thanks for your comments on
"We Never Asked"
the poem I think
speaks to us all
as we speed through life
unthinking.
we wish...

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

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Love your sample poem. So very, very true.?

Comment is about Cassandra Magan (poet profile)

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thank you for your comments on my poem Jason.
wish i could have done better.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

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you are the last of the pen & ink poets.
but good for you.
whatever inspires the best words
works best!

?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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I absolutely love your blog, inspiring beautiful lady xoxo

Comment is about Émilie Gaudreault (poet profile)

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Coopey is loopy
a name that is fun,
A groupie named Coopey
is a poet named John.


wink.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Legs or breasts
jump start the heart,
both are delish
like chicken parts!

wink.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

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Your words ring true
no more enchiladas,
after my braless remarks
I'm now a pinata!

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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Hi Laney, just read your biography and sample. Really like it. I suffer with dyslexia too so know how frustrating it can be. All I can say is it might take us a bit longer to write things but as long as we enjoy it, it's worth doing. Looking forward to reading more of your work.

Jason.

Comment is about Laney (poet profile)

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Hello Mc - thanks for the info about the poetry competition. I might send in the Pine poem. Thanks also for your nice comment - I can't bear seeing a tree felled for unimportant reasons . those pines are lovely but they do create some problems - the roots are on the surface, at least some of them, so they deform the tarmac which is dangerous for mopeds or bikes, especially in the dark - also if there is abundant snow, (not v often here) branches tend to fall off as they are top heavy. On Elba there are so many they are like green seas, and you don't realise how many villas are hidden in them - lucky b...........s!
Hope you are keeping well - Jennifer

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

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I end up talking to myself.
I am the only one
who will listen.

wink.

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

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Hello again SM - I think your blog on the changes you've witnessed in your lifetime is one that can stand as a real
"life's witness" for future generations. It was a timely and
very relevant observation on just HOW much has altered
in my own long lifetime...and how we can tend to forget
just HOW much we have adjusted to - between a now very
distant childhood (post war rationing anyone?) and today's
cyber-world...from the wind-up gramophone and steel needles of family possession to the portable DVD and CD
marvels that are taken for granted today. Extraordinary
changes indeed - and it's a wonder some of us aren't more
confused along the way!! ?

Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)

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Hi Jason
Thanks for your words.
I'm a little like you, in that I hear a lot of what I want to write in rhyme.
I started writing nearly 12 years ago, at the tender age of 60.
My first wife had died and I found it helped putting stuff down on paper, but I was put down a wee bit (by those more experienced) because my poems rhymed.
Whatever my writing is, I was saved (in a writing sense) by reading Langston Hughes's poems. I could actually understand them!
I persevered, and it was poetry that brought about marriage number 2. Much to be thankful for.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on "pub". Sometimes life just swirls around us barely do we have control. I subscribe wholeheartedly to the absurdity of life as we live it. A kindred spirit is always welcome. Many thanks.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Hi M.C.
Thanks for taking the time ...
I think I could write a book about some of the ways that the literati commented on the fact that my first poems only were written in rhyme.
As my latest tomb suggests I only started writing (anything) after my first wife died, 12 years ago. Poetry (if that's what I write) certainly helped.
Poetry also helped in me finding wife no.2, but that's another poem.
If it works, it works

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

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Hi Jennifer. Just a quick thank you for taking the time to comment on my last three poems. I'm glad that they amused you.

Cheers Kevin

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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Graham, what's happened to all of your poems mate?


we're glad to see you back on!

cheers!


P&S XX

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Thanks for your lovely comments Foy

Comment is about Foy Timms (poet profile)

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Hi John! You are too kind! Let's never stop exploring and discovering each other!
Pour l'amour des mots!
Merci mon ami?
Mae

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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the question is
why a small j for Jennifer
and a capital M
for Malden?
something is afoot here, some secret code?

yes, the enchiladas were delicious.
It will probably be another year
before i see any more.

?

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Strangers Leave Scars. Really appreciate the feedback ??

Comment is about Foy Timms (poet profile)

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Wonderfully evocative poem, Paris. Could just have easily appeared in our regular American Life in Poetry feature as here.

Comment is about Paris Tate (poet profile)

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Thank you for reading and liking my poetry Phil it is à great boost and much appreciated, Taylor ?

Comment is about Phils Words (poet profile)

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Thank you Mae for being kind and writing on my profile. Yes we both have suffered life threatening illnesses (myself twice, cancer and sepsis) but we are both still here. Hurrah for us!! I like your poems. You have your own style - pushing at the margins of meaning and encouraging your reader to think about the connotations of words and to read between the lines. I will come back to your poems.

La vie est une fleur dont l'amour est le miel.” – Victor Hugo

Viva les Mouvement des gilets jaunes!!
Take care and keep writing - John

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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It did not come across as offensive , just a tale of how life has changed trew another's eyes deer Stephen.
It was a very enjoyable read. Well done to you all on such a great collaboration.?

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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Hi Lysa
Your comments on Confused - Definition is most welcome.
The poem is a collection of words and thoughts from myself, my elderly Father in Law, and my late Father.
When I wrote it, I wondered if some readers may take offence, and I'm the last person to intentionally offend. But as a person of age, gender etc I am seeing the massive shifts in society coming around quicker and quicker.
Again, many thanks for the time to taken to drop a note.
Steve

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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John, thank you so much. It was a tough write, it was a difficult passing. Neuroendocrine cancer. So glad you could see what I was trying to say, thanks.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

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Your wonderful comment is appreciated, thank you.?Jane

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

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Your sample poem dedicated to your wife's mum really affected me. I could feel tears welling up at all that you didn't say. You demand that your reader reads between the lines which is, in my opinion, the essental step to developing an authentic voice of your own. You have talent Jason. Use it. All good wishes, John E

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

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Impressing bio John! I can relate on some issues (check my bio). I also loved your sample "stolen child"! I can say it faintly reminds me of the Peter Pan fantasy; some magical shadow sweeping you off in the middle of the night and taking into a dreamworld!?
I believe you definitely have a lot of things to say.
Thanks
Mae

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Morning Josie,

Much like you, I've written all my life but only poetry. I've never shared before because I didn't want to or just didn't know how, but trust me, be confident, write, share, no-one will judge and if they do, balls to them. It feels good to finally put stuff out there just so it's heard and for me, if it's good that's great and if it's not that's fine too.

Your friends have it right. Write, share, be bold and enjoy it, (also check out Lisa Donohoe, lovely honest and heartfelt).

By the way, absolutely love your sample, genuinely!?

Jason.

Comment is about Josie (poet profile)

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Where would men be
without the influence of women?
Without women
men would be uncivilized
and...
hungry.

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Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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more fun to be bad
but one gets hungry
after a time.

where would we be
without women to
civilize us?

?

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

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Glad you enjoyed reading it.
I enjoyed eating it.
Love those Tex-Mex enchiladas.

Thanks for visiting.

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Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Thanks for putting my mind at rest. I thought maybe it
was some electronic "glitch" - or that it had been moderated
for some obscure reasons!
Cheers.

Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)

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Hi M.C.
You did absolutely nothing wrong with regard to your viewing my Jigsaw 'poem'.
I don't think I'd done a jigsaw for 60+ years, but ...
My Father in Law gave me a jigsaw for Xmas and it became such a compulsive task in finishing it, that I could have wanged it out of the door.
I began to write a poem about the frustrations, but then thought that I could express my feelings better by just writing nothing.
Me trying to be a smart-arse.
At my age I should know better.

Hope I may be forgiven ?

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

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Hi Ray. Thank you. Yes the sarcasm was barely concealed wasn't it. But so many poems have words and no emotive drive. We can all write words. Thanks again Ray.
Best.. Phil.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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SM - thanks for the grin: your "rarely/almost never" about
commenting, took me to Capt. Corcoran of HMS
Pinafore. I went to your profile page and clicked on the
title of your jig-saw blog but could only see the comments, not the poem. What did I do wrong?

Comment is about Stephen Mellor (poet profile)

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Thank you Jennifer for commenting on 'Almost There'. Your thoughts are always appreciated! Jane?

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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Hi Ray, sorry for having so long to answer your 'graffiti' post. Agree there were a couple of weeks when nothing much appeared, for what my opinion may be worth! The last few days have produced a lot of good stuff it seems to me. Chris Armstrong - Vautaw - Charlottle Peters Rock - Chris Hubbard - Jon Stainsby, as usual great. I think you have a very high standard, as set by your work. Not many people have such a plentiful fount of inspiration, or the ability to turn quite mundane sights/happenings, (the drunken man) into something intelligent, well composed , interesting and often moving. I loved the robin Haiku, small but perfect. Keep up your own good work!
By the way what has happened to Benu? I can't 'get' him anymore, so he has either left or crossed me off!
Keep your pecker up! No hidden meaning, I hasten to say!!!!!


Jennifer

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Thank you Ray. Nice to see you here as well. See you soon?

Comment is about Carla Scarano (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on The Matriarch Fred. I live surrounded by a pine forest it has inspired me on a few occasions.
Beyond the Trees


Beyond the trees in a deep dark hole,
lives a fox and his friend the mole.
The mole did not know that his friend ate mole meat,
for he could see no further than his feet.

The mole brought the fox a gift of worms,
which managed to keep them on good terms.
Although the fox's glance would have told a different tale,
had Mr Mole been able to surveil.

A winter chill swept through their den,
the fox began to feel hungry again.
Now the mole certainly was no fool,
and realised he needed to keep his cool.

If he could find no more worms,
how would he keep them on good terms?
When he pushed his nose up through the ground,
this is what the little mole found.



He heard a noise right under a log,
and there he found a juicy frog.
Off he went with his gift,
he knew it would give his friend a lift.

The fox enjoyed his juicy frog,
which mole had found under a log.
He was so happy that in return,
he gave his friend the mole a juicy worm.

This tale is fraught with danger for the mole,
the situation is beyond his control.
There sits in the den an uneasy truce,
unless the fox's natural instincts are let loose.
So the mole never rests for more than ten,
while the fox lies slumbering in the den.

© 2018 Taylor Crowshaw

Comment is about Rick Varden (poet profile)

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I like your style Lisa! John

Comment is about Lysa d (poet profile)

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

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Good to see you back, Graham!

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Nice to meet you David...wonderful comment..."here is probably there". I loved National Lottery-spot on!?

Comment is about David Gabriel Caplan (poet profile)

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Good to see you on WOL Carla and to experience your range of activities. Sadly we are having some adverse comments at present in general, but we must soldier on and rise above that. Hold hands and contact the living!

Might see you soon!

Ray

Comment is about Carla Scarano (poet profile)

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Thank you !

Comment is about Chloé (poet profile)

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Hello Vautaw. Thank you for your comment ...and yes, WOL is a wonderful, cozy place to express whatever comes to mind. ?

Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)

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Thanks for your like on Anywhere Will Do

Your poem Under the Cover of the Snow brings such a connection as each verse is read.

Comment is about Pyrola (poet profile)

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