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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:39

Beautifully layered Peter. One I want to keep reading.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:37

Yodelightful Taylor!

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:36

This is beautiful Avishek. Love the piano line.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:34

I absolutely LOVE this. Superb effort.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:33

Superbly evocative Tim

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Don Matthews

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:33

Dash it all! I could've sent FUN BUS HQ's latest arrival Princess pusscat to Switzerland to tune-up on her yodeling.
Jolly Gina insisted on going (1st class!!- cost the earth). Though can you imagine the ruckus Gina would have kicked up if I'd sent Princess instead? OK reader, cheap pussy airfare vs a woman's wrath? What's a poor guy to do?

Yodelooayoo

Take it away Frankie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQF-VsbMfDA

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:32

Oh yeah. And conversely the horror of travelling with toddlers....

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Tim Ellis

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:24

"Words transport me to other worlds

Much faster than by air" So true!

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Tim Ellis

Sat 18th Aug 2018 10:19

Good poem Hallielle. I like how you've used repetition to build up a rhythm and give emphasis.

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jennifer Malden

Sat 18th Aug 2018 09:52

Lovely! I share the same pleasure in travelling alone.
What happened to your credit card?!!!!

Jennifer

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:52

Becky - an hour alone spells freedom to the slave.

(Not mine...Clive James)

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Becky Who

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:48

Thanks for all the lovely comments guys. It feels so nice having a community of sympathetic poets to turn to when I'm feeling ever so slightly sorry for myself...

Putting such emotions into words, and then self-imposing the discipline of making those words "work" better, more efficiently, more effectively, more poetically - it's very therapeutic. I think poetry has really helped my head in the last few years. Like any hobby though, it can impact family life it seems...

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<Deleted User> (19836)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:41

Really nice...I can relate...I love travelling alone!!?

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<Deleted User> (19836)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:39

Awesome! This piece is unique.?

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<Deleted User> (19421)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:09

HA!

So that is what they are for....

Cheers

DJB

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<Deleted User> (19421)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:08

Great work!!!

Really like this

Cheers!

DJB

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<Deleted User> (19421)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 08:05

i have found (indeed found that I wanted to write in the very first place) that writing my kind of poetry has done wonders for my thinking, sadness, anger and confusion. The best thing is that the page will not answer back and will take all that you throw at it, even better if you regret what you write you can erase it. Can't take back words said or shouted in anger...

Nice work Becky

cheers

DJB

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<Deleted User> (19836)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:58

Funny and creative as always!??

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Don Matthews

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:57

Thankyou Brian for this advice
My rhymic struggle with Swiss
I could have done a baser word
But not my style ('twas piss) ?

Oh, I have just seen your clever
Pun with my Swissy Miss
She wouldn't be too happy Brian
Suggesting you give her a miss

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<Deleted User> (19836)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:52

Very clever! I would love to yodel in the Alps!?

Yodeling and chocolate truffles...perfect!

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Becky Who

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:50

One of our favourite family jokes:

Knock knock!

Who's there?

A little old lady.

A little old lady who?

Cool, I didn't know you could yodel.

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<Deleted User> (19836)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:49

Fantastic! Filled with optimism, love and good energy! Well done Avishek. ?Jane

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Becky Who

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:49

This is great! ??

As soon as I read the title I thought of the song "Hocus Pocus" by Dutch prog group Focus. Check it out if you want a weird start to Saturday...

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:26

Good to see a yodel poem on Switzerland dayeeyoooo

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:23

Don

When you're struggling to rhyme with Swiss
Just don't bother...give it a miss

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 07:18

Yes...the different languages don't seem to matterhorn.

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Taylor Crowshaw

Sat 18th Aug 2018 06:57

Funny..?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Sat 18th Aug 2018 06:56

Enjoyed this poem. ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Sat 18th Aug 2018 06:53

I'm smiling thanks Hugh. ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Sat 18th Aug 2018 06:52

Great stuff Fred. ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Sat 18th Aug 2018 06:51

Hi Becky, I agree with everybody's comments. Our poetry is full of our emotions. It is a release. Take care. ? x

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Sat 18th Aug 2018 04:51

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the.tainted.girl

Sat 18th Aug 2018 04:32

Thank you so much @Hugh
☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Basically it's just a description of what I've felt and have been feeling in my life now a days...

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Don Matthews

Sat 18th Aug 2018 02:32

It's nice to meet some who's been there and remembers also. Yes it was magical. We had a biro in the shape of the Skylon, standing proud and tall. Don't know where it's disappeared to.

Don?

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Don Matthews

Sat 18th Aug 2018 02:10

No need to apologise
Becky, please do share
Anger, guilt and loneliness
Yes, we all do care

As Brian rightly says
This site helps pressure go
Just write it down and share it
Feel pressure go on slow

Do not EVER risk
Posting something here
All are here to help you
And lend a listening ear

Poetry as therapy
We shouldn't go and share?
Where did you get this idea Beck?
Someone who didn't care?

Our WOL site would be empty
Full of nonsense, air
If 'motions, feelings, anger
Did not come out, and bare

I gotta end up Becky
Rhyming dirty linen
Throw 'em in the dirty box
Go ahead and bin 'em

That's relieved my flippancy
Frustration for today
See Beck, WOL'ers allow me
Whate're I want to say ?


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elPintor

Sat 18th Aug 2018 01:29

Taylor, I only want to give you a special thanks for your comment on "waters".

We all have special memories that we hold dear, but those related to our roots are immutable and almost archetypal in their nature--I was very moved by you sharing yours.

I just wanted to say that it didn't pass unnoticed...

Rachel

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Big Sal

Sat 18th Aug 2018 00:23

If it is read aloud, the poem has a pretty good rhythm to it. Did you do this as a slam piece?

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 18th Aug 2018 00:07

Becky, this forum is a way of releasing pressure.

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Becky Who

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:54

No you're not wrong Brian. Guilt and other things right now. But I was quite pleased about writing a rhyming poem in 5 minutes flat, and as it was about poetry I risked sharing it here. Apologies if that was the wrong thing to do. Perhaps poetry as therapy shouldn't be shared... But if it wasn't, I think this website would be much emptier. Rhyming dirty linen seems somehow more acceptable...? I can delete it.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:47

Thought provoking, thank you.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:46

Ha, made me chuckle Hugh

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:44

Hi Becky. Like the poem.

I see it as you are using this forum as your confessional to voice feelings of guilt. (I've probably got it completely wrong...if so forgive me.)

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:42

Thanks for your comments on Painter's Paradox Ray. It's about human nature, and the way that the nature of others can be corrupted by others, and conversely how being with others can create something bigger than the whole . Really appreciate you taking the time to read it.?

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Becky Who

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:41

Thanks Kate G. I'm sure things will be better in the morning. Funny how quickly the words came to me this time.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:38

What a wonderful tribute Andy - a touching outpouring of words, in memory of a friend.

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<Deleted User> (19913)

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:35

Wow. Lots of truth in this Becky. Wonderful. And hope you are okay.

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John Coopey

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:32

In 2017 Starstedt pegs it
He’s not now bothered
One bit about Brexit.

Enough, Ray! I can do without the competition.

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Becky Who

Fri 17th Aug 2018 23:31

Hi thanks for commenting "I can't write today". I love "Thoughts at Christmas" - it speaks to me so strongly as it will to everyone who has lost someone (as in, pretty much everyone, eventually). Thank you.

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elPintor

Fri 17th Aug 2018 22:42

I'm very thankful for such kind and moving comments. I hold this little piece close and return to it every once in a while as a reminder of how I felt when I penned it--seems maybe an accurate perspective of where we stand in the present can only be evaluated truthfully with an eye on the past.

Many thanks to all who read, also,

Rachel x

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