A nice little poem but I must admit that, maybe because I've not heard you read in person, I found the layout a little disorganised and hard to follow.

I'm seldom any good at defining the best way to read a poem unless I've read it several times. On the 5th reading of yours I still find it a little jarring to me though.

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

It has been a few days since I've looked through the blogs. Let me second Chris' comment, it was great to see you at the River View, and also great to see Chris too!

Once again you make commentry on current events with comedic eloquence.

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hola foxy Lady heh heh ;-) I am turning an idea over in my mind, just missplaced my Sorcerer's pen for the moment..... watch this space ;-))
TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

'I contemplate the scratchings and cacklings'

I am considering 'appropriating' that line with the expedient of adding an 'r'.

The 'scratchings and cracklings'...add a 'cooked pig's bum' motif that I find irresistible. I don't think it could be regarded as 'plagiarism'....just a referential nod in the direction of a greater talent.

: )

Jx

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Came back to this to view other comments.For me, this poem can be interpreted in two ways.1. as Ann interpreted it, as a fantasy lover.2. as i originally thought, a poem which has been stuffed in a drawer to be found and still loved by the author. That would explain Ann's confusion about scratchings and cacklings of presumptive opinion. (critique and comments) ?
Incidentally, i love that line too Cynthia. I like the way it rolls around the tongue when emphasis is placed on ''not necessarily.''

Starlight.x

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Good Evening Jeff
I do hope you are warmer now after reading Voyeur.

it seemed to make quite a few of the older geration a little hot under the collar, but hopefully no trouble for you.

Thank you once again for your encouragement and comment
Augusta x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Good Evening Andy
When I stop writing I know it's complete.


I have tried many times to expand poems and ended up with over written and over thought waffle.

Mostly after red wine and an argument with a partner.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and taking time to read.

Augusta x.

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Oh! Tommy
Offer me a weekend in Paris or Rome and I'll melt and with just a little coaxing would reach boiling point...

Augusta x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thank you for comments re; Hunter's Moon' Sometimes on wooded walks I feel this enormous history of legend and myth... and you are right it is quiet chilling, Like the Teddy Bears say... 'Don't go down into the Woods Today
Thank you again so very much for your encouragement and comments.

Augusta x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

Original item by John Coopey

Yes indeed, a maiden fair, a virgin , but not for long I suspect, poor girl.
Thank you for reading Ann
Augusta x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Cynthia,
thanks for your comment on my poem 'Qercus Robur.' and noticing the typo. (bows = boughs)
Mucho appreciated.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Dave,
thanks for your comment on my poem, 'Quercus Robur.'' Appreciate your honest opinion. I did want a sturdy feel to the whole so decided to restrict the flow by using a syllable count. I have a tendency towards over-flow otherwise.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on 'Quercus Robur.' Very much appreciated.

I think i missed and haven't heard you read ''Final Appointment'' and ''Rebel'' poem, both of which i love but particularly the former.

Hopefully see you soon,
Starlight.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Ann,
thanks for your recent comments on my stuff.
They're really appreciated.

Love ''The Dray.'' aand ''Take me''.

Starlight.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

i love your Epiphany Gaia very well written and full of vivid imagery that i like very much. youre very good at writing:)

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I always think a single lost glove on the trail are sad little gloves, somehow symbolic of the transient nature of lifes convoluted path. Thoughtful one Ann
TC X

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

nice stuff, dave.. if i didn't confuse myself - i could ask you a fistful off questions over this!

Comment is about Rules (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

good one, paul.. remember this from Sale... Any reference to the R.E.M. song?

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

any chance off a tesco shopper poem or a sainsburys shopper poem.. hey - i can see a series coming here! lol nice piece however

Comment is about The Ballad Of The M&S Shopper (blog)

can relate to this in large parts, katie.. i think there is some lil edits here and there you can do to make it sharper, but i did enjoy it..

Comment is about Daily Grind of Commuting 24/11/09 (blog)

Original item by DKlastro~*

enjoyed this cynthia.. nice stuff indeed..

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

has a great beat to it, Gaia - gotta say.. nice one x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I expect I have the wrong end of the stick but, for me (I love that phrase cos I can just say how I see it even tho that may be wrong!) the "but not necessarily unsatisfying" means the pleasure you can get from a fantasy, and I see this could be a reference to physical pleasure. The way I see it is that the woman fancies the man and has built up a secret fantasy life around him. He doesn't know, is ignorant and innocent. Then he finds out. He's a sort of victim of her secret fantasy love. But that's just how it reads to me. Would like to know if I have misread it, Cynthia.

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Barry, a good riff on W.H.Davie's famous poem, one of my favourites, though I always blench at the line with the ovine and bovine references.
Excellent, and thank you.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Full of a sense of loss and concern for the person who has lost the glove. For some reason the word blood kept running through my mind, although it doesn't appear in the poem. I think it's there, though

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Ann, thanks for liking The English Teacher. I wrote the first version of it a couple of years ago when I heard that he had died, in his late nineties. The regular alcohol intake seemed to have done him the world of good. Greg

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like both the sentiments and the language in this, Cynthia. Skillet is a wonderful, satisfying word. And "she held the spatula like an exclamation mark." Just right

Comment is about A Wonderful Day (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia. Thanks for your kind comments on The English Teacher. I see you're a teacher yourself and I agree, I don't think Ofsted would have thought much of him! But he was the one teacher at my school that inspired me. Not exactly The HIstory Boys, but that kind of thing. As a result I switched to English in the sixth form and started writing poems while I should have been revising for my O-levels. Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Ann, you have been busy. Many thanks for reading do many of my poems and extra thanks for commenting so positively.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is one sexy poem! Brill, as always. xx

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Thanks for your comment on the Tiger poem. Personal problems are a misery for the people involved and privacy is also important.

Both of these things are altered by the involvement of the individual in their own use of their character in the promotion of their business. I have put a brief reply in these terms on my blog.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for your comments Cynthia and Dave

I understand your concerns about privacy. Every private person has an entitlement to it, but if you have built a career worth a billion dollars on the basis of your public profile, and your personal characteristics are used as part of that income generation, then your life has been exposed to comment by your own decision. Tiger Woods' personal problems are also the problems of Tiger Woods the multi million dollar corporation. The two things are inseparable and that was his choice

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Andy. Ann F's comment just about sums it up for me. Glad you liked mine - a bit drier than this, though

Comment is about Patience (blog)

Original item by Andy Williamson

Clever and funny poem, though I do share Cynthia's sentiments. It must be tough up there in the media spotlight and there's some things money can't buy. Thanks for commenting on my little haiku

Comment is about Tiger in the Dark Woods (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

I love the imagery, especially the first stanza.
Better watch which ghosts you invite in though, you might end up with an orchestral manoevre in the dark and a cat playing chop-sticks.

Starlight.x
ps. sorry, couldn't resist. It's a great poem.

Comment is about I am lifting the piano with one hand (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

I can see what Graham means in the beginning of his comment but after a couple of reads i think it's quite fascinating. I come cross lots of single gloves and often wonder about the wearer.

Can't quite place my fingers on what i like about it but i do. Gets a thumbs up from me.

Starlight.x

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Love this poem.
Foxgloves are a nuisance when they decide to invade your garden and yet supposedly ward off negative earthly and nature spirits.
Great analogy used here.

Starlight.x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

This irritated the hell out of me to start with, but I seem to have come around to like its persistence.
Lovely idea but I would have liked more narrative between the red glove references. Although less is perhaps more?

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

The key here in surely the "last" wolf?
There is an element of the passing of one thing into another, a changeling perhaps. Renewal I think, in clever allegorical prose. I might be wrong but this is different stuff Sian, and much deeper and thoughtful. I like your new work. Graham.

Comment is about Alpha Male (blog)

Original item by sian howell

oooh, i really like this Gaia. It flows like melted honey but i taste the bittersweetness of it. I think I knew him once.. debz x

Comment is about The man who dripped digitalis (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Very topical! I see many single, deserted gloves at this time of year. Someone needs to pay them a bit of attention and you have done!
I'm posting up my 'digitalis' foxglove poem on my blog especially for you! I went to Grasmere with some friends a year ago. The narrow roads were a mass of foxgloves and we started talking about their medicinal qualities...how they can kill or cure. Hope you like it. Thank you for buying my book. There's another one in the pipeline.

Comment is about the lost glove (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment John. The soundscape is my son's work and he happened to do it at the same time I wrote the poem and I thought they might go well together. They do, in part, but I think I need a rewrite of the words and he'll take my vox sample and do something a bit better then my poor attempt.

Not sure about gamble instead of gambol - is it really archaic? Perhaps my alleged obsession with sheep has something to do with it :(

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

Just the best Paul
Loved it.
Love all the distortion and confusion.
would be good to rig the sound fx into PA on an open mic event, a live train station set-up.

You could use a korg sampler etc into the mixing desk.

brilliant.

Comment is about Last train to Shitsville (blog)

Here here to your comment re gangs! I think gangs are nasty things. Since I joined WOL I have been made to feel welcome, and it's a new home for me, a new poet. Then suddenly there's this feeling (from the old guard?) that maybe i won't be belonging here after all - too many poets!!! How many poets can you get on the head of a pin? (Or how many poets can change a light bulb maybe!) lol af xxx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Thank you for your comments Gaia - I love your stuff, it's so good to see you here again - I've got your book!!! xxx

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Hi and thank you for your comments. I've just visited your profile page and read some of your stuff. It's uplifting and sparky. Wow, foxglove...is that your real name? I had a mild obsession with foxgloves. Now ferns have taken over! .

Comment is about my cat's audrey hepburn (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Lovely poem Gaia. An unusual image, full of positivity and grace!

Comment is about I am lifting the piano with one hand (blog)

Original item by Gaia Holmes

Hi Steve, glad to see you again at 'The Puzzle' and as for your request...yes...I'd love to read the female voice-part in 'The Sun Shone' at the next Puzzle.

Comment is about The Sun Shone (blog)

Very smooth and measured, Cynthia. Although the clause "But not necessarily unsatisfying" confuses me, whereas 'Ann' just loves the line. I'm not sure if it's meant to be confusing or I'm reading too much into the adverbial and the negated adjectival particle?

I've read it a dozen times now and it makes some sense. It may be the conjunction 'but' that muddied my waters - I took the liberty of inserting 'yet' instead of 'but' when I read it and this didn't appear to alter the meaning but made sense to me. I'll shut up.

Either way - I enjoyed it!

Comment is about Letter in a Drawer (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thanks for your comment Cynthia.

I understand your concern about privacy. Every private person has an entitlement to it, but if you have built a career worth a billion dollars on the basis of your public profile, and your personal characteristics are used as part of that income generation, then your life has been exposed to comment by your own decision. Tiger Woods' personal problems are also the problems of Tiger Woods the multi million dollar corporation. The two things are inseparable and that was his choice.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas