Well it wasn't really Nigel sending a note all unclad, rather a reference to his suggestion that some WOL attendees run up and down the Art Gallery steps as part of our protest...

I think that I should volunteer
Although the weather is drear
For what I see so clear:-
If I parade, starkers, up and down
It might cause many and many a frown....
For what I'm trying to say
Is on such an auspicious day
The effect will surely be
The response from Stockport mbc
Will be, as in one breath:
'She scared us half to death! -
If you'll take her away - - -
We'll let Write Out Loud stay!!!'

Ho hum! - love from Dorinda
(quite respectably dressed, I must add!)

Comment is about Nigel's Naked Note... (blog)

Original item by Dorinda MacDowell

Peter explained to everyone that all normal channels to cut costs had been attemped by himself.

He asked the group if we could come up with any ideas that we thought might help, he said he would do his best to see if these could work before any final decision is made by the council.

I thought the meeting went very well and felt he had given us a platform to help towards solving the problem rather than just oppose him and the council.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

Original item by Stockport WoL

Surely not a rip-off but a cento, innit?
Surely not a rip-off but a cento, innit?

If I've told you once...


Yeah, I enjoyed this.

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

Original item by John Coopey

J'adore le fait que les mots pour les mêmes sons sont differents, comme toc, toc, et <coin coin> pour <quack quack>.

c'est un peu bizarre, n'est-ce pas?

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Thanks for your comments on my poem John - much appreciated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Chris, I really enjoyed listening to ABC and
Yesterdays post, very poignant.
regards Paul.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

Original item by Chris Co

Hi john, I didnt mean to insult prisoners in jail and stereotype them,its just that I remember Talking to prison officers who'd
had shit thrown at them or smeared in their faces by prisoners in jail!for some strange reason it just brought it to mind !
As for the guilt thing there can be no guilt for Monkeys, even cheeky ones.
regards Paul.

Comment is about Ape Shit (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'm beginning to doubt the sun actually exists after this year! Nice poem and I esp like the last two lines. (I'll have that song going round in my head all day now :)

Comment is about The Sun's Mythology (blog)

Original item by Janice Windle

Hi Janice - nice to see you posting. It's true what you say about putting everything online when you may want to enter it in a comp. Often people don't realise that doing this counts as being published - though some do argue the point! Good luck with the pop ups too :)

BTW if you want to reply to somebody on here it's best to post your reply on their page - I nearly missed your comment here.

Comment is about Janice Windle (poet profile)

Original item by Janice Windle

Well, I find this interesting, though I couldn't quite follow the divergence.

My fave lines from what you posted here...


'Let me dream

wandering pathways. Looking for that

perfect moon'


'The genius box

hides foolish sins.'


This experiment reminds me of the poem 'Bone Dry (and Destitute) - the plight of two children. I no longer see the original though.

Comment is about Texperiments: Winston reflects on 'amazing' response (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Lovely : )
Full of interesting and sentimental imagery!

Comment is about Intermission (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Ouais, je suis souvent là, mais parfois pas... ; )

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Oooooooooooo is that a promise? I'd LOVE to do a duet with you! There are endless possiblities - Sonny and Cher - I've got you babe - When I get old and losing my hair - Nancy and Frank Sinatra - Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like....

You strum it and I'll hum it :)

ps I'm not normally up at this time - just suffering from a bit of insomnia :(

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Me again.
Glad you liked "The Last Rhyme" but immensely disappointed when I discovered that all those xxxxxxxxxxxxx's at the end weren't kisses.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Steve,
Glad you liked "The Last Rhyme". I have to give a little credit away though. It was a Jagger-Richards-Coopey composition. (We're over 200 years old between us).

Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)

Original item by steve pottinger

Cynthia,
All definitely true...the truest line is the last one.

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wow, Anthony! That was brilliant. Your comment on my "The Last Rhyme" deserves a blog of its own. You should post it.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

...and another thing!
Nice to meet up again last Thurs.
If I get across again soon we might do a duet together? I have in mind my rip-off of "Ah Yes! I Remember It Well".

Comment is about Remembrance Observation (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Oops!
Forgot to pass on my thanks for your commenting on my Ape Shit poem (which, too, was quite sad).

Comment is about Remembrance Observation (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Enjoyed this Isobel (if enjoy is the right word). Powerful and pointed.
I think I have a few years on so so I recall the parades of yesteryear being about the old men (WW1 vets) and the young men (WW2).
It's sad that we don't have those old men anymore but sadder still that we keep replenishing the parades with young men.

Comment is about Remembrance Observation (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Anthony,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Ape Shit". I'm not an animal liberationist myself but I couldn't help feeling there was something so fundamentally wrong with keeping apes (and other animals for that matter) captive.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Glad you both liked it, Margaret and John. I'm not as widely-read on railway poetry as you might imagine, John. All the poems I've used here - apart from my own one, of course - came from a little volume called Railway Rhymes, ed. Peter Ashley. The Pershore one you mention is in there, too.

Comment is about Railways cento (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

John,
At last! A song that even a deaf old codger like me knows!

Oh,`to have your ham and eggs in Carolina!`

Comment is about The Power of Words (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Glad you appreciated my sad poem. It's strange how the most heartfelt can take the least time to get down in print. A similar occasion was when I was down in South Devon one gloomy November afternoon walking beside the River Dart - and found myself watching and listening to a solitary robin in a threadbare tree. By the time I was home (in my holiday caravan) I had the poem written in my head - see "The Galmpton Robin". Like you, I love comic verse and having read your POEM above, I can tell Mike was a damn Yankee who any girl with sense would like to tell to Foxtrot Oscar without needing an X-ray, with a cry of "Who's a Papa?" that would Echo for miles.
Cheers...:-)

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Carr

Ten out of Ten! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about LIFE'S PUZZLE (blog)

Original item by bernadette herbertson

Nice one. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about SLEEP.....A BABY'S CONTENTMENT (blog)

Original item by bernadette herbertson

I think that depression can bring out good works of art. Painters, poets, musicians.... History shows this. I can relate to your poem. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Someday soon..who knows..maybe. (blog)

Original item by bernadette herbertson

The Hare and the tortoise! Love this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about The old mans fable (blog)

Original item by bernadette herbertson

thank you Dave. Yep - life is complicated!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

yes, very true.....

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thanks for the link Julian. I realy enjoyed these renditions. Good to hear how the *professionals" deliver the words. Burton reading Dylan Thomas - now that's perfection.

Comment is about Think only this of them: War Poetry on video for today (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Ah, oui, excuse-moi: toc toc. Il y a quelqu'un?

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Yes, I am often not thrilled to have actors reading poems. Oh, with some it can work but I think of John Nettles ballsing up the Nation's Favourite Poems thingy. I do think these work, though not quite as great as Richard Burton reading Dylan Thomas.

Comment is about Think only this of them: War Poetry on video for today (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Many thanks for your comments on However it may seem. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about MNtality (poet profile)

Original item by MNtality

I feel you.
To have a passion so strong,
yet it's seems like it goes unnoticed. "unspoken refrain"

thanks,
-MNtality

Comment is about However it may seem. (blog)

Line 29 - oh you can give me a shine!

I love it John - love it, love it, love it - the song and the poem and the idea. You have it in a nutshell - the power of words :)

It's a song I've long wanted to do with my sisters cos the harmonies are brill - Christmas maybe? :))

Comment is about The Power of Words (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A moving poem Mike - from someone who really does know what it's all about.

Comment is about The Poppy (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Enjoyed this, Greg. But I ashamed to say that, for someone who enjoys railway poetry, I only recognised Auden's Night Mail.
My own favourite is Betjeman's Pershore Station.

Comment is about Railways cento (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Whichever way the wind blows
you still have the number.

Comment is about Mobile (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

I like it-lots.
And so much so I think I'll have a go at my own found poem, later. Thanks for the inspiration!

Comment is about Railways cento (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

This is very sad John but it reminds me of life in HMP for some people, especially the 5 points you make. As for the poor animals in Zoo's what did they do to deserve to be caged and poked fun at, they are prisoners for our entertainment,but as Isobel states we take our children to see them, Q how would we like to be put in Zoo's? Oh please don't get me started on the rights and wrongs of domesticating animals, Q does this bag of dog dirt belong to anybody? regards Paul.

Comment is about Ape Shit (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hog of the Hedge. Great line! I like this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Poem for childern (blog)

Original item by Peter Asher

Thanks for this. Beautiful. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about A short poem for a girl who lived for only 50 minutes (blog)

Original item by Peter Asher

Beautiful and moving. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about The Poppy (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Isobel,
yOUR REASON FOR KEEPING IT AS IS ARE
SOUND.

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

This was a nice idea. It's good to explore different vehicles of presentation. I think I would have enjoyed hearing an anonymous voice though - without the faces and expressions of the actors. Just voices with battle scenery in the background. Then I could have focused on the words, rather than someone's hairstyle or teeth - or acting skills.

Comment is about Think only this of them: War Poetry on video for today (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

Well let's hope not John! I love your stuff and I loved your performance at the Tudor on Thursday.

Whilst there's humour in this, I also found it a bit sad cos there's a lot of truth in it and in what Harry says. We've entered a new era in poetry. I wonder what the future will hold. Perhaps one day people will look back on our stuff and think how clever it was and regret their own future input? Red wheelbarrows to the power of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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

Original item by John Coopey

I'd agree with Dave Carr about the last verse Sid. It finishes in an abrupt way - I'm sure you could do something to improve it and round it off better.

For me, you would have to keep the line.

"I told him where I'd like to stick my cross"

It would be interesting to catch up with some of the great idealists of my youth and see just where they were working and what they were doing right now. I bet a good proportion of them haven't been true to their younger principles.

Very witty :)

Comment is about Sky Garden (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

As I have migrated stuff from the old cross cultural poetry group to here, I add Winston's link on ghazals as a comment here.

Winston wrote
There is a new discussion topic on ghazals which may interest you :-) Win

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsGroupsID=3&NewsThreadsID=1127#msgcontent_11384

Comment is about Poetry in Translation Group (group profile)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Not sure how you've done it Cynthia, but this poem demands attention and makes one really think about each word (which I'm in agreement with too).

Comment is about Thoughts Coupled (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas