Steven,
Thank you for introducing John MacCullough and Andrew MacMillan to me. I appreciate this greatly
Keith

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The all purpose stars, love it, always have

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.. in 1975 I went to the Free Trade Hall to see Capt. Beefheart - first on was Henry Cow with Dagmar Krause - after 20 mins I gave up trying to understand their music and went to the bar - now I wish I'd stayed and listened ....

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Stephen
Your time is much appreciated
Your thought that it could have fallen flat on its face, was something that was running through my mind for about 24 hours prior to pressing the final button to post it.
I really couldn't determine whether my attempt was lazy writing (perhaps because I enjoyed writing it so much). I have a tendency to think that if I enjoy writing something, there must be something badly wrong with it. I hoped that the honesty within the poem, and the light humour, might just make it acceptable.
Eventually I thought that putting it on the site was worth the risk of getting slated.

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Hi Steven Thanks for comments on 'Coelacanth'. Glad you liked most of it, although I'm not quite with you on the second stanza. I think I need it because it introduces the notions of beauty & ugliness and the way they symbolise innocence/and the Fall... if that makes any sense. Might just be me being a lapsed Catholic again!

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Hi Steven

We've actually met many times in Manchester, and I've heard you recite on lots of occasions long ago at murky open mics - however...I had forgotten all about Euro '96, really made me chuckle (I would comment on your cynicism but for the fact you're so on the mark regarding our shopping being made safe...just see how wonderfully safe and shiny it now is in town!!).

See you anon sir

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Thx for the comment on my poem Patriots Steven- appreciated.

Chris

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fascinated by ur words hun x

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Hi Steven, looking at your poems, this one came out. http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=19680

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Hi Steven ,

posted up a link to some of my poems with synbols we were talking about at the Big Weekend, thought you might be interested. Win

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=17830

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Hi Steven, thanks for looking at In My Dreams You're alive. Mor experimental pieces to come I feel. Keep well. Win

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Hi Steven, Having an interesting discussion on whether 'origin information' should be given (maybe as a footnote) and if this adds to the poem or not . See my latest blog entry. (stalemate Hold) It would be interesting to have your input. Win x

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Hi Again, in fact my last 2 poems are found poems of sorts. It it seems I have been infected! Win x

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Hi Steven, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

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Wooo! I NEVER make comment on anything to do with war as I find my views are almost always unpalatable and offensive to others. Experience bears this out.

Hear, hear!

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hi Steven Thanks for the comment on ghazal. This is a very mimimised version of the ghazal having only 4 sylables per line. It still has all the other qualifying factors for the classical form however. Because of this is looks and sounds very different and much more is left to the readers interpretation.

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and another at http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=16881

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Hi Steve,
Great to meet you - finally! over the weekend. I was sorry not to have made it to one of your workshops - hopefully next year!
Take care,
Cx

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Hi Steven, I blogged my experiment 'binary p01m' on WOL at http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=16873

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Thankyou Steven for running your experimental poetry workshop at the big weekend. Very informative, opened a door (or rather) opened a door wider than had already been opened... so thankyou very much. Great to chat over the weekend in Hebden. Winston

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I tend to use spaces - which don't translate here - I'm a fan of letting the reader do the punctuating

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I have been known to rise to the bait too. :-)

Just read your poems here and enjoyed ' Geocentric'. 'All purpose stars' i can easily connect to and read that when it won potm. Your best on this site i think.

I notice you don't do punctuation. Is there a reason for that? I ask because i like to include it in my work, especially when a sentence ends and another one begins.

Janet.x

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Hello Steven
I shall add my two pennerth in a moment. I think it will be educational (in all senses of the word) to see what is suggested

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Hi Steve - cd tis good...

my only bother though is the recording levels used - impacts on the quality of the listen

steve x

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This is about the current poem of the month.

I thought lines 3 & 4 of the first stanza were part of the same sentence.

Ok, line 4 does start with a capital letter but it is then followed by a stanza break and my poor brain parsed it wrong.

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Hi Steve, not seen you for ages but I see you're still going strong!

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Hi Steven, Welcome to the wonderful world of WOL, hope you feel at home here.
much love and laughter to you and yours.
xxx

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Yves Klein blue skies over Accrington, the B of the Bandaged/Banged Heads -- both images repeated (or 'bothed") the blurt strange 'Careful' of your work: in between the do and the dids 'something hidden' pops out -- the marvellous!

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Hello, decent poems, I can almost forgive you been from Accrington!
All the best
Cayn

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"The All-purpose Stars". Very clever. Love it. Tell me, do you read palms too.

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