Hi Cynthia; - I see your tag here, so have now placed in the freedom comp... I'll add some comments once it is all over, but in the meantime good luck x

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for a short piece, Georgina - i think you say quite a lot for example i like 'mouth's as deep as a well' and I also like the finale line which i probably would have split up, but like the fact you didn't... but it's a good, good piece.. keep em coming! x

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for a short piece, Georgina - i think you say quite a lot for example i like 'mouth's as deep as a well' and I also like the finale line which i probably would have split up, but like the fact you didn't... but it's a good, good piece.. keep em coming! x

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thanks for the entry, ann.. i'll add my comments once it is all over, but in the meantime good luck x

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thanks for the entry, lynn.. i'll add my comments once it has all ended, but good luck! x

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i second Francine there, Kath.. I also like the use of rain throughout, but am pretty impressed by the i turn away at the end..

that made me shiver..

top stuff! x

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thanks for entering Isobel... I'll add my comments after the competition has ended, but just wanted to say thanks for entering and good luck...

Andy N x

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Hi Cynthia thanks for your gracious comment on At Woody's Top.

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Could I just make it clear that Francine does indeed look like her extremely close up picture on WOL. Having had the pleasure of her company over the summer, I can assure you that she is as full bodied as the several glasses of merlot we consumed - and I don't mean she is fat either...

Sometimes one can be surprised to find that people are just who they say they are. I'm sure that somewhere out there - maybe in the wilds of Wales or France, there is an Ivor Bigun - though it's probably a certainty he's small.

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Some interesting thoughts in this, Lynn...
I agree that Freedom, as with many other things, is a state of mind. Beautiful photo!

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Glad to see you back Kath!
there is always something sad and somewhat elusive about your poetry that touches the heart. I like the use of rain drops/rain to perhaps express how clearly you see and feel...

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This evokes some powerful emotions and imagery...
These are my favourite lines:

'Still I’m haunted by that journey,
the weight of tears that pulled me down,
the wait for truth that need be found,
absolution hanging on a spider’s thread'

xxx

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This is a good poem Izz - I wouldn't tweak it much. It may well attract votes. More important, though, it speaks very very strongly of life experience - yours and others. It will resonate, for sure.

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Lovely to meet someone as un pc as me Banksy. Now - can everyone get on HIS case....

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Hi Lynn - thanks for commenting on my tribute to John - there are few such icons in our lives today, so I figure his status will last a long time. Best wishes, Dave

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Thank you Everyone! :)
Ann, to be honest, so do I!!

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no - lets keep the froggies (great food, great wine, great countryside) & give em the welsh - they won't be missed :)
Great poem Dave

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Good evening Winston-very grateful for your reading and commenting on'Day out' yes indeed,the sea is evocative and beautifully luring! my best regards to you Sir-Stefan.

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Good evening Lynn and family-grateful for your comments on'Vulnerable' keep well love-best regards-Stef-xx

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Interesting premise, Dave, very enjoyable slant.

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Very clever, Ray. The ending is terrific. A story, a whole life. The pain possibly inherent in the end (according to interpretation) is bitter.

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There is a lot of truth in this, Ann. Well written. xxx

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Yes! Freedom is a state of mind. True words.

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Dave-thanks for the comments. B
(dust of life)

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Hi Andy-thanks for the comments. B
(dust of life)

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Yes, I guess Francine is the Lady in Orange!

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Oh dear - humour is lost, when you have to explain it. I'm talking about me - though tongue in cheek of course. I only like pictures that are taken from a distance and out of focus. Not many people tend to put up true likenesses of themselves on here - that is the point I am making.

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Are you talking about yourself Isobel - or Francine! I am Mrs Confused dotcom I think! xx

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Thank you ladies both. Isobel - re choice - yes we do have the freedom to chose on many levels. But I do think that the initial "in love" thing, whether for the newborn or the lover, makes us feel we have lost our freedom, for a while perhaps with the lover, for our children it probably lasts a lifetime. xx

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There is a lot of truth in this and yet....
There are levels of freedom, I think. Freedom to me means choice. The right to exercise one's own will. Love is a temporary blinder/binder. We all enjoy day to day freedom and liberties which we really take for granted.

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Nothing IS as it seems, particularly on WOL, Ann. You may think you see a beautiful young lady in red, in total control of her destiny. Others may say it's a old double decker, ploughing in circles round Piccadilly Circus....

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This poem is so true Ann. Even first two lines is a poem. "I can't imagine freedom. Everything comes with a price." The wisest words.
With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

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A bit of a negative one! I think I was inspired by remembering the feeling you have when you've just given birth to your baby. The love makes you vulnerable. But it makes you strong too. Makes the world go round - and all that jazz! x

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I am quite used to the 'knockabout' humour for being both French and American...
I do not mislead, Ann - it is who I am - I have both nationalities, and spent many years in France.

xxx

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I am quite used to the 'knockabout' humour for being both French and American...
I do not mislead, Ann - it is who I am - I have both nationalities, and spent many years in France.

xxx

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Oh that's all right then, we're safe! I guess it was all the french comments she leaves, the Eiffel Tower profile pic she used to have, her name and the beret that misled me! ;-)

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Excusez moi le pun but Francine is a french derivative. She is also American and lives in the US of A - she would therefore be spared when the great french cull starts. I'll copy this to both of you - so you don't have to keep jumping back and forth. Allez Allez Allez!

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Excusez moi le pun but Francine is a french derivative. She is also American and lives in the US of A - she would therefore be spared when the great french cull starts. I'll copy this to both of you - so you don't have to keep jumping back and forth. Allez Allez Allez!

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Excusez moi le pun but Francine is a french derivative. She is also American and lives in the US of A - she would therefore be spared when the great french cull starts. I'll copy this to both of you - so you don't have to keep jumping back and forth. Allez Allez Allez!

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Hi Ann (with apols to Izz for communicating via her profile). Curiously, I've just logged in for that reason i.e. to edit my comment by making a humorous reference to keeping Francine, because it occurred to me that she might misunderstand our knockabout Anglo-Saxon humour. I can't do that now, as your comment closes the possibility.

Well, I'm sure Francine will understand, as we certainly would hang on to her.

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Oooh! I'm going to tell Francine - then you'll be in big trouble! ;-) xx

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Thanks for commenting x 2, Izz.

Offering them the French. Hmmmmm....tempting....

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Thanks for this Anthony - it confirms a lot of what I think. I don't go in for anything that asks money off me. I like the buzz of performing - that's enough for me. There are very many scams around. By and large, people like to see their stuff in print. If it all gets published after the competition they will buy the book. I have seen such books and they are full of tosh. It just amazes me that people don't see that they are being had. The fact that they don't must mean that such entrepreneurs are tapping into a need within the market....In some ways it is a shame though. It makes the likes of me highly critical and indifferent to poetry competitions. I guess there must be some genuinely good ones out there.

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But would we really get together to fight the little green men? Or would we decide that for the common good of the world we could offer them the french if they left the rest of us alone and went on their way...one never knows...

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You've lost your tag Cynthia. Perhaps you went back in to update something - you have to remember to input the tag again when you do that.

Your poem echoes what mine will - if I ever get to write it - freedom often comes with a price. Things are never as simple as they appear on the surface. Sometimes you just have to accept servitude and from the inside looking out, freedom is a bit of a mirage. Oooo nearly got myself a poem there - just need to say it poetically!

Your poem reads to me like a dialogue, fizzing with ideas and thought. I imagine you could turn your hand very easily to play writing.

Isobel x

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

A Dialogue poem! I love these. I tried to write one once, in the vein of Fergus and the Druid, but it went a bit pear-like (it just sounded hack). You seem to know what you're doing though, I love the 'chameleon goal'.

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Oooh, I'm tingling with this one. Love it. Love the irony of getting angry about angry people, and the precision with which you put forth your arguments. A poetic scalpel, and DEFINITELY one suited for live performance I'd say.

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Well done girly! I was hoping someone would have remembered my favourite comic in my absence-what an everlasting inspiration he was and shall be-one of a kind for sure! thanks Lynn-Stef-xx

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Hi again Lynn-very glad that alls been good with you and yours-my thanks as always-Stef-xx

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Fascinating. It all sounds so intense, I'm sure we have more fun here. Thanks for posting this Anthony. When are you going to post something of your own? You are missed.

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