Hi Jon! Been some time since I dove into your work! I'm all cpught up! You were always extremely skilled and wise! You are thriving and at the same time I sense you are maybe in pain. A cruel controversy. Just wanted to say, congratulations for being a great poet, skillful, profound, insightful artless, humble, taciturn and centred! Your poetry really speaks to me.
Thank you my friend ?
Mae

Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)

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Love the re-work of your sestina. Though I loved the original, your poetic sensibilities knew what needed to be done. Great work!

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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Thank you Don for stopping by, reading and liking my poetries. This makes me so happy.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Hi Dev and Don
I do appreciate your posts.
I may have left the back-door open in this poem.
The shape of some light, on a surface through window glass, can be fancifully described as such.
And Dev pardon my use of "To clarify" that upon retrospect came across as a rebuff - far from it. It was a genuine request to enquire.

The legs and her legs.

Cheers lads.
Tommy

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John I can't believe
The record people haven't
Signed you with a contract
With such fantastic talent

Tra la la la la la la la la

(I would sound like a wounded dingo....? )

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John you must check comments
On your profile page
More than once in several months
Someone might want engage

How would you feel if someone
Gave you heaps of praise
And you ignored them several months
The giver would go crazed

On other hand they could John
Curse you on and on
You wouldn't know but others would
(You need to check more often.....) ?

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'Fraid dk your poems
Always make me sick
Sick with laughter (that is)
I then can take the mick

The serious ones however
I know they must come out
I cannot take the micky
On these which are about....

Things we need to ponder
(I need to garden shape)
Instead've of rhyming nonsense
To someone called d knape ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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My poetry is
the silent killer.

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Sounds good, Mae. Since you pushed me toward a sonnet, and I pushed you toward a sestina. Perhaps you will present me form to undertake and we'll see what happens, because this is fun and challenging.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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thanks for always reading my poems
hope they don't have an ill effect
but WOL is pretty lenient
so what did you expect.
?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Thanks for joining in the fun on 'Nuff Said' Don. ?

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I never intended to upset you with a comment, Tommy. I, perhaps stupidly, underestimated the intelligence of the reader. I only sought to highlight a clever wordplay (as he seeks to remove foot from mouth).

D

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Thank you Ray - for all of those words - Ymmot

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Hi David

Enjoyed your sample poems especially Colonel Double-Barrel. Some wonderful images here. Look forward to reading your blog entries very soon. Thanks for these!

John Short

Comment is about David Redfield (poet profile)

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Mae, congrats on wrestling down the sestina with "Hades Ferry". Absolutlely marvelous.

D

Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)

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DK - when I saw the title "Hearring Loss" - I anticipated a blog
about our UK fishing stocks (herring) running low - slightly misprinted. I was doubly deceived!! ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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That was one excellent piece! Deep and steeped with symbolism, impeccable on so many levels! Loved it?
Mae

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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see this morning's poem.

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From poet's heads
to seeing eye
hard to believe
we so contrive
We write despite
a reason why
the poem part truth
and part a lie.

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

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Thank you for your work and I look forward to more of it. Though I do not speak Albanian, through sounding it out, the music of that voice, that language, is breathtaking.

All the best,

D

Comment is about Sebahate J. Shala (poet profile)

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Having read that you are experiencing some difficulty in blogging, Wendy, please get in touch and, I will do my best to help you. Jemima.

Comment is about Wendy Higson (poet profile)

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I'm very sorry to have declined your offer to chat but I was just in the middle of something. No problems chuck, I'll catch up with you in the near future.


( hope nothing is wrong )





Rose ?

Comment is about Wendy Higson (poet profile)

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re Big Sal, DM, naughty as in.........?







Rose ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Hi Lisa! Have I said I love your work already? If not, let me remedy that! I LOVE your work! X.x.?
Mae

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

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thank's M.C. for pointing out my error. There again and I'm sure you will agree very much the same injustices.


LS.

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

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cops at the door
my only crime
my poetry.
?

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

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Branwell?
thanks for visiting my site
it is a sight for
sore eyes!

Comment is about branwell kent (poet profile)

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Martin, Thanks for the comment on "Dove Out Of Water". I respect and value your input. Take care ---J

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Mae, thanks for the kind words on my profile. And thank you for encouraging me to try my hand at a sonnet. It is precisely these exchanges that help all of us in our craft and expression. Now, how about that sestina.

D

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Thanks Lisa for your like on The Chase!

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

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Though if I want to be honest... I ALWAYS wear sunglasses! A quirk of mine I guess...?

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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dogs make better friends
than humans.
you can trust a dog!
?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Hello Peter. Funny how displacement can turn us inward. I, for one, was yanked from my MD wood, packed up with the clothes, flatware, and ambitions not my own and unpacked into Illinois. So your bio and sample struck a chord. Thank you for joining us. Looking forward to more.

D

Comment is about Peter Piccolomini (poet profile)

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Keith, Thank you for your comment on "Coin Toss". I appreciate it! Take care. --- J

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thank you kindly, Peter, for your comment on "Coin Toss". I appreciate it!

Comment is about Peter Taylor (poet profile)

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RE my verse - "in bits"

Laura Taylor responce:
Wed 12th Nov 2014 09:55

"I meant to comment on this at the time - it's stayed with me. The panic, the confusion, the loss of control, the straining attempt to keep the real NOW, and not let go of it, not let it twist itself out of the grasp. It makes me think brain problems/injury/stroke/epilepsy. I become very anxious when I read it.
To make a poem of it - I do admire you for that. I love this one, Tommy."


My responce
Tue 3rd Feb 2015 20:23

"You have it in one Laura"

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Don,
Thanks for the compliment on my rant
Sometimes I rhyme, sometimes I can't
For the times in which I do
Are inspired by ones like you


Have a good day, Don!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Tommy, Thanks for your input on "Pig Slop". I appreciate it! Take care ---- Jason

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thank you again, Sophie, for your recent comment on my profile page. You are having more of a struggle than I am I see from what you tell me, and I really do hope you fully recover as soon as possible from your injury.

Please do keep writing, because, I think both you and I know it is one of the best kinds of therapy when it comes to physically and mentally healing of the mind and the body.

My best regards as always.


Rose ?

Comment is about Sophie (poet profile)

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d.k.,

Thanks, I am really well and so are the two hounds. We enjoy our summer morning walks together.

Greetings
Keith

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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Agreed Keith (fountain pen-wise) in fact, I'm going to load a new cartridge now and see if there is some inspiration lurking ? And thanks, You Are My Priest is me giving thanks to all of you lucky readers out there.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thank you for your poems and your support, Damon.

Comment is about Mikey V Kinsey (poet profile)

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Don't argue with bear
but be beware-
it growls and bites
anytime, anywhere!

?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Thanks Keith.
How's the dog?
for that matter,
how are You?

wink.

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thanks Martin.

note: Sweaters marked down this week at Walmart!

wink wink

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Thank you all for your kind words

Comment is about Cait Abbott (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on Reaching Out Cynthia. Have added a brief lament about it on my recent page. Blessings. P. ?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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A bear seeking rare's not a humourous thing
(Sorry dk, humorous is how it should be spelt)

Was apologising to you for my not spelling it 'humorous'

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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Tom,

Thank you for posting a comment on my profile. I have had numerous conversations with various people on the subject of writing. I use a pen as I feel it is an extension of who I am in a physical sense. From my mind, through my arm and to my hand I write what is within me. There seems to be an innate connection which I find difficult to describe. I find computers and their keyboards quite impersonal as one is always concious of making typographical errors and therefore the natural flow of writing by hand is somehow interrupted. We spend a good deal of time peering at screens which flicker and after a while can irritate the eyes, whereas the printed word on paper is less invasive.

I enjoyed your poem "You are my Priest". An interesting poem.

Keith

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Tom. After further review (I listened to all of your audio tracks) I noticed that "Anatomy of Longing" did not load completely and thus did not play to finish. All of the other tracks played fine, for me. I liked the tracks with background noise and music a lot. Are you a musician also? Did you create those background tracks? Just curious. Hope this helps with your technical issues. ?

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