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.
Cx

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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

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Original item by Belinda

Hello, Paul

Your poem is a greater mystery for me...Smile.:)
Did not know if I shall comment more on your philosophical write or comment on the comment you have from cjd'- I kind of see the same way as she does...Great work!!


Holiday Greetings
From Zuzanna

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Hi, Richard

This is great NEWS!!!
Good Luck with you study, I am sure, it will be successful for you, the field is very interesting-All the best!!

Holidays Greetings
From Zuzanna

Comment is about Richard Brooks (poet profile)

Original item by Richard Brooks

Great poem Sean, I thought so when I heard it too. Glad its out there now, for all to read.

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

Thats more like it.

Comment is about Recursion (blog)

Really good poem Sean. I enjoyed it a lot.

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

I wanted something to accessorise my ermine robes and I saw that hat I thought it was to die for.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

HI melissa, hope your doing ok. Its been cold here and I could use a rest stop, so send it my way.I wonder if your standing still does it mean some things are not learned or done? Your doing great and the poems very nice!

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Hey Alain, Nice work, I have heard of Asperger's, but never really knew what it was. So its a form of autisum? Well I think your doing well really.All people learn at different levels, you look to be about my sons age.I think you have a gift for writting and should keep doing it. Its the holidays and not many pass by here then. But keep up the good work, and never worry what others think.

Comment is about Asperger Poetry (blog)

Original item by Alain English

Why the Matador outfit Dermot?

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

i can't write silence .

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

Thanks Steve, and if I get someone sacked for laughing, I will burst with pride - people getting sacked while reading that poem was probably what the city analysts had in mind when they were predicting 2 million unemployed by the end of the year.

Paul - who knows? Maybe I was, maybe we all were. Maybe that's how we got here.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Whilst reading antonioni's Salford poem I came across your very own Salford poem.

It made me laugh out loud. At work. I found myself on the receiving end of strange looks.

One day they'll sack me. Probably. You'll be responsible. Partially.

I'm intrigued by your biography and find myself breathless with anticipation, waiting for the inevitable masterpiece about a peaceful puppy's love for flowers. You wouldn't lie in your biography, would you?

Keep up the good work. And the bad work (important!). I'd hate to think that any aspect of your life could be thrown out of balance.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Well done, John. That's great news.

What does the prize involve then?

(And in Steve O'Connor News - I'm thinking of going to the chippy tonight)

Comment is about John G.Hall News (blog)

Original item by John G.Hall

Has the Ongly Bongly Bo been under the Yim Yam Tree too? Very Edward Lear (Lennon surely read that first too). Nice to read something loopy and fun...thanks.
Geraldine

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Clarissa
Thanks for your kind words. I had in mind the type of nonsense poems that Spike Milligan came up with. Exciting and highly original. I must admit I had great fun writing this.
cheers
Phil

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Gus
Thanks for your comment. I really enjoyed letting my imagination run riot on this one. After this one perhaps I should lay off the snuff, or should I mmmmmmmm

Cheers
Phil

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Dear God DG you look like you've been painted by an ancient Dutch Master - just how old are you?

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

HI Phil, I love it, if I could live under a Yim Yam Tree, life would be as good as the birds and the bees, have it in the trees, love love LOVE IT !!!!!!!! Made me HAPPY to read this!!!!

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Phil
A wee bit Lennonesque....are you smokin the old stuff again...????
loved it ....a lot of fun

\by the way...isn't giraffe a irregular noun?

Loved the pants off it anyway
Regards
Gus

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Comment is about The Yim Yam Tree (blog)

Original item by Phil Golding

Bald as a baby's behind. ;)

I love a clean shaven man than a rugged one. :)

Comment is about AT 18 ALL I WANTED WAS A TACHE OR BEARD (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

It sounds like a lovely sunset indeed with such poetry flowing from your heart. :)

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Yes. I suggest you go right back to the basics young man, and start again. You are obviously one of these experimental Johnnies, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it's done in the privacy of your own home. You may find my 'recipe for an experimental poem' will be of some help. I have posted it on the rhyme thread of the discussion forum. You, and other young poets (I can tell you're a mere whippersnapper by your daguerrotype), will probably find my guidance very beneficial.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Rather annoyingly, that's fair comment on the Chechen chickens one. Even more annoyingly, that is the one "poem" that I have managed to sell more times than any other poems I have sold, and for the most money in any one sale too!

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Hi Sean

Loved it the first time I heard it at Sale.....Great Poem..
Well done
Regards Gus

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

Bloody rubbish! I can't believe people are showering praise on this unadulterated ordure. If I had a pound for every time I had heard some half-arsed performance poet spouting about 'Chechen chickens' I'd have £17.37 by now. It doesn't even rhyme or scan properly. It's people like you who bring the world of poetry into disrepute. If I had my way you'd be sent away to fillet fresh fish fignons in Fiji or mince migratory mackerel morsels in Madagascan motel mezzanines.

The 'object' one was ok, though.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

that is excellent Sean

Comment is about Christmas Day 1994 (article)

Took me some time Paul, but I think I cracked it. Not to happy with the photo though!

Comment is about Recursion (blog)

Very clever! - Man is programmed to look for, and try to interpret, patterns in everything; and (it seems to me) in looking for maths, thinks he has found God.
Cx

Comment is about Recursion (blog)

Thanks Andy

You,re right ...its the opening of a book I'm writing about my formative years.....
Thanks again Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

HI Daniel, I like this one alot, its good! Thanks

Comment is about The Gobble-de-Gooke monster is playing with my words (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Fantastic!
Cx

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Good stuff, Gabriella... Bit different to your other stuff I have read as I don't think this has the same rap like quality.. No bad thing I think as I think it is good a writer looks at things constantly in different styles. Keep it going!

Comment is about jiyuu ni naritai (blog)

interesting stuff, tone.. is this going to be a nice style for you? if so, it is a lot more fragmented and sketchy - i know a few people who wouldn't like this but i like it!

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Nice one Ant. Good summary DG except that the third line from the end doesn't scan. Glennon would have done much better. If Dermot wasn''t dead he might even have had something to offer.

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Face it, it's a shithole - here's my contribution:

Lowry painted matchstick men,
and matchstick dogs and cats.
Now they all take steroids
and eat saturated fats
and mug you in an alleyway
with knives and baseball bats.
You lie there when they've finished
wondering where your wallets gone
with three fat northern bastards
blocking out the setting sun

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

great stuff! Some respectable looking people really are despicable

Comment is about There's A Man Down Our Road Who's A Nazi! (blog)

Original item by Attila the Stockbroker

Really enjoyed this poem. Nice one!

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

I ldo ike my work - but sadly I don't have very much of it. I'm self-employed and work is sporadic - especially as I spend so little time chasing it.
Cx

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Really like the whole thing but especially the last couple of lines .... I no longer have a 9-5 job but there are plenty of other times when I feel both the pull and push of home! And I do miss Manchester, sometimes dreadfully.
Thanks for your comment - as for revelations ... he deserves so much more than he'll get!
Cx

Comment is about Salford at sunset (blog)

Woah.
Thats all I'm saying.
Woah.

Comment is about John Togher (poet profile)

Original item by John Togher

heeeeeey, thanks so much for taking the time to feedback me. much much much appreciated, especially from someone who's words i like! i like lou reed, both the man and the poym! sally xx

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

Original item by garside

Hi Val - very sad. In answer to your title's question - I doubt it. We suffer what we tolerate. I'd boil 'em in oil those who are responsible.

Comment is about Will It Ever Cease (blog)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Nice picture above, especially the brief one you paint as the train leaves Scotland. There are a lot of lovely buildings in Glasgow. It's full of surprises.

Comment is about Scottish angels (blog)

... Knickers and soul?

Is that a takeaway

Loved it
Gus

Comment is about eat her whole! (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hello Steve. So sorry to keep missing Freed Up, because I really do love it. I do keep telling people how good it is, tho...

You read the 'bankers' poem at the Deaf Institute gig, didn't you? I know I've seen you read it recently-ish, and loved it. One of the best readings I've seen you do.

Thank you for the foxy comment. It's one of my favourites, and worked quite well considering it was written in about half an hour. I do quite like foxes, even tho they ate our chickens.
Well, their heads...

But it's ok, cos now we have more chickens. Hurrah!

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

Very very very nice. The tiny lines work well with the longer adjectives and it just flows.
Well bloody done.

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Photographs by Seamus Kelly www.shaysart.co.uk
If anyone wants a full size copy of their image Seamus will be happy to email it to them if they contact him on mail@shaysart.co.uk

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