Dave thank you again for commenting on my work - please also thank your friend on my behalf for being supportive - it is easy as you infer to miss large swathes of other's work - but I know how supportive most are at WOL

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Greg - (Matapos) it is so kind of you take the time to comment on my work - especially as I put so much stuff on here - it is this sort of encouragement that gives me the confidence to post more blogs - thanks a million - incidentally I have visited this place but years ago and these thoughts are still fresh in my mind - another friend (not WOL)who did not know I wrote poetry was astonished when she saw this and that I had not mentioned my interest in the muse

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i did'nt see that one but thanks very much cynth your words are really encouraging.

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Hi David. Thanks for your comment on 'Mackerel In The Bath', which in turn has led me to your work. 'On My Daughter's Conversion To Islam', especially, is a wonderful piece of writing.

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Hi Winston. Thank you for your comment on 'Mackerel In The Bath'-in which you summed the piece up perfectly!

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Perhaps also a bit of word play with the 'sleepiness' theme.

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I really like that change to the dreamtime, David. Seems to help it flow, and root it, too, if that makes sense! Probably not. But sometimes a small tweak can make a big difference, I've discovered.

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PS should ave mentioned I've tinkered a bit since. Changed the biblical reference to a more appropriate Aboriginal one - which also shortens an originally heavyish line.

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Hi Greg I nearly mailed you that I'd done another Oz poem. Glad you spotted it. You're right where the koalas are concerned. They're actually quite hard to see even if they're pointed out to you. We did a mini safari with this hippy looking bloke called Mark. He was really interesting and made us look at the landscape in a completely different way. The Australians pay lip service to preserving the koalas, but just get on with their lives. There are really quite small numbers of koalas left now. Lots get killed by domestic animals, and God knows how many were killed in the recent disasters. Unfortunately, for the little fellas they favour the S.E. coastal regions same as the majority of the people.

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thanks for the link anna
Win

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thanks for your comments on to the queen of carrot flowers. I can see the lyrical / musical possibilities but am musically inept! lol. maybe you could fashion something! Win :-)

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Thanks Winston, I intend to ;) x

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Thanks for your feedback on Mackerel In The Bath-and also for the tip on Xmas dinner in Hungary. You never know when such information may come in handy.

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Thank you for your comment on Mackerel In The Bath, I am pleased that you enjoyed it :-)

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Hi Cynthia - thanks for the comment on 'Perfect Place'. It's one of my favourites - if you are at Poetica on Wednesday coming when I am chairing - I'll tell you a funny story about it which I won't repeat on here... thanks again - x

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na thats pretty much it. The longing for change and the helplessness of akcnowledging it's failing to happen.

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Dear Cynthia. I did blog 'Love is' once before, early last year, but got cold feet and deleted it within a few hours and before anyone had commented.

I enjoyed writing it, but I don't think it hangs together as a poem...it's more a collection of nice ideas.

You know, I've only just realised this moment that...

'Love starts with a smile
and becomes a wildflower
tucked behind your ear.'

is a Haiku. Blimey!

Winston, are you watching?

:-)

Thank you for your kind comments.

Jx

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Hi Isobel;

Glad you like 'Perfect Place' - it's a bit of a oldie that one but its suited to the time of the life and links in well to 'Before the Curtains Open' (which is a lot newer)...

I'll prob read it at W.O.L. Bolton next month.. x

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Hi Alan - thanks for the comment on 'Perfect Place'.. It is a revised older piece, but one that still carries a lot of personal impact for me - glad you like it! it just goes to show i am turning into a a right soppy bugger! Thanks again for commenting.. See you soon i hope!

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Hi Greg, Thanks for your comment on 'The Mackerel', also thanks for leading me to your work. I love your nod in the direction of John Lennon. To our generation he was William Brown grown up and brought to life!

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Anna, can you post me a link to the poem a day for a month project please cant seem to find it? Win

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Thanks Cynthia for jumping into that poem about fading memories. I know I am not the easiest poet to read and I usually take the flack for that but I am deeply appreciative of your tenacity in grappling with the poem. Yes, it could be rain and it could be water pouring and splashing from an industrial tap. The simmering is the interaction with spending time in the baking sun and the splashing water that cooks and simmers 'memories' per se as they travel downward (with the help of gravity) and instead of pooling and puddling trickles away, thus fading off.... that can be a relief (ergo 'joy') or it can be a tragic reality of aging in an often uncaring world. Of course there is much room for interpretation as I aim not to tightly word my poems so as to restrict readers to an intended meaning. I am only too happy with a reader's construction from the verses as they work themselves into an individualised awareness and realisation. Again, thank you.

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Thanks Jane for your read and comment. The curious thing about "joy" in this poem stems from two things, the first - it is an inversion that allows stark contrast to the tone and feel of the poem, and second - there is a maudlin tragic joy, a sort of fool's consolation vaguely alluded to but not emphatically espoused by the poem. I am quite pleased that you picked up on that seeming contradiction. Whether intended or not, it allows for the reader to make their own conclusion.

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hi Lynn-thanks love,for commenting on 'having to accept'you are always very kind. my best to you-Stef.xx

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'evenin young Lady-thank you for nice comment on'half related' very kind as usual and always very nice to see you aboard!-love-Stef.xx

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Thanks Win. My first venture into cyber espionage!

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Hello Foxy,
Seems I've been a bit heavy-handed with my bloggin'.
I don't think the site firewalls and stuff could cope with my formula! It kept telling me my posting had failed so I just kept sending it!
Anyway, the sums add up!

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Hi Jane, thanks for the comment. It was written for every day... every day we are apart :-) Win.

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Greg - thank you for your generous comments on Urban Fox - much appreciated

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not better, just different, eh?
thank you. let's get a place by the sea.

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Beauty will not be pinned down. If you read anything with a reaction, whatever that is, perhaps you have experienced beauty? thanks, Isobel, for sharing all your thoughts. Your comment on Altered States was hilariouT

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Hi Cynthia - thank you very much for your very kind comments on Vespers - such encouragement always appreciated x

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Hi Ann - thank you very much for the comments on Vespers - and Bryopsida. Your kind encouragement is always a welcome boost x

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hilaura
yep send me your email address and ill send it over as an attachment. i dont know if its any good. i really need to lure some children tomy house and read them it although that could be considered unhealthy. imagine the good old stories of yore being interrupted by social services and the pc police...shit what would they do to that baba yaga old witch... eating babies and trapping kids in cages...one of my faves was a bout a boy who was turned into a goblin and worked for this witch for all his life and when he came round from the spell only a day had gone. i love those time warping tales.
so ill send you mine n you send me yours oooer

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(waiter)
has anybody seen the eyes yet?
Thanks for the comments.
Ann - his name was Al - Al Dente - I gave him a tip, I said "more salt in the spaghetti" -but it didn'ae work

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Hi - thanks for the comments (someday)- Dave - longing is what it is - I hadn't realised though how I had got that across, but pleased I did. B

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Hi - thanks for the comments (someday)- Dave - longing is what it is - I hadn't realised though how I had got that across, but pleased I did. B

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Hi Mark, Thanks for the comment on 'You'll Be Old Yourself One Day".
Yeah,sod the alternative, getting old is fun!

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Thanks for your comments on my mouse.
Of course, a gentleman would wipe it!

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Reds? Brentford? Rotherham? Don't know who you mean!

Nat who, cheeky swine! ha, nice one Gus great to see you, Jeffarama!

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Hi Ann, finally managed a wind turbine poem! see todays blogs. Win x

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Aw thanks Andy :D x

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Great ;) It was such fun making haikus

I meant to share this with you but forgot

Catcher

Then all at once a scarecrow
appeared on the page
to thwart my attempts
at making sense of the words
penned by a sage.

A piece cobbled together
bolted shining shards
each image surreal
ached me to feel her soul bared
in lines sharp as swords.

It's nonsense of course, she said,
a glint in her eye.
There I'd been, searching
deep for the meaning, absurd
to be caught in the wry!

My way of saying thank you for sharing so much of yourself, your time, your knowledge and your poetry...

Much love
Petrova
xXx

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Hi Cynthia

Thanks for your comments on "Sunday" and to answer your question I haven't been to Africa but have seen enough nature programmes to appreciate it's stark beauty and that of the seeming savagery of natural law which we humans often deem cruel.

Glad you liked it and as always your feedback is welcome and appreciated. x

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Hi Val, thanks for your lovely comment on 'For the good times' :-)
You are very kind.

Have you retired from running Bolton poetry scene for good now?
x

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Hi Izzy, thanks for comment on 'For the good times'- oh dear! I really didn't mean for it to reflect sadness and/or regret.Further comment below the poem if you care to read it.x

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Actually Cynthia (re; Night Walk)- this was just one of those places waiting for a poem - a while back now and I was invited to be the male escort with 2 ladies and 3 kids travelling from South Africa to Zim and back - yes special companions and lots of nice memories - thanks for commenting x

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Hi Adele, well I do get to London now and again and if it ever coincides I would love to read at your night, Thanks for the invite, Win x

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That's hilarious....so hilarious I'm currently snorting uncontrollably...I hadn't slept in 2 days, so, exhausted, I decided to write about it, as I was musing and contemplating the difficulty of trying to use my brain must have roused that long awaited state. :-@

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Well John, I'm shocked! I hope you wipe your mouse afterwards...

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