Hello John
Re: Cottage Sleaze, I was referring to an earlier comment. Certainly, a beautifully written piece, though. Starfish.

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Brilliant, angry, plain; it travels perfectly across the sea.

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Deeply beautiful impressionism

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Hello Starfish,
When I wrote "Cottage Sleaze" the word "beautiful" didn't seem the most apt description! You will gather that not all the lines are my own. (And, No, I did not do a lot of research for this).

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Hello Steve,
Many thanks for your kind thoughts on "Cottage Sleaze".

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Hello MC,
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze". I have to confess that some of the lines were not entirely my own!

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Thanks for commenting on "Cottage Sleaze", Simon. I'm rather proud that it evokes a certain odour!

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Hello Laura,
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze". As I said in one of my comments, cottages hold a special place in my memory. I was fondled in one when I was a youngster while the bloke wanked off into the next cubicle. As I said, it was rather thrilling and he gave me a 10/- note for it. Happy days.

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Hello Greg,
Honours shared at the weekend.
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze" and weren't too put off by the racist stuff. It would be a rare cottage indeed which contained politically correct graffiti.

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Hello Ian,
Glad you enjoyed "Cottage Sleaze". I rather liked the idea of ramming something so sleazy into the joyous and bouncy form.

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Oh, I'm definitely with you on this one, good stuff!

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Hello Harry, obliged for your comments on 'The Magnificent Seven'. Woking really is an eternal Topsy-Turvy Town, always awash with builder's rubble etc. CHEERS.

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Nice one David - bestest Philipos.

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Thanks, Charles! Am I right in thinking that poetry day in the US - and indeed in the rest of the world - is held on a different day?

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All best from the U.S.

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Enjoyed "Date" very much.

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Hey Ged
Thank you for your beautiful comment on my write 'Thoughts'.

Best wishes
Ankita

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I really like the way you paint your words with your beautiful thoughts Ged. :) Each line in itself is so nice and meaningful. Thank you for sharing.

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je trouve ça très-agréable!

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thank you x

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I loved that line too as Nigel stated it really stood out. Great poem X

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Very true

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I like this

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Very dark,very discriptive, very good

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Poetry Please favourites/Edward Thomas...etc.
I consider differences of opinion a healthy
sign in any worthwhile society. But the
curmudgeon in me has no difficulty in jousting
with the self-righteous, self-serving and self-pitying who use poetry as their vehicle. BUT
you will never find me resorting to abuse
towards those who take ME to task, either for
my poems or a POV...unlike some who it is clear
are quick to delete views they cannot handle and trot out words like "troll" in response, like petulant children.
Carry on disagreeing. You could always be right...
or perhaps not.
Ego argues...wisdom discusses.
Regards
MC

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Harry Thanks for all your feedback, your critique really means a lot and is very valuable to me.

Thanks again

Ged

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Well said you! I just wish a few men could start wearing that niqab so they know how it feels, especially that Bruce Forsyth - it would improve Strictly an awful lot.

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I am impressed by the line-up, and pleased to see Robert Frost coming home in pole position with that natural voice. There are good recordings available of him, by the way, reading After Apple-picking, Mending Wall and other pieces... Thinking how one telling phrase in a poem can stick with us tightly as a melody, I think of Frost's persuasive delivery, and then I can't quite imagine Kipling doing so well with: "She knifed me one night, when I wished her white, but I learnt about women from her." But I digress.

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rgm,
If you`ve found a gal that can actually remember more of your sex sessions than you can, mate, cherish
her! cherish her!

(most of them have to make an effort to even remember the last one.

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Ged,

Good theme (mirrored in the form) of the usual
neccessity of us having to be `broken up` before we can start putting ourselves together again.

Isobel has got to the pith of it.

(I think John was really having a bit of a go at himself)

I`m interested in the `broke up` prose of it.
as a half way house between prose and poetry.

I tried it myself once and came to the conclusion that -for it to work poetically - it would need to gather impetus (speed or emotion-wise) as the `pieces` got to the end.

Needless to say, I couldn`t do it.



Nice insight here though.

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Went with Greg, this was the second time I've heard Little Machine. If you see an event where they are appearing well worth the trip.

Also, thought Rhythm & Muse event well run. Those reading kept to their time-slots: whole evening moved along nicely.

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Here are the results http://buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/2013-poetry-competition.html

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Thanks for reading! Glad you liked it! :)

Comment is about Rich Davenport (poet profile)

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Love this.

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Love these; remind me of Auden.

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Young Elvis. :)

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Thank you, Ankita.

Comment is about Forever Now and All I Might Have (blog)

Beautifully written with such a vivid imagery. :)

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the opening three lines are a golden gateway to a great read-well done that soldier!x

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Hi Cynthia,Thankyou for your lovely comments. They are very much appreciated. Hopefully we will one day be at the same performances but I think with both of us time probabley burns a fast wick.

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This is great. I love the conversational style allowing the philosophy. I have no idea what the Lagell reference is though. Well done.

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Enjoyed these.

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Hi Greg, have one or two medical issues giving rise to concern ('nuther hernia op pending, plus other investigations. That aside, haven't heard much of you in recent times & I hope the muse goes well.

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Enjoyed this very much.

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Enjoyed this.

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Thank you. It's very kind of you to say so.

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We may have our differences outside poetry, MC, and maybe within it, too, but I was warmed by your words about Edward Thomas. I admire Frost too, and his encouragement and friendship helped Thomas find his poetic voice. Hardy, another great. Thanks for spotting my typo, too. I will amend.

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Shouldn't "Tim Gee" (see above) be "Tim Dee"?!
Fascinating - and truly relevant - how many of these favourite poems connect to timeless human
traits and shared sensibilities. I know all
bar one of the above (the Dylan Thomas poem),
and "Adlestrop" was committed to memory long ago.
Just reciting its words to myself conjures
up that landscape, with the imagined hiss of
the waiting steam locomotive and the clouds
high over the rural vista beyond. I am THERE
- with Edward Thomas - gazing out of an
Edwardian carriage at an England unaffected
by the results of the nightmare war to come.

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I like the idea of conquest in the first three lines and the gender reversal that's implied; I'd like, personally, to see it carried through to the end.

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I think I see where Ocean Trapped is going; enjoyed it. A modern cousin of Milton's Lycidas.

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