I guess he didn't pick any of mine then ,,,
Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Laura you are now officially my second favourite poem on this site- That is all.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
tony sheridan
Tue 15th Jan 2013 00:08
Hi John. It takes something special to make me laugh out loud. Well done mate! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Penis Penis (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
tony sheridan
Tue 15th Jan 2013 00:01
Soon to be part of the fabrics of time. Great line.! Great poem! Take care, Tony.
Comment is about Mortality (blog)
Original item by Simon Austin
It was Freda starting a discussion thread about it that alerted me, Julian - and Isobel before her - so they deserve the credit! Incidentally, the Guardian mentions Ward's former profile on Write Out Loud. Are we taking the view that all publicity is good publicity?
Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well done getting this story up two days before the Guardian, Greg. Is that a scoop?
Comment is about Christian Ward's plagiarism 'mistakes' : is this no 4? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
THIS?
#1 Rachel- ''I have my own genres.'' Tae Kwon Do or butchery may resolve your need for 'poeticide' ;o). I do re-read my own stuff regularly- and sometimes also feel a distance between 'us' both. Maybe that is the sign of nascent maturity?
10/01/12
#2 Rachel- re your post to myself; have you not considered that your poetry may be 'universal' and therefore have value to an unknown reader?
09/01/12
#3 poeticide is a good word. i keep the ones that are important. some get deletisized.the genre thing is really to say i have a distance from a lot of my subjects but make them personal. some turn out to be something i want to keep personal. sometimes i write for me. sometimes for others, but i agree that nascent maturity allows for me to see that sometimes what i write is an elaborate escape and sometimes i like to keep it real.
11/1/12
4# yes tommy i have thought about that and i agree, its really why i continue to post or write at all. however i also believe in the field of dreams...'build and they will come' only in this case instead of building a big baseball park i clear out my old poems to make way for the new. fresh ideas. in art i work sequentially, ideas build change and develop. with writing i like to write as if ive never written anything before. which is why some read like that. i like to write with different 'voices' from different perspectives and let styles work together. i have my own genres.
9/1/12
#5 'new me.' sometimes i read back old poems and they have become that. outdated thinking, old thought processes. i like to clear em out and start again with a fresh page hoping for inspiration. thanks for asking x
#6 tommy, its a tough one. i believe that if something is written and posted and it offends which all sorts of material is likely to do on all sorts of grounds..i think the writer should be held accountable to their readers as would be with published work. here a comments system operates.so if i were to offend i would personally feel obliged to defend, explain my writing. sometimes its an agree to differ situation. if someone were to post something inciting hatred be it racial, concerning disability, whatever i still beilieve it should stand and be criticised. As such it offers an exampler of its inadequacy as an idea. if someone were to post sexually inapropriate material i believe there should be a standard of censure based on the accessibility of this site to young people as a moral obligation.
concerning freedom of speech once blogged this goes out to the world potentially. Its a gift but just a medium. free media..is up for exploitation like anything else. I think we can only measure our own writing. I have only ever once been offended by a slight comment on this site and ive been a member for years. I think that a sign of its credibility and the level of responsibility of its writers.
Thanks for posting this.
8/10/11
Comment is about Rachel Bond (poet profile)
Original item by Rachel Bond
''MC. I suspect I sit a little left of you (though not as near the touchline as a lot of these barmpots!).'' HAHA
Comment is about WHERE ARE YOU GORDON BROWN? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
hi tommy...now im sorry but you put an interesting comment on my profile and its been so long since i was on here that ive forgotten to which, what, who it refers?? please remind x
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
You've done it again John. This will get some comments. Are you working your way through someone's 500 greatest hits?
Comment is about Penis Penis (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks Yvonne - I guess that the "Creator" must have decided that love per se was not conducive to progress or else humans might be inclined to stay happy in a state of commonly enjoyed conviviality and go nowhere in the greater scheme of things. Would that be so bad, I ask?! Instead, we seem to have been programmed to have the capacity but not the total commitment...a sort of emotional half-way house of "one kiss forward...two kicks back"; and vice-versa.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
"Je t'aime" for the New Year...by a stretch!
Comment is about Penis Penis (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ha Ha liked this. Reminds me of the joke about the 5 star hotel - all easily visible through the hole in the ceiling!
Comment is about full moon (blog)
Original item by tina
I have ambivalent thoughts about the mining industry. I accept its importance as a mainstay of the industrial might that propelled this small country to the fore in other days, yet feel immense sympathy for those men (and boys!) who worked in it, and the animals that had even less of a choice. Who, I have always wondered, would WANT to work as a miner? And with that in mind, I have also wondered why there should be such resistance to seeing the end of such a dangerous and debilitating way of life...especially if it offered the chance of another existence, helped by a financial incentive. There must be plenty of people seeking the opportunity to strike out on their own OR choose a different way of earning a living...even it it means moving elsewhere. But maybe that is the biggest hurdle for so many...moving elsewhere. Is it the fear of leaving what you know - a close-knit community in work however mean and hazardous - for the unknown of a wider world? This may be a "northern" trait as I recall that the tin miners of Cornwall became well known in other lands - seemingly willing to export their particular expertise.
Not a calling for the claustrophobic - and I wonder about life insurance rates!!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
A lovely image painted in so few words.I love the 'barcode trees'.
Comment is about Winter Yields (blog)
Well said, M.C. Would any other exhortation be required if Altruistic love were the primary premise?
Comment is about MAN MADE RELIGION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
These are the competition results sent to us by Cafe Writers. Congratulations to all!
Results
1st Marie Naughton (Manchester) Brain, £1,000; 2nd Jane Monson (Cambridge) Beam of Light, £300, 3rd Colette Sensier (Norwich ) I Have My Mother’s Eyes, £150. Norfolk pPrize: Tim Munsey (Norwich) Wetland, £100; Funniest: Tim Clare (Norwich) Mango, £100
Commended, £50 each: Rosemary Norman (London) Juggler; Cathy Bryant (Manchester) Summer Rain and Such Fol-de-rol; Ian Dudley (Oxford) To Rest; Amali Rodrigo (Mumbai) I Think of a Very Large Mechanical Mouth; Vahni Capildeo (Oxford) Mercy & Estrangement;
Jonathan Beale (Middlesex) Easily Forgot
Here is Marie Naughton’s winning poem:
Brain
Glistens in a pool of saline. Delicately eased
from case of bone. Pale as any shell dweller,
blind creature, unaccustomed to light. Colour
of river clay, oyster mushrooms, yeast. Runnelled
as a walnut. Ferns, curled, at the moment
of unfurling. Clusters of bladderwrack.
Bobbled pearls. Universe in a bulb or corm.
Truffle slivers, indigo- and amber-stained.
Cauliflower floret, sliced. Row of winter poplars.
Shale tideline, telltale gap.
Limestone landscape, clints and grikes.
The prizegiving will take place on 11 February at Take 5, Tombland, Norwich NR3 1HF. It begins at 7.30pm, with readings by judge Ian Duhig and major prizewinners.
Comment is about Ian Duhig to pick £1,000 Cafe Writers winner (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
The human desire to impart the unknown with a
human identity, as in the coming of Christ to
this planet in our form, is understandable - &
a quick way of getting your "word" across if you seek to convert others to your way of thinking.
The "chicken and egg" question that our intelligence provides has yet to be resolved
when considering creation in the religious sense, and in a more ignorant world the easiest way is to ignore it altogether or
respond to it as "beyond our understanding" -
which, of course, it is.
Comment is about MAN MADE RELIGION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Ged,
Just catching up...good to see you blogging
Comment is about Four Leaf Clover (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson
Poignant. A lot said and there is not enough rhyming poetry about!
Comment is about A Trick of the Eye. (blog)
Anne,
Thanks for the re-welcome( as warm as your
well-remembered first one)
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
A lovely poem. I recently put one on here about never seeing the ghost I wanted to see - but maybe he is around. I feel like your poem has answered a bit of a question for me. As always, sensitive, thoughtful.
Comment is about Ghosts (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Hi Ludo - a warm welcome to SWOL - hope you enjoy the site.
Comment is about Ludo (poet profile)
Original item by Ludo
Hi - and a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site :)
Comment is about Jesuisnapoleon (poet profile)
Original item by Jesuisnapoleon
Hi Tom - welcome to WOL. Good luck with thatr hit single! Hope to see (and maybe hear) more of your work on here soon.
Comment is about Tom Doolan (poet profile)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Hi Harry - looking forward to seeing more of your candle boats of poetic endeavor on here soon ;)
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Loyalty & mateship. A devotion that covers and protects, even to one's personal loss & hurt. Admirable & noble even if it can feel or look like stupid martyrdom. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Should I tell her? (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
Many thanks Mister Black
Comment is about Electric Blue (for Avital) (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thank you, kindly. I am most appreciative of your visit & honest response.
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
Original item by Katy Megan
Hi Shirley,
Great,under stated poem that perfectly explains how depression works,and the secret suffering of the afflicted. As usual,love the pic too x
Comment is about Depression (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
Oh! I didn't know about Janet or John.It is such a shock Isobel. They both supported WOL at the Howcroft coming over from Wigan in all weathers.
I also have fond memories of Janet,we once got lost one evening,driving over the hills to WOL at Hebden Bridge,finally arriving in fits of laughter,that was Janet always a smile for everyone. She will be missed.
Comment is about Such misery - in Goole, Hull and Wigan (blog)
Original item by Steve Regan
M.C.
Regarding your point about`more to existence than we know:
I know the arguments about `Paley`s Watch`and design,
but every time I listen to dear old national treasure David Attenborough (and he is a national treasure)relating his anti-theism...and then look at the amazingly interlocking and almost miraculously colourful and fascinating scenes photographed by his
wonderful phographers behind him as he speaks, I can`t help suspecting that someone `up there` is taking a bit of a rise out of him.
Comment is about MAN MADE RELIGION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
I'm delighted to hear that there is a simple explanation for you disappearing like that :)
Re photo - any will do - how lucky are you not to be visually challenged - like what John Coopey is... ;)
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
...that comment about trying to find a photo that does justice...
...best keep looking!
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Isobel,
Your chat request kept coming up and I kept ticking `allow` but nout happened and as a computer thick `ead I didn`t know what to do next.
(I presume it was to do with old stupido deleting himself off the profiles by accident)If it was anything else let`s know.
(I`ll add a photo when I can find one that does Justice, homage, adoration, etc; to my immense good looks)
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Thanks for your comment on my FB poem Cathy. Yes - speaking to the wall is a strange concept - you ARE speaking to yourself - but at the same time everyone you ever knew - from the person you met in a lift a day or so ago to someone you haven't seen since your first job 20 years ago... Facebook is a crazy crazy place!
Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)
Original item by Cathy Crabb
Sexy lady
Seductive glasses
Poetry book
Would love
To borrow
Mind you
I might
Just get
Stuck on
Page three.
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
Original item by Katy Megan
Thanks for your comments on "You've Met The Met", Laura.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Hello Harry,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met". Time was when the NUM were a significant if not enormous power. In their time, leaders like Gormley and Scargill were names everybody had heard of; likewise Vic Feather or Len Murray.
Who knows who the President of the TUC is these days, let alone a piddling little union like the NUM.
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Travis Brow
Sun 13th Jan 2013 17:42
Thank you very much.
Comment is about Winter Yields (blog)
Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met". My own role in the strike as a manager was to help staff the pits on a care and maintenance basis, preventing them fopm gassing up or flooding so there'd be something for the miners to come back to!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Food for thought, MC.
...and an honest form too. No pretence of "free verse" by the ritual chopping of prose into little lines.
Comment is about MAN MADE RELIGION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
No regrets
Sounds bullet proof
But I'm not sure.
Comment is about Should I tell her? (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
There is a weight that a poet bears
although there along the edges the answers are scarce. There is a soothing undertone to this poem that allows what is not yet seen to comfort the begging heart of understanding. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about dead sheep (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Having someone written into your life, that is so powerful and a union so intimate it is divine.
Thanks for sharing!
Comment is about Reflection (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
Liked this katy,
my problem is usually the other way
If I had said no
instead of yes!
Best wishes, Steve
Comment is about Should I tell her? (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
dorinda macdowell
Tue 15th Jan 2013 09:46
What a great meeting last night: WOL in Stockport just gets better and better...............
John, I do think it might be worth pursuing the Edgeley link here with the US one! - yes, I know, as I said, a long shot...........but perhaps worth a thought, especially bearing in mind that WOL are planning a wider group than just here in Britain...........could that all be tied up together? Anyway, do have a think and I won't DODGE the issue if help is needed along those lines (my sad attempt to make a play on words ie: Dodge Hill...........hmm.............)
OK I'm going I'm going.........love to all....D.
Comment is about Stockport Council; Museums & Cultural Attractions Consultation (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL