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Cate Greenlees

Sun 27th Sep 2009 16:32

Greetings Cynthia, thanks for the comment on Eer Olives Pumps, and for always taking time to read my stuff. Much appreciated.
Cate xx

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Sun 27th Sep 2009 13:55

Thank you Cynthia , it is a light-hearted commentary on life, how one second or one word can change things, also how misinterpretation is so easily made.
I like the comment on keeping a better movement with the ending ee sound. Brilliant , thanks.

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garside

Sun 27th Sep 2009 09:40

Hi Cynthia

thanks again for reading and making comment

i am practising the fledglin guantanamo approach to poetry ; )

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Marianne Louise Daniels

Sun 27th Sep 2009 02:03

cynthia, thankyou for the best review I have ever gotten. i am touched that you appreciate that poem, as regarding usage of words - it really is whatever spurts out of my heart and if its there, then its right for me at the time. i rarely touch a poem after i have written the first time, i really like the magic of it and greatly appreciate your work.

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Sat 26th Sep 2009 11:00

Hi Cynthia,
in answer to your question on my poem.
I don't know either. I can say in all honesty that the poem wrote itself. It sat on my desk top for two days before posting it because i thought there was more to come. I know how it makes me feel and i now have some idea of what it means to me personally but the fact that Nicky and Francine and others saw something for themselves in it says it isn't just for me and was right to share it. Whatever anyone takes from it or wants to see in it is for them to see and decide for themselves what it means to them.

In this case as they say - I just write the stuff. :-)
Thanks for your interest and comments.
Janet.x

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Nichola Burrows

Fri 25th Sep 2009 21:25

Helpless, still, like their is something missing from my life Cynthia, a feeling that never goes away, not from a 'woe is me' perpective, I have four beautiful children, Nathan is my second. But will always wonder what he would look like, how he would grow, what he would be interested in. Grief never goes away and time does not heal it just broadens ones shoulders and increases one's pain threshold. ( don't get me wrong their are many times that my emotions pour out and I may sit and cry and I question the why's and wherefores regularly)

Darren's critique is interesting and maybe I may try the she/he layout. let me know what you think.

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Anthony Emmerson

Fri 25th Sep 2009 15:46

Hi Cynthia,

Thanks for your comments on "Beyond the Equinox." It's good to wax lyrical sometimes - stretches the muscles of the imagination. Your "Peacock" is a very ornate still-life; I find it very different to your previous work, perhaps because of the subject matter. I think most of us benefit from attempting a new approach occasionally.

Regards,
A.E.

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Chris Dawson

Thu 24th Sep 2009 23:05

Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on my recent blog, very much appreciated.
I hadn't thought of the poem as sarcastic, I had thought of it as a little bit sad. What I was trying to do was to have the reader believe they were reading a love poem, only to realise at the end that the love was somewhat abusive, if you see what I mean. It didn't work anyway, so I've taken it off and I'll have another look at it in a while.
Hope you're well?
Cx

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jane wilcock

Thu 24th Sep 2009 21:19

Hi Cynthia, Thankyou for your comment re "kids in buckets", very ecological and my neices liked it. I have a series of garden poems for kids but no idea how to start re publication. I love your site and have read it a few times. I think I like the freshness and flight but association of ideas. My favourites, if you dont mind my saying , are "3 am on an old computer," ( we have all been the mouse there!), "last night I heard a squwark" very moody, and "the last verse" which is so softly touched and touching. May you continue to see the world in its originality.

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Gus Jonsson

Thu 24th Sep 2009 19:05

Hi Cynthia
Thank you for your comments ... at least the objective was attained... i.e. to be sensual.

The layout... as well visually pleasing, it aids my reading back in order that I pause for effect and read at a pace which suits the poem to performance.
Once again thank you for your encouraging words.
Gusxx

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Thu 24th Sep 2009 11:31

Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment on my poem ' A gentile river.'
I've added a comment of my own to the comment box below the poem. To be honest i didn't understand your comment. Maybe you read something in it which was not intentional i don't know. Thankyou anyway. Your comments are always welcome.

Janet.x

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Wed 23rd Sep 2009 20:53

Thanks Cynthia for your comments on "curtains and it happened one night"
Bernie

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Deborah Jordan Bailey

Wed 23rd Sep 2009 19:43

Hi Cynthia, thank you for your comment on HebDeb, I'm more suprised you thought it was poetry because it is real, I am looking for a place to stay In Hebden. I'm not yet homeless unless he indoors gets finally tired of my manychangingmoods and random ramblings and says Oi, enough, get thee gone silly woman, but until I find somewhere down here I have a lot of rail travel ahead of me. I saw a couple of nice places today..but so hilly..but that's Heb, beautiful but hilly..thanks again, debz x

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Wed 23rd Sep 2009 09:32

Thanks Cynthia for your comments on "it happened one night 2 and curtains"
Bernie

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Nichola Burrows

Tue 22nd Sep 2009 13:18

Hi Cynthia thanks for your comment, it's nice to let a bit of insanity take control of your pen once in a while. And I did have fun!! haha.

Irregular rhymes and rhythms and speaking in riddles are all part of the complexities of our consciousness, whose initial stream sometimes is hard to make sense of, don't you think?x

I have not commented on 'The Peacock' yet, but I shall. I wanted to read it over once again in peace and quiet, rather than make a half comment.

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Marianne Louise Daniels

Mon 21st Sep 2009 15:54

thanks for the comments cynthia. The Peacock is a gloriously rich poem. x

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Sat 19th Sep 2009 18:09

Thank you for your comment - a word such as delightful is exactly how the Eek is.
Reading your contributions to Write Out Loud has been a pleasure as well.
Spencer

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steve mellor

Sat 19th Sep 2009 17:34

Hello Cynthia
As ever, I appreciate your comments. I enjoyed writing Life-Line.
Hopes & Fears is a wee bit trite, and may well be worth a bit of re-writing. I was still a little carried away with the emotion I had felt whilst in the US, and fearful of the effect of failure on the black population.
I doubt that I would have posted it without the Discussion started by Dave B. Nevertheless.
Thanks again
I await your re-write of The Peacock
Steve M. :-)))

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Nichola Burrows

Thu 17th Sep 2009 17:18

thanks for your comment Cynthia, wish I could say that your stumble over a few lines was intentional for some reason, but I can't with 'Thanatos', I keep going back to it and trying to edit it a little without losing the feel. It was written fairly quickly in the few quiet moments that I succeeded to snatch last night. Any insight on the stumbles would be greatly appreciated.

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Steve Smith

Wed 16th Sep 2009 09:34

Dear Cynthia,Yes, it was a play on Wordsworth, partly inspired by 'Wordy rappinghood ' line in Tom Tom Club's piece and Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard' -full many a flower is born to blush unseen...' As for your poem 'The Rustle of Autumn, it's beautiful -secretly, this is what I think poetry should be, with the last lines that pluck on a string of joy deep inside me.Steve Smith

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steve mellor

Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:30

Hi Cynthia
Old Folks Home
I've been equally fortunate, but the images came together last week after I saw a room set aside for Age Concern, and listened to a middle-aged lady who was unable to even go into the room because of the memories she had from her own parents stay in an old folks home.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Steve M. :-)))

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Sun 13th Sep 2009 20:39

Hi again Cynthia, thanks for your comments on "Them Downstairs" glad you liked it.
Bernie

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Sun 13th Sep 2009 20:36

Thanks Cynthia for your comments on "Burnt Sticks", glad you liked it.
My Favourite Film is based on a Kipling story it's called "The Man Who Would Be King", love that film.
Bernie

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Andy N

Sat 12th Sep 2009 16:51

Glad you liked Bent Heels, Cynthia.. Took a lot off work that poem.. Too much if I am honest, but am dead pleased with it!

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Rodney Wood

Fri 11th Sep 2009 09:52

Thanks Cynthia. Open mics seem to appreciate mm stuff but magazines this past year just keep rejecting, that is if they bother to reply.

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Cate Greenlees

Thu 10th Sep 2009 09:43

Oooooo... just popped in here to thank you for your lovely comments on my last effort for Whom The Wheel Turns, and saw this comment from Graham! The naughty man! And here was I girding my loins { metaphorically speaking that is} and going in gung ho to defend your amusing poem!!!!!Cate xx

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Graham Sherwood

Wed 9th Sep 2009 22:13

Cynthia, I'm afraid that I have to confess to having been a little mischievous with my comments about the 3am poem. I was trying to test your reaction to some less than positive feedback following your comments in the discussions section.
The whole problem with so many different styles of poetry is that it is certainly almost impossible to balance what is good and what is obviously poor. With the more modern stuff, I think it's more like the emperor's new clothes, like modern art, if you don't get it, it's your problem.
So well done for being honourable, and a big slap for me for being disingenuous.

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Wed 9th Sep 2009 11:07

Hi Cynthia,
thankyou so much for your recent comments, they mean a lot to me. I never realized when i first began to write how difficult and how important it would become to me to get it right wherever possible. I still have a long way to travel but am slowly but surely learning as i go along. Incidentally i agree with some of what you say in the discussion thread you set up but mediocre is something i think we all are, will be or have been guilty of. The secret is to recognize it and learn from it. :-)

Janet.x

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garside

Wed 9th Sep 2009 08:34

Hi Cynthia

thanks once again for reading an making comment -

steve x

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Chris Dawson

Wed 9th Sep 2009 05:59

Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you for reading, and commenting on, 'Important' - I'm pleased you liked it, and I value your opinion. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply - been a bit of a hectic time recently to say the least!
Hope you're well,
Cx

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winston plowes

Tue 8th Sep 2009 11:29

Hi there Cynthia

Thanks for your commentson Haiku drinks. Just a bit of fun really, I am not that cleaver actually.lol

Win x

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garside

Tue 8th Sep 2009 07:57

Hi Cynthia

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my poem 'slight'

steve x

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steve mellor

Sun 6th Sep 2009 11:46

Hi Cynthia
I just found myself puckering up watching the TV last night, and wondered how many other people did it, and how many will own up to it.
x Steve x

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John Darwin

Sun 6th Sep 2009 11:19

Thank you all for the comments on 'Hog'. I thought I would explain a little about it, I hope this is of interest to you! Firstly, as for almost all that I write this was completed swiftly, in no more than 10 minutes or so. The only revision made was swapping two of the lines in the second stanza. I like to write like this it feels natural, I am not a ponderer over a sheet of paper I believe in intuitive and impulsive writing. I think this is where the best work comes from. This means of course that it is usually flawed, as this poem undoubtedly is! The idea for the poem was simply that Dylan Thomas had stolen more than his share from the 'genius gene pool' - I should explain that I am of Wesh parentage although I was not born there - leaving none for anyone else, and me in particular! The first verse is just a superficial portrait of Thomas, his appearance, his drinking and smoking (stubs here is a reference to his fingers, not a cigarette stub) - and the delivery of his poetry when he read it. If you listen to recordings his delivery is very theatrical and sounds very much of the time that it was done; dated to modern ears.

The second stanza (understandably criticised by some of you) is part reference to the location of the Boat House his residence in Laugharne and partly my own memories of summers spent as a boy In Wales. My relationship with Wales is one of love and awkwardness. Stake a claim to Welshness in England is often met by ridicule, do the same in Wales in an English accent and the result can be the same! I like to think that this somehow comes across in the second verse. The alliteration is obvious and probably overused I can see why come may not like it.

Finally in the second stanza I was also trying to use words for their sound purely, I like the para-rhyme of somnambulant and ambient, drunkenness and genius.

Finally I did write 'hog' whilst drinking which may explain the good and the bad in it also.

I hope you liked my explanation.

Best Wishes.

John

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Sun 6th Sep 2009 01:48

Cynthia, if you wish to comment on anything I weite that is up to you, it is up to me to feel offended or not offended by your comments, not you, it is better not to presume.
Bernie

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Fri 4th Sep 2009 17:00

Hi Cynthia, I am confused, when did you think you offended me?
Bernie

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steve mellor

Thu 3rd Sep 2009 16:29

Hi Cynthia
Your very kind comments (After the Deal ..) are greatly appreciated.
I wish I could take great credit for its meter etc, but it's just what came out of my head, to suit this particular subject.
x Steve :-)))

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Wed 2nd Sep 2009 12:21

Hi Cynthia
thanks for your comment on ''who pays the ferryman.''
Further comment on my blog. Do you think it needs more or is it ok as it is ?

Janet.x

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steve mellor

Mon 31st Aug 2009 13:48

Hi Cynthia
Thanks for the comment. I wrote this when helping at a local school, and saw the mothers dropping off their children on Day 1. Half elation; half tears.

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Francine

Sat 29th Aug 2009 03:42

Hello Cynthia,
I love that you asked those questions about my poem 'I Thought...'
Definitely both... more about the first, because I love them so... and a little of the second, because when you are let down, doubt creeps in.

Merci : )


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Thu 27th Aug 2009 12:33

your kind words of encouragement are really uplifting. thank you so much. x

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chris stevenson

Thu 27th Aug 2009 10:44

...hello Cynthia...thank you for the comment...in sixty years I've never heard anyone pointing out that 'religion' and 'time' are man-made ideas, and the Earth and universe will carry on perfectly well when man has gone...I just thought it needed saying.....chris.

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Cate Greenlees

Wed 26th Aug 2009 23:47

Your comments are always valued and appreciated Cynthia.
Cate xx

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Deborah Jordan Bailey

Wed 26th Aug 2009 20:02

Hello Cynthia,
thank you for your recent very kind comments on my poem דבורה. i am touched that you took the time to send me your thoughts, : ) deb x

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steve mellor

Wed 26th Aug 2009 15:07

Hi back
Thanks for the compliment.
'Touch' is certainly heartfelt. It sort of mirrors what I felt on my first and last days with ....
Together - forever
I'm romantic enough to hope that these feelings come along to everyone in their lifetime
Thanks again for taking the time
Steve

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Isobel

Wed 26th Aug 2009 01:38

Thanks for your comment Cynthia. You are kind. Don't feel like I'm writing much of great value at the moment - think I need another holiday!

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Tue 25th Aug 2009 12:55

not anti in the least Cynthia, glad of the advice.
Bernie

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Tue 25th Aug 2009 12:36

Cynthia the poster read "Support Your Goverment Forces" was in French but that was the translation I got from my Congolese Friends.

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Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Mon 24th Aug 2009 14:44

"Old Woman in a Corner" gives an abrupt ending that can give so many meanings... it could be a oem on the Holocaust... the boots being the Nazis arriving, or it could be about current times where junkies arrive to rob the house... such a dark overcurrent to this... I like it...

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Chris Dawson

Mon 24th Aug 2009 00:56

Hi Cynthia, Thank-you for reading and commenting on Shhh ..... as always, your comments are much appreciated.
Cx

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