Hi Cynthia re; After the Rain - I pass that group of trees most days and will try to ID the species if I ever remember in time. I'm wondering if they were horse chestnuts perhaps. Many thanks for commenting Cynthia much appreciated.

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I do tend to slide out quietly if I don't really know anyone to talk to rather than feel like the spare bridesmaid! I shall make more effort another time! Nice though to put some more faces to names.

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It would be for 15 minutes, 2nd on in the evening at 6:15pm.

1st on is Anna McCrory.

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It seems my emails aren't reaching you either.

We've not been at Sandbar since April, I'd mentioned that when I last emailed you, we're at An Outlet now, and looking to move to the Seven Oaks in the near future.

The May and June shows have been and passed. With me not hearing from you I wasn't sure you'd got the details RE the change of dates/venues and had to get a replacement.

If you'd be interested in reading poetry as part of our OpenMind festival at our OpenMind:OpenVoice poetry evening it's going to be at An Outlet on Dale Street, Manchester on 12th August from 6pm - 10pm with many top poets from across the country taking part. Let me know if you can make it and I'll put you on the guest list.

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Thanks for your comments on Piggies, Cynthia.
I'm not owning up to any special interest!

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Thanks for your comment Cynthia and for picking up that spelling mistake. I do know the difference but sometimes I just don't proof read well enough. I'd always much rather people pointed stuff like that out cos they serve as distraction otherwise. That is one of my favourite poems - I just love the rebelliousness in it. Girl power! x

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Hi Cynthia - many thanks for your lovely note on Ring of Roses, and I am very much looking forward to meeting you too :)

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Hi Cynthia many thanks for pointing out the careless typo in the poem about trains and 'scurry' now replaced with 'hurtle' so much better I think.

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Cynthia, many thanks for your very kind and supportive comments. You are right about Echo but I just liked it anyway and as you say it does contribute! xx

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Cynthia, thank you for taking the time for such a full critique which was great - many thanks. It is always a privilege for me when someone takes the time to really look at a poem of mine. I don't disagree either! It was a bit of a throw away piece for me and was more about the performance than the poem but I shall take time to look again. Hope you and yours are all well. XXX

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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Hi Cyn - yes, "yesterday" is also the first line of the poem - many thanks for reading & commenting. B

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Hi Cynthia - Thanks for your kind comments on 'Nowt nor Summat?'
I've been reading 'The Strangest Man', the biography of Paul Dirac, a British theoretical particle physicist, which led me on to read a bit deeper, and from what I can gather, all we see seems to be the result of the manifestation of mathematical entities rather than real stuff ... maybe (my head hurts!)

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Hello Cynthia, I have finally gotten some time aside to consider and incorporate your keen (and not pushy) suggestions of the Wind Chimes poem. Allow me again to thank you for your interaction and constructive input. Cheers, Frederick.

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Hi Cynthia

Thank you for your comments on Colours - a true account of a poor old chap whose legs just gave way under him and I happened to be first on scene and helped him through it

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Thanks for your kind comments on "Cider" : )

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Thanks for your generous comments on The Clackety-Clack, Cynthia. Always nice to get positive feedback, but when it is also phrased so beautifully ...

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cynthia, what a fabulous profile picture.How are you?x x

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no- this is a first posting :o)

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thanks as always cynth, for ur very kind words and constructive critisizm. theyre always welcome and appreciated.

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Hi Cynthia

You've a brilliant eye for detail I applaud you. I should explain that the poems I post on here are the first drafts and sometimes when I'm distilling the poems I repeat an image. I've changed the latex line in Pearls as I wanted the bones to the poem so later I could flesh it out. Editing is a huge russian doll of which I'm constantly unlayering.

Your comments are always brilliant.

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Thank you very much Cynthia for your words on Saving Grace your advice is always spot on and I have reworked this accordingly. Much obliged.

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Just read your stuff Cynthia and liked it- life force abundant and the words!
steve smith

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'Are you sure you just didn't want to get 'somnambulant' out of your poetical 'system' where it's been buzzing around for ages? :)' - you might well be right there!

That, and I've been lacking in sleep the last few months, it feels as if I live my life in 'somnabulance'.

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Thanks for the comments, Cynthia, on Big Issue. He really does say it like that!

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thanks Cynthia, I have omitted stictch, I can't have it twice and thanks for the ppointers, its appreciated.

My 2nd collections just come out, check out pighog press, its called the dreaded boy

www.pighog.co.uk

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Hello,
Thank you once again x

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Cynthia, thanks for the suggestions on 'Escape' your spot on, I should have left it more open ended than trying to make it so specifically about something.

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Cynthia I much appreciate your detailed appraisal of Woking Junction especially as one never really knows whether 'Odour rich latrines' is a safe route to go along with some and especially our ladies. I'm so glad this resonated with you.

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many thanks as always Cynthia xx

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Thanks for your comment on Escape Cynthia - I really wasn't sure about it but you've made me feel better! I think I posted soon after Rachel Bond's and felt woefully inadequate - though deeply disturbing, the poetry in hers was remarkable - my winner so far, without a doubt.

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CynthiaMany thanks for your comments on Nuts. It was an entry I did for Subtle Flame, the Beverley Open Mic group, last week - theme was "nuts".Incidentally I like the new picture. Self-portrait?

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Thank you for your considered comment on Escape, Cynthia, your thoughts are always appreciated. I thought about it, but won't be changing it, because I do prefer it the way I wrote it. I realise it isn't the most 'poetic' write in the world, but there is some poetry in it I believe. And it was a bit like stripping my skin off so another reason is that I don't really want to revisit it - left me in a pretty fucked up way the evening after I put it up.

Now I want to write something joyful about Peggy Seeger, because I think I fell in love with her watching her play the other night :)

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Cyn - thanks (lucky escape) -
you're right, but I couldnae think of another - I've compromised :)

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Thanks for the comment and suggestion on Nothing Remains,I think your idea is great and will enter the edited version in the Escape competition. I'll keep the full version for general use as, as you noticed its in memory of my mum and the day we scattered her ashes at Crich stand. It was very winds and I managed to catch some of the Ash in my mouth when it blew back, numpty son not doing as he was told!! Hope to see you at Sale - Dave

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Don't ruin my pipe dreams Cynthia! I was looking forward to putting my feet up one day...

I am sorry to hear about the Green room. It's a great venue with a really cheap bar - which has to make it a winner for me! The auditorium bit is just perfect for slams - can't understand why it is closing...

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Hi again Cynthia I think I'll leave my naked lady a while now and maybe look at it again some time later. I actually posted this one almost immediately after writing it, so I probably need a bit more distance from it. Thanks anyway, though, for your very thoughtful and careful reading.

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Hi Cynthia I've had another look at La Nue Provencale and think that, hopefully, I've made it reflect better what you actually see in the image. The time sequence in the first stanza is now maybe a bit more straight forward. See what you reckon.

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Hi Cynthia Thanks for the very considered response to my provencal lady. I'm thinking about your comments. I have slightly shifted my time frame to before the point we see in the photo which may have complicated it all a bit. By the way if you write a poem about a painting it's call 'ekphrastic' ( if that's how you spell it!). I suppose you can use it for photos as well. I thought the time sequence made sense. She wakes up early before the sun is up but then eventually gets up herself a bit later. I think, though, that I may have to tinker with the bit about the shutter. She probably opens it when the sun is much stronger than I suggest so 'seep' and 'premonition' might need changing. Maybe 'sweep' and 'summons' - but it's got to have the right sound/cadence. Btw my new collection 'In the Distance' is now available on Amazon if you fancy a signed copy!

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I hope you are enjoying not being a question mark! I find using the photo option very liberating and imagination-pleasing! I am liking being a chough! Sometimes I like being a mud-maid - sometimes I like being me. x

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Hey! Great piccie!!! xx

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what nicer compliment could I ask for - you're too kind Cyn - but many thanks :)
(our lot)

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Hi Cynthia - thanks for the comment over 'lost shadows' there was a typo on the last line where servants should have been said instead of the second shadows.. must have been more tired than i originally realised when i blogged it before.. oops... but anyway, glad you liked it.. i wrote it under workshop conditions so it was wrote pretty quickly, and considering i am delighted with the end results.. hope you are good x

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Hey Cynthia,

Just to say 'Hi I'm back'.

I'll be browsing through your poetry shortly, no doubt (although - I'm feeling the dissertation pressure at the moment, roll on 9th of May).

All the best.

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Hi Cynthia,

Thanks re bitter-sweet affair. I think the 'sweet' part is only really there if you know the subject matter.
I suppose 'blurred' is almost apt re 'green' though it would be in a very lateral sense and again only really understood by me. ( not sure if this is good or bad ha ha )
Either way, i appreciate your input x

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Cynthia - thank you for your kind comment on Two Candles. The candles are real and it did happen and yet, as you say, it has allegorical force.

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Hi Cynthia - thanks for commenting on Peepholes which is as you so rightly say additional to something earlier x

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Thanks very much for your comment the poem is not too finely balanced but does in part refer to the story of the Talents (coins) given by a father to his 3 sons with differing results in the Bible.

For explanation my poem adds a fourth son who is extremely gifted but becomes so absorbed in his own genius that his "talents" are destroyed taken away - I suppose Icarus and Narcissus are similar in mythology and certainly a lot of the rock stars who died early because of their excesses would fall into the same category.

Explanation is not my strong suit so I hope you now get the jist - Thanks again David

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Cynthia, many thanks for your comments on both "Moon" & "Luxury". I really appreciate you taking the time to comment. I also agree with Julian's comments on "Luxury" and will have a go at re-posting. Never done that before so here's hoping I don't delete the lot!
Hope you are well & all our best to Stan too. XX

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Thanks you so much Cynthia for reading and sharing your journey with the poems I am posting up. You are much appreciated.

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