I too am on Poem Hunter as is Anthony Sullivan a friend and fellow writer of mine. I loved your Ode to the Poet.. the words flo. very well though you dont use rhyme. I look forward to reading more of you in the coming months/

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HI, Richard

Thank you so much for the comment on my latest poem. I am looking forward to read more of your poetry. Like I said before you have a wonderful talent with words!!

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Richard Brooks (poet profile)

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Richard

Shall read,
"""your poems are based on fact from the present."""

Sorry ...Zuzanna

Comment is about Working Class Blues (The doorstep Killer) (blog)

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Hello, Richard

The poem reflects on family’s life these days. It does not matter where we are located. There are visible signs of the self-destructions either luck of proper income, small apartment, not enough income to purchase basic needs. "Cigarette in hand” and the baby that is only 10 month old…?
Well you have colours in this poem. You are indeed very realistic and your poems are bass on fact from the present. I have enjoyed reading your write, it is thought provoking. You write well…Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Working Class Blues (The doorstep Killer) (blog)

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Hello, Dai Miles

I really enjoyed reading this poem. It brought a lot of memory from my past when my grandfather planted an orchard trees. Lovely write… It makes the reader feeling at home.

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about The Journals in the Shed (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

That poem is superbly beautiful. Simple, perfect and reminds me of my youngest sister, at five years old, flick drying her fingers (as she had seen Mum do) on an occasion when she had been allowed to use some nail varnish!

Comment is about Letting-Go (article)

Thanks for reading & commenting on my poem
Paul

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Dai, welcome to the poetry site. I enjoyed reading your poems, they are different.

Comment is about Dai Miles (poet profile)

Original item by Dai Miles

Powerful stuff, Dai. It says it all.

Comment is about From a Collier's Hand (blog)

Original item by Dai Miles

Good choice, Sally. I will go and read more of Helens work.

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Hi Alison
Welcome aboard the WOL site.
I love the way you talk about the 'artless office enviornment' in your profile, the way you say that...I can feel the frustration. Maybe theres a poem there! ?

Loss on paper -
makes me feel of those moments of self analysis
or realisation of what has become

almost like a tide that came without notice
or perhaps a withdraw of the tide to leave nothing.

and you look at what you have, and it all seems empty.

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

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Hi there!
Thanks for that, I agree on the tempo tempo tempo!
when actually up there reading it out thats what would happen, I would prob speed it up. I found when making recordings at home its really hard to start kicking off! Ias theres no poetic environment the poetry workshop (my kitchen!) is too tranquil! so I dont get the meat to get my words around, thats why most of my recordings are the slow ones.......


I find the poem changes too when I read it back, I add things - a good thing as often missing gaps are completed.

thanks for listening

when you going to a poetry event?

Comment is about footballers wives (blog)

hey Dave
it was just a pic that looked unique!
something about it

Saw you at Wigan on THurs and I forgot to mention this

Comment is about the picture of David and Lynda (blog)

Thanks. Hope you're evening's a success, without the violence..!

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

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No sticks? I'm going then.

BTW, I love the opening image you create in Loss On Paper.

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

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Morag, even the physical shape of your poem screams 'woman' which only enhances further your ability as a poet to project what you want to say. Your ode expresses great depth of character and made me smile inside. Thanks for sharing. Ally

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It was a great night. Glad Paul was able to get photographs off the night... Alex was crazy in particular but what a set!!!!

Comment is about Stevie Turner at Freed Up, Green Room, Manchester Feb 2008 (photo)

Very evocative, nicely done. I love the idea of giving the words a rest by putting them in the poem!

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

A very thought-provoking poem Mr Malpoet. 'more died than people in that bomb". How right you are. You have written a 'huge' poem, with just so few words.

Mel
x

Comment is about Death (blog)

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A perfectly enchanting poem Niel. I love the imagery.

Mel
x

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

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Hey steve

I heard you perform this at the Green room and thought it was fab. Like Dominic I love the line "galvanised slinkies". it give the reader a very strong image.

Mel
xx

Comment is about Drinking absinthe (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

ok not sure how that happened, sorry

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

very nice poem, full of peace

Comment is about Watching a sunset from the downs (blog)

Original item by Neil Francis Brooks

Hey Monkey, watcha doing, I was hoping to sell that to Hello Magazine with "my story". And what's with the"tinyurl" Blacburn? My url's as big as anyone else's. Bastards!

Comment is about the picture of David and Lynda (blog)

Peter, like Clarissa I can't hear them, my laptop has stopped dealing in sound, but by God the idea of Kare Bush and a Mixed Grill is making me salivate. To paraphrase John Clays "more please". Must go and make myself some toasted cheese,(with Branston Pickle of course), oh Kate, the appetite you inspire in a man.

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Hey Steve we need to hear more of these sessions, or is it just difficult to remember them?

Comment is about Drinking absinthe (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

He's not throwing up, but bowing submissively to the ghost of the Old Boars Head

Comment is about Freda Robinson at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton March 2008 (photo)

Is that bald chap just throwing up or is he trying to do a Hank Bukowski? We demand an answer.

Comment is about Freda Robinson at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton March 2008 (photo)

Damn! That bald man is sexy!
Damn! That bald man is me!

Comment is about Darren Whitehead at the Howcroft Inn, Bolton March 2008 (photo)

Cheers Dave. Nice to see you there. The better photos are used with kind permission of official photographer Bernie O'Brien.

Yeah, i was a bit nervous about this one but ended up really enjoying it. Mcr Irish Festival is one of the biggest in the world. It meant a lot to me (would have loved my mum and dad to be able to be there) and there were at least 500 people rammed into the magnificent Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall - couple of hundred stood at the back. Despite pacing round nervously for a couple of hours beforehand, muttering my 2 poems to myself, I managed to leave the longest 5 seconds of my life between two lines but managed to recover - not sure if anyone noticed besides my wife!!

Can I just point out that I took no part in the later debauchery to which Mr Morgan refers. I neither singed nor signed any part of Dave's anatomy! I adjourned to the Contact Theatre to mingle following the Apples and Snakes event with Polarbear et al.

Slainte

Tony

Comment is about Tony Walsh at Manchester Irish Festival Launch 2008 (photo)

Great reflection of what happened that night in Paris. I will never understand why those two had to die-because of the pursuit of the paparazzi. They chased them every place they went. The poem says volume and there is some mystery behind as well. Thank you for the sad but truth-spoken poetry.

Regards,
Zuzanna

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Photos by Gemma O'Neill with more to come from Seamus when he gets back off Holiday

Comment is about Freda Robinson at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton March 2008 (photo)

Hello to You!

Sad life for a young man. He must of been ill minded for some reason. I guess he deserved to die, although it is not up to me to judge.

Biography

McVeigh was born in Lockport, New York, and raised in nearby Pendleton, New York. He was the middle child of three, and the only male child. He earned his high school diploma from Starpoint Central High School. His parents, Mildred Noreen ("Mickey") Hill and William McVeigh, divorced when he was 10. His parents were of Irish and German origin. McVeigh was known throughout his life as a loner; his only known affiliations were voter registration with the Republican Party when he lived in New York, and a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Death (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hello Dear Belinda

Thought provoking poem; So many issues just with one word” INDEPENDENT" Well this word is a broad spectrum word to be used. Some like independence and some do no not!

I believe it is a matter of choice which direction an individual takes. Life in general requires being INDEPENDENCE...Again; I can go on and on this one… We had to teach independence our clients who lost the privilege due illness or accidents.
GREAT POEM!!!

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Belinda

Hello, Malpoet

The write is EXCELLENT!!
You have touched so much truth & issues that apply to the entire World. It is the Liberty that shall be respected…The Statue represent FREEDOM…Where is it?
And you used a lot of important substance in your write...All makes perfect sense. Thought provoking poem... Thank you.

Regards,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Dear George (blog)

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hmm I think the link is faulty, it seems to put wol as a prefix??

I put them on the site for now (petecrompton.com)

Comment is about 2 new audio poems (blog)

HI Malcom, this is a cool poem. You know, when 911 happened, I was at home watching it, before I went to work. Then I watched the economy start to crumble.I saw the videos of Mr Moore, Im like you, I dont know about him and Im sure I dont agree with all in the film.Im all so sure I dont agree with all the "war". From my view we have become terrorists, by engageing in this war, and not declairing it in the senate, per the constitution. The prision camps are an abomination, with parts of the bill of rights, suspended, it makes for no justice. I have been active in the political arena, and found that nothing can/will get done. I have written my congress and others, to get no answer, I have signed petition after pettition, to have nothing change. as I have stated before Im a libertairian, that has infiltrated the republican party. I can tell you its one bunch of bull shit after another. If I owned the media, or if I was a lobbiest, then I would be given time as I would be paying my elected officials to listen to me. However they already get a fine wage for doing nothing. I believe we are in need of a march on Washington, a possible revolution is around the corner.They tell us McCain is winner of republican party and all delegates, however we have flooded the party, they have no clue just how many are NON McCain, and are pro Libertairian.I dont know what will happen.I know the media lies.I know we will have to go public at some point, that we have taken over the republican party.Great poem man!!! Keep writting, at some point I may not be able to say anything, just to save my family.I hate to think of my country in that way, but I have no trust for it/them.Take care Malcom, remember your government is my government.Not much difference in the 2.

Comment is about Dear George (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi pal, seen you a couple of times and really enjoyed your performances. Finally plucked up the courage to submit. Hope all is good, Ian.

Comment is about Gordon Zola (poet profile)

Original item by Gordon Zola

Wow, great stuff.

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Hi malcom, nice little poem. Daffodils are one of my top 10 fav flowers.They are in bloom here.

Comment is about Daffodils (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Thank you very much David, Mel and Clarissa for your comments. You're all quite right about the character and a mimi story. I sat down for quite some time and thought about the person that influenced this poem. It's like they became part of me, and I was feeling there pain, emotion.

It can be a lonely existence in this world sometimes eh?

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Original item by Belinda

Hi Belinda, this is very nice, I could see it as if its a mini movie. How those words ring in my head and heart. take care

Comment is about Independent (blog)

Original item by Belinda

Im sure they are great! I cant get them to work on my PC, cant hear the 2 of them but can hear others.I always liked mixed grill, to read, so Im sure you do it well.As for being in love with kate Bush, cant hear it or understand it, but then, its the PC thing.

Comment is about 2 new audio poems (blog)

MEL! Thanks wow you always help me along with my writing with your reviews!

Dave you aint got the monopoly on age boy! :-)

Comment is about growing up (blog)

really good point Clarissa! it makes sense in a crazy way, too put that mad music over all the killing. the killing was stupid in the first place. to underline it with this just extends the lunacy. it is all part of the same self re inforcing club. like jinkies hangin out only with junkies. it all seems fine if you share the same delusion.

Comment is about Please help me to glorify war (blog)

thanks Clarissa for all your comments. You always take time to read my work and its great to see what you think. Blind faith is difficult. yes. Im more a pagan I think.

Comment is about our own silence (blog)

Hi Peter, very nice poem! Can you imagin being God? Having to hear all at the same time billions of people asking things? I cant, would not want the job.You cant test God. You either have faith, or you dont. Church is not required.Answers come when God can answer and you can hear.Dont you know the answers at times, to the questions you ask?I remember we talked about this before, and you never said what you believe.Blind faith is at best difficult.I have had answers, as I told you. I have seen things, that some would say was of heaven. I dont know, others would say I was crazy, but I know what I saw, and how it made me feel. To not be on drugs or drunk and have visions...well I dont know. Loved the poem. Happy Easter..Psss its a pagan holiday, the way most all churches do it.

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