Poor Augusta I'm sure she would blush crimson if she thought for one moment i would ever wish to undertake such an intimate commission.

Thanks for you kind words re my poem and yes looking forward to seeing when ever you have a moment.

Regards.
Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Dis chick keeps it well hidden within the silken folds of her knickers ... or so I've bin told.

Many thanks for reading and commenting John, good to hear from you again.

Gus

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you Anne for kind comment.
Gus xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

How well you know me Izo ... Im sure you could locate me upon the planet 'Dark' in the middle of deepest starless night hidden underground within a blanket chest.

Great subject, and wonderful to hear from you again and a chance tooggle yer pins agin.

Many thanks for reading and commenting.

Gus xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I'm great thanks Ann! Hope you are well too.

(Finally finished my first year at university so I've got my creative brain back!)
Take care x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your kind comment on Watching Paint. I've added some new colours because Francine spotted that I'd included Scarlet Lake three times! I don't know how it's possible to write something and not spot these things yourself! :)

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Steve. Welcome to WOL. Your profile made me chuckle tonight, I share some of your listed interests but not telling you which! Winston

Comment is about STEVE RUDD (poet profile)

Original item by STEVE RUDD

Hi Shirley, thanks for putting up your profile and samples. Welcome to WOL. Winston

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

Hi Jess, Don't stop the poetry! welcome to WOL, great sample work, like your almost rebellious and very refreshing use of English here, look forward to seeing you soon, best wishes Jeff ps will drop you a line about performances and various gigs and stuff you might be interested in!

Comment is about Jess Green (poet profile)

Original item by Jess Green

Thank you for liking Old Glitter and Flip Flops Alan! :o)Take Care, em

Comment is about Alan Morrison (poet profile)

Original item by Alan Morrison

Good to see you on here, Jess.. Enjoyed all of the samples on here.. Hope to see next Saturday at Cadence - if the weather holds - it'll be a good un! x

Comment is about Jess Green (poet profile)

Original item by Jess Green

Hello Jess, enjoyed your performance in Wigan last night, liked stop the poetry in particular.

John

Comment is about Jess Green (poet profile)

Original item by Jess Green

Hi Jess, Keep up the good work. Hope you enjoy WOL. Winston

Comment is about Jess Green (poet profile)

Original item by Jess Green

glad you liked 'escape', win... these love poems are starting to prove easier and easier to write, i think - lol

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Hi Elaine;

Tell you a bit more about Escape when I see you as it is a kind of true story, but originally was wrote in a workshop way before my current other half but when the comp came up - it made perfect sense to revise it.. A

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

glad you like 'escape, ann.. i seem to be building a rep for my love poetry.. i must be getting soppy in my old age - lol, but glad you like it...

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

thanks for the comments over 'escape' and 'dark shadows', jeff... the least said about your comment on fb about 'summer is here' however the better - lol..

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

thanks for the support antony over my last few poems blogged here.. you are right - my work is certainly getting stronger and stronger and i am pleased with the way it is going.. need to email you too reminds me - try to do it over the week-end.. A

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

Original item by Antony Owen

thanks for the comment over 'escape', isobel.. the original draft off this is from a few years back from a old writing workshop exercise but straight away when dave announced it, i knew it was a contender for massive rewriting and it made sense one morning when cathy was out asleep.

i've wrote a poem directly about what you said too but cathy has banned me from blogging it - i'll send it over to you as a pm sometime. (Cathy now has a profile on here under a different name too) x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Ha ha you are most welcome!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

thanks for the comments M8 on Summer is here I wrote this after getting soaked at lunchtime on Wednesday and thinking oh god - here we go again - lol.. particularly enjoyed God’s Marble Collection although i suspect that would tie me up in knots trying to perform it - lol A

Comment is about C Richard Miles (poet profile)

Original item by C Richard Miles

thanks for the comments Greg on Summer is here I wrote this after getting soaked at lunchtime on Wednesday and thinking oh god - here we go again - I have no plans to perform it to be honest or indeed publish it truth be told.. It's a moment poem if that makes sense to you, but glad you like.. Andy

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

thanks for the comment Kath on Summer is here I wrote this after getting soaked at lunchtime on Wednesday and thinking oh god - here we go again - lol..

Comment is about Kath Hewitt (poet profile)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

thanks for the comments John on Summer is here I wrote this after getting soaked at lunchtime on Wednesday and thinking oh god - here we go again - i could taste the rain also.... A

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

Original item by John Darwin

Cheers all, will be on here more now, if only for my aged uncle John Togher!

Comment is about Martin Togher (poet profile)

Original item by Martin Togher

Hello Alison,

Thanks so much for your comment on my Turncoat poem. I thought it was going to be another one with not even a gravestone comment ;-) But you stepped into the breach. I'm glad you were brave enough to like it.

I must say that I love your "style naif". Very fetching (old-fashioned word which I like and which suits) with touches of wisdom.

Keep in touch!

With love & light,

Alan

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Thanks Isobel for your support :) (chocolate shoes) The idea came as I was walking past a posh chocolate shop in Truro and there were some chocolate shoes in the window. xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Cyn - yes, "yesterday" is also the first line of the poem - many thanks for reading & commenting. B

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hey, thanks for the notes Alison :)

See you at the end of the month then!

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Just noticed you're at the Waterside this month. Date's in my diary ...

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thank you for your comments, much appreciated. Your poem in escape got my vote in the previous themed one, loved the gutsiness, the rhythm, the whole package!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

heheh, boots have popularity! My uncle does commissioned murals on people's walls of footwear. Ballet shoes in little girls bedrooms, football boots for little boys, that kind of thing!

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Sorry to name drop. Ezra Pound was talking about how poets should write about the concrete (in an essay about Do's and Dont's. In your case not writing about the actual abuse, but by using metaphor eg a puppy being mistreated say.

Comment is about Kath Hewitt (poet profile)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

'Pound's going in fear of abstractions'

What exactly does that mean?
Your last comment makes no sense to me at all.

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Above my bed there is an fact a painting of an old boot.

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Kathy,
I was writing about the poem and Pound's going in fear of abstractions.

Comment is about Kath Hewitt (poet profile)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Hiya, many thanks for comments on my old boots poem. Gave me much useful thinking. Normally when I start a poem I seem to begin with a really strong first line, a good idea of the middle bit and flounder into a weak ending (well, that's how it always seems in my head). This one was a little bit of a departure, and the verse now at the start was originally the second verse.

It's really useful seeing your thoughts on this because although to me it tells a story in the sequence it happened, it doesn't always convey itself to the reader, and it's done me good having a good old think about this. The reason I shifted that verse is because the whole poem relates to getting rid of the old footwear of the deceased, and the first pair to go are the boots chosen to quite literally go to the grave.

Again, many thanks, you really have me pondering!

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

I like your Thomas Tallis poem - music is so difficult in poems and you use this so well as a love poem, a memorial, an elegy. I can hear it, as I love that piece and someone else who loved it too - a long time ago. Thank you.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Steve, good to see you on here! Sorry I had to miss your Harrogate gig last month - you're going from strength to strength, I know it will have been great.

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Nash

WORKSHOP took years to write because I had to attend so many of them (bit of a whore on that score) but only a few weeks to put down on paper.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Thanks Isobel.I always like to be helpful when giving feedback but peoples skins are often paper thin.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for comments on WORKSHOP POEM. No doubt there are some workshops you can't forget!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm always amazed at how people can gets around sites so easily. I do remember seeing Muddy clearly but if asked who I first saw I would have to answer truthfully Frank Ifield.Sad eh.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Glad Muddy reminded you of something good you saw back in the days of yore. Now of course I expect you to tell me about it. Best wishes.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

John - just nosied at a comment of yours on Rodney Wood's page and have to tell you that I am deeply envious!! You got to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee! They're heroes of mine, I would have given my right arm to have seen them. You'll have to tell me more about it whenever I next see you

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your thoughts on Prestatyn, Rod.
Commenting gave me the chance to look at your stuff.
Your Muddy Waters poem reminded me of a gig I went to as a younger man to see 2 old blokes, one blind, one lame (bit like the bible parable) with a combined age of 146. Best concert I've ever been to - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee.

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Cheers John for comments on Ohrwurm and W/T/C.

Would be real interested in that piece you mentioned re earworms!

See you in a field on Friday :) Freaky dancin!

Comment is about John Togher (poet profile)

Original item by John Togher

Hi Elaine-belated thanks for comment on my poem'Embedded'.

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

Original item by Elaine

Hi Cynthia - Thanks for your kind comments on 'Nowt nor Summat?'
I've been reading 'The Strangest Man', the biography of Paul Dirac, a British theoretical particle physicist, which led me on to read a bit deeper, and from what I can gather, all we see seems to be the result of the manifestation of mathematical entities rather than real stuff ... maybe (my head hurts!)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks Isobel x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel