Thanks Zuzanna!
Got fired up when I heard through a good friend today that Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" has been removed from the AQA syllabus, presumably through some cock-eyed linkage to (youth) knife crime in this country. Freedom of expression surely is the bottom line for us today?!

Your comments are very encouraging Zuzanna.
Write on,

Moira

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

Hello Moira

Welcome to WOL - beautiful Poetry site. Thank you for the nice comment you wrote for me. I am of European descent but live in Canada for half of my life. Knowledge of few foreign languages makes me speak with an accent that I will perhaps carry on for the rest of my life. Had no opportunity to take an intonation courses in English Literature therefore my accent still falls on different syllables.

It is great to have you with us. Keep penning on; I like the style in your writing.

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna Musial

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

Hello Moira

Well we do have some good reading here within your poem. I love the political mingling with the present settings, the sadness of the World that basically gone mad. Thought provoking and very creative!!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

Comment is about CAD Education for Leisure censored! (blog)

Original item by Moira Eribenne

keep those dreams alive and keep going with your great poems.

Comment is about A Light Ahead (blog)

excellent!

Comment is about mistress of the flowers (blog)

So each line has ten syllables but it just looks plain awkward and hampers the flow of speech. Also you look the kind of person who thinks rather than muses.

Comment is about Upstairs, downstairs (blog)

Hi Melissa,
We all need dreams. Sometimes, that's what keeps us going.
But i love the part about our heads not staying too high up in the clouds. Those falls back to earth can be mighty painful.

Love and light, Janet.xx

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Hey Antonionioni,
Sorry not been around to you lately.
Needed a short break. Love this sonnet.
The last one i saw seemed a little "down" for you. Hope you're ok.

Lots o love Janet.xxx

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Live the dream Melissa for we are the stuff of dreams, stardust and starlight and words are peculiarly in our gift.
From far cries accross the forest and mountain top to the cyber babble of our everyday telegraphy..to write is a dream shared and gifted and to dream without record is to die!
Love this 'account' poem and so glad the arrow is free the bow to the very heart of your rightful dream

write on!

Moira

Comment is about A Light Ahead (blog)

Very clever m8.... One of your better ones I think that certainly!

Comment is about Upstairs, downstairs (blog)

Loved it :) Wouldn't love hearing it (or feeling!) it!

Comment is about Upstairs, downstairs (blog)

Great tale of self discovery and hopefully improvement I felt. Consistent rhyming throughout. Cool :)

Comment is about lifes pendulmn (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Hi, what a great way to begin your day. ( yawn)

I get this kinda thing from both sides.
Oh, and babies.

Comment is about Upstairs, downstairs (blog)

Hi Daniel,
I very much enjoyed this poem.
It makes me want to sit and ponder.
Not something i do much of these days. Hm!

Comment is about lifes pendulmn (blog)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

HI antonio, nice little poem, to bad some people just dont get being rude to others in the night. Have you ever thought to say in passing to them," did yall have fun last night?" I know hard to talk about, but tempting. take care

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HI Daniel, nice poem, life is sure like this. take care

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Original item by Daniel Hooks

Thanks David I am glad you like my poems!

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Original item by David Franks: Walkabouts Verse

hi Andy, thanks for your comments on my poems.
I really liked your perfect place. Very gentle and touching

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Original item by Andy N

Hi, Moira

You can have both, the dog and a man if you only wish...Smiling.
Your poem is lovely!! There is lots of imagination in your write.

GREAT STUFF!!

PS: Nice meeting you ~ Zuzanna

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

Hello Alison ~Glad you are with us …Welcome back!
Your poem is thought provoking. It gives the reader chance to think what’s going to happen next. A great picture of two people that sharing thoughts, life and perhaps love. You do not say this but I feel the discreet thoughts can be read between lines.

Excellent poem!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate your comments here...am a little late on catching up with my own poem! Pamx

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Well-deserved accolade for this evocative poem of where Blackley meets Crumpsall and the past meets now; brightness of colours in a fading industrial landscape. Best line for me? Writing the dyeworks into the sky.
Lovely. Thank you Hannah.

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Only a dog indeed!

Made me smile. Very real and the dynamics and trails of being the parent are transmitted unambiguously! Your voice's 'lists' are captured powerfully!

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

Tremendous energy and momentum...feel the escalation and detalied irony of this steady subversion of 'fatherly' stereotypes. Powerful sense of the voice and the pain and anger fuse most effectively.
Love the way the poem softens at end. real sadness and disappointment despite the rage.
Scalpel like dissection!!!

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

It's great to see you back Alison. Hope things are well?

This is a cryptic message to somebody? OR this is a message to yourself or to that person who dwells inside you who you're torn against? As usual, it got me thinking.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Great stuff Phil and nice to meet you briefly at Freedup. The poem about London really tickled me - trooping of the colour in black and white! cheers Jeff

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Original item by Phil Golding

Brilliant piece Pete, can just hear your voice as I read without trying! Jeff

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Brilliant Pete, wasn't sure about part 1 but great finale in part 2! Love the 64,578 independantly priced washing machines and 50 knuckle shuffle stanza, cheers Jeffarama!

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Thanks Louise, pleased and sad that there's some resonance..not just the ravings of the angry! Angry can be good.

Love the pic and tuned into your writing. LOVE IT! The commuters..can feel it and the stifling company 'think.' Really enjoyed the power of the word blends.

regards,
Moira

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Original item by Moira Eribenne

Its characteristics you have described so well her. A great piece of work steve which must have taken a lot of thought, love it cheers Jeff ps I work in Manchester and you've painted it or any city for that matter brilliantly.

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Original item by Steve O'Connor

you could have read my mind when you wrote that. i like a good angry poem. thanks for posting :)

Comment is about Farther than father can be (blog)

Original item by Moira Eribenne

Hello, Phil

I really loved this poem. It is well written and shows that even though you might still love the person but cannot keep them when the love id consumed and it is gone...There is hard to force or impose love on anyone it has to be a real feeling shared when two people love each other. True love never dies.

Thank you for your beauty in your presented write. I like the poem lots!!


All the best always!

Zuzanna

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Original item by Phil Golding

HI, Antonio

Excellent thought provoking write. There is a lot of truth in your Sonnet!!

There are many unanswered questions too."""Where do we go from here? What’s the next move?

Is socialism dead, too expensive?"""I like the entry it has a fantastic question to our leaders. Thank you for the wonder of your imagination and a true presentation in a word form.

Best wishes,
Zuzanna

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Beautiful Scott. It made me cry. What more is there left to say.

Mel
xx

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HI David, thanks for the kind words. What part of Mexico did you get to see? take care Clarissa

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Original item by David Franks: Walkabouts Verse

Hello~ Antonio - Who sounds so unsure in this write? Hope all is well ...Have a great weekend!!

Best wishes,
Zuzanna

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Thank you all for your kind comments...

P.S. Verse and Worse rhyme, not sure what the problem is there.

Comment is about Rhyme Is Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!! (blog)

Original item by Paul H Tubb

Hey Lou, thanks for the support. Will get my writing hat on again soon when people have stopped getting married and work is less intense.

This is gorgeous:
"Finding your own way from A to B.
And I’m finding my own way from you to me."

Thanks for sharing

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Original item by Louise Fazackerley

Hi Pam, I love this - it has a cracking juxtaposition of the man-made and nature.

Comment is about Electricity (article)

hey pete,
this poem uses a really powerful sense of voice. i love the bit starting 'look what i went out and did for you Dad! and the ending made me feel a big pang of sorrow. i agree with you that you could edit this further. i feel sometimes that the relaxed, 'automatic style' structures you use obscure your words rather than display them.
louisey x

Comment is about My father is not superman (blog)

Great, short simple poem with a punch! Like the internal rhymes as well.

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It's like a huge painting and a sucessful poem that I like very much.

Comment is about Perfect City (blog)

Original item by Steve O'Connor

Scott,
written with obvious love and you've tried hard, maybe too hard.
Rodney

Comment is about Wrong Name (blog)

Yep. Rhyme is dead alright especially if the poem has verse and worse in it.

Comment is about Rhyme Is Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!! (blog)

Original item by Paul H Tubb

Dear Andy

Thannk you for your comments reagrding my short piece of prose. It is much appreciated.

I like your piece 'perfect place' it reminded me of my own style of writing, very simple, but true.

Konbanwa Belinda desu

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Original item by Andy N

Photographs by John Togher

Comment is about Poetry Brew at Caffe Nero, Wigan August 2008 (photo)

I, too, like your poems, Daniel.

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

Original item by Daniel Hooks

Thanks for this great little poem.
It's fun. It rhymes. What's more, it has rhythm.

Fantastico! ps. That's my new word for great.
Love Janet.xx

Comment is about Rhyme Is Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!! (blog)

Original item by Paul H Tubb

Hi "Fikus,"
After reading your profile, you've either taken the time and trouble to go on a writing course or you are a natural born poet. ( you lucky devil.)

I love how you wrote " a war of words." and the two liners which gave me the image of a double barrelled shot-gun, shaped like a pen.
I could feel the pressing of the tip on a biro, on-off. on-off.

I like both your samples. They have a really good rhythm.
Thanks for sharing , Janet.x

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Original item by Nick Thornhill

Thank you everyone.
I must point out, its not about my Dad, parts of it are, but its feelings, some parts are my life others are imaginary , or they are about other peoples dad. People I know. As long as feel the subject matter I can write.

Glad you like!

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