Such a nice reply John...(I have just edited it lol) thanks for looking :)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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There's plenty of time to get old, Stella. Keep burning.

Comment is about Nothing of Much Worth (blog)

Thanks E for your comment on Gordon, always much appreciated and yep you're spot on. Bullies are made, not born - we both know that. It was a story that had to be told.

Aye, dunno wtf happened to your other comment!

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Thx for the comments and feedback on my last Tommy- v good of you to take the time.

I have two versions of the poem now :)

I think I'll keep my version for reading and yours for the page when subsequently handed out.

Thx

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thx for the comment/feedback on my last one Ann- appreciated.

P.S

Good luck with the event!

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thx for the comments/feedback on my last Laura. You understood my thinking behind the poem completely. Daft I know but I searched for a couple of hours just to find the right word for the title Haha. To get something that eluded enough without telling, to be understated without being totally obscure.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hello Shirley
I've just taken the time to read the samples on your Profile page.
I was very impressed, particularly with "My Mother's Gentle Hands". I posted one on a similar theme called "Fix" from the perspective of the parent rather than, as yours does, from the child.
Keep posting.

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Very nice poem. I can actually feel the owl flying through the air.
Your illustration is also nice. Is this your own artwork?
Thanks for a beautiful poem and artwork.

Shirley

Comment is about owl (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hello John. Thank you for your comments about my "A Silly Poem about Hair". I was inspired to post this after listening to "Silly Housework Poem" by Ann Foxglove.

Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Good luck with your new event Ann, Have you thought as far forward as a date for November?

Comment is about Mining for poetry: new open mic in Cornwall (article)

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Hi There. Welcome to Write Out Loud. Keep posting. Winston

Comment is about Joshua Williams (poet profile)

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Hi There thanks for your constructive comments on the 2nd of these McCarra experiments - harm resistance. It is a running debate as to whether an origin statement should be included. I currently think it should but both ways (With or without) have advantages, Win x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Thanks, chaps. Very kind of you.Steve's done well with his epic.

Comment is about Brrr! (blog)

I agree, John - I had to google benison to see what it meant!!
Lovely poem, Larisa, beautiful. xx

Comment is about In the Wood (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Agree, Dave. Enjoyed the imagery.

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I think I dated her once, Lynn. We were equally disappointing to each other.
Enjoyed the read.

Comment is about Crimson Lipstick (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Have you lent Steve Black your pencil?
He's just posted a veritable epic whilst you've done a "short".
I agree with Graham, though. The brevity doesn't detract at all from the impact.

Comment is about Brrr! (blog)

Wow, Larisa.
There's not 5 people in a 100 in Britain who would know the word "benison".

Comment is about In the Wood (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

There should be more silly songs on here like this, Shirley.

Comment is about A silly poem about hair. (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Thanks for the comments, guys. As I said it's an old blog but I thought it appropriate to post it again. Apologies for the "repeat".

Comment is about A Breath of Fresh Air (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your comments on A Breath of Fresh Air, Lynn. It was an old post but it seemed appropriate to run it again.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Likewise I don't get depression but possibilities. I enjoyed the imagery:
"thrift an image on the wall" is excellent. One of those you think, I wish I'd come up with that one!

Comment is about Look Back (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

I seem to have run out of things to say about your work Marianne. "The music that green and grey make" etc etc. How do you do it?

Comment is about Panic Attack (blog)

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Marianne, I do get a sense of being disjointed, seperated from the world in your poem. Lungs filled with rain, reminds me of hyperventilating, the sense of being unable to breathe.
I do like your poetry and always look forward to reading your poems when I see your name on the blog. They often have a quality which is beyond words - I have a sense of experiening something almost, rather than having read something.
Hope that makes sense! x

Comment is about Panic Attack (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

PS Just realised the pun in the title linking to the lines:

Just
to churn it.

And the frailiy of butterflies too of course. That also can link back to the Matthew text. X

Comment is about butter flies (blog)

But in stanza 2 you do have a "big idea":

"I just had one of

A shepherd as an angel.

Wrapped in the hand of God we were,

Timeless."

And then the infinite sadness of the next lines.

The lines:

"As important as the cows,

Just under the class of sparrows"

reminded me, just after your lines I've c&p above, of Matthew 6:26:

"Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them."

But at the end, in the poem, you write that basically no-one's listening.

This poem has touched me so much. It seems to me to be expressing just what I feel.

Comment is about butter flies (blog)

Teasingly good Ray. It might be the contents of a mere blink, but sometimes they stick in the memory.

Comment is about Brrr! (blog)

Stella, wonderfully powerful poem. The opening lines really drew me in. I very much liked the two voices as it set up a tension and a story. And the mystery of the story - there is plenty there for the reader I feel. X

Comment is about Joan (blog)

The first two verses stand out for me in their wonderful simplicity. I love the idea of prancing to Autumn's romance.

Comment is about In the Wood (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hi Ann. Your audio poem "Silly Housework Poem" inspired me to post my own silly poem "A Silly Poem about Hair."
Thanks for the inspiration.

Shirley

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comments on 'Townships' much appreciated.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Wow! Beautiful poem.
Beautiful illustration. Is this your illustration?
Good writing.
Very satisfying read.

Shirley

Comment is about In the Wood (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hi again, Greg, thank you for lovely comments on Crimson Lipstick, appreciated as always.
Just been appreciating your samples, I especially like Kingfisher and Hollyhocks. x

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

..hello Dave..yes it's a large photo, the queue extends further to the right, not sure what they're waiting for...

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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This like Laura resonates with me very much...love the mindset within great work Dave..

Comment is about Camped (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I also enjoyed this Dave..nice work :)

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I agree. A new departure. "Cave-crouching morning" grabs your interest straight away.

Comment is about Communion (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Couldn't watch this video. It says: Embedding this video is disabled by its owner. Why?

Comment is about Shakespeare Authorship Question in advance of the film "Anonymous" (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Thanks, John. Or like they could have built another welfare estate around John Prescott.

Thanks, Steve. I'll tell you what a socialist isn't. It isn't anybody in New Labour.

Comment is about Safety Net (blog)

Wonderful tribute, John, extremely moving and so well crafted. Brought a huge lump to my throat. x

Comment is about A Breath of Fresh Air (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Another belter, Lynn. Tells a warm, humane story. Great final two lines.

Comment is about Crimson Lipstick (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

John,
What a manly, descriptive, sincerly felt, tribute!It rings so true that any talk about poetic `negative capability` seems a bit trite.

The rhyme scheme is perfect, the penultimate stanza superb.

It warmed the cockles of my trade union heart.

Comment is about A Breath of Fresh Air (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

don,t know about tattoo,s C.B.
but some of those 'celebs'...oh
does that title turn my ***k**g stomach-
should be branded,
with the words

'I,m good at fannying my way
into not having to work for a living'

I think you can guess what the male
equivalent of 'fannying' would be

think.....cocoa shunting!

enjoyed and ta dude.

Wildeys.

Comment is about Sleb Tatt (blog)

Sexist or not, Chris, I can't help but agree! I don't mind the odd tattoo but...! Enjoyed the poem

Comment is about Sleb Tatt (blog)

trying to find words
within words.

no easy task.

feeling for them
is probably another good way.

nice'n'concise Miss M.

our thanks.

P&S

Comment is about Verse (blog)

many thanks Lynn (armagh) B

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

oooh, how lovely you all are! I'm away to St Ives for a week - no 'puter access so - byebye. xxxxxxx

Comment is about owl (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Very tactile Ann. I can feel the air on my face. I agree with Harry about the soft words.

Comment is about owl (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I liked it too, Ray.
It's got that Ray Davies pictorial urban quality about it.
I don't know what I feel about "up to my ankles in twilight".
I lie. I do. I think it's excellent in its own right but doesn't belong in this poem. Maybe you should build a another poem round it (like they could have done with Glen Hoddle!).

Comment is about Safety Net (blog)

There are 3 killers in coalmines; roof-falls, inrushes of water and gas.
Gas can kill toxically, like carbon monoxide, or explosively, like methane. A methane explosion is exacerbated if it develops into a more powerful coaldust explosion.
I worked at this mine for a short period (not underground I hasten to add) having joined the Coal Board some 2 months after the incident it refers to.

Comment is about A Breath of Fresh Air (blog)

Original item by John Coopey