Hi Larisa-with this poem I get a great feeling of being able to almost breathe in the great outdoors-lovely! lotsa love as always-Stef.xx

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I like the sentiments, John, though there can't have been many who've referred to her as an angel.

Comment is about Janis (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

really like this poem about the hardships of the miners and their familys and the injustice of those times being a wiganer growing up in a town where pits were the livelihood of the ordinary man and women,not forgetting the pit brow lasses well written ...Chris :-) x

Comment is about Fruits of the Narrow Seam (blog)

Original item by John Embley

love it Kealan - you've been on the waccy baccy again, aintcha ?? :)

[when you're stuff is good, it's world-class IMHO]

Comment is about Populous (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

thanks win & philipos - just another silly one I'm afraid. B (pammy)

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

I liked the construction and content in this from the doubts expressed in verse 1 to the optimism of success in the last line - nice one

Comment is about For Frankie if I lose you (blog)

Original item by Mike S.

I like this - the question what the hell is wrong with me seems somehow to make the rest of the poem also seem like a question, and leaves the reader puzzling.

Comment is about The riot of spring (blog)

Original item by Dali

Hey, Jules. Out of all the readings that I have had, I would say, maybe three or four were real, and the rest was a waste of time and money. Beware the ones at county fairs.

Comment is about Blind Alley (blog)

ta very much nice to visit again :)

Comment is about jean lucy thompson (poet profile)

Original item by jean lucy thompson

Hi Jean Lucy-love your new photo! nice to see you back.lotsa love-Stef.xx

Comment is about jean lucy thompson (poet profile)

Original item by jean lucy thompson

Hello Lynn.
This happens to me too.
Just when it gets interesting my sub-conscious censor steps in and, hey presto, I wake up!

Comment is about Dreamland (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello Greg
Thanks for the comments on Big Issue and Sobibor. Mogadishu=Big Issue - a bit of a stretch, though, eh?
I did Sobibor after the story of the conviction of John Demjanjuk. It seemed to me that morality's an easy commodity when we're safely coccooned.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the comments, Cynthia, on Big Issue. He really does say it like that!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

LOL Isobel, you would think so, wouldn't you?! Obviously not all my dreams are like this, but there have been the odd nights!

Thanks for comment and thanks Chris for yours :-)
xx

Comment is about Dreamland (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

HI Isobel
Thanks for comments. I wrote the song for a mate who after a messy divorce lost faith in all women. I've just sorted out a utube page (DEVINEHAZE) so me and my co/singer song writer can get our songs out there. There's a video up and more coming soon (don't think this one will make on to utube its more a busker song)
Many thanks for intrest and Comments.

Ian....

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

A very beautiful description of phases of emotions so many of us must go through, each in our own ways. But that 'still small voice' capped it for me -- I listened, and heard my Mum again -- thanks.
John

Comment is about Me mam (blog)

Original item by christine yates

I like it

Comment is about Paulyn Lloyd (poet profile)

Original item by Paulyn Lloyd

I have been read 3 times. I enjoyed it but it is a money mking exercise. We all want to hear good things

Comment is about Blind Alley (blog)

I like it too

Comment is about World Affairs (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

I hyave a poem in Hexham Abbey about my m um called An Obscure Dream

Comment is about Me mam (blog)

Original item by christine yates

I was homeless for two weeks once and enede up in prison in Greenock

I always talk to Big Issue sales people

Comment is about Tramp (blog)

Original item by Paulyn Lloyd

ta for comments on 'Patch' poem Lynn-he,s my grandsons dog-smooth haired Patterdale.His teeth are like razors! as for the question of your hair-each time I hear Debussy,s 'Girl with the flaxen hair,I shall think of you-night night-thank you-Stef.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Love the message - persistence is key - so true!

Comment is about Don't Quit (blog)

Original item by Paulyn Lloyd

ha ha very funny we had a family get together recently and we must have gone to the same restaurant"drip feeding the dinners till they suffer from tourettes"lol (-:xx

Comment is about The Yeung Sing Hotel (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you, Francine. :)

Comment is about Blind Alley (blog)

A thoughtful but scary poem John. It is funny how little we start to record our own lives once we have children. It all becomes about someone else and that middle bit of our lives gets swallowed up by all the stuff in the 4th verse of your poem - building a nest for children...

I'm hoping my life doesn't drip, drip away too soon - I've only just kick started it again LOL. I love your observations. x

Comment is about memory box (blog)

Yes - I loved the contrasts in this poem. It performed really well at the Tudor and resonated with the audience. I like the way you turn the nostalgia on its head at the end. We were all expecting a nice sentimental poem bemoaning the loss of your mam - what we got was comedy - a good laugh. Not trying to diss the relationship you had with your mum. I'm sure it was a good one - I just enjoyed the humour you injected into what could have been a sad poem.

Comment is about Me mam (blog)

Original item by christine yates

Great performance number - performed well last week. You are so inventive with rhyme LOL! x

Comment is about It's a King Thing (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Very funny you performed it brilliantly as always ha ha xx

Comment is about It's a King Thing (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Such a funny poem and so real ...is that really a photo of Uncle Ned ??xx

Comment is about Uncle Ned (blog)

Original item by Cate

Now these sound more like fantasies than dreams Lynn... how much tequila you been drinking LOL?

Comment is about Dreamland (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you for your comments much appreciated XX:-)

Comment is about Me mam (blog)

Original item by christine yates

Thank you for your comment ...seems like we are both dreamers...ha ha yours are a tad more exciting than mine though :-)xx

Comment is about Dreamland (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Ann - loved the rugged sense so well portrayed in this which captures the scene brilliantly - made me wonder how a townie like me would cope - and I sensed a tingle across my shoulders - brill.

Comment is about on lundy (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Greg - thanks for your comments on London Tube Map - underground trains are certainly spooky at night - writing about the map brought on other thoughts allied to claustrophobia such as getting stuck in a tube tunnel when powers fails - yuk

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

yes indeed Lynn-expecting you to stay out of the Sun was asking too much-but let me know when he comes out of hiding.Thanks for nice comment on 'Hope above loss' only been there for ages..haha!(only joking)whatever colour your hair goes,tis of no consequence-its the colour of your heart that matters-and that will always be golden! thanks for your ongoing kindnesses.Stef.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi John and a warm welcome also.Thank you very much from your kind advisory comment-points noted.I love the usual style of your sample poems,hope to see plenty more.Enjoy the site.

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

Original item by John Embley

Lovely poem, Christine, I too like the different emotions, and this is one I can fully relate to as well. x

Comment is about Me mam (blog)

Original item by christine yates

Really enjoyed this, Dave, very witty. x

Comment is about It's a King Thing (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Enjoyed this, Cynthia, a lot of fun.

Comment is about escape (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Much admit Kath.. Would be tempted to use the first line as a title here, but this is a top, top piece - again you've jumped a gear with your writing here.... guessing this is going to be entered for the escape competition.. If not, it should be! x

Comment is about Stronghold lost (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Bit of levity that's what we need - well done CBT

Comment is about escape (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

These lines say it all...

'I thought about the pieces
that fell away from my life
to leave me with nothing.'

'I have lost myself
because I can’t see past where I am.'

Comment is about Blind Alley (blog)

And I just recently went through this experience...

Comment is about memory box (blog)

A crazy fun read indeed!

Comment is about escape (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I love this... for obvious reasons : )

Comment is about Stronghold lost (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Make a noise?

I have read several of your USA Tour poems though did not comment...
Some are quite amusing really - sounds like you had a great time!

Comment is about Trev's USA Tour 2011 (blog)

Original item by Trev the Road Poet

have read this a few times..find it powerful and well described..nice work :o)

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Hi John, welcome to WOL . You are now free to use all the different aspects of the site, Winston

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

Original item by John Embley

Hi Danny, Welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site. Winston

Comment is about Danny Hughes (poet profile)

Original item by Danny Hughes