Thanks for the comment Beulah. What a shame you don't live up North - you would be most welcome. Have only just found out that you are female - your name sounds a bit adrogynous - I always assume people are male and your poetry dosn't give anything away. Used to live around London myself some time ago. Have plenty of friends down there - perhaps I'll make some of the poetry venues one of these days...
Thanks again. Isobel x

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

Original item by Beulah

And we, the artists the poets etc know that they all know nothing. That's why they like to silence truth, any truth that does not fall in with their ideology. ah all truth then?

love to you and thanks for YOUR comments over at mine. Still waiting for the xmas dinner offer. meantime keep writing, inging and smiling. It f- ups the negatons.

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

Original item by Isobel

Some battles require a fight some require retrete if we are eventually to win, That seems the topic here. We all have our own battles in our own lives... I think many people will relate to this excellent piece in their own way.

Win x

Comment is about Sticks and Stones (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Welcome back Sian, great to see you posting again on WOL. Winston

Comment is about Sticks and Stones (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the comment on 'incoming'

steve x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Alreet Winston

thanks for your comments as always

i havent forgtotten about the sound files you have sent to me

steve x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Love the ideas within this.'When you know my art, you begin to know me'. How true is that? How and what we express says so much about us all. In fact I think many of us bare our souls here on WOL, in a way that we would never do in day to day conversation....
I guess you are going on to say much more than that. Art can become too pretentious and up itself as can some artists. Can art exist outside of representation? I'm not sure - I'm not enough of an expert on all forms of art. Just know what I like in poetry - things that move me in a none mushy or over sentimental way - I guess that springs from life....I like your poem.

Comment is about An Artist’s Reflections (blog)

Original item by Beulah

Thank you for your comment on Coming Home and also Alfie. I might just take Chris Co up on his suggestion and blog the latter - it is my favourite and has a lot to say.
Coming Home was about a failed emigration, marriage and life... Having read through it again, I can see that it works just as well for a soldier coming home to family - particularly if he questions the validity of the war he fought in and why he fought for so long. I am really glad that the poem works on so many levels. Thanks for the time you took to read it. I am now going to comment on your latest. I hope you won't see this as tit for tat - I had already scan read it and agree so much with the sentiments in it - I just find the number of blogs going up overwhelming sometimes - impossible to keep up. xx

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

Original item by Beulah

The Sun, now there we have a pure quality publication , it must be the only one that prints the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Comment is about The Cleethorpes Treaty (blog)

Original item by George Stanworth

i like it, nice and to the point, i wudnt be relying on the sun for political correspondance anyway

Comment is about The Cleethorpes Treaty (blog)

Original item by George Stanworth

I saw this comment a while back and was, am so pleased with it ... it is like true beauty itself...I do not want to touch it..awe.
you understand. What am I doing? trying to say what cannot be said...what I shall say is:
Thank you Mary Brathwaite

Comment is about The Conclusion. (blog)

Original item by Beulah

first few lines (no I didn't heed the title) and I sussed it was about our soldiers...yup good one. hooked me then cooked me then ate me. Spew me out now....! "Well and truly meeted and greeted" I lived in an airport once. Well done Isobel.

As for the Alfie...it is possibly your best- or one of then. Geez

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the tip. I have seen Gemma Lees poem "Keep Talking", liked it and said as much. Liked you own poem on Churchill as well.

Thanks again,

Alain

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

please invite me round christmas eve...the food you serve and the booze(please) will be real and I love real!
And thanks for your comments. Truly. And I too respect your views...now, where's my invite? And you guessed... I don't do gifts for xmas, but hey, if you buy me one I shall not deny you your pleasure. I do respect.

Comment is about At the Core (blog)

Original item by Beulah

I don't have an imagination. Oh Gus Gus. I do not create I merely script! Cell phones to ears, not talking cell phones or cell phones ears to hand. Surely. Oh Gus Gus I think you did this deliberately! in glove? Rushing.....roaring?
I never rewrite or change; that is beyond critique that is critical! I shall now go, and you can deal with your frustration brought on by the 'antisipation' of the awaited surge. Me, I await no surge. I edit your thoughts. What is the definition of edit in a literary sense, of course? Did you edit? You critique you.

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

Original item by Beulah

Great poem, Gemma. The repetition captures the disconnectedness you clearly feel very well. I was directed to your poetry by David Bradley, as I write stuff here on Asperger's Syndrome which is similar to what you're describing here. Your poem was very enjoyable to read. Good work!

Comment is about Keep Talking (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Love this, Isobel! Vivid description of relief after a long period of heartbreak and conflict.Especially liked the lines,"A lifetime's endeavour compressed into cases,dragging it all behind,dragging it all behind".Says a lot about where you've been and poss.moving on. x

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Stevie, Wasn't there but loved signs too... A sidways look at all those emotions under the surface. suppressed by family etiquette round the table. Great. Win

Comment is about poetry from Tudor House, November 2009 (blog)

Original item by Stevie Turner

But where and will I like it when I get there? Too often it feels like a garden path...That kind of reminds me of some Diana Ross lyrics - there is a song for every occasion. Thanks for your comment Mr. Black - will get round to reading your latest offerings soon - am a bit behind with my commentng - though my blogs to commenting ration has never been much of an issue. Thanks again - to everyone. x

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Belinda
Liked your Red Plimsoll autumnal snap shot. Keep postingWinston

Comment is about November (blog)

Original item by Belinda

Interesting...
Took a look at your website... Fascinating!
Some really beautiful poetry and things...

Comment is about The Naming of Moons (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

Great new line, now I wait anxiously until the last line to know if the watcher is benign or..and thank God he is...that's a gem!
Steve Smith

Comment is about I Leant Against The Wall (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

What is in a name? I have seen the inside of too many airports, and I think you will find your brother rides a Harley and a BMW ;-)) XX

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

really? Looking forward to discussing it with you further then!

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Yes the poem counterpoint's the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in a more than graphic way. I liked it , and the red shoes of course ;-)

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

x

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

I know the history; I don't have to be in the oven with the dough to be able to bake bread!

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Petrograd is a Russian version of Petersburg. It was renamed when Russia entered the First World war.. We didn’t want anything sounds German and Petersburg is a German name, burg- city. Bolsheviki can burn in hell as much as I care.. Ask me why and I tell you a point of view of a Russian historian who lived thorough the Soviet era..

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

What can I say - Brilliant. Favourite bit, last 2 lines (Mine's a pint) Win x

Comment is about Bethany (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Don't be silly, folks - it's blank verse, of course!

Comment is about The stops (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

The city with three names:
Burg
Grad
Grad
Burg

Peter
Petro
Lenin
Peter

Petrograd is the historical fulcrum.

Viva the Bolsheviki !

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Hi Natasha
If you look in the top right hand corner of the Home Page, you will see 'Make Blog Entry'. This will bring up a section where you can add your poem(s).
Hope this helps
Steve M.

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Hi Pascal,
Good to see Elvis has entered the building!

Comment is about Pascal Desmond (poet profile)

Original item by Pascal Desmond

Trying to work out where I can add poems. can you help me please??

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Hi Natasha, Great,in Russian too, I think thats a first for us? Win

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Thank you, Winston! I will add some of my poems in English and Russian shortly:))

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Gus!
I will have a glass of French Merlot in your honour tonight after my candlelight yoga class : )
xxx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hi Pascal

You Elvis Poem was very entertaining. Welcom to WOL Winston.

Comment is about Pascal Desmond (poet profile)

Original item by Pascal Desmond

Hi Ben, Look forward to seeing your posts in the near future. Winston

Comment is about Ben Mellor (poet profile)

Original item by Ben Mellor

Hi Natasha, I have been to St Petersburg. A fascinating place. Look forward to more from you. Winston

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

Original item by Natasha

Welcome aboard Tom. Winston

Comment is about Tom George (poet profile)

Original item by Tom George

Good looking dude, or what?

Comment is about John Coopey makes his debut at the Tudor House, Wigan November 2009 (photo)

Hi Steve,

I really loved your performance on Thursday night, very composed and with such intent. I particularly liked the poem - Signs. I think this is because I find it much easier to connect with shorter pieces and that i find short poems so much more powerful, fewer words, but saying so much more.

I think that my favourite lines in signs are; serves up all the desserts I have ever loved, this is magic.

Also like, buying herself time to figure out.

The poem says so much, and I think it's one of my favourite poems of yours.

Wonderful

Belinda

Comment is about poetry from Tudor House, November 2009 (blog)

Original item by Stevie Turner

Hi Steve,

I really loved your performance on Thursday night, very composed and with such intent. I particularly liked the poem - Signs. I think this is because I find it much easier to connect with shorter pieces and that i find short poems so much more powerful, fewer words, but saying so much more.

I think that my favourite lines in signs are; serves up all the desserts I have ever loved, this is magic.

Also like, buying herself time to figure out.

The poem says so much, and I think it's one of my favourite poems of yours.

Wonderful

Belinda

Comment is about poetry from Tudor House, November 2009 (blog)

Original item by Stevie Turner

Powerful this, Alain. The way you've used the structure really adds to the effect - the reader can imagine things rattling around and repeating in your mind. It's an education to read it.

Did you catch Gemma Lees poem 'Keep Talking'? It would be interesting to know what you'd made of that.

Comment is about Emotional Poetry (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Enjoyed reading these Alain - I see why you find it hard finding the right flat mate now..It is fascinating to have Aspergers explained by an adult - have seen it in children before but never an adult - or at least one that talks about it...Having said that, I guess many people are somewhere on a scale that they aren't really aware of. Things are labelled more than they used to be. Extreme tidiness is now obsessive compulsive disorder - not sure if anyone has labelled extreme untidiness yet - something I suffer from. I like to talk to myself - does that make me a schitzophrenic I wonder? It helps me to make sense of things, and I rarely disagree with myself...I found your poetry very touching - we all need to reach out and understand where others come from. Thanks.

Comment is about Emotional Poetry (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Catharsis or not, it still echoes the release of emotion that comes about when you finally get 'home'. Close the doors - I'm safe within the walls of my family
xx

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Photographs by Stevie Turner except for last 4 snaps which are mine

Comment is about Steven Kenny at the Tudor House, Wigan November 2009 (photo)

thank you freda-love the poem-oh! the Moons inaudible caressing of the land! so spiritual-regards to you

Comment is about The Naming of Moons (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

hi izz-loved the poem too-moreso the first verse and the ending(don,t tell me,it was easyjet was,nt it!) and a question,the line'a lifetimes endeavour compressed into cases' is that all you have? oh you poor little sausage! can i donate some of my well farted-in boxer shorts to you-camouflage in colour(except the stains)yours sincerely-man of la manchaxx

Comment is about Coming Home (blog)

Original item by Isobel