Cynthia Buell Thomas! Where are you? Do you realise I have a HUGE clear platic bag full of constant mutterings and jibberjabble? For that I thank you. I may send them to you and see if you can decipher the constant rambling of a feeble and harrid mind :-)

How are you my lovely? I have been integrating myself back into the heady realms and striving to keep a low profile, but I have finally got to face the fact that I always have too much to say.

My final addition to the family has the unfortunate affliction of being a mini-me.

I hope you are well? I will be in and out of WOL on a regular basis now I have 2 whole hours a day to spare to put my constant rudimentary ramblings into some form or shape.

Love to you.Nicky x

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Listen Taylor (if that is your REAL name)I select and grind my own selection. £5!? I have drunk superb coffee in many outlets -never costing more than £2.50 Thomas Henry Carroll
Apols to CBT for invasion of your space. (or should that be 'her' space?)

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Yeh, I often wonder where people get all their money to buy bloody expensive coffee from coffee-shops! That's something I never understand. A fiver on a cup of coffee?!

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Hello again :) Shy my arse ;p Good to see you again.

Re 'Purple' - I'm sorry you bristled on the dementia line. It is not intended to offend, obviously. My maternal grandmother died of Alzheimer's after 10 years of suffering with it, so it's always been there in my mind. I've long thought that I'd end up with it, so to pretend to have it in order to fund some luxury by stealing from the corporates just tickled me a bit and cheers me up about it. It still is a genuine plan too - I know I will be living in poverty if I get to pensionable age, I have no assets, I'll never pay the mortgage off, and I come from a long line of poor people, so this seems like a nicely rebellious act for when I'm old and vulnerable.

Yep, you were spot-on re 'homegrown green' ;)

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Hi Cynthia

I hope you're well - really missing your presence on here.

Just a quick line to say a big thank you for introducing me to the diamante form a few months back. If you remember, I wrote 2 experiments with it, and I have just heard that Haunted Waters Press have accepted the Scar one for online publication! So thank you again, and I really hope I'll see you around here again at some point.

Take good care

Laura x

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Thanks for that

A framed copy of my poem has gone on display at Stockport Art Gallery - - - they liked it too!

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for your comments on 100 Metres and Us Nolimpics
I had fun with the dialect - I had a strong image in my mind of a scruffy, young, chubby-faced lad trying to talk his way out of trouble with injured innocence.

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Hi Cynthia and thanks for your message and for having a read of TDB and commenting on it. The poems are quite complex which is probably down to the metaphors but it was intended that the images would speak for themselves. Interpretation is a beautifully intimate thing and books mean different things or suggest different things to people and I always admired your evaluations and comments on poems. Let me know in your own time what you think and be honest as you like. Yours Ant

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Hi Cynthia, I just wanted to check in that you got the book okay?

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Apologies for the delay Cynthia I've been having some bad headaches from some meds. Don't worry about the crit, you're right, it was a rush of blood and passion upon reading the one you did for Fatima. I would like to send you a copy of The Dreaded Boy anyway so please email me an address to send it to you at caducus2004@yahoo.com

Enjoy the w/e

Ant
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re There's a sigh...' done. :o)

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thank-you Cynthia. I went to sea at 17, so when I muse on this I write very quickly and these are the images I find..also religion and time are man-made ideas.. so I dismiss them in order to think clearly.

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Thank you for your comments on "Surreal" Cynthia. I just needed to get my thoughts down, and here seemed to be as good a place as any.

I know what you mean about having to study and work hard to attain a certain level of sympathy as that did not come so naturally to me either.

Thanks again.

- Josh

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Thanks Cynthia for comments on my Housel Bay Hotel poem - I have made a few changes (tho not to the audio - too lazy!) Changed the title too. Ta for the advice. xx

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Hi Cynthia
Thaks a million for your review on The Blooding. I was going to ask if you would consider reviewing my 2nd collection, The Dreaded Boy by Pighog Press?

I'm happy to send you a copy if you wish and I'd be very grateful.

Thanks
Ant

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for you comments on Kitchen - Made. I see what you mean about the last line It would be punchier but it leaves me with a missing rhyme and perhaps the possessive 'my' reinforces the volte face. XX

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Thank you C, I'm appreciative of your comments re 'On stolen sheets'. :o)

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Hi Cynthia. Unfortunately this is true. I posted "Non Traditional Haiku about my Poem" because my daughter says the first Poem "Haiku about a Stolen Poem" was worded a little strongly.
I contacted the websites administrator and told him I don't have a problem with anyone posting my poetry, I just ask that I receive proper credit. He removed the poem.

Thanks for your comment
Shirley

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thanks for the comments. I'm doing a rewrite, and maybe post it.
Glyn

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Hi Again , changed the 'You' to 'They', thx. better I think. Win

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Cynthia, very useful comments on 'Easington Colliery' some small changes could add a great deal of clarity perhaps. will have a look. thx Win .

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Cynthia, thanks for your perceptive comments on The Show. Appreciated.

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Thanks Cynthia for the positive on 20/20 vision.

I have done an edit (as was suggested by Ray)

The picture came after the poem Cynthia..it does not really have to be there at all.

Again thank you for your time. :)

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Hi Cynthia, nice to see you at Sale the other week after so long. Glad you liked Fizz Bomb. It all sounds fine in my accent?! lol. Win x

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Thanks CYnthia for the generous comment on Pilgrims.

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Thanks Cynthia, I agree with your observation and will amend accordingly.

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Cynthia...firstly sorry to be so late with my thanks of your lovely comments of the confusion of Mary M. Very much apprecisated. This is the first looking at religion write I have done..I have no idea why but there it is. I performed this for the first time this week and it seemed to go down ok! Again thanks for your time. :)

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Hi Cynth - thanks for your note on Prop Panda. Yeh, it started out as a bit of daftness with a transgender panda (don't ask) and then turned all political on my arse! ;D

Went down a storm at the mainly socialist Folk N Verse day in Wigan!

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Cynthia, thanks for your lovely comments on Duty. Very grateful. And thanks too for your Fatima review. Keep 'em coming!

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Hi Cynthia,
thank you for taking the time to comment on my poem. It is the first time I have ever wrote a blog and am a type of novice in displaying my poetry. After consideration, I felt that you were right about the "concluding line". IMO, I have a lot to learn! I appreciated what you had to say. Cheers :)

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Cynthia, thank you for sharing your ideas about Day 7. I love hearing how other people view what I write. It gives me a fresh way of seeing things and I think that's so helpful when it comes to improving what we write.

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CBT, Hi,
ref Dinner Date, or should that be: 'Inner Date' one never knows! you alone have delved into the thoughts behind this one. I usually expose the insipid mush but this was a fling, and yes, you triumphed! Well played, for seeing the truth inside this shallow piece of 'deception' in that I kept it simple to please the audience. I shall now be your most gracious 'watcher' Please, please me more! ta muchly, Nick.

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Hello Cynthia, thank-you .. it's strange how other people's analysis can reveal more . I thought this has to be called 'sea' .. perhaps we are just a conduit for our subconcious ideas ..cheers.

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for the kind comments on 'Jury Duty' - I appreciate the amendments too - I often miss those little things even if I've read the piece 10 + times. Great of you to take time like that!

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Ta for the comment- :o)

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on 'A Cup'. I hadn't thought of it as a politcal statement but I see what you mean. It was actually the result of a challenge in a poetry group I belonged to to write a poem about a cup. Being me with my contrary streak I thought of 'bra size' not 'drinking vessel'.
I do , however, deplore the trend for folks to need to appear to have the perfect body or whatever fashion dictates this year. I think that the only statement this really makes of the need to conform is "I am a sheep!" - Not for me!

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for taking such an interest in The River. The poem is a mix of the public and the private; my father died the day after the Marchioness disaster on the Thames, and my wife saw the helicopters from the train as she travelled down to join us at his hospital bedside. The later Thatcher years seemed to be associated with disasters: football ones (Bradford, Heysel, Hillsborough) marine ones (Piper Alpha, Zeebrugge, and the Marchioness). The lanterns luring the unwary onto rocks is really the idea that so many were drawn into buying into the loadsamoney, get-rich-quick dream of those years. Maybe my father worrying about paying the doctor's bills reflected a gut fear that the NHS was at risk, that we might return to the bad old days, as we still might. A study of Alzheimer's patients found it remarkable how many knew that Mrs Thatcher was PM, when they had forgotten almost everything else. I find I'm interested in writing some historical/political poems these days. Greg

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Hi Cynthia - I have changed my tent poem a bit - think it's improved. Thanks for your comment. x

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Hi Cynthia, I'm relieved that it was recognisable as a sonnet! Many thanks for the relief your comments have caused me! I tried from memory to get the rhyme sequence right and to manage the twist in tone after line 8 and get the blooming meter right, and I think got closer than I normally do. It's come about in an odd way, created as part of correspondence on a forum where randomly I and a total stranger are carrying out a conversation purely in poem form. It's really pushing me to try to express what I mean and also frustrating when I can't force a poem in a direction I want but all in all a really fantastic experience.

I'm Smiles again ... well, because I guess I never really stopped!!!

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HI Cynthia Glad you liked Ziyad's poem!

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because Cynthia that's where Bjork comes from : ) A response to your question 'where was she from?' The poem references 'Icelandic poems (1+2)in the voice of Bjork'

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Hehe - me and my brother used to dare each other to eat all kinds of stuff - mouthfuls of mustard, food full of salt, that kinda thing! :D

Oh and right backatcha - it's a pleasure to know you too, you're a very interesting and intelligent woman, and you write the bestest comments ever ;D

All that talk of codes got me thinking too...ended up writing a poem that started off on that idea and went, ooo, somewhere else entirely ;D

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Thanks for your note on Tickling Fish, Cynthia. I'm turning over some ideas for a few more as I had so much fun writing it.

I was thinking about your nonsense poem the other day, and mine, and about different ways of writing, and it made me think of when I was a kid keeping those diaries...did you ever used to write in code? As well as the mirror writing, I used to make up endless series of codes to write in too. It was SOOO satisfying to do that I might do it again :D Really quite time-consuming though!

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Hi, Cynthia. I'm glad you liked 'Agropuss'. Thank you for your comments. I like writing rhyming, rhythmical poetry but this style of nonsense poetry has an added bonus as when you can't get a word to fit the metre you can make one up. All good fun. XX

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Thanks for your comments on HOT STUFF...much
appreciated. As for the number of comments -
perhaps it's a case of "quality not quantity" in this particular instance :-)

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Hi Cynthia,
you comment on the work of so many. You are a hostess of WOL I think. I have given myself a little time to read your own work, and I find a lot in it to enjoy and to think about. I very much like your description of the Picasso painting, and the Hurricane is full of strong images and vigorous action. you give a very womanly impression of sexual strength and confidence. There is something of DH Lawrence in the use you make of nature to express bodily feelings and desires. I love the setting of the Dream Footer, conveying her longings through the oozy ruts and sinuous currents. The stanza beginning 'down to the creek' could be from Sons and Lovers.

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:o)

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Hi Cynthia I haven't been too active on WOL for a while but appreciate your kind comments on the Kites poem.

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Thanks for the comments, Cynthia

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Hi Cynthia, (IZIMPONDO ZANKOMO) Unfortunately missed the series you mentioned, but have read books on the subject good and bad. Appreciate your contribution. Thanks very much.

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