Thanks Ann will do.

Comment is about WOL Competition (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Lovely thoughts expressed here Val - you always sound such a positive person! (You haven't actually tagged this poem for inclusion in the WOL competition though. So make sure you do ;))

Comment is about WOL Competition (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

How hilariously lovely! And an irrisistable title too.(I expect the poor horse was just a bit hungry though)

Comment is about Your Horse Ate My Pyjamas (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Nothing Angel-like about him, Stef - must be a different horse!
Thanks for comment xx

Comment is about Your Horse Ate My Pyjamas (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Did this horse belong
to an Angel by any chance?

enjoy the soiree!

P&S.xx

Comment is about Your Horse Ate My Pyjamas (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Nick, we used to have 3 kids but one wouldn't behave.

Comment is about In the Bleak Mid-Winter (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Lovely poem. Beautifully read Ann. Yes - there are cads everywhere you turn - even in Cornwall it seems!

I like the rhyme and the way it seems to so effortlessly flow.

Comment is about An Ingres Back (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment on my extraterrestrial poem Nick - I'm left wondering which verse applies to you ;)x

Comment is about Nick Coleman (poet profile)

Original item by Nick Coleman

Sharp reminder that like it or not we are of nature, no life is possible without anothers death.
DO you use that skull to frighten off door to door salesmen?

Comment is about In the Bleak Mid-Winter (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Val - that's very kind of you.

Have a happy Christmas.

Fifi x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

ha watch yr fken mouth kaayyyy? love it

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thanks, Andy - I'd like to read your 12 Days!

Have a good 'un.

Fifi x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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I found it hard to get past 'a man-wobbling wind' after the preceding lines [recollections :-))], but once I'd stopped laughing and wincing, really enjoyed the day out

Comment is about Hills in Winter (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Steven Thanks for comments on 'Coelacanth'. Glad you liked most of it, although I'm not quite with you on the second stanza. I think I need it because it introduces the notions of beauty & ugliness and the way they symbolise innocence/and the Fall... if that makes any sense. Might just be me being a lapsed Catholic again!

Comment is about Steven Waling (poet profile)

Original item by Steven Waling

Loved it. Very beautiful emoticons [ and emotions too].

Comment is about An Ingres Back (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Greg Good to hear from you and thanks for spot on comments. I thought it was about time I bunged something on again! Hope you liked the little journalistic touch towards the end. I really tried to get the name of the paper 'The Daily Dispatch' in but it just wouldn't go with the rhythm. Was hoping to see a new one of yours when I logged on!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Liked this, Ann, its confident rhythm. And it's the first poem I've seen that ends with an emoticon :-))

Comment is about An Ingres Back (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

All congratulations, Gemma. It'a also a very fine, moving poem.

Comment is about Ain’t Never Been So Precious (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Congratulations and celebrations to know that You and Chris are going to be three.
Wonderful news Gemma,wonderful XXX

Comment is about Ain’t Never Been So Precious (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Maybe she was jumping the gun!

Comment is about An Ingres Back (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Love the poem despite ...

The absolute cad!!!!
We don't allow cads in Yorkshire!!!!

Comment is about An Ingres Back (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello Martin. Thanks for the comments on Model Husband.You're maybe right about the rhythm here and there. I like a bit of loose rhyme, near rhyme, though, and I've done a lot looser than septum/erection!Actually, the poem's just found its way into a proper book, one that people pay money for! Hard to believe, isn't it?!

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Cheers K...
''K...'' as Bill would say.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Why don't you do one about milking the cows Nick? Surely it doesn't have to be happy ha ha. I'm presuming what Anthony would say here, but I think a poem that reflects peace and tranquility would be equally welcome...

Comment is about WOL Competition! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

I can't do happy. I've tried. I am a failure, boo hoo

Comment is about WOL Competition! (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Perhaps this could be broadcast in public loos, or even lifts, instead of the usual musique

Comment is about Shopper's Revenge (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I did wonder where you were going with those gland secretions....

Very amusing John - I wonder how often that must happen. I once went to a very expensive dinner dance where a woman on the same table felt every bread roll before eventually settling on one. It was really unsettling and I felt like remonstrating - but I didn't - us English put up with an awful lot...

Comment is about Shopper's Revenge (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you John - tell your wife she's very discerning! xx

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Cheers, Cynthia, re: your comments on 'Poetry Is For Cowards'. I'm not married to this version, but it's an old one and I've grown used to it. I do however revisit old ones from time and try to improve on them; after all, for art to have any chance of becoming 'great' - not that I hold out any hope of that happening to me - artists should think in terms, not of finishing anything, but abandoning it when they can't find a way to improve it any further. After all, wasn't the Mona Lisa found at Leonardo's deathbed, with wet paint on it?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Lovely, Val.
"Happy" is a decision we make when we wake up.
....and smile!

Comment is about WOL Competition (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Congratulations, Gemma.
In 9 months time, and for the next 30 years, you won't know whether you want a shit, shave or a haircut.
But it's worth it.
Once again, congratulations.

Comment is about Ain’t Never Been So Precious (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Re: 'FOAD #2'; cheers, gringo. What say? Should I try to get it read out on 'Poetry Please'? Ask Andrew Motion to do it? [Can't stand the man, personally - or his poetry, to be more precise. Turgid drivel.] Well, it's way past noon: time to crack open a bottle of turps and toast the Queen. Care to join me? I make a dashing turps/battery acid cocktail - helps the spleen when I want to write about 'people' who deserve it [present company excepted, natch]...

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Howdy once agin, pard; 'Poetry Is For Cowards' is for someone I once met at a writers' group: she actually used that line within earshot of me [the stupid, braindead #&%@...ohh, I've no time for morons like her, except when they give me something to write about, of course.]

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Howdy Spud - yup, I likey indeeedy. Crackin'!

Comment is about Akram and the Tank (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this. Though it doesn't rhyme - it does flow - which for me is what good poetry is all about. I like the fact that it is understated. The post office could be symbolic of a whole lot of things...

Comment is about God Loves a Sinner (blog)

Original item by Russell J Turner

Ann & Andy

Thank you for the kind comments.

Charles Bukowski worked for several years as a carrier & clerk with the Postal Service in LA, an experience which formed the basis for his novel 'Post Office'

I've been working the night shift for Royal Mail recently, so CB has been on my mind a fair amount :o>

However the main inspiration comes from Richard Brautigan's short collection 'The Galilee Hitch-Hiker', which I highly recommend and can be found here: http://allpoetry.com/poem/8508975-The_Galilee_Hitch-Hiker-by-Richard_Brautigan

So, WRT it being a bit proesy, that's quite deliberate :o>

Cheers
Russell

Comment is about God Loves a Sinner (blog)

Original item by Russell J Turner

im a bum i dont do my work and i get fired(joe on work)'i looked in the mirror and i thought who is that bum? and it was me)
oh a girl knows when shes pretty(kirsty when sober)
get excited by a chocolate bar like back then (kirsty on the days before drink)
its always another bum(pop on kirtsys choice of men in drink)
love is the only thing that stops us from being lonely and i didnt have that(kirsty on reasons for drinking)
hot coffee and cold feet(kirsty on members of AA)
'nothing more boring than a goody good'(kirsty on sobriety)
'my names joe and im...'(joe)

are all direct quotes theyre loosely slung together by the film scenario.ie kissing in haystack. she wants him back but only when hes drunk. very sad.A bar sign flashes in his window at the end as he watches her leave past the bar...is he going to follow her, the booze the bar, leave their little girl alone in her sleep? ah all good questions.

the quote "they are not long the days of wine and roses..." is a poem quoted in the film, she finds it in the encyclopedia Ja - Lo.good as a college education :)

id be happy if anyone liked it. its interesting to note that in a culture which values drink in leisure time so highly, that not more people write about it in poetry..

Comment is about wine and roses (blog)

ah gosh, words can't describe how much i love this one <3

Comment is about Ain’t Never Been So Precious (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Great poem Rach, flows subtly and very well, great lines and images - not surprisingly, I identified with some of it, but quite surprisingly I actually vaguely remember some of the film! Don't know how thats happened!

Comment is about wine and roses (blog)

Enjoyed this Russell. Can't quite get the post office reference?

Comment is about God Loves a Sinner (blog)

Original item by Russell J Turner

Thanks for lovely comments. xx

Comment is about in arms not meant (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about Nick Coleman (poet profile)

Original item by Nick Coleman

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

Comment is about in sleep (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Mike-have sent you email and tried to connect
with you on chat but to no avail.No probs,hope the email helps.Await a reply when it suits you

Our best to you

Patricia and Stef.xx

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

thank you, pastiche poetry is fun.

Comment is about wine and roses (blog)

Very neat again, Ian.

Comment is about Twelfth Night (blog)

Original item by Ian Gant