wanted it to be layers of how people would work for the weekend so they could have a drink so I put that in with words that I knew were northern slang and also mill slang.
And then I wanted it to go full circle so I put word in that would carry on so you'd get to the end and start at the beginning again.
My hope is that you can look up a lot of the words and phrases and trace them back to the mill.
Comment is about On a mat appears...(an early practice poem for a public art commission) (blog)
Original item by CathyLCrabb
Huw Thomas, I appreciate your comment. It was well observed and really on par with what I was going for.
Comment is about Left Without a Clue (blog)
Original item by Chandana
Thank you for your observation, it was on point. It is a poem about finding self.
Comment is about Out of Breath (blog)
Original item by Chandana
Really like this Tommy. It feels very lyrical and melancholy. Some nice poetic tools used with the repetition and alliteration. Good stuff!
Comment is about the paint and the puddles (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
i dont know. i think everyone is looking for something different. but most people want to escape something! i remember going to a festival several years ago called buddhafield and seeing a myriad of people, all professionals, desperate to forget who they were. they were rolling around on the floor, dancing and singing. i spoke to a few of them while i was there, and they told me it was a good form of escapism. i myself have tried several forms of escapism. the trick is to have nothing to escape from, a difficult thing to achieve.
Comment is about ouroboros (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Who knows
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brian timmis
Sat 27th Jun 2015 12:29
only if the wrong to Robert Poste is righted.
and did the goat die?
Review is about Starkadder poetry open mic on 6 Jul 2015 (event)
Ray- re Taxi "weary inevitability" spot on. I could not have put it any better. Tommy
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Summer miller
Sat 27th Jun 2015 08:02
Stu Buck
Tue 30th Jun 2015 23:04
Thanks all!
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