I ll second that! A poem that tackles the most horrendous treatment of womankind with honesty.I thought you read it with great compassion and sincerity last night Chris, and your talents as a compere were very revealing! Well done!
Cate xx

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very funny... great stuff. Win

Comment is about Frankley Beeches (blog)

Marvellous Dave - this does seem like the natural conclusion - it seems complete now. all the best. B

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #6 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Dave, I think its a shame it may be the last, it has been an interesting journey. Still. he seems to have started to find himself and his path. Win

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #6 (blog)

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Jane, I read this yesterday and needed to come back today. I have enjoyed your vision, much imagery and many specific lines. But, for me, I began to feel 'adjective fatigue', especially those that seemed contrived and much hyphenated. Always with respect for your talent. It's great to have you blogging again.

Comment is about Solar Energy (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

Right and wrong is often not clear-cut in life and role-modelling can be a dicey business. It is good to hear your thoughts.

Comment is about Spiderman can (blog)

Greatly enjoyed. I understood it to be written from the man's voice, and not menacing as much over-eager for intercourse, making a couple's 'intimate' joke. I may be all wrong. But it doesn't matter, does it?

Comment is about Sweet valentine of mine (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Good read, Ray, on a subject that never quite allows rationalization to let us off the hook. Dave's comment is hilarious. Where does he pick up his data?

Comment is about Frankley Beeches (blog)

Was great to meet you too Laura.
Enjoyed your pieces, trouble is I heard so many I can't remember them now, which sounds terrible, but with so much adrenalin in my system last night it's a wonder I could remember my own name - lol!
Have you blogged the pieces you read as I'd love to see them?
Much respect
Petrova
xXx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Eh up - I had to rush off last night without saying goodbye to anyone, totally misjudged how much time I had left and ended up having to leg it for the train!

Anyhow, thanks for the beer and I'll get you one back next time chuck :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hehe - enjoyed this last night John :D

Comment is about It's so very touching (blog)

Wish I hadn't read this on a hangover - feel a bit sick now :(

;)

Comment is about Flotsam (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Loved this last night Chris - sent shivers through me

Comment is about Invisible (blog)

Original item by christine yates

Bloody 'ell, meet me and me chins!

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Heh - I'll say it again, absolutely BRILLIANT.

Took my breath away this one when you showed it to me last night...I love how it verges on the sexual, and religious, surreal as well as capturing elements of hyper-real nature, and has the potential for almost a kind of redemption at the end. Each one develops the epiphanic feel.

Loving lines like the leaf having self-belief, and the angel touching his eyes.

Thanks Dave - if this is the end of these, it's a shame, but it must end at some point I suppose. It's been ace fun :D Ta la

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #6 (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Enjoyed this Ray. One of my favourite statistics is that more Americans believe they've been abducted by aliens than can do long division.

Comment is about Frankley Beeches (blog)

Some nice lines in this
A lemon disc rises glassy cold.

The shuttered season groans.

I'd have to say that I found the wintry depictions more convincing and enjoyable than the last couple of verses.

Comment is about Solar Energy (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

Hi Andy & thanks for your comments on my untitled piece. I made it to the Tudor last night & read, great experience though my bones were rattling!
Met Jefferama & will try to get across to Bolton sometime :) x

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nice twist at the end of it, Kath.... love it xx

Comment is about Sweet valentine of mine (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Can well relate to this, Thom.. Very sad but It's lovely wrote..

Comment is about Still Waiting (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thanks Elaine, I think poems are sometimes like films; you see more the second time round :) Get well soon! xXx

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Original item by Elaine

Wonderfully menacing! xx

Comment is about Sweet valentine of mine (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Thanks Dave. (Gazelle Ghazal) x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Win! Thanks for kind comments on my Gazezzel (oops! I think I've just invented a new poetic form - just got up and my eyes aren't working yet!) my Gazelle Ghazal. No, I had no idea that the dying cries of the gazelle had anything to do with ghazals. Nice touch that my gazelle lived and triumphed then! I was going to try and have a "deer" type of word in every verse but I didn't think gnu or wildebeast sounded very poetic. Maybe I'll write agnuther ghazal! xx

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Hey Jane,

Been to Bolton the last couple of months...the first wol at Butterflies and Guitar and Verse.

Anyway it made me think that your poetry was missed.

Hope all is good in the world- kids and all that too.

I hope to get to the next Bolton wol happy with my new gf Haha...Be good to hear your poetry there.

Loved the weird Lewis Carrol brilig-esque poem you wrote for your daughter and even more so the poem about about cars/environment and gambol...ala sheep.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

Original item by jane wilcock

beautiful poem.

Comment is about MOTHERHOOD (blog)

Original item by jane wilcock

Hi Laura,

Thx for the feedback on my latest.

Truth be told the call centre is just a metaphor for self limitation and torture of the mind...that which is self inflicted by our own internal walls/barriers.

Still call centres are shit and as bad as you say. I once worked in one for a couple of months and it was sould crushing.

Though it was quite funny because in order to get the job I had to delete zeros off my prior salary (lie) because I walked out of a high paid job Hahaha

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Andy,

You're a seriously good bloke, good thoughtful feedback and yes I did indeed perform that poem in Bolton at the wol event.

P.S

Please let me know when you have music gigs and I will try to get along. Distance an all that, but would hope to make one or two.

My Best- mate

Chris

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thx for the feedback on my last poem Dave.

Yes freedom is certainly what it is about. Particularly independence from self limitation.

It has little to do with a call centre any more than any job that tortures the psyche...the job is really just the metaphor.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks Isobel :o)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I am sorry to tell you mr Coady... you have failed your driving test.

Comment is about Car Crash Blowjob (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

This is a great piece Ann. One meaning of 'Ghazal' is the dying cries of the gazelle as you may well know so that ties things together nicely. Clever to how you have incorporated the different words for this type of animal in the first line of 6 shers, maybe they could be placed more evenly in the ghazal? liked. Win x

Comment is about gazelle ghazal (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Emma, lovely to see this on here. It was a great and loving rendition at the white lion. great also to see the painting which inspired it. Win x

Comment is about The hares (blog)

Original item by Emma Decent

Aw, C'mon Laura - surely HalfManHalfBiscuit have done summat appropriate ?? :D
[car crash blowjob - Kealan]

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Aw, C'mon Laura - surely HalfManHalfBiscuit have done summat appropriate ?? :D

Comment is about Car Crash Blowjob (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

@Jules: Thank you J.
@Laura: I see the link- eek! also 'hahaha' ;o)
@Ray: Thank you Ray, Boccioni's 'Football player' a favorite of mine and I 'tagged' to give authorship. :o)
@Cynthia: Thank you for your previous! lol

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Yes... And if it is any consolation - I have been waiting too ; )
I like the intimate way you express your thoughts.

Comment is about Still Waiting (blog)

Original item by Tom

..thanks Laura..no style really, it's just the way I fingerpick the mandolin..some more of my songs if you google 'stepmoth', (on 'myspace')...cheers ..chris.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I agree with the words of Larisa and Stefan especially - liked your poem - a lament of your times x

Comment is about My generation (blog)

brill poem mate

Comment is about Poetry Vandle (blog)

Original item by Burns

I am so touched...very funny especially in the loo ha ha keep marriage alive!!!

Comment is about It's so very touching (blog)

Mmm...nice,bleak imagery in this Kenny! Gruesome,tactile language.Well done,matey!

Comment is about Flotsam (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

cool mix of shakespearean language and the ever popular jezza kyle show x

Comment is about Was it for thee (blog)

Original item by christine yates

I haven't spotted the revisions precisely. My comments of great enjoyment still stand.

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

This is a fine lament, steeped in classical 'hopelessness', the enjoyment of unrequited love. You have a deft feel for the ageless romance of this theme.

Comment is about Still Waiting (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thom, try googling StirredWomen if you haven't already. She is definitely associated with that poetry group. I hope you find her.

Comment is about Themed Poetry Competition (blog)

Original item by Tom

My sincere thanks for all comments. IF I ever had a favourite work of my own, this MIGHT be the one. The girl was/is me, already then a 'physical woman', so early. This is the only admission to autobiographical content that I will ever concede. Children make their own 'happiness' far more inventively than adults do. I have always felt blessed by the Celtic genes from my Irish forebears, a spiritual bond with nature that could never be out-doctrinated by religious influence.

Comment is about The Dream-footer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Why have you got Boccioni football player tagged to this. Is it a joke?
Is it the punchline to the next poem?

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Liked this, especially the first verse. I think it's skedaddled. Talking of punchlines, whenever I see the name Tommy Carroll I think Stand-up Comedian. Funny that.

Comment is about Funny Boned #2 (blog)

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