Hi Isobel, thanks for your comment on haiku's and other poems of mine too.
Your straight-forward and honest approach is both refreshing and joyful, and that goes for your comments on others work too.

Janet.x

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Hi Nicky, sorry i forgot to thankyou for your comment on the later edition of Kinsella and your encouragement.

Janet.x

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Hi Anthony, hope you're well and don't want to place you under any pressure but wanted to say you are missed.

Janet.x

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Hi Cynthia,
thankyou so much for your recent comments, they mean a lot to me. I never realized when i first began to write how difficult and how important it would become to me to get it right wherever possible. I still have a long way to travel but am slowly but surely learning as i go along. Incidentally i agree with some of what you say in the discussion thread you set up but mediocre is something i think we all are, will be or have been guilty of. The secret is to recognize it and learn from it. :-)

Janet.x

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dead on Janet.
Bernie

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Hi Cynthia

thanks once again for reading an making comment -

steve x

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Hi Dave,

thanks for reading and making comment on my poem '3am'

steve x

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HI Marianne thank you for reading and making considered comment on my poem 'moving away'

steve x

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Hi - me again..... I'm only just getting round to answering all my messages and emails after a hectic month, which has included both a house move and a hospital stay - so sorry for the delays.
Afterlife.... I'm afraid my belief is that there isn't one, when you're dead - you're dead, and the only way to live on is by passing a copy of your DNA on. You don't get your rewards or punishments in any afterlife - only in this one; and those are not always commensurate with your actions or deeds.
And I count myself fortunate that I can live in a society that allows me to say that, and where someone with the completely opposite p-o-v can state their beliefs too.
Leonard Cohen - I love! I believe I've just missed him (again!) in concert over here, but I think the man is a genius. Do you know 'The Future'? - I love the bleakness of the lyrics, though there are too many of his that I love for me to say it's my favourite - just one of many. Who else do you like?
Cx

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Hi there,
Thanks for reading, and commenting on, 'Scrabble Online' - glad you enjoyed it. I'd be happy to join you in a game of Lexulous, though I've never heard of it and don't know how to play, is it on Facebook? Having recently lost 2 of my favourite Scrabble partners (you know who you are, you wimps! call yourselves obsessives, humph!) if you want to find me on f/b (I'm there under my other name - Christine Neale - just follow the trail of poets) - I'll be happy to play Scrabble with you too.
Cx

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Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you for reading, and commenting on, 'Important' - I'm pleased you liked it, and I value your opinion. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply - been a bit of a hectic time recently to say the least!
Hope you're well,
Cx

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Hi John,
Thanks for reading, and commenting on, 'Important', glad you liked it. Sorry it has taken me a while to reply to you - to paraphrase Lennon - my life has been happening whilst I was making other plans!
Hope you're well,
Cx

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C'est très émouvant Peter... beaucoup de belles images...

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Passionate as always...
Very conscious of what I eat... and what I buy...

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Mmm... le mois de novembre ; )
Really like the photo Peter, as it shows dilapidation on the interior and life on the exterior.
xxxxx

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Thanks all,
Cynthia - yes you got it right but neither of your chosen words would fit the syllable count. :-)

Isobel - you obviously had a similar up-bringing to myself, i too come from a large family squashed up in a house not big enough for all to be together and get along well all the time but as you rightly say, arguments were worked through and sorted out no matter how difficult it seemed at the time. :-)

Antonionioni - they weren't meant to be hard hitting, just honest and simple truth.

Janet.x

Comment is about Unkind Gesture (Haiku's) (blog)

Is this the Willows in Salford?
I remember it well and omg what a shop that was!

Janet.x

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I think this is far below what you are capable of Cynthia. It seems like several pieces of work mixed into one. You've not formed the work properly. Good idea not executed properly.

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Thank-you both for the positive comments! I wasn't sure if I liked it myself at first, I mainly wrote it just to put the word 'oubliette' into a poem :-)

The sentiment grew around that!

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Dave
I was glad to read this. It made me feel quite humble in a way, to know how this community has grown from its hop-roots beginning..

Comment is about John Jelly Tribute (blog)

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liked this, "nothing is our fault"

seems we live by those words nowdays.
Bernie

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Excellent

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You go from strength to strength, Janet. I look forward to your posts; they are so immediate and honest, and well-expressed.

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Cheers Mate.
Bernie

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I'm not a fan of your new profile picture Gus. It reminds me of the morphing Voldemort from Harry Potter - you are far prettier than that!

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Hi Dave
I'm very much with you on the Haiku front, but I wondered:-
'Warm applause rings out.
Many highwire walker wait
patiently in line'

Would this be a high queue haiku?

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Like it Steven. Oubliette nice word :-). Keep posting.

John

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Thanks Cynthia.
Bernie

Comment is about Don't (blog)

Nicky this is a lovely personal observation about an incredibly difficult subject. The problem is no-one (no matter what they tell you) can appreciate your hurt when carving these words out.
I would have liked a little more grief, bitterness and why me in it, although you may not have wanted to show that side of your feelings.
The last line hints at it. It must have taken a lot to write this, well done. Keep writing it every now an again to see if it changes, even if you don't publish. Thank you for writing it.

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A sad one Janet - one of the best lessons I was ever taught by my parents was to accept a genuine apology or peace offering - in a large family an absolute must cos arguements were a plenty. Just as important in a small family where allies are few - arguments should never be allowed to fester.

Comment is about Unkind Gesture (Haiku's) (blog)

Joan, you've captured fractured motherhood in a mouthful; very good.

Comment is about Tainted Wings (blog)

Short, universal and impactive. I really like it.

P.S. Pop an 'h' on to 'as' in line 5.

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Janet, you get better every day.
By any chance, did you mean 'spurned' as in 'rejected' for 'returned the hand of friendship'? I'm only wondering. I didn't get the impression that they shook hands.

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Hi Dave, thank you for your comment on my poem. 'Lilley', is very dear to me as is 'Glass Eyes'. Both written in the last few weeks on the birthday of my son, who would have been 11 this year and going to high school.

Funny, being an English teacher, I tend to push the point that poetry is subjective to the reader. Although, poetry, simply by it's mere existence is subjective to the writer.

thank you again for your warm and heartfelt comments. Take care, and keep on writing. For me, writing helps me process thoughts and emotions that maybe I don't want to burden others with. ( I have written some fun stuff though ).

Peace be with you too.

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Hi, Darren. Thank you for your comments, nice from a fellow boltonion. Your 'Baggage' is very thought provoking (my favourite type of writing) Made me think about how my husband must have felt, and appreciate just how much he has done and cares for our eldest son, even after the next three babies came along. It's very honest and open and draws empathy from the reader, especially in this age of the extended family.

Take care, look forward to reading more.

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Hi Winston,with reference to my comment on your haiku, it was meant to be a little contradictory and refers to your recent working holiday because i don't know what the weather was like where you were.Thanks for your kind words as to the structure and of course it is meant to be a light-hearted response.Janet.x

oooh, i just noticed we can now edit comments. Yippee!

It saves me commenting again with my thanks for your comment on my other haiku.xx

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Thanks John, I will go and have a look, thinking about it I remember reading a piece called?? "a radio with guts" which was impressive.
Bernie

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Hi Janet. Can polar bears handle pick axes? In any case liked this. nice combination of cold / hard and warm / soft. Reminds me of when I was walking the tow path near marple 8 years ago and saw some workmen breaking the ice on the canal viaduct. If left the expanding ice can crack the stone work.

Saving the canal
Marple viaduct
steel harpoons pierce the thick ice
navys hold their breath

win x

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Thanks Janet, don't think I have got this over clearly judgeing from your comments, just read about John Jelly, very interesting.
Bernie

Comment is about Wannabe Street Poet (blog)

Thanks for this, a good insight of how it all began.

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Hi there Cynthia

Thanks for your commentson Haiku drinks. Just a bit of fun really, I am not that cleaver actually.lol

Win x

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Thanx 4 that Win...I always wanted to be in the 'Club'

Gus

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I just knew this series was going to turn around to something like this. Controversial.

Janet.x

Comment is about Pointless 6 (blog)

I like this too.
Have you read the story of John Jelly by Dave Morgan on here?
It has a similar story-line about Wols beginnings though i wouldn't call it pimping. :-)

Janet.x

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I've read this a few times and i didn't meet John Jelly but i notice he was born in the same year as me. It's a brilliantly informative read and good to let people know where the foundations of Write-out-loud are.
Nice one Mr. Morgan.

Janet.x

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I quite like the essence of this poem. I get the feeling of there being a hint of the dare-devil but with some self restraint.

Janet.x

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Aw you didn't forget to replace a tooth for an offering of silver Joan did you?
Shame on you. :-)

Janet.x
ps. the guilt must have been horrendous.

Comment is about Tainted Wings (blog)

i wasnt sure tone until the other night if you were going to do ontop of your sonnets.. i think you prob. could as i think they are very different!

Comment is about Pointless 5 (blog)

curious piece, tone... but i liked it! this series as i thought is now starting to turn off in un-usual directions indeed!

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Hi Cynthia

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my poem 'slight'

steve x

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