class!

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

It's just super!

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Brilliant indeed!
Quite a catchy tune there, Ann - you had me moving and singing along - LOL

P.S. Joyeux Anniversaire - quelques jours de retard !

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Brilliant Ann.

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

My version of "when I'm old I won't wear beige" or whatever it is. And maybe a rant at being another year older (and nearer that boneyard!)

Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Be careful Cynthia. You'll be getting the headline writers job on the back pages of The Sun next.

Comment is about Wembley Woes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

It's fabulous, Ann, brief and beautiful. You sure are blessed to see stars; I miss them terribly.

Comment is about midnight (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This has a very dreamy feel to it.
I also like the lines:

'the tip of the slanted ocean
or underneath the deserted pier.'

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

This has a nice ambiance.

I like these lines...

'I see a coathanger of stars
as Leo crouches.'

'A distant roundabout is lost
on the horizon.'

Comment is about midnight (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

You have a gift for beautiful, rich language that expresses such deep felt emotions.

I love these lines especially...

'shifting zephyrs whisper requiem'
and
'The velveteen succor of night
abandons without regret'

You need a title for this! It is too good to go without...
Perhaps 'Unfolding Obscurity' ?

Comment is about Lonely Hill (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Thanks guys. I would have liked to add a bit more but it was my description of last evening and I thought writing about getting me hot water bottle ready didn't quite cut it! Mind you, my fingers aren't tawny - that was poetic licence!

Comment is about midnight (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi John

Thank you for your lovely comments on my poems. You are very generous.

Lynda x

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

Original item by J F Keane

you're at it again.... writing great poems.
I never saw the first version & wanted more of this.... but maybe Greg is right - luv it anyway.

Comment is about midnight (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I,m very grateful to you Jean for the kind comments on my poem'Beloved,he waits'-still think your photo is really nice-sooo peaceful!-lotsa love-Stef.xxxx

Comment is about jean lucy thompson (poet profile)

Original item by jean lucy thompson

This poem has been shortened since I first looked at it, Ann. I believe it's all the better for it. Enigmatic, draws you in. "Coathanger of stars" is wonderful.

Comment is about midnight (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

That's one reason I commented so fast. (Escape 2)- I thought you might change your mind about posting and it would disappear. It moved me so much, and it shows your strength. As you know loads of what I post is stuff that's very personal. If it's in your head and heart, it's hard not to mention in when you write poetry!xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Your strongest piece yet Kath!
I particularly like the first line-loam is clever.

Comment is about Lonely Hill (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Another powerful poem from you Kath. I love the "shifting zephyrs whisper requiem" and the "grieving thunderheads" images particularly.x

Comment is about Lonely Hill (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

I think what you describe is common where those who have died are deeply loved and missed. One of my sisters experienced the same with her husband - could even smell his breath - it does make you wonder.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Isobel, thanks very much for taking such an interest in The Clackety-Clack. Funnily enough, I found myself talking to a poet who had read a very moving poem about her father in the interval at the South magazine reading last week. I spoke about this feeling of my dad being close to me a couple of times in the first three months after he died, and then really never experiencing that feeling ever again. She said she had experienced exactly the same thing after her father's death. I was quite startled by this. I wonder if there's anyone else out there with similar experiences? The final two lines of my poem are really about my realisation about us both taking the same tube and rail line home towards the end of our working lives, and feeling quite comforted by this.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks very much for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, Simon. You know as well as anyone how much I write about railways. I'm sure there are some who think, Oh no, not another one! Apologies to them. But I suppose I do find trains, railways, stations rich in meaning and metaphor.

Comment is about SimonW (poet profile)

Original item by SimonW

I like this too Andy. Your poems always have a freshness about them. And Isobel - of course you aren't a miserable bastard! I haven't even come up with a poem at all for the theme - so that makes me a double miserable bastard - but I don't think the word bastard seems to apply to women. Maybe we're miserable bastardess's - like shepherdess's only different! ;)

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you :)

Comment is about For Frankie if I lose you (blog)

Original item by Mike S.

Watching a lover sleep is a beautiful thing to write about Andy. It's not long since you posted another poem on that subject - you must do a lot of it!

It is lovely to see the Escape theme interpreted in a happy way - where the escape is into happiness and bliss. I've been completely incapable of doing that cos I'm a more miserable bastard.

Like Caducus, I like the 'tip of the slanted ocean line' - it is unusual and works well.

x

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, Andy

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, John;. Sorry to hear about the heron.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Happy Birthday Larissa - it was my birthday yesterday! xx

Comment is about Today Is My Birthday (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

"To live on the Earth is really nice."

I quite like it here too Laura and I hope you have a very happy Birthday here on this blue planet of ours : ) Deb x

Comment is about Today Is My Birthday (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

phew - that's good going for 15 years old.. I'll dig up my one from when I was 17 but I was in a goth phase and I know it's defo not as good as this.. top one x

Comment is about Worshipper of the Moon (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

The last stanza works really well here, Kealan.. top one m8... If you are coming down to G & V next week - you should defo read it out.. A

Comment is about A Matter Of Thermodynamics (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Nice poem, Dave.. the last stanza gives it a really good balance and leaves you thinking which I think is the point behind it.

Good One, bud

Comment is about The Cynic (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

thanks dave - much appreciated. B
(birth of the night time)

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

slanted ocean is a good image. I don't think 'spluttered' curtains works but as you wrote dawn I thought of 'switchblade' curtains as I imagined the light cutting throguh on you both.

This is one of those poems that you feel kind of cool reading, it has an edge and you're getting polished at meter,images,tone and finish.

If you're always editing then its become out the owrk and not you, that's the most important thing I think.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi mate, nice poetry, felt the escapism and almost being hidden from the world for a while. Just couple of typos - should it be 'being struck from the skies', and 'watch the morn wink at me' not mon, unless you had another man in the room! cheers Jeff

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I really liked this. Loved the meandering build up and the final line bringing it all into context.

Comment is about A Matter Of Thermodynamics (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Mike

Sorry to read that things are such a struggle at the moment. Hang in - we'd miss you if you stopped writing - your heart-felt poems are powerful.

The world is a complete mix. Mladic has been caught, we're out of Iraq, Sudan voted to split in two - just 3 examples of good stuff, and there are lots more. But there are lots of appalling things as well, as you say in the poem. The challenge is how to take it on board, and even do somthing about it, without losing sight of all the good things in life. Not easy, and perhaps that's right, it shouldn't be easy.

Comment is about Think Twice (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

like this :-)

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Really enjoyed the poem it was a pleasure to read

Comment is about Alabaster (blog)

Original item by John Darwin

It's a yes and no from me - cynicism is not ideal and we should all look on the bright side. Unfortunately the cynics are often seen to be right after the event whereas as the optimists are sadly disappointed - as a Libra
with bipolar it ponders many questions for me.

Interesting subject, well penned - David

Comment is about The Cynic (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

What a lovely poem. Very touching.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I should have said, Increasingly Unwell. typo there! I really am suffering so much. take care of yourselves. Michael

xxx

Comment is about Think Twice (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Nice one Dave. I think this is a fascinating subject. Perhaps every generation thinks the world is jaded and so people feel compelled to see all life's machinations with an eye that is suspicious and perhaps has a jaded filter fitted.

I think the distinctly cynical British sense of humour is definitely a plus though. I like it, even though it does lend itself to these lines from your poem.

"the familiar unspoken conspiracy of superiority,

the familiar stale charm and shallow cheer".

Cycnicsm, smart-arsery etc are good laughs most of the time. And they are closely related to the brilliantly human actions of smirking and sniggering. But when the smirk slips into a sneer we lose something of value, I'd say.

I think many people are capable of sniggering and smirking while also having great positivity and spiritual insight.

Any road, your poem made me think!

Comment is about The Cynic (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Lovely well written poem Alison - David

Comment is about Untold story (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

I once spent a lovely afternoon chatting to Jeff Nuttall, famous as the author of Bomb Culture,in a café/bar in Abergavenny, where he lived and gigged.

Not a lot of people know that.

Comment is about Canada's McCaffery and MacCormack in Leeds and Manchester (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I love this Cynthia - I like the dark stuff as you know - great imagery!! David

Comment is about Worshipper of the Moon (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

recent interview
http://www.rawroots.com/interviews/item/406-kat-francois/406-kat-francois

Comment is about Kat Francois (poet profile)

Original item by Kat Francois

Thanks for your comment. This afternoon I have written ten poems about airports! The first is called Arrivals....

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Only 15? This is good, Cynthia - lots of vivid imagery. The roller-coaster teenage experience is strongly present, but let's face it that continues for many of us.

Comment is about Worshipper of the Moon (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Please don't gag over some of the words; I was only 15, steeped in Early Poetry and the Romantics. Much of that Period Work was beautiful stuff, and I never regret that it was, and is, part of my esteemed Poetry Heritage. Besides, the title is absolutely true.

Comment is about Worshipper of the Moon (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I enjoyed this too, John, and agree with Greg's comment about Lidl etc. Good flow, and a good abab too! ;) x

Comment is about Trainspotting (blog)

Original item by John Coopey