lol xx hmm is the man in the pic the steak?! lol
Comment is about Steak 'n' Blow-Job Day (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
ha ha ha brilliant hun xx
Comment is about A man after my own heart (blog)
Original item by Anna McCrory
Nah! The question was "Are you a poet?" (Not getting at you here by the way!!;) I wonder why they want to know what kind of central heating I have? (Answer - none.) I mean, really, there aren't many questions, but why do they need to know that?
Comment is about Question 17 (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I am sure that was dug from somewhere deep and it rings of truth and sadness, yes, even love.
Comment is about Goodbye Childhood (blog)
Original item by Melanie Coady
Thanks for visiting, reading and responding to my poems Melanie. You are most appreciated.
Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)
Original item by Melanie Coady
This is just for fun! I'm sure you can all think of loads of other, more interesting questions. At Graham's wise suggestion I've removed the front cover of our census form that I had illustrated this with!
Comment is about Question 17 (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Enjoyed this tremendously Rebecca. You must try and change 97% and interspliced, they don't fit into what is a lovely almost ethereal piece of work.
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith
Excellent, Gemma. Another poem which helps the reader to tune in to what someone else has been facing. I liked the T-shirt too!
Comment is about Learning To Read (blog)
Original item by Gemma Lees
Er - tell me John - what are vegetarians supposed to do on this day? (I suspect I shall regret asking this question!)
Comment is about Steak 'n' Blow-Job Day (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Dave - interesting to read about how you write, and that feeling that the ideas or the language at least, might evaporate before you can get it down. I often get ideas while out walking, sometimes a whole poem seems to appear. Then . . . disappear!
Comment is about Plum blossoms in snow (blog)
Original item by Dave Morgan
I love this, Gemma!
A great poem that highlights what a child goes through and feels when affected with a learning disabilty. It is so important for children to know that they are unique and valued. A child reading this poem would feel hopeful and inspired.
I am moved by your understanding and care to write about such things.
xxx
Comment is about Learning To Read (blog)
Original item by Gemma Lees
Hi Melanie, thanks for your comments on 'No Jobs For A Man' - and my apologies once again for the tears! Hugs, Dave
Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)
Original item by Melanie Coady
Dave
Glad you like Ken Dodd....
Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Carr
Val
Glad you liked Ken Dodd....
Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)
Original item by Valerie Cook
Rachel
Glad you liked Ken Dodd....
I think this site needs more culture like this.
Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)
Original item by Rachel McGladdery
It took me a dozen attempts to make the audio so I don't think I could do it live, although better than his dog!
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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M
Glad you liked Ken Dodd....
John
Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)
Original item by Melanie Coady
Hello Marianne,
Thanks for reading and commenting on Ken Dodd...
I've used "In First Place" as a quiz team name before. Very confusing when they announce the winners and losers
Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Laura
I don't think I could manage Ken Dodd... live. It took me a dozen shots to do the audio!
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
Tommy
Thanks for your comments on Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead. There ought to be more of this culture on here.
Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
So that's where they came from.
I thought they were red worms killed by my Weed 'n' Feed.
Comment is about Delivery (blog)
Original item by Dave Carr
I'd agree with Rachel about the erosion title being best. It fits in better with the last line of the poem which because of its change of tense, is a bit dismal. In effect you are saying that we are all erodable - if that is a word. I would probably agree - in the fact that we depend on society as it is - our nice central heating/air conditioning/means of transport. Try taking that away from us now and there would be anarchy. We are therefore complicit with the authority that is and dependent on it - and all the atrocities that may go on behind the scenes. There are lots of subtle references in here to oil etc
It took me several reads to understand this, not being much of a surreal thinker - I guess reading other comments may have helped. I didn't like it much on first read but that was because I didn't instantly get it - maybe still haven't. I am impressed by the thinking though - and its originality.
Comment is about 'New and invigorating ways to erode' - or 'the brain is impressively hard to control' (blog)
Ridiculously catchy and very annoying to try to say it without tripping up! Your spoken version is very good John.Bet you had to compose yourself when reading this out!
Comment is about Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
What a wonderful collection of images.
Comment is about The Burnt Bee (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Very funny.
I can't even say it once without stumbling.
That's a scary picture too (Not you- Ken Dodd)
Dave
Comment is about Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oy!!
But seriously, thanks for using my poem as a springboard and thanks for your supercharged comments : )
"The sun boiled up"
"We were doing something/inevitable"
Great lines, nice poem
Comment is about when that daylight hit us again (inspired by Gareth Writer-Davies' Junk poem) (blog)
Original item by David Mac
Hi Ann!
We nicked the idea from some other town, but now can't remember where?! In another life I was used to running quite complicated projects, so the admin side has been OK. I got the Town Centre Manager involved, made sure we were co-ordinated with the Town Festival and then cold called the shops, emphasising that the cost to them was nothing and that people would be looking in their windows and more likely to buy their goods! Hey presto, 30 shops were easily got....
The poets are members of the North Herts Stnaza of the Poetry Society so I know their standard and one of the shopkeepers came up with his own stuff which was pretty good!
The poems will be up 11/06 to 26/06 in fair Letchworth town : )
Comment is about Gareth Writer-Davies (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (9186)
Tue 29th Mar 2011 20:57
Thanks for the comment - Dave
Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)
Original item by Melanie Coady
i got a real sense of spring hun xx lovely
Comment is about SPRING (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
such a sad poem,i cried,very powerful hun xx
Comment is about No Jobs For A Man (blog)
Original item by Dave Dunn
brilliant sweety xx loved it
Comment is about when that daylight hit us again (inspired by Gareth Writer-Davies' Junk poem) (blog)
Original item by David Mac
i got lost in this one hun xx the first few lines just roll off the tongue
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith
Pete Crompton
Tue 29th Mar 2011 20:25
Laura, Melanie,Stevie, Rachel, Julian ta
ta, lay and la!
did you get the 'lay on grass' 'rain' reference?
anyone?> :-)
thanks for the super-essay R! a poem within
Comment is about 'New and invigorating ways to erode' - or 'the brain is impressively hard to control' (blog)
Never too sure where to log these responses but thank you all.
To Ann : yes it could have been much longer, a short story really, but I went for a minimalist approach, otherwise it would never have been finished, I work in short bursts, infrequently.
To Melanie : getting a non-cerebral response is a great compliment, thank you.
To Antonioni : naturally I didn't know it would end like that until I started typing. It was just a series of impressions or scenes. They could have gone in virtually any order, other than the first and last.
To Marianne : Yes I went to see NW and enjoyed (?) it immensely, because it dared take it's time. I think the Japanese are among those people who see life and death somewhat differently.Ballantines, features in one scene. My father's favourite whisky.
To Julian :I'm glad it's pictorial, as they say a picture tells.....etc
To Ray : It sure could be tidied up. I think I could have left it overnight to cook. See what it read like in the morning,
I've had this poem brewing since March 11. I didn't know when it would appear or how. Last night I lit my first fire of the year and sat out enjoying every minute. Yes I had revisited Murakami's "after the quake" so some stolen images. The first line came to me as I watched the embers, and then a number of ideas followed. I knew if I didn't get them down soon they would evaporate. Can't write using pen and paper any more, the process gets in the way and can never read my own writing. Took a bundle of ideas to the laptop when the fire burnt out and knocked this out. Dangerous calling somebody by a made up name. Could mean Mr Shitface in Japanese for all I know.
Thanks again.
Comment is about Plum blossoms in snow (blog)
Original item by Dave Morgan
what a load of... Peter, I hate you!
What I am trying to say is, I was going to say that!
But I didn't
perhaps I couldn't
not mad enough,
not got the balls
or the vocabulaire
not sad enough
not cooper Clarke enough
though now he has gone mainstream
you are he to the power of many
DO NOT STOP WRITING PETER
KEEP PERFORMING
UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOU
they will have to get past us
scary thought
Rachel - brilliant essay inspired by peter.
Peter, you inspire.
Comment is about 'New and invigorating ways to erode' - or 'the brain is impressively hard to control' (blog)
Good poem. I like the way the subject of the poem mixes a cold analytical part of her brain with the bit that "lets rip". Maybe you've summed up what being a student these days involves? (It was half a cider in my day!)
Comment is about The Student (blog)
This is very impressive poem IMO. So much held back, made me think of Ishiguru's stories.
Comment is about Plum blossoms in snow (blog)
Original item by Dave Morgan
I got very involved in this Andy. Good one! Some great lines too - headless bees when you usually think of headless chickens, the blurr of helicopters, the crazed queen. xx
Comment is about Up on the Roof (Strangeways) (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Delighted to see such interest in high-brow kulcha.
Comment is about Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
If you have translucent you don't need ''barely there'' thats over egging the pudding. Solid yet vacuous is an oxymoron I would recommend examing it or altering its some way ''seemed solid yet vacuous'' or something along those lines. I really like the rest of this those were just the two things I'd recommend looking at in future drafts.
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith
Thanks Marianne, I've written a few based on my feelings about Anish Kapoor's sculptures, this is one. It sounds like you feel slightly how I felt looking at his stuff, which makes me happy.
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith
I really enjoyed this, particularly the agitation in the lines that change the roles of the stone and moon, liken to the line "with lies, with the truth of a lie that makes you think twice". Identity, out of grasp, real if you can project it elsewhere - a sadness I felt when the character throws the moon for it to become a stone, solid but static almost,and stopped, without a role. A moon can contain so much movement, a stone has to be moved by another....this is becoming quite fragmented, I apologise, I like the thought spark that this piece of writing has created in me, even if a little intangible.
Thanks for posting.
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith
Thanks Dave, it may have more to come yet, I really don't know, just the images sort of came at me earlier on...it may become a series :) x
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
Original item by Dave Bradley
Thanks for the comment Steve, yep, pain and pleasure, very Catholic! :) x
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Original item by Steve Regan
Rebecca Audra
Wed 30th Mar 2011 19:51
Have got rid of the oxymoron, 97% and barely there, have moved translucent into where interspliced once was. Thank you for the help in redrafting it, and the encouragement :).
Second Anish poem on here:
http://mostlynocturnalscribbler.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/the-myth-of-adam/
Comment is about Anish and the Moon (blog)
Original item by Rebecca Audra Smith