Very disturbing Cath. No amount of poetry could ever effect catharsis, I think. For me, the only way of moving forward, would be to try to defy all odds - refuse to let anyone destroy the essetial me. No one who hasn't been through the same thing has the right to dish out advice though.
I would LOVE to see you at the Tudor one Thursday though. I'm sure you could rustle a baby sitter up for one night. You'd find a great welcoming crowd there - definitely the best in the North West!

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thankyou for your kind comments.

Comment is about Neptune's Daughter (blog)

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it took me about an hour...and i became very fidgety if somebody tried to interrupt me at my desk! It was quite fun though. Give it a go.

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Oh I've got writer's block Graham - only minimal stuff at the moment. Sorry!

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Very atmospheric Gus. It all feels very hellish and does make you question just what went before as much as what comes after.

The poem doesn't offer a lot of hope about the now though either. 'yawning bleeding squalor'
'clawing malodorous birth'. I don't see you writing leaflets for mothercare any time soon...

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This feels unfinished to me Ann. As the other comments suggest. You could either add your conjecture about the dream or put it into the dream.
The content didn't grip me enough to wonder what the dream was about.

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You know it!
Love the sentiments expressed, Dave : )

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WOW... I can see that the Sestina is quite the puzzle!
The arrangement of words have to be just so...
You've done this amazingly well, Marianne! And how long did it take you?

Comment is about Reading (Sestina) (blog)

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Dave - that must surely be home-made whiskey made on an illegal still.

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Just had to spend a day in Reception helping children cut out pictures out of happy and sad faces. It occured to me that most of the happy faces were happy cos someone was in the process of hugging or loving them. Physical contact is so important, as are emotions. A nice poem Dave. x

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Nothing to add to what the others have said except strong agreement. Very well written, but obviously far more than just a poem

Comment is about My childhood rainbow (blog)

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I'm a big fan of sea shanties, fishermans songs, and the fisherman's wives songs...this is very similar...and I'm a big fan of this now

Excellent - loved it

Comment is about Neptune's Daughter (blog)

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Brief, cutting, powerful - like others, love the colours you've used, and the capitalisation of Black...as you would a name.

Hope it helped you to write it out...it's a hugely powerful piece.

Comment is about My childhood rainbow (blog)

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Liked this a lot...agree with Paul re start of an epic. I could almost hear that wind raging.

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Yes, let's :)

Neat poem with a good message

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beautiful. Such love in the closing lines! indeed, so many great lines. Good work!

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i was realy touched by this. lovely. xx

Comment is about like paper (blog)

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wow ann, believe or not whilst you were dreaming I wrote a poem called 'paper man' and never finished it. it was all descriptions of skin as paper and the person being without substance...fancy that!

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Am so impressed, have never been able to do a sestina! I love the interchanging meangings of the apple.

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Not brittle, just elusive! Thanks for the comment Janet.

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I agree with every comment here :), fab LOVED IT :) you are a talent and a half :)

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Oooh and I like the picture you put with the poem too :)

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Im not the best on the meanings of poems but is it talking of a brittle love?, In any case I really enjoyed reading it , one of my faves, really interesting use of phrases and I think its shortness makes the words feel stronger :-)

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I really like the meaning and phrases in this poem and thought the bit about a person not being just a book was very clever, nice read :-)

Comment is about Emotion (blog)

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Thanks guys. It was just a quickie based on a dream I had last night!

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short and certainly not sweet but was really really touched by it.. top stuff, ann - loved it x

Comment is about like paper (blog)

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Like it, drew parrallels with my second wife going off with a man with a Porsche who was interested in one thing. I could have been put away mself but chose a different path and am happier now.

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I agree good comes from bad, and I have been in bad places, and now I am here, ready to appear on Radio Teesdale this afternoon. Life is mysterious, glorious and precious. That's a brain hemorrhage and a baby born three years later talking.

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Brilliant. I believe choices are predetermined, I believe in fate

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I am impressed Charlene by the content and the rhyme

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I lived in Scotland for 2.5 years and loved Calmac, and the Isle of Barra. I stopped in The Argyll Arms Hotel in Inverary where Rabbie wrote one of his poems on the window

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Leaves me wondering what was on the paper

Comment is about like paper (blog)

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I like it, I wish I had wrigtten it. I like the rhymes, and the last line is really appropriate. It says go for it. I wrote a similar poem called I love It

Comment is about Emotion (blog)

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Dave - big apologies. You always seem to comment on my poems ages after everyone else, and for some reason, I keep forgetting to get back to you and say thanks!!

so, err...THANKS :D

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Thanks for commenting on my prostitute poem. Though 'mainlining heaven' in this instance is to die.

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Thanks for commenting on my prostitute poem.

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If we're going that far back it would be Black Beauty and Teddy Robinson for me. Ah, Teddy Robinson! And The Fishing Kittens! But that awful bear in the yellow check trousers always used to freak me out!!

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What is your new profile pic? Is it a stealth Fox?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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You could try putting a paper bag over hour head - works for me! ;-)

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Excellent - but what was the Macleod reference to?

Comment is about Burns Night (blog)

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Hi Elaine - many thanks for your comment over 'Before the Curtains Open' - it's one of those pieces which kinda wrote itself if you know what I mean but glad you liked it xx

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Hey! Wazzup! xx

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Hi Daniel; - thanks for the comment over 'Before the Curtains Open' - kinda surprised me too that piece but glad you liked it... a

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Hi Isobel; - thanks for the comment over 'Before the curtains open' - the person this was wrote for loved it in particular the soldiers bit.. thanks again - Andy N

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Hi Kealan - thnaks for the comment over 'Before the Curtains Open'... It's defo a mood piece, and the person who this was wrote for loved the bit about soldiers too... glad you liked it - Andy N

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Hi Dave;

cheers for the comments on 'Before the Curtains Open' - sadly there was no balancy - wrote it while to feed two hungry cats - lol

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Hi Val;

thanks for your comment on 'before the curtains open' - yeah, i agree with you over the last stanza - the person who i wrote it liked that the most too so great minds think alike - lol x

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Hi Marianne - thanks for the comment on 'before the curtains open' - yeah, i can see your point there oddly enough - wasn't planned thou - lol x

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Hi Laura - thanks for the comment on 'before the curtains open'.. i wrote it first thing in the morning oddly enough as you may have guessed - lol.. glad you liked it - means a lot to me x

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thanks to all for your comments - i'm really touched - never expected a reaction like that.. maybe i should stick to writing love poems in future! lol x

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