Ha ha :D not at all Tommy, it's simply that the 3rd stanza speaks most strongly to me ... ;p xXx

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If you didn't know what a milf was it's a pretty safe bet that we won't bump into each other on the other websites I frequent!

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I was running late for work when I read and commented on your poem. I didn't have time to look anything up so decided it must be an alternative word for minx. How wrong was I! If you'd punctuated it with full stops, I might have realised it was an abbreviation...
You've caught me out. I'm a lazy commenter! x

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Incidentally, Dave Bradley commented on the poem and said that he had to look up the word "milf". You didn't have any problem then?

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Thanks for your thoughts on Happy Birthday, Jill. I suspect we won't bump into each other on the othere websites we visit if you didn't know what a milf was!

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Isobel, my friend Jill is not right in the head. She is enormously entertaining, enormously embarrassing and enormously loved. I am a better person for knowing her and having to endure her!

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Hi Lucy. Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'.
I've enjoyed reading your work-keep them coming.

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Hello John, Thanks for your comment on 'Sailors Are Very Strange Men'-and I am pleased that you posting led me to your page. Tom Pudding I especially enjoyed-it sent me scurrying to the search engine! As a recent incomer to Yorkshire (my wife is a Wakey lass, this was my passport in!) I am getting a lot of pleasure from exploring this areas industrial past, the fact that people such as yourself are recording it in verse is brilliant. Very inspiring.

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Thanks for your message, Lynn, and sorry that my comments about Dad's Army were fairly incoherent. But that's the trouble, I think, the concept of English patriotism is difficult to get to grips with. For me, anyway. Glad you enjoyed East Budleigh, as I did your poem Childhood Friendship. That theme dug into a rich seam, didn't it? We once had a holiday on the Pembokeshire coast, at a place called Little Haven. Unfortunately it was the week of the Chernobyl fallout drifting over Britain, and our 15-month-old kept stuffing lumps of sand in his mouth. Nerve-wracking!

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Thanks for agreeing with me John.
My what big ears you've got.

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Thanks for your comments on some of my recent ones, Chris. Yes - knowing the current me, it does seem inconveivable that I could ever have disappeared. I know for sure that oould never happen to me again! Lovely to see you posting and on here more often! xx

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Hi Greg - re; Night Walk - yes another world indeed - such fond (and not so fond) memories - appreciate the commentsThanks also for comments on Jacarandas in Joburg - nice to feel encouraged

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Hi Greg, thanks for your comment on "I'm Sorry, I'm English", apologies that I only just saw it and I have now answered on that thread.
Must add that I really enjoyed your East Budleigh poem, excellent. x

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Very thought provoking and touching poem obviously you have been moved by this mothers sad predicament :-))xx

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Thank you for your comment Val hope to come to the Bolton venue soon xx

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Thanks for your comments on my untitled piece Cynthia, much appreciated x

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Thanks Chris, I really enjoyed the Tudor, was a great experience both reading and listening to others.

Well done with hosting :) x

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good one on the repaired tootsie young lady-catch you later-love-Stef.xx

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lovely to see you back Lynn-phew! you had me worried I must admit-thanks for reading and commenting on 'stay'my best to you(psst-hows the toe now?)..SWxx

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For me, it's an excellent poem - but IMHO doesn't need the last bit.
I think it could end very well like this, or similar

....how my life has changed
I need you to walk the cliff path with me again -
I get lost when I’m out there on my own.

xx

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Enjoyed your poems. I don't get to travel much and will when my kids are older. If you're ever in London come and read at Camden and Lumen.

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Hi Andy

I enjoyed your poem and your bio. I spent a few years in Manchester as a little girl as my Dad was from there.

If you're sometimes down in London I help out at two venues called Camden and Lumen where they have regular open mics. You can find them on Facebook.

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Thanks for the warm welcome, and thanks for entering the contest Winston. I'm curious to see the poet Carol Ann Duffy selects!

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for comment on 'Nightmare' :-)

I appreciate your honesty here because i actually felt it was lacking something sensory but i couldn't seem to make more of it so went ahead and posted anyway.x

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Hi Elaine, thanks for lovely comment on 'for the good times' :-)
much appreciated.x

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Hi Andy, thanks for comment on 'for the good times' :-)

as for performing it? well...maybe one day.x

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Hi Laura, so were you singing manic monday all day? ha ha

Thanks for comment on 'for the good times' :-)

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Hi Cynthia - re: Down to Earth - many thanks for the detailed analysis your comments always valuable - like yourself I have quite a varied background with mine straddling a Master's in Philosophy amongst other qualifications and 3 significant career paths followed by adventurous living overseas - poetry though has always been precious to me and some might regard me as aloof because I always seem to be working on the next muse - although I do have a whacky sense of humour probably born of my northern origins in the face of adversity x

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Hi Ann - I can see that you've disabled comments on your latest - a lovely sad poem - but I thought you need to know that this is superfluous, as its obvious from the rest that they're gone - just my 2 cents !! xx

and as sit and think all this,

I realise that all the people
that I want to see today are gone

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Ann, your interest in archaeology so fits with my admiration of your deep imagination, I am flabbergasted I never considered the association before: a digger of the past, and digester of the seemingly insignificant to make a comprehensive whole. It was screaming at me. I greatly support the explorers, but often quail at their preconceived conclusions.

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Cheers Andy, it was daunting but I was definitely on cloud 27 all day Friday ;) x

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Jane, you 'man' the barricade, I'll read you works of Federico Garcia Lorca, and pass you the cartridges.

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Hi Adele, just entered your comp. Thanks for the heads up. Win

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welcome abroad adele.. enjoyed your sample piece. x

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Hello Ann.
Thanks for the comments on Red Lady of Paviland.
I think if you studied about the Red Lady you'd know that the supposition on which I base the poem (killed by a mammoth) is a bit of a stretch. More likely a regal ritualistic burial.
Also, the cave was miles (perhaps hundreds of miles) from the sea.
Anyway, once again, thanks for your thoughts.

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Hello Cynthia.
Thanks for your thoughts on Red Lady of Paviland.
The pressing rhythm I tried to achieve by the unremitting trochaic metre and then vary the line length using alternate full and truncated tetrameters. Simples!
I bet Lomgfellow would be awed to be in the same sentence as me!

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Thanks for your thoughts on Red Lady of Paviland.
I was inspired by the recent Neil Oliver programme on Ancient Britain.
There's bit of a poetic licence stretch in that the cave is at the bottom of the sea cliffs, where I set the poem whereas when the Red Lady was alive the sea was miles away, probably with South Wales continuously joined to the West Country (maybe even Brittany).

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I dont know about cute, but I sure am "cuddly" - since I stopped smoking 6 yrs ago !! xx

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Hello you! Long time no hear...
Thank you for your comment. Hope to see you at a Bolton gig some time soon. Can't make tomorrow but hopefully next month, if I can write something. x

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Hi Jane THanks for the comment on Empty Nests. Glad you liked it. I'll have to check out some of yours. David

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Win- thanks for the comments
(retro-fitted smile)
to be honest, playing devil's advocate, I'm probberly just all bitter'n twisted :D

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Cyn- thanks for the comments
(retro-fitted smile)
to be honest, playing devil's advocate, I'm probberly just all bitter'n twisted :D

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Hi Isobel,
Many thanks for your kind comments X

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Hiya Melanie, thanks for your brief visit! ;o)
Tommy

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Hello Christine - these poems are excellent. I write about mental health as a service user. I also write about nature as I have a qualification in Environmental Studies. At the moment, amazingly, I am writing love poems! Please get in touch if you want to know more

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No worries - I don't keep a tab :)) x

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Hi Greg, yes am afraid I am old enough! I was about 14, stood on the Great Lever End, Chelsea fans came in, it kicked off then I think there was fans on the pitch from both sides, chaos but great game, yeah those were the days mate!

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Cheers Jeff & thanks for coming over to introduce yourself, there'll be a few more friendly faces to focus on next time I'm on that big stage ;) I was on cloud 27 all day Friday, kept grinning & feeling proud of myself, overall a great experience, good to hear other people too and meet people I'd read & enjoyed on here.
Have a fantastic weekend, see you soon,
Petrova.
xXx

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Hi Jeff. Can't believe you were at that Bolton v Chelsea match - surely you were too young?! I'm talking about the 1976-77 season when both teams were pushing for promotion. I do remember it being fairly lively at the ground - those were the days! I was living in York at the time and I recall even more clearly driving across on the M62, and how beautiful the snow on the tops looked in the January sunshine

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greetings Mr. Freeman-obliged to you for reading and commenting on'passenger'glad it came over rhythmic to you-cheers-SW.

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