Clare my name is Stella Forsythe-why winds solar has been used instead of my name is a bit odd but not a problem
I cannot see for the life of me where in my original comment to you on the subject of your poem
Multiplications of me and you
I had made ANY form of insult whatsoever towards you?
I simply stated that it reads quite a bit like Graces poem
Summing up
-in my opinion and that was ALL I intended to mean
Now you have said without ANY prompting from me or ANY form of insult that YOU can see the similarities which is EXACTLY what I meant
this is as far as I intend to go on the matter since I definitely do not want Grace to be drawn into this misunderstood situation which seems to be a case of crossed wires
and the reason for not wanting her to be involved over this something and nothing scenario is due to the fact that this wonderful lady and brilliant poet has enough to do with her voluntary job of sitting in with terminally ill people overnight in most cases ( according to her email to me ) thereby giving the relatives a break and a chance to get some sleep unless any emergencies arise overnight
and I also not happy by any means of being accused of making insults which is absolutely non evident
so I suggest we must leave it at that because I do not intend to respond to any more unwarranted accusations
Thank you
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
My poem is nothing like Grace’s poem. I am absolutely devastated to receive a cloaked accusation of plagiarism. It is the ultimate insult for the writer!
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
I think music is a little like poetry. They may share influences. The recent Ed Sheeran debacle is a case in point.
For example John Coopey recently beat me to the finishing line with an Everest poem, making me need to change one I had in progress.
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
winds solar. I have just taken a look at Grace’s poem - Summing Up. I am not quite sure where you get the idea that my poem reads anything like Grace’s. The only thing they seem to have in common is that both contain reference to sums.
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
winds solar - I haven’t seen that particular poem of Grace’s - although I am aware of her wonderful contributions to WOL. You seem to imply that I have plagerised someone else’s work!😯. This is a very serious accusation - one which I find highly insulting. If you take a look through my work on the site you will see that ALL of my work is original and I have absolutely no need to steal anyone else’s work.
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Supposing the US hadn’t reined in John Bull over Suez, MC, how would you have envisaged Britain’s future going forward from that? “Wider still and wider”?
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A wonderful poem, Tom. It seamlessly combines public familiarity with private emotions. Thank you for giving us the chance to read it.
Comment is about Day Off (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
I love the idea of passing the baton to the next generation, John. This continuity of experience is so important. A nice, unselfish poem.
Comment is about A Pocket Full of Rhyme (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I read this last year in your book, Greg, and it still resonates with sadness - a lost world diving into a mad political experiment.
Still, here were are. Jo Cox's brutal murder was sympomatic of harsher, nastier times.
Comment is about Clacton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Wise words from a wise writer. Superbly written.
Thank you for this.
Comment is about Tuning (blog)
Original item by Hélène
Thank you Amelia,
brilliantly in tune,
a shining example,
of courage in action,
those last two notes,
poetry in motion,
as straight as an arrow,
unwavering determination,
straight to this granddad's heart.💘
Comment is about In support of Ukraine (or is this too political?) (blog)
hyperbole - you can say that again!
that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,that,😉
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This reads quite a bit like a poem by a lady called Grace Meadows and her poem ' Summing up' ??
Comment is about Multiplications of Me and You. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Sat 24th Jun 2023 23:22
Thank you so much, John and Manish, your wonderful comments always mean a lot! 😎😊
Comment is about Soothsayer. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Very powerful.
Glad you put on a preamble, it seemed to have been written from experience.
Comment is about I cut Myself. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Me too. "Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away." Carl Sandburg, The Atlantic, 1927.
Comment is about BLANK SLATE (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Blimey, MC, I'd completely forgotten that to which you refer. Didn't realise you were keeping such close tabs on me! You can't disagree that Mr Farage was rather closely associated with Brexit. My memory stretches to his Turkey poster on the eve of the vote ... what happened to all those Turks, then? And then he surprised the nation the other day by saying 'Brexit has failed' on Newsnight. But what's done, is done. We've self-harmed, and that's that.
Comment is about Clacton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Suicide's Note
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
Langston Hughes
Comment is about Anthem for all all these damned Youngsters (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
IC - I assume you mean that's why the US thought they could
gainsay an "ally" themselves by invading UK territory because
it suited them? Just what was the UN response to that
particular intrusion? Give me the Aussies & Kiwis any time,
especially when they had been so dismissively treated by
the political stitch=up in progress with our erstwhile enemies
across the Channel.
UIC - don't presume you understand my reference to mundane
inadequacy. Much of what passes for quality nowadays is
actually mediocrity. Or as W.S. Gilbert wrote "Skimmed milk
masquerades as cream".
There's so much of it about - not least in politics, news reporting, and general issues - that one would be hard pressed to know where to begin at any given time.
Mediocrity and hyperbole do a good job reassuring each other's existence in today's world..
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi all, thanks so much for the comments. Its hard to know how a poem like this comes across so the positive comments are appreciated.
Clare, would love you read your take should you complete your poem!
Comment is about Day Off (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
I for one struggle to write poetry which doesn't rhyme.
In my own work, if the rhyme isn't there I don't know if it's a poem or not.
However when I read a poem written by others, which doesn't rhyme I can recognise it for what it is.
I enjoyed this one.
Cheers Kevin
Comment is about Rhyming Rant! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Keep up the rhyming, Stephen. It's the best kind of poetry. Betjeman, Larkin and the likes of Alexander Pope did quite well on. Go, rhyme, go!
Comment is about Rhyming Rant! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
“He who pays the piper…”, MC. And we found out with Suez that we weren’t the piper anymore. The US was.
Incidentally, besides the US and the USSR, the UN deplored the Anglo-French- Israeli invasion. In fact, other than we 3 only Australia and New Zealand supported us.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
That is so sad, beautiful and touching. So sorry for your loss. Stay strong.
Comment is about My...... (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
I continue to be overwhelmed by the generous comments on this series of war poems. Although I feel sad, and often angry, when I write one of these poems, I have shared some of them with Ukrainians (include some of those I help teach English to in the evening) and the response has usually been positive and understanding.
All the comments keep me going and inspire me to write on on this subject.
So thanks to Greg, Keith, John, KJ, Uilleam and Manish for your comments and to Nigel, Tom, Hugh, Your Royal Poetess, Pete, Michael, Stella and Rudyard.
Comment is about Fortunes of War (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Time for me to open my dictionary and mark these fabulous use of words. I fully agree with John B here.
Thank you.
Comment is about Soothsayer. (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Brilliant stuff, Stephen. Conversational, impactful and very well written.🌻
Comment is about Fortunes of War (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
William's lucky to have you around, John B. You're amazing and funny! Loved this poem, my friend.🌻
Comment is about A Pocket Full of Rhyme (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
In what way are "these mundane days of inadequacy", MC?
Ah-you mean there's less pink on the map of the globe?
Actually there are people doing amazing things all the time, all over the world.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
In the interests of fairness one ought to mention:...Mr. Jamling Norgay (Mr. Tenzing's son), says Sherpas are the "unsung heroes" of Mount Everest and with the advent of large commercial climbing expeditions their job has gotten more dangerous.
"The Sherpas risk their lives more than anyone else. On an average climb, a member of the team would go to the South Col, which is the last camp at 2,600 feet (8,600 meters)," he says. "The average Sherpa would make about eight trips to the South Col to drop supplies, so their risk is a lot higher."
https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2003-05-28-31-conquest-67309747/381337.html
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tey a poem from a viewpoint that's alien to you. It might be
a challenge but useful for seeing another POV.
Comment is about Souvenir Larkinesque de la Rive Gauche (et de l’Aile Gauche-seulement avec la permission des flics) (blog)
There's room for verse and prose poems. The important bit is
that they must be worth reading and, perhaps more relevant,
worth recalling/reciting! 👍
Comment is about Rhyming Rant! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
No surprise that "Nigel Farage" would appear. That would
chime with a recollection of GF's glee at the man losing his job with LBC.
Yes, I remember Clacton, the name,
Because one afternoon of heat
The memory drew me there,
It is late June... 😍
Comment is about Clacton (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Maybe not, but they chose to be more interventional rather than
neutral. Hence, the suspicion, with much justification, that the
"Special Relationship" was more of an illusion than a reality.
Remember when the USA chose to send its troops into Grenada -
British territory - without so much as a "by your leave"?
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Not sure it was the USA’s responsibility to prop up our Empire, MC.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A useful reminder in these mundane days of inadequacy,
Suez...ah yes, a salutary lesson about our US ally, with the
name Dulles at the forefront with a dig at the British Empire.
Ther were two of that name in US politics, with the other having
a very questionable position in the matter of what went down
before, during and after the murder of JFK.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Ha-ha. Thanks for the chuckle, Hugh! As I head for my 80th,
adjusted to lumbar spinal stenosis, sustained when the front
tyre of my bike (pedal variety!) deflated without warning and
sent me crashing to the tarmac, I am free, so far, of any other
physical impediments or invasive aches/pains worth a mention.
As you say, if you don't mind, it don't matter. Remembering
other welcome hearty chuckles, courtesy of "Monty Python"
Always look on the bright side of life. With a special nod to
your last line!!! So, onwards and upwards...but perhaps with
less emphasis on the "upwards" just yet. 😇
Comment is about Old age does not come alone ,thoughts of an old man having a moan. (blog)
Original item by hugh
Those early 50’s must have seemed like World Order Restored. Germany defeated, rationing ending, swathes of pink still around the globe, wonderful new queen, Roger Bannister, Everest, Festival of Britain etc. You remember, Graham.
At least until Suez brought us up sharp.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Good to see this important anniversary recorded and remembered JC. I'm half way through a piece about it too, so you've beaten me to the finishing line somewhat. Ah well! Good on yer!
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks once again Stephen. This is a truly harrowing and haunting piece-pun intended.
This reminds me of a poem I read a while back, but I can't for the life of me remember who the author is.
Comment is about Fortunes of War (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
On reading this again, the phrase
"neither rhyme nor reason"
has just ocurred to me.
Apparently it appears in Shakespeare several times.
Do we need a reason to rhyme?
No-just do it.
Comment is about Rhyming Rant! (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Lovely that Tom. What a journey! I'm going to have to read this more carefully to do it justice.
Comment is about Day Off (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Thanks Ed.
But with gentle caress, creeps over detritus,fingers of hope reclaiming
There's a SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest just down the road from us. Orchids now grow on what was formerly toxic chemical detritus, rendered less harmful by weathering etc.
Comment is about Or kids (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
Thankyou Uilleam and Kevin for the Like. 70th anniversary just passed.
Comment is about WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
winds solar
Sun 25th Jun 2023 10:59
And I am in total agreement with Manish-thanks Helene
Comment is about Tuning (blog)
Original item by Hélène