It is the bad days that get stuck in your craw like a forked fishbone, and slowly starve you of happiness.

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Original item by Kealan Coady

Thank you for your commens re Culver Cliff Cynthia... most encouraging.

Once again many thanks
Gus xx

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hi John... It may have been a telephone experience I can't remember possibly not?! I wonder what sort of music would accompany this one?

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I would rather do both.
Forget a bad one and remember a good one.
;-)

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

This is great Ann.
Reminds me of the tv programme with Samantha in Bewitched. Was the cat called Tabitha or was that the aunt?

Janet.x

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

this is a shorter piece than your previous ones that i've read, kathryn but the language is spot on here.. you should try writing like this more often, stripping it down seems to get it a sharpness.. keep em coming!

Comment is about A coming vengence. (blog)

i suspect you maybe able to remember this one m8 to perform.. i know even with my bad memory - i would have a chance! lol good stuff otherwise

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Original item by Kealan Coady

I see your tadpole obsession continues! ;-) xx

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

This was as far as i got with this one.

Graffiti

insults and appraisals
colours bright emblazoned
in amongst a mass of
other scrawls
names and declarations
of love and admiration
cover all the spaces
on the walls.
A new way of expression
for a younger generation
of which most people
are apalled.

Comment is about Take Two... (article)

Oh yes you can go! Im a forever young at heart person, and Ill go, take friends or some ones kids, does not matter. Sure I think kids do have loads of fun doing the disney trip, I remember it well both trips!Im going to sea world this year and shliterbahn a water coaster park!Dont have any really little people to take, but darn it, I love feading the dolphins, and water parks are a blast, as long as I have sun screen!Take Claires kid! he would love it!

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

Hi thanks Clarissa and Francine, No the poem is a fantasy. I saw advert for Disney and wondered if you had no kids could you still go

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

'the father of all pain is solitude.'

It's a killer line in the context of this piece Peter. win

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

Wow Peter!
An interesting look at the conflict of emotions within...

'Do I need children to be hurled backward in time
After all I own my own childhood
As I heard you only enjoy it through your own
But I have no choice so I go it alone'

'In search of solitude, the only way to cope
My escape is to regress
To enjoy the wonder of Disney in this playful regress'

'Spent penny spent pence
Rode rides in enchanted lament
But the whole Disney trip is just partly pretence'

xxxxx

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

interesting poem. You can be a part of fathering children as others do. Men dont have to fertilize eggs to be fathers, infact some of the best fathers have never done that.Poor dear, you went there alone?heck life is one crazy roller coaster!

Comment is about Going to Disnelyalnd Paris without any children (blog)

Ooh... Love these lines ; )

'Threading through the constellations of your bed
the moon winks as she slides among the stars.
For it’s in your bed that the real magic starts.
When you twitch your pretty nose and steal my heart.'

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I agree with Marianne. Powerful!

Comment is about Though The Demons Are Waiting [Lyrics] (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

His thoughts were like an explosion in a paint factory.

He said he never meant to massacre the entire audiance of Mama Mia.

He returned home for a little pole dancing, just to relieve the pressure,

but his face just got redder and redder.

He bought a wreath of pink roses for the audience for Mama Mia,

who included his mother, Mia.

If only he'd gone to Ronnie Scotts instead!

Comment is about Take Two... (article)

You wrote him another verse Janet
Forgot hot water bottle
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Will get cold.

Comment is about Forgot (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

You are an amazing and mysterious wordsmith! I always like the words you choose for your poems.

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Original item by Marianne Daniels

Hi Cynthia, I'm glad my foal has another life! Good poem, gentle and dreamy mood rounded off with that last verse. xx

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Yes!I really couldn't have said it better x

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

That's a shame! When you get old you'll have nothing to remember!

Comment is about Selective (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

I think a spell was put onme when I tried to post this because I couldn't get all the lines in the same font size and lots of funny things kept happening! Just a bit of silliness! Silliness does the soul good! xx

Comment is about be witched (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Sorry about that mistake Cynthia - was Vanilla Ice a pop group? I would agree that ice puts a completely diffent take on it and it was anything but cold. I will try to get along to one of those venues.
Isobel x

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Simon,loved the line,"But deliver us from't'mucky stuff!"Speaks to the heart just as well as the traditional line,"But deliver us from evil!" Haha!...plus the lingo is easily understood by me as a Wiganer!

Jonboy

Comment is about The York's Prayer (blog)

Original item by Simon Rennie

Simon, had a great time at your book launch last week...great peoms very skillfully read!

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Original item by Simon Rennie

Good one Lisa - for me the lines that summed up the whole were
"I want to find my soul
so I can have a soul mate"

Best wishes

DAve

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Original item by Lisa Milligan

Agree, Greg. As if sleep is overcoming you, Cynthia: zzzzz
I love the imagery of the steamy-flanked cows pulling hay from the ricks.
It reminds me of Autumn in Normandy.

Comment is about October Road (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Like this rich natural description, Cynthia, and all the zzzes in the last stanza. Reminds me of Robert Frost. Greg

Comment is about October Road (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This made me laugh at the end.
I can relate to it 'cos i know how dangerous it can be to listen to our own thoughts. Maybe not listen necessarily but to start arguing with yourself and trying to reason with yourself.. madness?
hmm.. sometimes a corker comes along and you think, wow where did that come from? :-)

there was a moment i had to go back in this with the water bottle though. I think because of the rhyme to forgot, i expected it to be 'hot' water bottle. I got it on the second read though. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Forgot (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

Andy, you are a star. Thanks as always for your lovely comment on my poem 'eternal winds of love.'

Janet.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Ann, your Foal reminded me of this in my folder. I might not have blogged it otherwise. Thanks.
This poem is an indulgence of pure imagery from real visuals, a work that took me years until I was satisfied that I had done some justice to the soul-filling beauty of that morning.

Comment is about October Road (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Nothing like running a critique on your own work. I include this because I realized the implications after it was written, not before.

1:Physical/active
2: Mental/personal
3: Emotional/societal
4: Tyrannical/reactive

Does anyone else try to look at a work as much from the reader's view as possible?

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

OK, I'm being totally picky here: but, the title of that particular poem was Vanilla Sex. I do think Ice indicates an entirely different 'take' on the subject.

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Original item by Isobel

Hi, Isobel,
You asked me to tell you when I would be appearing again in Manchester. I'm doing a regular 'gig' tonight at the Green Room, Whitworth Street.
Friday, March 19, tomorrow! at the closing of Manchester's Central Library, I'm reading one of my own poems under the umbrella of the Manchester Library's Poetica Group. I am so honoured to be chosen.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Screw him!
I love the wistful tone. x

Comment is about losing (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Wonderfully evocative, tighly writtenThis poem takes me straight back to my bullied schooldays, Peter.
my fave lines?
written could be wrong
in foreign hands

So much in those few words. True poetry.

Comment is about Writing 'I Love you' in slow motion (blog)

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Not sure if I'm supposed to respond here or on your own pages, but much appreciated!

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Original item by Clare Kirwan

Thanks for your comments and suggestions on The Reluctant Volunteer, Win. As it happens, I've just posted a far more grittier war poem on the blogs. What turned out to be round the corner, you might say ... Greg

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Original item by Winston Plowes

Oh - I've got the wrong end of the stick then. Perhaps Fiona should treat us to her creative reaction at some point. Always interesting to see how other people's minds work.

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Thanks for your comments on Eating in Private, Cynthia. You're right, the subject matter is pretty hard to take. These I guess were my father's experiences for more than three years. I had to research it though, he never spoke about it in detail. Apart from the "air-raid stew", that is! Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

very sad indeed, ann but i thought it was top banana (to quote a poetica pal)..

Comment is about losing (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi thanks for commenting on my latest, much appreciated x

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Hi Gus, this is so nice! xx

Comment is about Culver Cliff (blog)

Original item by Gus Jonsson

Hi Tomas, Glad you enjoyed the poem. I enjoyed reading your poem sinners at a seance, very true!

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

His loss!

Comment is about losing (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

:-)

Comment is about Rosemary Dun (poet profile)

Original item by Rosemary Dun

Wheres my fags?

Comment is about Cigarettes (blog)

Original item by Emma Robinson

And Im sure the old man WILL row with himself... us chaps... we are like that!

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Original item by Dorinda MacDowell

You have a good way with words, recoding would be in order...

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