Absolutely Love this!!!!!

These lines say so much, and I can relate so well...

'wish washed on bland beaches
there used to be storms here
the excitement of the un-jaded life'

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Nope! Sorry Isobel - I have no idea how to 'drive' this site properly. It seems like a labyrinth with lots of interconnections. I can't find an idiots guide anywhere. I'll just have to go on posting on 'samples' (I did wonder why it said that). Are you still following Isobel, Lauretta? If you are: glad you liked the rudeness. It is actually a satirical device - I hope I don't get stuck on it!
Lots of thanks to you both.

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Very funny - you are taking me to new places Lauretta - but it seems to beat my boring local!
Isobel x

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I'm following Isobel around.
Barry - Wow what a collection
'Lifetime leg end' is a classic!

I thought I was rude until I discovered this jamboree!!! super n rude. Keep it er, up.

seriously super, fun

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Barrie - you've given me such a laugh! And you have scored a first - you are the first man ever to write me a love poem - awwwww - I will treasure it for ever - even if I did have to share it with one other! I did wonder if you knew how to post a blog cos you seem to have rather a lot of sample poetry in your profile. To the right of where you log in you can submit a blog - these poems tend to get read by people looking at fresh stuff but don't all show constantly on your profile - they tend to get commented on more also - which is also nice. Forgive me if I'm telling you what you already know - it took me a while to fathom things out. I do think you should blog some poetry though - it all reads so well and you are obviously very talented.
Isobel X

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Original item by Barrie Singleton

Très marrant...

'bar maid rated me
others secretley slated me
I saw it in their eyes
one can only try
to fit in
despite being a painted alpha
seemed not enough
I bet
they are jealous'

Je t'adore ; )

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Dear ladies! I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is I will post another funny for you after wrting this - the bad news is that I have no idea about blogs and paper clips on here. (Isobel seems to have paper-clipped a blog to her profile - isn't that an offence under New Labour?) I am so pleased to have your delight and approval - thank you.

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Original item by Barrie Singleton

Oh mercy me, i laughed so hard at our poem i nearly wet myself. Do you not blog on here?
This is really the best laugh i've had in ages, you should share it. Ooh deary me. hee hee.
Thanks, Suzy.

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Original item by Barrie Singleton

Thanks Cynthia, we found a young rabbit last year who we think had been picked up and then dropped by a buzzard. It broke or hearts, we didn't know what to do with him, he was in pain and couldn't walk. Life certainly can be brutal. We left him to his fate, out of sight under a bush. It probably would have been kinder to kill him.

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Original item by Carol Falaki

Step Change - a gem of a poem. Thank you, thank you, thank you. How witty are you! And I only stumbled over it by accident - you should have blogged me - you should blog it - it is so funny. You are right about kissing toads! So observant for a man - I shall make you an honorary woman. Tee hee. I do so love a laugh!

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Original item by Barrie Singleton

I love realism: the beautiful and the brutal ... you are very sensitive to place and atmosphere and express it with well-chosen words. I liked it a lot.

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Original item by Carol Falaki

Thank you, Carol. I am a strong believer in the rhythmic power of visual poetry as well as the spoken word. More people read poetry than speak it. May I presume that the meaning was also there?

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Cynthia,
I like the way you have set this poem out, like ripples on water :)

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

hi Chris,
Wow, good poem, super insight, we are balancing on a tightrope.
Often balance is the best we can hope for,
but there is always hope for change, and... change maintains hope. Good luck to Obama

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Original item by Chris Jam

Hi Daniel, the rhyming pattern confused me a little but good concept, nice one Jeff

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Original item by Daniel Hooks

From a breast connoisseur to another, fine work mate, can feel your frustration, great stuff Jeff

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Hi Mike, powerful stuff as all your work is, Jay must be a strong woman and I'm sure this means a lot, best wishes Jeff

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Original item by Noetic-fret!

Hiya Isobel, thanx for msg. I'm just catching up so just seen this, very funny and I'm sure Andy N will be pleased. If you're having any trouble with your shower and I can help let me know!! Ha, see ya soon Jeff X

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Original item by Isobel

Hiya Mia, just catching up and although I've heard it obviously (!) its good to read it again. Was a great peformance at Blue Boar on our P & A nite too! Love the way this reads like gossip, very funny, great stuff, Jeff X

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Thanks for your lovely comment - I love the Tudor but yes it was rather a shit time to take the stage! Never mind - I'm a survivor! Look forward to seeing you there again
Isobel x

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Can feel the fear before the calm Lydia, nice work Jeff X

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Original item by Lydia

Love your wandering thoughts mate, I think I might try something like this sometime, God knows when! Jeff

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Hi Lydia, I thought you sounded familar! Ha, really like this, nice twist and like this line as I'm sure we all do it -

She's terrified you won't love her if she's not interesting... mmm interesting, great work, best wishes Jeff X

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Original item by Lydia

Hi Steve,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

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Original item by Steve Regan

Hello there, got as far as the Dylan Thomas one and like what i see here. Will view more. Really do assocaiate with nature so adore 'foecal attraction' and 'you show me yours' is ab- fab.
Suzy

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Same could be said for the tax man. Divorce work i say!!!! ooooh you are making me feel i might be in the wrong place to post my stuff. Guess i must try harder. ( hee hee) Suzy.

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Original item by Isobel

Hello Isobel, it really was written years ago. Too irresistable to resist posting it.
I don't know sebastian any more than sebastian knows me so it isn't personal to him or you. If i'm being completely honest my interpretation of his poem was one of a pregnant teenager with little kids.
Go on, 'av a laff. You know you want to.
Suzy. Thankyou for commenting.

Comment is about The Big Man With a Little Prick (blog)

This is so beautiful!
There is nothing more exhilarating than having someone
accept you for who you truly are...
and feeling free enough to be completely yourself : )

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You say just enough...
but make me still wonder...

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Anthony - apologies. I have only just registered your very full approval of my stuff. So I have taken a look at yours - 'like you do' (:o). I see we share the 'human condition' as a spur. I find 'Phoenix' particularly arresting, and overall, feel you use language evocatively (Oh help - is that a word?) and have a nice turn of phrase. I think your style is more acceptable to the modern judges taste than mine, so you should be winning prizes soon - if not already. All the best. Barrie

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Original item by Anthony Emmerson

some great lines in this performance friendly poem.
we recognise each others frustrations in the modern world.

very punchy.
for performance and max impact choose your fave lines so we get a nice quick hit! make a mini version of it and it will hit harder.
tryin to see if theres any lines you could drop, but they too good!!!! ahhhhh

well done!

the one sided picture is important because it reflects the real you and thats what people love i reckon!

Im no good at critique! just know when I like poems and this is great

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Original item by Isobel

I'm not sure whether Sebastian has a big or a small prick - I haven't got to know him well enough yet. If we are talking metaphors I would say that he has his faults like all of us but that he also has his good points. He made a grave error of judgement with one poem. If you check the rest out you will see that he does have a heart. If this poem was written a year ago then it was probably written about some bastard and I would laugh and say 'Good on you girl - get your own back!' For now I would say to Sebastian, Suzy or whoever you are - can we please have some light hearted funny poems up here please - I need to laugh.

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Good for you!
Cx

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Original item by Isobel

This poem was inspired by Francine Louis's 'To Be Free'. I seemed to have difficulty explaining why I thought it resonated for women so I thought I'd do it the best way I knew how. I don't want any 'poor you' comments cos I appreciate I am giving you a very one sided picture.
Isobel x

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Original item by Isobel

J'adore ces lignes:
'struggling to escape
the bland below'

'I glow from within some days
but wearing thin, eroded beauty
waiting, for man to whisk away.
from all of this.' ; )

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thanks.
think I need my eyebrows doing.
they meet in the middle unless I tweezer the eck outta of 'em!

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also, the poem that I was referring to last night was 'Girly gup shup' which you missed but is on my profile :)

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

love the duckpoem copiedand pasted it :)

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

reallylike this pete - your work always has an energy and wonderful imagery

(she could dowith having her eyebrows threaded:))

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Gus LOL... Yes the Marsh Marigold is apparently locally known as the Bulrush. Someoneonce told me that this confusion started with a famous painting of moses in the bulrushes which featured the reedmace. It was the actual basket that was made from the bulrush which is commonly employed in basket weaving. Regards, Win x

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Original item by Gus Jonsson

Wow Win... I started out with the Spelling with one L only to dicover when I searched for a better pic on the net that the pic was titled with 2 L's...What the L I thought... then along comes Win... one L'n goin on about all things Fauna and Latin...got a rush to the head... wish I'd seen a Marsh Marigold now...that'll teach me to go all poetical and natural....Stick to what your better they say... and we all know where thats goin!
LOL

Many thanks for your pedantic comment

Gus

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Original item by Winston Plowes

Hello Daniel, thank you for commenting on Delilah's Courage. I have to tread carefully here, as it was a response to a poem my wife wrote. She is a very private woman who spends a lot of time on her own just contemplating all manner of things. She is a very deep and spiritual person. She wrote a poem that i came upon, and i was so impressed it invoked in me a glance (sometimes rare), into her soul. I asked her could i put the poem in the blogs and she said no. So i wrote a work of fiction in response to her poem, as her poem reminded me of the lead lady from the book - The Story of 'O.' Because of the confinement the leading character was in. We dont practise such sado masochistic rituals as are in the novel, but it did imbue upon me the restrictions in the novel that the woman endured. It also has an element of our own chaste life, because resources are currently low, we are somewhat imprisoned in our own home, and for this, i feel foolish because we cannot do more, and i feel like her Jailer when in fact im not. it is in essence a work of fiction, with a little input, from our own current situtation, and, it is also a response to the work in, The Story of O. Okay, it is very sensitive, and it does say a lot. The skinny is, not to apply it too stringently to mine and my wife's situation. The poem that fuelled my imagination i will give you now. But if you ever meet my wife, you cannot say that i put it in here. I'm taking a big risk, but i feel it is a good one, because my wifes poetry, often knocks the spots off mine. I have to try to write, with herself, her writings seem more natural. Here is the poem that inspired me to write Delilah's Courage, it is my wife's poem, handle with care. You're a poet, and because of that, and haveing read your work, i know you will treat it with the sensitivity it is written.

The girl sat there,
She sat there staring at the walls,
Walls that kept her -
Day and night.

Walls that shield her from the
Insanity of human kind;
With nothing beyond to learn,
But within herself.

Thats her most recent poem, i have let you read it as i know you will treat it with respect. If you dont, im diggin up my SLR lol.

Seriously though daniel. I was really touched and although my own poem could have been more personal, i chose to distract it with something based on fiction, that perhaps could be seen as a response. I think you get the picture. I like your work Daniel, very thoughtful prose. Keep em coming blue, and be well.
Mike.

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Original item by Memoir.

Nice poem Yosh!

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nice poem.

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Nice Chris, I have written a few rants/ more cloaked, and most dont understand.Its as if a mass cloud sits over the eyes of the many, and mud fills their ears.You have just about listed every evil group on earth.But with evil is power, they have not let go of it.This win, was promoted and has an end, that I can almost see, and the out come will be, loss of liberty. Once people understand that a president is a puppet, to all the evil that you listed, with the banks as the goats horns. well forget that, they are blind.He is a good man,he is trying, but he will either do as he is told at some point, or like a few from the past, he will be 6 ft under.Those in power, will blame some fringe group, setting off riots killing, etc, martial law will be enacted, liberty gone, military state marches in. its a set up. good poem!

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Original item by Chris Jam

Ahhh... je vois maintenant ce que tu disais ; )
Je suis heureuse que je suis végétalienne...

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Oui, c'est triste, mais romantique...
J'adore le fait que tu arrives à exprimer tes émotions avec telle passion...

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Encore une fois tu me fais rire...
J'adore ton honnêteté : )

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Awesome Chris...
Hell
YES WE CAN : )

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Original item by Chris Jam

Don't entirely agree with the sentiments expressed here, Joshua, but I think the comparison you draw between strength and peace is a rich one. It takes real strength to wage effective peace, but then again sometimes you have to fight to bring about peace - and to achieve justice, for that matter. Keep writing boss.

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Original item by Joshua Van-Cook