lol gus no wrys sweety xx

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Thank uou Mel for commentin on Bad Dream....an fer callin me Hun...nice

Gus xx

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cheers joseph xx

Comment is about Born Anyway (blog)

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This is a really powerful perspective, very provocative piece.
I loved it

Comment is about Born Anyway (blog)

Original item by Melanie Coady

omg one the best poems ive read by you..the imagery is unreal..im blown away by this,kaz is here too we're reading ur poetry xx

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wow! hard hitting hun xx

Comment is about Sitting Safe In Ignorance Was the All That I Expected (blog)

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omg you look sooo cheeky bro lol xxx well done hun im sooo proud of you xx

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beautiful hun xx

Comment is about total immersion (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

laura thank you greatly for ur comment xx jules i am truly so sorry to hear that i really am..if you ever need to talk my emails on my page or you can find me on facebook xx

Comment is about Goodbye Childhood (blog)

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ian dts no bother wit using them lyrics lol keep writing them beautiful songs...stefan thank you so much sometimes i might be too honest and thats how i get hurt but ive never changed being honest because of nasty people its therre problem how they use my honest against me not mine xxx

Comment is about goodbye (blog)

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A very accomplished one,this Ray! Love the language,"Others made stupid by insupportable grief,melancholic weight causing the head to sink in degrees until barely seen above shoulders".
Thanks also for your advice on my tenses.You were right!

Comment is about His Works (blog)

Hey Laura!
Great piece.Simple but really effective!Thanks for your comments on my recent entry also....you're right about my getting the 'windows' theme in again too! What's happening to me?

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Original item by Laura Taylor

I cannot add anything that has not already been said...
Only to say that this is powerful and I am moved.

Comment is about Trilogy of Heroes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

i love this poem, the way the words tumble over each other, the gutter imagery, the dreamlike random interconnectedness...
its one ill enjoy for a different reason every time i read it and a really enjoyable read it is x

my fave of yours i think,
Thanks Gus x

Comment is about Brightlight Bad Dream (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

hi Greg-ta for comments(child ghost)wonder if we have similar tastes...birds and bogeymen/women-lol! thanks.SW.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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re thanking you for comments on 'child ghost'that you say made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up-as long as it didnt do the same for your chin eh-lol! thanks a lot.x

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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hello again Melanie-I love very much the skill you have in using just simple words to make such a beautiful (although sad) poem.Thank you.x do you mind if this old duffer says I have never before seen the honesty I see in your eyes.Definitely the windows to a lovely Soul I bet!x oh to be 75 again-lol!

Comment is about goodbye (blog)

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Thanks for the comment Melanie glad it made you smile, it was BT that made me go crazy and write that, I ended up smashing the phone to bits in a rage ha ha.... didnt solve my problem but I felt better lol ;-)

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Thanks for the comment Laura, I wrote that a while ago after a a particularly irritating round of phone calls with BT , I actually smashed the phone to pieces in the end, lol it was a crap phone and it made me feel better ha ha.... The family were traumatised though hee hee...thought I'd gone mad.

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thanks for the comments. (god botherers)
I've got no regrets at all - tis just a pome.......

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thanks for the comments (window-lickers) - but it looks like you're in a minority of one again :) much appreciated

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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An enjoyable light hearted Ode to the Bath!

My favourite;

Quote
from which tired minds may survey the world.
Unquote

Your use of the word 'may' in this context almost has a imperial feel to it. 'The map is still pink, if the pink gin falls upon it dear chap', he says monocle slipping Hehe

Chris

Comment is about Lie back and enjoy (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

after reading about the possibility of waking dreaming or lucid dreaming in the books of carlos castaneda, I tried for years without success, then out-of-the-blue the first time was on hols with my then girlfriend on tenerife. Carlos' way of getting into a lucid dream is to find your hands in your dream. in the (ordinary) dream I was standing at the Trevi fountain & there were fish in the water. I saw a transparent fish go by which I thought was odd, then I saw another fish but this one had a lion's head - I thought "this cant be real", so I MUST be dreaming - in which case, find your hands I said - I looked down & there they were (not just hands, but MY hands). It was such a massive shock I just woke up instantly with a thumping heart but very thrilled. It happened only 6-7 times in 20 yrs - so I wrote them all down. The best was where I was washing my hands in a lemon coloured sink with chrome taps - I found my hands & was awake in my dream. Within my dream I thought - "this is odd, because it's more real than real life - so why ?" I decided that in the dream world, everything in front of me 180 degrees was in sharp focus the whole time, whereas in life you have to focus on one thing at a time & that was the crux. I was amazed by this revelation even within the dream, but also realized that if I wanted to, I had no idea how to wake myself up. Just then I "felt" a presence to my left & looking up it was me - looking at me !
I wasn't shocked, just interested, cos carlos says that in a dream you can ask any question & you'll get the true answer - and guess what - I couldn't think of a single thing to ask or do - I could have gone flying, walked out into the street - anything - but I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or ask (damn ! ) -
then I woke up - still amazed by the clarity & super-reality of it all - not like any dream ever - this was as real as real gets !
these dreams are the most exciting things to ever happen to me bar none - I just wish I could do it to order !

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after reading about the possibility of waking dreaming or lucid dreaming in the books of carlos castaneda, I tried for years without success, then out-of-the-blue the first time was on hols with my then girlfriend on tenerife. Carlos' way of getting into a lucid dream is to find your hands in your dream. in the (ordinary) dream I was standing at the Trevi fountain & there were fish in the water. I saw a transparent fish go by which I thought was odd, then I saw another fish but this one had a lion's head - I thought "this cant be real", so I MUST be dreaming - in which case, find your hands I said - I looked down & there they were (not just hands, but MY hands). It was such a massive shock I just woke up instantly with a thumping heart but very thrilled. It happened only 6-7 times in 20 yrs - so I wrote them all down. The best was where I was washing my hands in a lemon coloured sink with chrome taps - I found my hands & was awake in my dream. Within my dream I thought - "this is odd, because it's more real than real life - so why ?" I decided that in the dream world, everything in front of me 180 degrees was in sharp focus the whole time, whereas in life you have to focus on one thing at a time & that was the crux. I was amazed by this revelation even within the dream, but also realized that if I wanted to, I had no idea how to wake myself up. Just then I "felt" a presence to my left & looking up it was me - looking at me !
I wasn't shocked, just interested, cos carlos says that in a dream you can ask any question & you'll get the true answer - and guess what - I couldn't think of a single thing to ask or do - I could have gone flying, walked out into the street - anything - but I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or ask (damn ! ) -
then I woke up - still amazed by the clarity & super-reality of it all - not like any dream ever - this was as real as real gets !
these dreams are the most exciting things to ever happen to me bar none - I just wish I could do it to order !

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Ann, I'm not getting through on your email. Please send a few words again.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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A simple enough premise- the list.

But poetically it works really well when intelligence is applied.

You do not appear to present any judgement, simply listing and juxtaposing the various themes and vagaries that can leap to the fore through a would-be or actual adolescence.

But the final line offers up some strange notions/feelings related to how our present becomes our past.

What is to come cannot be listed of course.

And this to me at least brings a feeling of contrast to all that has gone before.

How silly it seems with the benefit of hindsight that the trivial takes its place next to the significant. The sacred alongside the fluff of life.

Is this just profane?

No of course not.

This is of course how life is lived- literally in time.

With hindsight people often edit out this nature of reality and paint life through tinted specs.


I like what you've done.

Chris

Comment is about Memory Sketch of Adolescence Part One (blog)

Original item by John Togher

I like the opening two stanzas; a book being no less giving for being second hand and...the idea of the book resting with the reader now left in sleep is pleasant, delicate and humorous.

I like the notion of a book being shared being a precious gift, almost intimate...a beautiful idea.

Your final line highlights one of the great joys of the novel, to not only take us to other places, but to make of us something else.

Nicely thought...

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Booklover (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hi melanie
I like this poem... opening lines, In a haze of fear,The end is near...
Might have to lend them for a song
Peace....

Comment is about goodbye (blog)

Original item by Melanie Coady

I like this;

Capitalism and all that is inherently wrong with it
'in a nutshell'.

I am not remotely religious, in fact I am an atheist, but it does seem odd and worth pointing out that;

The nice bit of Christianity, the new testament bit of helping your fellow man and sharing etc.
Of feeding the thousands with loaves and fishes etc...well it is all very socialist isn't it?

Capitalism is diametrically opposed to Christianity and yet the most praise-be, there can be no other way to go capitalist society (the US) is supposedly one of the most religiously Christian nations in the world.

Has anyone pointed out the hypocrisy to them or to right-wing Christians in general?

Chris

Comment is about Someone’s always trying to take over the world (blog)

Original item by David Mac

thanks isobel,my bro kealan convinced me to write on wol and i havent looked back lol...ur ryt raw emotions on paper leave ppl speechless but dts ok bcos i write them to try get them out of my head tbh xx

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Melanie. I was deeply moved by one of your poems but just couldn't put into words how it made me feel. Raw poetry tends to be like that on here. It sometimes attracts less comments cos people don't know what to say.
On a lighter note, I'm loving your hair colour - it is bright and young and vibrant. Just what the me now, should have done back in my youth. I it is good to see you enjoying WOL. Take care.

Isobel x

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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aw lol! thanks hun xx it wasn't light hearted at the time though but a ok now..xx

Comment is about goodbye (blog)

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Wow - 'satanic piss filled corridors' - love that john

Take it you'll be doing this on Thursday?

I like how you've wedged in the whole 'windows' thing again!

Comment is about BY THE LIGHT OF THE LOCAL SPAR (blog)

Perhaps I should have taken a leaf out of this book before I got wed? It might have saved me an agonising slow death.

Only joking of course - I wouldn't be without the ensuing prodigy.

A nice light hearted piece Melanie - I hope!

Comment is about goodbye (blog)

Original item by Melanie Coady

this is astounding Cynthia, I am a great admirer of your work, and this, as isobel said, will stay with me also.
"the child you were
is the child you will always be" made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
Thankyou for sharing this.

Comment is about Trilogy of Heroes (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Searing honesty, and the capturing of the innocence of the child in that situation.

I admire your ability to get it down on the page as it felt at the time...

Comment is about Goodbye Childhood (blog)

Original item by Melanie Coady

I'm with Ann on this one - an incredibly moving piece - particularly that last verse.

I love the title - I've always believed that healing yourself involves letting go of blame - seeing the reasons for behaviour in those who let us down. Your poem exemplifies that. To be fair to others on here though - how much we can all do that depends on the situation - some things can never be explained away or justified.

'To find sunshine in the frightening cellars of my parent's pain' stood out for me. It is sad how we all hand on pain, isn't it? I'm pretty sure you have managed to break that chain though Cynthia.

I loved the poem. It is a deeply memorable one and will stay with me. x

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fanbloodytastic

I thought you said you didn't/couldn't DO visceral rage?!

Resonates deeply with me. I finally managed to love myself too, some of us brave/lucky/strong ones do. Still hugely affected by my own childhood though. Some things I just cannot shake.

This is a brilliant piece of writing Cynthia - thank you so much for sharing it.

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hmm luv th movie and also suffer wit th occasional bout of insomnia lol xx

Comment is about Fight for life (blog)

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fascinated by ur words hun x

Comment is about Steven Waling (poet profile)

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Thanks, glad you enjoyed my work xo

Comment is about Ushiku Crisafulli (poet profile)

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Thanks, I wrote this one with a mix of insomnia and watching Fight Club x

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Thank you :)

Comment is about Race for freedom (blog)

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enjoyed this one xx

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absolutly loved it xx

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cheers big ears lol xx

Comment is about Beautiful You (blog)

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ha ha ha i copped dt wen i was on ur page hun lol freaky!! xx

Comment is about You (blog)

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i dwnloaded it from my email so im gna settle dwn to read it later xxx

Comment is about Born Anyway (blog)

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aw jules wow,for th first time thou??lol im a bit slow tday im afraid

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Thanks Steve and Andy ;-)

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