apols for the delay Cate - thanks for reading :-)

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

what!? no Stranglers!!(cool poem)xx

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

Harry - delighted you found and enjoyed "Daddy Knew Johnny Cash".
I knew I was on to something when a pal of many
years - a published suthor of a book about the
origins of the Oxford Dictionary and a retired
lecturer in English at a Canadian university - told me how much he had enjoyed it. Just shows you never
quite know who - or where - your audience might be!!
Now -an annoyed P.s. - however much I have tried to make the above lines neat and tidy - they are
reproduced here like the product of some wayward sub-editor's untidy mind. Most aggravating.
Apologies!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Hello Isobel,
Thankyou for you thoughts on "WriteOutLoud Women Blues".
Glad to see that the depths of my crudity do not disappoint you! Of course, I don't know what half of those poetry terms mean - I had to look them up.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Foxy,
Thankyou for reading "WriteOutLoud Women Blues". There's a lot goes on in my head (not much outside!)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "WriteOutLoud Women Blues".
I have to say it's not a patch on your Johnny Cash tribute.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Titter ye not
If ye squitter a lot!
Anally retentive is not a phrase to mess with
here!!

Comment is about Squitters (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello Starfish,
Thankyou for reading (maybe listening to) "WriteOutLoud Women Blues". I didn't mean to alarm you with my manifesto!

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

Original item by Starfish

Well if you were to ask me to lick this piece into shape, I'd have to say that some of the demonstrative and possessive pronouns in your song were at odds with the written format - perhaps you became more demonstrative and possessive as you got really into your subject matter, John?

For now, I think I'll echo Ann - but I did have a jolly good chuckle - and I LOVE the blues - the guitar work and the flow of your poetry. Did it just trip of your tongue John?

We should do a double act - when I'm being smutty, I think I could out-smut you!

;)) x

Comment is about WriteOutLoud Women Blues (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

E-motion recalled in tranquility as Wordsworth might have said!

Comment is about Squitters (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Oooh, sorry if I've got mixed up! Looks like you've done plenty! (Who's Ian?) :)

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Ann I think you mean Ian or do you want me to do a bit more?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Inside the lines
the boy smiles
what is missing
is your love.

Comment is about Benefit of the Doubt (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Hi Ann - thanks for the 'hello'. :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comments John and for listening to my lastest entry.

Rhyme is not dead yet and though it might be outmoded in some quarters, the proverbial man on the street still enjoys it. I do hope your rhymes are not changing!

Karen.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments on Grumpy Summer and thanks for listening.

Karen.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks for listening to "Grumpy Summer" and your comments. I appreciate it. You highlighted the lines I rather like myself!

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Enjoyable review - I'm fascinated by the combination of poetry and comedy. Many poets try to cross over into comedy - it's interesting to hear of comedians doing the same thing - with or without success.

Comment is about Phill Jupitus the poet? Worth a listen. But don't give up the day job, Phill (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your comment on my Beautiful poem - I'll try to perform it next time I'm at the spoke - and I'll expect you to join in on the chorus!

xx

Comment is about Ged Thompson (poet profile)

Original item by Ged Thompson

despite no mention of the Clash,
I love this piece.x

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

Disappointment, Anne, disappointment.

Comment is about The shortest poem wot I ever wrote (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

nice stuff with a great ending dave. top one

Comment is about Who was having more fun? (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

the use of the slight change at the end of the stanzas works really well here. have you tried this live yet? it should work really well

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

the last stanza is a killer, katy here but an top piece all round i think

Comment is about Benefit of the Doubt (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

interesting ideas, david. enjoyed.

Comment is about Weather Crossword (blog)

Original item by David Blake

hi m.c. - thanks for the comment regarding peterloo. it's a piece that means a lot to me and is still in flux a bit but pleased you liked it.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

hi harry - thanks for the comment regarding peterloo. it's a piece that means a lot to me and is still in flux a bit but pleased you liked it.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

thanks guys. it's a piece which still in flux a bit means a lot to me and i am pleased to read your comments.

Comment is about Peterloo (blog)

Original item by Andy N

M.C.

Even to a country-music ignoramus like me that sounds really good!

Comment is about DADDY KNEW JOHNNY CASH - A TRIBUTE (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Dave,
You weren`t pedalin`, were you!


Stop bein` cruel :)

Comment is about Who was having more fun? (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

As a Bing Crosby fan I`m absolutely relishing the fate of all you later-on `World Shakers`(Just look at the cut of Jagger and the rest of them now)

I know they`ve got money - but the gobs on them! (As they say: `Everything comes...)

By the way,I like the way you`ve shortened the lines of that middle - mood and theme change -stanza, thereby pulling the begining up.

I also like the way the random rhymes help to `strap` the recount of the somewhat hectic theme together.

Enjoyed.

Comment is about Not so Bohemian now (blog)

Original item by Marksy

The reasons for marching in the prosperous West) are becoming depressingly fewer.

Think of it: `No more coal-smoke - (it-makes us all cough`)...`Don`t frack in my back yard`(It spoils my view)...`No more cuts` (you`re taking away my holiday money)

Why do they all sound so selfish?

Comment is about Peterloo (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Enough of a `story` in this to stop anyone snoozing their way through it.

Comment is about Zed (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

This needs a wider space between stanzas two and three.

I agree: an `ego` can`t get much brasher than to change the historical institution of marriage withiut hardly any reference to anyone at all except himself.

Comment is about Leader of the Tribe (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Karen,
Well written - and read - and music-ed.

Delighted with:

`and death by perspiration`

`Endure bifurcated grief`

Also enjoyed the comic walk and thunderstorm ending.

Comment is about grumpy summer (blog)

Original item by Karen Robinson

A good, well thought out, tender read. I liked it too.

Comment is about Camera Shy (blog)

Original item by Jonnie Falafel

:)

Comment is about In Loco Laureatus (blog)

Original item by Gareth Glyn Roberts

Hi Nigel - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope to see some more of your work on here soon. And hope you will enjoy being a part of the site :)

Comment is about Ian O'Brien (poet profile)

Original item by Ian O'Brien

Great to see you on here - and I love your profile page poem. I remember you well on that course - a wonderful poem about your mother making you some clothes? And you have a lovely voice! Hope to see more of your work on here soon. Enjoy granma-hood! And so glad you are doing well with your poetry! x

Comment is about Anne Maney (poet profile)

Original item by Anne Maney

Hello Anne. It is good to see you on these pages. I have noted the showcase event in my diary. Glad the course was useful.

Comment is about Anne Maney (poet profile)

Original item by Anne Maney

poundland tanning studios ........... and violent pubs

Comment is about StreetScene (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

An historical tragedy. One wonders about the
ruling mindset - and its ongoing fear of "the
mob". A fear that would have also taken note
of the uprising and outcome of the French Revolution. It is still a fact that a large
group of people can be a crowd one moment, and
a mob the next - and that has never quite left
political thinking and actions, even to this day.

Comment is about Peterloo (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Ho-ho. That's something I hadn't realised.
Maybe...just maybe
She can't rhyme with baby.
If he was here now - by golly,
She could've asked Buddy Holly.
:-)

Comment is about In Loco Laureatus (blog)

Original item by Gareth Glyn Roberts

Ooo! Rousing! Would like to hear this performed. Open mic at the Diggers? I hope so.

One little typo - the 'littered with the bones' line, that should be a capital L.

Nice one our kid!

Comment is about Golgotha (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Awww, a beautiful piece. I too had a lump in my throat. So tender, and poignant. Thanks for sharing.

Comment is about Camera Shy (blog)

Original item by Jonnie Falafel

Ian, re Digital Equality - thank you! I preferred that version of the last stanza myself :) I've now dropped One and Two, tried out First and Second but they didn't quite scan right in my head. I think it's definitely improved it. Some come so easily don't they, and others...others are a right bugger!

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

Thanks for all the comments, gents. I think that colonialism per se has been a global fact of life throughout recorded history. To the victor, the spoils!But it has hardly been restricted to "whitey" as so much trendy thinking these days would have us believe.
and I resent the huge disparity that this creates. Countries throughout time practised it but, with hindsight, it is now only the more recent invariably British variety that is roundly vilified for various reasons. It is this self-inflicted self-limiting narrowness of vision that I take exception to. JC refers to it as "self-flagellation" and I see why. History remains to tell us hard, often unpalatable, facts about the human condition. Sometimes, though, there are good things that come out of the "bad old days" to offer some balance to what has occurred. These should be recognised and even celebrated...not continually ignored or put down in an effort to be seen as liberal in a "multi-racial" world. The wheel turns and we are now seeing a more acceptable form of colonialism as millions from many of our former colonies choose to come here, legally or illegally, to live and work and influence our own way of life. Nobody asked me or my countrymen/women if we preferred to be left alone. Rulers do what rulers do and the world moves on, for better or worse - as it has always done. You may see this as good, bad or indifferent, depending on a POV.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them" - Lenny Bruce
Right - That's it from me...
Cheers.

Comment is about MEA CULPA (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Mark
nice, simple sentiment expertly crafted - liked it
Ian

Comment is about Your dawn chorus (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

John
maybe thy weren't 'after being prosperous - maybe they would have preferred just being left alone.
MC -it's amazing how often you cast the line hoping to get a bite - I'm sure you really do believe that colonialism was good for 'johnny native' and I'm equally sure you complain vociferously at 'johnny rumanian' coming over here and imposing his culture and language on us 'British whitey's' - keep casting and you shall reap old tyres :-)

Comment is about MEA CULPA (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks again Ian for the attention to my poems. It's much appreciated.

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

Original item by Ian Whiteley