Hi Laura- I think middle-eastern- and get carried away myself (re Blackened Berries)I appreciate the emotional effort you have invested here. :)

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thanks for your kind comments regarding the winterfylleth poem Laura - sorry i'm a bit late in responding - I'm getting a bit behind due to other commitments at the moment - so in catch up mode with the thank you's - anyway, very kind of you - cheers
Ian

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Thanks for the comment laura and i applaud your 'Assembly' as I said. I'd love to see a print out of your 'Lexicon' or am I just too stupid to know where to find it?

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thanks, once again, for your kind and supportive comments on the JCC thing Laura - totally agree with you about the 'chips' thing, he deserves it - we'd all give our right arms to make that sort of money out of poetry - it's only the snobs who think you should forever suffer for your 'art' lol :-)
Ta
Ian

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Hello Laura,
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze". As I said in one of my comments, cottages hold a special place in my memory. I was fondled in one when I was a youngster while the bloke wanked off into the next cubicle. As I said, it was rather thrilling and he gave me a 10/- note for it. Happy days.

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hey Laura - many thanks (once again) for your kind and thoughtful comments on 'cycle of the scarecrow'. I'm really pleased with this one because I originally blogged just one of the 4 'quartets' as a finished piece and then realised there was more to be done :-)
Interesting points about the metre - cos it does work for me (8 syllable count per line) but, because of the technical difficulty in getting all the monorhymes to fit - it makes it bloody hard to keep the meaning, metre, syllable count and rhyme all in sync - like juggling 4 hot pokers with 8 plates of jelly
:-) I'll have a look at it - but, as I say, when I read it I can make the metre work - so it may just be an 'on the paper' glich
Ta
Ian

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Laura- for you, and only for you- I have self censored the image of the woman accompanying 'After the leaving' x
ps your request/enquiry has validity regardless of whom raised it x TC

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hey - missed one :-(
thanks for commenting on 'golgotha' - I would love to have performed it at diggers - but Jeff tells me the open mic might be at risk now :-( - going on hols for a couple of weeks so will only be back the day before the diggers - but looking forward to it - will deffo be in attendance at your gig
Ian

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thanks for commenting on 'she wore pink' Laura - I am intrigued/fascinated by the JFK years in America - if you like a good thriller (not horror) and haven't read it - try 11-22-63 by Steven King - it's set around the assassination but has a weirdly twisted sci-fi element that tells you the story of the days before and after the assasination, seen through the eyes of a time traveller - it's really good :-)
Ian

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Laura
thanks for the comments on 'totem' - much appreciated as always.
haven't read the book you mention - but the must read book regarding first nations/native Americans is Bury My Hear At Wounded Knee' which is the native American perspective of the 'wild west' - fascinating and moving read.
The list of tribal names is there for rhythmic purposes + 'if we cannot name them we cannot remember them' so I liked it to push start the rhythm into the last section
cheers
Ian

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Thanks for the comment on 'sci-fi so good' Laura - glad you liked it :-)

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La-La re 'After the leaving' I had not seen the woman in the foto in 20 years- I don't know if she still lives. I have other poems and fotos abt her done at the time.

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cheers Laura
please that you liked 'the Jesus Gene' and 'Daniel...' two very different emotions - although both query the existence of 'god' I suppose :-(
thanks for commenting - much appreciated
Ian

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Thanks Laura

Capitals are there because I'm too lazy to edit when I copy from word!

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Hi Laura - not quite sure how to do what you said - but if you go onto Soundcloud then the stuff I've been doing recently with Paul Healy is under the A4453528 account number. I think the last 4 things are me and him - previous stuff just by him. Hope you can find it!

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Thanks Laura - Candle Game - blogged 2nd Feb 2010 - a blast from the past! I haven't been writing much poetry lately but doing some songs. A pal and I have done some quite experimental audio things - they are on Soundcloud. I don't know if there is a link I could do from WOL to Soundcloud like we can do with Youtube stuff. Must ask some friendly WOL boffin!

Hope all well with you! xx

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thanks for your comments on 'Northern Lights' Laura, glad you liked it - that sort of stuff isn't everyone's cup of tea so wasn't SURE HOW IT WOULD GO DOWN :-)

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How have you got on with the earworm poetry cd?

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hey Laura :-) not sure that I am back but we'll see how it goes!

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Thanks for commenting on The Introvert, Laura. Yes, introverts can behave in extrovert ways and vice versa. People are full of surprises - for others and even themselves. The basic distinction is whether someone tends to spend energy or gain energy by being with people. But even that can vary can't it.

The final line was intended to be enigmatic and raise questions. The introvert's response to a roomful of extrovert friends enjoying themselves can be complex. Of course the introvert wants his/her friends to be happy. But.....

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'clear blue air' is classic Laura - describes that feeling perfectly - 'beghilos' is very good too - those bloody calculators eh - spent many an hour messing with them when I should have been learning maths :-)
"separated at birth" I think I would have got the better deal out of that Laura - unless you want to double your body weight and take a wack or two with the ugly stick :-)

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thanks for the comments on 'domestosterone' Laura - glad you liked it - 'teak' it must be an age thing - bring back teak references I say :-)a much underused wood.
Just seen your comments on another post about social/crowds/parties etc - knowing what I know about your OCD and now this, I think you must be the female version of ME!totally got your comments about 'alone time' - you just need to start referencing 'teak' more and you'll be there :-)

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Laura
I've never really talked to anyone about it - this was my attempt at (clumsily) getting across what a small part of it is like.
I am as frustrated and astounded by my innability to stop doing things as are others who see me do it - for instance:
I keep a huge pile of coins by the bedside and put whatever is in my pockets into the pile on a night - in a morning I take 6 X £1 coins, 5 X 50p, 4 X 20p (see the sequence) etc - and that's all that goes in my pocket.
As a kid (I've let this one go a bit now)I would always break rich tea biscuits into 1/3's - chew and swallow first, suck until gone 2nd and pulp with tongue 3rd - utterly bizzare to me and anyone watching me do it.
It's so difficult to talk to anyone who doesn't do these things because (as with other mental health problems) they simply TELL you to STOP doing it - and you know you should - but you can't :-). I guess you just have to cope with it rather than cure it - but talking to people about it??? NO - don't think so
Ian

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Hi Laura
thanks for commenting on 'pure o' you are clearly someone who understands the condition from your own personal experence. I too have way more than disclosed in the poem including the numbers/alphabet/symetry/order thing - so as Steve has said I'm OCD rather than pure O - but I like the title for what it is rather than as a clinical definition of what I have. Read you earlier work on symetry and loved it - don't you find that there is an angel in the fog with all this though? - because apart from the irritation of the condition it does make me more accurate / precise and throws me into some really creative thinking and situations that I otherwise wouldn't experience. Just a thought :-)
thanks
Ian

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Laura,

Thanks for your considerate disagreement.

You`re right about the word `underclass` I shouldn`t have used it. Until four factories in my road closed (with the loss of thousands of unskilled jobs) and the closely-packed streets of terrace houses knocked down and replaced by a playing field and a sparse new estate. The vast majority of that so-called under-class had been working and contributing to the economy.they didn`t abandon employment. employment abandoned them (and fobbed them off with benefits) A truer name for them would be `The abandoned class`.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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Hi Laura thx for reading and for the feedback on my latest. Much appreciated. I have left a comment on the blog.

Oh and...

Me, Nat and maybe her Dad heard Merry Hell were playing the Old Wallaseyans in a couple of weeks. If you could let us know exactly when, we can dive over.

Best of

Chris

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Many thanks for your kind thoughts on my prose piece, Schadenfreude.

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Aye :-)

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Hello there again Laura
Thank you for the reply and the links. I do use Facebook, mainly as an electronic pigeon and for family and friends to read what I write. As for writing exercises the idea frightens me to death. I sit, I sit, I sit. (You will notice I sit a lot). BING!!! I write and post, no thinking it just happens. When I say accidental I mean it. Its a l - o - n - g story. The feed back I have had since I started to feel worthy enough to put stuff up on here has been great, encouraging but I have to admit I do enjoy being out there and reading what I write. Eyes don't lie, if what I do is crap the eyes tell me, not the hands, they can lie everytime they politely come into contact with each other. I have also met some "interesting " people. Coincidentally, if I did write about being a part of the body it would be the eyes.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

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Hi Laura
Thanks for taking time to read my offering. I had written a piece about a friend of mine and the "bedroom tax" Someone kindly made a comment and pointed out that repossessed people were also traumatised. Said they had enjoyed reading and would look forward to a poem about repossession. I have never written to a theme before so I thought I would give it a go. Out of my comfort zone but it was an interesting challenge. Apologies for the novelette. Ta for the typo .... rectified.
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

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Hi Laura

Thanks for the pointer. What an interesting magazine. I'm enjoying some of the other contributors too.

Dave

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'naughty naughty' as opposed to 'haughty haughty'
Tommy

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Hi Laura - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ohh Laura, chuck us a pointer when you've written the poem you mentioned so I can have a gander -

Best

Chris

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Thx for reading and feedback on my latest - appreciated.

Left a long windy comment on the blog hehe

Best

Chris

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Laura - I have responded to Jeff on his profile, amending my original response and qualifying my feelings about his poem's intent/content. My original point about the times in which these events happen still stands. That tragedy was a thing of its time and people WERE almost certainly more hardened to the unexpected visitations of death, having lived with that fact of life in a way that today's generation cannot comprehend. They would be far quicker to sympathise, mourn and get on with their lives - whereas, today, it would go on and on, with all sorts of excuses to keep it before the public attention - with all the breast-beating and communal flower-arranging that has appeared since Princess Diana left us. We've exchanged a respectful stiff-upper lip of stoic acceptance for the quivering lip of self-regarding "compassion" - no matter what or where the circumstances or the identity of the unfortunates involved. I find that less than genuine or appealing: this "look at me - I'm so sorry for your loss" attitude that has become part of modern behaviour, especially when the cameras are around.

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Just came across a poet called Simon Rusty. He is ruder [hilariously so] than both of us put together!! Have just put my profile on write out loud under the name joe ranter

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Thanks for the comment on Paper Chase. I wondered where you were!
I was interested to read film director Ken Loach is reported as declaring that "What Ukip has done for the right..(the left should be seeking to do).
Fascinating that taking the stance that self-government, control of our borders and our laws against outside interference should be seen as "right wing".

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I have to agree - awesome photo!
And whoever took it is ace ; )

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Thanks for your recent comments Laura. Your profile pic is ace. [:^[-)

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Congratulations, Laura. It's a fine poem - it will be interesting to see what response there is from the wider audience. The website looks fascinating. It isn't clear whether publication will be online, but if it is, could you send a link (no pressure).

What continues to fascinate me about the ancient Japanese myth is what it says about us all being travellers who meet mysterious endless invisible walls which baffle us until we stoop low and discover their secret. So 21st century - we're all living it.

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hi laura, been too long girl! look at your biography list now, you little devil :)

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Thx for the feedback on my latest one Laura.

Cheers

Chris

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Laura you are now officially my favorite poet on this site. That is all. x

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Thank you, Laura : )

You've been writing up a storm! I must go through some of what I've missed...

xx

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Laura you are now officially my second favourite poem on this site- That is all.

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Thanks for your comments on "You've Met The Met", Laura.

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Thanks for your lovely comment. It was actually quite liberating to write something unpoetic LOL - why on Earth have I taken up this poetry hobby, I ask myself...?

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It's typical of a woman to complain about the generalizing of women.


How Do I count the shoes?

How do I love my shoes? Let me count the ways.
I love their comfort and style and price.
When my foot can slip in easily, when kicking out of sight foolish Insults and remarks.
I love them for their shine and waterproofing,
Quiet in the walking, by sun and LED torch-light.
I love the comfort as men do strive for Comfort.
I love their fashionability, as they bask In praise.
I love them with a passion when put to good use
In my old briefs, and with my manhood's faith And daily needs.
I love them with a love I show to women
With my swanky gait. I love them with the breath I breathe upon their shine,
The smiles of their buying and tears if their life comes to an end. And if I could be bothered, I shall love them even after recycling.

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Ah, Ebenezer, my alter ego.

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