Zuzanna,
glad you didn't take my comments the wrong way. Courses etc are always useful for anyone and a good investment will be "The Art and Craft of Poetry" by Michael Bugeja.

Hello Zuzanna - I'm just writing to reinforce what I've already told Clarissa about comments on my writing. I'm sure every writer enjoys positive comments about their work and I'm no different.
My poetry is taking a back seat, as they say, to my non-sensical ramblings at the moment. I feel that it's sometimes beneficial to concentrate on all the little pieces of 'litter' that become ingrained inside our heads. This can sometimes leads us towards and area or subject that we otherwise may have left unturned.

Since I started contributing to this site I have received various 'commissions' to write both poetry and other less exciting things and it's the positive comments which I receive that spur me on to write more. This may upset some people and others may delight at this.
The only guarantee for instant failure is if you try to please all the people ALL of the time. That ain't gonna' happen. In the meantime, thanks once again for your comments.
And, as they say, keep writing.

Thanks Mel for your comment on my Emotional Rainbows. That is the title poem for the show I have written. There is is a ten min version of the 1 hour show on the 14th of Nov on the Embrio Night. .

Thank you! All innuendos very much intended.
Your poem about your friend is lovely x

Hi Zuzanna,
Thanks for your encouragement to my writing ability. Especially for my fairy story.
I will aim to write some more to add to it or enhance it maybe.
I just write whatever enters my head at any given moment. It's working well for me this way.
However, it can become a nuisance when words start floating around while at work. ha ha.
Love and light,
Janet.xx

Dear Zuzanna,

I hope all is well with you, and thank you for always leaving wonderful comments on my poetry.

Take care.

Melissa

Hi Zuzanna,
Thankyou very much for your comments to my recent blogs. It's always good to receive the kind of feedback you give, with an explanation of what you see and feel from what you read.
lots of love, peace and light to you.
Janet.xx

Hi Zuzanna

Thank you so much for your comments about my 'When I'm Down' poem, it was one that I wrote fairly easily through experience. I did write it a few months ago after a few difficult years. Don't worry though, things are a lot better now, although sometines its relevant.

Appreciate your concern though, take care, next one will be a bit chirpier (I Think!) Jeff X

Jealousy indeed does silence all...

Dear Zuzanna,

Thank you for your comments. Well, the tv interview was brief, but I made it to tv. :)

I hope to try and make more appearances when I can, and in the meantime, I will continue to write as always. Please, do the same.

I hope you're having a great weekend. :)

-Melissa

What a great voice you have!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW thanks for all your kind support and attentiveness

Zuzzana,
Many thanks for your comments. If you don't have to deal with selfish idiots blocking your path through the city; then you're very lucky indeed.

Matt

Hello Zuzanna<
Thankyou for your comment on my poem< competition<
I like yours too>
Tara

Hi Zuzanna, big "hello" from me!

What a wonderful name! What are it's origins? Love the accent. Listened to your reading of the Pharoah's poem and felt it a wonderful tribute. You have a great timbre to your voice, musical...echoing your surname.
Thanks for the feedback on "I only want a dog!" Very positive. Your photo shows you to be a woman of considerable energy and your comments seem to be wonderfully nourishing of this community of poets.

Very best to you and keep the lyrical in your poetry flowing.

Moira

Dear zuzanna, I hope your feeling better. I keep you in my thoughts daily, my poetry friend. xx clarissa

Dear Zuzanna,

Thank you so much for your wonderful reviews and comments, your kind words and spirit.

When I do write my poetry, I open my heart and let the words pour out. I thought the flow of my thoughts reflect back on where I was and am now going. I let my heart cry upon the page.

And I love Rush along with Foreigner and Styx.

I hope you had a great summer and that you are doing well.

Keep in touch, and keep writing. :)

Take care.

Melissa

Dear Zuzanna, Thanks for writting me, I ove to get your emails and anything you wish to converse about. You and a hand full of people I have met on thjis site, I know with out a doubt, I could be the best of friends with, I could go camping with, travel with, visit with etc, and feel at home with.If I were to ever come to canada, I would let you know and look you up. I expect the same from you, if ever you come to Texas know we shall have tea and a meal, or more, with 3 teenagers Im always strapped for cash. Im not wealthy and make no promises of a grand time.I know I would love your company. You are a true friend in poetry, and thus a friend. I pray for all my friends and hope that if they pray, they pray for me too. Heck fire thats what friends do! I feel that you are alot like me, and we would have wonderful conversations and it would be a blast. I love people and have not met any true strangers, and I thrill to chat with others and share. well I must go now, I hear teenagers giggling and yelling. take care xx clarissa

I'm sorry, Zuzanna to hear of your loss. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Writing, to me, is therapy, a release of what I keep locked inside, so I write.

Take care.

Melissa

Hi Zuzanna, thanks so much for your comments on my poem about Carla. Ahe's a good friend and a lively lady who was a great subject to write about too! I've not caught up with your latest poem, looks good and want to read when time!

PS did you see my poem before carla - 'As the seasons turn'. Its just you didn't comment, and although I dont expect it, it wasn't like you! Unless you didn't like it, fair enough, but wouldn't like you to miss it as its probably up your street!

thanks best wishes Jeff

Hi Zuzanna,
Thanks for your lovely comment

Hi Zuzanna, thanks for your comment on fuel up! re-hydrate!
The general theme is about my job as a taxi driver. It was very hot on saturday and this is pretty much the true way of things around here.
Especially the office, which is a metal portakabin.
I didn't mention the loo. That too is a portaloo, emptied once a week. yucky!

Thanks also for your wonderful comment on my sonnet. It's a first attempt and i was just playing around with the idea really. So i'm obviously very pleased with the feedback.
Lots of love and light to you. Janet.xx

Hey, Zuzanna. Things are indeed tough out there and may continue to be son, but we just have to hold strong.

Hope you had a great weekend as well. :)

-Melissa

Hi Zuzanna,

Many of us have felt the pain of betrayel. I took this picture of my husband and it inspired my poem. I enjoy photography and creating pictures. I enjoy your comments too. Thank you.
Sincerely Shirley.

Hi Zuzanna,

Thank you for your beautiful comments on my poems. I enjoy reading my comments but I am not very confident about writing them. I do read your poems, they are wonderful and your poem 'A Note' is a beautiful gesture to your friends.

Sincerely Shirley

Hi Zuzanna - I'm worried now. What is happening in 2012? Is this one of those predictions of the end of the world? Or just the most expensive ever Olympic Games?

Dear Zuzanna,

take a look at my latest, "Appreciate Life". Leave a comment if you wish.

Thanks!

Zahi

Hi there... its been a while since Ive been over. Ive added not much to this site, but a fair bit to my own at www.writingsinrhyme.com - some translations of poems and some new poems...

I loved the poems of the Egyptian theme, and myself am working on a collection where we all trace of roots to Egypt... will be posting extracts as they come...

Hope you are keeping well...

If you want to do translations of nay of my poems or know someone who can, messsage me and let me know and Ill publish online with appropiate credits (or without if that is what is desired...)

Tomas

Dear Zuzanna,

Thank you for your wonderful comments on "A Friend of a Friend" and "The Real Life". It is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Best Regards,

Zahi

Hi Zuzanna,

Thank you for your beautiful comment.

Sincerely Shirley

Thank you, Zuzanna. :) I do indeed hope the walls fall down soon, and I will keep the poetry flowing. :)

Hope you had a great weekend. :)

Melissa

thank you zuzanna for your comment on my poems. I love your poetry, and the dedication under Just for You shows the sensitive person you are! Keep writing out loud.

Thankyou Zuzanna for your comment on natures produce.
It's always great to get feedback and i particularly look forward to yours as you appear to "know how i think." I like that.
Thanks again, love Janet.xx

Hey, Zuzanna.

Every now and then, I like to change up the style to my poetry.

I'm happy you liked it, and thank you for your wonderful comments. :)

Take care.

Melissa

Thank you for such a loving caring message. I wrote this when I was at a very low ebb. If only you were around then.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Zuzanna, thankyou so much for your comments. They always make me smile.
I was surprised that you managed to decipher the dialect poem i wrote for performance in wigan. It made me happy that you saw the humour in it. I figured if i was going to go on stage, it's better just to be myself. By writing it the way i did, the only aim really was to inject the humour and maybe over emphasise the dialect a bit for performance purposes.
Thanks again.xxx

Zuzanna where are you?! Hope your well

Hi Zuzanna, Thank you for your warm welcome. Much appreciated. Sincerely Shirley

Dear Zuzanna,

Thank you for your kind words and comments. Lately, I have been walking down memory lane, writing about a lost childhood, and wondering how far I have come, and it made me happy to see that I have come a long way.

And it makes me more happy to see how much everyone here enjoys my work.

Take care. :)

Thank you for reading my poem 'Sorry Mum' and for your lovely comment.

Hi Zuzanna, thanks for comments, fair enough about your poem, did like it.

I appreciate your interest in whats going on over here, and what I've written about. The Glastonbury festival takes place near stonehenge every year. Its a 3 day music festival, bit like the Isle Of Wight festival that just happened where the Police and The Sex Pistols played. People go for the music and other entertainment and a good time as you can imagine!

I've been a few times, ended up drunk most! It's being covered by the BBC so you may see some of it on TV, even on the news if it throws it down again! Take care Jeff

Hi zuzanna, thankyou so much for your positive remarks on my poetry. It really is encouraging when we receive good comments, though i don't mind useful hints and critique as long as it's given in a helpful way and not hurtful.
I'm sure most writers would agree.
If you would please read my blog again "spirit island", there's a comment i put on there which you may be able to clarify as to whether what i was told is accurate. Thanks again, love janet.xxx

Hi Zuzanna

Thanks for the kind words and comment on my How Queer poem.

Steve

Hey Zuzanna

Do you have any way of getting audio for your poems? I would love to hear them read.

Mel
x

Hi Zuzanna

thanks once again for taking the time to read my effort : )

steve

Thanks Zuzanna. :)

Hope you have a beautiful day. :)

-Melissa

Your poetry is a river of beauty, a flow of words and images, and I look forward to reading more of it.

Take care. :)

-Melissa

Hi Zuzanna,
I have a lovely new grandson (my fourth) Jarvis Partick, born May 2 and weighing in at 8lb 2 oz
Mum and baby well
x Carol

Hi Zuzanna, You have a style that is instructive and unique. So much information packed into a small space. It left my head spinning at times. Good to read your work.

Hi Zuzanna, Thanks for your comments on my crossroads blog. I just read your profile and Canada sounds like a wonderful place. Yes I do have lots on my mind. My daughter has a caesarean section Friday 2nd May. I'll let you know...

thanks again for taking the time out to comment on my poems, one panics when it says comments (0) next to an entry :-)

I never lived through communism, but would be a big fan of the economic system - its the lack of personal freedom I would hate.

However, in my own country, I see people who once more are hungry as there is no work, no social welfare as they are less than two years here, no home to go back to as they sold it to come here, and they are reliant on family.

Which is OK until they fall out and get thrown out.

Its scary to see the likes again on our fair Island.

thankyou for your comment on working class blues. I chose to include a baby with a cigarrette in its hand because I wanted to get across the life of working class which can often be absurd. Also, there is a picture of my sister as a baby holding a cigarrette and she grew up to smoke, so its also meant to be quite humorous! (Thankfully she has now quit!)

thanks for your comments on my poems. Your poetry is fab! All the Best! Tim Linton

Hi Paul

That was my spelling..Gosh!

It shall read 'VOICES"...LOL:)

Thanks for commenting on my poem though I'm not sure about the "vices" lol
Paul

Hey Zuzanna, I love your style, its something that has been forgotten through time. Please stick with it and continue the way you have :)

Thank you, Zuzanna for your comment on Living. :)

I wish life was easy for us and everyone, but it's not. But it defines who we are and who we are to become.

Take care. :)

Melissa

I always look forward to your reviews. Thank you for reading my work. :)

Good-night. :)

Melissa

Hi Zuzanna. Many thanks for your lovely comments. They are all very much appreciated. 'Reason to rise' is one of my older poems, which I will be adding more of soon.

Matt

Morning Zuzanna
Thanks for your comments and I have been reading and enjoying your writing...fabulous...hey I love your surname too..haha...

Happy Mothers Day if you have kids
If not...Happy Earth Mothers Day
xx
Shelley

'The Perfect Prayer' is simply perfect, Zuzanna.
I love the idea of going for a walk to talk to God... sitting at home it's so easy to get waylaid by TV and music and phone calls and the Internet, but when you're out walking you can really speak your mind - to God - and never get criticized for saying what you think.
I was going to add more, but I've just got the sudden urge to go for a walk...
Brilliant poem, my dear friend.

Dear Zuzanna
Thanks for your words of encouragement, The baby with the head-phones is a google image so no relation to Pete or to me.
Fur Elise is one of my favourite piano pieced too. My daughter used to play it many years ago before she went off to university and I loved the way is filled the house when she played.

Hi honey, may I ask where you get your beautiful pictures from - are they your own creations? Thank you for the advice on the number 8, I've never really been interested in wealth - I think I am wealthy enough to have the love of my children and my wonderful mind, which can take me any where and make me any one I wish to be - but hey if the universe wants to chuck prosperity my way then I will not throw it back to soon.lol - lovely speaking to you as always.
xxxx

Thank you always for your beautiful comments. :)

thanks for taking the time out to comment on my work, I really enjoyed yours also. Your guitar on the distance seems all about journey, people being lost and the beauty of music and how it can help people re-find themselves. ode to morrison is a poem dedicated to Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, he wrote lots of poetry which is worth a read, as is the The Doors music as it is very psychadelic. Keep writing!

hey lady,

just to say how much i enjoy reading your words, and your words of encouragement to other poets, you are inspiring!

thank your for your comments.
Glad you liked them.
only just getting back into the old internet lark
but there should be more soon.
keep writing.

Dear Maggie
Not to worry about the spelling. You comment and friendship means so much. We all learn and grow reading other people poems and stories. Glad you have enjoyed my humble write.
Sending my love your way...xoxo
Thank you...Zuzanna

oops spelt your name wrong - sorry!

Hi Zuzzana. Thank you for your lovely comments and may I say they mean so much more coming from a wonderful word smith as yourself. I love friendship and the beautiful picture - what an inspiration you are.
Magi.xxx

Ricardo -Thank you for the comments you wrote about my writings. I agree with you, in most of my writings you find the elegy - It has something to do with my life experiences. I feel the connection with Nature and a love of the seasons. Just like music or lyrics with different tunes the poems will be in that kind of a motion… You pick on that well.

THANK YOU!
Zuzanna

Zuzanna!
Thyank you for your kind and welcome comments on my bits and pieces.
The poem you wrote about I had in mind the open spaces and empty roads - but of Sweden not Canada. You picked up on the cold and the emptiness wonderfully.
Good on you!

Your own poetry has sometrhing of the quality of the elegy; it can be quiet and full of echoes, which is wonderful.

Life is merely the stage, where we create from what we live. :)

Hope you had a great weekend. :)

Hope your new year has taken off and inspiration is but a page away. :)

Dear Miss Clarissa

Thank you for the information as well as the link. I will check her site.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!!!

Thank you...Zuzanna

http://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/anancientmuse.asp

HI Zuzanna, I thought I would tell you about a singer you may like her name is Loreena McKennitt, I have been inspired many times by her music. Happy New Year clarissa

Hello Lady Melissa

I am very pleased meeting you.
Thank you for the New Year Wishes.

I wish you too -Wonderful
and Prosperous New Year 2008!!

Zuzanna

Darren Thomas~ Your words of wisdom touched my heart! Yes there are more writers that shall expose their creative work. I am sure we will have them coming here soon. This site is wonderful. Nice meeting you. Looking forward to read more of your poems or articles.

Have a wonderful New Year 2008!!!

Zuzanna Musial

Dear Lady Clarissa~ Thank you for the warm comment on my writings!

Have a fabulous New Year 2008!!!!

I am looking forward to read more of your creative writes...Zuzanna

Hello Pete ~ Sorry for the late reply. It's great pleasure to be here with all the fabulous writers. Each and everyone has lots to offer.
Very lovely site indeed. Thank you for the warm welcome. Hope to read more of your writes in a future.

Have a Happy New Year 2008 !!

Zuzanna Musial

Nice to meet you too. Hope you have a great New Years. :)

Hello Zuzanna. Welcome to the wonderful world of 'Write Out Loud'. More and more people are subscribing to this site which is wonderful. Every contribution to the discussion thread, or poetic submission, is appreciated by its audience. There are some wonderful poets' within this site who perhaps don't contribute as much as they should or as we would like. Keep writing. It keeps us all feeling young and vibrant.

Hi Zuzanna, I love your poems and the way you think! I have some similar to yours, ah wonderful poems thanks!

Zuzanna. May I extend a warm welcome to you. It is great to meet people here. Like Kevin I have met a lot of super people on the internet. I think poetry sites like this one are fantastic. Its better in real life though! If only we could ALL meet up!

Kevin, thank you for the additional comments … Each paints a picture that we all relate too. AUTUMN - it is a time when all is settling slowly for a quieter and colder season. It can be compared to life as you have mentioned...INTERNET FRIENDSHIP- This days of modern technology I have discovered that this medium serves well making progress in finding friends abroad from the comfort of a home. I have met some FABULOUS people and they are my FRIENDS! I mean real friends. Great people...Thank you so much for taking the time to place your comments!

Kevin! I see your point in your comment about HOME. We all need one. It does not matter if it is Igloo or perhaps a Log House' in a forest...For some that are living in poverty, house will be a card box to shelter at night from cold. Sad as it sounds these are the pictures from reality. Home to me it is a place where LOVE lives. Place of safe returns! Thank you for your wonderful comment!

Moxy! All it is true from what you have written. The World seems very small when you already have so much information of the Canadian life style. The wild animals still wonder around. Nothing has changed in that area. Canada-Very interesting country, with its modern technology to Wild Life, and for the World Peace! Many Thanks for your comment!

Hi Zuzanna! One of my mother's aunts emigrated to Canada and lived in an isolated, and mostly unpolulated area (there was a small tribe of Native Canadians close by) near mountains, lakes and forest -- moose and bears used to wander past and scare her -- she was frightened of spiders and almost every other insect/animal. Her husband was a trapper.

'Internet Friendship' I can definitely relate to, Zuzanna. I've met some of my best friends ever on the internet!
'Autumn' shows the brevity of life. We cry when summer ends, forgetting that autumn is wonderful compared to what comes next... brrrr!
But as long as we have a 'Home' to go to, we'll keep ourselves warm through the cold winter nights.
I love your poetry, Zuzanna. It's all heartwarming stuff.