hi..thanks for the comment on just for fun..so pleased you did for i have enjoyed reading your stuff too.. :o)

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Hi Steve - thanks for commenting on the Abbey Road poem - line markers do make a difference don't they much obliged for that - just checked out your recent one 'Untitled' and saw how well it works there - read your biog too -awesome

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Hi John Good to make your acquaintance and glad you like the poem.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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hi Ann-just popped on to say-where the heck are you! hope alls well-S.W.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for the comments - you are right about the sprouts! I'm toying with adding something in about being over-faced with plates and guest places.

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I loved the down to earth Ozzie humour - it is in keeping my own. I can remember a huge bill board encouraging people not to litter. It said 'Don't be a tosser, take your rubbish with ya!' Could you imagine our goverment allowing anything like that to go up in this country?

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My clever wife won it all as a prize promoted by Mr and Mrs Hotels in conjunction with Waterstones. So it was boutique hotels all the way. Great! In Byron Bay - a fantastic place - we were in this big 'Tuscan' villa with never more than one other couple there. Just us and the 'housekeeper' looking after our every need! I've just done this poem about the Byron Bay Lighthouse. I'll bung it on and see what you make of it. Might still need a bit of tinkering.

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Hi David. Were you staying with friends or in hotels in Australia, or a bit of both? What amazed me was the richness of the Australian language. So many different words for everyday things that we'd never heard before. So many of them very comic! I started writing them down but gave up in the end and have now lost the notebook anyway. I suppose someone has published an English-Australian phrasebook by now ... maybe I'll have a look for it on Amazon ...

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Hi Winston,

Had to justify your efforts!

:o)

Mark

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very early good morning Winston-thanks for comments on 'journey'- most grateful-Stefan

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ta for time spent reading and leaving nice comments on 'me pooims' Lynn-but above all I,m glad I(and Banksy and Bernadette)were able to give you a laugh-sorry bout the rude language 'nice Lady'-my best regards to you always-Stefan.xx

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Hi Mark, since your profile was properly activated we seem to have uncorked a bottle... great! Winston

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Hi Dave thank you for your kind comment on my blog 'someday soon..who knows..maybe. I will look up the blog entries that you have suggested for me when i get chance and am sure I will find them interesting. thank you ..bernadettexx

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Hi Steven thank you for your kind and understanding comment on my blog ..'someday soon..who knows ..maybe...best wishes ..Bernadette xx

Comment is about Steven Kenny (poet profile)

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Hello L
Thanks for your comments on Pit and Pendulum.
I didn't realise that I ran on "saw inside" to make it sound like "saw rinside". Just a laziness of pronunciation on my part, I expect.
Do you find regional variations in English hard to understand or are you OK with these differences?
I worked in Scotland some time ago at a factory where there were a lot of Polish workers. They could not understand me but could understand perfectly the locals (from Glasgow) whom I could not understand!

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Oh beHAVE! Hahaa!

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Laura
Thanks for your comments on Pit.
How did you know my other fetish was armpit farting?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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'Scuse my manners - thanks for your comment on my space pome.

Cislunar. Remember what it is now? ;)

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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re kissed , yes you are right , and this month is the first month i am beginning to see how to link ideas together in a poem ... watch this space i guess , :)

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Right, I'll get on the site and check it out. Thanks for liking the Wolf Man on my FB wall.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Oz was brilliant in every way: People, Scenery, food and as for the weather - what a pain to go from 36 degrees in Brisbane to the 'big freeze' here! Managed to get one poem, too, and working on another one.

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Hi Philip, good to see you on here! The lennon poems are now up on the Beatles Story website, think they're attached to the press release about the competition. Thanks again,
Rach
x

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Hiya Dave, the poems are up on The Beatles Story site think they're attached to the press release about the competition. As for the oem of the month thang, you deserve it, I bloody love that poem! :)

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Hi Rachel Just remembered that thanks to your good offices I'm 'poem of the month'. Thanks for that and for your kind introduction. By the way still haven't seen your prize winning poem yet.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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...thanks Andy...I get up and sing my songs here and there...not used to reading poems though,possibly best just read in silence!...cheers.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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..hello Ann...yes, it is off-balance, but this is a girl who says what she wants, how and where, all the previous lines mean nothing..

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Bernadette, Thanks for your kind comment on my blog

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Hi Laura,

Thx for the comment on my latest poem. You make really interesting points about youth holding as it does the pinnacle of beauty.

This begs the question; why it is that most of us as we get older alter our sights?

It would be easy to say we do this on the basis of what is an achievable target. Whilst there maybe some truth in that, I wouldn't generally buy into that cynical option.

I honestly think that there is more to being human, more to love and how the physical side of things ties everything together for most of us. Afterall, we could all be the lech..but so few are.

I think there is something very human and more decent than we would imagine about most of us...connecting with someone and it being right is a huge thing for most of us I think.

I think that is the reason we alter our sights when it comes to the opposite sex...wanting to connect and obtain meaning on a deeper level.

Feel free to have any debate on the poem page...Its great to see and really interesting...also liked the interesting angle in reference to differing sexual orientation and the angle from youth as well.

Thx for your insight and thoughts...

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Andy,

Thx for the comment on my latest poem.

The line you mentioned was my favourite in the writing looking back...

Thx mate

Chris

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Hey Isobel,

Thx for the kind feedback on my latest poem...appreciated.

The debate is really interesting and something of real interest.

The poem took a very long time to write...maybe longer than anything I have previously written...be that a good or bad thing.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thx for the feedback on my latest poem John....glad you like it.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hehe - read your poem, and afraid to say I'm the worst boy-racer I know, and road rage is an integral part of my driving experience. I once terrified some dickhead who was trying to bully his way past me on a single lane road, by winding my window down as he drew close and screaming obscenities at him. He pulled back and behaved after that, heh ;D

I would quite happily put a bullet in Clarkson's head though.

Ah now - you know what happens when two women share the same working and living space don't you? Yep - PMT x 2!

As for lesbians being happier? I'd say that depends on the relationship ;)

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http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=4799

This was a funny rant - I think there's a lot of truth in it though. x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Discussion on the page never works. You say one thing and people read another. I was generalising - there are exceptions to every rule and a zillion grey areas inbetween. Men and women are fundamentally different though - perhaps that is part of the attraction - it often leads to sadness though. I once wrote a poem called 'I wish I was Gay' I might post you a link to it. I think lesbians probably have a greater chance of happiness than most - though you may rap my knuckles for saying that and I may have offended in some way I'm not yet aware of.

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I appreciate your response Isobel, thank you. I'm not wanting to have an aggressive type of argument, more just to talk through a few issues I had.

I don't believe for a second that you ARE homophobic. It was the generalising that I picked up on. I still think you are doing it, but I don't think pushing this point will get us anywhere right now. I will say that the definition of emotional satisfaction will be dependent on a number of factors, not just what sex you are.

I wasn't looking for other explanations - I was asking you questions. Perhaps I could have worded it differently, maybe it doesn't work on the page.

Anyhow, thanks again for your comments

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Laura - I am sorry if I have caused you any offence. I am absolutely 100% not homophobic - bring my kids up to be totally accepting of everybody. I only mentioned the issue of sexual desire within homosexuals cos you brought the subject up initially. My original point was that men bond less than women emotionally - have less need for emotional satisfaction - especially over the long haul of marriage. I presumed this might be down to the fact that males may be biologically driven to scatter their seeds. You countered this by saying that this could not apply to homosexuals. I presumed you were looking for other explanations for why homosexuals didn't settle with one partner for life... I have not claimed anything I've said to be absolute truth. It is just me - feeling my way through what I see around me - the evidence of what I see around me....
I am not making any moral judgements on the life styles of anybody - male or female, heterosexual or homosexual.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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It was the generalisation, based on the stereotype of gay people, that I found offensive.

Fair enough if you wish to agree to disagree, but I would welcome more debate with you on this. If you don't, that's your shout :)

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I don't understand why you find anything I say offensive. You would only do so if you think changing partners more frequently is derogatory. I wasn't saying that it was. I don't give a fig how often people change partners or how much fun they pack into one small life - in fact I often wish I had lived a bit more before having children...
I just think that having children for many people, not all, alters the way they are able to behave. Possibly we will not agree on this one and we will just have to live in disagreement :)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Eh up - didn't wanna keep derailing Chris's poem.

I take issue with a number of your statements on there as they are massive generalisations. I believe I can say this to you without you thinking this is any kind of personal attack. It isn't, it is merely a response, a debate, a very different set of understandings, attitudes and opinions.

In order of your points, I believe you can try and rule people of an age out, but you never ever know when someone of that age WILL attract you. Whether you act on it is another matter, but to say it will never happen is kinda painting yourself into a corner.

I think the women's lib to which you refer relates to radical feminism crossed with french feminism. Which is to say that both were useful, and necessary, but both are deeply flawed in their setting in stone what it is to 'be' a woman. Women are continually 'becoming', through their own ages and through history. And this of course does not even acknowledge transgendered people.

Re homosexuals, 'they' change partners more often? I'm not sure where to start with this, as I admit to being more than a little offended by it. It's another massive generalisation, of lesbians, of gay men, of the whole spectrum of queerness (and I use that term in a reclamatory manner, as it relates to queer theory), both about the frequency of partners, and about children (both having and the staying together for). Plus I think you have premised it on the 'scene' population only.

There's more to say on this, and I would love to discuss it further with you, in person sometime, over a few pints. I really don't wanna cause you any offence by what I've written here, as already stated, but felt I had to say something. Can't keep quiet on issues such as this.

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Tom, Actually John Hollander once produced a Ghazal about ghazals. Its called Ghazal on Ghazal. I will email it to you as am not sure its out there on the web and there may be copyright issues, H

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Now then John - I reckon miserabilism is a word, yeh. If it sounds right, it is right, imo. ;)

I like the boozing and the days of lying on the couch watching shite on the telly. Not James Bond films though, hate them. I quite like fairy lights too. The rest of it can get stuffed.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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*crackle* Houston - we have a problem. It's called christmas. There's a secondary issue called 'enforced happiness' to deal with too. It's a SNAFU alright. Over and out. *crackle*

A christmas ghazal? Owww! Am giving my head a little rest before the next one, heh ;) I was thinking about writing a ghazal about how hard it is to write a ghazal, but my brain melted at that point.

Nice profile pic btw. I do love your boat :)

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Cheers for comment on the Lament Ann. Don't know about you, but I only have to hear that phrase 'are you all set for christmas' and I cringe. Humbug. Although I do like the excuse it gives me for buying expensive booze ;)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Re Triolets - I hear that they are very like Pantoums! I liked yours but as a form I find them a bit irritating. ;-)

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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I've been twice to Hull - which was about two times too many

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Dave - many thanks for the comments - was especially pleased to get through the first hurdle attempt

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thank you for the positive feedback - how do I tag my Ghazal please

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on Gaspers.
What fabulous ingredient do they put in fags which makes people stand in all kinds of shite to smoke?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Mark, Welcome to our web site, hope you find something of interedt here, Winston (Admin)

Comment is about Mark Mr T Thompson (poet profile)

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Yeah, but did you like it?

Triolets are basically a bit easier than a Villanelle..wot I find fiendishly difficult...easier than a ghazal too if you can find a 'killer couplet' to start off with...after that they nearly write themselves, what with the repetition etc. I found this link very helpful. Have a go...if they are anything like your ghazals you will dazzle us!

http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/triolet.htm

:-)

Jx

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