Thanks Cate for your comments. Yeah, I used yesterday to rework that poem significantly and that's the key I think - just spending more time on the arrangement. Time - something we rarely allow ourselves to just think and slow down a bit!

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Hi Cate, yep, I realised you realised (this is sounding funny, isn't it?) it was Middle English but I did a bad explanation of why I used it! There are connections and connotations that seem to have been weakened over the years but the power of the original (aided by the spelling) seems somehow as vivid. Thank you again xx

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Hello Cate, thank you so very much for your comment and for staying with the poem. I decided to use Middle English phrases with contemporary English in an attempt to capture the connection the language used to have with mystery, otherness. And I really like your Biting the Bullet piece, too -- it is powerfully musical and haunting. Moxy xx

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Hi Cate, thank you for your comments on
'A Time to Forgive (Biting the Bullet)'...
It was so lovely meeting you too! I sent a photo to George and Isobel - hopefully one of them will pass it along to you.

xxx

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Hi Cate... Belated thanks for commenting on 'Descent Into The Maelstrom' Not sure on the length issue. In fact it was a struggle to write it to this length. Win

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Cate, thank you for taking the time to read and comment so nicely on 'C'est la vie...'
It was a bit of a challenge to write given it had to be about ten different people, and only five words per line.

Francine x

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Hi Cate, Nice to see you're still here, strumming away : ) Thank you for reading and leaving kind comments on my post The Dunes. Debz x

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Hi Cate - "pearls" = thanks very much for the lovely comments. all the best. B

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Thank you so much Cate for the lovely comments on
'Pandora's Affliction'...
So I have a style now - LOL
I will try and break free on my next one ; )

xxx

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thanks for commenting on BIG DIAMONDS :)

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Thanks for comment on mine Cate. I see we are both asking questions. 'That'll do Babe'.

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Hi Cate - many thanks for your kind comments (sunday best) B.

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Hi Cate,

Thanks for visiting "Neil" and your comments. I guess it's a story that's haunted me all of my life. It was a strange and somehow comforting experience to write about him and share it with people. I guess the truth of the story makes it more powerful. Perhaps truth is, as they say STRONGER than fiction. I'm pleased it touched you.

Regards,
A.E.

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Cate, thanks for your comments on my poems.That's just the kind of criticism I like to hear.If I were more skilful I'd be able to blend poetry into the narrative seamlessly, but as you say, it's too prosaic in parts.

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Hi Cate, Thanks for your comments on ';-P'. Yes some people are conjoined with their phones arn't they... they are worshiped objects for us as are those blackberry things. Are we missing something here? are people more interesting / important?

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Cate, thanks so much for your comments on Gloria.

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Thanks for comments about the Chinagrass music of Mamer. I volunteer at a local arts centre so get a chance to see lots of people, tonight for example I'm seeing martin Simpson.

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Hi Cate Thanks for your kind comments about the poem. Glad you like it.

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Hi Cate

Druids are on the whire side of the night...these wee little beastie demons... were deadly, evil and whilst red in colour they were black hearted and satanic.


Hope you sleep well after all that.

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments.

Augusta xx

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Hello Cate

How lovely your comments are, almost as sad as the poem.

I agree with every thing you say, the world becomes a frightening place for many of us as we grow confused and infirm.

Thank you once again.

Augusta xx

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Hi cate - thanks for comments- read through your poems. I like your sunflower theme (all in good time I hope) as I have also written about them.

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So Sorry Cate... When I say Grey what I meant was very dark white.

Hope that makes amends
Augusta xx

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Thank you for commenting on Teardrop, is there any chance for some training on a Nose Flute ha ha..... Lots of Love TC XXXXX

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Hiya Cate. Thank you for the comment on my protection poem. I wrote this at christmas and when I read your beautiful 'If I Could' it reminded me of it, so I went and found it in my notebook. I love that they are on the same theme....maybe we are on the same wavelength as Janet said earlier in the month. Glad you enjoyed it, I really loved yours.
Rachel
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Thank you so much Cate for your wonderful comments on our poem 'Unstoppable'... Isobel and I had so much fun working on this : )

Francine x

p.s. Ha ha hemisphere vs continent ; )

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Hi Cate, thanks for taking time to comment on 'Blue Planet' - much appreciated - best wishes Dave

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Cate
Thanks for the kind words about my Uncle Fester.
I've been doing this as a performance piece about a month but support it by revealing books with Fester's Old Title crossed out and Bill Shakespeare's replacing it. I thought it needed this help so I was bit loath to post it bare, as it were.
I'm wrestling with the audio files at home so if I'm successful I'll try to add a reading to it.
Also just read If I Could. Beautiful. Mine are teenager/early twenties now, but the old saying is very true; "When they're young they break your arms and when their older they break your heart".

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Hi Cate and thanks for commenting on yet another of my poems. 'There to Here.'

Janet.x

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Hi Cate, thanks for commenting on Maybe. Much appreciated x

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Hi,
Thanks for the comment..and if TC did cut your nose with a postcard, all I asking is: why were you smelling the postcard?

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Hi Cate,
thanks for your comment on 'Metal Tiger Roars in.'
To be honest there wasn't much actual research done, it's a subject i'm interested in so was aware of the animals associated with the Chinese horoscopes.
I did work hard though on the syllable counts and trying to make it an interesting read for others too. I appreciate your feedback and if it's going to be performed i suppose i better do it soon or it will no longer be a valid subject. :-)

Janet.x

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thank you for your comments , always a pleasure to know that at least someone likes my work

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Avast there young Cate,you have shivered me timbers with your piratical observations re 'piering'-heres raisin' a noggin'o'grog to ye!-Stefanxx

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Thanks Cate. Pregnant, frumpy and fed up Cate, had a break and concentrated on the family and home for a while. How are you?xx

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Hi again Cate It just means I'm very grateful for your kindness and am very glad you like the poetry. It seems to get a bit busy here on a Sunday morning and I'm supposed to be working!

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Hi Cate, thanks for the feedback on 'For You' glad it struck a chord,
Rach
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Haigh a Chait!
Ta me an-bhuioch leat ar do chinealtas agus ta athas oram go bhuil suim agat ar mo fhiliocht! There's a bit of Irish for you. I hope I've got it more or less right! Just thanking you for the kind comments and glad you liked the poems.

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Hi Cate Thanks for leaving feedback on the poems. I like your own Sunflowers very much. JUst been to a funeral myself recently that was very tense.

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Hi Cate,
thanks for commenting on my poem about Miles Platting. I like 'gritty' and Northern, although we could do with some real grit around here lately eh!

Janet.x

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Hi Cate,
thanks for your lovely comment on my latest blog. Hope it's getting easier where you are in the snow. The Taj looks mighty inviting.
I enjoyed reading it and glad you included the reality element as well as the beauty and the dream of visiting such a superb monument.

Janet.x

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Thanks Cate, for the very kind comment, it's very much appreciated.
Rachel
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Hi Cate
It was great to meet you last week, along with the rest of the clan.
Gaudete is very much a favourite of mine, and you were particularly good.
I loved the comment you left with the photo of me by myself, when you refer to the fog. I think the photo was taken in the fog. Even I'm not sure whether it's me. Perhaps I look better from a distance.
Even with Isobel, there's only one person worth looking at (and it's not me). Why do I always look like a dribbling idiot? Rhetorical question.
I thought Isobel's reading of my poem was terrific. Just wish I could have listened to it myself, but I go a bit blank when I get on a stage.
Hope to see you again soon
xx Steve xx

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Thanks Cate you are most kind...did you notice what I did with each line? if not take another look, I was just trying to set myself a little challenge. sian x

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You are so right cate... but suddenly I realised I was only 12 and what do boys do... sorry... love Christmas really ..
just don't like all the sticky sweetness ..

Thanks again

Gusxx

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Many thanks, Cate, I am glad you enjoyed Camel and I. My children are grown up so I am resorting to my niece to read it to. My daughters friend, Grace, has produced a few illustrations for me. Your comments are always vaued. Best, Jane

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Hi Cat,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

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Thank you Cate x

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I liked the poem Eer Olive , Belicose with the cadence of a bull terrier on LSD ;-)

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yeah, for silence is a sad un! not sure where that came from! came out off no-where somehow..thanks for commenting!

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Thank you Cate for taking the time to read and comment
on my poem 'Out of the darkness...'
Yes, sad and reflective... a longing to escape...
to be free...

Moi x

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