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dorinda macdowell

Fri 12th Oct 2018 19:00

Hello everyone! I am gutted as cannot be at Marsden on Sunday - have suspected kidney stones!!! BUT - have a great day - Dorinda x

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Big Sal

Fri 12th Oct 2018 17:41

Great way to make each line ironic and self-contradicting on your sample.? It adds to the readability.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 12th Oct 2018 17:09

Thanks for all the comments - and "likes". Life is too short
to see a monopoly on misery - in any part of it!!

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raypool

Fri 12th Oct 2018 16:57

Thanks for your support MC. I'm afraid you're on your own, so we should go hand in hand and face the silence.

I feel I have let myself down, but what the hell, nobody's perfect (especially Yorkshiremen).

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Brian Blanchard

Fri 12th Oct 2018 16:46

Yes, but it doesn't just apply to poets!

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Brian Blanchard

Fri 12th Oct 2018 16:44

Well said, and an issue that's becoming more recognized in many nations beyond your lovely island home!

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Big Sal

Fri 12th Oct 2018 16:08

The Ouroboros is rebirth, and in that aspect or apparition - a reset.
?

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Big Sal

Fri 12th Oct 2018 16:05

Such is a peach when it continues to be sweet long after the first bite.
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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:59

Wonderful thought provoking poem thank you Jon ?

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Nigel Astell

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:56

As a flock of geese with perky beaks we shall always be going for a giggle methinks!

Might be going up to Marsden Poetry Jam if I do might give the New Mills review a mention before doing one of the poems!

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:46

Excellent.. Where is Kobe?

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:45

Joe, all us eggs of the world
Are rejoicing you've remembered us here
Where most people just simply eat us
With, or without having beer ?

(Who's this rhymer keeps hogging the comment space? ... ? )

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:40

Brian was so busy on other things he completely forgot WED like me. I have advised him, as did I myself, to put it on his calendar for next year ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:38

I will have to get some dog poo gone..Don..
Excellent Hugh ?

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:33

Now Trevor why on earth did you pick
An egg which was just a tad over
The poor hen had obviously not connected right
When trying to mate with her lover

The moral to my tale in future Trevor
If you want an egg all shippy shape
Is to watch from a carefully discrete distance
To make sure the connection's not rape

(Getting bit carried away here....think I'd better stop.....it's getting into eggmestic violence ? )

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Jezer Urena

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:28

speggtacular

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Joe Williams

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:27

I'm glad I seem to have inspired a flurry of egg poems ?

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Joe Williams

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:26

Cheers Don, I'm hoping for a flurry of egg poems this time next year ?

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<Deleted User> (9882)

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:23

hear! hear!


Nice one Jezer.



Rose ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:22

Wonderfully evocative Avishek..?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:17

Nice one Trevor..?

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Fri 12th Oct 2018 15:13

really lovely Avishek.




Rose ?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:40

Well said DK..so true like this one very much. Thank you?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:35

Excellent Joe?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:33

Just sat in the middle of Storm Calum..which is a bit of a damp squib...great poem..

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Trevor Alexander

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:32

Apparently it's World Egg Day, so I scrambled a few words....

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:29

I like it dk ?

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:27

It's nice to see such eggcellent WOL minds coming forth on such an important occasion I think Brian's forgotten it's World Egg Day ?

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<Deleted User> (9882)

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:23

warm welcome Jezer and many thanks for your comment on-

' in the mad courtroom of my head'

enjoy your stay!




Rose ?

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Laura Taylor

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:22

N'awww, thanks Julian ? ?

And cheers Janey! ?

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:22

Golly gosh Joe I've gone done forgot
That today it was World Eggie Day
My day has just ended, while yours just begun
So I can't catch up, sorry, no way

Tell you what, I'll go stick it on my calendar
In prep for World Egg Day next year
So all our little chooks here downunder
Can lay eggs while I watch, with a beer...

What a useless bit of nonsense...who let him in WOL? ?

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Trevor Alexander

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:19

I know nothing about this World Egg Day: does that make me eggnostic?

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Hugh

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:14

Eggselent.

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 12th Oct 2018 14:09

A cracker Joe! perfect for Egg Day.

Coincidently, I've recently been playing with Limericks. Why are they always humorous do you think? They represent quite a challenge if done seriously.

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Joe Williams

Fri 12th Oct 2018 13:51

One to mark World Egg Day (a very important day for all the eggs in the world).

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AVISHEK GHOSH

Fri 12th Oct 2018 12:49

Nice one Aparajita

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d.knape

Fri 12th Oct 2018 11:30


wink wink wink wink wink wink wink

phew rest eye then

wink wink wink wink wink wink

some more

oops

now my wink
is on the blink.

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<Deleted User> (19421)

Fri 12th Oct 2018 11:10

Well done Jon - nice work!

Cheers

DJB

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Hugh

Fri 12th Oct 2018 10:14

Well done Don that was a good doggy do.
Scent to Hugh to clear up the poo.

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 10:03

A new product has come on the market
To make all dog lovers go shout "hooray"
It's called, yes, the Doggie Doo Dissolver
Sprayed on doggies drop, poof, goes away

Now you ask me how does this stuff work then?
How can it do 'way with dog's doo?
It dissolves it in minutes with enzymes
When sprayed on the doo, watched by you

There's now no need to carry a doo scoop
Around with you following your pup
Just carry some Doggie Doo Dissolver
And watch as it's doo dissolves all up ?

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keith jeffries

Fri 12th Oct 2018 09:39

John,

At a first glance this poem comes across as being depressive yet on closer inspection the words speak the truth of our reality. Rich in imagery it stimulates the mind to find parallels in our experience of life. The words concerning the rich wanting more and bodies being cast into ditches leapt from the page.

The words, ¨we who are left to grow old ¨come to mind as age induces these thoughts about life and its apparent futility. This poem would make an excellent collage.

A good poem Jon. One which to meditate on.
Thank you

Keith

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keith jeffries

Fri 12th Oct 2018 09:28

Don,

Good advice for a stress ridden world.
Thank you for this

Keith

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Martin Elder

Fri 12th Oct 2018 09:09

an interesting a sliver of life in one day. nicely written
Nice one

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Martin Elder

Fri 12th Oct 2018 09:05

a magnificent poem with a beautiful delivery. I love the whole notion of taking up space.
Fabulous

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Nicola Hulme

Fri 12th Oct 2018 08:14

Thanks Nigel, it was such a great night I thought it deserved a write up... and I must be getting better at hiding the nerves because they were most definitely present. It's always good to have a friendly face smiling back at you whilst you read though - helps a lot, which is also why I love how our group turn up and support each other at events like this. We are part of a very special "gaggle" of poets. I'm sure Dorinda has a more appropriate collective name for us!

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Michele Barraco

Fri 12th Oct 2018 07:53

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 04:29

Yes dk Sal's got a point
Where has all your winking done gone?
Inclusion sent a very strong message
That humour in you had still won ?

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Big Sal

Fri 12th Oct 2018 03:49

I think I learned more about you reading this than the entire time I spent laughing.

Why aren't you winking yet?
?

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Big Sal

Fri 12th Oct 2018 01:56

Whether full translation or simply inspired by, this piece has shown its colors well.

Illustrated (figuratively speaking) with lush imagery fit for a painting, and very relatable quotes of wisdom line its innards.

Loved this piece, John.

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Don Matthews

Fri 12th Oct 2018 00:20

Some nice internal rhymes
To trumpet in the cheese
Which never did arrive
So therefore I must cease ?

Where are my coloured faces gone?
They've turned all black and white
Maybe they're missing cheese too
And want some, for to bite

Hello? They've turned up...must've found some cheese

Huh? Cheese run away?...Wot's going on? WOL's smiley face workers gone on strike?...

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