Thanks Gus

Banjo Paterson is one of my favourite poets. I know they are very unfashionable, but I like these epic stories in verse. I can't match rollicking tales of the bush so I just try to put a bit of verve into ordinary family events. The minister was genuinely quite a character. Very nearly as big as his church.

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Yeah me too. The only bloody teenager hobbling around with gout ridden toe joints :-)

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shocking isnt it . i am sure i am still seventeen . so how come , how come ....

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Bit of Klondike feel....a little Robert Servicesque....particularly Ole Blue the minister...

Another great read
Gus

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Louis,

'Uses' is absolutely one of my favourites too so thanks for enjoying it.

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This works on more than one level. (Hoo-rah). From the legal perspective and a more intimate, personal level. Like a failed relationship with a particular person. A married person, perhaps?

Comment is about Appeal to the 'Bar' (blog)

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I would love to hear this performed. a passionate read, captain x

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She was mighty serious JT. You can relax for a while because she's been eaten, but there are many Ali's about.

Thanks a lot. Keep giggling.

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This truly produced giggles, Mal...your Ali. Should I take 'er serious-ly? LOL, nicely done. JT

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Oh, Anton... I thoroughly enjoyed your poem. The language just makes the pieve, along with all the "colorful" details. Please pardon my American spelling, eh? Cheers, JT

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really enjoyed your 'uses of summer'. i thought it clever and i liked how it propelled me on through different scenes, different times. and it's good to read something with a perspective that does span a few ages- it makes me feel like i've got things to learn from life x

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Thank you for the comments. It is a great shame that places ravaged by nature can then lose their soul.

Comment is about Agadir (blog)

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Thanks. The irony is that the t-shirt was free in the first place. It was an advertising handout by a pub.

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very good...I enjoyed hearing your poem read, it adds some depth to an already great piece of writing.
Sian

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Loved this! I actually have things still in my wardrobe that are older than my children. Sadly - these days, they have to stay in there. :-))
Cx

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wonderful piece of work. all the better for hearing you read it- your tone and your measure..I had read it too fast. great subject. the 15,000 ghosts in the bar glad they are dead says it all about how gross blind tourism and commercialism is. x

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I wanted to ask if it was. there is a great pride in giving so much of ourselves so they can stride on and walk tall into the future- without that soundind twee- this feeling of enormity is as overwhelming to me at the moment as when they were born. but enjoying these ever-changing moments. thank- you for your comments too x

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very good! it's so well thought out. the picture postcard ideal of xmas that we're bombarded with is a far cry from the reality- especially when you're the mum who has to organize it all! you have a lovely tenderness and warmth in your writing- in all the pieces. x

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Thank you for your comment on BillBored, i initially was writing it inspired by an ex partner and how i kept focussing on his positives, but the more i read it the more i apply it to myself- a bit of an awakening. I like your work- you have an air of all-seeing and all-feeling and i love how that shines out from your words. oh and the bursts of laughter too x

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Excellent.
Cx

Comment is about Agadir (blog)

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great- refreshing and entertaining, Andy with an 'just my luck' quality. love it x

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I agree with Winston "one step behind" , i really enjoyed how i could re-read it and apply it differently to my own different relationships, I was especially taken aback when applied to my children- it felt empowering with a strong sense of pride- and worship. x

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I am based in the South West, I don't perform anymore, I used to work as one half of a juggling duo and sang too. I have thought recently that it would good to try 'something' again in the performance field...however, whether I will feel confident enough to do this is quite another matter. I did discover recently that there is a regular poetry evening at our local. I have been toying with the idea of just going to 'see' what it's like.
Sian X

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i really enjoyed this poem, you've highlighted so well the anxieties and self-conscious years in high school (best days of your life?) wishing you were still five hiding in a den- loved it.. i still do that!

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Thank you JT for your comments. I've been working on this poem for a couple of weeks, and I've been swapping and changing words and the order, but glad to hear that the reader was captured by the images and descriptions, many thanks again, Love Belinda

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Right on Clarissa. Ban every fucking thing. We're well on the way there anyway.

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Thanks Guys. Out of season now I know, I was just going through stuff and voicing it up.

Yeah give solstice back to the pagans and those people throwing cash in the nativity knew what they were doing. None of the rubbish on sale was any good, better to throw the money away :-)

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Hi Malcom
Visited a shopping centre over christmas and the Nativity scene was full of money that people had thrown in ! What is that all about?
Winston

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Great one Malcolm! Put in a word to ban walkers too. If a person throws it at another it can really hurt.

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Hi Sian
Thanks for your your comments re 'Where Do We Go From Here'...Where do you live ?...Do you still perform your poetry and songs?

Thanks again
Gus x

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Thanks Gus for spending the time, for your generous comments and for the valuable cash saving tip. As you can tell I have been idling my life away voicing some of my poetry. Completing the job will consume many hours and leave me too limp to pursue the the pleasures in life that a retired person's mind should really be on.

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You surely brought me into this lovely snapshot, so well described, Belinda. Wonderful descriptive phrasing and flow. Cheers, JT

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Wonderful, Sian, those handwritten recipes a living reminder. Like my mom's, I surely can relate. JT

Comment is about Inheritance (blog)

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Such a openess in your writing - all at once exposed and raw but with an understanding of vulnerability and loss that plays with all the emotions, so I feel carried along with the theme and never disappointed at the end.
sian X - Almost Illegal

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Hi Mal
I just finished reading and listening to your collection of postings.....As I just happened to have a spare half day....and well worth it springs to mind....love it, you are very talented...as I suspect you know...by the way you can get discount at our local brothel....Wednesday afternoons....and during Lent....not a great saving
but ever little helps..

Well done once again on a great posting.

See you at BabesRus sometime
Gus

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Hi Ant, thanks for your comments..most kind.
I like your 'lofty' offering above, works really well, plus your (presumably) deliberate use of physical spacing between lines gave the piece a link to the 'airy' setting.
Sian X

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Hi Anthony ..thanks for your comments re "Inheritance" you're very kind and it is heartening to see that you saw some of what was 'behind' or should I say 'between'.
the words.
Have just read some of your work..."Last stop before paradise" is just great and I really felt the inevitability of 'the end' and the utter frustration felt, together with lack of power to avoid this. Very good. Sian X

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Great.
I recall you telling me of the march to Aldermaston

Polaris is a shining star, not a spike of death.

- well thats superb.

Cuba bristled nukes - another classic

this is a subject close to my heart
enjoyed your take on it
I think you could have a version 2, a longer version for us real Nuke freaks!

Super, opens up the MAD debate too
I was / am very interested in the particualr technical details of our deterrent (me being a technician), the PROJECT CHEVALINE was very interesting, as was the VULCAN bomber tactics/phiosophies of pilots, all interesting stuff

I like you JFK poster boy too.
I think that the poem raises the issues and could easily be extended in to a full blown political piece

maybe a project for later Malcolm?

super
thanks for posting

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I have to do a lot of reading for the course this term and it has helped a lot with my writing - Carol Ann Duffy and Sujata Bhatt are good in terms of style and technique.

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Hi Sian,
I enjoyed the "show-not-tell" qualities within this that hint at the relationship between father and daughter. A light but very deft touch.
Regards,
A.E.

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Thanks Sian

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"Where do we go from here?" just read this- you have such a great mastery over 'turn of phrase', a very natural flowing way with words, you just don't seem at all frightened of 'letting go' so to speak and your piece was an enjoyable read.
Sian X

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amazing isn't it how our daughters have created the need to write about them - it's a good first draft can email you more detail if you would like it

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A great piece, very powerful images of those who struggle to live through each day....it's frightening to even consider how anyone could survive under such circumstances - cold, alone and vulnerable. Very good
Sian

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thanks for your comments...no I am not leaving the site. the "Questions for a Barrister" is totally from personal experience and the barrister in question was completely morally deficient , a very nasty piece of work.. Your piece above is beautifully executed and although painful it is good reading. I don't pretend to understand every reference within it but I can see that this is an intensely personal journey that you portray.
Sian X

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what to say.. heart-wrenching and humbling, Mike. you have a powerful, expressive dancing mind- a real gift. beautifully written. theatre clocks stalled their toc til the babe began to breathe - a never ending (nor forgotten) moment , never diluted by time passing x

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Thanks Andy
for you comment Re Haiku and Succubus..
very kind
hope to see you soon.
Gus

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Hi Pete,
i too love the reference to Peter pan in your poem, it is so like you in many ways.
There's lots to think about here which is something your poetry always includes no matter what style you write in.
Lovely.
Janet.x

Comment is about Concorde over St Catherine s Dock 1981 (blog)

Hi Melissa,
from the lines ' and a bell rings in my glass heart,' your lovely words became a crystal fountain with so many facets it felt like a cool cascade of pure waters from a heavenly waterfall.

Hope you are keeping well.
Love Janet.x

Comment is about Glimmer of Love in Glass (blog)

Hi Anthony,
there's a lovely slow rhyming rhythm in this beautiful poem which will strike a chord in many a reader i think.
I sincerely hope this is not my destiny though.

There really are some great lines in this but the last one is really powerful.
Janet.x

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