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kath hewitt

Tue 6th Aug 2013 00:47

I Liked this. It flows really well.

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John Coopey

Tue 6th Aug 2013 00:02

I fully support you right to write, Shirley, but I've kind of got stuck thinking about the last stanza!

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John Coopey

Mon 5th Aug 2013 23:54

I think you've got 2 or 3 poems going on in here Ian.
As ever, the rhythm is mesmeric (and so different from one you just posted which seems to have disappeared but which was dactylic or anapaestic or somesuch 3/4 time).
"And flowing full the burgeoning that is the all and all" - I'll have to pinch that!

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 5th Aug 2013 22:03

Dave - as for titles...a few years ago, this would have probably been called -"Straight Guy On a Bent March". But time and tolerance moves ahead. I rather liked the "plodding" theme - it sums up the often everyday mundanity that can accompany great social changes in attitudes when the previously rejected and reviled are re-assessed and accommodated.

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Tom Harding

Mon 5th Aug 2013 22:02

Lovely sense of longing. Perfect in it's way.

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Tom Harding

Mon 5th Aug 2013 22:00

Hi John, enjoyed this. I like the detail of the first verse. A nice atmosphere.

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Tom Harding

Mon 5th Aug 2013 21:56

Hi Ian, many thanks for the kind words on 'radio'. Enjoying your audio tracks.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 5th Aug 2013 21:51

A touching piece on a totally avoidable tragedy. Feel for the victim, and also for the good coppers so badly betrayed by someone who should never have been allowed to wear that uniform in the first place. It takes a special kind of forebearance and grace under pressure in the attendant circumstances and the offender showed all too clearly he just didn't have what it takes.

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Starfish

Mon 5th Aug 2013 21:46

This is lovely. The Sargasso Sea is getting a few mentions today.
Starfish

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 5th Aug 2013 21:43

Another stimulating essay to make one think, set out in perfect rhythm and choice phraseology.
The modern conveniences available to the modern western traveller are products of their times, no less than the traveller. As for impoverished peoples elsewhere, would they not be poorer without the money travellers bring? The old "supply and demand" adage still applies: having something to sell that people want to buy. That has always been the way of the world and "wealth" is relative to one's own lifestyle and expectations.

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Starfish

Mon 5th Aug 2013 21:39

I found this to be poignant and beautifully descriptive. Loved it!
Starfish

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Cate Greenlees

Mon 5th Aug 2013 15:29

And to make matters worse the fracking w....r meant here on the Lancashire coast!! As if explaining that made it all right! Like Harry so eloquently puts it, " let him frack off and frack in his own back yard" and may subsidy be upon all he owns!
Cate xx

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 4th Aug 2013 23:53


That poem was `Lily Going By`

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 4th Aug 2013 23:50


I like the way the words `cow` `guts` and `yoke` end with the made-ness of `sing`

A `makes you think` poem.

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 4th Aug 2013 23:19


Rhyming (as usual) excellent.

The last stanza poses the essential question.

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 4th Aug 2013 23:11


I like the strikingly original analogy of those first four stanzas.

The last stanza effects me but I can`t say why
(I think it`s to do with that word `but`)

I don`t care what anyone else thinks...It`s a love poem.

By the way, I liked your play on `complaint` in the last one.

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 4th Aug 2013 22:55


I know this feeling (I`ve had it) it`s too miserably comfortable, it never lasts.

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Dave Bradley

Sun 4th Aug 2013 22:05

Thanks Freda. I toyed with the idea of leaving a gap before 'we plodded along' but didn't. The idea, which may well be half-baked, is that once all the fun and celebration is over, the process of making a better more tolerant world, is often a plod, just like the boring bits of a march. And I have the temerity to think God is involved in it.
The title is my "Wow what am I doing here?" and probably does sound daft to march veterans.

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Jonnie Falafel

Sun 4th Aug 2013 21:57

I'm not sure I get the significance of the title. What makes it specifically the response of a straight guy. I'd agree with Freda too some energy seemed to disipate.

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Christopher Dawson

Sun 4th Aug 2013 21:37

Thanks guys.

This was extracted from a conversation, the guy was speaking, trying to form his feelings ...and she (in red) was talking softly over him.

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Freda Davis

Sun 4th Aug 2013 21:24

Yes Shirley, you have the right to write. Don't be put off by people who don't want to hear you. You can write what you want, but they have the right to ignore you. Ignore them too. Its good to put stuff up on Write Out Loud where people do want to hear what you have to say. Get going, put it all down, and choose what you want people to read. But go back over what you write too, and think- is this the best way to say this? Can I reach how I feel about this with the words I use? Am I being honest?
Lets hear more from you.

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Freda Davis

Sun 4th Aug 2013 21:16

This is interesting as it seems to give up somewhere near the end and turn a bit lame. The energy of a gay pride march runs through it right up to the 'two Dads' quip, but what happened then? It had lines of four beats, but suddenly its all Mr Plod.
I want to say, go back to that moment. You are leaving something out that really mattered. Because you turned away from tackling it, the energy disappeared and you tailed off.
Poetry demands that you say the unspoken. (IMHO)

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Sun 4th Aug 2013 20:20

loved it,but! we would have ended the poem...
'I want-you-to make-the-feel-of-my lips
an indelible memory'

??
xx

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Jonnie Falafel

Sun 4th Aug 2013 18:05

Incidentally it's in a fine tradition too. John Donne has a poem like this... and do you know the song "I Wanna Be Seduced?"...

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Jonnie Falafel

Sun 4th Aug 2013 18:03

I like this very much! Sort of romantic and raunchy. I was thinking of posting a similar poem here but thought twice because it's more bipolar regarding this. Maybe i'll do it. It's title is "Hot Afternoon Fucks".... we're all adults aren't we?

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Pete Slater

Sun 4th Aug 2013 16:18

Love this one Ged. I can relate to it. After my youngest son got burned he was transferred to a specialist burns unit at Booth Hall Children s Hospital, his Mum in the ambulance with him, with the lights flashing but no siren. They traveled so slowly, like slow motion. I followed on my Triumph Thunderbird. It was an eerie surreal journey. All that was in my head was the growl of the bike and all that was in my eyes was the flashing blue light. This piece has haunted me Ged. Would like to hear you read it mate. Captures the feeling. Thanks.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 16:13

I really enjoyed this - but add my ha'porth as a southerner for all the slights and rebuffs from "the north". :-))
If it weren't for the need to waste time in "the north"
Defeating those pests - like Duke William: Viking,
King Harold and his foot-wearies had to set forth
Down to Hastings where they would have won to their liking.
And our England would have been free of French rule,
With their avaricious aristos greedy and cruel.
For a thousand years she's been paying the price
For the defeat of King Harold - forced to fight
TWICE!
("North" is a frame of mind as well as a location and I include all those north of Watford - especially any boasting of Viking DNA...frack 'em all - so there!!)

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John F Keane

Sun 4th Aug 2013 16:07

Not so 'anti-Establishment' as to eschew nepotism, however...!

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 15:52

Hi Shirley - thanks for your entry on my profile page about this poem. The "right" to write - when placed in the public domain - invites the right to criticise and comment. That goes with the job. What I can't abide is the defensive abuse that greets a challenge to an often malign point of view expressed as "poetry".
Keep writing!!

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 15:45

Well now - Jesus DID have two dads. That's a
neat riposte to gay-bashers (who are often
religious nuts!).

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 15:41

The questions in these impressive lines do what poetry is meant to do and seldom does: ponder...with the thoughts lingering long after the lines are read. Top stuff.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 15:29

Hi JC - I've just enjoyed a long weekend in the glorious (home county) surroundings of coastal South Devon - with a balcony overlooking Lyme Bay and breakfast in the sun on said balcony each morning! Delightful!! So - now back to commenting on WOL. I think that the older "as is" Bob Dylan would enjoy your versions of his youthful efforts. Looking back, they were certainly products of their time...managing to find a slot in the young minds of those days. In the 60s I owned that LP (the title eludes me) with him and a pretty girl arm in arm walking some New York street on its cover. But I was still following Rock and the timeless artistry of a certain Ol' Blue Eyes and never followed up.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 4th Aug 2013 15:14

Thanks for taking the trouble to comment on "The Racism One-Step". It was written in response to the idea that racism is a one-way street with one lot always the victim and one lot always the guilty party. I must mention of the penultimate verse in your poem Place De L'Eglise. It was beautifully done and would, imho, have been ideally suited to close your poem.
And now...I will leave you in silence....

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Sat 3rd Aug 2013 22:17

really nice piece.xx

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C Byrne

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 14:47

nice idea expressed in an interesting way

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Cathy Crabb

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 11:51

Shirley- I hope they realise that too, I really do x
This is my daughter right now, in the middle of the see-saw, trying to balance but soon- tipping over to another phase. Scary! Thanks for reading xxx

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Greg Freeman

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 11:02

Hi Anthony, I see that Simon Armitage has announced his itinerary for his south-west walk, and will be calling in at the Plough arts centre in Great Torrington, which I believe is your neck of the woods, on Tuesday September 3. Will you be going along, by any chance? http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=38194

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Shirley Smothers

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 02:32

I can identify with this poem. I know my children have hated me in the past. They are older now and I hope they realize that I did the best in raising them as I could.

Nice poem!

Shirley

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Shirley Smothers

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 02:27

Hello Nigel,

I told you a few weeks ago that I have a risque but not very risque poem. It's titled "I Have the Right to Write." It's on my profile page.

Thanks,
Shirley

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Shirley Smothers

Sat 3rd Aug 2013 02:24

Hi M.C.

I told you a few weeks ago that I had written a not so great poem telling people where they can kiss me. It's titled "I Have the right to Write."
Not a great poem but it express's my opinion.

Thanks,

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Ian Whiteley

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:49

sorry to but in - but if it helps here's the link:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1458

Ian

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Tommy Carroll

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:40

grr- I click on ''blog'' and it brings me back here- hmm...is there such a page?

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Ian Whiteley

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:32

beautiful poem Tom - quite surreal and disturbing - although there are some comforting images in there that sort of turn on their head - good stuff :-)
Ian

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kath hewitt

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:26

Ha I realised I answered 'where'not 'what' sorry. Blog and it is scrutinised more than on normal blog posts. Critiqued if you like :-)

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Tommy Carroll

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:26

K- I have been threatened with such- a shouted silent demand- you have conveyed that simply, and, likewise, done it in the quiet... Tommy

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kath hewitt

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:21

ah ok. I keep forgetting where it is but i think it's on one of the discussion threads :-)

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Tommy Carroll

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:18

Hiya Kath- what is the ''review page''?

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kath hewitt

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:17

You've lost me?! ha ha

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Tommy Carroll

Fri 2nd Aug 2013 22:16

tell me quickly-

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