replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 8:00 AM
It's true, we do spend a lot of our male lives denying things to ourselves. I don't know why.
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 7:52 AM
My main thing is being unable to look at myself - I just find it much easier to project everything onto other people. No centre, you see, just a big observing eye. I've tried the gutter and it just pissed me off. Whoa, I'm feeling confessional today!
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 7:41 AM
You're too too kind, Mrs God, thank you. But you're very far from incompetent. And I write about things other than myself because I find it easier, which might say something about my precarious state!
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 6:14 AM
You're probably much better for it, believe me. I'm going to try the port/tiramisu combination. Yum.
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 4:11 AM
Good choice of cheese. I'm a Stilton man myself but a nice floppy brie, lovely... Yep, I think the names of Swansea and Willesden Green are going to be quite alien to our transatlantic friends.
I must be off actually. I actually have some work to do beofer lunch. How uncivilised.
I must be off actually. I actually have some work to do beofer lunch. How uncivilised.
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 4:07 AM
And Willesden Green....
replying on Noblesse Oblige by Christof
25 Sep 2002, 4:04 AM
I don't know what I like more - Dickinson's big white teeth, his tan or those incredible multi-coloured specs. None of which, I suspect, was as cheap as chips. Glad you liked the pome - partially inspired, I must admit, by that programme on girls at St Hilda's Oxford. Did you see it? I met lots like that when I was at Ox and some things never change.
replying on The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones
25 Sep 2002, 3:59 AM
You should've left it on!
replying on WLPAN by Nicholas Jones
25 Sep 2002, 3:57 AM
Same for me! - 5 to 12. You catch me in an expansive pre-lunch mood... My grandmother was Welsh, which makes me only very slightly Welsh and I don't really feel it all. Only sometimes I get a little twinge of it. I got one from your poem.
on The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones
25 Sep 2002, 3:55 AM
Thanks especially for the car park attendant's jacket. This is a very warm poem despite the coldness of its subject.
on WLPAN by Nicholas Jones
25 Sep 2002, 3:51 AM
Why do all the best Welsh poets write in English even when, like R.S. Thomas, their first langauge is Welsh? It's a vexed question - I looked at this in my thesis on Edward Thomas and couldn't really come up with one answer. The Welsh language is under siege, in literature at least, and has adopted a very insular mentality. The eisteddfod is such a retrograde institution, but what is the way forward? I like your poem. Speaks the very small bit of Welsh in me.
on Regime Change by Nicholas Jones
25 Sep 2002, 3:44 AM
Did you hear hear Mr Blair banging on about 'regime change' on the news last night?
on The Masonic Underling & the 33 degree by horus8
25 Sep 2002, 3:39 AM
Baffled by Royalflesh's comment, but thinking this poem is great
on glory bar realities by royalflesh
25 Sep 2002, 3:20 AM
This is a real progression from your last poem on this theme - smashing. Bleak though.
on At my grandmother's aging sight by vulcan
24 Sep 2002, 8:55 AM
Haven't I voted on this before? I like your relation of human age to geological time at the end and the general fear of being old.
replying on Trespasser at the Men's Bathing Pond by Christof
24 Sep 2002, 8:35 AM
No I haven't read that, and I've read quite a lot of Wells. I'll have to look that out. Thanks for the vote!
on Morning conflict by INTRANSIT
24 Sep 2002, 8:27 AM
I usually take against archaisms, but 'thy urn' works a treat. This is epic yet domestic. Ace.