Hi Jason - welcome to WOL. And good for you, getting started on this poetry lark while still so young! Nice lively stuff it is too :)
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Hi Margaret - welcome to WOL. I hope you will enjoy being a part of the site. Putting a poem on the blog section is a good way to get feedback and to get to know other folk on here, if that is your wish :)
Comment is about Margaret Holbrook (poet profile)
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Hi Sunshine - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site :)
Comment is about Sunshine Faggio (poet profile)
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Hi Christopher - welcome to WOL :)
Comment is about Christopher Hayes (poet profile)
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Hi Phil - a warm welcome to WOL!
Comment is about Phil Wood (poet profile)
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Hi Stephanie - welcome to WOL.
Comment is about Stephanie Hale (poet profile)
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Hi Rowena - welcome to WOL. I really like your poems and audio. Hope you might put a poem on the blog section sometime. That's where more people will see your stuff and it's a good way to get feedback too.
Comment is about Rowena Love (poet profile)
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Hi Maggie - welcome to WOL. I hope you enjoy being a part of the site. Looking forward to seeing more of your work on here soon :)
Comment is about Maggie Waker (poet profile)
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Hi Margaret - welcome to WOL. I hope you will enjoy being a part of the site.
Comment is about Margaret Challender (poet profile)
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Hi Karen - welcome to WOL. Great poems here on your profile, and they would sound really good as a performance pieces. Re knowing where to start with performing your stuff, Write Out Loud has a really good gig guide (complete with map!) so you could take a look and see if there is anywhere near you that has an open mic and go along. I'm sure you'll love it! And if you put a poem on the blog section here I'm sure you'll get some feedback - might help you decide which type of poetry you're best at. But hey! Why not just do both anyway! ;)
Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)
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Hi Julie - a war welcome to WOL. I hope you enjoy being a part of the site.
Comment is about julie clark (poet profile)
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Hi Jane - and welcome to WOL. It would be really good if you can add a bit to your profile and show us some of your poetry. That way you will enjoy the site more, I am sure :)
Comment is about jayne brooks (poet profile)
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Hi Pete - welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site. Performance poetry can be addictive I find! Glad you enjoy it.
Comment is about Pete Fisher (poet profile)
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Hi Patrick - welcome to WOL. I love your cat obit poem! Hope to see more of your work on here soon.
Comment is about Patrick Prinsloo (poet profile)
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Hello and thank you for the welcome, Ann. Yes, I will put something up in the blog section eventually, and hope to crit as good as I get. I'm looking foward to being here.
btw, I like what DH does with butterflies but most of the rest of it leaves me scratching my head.
Comment is about shadwell smith (poet profile)
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Hi Nigel - welcome to WOL - The Website! Great to hear that being part of the open mic nights has helped to lead you to poetry success! Hope to see more of your work on here soon. :)
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
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Hi Sheila - nice poem - and welcome to WOL. I hope you enjoy using the site. :)
Comment is about Sheila (poet profile)
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Hi JK - welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site and good luck with your venture into poetry!
Comment is about JK Penny (poet profile)
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Hi Viv - welcome to WOL. I like your poem - and your attitude to life as well. And I'm sure I'm often thought of as a silly old bat too! Hope you enjoy being a part of WOL.
Comment is about Viv Blake (poet profile)
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Hi Joy - welcome to WOL. I enjoyed your poem - very lyrical! Hope to see more on here soon.
Comment is about Joy Pope (poet profile)
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Hi Mr Smith - welcome to WOL. Love your poems on the profile - I went to the Damian Hurst show the other day actually - it seemed to be full of mums and dads squeezing pushchairs in between the calf and its mother. Good to get folk interested in art at an early age I guess... I rather like DH though, I have to admit. Hope you put a poem or two on the blog section.
Comment is about shadwell smith (poet profile)
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Hi Nichola - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope to see more of your work on here. Feedback from others is often useful and on the blogs is where you'll likely find it. Good luck with your studies! :)
Comment is about Nichola Smith (poet profile)
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You don't need a line for a bloater - its already been caught. However, as for the piscatorial resemblance of part of your anatomy to the aforementioned object I, personally, am not in a position to comment on that as I have not been privvy to a demonstration of their parity. ( not that I'm angling for that privilege.)
I am therefore unable to confirm the poetic nature of you work.
You could, of course, create a new genre of poem defined as having only 11 syllables or a 'Shaiku' ( a short haiku)and proclaim your work a poem under this title. XX
Comment is about avant garde verse (blog)
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You know what they say, John:
God bless us
And save us
For old missus Dav-us
She didn`t know kippers wuz fish.
Comment is about avant garde verse (blog)
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<Deleted User> (10279)
Mon 4th Jun 2012 21:10
Welcome, Nichola. I loved your poem - it bristled with startling imagery. Great stuff and hope you'll post more in your blog here.
Christian
Comment is about Nichola Smith (poet profile)
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Define poem for us then, John :)
I like stuff that makes me feel or think. Some poems manage to do that with amazing economy and unusual structure. I often prefer them to the long rambly sort that have no rythm or meaning - or to the ones stuffed with forced rhyme. I must admit to not being a fan of haiku, but can enjoy other forms of short verse - it's all to do with the thinking behind it, I think.
Comment is about avant garde verse (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
really enjoyed this one, along with your other work...
Katy
Comment is about extract of thought (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
hi, thank you for the comment on my poem, "he did" has now disappeared!
Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)
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I love the way the Queen manages to unite so many in this old country of ours...not forgetting vast numbers abroad. I even found myself watching a late night CBS (USA) news report of HM's visit to Epsom for The Derby and they did her proud. We can forget how much she means to the rest of the world and no matter whether you are a monarchist or a republican, her value to the UK and its people cannot be over-estimated.
Harry's latest post is a fitting tribute.
Three Cheers!
Comment is about JUBILEE JOY - welcoming our guests (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Short and sweet - as the saying goes.
Comment is about SIXTY YEARS (blog)
Yes a common occurence when the prize has been won and effort to impress is no longer needed.
I think this would be even more effective without the last line - 'He did'
We know the writer has a lover and the delicious suspense would be more effective.
Comment is about The Bed and Breakfast Test (blog)
Original item by Katy Megan
A fine moving example of restraint in grief coping with death. Brevity is its strength.
Comment is about No Coin For The Ferryman (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Mmmm...Is there room for a stowaway???
Comment is about Lullaby of the River (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
A bleak reminder of our helplessness - against the elements, against death. A really moving piece that shows a great depth of emotion in an understated manner.
Comment is about No Coin For The Ferryman (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Some hopes, John! Mind you, I'm a bit of a fair weather boater - rather wet today, what?
Thank you Stef and Tricia, very kind. xx
Comment is about Lullaby of the River (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Very moving and well written, Ian.
Comment is about No Coin For The Ferryman (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Reminded me of 2 of betjeman's - pershore station and remorse. Top quality again, ian.
Comment is about No Coin For The Ferryman (blog)
Original item by Ian Gant
Alanna,
Nice, spare, use of unfamiliar place-names and fauna and the windier side of Barbados to pay tribute to a person,
It`s a good contrast with your -equally spare -
and earlier `Stunned` which is impressively intimate (and which I somehow missed)
Keep `em comin`
Comment is about The Whisper of Miss El (blog)
Original item by Alanna Rice
darren thomas
Sun 3rd Jun 2012 13:31
title and first few lines sucked me right in.
Comment is about Love The Cage (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
Buy a map. You may have to travel!
Good luck finding a new one, though with only one filling perhaps you won't need to. You obviously have strong teeth. Or you are very young!!
Thank you for the welcome.
Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)
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Thanks Isobel.No, "you" is correct. She is extraordinary, I'm just a stupid twat who got lucky.
Thanks Steve. Yeah, but is there a better word than forgery that rhymes with extraordinary?
I saw the 2nd half of the JCC programme. I think I'll try and watch the whole thing on iplayer. I enjoy his stuff better when he slows down a bit - the way he performs Beasley Street these days is a travesty.
Thanks Harry. Bairns as peacemakers - yes, it does sound unlikely. I mean in the sense that couples are less likely to part if there are children to consider."Forgery" is ambivalent, I suppose, but there's a nod at "reproduced" in the first line.
Comment is about Wigwam (blog)
Within some italian families it was still the tradition to place a coin in the mouth of a deceased relative to pay the ferryman who took their soul from this world to that other dark place.Today here in Yorkshire it rains heavily and it took me back to that other June day when much loved my Mother died.ICG
Comment is about No Coin For The Ferryman (blog)
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<Deleted User> (5011)
Sun 3rd Jun 2012 08:13
I missed this first time round, Alanna. It is wonderfully evocative and atmospheric. I agree, change it not. As interesting as Alan's ideas are, that would be a different poem.
Long time no see.
Comment is about The Whisper of Miss El (blog)
Original item by Alanna Rice
Hello Win - it seems that sporting poetry is something of a Cinderella interest but some of those written over the years are worth finding. I have a book devoted to the genre - once owned by an elder sister who made a gift of it to me some years ago. Some of the older fox hunting poems would make today's PC advocates writhe in exquisite agony now that the fox is a Disney demi-god in modern sensibilities. The realities of the ravages of a hen-house are easily ignored by the city dweller.
Cheers...MC
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Thank you all for your comments, gave me lots to think and reflect on..I'm feeling that I may leave it in its current state - the poem is pretty much true to the flow of thoughts I had on the bus, and there is something interesting about that.
Thanks again.
Comment is about The Whisper of Miss El (blog)
Original item by Alanna Rice
Ray,
My fault (with this one) for being slow to `get` it - the clues are all there and they all appertain to the subject - it`s got a nice `whole` feel to it.
I`m fascinated by line three ( bairns as peacemakers?) Your `extraordinary` - for me -hints at thanks and admiration and the `forgery` (given the `we foster`) as a joke.
It`s all a case of aptly off-kilter words saying things in a thought provoking way, as Aristotle said (all right he was Greek)
Comment is about Wigwam (blog)
Superb interview. Excellent set of questions. I am somewhat reeling from being told by my erstwhile daughter in law, who is a second year English undergraduate and wannabe teacher, that she 'hates' poetry and has, so far managed to avoid it in her undergraduate studies.
Like, blimey, how does that happen?
Anyway, thanks for a fab read.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud interview: Kenneth Steven (article)
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Ann Foxglove
Tue 5th Jun 2012 13:54
Hi Gina - welcome to WOL. I really like your use of language - hope you put some more poems in the blog section.
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