Thanks Ann, I shouldn't be such a good cook lol! :) off to read your latest in a min.
Thanks
Rachel
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Thanks for the comments and feedback

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Thanks Ann for looking in on my profile page.
The wren was a very enterprising little bird that rode on the eagle's back until it got too tired to fly any higher. So although some would praise her for tenacity and cleverness, enduring the trial issued to her, others would say she cheated. The thing i love about the wren is that she doesn't gloat. She simply goes her own merry way with grace and humility.

Starlight.xx

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Hi Ann
thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

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"Take me" is VERY good.
Apricot Man - great as it is - left to our collective imaginations.

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Merry Christmas Ann, awww your message gave me a big smile and a little sentimental tear in my eye! I agree,
Best Festive Wishes
Rachel
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Happy Christmas Annipoo ;-))
Luv TC XXX ;-))

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Hi Ann,
'Glennon' refers to Dermot Glennon who has written a classic poem about murdering his wife and keeping her body in the attic.
http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/dermotglennon

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Mote it be, so it is, it is done ;-))
TC XX ;-)

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Thank you Anne for the comment and wishing you a Merry Christmas. Stephen Smith

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Hi Ann, thanks again for 'looking after' me and leaving lovely comments. It's truly very much appreciated.
Rachel
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thank you Anne, for your very kind comment on Bedouin, Debz xx

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Hi Ann, thanks for the kind comments so far and the tip about posting gradually. I just wanted to get a handful up and then I'll add to them as and when I can in future (one at a time!). So far it seems like a great place to read and share stuff, so quite exciting really! Thanks again, Thom

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Hello again Ann,
I agree with the "on the bus" and anywhere anytime inspirations too. both "Copse" observed from the motorway and "From a train" etc are testament to this.

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Hi Ann
Now why did I have a bet with myself that you'd be the first to comment.
I just fancied an antidote to the usual claptrap about Xmas

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Nope! Still up. Sounds like I might have got more than you though - I didn't get up 'til 4!
Cx

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Thanks for reading Camel and I, Ann. My daughters best friend, Grace, does me the pics for my poems. I love them, too. I enjoyed reading Sacred Well recently and wondered if it was Mother Shiptons cave, Naresborough.

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Ann, I hope you keep writing. You have an unique view and voice, methinks.
Michael

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Hi Ann, Thanks very much for your comment on The Balloon, I have just had a quick look at your poems and really enjoyed them, I was moved to tears by Bereavement, it is so raw. You communicate that pain so well.
Cheers
Rachel
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Hola foxy Lady heh heh ;-) I am turning an idea over in my mind, just missplaced my Sorcerer's pen for the moment..... watch this space ;-))
TC XX

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Yes indeed, a maiden fair, a virgin , but not for long I suspect, poor girl.
Thank you for reading Ann
Augusta x

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Hi Ann,
thanks for your recent comments on my stuff.
They're really appreciated.

Love ''The Dray.'' aand ''Take me''.

Starlight.x

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Hi Ann, thanks for liking The English Teacher. I wrote the first version of it a couple of years ago when I heard that he had died, in his late nineties. The regular alcohol intake seemed to have done him the world of good. Greg

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Ann, you have been busy. Many thanks for reading do many of my poems and extra thanks for commenting so positively.

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Hi Ann, They are not all anonymous but not really sure if there are any WOL members down there? Is AE that way inclined? I will try and fin out.

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Hello Ann, I enjoy reading your stuff, nice thread of humanity running through it. Keep posting.

thanks

John

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Good evening Ann

Thank you for having a read of my stuff. I'll give blogging a go sometime yes.

I wasn't sure whether it was justanotherspaceforapoem or a place to subject WoL poets to the minutiae of my rather insignificant existence. I think it is the former.

Fortunately... for all of us!

Have a great tunesday


J

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Dear 'quiet widow'
Hospital; Bereavement; Ghost House? catharsis?

My/our old house is let, and I don't want to even look in the window.

Beautiful poems though.
Steve M.

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Ann
I keep making a resolution that I won't even look at Discussion groups; then I think "ok, I'll just risk one eye" and then, before you know it, you're sucked back in.
I shall resolve to keep my resolve.

Steve M.

ps
I neither smell of oil/engines, nor am I able to put one foot in front of the other. What chance I?

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Ann
It was a quick 'in and out' military operation, trying to save young lives.
;-))

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Hi Ann
In entering the Discussion forum, I hope you are aware that, under H&S guidelines, you have to wear fire retardant under-garments.
There is often some of the most personally vitriolic c**p posted, claiming to be 'discussion', that there are some (I mean me and at least one other) who will no longer join in.
I wish you a joyous journey thru the WOL site

Steve M.
p.s. I don't smell of oil and engines (just thought I'd mention it) ;-))

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Hi Ann, thanks for your kind comments on my little Haiku 'On Mondays I Fall in Love' This formof poetry is a particular favourite of mine. Win x

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Hi Ann. Thanks for your comment on my poem 'Patience'. I've only just come across your profile. Really like the Dancing Men poem. Portrays stereotypical men. We're not all like that though - but I do like Wickes (and B&Q, and Focus). Bugger.........maybe we are.
Andy
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Hi Ann, Thanks for looking at Social Algebra Alphabet. and for putting things right in your comments! lol win

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Hi Ann,

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

steve x

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Good morning Ann

I enjoyed the dancing poem and the array of gentlemen that abound in it v much. The descriptions are clever, believable and familiar. I recall 'wearing' a pencil behind my ear once (for emergency villanelle-writing-on-the-bus you understand) and someone assuming I'd be good at carpentry! I can't even put up the Christmas Decorations let alone shelves!

It's a great poem Ann and there are a lot of great observations in it. I think Goethe appreciated the dance just as much:

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~ Goethe

look forward to reading more of your stuff.


Joseph

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Hi Ann,
Thanks for the kind comment. i think in that picture- i'm pausing before the blank page, frozen in fear. i may have been stood there for several minutes. either that or i'm getting a coffee.
I like the repetition in your poems. I see desire and nature are the same here. Do you read much Ted Hughes? i felt a lot of him when I read your poems.
Thanks.

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Dear Ann,
thank you for commenting on my poem -you have seen the heart of it....I struggled with the word "Un-amputatable for a while , trying several others , but used it because it's an ugly word and when you think of someone you have loved and still love and wish you could see,but can't, it hurts and you could in one act brutal cut off that wish so it would no longer be painful...then, the longing returns with the pleasurable memory...that's love.Loved your 'dray' and thanks for bringing the smell of swarfega to mind...in that tender ,dancing poem...hmmm, your poems are so gentle ...it makes me realise how hard-edged a lot of poems are...hmmmm somethign to ponder..
Steve Smith

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Hello Ann
Thanks for your kind comments about my poem. I enjoyed reading yours just now. I like the picture of the "Wilkes ' man and the turn around at the end of the poem. I like your bold approach and look forward to reading your poems and blog in more detail - Pauline

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Hi Ann, thanks very much for your comments on Sandy Denny and Andy Williams. I suppose I'm wistful only in the sense that she died far too young. I do agree that Who Knows Where The Time Goes is a wonderful song, and there are so many others too. Originally I had the idea of writing a whole sequence of poems about musicians I admired, but these two were as far as I got! Maybe when I take the redundancy ... Greg x

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Hello Ann again ;-)) I saw the comment's on your last poem what a great response !! I am glad you enjoyed the Solstace poem, otherwordly was it's intention ;-)) You can call me anything you like ha ha I have had a few variations !! however my real name when I am not hiding behind an alias is George ;-) By the way it was ME !! who spelled ' Rebellious ' incorrectly in your blog ha ha.......
G X

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Hello Ann, I am sorry for your loss, there are so many people writing on here, its difficult to know someome until perchance they enter your consciouness, I thought 'Why can't I find a man who can dance?' lovely in its totality, yes you are right men do smell of oil and engines ;-)) we are all the same, I drill for the damn stuff. ha ha We seldom get time to dance, too busy being crushed by the wheels of life and it's obligations.
Keeping on dreaming and being you ;-)
George

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Hi everyone!Hello Christopher. It's interesting that you enjoyed the first bit of my dancing men poem. I like the last bit, think the first bit is a meant-to-be cliche, and the two lines that join them are a bit rubbish - don't flow, too clunky, unless you say them in the right rythmn! I wrote the poem as a love letter to practical, scruffy, unassuming anorak type men, ( I used to work surrounded by them, in a previous existance) and the bit I think works for me are the last two lines. Or maybe the last three words!

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I need a man who'll dance with me.
We'll meet in moonlight and I'll wear
a green gauze gown with pearls and opals in my hair.
He'll love me straight away, he'll be entranced
and then we'll dance.

I need a man who'll dance with me
and without effort he
will lift me up as in our mutual joy we twirl.
He'll write me poems, give me flowers perchance
and then we'll dance.

Enjoyed that, embraced it, so seldom can, good stuff!

Can we just leave it there though.

C.

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Hello Dave - many thanks for your comments - er... have I spelt lie wrong? Have I made my poem more deep and meaningful - if so - must have done it on purpose! Wracking my brains to work out what else I've spelt wrong - or should that be racking? Thanks again, xx

Oh yes! I see what I did!

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Hi Ann

Welcome. To my shame I don't often check out new members on the site, but am glad I did in your case. I really liked these - all of them! Looking forward to seeing your Blogs

Dave
PS Is that a typo in the second line of The Dray?

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Hi again Ann, This is grim behaviour, especially for an 18 year old ! Ihope you make her clear it up... Win

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Hi Ann Foxglove... I see we have a mutual admiration for Gaia Holmes. she is not a prolific poster on WOL but is as you have commented an amazing poet who can capture moments like no one else IMHO. Win

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Hi Ann , I also like ruins and enjoyed your little gem. Keep posting and enjoy exploring the site. Winston

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