Thank you peeps :-))

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you for your comments on Newlands Corner Win - much appreciated.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Dave - appreciated.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Many thanks for your comments on Woking Junction Greg - not the first poem I've written about Woking's train system though - and having been in the military at Pirbright as a youngster I can personally vouch for some of the romantic goings on with squaddie types plus the harsh approach of the redcaps based at Inkerman throwing their weight about - monochrome days perhaps but I'm sure there were hands reaching out from windows of departing trains which never quite reached the loved one on the station before the steam and smoke obliterated the view.

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Greg - appreciated.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Ann - many thanks for your recent comments on 'Searching for Agatha' and 'Newland's Corner' much apreciated - BTW I couldn't manage a courtsey myself not with a dodgy knee. x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Good, I have missed our chats

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

obviously well liked

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I have written a poem of the same name

Comment is about The Big Issue (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like it

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

I always enjoy reading your poems. Just catching up. I like the subtle references here and I too have looked up info on Huxley. I see that Island was the title of his last novel. Very clever stuff.

Comment is about Island (blog)

Good poem Lynn. I can relate to this. I have a void (just a few seconds missing ) best not to think about. I like the concept that the body knows best.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks so much, this poem has been bubbling away in my head for the last fifteen years, since I heard about my friend's friend and her mother. The third verse may not fit Ray, you are right, as it is the one bit that echoes my own feelings about my mother whose body was very private to her.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is a very powerful and moving poem with it's bittersweet central idea of watering that combines echoes of holy water and flowers. I really liked this.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your kind comments on my poems, Ann!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

many thanks as always Cynthia xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

hi chuck,

thought you'de not been about lately, hope you're well.

thank you for your words re deep rooted, much appreciated as always x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Alan,

Many thanks for your very generous words re Deep rooted. Much appreciated x

Comment is about Alan Morrison (poet profile)

Original item by Alan Morrison

Hi,

Thank you,albeit belatedly, for reading and commenting on amnesia haze. x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for your comment on Escape Cynthia - I really wasn't sure about it but you've made me feel better! I think I posted soon after Rachel Bond's and felt woefully inadequate - though deeply disturbing, the poetry in hers was remarkable - my winner so far, without a doubt.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks for commenting on my latest Andy - I'm glad you liked. Looking forward to reading your Escape poem. I thought the theme was too close to Freedom when Dave told me about it - it seems to be taking off though. See youz around xx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks for your comment on my poem Elaine - it's about the departure of a friend, which saddened me. It probably comes over as more serious than it was actually intended - I was aiming for detached regret underpinned by an empathy with that person.

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

lovely rach.. you tell a lot i think in a few short stanzas.. wonderful! x

Comment is about Just for now (blog)

Hey Elaine

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for all of your lovely and insightful and interesting comments - so many!! What a splurge :D

I will see you again very soon I hope, and in the meantime, enjoy that room of one's own ;)

Mahoosive hugs xxx

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Thanks Andy re Escape, much appreciated

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thanks andy , i am not fantastically thrilled with my poem. It does however sum up the idea of an escape for me. albeit a spiritual one .

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Have to agree with the other comments Ann. Well done - this is so sensitive, delicate and beautifully put.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Alison, Escape! sums it all up. very nice. Win x

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Hi Elaine, thanks for youre comments on 1971. and P.S. I could not agree with your biog statement more. Win x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Cynthia, I can't see for colours! This is so richly painted and full of vivid skillfull descriptions. Is it possible to have too many such passages. Would it be more successful if there were some plain sections in between. In an old city cram packed with amazing architecture none of it is noticed. I may of course be totally wrong! just thinking aloud. Win x

Comment is about Rowing Across Herring Gut in a Purple Boat (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Andy, an interesting one this. liked the penultimate section.(an hill?)Win x

Comment is about Lost Shadows (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I like this Andy. You choose some unusual images, I esp like the first verse (where can those horses be going?) :)

Comment is about Lost Shadows (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I thought Parakeets was great! I'm always amazed when I see (and hear) them when I visit London. Welcome to WOL!

Comment is about SimonW (poet profile)

Original item by SimonW

Hi Andy, thanks for the comments on 1971 (It was an odd year) Nothing wrong with a bit of mystery I say. Win x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Ray's right, Ann, you've come upon an original, affirmative take on a subject many of us find ourselves writing about. There's subtle music in this, too: delicacy and privacy, gone and wrong, dismissed and kisses. Too often people focus on the question of decay in these situations; you've found the beauty of it.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Sophia, welcome to the site. Liked 'The Photograph' Winston

Comment is about Sophia Dimmock (poet profile)

Original item by Sophia Dimmock

Good to see you posting again, Georgina.. I particularly like 'I wake. I sleep' on one line here for the movement and the constract.. top stuff xxx

Comment is about Dreamt (blog)

yeah, I agree this is a Escape poem. Would defo tag this into it.

Wasn't expecting the Puppet Master reference originally also but it ties the full thing together lovely.

Top stuff x

Comment is about Deep rooted (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

good stuff, lynn.. very well told.. x

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

A few layers on this for me too, Carole - the ending particulars works well for me with the end but I really like it x

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

Good to see you back on these again, Kealan... Some of these are lovely.. Particularly like 'Beard Resin', 'Sharks Fin Soup', 'Trip trance lyrics' to name but a few...

Comment is about Modern Imperfections Two (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Very funny, natural, gentle and clever, Dave. X

Comment is about We (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

This is so bitter-sweet to read - all the sadness and beauty of life. It's not the technical brilliance of a poem that moves the reader but the spirit of the poet that shines through. And you certainly got me with this one, Ann! XXX

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

"and yet for me / you left your mark" - the loss you are communictaing is a very deep one. Hope it isn't a question of faith. But it feels like the loss of something very close. X

Comment is about Untitled (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Played golf at Beverly a few times,very nice round there

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Ray, you were right about the right that wasn't right and should have been rite! Spelling not my greatest gift!!

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Just so redolent of lazy summer days. The love of the language oozes through. Love it. X

Comment is about proboscis audio (blog)

Excellent Foxy.
Very vivid.
We start life being pushed in a pram by our parents and end up being pushed in a wheelchair by our kids.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

"give jaded advice for success
yet unknowingly point them to death at fifty"

such wise & pithy lines. Enjoyed this at the Tudor and here again - good to savour the sentiment. X

Comment is about CONFERENCE JUNKIE'S (blog)

Great fun and so true. Reminds me of great story of Joe Simpson - climber who so nearly died in S. American mountains. Whilst dragging himself back to base camp with terrble injuries he couldn't stop "Brown Girl in the Ring" from going round and round in his head. Apparently he remembers being horrified at the thought that this could well have been the last thing he remembered before he died! XXX

Comment is about Ohrwurm (blog)

Original item by Laura Taylor