Mama Mia, Your chello, brings music to my ears and other parts of the anatomy. Welcome to Write out Loud matey. Gordon Z

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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Thanks very much Clarissa. It is a controversial poem and people react to it in many different ways. I am glad that you enjoyed it.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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I don't disagree with anything you say Clarissa. The public must be protected from violent criminals. I would not necessarily believe Williams in his claims of innocence of the murders or his conversion to the promotion of peace, but I am sure that killing him will not have helped anything.

I also think that the decision to execute was a cynical piece of politicking.

I don't claim to have solutions to these appalling situations. I just comment.

Comment is about Tookie Williams Died Today (blog)

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Melissa, This is wonderful, and yes they do walk with us and at times we can feel them, its freaky! In dreams they do talk to us, I love the poem and the pic is wonderful. I have a small video a friend sent me of orbs, its awsome! Loved this poem really hit home with me. thanks

Comment is about Spirits Among Us (blog)

amazing great poems, enjoyed reading them

Comment is about Julie Boyle (poet profile)

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this is very good, it was as if I was there finding this dead person...ekkkkk...wow..is it a true story?

Comment is about the souvenir hunter (blog)

very good and very funny!

Comment is about Elvis McGonagall (poet profile)

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I enjoyed so much reading your poems, It was as if being there and seeing it all, hearing it all and understanding so well the feelings involved. your poetry is wonderful thanks

Comment is about Kath Dodd (poet profile)

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wow, very nice poems, thanks for posting them for us all to read.

Comment is about Paul Pyke (poet profile)

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HI Lenford,
Your poems are very nice. I can tell from your poems that you really lost a special person. Im sorry for that, and hope that time helps. I know for me that reading and writting poems has helped me. take care

Comment is about Lenford White (poet profile)

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Bravo on the poem Original Sin, its wonderful in every way and simply put...perfect! I enjoyed reading it very much.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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great poem,I am against the death sentance, however these street thugs need to be stopped. Dont most of them "find god" after the fact. I feel mainly to save their hides.The history of gangs is very interesting. The crips and the bloods were some of the most violent american gangs of our time.I was once a wittnes to a mini riot between the Latin Kings ( the leader lived next door to me) and other gangs. These people had no respect for others or themselves, they ran drugs, prostitution,beat up and raped girls, smoked crack in broad daylight,exposed themselves etc...cops had no way of controling them, most of the time gangs have better guns then the cops.I once worked the night shift @ a 7-11, I have been robbed by gang members, I can assure you that the true scum come out at night to reign terror on inocent people. I quit that job as I never felt safe again and felt as if I needed to lock myself in the cooler, its a joke to say that you can call the cops here and feel safe. By the time you dial you are in a pool of blood on the ground.I lived in the "hood" as that was all I could afford at the time, I made my mind up to make friends with the rival gangs as I could not fight them, so for a time I was called (MOM) by the bloods and crips of my area.I think some can be saved from a life of crime. I feed them, let them stay with me when it was obviouse that their parents had no love or care for them. I engaged them in conversations and made them think, showed them that their were other ways to live. I saved 2 kids that I know of , took them off the streets and showed them love and that adults did care about them. some are beyond help tookie was one of them.The justice system is no good here, and the prisons are like a motel 6.Thi system needs reform, but as long as our government is in the business of making money from crime it will not. As long as the media continues to glorify crimes, it will not change.As long as the guilty can write books and make movies that glorify their wild wicked lives it will not change. As long as it takes 2 parents working at times 2 full times jobs, thus not being able to spend time with their children, this type of thug mentality will continue as the kids of these are looking at first for family, a place to belong. Its true that a power group of rich are behind most of this, caos and terror, begets bigger government, more laws, less rights, and nets the big boys more power /control/money. great job on the poem!

Comment is about Tookie Williams Died Today (blog)

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as in the case of WW2 it did create peace, it was a declaired war, it was needed and constitutional..in other words not an act of agression/tresson/terrorist invasion.Why we have war? many reasons,the makers of bombs and guns need cash flow, cant keep people working and stock pile the stuff up to heaven, can we?So you would need to look closely at who benifites from war. Its not the people fighting the war, its not their parents,or the people next door.Its the investors, the board of directors, the high rolling machines on both side of any conflict that CASH in! You cant force others into having a government that they are against from the very core of their being, that being religion. unfortunate as it is religion has so many times been the problem and not the solution. History is ripe with bullys of faith killing in the name of peace and their god.I say let God deal with it, he/she can fight it alone. as a god it would win. no need of our help in this matter.If the invasion is for say oil, even thought we are not and have not recieved any and our prices continue to climb, and we have been acused of warring for oil. Then why is the war costing us so much cash? By God our great grandchildren will still be paying for this invasion. Did you know we as Americans just paid off the spanish american war? TRUE was a tax in out phone bills till a few months ago. I do believe that war may indeed be with us forever, however if we cant afford it, we need to have the guts to get out of it. I read last week that the troups are going to run out of food, no bill has been passed to keep the war going. I read that the act of going a wall is up 80%, our boys know whats going on and its time to put an end to this act of terror on forgien soil. Bravo on the poem ...you got me going!

Comment is about Black and White (blog)

well I want a Celstial teapot, full of fables and romance, trips to the moon with singing baboons.I can do without the lies and biteing flies and the greed,the money lust in mens eyes. ah all the illusionist right before my eyes. great poem, full of feeling

Comment is about Dead Dog (blog)

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HI Melissa,
Its a very nice poem, wisdom mixed with real life living courage...

Comment is about Building Blocks (blog)

YOU TELL THEM!! I dont understand why we even trade with such pigs...If I was the boss we sure would not. great poem!!

Comment is about In Praise of the Glorious House of Saud (blog)

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Thanks to paul for your comment I Hope I can catch it when it does come back.
And Clarissa I also like pen and paper better than sound recorders the poems that wake you up in the middle of the night are so loud they beg to be writtten!

Comment is about poem lost (blog)

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Hey Melissa
I love this poem, particularly the first 8 lines and from with each Tear... to ... nothing. I think it oculd even stop at that point and have said it all.

Excellent sentiments, well expressed, in my humble opinion.

Thank you
Julian

Comment is about Building Blocks (blog)

hi daniel,
I have had those to, makes you crazy, they can be some of the best. I went out and got a mini tape recorder, seems to help at times. I am more comfortable with pen and paper.Oh the ones that wake you up...they are so loud! great poem thanks

Comment is about poem lost (blog)

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Hey Daniel I think I may have seen your poem it floated past in the ether last night but I couldn't catch it. Maybe it's on it's way back to you
Paul

Comment is about poem lost (blog)

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I love it...its naughty and wonderful! you have a wonderful talent

Comment is about Rosemary Dun (poet profile)

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He looks like my grandpa...devil. I read about this guy....your poem says it all. good job!

Comment is about Black Smith (blog)

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aww poor mouse...

Comment is about Thomas (blog)

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wonderful poem/story...nature violent...just like us in a way. I have been camping many times in the mountains with snow, been hikeing loads of times, Im thankful never to have come across a bear. great one! thanks

Comment is about Winters Dice (blog)

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And little fleas have lesser fleas upon their back to bite them.

Yeah the quick shall not be spread.

Gospel according to Thomas.

Comment is about Thomas (blog)

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Alas poor mouse in that he hath pervaded the parlour with entrail and pith, and that Thomas hath rendered him unto distribution and mayhem.Oh may the Lord giveth forgiveness for the deed and show tenderness unto the once quick but now spread. May the rodent's relic be comforted.

Comment is about Thomas (blog)

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LOL I could not believe it when I heard that... was so girl fighting, I know if it was me Id bite and it would be over. great poem, was a disgracful day in the world of boxing.

Comment is about Bite Night (blog)

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yay!
Sweet an tender!

Comment is about J. Fergus Evans (poet profile)

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I really wish I had been able to see more of your fair country. I had really wanted to see Liverpool, but was talked out of it. I enjoyed my 2 weeks there, but was not ready for the $ exchange and had a mini crisis, due to cash flow. I hope to go back there...soon would be great but with the dollars worth @ 33 cents. I cant see it happening for a while. as it was the last time I had a months pay just to go and stay that short time. was not the smartest thing I have ever done, but I felt a calling to go, so I did. bravo on this one...great poem!

Comment is about The 'Pool is Cool (blog)

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haha this is great!

Comment is about The Very First Time (blog)

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Velcome to our... humble home (imagine as said by Count Dracula)!
Nowt wrong with coming from France - lovely place, 'interesting' people, gorgeous food...
Betterton Street is a poky hole, though. Imagine Flourish and Blotts' bookshop in the Harry Potter films: steep teetering stairways and all! And the people who run the place...! No, go somewhere else.

Comment is about Richard Earls (poet profile)

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The news flash is great! I love ducks. The poem is very nice. thanks

Comment is about The Peabody Duck March (blog)

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its bettter! You changed it, I like it even more, or it could be, that im scatter brained these days, with worry and fear, I guess I could have read it wrong the first time. But it seems different. Very nice!

Comment is about a picture of the day (blog)

Welcome Richard,
I only asked you where you were based. Some of us have just come back from our annual pilgrimage to Bordeaux where we held poetry workshops and open mic shows in English and French. So some of us are francophiles. We're hoping to do something in Bordeaux in spring - where are you in France? You could come!
Paul
Where in France are you

Comment is about Richard Earls (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel, loved the before and after photos, see you're gracing many a stage, hopeyou can make it to Bolton again, people still speak of you in awe and reverence

Dave Morgan

Comment is about Rachel Pantechnicon (poet profile)

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Sinone, you're a woman after my own liver, and Iike your childhood poem, lucky you

ciao bambino!

Dave

Comment is about Simone Mansell Broome (poet profile)

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Dave, I meant I had too many "ands" in the first sentence of my comment, i.e. I was critiquing my own critique as I wrote it - very post modern

Comment is about Remembrance Sunday (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Thanks Ricardo

I hope there is a place for it, but I am not much bothered really. I am happy to put things on here and on my own sites. It is nice to get reaction though.

Comment is about The Marriage of Ellie and Carl (blog)

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Strngely enough Paul, this isn't a poem, it's a blog! Somehow it just looks poem-like. Do you really think I'd write a poem which didn't rhyme. And there's only two ands! Alabaster wherefore art thou with thy wailing sax, flushed with that fullpage colour coverage in the Bolton News no doubt, ah how soon they forget you once they're rich and famous. Melissa and peter thank you for your kind comments. I am considering making this a weekly foray into the stultifyingly dull world of Dave Morgan.

Comment is about Remembrance Sunday (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

This poem is like life itself (he said pompously), it has a start and an end and is full of a mix of happiness, poignancy, sadness and things happening in the middle.
Too many "ands" says a pedant!
Seriously I enjoyed this one, I too was at a remembrance day event though in my case it was in a strange town and quite by chance.
PaulB
PS By the way Dave I thought you had recorded some poems with Alabaster - when are we going to hear them?

Comment is about Remembrance Sunday (blog)

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'Course you don't know these peopleses! Long time ago now as the nose flies - and a Completely Different Course!!!
Not only that, you're a Bury gal! I know how particular these towns can be.

Best wishes all the same, in a cosmopolitan vein

Comment is about Gemma Lees (poet profile)

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well, I would like to know how to speak German, as they are part of my kin, but I understand your point! I think its a great poem, we do try and cant help it when those elected lie and cheat us.I can assure the camel lovers of this, be glad Im not in charge. But then they are just a pawn and thus cant be thought of in that way. Its very hard to figure out truth from fiction over here, the news is so bad and I must say it is un the UK. God, well I really struggle with that subject, seems the history of organize faith is so full of blood, I have zero to do with it, but part of me still believes in a higher power and I have had interesting things happen after prayer, that i wont go into, but beautiful and wonderous visions.So its hard to just throw that away. I think that within my life time I will see a revolution here in America, Im not happy about it, as I know it means death of some. I love this poem it makes me think as Im compelled to do daily.I really love your work . thanks clarissa

Comment is about I'm Glad (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Wondiferously splendourich!!!

You do these soooooo well!
There is certainly a place for your work in the world. More people need to know.
There must be a way of getting the right people to pick up on it and get you on your way.
You deserve it.

Providing, that is, if that is what you want, of course.

Comment is about The Marriage of Ellie and Carl (blog)

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Thanks Clarissa

I am published. On here. That'll do.

Comment is about The Marriage of Ellie and Carl (blog)

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I did "get" it and emailed you that I had.I understood some of it, but the cutting part Ill never understand it, I know for some its very real and they do it, but self mutilation is very foriegn to me.Pain as the tutor in life is a great line. Its not a failure.Im just happy go lucky me and have a hard time with subjects like this.So the fault is within me.Now I feel bad for asking a question.

Comment is about pain a tutor stasis (painatutorstasis) (blog)

Hi Clarissa, thanks for your questions on this.
The picture in this case is purely a metaphor.
I cannot explain the poem as it is just a stream of ideas, perhaps then, not a poem, it refers it seems to demons within and the cutting to feel real, maybe a diversion of pain. However it seems pain follows us around from one ill to the next and only the mind can finally exercise it.

At the beginning of the piece I had a vision of hiding things away, the stashing of the junk food, but later a more public display of desperation. It also refers to substances such as sugar or other drugs which may offer a high a quick hit release.

I would not like to explain the poem as that defeats the obect, however I would say that if it cant be understood then that is a failure on my writing. I always try and project something tangible rather than a theory or forced poem, I think as I gain more writing expierence I may be able to be more proficient. I wish to be as subtle as I can even with massive understatements being the paradox.

Comment is about pain a tutor stasis (painatutorstasis) (blog)

He looks like an interesting person.A pint and a chat may be what he needs. I think its nice you helped him and the poem and pic are wonderful. great work!

Comment is about a picture of the day (blog)

nice imagery Dave, you started a story there, I was getting into it! Just like when the party gets started and they pull the plug, the shortening of time, the passing of it, oh the lamenting...will you continue the story. An english kerouac

Comment is about Remembrance Sunday (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Im more and more amazed with your work, you really should be published.Im a kid at heart and love your work... they make me HAPPY!

Comment is about The Marriage of Ellie and Carl (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Thanks Clarissa

I have different views from most people and I am happy with that. The world would be a strange and freaky place if we all agreed with each other. If anybody wants to discuss my views with me or express their own opinion I am very happy to welcome them in my Liberty Shed or any of my blogs.

I very much appreciate your comments on my poetry. I hope that you keep on enjoying them.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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