Very good story. I live near a place called Oakenshaw.

Comment is about Audenshaw by bus (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Sad poem but good.

Comment is about Is that why (a poem by a shy friend; please be gentle) (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Incidentally, Dave Bradley commented on the poem and said that he had to look up the word "milf". You didn't have any problem then?

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for your thoughts on Happy Birthday, Jill. I suspect we won't bump into each other on the othere websites we visit if you didn't know what a milf was!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for the comments on Happy Birthday, Jill. I suspect we won't bump into each other on the other websites we visit if you didn't know what a milf was!

Comment is about Happy Birthday, Jill (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Mark, I'm sure people will be gentle. And also that they will be both impressed and very moved. This is a good, well-crafted poem, but obviously far far more than just a bit of versifying. Truly heart-wrenching. Something which could be repeated by many different women and is too little told.

Comment is about Is that why (a poem by a shy friend; please be gentle) (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Isobel, my friend Jill is not right in the head. She is enormously entertaining, enormously embarrassing and enormously loved. I am a better person for knowing her and having to endure her!

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Original item by Isobel

Thanks. Patches refers to both pieces of territory and pieces of clothing. So, giving up both the uniform and the territory.

Comment is about Gospel (blog)

Tanks for the comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men' John. When I looked onto your page my eye was drawn to the title of this one (probably because I have always wondered about some of my grandmother's gentlemen callers)and enjoyed how, from line one, you created a very real person in front of our eyes. Brilliant!

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Original item by John Aikman

Love it! I've decided I'm going to try a rollicking tale next, you have inspired me.

Thanks

Jx

Comment is about SAILORS ARE VERY STRANGE MEN (blog)

Hi Lucy. Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'.
I've enjoyed reading your work-keep them coming.

Comment is about MissLucy (poet profile)

Original item by MissLucy

Hello John, Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'-and I am pleased that you posting led me to your page. Tom Pudding I especially enjoyed-it sent me scurrying to the search engine! As a recent incomer to Yorkshire (my wife is a Wakey lass, this was my passport in!) I am getting a lot of pleasure from exploring this areas industrial past, the fact that people such as yourself are recording it in verse is brilliant. Very inspiring.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Nice one Ledge! I must put up me 'Jolly Jack Tar', if i can find it

Comment is about SAILORS ARE VERY STRANGE MEN (blog)

Thanks for your message, Lynn, and sorry that my comments about Dad's Army were fairly incoherent. But that's the trouble, I think, the concept of English patriotism is difficult to get to grips with. For me, anyway. Glad you enjoyed East Budleigh, as I did your poem Childhood Friendship. That theme dug into a rich seam, didn't it? We once had a holiday on the Pembokeshire coast, at a place called Little Haven. Unfortunately it was the week of the Chernobyl fallout drifting over Britain, and our 15-month-old kept stuffing lumps of sand in his mouth. Nerve-wracking!

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Indeed! She sounds a hoot. I sense that in spite of all her antics, she is well loved. People who have a good rant are normally fun and entertaining to be with. Nothing worse than a repressed tight lipped careful person round a dinner table...

Comment is about Happy Birthday, Jill (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Had to look up what a milf was. Dear oh dear, is she going to read this? Does she get a right of reply (could be equally entertaining)?

Comment is about Happy Birthday, Jill (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Strange mixture of religion and violence, delivered with your usual meticulous selection of language, Ray. "Let others have the patches". I didn't understand that reference, though picked up enough from the Ben Shermans, Dr Martens, and Harringtons to understand that Sammy/Keith was a skinhead or suedehead. My brother used to wear all that gear.

Comment is about Gospel (blog)

there is a lot much to this than means the surface.. perhaps that is what happens when you look at lakes... i particularly like here 'drowned in old fashioned ways' which is a interesting way of describing it but again enjoyed this xx

Comment is about The Silent Lake (blog)

Original item by MissLucy

lovely stuff, luce.. your stuff is coming on leaps and bounds.. hard almost to recgnoise the shy, blushing creature you were when i first met you - lol xx

particularly like the 3rd stanza here, but i enjoyed all ofit x

Comment is about Guards (blog)

Original item by MissLucy

Hi Val, I enjoyed the poetry performances at Butterflies last weekend. Thanks for your comment re Solar Power, it is much appreciated. I have heard Invisible before and enjoyed listening to it again. A lot of poems are more enjoyable when familiar, like music, I can look forward to certain lines. There ahould be more poems promoting or expressing feelings about the over 50s.

Comment is about Invisible (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Just read a few of your previous posts after seeing this.
Cracking yarns. Do some more.

Comment is about SAILORS ARE VERY STRANGE MEN (blog)

Very enjoyable. Reminiscent of some of the stories in The Book of Heroic Failures.

Comment is about Railway Robbery That Never Was (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks for agreeing with me John.
My what big ears you've got.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

Very moody & shifting like your weight & the cloud obscuring the moon for a moment, I absolutely adore the 3rd stanza. x

Comment is about The Nearly Moon (revised draft) (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

This is a deep poem Miss Lucy with all the hallmarks of a lament - they say water has memory and near to where I live there is place called The Silent Pool - such great places to meditate and gain inspiration - liked your poem a lot - gets the thinking processes going

Comment is about The Silent Lake (blog)

Original item by MissLucy

Full of metaphors and mystery - all the good ingredients for getting the reader to have a brain workout - I liked this and thought of situations in my area that sometimes fit the scenario

Comment is about Gospel (blog)

Its hard to keep your hands off them sometimes eh? Had some on my bus today just kept his finger on the stopping bell for nearly half an hour and thought he was being Tommy Cooper or someone hugely funny - so it isn't just me who gets furious inside - your poem well crafted and certainly a piece of social history of modern Britain x

Comment is about Audenshaw by bus (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

I have to own up Lynn-it was me wot dun it-stole a curled up butty and got five years-lol!xx

Comment is about Railway Robbery That Never Was (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Dave - I agree with all that's been said - masterpiece

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #6 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

hey you 2...:) thanx alot for your comments...i really appreciate them...petrova i will take that on board for future writing...i can lose my way toward the end sometimes...:)

Comment is about I CALL HER FREEDOM (blog)

so! it was your cakes I sat on! you owe me for a pair of fluffy brown nylon kex(oh yeh by the way-good poem)ta chuck.xx

Comment is about Audenshaw by bus (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Thanks for your comments on some of my recent ones, Chris. Yes - knowing the current me, it does seem inconveivable that I could ever have disappeared. I know for sure that oould never happen to me again! Lovely to see you posting and on here more often! xx

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

Original item by christine yates

Hey Banksy! We've had this conversation before - you and me and Antonionioni! xx

Comment is about happy valentines day guys! (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

So - another TTC devotee :)

Comment is about happy valentines day guys! (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

yo Yosh! love to hear this done rapstyle....cool poem dude...SW

Comment is about untitled (blog)

Hi Greg - re; Night Walk - yes another world indeed - such fond (and not so fond) memories - appreciate the commentsThanks also for comments on Jacarandas in Joburg - nice to feel encouraged

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Yosh, I enjoyed this piece, can relate to the feelings conveyed so well but felt it lost momentum after, "she took the cuffs off" x

Comment is about I CALL HER FREEDOM (blog)

Glad to see you back posting. What a good story!

Comment is about Railway Robbery That Never Was (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

This is so rythmic I swear I can hear you reading it. Full of vitality.

Comment is about I CALL HER FREEDOM (blog)

This is so intriguing - I like it a lot.

Comment is about Gospel (blog)

Hi, Lynn! Beautifully written and really funny story. Enjoyed reading it. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Railway Robbery That Never Was (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Greg, thanks for your comment on "I'm Sorry, I'm English", apologies that I only just saw it and I have now answered on that thread.
Must add that I really enjoyed your East Budleigh poem, excellent. x

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Gosh, Greg, only just seen this message, sorry. Agree about extremists, lowest of the low, and agree about Dad's Army too, it is the best.
I think my poem makes me sound much more patriotic than I actually am. My inspiration to write it was on reading in a puzzle magazine about a British actress. I realised she must be English, otherwise they would have stated she was Welsh or Scottish. This is where I think our pc has gone silly.

Comment is about I'm Sorry, I'm English (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Very thought provoking and touching poem obviously you have been moved by this mothers sad predicament :-))xx

Comment is about MissLucy (poet profile)

Original item by MissLucy

Great poem Isobel I think we have all dissapeared at some point but oh boy have you made a come back,keep it up girl fab xx

Comment is about Upon Disappearing (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you for your comment Val hope to come to the Bolton venue soon xx

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

This is completely charming, lyrical in thought and expression, and very loving. I think it is one of your best which I intend to read many times. The opening and closing stanzas are great crafting.

Comment is about Perfect Place (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Oh Janet, its lovely.X

Comment is about For the Good Times (blog)

Brilliant Jane,skilfully put together. X

Comment is about Solar Energy (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock