We are experiencing yet another foggy day here (the San Francisco area) and it is definitely affecting my mood. So I can see how you felt when you wrote this poem. I like all of your mental images.
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Maggie Sawkins
Tue 23rd Jan 2018 16:30
I've always wondered why I wasn't 'picked up' by Picador after winning the Ted Hughes Award the year after Kate Tempest and before Holly McNish. Age I expect, but that's another story ?
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What a great but sad poem about separation from a loved one. Nicely done.
Comment is about Not A Poem, I Just Don't Want To Forget. (blog)
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16 and taken on a freebie to a holiday town? Lucky you. At that age I was on my solo way from country to city to
start an apprenticeship towards my working life.
Never been to Prestatyn though. Surely now immortalised
in your song - like "Abilene" and "Amarillo"!
So puff on your pipe and put THAT IN!
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A touching and true essay on how love and friendship are
degrees of the same human feeling towards another.
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Tue 23rd Jan 2018 13:40
John how dare you make a brilliant spoofer out of my fave Moody Blues song! Thank you.Jemima.
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Thanks, Ray. Yes, there’s only so many so many “end” and “atyn” rhymes. And the short lines make keeping to the sense hard.
Greg Freeman did point towards Larkin which I hadn’t heard before. He will have copied it off me, you can bet.
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What a corker John. Totally commendable - bloody brilliant in its format. You make it look easy, but it's a demanding discipline, and you have lightly tossed it off, in a manner of speaking. You need to twin this with Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin.
Ray
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Hi all,
Cheers so much for all your feedback. Yes David, Passage to Bangkok - how apt! I don't smoke (now) either. The inspiration - the pot pourri of scents that emanate from these cosmic electronic bongs are often quite pleasant. I only exaggerated the whole experience ever so slightly..Had great fun writing this too. Wrong I know. The shame..
Suki
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Thank you Colin
Comment is about An ash goes wandering - again (blog)
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Thanks BigSal, I hope 2018 is good for you too. ?
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Big Sal
Tue 23rd Jan 2018 01:21
Happy New Year, and good to see your stuff again.
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Thanks David. Your words of support are appreciated. ?
Comment is about Freedom (blog)
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A good poem for putting yourself in the poet’s shoes and relying on observation instead of action.
I can definitely feel the poet’s emotion.
And I liked the description of the “pale white face” to indicate the subject had not experienced the sun in a long time.
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 20:05
always love reading your poetry David.
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 19:55
Interesting programme running on Beeb2 on Thursdays called A House Through Time which uncovers the history of one particular house in Liverpool and all who have lived in it over the years - fascinating stuff, much like your poem Martin. I love history and our place in it. Col.
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 19:32
like this lots Douglas. Thanks for posting.
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Mon 22nd Jan 2018 19:26
<Deleted User> (5011)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 17:02
I don't know how I missed reading this piece first time round. An excellent interview with an absolutely fascinating person.
Comment is about 'I like to make people smile': Win Saha, still performing her poetry aged 93 (article)
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If you could record everything that has been seen and heard
- - -
a blackmailer for life I think
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Mon 22nd Jan 2018 14:07
Well done Tim - for POTW and for your continued work raising awareness for environmental issues. This gives me another opportunity of congratulating you on the poem / phloem rhyme in No.60 but there are also plenty of other delights sprinkled throughout. All the best, Colin.
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Mon 22nd Jan 2018 11:05
and isn't every line of this absolutely true! And you can add cold callers to this opinion as well Benjamin they're another bunch of money sucking parasites feeding off our data.
Top stuff mate!
P&S
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Hello Donovan,
I have read the sample and the two poems which you have posted. Your writing interests me. Please write more. Thank you. Keith
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Thanks Tim, As an environmentalist I really enjoyed this poem. And, as Lord Orrerry once said (1749)...
"Trees are the best monument that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn."
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Thanks, Tim, for this uplifting poem that makes us dream of better days during the grey weeks of January!
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A journey into the unfathomable that surpasses the humdrum existence on its way out of town. Nothing can equal your wonderful imagination and its twists and turns Suki - you should have your poems painted and set to music. Or better still, rolls of wallpaper with flashing lights.
A big fan. Ray.
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Artur, thank you for your kind remarks. Keith
Comment is about He is...... (blog)
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Hello Sir :)
I really like that poem Keith it's beautiful, very fresh and smooth read Thank you
Artur
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Hello Douglas, thank you for you comment and time spending reading my poems.
Artur
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Naomi in the words of Bart Simpson: "your damned if you do and your damned if you don't" - or maybe not. ;- ) Tommy
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<Deleted User> (13740)
Sun 21st Jan 2018 17:18
I love the Ocean would love to live by it ☺
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Thanks Rose - your comment is very much appreciated.
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this is a beautiful use of words and great imagery in this poem Suki. definitely psychedelic and worthy of pink Floyd in the early years
nice one
Comment is about Planet Of The Vapes (blog)
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Sun 21st Jan 2018 16:06
My mirror is alway steamed up, thank goodness.
Comment is about Who is the fairest (blog)
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A lovely poem. I particularly like the description of the sand pulling toes in to a coconut shape
Nice one
Comment is about Fantasy (blog)
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Martin, thank you for your comment and query. Yes, it is about God and how we can experience him both in the world and within ourselves. Thank you again. Keith
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This is a marvellous poem but I have to ask and maybe I am stating the obvious is this about God. Either way it s a jolly fine poem.
Nice one Keith
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<Deleted User> (10985)
Sun 21st Jan 2018 11:39
Well done Rachel, the other winners and all shortlisted poets. Hope the Wolverhampton Literature Festival goes well next weekend.
: )
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 21st Jan 2018 10:57
very clear and highly inspirational piece Rich. Excellent!
Rose ?
Comment is about Someone (blog)
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Thankyou Kevin, I'm glad you liked it.
These two, bless 'em, have different specialisms, I'm afraid he's on his own in the shed.
Doing a bit of editing, I seem to have added a whole other verse!
Comment is about The Englishman Made Himself A Shed (blog)
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It rolled off the tongue nicely.
Left me wondering what their specialism is, and what goes off in that shed.
Cheers Kevin
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Good joyful poem. I liked the "Simple now" following so closely the "Everything and nothing is." The accompanying photograph was a nice touch that really reinforces the feeling of the poem.
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This is a really sad piece and it comes across so that the reader can feel the poet's extreme pain. If this is your current life, Damon, I hope you reach out for help.
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Thank You Big Sal for your motivating words!
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Maggie Sawkins
Tue 23rd Jan 2018 16:37
Tongues&Grooves received over 500 entries. Thank you! Michael Loveday is now rereading and considering his long list of 140. Really looking forward to seeing the chosen winners.
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