hope to see some more of your writing soon, barbi x

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thanks for your comments on 'cacti plant' just when i was thinking it rubbish. there is a lot in there if you get the references but also just a simple write about the very complicated feelings surrounding exes.

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Hi , thanks for your comment on Compassion, I agree.
Regards Hazel

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hi, glad you enjoyed 'Space Knits' just a spot of this nutter seeping through. I'm not always about but I'll see thee - awfully Yorkshire, What! tara for now, Nick.

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barbi, thanks for all your supportive words. i too love your poetry and am happy that love is the thing. i love writing. i love reading. i love, you love, we love, loves up. i just posted a poem about love. xx

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Hello lovely!

Aye, she was an older woman, very beautiful inside and out. She was actually a friend of my mother's, but she let me have the run of her wonderful house whenever we visited, which was incredibly rare back then. Usually I was made to sit in one place and told not to speak or move, so for her to let me do all that was just so liberating, exhilarating. I didn't know anyone else with a house like that. Like being in paradise :) And her handbag always smelled of posh perfume :)

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The dead postman strikes again. Ta muchly for comments. Tara, Nick.

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Cheers me dear, for your note on Tickling Fish :D

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Hello lovely - thanks for your comments, am glad you enjoyed them. That's proper shocking though about the water!!! Jesus wept!

Ha, yeh, trust - just can't find it these days eh? ;)

Keep writing chuck xx

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Hey Barbibarbie ;)

Ooo I've only just seen your note re BO heh - handy hint of the day...if you're replying to me, do it on MY profile otherwise I most likely won't see it unless I keep checking yours. If you reply on mine I get an email message :)

Anyhoooo...thank you very much for your notes on If and Inauthentic. I'm trying new things at the moment, have forced open the mental/creative doors that usually open just when they fancy, in order to use some spare time 'wisely' (that'll make a fucking change then), and blast out as many ideas as poss. Trouble is, now I'm fucking DELUGED with words and ideas and some are good and some are shite ;D but they won't leave me alone!!!

Ahh and I've just read your note to Anthony Emmerson up there - seems we may be doing the same sorta thing!

Haha re BO and standing next to people :D I usually nip to the shops on my way home from festies and I get the same reaction...people literally swerving around me with their faces wrinkled up :D Hehehe :D

Reet, seem to have written an epic! Best go do some work then. *cough*

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Epic intriguing poems - look forward to reading more - and thank you also for your kind comments PS

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Thank-you for your comment, I think your writing is amazing so it is much appreciated. The images you create in my head are unreal.

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Laura- I always smell of BO and what ever herbal oil i can come across that day, my friends, some just like me, some to polite to say anything about it. i like it the earthiness, sometimes on the train i stand a little to close to people just to watch there reactions. i like how they back away.

Yes, please, I have the tea cup and this winter is maddening. Let's have a party!

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Well you know how X mas tress are, they can be very picky and quite particular with what they will and will not wear. Thank you, for your very nice words.

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Oh - and your pics...wow, you can do visual AND linguistic, that's brilliant. Some can, Rachel can, but I can't take a photo or draw or decorate a room for nothing. I can't even 'dress' christmas trees - it's fucking woeful!

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Hello again! Thanks for your notes on Serendipity and Leaving Home. Heh - I knew SOMEONE reading it at some point would have done the egg-whites trick :D Strange that it should be someone from all the way over your side of the pond!

Yeh, the pheromones thing is very interesting. There'd be average 15-20 of us lot roaming from squat to party to squat, and we were all strangers to the bath, and yet...I don't remember ever once thinking 'god we stink'. Just didn't even think about it. Course, we must have done! But it just wasn't important, the whole being clean thing. And, just like at festies where no one washes for 3 days and no one seems to smell, just as it was back then. I still love going to festies in the summer - come back smelling of sweat, and woodsmoke, and happiness :D :D

The freedom WAS immense - getting older brings wisdom and confidence sometimes, but it also brings literal baggage. Meh. Let's have a fuckin party! :D

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Thanx for your comment Barbi on my Alien poem, will have a look at your work soon, welcome to WOL! Jeff X

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Hi Barbi - many thanks for your kind comments about 'The Future Is So Near' - I'm enjoying adding the audio to more of my poems, will upload those soon. :) Best wishes, Dave

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Hola BT - many thanks for your note on Tigerella - I'm glad you enjoyed it :) I will have to have a look through your offerings

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I like bleach poem. You have an original style impervious to germ killers x

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driven by the moon i will shake this earth at least once
powerfull words !
nice on !

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Hi Barbi, welcome to the WOL site. Thank you for picking out my poem to comment on. There was a write out loud weekend I attended. I don't go to much workshop stuff but it was a good experience.
I love the wildness in the poems on your profile. Go with the flow.
Freda

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and thank you for your powerful comments x

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Hi Anthony Emmerson,
Thank you for welcoming me. Since the words are chosen at random and done each week,the pics are a bit vague. I try to get them to correspond loosely. Giving any interpretation to be left open, but I don't think that they necessarily have to match the poem/poems completely. This way the reader can read into it however they like.

As far as my methods or writing goes, I'm just coming out of the closet as a writer. I'm still a bit shy,I find writing poetry to make me feel bit vulnerable. I am a visual artist as well and In that world you expose yourself, but I feel a bit more grounded there. The thing is I love poetry and I want to get better at it. I also like to work on group projects, so taking a theme and everyone writing on it, I find to be inspiring and freeing as well as a way for me to find my voice.

I do have a lot of other poems that have not been written in this way (found word), but since they have been already written, I thought that challenging myself with a new theme each week would allow me to grow much quicker than just waiting for the emotions to pour out onto the page, instead in this way go looking for them. So for me it is an exercise as well as a way to find and sharpen my voice.

I hope that this answers your questions.
Wishing you well,
Cheers-BT

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Thank you Ann Floxglove for all your help. I'm really enjoying this website. Best Wishes.

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Hi BT,

And welcome to WOL. I have to say I'm curious re your methods. Are the images also chosen at random, or do you choose them for a particular reason?

You say in your bio:

"These are great exercises and experiments to get the mental blood flow going."

If these are simply exercises, then this begs the question, what comes after the "mental blood flow" has been stimulated?

Regards,
A.E.

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WElcome to WOL! Glad you are taking an interest in the competition and have also put a blog on here. Hope you carry on enjoying the site.

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Hi Barbi - post your poem here in the blog section. The important thing is that you tag your poem "serendipity". When you have written your poem on the "make a blog entry" page you'll see at the bottom of the page a space where it says "tags". Just type serendipity in there. And good luck with the poem! :)

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http://drivenbythemoon.blogspot.com/2012/02/cellular-memory.html

This week is almost over but, don't fret, you can still play anytime.
This weeks theme is Cellular Memory. Please leave your writing in the comment section. Thank you and have fun.
Cheers - BT

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