Hi Alexandra Welcome. Tommy

Comment is about Alexandra K. Parapadakis (poet profile)

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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)

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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.

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

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David,
Witty and amiably English.

Comment is about French Invasion (blog)

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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)

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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

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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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

Comment is about A Letter To Mother (blog)

Respect to you Joby. All hail the Poetry Commonwealth.

Comment is about Weather, birdsong, exposing yourself: Jo Bell on the 52 project's success (article)

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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)

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Just awesome

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

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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

Comment is about After Southerdown Storm (blog)

Original item by Bel Blue

inspiring and exciting

Comment is about Weather, birdsong, exposing yourself: Jo Bell on the 52 project's success (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Daniel

a beautifully written summary of an on going
tragedy. There will never be peace in the world
while it's ruled by people obsessed with the importance of boundaries.

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

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

This is a cracker Daniel, the way it flows. I particularly like the stanza that starts with 'the flip flops are his battle tanks'

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

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Daniel,
an outstanding and clarifying use of
an almost nursery jog-along rhyme scheme with an
ordinary but ominous stanza-end repeat to (fairly) describe a tragic situation.

That penultimate stanza is a corker.

First class stuff.

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

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Ian, I enjoyed seeing you again too. That evening I suddenly felt very weird, and decided to leave without ceremony. Walking home seemed to clear my head, so I'm not sure what happened. That first hour I was not able to hear very well, and was blaming a fuzzy microphone; but maybe not. Who knows.

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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Succumbed, surrendering, reaching summits....
Superb!

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

This was a moment you captured in a powerful emotional poetic voice - - -I will park my wit firmly behind

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

I'm lapsed somewhat on this owning to lack of time. I managed the first three months, then did Napwrimo in April and fell out of time after that with it.

Need to get back onto it and I will! But a great success story.

Comment is about Weather, birdsong, exposing yourself: Jo Bell on the 52 project's success (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

mmmmm.....really sensuous Helen.x

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

Blimey!!!

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

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Helen, you have my assurance.

Comment is about The Astronomer and her lover (blog)

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spookily nice'n'neat.xx

Comment is about The Cycle Of Life (blog)

Original item by Steve Higgins

The clock stops time itself reads this work of poets because there is grit lodged inside this measured mechanical machine.

Comment is about July Collage Poem: 'Grit' (blog)

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Two minutes left on the car parking meter I suspect.

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

Great article Jo, and yes, 52poems is all of those wonderful things you describe. Especially the prompts -usually they niggle at me for several hours and then a first line appears - and the community and their poems ... + lots to learn from in a kind yet tough and balanced place.
Well done and thank you for all your hard work.

Comment is about Weather, birdsong, exposing yourself: Jo Bell on the 52 project's success (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks very much for this great article, Jo, and congratulations on the success of 52. A good-news story, inspiring!

Comment is about Weather, birdsong, exposing yourself: Jo Bell on the 52 project's success (article)

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Joe, you are a poetry hero.

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

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Hi again(and good morning Helen and of course Eva!)I forgot to mention your daughters name is similar to our granddaughters name-Evie(now eighteen.She lives in the States and attends Uni in Oregon)I also forgot to mention the poem Granddad Stef did for her back on October 10th 2011 called 'Evie looking back'..only a simplistic poem but it did come from the heart.When you get chance maybe you could have a read? it might give you a smile..but don't you or any other member of you family attempt the same 'task'(even though it was a labour of love)of making the item mentioned in the poem unless you have six weeks to spare!...lol....once again well done on this poem of yours...xx

Comment is about Ode To Eva (blog)

Thank you Daniel, for taking the time to read and comment on my work. It is a poem about a traumatic loss, and the storms that pummelled the coastline. I spend as much time as I can on the coast, it is my biggest muse. :)ps I am not sure where I should comment back when there is a comment on a poem. Is this the done way. :)

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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A worthy dedication to such a sweet looking young lady(Mums double!).You must be so proud.

Patricia and Stef.xx

Comment is about Ode To Eva (blog)

Laura i will invite you to a BBQ only if you have smoldering embers in your hair. As for your comment on 'Astronomer...' of course you are so correct x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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'Drift'..Drift! I get your drift x

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Thankyou Ray, I am still learning and write it as it comes. I self edited this poem once or twice, when writing it up from notebook to word doc. It has taught me , time is a good editor, writing up, leaving , looking again, writing and the rhythm.I am learning, and welcome your feedback. It could change again, like the ever changing foreshore. Its been a great introduction to WOL. :)

Comment is about After Southerdown Storm (blog)

Original item by Bel Blue

Harry- You have great humour yourself and because of this it really means a lot to me that you rate it.

Bel- It's great when a singer/songwriter likes the spirit of it.
I thank you both.

Comment is about PERFORMING RANTERS (blog)

Original item by Daniel Dwyran

thanks again Laura - just seen your nice comments on 'white feather' - I think more CO's in the world would mean less or no wars ;-) really enjoying getting into these war story characters - it's been enlightening and a great challenge. Just posted a balade royal - Chaucer - watch out! lol

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments on White Feather MC - I know what you mean about CO's - but, if I'm honest, I feel there would be a lot less, or no wars, if the world was full of CO's and not war-mongers - cheers
Ian

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Thanks for your very complimentary comments on white feather Cynthia - it means a lot - good to see you last night, an enjoyable evening I thought :-)
cheers
Ian

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments on Craiglockhart Daniel - now recorded it as a very up tempo punky song - really suits those fast rhythm repeats - posted it to my FB page - cheers

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments on Craiglockhart Lynn - now recorded it as a very up tempo punky song - really suits those fast rhythm repeats - posted it to my FB page - cheers

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments on Craiglockhart Laura - now recorded it as a very up tempo punky song - really suits those fast rhythm repeats - posted it to my FB page - cheers

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Bel - Thank you very much for your very kind words and appreciating my blog profile.
Wales is the land of song and as you said in your biography - a captivating landscape.

As stated by Briony Goffin you have some great projects and songs on your web link.

www.belblue.co.uk

Welcome.

Comment is about Bel Blue (poet profile)

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Nothing like a Mothers Pride Helen... and I don't mean the bread ;)

'With an infectious beamer
All gummy and pretty
My darling daydreamer...'

Great work.

Comment is about Ode To Eva (blog)

'These shores are my medicine,
a coastal playground,
for
the spaces
in my mind..'

A great scene-setter before the storm changed it forever. A sense of great loss.
Really like this Bel.

Comment is about After Southerdown Storm (blog)

Original item by Bel Blue

Harry - To make it shorter would not have done it justice.

'They arm-in-armed it to the upstairs snug,
While I stood there, the new world champion mug...'

Cracking read!

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

Original item by Harry O`N eill

Thanks for looking, Andy.

I used to agonize over poetic punctuation, being a comma and semi-colon fiend myself, but gradually I find myself steering my words less and less. I do really like interpretive ambiguity permitted to a reader. I'm hoping it is progression and not regression in skill.

There is no such thing as a clear blue sky anymore, that 'unblemished canvas' of prior years. I've had to tell myself to 'get used to it', find 'new beauty'. Like wind turbines marching across the hills, or poking up from the sea - an entirely new 'appreciation' needed. But it is damn hard!

Comment is about VAPOUR TALES (VERSION). (blog)

Harry, maybe you only thought they were about women. I have read literature written by homosexual men where the object of description is another man.

Interesting, though, since this poem is clearly written by a woman, that the 'woman' aspect of the 'other' is still so strong. Lesbianism has made great strides.

And to further 'put the cat among the pigeons', I contest that this description could even be that of a child, boy or girl, because there is nothing more beautiful than a naked child, and this poem in no way suggests sex.

Comment is about Six-fifteen on a Rainy Evening (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you Natalie, i don't know where you are but if you look towards Manchester you'll see my big head expanding above the horizon.

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