Hi, Jane,
The 'swan path' is the path of light thrown by the full moon on a body of water, possibly Greek in origin, I don't remember.

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You are right of course Izo,

Gary Glitter .mmmm.... Whatya’ like in bunches and a gym skirt.... ooooh

Anyway, I digress, back to my gang.

The problem solved causes yet another series of problems I am well aware, however it at least enables likeminded poets a diversionary route. If the whole thing became a parallel blog then it can be terminated.

Yes, I agree with you on the WOLOP idea and that Paul, the old silver fox, is beautifully formed and has genius foozling from ever orifice.

I'm just happy that something is at least being attempted to make the site less wieldy.
In the event that no one wants to join my gang then I will probably spend my twilight years in the Far East until I'm arrested for cloning Paul Blackburn

Many Thanks
Gusxx
PS As Gang Leader I am letting Girls in...but not out

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is it invitation for discussion or just a statement??

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really!

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Thank you for the feedback on 'Me / u',
I read what you said and made the slight changes to the wording, I think for the better.

Again, thanks Winston.

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Simon! I loved Little Machines. Particularly liked Bloomdusk. When I read British, Not Pure it put me in mind of a book I recently read; Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder..a history of immigration to the British Isles. Cheers!

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Hello Dave - many thanks for your comments - er... have I spelt lie wrong? Have I made my poem more deep and meaningful - if so - must have done it on purpose! Wracking my brains to work out what else I've spelt wrong - or should that be racking? Thanks again, xx

Oh yes! I see what I did!

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At last I have arrived here to say thanks for approving comment left on my page. In my usual way, I feel inclined to dub your style 'Till Role' (much as I gave the name 'Marzipan School' to the paintings of a friend, featuring bendy houses.
I like the devices used but have to admit - perhaps it's my age - to keep starting a new line, leaves me exhausted! Cheers.

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Hi Ann

Welcome. To my shame I don't often check out new members on the site, but am glad I did in your case. I really liked these - all of them! Looking forward to seeing your Blogs

Dave
PS Is that a typo in the second line of The Dray?

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Hi again Ann, This is grim behaviour, especially for an 18 year old ! Ihope you make her clear it up... Win

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hi Andy, thanks for your comments on 'Best Before End' You poem 'Perfect Place' still does it for me, brilliant

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My cat Gemma liked the bit about the regurgitators - she says don't knock it til you've tried it - and she's eighteen!

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Hi Sian, thanks for your comments on 'Best Before End' may your satsumas remain firm. Win x

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Hi Ann Foxglove... I see we have a mutual admiration for Gaia Holmes. she is not a prolific poster on WOL but is as you have commented an amazing poet who can capture moments like no one else IMHO. Win

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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff. And not just because there's some foxgloves in one of your poems. Heady, lyrical and passionate.

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I like your poems very much, also your drawing - are you just about to sit down and write a poem or have you just finished and you're off to get a cup of tea? The paper looks very blank! And you look a little anxious! I think I would like to live in a softly furnished vestibule, but as I have only just joined WOL I feel more like the child listening at the edge of the wood!

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thanks for the comments on 'barkless trees' so glad you could relate. It is set in england although the times I spent in Ireland no doubt informed my writing...it could be down any dark track you dont belong...let me know if you want a lift to another poetry night, rachx

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Morning Jane, Im glad my poem on the Taj gave you some idea of what it was like and how I felt on seeing it, thats what I set out to do. It was a truly magical experience and one one that will stay printed on my memory for ever.
Thanks also for your comment on Sunflowers again. Its good when a piece of work makes an impression and is not forgotten.
Cate xx

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Hi Dave, thanks for the welcome back, and for the comment on Taj. I had a most wonderous trip, and saw and did some wonderous things, But the Taj was the one that stays indelibly printed in my memory. I last spoke to you when you were just off to Israel, hope you had an interesting and memorable hol there.
Cate xx

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Greetings Anthony... thanks for your comment on Taj..... sos I cant offer you any rock, but if you`re ever up North Ive learned how to knock your tonsils out with a fiery vindaloo!!!!!!
Cate xx

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Thanks Rodney for your comment on my blog entry ..Hopeful Recovery..I am a novice so welcome comments. Bernadette Herbertson

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Morning Cynthia, thanks for your lovely comment on Taj. I had the most fabulous trip and the memory of the Taj will stay printed indelibly on my mind forever. And yes I own up to being a sentimentalist..... I defy anyone not to look at such beauty and not be moved! You were so right about the poverty though. At first you are stunned at the awful conditions and the dirt and poverty in which most of the people live, but gradually rightly or wrongly your mind accepts it as part of life in a third world country. There is a huge difference between the fabulous wealth of the maharajas and their palaces and how the rest of the population live. And yet there is a vibrancy about it that we somehow seem to have lost.
Cate xx

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Hi Ann , I also like ruins and enjoyed your little gem. Keep posting and enjoy exploring the site. Winston

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'Where thicket-thick thighs ache
Across crow- flocked meadows.
Tramping over salt-skinned ditches,
Feet swollen like buds to bursting,'

A wonderful...err...quatrain? 'Salt skinned ditches' is particularly evocative, reminds me of the Suffolk coast.


And thank you for your kind comments on my meagre offering.

: )

Jx

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Thank you for your kind comments on my last offering (only my second). 'Larkinesque' eh? Well, apart from the 4 lines of Larkin that everbody knows, I've never read him......I will now!

I'll take 'Larkinesque' any day : )

Kind regards


Jx

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Loved this poem, Isley. lovely lines: swiftly eye to eye with him; pulling each other out of our skins; a stone among pebbles...
thank you.

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Dear John, (I get alot of those letters too!) thanks for your kind observation on my last offering. I can see from 'she left her coat behind' that you and I are sometimes pursuing the capture of a similar sentiment. You do it very well.

Many thanks for your encouragement.

Kind regards

Jx

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Thank you for your time and kind comments on my recent poem. It's only the second 'proper poem' I've ever written so I seem to be on the right track.

Kind Regards

Jx

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Dear Winston, thank you so much for your kind comments. If anything that I write actually improves with re-reading, then it really has done its job and tells me I'm on the right lines.

Thank you for taking the time.

Regards

Jx

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Winston - Thanks. Nice to be here. I realised after posting that both poems have religious overtones. I wouldn't say this dominates my writing any greater than those other reliable poetry topics; love, death, injustice etc. though i find myself turning to it more and more. as leonard cohen once said...i never met a religion i didn't like.

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Enjoyed hearing your poems at the Tudor.

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Chit Chaat
I like that
Had to smile
On the curry mile

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Stephen, I read your poems because you commented on one of mine. Thanks for that. I have to say that Death of a leader is very well done - seamless in fact - a seamless sonnet. Cheers.

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Cheeky
I could only comment on the 'Date Rape' drivel because I could understand it. Normally, I can't understand the other 'drivel' posted.
xxStevexx

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Thank you Cate x

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Hi John, Thanks for commenting on Pin-up Vietnam. You have to work to weedle out the content in it. Win

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Welcome to the site... looking forward to you posting some of your poems up, posting plogs and entering discussions. There's lots of interesting areas to the site. winston

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HI Cynthia

thanks again for your comments - much valued

steve x

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Hi Winston - thanks again for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

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Hello Isobel
Thank you for your 2nd comment and support re JA remarks , to which I have replied,

You are lovely.
Augusta x

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Hello John,

Firstly please let me begin by reiterating a comment made by Isobel which alluded to drivel that is posted on this site, she is so right, much of what I read on this site in both poetry and discussion amounts to exactly that – drivel.

There are indeed many poets on this site that are worthwhile and excellent wordsmiths there are fewer with a unique and rare talent to conjure words to an almost unbelievable level of wonderment, and it may well surprise you that I for one am confident to include myself among that number. In the event that you choose to disagree then read my poetry thus far posted and if you are not convinced then read it again.

.Fear and anxiety, arousal and guilt are repetitious it sweeps through a woman in waves so much so that it makes you giddy and sick, if you noticed the repetition in my poem then I am happy that at least you read it, the fact that you failed to understand is sad. As to my being tendentious, well I saddened, for I would count myself as being a woman of open , nay, wide open views and liberation and was endeavouring, albeit in a graphic sense to portray the horror which most woman experience at sometime in their lives in one form or another.. You also describe my poem as gauche; well this form of voyeuristic commentary might well lack slick rhyme and sophistication, once again it was intended.

I am pleased you did not included in your plethora of adjectives heaped upon me ‘gratuitous’…because then I may well have been annoyed with you , the poem highlights fear, danger, and the predicament and the frustration of weakness together with the inability to take control of a possible life changing moment.

Your comments alluding to crap and Jesus I find offensive.

Augusta X

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Seems you have managed to upload a pic Tom... Was Peter Right? I too had this prob

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Hello you. Where on Earth have you been? Hope it was hot. If it was another site - let me check it out - surely it can't be better than this? Have really missed you - hope you are back to stay. xx

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Hi Sian, thanks for your kind comments about my poem / monologue The Cup That Poisons (alternatively titled Tea-He-He). Your words cheered me up, coming as they did when I am going through a particularly crap time in my life just now.

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Hi Sian,
Thanks for your comments on 'Growing Up' - glad you liked it.
Nice to see you back again,
Cx

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HI Anthony. Have just read Myspace and am fairly gobsmacked by it. You seem to have a state of the nation theme and a love thread all in the same poem. The rhythm and music of the words - and your stamina - is very impressive. I'd love to hear you read it. Being in the business I particularly liked "the paperboy chokes doorways with a plague of news and views". Only one quibble. Visually I'd like to see every two lines become one wherever possible. I think it would easier on the eye and the reader would appreciate your skill that much more.
Congratulations
Greg

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Hi Sian,

Hope all is well with you - haven't "seen" you around too much lately - but then I haven't been around much myself. I just wanted to say thanks for stopping by and for your generous comment on "Beyond the Equinox." Not a work of any great depth, admittedly, but I'm glad a few folks seemed to like it. Hopefully I might get time to review a few things myself soon!

Best regards,
A.E.

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Hello Greg,
The Poems for Rosie blog is really just a repository for my work (something of a tidy place to keep everything). I have been published a couple of times during my "Angling Period" so to speak. As to a book, perhaps some day, something to leave the children and grandchildren maybe. regards, Graham

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Hi Rodney, thanks for the rap ;-) ha ha took me a while to figure it out, pretty cool though when I did cheers ;-))

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Thank you so much for your comment Isobel.... and hope you enjoyed your shower. the girl in the poem is both confused, excited , aroused and afraid... very afraid....at the end she feels miserable and used... and ashamed at her totally lack of control... or ability to ever take charge and have a sexual liason on her terms or at the very least agreed terms.

Was it rape... I don't think so... but I don't know for sure

Once again many thanks for critique it is as always welcomed warmly.

Augusta x

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