A gentle and unusual take on something that actually has huge potential to disrupt lives, and that is yet common to us all. I do like your stuff Thomas

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Hi Ann - "laying on of hands" - thanks for your kind comments. all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind comments on "I Thought White Was Beautiful" - and I got a kick out of your story!

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sea shell gardens

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I feel like I was there ?

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Hi john.. gave a nod to The George and Dragon on Monday as I passed on my bicycle (Twice)Win :-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Very interesting. Lovely inclusive lines. Do I feel three people talking here? The omniscient narrator sets the scene generally; another person speaks in stanza 2; and finally, the poet, who responds in stanza 3? Would love to know.

BTW I'm presuming 'improper' is used only because the person being thought about is an Old Flame, and not a current girl/boyfriend, or even wife/husband?

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Merci toi pour tes commentaires sur mon poème 'Alone'...
Tu me connais assez bien, alors tu sais ce que je veux dire
la plupart du temps ; )

xxx

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This is really good, Lisa, an idea beautifully developed with fine imagery. This 'story' will engage the reader regardless of experience.

Comment is about I Thought White Was Beautiful (blog)

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Ann, lovely - sheer loveliness in format, choice of words, images and brevity. 'fusty' and 'rusty' make a brilliant tie-together to envelop the poem.

Comment is about le weekend (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thank you so much for your very astute observation Cynthia... I left it as 'Saw the reflection' and not 'Saw his reflection' so that you could interpret both ways, even though my thoughts were very much on his reflection...
a meeting of souls - the connection of their souls.
What did you mean by you didn't think the poem really needed it? Knowing whose reflection, or the entire stanza?

Your comments are always greatly appreciated : )
Francine x

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Super poem, Ann. Your imagery keeps pace with your imagination - both delightful. Not all poets can do this. In fact - not many.

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

LOL
You certainly know how to brighten up a girl's day!
It is very reassuring to know that I can count on you in my time of need...
You are definitely the go-to man for any plan ; )

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Ann
She puts me in the shed!

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Beulah
Many thanks for commenting on "Greavsie and Me". I think that's what they call "Damning with faint praise"! Anyway, better that you commented than not at all.
I took the opportunity to look at your page and enjoyed your entries but was surprised that your poetry has such a theme of sadness in it. Judging by your picture you seem too young to court sadness.
Keep posting.

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Hello Chris, quite a journey, I followed most of it, though you lose me at the end. Be good to hear it spoken. I liked the Barnsley fans "chanting raucous remixes of popular classics" and "Zac cashed in his last genie wish". I think the meaning's sacrificed for the rhyme a few times but that's showbiz.

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Thank you very much for your kind words about the poetry. I write a piece of creative work every day at http://somethingeveryday.tumblr.comif you are at all interested in reading more of my stuff. Max

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Max, in both the poems that you've posted the words are carefully chosen, accessible and adept. I like poems that refer to the net, because so many of us spend so much time on it, and it changes the way some of us behave. Good luck with your collection. Greg

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Original item by Max Wallis

hello Ann, I am glad to be back too!
I emailed my friend who does taxidermy and she said she'd be happy for me to give you the link to pictures of her work..but it's on facebook and I don't know if that'd be useful to you or not. Let me know and I'll comment the link to you.
x

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I'm glad you're enjoying experimenting with different poetic styles, Cynthia. I mostly write in free verse myself, but try to place it within some sort of informal rhythmic/aural structure if I can. I enjoy trying more formal poems occasionally. Last summer and autumn I wrote a few sonnets in fairly quick succession, as though it was something I had to get out of my system! I find the formality of it, the ten beats and the rhyme, pushes you in directions you had not expected to go, although I don't pretend to get the stresses right. That's a step too far for me. And it's always good to have a rhyming dictionary to hand! Greg

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Glad you found the links useful, Ann. I suppose it would be a long trek for the newspaper boy, up to your row of cottages! As it happens, there is no mention of either award in the print version of today's paper - just yards of politics and other stuff. Greg x

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Splendid! A pair of handcuffs and a police issue taser are on their way to you as we speak, Francine, and if you need an plain white transit van, some burly henchwomen and balaclavas to make it work then I can send those too (reminds me: I must have a clear out of my garage). All you need now is a victim (reminds me: I must have a clear out of my chest freezer).

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Hi John. And where does your wife go to get away from you? I hope she has a shed too! ;-)

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A lovely poem Mirna. Very romantic and rather sad.

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Congrats on making the shortlist on the Hippocrates Prize - does it entitle you to any special medical procedures?

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If you're in Manc around the 22nd April I'll be performing this and a few others.

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Thank you Chris! :)

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MMmm I see what you mean, about the booze !!!, There is a deeper meaning running beneath the surface of this though, a wistfulness for another place another time, really beautifully scripted too, should have had more attention than it got....
luv TC XX
Going to surf around duty free now ha ha X

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Original item by Beulah

well, not a bad poem really. Um, ah culd do with a bit of tightening of the stanza and um ah, a bit more consistency in the meter, and oh, yes, ahhh, ummm

Comment is about Greavsie and Me (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hello John, I enjoyed this a lot. We've all been there, as they say. Don't understand this line, though:
Before my sheds I'd guarantee fine well - some local phrasing?

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Original item by John Coopey

Depends Rachel heh heh I can be quite generous..... especially if you eat a couple of scousers first lol but not Chris cause he's an OK sort of a guy, and no eating his arms or any other parts of his anatomy either!! ha ha ;-))TC X
PS You have to wear your Dame Edner Everage glasses though as part of the deal heh heh....

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Hi Rach - thanks for commenting on my bat! Glad you're back amongst us. xxxx

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I love bats too, 'webbed gaberdine' is inspired, wow x

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I love bats!!!

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your comment Chris - I don't think I could explain it any better than I did in the first comment I made to Francine. The opera house was a grand design that failed for a whole host of reasons. There is no explaining to anyone the sense of isolation you find in Australia - separated not just by miles but by time zones. The skies are so big there that you do indeed feel dizzy sometimes - I guess what ever mood you are in is accentuated by it.

Yes - the poem is a build up to the last stanza. The love I referred to at the end had two meanings. Up here in the north we tend to call each other love and we are very giving socially. I missed that as well as other types of love.

I am happy now thank you but the past does have this habit of haunting you....

Thanks for reading and commenting.

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No worries Rachel - I found it all very entertaining and I've never had so many comments - I was rather hoping someone would take it over 30... but as for nice? nice? LOL x

No need to come back on me for that - I am just pulling your leg!

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ps sorry isobel...we will not fight anywhere near your poem it is too nice x

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I think the wonderful thing about poetry is that somehow you can really let your feelings out, and in a poem as beautiful and full of humanity as this, there is no intrusion. Just fellow feeling. You can put 100 times more emotion into a poem than into a conversation, I think.

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Hi John - thanks for commenting on Le Weekend. I thought your Two Bar Headache was immensley powerful.

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Thank you so much for your comments on "I Thought White Was Beautiful". I always thought of it as written in metaphor but I like your interpretation of it being written in allegory is much more accurate. I very much appreciate your insight.

Lisa

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This seems like an allegory to me. I hate orderly worlds - wild white roses would fit perfectly into my garden and complement my semi wild rabbits. I like the ideas behind this and think you have crafted the poem well also.

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Original item by Lisa Milligan

chris...i have no twinkles in my eyes they are the cold dead eyes of a serial killer.I eat scousers for breakfast in fact dead or not give me your arm itll go nice on a piece of toast.TCstrict bondage of the kind you describe costs good money. just how much where you thinking?

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Original item by Isobel

Lovely! - though I'm with Ray in that thinking beautiful or loving or sexy thoughts about someone is not improper. But the poem is great.
Cx

Comment is about Old Flame (blog)

Original item by Tom

Thanks for this Kealan.
I had the idea of starting a Discussion on this to see what we all really think about each other.
I suspect I'm not the only one who harbours dark thoughts!

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on "I Thought White Was Beautiful". It was an excerise in metaphor. So glad you liked it.

Lisa

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you have put the spotlight on all our deep seated envy, be it subconsous or not, there is a place in every human being that wants another to fail, maybe its a throwback to the caveman days wen competition was the only way to survive. the need to prevail with pride is an ancient genetic defect that we should all try overcome.

Comment is about Greavsie and Me (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

this is nice and the reptition at the bottom of a couple of stanza's there really works, good stuff.

Comment is about I Thought White Was Beautiful (blog)

Original item by Lisa Milligan

Ann, how beautiful.

John

Comment is about le weekend (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Ann, couscous and petticoats is a wonderful opening line and hands tied gently, of course, is even better.

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

Yes, I like this. Sweet, actually, rather than improper. It feels like the last line is rhyming with summat, but it isn't, unless you go right back to the second line.

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