Thanks for a great idea, Win. Here's my effort

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=32810

Comment is about Write Out Loud's poetry workshop: the cento (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks Isobel, John, and Cathy!
I'm not going to quibble over a penny, John ;-)
and I'm really pleased you enjoyed the City description, Isobel. :-)
and I'd like to think it works live, Cathy! :-)

Thanks again.

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

I really enjoyed this Steve. I bet this is brilliant live.

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Ignoring, for a moment, that it should have been 'Seventeen pence, cash' (as any poet no) http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=7838 what a cracking poem.

Possibly the best I've read on here for many a long month. Thank you!

: )

Jx

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thanks Laura x I did double check with her that she didn't mind!

Comment is about Posh Tramps (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Now we have made the news

I hope we have a good turn out

The theme for the night for anyone new coming is what does the Art Gallery mean to you!

The Meeting Place

White walls
Picture palace
Poets gather
Collective thoughts
Written verse
Listen digest
Minds travel
Each line
Different direction.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Definitely x

Comment is about An evening with Write Out Loud - and Tony Walsh (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Heh heh - one just gets a little tired of the inevitable 'banker wanker' rhyme...

I also find a lot of it just doesn't transfer to page. It's great to find one that does :)

Having just reread this after a little more sleep, I can't eulogise enough. As well as humour, there is class in this - and beauty.

and as the winter sun
breaks through the clouds
and the windows of the City
are a seamless wall of gold,


WHAT A CRACKING DESCRIPTION!

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Good to see you back Cynthia!
If true sensuality is about the senses and not the body, I'm right with you.

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks, Anne. I was on here before but in the persona of Pop Up Poetry. I couldn't change the clown logo photo I'd originally put on and in the end deleted the whole profile to do it! I've made a group profile on here for Pop Up Poetry now - I have 71 on my Facebook group of that name but I don't know if they will join Write out Loud as well.

I shall put poems on every now and then, on the blog, though I'm wary of publishing online too much in case I want to enter a competition or submit to a publisher.

Comment is about Janice Windle (poet profile)

Original item by Janice Windle

Thanks again. I'm very pleased I managed to sneak a political poem past you, Isobel! ;-)

And Janice, thanks very much for posting it on! And for the offer of a feature spot at Pop Up Poetry. I'll drop you a line. :-)

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Hi Chrissie - a warm welcome to WOL. I love your poem. Clever and extremely moving too. Hope to see more of your work on here. Try putting a poem in the blog section, esp if you'd welcome any feedback.

Comment is about Chrissie (poet profile)

Original item by Chrissie

Hi Janice - a warm welcome to WOL. I loved the poem about the den! I remember friends and I had a secret society for a while. I decided to sign some message in blood but cheated and used blood from a nose bleed! (Too much info - sorry :) It'd be nice to see some of your poems on the blogs second. Hope you enjoy the site!

Comment is about Janice Windle (poet profile)

Original item by Janice Windle

Love is all we need. Nice one, Dave. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Night & Day (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Love this! Nice nod to Gary numan. Take care,Tony.

Comment is about The Scifi prophet's dream. (blog)

Yes it is a brilliant piece of work! I've posted it to everyone I know! You must perform it when you next come to Pop Up Poetry as a feature - January? February? you choose!

Jan x

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Brilliant poem. I'm not always into political poetry - but you make your point with tons on humour which I really approve of! Intelligent, dry humour - love it.

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

I've had to re- read this more than a few times to make sure I'm understanding it correctly. It's an admirable poem and concept. Yes - it would be rare to find someone you could be like that with.

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Very funny! Can't wait to hear this one performed. I was thinking HitchHikers too! Too many lines to single out one, but I did like the Turnpike/gateway one :)

It's a shame you were missing last night. You and John Coopey would make a great double act!

Hope your flies are now closed and your toe's doing well :)

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Beautiful Harry. Magical, mystical, classical - are there any more als I can think up?

I love it because it is so different to anything on here - so romantic (in the nicest sense), so reminiscent of the greats, so worked on, so crafted, so gentle...

And I just love the ending - the contrast between old and young and the wonder of life.

So nice to see an appreciation of woman also!

Comment is about FOR LINDA ...Just turned fourteen....? (blog)

Thanks for the comment on 'When The Wind...' John;

Yes-Poole born and bred. When I grew up there it was a dirty old seaport: potteries all around, grain silos & warehouses blowing choking dust all over town,, an overhead gantry dripping black as it conveyed coal from the ships to the gasworks. In short - a proper town. As you have seen, now it has been ponced up as a tourist trap. OK to visit but not somewhere you'd want to live - although the millionaires seem to like it.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Dave priceless .. again! well done... all from looking at a fish eh? Tesco's or some sunny shores?

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thank you, Julian. I shall set up a group as you suggest. For samples, I'll put links to our videos on You Tube if that's possible

Comment is about Janice Windle (poet profile)

Original item by Janice Windle

Hi Janice
A lovely, Blytonesque, piece there. It's good to see you on here. Greg speaks highly of your Guildford night and it would be interesting to hear/read more about it.

Re the photos, do you fancy adding some basic information about them: date and name of event, name of reader, etc?

You know, if you fancy creating a Pop up poetry group profile you could invite your regulars to become members, thus giving you a simple means of messaging them all, telling them of the photos, so forth.

A thought anyhow.

Cheers

Julian

Comment is about Janice Windle (poet profile)

Original item by Janice Windle

Thanks for the feedback, Laura. Really glad you liked it! And very happy it's made you grin, too.

I'd never heard of Poetry24, so thanks for the heads-up. I've emailed them a copy of 'No-one likes...' , but seeing as it's already been posted on my website and Facebook, (and it's more than 40 lines long!) I reckon I may fall foul of their submission guidelines...

cheers :-D

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Thank you Freda for taking the time to give this poem a careful read. The comments you make will certainly help me as I wade into the next draft of this one. Many thanks, Neil.

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

Original item by Freda Davis

Thanks for your comments Isobel- I'm glad you enjoyed it and I agree that the devices you mention are essential to hold the piece together.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

thanks for your time Laura - group hug anytime for sure x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

aye

Comment is about Intermission (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hahaa :D Excellent Dave! Xmas Tudor? Gwannn!!!

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

beautiful Cynthia... for some reason the words seem as if sweet shisha smoke... there is luxurious simple rhythm to it which I love.

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

'finesse unplumbed' mmMMM

Dainty structure, to do with the most fragile of feelings - this is lovely Cynthia. Succinct, delicate, expressing what I would say is a truth :)

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

An incredible poem.

As a grown woman, I remember the time when it felt like the whole of the male population suddenly not only noticed I was there, but pretty much threw themselves at my feet. I was bemused. Same person I was yesterday, yet today I have all this power! It was spell-binding.

You've captured it from the other side Harry, and I think this is a blindingly honest and, I have to say, brave poem, given how society looks on any kind of male gaze these days, especially in relation to girls on the brink of womanhood.

You've managed to re-bestow the genuine adoration of a girl who is blossoming into a woman, without any hint of anything exploitative or sordid in any way whatsoever.

And you have wrapped the whole thing in layer upon layer of translucence and silk - the words shimmer on the page. I may be rambling but I know what I mean! Beautifully written.

I stand up to applaud you - this is a fantastic poem, in so many ways x

Comment is about FOR LINDA ...Just turned fourteen....? (blog)

I'm reminded of a hypnotist who wrote down our forgotten dreams so he could study them later, he turned to art and photographed the night sky, his photographs showed little points of light in the darkness.

Comment is about Discipline (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

With thanks to my compadres at Poetica for their excellent input.

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I can't believe no one's commented on this yet. This is a fucking STORMING poem!! A grin slowly spread across my face and got wider by the line, and then I nearly choked on:

"and knowing no-one likes an angry poet,
I give him a big chocolatey grin
and explain about the tax.
Then, before he can whip it away,
I have another gulp of mocha
grab the rest of the Chocolate Crunch™
and stuff it in my gob.

He threatens to call the police.

There’s a long pause.
Partly because my mouth’s so full of chocolate"

I'm still chuckling to myself :D As you probably know, this is so far up my street I live in it! I love how you totally take over it - this is MY poem! :D

Fucking brilliant Steve - I'd love to hear this performed

You've heard of Poetry24 I assume? Topical news poems they like http://poetry-24.blogspot.co.uk/p/submission-guidelines.html


Thank you - can't stop grinning now :D

Comment is about No-one likes an angry poet. (blog)

Original item by steve pottinger

Many thanks for commenting on my recent work... I do feel my writing is changing and happy for it to be so.

Congratulations again for your recent accepted submission - onwards and upwards for thee, I feel!

x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

It's a rewritten 20 drafts on re-presentation:)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thanks for your comment on Backward, Winston.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

extremely moving...great to hear it at the Tudor. Top title too,says a lot x

Comment is about Preparing Lamb (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Weird - I can't see a profile anywhere!

Anyway, yep - I really like this. Seems so simple, but the repetition works really well.

It really reminds me of a Mary Gauthier song too, here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw8aXfObEIg

Comment is about We’d drink (blog)

I'm trying to upload this as my profile picture but am stuck with a clown I posted stupidly when I first made the profile!

Comment is about My profile picture (when I manage to change it!) (photo)

We're hoping everyone will want to go on that late - the feature poets will leave earlier to catch trains but some are driving and Mel is staying with us, so there should still be some action up to 12 (Mel is great late in the evening!) Hope to see you! x

Comment is about Pop Up Poetry Jamming for Oxfam (blog)

Please leave it up Julian! I guess it's illustrative of several things; that WOL has a sense of humour - and of (sometimes) its own ridiculousness, that anyone can post anything - and deem it poetry, and that it's possible to make a poetic/pictorial representation of a squashed centipede! Personally I love it when thihngs like this happen, it shows we're human! (Well, most of us!)

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

I'm working one of my final shifts that night, Jan, but if you're going on until midnight I might be able to get along afterwards ...

Comment is about Pop Up Poetry Jamming for Oxfam (blog)

I love it!

Comment is about Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I can relate to this. Well done. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about if?... (blog)

Wonderful lines, Dave. Too many to single out. Reminded me of The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy. What I really liked, though, was that the rhythm was so reassuring - however the line started I could have faith that the line scanned.

Comment is about Omniverse (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Spot on, Dave! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Political Statement - The Latest Decree (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Wow, Harry!
Your best ever!
"dindled"? It's not in my dictionary. But I don't care. It's perfect. I shall use it as though it's my own.
A grand-daughter I assume?
...and the change from boisterousness to something more respectful is perfect too. I well recall the change I went through with my own daughters undergoing that difficult transition from Daft Dad to a more confused and uncertain role.
Again, perfect. Best I've read in a long day's march.

Comment is about FOR LINDA ...Just turned fourteen....? (blog)