Very enjoyable and great fun this, Ann, even without the video. But who is the mysterious lady that appears in the middle of it ... is it Mrs L?

Comment is about a stan laurel kind of day (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

A unique perspective of an obviously driven man. Wonderfully written and very touching.
Yolande

Comment is about The Night Worker (blog)

Original item by Cate

wifey says you are very clever Ann!she,s been listening to this-again and again! thank you-Stefan.

Comment is about a stan laurel kind of day (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like the layout of the poem - the hesitancy and repetition, the sense of things being linked but not connected - which ties in to the failure to make a connection the poem is about. Something I'm not sure about is the anachronistic quality of some of the lines, which almost seem to me like translations of another work which have been sampled into this poem. I don't think they take anything away from the poem but I'm not sure what they add.

Overall I do like it though, and the central exchange of the last verse - the woman made to take the dominant part (I assume) answering 'kindly' that they're still 'in role' even though she doesn't like it - has a great deal of depth and says a lot about both fetishy relationships and more supposedly 'normal' ones.

Comment is about Bedroom Games (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Cate, this is brilliant. Your empathy and your objectivity with the whole situation makes it a heartbreaker. The construction is really good, with rhyme and rhythm carrying the details of the poem emotionally along to its philosophical ending.

Comment is about The Night Worker (blog)

Original item by Cate

I think this is really good, Phil. It has a strong social voice, in a well-written, gripping story. It's great to have you posting.

Comment is about Would society find me, if I was not there (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

I'm intrigued by this one Cynthia. The title led me to think it was about fun in the bedroom but I think you were misleading us. Is it about sexual relationships dying, boredom and servitude of a different nature setting in? Twisting bonds could be read two ways I guess...
Alternatively it could be about a sex game gone wrong LOL
Am also intrigued by the lay out. It looks something like a snake or sperm. Don't worry about coming back to me. I shall read with interest what others make of it.

Comment is about Bedroom Games (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi, Kealan! Thanks for your comment on Ballad about the soldier. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Terrific, Tommy. The whizzling brain cells are really getting organized again. I always read any posting under your name.

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I like this one too Tommy - unless I've completely misread what it's about, like I did on one occasion LOL.
It is well structured and there are many lines in it that resonate. Love the 'shadows cast in backward glances' also the parodox of 'crush of empty spaces'.
I could go on...

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

This is a good piece, descriptive and full. Every person matters and the death of one impacts the many.

Comment is about Ballad about the soldier (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

good stuff tommo, reactional and the mood is one of vast nostalgia.

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I agree with TC...
And these verses are especially moving:

'But this shadow
That you leave
Is cast in backward glances.

And this stone
The memories remain
An aching loss of chances.'

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Poignant poem which speaks to me of displacement and the feeling of internal dislocation that occurrs when what can never be slips painfully through your fingers.TC

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Love the idea of a rocking chair creaking in rhythm with one's bones. I must get one.

Comment is about Pauline Fayne (poet profile)

Original item by Pauline Fayne

Really enjoyed this Steve-thanks.

Comment is about Self Harm (blog)

Original item by Steven Kenny

a comic/tragic saga which captures the atmosphere of the picture really well - I did start to worry if DH had had an accident I'd not heard about!

Comment is about the biggest splash (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like this very much.
Cx

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

I've lived here in Milton Keynes for 28 years. Like your poem, it is wildly underrated.

Comment is about HEAVEN MUST BE A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (blog)

Original item by Nash

I liked this a lot Tommy, and nicely balanced in three line verses. Verse three is particularly good words.

Comment is about Love's cooling light (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Aaah - I love that last comment Francine - I guess it is a question of training oneself and exorcising the demons...perhaps a little more merlot and less coffee might be the answer for me...

Comment is about That's what I call creative! (article)

I remember him, and his shaving must have been an awful life... takes me back this Cate.
love Bro XX

Comment is about The Night Worker (blog)

Original item by Cate

Thanks for commenting on my latest Cynthia - you could never ever sound like a jerk and you are spot on. In some ways we are more honest to a screen than we are to a set of eyes and that can land us in trouble... The poem was also about how artificial connections can strangely give comfort.
Sorry to note your absence off the site but am hoping you may have some good poems to commend. Sling your April ones in, if you haven't had time to look through May. If you are having problems with blogs like me, you might like to check out the site feedback discussion thread that gives a few suggestions... x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Max - it was lovely to meet you also. I can now officially declare you to be a 'real' person with a complexion I would die for! You are very talented and your poetry is mature, which had left a few of us wondering.
Look forward to meeting you at a future gig.
Isobel x

Comment is about Max Wallis (poet profile)

Original item by Max Wallis

Nice to meet you last night Isobel!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

rapists serve their time in specially designated institutes for the distribution of systematic sodomy.

Nick Griffin admits through torture
His soul is lost and requests assisted suicide. But gets only the gun.

Kerry Katona gives up half her fat in a charity lypo-suction event which solves third world hunger.

Ireland is finally one country again. With nothing short of an
Extended apology from the tyranny of occupation.
800 years worth of sorry's

The rich pay the needy just for their company
And a trip to space its cheaper than a train ticket.

Comment is about poetic Justice (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

good piece, it shows the ever diluting fragility of the minds capabillity to overcome constant self critisizm.

Comment is about THE VINDICTIVE VOWEL (or the deflated self). (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

dream of going home? sorry now but they werent forced. The days of conscription are over.I'll feel sorry for a british soldier the day they find wmd's (and probably not even then). Theres always poems on this feeling pity for the imperialist forces but never any sympathy for the maimed and murdered civillian men, women and children of Iraq/Afghanistan. But I suppose no sympathy for them because the media in this country makes sure it doesnt even cross the minds of the population.

Comment is about FRAGMENTS FOR PRIVATE RICHARD HUNT (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

If only skelmersdale scanned, Banksy

Comment is about HEAVEN MUST BE A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (blog)

Original item by Nash

i was definately attempting to generate debate or at least thought on the subject, rachel, and i think the series (ive not yet written) will (hopefully) do that as an ensemble. thanks everyone for your feedback, i was quite worried about tackling such a sensitive subject and im glad that i havent done too a bad job.

Comment is about She's So Sick (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Thank-you Cynthia for your comments on 'Disconnected' - glad you like it.
Think I agree with you about apostrophe in wires, but not in connection's (abbreviation). Thanks for the advice.
:-)
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Andy, for your comments on 'Disconnected' - glad you like it.
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

I grab a hot mocha with soy to go - which by the way has my signature heart on it - to walk the streets of Manchester, taking in the sun that I happened to bring along... ; )
and truly believing that a better world is possible... Si on voit la vie en rose.

Comment is about That's what I call creative! (article)

Fuck ! you've obviously never been to Hull, or Burnley for that matter

Comment is about HEAVEN MUST BE A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (blog)

Original item by Nash

Wot about - aspiring poets should be made to recite Zephaniah...
over & over aarrgghh!!!

Comment is about poetic Justice (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

hi - 11am - many thanks. B

Comment is about Pauline Fayne (poet profile)

Original item by Pauline Fayne

Good evening Larisa-loving all your poems-keep them coming-please!-best regards-Stefan-x

Comment is about My tender kiss (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

How beautiful. I`m assuming this is about the Kazak musician Mamer.I havn`t heard any of his work but I`m told that no one forgets its haunting beauty once they have listened to it. These words are so lyrical they could be one of his songs.
Cate xx

Comment is about MAMER (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Clever! The worst time is when they crawl across your consciousness when you`re asleep and the little buggers wake you up with their insistence that you write them down....
Cate xx

Comment is about Submerged (blog)

Original item by Dave Carr

I like the way your imagery works and especially the line" How do I look? An eye has an I, magnifying

all faults as revelations

and all beauties as imaginations,"you make imagery work that almost shouldnt yet it feels right like the salivating wrists.
Great poem overall

Comment is about THE VINDICTIVE VOWEL (or the deflated self). (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hello rodney thanks for your feedback , lol

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Thanks Rodney

Comment is about HEAVEN MUST BE A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (blog)

Original item by Nash

Thanks Rodney...love 'horoscopes'!

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Oh yes. That's MK. Love it.

Comment is about HEAVEN MUST BE A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (blog)

Original item by Nash

"people who go to church should be nailed to the cross"

Comment is about poetic Justice (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Liars would be exposed and made to live virtuous lives by compensating for bad Karma : )

Comment is about poetic Justice (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

thanks for the comment over my latest poem, chuck. it is a bit off a surreal one, i must admit and isn't the clearest one of them but i always think it is good to confuse poets once in a while.

confusion rules! lol x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

YES for the loansharks, the bar-stewards!!

what about...
"people who litter would be thrown repeatedly on to the pavement"

or

"people who laugh at Jim Davidson have to marry Jim Davidson" Och...the torture!

Comment is about poetic Justice (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

I guess you have to wear someone else's shoes before you can ever truly understand. Eyes are drawn to horrific sights though. How many times do you curse a traffic jam caused by an accident on the opposite side of the motorway, only to find your own eyes drawn to it when you filter past? It's human nature unfortunately. So long as it doesn't go hand in hand with condemnation, it is to be expected, I guess.
The difficult thing for most of us is knowing what to say and how to help without causing any intrusion or upset.

A difficult subject to tackle, but one that you are doing well and bravely.

Comment is about She's So Sick (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

A great poem Cate which sums up perfectly the tread mill life of a manual night shift worker and its family implications.

I can only recall an invalid father but can still empathise with the 'might have beens'.

Comment is about The Night Worker (blog)

Original item by Cate