Hey Ged
Thank you for your beautiful comment on my write 'Thoughts'.

Best wishes
Ankita

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Very true

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Poetry Please favourites/Edward Thomas...etc.
I consider differences of opinion a healthy
sign in any worthwhile society. But the
curmudgeon in me has no difficulty in jousting
with the self-righteous, self-serving and self-pitying who use poetry as their vehicle. BUT
you will never find me resorting to abuse
towards those who take ME to task, either for
my poems or a POV...unlike some who it is clear
are quick to delete views they cannot handle and trot out words like "troll" in response, like petulant children.
Carry on disagreeing. You could always be right...
or perhaps not.
Ego argues...wisdom discusses.
Regards
MC

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Harry Thanks for all your feedback, your critique really means a lot and is very valuable to me.

Thanks again

Ged

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Thanks for reading! Glad you liked it! :)

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Love these; remind me of Auden.

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Young Elvis. :)

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Hi Cynthia,Thankyou for your lovely comments. They are very much appreciated. Hopefully we will one day be at the same performances but I think with both of us time probabley burns a fast wick.

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Enjoyed these.

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Hi Greg, have one or two medical issues giving rise to concern ('nuther hernia op pending, plus other investigations. That aside, haven't heard much of you in recent times & I hope the muse goes well.

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Enjoyed this very much.

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Enjoyed this.

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Thank you. It's very kind of you to say so.

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I think I see where Ocean Trapped is going; enjoyed it. A modern cousin of Milton's Lycidas.

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Enjoyed this very much.

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Jet Set is wonderful.

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Liked the honesty of Error Report.

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Smart and honest.

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Hey Ged,

Thanks for your comments, I love reading them, you always seem to get my sentiment spot on :) You actually inspired me to start writing again this morning, not written in months :) so thanks for that.

Glad you enjoyed it, and keep up the good work, your poetry is great :)

Wez.

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Thank you for your suggestion in 'Naughty but Nice' gratefully accepted.

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Very fine.

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Very fine.

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In heaven, Orwell's smiling.

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Love this work.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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I liked "Home Is" very much.

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Very fine.

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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your comments on The Tint. I did deliberately line it this way so the words would seem to tumble rather than flow as they were read. Thank you for liking though it is much appreciated.

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Apologies Starfish, I stand corrected!

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment on 'Life's a Blast'. I was fun to write.
Regards
Starfish

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Hello Steve
As regards an 'American influence' - Ee by gum no. Hope that answers your question.
Starfish

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Thanks for the books A Harvest of Art John

Are you taking Christmas bookings yet for the next one?

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Thanks for your comment on Religious Dogma Jane. As an atheist I found it something topical to write about. cheers

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Glad you enjoyed "I'm The Urbane Statesman", Marksy.

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Ta for looking in on 'Some Love' Marksy. Been away for a month in France and thought I'd come back with a notebook full of poems. (I didn't) Actually wrote 'Some Love' during a lull at work!
All the best, Steve

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Poland was very different to Syria - it wanted to be rescued from its aggressors - as did most countries that Germany invaded.

In Syria you have a sizeable proportion of the resident population hostile to western intervention and non Muslim led action. In my opinion, any long term solutions there would have to include Arab involvement.

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Those who praise,
are great personalities!
Generous hearts,
creative mentalities!!

Those who are grateful
are wise and healthy,
thank you, the playful,
with heart so wealthy!

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Hey Starfish, thanks for looking in on 'poem for a friend'
Like Jonnie I'd like to see more in your biography (not thats there's much in mine)but I am nosy ,do I do see a sort of American influence in your work . .?
Steve

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hello Starfish,
Many thanks for your kind comments on "The Masterly Strategy..."
Not my usual genre but I felt rather strongly about the lack of action which seemed to be the public mood.
(I have reverted to type in my latest offering!)

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what ho, Izzy,
Thankyou for commenting on "The Masterly Strategy ..."
I agree that consequences are unpredictable and possibly dire. They were when we declared war on Germany for invading Poland. But what would the consequences have been if we had not?

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Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "The Masterly Strategy..."
I agree the situation is complex, not least because aiding the rebels might bite us on the bum. And it is wise to consider consequences.
There are, though, in my opinion, some actions so vile that the right thing to do is to do the right thing and live with the consequences.

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Hello Jane,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Hugging Candles".
Yes, I too feel an enormous weight of history (as well as an enormous weight of timber!) when I open and close up each day. The West door of the Abbey doesn't have a lock; it's secured by an enormous wooden beam I have to lift in pace each night. Very medieval!
"Hugging" = trimming them with a knife so they fit the holders.

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Hello Jane , Hope you are well.
Thanks for your comment
my original poem for that is nice and was written by the sea on holiday
but the version on here was written in a city
my poems on here are jumbled examples of what i do
i always have trouble with swearing in poems in this case i swear out of desperation i think
Thanks for your message and i take your thoughts on board ! thanks

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Re; 'Pebble on Bournemouth Beach',thank you very much Cynthia - always good to have an expert opinion & an encouraging one at that. x

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For me, as a new-comer,
so cool to have a first-comer,
having noticed my existence,
writing comments with persistence!
I'm so grateful, happy, glad!
you are driving this girl mad!
Thank you Nigel, you are great!
Write me more, my poet-mate!

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Dave, I have never seen the Leonard Cohen poem before. Thank you for sharing it with me. The ideas do seem to conjoin, and then fly apart. The similarity of vocabulary is a bit shocking. But it's bound to be a fairly common metaphor among people who think about things along certain lines of interest. It gave me a bit of a shiver.

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Morning!

Haha love the juggling metaphor! No, I know what you mean about it working for you - plenty of times it's been that way for me too, where people don't seem to read it the way I hear it in my head, and in my head, the metre is perfect. No worries mate :)

It's a great poem, you should be made up with it :)

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disappointed to not meet locals in Edinburgh for an advertised book reading group, I discover where the Scottish Poetry Library is, then do an impromptu "reading" to a fellow-traveller on the train through to Bristol :)

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hey Laura - many thanks (once again) for your kind and thoughtful comments on 'cycle of the scarecrow'. I'm really pleased with this one because I originally blogged just one of the 4 'quartets' as a finished piece and then realised there was more to be done :-)
Interesting points about the metre - cos it does work for me (8 syllable count per line) but, because of the technical difficulty in getting all the monorhymes to fit - it makes it bloody hard to keep the meaning, metre, syllable count and rhyme all in sync - like juggling 4 hot pokers with 8 plates of jelly
:-) I'll have a look at it - but, as I say, when I read it I can make the metre work - so it may just be an 'on the paper' glich
Ta
Ian

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thanks for your kind comments on 'cycle of the scarecrow' Starfish - really pleased you like it and keep sticking at the form - it took me a lot of goes to get everything to fit right - but once it does - the feeling is amazing when you think 'ah - NOW it works' :-)
Ian

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thanks for your kind comments on 'cycle of the scarecrow' Jane - I'm glad that you liked it
Ian

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