A winner, Isobel, honest and just so true of us all. What an age! We never give up, do we, on pouring out LOVE regardless of manipulation? 'Give me a cuddle' turns us to jelly, the little monsters!

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Original item by Isobel

Haven't we all? Your honesty and power of connecting is just amazing. I think your beauty is the stuff of artists' dreams; it was in this photo and still is. I believe artists would recognize the inherent imagination pouring out of you and would want to try to capture it.

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

As it happened, no ricochets necessary; a birdsong did it all.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

What a sexy poem! xx (I don't think you need the photo - I think the poem means more without it - but then I'm a laydee!)

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

An old photo - alas! And my darling daughter is fine! Just the thoughts a mother has when her offspring are getting on a bit! (But still lovely!) Just a memory of the only time I ever smacked her - and she STILL resents it! (Quite right too!)

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

Honestry... like baclava, made, I believe, from Honey and Pastry (and a few Wolnuts, maybe ?) :)

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Original item by Isobel

I like it and very true.

Comment is about Rejoice (blog)

Original item by Rod Whitworth

i have thought .. develop your own blog and post a link here each time you create something you want reading , critiquing ( is that a word )

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Original item by Isobel

I wish! I'm not quite sure where the last few hours went...oops.

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

sentiment but i like it, isobel.. i've wrote a few pieces akin to this about my nephew who is 3 next week... someday i'll show him them, but not yet

but on your piece, i particularly like the honestry in the piece x

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Original item by Isobel

Ah Isobel, I was wondering what point you were making too :-)
My mother brought me up believing I was born on a Monday. Later I discovered it was Thursday which defies the original saying in terms of actual travel but is true in other ways.

This would be a decent filler in a performance or read around with the right vocal intonations.x

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Original item by Isobel

It wasn't an important point - just a silly one - that I was a Friday's child not a Wednesday one (loving and giving as opposed to full of woe) I think most of us are though - we just cope with the woe as we go along the way :)
I'm sure I'll worry a whole lot more about the girls - something I'm not looking forward to!

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Original item by Isobel

Well that's very nice dear, but I play Scrabble to WIN! So you can make your pretty patterns, and I'll just...win :) By a ridiculous amount. ;)

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

thankyou steve!

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Original item by Marianne Daniels

i did wonder ..

scrabble you are on , but see i would annoy the bejesus out of you because my idea of a good game is lots of wonderful words interlocked making the nicest possible pattern , oh is someone supposed to win ?!?!

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Original item by Laura Taylor

I like them both equally, have to say. Also have to say that I think you should get up and read one of these at the next wol - do it, do it, do it

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

Yeh I know what it referred to, durr ;p *whoosh* what was that? It was the sound of a joke going over your head hehe ;p

I DO have a competitive spirit, although I don't expect to win on here. Pool, yes, and god help you at Scrabble quite frankly cos I'm a monster at that ;D

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

Second one - is beautiful
Cx

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

What point were you trying to prove, out of interest?

I do like this. As the parent of a 19 year old woman child, I connect with it :D Hmmm...might even inspire me to write one of my own, something about hearing her stagger drunkenly round the front yard before lurching through the door hehe

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Original item by Isobel

Only just come across this one, Ray. I think it is really good in that it seems to conjure up what it must have been like living through the war. Enjoyed it.

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Vu ain't what it used to be ... deja.
Cx

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Original item by Dave Carr

Hello Ray
Thankyou for your comstructive comments on my poem Masks. It was helpful and you have obviously given it some thought, so I have no intention of telling you to "sod off." I like the length and the commas so they stay. I have taken your advice and changed some lines using a few of your suggestions. Literal "and" concrete replaces "yet " which is better - whilst they sound like the same thing they are not. "Concrete" was meant to refer to Piaget's stages of child development, hence the stage "abstract" follows.I have replaced the line entrenched /firmly as I agree it sounds too much the same. I did mean "our" this was simply a typing error, I am not the world's best typist. I also changed the last line as I liked your suggestion of " Is he brave enough to share. Thanks. I think the poem is greatly improved.
Regards Yolande

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Original item by Yolande

win this :)
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=17321

although i am joking about winning , i dont have a competitive spirit , never have had

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Thoughtful one this, Rod. Isn't the media more to blame for the distortion, than the individuals involved - hard to begrudge them their happiness.
But what drives the media? Why is the British public's tolerance of reality so low? And hunger for fairy tales so high?

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Original item by Rod Whitworth

Win? What is this winning that you speak of?

Hey - I've never had absinthe yer know. Not sure I should, given my appetites! :D

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

Original item by Shoeless Carole

really enjoyed reading this - subtle rhyme and archaic words are well used

the thunder blushing finger - excellent

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Original item by Marianne Daniels

Gus , so glad you enjoyed my poem , take me out sometime :) in your big coat !

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

Thanks, Cynthia, for your lovely comments on Colours. Your kindness about my writing always gives me a warm glow, whether it's deserved or not

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thank you all. Banksy moved? Wow - that's praise indeed. I did use a bit of poetic licence. My son isn't quite 6 foot but it sounded better. I also learnt to switch off the worrying cos I couldn't cope with the lack of sleep. I now stuff ear plugs in. However I do look forward to the day when I'll be able to sleep knowing the house has closed down for the night - though I'm sure I'll miss him like crazy.

I wrote the poem a couple of months ago - it arose from me saying those actual words and then the poem just wrote itself. It aint brilliant poetry but I posted it to prove a point LOL x

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Original item by Isobel

Thanks Carole - you are probably right. I dug some out that I'd written in my 20s the other day and they weren't bad - the ideas at any rate. My problem is time - poems are more immediate and I'm lazy - and then it's not so easy to publish them anywhere. All excuses for not getting my finger out. I'll give it some thought. x

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

Oh god I'm crying now! Saw my daughter at the weekend - cried most of the way home (5 hour journey) she is a total ray of sunshine and I miss her so much! My son is like a warm soft snuggly cloud of cotton wool - a very comforting person. Both are equally lovely in their own special ways. x

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Original item by Isobel

i really like your new poem made of love . But with regards to less being more , i think you should consider writing short stories , you have much to say . Sometimes poems aren't the best expression

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Original item by Isobel

Love it - so much humanity in it. I could go on, but particularly liked the use of bold letters for GETTING OUT OF BED. It felt so right. Everyone who's been a parent of teenegers will connect with it. Why don't we use bold more?

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Original item by Isobel

for only the second time you have me sitting here with a tear in my eye. well done. xx

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Original item by Isobel

Thanks for saying. Your stuff is pretty fantastic too. Keep it up.

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Original item by Gerard McKeown

I LOVE your profile pic, Laura Taylor!
You are too funny : )

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Original item by Laura Taylor

It's longer than it need be and there's far too many commas but I liked it, you carry the idea off well.
Cladding is a nice word, unusual too. "Literal yet concrete" - don't they mean the same thing for this purpose?Likewise entrenched and firmly.Do you mean "covering all our layers"?
"Place trust, remove the mask you wear,"
You've already said "If trust allowed removal" Maybe "have faith" instead of place trust.
Ditto in the last verse, summat like "Is he brave enough to share".
Christ, I've gone on haven't I? Tell me to sod off, if you like!

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Original item by Yolande

Interesting, especially the last stanza...
Love madness : )

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I agree with Darren... Very mystical... Lovely photo as well.

Carole is on a roll...

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

Awww...
Even if his little finger knows it - He better say 'Awww' too ; )

p.s. You are Friday's child for sure...
You never told me - Cannot explain it - I just know these things ; )

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Original item by Isobel

Thanks for all these comments (and jokes)
In answer to your question Larisa how about
A groundhog walked into a bar and said "Same again"?
But that would ruin the beautiful iambic pentameter.
How about a haiku....(joku)

Girl walks into bar
Barman gimme a double
So he gave her one.

Not an original joke, I know but probably never as a haiku.

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Original item by Dave Carr

Hi Cynthia - thanks for wondering if I was swimming round my cottage! Where we are we are very lucky, no probs at all. And what did you mean by "How do you get on 'voice' for reading?" I don't understand! :)

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

"Hehe - no such thing as too much.
That's what a 27 year habit'll do for yer ;)" aarrgh ! man's worst nightmare !!

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Original item by Laura Taylor

Heyho Carole....

Got me with this... wonderful wonderful... kissable piece....as indeed you are .... and what is more it's time for muh big coat to come out....

Well done superb.

Gus xx

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Original item by Shoeless Carole

Hi Isobel
Thanks for your comment. As you know I love having a go but often the ideas and inspiration are hard to come by. I am on a bit of a roll at the moment.
Love Yolande

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hallelujah! God save the Queen, long live the Queen!
(Benefit claimants begging on street corners)

Comment is about Rejoice (blog)

Original item by Rod Whitworth

This presents such honesty and truth about people, Yolande.
Your poems are often like fables... well written and engaging.

Comment is about Masks (blog)

Original item by Yolande

WOL is part of the World Wide Web - almost synonymous - a cyber community...small wonder that is the conclusion we came to.

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Original item by Dave Bradley

Welcome back! So glad to see you writing again. I love the thought that has gone into this. The faces we project to the world - a fascinating topic. We all wear them - and I would say that masks increase/decrease regionally also - though I appreciate your poem is taking a more personal view.

xx

Comment is about Masks (blog)

Original item by Yolande

Thanks, Greg. If you were a dirty old man you'd be in the sauna with the Catalans.

Thanks, Laura. Glad you liked it. That cigarette has done summat to your face.

Thank you so much, Darren. Had to look up phonology.

Cynthia, you're too kind. Actually, several people told me to ditch or radically alter the first verse. But I was stubborn and I'm glad it's appreciated.

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