Hi Bethan,
i might be able to help you out here.
It's my job!

Email is on my profile page if you want to get in touch. :-)
Janet.x

Comment is about Taxi Stories (blog)

Hi Daniel,
some real sentiment to this poem.
Like it.

Janet.x

Comment is about The sparrow speaks (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

'Some girls cry when you squeeze them
and i resemble action man some days' are
great lines for me Pete.

I used to play with my brothers action man. He was allowed nowhere near my Tressy :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about tiny tears (blog)

Janet, this is really, really good. I didn't equate colour-dyes with actual 'false colour' but I could be wrong. For me, it seemed as though the idea was far more encompassing.

Comment is about The Light of Day. (blog)

'Bobby' struck a chord or two with me John - partly due to my own follicularly challenged experiences - a good read, perhaps more so at the mike :)

Best wishes

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

Original item by John Darwin

Hi Daniel - thanks for commenting on 'Chips & Dips' - glad you enjoyed it :) I think you were probably first as there weren't many of us on line when I posted it last night - some folks must have sneaked out, hehe.

Best wishes

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

the first person to comment! I wonder why becasue this such a great and romantic love poem. well done!

Comment is about Chip & Dips & Cool, Cool Wine (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks to all who left comments on this one, glad you like, I like, is nice.

Anthony yes you got it! you got the 'brief encounter' yes and the other songs seem to fit well. Seems its been written before.Nothing new under the sun perhaps. Or as Einstein said, its hiding the source.

Comment is about that tear (blog)

Peter would like to point out that he has never played with a Tiny Tears doll. I say this as some take my poems as actual experience, they are not. They are emotional ideas, played out with poetry.

Comment is about tiny tears (blog)

Thanks Anthony for your kind comment and advice :),

Comment is about The Maldives (blog)

hello anthony, thanks for the comments.
Love your curse!! Made me splutter me tea out as I read it (two sugars for me please, its the less harmful of my many vices).
trying to get audio stuff up soon when i get my hands on a mic.
cheers
xx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Daniel, having read the poems here on your bio page I'm inclined to campaign for legalizing green aliens ;) Good work!

Best wishes

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hi Marianne, Up till half way through the second stanza this, for me was a cycling poem and a rewarding one... What is this subject/inspiration here? Winston

Comment is about Plough (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Lincolnshire...what's there? Grimsby et al??
I'm afraid I don't know of anything east of ... Lancashire hehe.
If I had a choice between Yorks and Scots - I'd be Scottish every time haha. As it stands, I am probably extremely English with no particular rooting!

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thanks Dave,
I know! I feel I owe it to my name to become Welsh one day but sadly, I remain distinctly un-Welsh.
I live closer to Wales than I ever have though :) - result!

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Hi Dave, thanks for your comment on What Do You See,......Ive never been one to take shit without fighting back, and I think this poem expresses my personality quite well!!!!! Im learning to be a little more laid back as I grow older disgracefully though!!
Cate xx

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thankyou for your encouraging comments today David

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Excellent poem and attitude - be proud of who you are :)

Best wishes

Comment is about What Do You See... (blog)

Original item by Cate

alas the week-end came went and so did we: She's never read it nor seen the foto.

Comment is about Lizzie by Night (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

When are you going to post your pole dancing poem? The humour was so subtle - your best yet - I would love to read it.
Isobel x

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

Original item by christine yates

Thankyou for your comments on H1N1influenza, perhaps I should have added a bit about the eye( the great eye of Sauron that is)!! I enjoyed your prose above but am particularly drawn to Lifelines. The picture of the woman knitting and the poem are exact, did the pic spur the poem I wonder.
best wishes, jane

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Tommy,
An interesting thought - but I'm not sure that the statistics bear out your assertion! Being the somewhat curious and pedantic git that I am I did a quick count up and calculation on the ratio of males/females registered on this site. According to Paul's latest post:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=178&NewsGroupsID=29

it seems that there are 567 poets registered. By my reckoning (and it's quite difficult - allowing for non-gender-specific profiles and possible aliases) it would appear that the ratio is approximately 360/200 men/women, or alternatively 1:0.55. Of course this could mean lots of things - even that there are more women poets out there, but that men have bigger egos! Surely not? :-)
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Women love poetry more than men (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Tommy I think this is powerful It captures so many facets, time, place, relationships, in a simply stated short format. As other observers have noted of similar poems, it's a short story in itself. I hope Lizzie liked it.

Comment is about Lizzie by Night (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

OK i give in! :-)
Thanks Anthony and Isobel who actually had the same thought.

Janet.x

Comment is about The Light of Day. (blog)

Anthony, thank you for your comments, feedback and support. Its really appreciated. Lucky you living in rural Devon! I have been there as a child, would love to go back...if only I can find the time...need to escape......


thanks again

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

I like this poem Janet,I easily identify with your words. I hope you don`t mind but maybe if you replace friend in two lines with she /he your poem would be more emotive.

" She/he departed in a different way."
"Before she/he departed---
Punctuation Janet, helps the flow.
Good work

Comment is about Lost Today (blog)

Hi Sian,
I haven't seen you around for a while. Came late to this one. The last line is a very telling observation, I guess there are as many kinds of love as there are people. We don't always get the kind we expect - or want. Thanks for your comments on my scribbles, the are always very welcome and appreciated.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Searching for Chains (blog)

Original item by sian howell

Hi Janet,
Enjoyed your musing on the turning earth and its effects on us. Just one small quibble - seeketh = sought?
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about The Light of Day. (blog)

Hi Captain,
I'm afraid castration is the only permanent solution! Perhaps we can't get past hormone rushes, social conditioning and instincts (those have always been my excuses anyway!) Really liked the quality of sound on your track - maybe you could share a few tips?
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about New poem: How Am I Better? (blog)

Hi Janet,
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is inspired by lanscapes, seascapes, the colours of skies and the weather! I envy you on that beach. Nice poem - nice pic too. You might like to tidy up a few typo's in there - completely, palm, breathes - but I enjoyed it!
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about The Maldives (blog)

Maybe we've found a hole in the market - let's saturate it...

Comment is about The Gallery (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

An uplifting poem Janet - a new day often does that for us - though I think it may take a few for me LOL . It feels good to read an upbeat poem and I like the analogy of dyed hair returning to its natural state.
Isobel x

Comment is about The Light of Day. (blog)

Well I think you are a very honest cunt. You identify very well one of the deepest roots of strife in the male/female relationship. I'm not sure if it doesn't stem from our animal origins though - men are the hunters and 'dissemenators', women the careres and nest builders - not really the best combination for a lifelong partnership. It would be great if men could raise the game a bit - good luck to you Captain.

Comment is about New poem: How Am I Better? (blog)

Very good Pete, also wasted tears.... should always leave old baggage behind once the train has left the station.
I think Anthony, your idea has already been used in a film - The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, taken from a poem by Pope - Eloisa to Abelard -

'How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd '

You're right in that our experiences make us who we are - don't know though that necessarily makes us all we should/could/ought to be! .. if that makes sense.
Good stuff, as ever, Pete.
Cx

Comment is about baggage (blog)

Hi Barrie,
I'm glad that someone thought to write on the passing of a remarkable man. I hadn't read Andrew Motion's poem until yours prompted me to do so. I have to say that I liked it - but it didn't have the power for me of the Kipling you so admirably and aptly quote. I remember watching the Albert Hall Festival of Remembrance with my Grandfather when I was a child, and him telling me how a few of the old men there had fought in the Boer War, and how there would soon be none of them left. Harry Patch's passing is another of those moments - for all of us. An eloquent reminder.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Harry Patch (blog)

Original item by Barrie Singleton

Hi Pete,
This was powerful, pertinent and personal. One day they may invent a drug or a machine to erase the memories that haunt us - but I hope they don't, for it is those memories which make us who we are.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about baggage (blog)

Great fun. I would have scrubbed the last line.
I have this nagging feeling that a lover 'two miles down the road' should be code or a euphemism.
I am reminded of 'The Glums': . . . "just you and me and that couple over there on the verge".
I trust your name and photo are bogus?

Comment is about Within Four Walls (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

Forgiveness is the hardest thing, but if you do not it will eat you away and distroy, it will then be the winner, let it go, move on, not easy I should know, you can only try. Love Mum xxx

Comment is about baggage (blog)

They probably sold her dirty knickers on ebay and made a fortune!!!! lol
Cate xx

Comment is about The Gallery (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Very true Tommy - do you post poems to any of the social networks - most of the responses I get there are from women :)

Best wishes

Comment is about Women love poetry more than men (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Wise words well presented Janet, I enjoy this kind of musing myself :)

Best wishes

Comment is about Salute (blog)

Im no expert so no disrespect to anyone I just know what I like and I think this has a nice meaning behind it, its like describing a film romance I esp like the line love decides the cast :)

Comment is about Love Decides The Cast (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Hi Andy, thankyou for your comment on H1N1 influenza! I'm trying to work out where your photo was taken, its good. For me I really like the imagery and perspective of Kemp town. I can reread it and still see it. Very enjoyable, i will have to visit again! Jane

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi Cynthis, thanks for commenting on H1N1influenza! Its a fun verse. I have been reading yours and The Last Verse is wonderfully weighted, including the meaning and the words between the lines, so often at the end unsaid but thought. Great. Jane

Comment is about The Last Verse (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Here's to those Japanese art students who 'remade' Tracy Emins bed!

Comment is about The Gallery (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

This is really good, Emily. You have an great flair for words and phrasing of very original ideas. I look for more. If you don't see a comment from me on a poem, ask me about it, for I probably will have only overlooked it.

Comment is about bristol temple meads to manchester piccadilly (blog)

Despite such fine ideas and the obvious desire to make a good poem , I find this still more like an exercise than a finished product. Tighten it up with exactly the right words that basically scan consistently and rhyme well. Weak rhyme should be used only sparingly.

Comment is about Love Decides The Cast (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

Thank you for your comments Andy. The line you object to is in fact central to the poem: It lays in the center 6 th line of 11 and is pivotal as that night was to spin around for days to come...

Comment is about Lizzie by Night (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hi Tommy,
Just read through your first posted poem.Really like this one and the message in it!

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Hello Cynthia and thanks for your comment on ''the healer'' poem.
Truth is i'm all out of steam right now and can't be bothered any more. Telling is what i do and if it isn't good enough then maybe i shouldn't be here at all but i doubt you've seen the last of me because i actually enjoy writing ''performance'' poetry and my technique is slowly but surely improving.
I do enjoy reading between the lines of ''page'' poetry but as for writing it? Well, i leave that to the ones who are best at it. :-)

I've enjoyed your recent blog posts and will continue to read. Thanks again,
Janet.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas