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Tommy Carroll

Sat 27th Dec 2014 00:07

I have difficulty getting the gist of this piece Amelia. A confusion of ideas (no bad thing) I'm grabbing at thorny vines here...but then again...Tommy

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Amelia TenBrink

Fri 26th Dec 2014 23:37

Thank you! :) Ya i fixed the errors for the copy in my journal. haha. Appreciate the feedback Graham.

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Leon Qafzezi

Fri 26th Dec 2014 17:31

Paris silent
You require a Paris street,
With the roaring silence chest
While Paris is cold, hostile ..
As a silent funeral, unknown ...
Require fever, anxious, in panic ...
Looking at Hotel "Duplex"
Require road "Emil Zola"
Looking at Hotel "Mirabeau"
Require road "Sever" "Cambronne"
But you're not! There you are!
Looking at "First Hotel" ...
Require rue "Pondishery"
"Motte Piquett" "Piero" coffe "
Looking at "Bonne Nouvelle"
"Petit Duke" There at the Arch of Ludovigut ...
"Aboukir" "Bastije" ... ??
If you are not! Where are you?
A hand with sweet Stroke hair.
As once streets of Tirane
When I was a child, at come in hand with you
It was the most beautiful time of my life
Respire! I understand where are you,,
You feel very close me..I feel
As once ....My Mother...

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David Subacchi

Fri 26th Dec 2014 15:24

You can find more of my work on line including some performance videos simply by searching for SUBACCHI POET.

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 26th Dec 2014 13:11

Reads nicely, especially v3 and v6.
A couple of typo's in v1 and v5
Well paired down this one Amelia

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Kenneth Eaton-Dykes

Thu 25th Dec 2014 11:12

Thanks M.C.

Have a nice day

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 24th Dec 2014 16:30

I bet Marie Lloyd and those of a famous time in
the music hall would have done something with
this. Cheeky and consistently enjoyable in a
great tradition.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 24th Dec 2014 16:23

Some honest pain can be understood but some
proof-reading to correct errors might be
appropriate.
Check your words and in the main
You'll be welcome back again.
:-))

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Ankit Chambiyal

Wed 24th Dec 2014 08:09

Not at all....

On the other side, your thoughts are much more clear about the mysteries that life has for us.

Thanks for sharing

:)

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Judi Strega

Wed 24th Dec 2014 06:14

Thank you, Graham and Laura for taking the time to help me with your comments and yes, Laura, I had missed the 'to', thanks. I hope to get time to look at it, consciously, and see what might be needed. As a performance piece, it is written on my heart and all changes will take some chiselling!

Nothing daunted, I'm about to stuff a turkey, serve Christmas lunch a day early and go present distributing amongst 3 of my 6 so Shipwreck must wait. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

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Judi Strega

Wed 24th Dec 2014 06:03

Oh Annie! I enjoyed this so much when you performed it, especially with that ugly little 'baby' in your arms... what a hoot! You constantly surprise me and I like that!

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Amelia TenBrink

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 20:52

Thank you.

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Graham Sherwood

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 17:36

Merry Christmas Natalie!

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 15:44

Hello Jack - thank you for the lovely comment you made about my gannet song.

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jack purvis

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 15:04

Extends the imagination

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jack purvis

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 15:02

Amusing definitely

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jack purvis

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 14:55

Having just taken up poeting I cannot speak learnedly about content or rhythm. But it created pictures for me

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Graham Sherwood

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 13:49

Merry Christmas John.
Level pegging with the Arse at Christmas ain't soooo bad!
I wonder what 2015 will hold.
I just hope we can keep hold of Harry Kane and not lose him.

Best wishes for a good Christmas to you and yours.

Come on you Spurs!!

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Gray Nicholls

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 13:17

like the structure to this natalie.

excellent as always from your stuff.

have a great xmas and thanks for your support

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Gray Nicholls

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 13:15

lovely

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Gray Nicholls

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 13:15

well done andy

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Nigel Astell

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 12:56

It dines with hours, it sleeps with time.

It joins a poem that I is in control

I like this line so much I see no reason for I to stay alone.

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John Coopey

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 11:29

This was a naughty one for Christmas, Laura. Glad you liked it. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones too. Xxx

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LiTTLe MACHiNe

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 11:19

Thanks 'Write Out Loud' for your support and kind words, if you'd like to hear our setting of Sassoon's 'The Dug-Out' (read by Siegfried Sassoon himself) and Owen's 'Anthem', here is the YouTube link http://youtu.be/G3KhDx9fjdU Merry Christmas all
Walter Wray (LiTTLe MACHiNe)

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<Deleted User> (6895)

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 10:10

ohhh! pained poetry!and about the profane language-that really fucking annoys us! We can't stand bastard people who bleedin' swear!

xx

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Crystal Ruth

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 07:14

Sorry, about the language. I was really mad.

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Amelia TenBrink

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 06:11

Hope you don't mind, I liked the idea of your topic...So I added on a little more of what popped in mine. :)

So then what is life?
Is it an example to lift from earth to moon?
An imaginary tale of a storyteller from that moon?
Shall be a gift of a noon chirping on a clock.
But what sense does it dot if the I was never to be written.

What is life?
A secret addition of a joke hidden.
A curse, none the less, but of wise man's words bitten.

What is life?
A feeling emerging from one tale to the next.
War being fed to the hungry of powerless heads.

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Amelia TenBrink

Tue 23rd Dec 2014 06:08

Word of advice, it's not all about sounding sophisticated. It's not really about the big words with the big deep meanings. You can have a simple basis of the English words, just gotta twist them around to make it a little more tricky. I don't have a high vocabulary myself. But sometimes just understanding how to mix the words will help a great deal. Good luck with Blue.

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David Strong

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 21:44

I like it

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David R Mellor

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 20:41

thanks for your lovely comment , the bit you mention is about loss at sea and how we feel open in the presence of nature

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John F Keane

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 20:20

A Muslim Calvinist... whatever next.

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Mon 22nd Dec 2014 20:06

(last four couplets)

....and all the same to you chuck!x

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Mon 22nd Dec 2014 19:17


Steve,

Thanks.

As background, this was written end of celebrated big freeze of winter 1962/63 - I'm really that old.

The other protagonist could be pretty cold-hearted, also.

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Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 18:39

As for me I always enjoy listening to your poems, to your voice, John. Thank you very much and ...
Merry Christmas!

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Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 17:33

You are so good, M.C.Newberry! Thank you very much for all the wishes. But ... it looks that ... sometimes not everything depends on us.
Merry Christmas!

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Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 17:27

It's not so easy to make the right choice.And who will tell me if it is good or bad? For me it doesn't really matter if you are Christian or Muslim. There is no a supreme religion or nation.They say that man is God's creation. But...to my oppinion today every person creates himself without waiting for the kind Elf.
Anyway, good poem, I like it.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 17:17

Thanks for the reminder about the time of darkest
winter and the slow lengthening of the days to come.
Now - a long-distance note of greeting at
Christmas time -
"May hope and joy return to Ukraine
May its people be free from hardship and pain
May its future burn bright with an unquenchable
flame
And may its children stand proud and rejoice in
its name."
Merry Christmas!

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 17:00

A most unusual production with the sad cruel inevitability of a wild thing meeting death
given a haunting interpretation.
I remember during a hike across the highlands
of Scotland finding the body of a large crow (I
think) that had been caught in a trap (that had
not been inspected as it should have been) and
had died a lonely and protracted death. I
would have kicked the person responsible for that trap and for his neglect! This post brought it back to mind.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 16:13

It's a hard life for us poor men - especially
when women wish it was harder! :-)
One man's mate is another man's poison - if you'll
forgive the misquote.

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 06:15

Hi Anthony! Thanks for kind comments on my gannet song.Hope you have a great Christmas!

http://youtu.be/n0D48VeegOg

;)

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 22nd Dec 2014 06:11

Hi Laura - thanks for the lovely comments on my gannet poem. I managed to record it myself using a programme called Garage Band on a friends computer. It's the first time I've recorded effects and stuff myself - loved doing the echoes! The only instrument I used was a little child's xylophone, just tapping two or three notes. Setting up all the echoes you get lots of accidental rhythms going on. Hope you have a great Christmas! xx

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Sun 21st Dec 2014 18:21

And Amen to those lovely sentiments Noris!
Same greetings to you and yours-ENJOY!xx

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Ian Whiteley

Sat 20th Dec 2014 19:43

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' Gray - pleased that you liked it - cheers mate ;-)

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Ian Whiteley

Sat 20th Dec 2014 19:43

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' mate - here's a toast to you and yours for the festive season - hic ;-)

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Ian Whiteley

Sat 20th Dec 2014 19:42

thanks for the kind comments on 'a wee dram' MC - I will raise a glass and cheer you this very evening - hic ;-)

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Ian Whiteley

Sat 20th Dec 2014 19:40

thanks for the comments on 'wee dram' Laura - yes, I reduced the swearing at the Old Courts as I knew it would offend your delicate ears ;-)

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Sat 20th Dec 2014 11:09

soooo cooool! my previous reference to 'lukewarmly'was due to early morning 'head fuzz'..got my Preeti's mixed up with my Natalies!

It was a word Preeti had used (now changed) in one of her poems.'Fool me' I think it was,that she has rewritten.

Off to join the stampede now-see yer later chuck!

x

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Preeti Sinha

Sat 20th Dec 2014 10:47

I agree ! No one can guide you better than yourself if you learn to listen and trust your inner voice or hunches. Or gut instincts. Love your work for being honest,and, unpretentious !

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Greg Freeman

Sat 20th Dec 2014 07:45

Although the fear is that the Grey Horse will eventually become just another 'gastropub' - we passed just such an establishment, completely deserted, on our way to R&M on Thursday night - the owners, Young and Co, have held out the possibility that poetry could return to the pub at some point in the future.

In an email reply to Write Out Loud, Young's business development manager, Jeff Bygraves, said: "We have been actively trying to recruit new tenants for the pub since Richard & June, who have been our tenants for 14 years, gave us notice in May on the grounds of Richard reaching retirement age. Although we have had numerous interested parties, no one has as yet come forward with a suitable proposal for the pub.

"Richard & June are due to leave in the first week of January. As we have no new tenants, we are taking this opportunity to close the pub and carry out some essential remedial works to the building, including some roof repairs, which may require scaffolding to be erected. During the time of the works, we are hopeful that a suitable new tenant will come forward.

"Regarding the Rhythm & Muse nights, or indeed any other forms of live entertainment, these will depend on the business plan of the new tenant, and whether they see it as part of their overall plan. I would suggest that, once we have a new tenant in place, the organisers of Rhythm & Muse introduce themselves to the new tenants."

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Alex mills

Sat 20th Dec 2014 00:06

Awesome start, but how about the A2345 straight living people. you know, the ones in inbetween.
Or the cheeky jacks who get lucky flirting with a tenner.
Yous should build on it dude.

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