on Strong by little_angel_maria
23 Oct 2002, 6:04 AM
But Maria does have a point - it's OK to dislkie someone's poem but people do go a bit crzy with abuse. That's just not necessary. AFter all, a person's only written a poem you don't like, they haven't petrol-bombed your house and drowned your kittens in a vat of teir own urine. But maybe I'm just saying this because Ealing isn't far from my home and I don't want Maria and Blade coming over to whack me.
replying on Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi
23 Oct 2002, 1:43 AM
In the name of all that's holy... I haven't watched any of that rubbish, and I'm very glad if bloody Diana's in it. Christ, I bet bloody David Beckham is Number 1. I suppose we get the heroes we deserve...
replying on Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi
23 Oct 2002, 1:36 AM
Did they work out how to do it? That's why they wanted Newton, no doubt. A man of his brain must surely have known how to make insects out of cheese.
on Mystery on the Bridge by vulcan
23 Oct 2002, 1:35 AM
This is very tender and I like the rhetorical flourish of the last couplet.
on The Dreamer by Nicholas Jones
23 Oct 2002, 1:33 AM
Good to see another sonnet from you - you handled it well in 'The Canvassers' and also in this. This is more Keatsian as well in its self-analysis and fear.
on The Canvassers by Nicholas Jones
23 Oct 2002, 1:30 AM
I like the sense of compromise that comes over in this. I wonder if it should be 'On streets' not 'By streets' - do you say that doors are 'by' streets? Dunno. I'm a pedant. I like the 'metaphysical concrete dreams'.
replying on Stockport by Nicholas Jones
23 Oct 2002, 1:26 AM
I knew I'd got that word from someone famous. Thanks for identifying my sources! Already an ex-girlfriend of mine is sporting combats in All Saints stylee - I don't know whether she's ahead of a trend or years behind one, though. I think your attitude towards Stockport is like mine towards Slough (substitute McVities factory for Mars factory) - one of extreme protectiveness.
replying on she wonders, by <~>
22 Oct 2002, 6:31 AM
The heart has such an annoyingly loud voice
on she wonders, by <~>
22 Oct 2002, 4:59 AM
I've come back to this. Will he dare? He would have to, wouldn't he? Or what kind of a man is he?
replying on A love of the midlands by ==Doylum
22 Oct 2002, 4:54 AM
Isn't that a song? I've been to Shrewsbury but I've never been to me.
on Stockport by Nicholas Jones
22 Oct 2002, 4:51 AM
Excellent detail about the fashions of the 90s, and a great mordant ending. This is one of your toppermost.
replying on A love of the midlands by ==Doylum
22 Oct 2002, 1:21 AM
You've put me off the birds. I don't touch them now. I feel physically sick every time I see one. Now for me it's all about my existence as a lifeless husk of a man with no passions or pleasures except the mastication of cardboard.
on A love of the midlands by ==Doylum
22 Oct 2002, 1:18 AM
Where are you coming from? Telford should be European City of Culture. It's got bridges, after all. And a tree.
on requiem for an ex-girlfriend by natalie
22 Oct 2002, 1:15 AM
I like th fact that the jealousy is still the most prevalent emotion, even at the end. But it's mixed in with shick, guilt and regret as well. That's a lot to cover in a short space.
replying on One liners for the ladies by INTRANSIT
22 Oct 2002, 1:10 AM
Don't you hide behind the smokescreen of my typographical error, you rapscallion, you know I have you on the run.
replying on Do Swans Get Jealous? (#2) by Christof
21 Oct 2002, 9:03 AM
Sorry, I didn't like it anymore. I expunged it. I erased it. I threw it away like a spare three fingered glove. I was ruthless.
replying on One liners for the ladies by INTRANSIT
21 Oct 2002, 8:40 AM
That's very true. The bees produce honey having fed on clover. Hmm. I should've noticed that!
on Hedgehog's Dilemma by Shin-Bojangles
21 Oct 2002, 8:06 AM
Er, what? I'm baffled. Perhaps you had to be there.
Well, nothing. It was just an allusion that the last line pushed in my head. Seemed to kind of sexualise the whole thing,as if the hunt were a metaphor for something else. But that might be me and my predilection for hanging around in reed beds. I've said it before, I can always be relied upon for aberrant readings.