I've no idea why the font changed happened there, I just cust and pasted this from Microsoft Word.

Don't read anything into it, apart from my inability to use a laptop.

Comment is about Sitting On Me Dad's Shoulders (Re-write with Winston Plowes) (blog)

Dude you should have thrown "Try to see things my way" in there

Comment is about WHEN IM DOWN....I LISTEN TO MOTOWN... (blog)

I've heard one of the four Glennons recite this piece, and I must say it was brilliant.
If you do need to book an orchestra in advance, then please let me know. I have unlimited access to Manchester's 'Scally orchestra', although to be honest - DG don't need it, init. He's great by himself.

Comment is about Symphonetic (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Sure. With or without orchestral backing? I need to know so I can book them in advance.

Comment is about Symphonetic (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Hi Sebastian.
Drop me a line at winstonplowes@googlemail.com I have some comments on this one to send you via email.
Really like it
Winston

Comment is about Sitting On Me Dad's Shoulders (blog)

I have really appreciated you commenting on what I have posted. I feel humbled that anybody would bother, let alone another poet whom I enjoy reading the works of.

thank you

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Would a long thin poem make people concentrate on the words more, rather than this block of text?
Win

Comment is about VULNRABLE (blog)

Hi Yosh,
Liked this one. Liked the end -" Resulting in a shell, Naked in the middle of the room, Vulnrable.... " To me it seems there is just nothing as humanity seems to fade away to,well nothing. Win

Comment is about VULNRABLE (blog)

liked this Dermot. Different. Turmoil and oppression. Winston

Comment is about Hopefully, this is Terminal (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Utterly brilliant, would sound good with an orchestral backing. Will you do this one next time I come up?
Cx

Comment is about Symphonetic (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Fantastic stuff, and I like that you took the thought through to the end - no playing silly buggers with the ending. Couple of thoughts - should it be - they're turbines? or have i misunderstood? and - has she read it?
Cx

Comment is about Hopefully, this is Terminal (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Not politically correct, challenging and a bit scary. Poetry is meant to test boundaries, isn't it?
This poem appears to suggest the point of being a girl is being sexually attractive.
Having said that I had to read this a few times...with my jaw dropped. :)

Comment is about Fat Bird, Small Tits. (blog)

The point was that we all strive for both strength and peace in many areas but strength has been prescribed as a craze/ fad preferable to peace. This has happened everywhere. I was trying to convey that putting strength ahead of the prospect of peace will inevitably lead to further conflict and as trying to pursue peace is a perfectly valid option, it should be the primary focus of all governments, in lieu of strength.

Comment is about Strength and Peace (blog)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

Such the philosopher you are!
Merci d'avoir lu mon poème...
Loved the bit about the bits ; )

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Love your alternative way of looking at things. Very quirky style - I liked it - and so refreshing to read about love 'gone right'!

Comment is about Back Fat (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Hi, I really liked your piece, 'Beauty and the Beastiality'. Sort but sweet and a nice delivery.

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Glad you enjoyed Back Fat - thanks for the chip comment but not this one not autobiographical (unlike the beastiality material). I've just noticed your OCD poem - gutted - I'd already started penning the stuff about only having the volume control on even numbers and having to tap your left hand if you tap your right, but then you need to go right, then left, then right-left-left-right...etc... all of course comes with dire consequences if you don't.
There's no hope for me....

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

I feel the sadness and desperation of this...
Can totally relate to this:

'Turning my thoughts increasingly inward
Disconnected with the world
Not taking part
Becoming ever more an observer
Soon there’ll be nothing
Just my thoughts'

J'adore lire ce que tu écris : )

Comment is about slowly closing down (blog)

Well jeeez... you certainly do have a way with your words...
and some nerve!

Comment is about Fat Bird, Small Tits. (blog)

I wanted to set my stall out early, in terms of being free in what I write about. Free from having to stick to form or what the idea of "good" poetry is. I'm pretty happy so far.

I'm hoping to just get people commenting the work. Any chance of you commenting directly on the "fat girl" poem. Would love your views on it.

I'll run my eye over your work... you seem really popular.

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Thanks for your comments, Carol.
What do you really think of my stuff?

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Hi Sebstian
You've got to admire them though, fast clever little critters, and so cuddly...when they want to be.

Comment is about Cats (In the style of Karl Pilkington) (blog)

thanks shane I think this poem is semi autobiographical for me also we all need some dirt we can't be perfect!

Comment is about The artist and the poet needs dirt to paint humanity. (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

After some reflection, I changed my final comment on 'I wish I was...' I think we maybe do meet halfway. I do like your poetry Gus - I think it brings out the man in me - is that cos I had a very strong mother and a weak father or is there a man in every woman just waiting to get out? I'll have to ponder that one.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

I've done things like you describe in this at all stages of my life, and I'm nearly 28 now.

I have to say, guilt appears to grow as I get older.

I liked it.

Comment is about an incident involving a felt tip pen (blog)

Daniel this poem is beautiful i can relate totaly....in a weird way it feels like it describes me! I really enjoyed it...and i LOve the title!

Comment is about The artist and the poet needs dirt to paint humanity. (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Thanks for your comments Gus/Francine

Gus - you've got me thinking - is the pulsating blood filled organ that pumps its way through all of your poetry, actually a heart?

Francine - you've managed to home in on the few serious lines in the poem. The 3 little words women crave to hear are often no more than 'I am sorry'.

Comment is about I Wish I Was Gay (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Wicked and entertaining - I like it too!

Comment is about an incident involving a felt tip pen (blog)

Love it love it - you sure wouldn't want to know what was in mine! But are we just talking bags here?

Comment is about I do like your bag, Lynda (blog)

You are quite the animated one...
this made me laugh... you know I needed to laugh : )

Comment is about I do like your bag, Lynda (blog)

This is so adorable!
I especially like the twist at the end:
'i had everything but guilt'

So capricious!

Comment is about an incident involving a felt tip pen (blog)

NIce one. I wrote a paper years ago about this problem. My feeling is, that it will not change. I wish my government did not support Isreal, but they dont take orders from voters here, or any place. Until the people understand that banks run the world and all the wars, it will not change. There is a power grab for that last remaning soverign banks in the world, and they are where we are at war, in middle east contrys. The world banks and the IMF and the UN want control, they will stop at nothing. Control the money and flow of it, you control the people and the country, you subject them to interest rates on loans so that they can never pay it back, thus you have new slaves, and you own them. But some are so undereducated they never will get it. Then some put their faith in the governments no matter if fascist or socialist/democratic etc, and the governments dont work for the people,. Sure you will get a few things you want as a voter. but never the things that matter most! great write!!

Comment is about Protest Report (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Hi Emily
Liked this little story / poem. Post more. Win

Comment is about an incident involving a felt tip pen (blog)

Comeon Izzo.. I;m almost there with you! you are mis reading me on purpose... I have lesbian tendencies...
Gus x

PS U R correct in losing the footnote.!!.. never excuse or explain a poem after the event. Your poem is powerful full of girl power love it.. very strong. Don't blame me for being a male... I was born in the nude never been right since.

Comment is about I Wish I Was Gay (blog)

Original item by Isobel

'Love is a minefield...Lust is good for you!' mmmm - a very masculine comment. Not sure if that doesn't sum up in a nut shell the tragedy of the male/female relationship. Very few females in my experience can divorce one from the other. A physical relationship with no outlet for emotion is the most frustrating of all...
In deference to your greater experience, I have lost the footnote - but am not sure if that was wise.
Isobel x

Comment is about I Wish I Was Gay (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for your comment Gus - I've lost the footnote - will blame you if I end up with a delegation!!!

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Love the rant... I was the same when I was younger ...so be careful what you wish for...I was so confused at one point I didn't know which way to turn... got my self straightened out in the end...but only the end.

Lose the explanation footnote it spoils the picture that you have so carefully conjured.

Love is a minefield...Lust is good for you!

GusX

Comment is about I Wish I Was Gay (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Beautiful...

Comment is about our treasured friends (blog)

Funny... you express the most mundane experiences so well ; )

Qu'est-ce que c'est 'OAP' ?

Comment is about a disturbing stage (blog)

powerful passion!

Comment is about The Parting (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

a brilliant poem this is what disco nights should be LOL!!!!

Comment is about Disco Dancing (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

thank you so much for leaving a comment on my essay.It is highly valued. We will meet :-) I do read at events often, which are advertised on here x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you dear. Your comments are highly valued. It was enough for me that I was asked to submit this and if people do not comment, it doesn't bother me at all :-) I have posted a lot. Currently working on stories for my project but actively helping peopleon here....do email me .Look forward to meeting u at a reading . TC

Comment is about An iron hand in a velvet glove (article)

Hi Carol, some lovely images and poems.
Cats rule too!
Pete.

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

Original item by Carol Falaki

Peter, tu me fais toujours rire!
Ces instructions sont à la fois marrantes et moqueuses : )

Comment is about (blog)

Dear Marc, I laughed so much whilst listening to my techno as I read this, that I pissed the jock strap I was wearing to entice the wife. Nice one blue, you funny git. ROTFLMAO.

Michael

Much love to you bro.

Comment is about Number 21, upstairs flat (blog)

made me smile too

Comment is about G'night Luv. (blog)

I'm sure it will happen soon, and it won't be a forced change, more a thing that happens as a result of darket ideas coming to me (which they haven't been recently).
Much as I'd love to think I had the savoir faire to target a big demographic such as female readers, I can only write stuff when it's formed itself in my head.

Comment is about Hopefully, this is Terminal (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

I like this one too. It makes you think. I can't help but always see the difference between the male and female in poetry. Everything you read reflects it. The man runs away, the woman 'is released' - now where have I heard that before? I'm sure it wasn't intended that way - just the mood I'm in at the moment. Glad you explained the ending - I would have seen it as death knocking on the door - but it works better as depression. I would agree with the rest - no one has it all and when we do we often want something different!

Comment is about not 100% happy (blog)

Hi Francine, thanks for reading.

its a bit dark this poem!

I was reading about depression and how in some cases it had lead to suicidal thoughts.
At the time I had been studying the effects of PTSD (a medical condition)

Patients had been asked what they thought suicide meant to them and they had answered 'release' , 'escape'

I thought it was such a waste and that they had been consumed by negative emotion. I felt helpless and wanted to show them thast you never know what is round the next corner and that there is a way through it.

The black shawl was my idea of depression making her visit to me. I saw her as a 2 sided coin, her black shawl had the depth of beauty in its colour, a black of texture and bizarre warmth but at same time it was sinister.

the poem was just a daydream, a drift of thought whilst watching tv.

Peter

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