Crikey, Anthony, do you always dress like that on the clifftops of Devon? And yes, do call in and perform / read at a NW poetry club. Once you get used to the poisonous politics and monstrous egos thrashign around, we are quite a nice crowd.
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<Deleted User> (6448)
Wed 8th Jul 2009 09:54
Hello there people - thanks to everyone who's taken the trouble to comment on the piece, including those who don't like it. Just wanted to put it into context quickly. It was written in 2005 as a response to the outlook and policies of the Bush administration (not as a general anti-American rant). I've always thought Bush was a six-foot human glove puppet - the piece really deals with the somewhat sinister neo-con
figures in the background with their hands up the puppet. People such as a prominent US senator who in all seriousness insisted that Spongebob Squarepants was indeed gay and a threat to society's morals. Extreme right wing politicians who courted the fundamentalist Christian vote and who resorted to the cheap rhetoric of television's evangelist preachers whilst taking America in a disturbing direction. In any event it was written as a performance piece rather than something for the page and should probably be heard live. Although I haven't performed it since last November's US election night and don't intend to as the Cheneys and Rumsfeld's of this world no longer wield power. Thank fuck. And thank fuck Barack Obama was elected. Cheers, Elvisx
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Should add that I would LOVE to hear this one performed.
Comment is about cleansed (blog)
This is a superb poem Sophie - it rings so many bells for me. Love the use of cleansing imagery and the frustration you get across. Love the 'compressed hot rock of despair'. Could quote the whole poem in fact. Such unusual imagery and emotions that I can identify with - though it never quite gets me to attack the housework so enthusiastically. Just love it.
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<Deleted User> (4235)
Wed 8th Jul 2009 01:27
Hi, Tomas. Thank you. It's good to be back, and thanks for adding me on Facebook. :)
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<Deleted User> (4235)
Wed 8th Jul 2009 01:26
Thank you. :)
Comment is about Rain (blog)
<Deleted User> (6280)
Tue 7th Jul 2009 22:47
I loved this poem and with the strong imagery I felt as though I was there. Brilliant
Comment is about Woodland Trails (blog)
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Pete Crompton
Tue 7th Jul 2009 22:43
Mia
I was actually only refering to one specific series of incidents, perhaps I should have made it clear that the people who dont contribute anything- YOU DO! as you write and take part. It was the spambots and just a couple of people who actually posted zero poems and made zero comments on anyones work. just one incidence, dotn worry sweetie and thanks for discussing the health and safety poem!!
PETE
X
Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)
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thanks for your latest comments Jeff!
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An interesting analogy Dave - will you, won't you. This poem captures well the lows we can all feel now and again. With a few exceptions, I think the soul is pretty irrepressable - often it is just a question of time.
Comment is about Thinking back (blog)
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Hi Cynthia,
Good to see a perfectly executed cinquain here. I always find formal poetry an interesting challenge, and useful for getting past those "fallow" periods we all have. This is a very profound statement - although I would hesitate to liken any woman to a pachyderm! :-)
Regards,
A.E.
Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)
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Great stuff as usual... You are an important part of the WOL community, don't dissapear again!
esp liked the relaxing qualities in this one. Win x
Comment is about Retreat (blog)
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Hi John, Thanks for commenting on "When Harry met Maisy" and "English Bond". Thought you might like the latter, you hit the nail on the head, lives are lost in the old mans pub, some want to be lost. Win
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Hi Elvis
Effective and powerful, a worthy poem of the month.
However, and I hope I'm not being pedantic, the US Christian scene is far more diverse than one might imagine from some UK media reports. Have you run across Jim Wallis? (e.g. 'God's Politics'). www.theooze.com is one of many possible entry points to the emerging church thing which is trying to wrestle honestly with the complexities of our modern world. This isn't to recommend everything in those or similar sources, just to say the poem, while being (unfortunately) spot on, is only part of the picture
Best wishes - I'll be looking out for your stuff
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Hi Again Dave
Its a pleasure, this is a great site, you will find some fantastic poetry and some fantastic people. Win
Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)
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Hi Winston, many thanks for your greetings and kind comments :)
I look forward to getting to know yourself and your work - there is a rich vein of poetry to explore on this site, it should keep me busy for a while, hehe.
Best wishes
Dave
Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)
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Isobel, the story is about my sister, so it is family legend!!! Shell kill me if she ever reads it!!! lol.
Comment is about Did a Spirit Knock On Rossbawns Walls (blog)
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Agreed. A finely written poem.
Cate xx
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<Deleted User> (5592)
Tue 7th Jul 2009 09:57
Judges were: (left to right) Sarah Maclennan, Libby Tempest, Cat Davies, Muli Amaye and James Hartnell
Photos by: David Andrew.
For larger, and other images contact david@writeoutloud.net
Comment is about Anthony Hett competes at BBC Poetry Slam, Green Room, Manchester, July 2009 (photo)
aye! I'm there! Currently rehearsing my set! The way it is looking - it is going to be Andy N & friends rather than Andy N, but that's me! Never do things by half! See you there!
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steve mellor
Tue 7th Jul 2009 08:46
Don't worry about the tears. Be the one to re-shape the world, a little more in the shape of poets such as yourself
Comment is about Rain (blog)
Thank you for revisiting my poetry Tomas. I think we share a love of rhyme. My free verse ones are few and far between.
Isobel x
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Yes - I'd kind of guessed it wasn't your arse Anthony - it looked very much like an image you'd get on google - it was fun though. So the fool has hidden depths then? Just as well since I like to fool around a lot myself and it is a mask I often adopt...
Isobel x
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Such an unusual poem Tomas - and so classical in style. I am not brilliant at history or folklore but I am guessing this must be based on some local legend? If I were the wife, I would have suspected the husband of knocking on the wall himself, to spook me and stop me from demanding a door...An enjoyable read.
Isobel x
Comment is about Did a Spirit Knock On Rossbawns Walls (blog)
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So glad you are back Sian!
I absolutely love the relaxing, dreamy quality of this...
Comment is about Retreat (blog)
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Ha!
Funny that you should say that listening to me reminds you of being back in school ; )
Merci de l'avoir écouté Jeff.
Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)
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Merci d'avoir aimé mon poème 'Je t'aime' : )
Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)
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This is lovely Tomás...
I can only relate to this in that I do not divulge all that I feel...
As I am sure you know now - it is better to let your feelings be known than to live with wonder and regret...
Comment is about Whose Heart Does She Make Beat Faster? (blog)
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Thanks for the comment Tomas. (I don't know how to add the accent) I have just been reading quite a lot of Yeats and I see you are a storyteller like him.
I am not too sure about too much use of 'did' as an auxiliary verb, mainly because I think anything repeated a lot has an effect on the balance of the poem. Maybe you have a particular reason for that construction though. It doesn't spoil the story though.
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Hi Andy, your over at the Poets Exress in Bandon, on Saturday, yes? I should see you there!!!
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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"Impure Wool" is a rollicking good read!!!
Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)
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Love is indeed the roundabout that kees our lives spinning!!!
Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)
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"Not Like the Rest" is a poem that shows clearly the shortfalls with the care in the community approach, what a fanciful term for renaging on their responsibilities...
Comment is about Seamus Kelly (poet profile)
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"One Step Behind" is a nice poem, one of devotion. It makes one think what is the mnset of the narrator and the lace in the relationship they possess
Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)
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Good people see good in others, bad people bad... we see what we want to see...
Comment is about What Do You See... (blog)
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"Loss on Paper" is a lovely poem...
Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)
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Goin senile is an improvement... amybe it is if it hides what bothers you about what is wrong with the world...
If so, may we all go senile... quick!!! lol
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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O-I-L spells Victory... so so so true...
Comment is about This Land's Not Your Land (article)
<Deleted User>
Mon 6th Jul 2009 22:28
just send stuff whenever you like i will reply within a week of each email :-)
TC
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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Liked the glorious folded darkness, the sanctuaryof silent hopes and dreams and the whine in the wind. It sounds like you've had a good break Sian.
Comment is about Retreat (blog)
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Oh Anthony - never bow to pressure - unless it's to give me a better view. I rather liked your sphincter and you are anything but a fool.
Isobel x
Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)
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Armando! I love your play on words with this...
read through several times... and each time is amazing : )
Comment is about The Magician (blog)
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Well done Sophie, (obviously I wouldn't have noticed your cleavage if I had been marking! Lol as if!) sorry couldn't make it, not that I would have made any difference, knew you'd go far first time we had you on at Blue Boar!! Hope to see ya next week Jeff X
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Hi Dave,
welcome to WOL Thanks for your comments on Pedro, its a bit of fun. As to your poem Excess Memories, it is stark, it is vivid and grim and hits home with a force. Brilliant. It is my type of poem in many ways. Thanks for posting, Win
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Like this Janet!;tender and a little sad as well !
Comment is about Comfort Zone. (blog)
My dad had a chair like this Janet. Tatty old thing ended up in his shed.:-)
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Well done Sophie!!
Your clevaage had nothing to do with it... however... if ya got it ...
SUPERBO
Gus xx
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<Deleted User> (5646)
Wed 8th Jul 2009 14:20
Hi Freda,
thankyou for your comment on my poem.
I often wonder where the inspiration comes from.
I know it comes from many different sources so i thank you also for the Anglo-Saxon reference.
Janet.x
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