Cynthia, I remember that one! Portrait of the Moon. Beautiful piece.

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Re. my recent 'Moon Poem'. I hope you're going 'to play with the image'. I'd love to see the result. ( I honestly can't think of the precise title - Good Grief!)

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Re" how to shop for shoes“... Absolutely Isobel. ????

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Many thanks Fred, I appreciate you listening to 'Blank Canvas'! and I'm glad it's inspired you to record a piece yourself. I'll look forward to hearing it. Your office room sounds great by the way, good vibes.

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Hi Ruth,
I liked the read of 'Blank Canvas' lots.
Yours has encouraged me to put my voice out there.

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Hi Don,
In your biography you note 4 people that influence you.
Comparable messengers have influenced me also.
I listen, hear and act upon the wisdom,
of those in the know.
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Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Don, yes! I'm a basket case, hahaha.

Comment is about Emilia Callahan (poet profile)

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"Undress me with your words, and nothing else"

Clever Dana......

Comment is about Dana Lee (poet profile)

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Oh! I see my mistake now John. I thought they were your views and not those of another poet posted last February that you have dragged back for some god knows why reason.
Then I noticed that you have recently turned your profile into a David Moore tribute page. Now it all makes sense.
So let me tell you where I am. I’ll not create another battlefield here on WOL with you.
My advice, not that I suspect you’ll take it is, please take care and keep your comments to other’s work. You might also feel like apologising to the person whose comments you’ve plagiarised too.
As for me.....none taken!

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Grand-kids are our reward
for suffering through kids.

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

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Re how to shop for shoes. Enter any shoe shop at any time, spend as long as you like deliberating and buy as many pairs as you can afford and find cupboard space for, sometimes breaking all of those rules with your own 4 inch stiletto heels.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thank you John.

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Welcome back Graham. Without even posting anything you have increased Wol's quality. jeez

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Isobel, that's very kind of you. ? I'm loving reading the little insights people are adding to Graham's discussion topic. The way/how people create definitely does pique my curiosity (nosiness?).

As for your poem yesterday, I absolutely agree and had been thinking about a similar one expressing my wondering of all the poets on WoL whose work remains but they themselves have moved on. When I get time I love to jump back in time on this site and discover poems from those who aren't posting daily. I often discover fantastic pieces of writing. I might comment on them or like them never sure whether the author will ever see it or if they're even still alive. How to sum all this up in a poem, well, I'll have to wait for inspiration to strike... ? Tom.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Golly gosh! Amelia Call
Poet/job in real estate?
Volatile? Yes I do like
Real estate? you say love/hate?

Golly gosh! Amelia Call
You indeed are a mixture gal...?

Comment is about Emilia Callahan (poet profile)

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It's funny but before I'd even read Graham's comment I thought how lovely and refreshing your profile writeup was. A poet who's actually interested in how other people think and create. Not everyone is and you meet many on the poetry scene who aren't there to listen at all.

Thanks for commenting on my poem Tom. I very much enjoyed your Cooling Towers poem - a relationship poem with some depth and originality.

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Listening to the profile tune and got a bit lost. Enjoyed the melody, tempo and your voice. Are you also the instrumentalist? If so, great delivery. If no, still good. Some things don't come immediately. Would you agree Michael?

Creasote is the word I hear you say. It's used to preserve wood utility poles. I believe it is deemed poisonous here in Western WA. I just now see there is a medicinal creasote bush that provides a resin for the wood preservative. Wow, I am still learning stuff. Never heard of a creasote bush before a few minutes ago.

Kinda feel it is a love song, but haven't figured out how. I got stuck on preserved poles and medicinal bushes. Maybe, just a little more time. ?

Comment is about Michael Triandam (poet profile)

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They say Greeting Cards are out of date
obsolete in this fast-paced world
but homemade cards are still special
when made by children
in some of their first Acts of Creation.

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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There is poetry
in children's art
and those who receive
always support
No mystery
right from the start
their creating comes
straight from their heart.
?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Master of Ceremonies---
you got it right.
the poem is about the innocence of children
and how they express themselves.
thank you.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thank you Ray - Nut Hatch - appreciative of your kind comments. P. ?

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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YES Don, It doesn't take much to impress me. I was im?pressed.

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Hello Don. Thank you for commenting on my poem.
I think we're all developing all the time as poets. I cringe at my early stuff but it was all part of a process or an ascent, to use your analogy - though I'm not sure I'll ever make it to where I'd like to be.
I used to live in Ausyralia. It's a beautiful country. You'll have to open an open mic night there! If you don't already go to one!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Sorry to hear you have been poorly loved your poem about those wiggly worms Monday night!

Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)

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Been thinking since last comment below. 'Listen up' is usually used to get someone's attention before saying something you want them to
concentrate on and 'hear'.

So

Listen up Fred. You all ears? I 'ear you loud and clear.... ?

(Big revelation Don. I'm sure Fred's impressed...)

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Listen up Fred...I'm hearing you loud and clear ?

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on The Way I Write, John. You've managed to sum it all up in a single sentence. ?

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on The Way I Write, Keith.

The poem was inspired backwards, it was thinking about those potential friends you cross paths with occasionally and wish you'd got to find out the story you feel there is between you (but for whatever reason don't get chance). It struck me that I feel the same way about some of the poem titles I've been dragging along with me for months or years; so sure that there is a poem there somewhere.

I can relate to your description of how inspiration can strike and how there can be langurs between those moments. I also love those times when you put pen to paper without any prior inspiration and suddenly find that you have poem fully formed right there. Though, those times are fewer and farther between.

Regardless, thank you for sharing your process. I really hope other people might too. Tom.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thank you keith.

I also get a sense of fear when experiencing 'Crunches'. If you choose to, please share some of the other meanings that have come to you.

Your experience may expand mine.

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I thank you for your kindness Ruth.

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Thank you for your on going support Candice.
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Comment is about Candice Reineke (poet profile)

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glad u liked my book take care

Comment is about Blackrose (poet profile)

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Nice to put a face to your poems Fred! I have really enjoyed reading some of your work & look forward to reading more of it.

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Having your poems
I had to blush.
they seem to deal
with lots of lust
I take my leave
sign off i must
for fear from pant
my lance will bust.
?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you for reflecting on my work Ruth. I agree that home is where the heart is.
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Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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I thank you for hearing me Don.
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Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Some may agree this subject, 'Color Matters'
is infuriating, frustrating and downright annoying.
These experiences are not ouchies, that first appear
in the body. These grouped emotions start up stairs
and may become headaches and body maladies.

I hear you loud and clear!
White Black Pink Ochre
Rough Dry Baggy Firm
skins don't matter to me,
and it's not about skin tone.
My tone is paper bag brown.
What do you name yours?

It's about generations of families
severed from their rich cultures,
deprived of their native languages,
and given Jesus Christ to worship.
400 years later we watch Wakanda
and munch on hot buttered popcorn.

It's about Native American Indians. STOP!
Think about that. They certainly are natives.
American because of Mr. Vespucius.
Indian because of a geographical error.
90% of them were killed purposefully,
some not, by folks wanting to own land.

Physical, emotional and spiritual abuse
starvation deprivation and outright murder
may have long lasting affects (or is it effects),
on someone's outcome. What do you think?

It's about feeling it in my bones,
not just reading or thinking about it.

'Color Matters' is not just about Indians and cowboys,
or Crayola hues. It's really about Black and White.
This is North America, where one(1) drop of African
blood makes you black. You ever hear such nonsense
where you live? This won't be found in current law books,
but it lives on, in the heads of many here in the U.S of A.

M.C. Newberry, I don't know your racial heritage
and do know the adage about birds of a feather.
It has been that way AND change is quickening.
Each successive generation is more tuned in.
Old farts like me still cling to the past,
and need to step aside.

So many young people connecting in/with/for life/communion/love awakening.

M.C. Newberry, I heartily thank you for the thought-full
response to my work and will respond to any and all other comments. I did not know what identifying name you'd prefer, so I used the name in front of me.

Blessings abound,
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Cynthia, I thank you for the welcome.
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Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks Philip for your likes on Halfway There and Craving

Comment is about Phils Words (poet profile)

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Wlcome to WOL, Mr.Nicholson. An active mind has to seek outlet. You have found a fine platform.

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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Well my middle initial is in fact 'A' so in school one of my nicknames was 'Roar!' You got it Ha,ha Our family crest has 2 lions as well so it all fits nicely. I'm not lion either, it's all true ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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Ruth O'Reily.
what a cute name.
are you a character
from a book?

ROR! add an A and you ROAR!

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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I try to have one good thought a day.
sometimes it's difficult!
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Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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not at all Trevor,
you always respond.
thank you.

Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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just between
you and me
thanks for your comment
dabble on!

Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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Many Thanks for stopping by to read & like some of my poems. I appreciate that. I enjoyed your poem Shouting! Look forward to reading more of your work.

Comment is about Phils Words (poet profile)

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And sometimes frogs end up as bookmarks when they get squashed flat. And cats like playing leap frog with them as well. That's when Quasimodi rings the bells - and plaintively he yells for Esmerelda. Thanks for your comments Ruth, always good to share a laugh. P.

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Keith, I hear you loud and clear and thank you for commenting on my 'Color Matters'.

As long as there is belief in 'the other', it will always be an enigma of sorts. Sages, healers, guiding spirits all talk about the 'oneness of life, love, matter, the flow beneath appearance.
Continued belief in the 3-dimensional realm, prevents us from knowing oneness of being. Some of us dart in and out of knowing. Some of us may never know. Maybe the Dalai Lama has a foot in each world continuously.

Keith, that is my simple take on this matter.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Don, I agree with you and thanks for commenting on my work, 'Color Matters'.

We rely on mind and the 5 senses to determine our actions. History repeats itself. It may be time to try another way.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Ah but Don - did you not know that UK frogs put a front flipper to their mouth when they burp and say excuse me in the politest and froggiest of fashion - I bet Thalia didn't know about that either, and Matilda just wants to waltz the night away. ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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