Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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steve thanks mate for your comments on "Barricade " and "Stillborn"
Bernie

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Hi John thanks for your comments mate.
Bernie

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Spot on mate it is Thai, lived there for some years.
Bernie

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Thanks for your comment and would love to come to festival but would need directions

Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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It took me a while to figure out what a 'Tanka' was...
I laughed... not only at your poem, but at myself as well : )

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Dear god. It wasn't my fault they were taken in by me. They chose to let me do it.

A good portrayal of ignorance here i think but there are several other underlying meanings to this too. Another good 'un. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Two Thousand Years (blog)

Oh yes! I like this very much. This is poetry i can relate to. Super. Well done!

Janet.x

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Hi Winston

thanks again for taking the time to read and make comment -


circuit short mesh is intended ; )

steve

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Anthony, a brilliant poem. I've read what you said about the form, though I haven't had time to read the links. Whatever ... your poem works really well.

It's dark, of course, and menancing, and those repeated lines work really well. One of those lines contains the most important words in the poem, and perhaps in human life, "love" and "hope".

You've written here a great poetic affirmation of the truth that without love and hope humans are nothing. Great work, Anthony.

PS> I think the others are wrong. 'Edge' is way too good for the Poem of the Month slot!

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ps. The tenet ends 'for tomorrow we may die' - easy to make assumptions - there are thousands of famous quotes I've never heard of.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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As someone who visited Leningrad before it resorted to (one of) its former names, I appreciate this poem.

God's frozen tears as snow is a beautiful image. I used to think of rain as the Virgin Mary weeping over Earth, our vale of tears. It's very unfashionable to think like that these days but beautiful too.

Lovely, evocative poem - though there is a risk that the many atheist poets who use this site will weigh in with their dry, bitter, mystery-denying and pointless analysis!

PS. You got a literal in Red Flsgs!

And I think an apostrophe is needed ... winter's snow.

PPS I liked your Two Thousand Years poem too!

Comment is about Barricade (blog)

Far from it! LOL - Glad you liked my poem - it was Alfie you liked best last time - will get you loving them all one day - it's often all in the delivery. xx

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The enigma of being human, eh? You capture that, elegantly and sadly, in this piece.

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Have read this one a few times and kept meaning to comment - just had to work out what I wanted to say. This has the feeling of a narrative rather than a poem. So much atmosphere, tension, build up.... There has to be a chapter 2 but when an innocent child is involved - do we really want to hear it? The child engages us emotionally though and you manage to get us all wondering. Excellent work.

Comment is about Old Woman in a Corner (blog)

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Neither would I like to impose an agenda on anyone. Hence the "rant", to express a disgusted opinion, to hold a mirror up to the world and persuade with guilt-trip tactics. Should anyone need to be told not to waste food?

I wouldn't call this a "rant" anyway, more a lament.

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Hi Cynthia,
Your recent entries just go to show that nostalgis is still what it used to be! ;-) Much enjoying your reveries.

Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Joan,
Ah, so true. There's many a good spoon slayed on an old griddle. :-)

Bring back the dolly-tub!

Regards,
A.E.

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A bit of a good rant mate, so whats your answer?
me I get pissed of with people implying or saying what I should or should not do, far to many people out there trying to impose their own agenda on to others you not think.
Bernie

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Hello again!
Just wanted to say thanks for the time that you have spent reading and critiquing my poem 'No love lost here'.
It's amazing to see how different and punchier (!) it feels with the edit. I really like the way it has been edited too-it flows better. i'm at an open mic in Manchester on thurs so I'm gonna get practising!
Cat x

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Wow!
this poem is great! there is certainly a villainous element to your villainelle!
It reads so well on page and aloud, and I found it really conjured up images to match the poem when I read it!

Cat x

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hi rodney
thanks for your comments i'm alive and well ;)

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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hi there jeffers!
thanks for the comments on the poems and keep up the great work :)

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Yes but even new ones can be shop soiled! When loads a peeps have had their grubby mitts on them trying them out, who can tell what you`re sometimes getting???
Cate xx

Comment is about White Appliances (blog)

Hi Cate
Thanks for your comment on my revisitation to Time Flues. I've eaten humble pie (a large portion) for CBT. Whether she's still my friend, I'll have to wait and see.
The funny thing is, the original version was quite different to what I would normally try.
Is there a home truth in that?
Steve :-))

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Some lovely lines here, I love the line "As the smiling baby reached for the lullaby", which makes the implied violence that followed all the more horrific.
Cate xx

Comment is about Old Woman in a Corner (blog)

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For my pennys worth I think this is much better and Cynthia is right. A beautifully nostalgic look at how things used to be.
Cate xx

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Did anyone look swell in a shell suit????
Cate xx

Comment is about Tanka (blog)

Hi Cynthia. I agree with Janet. A gruesome ending and for me there was only one thing that could possibly, which is....

Win x

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Well, Winston mine is unusual to say the least...

...but there hangs another tale...or should that be tail...

Many thanks once again.
Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Fashion disaster poetry... you could be onto something here Joan... fun. Win

Comment is about Tanka (blog)

Absolutely love this Yolande!
Have read this several times...
It flows so well with the rhyme...

This verse is my favourite and speaks to the heart of vulnerability...

'Infinite possibilities there,
What to withhold or what to share.
Strands of viable outcomes meet,
Wait your permission before they seek
The path, or strand you then will take.
The random choice that’s now your fate'

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Janet, Steve thank you both for your comments.
Bernie

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I really enjoyed the last stanza too. Though enjoyed feels like the wrong word here.
This has an element of leaving what happened next to the reader which leaves me kind of stunned because of the imagery within the poem. Not sure if it's meant to be a sinister end but that's the feeling i got.

Janet.x

Comment is about Old Woman in a Corner (blog)

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Hi Cynthia - thanks again

i wanted to have the words strike like an ambush
and then leave the reader in the mirror

steve

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Jeez, mate, thanks for the anonymity. I, too, would appreciate any input, as I stuck my neck out big time.

Comment is about Time Flues (Revisited) (blog)

small room...small table...small group... no mysticism implied, although who knows how the mind operates sometimes under subliminal influences.

Comment is about Old Woman in a Corner (blog)

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Hi Cynthia
Odd question, but why 3 people?

Steve M. (friend)

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I promised myself I'd never do this, but a FRIEND (no names, no pack-drill, but her initials are CBT) said she thought the original needed a cull.
So, I've pruned it, and made one or two changes.
Is it any better? Who knows
I think I have to concede, I probably do.
Other opinions welcome.
Steve M.

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I haven't a clue if it was meant to be me or not. What was it on? I get around, but can't see why I should be mentioned on tv.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for reading Imagination. I like to imagine you enjoyed it.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks again for your comment Cynthia. Have just printed off those definitions. It sounds very restrictive. If I get time I will try to apply some rules to my poetry. Read too many Mills and Boons as a girl - I just can't help writing from the heart. Applying rules is like putting rubber bands round it. How poetic is that?

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Would agree Janet - sometimes it has more to do with the history of the appliance and the previous owners.

Comment is about White Appliances (blog)

How very sad but true. With a little time and patience though, sometimes they work out just as well. Might be a bit out-dated but at least they had the chance to be loved.
New can be equally difficult to get accustomed to and often break down just as the guarantee's run out.

Janet.x

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Hi Maipenrai,
what a super portrayal this is.
It reminds me of a visit to the old leper colony on Crete which i'd completely forgotten about so thankyou. An awesome memory and equally deserted but the voices were unmistakeable.

Janet.x

Comment is about Dushti Laila (blog)

Hi anthony

thanks again fro your comments and advice on my latest blog. I spotted a couple of typos and changed a word or two, I wouldn't mind you having another read and see if it's better or whether you would further edit - I've always shied away from editing my own stuff!

Cheers
Cat x

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I am terribly sorry there is a very good reason for that, that email address is incorrect. Here is the right one amdpercy@hotmail.co.uk, so sorry for the incovenience.

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Hi Anna, I am very interested in submitting some work to you but I am having problems contacting you via this e mail address. My E-mails bounced back, is there another address I could try? thanks, Deb

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