I would have just one addition to your work- it would change the tenor of the work and reverse the finale- a ? ;) Tommy

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the international 'community'needs to take their kid gloves off-get off their yapping,dinner,scoffing,wine swigging fat arses and come down on (Ras)putin like a ton of ! bricks-what an absolute shambles!it really is doing our heads in thinking about ALL those poor innocents and their families who are suffering terribly.Shame the plane didn't come down in an oil field-the site would have been secured in a ! flash!'May God rest their souls and pour his vengeance on those responsible.

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Yes Helen...but minus the name ;)

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...thank Zeus it was an Island, I was beginning to get jealous.

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oops I've just seen...

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I think this would be good written on note-paper in letter form and jammed behind a mirror and on the envelope written: 'see you? see this!' Tommy

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Helen, this is, for me, an example of a poem walking away with a clear set of feelings. Leaving it and you with it. Tommy

Comment is about A Letter To Mother (blog)

...perhaps power and wealth need a bigger 'fix'

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;)

Comment is about Ode To Eva (blog)

...the scent of the rain- here again, a scent to mix with the antique aroma of flesh

Comment is about To Love In The Summer Rain (blog)

The first of many I warrant- sadly so.

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Nice poem Ian,
The form (statement of fact then comment) has the feel that it could be turned into a modern sonnet if it was shortened.

(maybe `fort` instead of `castle`?)

Comment is about Remember Scarborough! (blog)

Original item by Ian Whiteley

"words shining likes diamonds in the darkness" What a line! Attending this event really brought home to me how men and women have to fight all over the world to write poetry - a right that we in the West can sometimes take for granted.

Comment is about Waving the flag: why poetry has a big role to play in political protest (article)

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according to the sheer quality of this poem Rachel,I think I need to read up on a lot more of your work,of which no doubt,I will find is well worth the 'trip'.Please do keep them coming.

x

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Original item by Rachel Bond

I really liked this Harry

Your poems always seem to have a lot of chicks in them, you are like the Casanova of verse.

Shane I'll probably see even less of you reading it now the Spoke has gone. I'll catch up with you on this now and then though mate

Take care mate

Your a goodun

Ged

Comment is about YOU CAN`T WIN ANY WAY (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

hahah you got me there...err its is funkdacious to be here chum ;)

Comment is about static (blog)

Original item by Rachel Bond

Bonjour Natalie...c'est magnifique!...

we did a pile of poo poem (haha)
back in/on 5th Jan 2011..called 'no swan song!

wing over when you can/if want.

off ter polish our onions now-catch you later.xx

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Rach-yer'v gone soft..using the word..nice!..WHHHATTT! ;o) later..xx

Comment is about static (blog)

Original item by Rachel Bond

aww thanks stefan..had a break to make music but i wasnt very good ;p its always nice to write xxx

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WOAH!the 'stormer' is back with a crack(er)!!

where the eff have yer been missy? uz walkin dead have missed yer!-get back tu rocking on
.....pretty please.

xx....(too soppy?)

Comment is about static (blog)

Original item by Rachel Bond

Like a burst of energy. Short, sharp, snappy and a very clever title and contents. Love it.

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A very lovely haiku tribute Shirley.
A great actor.... but he was always a 'Maverick' to me. Nice one.

Comment is about Good Bye My Old Friend (blog)

Original item by Shirley Smothers

I had just read "Moving On" and the good and fond memories we all have relating to old things and fresh starts when I noticed this gem!

'This is a flaw that's in us all,
To love one, then scorn another,
With little basis except our bias,...'
Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

Thank you also for your very kind appraisal of "Flip-flops and Bottle Tops"

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Original item by James Roper

Daniel and Helen,
A belated thanks for your comments
(I thought I`d done one)

The somewhat odd spacing of the sections was because it was always a performer rather than a page poem.

Comment is about YOU CAN`T WIN ANY WAY (blog)

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thanks very much.

Not sure what my A Level French teacher would make of this - 20 years on and this poem seems to be the only result of what I learnt!

Eh bien... :)

Comment is about French Invasion (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

sorry to hear you were feeling a little under the weather Cynthia - I think it's the actual weather that's to blame - way too humid - I'm more a Viking than a Roman I'm afraid - hope our paths cross again soon

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

just made a couple of slight improvements to help the flow - and make a bit more sense :-)

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Original item by Ian Whiteley

The latest word from Joe a couple of days ago was that he was in Northampton, selling copies of the Bhagavad-gita http://www.asitis.com/ ...

Comment is about From Leeds to Covent Garden: footslogging poet's 250-mile trek (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I could not possible compete with all this hair

Comment is about Deadline nears for Nantwich poetry competition (article)

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there used to be many small poetry mags now they have all gone and that is sad

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It is hard to force oneself to think about what is happening in the world today, let alone to acknowledge it with such creative beauty and delicate sadness. I enjoyed this very much.

Comment is about FLIP-FLOPS AND BOTTLE TOPS (blog)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

The agony of soul searching is depicted well in this piece.

Really love that when writers all pitch in with suggestions and it works to o towards a better more refined finished piece, good work guys!

scanned a couple of your poems I really like them, very to the point. I really like your work.

Ive made a lot of realisation's reading stuff from osho. He wrote this once that I'll post below, hope it helps and hope you don't mind me quoting him just thought you may like his outlook on things

Love

Ged X

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

Osho

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I like this

Comment is about If Pain Had No Beauty (blog)

re your last commentario-I shan't be able to get my swollen rag headed cranium out'ut door now-ha!


Thanks M'lady.x

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Ha- It's great to swear in a poem- even if it is no point, however your use is spot on. I can and did imagine it being said to an elderly lady- the first stanza speaks of world of such a feisty one. Tommy (apologies for my grammar, having a bit of a turn lol ;) )

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Hello, thank you very much!

Comment is about Alexandra K. Parapadakis (poet profile)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Cheer-up Natalie, things can only get worse. Tommy

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Hi Alexandra Welcome. Tommy

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Hi David - It brought tears to my eyes of the very funny laughing my head off kind. Superb rhyming and timing. Great work.

Comment is about French Invasion (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Martin - So glad you commented on 'Flip-flops and Bottle Tops'. It was a challenge to think what the children who live in conditions of fear would play with. Many thanks.

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Harry - Cheers for your kind appraisal on 'Flip-flops and Bottle Tops'. Glad you appreciated the second to last stanza.
I did chop and change it about before posting it then went back to my first thoughts. If you had not have commented I would have always been thinking 'what if'? Thank you.

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Original item by Harry O`N eill

David,
Witty and amiably English.

Comment is about French Invasion (blog)

Original item by David Lindsay

Ged,
A thoughtful piece with some form to it.

I like that: `Empirical handicapping the spiritual and the scientific encumbering the the mysticism in us all`

I truly believe that this describes what I call
`scientism` (as distinct from true science) has
done to the modern brain.

Comment is about Palaces of Words (blog)

Original item by Ged Thompson

Hi Ged. Thanks for your kind comment.

J.C.has no special significance. To me, he was just a jumped up voice hearing delusional joiner, all be it with a nice disposition, sort of Nigel Farrago in his day, but with a more novel approach, that he'd find difficult to put across

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hi Cynthia

apologies for the lateness in responding - i guess that is one of my hopes for the poem - though i feel that a change of title is needed as 'everything' is not good enough

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Taking hold of my thoughts

Forcing me to see

An adult world

Through a child's eyes.

An amazing stanza, emphasising the loss of injury through tragedy. Very sad and poignant.

This is a very very good piece, very honest and thoughtful.

Well done XXX

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Respect to you Joby. All hail the Poetry Commonwealth.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

Joe you are a walking shaman, storyteller of how it is thankyou

Comment is about From Leeds to Covent Garden: footslogging poet's 250-mile trek (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Just awesome

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I absolutely loved this, the layout, the staggering of a word per line just makes it a delight to read and the sentiment is so honest

Thankyou for sharing XXX

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