I wouldn't go down, not even with Alice
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
MCN it depends how many puppets you want. PS good words that sound like a reply to an ultimatum.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
I enjoyed the pithy way in which you put your
point of view. However...
there is a "Master of the Queen's Music" as well
as a "Poet Laureate". Better surely to have
recognition that helps and not hinders the progress of the arts and brings them to a wider
audience - by association with an institution that is known throughout the world.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands
ps You didn't travel around Spain in your younger youth, by any chance...
Comment is about Touching...and going (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Superb poem Harry. This went down a storm at the Poetry Spoke. Very, very funny - but well written too - and that's not an easy combination :)
Comment is about Touching...and going (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
What's your hurry Dave? Can't you give everyone a little extension - or even a big one ;)
It seems to me like the competition is just taking off. It's like someone lit the paper and off it went. Surely it would be worth waiting just a couple of weeks for more entries?
Comment is about Touch & Go Competition - Voting (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Was it Groucho Marx who was reputed to have
rejected the idea of being a member of any club
that would have him?
I feel the same about much modern poetry.
But I'd love to hear what the Duke of Edinburgh
has to say!!
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Just so long as the threshold for defining "rich" is above me, eh?
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Graham Sherwood thinks that Tommy Carroll should pull himself together and be himself.
There you go Tommy, that's better.
Clever work by the way but I prefer yours!
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (himself) (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Here we go again. The haves and the have-nots are at it again. The best way of treating Royalty is to ignore them and they then become insignificant surely?
Thank God none of you are on the list. You'd all be too grand for WOL then eh?
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This effusion of confusion is no intrusion!
Like it.
Comment is about A Falling Of Conciousness (blog)
Original item by Tj Steele
Hi there - the illustration you use for this blog
brings back a memory for me. My brother - in the
Royal Engineers at the time - brought back the
same type of item from Germany in the 50s: an SS dress dagger. The blade was Solingen steel
- beautifully engraved with the words
"Deutschland Uber Alles".
I risked the brother's anger by swapping it at
school - can't recall what for now!
Comment is about Lorraine (blog)
Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER
The poor and disadvantaged will always be with us as long as we have charities.
fuck charities tax the rich
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Done in Dave's (et al) name so far as I can tell M.C. (Does Elizabeth R take pride in war?)
Our 'D' MOCK CRASS Y? is feudal. We are as ill-used as the infantry who scared the proverbial out of Wellington. Sadly, Dave is too arrogant to fear us. Under the excuse of remembrance I shall add others.
Comment is about DOGS OF WAR (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
As one whose blogs are always in verse (well, I
like to call it that!), I am not a fan of prose
per se in poetry; indeed, I often view it as akin
to provincial newspaper reports in its style and content.
Like JC, I enjoyed your lines in an ongoing
for/against debate...but will stick to rhyme
myself.
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Taking up the concept of the marine found guilty
of shooting the badly wounded insurgent.
I wonder if he had been caught by that same
damning camera uttering words of pity and remorse
when finishing him off, whether he would have
been pilloried by the moralists who appear to
quantify acceptable behaviour in the heat of war?
His "Tommy Atkins" bravado was his undoing in
the eyes of those far away from danger and the brutality of conflict when ghastly things are
done in our name...not to mention the ghastly
things done by the enemy for their purposes.
Comment is about DOGS OF WAR (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
We really are a charitable bunch, aren't we?
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm sure there would have been far more accidents in those days, Starfish. There were more bonfires for a start, and with no proper controls. But that's not the point. Those accidents were FUN.
Comment is about Health & Safety (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
It would be interesting to know if the rate of accidents has gone up or down since H&S got involved.
Comment is about Health & Safety (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (4172)
Sat 9th Nov 2013 08:17
I couldn't think of anything worse than mingling with a load of dribbling, sycophantic parasites.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanksfor the tip, Ian, (completely missed it)
And well spotted Dave!
And (in a pathetic attempt to retrieve myself) Ian, Why don`t you `re-christen` it `Eclipse` The body of the poem clearly says Trial and tribulation stuff clearly.
Isn`t it strange that - at times of absolute terror -
so very few people recall that they got a sudden temptation to become atheists?
Comment is about Trial & Tribulation (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Actually written in 2004 Harry. No idea why.
Lip service keeping us humane will take some pondering. My bible is 'The Lucifer Effect' - Zimbardo - Stanford Prison Experiment.
Comment is about DOGS OF WAR (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Indeed, fellas.
We had an innocent and carefree disregard for H&S in those days. And owned responsibility for it too. If a banger went off in your hand when you were about to throw it, it was your own stupid fault and not Standard Fireworks for making it, or the shopkeeper for selling it, or Swan Vesta for inventing matches.
Comment is about Health & Safety (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks John. Good to know I am not the only one who falls into the trap of word economy. (:o)
In passing I always felt 'Only swinger in town' was poorly written and not well performed. perhaps tht's why I didn't know his name. Pax.
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Barrie,
First, I appreciate the `five -beat` form
I (presume?)that this has to do with the shooting of the prisoner by the marine.
I can see that the guilty decision is paying lip service only to the Geneva convention.
But I think that even lip service is essential to keeping us aware of the moral aspirations which are the only things capable of stopping us becoming the howling `Dogs of War` we would become without them.
Comment is about DOGS OF WAR (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Hello Barrie,
I wasn't meaning to sound disparaging with my re-work of the Fred Wedlock quote. Quite the reverse, in fact.
I thoroughly enjoyed your gentle dig at the debate on avant garde v conventional poetry.
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
<Deleted User> (11585)
Fri 8th Nov 2013 22:06
Thank you for your lovely comment.
Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)
Original item by Starfish
Despite your first stanza, I like the way you rhymingly and stanzaically make clear what you are saying. (even about the blur and the false
reality)
It`s a lesson to those who reckon that in order to express the riddlingness of life they have to write `riddling` poetry.
Comment is about A Falling Of Conciousness (blog)
Original item by Tj Steele
All hail Harry! I suspect I could build my own Flanagans faster than I can get to yours. Not sure if my profile says: "Newbury".
Agreed - straggle is naughty in anything posted. (Mea culpa.) OK for self-read, as we correct the straggle aforethought. I have a truly bastard one just right for upcoming 11th Nov. and for 'downgoing' Marine. I'll post, and you can make hay.
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Barrie,
You should have been at Flanagans last
night to hear Chris read his satire, ending with the display of his `masterpiece`(yes, you got it - a blank page)
Granted that sometimes you can`t batter the sense of what you`re trying to say into rhyme, but you should at least be meciful to the poor guy reading it and try to make it tidy.
(how often some stray lovely or memorable lines get lost in the straggle)
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
This goes wonderfully with the music - as though they were made for each other.
Comment is about LOVE TAUGHT ME (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
''"They've great big parties inside the grounds,
where suck-ups and lickspittals are doing the rounds''
fuck royal invites
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
So heartfelt and sincere. Lovely.
Comment is about Will I ever (blog)
<Deleted User> (5011)
Fri 8th Nov 2013 18:39
blasted privatised postal services must have mislaid it. Heigh ho. I believe that not being invited is a better option.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
me
Fri 8th Nov 2013 18:17
Sell out
Comment is about From Chickentown to McCain chips: but does Cooper Clarke's new ad put you off your tea? (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
me
Fri 8th Nov 2013 18:13
I'll be there
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I hope you've received your invitation, Julian.
Comment is about Invite to the palace: are you on the list? (Nov 2013) (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Kerb Crawler
Mechanical digger
unknown workmen
traffic ambush
stop signs
we are
all followers
of the
mighty cones.
The theme for the night is roads
Comment is about Write Out Loud at Stockport tonight (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This is proving a very productive sally M.C.
On Friday I attended one of those poetry things that abound, where a guru leads a group nowhere in particular. One of the 'poems' we were handed was just so short of - well - everything, that I got rebellious when reading it at home.
A special gift, you say? Perhaps even more special, is to be able to detect the barely detectable? (:o) There can be no right or wrong, of course. We now have silence as music, and there must be a blank page of poetry somewhere. I yield.
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
It takes a special gift to write prose that can
pass for poetry - and precious few have it.
A reminder of how good it can be is to be
found in "The Burning of the Leaves" - a piece
for the time of year if ever there was one.
It is also timely that its author wrote the
immortal lines "For The Fallen".
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
Inventive, with a command of language that demands
respect. I enjoyed this display of style and
imagination.
Comment is about You + Me = Destiny (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Another confident and wonderfully lucid review, Cato. Thanks so much. I have sympathy with your frustration over the fashion for themes.
Comment is about Air Histories: Christopher Meredith, Seren (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
What memories this post evokes! I can recall
the back page of many a popular kid's comic carrying an advert. from a firm (was is Ellsdon
or something like?) with all sorts of gadgets
that would appeal - and the hand/pocket warmer
was one such item.
Youngsters loved such things - and their
busy imaginations could be relied upon to
find something to entertain each other - often
hazardous!! But that's how they grew into
wiser adults - unlike many adults today who do
the most stupid and often lethal things that
would not occur had they had the former self-
taught experiences of risk to fall back on.
Comment is about Health & Safety (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
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Fri 8th Nov 2013 11:54
I have been remiss in commenting and thanking everyone without mentioning the essential contribution and support of Diane Green and Kirklees Libraries who fund the pre-jam workshops and this event.
Diane has been key to the development of the Marsden monthly poetry group and our successes at the Jazz Festival. Although some of this work is part of Diane's vital role as reader development officer for Kirklees, much of it is not and is done voluntarily and in her own time.
She was particularly keen for us to run the workshops, which aim to encourage prospective Poetry Jam performers to experiment, produce new work and get tips and hits for improving performance. And, as has been made plain above, it helps create a wonderful atmosphere.
A special thinks too, to Isobel for her continued support, not just of the jam but of the website through her work as a member of the Write Out Loud team.
Comment is about Write Out Loud's poetry jam: an eye-opener for a reviewer (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Just checkin' (:o) Off to visit Fred Wedlock.
Cheers John
Comment is about TETHER'S END (blog)
Original item by Barrie Singleton
<Deleted User> (10832)
Sun 10th Nov 2013 19:11
Well I thought this was gonna be a rude little ditty so Im a bit disappointed, as must be Alice.
SW1? acquiescent metrists? Whats this all about? I suppose some would like the mystery you've created here.
Comment is about I Won't Go Down, Not Even With Alice (blog)
Original item by Paul Sands