something else rhymes with pretty.

I am now ashamed :-O

sorry

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

What news -
New shoes!

;-)>

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Stunning stuff Cilla

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Oh Isobel
How kind youare moreover how beautiful your legs are...are they yours?... and what adorable shoes...
Thank you so much for reading and commenting on my poem..

Augusta x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for the comment. We all really enjoyed your set at The Tudor.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

love the legs Isobel :-) Very chic pic x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks for your comment, Isobel -yes, the point is the bogey man is not in another country, not a 'foreigner' and to pretend it is is a hoax in order to dominate their country while people here fear for their own children on their own streets.
Steve Smith

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Moi also on the vanilla front.
I shall be partaking of the experience later today

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel,
just want to say thanks for your support and comments on my poetry. I'm going to be an absent friend on wol too for a short while so i wish you well with your own work and will most likely see you at an event.

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

why sad?

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Sign of a good actress Isobel? lol x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I appreciate your comments on my poem, I am very happy. Thank you, Aziza.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Irony? Me? lol.

the darn thing just wrote itself in between the washing, drying and ironing so thought it deserved a bit of an airing.

feel very cathartic now that I put it to good use. what do you say? x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thank you Isobel as always for taking the time to read and comment.
I tweaked it a bit...
Yes, it's been a while... so busy trying to get caught up... I won't be until it's over though.

Moi x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel,
Dates on Blogs? As far as I know or can remember nothing has changed.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thanx for your comment on Cemetery Gates, yes you're right it is about the dilemna of moving on in life which people struggle with.

I dare say your friend (you can decide if they should read it :-) )and lots of others would identify with it. Its no-one I know, just something I observed.

The only bits that refer to me are the lines about lingering with the dead and skeletons in real life. I'm not so bad with death, its other things I struggle with!

Anyway, glad you like it, your comments and support appreciated as always see ya soon Jeff X

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, Thanks for the comments on CAFCASS Survivor. Good observation. Thanks. Win

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel. Sorry I've not been paying attention but I wholeheartedly agree with the choice of Anthony's 'Beyond the Equinox' for notable poem of the month, if I hadn't been burying my head in the sand lately I'd have voted for it too - good choice. By and by, thank you for your comments on An Anti-Love Poem, I'd intended it to come over as positive and affirming but perhaps I need to suffer a little more yet. I know, I'll post an opinion about next month's POTM:)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on CAFCASS survivor.made a couple of tweeks on the blogs page. Win

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Thanks Isobel, gobbledegoookeeoohgooksomemoregoodecrap.
nkidsssdeermmmpackitineeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrmdehobbllledegookgookdeermdeeebedtime

You know what I mean.

nicky x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

hi isobel;

good points over P.O.M. - I agree with you.. I must admit I haven't any of them in months and months - it seems to have gone off in a direction I don't like anyhow to the sort off poetry I don't read or particularly enjoy anyhow. Hope you are good! x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hello Isabel
Many thanks for you comments on my submissions - I'm really new to this and feel like a fish out of water. Everybody seems to do such "weighty" stuff and mine's dead simple.
Anyway I checked out yours and I really like them both, especially "What's it all about?"
I look forward to more.
John Coopey

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel
I doubt you've seen it, but Ernesto has left a little message on my Profile page, and Neil West's, saying that we'll be surprised at next month's POTM
For some reason the kack seems to have been spread in our direction. How did that come about?
A gentle soul like moi
Speak soon
Steve M.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel
My pleasure.
Re Ernesto:-
Did you ever consider going into the diplomatic service as a child?
As ever ;-))))))))))))))))))))))))
Steve M.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Just seen your latest on the POTM thread. You can do better than that - tell him where to stick it! :-)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thanks for the comments on 'Pearl Stitch'. Had a great time reading them and took a long time to answer them. Am all worded out now. love your take on it.

Take care

Nicky x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel
I'm all wrung out, but that's another story.
Steve M.
;-)))

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Isobel
My humble apologies, I was only joshing you.

Steve M.
;-))))

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel
'a deluge of light-weight poems' !!!???
I thought you were the one to pour oil on troubled waters LOL
x Steve M. x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

haha!....too shay!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

An' Yoo Hoo to you too!

GusXX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, Glad you liked "On meeting a poet", and found you could make your own interpretation and be happy with that. Thx for commenting. see you soon. win x.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Izo....U R correct....a great deal of sadness in the last line.. very intuitive..

Many Thanks
Gusxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Janet
Are you talking about me or the poem?
x Steve M. x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Must have been posting a comment on your profile while you were posting the comment on mine.

I am thinking the same thing. Thanks Isobel. I may do it as a personal thingmybob out of pure curiosity, can't even come up with a title for it! Think maybe it will always be ' the poem that never mean't to be a poem' .x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thank you for your comment on the piece, I am quite taken aback at the response.

Would like to know what you think about Darren's suggestion that I change it to the third person? do you think that it would reduce the alienation aspect that a reader may feel or would it at the other end of the spetrum, lose it's rawness in the substitution of she for I. I am struggling with this one.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Chris - not really sure how to get in touch with you since you don't have a profile yet. You left a comment on my profile. I am touched that you bothered to read my poetry - particularly after my crass comment. To read past poems you need to go to the bottom right hand corner of the current blog. The previous poem will be highlighted in blue. If you click on it it will take you back and you can go right back through a poets work that way. I'm glad you liked the one you read - that one meant quite a bit to me.
Most poets on this site have had some trauma in their lives, though perhaps not on the same scale as yourself. Emotional turmoil is often what brings us to poetry in the first place. We are therefore, on the whole, very understanding and supportive of others. This site, in some ways, mirrors life. You will find the good, the bad, the ugly and the mischevious....but above all, a home for everyone. I hope you join and enjoy it.
Isobel x (will delete this once I think you might have read it)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel,
Hope all is well with you. Thanks for your comments on "Beyond the Equinox." I have to confess that it's not a new one - retitled and slightly reworked. I just thought I ought to post "something." Got a couple on the backburner at the moment - would you mind if I asked you to take a look at one of them? I know the nature stuff isn't your bag, but this one may be. How is your muse? I notice you haven't posted for a while too.
Regards,
A.E. X

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Isobel, I shall let you into a little secret. As my two year old son would say 'I luff you'. lol - obviously not in a romantic sense - but in a ' someother sense' I cannot quite find the correct word. Really enjoy the discussion, although, as I said, I fear I may have created a monster. I suppose that is the way discussion threads go - and I do not like the elitist take on the thread - however, thats by the by. I mean't to leave a comment for you earlier on your profile, (but dinnertime took over and I am struggling with a certain project I have going) to say 'this comment is not personally aimed at you' regarding the reference on the engaging with the website thread, before you took up your guns and started aiming at me again, lol, but you beat me to it. No 'handbags at dawn' tonight, to quote Russell I think, was it? I would like to discuss something with you, do you mind if I contact you direct by email? Please let me know either on profile or by email.

Nicky x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thanks for your comment on my poem ''A gentile river.'
To be honest i wasn't sure what it was about myself. It was one of those which came to me while relaxing with no actual intention to write anything. It was the day after it was written i looked at it again and i realized it has several things running through it. There might well be something of myself in there but if so it came from within and not consciously.
When i first read it back to myself i doubted i should even post it. Now i'm glad i did. The various comments helped me to see something else in my own work. I think it was just one of those poems which are meant to be shared for the sheer pleasure of the imagery.

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thank you for all your comments on my poems, you made me realise i might need to try my hand at writing a happy poem! I really like your poem 'Words'

Jessie x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I don't know, I find I'm imagining sandwich based snacks most of the time, I think bacon for supper, yum ;)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thank you for your kind words, in fact the story is true and happened to a friend of mine, I feel that these extraordinary things that happen to ordinary people deserve to be recorded and expressed somehow so it can become a shared experience - and as it happens he grew up to be a fairly well adjusted music teacher!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Innocent
You have to remember that I was born in Yorkshire, where the pace of life is a little slower than on your side of the hill.
We obviously do things slightly different.
It wasn't totally auto-biographical. You'll have to guess which bits are which.
Steve M. :-)))

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

The red wine is purely for medicinal and cosmetic purposes, to control the onset of insanity and reduce the speed of aging, and it gently calms the nervous system the more glasses you consume - on a totally socially acceptable level of course. haha.

The only pic of me that I like, probably because its out of focus.

Love that poem, empathise with it 100%.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel
Were I to 'rant' Life-Line, I think I would have to add in an extra 2 lines after Superannuation:-
Oration
Defecation

It was bad enough just reading one of poems at Hebden! I don't even know how to 'rant' or even just rant.
Your comments are gratefully accepted however.
Steve M.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel, thanks for your comments on Catharsis, funny you gave me the inspiration for it during a discussion. So, if my catharsis ever ends up on someones dusty shelf, hey, you'll be gathering dust with me too. lol.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel,

thank you for your kind comments on my poem Shoormal. It's strange you found loss in there also, I hadn't intended it so much but I think it came through from another place. It was more about a passing moment, finding myself in one place within another, kind of..
thank you : )) Deb xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Isobel - It's a little belated but thanks so much for your comments on 'that cough' it's great to see how differently it's been interpreted and the impact it has.
Thanks
Cat x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Ill get a vote in soon...

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel