I never saw it as sad - me trying to look serious for a change maybe. Glad to see you back and pulling everyone's leg. Would stop for a chat but Monday pms a nightmare for me - just bobbing in. Take care Winston
Isobel x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Thanks for taking the time to read David. I think you read one of the few that I wrote in free rhyme - LOL! Like you, I do like to rhyme and found it hard breaking the habit. Free verse does gove you a lot of freedom over the language you use though which can't be a bad thing. Till we meet again.
Isobel x

Comment is about David Franks: Walkabouts Verse (poet profile)

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Hi Sophie, well done last night. Win

Comment is about Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam (article)

well played Sophie! I told you at that Bolton gig you could do it!!!!!!! scmashinnnnn love!! now where is my bling bling adornment??

Congrats to all who took part in this great slam!
and to Shaun for setting it up.

more proof that slams are fun when done right!!!!
great idea to have a '.1 , .2 .3, etc' score system.

Comment is about Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam (article)

Wow Sophie - Janet and I were right - you were the one to watch! What a superb victory cos it looks like you were up against immense talent. So sorry I wasn't there to watch it.- would love to know which ones you performed. Congratulations!
Isobel xx

Comment is about Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam (article)

A clever one Cynthia. Girl power eh? Just think what we could do if we ever broke free of that blade, organised ourselves or trampled on it?

Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Congratulations Sophie!
You need to do a recording so I can hear you too : )

Comment is about Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam (article)

Lovely, and sadly probably true.

Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Well done and congratulations to Sophie.
I said she could do it and she did. Great stuff Sophie.
Well done also to the other winners. It was a great slam and well organized and i can't wait for the next one.

Janet.x

Comment is about Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam (article)

Many congratulations to both winners. Very well deserved.
It was a treat to see all the performers and people are still talking about it tonight. I hope the people at the BBC enjoyed it as much as everyone else seemed to.

Janet.

Comment is about BBC poetry slam success (article)

Hi Simon,
really nice to see you at Hebden. Twice in one week. Poor you. :-)
Just want to say how much i enjoyed your performance tonight and i didn't realize you knew me so well. (note the irony)

Janet.x

Comment is about Simon Rennie (poet profile)

Original item by Simon Rennie

Hi David,
thankyou very much for the pictures. Can you find one with no shadows?
Thankyou for the offer to send a cd. It really is very kind of you.

I've been reading your poems here and enjoyed them. They feel light hearted and 'uses of summer' heartfelt. You should treat us to more soon. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about David Andrew (poet profile)

Original item by David Andrew

Hi Dave and thanks for the email. I do understand the difficulty and wish you luck.
I have been to the Bards once and went to the slam at Tallulahs recently. Also Wirral words.
Not sure when i'll go again though. Wigan is home for me. :-)

Thanks for your comment on my poem too and you're right, there is so much around us in every day life to write about. I like to make inanimate objects come to life, though i don't always fully succeed.
Janet.

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I wrote it for the Dalai Lama (not about him). Most Buddhists I 've met have a sense of humour, and some schools of Buddhism have a history of absurdism, irreverance, and jokiness.

Comment is about Guru (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Hi Freda, no there is only one (William Yeats). Most of his stuff is modernist for several reasons:
1. Whilst he did all that celtic twilight stuff, he also did an awful lot of stuff that had themes that could only come from urban living and his work shows that he is exposed to both the convenience of modern living and also its stressfulness. The lake isle of innisfree is a good example of this last, but also there are such colections as meditations in a time of civil war. Examples of the latter include so much of his material that shows increased solcialisaion and access to culture that comes with city living with so much stuff about public gardens and theatres etc. He was brought up a rational atheist which was in keeping with the modern era and logical posistivism as a doninating strand to modernist philosophy. His refrains especially, but also to a large extent his stanzas are not often verses and they resist classical breakdown methods. This last arises form the fact that Yeats harked back to the ancient Irish accentual rhythms and he is the earliset modernist I know of to break with the strict long/short syllable metering of the classical period and to start writing according to stresses in that particular way. He also used semiotics and referencing to a great extent, again characteristically modern.

Comment is about Patterns in darkness (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

i love the poem , and from my point of view it shows the futility of even trying to
'only do fond' :)

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Jeff

Thanks for commenting on Only Fond. I particularly liked 'Fighting On' of yours. Sounds like you are!

Dave

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Hi Val

thanks for commenting on Only Fond. I particularly liked 'Paradise' of yours

Dave

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Janet

I like this one on a second read, it creates a picture in the mind of a well-loved old chair and the warmth and memories around it. Thanks for your own comment on mine

Dave

Comment is about Comfort Zone. (blog)

If only you could....

I get a kind of wistful feeling with this one Dave.
As if you'd like to but daren't. Stay safe. :-)
Nice poem.
Janet.x

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

sorry Dave i hate stuffing, but i do have a taste for liver and onions..
and i do like your poem. Very succu-linct.

Janet.x

Comment is about Guru (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

I like this poem Dave,fondness is good it never breaks a heart.

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

A skilful witty ditty Dave. I like it.

Comment is about Guru (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Hi Dave, great stuff, I've been very fond of a few! cheers Jeff

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

A thoughtful and though provoking poem Janet. Sorry but we really can't be talking armchairs here chaps. No one can be complacent about love and I'm sure even in the hardiest of relationships lovers must wonder how the ravages of time will take their toll. I like this poem Janet.

Comment is about Comfort Zone. (blog)

Hi Janet, very clever, I thought you was having a saucy moment again, not that theres anything wrong with that!!

No I didn't see the twist coming, like Steve I never do or try to! Lovely lines, (may have changed the word leisure for 'my' but only a thought) great stuff see you soon Jeff XX

Comment is about Comfort Zone. (blog)

Hi Dan, interesting stuff, todays society being as dangerous as it is contributes to all this and of course bulling alwasys has been and probably always will be a problem unless you stand up to it.

Just one thing about the poem, I would use the line 'enough is enough' further up the poem somehwere and make the last line 'stand for what you believe', just a thought, cheers Jeff

Comment is about pieces of heroism (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hi Dave,
Enjoyed this - clever and so very true. Even - or maybe especially - the male of the species has precious little self-control when it comes to affectations of the heart. (Well maybe it's just me being a softie!)
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about only fond (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Thanks for your comment Jeff. Yes - it is a bit of a performance piece - don't think it comes across at all well on paper - in fact I think I might stop posting performance poems - I will always love performing them though! See you on Thursday.
Isobel x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Awww thanks for your interest Dave - have hit a bit of a dry spell - think I am very tired and in need of a holiday. Also much of my poetry seems to be performance oriented - sounds great on a stage cos I like to ham it up - but not so good on paper. Where do you live? If you live commuting distance of Wigan you should try to make the Tudor - there are some great poets - and ones who don' t take themselves too seriously - such a fun night. Bye for now.
Isobel x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Hi Dermot, I found this interesting considering the discussion about modernist forms that we were having. I am still puzzled by your reference to Yeats, Is there more than one Yeats? I cant find anything modernist in my collected Yeats.

Comment is about Patterns in darkness (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

I was reading some Anglo Saxon riddles the other day, Janet, and this reminded me strongly of them. Great poem.

Comment is about Comfort Zone. (blog)

I loved this Cynthia. It is simple, arresting and makes one smile and think at the same time.

The hint was your comment about flooding the site. But no one seems to mind the odd 'surplus' poem, do they

Dave

Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

oops, mixing Italian with Spanish..

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

gracias Gus.. ..si.. Neruda.... suspiro ...

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Not so mysterious, Steve. The idea comes originally from an East Indian fable if I recall correctly ... an analogy to teach the power of 'brain washing'. It totally fascinated me. Please post your cinquains. I'd love to post some diamante too. Why not! Such poetry dies a sad death as performance renditions unless the audience is specifically prepared to receive them. Even then, the words fly by so quickly it's hard to absorb the thought.

Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Dave, cheers, not sure Harvey Goldsmith has much to worry about yet! Thats convenient about the Crescent, have put you on the list, spread the word lets get a few in, cheers Jeff

Comment is about Dave Morgan (poet profile)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Nice and mysterious. I'm emboldened to post my cinquains later.

Comment is about Women (a cinquain) (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

As good as some of the 'war poets' but just for the record I am Spartacus!

Comment is about Oh, To Live In Chechnya (thoughts on an afternoon) (blog)

Original item by John Togher

Spinach and ricotta.

Comment is about Guru (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Oh aye, definitely see you coming with this Cate, excellent stuff with a bit of devliment, luv it! Jeff XX

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

Original item by Cate

Hi Cate, yeah babe just mail me your address!!

Good stuff, its got attitude and good to read something very diffrerent, nice one Jeff XX

ps thanx for re-adding my comment on Joe Strummer sang, much appreciated, would have kept the original one on, nothing wrong with being modest, not that you'll find me doing that, lol, right see you soon! X

Comment is about The Body Builders Lament (blog)

Original item by Cate

Brilliant Ros, such a naughty twist, great stuff - it says far far more than the few lines it contains, Jeff X

Comment is about Within Four Walls (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

Hi HTS good to see you back, just read this and Rhythm is my religion, good stuff cheers Jeff

Comment is about Hanging Loose (blog)

Original item by Horace Thespider

Ok Ros, enough of the sex text - will tell you next time I see you!!

Great stuff, nice work and a lovely surprise seeing you on here, nice change from that Johnsson bloke!

You'll be asking me for an open mic slot next! Hope so, Jeff X

Comment is about It's Only Words (blog)

Original item by Rosalind

Hi Dan, hope you're okay mate, just catching up!

Really like this, great stuff, just a couple of observations - I would leave out the following bits I've bracketed -

As the animal in me sees the animal in you (and vice versa)

(We know) our connection is growing between us like lightening

vice versa didn't sound right, and would split the following line in two -

And the intensity will eventually be two irresistible forces/ forces which will meet in middle

up to you mate, hope that helps, great stuff though, best wishes Jeff

Comment is about love and lust (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

well some of them anyway..

Comment is about This Land's Not Your Land (article)

this poem is brilliant! though perhaps the yanks might not appreciate the 'racisim' so obviously directed at them..

Comment is about This Land's Not Your Land (article)

Thanks KtD and Isobel for your time to read and comment. I've often written on issues related to the environment and climate change, but will try not to bore folk with too many ;)

Comment is about The Wind Howled (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn

A scary nightmare about a very real prospect Dave. The changes we all need to make are so mammoth, I'm not sure any politicial has the balls to tackle it. I guess one day we'll all be running for the hills and boy won't they be crowded - or I could start building that Ark - not mocking you here - just reflecting on a thought provoking poem.

Comment is about The Wind Howled (blog)

Original item by Dave Dunn