got a high metabolism ;) eat everything!

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

HI Peter
Thank you I am much improved, just a little stiff, and that can't be a bad thing.

With regards to CAT Programming
My Cat ( Jake Bibble) is a complete enigma and continues to defy logic, he’s timorous of mice and helps when we feed the doves. His feline 6th sense and nine lives programme is completely overrun by Trojan Horses insofar as to slow him to a constant state of screen saver mode.
Many Thanks
Gus

Comment is about CAT PROGRAMME (blog)

Great stuff Pete. I remember my ZX 80. Blue flat keys. couldn't write a basic program now however, that was so ago. Win x

Comment is about CAT PROGRAMME (blog)

mehndi is henna ...I just get bored with English words and like to add some masala mix for rhyme : )

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Very powerful, and beautifully performed. Particularly like the repeating motif that slowly expands. I do feel, however, that the written version would benefit from adding punctuation in line with the spoken.
Well done,
Cx

Comment is about The Life That Never Lived (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Hi again - reading your work it occurs to me that you might like the work of some 60s folk/protest singers - and in particular, Phil Ochs.
Ochs was one of the people that inspired other songwriters (most notably Dylan), as well as his listeners. He had a very journalistic style, and wrote with wit and intelligence - I think you'd appreciate his work.
Cx

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

Just realised - my comment makes me sound like crazy cat lady, doesn't it? Ah well.....!
Cx

Comment is about CAT PROGRAMME (blog)

Only one bug that I can see - who owns who? Daisy has asked that you be reminded: Cats don't have owners, they have staff.
Neither of us know whether it's a good industrial programme - neither of us care - it made us laugh. Well, me anyway!
Cx

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PETE
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Comment is about CAT PROGRAMME (blog)

I truly appreciate and welcome your comments and suggestions Gus...
it means so much... and you are so right about your observations...

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

I was cooking some Quorn chunks today and noticed that the frying instructions were quite poetic.Statistically this poem is 250% more popular than any other poem of the month.

Comment is about On a theme of Apollinaire (article)

dont quote me on that

Comment is about On a theme of Apollinaire (article)

Chris and Win

My first experience of Prestwich was approximately fifteen years ago, which is, as no doubt you are both aware a predominately Jewish area of northern Manchester. I have since learnt that the main objective of all Jewish women who are love with you is to ensure they feed you… constantly.

Finally whatever the circumstances her Mother will never approve of … anything.

Thank you for reading it’s very much appreciated

Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Good to see you here Shell. Hope you enjoy it.

Comment is about michelle wright (poet profile)

Original item by michelle wright

i like this poem not for the conjecture but for its simplicity

i couldn't care for the deeper potential or otherwise significances - it is what is not said in this poem that makes me smile

as for the rest - well that's all egg bacon beans and a fried slice...

Comment is about On a theme of Apollinaire (article)

The world can be a desparate place for many at times. A view from within. Thx for posting
Winston

Comment is about Because the world is a cold, dark, lonely place (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

its very nice.

Comment is about Dreams of leaving (audio version with rant) (blog)

Très brillant... tu sais écrire avec beaucoup de passion : )

Comment is about the animal instinct (blog)

I like this analogy... très bien fait : )

Comment is about spores (blog)

This is very heartfelt... you express so well...
I too was drawn to these lines:

'Love can’t get in if you block it
and
Light only makes shadows
If you stop it'

Comment is about for mother (blog)

Very well put Dermot, captures the self-enforced loneliness of depression rather well.
Cx

Comment is about Because the world is a cold, dark, lonely place (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Thank you Steve for taking the time to read and comment - means so much to me...
You are always very thoughtful in what you express : )

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Regan

Thank you, Andy, for the lovely comment on my poem 'If You Want Me'
It is always nice to know what others think : )

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

J'aime ce poème parce que c'est direct et simple...

Comment is about Because the world is a cold, dark, lonely place (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Merci Gus...
so that does that mean you did not agree with anything else?
And you never answered my previous question...

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Thanx for your comments re; Northern Ladies

I've got a set that covers various parts of the country... Jeeeze I got around when I were a lad...
Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

yes it happens , and your poem expresses it well

Comment is about Because the world is a cold, dark, lonely place (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

thanks for comments on poem jeff , it is passionate yes , sad , i am not sure , maybe at the time of writing , now it seems more like an enlightenment :)

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Pierre, tu dois l'écrire. Ignorez-la, et dit-moi.

Comment is about the limpets kiss (blog)

Il ne faut pas le faire!
C'est très bien écrit - il faut le relire pour comprendre...
tout est là...

Comment is about the limpets kiss (blog)

Yes, first woman, but I say 'congratulations!' full stop. It would only be a millstone etc in the distant past but surely not for the last two or three and certainly not for Carol Ann. She has already said that she will write what she wants, when she wants, and the donation of her dosh to encourage poetry leaves her with no 'debt' to the establishment.

Comment is about Carol Ann Duffy - Poet Laureate (article)

I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go

Absolute poetry Pete, loved this song as soon as it came out, with you on this mate. I saw the Smiths a few times and always marvelled at their awesome talent for writing the most emotional lyrics that meant something to us average people in the street, not to mention their humour within that depressing image everyone latched on to on the putside.

'And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die'

Poetry - 'There is a light that never goes out' Jeff

Comment is about I know it's over (The Smiths) (blog)

Hi Tony, as a geography freak myself - I know most capitals in the world - Queensland is a state not a country, what about Qatar?

Sorry to be an anorak! Cheers Jeffaramaland!

Comment is about Country file (blog)

I think this is a clever poem. Very clever. Although it is short, and seems simplistic, the imagery of the juxtaposition of saint and sinner is quite poweful.
Purple has long been used as a reference to sexuality in women {aka the highwayman "riding riding over the purple moors"} Her open coat and open legs are an invitation in..... as are the purple veiled statues into the Church leading to the alter. Lent being a time of abstenance, is over when the fast is broken.
Both the girl and the Church are offering the promise of filfillment, bliss and a new "spring" renewal.
Well thats how I would interpret it!!
Cate

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Your 'lifelines' ... a marvellous evocation of love lost, the cruel sea and the beautiful land of Cornwall.

Loved these lines, among many, Anthony ...

'her days, her nights are one, the same -

a gift of darkness borne by grief

to wounds already salted well.'

And the mention of Lamorna...oh,that walk from Mousehole to Lamorna along the cliffs never fails to blow me away with its beauty! I must get down to Cornwall again soon.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

A marvellous evocation of love lost, the cruel sea and the beautiful land of Cornwall.

Loved these lines, among many, Anthony ...

'her days, her nights are one, the same -

a gift of darkness borne by grief

to wounds already salted well.'

And the mention of Lamorna...oh,that walk from Mousehold to Lamorna along the cliffs never fails to blow me away with its beauty! I must get down to Cornwall again soon.

Comment is about lifelines (blog)

Original item by Anthony Emmerson

As a survivor of a "series of bitter farewells" myself I can relate to this. And there is no better theme for a poem than 'freedom', and that comes through in this. Nice one.

Comment is about Affliction and Restoration (blog)

Original item by Joshua Van-Cook

The power, the passion, the voice!

I love this, Pete, absolutely love it... bitch-barking nurse, pleats-in-the-sheets and all.

Comment is about Dreams of leaving (audio version with rant) (blog)

Hi Tiny, lots of messages in here and relevant, great stuff, see you saturday mate Jeff

Comment is about Gas guzzlers (blog)

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for reading, and commenting on, 'Requiem..' - much appreciated.
Cx

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

Original item by Jeffarama!

Probably a bit of a diversion for you here, no probs either, great imagery, nice one, Jeff

Comment is about This is it lad, this is war (blog)

Hi Pete, great stuff as you know I love your deeper work as well as the performance stuff, cheers Jeff

Comment is about one day, all of this will be gone (blog)

Hi Carole, passionate, intriguing but sad, good stuff all round, nice one Jeff X

Comment is about Who are you ? (blog)

Absolutely Brilliant!
Nice one.
Mike

Comment is about Dreams of leaving (audio version with rant) (blog)

Mike, should I write the actual situation that this describes its very easy, can be done in one line. or will i spoil this?

does the revelation spoil it?
anyone?

Comment is about the limpets kiss (blog)

Mike
you are bang on the money!

Comment is about the limpets kiss (blog)

this is all correct!
I did not wish it understood as the moment itself was just that.
ambiguity is the best way for such an awkward moment of insecure certainty

the clues are there....................

thanks for all the interest on this one!

the subject situation interests me enough, or rather was potent enough to enable many connotations, i shall write a few versions of this moment, watch out for these.

Comment is about the limpets kiss (blog)

I really like this poem... very touching...
These lines do it for me...

'I’m not a child anymore
But the memory lingers
The burned image of potential cinders
Smoulders on
Like a viper
Never gone
Never leaving
Poor child grieving
I still have the occasional nightmare
hoping to be friends
With the Russian bear
and
For a world
Without the bomb.'

Comment is about a room under the stairs (blog)

I love these words... so true... so profound...

'One hand counted
The people always there
Its five or below
Not so many in life
To share any thought
obscure
Obscene
Serene
Pure
Make no matter
always there
For you
call upon them
your midnight hours
a cower of a moment
When strength is running out
one chipped cup of coffee
for everyone’s imperfection
matters not the vessel
but what is within
a silent wall upon
they ask for nothing'

Comment is about for Christopher (blog)

C'est vrai...

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