Aw, glad you liked East Budleigh, Isobel. We stayed in a camping coach there for a number of Easters in the early 60s. The train went past us on the next track. The last time we went I got pneumonia and spent a week in hospital, and soon afterwards graduated into long trousers and to grammar school, and to being bawled out by my surname. The line was closed about three years later, and thus became a perfect symbol of early childhood: something you can really never go back to. I've tried writing this poem in a number of ways and never got it quite right; this is the version I'm happiest with.
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Thanks, Isobel. Appreciate your comments and support. X
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Thu 6th Jan 2011 13:44
Hi Isobel
I greatly enjoyed, "Upon the Quality of Love" lots of lovely language structures, nicely crafted. x
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Isobel, the cupboard so offered was Elaine's. I was the guest in her house. My variety of teas extends to ten (I was quite shocked when I realized this, lying in bed and counting them off on my fingers...what WOULD I have done if I had possessed more teas than fingers! :) Happy New Year.
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Hi Isobel - glad you liked my Penguin poems... I wrote them just for a laugh really and thought it had been a while since I posted anything silly online, so henceforth... Hope to see you at Guitars and Verse (even though I am cold ridden)
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Hi Iso, lengthy comments on all sorts of rubbish left for you on the 'Sappho' blog entry. Win XXX
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Hi There, thanks for commenting on the Offal poem. It has undergone major surgery! (see blog entry)
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Philipos
Tue 4th Jan 2011 20:35
Re; your further comments on The Hard Seat Isobel - absolutely I couldn't agree more - great to get the help with fine-tuning too
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Hi, Isobel. Since the tea cupboard Cynthia refers to so beautifully is mine and since it appeals to you - you must come and see my hobbit hole sometime!!!! Love your new pic - it's really beautiful, such a cheering lovely smile. Happy New Year! x
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Philipos
Tue 4th Jan 2011 18:57
Hi Isobel - many thanks for commenting on The Hard Seat - yes the experience was certainly for me an instant cure for trivial suffering - and a long-term wondering about how people struggle through their lives that way
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Hi Isobel- thx for the feedback and thought on my latest.
I agree with what you were saying...made/makes sense.
Not always easy to try and explain different points when it is between the lines stuff.
Hope I didn't sound odd in trying to wrestle my own logic to the floor.
It was good to get some real thoughts going on the issue.
Chris
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Hi Isobel, thanx for comment, am doin poetry to music with Andy N, you never know might try this!
Look forward to seeing you thurs @ Guitar n Verse! Jeff X
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hi isobel, thanks for reading yet again x
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Thanks for your c omments on 70m Dash. It is autobiographical although what I've neglected to say is that I was Champion of the Slow Bike Race for 5 years running.
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Thanks for commenting so thoughtfully on 'Respect', Izz. Yes it's hard to concentrate for a long time at an open mic evening, which is why the Bards formula works imo. Two breaks (not one) and the compere (Steve) saying something constructive after each person. This is usually a mix of the humorous and thoughtful and kind of helps the poem to settle in the mind.
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Yay! More 'Happy New Years' etc. etc.
Yes, I will continue in my quest to write something 'joyfully erotic' one day. It is 'a long felt want'...as they say. I will rely upon you to tell me if I ever succeed (I mean that).
Your obedient servant and fervent admirer...well, err, ummm....me!
:-)
Jxxx
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Hi Isobel - thanks for commenting on New Year Wishes - all the best to you and yours for 2011,
Dave
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Isobel-''Hmph - will you be tagging this with Pandora's Box then?
I like the poem - shame you didn't post it back then - I guess that might have been too conformist for you...
Are you into deep posh gravelly voices then? xx''
@Isobel: I posted the poem within 1 hour of writing it.
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Hiya Isobel :)
Glad you liked 'perfect line'
thanks for your kind comment,
Wishing you an amazing 2011
Rach x
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@Isobel: Thank you for your comment on 'Daughter...'. You have the poem summed up. Please do not feel unsure re ANY of my poems nor any comment of mine. :o)
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Of course, poetry of a religious leaning fits on this site! Why wouldn't it? Poets are thinking creatures, mostly. Just ignore those who aren't. The duck-billed platypus reminds us that God didn't always make perfection. Although, God knows :) that creature may be perfection after all, and we are the uncompleted version. I said once to a friend that homosexuals may be the refining form of human life and he nearly fainted.
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Isobel, I'm so glad we have personally met. I like your work so much; I always anticipate the words and ideas because you write with great feeling and equal emotive skill. Higher praise I cannot give.
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Thanks, Isobel.We've had the mood swings too but you can't put everything in a poem can you? I was going for subtle.
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Thanks for your best wishes about my mum, Isobel. I did feel helpless on that Saturday, but you're right, she does have some very good neighbours. We go down to fetch her up for Christmas tomorrow. We will have a houseful which will hopefully blur any tensions! Hope you have a very good Christmas yourself. Greg x
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Hello Isobel. Ta for comments on This Virtual Life. I almost feel as if I've let you down after all that speculation on the subject of the poem!
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Thanks for commenting on Nets, Isobel. It was written about three years ago, at the start of a journey for my mum. The snow has stopped me going down to Sussex to see her today, meals on wheels have cancelled, and I've had to ask good neighbours to look in on her to make sure she's ok.
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Hi Isobel, Thanks for your very kind comments on Ghazal(there) I feel like I am on a roll with them, It's true that you can get so tied up in conforming to the criteria that you end up with just a bunch of 'forced phrases' and not a 'poem' I would love to see those lights. Win X (snowed in today)
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thanks for your message and no problem ;-)
my back is far from up no fear everyone is entitled to a set of beliefs so long as it means something to them, just so long as they are of the understanding that others are not open books to be recruited to the same school of thought being as individualism is like evolution/mutation. me dark naahhhh.... um well maybe quite a bit lol
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Fri 17th Dec 2010 22:26
hey up! izzys in the building! repeat after me-fuckoff Wilde-but don,t forget the xxxx,s!
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Thx for the feedback and kind comment on the Ok Society poem.
Thoughtful...
Cheers Isobel
Might see you at the Howcroft..if not have a really happy Christmas.
Chris
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Wed 15th Dec 2010 20:14
http://vimeo.com/5456823
I think you could do a good version of this
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Thanks, Isobel. Good to be back. Wolverhampton can wait.
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Hi Isobel, Hope you're doing alright. Soz I'm not coming to Wigan tomorrow as I'm working late (after the Christmas Party tonight!) but will get along in January. Hope you have a good Xmas and New Year. Just read and heard your Iconic poem - I needed to hear it a second time after Wigan and also read it to appreciate the craft of it as there are complicated themes (for me!) in there - it sparked the old debate for me in pubs, would you prefer to live a long life or burn brightly and out? I thought the recording was great also - I do love your use of song! Take care and all the best for Xmas. Love Stevexxxxxxxxx
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Thank you for the comments - you are right about the sprouts! I'm toying with adding something in about being over-faced with plates and guest places.
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Hey Isobel,
Thx for the kind feedback on my latest poem...appreciated.
The debate is really interesting and something of real interest.
The poem took a very long time to write...maybe longer than anything I have previously written...be that a good or bad thing.
My Best
Chris
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Hehe - read your poem, and afraid to say I'm the worst boy-racer I know, and road rage is an integral part of my driving experience. I once terrified some dickhead who was trying to bully his way past me on a single lane road, by winding my window down as he drew close and screaming obscenities at him. He pulled back and behaved after that, heh ;D
I would quite happily put a bullet in Clarkson's head though.
Ah now - you know what happens when two women share the same working and living space don't you? Yep - PMT x 2!
As for lesbians being happier? I'd say that depends on the relationship ;)
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I appreciate your response Isobel, thank you. I'm not wanting to have an aggressive type of argument, more just to talk through a few issues I had.
I don't believe for a second that you ARE homophobic. It was the generalising that I picked up on. I still think you are doing it, but I don't think pushing this point will get us anywhere right now. I will say that the definition of emotional satisfaction will be dependent on a number of factors, not just what sex you are.
I wasn't looking for other explanations - I was asking you questions. Perhaps I could have worded it differently, maybe it doesn't work on the page.
Anyhow, thanks again for your comments
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It was the generalisation, based on the stereotype of gay people, that I found offensive.
Fair enough if you wish to agree to disagree, but I would welcome more debate with you on this. If you don't, that's your shout :)
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Eh up - didn't wanna keep derailing Chris's poem.
I take issue with a number of your statements on there as they are massive generalisations. I believe I can say this to you without you thinking this is any kind of personal attack. It isn't, it is merely a response, a debate, a very different set of understandings, attitudes and opinions.
In order of your points, I believe you can try and rule people of an age out, but you never ever know when someone of that age WILL attract you. Whether you act on it is another matter, but to say it will never happen is kinda painting yourself into a corner.
I think the women's lib to which you refer relates to radical feminism crossed with french feminism. Which is to say that both were useful, and necessary, but both are deeply flawed in their setting in stone what it is to 'be' a woman. Women are continually 'becoming', through their own ages and through history. And this of course does not even acknowledge transgendered people.
Re homosexuals, 'they' change partners more often? I'm not sure where to start with this, as I admit to being more than a little offended by it. It's another massive generalisation, of lesbians, of gay men, of the whole spectrum of queerness (and I use that term in a reclamatory manner, as it relates to queer theory), both about the frequency of partners, and about children (both having and the staying together for). Plus I think you have premised it on the 'scene' population only.
There's more to say on this, and I would love to discuss it further with you, in person sometime, over a few pints. I really don't wanna cause you any offence by what I've written here, as already stated, but felt I had to say something. Can't keep quiet on issues such as this.
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Hi Isobel,
Thx for the feedback and proper thoughts on both my last two poems...very kind.
The Starstuff one is a little more me and closer to my heart..but the rant can have its place too Hehe
It seemed to go down quite well at the Tudor...worked with the Bohemian atmosphere LOL
My Best
Chris
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Wed 8th Dec 2010 08:18
hey Isobel.thx for reading and leaving your impressions on dilute to taste..at times i do tend to write with a certain ambiguity, perhaps the coward in me?..anyways look forward to seeing (and hearing) you again xx
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Tue 7th Dec 2010 22:11
know I,ll get me arse kicked,but being the fun loving youthful rogue that I am I just could not resist this 'oppo'-I thought it may be permissable to use this decades one comment re your new pik...bleedin 'ell!...Nana Mouskouri gone blonde!...I,ll get me coat!(see yer this day-2020)
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Whaddaya mean I 'struggle with the erotic'...bloody cheek!
:-) :-) :-)
Hope you liked it!
Jxxx
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hi Isobel :)
thankyou for your kind comments,
the vastness of Space is scary, prefer cosey spaces anytime, im a taurean so like my feet rooted to the Earth.
x
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Hi Isobel, Yes, have a go at a ghazal. Great. Actually for once I am not laying down a challenge. It has taken me months to getting round to posting up some information on how to write ghazals. Mainly because there is no simple answer via a template as in other forms. But people keep asking so I have finally done it. lol. Nice to think though that my posting of a few ghazals has sparked something. Win X
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John Coopey
Sun 9th Jan 2011 14:49
Isobel
Many thanks for your comments on Haircut
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