This definitely made me laugh DG : )

Comment is about Hearts and flowers and shit (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

I like this one.

Comment is about I Am A Violent Man (blog)

Original item by Tom

It's great to see stuff that stands out from the crowd, like a purple cow in a field Jerseys.

Comment is about Man Overboard (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Starts off well but then you seem to cram as much as you can before turning it into prose where you're more interested in telling what you're feeling.

Comment is about Echoes For Answers (blog)

Original item by Tom

Hi there Ann thank you for your comment it really boosted me. I hope my experience on WOL will be as good as yours. Dana

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann

Surprised that link hasn't worked - here it is again
http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

She's at St Austell April 2nd (tel 01726 879500) and Penzance April 3rd (tel 01736 365520)

Dolphins! If I wasn't married, there would be dolphin wallpaper in the bathroom. What marvellous creatures.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Dave - looked up the Bridget thingy but it was all in german and didn't seem to mention a tour. I am an idiot re computery things, have I done it wrong? Don't suppose she's touring Cornwall is she? lots of love ann xxx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Wow!! Now you are talking REALLY spooky because it is my Birthday as well!!! I wrote that offshore 4 years ago on my Birthday!! Yes I agree it would flow easier I will change it.... thanks for the advice ;-))
Luv yer fellow Birthdayer lets PARTY on the 26th ha ha
TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann

Thanks for the steer to Bridget St John - excellent. She is on tour, which you may have spotted -

http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

Have you ever run across Dory Previn?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Dave - Ta for another lovely comment. No, the production line is all my own. I think it's just that I've only been writing for a short while and all the ideas and images of my life are suddenly unleashed! I'm really enjoying it too! Just posted ANOTHER one. But you see, someone mentioned dolphins to me today and I just thought . . .

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Cynthia,
thankyou for your comment on Mr. Skoulikaris. It really is appreciated and i've missed your input to my poems because you are always so helpful and encouraging at the same time.

Incidentally, i too would hope that the fisherman did not catch the dolphin. Maybe the fish that ate the worm was proverbially speaking 'the one that got away' and that fish fed the dolphin?
Continuous existence of some kind.

As for Darwin influencing the poem. Who knows what's possible?
Janet.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Again, thank you to everyone. My confidence is growing!

Comment is about Hourglass (blog)

Again, many thanks to you all.
I am delighted with all of your comments. x

Comment is about Morbid curiosity. (blog)

Thank you again Cynthia, it's nice to think i can stir up emotions! x

Comment is about Not quite goodbye. (blog)

Thank you Cynthia and Rachel, sorry for the delay! I wasn't conciously thinking about a specific kind of birth. Having said that my first child was a ventouse delivery so maybe i was? I think from the childs perspective it is more typical than not, some variation along the way maybe, but yes, i think it is a generalised view of the typical.

Phew.. that was garbled, sorry, it's the first time i actually thought about it!

Comment is about Newborn (blog)

Dave's comment says it all for me too.

Comment is about Arts and Crafts (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann

How do you manage to regularly produce such good and varied stuff? The Foxglove production line is remarkable. Are you posting for someone else as well?

Comment is about Arts and Crafts (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Evenin Maccers Inc.You flummox me?HA! what does flummox mean Aunty Rach? keep wellying on w.ol.-Stefchopsx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

and now I'm imagining a chap gyrating his bum over the cup in order to create the authentic Mr.Whippy effect.
That's chocolate ice cream out for me for a while then! :)
- would you like a flake in that?

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Thanks for the thing you said about my Grandad being around, I was so touched. Maybe I just need to write it all out and then he'll go quiet for a bit.
Love
rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for the comment on my poo offering Dave, I beg to differ however, your 'Softer' was way more clever and complex than my poem,it worked really well, thanks for the lovely comment though,
Cheers
rach
x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

This is beautiful Ann, I loved the moon hanging like a golden sovereign heavy with summer and the last four lines too, this is stunning.
rachel
xxx

Comment is about Coming Home from Evening Church (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for commenting everyone. I lived on Antons Rd for a year. It's improved since but was a tough place back then. The 'poem' is based on an actual conversation, but is also amalgamated with the life experiences of two other women with similar difficulties

I believe the world has changed since 1975 and there is now far more sympathy and support for people with learning difficulties who want a normal family life

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Piscator Grandis!

Comment is about Martin (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Cynthia, I think the third line should be "where would be the joy in that" just a tense change.
I liked the pared down delivery. Less is more, makes us all work harder.

Comment is about To Fellow Poets (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

The moon hangs like a golden sovereign, heavy with summer and the deep rich night. Phew! Did it for me. A warm piece of work Ann.

Comment is about Coming Home from Evening Church (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Dave, thanks for the comment on The Prettiest Music, hope you enjoyed it. Thom

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Winston, Many thanks for your comment on my latest blog, much appreciated. Thom

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

For some reason I was very uncomfortable reading this (perhaps your idea) but may well make it my WOLOP this month. Well done again Dave.

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Dave
It's really weird, but, like Ann, I read the poem in Emma's voice. I've never done that before, and I didn't realise it until I got to the end.
Great read.
Steve

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

There is much to be considered in this poem. My family worked with the mentally challenged both in the hospital environment and socially. I'm hoping you are speaking with some experience also. To describe the population of Antons Rd., Halewood, as 'flotsam' is pretty strong. It's a big many-facetted subject.

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thank you very much Dave, rather humbling.

Cheers.

Comment is about Joy to watch (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

A really heartrending poem Dave. Totally real, for me, no patronisingg tone, I felt I could hear her voice.

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for all your kind comments today! xx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Dave
We must always remember that there are all sort of people that make up a society. Some we may not be able to relate to but they are all part of the mix for good or bad. This made me sad Dave. You have done a good job with her voice and the issues. Some may not consider it poetic but for me thats not what its about. A thought provoking read. Win

Comment is about Emma (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

How could I miss this? Lovely. The understatement of emotion somehow heightens it and makes it more poignant

Comment is about Walking home on a summer evening (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Only just found this. Great! To answer Chris' question, it's difficult keeping up with all the blogs, and yes this one should have had more attention

Comment is about Joy to watch (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Only just come across this Ann - I really must keep up. Excellent poem - nicely balanced and very thought provoking. In my (grammar) school we watched the astronauts bouncing around on the moon. Seems a long time ago now - perhaps because it was.

Comment is about moon girl (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Dave
You've written a very fine poem about the interesting times we live in.
Pascal

Comment is about Today (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Just ran across this one. Different! Thought-provoking. What about sheer human inconsistency? Can nice guys really be nice every minute of every day for the rest of their lives?

Comment is about What I'm Allowed to Do (or should be able to) (blog)

I had meant to get back to this. I really like it. I wouldn't have called the curiosity 'morbid', just natural. The personification of death is as old as human thought, but it is never 'finished' or boring.
Every human being has to rethink Death again, and your ideas are just as unique as the next person's.

Comment is about Morbid curiosity. (blog)

Chill run up my spine, girl. Oh - the tone - the tone! To create 'bitter' so potently is a a real skill. The last line is a killer. Well done.
I'm assuming this is the 'answer' to your prior poem.

Comment is about Not quite goodbye. (blog)

Your poem is inspired, full of mood, entirely apart from the visual painting. I find it so hard to see only the romance; but you have captured a moment of beauty to be enjoyed of itself. 'I want ...' certainly expresses desire, perhaps to be 'a religious person'? I think you are very spiritual, responding to the best ideals of 'religion' evoked by this painting.

Comment is about Coming Home from Evening Church (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is good, Kathy. 'A steel manger' is superb. I'm presuming a forceps delivery, using the words 'torn out' and 'ragged seams'; 'screams' etc. Would you consider this typical of being 'Newborn'?

Comment is about Newborn (blog)

Great imagery and words flowing this infant journey. Like it

Comment is about Newborn (blog)

hi andy thanks for your comments on beau its good to know your words can reach someone else quite clearly and in this case another cat lover..thats greatx

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Good evening Ann-a lovely homely poem,accompanied by a lovely painting indeed! thank you.Stefx

Comment is about Coming Home from Evening Church (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Nice one Cynthia, I completely agree with this!

Comment is about To Fellow Poets (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank heavens that we don't know Kathryn or else someone would do a reality show from beyond the grave. This is a nicely written curious piece and I loved the last line.

Comment is about Morbid curiosity. (blog)

You have expressed the sentiments of many Cynthia...

I especially like the first verse:
'if my mind worked
like your mind
where is the joy in that'

Comment is about To Fellow Poets (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas