Aw thanks Andy :D x

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well done girls - co-writing if you are writing with the right person is often top fun.. i do have a very rude limmerick that i wrote with quite a famous irish writer a bit back - they can really break up your normal pattern of writing, and i love this! xx

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Original item by Elaine

Well done you! It is fun doing a collaborative poem. I once did one with Francine. Ours was a rude one comparing different wine stoppers. We had such a laugh writing it. It was funny seeing the different styles assert themselves in the different verses.

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And what fun it was too ;) x

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Great ;) It was such fun making haikus

I meant to share this with you but forgot

Catcher

Then all at once a scarecrow
appeared on the page
to thwart my attempts
at making sense of the words
penned by a sage.

A piece cobbled together
bolted shining shards
each image surreal
ached me to feel her soul bared
in lines sharp as swords.

It's nonsense of course, she said,
a glint in her eye.
There I'd been, searching
deep for the meaning, absurd
to be caught in the wry!

My way of saying thank you for sharing so much of yourself, your time, your knowledge and your poetry...

Much love
Petrova
xXx

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Hi Cynthia

Thanks for your comments on "Sunday" and to answer your question I haven't been to Africa but have seen enough nature programmes to appreciate it's stark beauty and that of the seeming savagery of natural law which we humans often deem cruel.

Glad you liked it and as always your feedback is welcome and appreciated. x

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A poem written together at The Secret Writer's group - tonight in Wigan!

Comment is about Candle (blog)

Original item by Elaine

Hi Val, thanks for your lovely comment on 'For the good times' :-)
You are very kind.

Have you retired from running Bolton poetry scene for good now?
x

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Hi Izzy, thanks for comment on 'For the good times'- oh dear! I really didn't mean for it to reflect sadness and/or regret.Further comment below the poem if you care to read it.x

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Thanks Val :-)

Isobel - sad? regrets?
Sorry you feel sadness in this because it wasn't written in that mood and it wasn't meant to be regretful either. Just snippets from memories recalled while listening to music. Music does that to me :-)
Thanks for commenting though, it is appreciated and it helps to see how words affect people who read my stuff.xx

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Actually Cynthia (re; Night Walk)- this was just one of those places waiting for a poem - a while back now and I was invited to be the male escort with 2 ladies and 3 kids travelling from South Africa to Zim and back - yes special companions and lots of nice memories - thanks for commenting x

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Getting older is great, I mean, consider the alternative! nice work :)

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Hi Adele, well I do get to London now and again and if it ever coincides I would love to read at your night, Thanks for the invite, Win x

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I echo Dave,s comments.
this poem sings I song I have also composed for myself long agao...

Comment is about Is that why (a poem by a shy friend; please be gentle) (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

That's hilarious....so hilarious I'm currently snorting uncontrollably...I hadn't slept in 2 days, so, exhausted, I decided to write about it, as I was musing and contemplating the difficulty of trying to use my brain must have roused that long awaited state. :-@

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Well John, I'm shocked! I hope you wipe your mouse afterwards...

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Not sure how I missed this one. Very sad and reflective Janet. I like the subtlety of the haunting bit. The words you wished you said but didn't - the passing of moments that can't be revisited. I think many have regrets like that. Although I must say, I think I normally spit it out - apart from times when it is just not right to. Sometimes, things aren't for saying, ever.

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Ha ha :D not at all Tommy, it's simply that the 3rd stanza speaks most strongly to me ... ;p xXx

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If you didn't know what a milf was it's a pretty safe bet that we won't bump into each other on the other websites I frequent!

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I was running late for work when I read and commented on your poem. I didn't have time to look anything up so decided it must be an alternative word for minx. How wrong was I! If you'd punctuated it with full stops, I might have realised it was an abbreviation...
You've caught me out. I'm a lazy commenter! x

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Very good story. I live near a place called Oakenshaw.

Comment is about Audenshaw by bus (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Sad poem but good.

Comment is about Is that why (a poem by a shy friend; please be gentle) (blog)

Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Incidentally, Dave Bradley commented on the poem and said that he had to look up the word "milf". You didn't have any problem then?

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Thanks for your thoughts on Happy Birthday, Jill. I suspect we won't bump into each other on the othere websites we visit if you didn't know what a milf was!

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Thanks for the comments on Happy Birthday, Jill. I suspect we won't bump into each other on the other websites we visit if you didn't know what a milf was!

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Original item by John Coopey

Mark, I'm sure people will be gentle. And also that they will be both impressed and very moved. This is a good, well-crafted poem, but obviously far far more than just a bit of versifying. Truly heart-wrenching. Something which could be repeated by many different women and is too little told.

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Original item by Mark Mr T Thompson

Isobel, my friend Jill is not right in the head. She is enormously entertaining, enormously embarrassing and enormously loved. I am a better person for knowing her and having to endure her!

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Thanks. Patches refers to both pieces of territory and pieces of clothing. So, giving up both the uniform and the territory.

Comment is about Gospel (blog)

Tanks for the comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men' John. When I looked onto your page my eye was drawn to the title of this one (probably because I have always wondered about some of my grandmother's gentlemen callers)and enjoyed how, from line one, you created a very real person in front of our eyes. Brilliant!

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Original item by John Aikman

Love it! I've decided I'm going to try a rollicking tale next, you have inspired me.

Thanks

Jx

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Hi Lucy. Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'.
I've enjoyed reading your work-keep them coming.

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Hello John, Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'-and I am pleased that you posting led me to your page. Tom Pudding I especially enjoyed-it sent me scurrying to the search engine! As a recent incomer to Yorkshire (my wife is a Wakey lass, this was my passport in!) I am getting a lot of pleasure from exploring this areas industrial past, the fact that people such as yourself are recording it in verse is brilliant. Very inspiring.

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Nice one Ledge! I must put up me 'Jolly Jack Tar', if i can find it

Comment is about SAILORS ARE VERY STRANGE MEN (blog)

Thanks for your message, Lynn, and sorry that my comments about Dad's Army were fairly incoherent. But that's the trouble, I think, the concept of English patriotism is difficult to get to grips with. For me, anyway. Glad you enjoyed East Budleigh, as I did your poem Childhood Friendship. That theme dug into a rich seam, didn't it? We once had a holiday on the Pembokeshire coast, at a place called Little Haven. Unfortunately it was the week of the Chernobyl fallout drifting over Britain, and our 15-month-old kept stuffing lumps of sand in his mouth. Nerve-wracking!

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Indeed! She sounds a hoot. I sense that in spite of all her antics, she is well loved. People who have a good rant are normally fun and entertaining to be with. Nothing worse than a repressed tight lipped careful person round a dinner table...

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Original item by John Coopey

Had to look up what a milf was. Dear oh dear, is she going to read this? Does she get a right of reply (could be equally entertaining)?

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Strange mixture of religion and violence, delivered with your usual meticulous selection of language, Ray. "Let others have the patches". I didn't understand that reference, though picked up enough from the Ben Shermans, Dr Martens, and Harringtons to understand that Sammy/Keith was a skinhead or suedehead. My brother used to wear all that gear.

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there is a lot much to this than means the surface.. perhaps that is what happens when you look at lakes... i particularly like here 'drowned in old fashioned ways' which is a interesting way of describing it but again enjoyed this xx

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Original item by MissLucy

lovely stuff, luce.. your stuff is coming on leaps and bounds.. hard almost to recgnoise the shy, blushing creature you were when i first met you - lol xx

particularly like the 3rd stanza here, but i enjoyed all ofit x

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Original item by MissLucy

Hi Val, I enjoyed the poetry performances at Butterflies last weekend. Thanks for your comment re Solar Power, it is much appreciated. I have heard Invisible before and enjoyed listening to it again. A lot of poems are more enjoyable when familiar, like music, I can look forward to certain lines. There ahould be more poems promoting or expressing feelings about the over 50s.

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Original item by Valerie Cook

Just read a few of your previous posts after seeing this.
Cracking yarns. Do some more.

Comment is about SAILORS ARE VERY STRANGE MEN (blog)

Very enjoyable. Reminiscent of some of the stories in The Book of Heroic Failures.

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks for agreeing with me John.
My what big ears you've got.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Very moody & shifting like your weight & the cloud obscuring the moon for a moment, I absolutely adore the 3rd stanza. x

Comment is about The Nearly Moon (revised draft) (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

This is a deep poem Miss Lucy with all the hallmarks of a lament - they say water has memory and near to where I live there is place called The Silent Pool - such great places to meditate and gain inspiration - liked your poem a lot - gets the thinking processes going

Comment is about The Silent Lake (blog)

Original item by MissLucy

Full of metaphors and mystery - all the good ingredients for getting the reader to have a brain workout - I liked this and thought of situations in my area that sometimes fit the scenario

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Its hard to keep your hands off them sometimes eh? Had some on my bus today just kept his finger on the stopping bell for nearly half an hour and thought he was being Tommy Cooper or someone hugely funny - so it isn't just me who gets furious inside - your poem well crafted and certainly a piece of social history of modern Britain x

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Original item by Alison Smiles

I have to own up Lynn-it was me wot dun it-stole a curled up butty and got five years-lol!xx

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Dave - I agree with all that's been said - masterpiece

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