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Comment is about Liposuction (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like this - I've never seen a hare! It's one of my ambitions.

Comment is about Hares (blog)

Original item by Peter Asher

Great! Well done you!xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

You are rapidly becoming one of my fave poets on here (big deal maybe! - but I mean it!!)

Comment is about SPACEGHOST (poet profile)

Original item by SPACEGHOST

Have you no shame??????? :)

Comment is about Liposuction (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

This website needs more culture like this.

Comment is about Liposuction (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

An ILLUSTRATOR!? Why don't you attach party balloons to it as well?! Sorry but this young man's poetry requires NO illustration. His words are, more often than not, enough.

Comment is about Ever After (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Well I'm totally delighted to hear that you are being published and even more so to think that it is a poem that you wrote for one of our little on line competitions. It makes it feel all the more worthwhile running them. That was a very saucy poem! x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Cheers Laura. Now back to work! Congrats on being published, you work certainly merits it.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Cynthia. Thanks very much for your kind comments, much appreciated.
Warm regards
Neil.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I enjoyed this too, very amusing. :)

Comment is about One Bum To Another (blog)

Original item by David Mac

Surreal, lyrical, a little bit sad somehow. I really like this. It would work really well with an accompanying image, if you know any illustrators. On it's own it feels a little incomplete, like it just needs a final touch.

Comment is about Ever After (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Cynthia, re; 'Website' this is a much changed poem anyway so other ideas are welcomed. Please go ahead and change as you think appropriate.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Brilliant. A steady diet of your poems is a sure cure for nearly everything.

Comment is about One Bum To Another (blog)

Original item by David Mac

Hi, David. I've been off-line for ages. Thanks for your comment on 'Considering Colour'. The last night of the Proms featured a poem by Wendy Cade or Code, about the orchestra, a child's view approach. I appreciated that it was in line with what I was trying to do with Colour, but I thought the verse was awful. And she was COMMISSIONED! - and presumably PAID! Oh, the pain. BTW, Colour is on the news this week with surveys being conducted with a COLOUR WHEEL, to ascertain the happiness level of Mancunians according to the colour of their choice. Am I en vogue or what! I enjoy hearing from you.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

I don't remember the original enough to spot the differences Andy - but you don't appear to have made it any worse so that's a plus! I would just change the two an s to a s int the penultimate verse. I think they are typos but they just distract a little. x

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Isobel - thanks for your comment over End of Summer II and I'm pleased you like it - always pleased when you comment - this one of my favourites must admit and there is certainly other pieces to come in this sequence (Currently aiming for 4 or 5)..

Hope you are good. Maybe see you soon at either Salford or Tyldesley maybe? xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Glad you like this, Isobel... one of my favourites must admit and there is certainly other pieces to come in this sequence (Currently aiming for 4 or 5).. x

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Belated thanks to Mel & Pete :) Am trying to be less sporadic about my WOL entries! xx

Comment is about When You're Happy You're Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Jennie B

Thanks for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, Isobel. It's true, my stuff does teeter on the edge of prose a lot of the time. This one still needs a bit more work on it.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

hi Lynn
and oops!

nearly forgot to thank you
for comments on 9/11.

thank you.

Stef&Tricia.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

you look good for your age
Mr.Miles!
as good as your poem writing skills
which are excellent!

but compared to us
you are still a youngster

thanks for sharing-sonny-lol

Stef&Patricia.

Comment is about Another Birthday (blog)

Original item by C Richard Miles

You can't beat the look back with fondness times. Such nice memories and poem too.

Comment is about Amber Moon (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Enjoyed this despite, or because of, its disconnectedness
I've seen her walking
dressed for bed

That's such a simple phrase yet here it's very powerful.

Comment is about Joan (blog)

Nice humour Ray. A very original poem - how do you think them up? Though I can't quite feel the same about polar bears since that last mauling!

Comment is about Tipping Point (blog)

I can well imagine this being one of a series. The poem reads like the beginning of a story - a setting of the scene. I suppose the 'In hindsight' of the first line leads us to expect more. Very atmospheric Andy! xx

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks Stef'n'Tricia. :) Love, Lynn xxx
(Wondering now whether to follow it with a poem of what he's like to live with now!!)

Comment is about Amber Moon (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

fumin' eck Lynn
this is one really nice
and honest poem

we love it-the poem of course!

Stef'n'Tricia.xx

Comment is about Amber Moon (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks Greg - maybe an idea I can indeed work from then! (Give it more depth if you forgive the pun!)

Comment is about drift reservoir (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like that. A sense of looming catastrophe, and what's hidden below, but might emerge at any time. Big themes!

Comment is about drift reservoir (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, David. I see just above this another remark from me, about your trip to Australia. Maybe your wife will win another competition soon! Very interesting point you make about the clocks in Malta. Let us know when you're down south again on the poetry circuit ...

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi Ann Glad you're into Strictly! Yes, Lulu looks good. I think I might be suppoorting Holly, but it will depend who is the best at dancing. I hate the 'cult of personality' and hope the GBP won't keep voting in some joker!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Yes, I saw your fb link. I haven't watched it for a couple of seasons but I think I will this year. Summer's been such a wash-out weatherwise I can't wait for autumn now, and it seems a nice thing to watch snuggled up by the rayburn! As to credibility - my fave prog these days is Bargain Hunt. I record it to watch in the evenings when there's nothing on. (I was almost going to be on BH but I missed the phone call!) Going back to Strictly, I'm supporting Lulu - she's EVEN older than me (though she doesn't look it!) Good for her!!!

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi Greg - yes, I agree on both counts (Drift Reservoir)! In a way it's maybe like a sketch in a sketchbook, but you don't know if you'll ever make a proper painting of it. But I had to write something about that place. I think that with reservoirs, it's the tension that there is this great wall keeping all that weight of water in, what if it was breached? Also, what is underneath all the water, could be a submerged town, anything (though not in Drift - but maybe a cottage or two). That's why I thought those scenes in "Deliverence" were so brilliant, when the guys with the diggers are removing the coffins from the graveyard, cos a reservoir was going to fill the valley.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Greg - yes, I agree on both counts! In a way it's maybe like a sketch in a sketchbook, but you don't know if you'll ever make a proper painting of it. But I had to write something about that place. I think that with reservoirs, it's the tension that there is this great wall keeping all that weight of water in, what if it was breached? Also, what is underneath all the water, could be a submerged town, anything (though not in Drift - but maybe a cottage or two). That's why I thought those scenes in "Deliverence" were so brilliant, when the guys with the diggers are removing the coffins from the graveyard, cos a reservoir was going to fill the valley.

Comment is about drift reservoir (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Ann, I feel these are really notes for a poem, that it's not quite finished yet. I don't like reservoirs ... that volume / depth of water gives me the creeps. I prefer them when they're half-empty because of drought; more vulnerable. You get the odd wading bird along the shore then, too.

Comment is about drift reservoir (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Greg, it was the small matter of a syndicate trying to defraud UK banks (from the outside). Exciting days of looking over my shoulder all the time and staying in posh hotels. Got publicy commended by Judge Gerrant REES when it all came to fruition. Seems surreal now of course but looks good in the family memoirs.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Andy Thanks for the comment on Chez Maxe.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks very much for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, Andy. I wrote the notes for it on holiday just over a month ago, so maybe should have left it longer to marinate. Still not happy with the last stanza.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Ann, thanks for your comments on Bagni Di Lucca. I do think that the fifth stanza rather fades away, and I keep tweaking it every time I look at it. Work in progress!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

enjoyed this, Nikki although I would have considered if it had been me to split it up into stanzas if possible as it left me a bit red faced by the end off it - lol.

my favourite line is 'Smiling his Sunday best Sterident smile' x

Comment is about Rose (blog)

Original item by Nikki Whittall

:o)

Comment is about MissLucy (poet profile)

Original item by MissLucy

absolutely, both of your observations were my intentions in the writing.

thanks for comments, i was hoping this poem wouldnt stand in a field saying no more than moo with the herd ;)

Comment is about butter flies (blog)

Hi Lynn - cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Laura - cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Jeff cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

cheers everybody for the comment, yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

Comment is about The End of Summer (II) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hello Melanie. Glad Kizzy made you go 'Ahh..'

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Melanie Coady

loved this clever little poem, well done steve. Win

Comment is about Boxes (blog)

Hi Ann Glad you liked 'Chez Maxe'. I posted it on WOL so that I could then link it to my Face Book page in order to celebrate the new series of STRICTLY COME DANCING. I've probably destroyed my reputation in certain circles, but I'm a real fan of it!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove