Re 'Hold me' Cynthia- the poem was a word for word real-time event on facebook with a woman in another country. Love was not an issue-why should it be?- she wanted to be brought to orgasm and sleep, that was achieved- with affection. I did not prescript the exchange. The word 'love' is mentioned five times. The inference is within the text. Affection is blatant. We have never met. She lives five thousand miles away.

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Anyways,thanx 4 the opinion!totally 'preciate it! :p

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These feeling of love,sadness and broken heartedness is what I live for.Its what keeps me going.true,I shouldn't let anybody make me feel the way I do,but that is what I am as a person,I don't choose to let anybody control what I feel,it's not something that i choose or want,but it is inevitable to occur without my consent.The reason I write such melancholic poems is because it has made me the person I am today and is the only way i can vent out my thoughts.It is the motivation that has driven me to extents that nobody else can.I trust myself and what I write,and I will continue to write what my feelings and emotions tell me to because it is what I live for and something that I will welcome and embrace for the rest of my life,where nobody will judge my emotions or the person that I am and aspire to be.That is why I will hold onto them forever.

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Thanks Cynthia. I will definitely consider your valuable input. You have touched on the exact areas wherein I was having some concerns.Re: "Moving On." Many thanks.
Most appreciatively yours, Frederick.

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Howdy - re McGarrigle's Glasgow. Thought about it, grew to really like it, have changed it. Thanks Cynth!

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Hi Cynthia I'll send you a copy of my current book Work Horses. I've run out of copies of the one before called In the Distance. Still, if you can't get enough I'm siure you'll get a cheap copy on Amazon. Anyway, I hope you find some stuff you like it it. BEst wishes DAvid

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thanks Cynthia for your comments on strange love. am always a little nervous about comedy pieces about what is funny or not, writing serious pieces is often much more easy i think but am pleased you like this. thanks gray

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HI Cynthia As ever I am bowled over by your encouragement. I'm a long time lapsed Catholic myself with a daughter who has converted to islam. I've also got a Kosovan branch in my wider family (That's where the blackbird sneaked in from!) so I have wide ranging ideas on what heaven might be. There's also a bit of Plato in there. When I was a kid I was convinced Heaven was a real place. I suppose my poem says it's all things to all men (And women of course!)I think your frequent kind comments on this site merit a copy of my current collection Work Horses. Just message me an address on this site and I'll send you one.

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Such wonderful gripping poems you write Cynthia! They are simply intriguing! please check out my poems,i would love to have your opinions!Keep blogging! :)

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Lovely seeing you Cynthia! Hope Stanley is feeling better. xx

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I like your bio, very impressive.

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Thank you.

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Forgot to mention. It starts at 8 or thereabouts. Some poets get there earlier so they can socialise and that might not be a bad idea as there will be plenty of people you'll want to speak to.

Most people do a couple of poems or around 5 mins - but it depends on the length of the poem and on how many poets turn up. We have the occasional quiet night, like everywhere else, but of late it's been just about right - not too many, not too few.I'm sure there'll be a bit of leeway for someone who's travelled and made an effort to visit us.

Our compere for the night is Dave Carr so it should be good.

xx

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thanks for the kind comments on 'all hallows eve' Cynthia - much appreciated - and I hear you may be making an appearance at the Tudor soon so will be good to see you :-)
Ian

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Howdy Cynth

Ta for your note on the library piece. Nah, I did try to reduce it to a jus of a poem, but tbh there were so many things I wanted to cry about that in the end I just vomited it all up, and that's how it'll stay I'm afraid.

I still find it quite painful so I'm not keen on revisiting it either!

Ha - love your story :) and the plan! Mine was just to read everything in the library :D

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Thanks again Cynthia for your recent comments. I've not actually been writing much poetry of late and it's surprising just how quickly the 'writing joints' stiffen.

Would be great if you can make it to the next Tudor night too.

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Thank you for your comment on Crest, hope you are well! : )

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thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my stuff Cynthia - nothing is black and white especially so when we zip through this life without knowing

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Hi Cynthia I'm glad you liked the sniper poem. It's been a real struggle to write. Maybe becaue I don't usually respond to something as immediate as a news item. Still. it really is hard to get inside the heads of such people. How on earth do they reach such a pitch of callousness and contempt?

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for looking in on 'if you don't like the record' I chose that title because it was the first line I wrote and everything else came later. Slow down is good though and perhaps more appropriate, certainly for me as the advice given in the poem is advice I could never take (as much as I might want to . .)
Steve

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Thank you for your comments on my last two poems, trying to evolve and experiment a bit! Hope you are well : )

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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your kind comments on The Worst Crime. I'm sure you are right about the superfluous words, just a case of deciding which to lose! x

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Hi Cynthia thanks for the kind cooment on the 'rope trick'.

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Would that last comment be meant for yourself Cynthia ;?)

Thanks for your comment on Touch and Go - I didn't realise it was just as bad in cold climates - having to wear a leotard - the thought of it - was it a question of touch and stay? I think we are very spoilt in England - there are a lot of gentlemen around - and you don't realise it until you live elsewhere.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping you can make it to the November Tudor, which is 14th November. There's a bed at my house for you and a rumbustious welcome awaiting :) xx

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Your poetry fills me with the same wonder that I feel when I look up into the stars - perceptionally close and intellectually distant - a surround of mystery - but soul filling.

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Thank you Cynthia, and for pointing out my typos. My brain has been misbehaving of late.

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Greetings Cynthia: Thanks for your comment on I USED TO DANCE. Word-weeding is a process that assumes inferior words and I don't want to be so judgmental. http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=39137
J. Otis

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Cynthia hi, I had forgotten your post re'Blackened berries' from yesterday. The edit was minimal, but more was envisaged-but the un-used edits where forgotten. I have an increasing problem with memory- I hope this is due only to medication. I know this will sound pretentious- I was intrigued by the individuals Rumi and Shams both Persian poets ('amongst' other things)referenced in work by Philip Glass in 'Monsters of Grace'. I'm now getting 'off' subject. Thanks for your interest.
Tommy ps the track in reference is: 'Like this'
pps the line that sparked it all off-''When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he'll put his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us.
Like this.''
ppps I'll now attempt to address the missing edits.

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cheers CBT for you comment re 'Blackened berries' :)

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Howdy Cynth!

Many thanks for your lovely note on 'Fragment'. Can't begin to tell you how strong and euphoric the feeling was. The hypnagogic state is very similar to an opiated one, and I think that led to the feelings. I've tried in the past to teeter within the hypnagogic state as I find it so immensely pleasurable, but it's a contrary beast and will not be controlled easily ha :D

Yes - I would agree completely with you about the different layers of poetry and its reception. Sometimes I think a piece isn't 'good enough' to blog, and then I think 'well, this was such a strong thing within me, and it's not as 'good' as X or Y or Z, in a certain way, but that's because it is a DIFFERENT animal altogether'. So I blog it, and be damned haha ;D

Anyway, thanks again :)

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Hi Cynthia,Thankyou for your lovely comments. They are very much appreciated. Hopefully we will one day be at the same performances but I think with both of us time probabley burns a fast wick.

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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your comments on The Tint. I did deliberately line it this way so the words would seem to tumble rather than flow as they were read. Thank you for liking though it is much appreciated.

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment on 'Life's a Blast'. I was fun to write.
Regards
Starfish

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Re; 'Pebble on Bournemouth Beach',thank you very much Cynthia - always good to have an expert opinion & an encouraging one at that. x

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Hi Cynthia - thanks for the welcome back! I hope all is well with you! x

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keep me informed how you with Poetica, Cynthia. I will try to come along if i can if you get something sorted out.

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thanks for your constructive and informative comments on 'totem' Cynthia.
I have been travelling to Canada for the last 10 years - usually 2 or 3 times a year. Unfortunately I have had to miss it this year as I was made redundant last August and am trying to find my financial footing again. I am already missing Vancouver :-( my favourite place in the world and somewhere where I would love to live.
I am very interested in First Nations art and mythology - this wasn't meant to be a 'breast beating' ode to guilt or a romantic view of the first nation people - it was just the feelings I had when visiting sites and looking at their own art and crafts.
I have an anti-colonialism stance anyway - so am disgusted and averse to the way that Britain colonised the old and new worlds and destroyed what was there - yes, they gave a lot to these continents - but was it needed? I guess I would never have got to see the wonderful Canadian countryside and forests if they had not done so - so the poem makes me happy and sad in equal measures.
Thanks for taking he time to comment
Ian

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cynthia, thanks for your very kind comments on 'radio'

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Cy re ''Assignation'' you seem to be grasping here : ''This is very unusual, and very effective. IMO, the precise repetitions and small variations give a real feeling of fascination, almost voyeurism, and passing 'insignificance', like the movements of a crowd''. . .but, I love to be gripped by a mind...and I agree with you, but, I would add ''captivated''. Tommy

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Thank you Cynthia

your poem held much resonance for me, so I did want you to read mine :)

Regards

Richard

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Hi Cynthia

I have just blogged your poem The Parting on www.katypoetess.com and put in a link back to your profile here. Hope that's ok!

Katy

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thanks for commenting on 'the Jesus gene' Cynthia - much appreciated.
I do like a good read - mostly the 'wrong sort' of books such as Steven King, John Connolly, Terry Pratchett and other of their ilk.
I also read a lot of 'alternate theory' books - UFO's, aliens, ghosts and the supernatural - amazing where your mind can go when you have it stretched
I'm also a good (lapsed) catholic boy with a wide range of literary and poetic leanings - mix 'em all up and something like the Jesus Gene will emerge

thanks so much for your comments - much appreciated

Ian

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Cynthia
a typical Yorkshireman is..........


male and

comes from Yorkshire ;-)

as a friend of mine once said - he 'likes what he does and he does what he bloody well likes'

he seems 'dour' and 'unfeeling' yet has a heart of gold and a soft centre - carefully hidden beneath a hard veneer.

he looks like a brickie but has the heart of a poet

he is......YORKSHIRE :-)

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hi Cynthia
thanks for your useful and considered views regarding 'natural selection'. I sort of get what you mean about the second stanza - so may revisit it at some point in the future - as a few of the rhythms do get a bit 'clunky'. Glad you liked it though
Ian

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Hi Cynthia,
I am glad you like My Dragon Husband. I put it on the blog years ago when I first joined WOL and someone picked it as poem of the month. I was dead chuffed at the time.
I think, for what its worth, that when we identify something that is hard to write about that is an indication that it is a topic that needs tackling. Things that are easy to say have probably been said before.
Peter is always surprised that people think the poem is a love poem. He thinks it is women who say so. I just tell him its subtle.
I would love to read what you produce if you tackle the subject yourself.
I like your comments on here. WOL commentators are a dying breed. Yesterday when I was on the site it said there was one member on. It was me.

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Thank you! I'm sure you would get that one published if you submitted it somewhere. I will let you know when I've done it, and try and get a link in to your wol profile.

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Hi Cynthia

Thank you for your comment and the tip! Would really love to share your poem the parting on my blog (obviously referenced to you) as I post poems from other poets too. Would you have a think and let me know? Katy

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Thanks for reading I'm a right softy me, and leaving your comment.
Had to have a look at your samples, really liked Pablo Picasso,s aperitif , very rich, and flashback, will be reading more

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I thank you for the time to comment
'I should cocoa'
an old-fashioned phrase (upper class) which usually means 'absolutely no way'. I can imagine Terry Thomas using it.
what the derivation is though, I couldn't tell you

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Hello Cynthia,
Thankyou for commenting on "Cradle - A Triolet". Sorry you couldn't stop a little while longer.

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