Clever poem Steve.Liked it a lot,but according to your poets image,I must tell you-watch out for low door frames!Cheers-Stefan.

Comment is about A Day At The Beach (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Lest we forget to remember.Nice piece Chris.ta-Stefan.

Comment is about G'day Fromelles (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Rock on all Grand-parents eh, Dorinda! and all those adorable little monkeys! I could not fail to like this poem.Thanks-Stefan.

Comment is about A Little Touch of Heaven (blog)

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Aw Kath!no mention of bedroom shenanigans!good poem nevertheless-thanks-Stef.

Comment is about fourteen years (blog)

Evening Emma-Ta for F/time commentsI,m sure you will enjoy your time on here-best regards-Stef.

Comment is about Emma Robinson (poet profile)

Original item by Emma Robinson

I love this one Kathryn, it's my favourite one of yours I've read, think it captures what's behind the stuff in a relatioship, ace! :)

Comment is about fourteen years (blog)

I like it too. I can't help preferring rhythm and rhyme. Also I can understand it (which I can't always with some of the more oblique poems).
John Nice-but-Dim

Comment is about JESSIE (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Nice poem.
I like the switches between stanzas, then and now. Good rhyming too i think.

Janet.x

Comment is about A Day At The Beach (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Soft and gentle?
actually i prefer Sure :-)

Only joking, new year, new look.
Might try a different one but still smiling. Thanks.xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

My smile sweet enough for you Dave?

Sweet little seasonal poem.
Janet.x

ps. note my new email address. I can't receive from the one you have. :-)

Comment is about Roses Are Red (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

edited the first version :)

Comment is about the sign.... (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Hi Gus - thanks for commenting on Botany. I didn't really want to say microscope so much as magnifying glass but it didn't fit! I wanted to describe a sort of Victorian botanist identifying the flower. What else could he use? A note pad maybe?

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

I like this .... I like it enough to suggest that you replace the word micrscope....it's an ugly word clangs rather than rings... just my opinion a delightful poem nonetheless

Gus xx

Comment is about Botany (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Glad u liked A Thousand Oceans Andy

Despite it's title and references to all things undulating... the subject matter is illicit sexual lust.... What have you bin doin on the sea front at Blackpool mmmmm

Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Ya little tinker.... you only have to ask..God I can feel my sap risin as I speak...

Gusxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you so much for your comments Ladies... and of course yer good self Andy... The poem is better performed.. I'll record an audio soon.

Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about A Thousand Oceans (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hi Ann - a really good poem - something special this one.

Comment is about The Candle Game (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Nice to see another Rhythm 'n' Rhymer, Dorinda.
Keep posting
(You're not the only one in the world to "enjoy" the Festive Domestic Season!)

Comment is about Dorinda MacDowell (poet profile)

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I'm not seeing too much of a change in tone! Love it Gus - no-one does sex quite like you - so to speak... You must have had a lot of practise! I perhaps need to get my 'Ode less Travelled' book out and swat up! xx

ps I like the pirate imagery in here - the idea that we steal from each other - original and probably true.

Comment is about A Thousand Oceans (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Lovely play on the theme Steven.

Comment is about A Day At The Beach (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Kathryn,
Haiku is a really difficult form to get right. I always feel compromised when trying to write it because one always wants to add-to or embellish an idea but the disciplines won't let you. Mind you when you come close, the satisfaction is x10 normal.

Comment is about Waiting. (blog)

seems a bit off a change in tone for you, gus. i adored this.. speaking as a person who loves wandering around sea fronts.. i adored this as i could really see this!

Comment is about A Thousand Oceans (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

The forbidden is enticing... such guilty pleasure indeed ; )

xxx

Comment is about A Thousand Oceans (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Thanks for your comment Ann! :-)

Comment is about A Walk in the Snow (Response) (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Gus, this is great! Love the poem! xx

Comment is about A Thousand Oceans (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Towering time,
a pigeon toed stare
and escalating tears

Comment is about Come on in and have some fun! (article)

Thanks Graham, i did know about the 5 -7-5, though a few websites had said slight changes were sometimes ok?
I did try for the 5-7-5 and sort of talked myself into leaving it because i thought it sounded better?! As i said it is my first venture into Haiku so i will have to just see if it grabs me!
Thanks.

Comment is about Waiting. (blog)

Thanks for the comments girls! Emma, glad you thought that about the ticker tape, it was what I was aiming for! :-)

Comment is about Outside the Box (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Hi again Rachel.You a grumpy mum?
as much as I am a poet! haha-rest well tonight.Sithi'thoon!-Stefx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hello Kathryn.
Only one criticism is the number of syllables that you have used. It is generally accepted that Haiku uses a 5-7-5 structure, whereas yours is 5-9-7. Words look good though.

Comment is about Waiting. (blog)

Evening Rach-aw welcome to the soppy club! don,t the bowsers just break your heart?.nuff said.thanks for comment-Stefanx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hi Andy,
Thanks for your comment on 'Rainbow Bright' - I can't believe I maintained concentration long enough for that poem! It certaily is longer than my usual 10/15 liners!
Catch ya soon, Cat x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

I liked this one K- man, I liked the ticker tape rain it reminded me of watching a parade but not joining in :(

Comment is about Outside the Box (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Missed this before, like it a lot. xx

Comment is about A Walk in the Snow (Response) (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

Kenny, this is very good, read it aloud to Mark and we both thought so. I really like it, mate xx

Comment is about Outside the Box (blog)

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Lovely - as Ann says - one that all mothers can identify with. I dread the day my 9 year old shrinks from public affection - I am so used to throwing my arms round her whenever but I know that day is fast approaching...

Comment is about For You. (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thank you for lovely comments. I really enjoy finding the images to go with the poems, I feel it's part of it. xx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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I wasconvinced I had commented on this already...I must be going mad! I loved it.Even though the human drama was gripping the images that have stayed in my head are the amazing flower images, the chicory flowers, the fire lilies and the daisies not seeing a thing. Really lovely.Delicate!
Rachel
x

Comment is about Summer Storm (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Dave.for the kind comment on my poem, it's much appreciated.....she tells me she's NEVER having any children but we'll see eh? They're very wise at 6 aren't they?
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Not only did I think the poems were beautiful and beautifully read too but you have one of my favourite pictures there of all time. I love the way the pics you choose are always so completely fitting.perfect.
Rach
xxx

Comment is about masturbation song (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Awww,lovely...bring on the spring!
Rach
xxx

Comment is about Botany (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Oh My Word! I have only just spotted the person in the grass on your photo....that is amazing!
Rach
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Winston
Thanks for your comment on my poem, it's much appreciated. I do feel that Hourglass is already as it should be but it is good to know that you saw enough in it to pay it more attention! thanks.

Comment is about Hourglass (blog)

Ta Stef - happy Imbolc to you and your good lady. xx

Comment is about The Candle Game (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi David... well,look what happens. you go away for a weekend and everything goes on without you. lol. Offical welcome to WOL from me and yes, you seem to be finding your way around the site. there are lots of aspects to it and it takes time. have fun exploring and leaving comments etc. Thanks for being an active member already. Win

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

It's 22.38
and I'm late late late
I'm meeting a pigeon
for a date date date
up the Eifel Tower
and I've brought him a flower
there's a tear in my eye
cos he's lost his pigeon-power.
I used to love him so
how the sparks did flow
but now he's just
a no-show-Joe!

Comment is about Come on in and have some fun! (article)

To be honest, I was disappointed with Candelabrum, a scruffy little mag without even a contents list. I only mentioned it to flesh out my thin CV. Unlike yours!

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi Greg Glad you like Dylan and Coltrane. I've tuned in and out of Dylan over the decades. I tend to have fanatical phases and get him out of my system until I play catch-up again a few years later, although judging by his last couple of offerings I think we've had the best of him. Stereogram was the first poem I wrote after my 'sabbatical' which lasted for more than 20 years. It's about Dylan but it's also sort of about me. I've always loved the blues since I was a kid got into jazz in my very early 20s. I've written the odd jazz inspired poem every now and then. I've had a collection of poems sat in a drawer all the years I stopped writing. Slow Blues is probably now the final title, but it refers to the mood of the poems. There are lots of poems in memory of my father + the poems examined my lapsed Catholicism. The Coltrane poem will be in it, though. I'll post a couple more from my first collection. One on Charlie Parker and a little one on Miles. BY the way well done for getting into Candelabrum. I sent him some stuff over a year ago and the so and so never even got back to me!

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi David

All your poems are of exceptional quality, but I was particularly interested in the ones about Dylan and Coltrane. OK, the Dylan had a wider feel, but I wonder if your forthcoming collection Slow Blues features more poems with musical themes. It's something that interests me. I was playing some early Dylan the other day and he sounded as fresh as ever. The later Dylan sounds more like Tom Waits. Nothing wrong with that, though. Greg

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

I see. That branch of my family were from Callington and Duloe. I explored tin-mines when we used to go camping in Cornwall, I found a piskie..

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