Eh up! Great to see you posting again chuck! I am going the next Tudor so hope to see you there :) (doing this!)
Comment is about Compy Dompy (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
*stands up and applauds*
Couldn't have said it better meself.
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
you better had missus or there'll be 'ell to pay if you dont!
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
I say that the cost will not be met nor exceeded by the income. But the politicians and their cohorts will cook-da-books to make sure the figures are pleasing. You read the literature.
What income raised will be creamed off by big-business. You read the literature.
It is an unconscionable excess at any time- but in one of austerity ( caused by the very people who have orchestrated this recession ) it is an outrage. You read the literature.
Massive inconvenience to the public in a host of ways. You read the literature.
The undermining of civil liberties and the handing over to private business functions of the state. You read the literature.
Who gives a toss about drug addled cheats with their sham amateurism. You read the literature.
£30,000,000,000 could supply help and facilities to very many individuals and organisations who/that are financially and physically 'hanging by a thread'. You read the literature.
Imagine those real sporting facilities that could be built across the 'GB' for ALL citizens, especially the young. You read the literature.
While peoples houses, cars and property are being robbed and children abused, the police are 'bobbying' it at the Olympics. You read the literature.
...and as for tourists being welcomed to the event- hundreds of people on short term lets are being evicted to make way for the 'wealthy' You read the literature.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
To all those adults who are thrilled by the Olympics.
To all those sportspeople who are on the point of hysteria over the Olympics.
To all those in charge of or likely to financially gain from the Olympics.
To all those in the media -epecially the BBC-who have become 'embedded' into the circus,
the following:
I say that the cost will not be met nor exceeded by the income. But the politicians and their cohorts will cook-da-books to make sure the figures are pleasing. You read the literature.
What income raised will be creamed off by big-business. You read the literature.
It is an unconscionable excess at any time- but in one of austerity it is an outrage. You read the literature.
Massive inconvenience to the public, especially in London. You read the literature.
The undermining of civil liberties and the handing over to private business functions of the state. You read the literature.
Who gives a toss about drug addled cheats with their sham amateurism. You read the literature.
£30,000,000,000 could supply help and facilities to very many local and national voluntary organisations that are desperate for funding and those people who are financially, emotionally and socially excluded. You read the literature.
Imagine those real sporting facilities that could be built across the 'GB' for ALL citizens, especially the young. You read the literature.
While peoples houses, cars and property are being robbed and children abused, the police are 'bobbying' it at the Olympics. You read the literature.
...and as for tourists being welcomed to the event- hundreds of people in London on short term lets are being evicted to make way for the 'wealthy' You read the literature.
Royal Navy Warships, RAF helicopters and jets, Rapier missiles and 14,000 British soldiers have been deployed (more than in Afghanistan) You read the literature.
This above is but a sample, You read the itemised bill.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
To all those adults who are thrilled by the Olympics.
To all those sportspeople who are on the point of hysteria over the Olympics.
To all those in charge of or likely to financially gain from the Olympics.
To all those in the media -epecially the BBC-who have become 'embedded' into the circus,
the following:
I say that the cost will not be met nor exceeded by the income. But the politicians and their cohorts will cook-da-books to make sure the figures are pleasing. You read the literature.
What income raised will be creamed off by big-business. You read the literature.
It is an unconscionable excess at any time- but in one of austerity it is an outrage. You read the literature.
Massive inconvenience to the public, especially in London. You read the literature.
The undermining of civil liberties and the handing over to private business functions of the state. You read the literature.
Who gives a toss about drug addled cheats with their sham amateurism. You read the literature.
£30,000,000,000 could supply help and facilities to very many local and national voluntary organisations that are desperate for funding and those people who are financially, emotionally and socially excluded. You read the literature.
Imagine those real sporting facilities that could be built across the 'GB' for ALL citizens, especially the young. You read the literature.
While peoples houses, cars and property are being robbed and children abused, the police are 'bobbying' it at the Olympics. You read the literature.
...and as for tourists being welcomed to the event- hundreds of people in London on short term lets are being evicted to make way for the 'wealthy' You read the literature.
Royal Navy Warships, RAF helicopters and jets, Rapier missiles and 14,000 British soldiers have been deployed (more than in Afghanistan) You read the literature.
This above is but a sample, You read the itemised bill.
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Well, yes, though there's perversity in insularity, too, and I'm not arguing for that. I'm quite prepared to be tolerant of other people - the father-in-law comes over every Sunday, reads the Daily Mail, pisses all over the bathroom floor and eats meat though we're vegetarians. So I can be tolerant of diversity. I just don't want to embrace it.
Comment is about Old School (blog)
I love the ambivalent ending, leaving us guessing where it goes next, and all the hints. If this is the first encounter, it suggests another. Loved this.
Comment is about Lydia (blog)
Original item by MNtality
Tis a pisspot who'd kill a plant pot.
Why not cultivate some of those flesh-eating
varieties that snap on unsuspecting prey?
Comment is about It must be the bastards downstairs. (blog)
Mentally, I was "old" when I was young but I
certainly recognise and enjoy this generation
-gap comment on our times.
Comment is about Young dude's swagger. (blog)
Harry - you should be poet in residence for
"Cosmopolitan" and be properly remunerated and
appreciated for your devotion to the fair sex.
Comment is about CAROL (blog)
Combines a fizzing and very funny view of our
modern world and its compensation culture.
I can pay no higher compliment than to say it
is the sort of thing W.S. Gilbert would have
busied himself writing!
Comment is about Compy Dompy (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
I add my own appreciation of the words and its
subject.
Comment is about It's not the flame that counts...It's the fire in our hearts (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Amen to that! The demands of "Le Tour" have no equal in any other sporting event and that is emphasised by the fact that the current World Road Race Champion - Mark Cavendish - played a supporting role in Team Sky's attack in that race this year...probably putting the miles into his legs to prepare for a crack at the Olympic title to add to the WRRC title he holds.
Comment is about DREAMS CAN COME TRUE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Haha! Seem to remember you doing this in the Tudor a while ago Dave-very funny!Another classic in your trademark style! 'His exoskeleton like crazy paving'. Just one of many great lines.
Comment is about Compy Dompy (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
<Deleted User> (6895)
Thu 26th Jul 2012 10:00
We totally agree with you
re the footnotes Yvonne,
and between ourselves,that this is
a brilliantly titled
and wonderfully written dedication
to a heck of a guy.xx
Comment is about It's not the flame that counts...It's the fire in our hearts (blog)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
Good question. I still remember writing this, so I can tell you with certainty that it was because of the sound of the words. "Trees" has that long "eee" sound like the wind, and ends with an unvoiced "sss". "Stones" has neither.
Comment is about A legend (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
Hi Dave Thanks for your comment on Us Nolimpics.
I've only just discovered your work as I only joined WOL in March this year but I am becoming seriously addicted!! I love comic rhyming verse having been weaned on Mariott Edgar/Stanley Holloway, cut my teeth on Flanders and Swan and confirmed into the cult of Les Barker and so to plunge into the warm pool of your verses, rhymes and wordplay is a sheer delight. Keep on blogging ! XX Yvonne
Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Carr
sonnet forming even then?
I like this, it has a great perception of mysticism for an 11 yr old.
Why did you make the wind whistle through the trees and not through the stones?
Comment is about A legend (blog)
Original item by Marnanel Thurman
If only....eh, Harry.
If only we knew then what we know now we'd have been bl**dy dangerous!
Comment is about CAROL (blog)
Don't watch it if it upsets you, Tommy!
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
All the more amazing if he can raise his game to compete at Olympic standard a week or two after.
Comment is about DREAMS CAN COME TRUE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
ahhh so romantic!
Comment is about CAROL (blog)
Thanks for your comments on 'Life's Towpath' Hugh, you are very kind, glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes, Dave
Comment is about hugh (poet profile)
Original item by hugh
Thanks Hugh, you are very kind, glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Life's Towpath (blog)
Original item by Dave Dunn
But I think the cost will be less than the dosh
the event is bringing into the country - with
its value to tourism in the long term: to
London as an Olympic city and the UK in general.
Let's stop knocking - and start clapping.
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Hoping you are regaining good health. Did you
see that touching little video of the brave
guy in your part of the world rescuing a puppy
from flood waters. Check www.msn.com for the
video.
Best wishes.
Comment is about Oh, My Darling Odessa! (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Love it - think it works well as a poem, and as you MAY know, I 100% agree with your beliefs on this
Cracker this Tommy
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Just read your collection of poems,very well written with lots of things to think about,well done."Black is beautiful"-loved it.
Comment is about zethembiso mkhize (poet profile)
Original item by zethembiso mkhize
From memory I'd say around October. Julian organises the poetry side of it. It's a lovely place and a lovely festival whatever the weather. There will probably be some publicity up closer to.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
A fabulous flow of choice words and expressions all through this blueprint.It possess the quality which allows us to enjoy reading it time and time again.
"diamond days,"----"the gravel we crunch under our feet,adds percussion to our song,"
Comment is about Life's Towpath (blog)
Original item by Dave Dunn
You'll have to try to make it to the Marsden jazz festival - we always go there together and there is a lovely poetry open mic on the Sunday in a pub x
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
Original item by Yvonne Brunton
I trust they are paying Ben overtime rates for ringing so often! I hope it won't b****r up the six o'clock news.
Comment is about £30,000,000,000 Olympics (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
HI Isabel, thanks for your comments on 'Us Nolimpics' I hope your sister enjoys reading it. As I can't get over to Lancashire from Doncaster - too many commitments - I'd be happy for you to read it at a WOL or other session over there. ( I don't often get back to my roots these days)
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
There's perversity in diversity
With the English suspiciously quiet;
Politicians push it down our throats,
Hard sell - but will we buy it?
Intent on imposing with impunity...
But since when did "diverse" equal "unity"?
:-)
Comment is about Old School (blog)
Thanks for commenting on 'Red Wine'Ann - Age and creaking bones have failed to quieten my romantic streak - pun intended. ;) Best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Hello Isobel, my thanks for your comments on 'Life's Towpath'. Yes there is something magical about water that brings out some thoughts and feelings - and perhaps helps with their flow too!
I wish you luck in finding your way to finishing your canal poem, I owe my effort to Winston for prodding me about his project, or it would not have been written.
All best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Hi Greg - many thanks for your kind comments on 'Life's Towpath', great to have your feedback. :) Best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Hello Isobel, yes there is something magical about water that brings out some thoughts and feelings - and perhaps helps with their flow too!
I wish you luck in finding your way to finishing the canal poem, I owe my effort to Winston for prodding me about his project, or it would not have been written.
All best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Life's Towpath (blog)
Original item by Dave Dunn
Hi Greg - many thanks for your kind comments, great to have your feedback. :) Best wishes, Dave
Comment is about Life's Towpath (blog)
Original item by Dave Dunn
<Deleted User> (6895)
Tue 24th Jul 2012 14:33
We dig the poem and those cool baseball boots!
if only we were young enough
to be able to wear them as we did-
fourty years ago-boo hoo!.xx
Comment is about Oxford Street Shopping (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
<Deleted User> (6895)
Tue 24th Jul 2012 14:06
Nice to see yer-
to see yer nice
and-
back on form!xx
Comment is about Cirrus (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Thanks, Isobel. Such courses do indeed exist. And it seems that tolerance isn't enough, one must embrace diversity. That's the starting position nowadays.
You've possibly misunderstood the 4th verse. We were asked to come up with categories of people who feel themselves discriminated against. There was a long list, all of whom were then described as "oppressed". I objected on the grounds that oppressed was far too strong a word for most of the groups named.But apparently, if someone feels they are oppressed, then they are.I'm feeling oppressed by diversity just now.
That said, it's not a good poem, doesn't make its points clearly enough and the metre is poor in places.
Comment is about Old School (blog)
Ahhh...I missed this first time around, was on me hollibobs.
Fantastic rhythm in this Ray - absolutely spot on, and I love the storytelling. Tight as tight thing can be!
Really enjoyed it :)
Comment is about I turned right at the end (blog)
Laura Taylor
Thu 26th Jul 2012 16:14
Like it - but have I seen this before? Sure I recognise some of the lines
Comment is about Nice is not enough (blog)
Original item by Alison Smiles