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jane wilcock

Tue 24th Nov 2009 21:02

I love the first verse especially and then the movement into acceptance/resignation

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jane wilcock

Tue 24th Nov 2009 20:58

I like this, very evocative

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Isobel

Tue 24th Nov 2009 20:50

Agree whole heartedly - this could have been written for me but for the fact that I'm far too young to worry about middle age....Love it.

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Isobel

Tue 24th Nov 2009 20:47

This sounds a bit like me on a bad/good day. Love the feistiness of it. I thought I was the only one to use the word cunt in a poem - apparently it's frowned on. Perhaps we should tag it?

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Isobel

Tue 24th Nov 2009 20:43

This poem for me describes what I've found within WOL. An environment where you can share your work, your ideas, yourself with others and gain validation and inspiration. If that makes me sound like a bit of a 'luvvie', I'm sorry - it's just how I feel. So many people on here, with different backgrounds, life experiences, all linked by the love of Art and language. Thank you.

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 20:43

Certainly not dancing amongst the trees this ha ha Hot stuff ;-))

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 19:59

Really beautiful, sounds like someone longing to find true peace.

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 19:51

I find the rythmns here truly mesmerising. They get me even before I've had time to take in the language or the meaning. (The picture of the gull and the sea is beautiful too.)

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 19:47

Hello Ann again ;-)) I saw the comment's on your last poem what a great response !! I am glad you enjoyed the Solstace poem, otherwordly was it's intention ;-)) You can call me anything you like ha ha I have had a few variations !! however my real name when I am not hiding behind an alias is George ;-) By the way it was ME !! who spelled ' Rebellious ' incorrectly in your blog ha ha.......
G X

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Tommy Carroll

Tue 24th Nov 2009 17:35

Ty CBT, most welcome, as always.

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Tommy Carroll

Tue 24th Nov 2009 17:29

Hi Katie, ty for the comments. I think you say it succinctly. : )

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Tommy Carroll

Tue 24th Nov 2009 17:26

Hi KC, your ref' to the sigh has as its equivalent for me in the last line of 'The Trial' by Kafka.

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kealan coady

Tue 24th Nov 2009 16:06

This is a great piece, the theme is original and well thought out. We are the parents of our poems and we are responsible for their actions. At first i thought it to be a humourous piece but as i read on i realized it was much more than, there is a physical and metaphysical connection between the writer and the written, good stuff.

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Francine

Tue 24th Nov 2009 15:48

Funny!
What an interesting and creative analogy!

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 15:32

Hi Pauline

welcome aboard.. Really enjoyed reading the poem 'Homing' a great rhythm and structure. Winston (New Members)

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 13:46

Hello Cynthia - I love it that he lives on chops, chutney and brandy! I expect he has a big red nose and high blood pressure - you're probably better off finding someone else! ;-)

Me, I'm an eternal optimist when it comes to such things and I would think that I had written him such a wonderful letter, and that he missed me so much, he read it every day!

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 13:17

How honest! And there are so many stars up there that some of them must fall down sometimes don't you think? ;-)

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 13:15

You're really good you are!

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Tue 24th Nov 2009 13:13

This is tight and strong, Tommy, chilling and thrilling.

Will you check the second-last line? 'missiles' needs the referring word 'their'. or a non-connection word like " 'the' new world history"

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 13:11

A beautiful poem (or two poems?) And in many ways it's the un-sweet things that are most memorable in it, the windows gasp open I love! And I can smell that hot garbage!
Thank you for your comment on my poem too.
xx

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Cate Greenlees

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:44

Cleverly written. Im not sure I agree with it cos Im of the opinion as Shakespeare so aptly puts it "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." But as a warning against charlatans this is an excellent wake up call!
Cate xx

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:39

Delightful! Highly imaginative, and honest.

Keep everything, Ann. What does it take to pop a 'line' into a 'Save' somewhere, and then do a back-up? Every thought you care enough about to put into a 'scribble' has life already, or the potential of life. They become riches to plumb at the weirdest times, and they will be wonderful. Age or academic development has nothing to do with insight.

I sound like a real geek today.

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Cate Greenlees

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:32

What a clever concept. Its funny how some poetry seems to write itself, and some is a labour of love, and some you just have to force out with birth pangs! Not you obviously TC, that was metaphorically speaking of course!
Cate xx

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Cate Greenlees

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:27

sos darlings but rebellious has two "l"s in it.... just cant help it, its the teacher in me coming out!!!!!Cate xx

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:24

wonderfull!!!

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 12:19

I like this too - spring gives us summer to our step - ;-)

You seem to spend your time either up a mountain with a dragon or stuck in some nightmare railway carriage - and I guess a tube train is a bit like a dragon tho not as much as a steam train puff puff

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Christopher Dawson

Tue 24th Nov 2009 11:54

Cheers again Anne

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Steve Regan

Tue 24th Nov 2009 11:41

A nice (piss) take of mystical charlatans and New Age tossers, Sian. Well that's how I read this anyway!
This is a good phrase
"guided-
by misted past lives,"
and this
"specifically mysterious"
and what a neat last line!

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Christopher Dawson

Tue 24th Nov 2009 11:39

Well...thank you one and all!

Greatly appreciated.

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 10:49

If you leave them lying around on scraps of paper, or hidden in the depths of your memory stick long enough, you will forget you have even written them !! ha ha.... great concept for a poem and how true.... ;-)

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 10:22

I would liken this poem to a 'nouveau cuisine' meal accompanied with a fine glass of red wine. Delightful in it's presentation,subtle imagery and consumption, hower ulimately leaving one hungry for more at it's conclusion. ;-))

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 10:06

Hello Ann, I am sorry for your loss, there are so many people writing on here, its difficult to know someome until perchance they enter your consciouness, I thought 'Why can't I find a man who can dance?' lovely in its totality, yes you are right men do smell of oil and engines ;-)) we are all the same, I drill for the damn stuff. ha ha We seldom get time to dance, too busy being crushed by the wheels of life and it's obligations.
Keeping on dreaming and being you ;-)
George

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 09:04

Really enjoyed this ;-)

And of course, we are all someone else's Seagull

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 08:58

A truly rumbunctious journey round the coast! Two things - you could say "darn Sarf" and in Cornwall you don't often see bouncing bikini clad bums as everyone wears wetsuits these days - too COLD. Or maybe your poem is set in the past, like the image on the postcard?By the way, it took me ages to work out what your photo represented. It looked like a pregnant woman with very oddly connected legs! (That sounds like a great title for a poem!)

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 08:45

Great! Style sounds to me like the chap who wrote The Pobble Who Had No Toes, can't think what he was called! Oh blast! It will come to me in a minute (don't hold your breath though!)

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 08:35

Hello Chris. Thank you for your comment on my dancing men poem. It's interesting that you enjoyed the first bit. I like the last bit, think the first bit is a meant-to-be cliche, and the two lines that join them are a bit rubbish - don't flow, too clunky, unless you say them in the right rythmn! I wrote the poem as a love letter to practical, scruffy, unassuming anorak type men, ( I used to work surrounded by them, in a previous existance) and the bit I think works for me are the last two lines. Or maybe the last three words!

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 07:05

Hello! Just to apologise for not getting back to you - I keep forgetting to log off and falling asleep on the settee! Thank you for your kind words so far. I love this site! Have been made to feel at home and have read some great poems.

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 06:59

Hi everyone!Hello Christopher. It's interesting that you enjoyed the first bit of my dancing men poem. I like the last bit, think the first bit is a meant-to-be cliche, and the two lines that join them are a bit rubbish - don't flow, too clunky, unless you say them in the right rythmn! I wrote the poem as a love letter to practical, scruffy, unassuming anorak type men, ( I used to work surrounded by them, in a previous existance) and the bit I think works for me are the last two lines. Or maybe the last three words!

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 24th Nov 2009 06:33

Thanks Thauma (if I may call you that). Maybe it's not rebelious enough - it starts with an apology and ends "Just Kidding!" And now I've started apologising for it! Better go and do something rebellious! (And thanks everyone else for commenting too!)

Ta Cate - maybe spelling rebellious wrong is as rebellious as I get!

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 02:28

My boots on , they were made for walking ha ha I like rebelious poems ;-))

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Francine

Tue 24th Nov 2009 01:08

Have read this several times now...
Powerful imagery.

Oh, and love the pic... always have had a thing for lighthouses : )

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Tue 24th Nov 2009 00:11

Hello Cynthia thank you for your recent comments on my stuff ;-), my Sister tells me you are one of the nicest and most constructive people on here ;-)) Great !! you can carry on giving me tips and help me with the technical issues ensuing ha ha kindest regards George ( Mr Thaumaturgically Charged ha ha)

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Mon 23rd Nov 2009 23:15

Oh yes, this is right up my street!
It's a truly wondrous place to be and one i never tire of entering into. Keep on unlocking the freedom. :-)

Janet.

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Cate Greenlees

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 23:12

Ah but will you wear purple and a red hat which doesnt match??? lol
Cate xx

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Francine

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 23:09

Yes...
This is light and captivating - like a sort of mantra : )

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Francine

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 22:56

This paints a rather pathetic scene that enables the reader to wonder and imagine how they got to this point...

Love the fact that these lines can have more than one meaning...

'cheek against the friendly stone
hurling like a gargoyle spewing rain
on the wettest Autumn day'

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Dave Bradley

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 22:35

Yup. Agree with the other comments. Free verse is difficult but this is a sure-footed excursion through its hazards.

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Mon 23rd Nov 2009 22:28

Hi Phil,
this one really fired me up. It feels like an angry poem in some ways. Very different to your usual style and good too.

It's the end of the world every day for someone.
Janet.

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Dave Bradley

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 22:17

Wow. A lot here and Armageddon on the way by the sound of it. People are trying to do something about a lot of this Phil - it isn't all gloom. Our own much-maligned PM has led the way with the G8 on the debt problems of the developing world (I'm not a Labour party member). Don't give up hope.

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sian howell

Mon 23rd Nov 2009 22:03

Just came across your intensely interesting pieces, very glad I did....love the obvious natural ability you have and the level of layering within your work....such commitment to the written word, best I've seen. Sian X

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