Thankyou Mark for finding something within my poem Sandcastles..much appreciated :))

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hi Isobel...mmm was in a soppy mood.. :))

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Many thanks Laura for taking time with Sandcastles...oh those times when small children can play all day...thanks again Laura :)

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John...thanks for leaving a comment on Sandcastles...yes summers were endless and Christmas never came around...now there seems to be two Christmases and summer has gone on vacation lol

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Dave..glad you liked Sancastles :)

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Hiya Jeff thanks for the comment left on my write Sandcastles..much appreciated...gonna try to get further afield to some other venues :)

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I enjoyed the poetry : )

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what the bloody hell are they playing at? ;(

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At the sound of my foghorn-look out! Thanks very much Ann for approving of the cathedral climbing lark poem.I am most grateful.Stef.x

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revisited this again. this time sober. Its still brilliant! Win x

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I thought you might have pulled out a candle.... perhaps I'll rephrase that :)

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Hi Ann, I was surprised to find so much on the web about these two - a strange take on sexual attitudes by both parties - sad ending too and I haven't even read my book yet. Will save the youtube 'til later. x

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A very interesting take on wind turbines 'jousting eh?' from static positions. Liked your other end of the wire scenario too.

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Hi Ann, Re; What the Master Saw - well remembered - am just starting to read a book called 'Love and Dirt' which features Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick. Picked it up on the local library bargain shelf having recognised the man's face who is featured at our local Wetherspoon's. Thanks for commenting.

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Welcome to WOL. I have read all your poems on here and I think they are interesting and full of passion.

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Nice one Andy,
Some great lines,'Listening to bus wheels stutter like stray thoughts'.Says a lot without the need for too many words.

Comment is about Ticket to Ride (Blackpool Mystery) (blog)

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Hi Alan, enjoyed this, like anything to do with the sea and it's power, don't mind the seagulls apart from when they're on top of the flamin caravan! Cheers Jeff

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...........and here's me thinking Rugger is an honourable game. Dispicable John, dispicable. But entertaining nevertheless.

Keep posting.

*Gone*

Comment is about The Fairies in the Backs (blog)

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This is such a sad and bitter poem Terry. Nevertheless, in today's climate it is understandable to have this opinion. It seems that many are being bought in one way or another, be they female or male. So sad an indictment in the west when although many would not say what you have said, they know there is a lot of truth in this verse.

Nepal some years ago, entertained capitalism. They invited companies from our side of the globe to invest in thier country. Vice, prostitution and drugs rose several hundred percent overnight. The Royal Household of Nepal then became under siege by the fighting factions of the Royal Household. Several members of their Royal family lost thier lives, because those that invited western ideology into the country had corrupted it overnight. It sort of puts into perspective what we have to deal with. I don't know how Nepal is now after the about turn of capitalism, but here in the west, everybody in some form or other has a price, everyone is corrupted in one form or another, and we have forgotten ethics.

Sad for many fathers that see their daughters entertain the ideas you have put, but just as sad are the males too, who when leaving school with little to hope for, become the soldiers, the labourers, the fools the daughters often go for just to get by. We have lost so much in the West, so much of ourselves that my heart breaks. That is why I promote balance in the world, and why my heart bleeds for the third world that has been duped for so long and has lost a great deal of heritage. We may sit in relevant comfort in the west, but at what cost when we have sold our own virtue and promise.

Nice work Terry.

Stay well, and hope for an attitude of change.

x

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I dare you to write one about a solar panel!

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I dare you to write one about a solar panel!

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These questions seem much more interesting - I don't even remember filling mine out... : /

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Yes, who'd have thought that poets could be a bunch of bitching, back-stabbing, egotistical idiots, wasting their energy on plotting and the politics of irrelevance? Well, just about everyone involved poetry, actually...

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Ah, the latest round in our turbines challenge? this is much better thsn my effort. White nights, love it. Win x

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I will try and be ther in part at least (The good part). Win ;-)

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Hi, Ann, and thanks for the comments on 'Eye of the Beholder' -- I agree about the equality of all creatures, as well! Sometimes, other creatures don't, though ... I once had a cat who thought she was God, and we've now got a blackbird, 'Enry Cooper, in the garden, who thinks he owns the place ...

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Hi Nikki , Welcome aboard. hope you enjoy the site. Winston

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reference to Don Quixote? nice and neat-short'n'sweet -ta-S.W.x

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Thanks for your comments. The sad thing is, it's almost all true.

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Thanks Win for your comment on Delicate! ( http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=22326#page_comment_77605 ) I don't think I like how each stanza ends with a full stop - it seems to ruin the flow a bit...

I'll have a look at it, and decide, but critical feedback is welcome.

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Re; Hi Cynthia, re; my Palm Logo and tropical setting, I never got to Bermuda in my sea-faring days but did reach Jamaica, Trinidad, Curacao and Aruba plus other exotic parts, which the logo I use reminds me of.

Have had 'other worldly' experiences too.

Am doing a lot of reading just now including a book post the American Revolution and how loyalists to the British crown left USA to populate places like Bermuda, helped to shape Canada as we know it today as well - its helping me to understand quite a lot about the period.

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Goodness, all those egos.

hahaha, for the love and advancement of poetry eh!

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I can see your point... Maybe if we were ugly and everyone else was blind? Although that might backfire into an awful lot of work and no play.

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You are a tonic, Mate. Thanks for the reply.

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thanks for the comment there but blind or not, we are just varying shapes and forms, and I'd rather be ugly than blind

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Very atmospheric, Jeff. It does make you feel you're up there. I particularly like the towns sparkling "like a thousand jewels". Comforting beauty amid the bleakness.

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Hi Neil, thank you for your comments. How you liking WOL?

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Hi Jeff. Thank you for your comments mate. x

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I see you must be another insomniac then. I like this one - it did set me off thinking, which is good.

You could also ask, what is the point of vision? Many of us find it difficult finding a partner we are attracted to. If we were all blind, our choices would be magnified. We would all just be varying sizes of skin and bone. The only important thing would the words - the personality - which ties in neatly to your title, which I love.

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One of your best, I would say Andy.

'Random moments
bring portals of memories

on dust covered dunes
lost in the drones of the sea'

I particularly liked these two verses - the alliteration and the flow... x

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Nice one Ray. I have had an assortment of female doctors over the years. maybe a poem from me to come. Win

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I love this too, Andy.
It reminds me of how you feel when visiting a place for the first time...
all the wonder.


I never got to visit Blackpool... on my to do list : )

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I have to agree with the others... What an engaging, fun read, Ray!

Love these lines:

'I find them wrathful and jealous gods
whom I can't be bothered appeasing'

'I shall have to put you down
as impotent, I'm afraid.
I take it like a man.
And what do you do for exercise?
I smile at her and she smiles back.'

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Spooky - the feelings this evokes reminds me of both being caught in a blizzard, and an old graveyard!

'only the hardiest of dead souls walk these moors'


p.s. I love the word 'Atrocious' - I used to say it all the time : )

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Hi Alison, thanx for your comment, it can be a cruel place, glad you didn't get stuck! Glad you like it, by the way I had started to write it then your ghost theme came up so very well timed! Keep up your good work Jeff X

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Love this one Andy. Lovely little poem with a lovely lovely ending.

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...and thus it goes.

LET ME EXPLAIN...

(and thus it goes. My brain interposing with drivel...)
and sometimes the words come out wardback and shus instead of 'thus' but should come out frontward...'Thus'
( I tire of this consious senility, this humour by disguise...)
...with lost inflection and missing adverbs splet not spelt...
( and so it goes...)

and...thus it goes.

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Hi Cynthia this is so evocative - water on skin makes the reader feel like a Peeping Tom. Guess many local lakes are legend rich - locally we have something called the Silent Pool complete of course with the legendary maiden myth.

'Folding her clothes over her mind' a metaphor perhaps for post hanky panky guilt! Yes, of course, re read, your added comments which do imply that.

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Wow. Very haunting and scary. Indeed it does make you shiver. Makes me glad to be indoors tonight! Great piece.

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