Well done,a pleasing and clever leap into the past.

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Tree swings are tricky things Tony . .

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

These stores are now known as car boot sales! Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Something for Everyone (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I enjoyed reading this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about The cruet set (blog)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks, steve black.Gratitude is Heaven itself.I can see a curious line break or two. I'll do summat about 'em.

Comment is about Fish (blog)

Original item by Ray Miller

Fantastic piece of work. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks Tony, glad you like it. :) Best wishes, Dave.

Comment is about No Perfect System (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Hi Anthony

Thank you - glad you liked.

I love Genesis - sent shivers down my spine!

Katy

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Anthony,

I watched this the other day, but didn't get a chance to comment.
No surprise really, but I have to agree with Isobel - those were my exact impressions as well...

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

WOW...

What an incredible read! You've packed so many intense emotions into this (as in An Experiment!), and it flowed really well.

My fave parts:

'a thoughtful mind
has gagged the Sunday clock'

'You lie close
still closed
and creased
beneath the sheets
your only sound
the gentle tides
of breath'

'drowning
sick
they whisper
listen
come
we are the word
the way
the light
and you will live
forever
- all else is wrong
and only we
are right'

'here dreams are sold
in lines
in rocks
in wraps
in pills
designer anaesthetics
antidotes to life'

'the paper-boy
chokes doorways
with a plague
of news and views
of how to feel
and what to think
- and statesmens’
sermons

shrivelling
to lies before the
tacky ink has dried'

'in dark places
of the memory’s
slow decay
- pleasures
faces
trapped and wrapped
in tissue
of days past
and days to come
and go
they hum
along the silvered threads
of thought
secrets
no one else
can ever see
or know'

'your touch
your kiss
make this
poor soul
concede
that here
right now
within this space
is everything
I need.'

Comment is about myspace (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks for reading lynn.
I really enjoyed having a nosey through your blog entries. Especially 'crescent moon'.
Thanks
Jade

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi John. Thank you for your comments on my poem "A Small Bud". Oh course this has a double meaning. Anything or anyone can flourish with just a little attention. Speaking of rain, we usually don't get a lot but as I write it is raining sideways. No kidding!
Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Katy,

This sure beats a chocolate HobNob any day! Enjoyed this erotic, escapist fantasy - but then, what bloke wouldn't?! :)

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about By the wayside (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

No kidding, it really is an atmospheric venue downstairs in the cellar bar and Ian McEwan does a great job with the set-up. I got a very warm welcome last month (Sept '12) and will definitely be going back. The poetry was of a very high standard indeed, with a variety of styles and forms (and accents) on stage. A truly enjoyable night out. I recommend you check it out.

Review is about Ouse Muse on 18 Oct 2012 (event)

thanx tony, took a bit to write:)

Comment is about AN END TO WAR (blog)

Original item by NICK ARMBRISTER

You got our vote, we wonder where you are. Nothing has changed. Have we come very far? Like your poem. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

I remember those days. Tree swings!! Did a wrong launch one day. Tree gave me a big lump on my head!! That is how we found out about danger. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Nice one, Hugh. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Nicola and Fiona, Rest In Peace (blog)

Original item by hugh

I like! Sums it up perfectly ; )

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Thanks for your comments. See what you mean about the opening 2 stanzas. I've had this poem on my laptop and notebook for a long while and its gone through so many edits I was sort of feeling 'had enough of that' when I stuck it one the website after a burst of inspiration thst updsted the middle section.
Think I will add the change you suggested. leave it with me!

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

Duh! I just realised - on reviewing my txt, that I only sent three words. And there's you, probably thinking it was idiot proof! (Feel free to add an indefinite article!)

Regards,
(A shamefaced)A.E.

Comment is about Texperiments: there's still time to take part in a new type of poem (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you Laura! I am writing more poetry at the minute after a long break x

Comment is about Cathy Crabb (poet profile)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

I like this - even if I would have to admit to being "a schoolboy from nineteen fifty eight"! There's a pleasing "been there, done it" feel throughout that captures what it's like to discover how the mind stays young when the body tells you otherwise. I particularly like the virtual repeat of the two lines to end the poem and cordially suggest that the opening two stanzas should be reversed so that the almost identical lines mentioned both open and close the poem.

Comment is about A Schoolboy From Nineteen sixty-eight (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

My brother-in-law, an Arsenal suppporter, would even agree with you - a Spurs fan - and applaud this neat little comment on that result from M.U.!!

Comment is about Man U 2 Tottenham 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

"it's better to plant seeds than bury men in the ground" Great line! Love this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about No Perfect System (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thx A.E. W.P x

Comment is about Texperiments: there's still time to take part in a new type of poem (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I like this poem a lot. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Life's Towpath (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

What can I say? Thanks for posting this. Well done. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about buried treasure (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Cheers Joy!

I also have another plan up my sleeve for something new, interesting, and community-minded - will reveal all soon!

Comment is about Write Out Loud's new Facebook Community page: 'Like' us please! (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Margaret, good to see your poem AND you together in situ :-). Win

Comment is about Margaret Holbrook at lock 43, where her poem, The Lock, was posted on the Rochdale canal poetry trail in August 2012 (photo)

Original item by Margaret Holbrook

Great idea Winston!

I await my reply with bated breath!

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Texperiments: there's still time to take part in a new type of poem (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Great fun poem Lynn - I'm glad I'm not in the frame as I couldn't out run the pie police! ;) Best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Who Ate All The Pies? (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

She devil
Captures soul
Inside a
Wicked heart
Bright moon
Hides her
From his
Cursed fate.

Comment is about Of Lilith and Anthony (blog)

Original item by Katy Megan

Hi Anthony Turned my plough into pen knibs long ago.

It's as well your quite a few miles
away from Carol Klein, I hear her neighbours
complained about the bad smell she was giving off

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks Anthony. Possibly. I am going to read it out in a couple of weeks. I'll see how it goes and then maybe think about audio. They I have no clue how to do that just yet.

Comment is about Daydream (blog)

Original item by Cathy Crabb

Hello Hugh .. your 'British Gas' is excellent, bunch of thieves, could you add BT's 'LATE charge' and their 'CASH handling' charge if you don't pay by D/Debit .. they're making millions while we say nothing ..

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

Original item by hugh

Hello John, thanks for the 'where do I begin' comment .. I added the last verse when I was uploading it to note the years that have passed since I wrote it, true story, I was washing cars at a garage.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments on The Week We Should Have Played The Lottery and Man u 2 Tottenham 3.
Fergie on insufficient injury time "It denies you a proper chance to win a football match".
I think he really does believe that the purpose of injury time is to allow Man U to score and not to make up for time lost through injuries!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Anthony,
I`m fascinated by your experiment.As a sort of multi media method of presenting poetry the ramifications are too many to just jump in until I`ve thought a bit more but the idea of using voice, picture, movement, and music to expand the word looks promising (it is certainly very powerful)I was interested in Isobel wishing for the words (written?)The pace of reading certainly suits it.

I like the idea of the typographical shaping, and wonder if this could be used to enhance the meaning of a poem pictorially? I seem to remember Winston discussing this recently in answer to a problem with putting `shaped` typography on the blog. (I think someone asked could it be done with an (enlarged?) picture, and was interested to see if it was possible.
I notice that your picture of the poem has differing colouring also.

I think your experiment has possibilities and needs thinking about

By the way (as if it was secondary) what a humdinger of a poem!

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

It's so nice to meet you Tony and....to hear the words of wisdom.

Comment is about Don't....And You Won't... (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

A marvelous piece of conclusionless confusion
a pessimistic summary of what life shouldn't
be like.

There is a brighter side to be exploited,
don't leave this life too disappointed. I have found at eighty three that life is not all misery.

Good inspired stuff Anthony

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

I must've missed this first time round, D.
Really touching tribute without being mawkish. A privilege to observe the event.

Comment is about Silken Threads (blog)

Original item by Dorinda MacDowell

Wow, AE.
I didn't see this first time around (Come to think of it I didn't get on WOL till 2009).
Although I get thought of as a "rhymer" my real passion is rhythm and this has got it in spades. Unrelenting and persistent.
Reminded me a bit of Dylan's Desolation Row, though the imagery called on is more direct and less surreal.
I too couldn't get the audio to work on your original but mo matter; the youtube update is so much better.
Primarily because the pace of the imagery is so fast for the mind to take in audibly it needs the help of the video.
Top bombing, as my kids say!

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thank you for reading my poem. Many thanks for your responce. Take care Tony.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

If you move.....you are IN DANGER!!! Like this. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Don't....And You Won't... (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Loving it!

Genius idea to include the wonderful free to enter competitions etc compiled by the wonderful Cathy Bryant!

I reckon it'll bring many new people to this site by following all the interesting links.

Comment is about Write Out Loud's new Facebook Community page: 'Like' us please! (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Oh b****r!

Headline from BBC Sport website:

"Ferguson bemoans lack of injury time."

More injuries next time then John!

Regards,

A.E. :)

Comment is about Man U 2 Tottenham 3 (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

That's one hell of a piece of work, Anthony. Ambitious in the extreme, to tackle full on so many topics - and yet they are linked so perfectly by its central theme and the words you end on.

On first hearing I wanted to slow it all down and have the words also. There is so much in there and the images flash by so quickly. Perhaps the speed of it all is meant to reflect how we are bombarded by consumerism - brainwashed? The work needs several listenings to fully appreciate the crafting and the messages within.

I enjoyed the use of rhyme - it certainly aids the flow. I noted that you got louder and more passionate in delivery towards the end. It would be interesting to play around with that - to try getting quieter, slower - injecting pathos, fear - an ominous quality rather than anger.

The most powerful piece of work I've read on here in a long time. I'd call it a piece of work rather than a poem - cos it is all embracing - film/poem/drama/thought. You have put so much effort into it, it's like a piece of art.

It's a great way to make poetry come alive. I could probably go on about it forever, if I started to unstitch it all and look at it piece by piece, but I'll let someone else do the talking now :)

It's wonderful to have you back contributing. x

Comment is about An Experiment! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Is this event still on? Get back to me, thanks!

Review is about HOWL on 6 Oct 2012 (event)

Hi Ann,

Cold hands, warm heart. It shows.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about party piece (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove