Thanks for your comment on my disappearence and for really understanding what I was saying.

'be littled be valued and bewildered' sounds like a song - I shall have to sing it!

In my case it was rather more than just a 'busy man' but I'm sure he thought I was hell on earth to live with also. It is sad but funny to think that we all make each other's hell. There is a lot to be said for being your own master or mistress. :-)
Thanks for the offer of a cuddle in Butterflies - I shall remember to wear my cast iron thermals! x

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Cheers Alan. I've now switched to society's. Thanks for your feedback :) x

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Society's it is :)
Ta muchly x

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Thanks Greg!

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Thanks Win!

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Thanks Ann, what would you suggest instead of societal?

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Hello Alison
Just read "Wife and Mother" and was touched by its poingancy. I especially liked the last lines where "hope still glimmers" x

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roaring with laughter at your comments on my poem. Sorry it moved you to anger!!

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Hi Greg - much obliged for your kind comments on Sargasso Remembered and glad you enjoyed it - best regards

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Isobel
Many thanks for your comments on Haircut

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Greg. Yes, you're absolutely right about Beeching/Betjeman.Just don't like "Efficiency!". Trains and poems suit each other somehow, I suppose. About getting my poems published - unless someone is going to pay me, and that's unlikely, it's not a big deal for me. I'm happy enough publishing online, I guess.I do enter poems in competitions now and again. The gambling man in me likes the idea of winning hundreds, even thousands of pounds in return for a few quid.

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Thanks for your comment on SPAM Cynthia. I think you got it well enough. Your comment brought to mind for me the song 'I wish it could be Christms every day-ay' ;-) x

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Good Morn Cynthia


Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my latest posting.


The poem relates:

lady to lady as one spins out from spell bound dream sleep.The other unable to reach or find her.

Once again many thanks.

Augusta x

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Good Mornig Cate
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment ..Re Dark Mystic Waters.... Yes indeed it conjures up all of those magical chills.


Once again many thanks.

Augusta x

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Oh John what a lovely invitation....so kind...with offers like that I shall never dry up. Thank you for caring.

Many thanks once more .

Augusta xx

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Happy Christmas anticlimax-and WOW!! are your poems getting more dead good?!?!?...you betcha! all blowaway treasures!!! the Crown must be yours..if only I couldst verily attend the coronation! bazzin regards shipmate-(do not venture too near to crumbling cliff edges dearie...Mr S(jacket)Wilde.xx

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Great last blog entry Ann, They say the most rewarding things come when least expected! we will see, there are lots of us looking out to sea. Win X

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Hi Ron, Welcome to Write out Loud, Lots to explore on here. Have fun. Winston

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Aw, glad you liked East Budleigh, Isobel. We stayed in a camping coach there for a number of Easters in the early 60s. The train went past us on the next track. The last time we went I got pneumonia and spent a week in hospital, and soon afterwards graduated into long trousers and to grammar school, and to being bawled out by my surname. The line was closed about three years later, and thus became a perfect symbol of early childhood: something you can really never go back to. I've tried writing this poem in a number of ways and never got it quite right; this is the version I'm happiest with.

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Keep singing, Ann, and keep beating that drum! Greg x

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Cate
Thanks for your thoughts on Hircut.

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Hi dave, thanks for your comments, I think I am getting the hang of these ghazals now, Win x

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Hi John, thanks for your kind remarks on Ghazal (In snow). Also, maybe you are even right lol! Win x

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Ann, thanks for reading Ghazal (In snow), Of course it is the hardest thing to get enough rhymes before the refrain and more difficult still to make them sound 'unforced'. In a traditional performance the audience would be all attension waiting to see how clever or inovative the poet is when each rhyme is revealed, rather like a punch line in a joke. Win

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Hi Tom, thanks for your comments on my Ghazal. yes... where is yours? H x

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Good morning Ashley, welcome to WOL. Hope you find something to interest you on here. Winston (Admin)

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Thanks again Cynthia for your encouragement. I've written a few pieces this way and from an entirely male perspective, perhaps I'll post one of them, your feedback would be welcpme :) x

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Thank you Cynthia for commenting on Briefly - you are always so encouraging

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hi cynthia, yes i removed a few poems, dead records, gold texter and some older ones. just tidying up and i didnt much like those just mentioned...i write quite a lot so keep an eye out for new stuff x

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cheers mate, ur welcome

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Thanks John for your comments. I think the reason I like attempting ghazals is to be able to use a phrase that I like, over and over again! And smoke and mirrors is a nice phrase, I agree! xx

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Andy it is so good to hear from you again and thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my work.

Yes I too love the paintings of Gus Jonsson, who I understand is exhibiting his work later this year. He says he wants to paint me in the nude but I have insisted that he keeps his clothes on.... what ever next.

Many thanks once again.

Augusta xx

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Dylans Mystic Garden ... wherein he he doesn't talk just keeps on walking...is the one in particular that springs to mind. Thank you so much for such praise... i am humbled.

Thank you once again .
Augusta xx

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Thank you John for your oh so kind remarks and for reminiscing over our previous comings together… how sweet.


I will read your poetry with great interest and in particular I will relish the opportunity to critique those that lend themselves to the ‘erotic’ .


It was so nice to hear from you too.


Many thanks once again.

Augusta xx

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Thank you for your kind comments on my comments! :-)

I just read Towards America again and it reminded me of a day when I was in the Scilly Isles and I was at the furthest point west in the UK (apart from Ireland, I guess) and the sign said 'Newfoundland' was the next stop, so I swam out for a couple of hundred yards and enjoyed the sensation of swimming towards North America...Canada.

Thanks for the memory.

:-)

Jx

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Hey! Happy New Year etc - "But, did you ever find your tongue/Jammed halfway up your sister's bum?" - I wish you'd post this poem! Your comments are as good as lots of the poems on here!

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Thanks for your comments & support. Hoping to go to the Tudor for the next Open
Mic. Be great if you can make it. x

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Thanks, Isobel. Appreciate your comments and support. X

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Thanks, Dave! Whadda mistake-a to make-a!!

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Hi Alan - thanx for comments on The Haunting - last stanza should have been read as 'forgetting what we shared though is a very different thing' hence the following piece about the ghost - good to hear your comments

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Hi Alan

Thanks for your kind comments on Regret & Rewind. Much appreciated. ;) x

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Thanks for the comments Win. I try to camouflage my singing by having a smart-looking bird like Rose by me!

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Hi Isobel
I greatly enjoyed, "Upon the Quality of Love" lots of lovely language structures, nicely crafted. x

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Yes - Elaine told me it was her cupboard! Just as well you didn't pop round to mine - you would be hideously disappointed. I have PG Tips, and some earl grey and mint tea that has been hanging around since the turn of the century - always plenty of carte noire or alta rica though. I just don't do de caff.

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"Poetry?! In Wigan?! Stop being gay and eat a pie."

Stereotypically wonderful!

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Hi Cynthia -
1) Chinked. as in to make a sharp, ringing sound, as of coins or glasses striking together.used here in connection with the pile of stacked bowls.
2)Starred should be Stared as in a fixed gaze
Thank you for you correction.
Win x

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LOL Ann, its a lyre! Win x

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Hi John, thanks for your comments on 'in my Dreams you're Alive' glad you liked it on the page. If it comes near to being as good as your singing then I'm on to something! lol. Win x

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Hi Cynthia, one less less in pointlessless, it was a typo in any case!
Thank you so much for your feedback, I'm new to this or any other site & haven't shared my poetry with many people other than close friends and family so constructive criticism is welcome. I wondered about the immobilised line & thought it might be extraneous but wanted to ensure the butterflied bit was understood.
And hey, I don't mind being in the same company as Mr Shaw - lol!

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Hello Ann - re; the Hard Seat - thanks for commenting - I will keep a look out for your one of similar genre - good look with it

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