Full bodied and a little too vintage, unfortunately.... LOL xx

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Thank you for your comment Ann. If I could play the guitar I would. :)

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Dear Ms Foxglove, I'd like to invite you to a Mass Euclidian Moony Wedding, Yours in anticipation, Diana. x

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You realy should try a little more sex Anne ...aid doing nothing you are starting to go green.

you know what they say... iIf you don't use it... you'll lose it... believe me ... right now I know the feeing...

Thank you for all of your support on my blog.

Augusta xx

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hi - "my love" thanks for the comments. B

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You're hiding behind the sofa?! That's where Dalek nits congregate/lurk when they've fallen off their host! They're a nuisance to get out of your carpet and their eggs survive for millennia. Send Fanny The Indian Cow to track them down with her long, cow tongue! She's adorable, by the way!

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Hi Ann,
I hadn't thought of it as 'tortoise and hare-like'. Maybe revisit it in the future but unlikely. :-)

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Ann
I'd be delighted to have you on the team.
I always wanted to find a woman who knew about horse-racing and the Bible - a bit of a niche fetish.
I do have, however, as you know, an "entry fee".

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Thank you Anne and the joy of joys they are non fatting... unless of course you follow them too closely.

Augusta
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Ahoy Ann, many thanks for yer comments back in February. Apologies for the delay in replying, I have been on a long voyage. Mingo.

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Hi Ann, I'm glad you liked the Kingfisher poem. Final lines are very important, I think. I added the last line some time after I'd written the rest of it, and found that it had changed the meaning in some way - but that I thought it worked. Btw, I must say that I find the new profile picture quite distracting! I don't think you had been showing us the mud maid's best side before! Greg x

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Oh yes and then there was aunt Clara too.
Why did she marry him?
Well... it's obvious the man absolutely adores her and loves her twitchy little nose. :-)
As good a reason as any i would think.
xx

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Hey, thanks for your comment. I like "I like ruins best" the best :)

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LOL x

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Yes, I'm in with the group photo somewhere. Can't quite remember which one's me...
Love your blogs and poems as always, sorry I've not been online much due to heaps of work so behind with my comments and 'hellos'!

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Hi Ann, Thanks for your comments on 'con tented' you guys seem to be writing a poem on camping memories on the blog entry section. might have to expand this short one! Win

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Hi Ann,
Thanks for your comments on 'Scar', they are much appreciated. I have left a brief explanation on the poem, if it is of interest.
I don't always comment but I always read your work with interest.
Cx

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Incidentally, I just read your samples and I'm afraid I can't help with you finding a man who can dance. I did this "short" some time ago:-

Mi verse, most times, is full of rhymes
(It helps wi’ mi romancin’)
And all my rhythm’s in mi poems –
There’s none left fo’ mi dancin’.

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Hello Ann
Many thanks for your comments about "Yggdrasil". I've never thought my voice was terribly impressive but thankyou anyway. Probably like everyone else I thought it was rich and deep - until I heard it on a tape recorder and then this this thin, flat timbre comes out!
I have to confess I got the idea for the poem from reading the Bernard Cornwell Saxon Chronicles - a ripping good boy's read with lots of battles and fighting and more fighting and battles. I even poach completely the line about "weaving a darker cloth" which stands out a mile for its quality compared with the rest.
Anyway, once again, thanks for commenting.

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Yes, that was what had caught my eye - thanks!

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Hi Ann - need your help again! I'd like to be featured and it says to submit profile, but when I hit that, it looks like I have to fill out my profile again. Will that create a duplicate? Thanks, as always, for helping me out.

Lisa

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Thanks for commenting on my poem, Ann, much appreciated.

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Hi Ann,
yeah, i drive a taxi. :-)

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Hi Ann, yes indeed - Omaha beach, etc & yes, pips on the shoulders denote rank. thanks for the comments. B

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Hi Ann.
I've not been active on the site for some time. Must do something about that!

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Hi Ann - "the end of the road" thanks for the comments. B

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Thanks for your comment on "Beauty". And I love your "Take Me". Lived it, loved it, lost it....!

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Hi Ann, was just going to say thanks for your kind words, but was diverted by the previous comment on your profile. I also loved Michael Bentine's flea circus as a kid. Your dad made a wonderful contribution to the exuberance of life. Greg

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Wow! Wow! I'm blown away! Your dad was a great man - we are not worthy etc...Feel proud to blow his trumpet, he obviously worked with some of the best!!!

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Michael Bentine - yes, I remember 'It's a square world' it was wonderful - I was thinking about it when I wrote the 'Flea circus'

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Murray And Sod, the Buffalo Bill and Wyatt Earp of the Oceans. Or the Posh and Becks? Or French and Saunders. Hatta x

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Thanks for your recent comments, they really are very much appreciated. :-)

Janet.x

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Thank you -- again! I meant to say, after you mentioned about the road accident themed restaurant piece that, yeay, I am a vegetarian. On the pip of being vegan. And, digressing wildly again, I am delighted you really like my whale mini-song. I've begun creating heaps of them, little audio moments that might be songs or something remotely musical. But they are a pretty new departure for me, more a leap into the dark/noise. I hear them in my head, get a bit obsessed with them, record them (messing with my voice). I really can't tell you how encouraging it is that you like them so much. But how sad to have a dead whale on the beach -- I couldn't have helped carry its bones (too squeamish/weepy and my own bones are going somewhat awry and seem skittish about carrying me around, so I'm considering creating an ex-skeleton or bamboo body scaffolding). I'd have been blubbering my eyes out (oh no, what a terrible pun). It seems right that the local museum should preserve some of it, but mightily suspect that people would take lumps of its bones home as garden features. I also sponsored/adopted a whale called 'Sod'. Yes, it was really called, 'Sod.' I thought, yes, I have been thought of in similar terms by some people, so I shall stand up and be counted as a friend of 'Sod.'

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Hello! How lovely of you to comment on my oddments. Thank you so very much. Not sure how they emerge or why or from where, but they do. And 'pique freans' and pique-a-knees, and Little Bo-Pique, pique and mix, piquenic are all dancinf to the muzak of time. 'Pique' is hurt pride, dented vanity, a moment of sharp ego-puncture. "Pique' is misused a lot at the moment, usually by being lumped into the phrase 'It piqued my interest/my interest was piqued.' And my quick brown decaffeinated urban fox jumped out of my daydreams. Hey -- your poems are incredibly vibrant and wowser. You seem to be able to flit from joyous comedy/tongue-in-cheekiness to pastoral melancholy. What a range! They're flipping fab.

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Ta for your comment on 'Your smile' - I've never performed this poem so I might try it shouting v. loud indeed as you suggest

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Hi Ann
Following your suggestion, Fiona has put up another six photos in 'Picture this'. These new ones are much better I feel and give us more to work with
Here's the link...
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=8985

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Hello
thanks for reading my poems..BlueBerry is an old one but a favorite,
Donna

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Hi Ann

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

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A month will fly by for you Ann - it will drag dreadfully for me. I have tried to do this quietly before but it didn't work. If I do it publicly I might stick to it - I'd look a bit of an arse if I snook back on in a week's time! I think I will end up living in a tidier house and will hopefully write more poetry - we'll see...
I don't think you are arrogant for wanting to leave your poetry as is BTW. It is always a difficult balance - once you open yourself up for crit - it can become a total free for all and you wonder just where the original poem went to. There is a thread for people to post work that they want crit on - no-one seems to use it though.
Take care and continue having fun!
Isobel x

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Thanks for your comment on Wall of death.

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Hi Ann, thanks for your comment on 'Mona without Lisa.' :-)

I see where you are coming from when you say the last stanza isn't perhaps necessary. I was messing around with an idea when i wrote it and as Andy says, it is multi-layered.
Too many layers to actually describe as i see them and others might see something completely different so on this occasion, i'm sorry but i'll have to leave you guessing or wondering what it is about.
The title in itself is suggestive ie; what if? Would the painting have been any different if it had simply been called Mona? How many times was it stuck in a corner before being worked on again? and if it had included more detail or colour would it still have become a masterpiece? Did it start out as a sketch or even a poem before before becoming a painting?

So many questions and yet who really knows the answer and what becomes of it. Maybe the artists themselves were flabbergasted in that just one of a million drawings would become so famous and yet to them it had so many faults and might only have been done on a whim and painted in a day or less. :-)

None of this really explains my poem and i doubt for a second it will become a masterpiece but the last stanza has to stay for all the reasons above.Not all readers of poetry are academics or write poetry, just as not all appreciators of art can paint but we all have imagination :-)


Janet.x

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Hi Ann - thanks for the 2 recent comments. Tinseltown = just the US west coast generally - L.A, Hollywood, SanFrancisco. Based around a true story of the Golden Gate Bridge "jumpers" as they're known to the local 911 services. B

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Happy St Pirans day to you ;-) I confess I had to look it up as it is a Celtic Cornish festival ;-)
Love TC XX

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Thanks for the comment Ann. No I wasn't living with the pigs, but they did a lot of grunting outside my little caravan, especially the night they had been given a load of silage, which they seemed to treat mostly as play material

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Have I got second sight or have I got second sight! ;-)

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You said - the two people meeting at the art gallery. That made me think of two people meeting for the first time after answering a lonely hearts ad. And realising they are not for each other. (Thats exactly what happened!). Win x

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Hi Ann, thanks muchly for your comment on Brain racing. I;m not really sure why i even blogged it really, just a spewing of my thoughts at the time, sometimes it just feels that way, you know? x

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Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions on my mouse poem Ann! I shall take your comments on board.

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Hello Ann, how lovely of you to visit my page. Thank you for your lovely comments. I've just been reading your work and it's gorgeous! You have such a range from the wry to the pastoral, and all with a clarity and energy and lilt. Magnificent!

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Hi Ann did you get the book okay?

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