I'm sure the earth forgives you - she's big like that.

Comment is about I Made The Earth Uncomfortable With My Hammer (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

reminds me of...
"I knew a man called O'Reilly"
"Oh, really ?"
"No, O'Reilly"

Comment is about really (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

thansk cynthia. im studying fine art, which hasa similar type of criticism to that here so thats good. will have less time to post but hopefully more inspiration. itll be my 2nd year. :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

How thoughtful and kind of you to give my poem another go. Thank you so much - a really lovely start to the day for me! Glad it worked for you this time. I was wondering if I had missed to convey it. Have a lovely weekend - it's Friday! Yaaaa! XX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I like the poem mostly. I tend to agree with Laura about the last verse. I find the title mystifying - it's misspelt, I think - glamorous. But still, Glamorous Exercises... means?

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I often find your stuff fairly impenetrable, whilst recognising that you look as if you know what you're doing. This one I get and it's good. You ought to end on the title line, I think - the last 3 lines don't seem to add much.
And stick an "and" after bursts

Then slow bursts with each blow

Comment is about I Made The Earth Uncomfortable With My Hammer (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Just a quick one...

Loving the new picture - very studious!

Hope all is well, keep up the good work.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Thanks for anniversary wishes, John. x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks John, I will do when he can decide what he wants!

Comment is about Anniversary (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello John (Speechless)many thanks for the encouraging words so appreciated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi - many thanks (Armagh)B.

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

I reckon the hardest thing is getting a publisher interested - there are lots of super writers on WOL who deserve to be published, but it's not easy. If you had poems with illustrations like those I reckon you'd have a much better chance - only my 2 cents though :)
good luck with it. B

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Lovely cadences and very evocative, Cynthia.

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

HI CYnthia THanks again for your generous comments on Scholars. The Victorian classroom was indistinguishable for my own 1950s one!

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A rhyme alone does not make a poem. Limericks rhyme, but I would certainly not regard them as 'poetry' 'The Thought Fox' certainly does not rhyme but that is certainly a poem. Which one of the two would the PS describe as a poem?

The PS may not regard my poems as 'poetry' but there again I would not regard the PS as an 'authority'.

Comment is about Peace breaks out at the Poetry Society (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Philosophical Haiku

Tautologically exact.

Makes one reach out desperately for some sort of a rock.

good-un

(Incidentally, are there many satirical Haiku
around - or is this a contradiction in terms?)

Comment is about really (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hey fantastic!! :D Which one/s did Full of Crow accept? I'll have to have a look. Haha, they just rejected 5 of mine so have doggedly sent them another 5 :D

I was so excited I put mine on me biog on here heh. I got into Feathertale online, plus their actual book - a Best Of coming out early next year, with Biting The Bullet! I get a copy of the book for payment so still have to buy me own chips, like ;) I got into RedFez too,with Write for Revolution, and that's just online but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, innit?!

Waiting on bloody loads more - have got a few more links for you too, so will email them to you.

Nice one, well done - knew you'd get published!

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

nice one laura and yeah i got into full of crow magazine, not out til next spring though and i got two into amphibi.us, theyre only online magazines but fuk it like, still waiting on a few replys, hows it goin with u?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Stella, This works. Its the words we can't read (the things we can see) that makes it work. I could join in with the crit of the petty line but what a great piece overall. Win x

Comment is about Day's End (blog)

Happy Anniversary, Lynn
We've just had out 31st.
Have you given him his prezzie yet?

Comment is about Anniversary (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Well, you've got the break in there, but I can't see a season, although you do have a 'sense' in the feeling part.

Comment is about really (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Wow! This is excellent, LOVE it. Such an original idea, so well executed.

Any luck with publishers yet chuck?

Comment is about I Made The Earth Uncomfortable With My Hammer (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Was just recommending your Poetry Slam enthusiasm of a few years ago to some people wanting to wake up a village community with events ideas - have moved there in last few months. Looked you up to see where located if they replied - and what a super surprise to see how you have hit the heights! Congratulations!

Comment is about Mark Niel (poet profile)

Original item by Mark Niel

Isobel, thanks for your comment on my last offering. It is nature poetry but I tried to use it as a kind of backdrop to reflect the break down of a relationship, so the two would hopefully work together. Maybe that element of the poem needs strengthening. Hope to see you soon. XXX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

John, many thanks for commenting on my latest - much appreciated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Win, many thanks for your comments on my latest, very much appreciated. I shall think over your suggested change - thanks. XX

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Dave, thanks for commenting on my latest - glad you liked it. It is indeed praise from one who knows those Torridon peaks! Never doen the horns - too rocky for me! XXX

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Laura,
thanks for the comments on my latest. I chickened out of the relationship (wisely) and the climb was just a backdrop reflecting that fact! XXX

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on my latest. Hope you're doing well. I'm fine, thanks. Hope to see you soon. XX

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Cynthia, your comments on "Liathach" meant a great deal to me as you have really "got it". Thank you so much. XXX

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ha! Nobody understood it elsewhere either. It's obviously a flawed masterpiece - but I really like it. I found myself writing with the voice of someone whose kids leave home and the loss is such that he makes replicas. This is not my voice, not how I would feel come the glad day!Maybe I should change the title.
Thanks Steve and John.

Comment is about Snowmen (blog)

have a peaceful night Lynn.
see thee on the morrow.

off to cop some zzzzzzzzzzz,s

fingy&wotsit.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I have to disagree with Coopey - I think there's enough silly stuff on here already (mostly mine) :)

Comment is about A silly poem about hair. (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

it sounds like "a girl thing".... can one come round & watch ?

Comment is about Day's End (blog)

Oh, I've got a way to go yet then!
Good question, tell Trish!! (I suppose at 19 we think we know best... Well, perhaps we did at that...)
Thanks for comment, Stef xxx

Comment is about Anniversary (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

correction dearie!

'just a bit of-loving-fun

and lovely and funny to read Lynn.

Patricia and I have served
a fourty five year sentence
so there!-ner ner!

why did,nt you listen to yer Muvver?
Trish says.

best of em to you Lynn.

the two soul(cell)mates
Ma'n'Pa Wildey.xx

Comment is about Anniversary (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I really enjoyed this poem, Cynthia, it's beautiful.

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

glad you liked
my peeping tom poem
-Windows-

obrigado.

Stefano.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Odessa girl.

so pleased that you like
'Depth'

thanks Larisa.

Stefan.xx

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

blimey charlie!
Winston

really appreciate your sifting
through my poems.

glad you gleaned something useful
from 'rampage'
your angle on same subject
is excellent.

very grateful.

Stef.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Thank you, Dave. So many poets, writers, artists perceive themselves as outsiders or are indeed so, but it is people like them that will always change the world. :)

Comment is about Only (blog)

Hey Laura, Thx for the feedback.

I have left some waffle on the poem lol

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thx for the feedback Isobel,

I have left a waffle on the poem- lol

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thx again for the feedback Dave.

I left a waffle on the poem- and sent you a rather long facebook message- lol.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

John - no you're mixing that up with a blow job. Or Cadbury's is, one of the two. You'd be a bit worried if yer man was THAT flakey though, eh?

Comment is about Day's End (blog)

I was loving 'and the rocks obey' rhythm and then you went and fiddled with it at the end! I like the use of low/wide/upon/deep/into as opening words, also the use of the elements in the 'obey' last lines, which you pull together in the last verse. It IS like an exercise, in its structure. Interesting.

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hello Lynn thank you for your comments on my poems Raindrops and Through The Eyes of a Child, much appreciated. Thanks Hazel

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I don't get it.
I thought this was about eating a Cadbury's Flake on your own!

Comment is about Day's End (blog)

Reads well out loud (which is just the job for this site!).
Lovely alliterative flow to it.

Comment is about Snowmen (blog)

Crackin' cheese, Gromit!
I can enjoy all forms of poetry, Cynthia, but I like rhythmic structure best of all.
This hits the spot.

Comment is about Glamorous Exercises (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas