Ann - I have changed my pic to a Koala bear having a bath / drink. Hope you like him... Unfortunately all the other info in my profile seems to have disappeared! Win x

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Hi Ann. Thanks for your comments on 'Ghazal' recently. More detailed comment left on the blog entry if you wish to view it. Thanks Win x

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Ooh Ann, I did! I have only a hazy recollection of the night (it was my birthday so I may have had a little glass or two) I got applauded and have had some nice feedback which was lovely. I have now caught up on my ironing so may frequent th'site a bit more ...till next week's ironing starts threatening to bury the children!I love the Ladybird poem by the wayCheersRachxxx
ps I read 2 new ones I wrote for Preston is My Paris (a local zine), they wanted contributions and I can't resist that, one of them, 'Brief Encounter' got published in it and they were launching the issue that night so I had to read my contributions, Next time I'll do stockings nude.....but for stockings(possibly!)

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Dear me Ann! You really don't like creme eggs?! I didn't know there was such a person lol glad you were tempted though! x

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Hi Ann
"Somehow sweet, somehow chilling. A lonely slightly odd love poem."
- it harks back to a time long ago when I was indeed lonely & probably slightly odd as well !

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Hi Ann, thanks for the welcome and the comments. I love "the dray" gorgeous imagery. I Look forward to reading more.
Cheers
Steve

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Hi there Ann, thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my poem,I'm totally new to the site and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, I just keep flipping about from page to page reading - is that the jist of it? I love 'where can I find a man who can dance?' I can picture the opals and the graceful swooping and closeness...I can also picture the swarfega men, I own one myself and he's not a fan of dancing :-) x

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Thanks for the comment Ann,I was feeling rather bleak too when I posted it up(Big Birthday Blues) but now I've embraced the whole thing and am feeling much brighter...and the sun's just come out too!
Cheeers
Rachel
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Dear Ann Again thanks for your kind comment on the poems. You were very quick. I only put them on before just before your response! I've also checked out your own Cornish Holiday poem and enjoyed it very much. I recognize lots of those details from when we took our kids off to holiday homes.

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Thanks for your comment, Foxy. May I call you that?! I can hear Bob Dylan himself singing your Valentine's Blues song, save perhaps the tickling feet line. I reckon these words would easily fit around 12 bar blues. You should get together with a musician and perform it as a spoken word piece. Get a little riff going. Buy a cigar just for the occasion. And be sure to wear your heart on your sleeve.

I've just noticed the audiofile; I'll check it out.

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Yes it's my own back garden during the recent snow fall. The pic is probably the only airing it will get outside my computer so thought i'd use it while Winter's still here. :-)

and yes it's good to have a change.x

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Hi Ann, thanks for your response.
I'm a dog, like a faithful Labrador, loyal and a little too trusting sometimes which causes me all kinds of inner turmoil but as i grow, i'm becoming more accepting of who i am and a bit less accepting of those who would take advantage of my good nature and generally take the p**s. :-)

My whole outlook on life has changed very recently and i'm enjoying the changes so my poem does reflect that for my Chinese symbol.
The ''element'' does make a difference to characteristics in an individual. Some of the websites you look up only ask for the year of birth but the date and month gives a more 'in-depth' and i feel, more accurate assessment.

The poem was written purely as an exercise for me to practice writing in a more technical fashion. Not sure if anyone has noticed that or simply don't want to comment on the technical aspects. I can't blame them really. I've given them all some flack in the past on here. :-)
I wrote a piece which has a more spiritually guided influence but it wouldn't be suitable for this website as it isn't poetry.
Janet.x

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thank you Ann. She was only about 2 years old when she got hit by a car. She was fully grown but so small,delicate and very loving. I hope you still have some happy times left to spend with your little cat.

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Thanks for your recent comments, Ann. Your amazing output is an example and inspiration to us all, especially me! Greg x

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Hi Ann I got your cheque today and thank you as well for the p&p that was very thoughtful of you. I'll post your signed copy of 'My Father's Eyes Were Blue' today and hope it inspires you.

Ant x

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Ann, as I understand 'cum' it is the woman's orgasmic fluid that flows freely after effective sex.

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A nice light touch Banksy. (Hopefully that's what she said too!) ;-)
Oh yes - short fingernails and all.

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Hi Ann, thanks again!! Wistful maybe, a nun? never heard that one! Ha ha XX

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Oh Ann
When there are so many lovely things in this world to feel...

Please don't feel jealous.

Thank you for your lovely comments

Augusta x

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Hi Ann, Amazing profile pic. Thank you for the warm welcome -

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Hi Ann,

Thank-you for the tip. I'm not sure how that works. Here is a poem for you to read.

Carrying you

There is an eternity in that hand
when your fingers wrap around
the shakier experience of mine.

You feed, stop, smile, and look
so new into the old corrupt world.

You look into our eyes and just
register above the moon of food.
Your mother’s breast glides you
punch-drunk through the waves
of her nourishing milk-ocean.

The feast strengthens, empowers,
the great quench ennobles us all.

We are your parents, the well
that nourishes you, you disarm us.

We look at those small moments,
a mosaic-microcosm of you,
and we relish the tiny achievements.

Each step of development, we go
with you in awe of the wondrous,
of the greatest goal, of the banal.

And our prize is your smile,
the scent of your wisp of hair,
the touch from the minute
in those hands already creased,
folded for the toil ahead of you.

Our burden is to lessen the load
on your soft back.
We carry you happily
in the embrace of hope.

I paint with you in my arms.
I paint the future and carry you with me.

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Thanks Ann, I felt cauterize was about the only thing that could be done! I take it you like a bit of 'felting' now and again then lol x

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Hi Ann Thanks again for positive feedback. This is a companion piece to my funeral poem Valediction. I had to write it, but I had a difficult relationship with the person involved, so it's difficult for me to have any idea about the poem's merits, so your comment is appreciated.

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Hi Ann

You shouldn't feel a wuss. Everyone feels self-pity sometimes. The question is whether one embraces it, and it doesn't feel like you do - or you're hiding it well if you are. Your poems just seem to say "This is how it was and that is how I feel/felt" and they usually do it skilfully and sensitively which people appreciate very much

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Hi Ann, thanks for commenting on "And Eagles were Kings" - It is surrising how a different set of eyes can see things and I hadn't realised that it would work without the long verse, but it does. Thanks for taking time to read and comment. Seamus

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Ann I'll find a man to dance with you but not me I dance like a monkey on jumpleads.

Your poem on dancing was very romantic and you won;t be the last girl waiting to be asked :)

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Hi Ann Now you're talking. Of course I know that one. As you can tell from the poem I was addicted to Solid Air. I remember that I had this tape I made with Solid Air on one side and Bless the Weather on the other. It really was a tired loop of tape because I didn't have a lot of music in France and I must've played that tape thousands of times. There was a point where I'd had enough of being over there and I played and played The Man in The Station, doing my John Martyn drawl to the bit where he sings 'I'm catching the next train hoooooome'. I also love the later track Serendipity and was quite please with myself for getting it into the poem. If you catch up with the YouTube footage it's devastating. The recent biography is a great tread and sort of inspired me to write the poem in the first place.

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Hi Ann Glad you're a fan. What album is the Wild Geese on. I don't know that one.

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Hi ann - coromandel - thanks for letting me include this really great poem - if you want to you can see it here. thanks.ian. http://www.poemsetfree.com/index.php?page=favourite-poems-by-other-authors

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Hi Ann Thanks again for kind comment. It wasn't an easy time. She was a very difficult old woman who was also quite a stirrer. Still, makes you realise what life's really about.

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Hi Ann, I understand entirely why you don't want to change Wolf Rock and feel a bit bad now at suggesting you tinker with it. Anyway, it is a marvellous poem and wonderful title, and has inspired me to think about a part of the world where I spent many childhood holidays. I can hear the waves against the side of the rock. Greg x

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Thanks for thecomment Ann. I agree with you about the sadness of old people losing common references . I feel that very strongly when with my ancient grandma, she speaks quite strong Lancashire Dialect which can be hard to understand for non-speakers. I am trying hard to keep using some of her words..especially in poems actually, so that they might continue. I think I could go on about this whole language and age debate all night... d'ya fancy popping round, I have wine? Lol!Rachelxxx
Edited to add: I love Mousehole, I read 'The Mousehole Cat' (kid's book) to my lads years ago and it made me cry buckets it was so beautiful, one of the loveliest days of my life was getting to visit it for real.

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Hi, thanks for your comment on 'fourteen years'. I have to say tho i have never painted my front door that much lol x

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Oh My Word! I have only just spotted the person in the grass on your photo....that is amazing!
Rach
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I see. That branch of my family were from Callington and Duloe. I explored tin-mines when we used to go camping in Cornwall, I found a piskie..

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Hi again Anne, are you from Cornwall? that's weird..have been tracing my family tree and my maternal grandfathers'family are all from Cornwall, going back a long way. Sea-people. : )

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Hi Ann.. Indeed it is a buttery man lol.win

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Hi Anne, Happy Imbolc..slightly belated : ))
Thank you for your kind comments on Spinerette. You are correct, spiders are possessed of spinneret's, but the one in my poem although being posessed of some of the attributes of these fascinating little organs, is not one of them. She is someone who draws out silk in her own way...I think she is from Cornwall..or Brittany...a Celt of the ancient race of which the two countries are connected. Thanks again,Debz xx

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hi Ann. Thanks for lookin at my toast! Where is the sculpture in your new profile pic... its amazing!

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thanks for the cooment ann.

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Wow - 'Take Me' is brilliant, love the repetition makes for a convincing argument. Great work!

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Hi Ann, great comment! Made me laugh. I agree about that line too - was just being lazy and not fixing it, I will have to think of something more self explanatory or something which at least makes sense! Cheers, Thom

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Hi there Ann thank you for your comment it really boosted me. I hope my experience on WOL will be as good as yours. Dana

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Hi Ann

Surprised that link hasn't worked - here it is again
http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

She's at St Austell April 2nd (tel 01726 879500) and Penzance April 3rd (tel 01736 365520)

Dolphins! If I wasn't married, there would be dolphin wallpaper in the bathroom. What marvellous creatures.

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Wow!! Now you are talking REALLY spooky because it is my Birthday as well!!! I wrote that offshore 4 years ago on my Birthday!! Yes I agree it would flow easier I will change it.... thanks for the advice ;-))
Luv yer fellow Birthdayer lets PARTY on the 26th ha ha
TC XX

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Hi Ann

Thanks for the steer to Bridget St John - excellent. She is on tour, which you may have spotted -

http://www.bridgetstjohn.byethost33.com/biog2.htm

Have you ever run across Dory Previn?

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Thanks for the thing you said about my Grandad being around, I was so touched. Maybe I just need to write it all out and then he'll go quiet for a bit.
Love
rachel
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She ran the Chippy too!

:)

Jx

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Thanks again for your considered comments.
The word 'eutectic' comes primarily from the realm of 'physical chemistry' and is about boiling points and melting points of compounds and mixtures...that was the first clue....but I wouldn't expect most folks to get that one...I took out a whole verse about how I had to bite the line through and consequently ended up rather close to his tearful face...which was how come I could taste his tears and his breath (he always smelled of sherbert...his gran ran the local sweetshop!). When I took out that verse it suddenly became just funny...rather than funny/sad/longing/...Ho Hum.

I have no problem with funny...just was aiming a bit higher...or lower. :)

Back to the drawing board. Thanks (as always)

:)

Jx

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Glad you enjoyed 'Martin'. Thank you. Sadly (it is a true story) we never went fishing together again. No-one seems to have mentioned the homo-erotic subtext...which is a shame as I wrote it to submit as my final piece for the OU course I've been doing. I've obviously edited it too hard and removed the tension and longing from it. There was a verse where I bit through the line and brushed his cheeks with my lips...but that was just tooo flaming obvious. When I removed it it turned into a comic piece in a flash. It had sounded rather tender up unitl then.
Glad you liked it though. It's still a poem!

:(

Jx

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