Little boy lost an excellent reading experience.Well done!!
Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
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Apologies to the incomparable Chris Farlowe.
Comment is about Out Of Wine (blog)
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Thank you Ann. Nice to meet you.
Comment is about Paul Sands (poet profile)
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jan oskar hansen
Tue 17th Jul 2012 18:49
godd stuff Laura, grow old disgracefully, it's the only way.
cheers
John
Comment is about On Not Wearing Purple (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Thank you my dear friends for the comments. I will certainly sing this song and the others but not now as my voice is too weak after two months in the hospital and a complex operation.
Comment is about Oh, My Darling Odessa! (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Ha - I'm going to squat my own house cos there's no way I'll pay that mortgage off in time :D
Thank you re the repetition - didn't see that at all! Grr. Edited now - cheers Ann!
Comment is about On Not Wearing Purple (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Quirky, original, enjoyable read - looking forward to reading more from you!
Comment is about England (blog)
Just read your anthwology article this would get my top vote--the audio version of course.Brilliant!!
Comment is about song - nova scotia (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
So few words with such great meaning.Enjoy.
Comment is about on adopting a rescue dog..... (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
I think I might just go and live in a tent!
Good sentiments Laura - I look forward to bumping into you in Asda where I shall be quaffing the Scrumpy Jack and scoffing After Eights. (I thought you could avoid repeating the "see me through" line mebbe?) xx
Comment is about On Not Wearing Purple (blog)
Original item by Laura Taylor
That is soo good ,a sad song but so relaxing to hear you singing it .Well done .
Comment is about song - nova scotia (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Hi Paul - welcome to WOL. Hope to see more of your work on here soon. "Tenebrous" eh? I'll have to get my dictionary out! I like your poems btw :)
Comment is about Paul Sands (poet profile)
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Um, thank goodness they did vote against it, MC. The EU is a perfect example of the dangers of centralisation - a monolith remote from the needs, sensibilities and practices of those it misgoverns.
As for 'poetry isn't the best conduit for rational or fully informed thinking' I couldn't agree more...which is why I never claimed that for my poetry - it's pure and simply an emotional response to something dear to me. Were I to try rationalising in my poetry I'd end up another McGonagall.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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A piece about faith, hope and belonging.
Comment is about The Pessimist's Song (blog)
Original item by John Darwin
Hi Mike, Thanks for your comment I also enjoyed reading yours. :D
Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)
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Hi Ann, I read your poems and enjoyed them very much.
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
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Thank you Patricia, Stefan and Ann for your welcome and very happy that you enjoyed my website.
Comment is about Noris Roberts (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 16th Jul 2012 23:46
oh yes you will sing the songs!!
Why?
because you have a lovely voice!!
we have listened to it-remeber? and
we occasionally still go
on your virtual journey to Odessa-beautiful!xx
Comment is about Oh, My Darling Odessa! (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 16th Jul 2012 23:32
No way are we gonna shell out
£1763752 for geese eggs!
(back ter check that price
when we've been ter spexsavers.
Aythankyor!
Comment is about England (blog)
Treasonous? Hardly. A perfect world? Nope!
The Police Service is drawn from the people and there are numerous less public examples why this country is lucky in both - and occasionally some when that is abundantly clear. Utopia means "ideally perfect but impracticable". It cannot apply to every officer anymore than it can to humanity in the wider context, political or otherwise. There are those who condemn with fierce outrage less perfect souls who have obtained authority when they behave less than perfectly. Checks and balances exist to counteract that culpability. But did you know that the EU desire a police service IMMUNE from complaint for anything done in the course of its duty - or that this was voted against by the UK police service?
Milk the bile if you like but poetry isn't the best conduit for rational or fully informed thinking.
Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)
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'Ey up, old fruity.
Glad you liked In The Grotto. I believe it was one of Elvis's favourites too!
Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)
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Hello Margaret.
Many thanks for your thoughts on Charente-Maritime. Just got back from 4 weeks there (although the post is an old one!)
Comment is about Margaret Holbrook (poet profile)
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Hello MC.
Apologies for my delay in responding to your comments on . I have been on holiwags for 4 weeks caravanning and internet opportunities were very limited.
Glad you liked Research. One from my "back catalogue"!
Charente-Maritime is also an old post. It's where we went on hols.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Bonjour YB.
Apologies for my delay in responding to your comments on Research and In The Grotto. I have been on holiwags for 4 weeks caravanning and internet opportunities were very limited.
Research was an old post which seemed timely to give aother airing. I've put my flagpole down now,though.
In the Grotto is completely autbiographical.
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
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Apologies for my delay in responding to your comments on Research. I have been on holiwags for 4 weeks caravanning and internet opportunities were very limited.
Glad you liked it.
Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)
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Preserve you Harry?
I don't know, I think you can just about take the sight :)
Though of course such things trouble us men.
Best
Chris
Comment is about AT THE FASHION SHOW (blog)
Oh, by the way; you also say that they are 'servants of their own sense of [duty and] self-preservation'. Surely that makes them absolutely the last people we should want in such positions of public, civic responsibility and power?
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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A bit of unseasonably sunny cheer, John, and all the better for knowing you've entered into the swing of things by celebrating Xmas in July [just wait 'til next year: the rest of the commercial world will have caught up with ya!] Thannn-yer ver' m'ch. Elvis has left the building!
Comment is about In the Grotto (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh thank all the gods for a more sensible voice, Laura! You'd perhaps not be amazed at the population of ostriches we're surrounded by! That last comment o' yours made me larf.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Re: '100 Treasonous Filth-Baiting Syllables - you appear to have overlooked the bit where it goes on to say '[gov't]...AND CROWN'. Of course they serve the crown, primarily - no disagreement there; but they also get paid to enforce the laws emplaced by the parliaments, panjandrums and mandarins of the day as well, regardless of whether they agree with said laws or not [and how hypocritical: a policeman who smokes dope and arrests others for doing the same - a situation I've already come across.] And as for 'socialist utopias abroad' - I know you're being ironic there, but please don't presume I'm not intelligent enough to realise that there are NO socialist utopias anywhere on this planet. [Utopia? That's a pie-in-the-sky concept if ever I heard one! There is no such thing as perfection, ergo a 'utopia' can't exist by definition.] I'll go you one further: there's no such thing as a socialist STATE on this planet. Those systems that belabour their oppressed subjects under such wild misnomers are nothing but cruel travesties of the concept and besides - forgive me if I've misinterpreted the thrust of your comment - they aren't mine. I don't claim them. In fact, I abhor them.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Fantastic piece of writing Tommy - brilliant start to finish
Comment is about Do not turn me into rhyme (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
This transmits accurately the feelings of persecution felt by a child who wears glasses being subjected to having stones cruelly thrown at her in the form of "goggles!"and"four eyes!" Well done.
Comment is about Glasses (blog)
Original item by Shirley Smothers
<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 16th Jul 2012 10:01
Sensually sad and well written Katy.xx
Comment is about Stoned in Soho (blog)
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thanks for Carral..............otherwise would have been bingo!
Comment is about Funeral Crasher (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 16th Jul 2012 09:59
From the confines of our closets-
we bless this poem.
Only joking-
or are we?
Aythankyor!! xx
Comment is about Desire (blog)
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 16th Jul 2012 09:54
Absolutely BRILL!
one teensy suggestion-
...OK Carral?
We,ll get our coats.xx
Comment is about Funeral Crasher (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
great writing
dont rhyme em rap em..literally spell out their names and clap em, good job i dont know you biblically, theres no ryhme with that so typically youre safe. im not locking my ex hates up in nothing. make it rhyme it dont matter people s feelings nothing just shatter...
Comment is about Do not turn me into rhyme (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
I really like this. You get across the picture so well. I like the fact that you tell it like it is - but poetically - it's so easy to lose sight of the poetry sometimes, when you are telling a story.
Comment is about Funeral Crasher (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
LOL! Great poem. Made me smile and laugh. Don't get enough of these. Funny!
Thanks for the laugh.
Shirley
Comment is about Desire (blog)
Original item by hugh
What a great picture you paint Jane. I can really imagine it. Yes - I think many of us are sat here wondering what happened to summer. I think we should call this the lost season. I'm not a gardener but find it interesting that even insects should have been affected by all this rain. What worrying impacts all this must have.
I'm still finding maggots in my green wheeley bin though - I'm blaming it on Wigan council's new kitchen top compost recycyling programme. It's the subject of another poem I haven't got time to write - maybe you could :)
Sorry if I'm making light of your poem, which is a gem - tis my way to prattle on.
Hope you are well. x
Comment is about Yesterday (blog)
Original item by jane wilcock
Rachel Bond
Sun 15th Jul 2012 18:06
great idea. i would go to mine but death is final.
well written.
Comment is about Funeral Crasher (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
Again your work is full of fabulous descriptions both vivid and unique--a pleasure to read.
Comment is about Coffee Morning (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
ingenius words and expressions in this poem-"bullet stares"--"hissed"---"information slidding from the sides of mouths"---"facing each other like gun slingers"---BRILLIANT!!!Well done!!!
Comment is about Funeral Crasher (blog)
Original item by fiona sinclair
You both did a great job....
Comment is about Isobel & Joy hosting - Tudor Write Out Loud, Wigan, July 2012 (photo)
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Love that hat..
Comment is about Hazel at The Tudor Write Out Loud, Wigan, July 2012 (photo)
Tommy Carroll
Tue 17th Jul 2012 20:59
Laura, I think, if you rime in couplet style, you definitely could have a winner there with an adult version 'by' Doctor Seuss. Pleas please compose more shite like what this is.
yours respecatably
Thomas
Comment is about On Not Wearing Purple (blog)
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