Hi Brian thank you for your comment on Irish Sea - glad you liked, Katy
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thanks again Yvonne - glad you liked 'jigsaw' - I would have put it in the competition but I'd already submitted 'in the frame' so felt it wasn't right to send in a second
Ian
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Really enjoyed these poems, love the use of full and slant rhyme and the word play and diverse imagery. Do you perform these poems?
I especially enjoyed Her Habitat as it turns dark with the minute description of the spider's habitat.
Thanks for posting, I will be reading them again
Pauline
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you are very welcome Pete ye i did enjoy B
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Evening B.
Glad you enjoyed reading WONDERING.More importantly .... thanks for your kind comment, I REALLY appreciate it mate.
Thanks again
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Ah John, "Don't look twice its Celulite" is
a wonderful take on a song by his Bobness
the Zimmer frame man !
regards Paul
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Hello MC,
Glad you liked,"Don't Think Twice..."
I myself was rather pleased with it technically although I always make the mistake of posting stuff as soon as I've written it - then decide there were lots of bits I could have improved.
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Hi Yvonne
Seems the challenge worked. Glad you like the result. I was pleased myself (is that too much ego?)Thanks for the positive comments, they give me the idea I must be doing something right.
Cheers.
Pete.
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Hi Isobel
Thank you for taking the time to read my offering and leaving your comment. Not bad for a "non left of liberal thinker" Rent, buy ... live, die ...it's all about the money.
Loved the Stuff of life. Tender, and I particularly like "For laughter has no formula" How true is that?
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Hi Brian
Glad you enjoyed reading Repossession. Thank you for taking the time to look and for the comment, I am flattered.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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No worries Alex - as I said earlier on line existence is a lot less real and not for all people. See you at the Tudor. x
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Steve,
My apologies for not recognising and speaking to you at the last`spoke`.
It was a combination of ancientness, confusion through missing the road earlier, and not seeing much of you lately at the blog (plus myself not having very much idea what one of the bloody poems I was reading was about)
I hope you are well.
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Hello there again Laura
Thank you for the reply and the links. I do use Facebook, mainly as an electronic pigeon and for family and friends to read what I write. As for writing exercises the idea frightens me to death. I sit, I sit, I sit. (You will notice I sit a lot). BING!!! I write and post, no thinking it just happens. When I say accidental I mean it. Its a l - o - n - g story. The feed back I have had since I started to feel worthy enough to put stuff up on here has been great, encouraging but I have to admit I do enjoy being out there and reading what I write. Eyes don't lie, if what I do is crap the eyes tell me, not the hands, they can lie everytime they politely come into contact with each other. I have also met some "interesting " people. Coincidentally, if I did write about being a part of the body it would be the eyes.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Howdy Pete
An accidental poet, eh? Pleased to make your acquaintance, from a fellow accidental poet. I hadn't written a line until September 2010 but you can't bloody stop me now ;) Good to see you are enjoying the site - I know that I wouldn't have written anywhere near as much as I have without it.
Do you use Facebook at all? We have a Write Out Loud Community page on there, and once a month, our friend Cathy Bryant puts up huge lists of comps and calls for publishing. Even if you don't send anything, they can be great 'prompts' for new poems.
Ooops - meant to give you the link https://www.facebook.com/pages/Write-Out-Loud-Community/260122457345775?fref=ts
We do writing exercises on here once a month too - look out for the next one, mid-month.
Here's another challenge for you, from a previous exercise: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=33608
Let me know if you write one eh? :)
Happy scribbling!
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Hi Nigel,
Thanks for your comment on my poem "The One I Love". I envy your talent.
Thank You,
Shirley
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Hello MC,
Thank you for your nice comments on my poem "The One I Love". I wrote this for my husband. Of course my eyes are not as sparkly as the drawing, but the sentiment is there.
Thanks again,
Shirley
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Hi Laura
Thanks for taking time to read my offering. I had written a piece about a friend of mine and the "bedroom tax" Someone kindly made a comment and pointed out that repossessed people were also traumatised. Said they had enjoyed reading and would look forward to a poem about repossession. I have never written to a theme before so I thought I would give it a go. Out of my comfort zone but it was an interesting challenge. Apologies for the novelette. Ta for the typo .... rectified.
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Hi, thank you for your comment on my poem.
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Hi Charlie.
Thanks for taking the trouble to read my offering. A chord is struck huh? Must be doing something right. Ha. ha. The amounts of money being bandied about now for houses is boggling my mind. A two up two down terraced a BARGAIN at £100,000? If all you need is £25,000 for a deposit surely you only need dip into your back pocket for any loose change. What planet do these people live on? Glad you enjoyed it nevertheless.
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Hi Laura
Thanks for the pointer. What an interesting magazine. I'm enjoying some of the other contributors too.
Dave
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Hi Ian, yes 'Jigsaw' can be both literal and non-literal can't it. That's why it's good. Nice bit of extended metaphor. :-D
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Thanks for your comment in my poem 'How To Be Better'. Much appreciated. X
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hi Charlie
thanbks for commenting on 'jigsaw' I appreciate it. Don't know whether I'm being too clever for my own good on this one - but it isn't literal ;-0 although I'm happy for it to be taken literally or otherwise as long as folk like it
cheers
Ian
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Pleased you enjoyed "Don't Think Twice..." and the piccy of my taut bottom.
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Hello Dave,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Don't Think Twice..".
You are quite right about cultural differences to body shapes and I myself have no room to talk!
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What ho, Harry!
Glad you liked "Don't Think Twice...". I shall indeed do the gentlemanly thing and confess that it was my own bottom!
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Hello Izzy,
Sorry you didn't like "Don't Think Twice..". I didn't intend it to be offensive (well, no more so than my other offerings that are in poor taste!).
I myself was rather pleased with it, mainly in a technical sense for engineering the structure and tight rhyming pattern.
I think Bob Dylan must have agreed with you because he changed all my words!
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'naughty naughty' as opposed to 'haughty haughty'
Tommy
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Hya Wez
Thanks for your comments on "Jaegerbombs" Pulled from memory, a memory most of us have if we're honest. Not wishing to descend into mutual appreciation, I have just read this piece and it's my sort of poetry. A story, good imagery tied together and knotted at the end. Nice one!!
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Nurikabe Nights is online now Dave - thanks again for the original challenge
page 82
http://thelooseleaftea.org/issues/
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Hello Yvonne.
I was advised by a friend to post stuff on here, so I did, a few at a time. Obviously not knowing how it works. Thank you for the advice on blogging. Also I am pleased you like the stuff I have done, you are spot on with FFS, I love reading that one. As I mentioned previously I am new to writing and am a totally accidental poet. I have no understanding of the structure of poetry or how it works. I sit, I feel, I write. Raw but real. Seeing that people actually read my stuff and give feedback is very reassuring and helpful. Sorry about the novelette. :0)
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HI Pete - just a thought -you seem to be blogging several poems at a time and I think this site archives a poem when you upload the next one so we don't get time to read the earlier ones as there's only the latest one up on show ( they also get archived on a monthly basis) I don't access the site every day so I've missed loads of yours ( I'm accessing them via your profile page.
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Hi Pete thanks for your message. I enjoy your style of poetry and am looking forward to a poem about repossession ( no pressure there then! ) Keep blogging. XX
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Hi Yvonne
Just like to say a heartfelt "TA" for your comments on my offering Home Sweet Home. It is an emotionally driven piece. This is happening to a friend of mine. As for cynicism I have to agree 100% with your observations. Governments present and past have become very adept at smokescreening and I agree (but this is a different matter) What about the people who have been repossessed? Another poem in the offing? I am afraid I am very new to writing and have so many ideas flooding through, I simply write what is in my head at the time. Thanks again for your comment, much appreciated. :0)
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so i win the competition eh John - I guess it takes one to know one :-)
Ian
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Mike
really pleased that you liked ' the clown' and found time to comment - much appreciated
Ian
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Thanks for your kind comments re 'the clown' - so pleased you liked it on both levels. Really appreciate your supprtive comments Yvonne
Ian
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Alex: ' you change the world when casting a shadow.....' first line in 'Extract of thought' Yes I wrote it.
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and thanks for your kind comments regarding 'In The Frame' Brian. I appreciate you taking the time
Ian
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Brian
thanks for commenting on 'The Clown'. I'm pleased you liked it.
Cheers
Ian
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<Deleted User> (10062)
Tue 2nd Apr 2013 20:58
Ushiku! Love your stuff man! :)
Niiiiiiiiiiiiice.
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You make what seems to be, immediately, a valid point. But, I ask you to define 'poverty' as you understand and use the term. For therein lies the argument.
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Anything for a rest!
Actually this was inspired in 2004 by a certain Mr Archer but now it seems to apply to 3 fiction writers! xx
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Tue 2nd Apr 2013 15:26
Hello Harry..thanks so much for dropping by on my second hand love!..A little fun..but pah!...How I wished you had replied earlier..LOL..x
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We have practically got a monopoly on yorkshire prisons here. take your pick ( or shovel, depending which chain gang you're on)
I once knew an ex con who was trying to break back in so that he could steal prison shirts which apparently were selling like hot cakes in London
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I'm not so sure you would want to solve my 'gropexxxx' conundrum. Suffice it to say that 'quaint' was a chaucerian clue!
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Not sure whether you are refeing to my sensibilities or my condition after a bottle of Pinot Grigio - taken, I might add, as a direct result of my despondency because I cun't solve your little Gropexxxx puzzle!
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Isobel
Mon 8th Apr 2013 23:15
Thanks for commenting on my coat poem Yvonne and apologies for the delay in my thanking you - things are a little manic over school holidays and I forget to do things.
Your comment was bang on - and my pockets are full of loose buttons :) x
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