Thank you for your lovely comments on my poem 'De-friend...'. Yep, I too have fallen victim to the curse of being a facebook parent. For some reason, my daughter is always very unimpressed with my postings :) When I get to the stage of facebook grandparent...I hope to have just as much spirit as the star of my poem.

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Hello Isobel, thanks for reading "Two Minutes"

I wasn't intending to write something about the 11/11 weekend (hence the lateness) and after writing it down as experienced, still wasn't sure.
There had been a short clip on our local news of a line of soldiers "going over the top" and one particular lad was felled almost before his legs had trod out of the trench.
It left me feeling hollow for a time.
Luckily, if that is the right expression, I didn't lose anyone in either of the two world wars so have never felt a real connection to it, other than a shared grief and remembrance.
But I couldn't get the picture of that lad hanging there out of my minds-eye for a long time. Regards, Graham.

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thanks Iso just resurfaced out of the cold...hehe

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Ofsted? Oh no! Good luck with that. Is that Ofsted as in re: education or care services? We are awaiting the call at my place too. XX

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a sparklingly clean 'long John'is absolument in requirement...

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Isobel I've borrowed the following from Lynn's site: lots of ice;
1 measure of lime;
3 measures of premium vodka;
top up with ginger ale/beer- stir.
Try placing a sliver of ginger-root in glass before ice.
Tell the drink of your love for it, close your eyes and take a deep-mouthfilling- glug...hold cocktail in mouth to warm slightly and swallow-ALWAYS swallow!
:o)

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isobel. thanks for your reply. im sorry the comment i made seems personal. i often write a point and it comes accross like this. i was really just interested in the observation and the two ways of looking about things how they are opposite and how the perceptions of the mentally ill are not usually recieved as 'valid'. you should of course be able to write opinion without fear of backlash and your original comment was fine really and also valid (im sure im very dfficult to live with - for 'sane/insane' friends..im lucky to have any friends at all but i think thats true of us all. it would be an odd world if we all agreed...sanity is a debatable concept.
no need for apology, but accepted nonetheless. thanks xx

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Isobel. I have just been reading charlottes page and noticed a comment you made there...
do you know what? form the experience of the manic depressive condition/bi polar personality...i can honestly say that living with the so called 'sane' sometimes unbearable, never mind difficult.
sometimes like existing in flatline.
I am attracted to most my friends by their range of emotion, depth of empathy and understanding, capacity for excitement and generally enriching experience as people who make the world real to me. I dont look at the condition/label, i forget the name of it, get it mixed with the others for I care less about it than for the love my friends and the need/want for their presence in my life.
mainly the sane bore me to death and their blinkered vision makes me laugh.
living with anyone is difficult, life is difficult x

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aha xD don't worry about it.

I'm manic depressive - i wouldn't want my girlfriend to go cheating on me or hitting me. Everyone has different perspectives on the whole affair and my opinion is that he did drive her to it.

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Isobel...ta for the great comments on my Hitler poem..I have changed that expendable drasticly to requisite and it holds far more punch...now to a confession...I am going to shove it up on my blog, mainly because I do not feel the poem deserves such praise from a well respected poetess as yourself :)

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Did you write 'Beatiful Minds' after reading my poem?? haha I love it

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oh crikey i know...ill have to write some more.

i agree tho, the cheeky tracksuit was the best bit x

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isobel - i took off my 'tales from..'writing to adjust and didnt save and now theyre lost forever :( i think you may be the only person to have read them. i must make sure i save everything. have you ever done that?

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Isobel, hope all is well. Thank you for your encouragement in your comment on 'September' yes the bit in the middle can be lonely :-)
John x

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NO!! You don't talk crap at all. I thought it was lovely about the prism.

No that's often the case and I find that a good thing about poetry, that it isn't always straight forwardly obvious what it's about so yes I think you're right. It's my own saying - let the words speak for themselves...and whatever the reader gets is perhaps fine and dandy and why worry about anything more? Thanks for the double comments! XXX

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Thanks for commenting on "Nicole". I like what you said about it being seen through a prism. I don't quite understand what you mena exactly but it does sound good!

The poem is meant to be about kids in care and their experience - being let down by neglectful parents, having, as typically they do, special needs in spite of often being very bright, and the reactions of the media in too often condeming them - forgetting that they are children basically, but that they live outside of what we hope is a normal experience, that of a loving, caring family and friends. XXX

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Not all sexual relationships are vaccuous, Isobel. Indeed the donkey and I have been very happy since that first encounter.

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Cheers Isobel - was more than a bit cathartic for me that

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Hi there, thx for the comment. One definition of poetry might be a collection of words that instills an emotion or feeling. This seems to have done that so good I guess :-) Win x

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Thanks so much for your comments. I am so pleased with the responses to the poem - it was a sort of half dreamt poem to be honest and I didn't particularly rate it, just couldn't find anything else I was happy with either to post so thought I'd give it a shot. Thanks for your thoughtful words on it. Hope to see you soon. XXX

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Hello once again, YOU!

Thank you for reading and commenting on 'Intrusive' - this is the one I was telling you about - I wrote it six months ago, and I kept going back to it, but only tweaked it ever so slightly - it just never sat well with me until the other day reading it again - feeling that it was complete AND enough time had passed...

xxx

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Many thanks for your thoughts on "Widening the Circle of Friends".
I have given the etymological derivation of "fizzog" in a comment on the blog.

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Yup I think as the nights draw in Isobel I will have to form a plan lol...but I only wash the dusters that I have paid over a quid for and many a time have used old (ahem washed) undies for the job..also odd socks do ok too ha ha ha...oh the joys of it all..catch you soon m'lady :)

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Many thanks for your very kind comments Isobel. Born out of writer's block I'm afraid this one. Bit of a desert here at the moment, regards, Graham.

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Thx for the comment on the 9/11 Haikus.

My Best

Chris

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Great words Isobel. Very captivating.

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Hello Stranger!

It's nice to re-read some of your older poems - Winston is correct that it completes the profile. I remember these poems too! 'Beautiful Minds' has to be one of my favourite - among so many!

p.s. Tu me fais rire avec ta BIO !

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Hi Isobel, Thx for adding those samples. Win x

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Hi again, I have changed hats and am now in my WOL Admin guise! Your input to the site and its community is very much apreciated Isobel. Your blogs and comments especially so. Can I politely as you to put some samples back on your profile please. 3 maybe. I know it seems daft when your blogs are all on there but it would be nice for completeness. Win

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Hi Again Isobel. Thx for your considered comments on 'Autism' there is a fuller explanation on the blog page. It was nice to write something not grim for a change. The slightly odd aspects of this also apealled to my liking of experimantal poetry whilst suiting (hopefully) the subject. Your initial comment was spot on. Win

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Hello Isobel. Thank you so much for the comments on my poem "Who is This Woman in the Mirror".
I took your suggestion about changing my to her.
It does work much better.

Thank You
Shirley

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hi is thanks for your comments on comments :)

im all into writing spontanious at the mo and asking people to suggest random titles.

you got one?

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Didn't think I knew what words like "plausible" and "substantiate" meant, did you?

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Hiya :)

mm playing about with emotions/moods at the moment..having a hot flush too!...jeeeeeeez...

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Hi Isobel. Thanks for your comment. I'd never read The Highwayman so I looked it up. It's amazing, certainly there's a surprisingly similar theme but I'm enormously flattered you'd make any comparisons between the writing in Noyes work and my own effort. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I feel I should get the hang of traditional structures before I would be confident to try something more contemparary, maybe it's a bit of a security blanket!

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Ta for the comment on my last Isobel- appreciated.

I have left a comment on the poem.

My Best

Chris

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lol. no but my unmade bed is looking rather interesting! Win x

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Hi Isobel, comtemporary... is that one way of saying ridiculous? lol. These match report experiments are becoming a regular thing. I find it interesting how they evolve a life of their own and create their own meaning. Win x

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Isobel,once I said to a very clever friend, "I take 'umption' with your attitude." The word wasn't past my teeth, when I tried to drag it back, and failed. And he hollered with joy: 'MALAPROPISM - HAHAHAHA!' and then he laughed for ten years at least. Ah, well, we're still good friends.

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How thoughtful and kind of you to give my poem another go. Thank you so much - a really lovely start to the day for me! Glad it worked for you this time. I was wondering if I had missed to convey it. Have a lovely weekend - it's Friday! Yaaaa! XX

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Isobel, thanks for your comment on my last offering. It is nature poetry but I tried to use it as a kind of backdrop to reflect the break down of a relationship, so the two would hopefully work together. Maybe that element of the poem needs strengthening. Hope to see you soon. XXX

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Thx for the feedback Isobel,

I have left a waffle on the poem- lol

My Best

Chris

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Hi Isobel, thank you for kind comments on Crimson Lipstick, much appreciated. xx

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Hiya Isobel :)

Nothing of much worth began with the bell jar and Plath, her realtionship with the men in her life etc but then I sorta Stellerised it ha ha ha...so glad you caught the mood though..xx :)

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Many thanks for your comments on Hic Haec Hoc.
Was Latin something that only boys studied? I've never come across any woman who ever did. Where did they take you when we were studying it? Was it to feminist lifeskills class where you learned Manipulation, Emotional Blackmail, Credit Card Skills, Conversational Memory Recall etc. (They didn't do Map Reading, though, did they?).
I suspect I should stop digging!
Seriously, "hic" means "this", as does "haec" and "hoc" etc. HHHHHH are the nominative and accusative cases of the pronoun "this" in their masculine, feminine and neuter genders.
Any wiser?
In the next lesson we will study HHH in its genitive, dative and ablative cases.
When you've got this we will do it all again but in the plural.

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Thanks Isobel.

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This gut-fat-prick-fat-gut-fat-prick thing - shouldn't we all be recycling more?

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hiya Isobel..interesting take on my poem Joan..tis difficult sometimes to format a poem that has not got two people in it but two parallel thought lines going on..

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Thx for the feedback on my latest Isobel appreciated X

Hope things are good.

Missed 3 Tudors in a row with differing problems one way or another...grrr. If the M58 still exists I wont miss next months lol.

My Best

Chris

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Thanks Isobel for the notes on me profile and No One Called You...

You know, Biting the Bullet wasn't saucy at all. It really wasn't! But it proper tickles me that you can find such a different meaning in it than my original :D :D I was gobsmacked that one was chosen - but the publisher specialises in 'funny', and as you know, I don't DO funny very much! :D

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