Sounds like a fun thing to be Cathy! Where do I sign up? :)

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Posh Tramps (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

jkrollingjkrollingjkrolling

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Hi Ann, A new and longer version of my Ted Hughes poem has just been entered to the blogs section. Hope you like :-) Win

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi John. Well yes, florentines are amazing are they not. I hve visited bettys for a friend and purchased a 'few' things as per her order. £18. nearly fainted! A new and longer version of my Ted Hughes poem has just been entered to the blogs section :-) Win

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Lovely to welcome you to WOL.

Comment is about The Kingsland Poet Tree (group profile)

Original item by The Kingsland Poet Tree

Thanks for the comments. I was just experimenting with the line breaks of course, as otherwise its a very mundane pattern that comes so naturally that I talk in rhyming couplets some days. I can see how boring it is as a form.

Comment is about Modern love (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Yes, what Anthony says! ;)

Comment is about I might look like a mortal man to you (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Hi Wez - a warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site :)

Comment is about Wez Jefferies (poet profile)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Thanks!

Comment is about absent friends (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Aaaaargh! The last line is the whole point! The people pushing for development of the H-bomb didn't 'go home' i.e. they went to great lengths to secure what they wanted. This is of wide application - how does change happen in our world?

Thanks for commenting anyway Steve - always appreciated, always interesting, often provocative.

Comment is about The decision to develop the H-bomb (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Like your stuff, Wez. keep the faith.
Stephen Smith

Comment is about My Opinion of the Christian God is shitty (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Testing? Yes it is, especially the pronunciation. Any chance of an audio - and link to the original? SW will love this!

Regards,
A.E. :)

Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

Thanks for your comments on 'The Vikings' John - as usual your grasp of the situation is uncanny: In the 'ead, right I certainly aint!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

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Comment is about testing (blog)

Original item by Poetry in Translation Group

As you say Greg, familiar themes, a ready identification, and a style of autobioographical poetic story telling we of a certain age are comfortable with. Amazing how a phrase or sentence carries a whole page or chapter of meaning.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

I saw this the other day and wanted to come back to comment on it.
It struck me as funny, profound, and sad in many ways...

Communicating with people around the world is just a click away these days! How some people conduct their relationships - both in a public forum, and void of any delicate, intimate interactions, that in the past would be necessary to cement any long lasting relationship, has become quite complex. I think though that if modern technology is used appropriately, and only as an introduction - can lead to something more substantial, but there has to be interest beyond the fascade often presented online and in ambiguous text messages for it to develop and endure - otherwise you are living in la la land...

Comment is about Modern love (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

"becoming a bit of a grumpy old woman recently."

Hmm, can only give you one out of three there Ann. :)

Regards, A.E :)

Comment is about absent friends (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Wez,

I've been reading through your posts (you may wish to post them at wider intervals, they stay up longer and don't disappear from view, giving people longer to read and comment.) Interesting and relevant social/political observation. The best way to get feedback is usually to comment on other blogged poems - and respond via profiles. Welcome to WOL by the way! Hope you enjoy it here.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about I might look like a mortal man to you (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Hi Freda,

Reminded me very much of Wendy Cope's style this one - not a bad thing in my humble estimation!

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Modern love (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Am definitely setting my alarm clock after reading this Yvonne! "Procrastination . . . " etc!

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Forever (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

The most important words in this poem are those you so eloquently don't use. :)

Regards,
A.E. x

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

John, you've answered a question that's been on my mind forever . . . "What should our natural reaction be to politicians?"
Maybe, when WE recognise . . .

As always - cause for thought.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Ape Shit (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!"

Sir walter Scott - "Marmion."

"The blood still runs the same."

Great conclusion Katy; love and hormones have a lot to answer for! :)

Regards,
A.E. :)

Comment is about Hidden Agendas (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Thanks for your comment Greg - glad you liked it. I think my poetic juices have started flowing again - phewwww. I've got one brewing about dog fouling at the moment - that one will be for the poetry tree :)

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Yep - sure was complicated at the time!! Quirky was the intention. Thanks for your comment, will try and make it a bit sharper : )
katy

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Funny, but ewww...

If you haven't - you should send it in for the Poet-Tree!

kingwilliam@kingsland.wakefield.sch.uk

Comment is about A contented nit (blog)

Original item by hugh

Beautifully said - love it - completely : )

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Ann - your poem is so delightful - love it!

Comment is about Your poems wanted for school’s poet tree (article)

Original item by Julian Jordon

This is a fine poem, Isobel, that says a hell of a lot in just a few lines. That thing about the weather is clever, too.

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for the feedback :) I only started writing a few weeks ago.

I'm against violent uprisings, they only end in a violent system and it just means the person with the most guns wins. But I think some sort of profound change in people's perceptions of the way goverments and big businesses run would be a good start!

Comment is about Lack of information is obscene and cronic (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Love this! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Wez Jefferies (poet profile)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

ps I like it cos it's quirky.

Comment is about Hidden Agendas (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

It sounds like you have a complicated life - it took me some time to work out the first verse :)

If you chopped the odd syllable, particularly in the second verse, it could skip along like a child's rhyme.

Comment is about Hidden Agendas (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Thanks for your comments on mine John. Yes - I'm experimenting with a more simple style at the moment. I need to get back to comedy at some point - will have to hone my rhyming talent for that :)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

This made me laugh. Great social commentary and the introduction was hilarious.

Comment is about Posh Tramps (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Hi Wez
I think what you've written is brilliant.

But please postpone the Western spring till I'm dead and gone, I wouldn't wish to inhabit a world where it's going take another five hundred years while you fill the vacuum with a society, which would no doubt eventually, mirror the one we live in today.

Upheaval of the system on a scale you have in mind will create just as much misery and injustice,(probably more) than we enjoy at the present. We're still evolving! there'll be no peace until, in maybe a thousand years, when religion is a past superstition. And we live in a United States of the World.

Great stuff though. KED.

Comment is about Lack of information is obscene and cronic (blog)

Original item by Wez Jefferies

Thanks for your comments everyone.

Yes Chris, I could probably have made it sparser and made a neater point about small talk. I don't think I could have made it sparser and also got across the mood and mental images I wanted to create though.

Cathy's comment says it all for me, in not many words - huge small talk. :)

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Haha - yes you've hit the nail on the head with those posters and that is most certainly the type of thing I'm referring to.

Your reaction I must say is very much my own on this one lol. The odd thing is that so many genuinely nice people and friends say/promote such things.

I reserve condemnation for the issue and don't think of it in the context of the people involved - I absolve them - no blame here.

I usually just walk off and sigh - like so many others.

But whoa!!!

When you learn to do that
thing that you fear more; the
more you become fearless.
And then you discover that
the only power fear ever had;
Was the power you gave it.

Ohhhh dear!

Or you realize nothing because it's too late and maybe your dead lol. Fear is obviously a very important emotion that has evolved - it has done so to protect us. For the most part it not only does a good job; it is absolutely vital!

In modern life it could be that having no fear sees you; wave goodbye to your job, house, stocks, marriage etc etc.

Again one of those all encompassing pearls of wisdom :( Mmmmm marvellous.

P.S

Facebook like many other tools will outlive its use, become outmoded, or be ditched for one reason or another. Perception is crucial in its success, if that fades then it's all over for Facebook.

How long it lasts will be based to some degree on the ability of those running it; to identify problem issues and tackle them.

Comment is about Superstition (blog)

Original item by Chris Co

I was surprised by the relative sparseness of the language. Sparse-ish short-ish, neat, implied yet accessible.

Good to confound expectations with differing styles now and then. Far more interesting than a certain red wheelbarrow imo.

Could the poem be tighter, truly sparse and still retain its essence? I think it could, with some work. But either way - Enjoyable -

Best

Chris

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

It reminds me of the final verse of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row.
"Yes, I received your letter yesterday
About the time that the door-knob
broke
Then you ask me how I'm doing,
Is that some kind of joke?"
It's what Paul Simon called "The Dangling Conversation".

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

This would go well with an audio, Y. It would put me out my misery of deciding whether it has deliberate metre or deliberately not.

Comment is about Forever (blog)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Hello y. I'm afraid 'nick nocky' is entirely the work of kd. It was my tribute and cheeky contribution to the discussion on experimental poetry in the blog 'william carlos williams red wheelbarrow'.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

Original item by Yvonne Brunton

Liked the way you pulled it around at the end-good poem Ann, I enjoyed reading it.

Comment is about absent friends (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

'Like' is probably the wrong word, but I do find it a painfully accurate reflection of the lives of many people.
How does one get past the minutae, into a more meaningful discussion/relationship?
Who takes the first step, or are both sides of the conversation culpable?

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Huge small talk x

Comment is about Small Talk (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Yuk yuk yuk! I love the idea of the teacher being the source of all nits - the turning on the head of conventional thought :))

Very funny. Did you write this for the school poetry tree?

Comment is about A contented nit (blog)

Original item by hugh

Mikhail, thank you so much x

Comment is about Mikhail Smith (poet profile)

Original item by Mikhail Smith

Lynn, thank you so much x

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Simplistically nice.xx

Comment is about absent friends (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

So very enjoyable.
(in a sad way)

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