I'm not sure whether to be pleased, disappointed or rather worried about being number two on the list. It could be construed as being a bit sad considering i had a rest from the site for a couple of months.
I certainly won't be competing against anyone who would rather take my place.
I suppose i really should brush up on the finer details if i'm to be recognized on here as a poet. Nah! maybe not. I'll just carry on being me. I'm happier that way.
Darren Thomas deserves a medal.

Love and lots of light to everyone on the site.
Janet.xx

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I think we should have a whip round on Sunday for the poor bankers and city types.
Welcome to the site Rod - it's about time!
:)

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I'm sure your performance version of 'two cats' was different. Either way they are great, I loved hearing it because it was a little leftfield and I love refreshing changes like that. You brought it to life with the reading.(at Hebden, hole in the wall)

always enjoy seeing what you are up to, and as always really appreciating your support, fantastic community here.

Heres to your wood burner and your solitary thoughts. Great to see the work with your daughter too, she will have a good poetic career i'm sure.

May make it to sale, though Laura has a gig straight after.

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hi Antonionioni
This must be the only form of enjoyment to be winkled out of a bad back situation. Liked the Ba...Ba...Ba quick rhythm in the 1st and 3rd lines and the uncoupling spine line. In my youth I was a temporary Sunday paper deliverer, didn't last, killer job. Nice to put a face to the rhymes on Sunday night. Winston

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Hi there,
Thanks for the comments on 'Confetti' - it's really nice to know someone is reading my scribbles! :-) It wasn't my wedding day btw, it was a fantasy about someone I didn't marry. My actual wedding day was quite different, nerve-wracking - and I wouldn't go through all that again! :-)
Cx

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Original item by Winston Plowes

I keep reading and re-reading your work and never quite get round to leaving a comment. It is definitely and complexly, multi-layered. Like Nabila, I felt I could identify with it, I'm not sure though that I felt a wistful quality - it felt more like a song of despair to me, sad and haunting. But a good read, neverthelss

Thanks for your comments on 'Confetti', all feedback always appreciated.
Cx

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Original item by Noetic-fret!

Fantastic piece of work, and well read. Agree with you completely about talking about mental illness - having been involved with it for most of my life - self, daughter, other relatives, friends - everyone a different label - everyone an amazing survivor - I think the whole world is touched by madness and possibly, we're the sane ones. Seen it from the other side too - I used to be a psychiatric nurse at Prestwich Hospital.
With love,
Cx

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You have such a nice voice, hearing it put me in a trance like sleep mode, that I needed very much.I understand this poem from both sides, been there, worked there.I think the pills can be a problem. Not sure why other people get to label others, or judge. I think most that are in need to be out. Not sure it helps, for most, they just need suport and love and understanding. Sure its hard, for some to give that,but needed. Nice poem, a subject that could be done many times, so many walk around in pain.xx

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i love the moment captured here . and heard the songs

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Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

It was all too much on the outside
So easy to slide
Into realms where demons hide


yeah tis ,,, , if your heart breaks folks force you to rest it . somehow it doesnt always work like that with your head .
people seem to want to snap it out of itself

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the poem is about the group as opposed to the individual, I was aware most of the time.

sick of people with silly mental health 'dont talk about it' taboos, its as bad as sex, tut

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no it relates to that.
I was in for a while.
never ashamed
but proud.

I also lost my ex to similar
hurt like hell
we both disintigrated for a while
made some things stronger

for me, it had to be done.

I'm sorry if this has lifted the silt a bit Gus, perhaps we can have another uber pub chat
loved the chat last time

Comment is about Plastic Sheet (neatly folded for Dee) (blog)

grief pete... I lost my ex to Schizophrenia and this what it felt like on the outside looking in.... if your poem relates to some other sectioned malaise please forgive me ...I just can't get past this transportation.......
hurts..really hurts,,,,,,well crafted
fondest always
Gus

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Hi Anthony, thanks a lot for the comment, it's much appreciated. I've read your stuff and I'm very impressed with 'The Other Side of Kenneth', I felt a great sense of maturity within it. Good work!

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I like your writing a lot and it's lovely to read - can really connect with it.

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Original item by Noetic-fret!

Hi Mike, Thanks very much for your comments. I've just had a look through some of your work, and I definitely get the sense that you might have the infamous "thousand mile stare" in person. Very detailed work but quite a succinct message. Also "Humans are flowers..." I very much enjoyed, it has a wistful quality that really slows down the train of thought to a more contemplative tempo. Thanks again!

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Original item by Noetic-fret!

Brutal, powerful, exhibiting the harsh exterior of life. Truth hurts. Moved by this matt - mike

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Thank you all for your kind words on my blog. Yes it is a hard and sensitive subject to try and write about. I am pleased you all enjoyed

cheers

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Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Antonionioni.
Interesting here that you have used the "y" sound as a focus and rhyme. The abrupt ending threw me a little - but was made up for by Betty in all her glory!
Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Morag.
I'm so glad I took the trouble to go through the POTM's to find this gem. There is so much to admire about this celebration of womanhood. You illustrate very succinctly what, for men, is the attraction of the female of the species, and why we so often fail to see or understand it! An excellent and beautiful poem.
Regards,
A.E.

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Deborah, your words express so well our fragile existence. "only a sigh restores my memory of reasons to climb back up this thread". Yes, you have something brilliant in your mind and heart which you are able to share in the form of poetry. Loved 'Selkie'

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Original item by Deborah Jordan Bailey

Hi Julian.
I'm quite new here and only found this by trawling through the POTM's. I'm so glad I did! It's witty, eloquent, suggestive and such wonderful word-play! Much admired, excellent.
Regards,
A.E.

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Thanks Janet for your generous comments. I was not feeling at all miserable when I wrote this. I am conscious of all the things I would like to do and this was a reminder to get a move on, but I just love dreaming.

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Original item by Carol Falaki

Hi Carol,
it's difficult to explain really because i had two completely different sets of imagery as i read your poem. I'll explain both for you.
1. the first image being similar to Kate Bush in Wuthering heights but the scene felt warmer.

2. the second image was of the grey lady of the lake in the tales of King Arthur and excalibur.

Two very different images which i'm still pondering the meaning of. Oh well, that's me and my input.

I do so love your poetry. Always very effective and affective.
Janet.x

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Original item by Carol Falaki

Hi Anthony,
the first poem made me feel so sad it brought tears to my eyes. Yet it is beautifully written.

The second one 'weather report,' was also quite good and very grey, except for the footprints in the sand of me. Splendid visionary senses.

Enjoyed these very much. Thankyou for sharing them with us.
Janet.xx

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Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Perhaps I didn't phrase that in quite the right way - I meant 'bleak' in a good way! - not a negative. :-)
Have you ever read any Anne Tyler? In 'A Patchwork Planet' she wrote (paraphrasing here!) that every relationship is strained, but after 40 or 50 years - the other sort of becomes the right person. Or something along those lines.
Your poem reminded me of that anyway.
Thanks for your remarks re my 'Attitude'! lol
Cx

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Original item by Anthony Emmerson

My point is that good and evil (God and the devil if you call them that) are choices we all make here and now, and are always love and fear (in every sentient being). Clarissa shouldn't feel insulted because she seems to be making exactly the same point!

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Original item by Jon Ridgeway

Hi Tim.
The Swan in Wood Street sounds an OK place to me. How wonderful to be able to mark your "poetic" birthplace. Deserves a placemark on Google Earth. Much enjoyed.
Regards,
A.E.

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Original item by Tim Ellis

Both of these are excellent Anthony, but I particularly liked 'A Hearty Breakfast' - very well written - it did, however, leave me feeling a little bit bleak!
Cx

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Original item by Anthony Emmerson

Hi Gus.
Thanks for taking a peek at "...not the only fruit." It's a very clumsy tongue-twister, but was great fun to construct. I guess writing something with that volume of rhymes is more akin to a crossword than poetry.
I really enjoyed the simple beauty of images in your "Yellow Dress" btw. Or was it beautiful simplicity? Probably both!
Regards,
A.E.

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

Does this mark the end of an era then Antonionioni?
I think this is apt because it reminds me of where i came in.
Amen!

ps. How about a good news week.
Janet.x

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Hi Daniel

Just read your poem, "Is this madness" can just imagine it being performed in a rap style with a great impact. What do you think? Winston

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Amen.
Cx

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Wonderful phrase - the gracing grip of day.
Cx

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Cheers, Steve. The poem is about Angel Hill in Boggart Hole Clough in North Manchester, which is right near where I grew up. The Angel is a bronze statue on a big stone plinth erected in remembrance of the first world war fatalities. I had to try and get all this into a short sonnet and I was advised on this one by Michael Symmons Roberts.

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Original item by Simon Rennie

sleep well, and very nice poem!

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night love x have a good one ...

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I named them 'hoo ray hens' as a bit of word play
cuz they act like us girls sometimes but would never admit to being as emotional as us.

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Liked this - like Winston the lines no balls....when drunk - very good, and so true of so many men I know! :-)
Cx

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Why My Winstonyness, thank you!

I have noticed it needs so work, chop a bit here n there, its just my tiny lil bedsit, it gets so messy and that Chav boyfriend of mine (who Paul loathes)- he's so lazy once he had his way with me (and scoffed about Paul Blackburn (Jealous you see)) he's out the door, offskie, the little chav.

I end up despising myself I should put him on a sex strike.

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Nurse, the screens !

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Oh Lauretta how I miss you as I lie in my sick bed.
If only you were my night nurse I know I'd be better already

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Liked this
esp.the lines -
no balls when sober
no lead when drunk
Winston

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Hi Winston!
no I should have put a disclaimer on here
poor Paul

sorry its pure fiction :-)

Paul , do you want me to delete this, you don't normally ;-)

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Does this account have any basis in fact ?!

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Hi Tim,
have read this a few times now and feel a sense of smouldering pride that i have found in folk who live in and are from Liverpool - which i suppose remains a city with identity - i have only to see the vegetable boxes placed by residents on the side streets of Toxteth to have this view reaffirmed...

minor point time - i think that your work is compromised by the nostrils drinking bit...doesn't work for me imho

steve

Comment is about European Capital of wot? (blog)

Original item by Tim Ellis

this is a thought provoking poem. I sometimes think of the difference between God in the old testament and God in the New. Hmmmm!

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a neighbourhood in orbit - interesting image Antonionioni

not sure about all the extra Earth creation thingy though...what about all that extra space junk!

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brings back memories. I never went abroad as a kid. Nice one!

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