Great, like something by Paul Coelho.

Comment is about Dream's Calling (blog)

Nice idea simply told.

Comment is about Our Summer (blog)

It should have been really touching but it seemed to me that the attempt to turn it into verse led to using this weird language contruction.

Comment is about Waiting... (blog)

Thanks Steve

Sheepish wry smile back to you too!
:~}
Regards
Gus

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

Original item by garside

Incidentally - I really like your work - Perfect Place & Snow Ghost in particular. Unfinished Masterpiece reminds me of someone in my past - and When I Paint My Masterpiece oddly enough ... !
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Hi
Thanks for getting back to me ... erm... can't quite remember ....probably SNAFU - it took me a lot to work up courage to post that so comments mean a lot. Thank-you!
Btw - is it generally obvious what SNAFU stands for?
Cx

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Original item by Andy N

Very touching, well written. The change of metre in the second stanza gives the impression of the waiting, slow passage of time - good mood change, I thought. I know the feeling of hurting so much, how can he (or maybe for you - she) not feel that through the ether?!
Cx

Comment is about Waiting... (blog)

i remember the film/animation, 'When the wind blows' - this poem reminds me very much of that time - i remember Greenham Common and i.d posters of silouetted jets, smiling and sulking East German guards on the Wall warning that misunderstandings could lead to death.

thanks Peter for this

steve

Comment is about a room under the stairs (blog)

Hi Geraldene, An absolute priviledge to have my poem being considered a similar to Edward Lear and Lennon. To my detriment I am yet to read their work other than Lears 'The Owl and the Pusseycat' . That omition I will remedy

Thank you for your kind words

cheers phil

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

I like this, for me it provokes images that make me open my mind and see the world differently, through other peoples eyes I guess...

Comment is about a room under the stairs (blog)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this

Comment is about Dream's Calling (blog)

Lovely poem, this poem for me really builds up to a climax of emotion at the end.

Comment is about A Fish From a Far Off and Tide Turning Ocean (blog)

I really like this poem, I found it full of emotion. The use of powerful, thought provoking images really reaches out to the audience..

Comment is about Dreams (blog)

Hi Sean, A well deserved poem of the month if there ever was one. As the poem develops, so does the story and leads you on an uncomfortable journey charting the desparate final days in Michaels life. Through the eyes of "Dr Davies and I" So many conflicts in this sad offering. Liked the use of medical terms (Even if I didn't understand them)
Best Wishes
Winston

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

then where has it gone?
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Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

'kin genius!

Howdo mate? Be great to see you at Inn Verse again if ever you're in Manc. Next one's Thursday 18th December

Comment is about Ben Richards (poet profile)

Original item by Ben Richards

When I logged on earlier today I saw a song you had written, which I thought looked interesting. I didn't have the time to read it properly or comment, and now I've come back - I can't find it. Did I imagine it? was it not yours? Am I seeing things? Can you answer these pointless questions?
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Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

i love the swifts and starlings on the shoulder blades , its taken me a while to close my mouth though from hearing the rest :) time to go shopping in asda , see you soon x

Comment is about tacky falaraky (blog)

No need to apologise - it's an excellent piece, and I think, I am not alone (on here!) in using poetry as a sort of therapy. Do you know the song Everybody Hurts by REM? - it tends to get sung in an angsty way, but if you listen to the lyrics it is actually saying ... get over it for God's sake - you're not unique!
Does everybody know what S N A F U means, do you think?
I agree about spreading the love and the smiles and I'm taking the tablets in order to keep doing so!
Commiserations about the golf course, but keep that grin fixed!
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Beautiful!
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Comment is about Dream's Calling (blog)

you read that one very well

Comment is about Doing Things by Gus Jonsson (blog)

yes, I think youre right, that fine line.............too slow and it loses it, too fast and you lose it ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Comment is about tacky falaraky (blog)

Excellent! You're obviously used to performing, but nevertheless I think pacing it a touch (only a touch - I like the urgency ... bit on the vicious side)(which is a good thing!) - would make it easier to listen to.
Cx

Comment is about tacky falaraky (blog)

yes I'm quite excited by it all Clarissa!
Someone tried to open the door of a package holiday Jet drunk ten miles up, the company went bust and the girl got away with it. Theres me with a parking ticket now metamorphosed into £300 and threat of jail for what? goin ten minutes overtime on a shit house lousy street anyway, the view was no where near as good as being ten miles high and the risk to human life? zero.

thanks for listening
therapy over
no.

: -)

Comment is about tacky falaraky (blog)

well you sound so excited, I think if I could read it, it may help me, your talking so fast, at times my slow american ears dont understand, whats being said, but could be words that I dont understand, how yall use them. great poem.

Comment is about tacky falaraky (blog)

Thanks so much for your comment. These mean such a lot to me. It took me longer to work up the courage to post it. Can I please ask a favour? .... I, very stupidly, pressed the 'Remove comment' button when I meant to click on your name to add this comment .... could you please...if it's not too much to ask.. add the comment again? I don't think there is a way to get them back .... :-)
Ta.
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Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

I wouldn't call it depressing either! m8! Nice stuff!

Comment is about Time to leave the playground (blog)

Didn't find it was depressing - beautiful imagery, evoked fond memories too. Thanks too for your comments, they are really appreciated, particularly for that piece - taken me a while to decide to post it.
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Comment is about Time to leave the playground (blog)

Hi Tony, I'm just catching up with stuff. I really like this and if you look at my latest offering you will see why! I wrote it a while back but have come back to it and amended it now that my writing is a bit better! Cheers

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Hi Daniel, good work enjoyed this. Just one thing, I might have said on last line something like 'but please do it responsibly' - puts a bit more emphasis and rhythm in the finish, cheers Jeff

Comment is about eat her whole! (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Great stuff Stevie especially done in the style of a yank! Jeff

Comment is about Evil Winks at the Camera (blog)

Original item by Stevie Turner

Hi Val, fitting tributes and no I don't think it will either. You would think that with the way police etc can use intelligence, investigate, convict and the deterrents it would but it doesn't!

Comment is about Will It Ever Cease (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Hi Sally, scars of salt seared sores was a bit of a tongue twister but otherwise some brilliant lines and edge of your seat stuff, Jeff X

Comment is about rip me to shreds... (blog)

Hi LDM, glad you contributed! X

Comment is about stupid credit crunch lemming contribution (blog)

Nice ones Gemma, like 'em especially the 9 to 5 one, you will have to get more appts to have a blood check! Jeff

Comment is about Thank goodness the NHS can't keep to my pre-arranged appointment times! (blog)

Original item by Gemma Lees

Hi Pete, brilliantly written, its a sad fact of life that never seems to go away, my heart goes out to your friend. Jeff

Comment is about Hello darling, I'm home again (blog)

Hi Pete, you been in my fridage? Ha!

Comment is about spores (blog)

Nice one Mia, how ya doin? Hope to see you soon, Jeff X

Comment is about Bliss (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Like it Dave, good stuff! were you on Entwistle Res in the pic? cheers Jeff

Comment is about The Writing Class (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Hi Tone, I thought there was something wrong! hope you're both okay though see ya soon mate

Comment is about The end is nigh, I hope (blog)

I'm inclined to agree to an extent. I usually go to parade and wrote about it this year, you may have read it. This is very good, heartfelt and needs to be said!

Comment is about The Blood (blog)

Original item by Martin Nelson

Haven't read the foreword you mention, though in general - I rather like Huxley. I'm not in a profession that uses psychometric testing at all - it has a much crueller selection process! - but I do know many people that either use it or have been subjected to such testing; the general opinion from both sides seems to be that, as a selection by suitability tool, it is as useful as throwing all the C.V.s in the air and picking up the one that lands nearest to you.
Anyway, my comment was on the effect your piece had on me, and the questions mere musings from such effect.
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Comment is about Human resource 36 (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Haven't been affected by either, although I enjoyed both (particularly Huxley's foreword that I read after reading the book about how he had been asked to do a revised edition, and when he re-read it for that prupose, he found it quite embarassingly rubbish and naive in places, but felt that overall, it was as good as it would ever get regardless and left it as it was - anyone whose ever read it will probably agree), and I'm very happy in my job. This poem is in line with an overarching idea that runs through most of my poems and prose that people should use their brains a lot more and rules/traditions/old wives' tales/principles/deontologies etc. a hell of a lot less. The above is meant to imply that large companies very often interview people to the same criteria regardless of how unsuitable those personality traits may make them to their eventual role. They look for leadership, ambitious, team playing, confident rather than competent sporty individuals, even if they need an introspective maverick to sit in a backroom somewhere doing clever things and only occassionally reporting back to a team, a person whom they want to stay in that job and feel that it's ideal and that they wouldn't want to be doing anything else. This combined with psychometric testing seems to be homogenising personalities into a characterless mulch.

Comment is about Human resource 36 (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Thanks Guys. I saw the sanderlings that inspired this poem at Rossall Point.

You're spot on Winston - this poem comes from my poetry book called 'from the field book' which is a collection of poems about British bird species. I describe the characteristic way different species behave - the aspects that guide books can't put into words - but I try!

Comment is about sanderlings (article)

As a reader with teh former AIDS Awareness Group ISIS in the 1990's. I would like to read at future events.
Trevor Wainwright
trev_wy@hotmail.com

Comment is about Lynda Morgan read at the Aids Awareness Event, Leeds University Feb 2008 (photo)

This feels slightly menacing, slightly claustrophobic ..... maybe you've recently been affected by something like '1984'/'Brave New World'? ... or maybe you should change you job?
Interesting work.
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Comment is about Human resource 36 (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Dear Belinda

Your poem paints a wonderful picture in my mind seeing the ambitious woman cycling through Beijing streets this summer. They are cemented and one can see the hard work the team effort in competing-Lovely piece of poetry.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

Comment is about Cycling (blog)

Original item by Belinda