thanks for the comments on 'barkless trees' so glad you could relate. It is set in england although the times I spent in Ireland no doubt informed my writing...it could be down any dark track you dont belong...let me know if you want a lift to another poetry night, rachx

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks Isobel for your support you are very kind ....I very much appreciate your input and enjoy reading your poems Sian X

Comment is about What's It All About? (blog)

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Morning Jane, Im glad my poem on the Taj gave you some idea of what it was like and how I felt on seeing it, thats what I set out to do. It was a truly magical experience and one one that will stay printed on my memory for ever.
Thanks also for your comment on Sunflowers again. Its good when a piece of work makes an impression and is not forgotten.
Cate xx

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Hi Dave, thanks for the welcome back, and for the comment on Taj. I had a most wonderous trip, and saw and did some wonderous things, But the Taj was the one that stays indelibly printed in my memory. I last spoke to you when you were just off to Israel, hope you had an interesting and memorable hol there.
Cate xx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Greetings Anthony... thanks for your comment on Taj..... sos I cant offer you any rock, but if you`re ever up North Ive learned how to knock your tonsils out with a fiery vindaloo!!!!!!
Cate xx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thanks Rodney for your comment on my blog entry ..Hopeful Recovery..I am a novice so welcome comments. Bernadette Herbertson

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Morning Cynthia, thanks for your lovely comment on Taj. I had the most fabulous trip and the memory of the Taj will stay printed indelibly on my mind forever. And yes I own up to being a sentimentalist..... I defy anyone not to look at such beauty and not be moved! You were so right about the poverty though. At first you are stunned at the awful conditions and the dirt and poverty in which most of the people live, but gradually rightly or wrongly your mind accepts it as part of life in a third world country. There is a huge difference between the fabulous wealth of the maharajas and their palaces and how the rest of the population live. And yet there is a vibrancy about it that we somehow seem to have lost.
Cate xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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love 'dance of spaghetti', this poem is different to your other ones!

Comment is about Bethany (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hi Cynthia, thanks for your great support of Horse Power, written as a companion to Apple Power. Your comments have really encouraged me! I like the Girl in the Lake poem but would take the word path out of the swan line as without it I feel the swans glide better?I dont know if you'd agree. Its a really deep and emotional poem but has a positive ending, a learning from experience perhaps.

Comment is about Girl in a Lake (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A great rythm in this one carefully put together with the recuring themes of Shapeless and translucent. Win

Comment is about shapeless & transcendent (blog)

Original item by Steven Dark

Hi Ann , I also like ruins and enjoyed your little gem. Keep posting and enjoy exploring the site. Winston

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

'Where thicket-thick thighs ache
Across crow- flocked meadows.
Tramping over salt-skinned ditches,
Feet swollen like buds to bursting,'

A wonderful...err...quatrain? 'Salt skinned ditches' is particularly evocative, reminds me of the Suffolk coast.


And thank you for your kind comments on my meagre offering.

: )

Jx

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind comments on my last offering (only my second). 'Larkinesque' eh? Well, apart from the 4 lines of Larkin that everbody knows, I've never read him......I will now!

I'll take 'Larkinesque' any day : )

Kind regards


Jx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi John.

Thoroughly enjoyed and admired this. Carefully observed and skilfully expressed. " Larkinish," - and I hope you'll take that as a compliment.Regards,A.E.

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Thanks for reading Horse Power and your comments. I haven't travelled much but get a real sense of your feeling for the Taj Mahal from this.Lovely. For me though, I still enjoy going back to read Sunflowers, its not faded for me. Jane

Comment is about Taj At Sunset (blog)

Original item by Cate

Loved this poem, Isley. lovely lines: swiftly eye to eye with him; pulling each other out of our skins; a stone among pebbles...
thank you.

Comment is about Isley (poet profile)

Original item by Isley

Wonderful piece, John. Memories of expiring alibis, and god-endowed climbs and descents, lend a true poignancy to it for me.

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

great, I enjoyed this. Jane

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

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Love the very last lick of it... wonder read..x

Gusx

Comment is about the usual Texas chain saw massacre scenario (blog)

Wow!
Someone is in a feisty mood here ; )

'one day I’m really going to have to deal with my problems
if anything they ruin my dreams
I prefer tropical shores and love making dreams'

'and lay me on the palm strewn beach'

Yes...

Comment is about the usual Texas chain saw massacre scenario (blog)

Strictly Come Dancing da da da...dadada



love it as usual
Gusx

Comment is about 2 (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Well, you know what these sub-editors are like? He's practically changed everything. The more I've read some pieces since - the more I can see. It's like cleaning steam from off the inside of a cold window. And yes, I did enjoy it. In fact, it's been promoted to my bedside table. You've replaced a rather well-thumbed Carol Ann Duffy, if I can say such a thing in today's climate?

Comment is about Sirenator: The Rise of the Machines (article)

Dear John, (I get alot of those letters too!) thanks for your kind observation on my last offering. I can see from 'she left her coat behind' that you and I are sometimes pursuing the capture of a similar sentiment. You do it very well.

Many thanks for your encouragement.

Kind regards

Jx

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Thank you for your time and kind comments on my recent poem. It's only the second 'proper poem' I've ever written so I seem to be on the right track.

Kind Regards

Jx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Dear Winston, thank you so much for your kind comments. If anything that I write actually improves with re-reading, then it really has done its job and tells me I'm on the right lines.

Thank you for taking the time.

Regards

Jx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Hi again John.. on reflecition, better then Nicely put. Really liked this one, gets better on every reading for me. winston

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Hi Jeff ... and we are left hanging in space at the end of this offering. well done. winston

Comment is about Missing you..... (blog)

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Winston - Thanks. Nice to be here. I realised after posting that both poems have religious overtones. I wouldn't say this dominates my writing any greater than those other reliable poetry topics; love, death, injustice etc. though i find myself turning to it more and more. as leonard cohen once said...i never met a religion i didn't like.

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

Original item by Tom Harding

Enjoyed hearing your poems at the Tudor.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Chit Chaat
I like that
Had to smile
On the curry mile

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Stephen, I read your poems because you commented on one of mine. Thanks for that. I have to say that Death of a leader is very well done - seamless in fact - a seamless sonnet. Cheers.

Comment is about stephen smith (poet profile)

Original item by stephen smith

I think this is very witty in a truly surreasl mode. Only suggestio would be to soemhow sandwich a staement of comment between the liust of questions in the second section as each question is a mind-boggler and needs a 'pacer ' to allow the reader to absorb it's impact.
Thanks for making me laugh.
Steve Smith

Comment is about 'Famous' Last Words (blog)

Original item by Martin Nelson

Gracefully balanced image and sound. More like his?
Steve Smith

Comment is about Boots of Spanish Leather (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

I've read this several times and the last nine lines just stand out. They could be a separate piece. It sounds featherlight, charming.

Comment is about shapeless & transcendent (blog)

Original item by Steven Dark

you are longer and longer woody.. we'll soon have you writing novel length pieces - lol

Comment is about Missing you..... (blog)

Original item by JEFF.W

Welcome back Cate. The pace of this poem is perfect for catching the timeless grandeur of the building. I love it. And thank u both for a good larf x

Comment is about Taj At Sunset (blog)

Original item by Cate

Beautifully understated - I like the way it leaves the reader to fill in the gaps and fill out the pictures, giving us just enough to go on.

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Actually, I've just had an email from the Great Glennon claiming responsibility for the title of this piece. But he's a notoriously unreliable character....

Comment is about Sirenator: The Rise of the Machines (article)

Cheeky
I could only comment on the 'Date Rape' drivel because I could understand it. Normally, I can't understand the other 'drivel' posted.
xxStevexx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank you Cate x

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

Original item by Cate

Great stuff this one Dave... loved it. I will be looking out to more similar. Winston

Comment is about Boots of Spanish Leather (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

Thanks for that comment, Cate.
A bit of a departure from my usual style.

Comment is about Boots of Spanish Leather (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

That's poetry. Lovely stuuf!

Thanks
John

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Nicely put John. Winston

Comment is about Under the Wire (blog)

Original item by John Aikman

Hi John, Thanks for commenting on Pin-up Vietnam. You have to work to weedle out the content in it. Win

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

Original item by John Darwin

Welcome to the site... looking forward to you posting some of your poems up, posting plogs and entering discussions. There's lots of interesting areas to the site. winston

Comment is about dreadlockalien (poet profile)

Original item by dreadlockalien

HI Cynthia

thanks again for your comments - much valued

steve x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Winston - thanks again for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Well this is certainly different! Some lovely movement in these words. A wonderful evocation of dancing intercourse. Well described Sian.

Comment is about 2 (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Hello Isobel
Thank you for your 2nd comment and support re JA remarks , to which I have replied,

You are lovely.
Augusta x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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