Thanks Dave. I suspect the reference to Our Gert in A Wonderful Opportunity gave its authorship away!
The real vintage though is Bert Williams's - worth checking out on You Tube.
Curiously he blacked up as a Minstrel despite the fact that he was, himself, black!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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hi Dave.

Thanks for the comment on my Chanel poem..some days are made for feeling good inside..

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Thanks Ann...it was a good day!..

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I hope you returned home with more than half a car!

Thanks Isobel for finding my Chanel original :)

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Lynn, thanks so much for commenting on my Chanel poem..appreciated :)

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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read this a few times now..and I like it more each time... :)

Comment is about Itchy (blog)

Pleased I came across this..I have just enjoyed reading your other work too..

nice one :)

Comment is about The Agony of the Flame (blog)

Original item by David Mac

Vintage Coopey. Should perform well!

Comment is about A Wonderful Opportunity (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Enjoyed this Stella. I don't use Chanel myself, but the chocolate sounds nice. .

Comment is about Feeling OK... (blog)

Thankyou :) I have no idea why it changes as I write it separated. X

Comment is about Itchy (blog)

Ann I thought I had commented on this but obviously not!

beautiful words Ann..x

Comment is about another kiss (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I like the new photo - your last one always looked, at first glance, like a large pair of breasts! (Nothing wrong with that of course!)

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

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I like this a lot. Have you any idea why your lines are not separated when you go to the "read more" option? It reads better when split up imo. Just wondered which format you prefered. I always read your stuff and find there is a lot more in it than at first glance.

Comment is about Itchy (blog)

Thankyou, Big hugs xoxoxox

Comment is about No regrets (blog)

Enjoyed it. Conjures up a lot of powerful images for me but did wonder if the word 'Canker' might be more appropriate than Cancer in stanza 3, as you seem to be using an animal metaphor.

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Original item by Marianne Daniels

I liked your clever device of conjoining the prof's interjections with your own recollections of things. Worked well for me.

Comment is about BEFORE THE STATUE OF THE GREAT SAINT CHARLES AT SHREWSBURY.. (blog)

Very witty - loved it.

Comment is about Feeling OK... (blog)

Thank you for your comment, Tommy. You were right of course, I may have a rethink on this one, lol.

Comment is about Between A Rock And A Hard Place (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Music and Poetry in Norway Square every day from 12.30-2.00pm. Enjoy! :)

(Plus loads of other arty stuff too!)

Comment is about remember the st ives festival 10th-24th september (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Sounds lovely. I enjoyed the poem too.

Comment is about Feeling OK... (blog)

I like the title and the reasoning. There are a lot of damaged people out there and knowing that helps to understand the pattern of their behaviour.

Comment is about No regrets (blog)

Oooo I want a Coco Chanel and chocolate day too - but I'm heavily committed to watching monkeys shit and rip my car apart (Knowsley Safari Park)...

The poem is lovely - very gentle and warming and original - very original! xx

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Thankyou :) and thank heaven indeed x

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Vienna Review
http://www.katfrancois.com/#/poetry-review/4546395630

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Enjoyed this very much, Stella, good one. x

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No, I am not saying that.

Comment is about Between A Rock And A Hard Place (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

hi Stella.

I,m in'klein'ed to say
this is a lovely airy
optimistic poem,
ideal for la femme.

I can almost whiff
what,with hands up has the perfume
of something that shall remain
non-present on my wifes dressing table.

haha! as if not!
if it did,nt,I would speechless
lying on a cold slab.

this leaves a lovely lingering odour
unlike the onion-like smell
of my arm-pits after a day
of d.i.y in t'hot sun.

cheers Stella.

Stef.

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I love this John; one for the future for me to do.
Yes? Good! I knew you'd say that.

Now check out my "Schnel Shock" audio.

Comment is about A Wonderful Opportunity (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Well written, I really like this. :)

Comment is about Disturbing Night (blog)

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Well, there's a vaster difference still between tyrants and our British parties, actually, which may have been worth commenting on. This was just intended to be a light hearted comment on how do you choose between two, three or four things that are all bad.
Are you in fact saying that maybe Hitler or Bin Laden were not bad then?

Comment is about Between A Rock And A Hard Place (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

yeh-lets hope you CHOP them off
at their SAUCE

don,t wanna MEAT them again
they might claim a STEAK on this site

I always will have a BEEF
with SPAM
even if it is a CORNY one.

thanks for not MINCING your words
and PUDDIN' in a lot of work
HAGGIS that will be the last we see
of this POLONEY.

might catch you again next FRYDAY.

OIL be seeing ya-

CHRIS PEEBAYKON.

ps. hope all PANS out ok

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Original item by Greg Freeman

simplistically yet well described
all too common
nightly journey

that I for one travel all too often
most times
instigated you could say
by wizzywords spinning around
ones grey haired cranium.

the solution?
need I tell you?
no-not the palm pilot thingy-but
L'amour! cor!

cheers

P&S

Comment is about Disturbing Night (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

You're confusing the issue Cynthia...unless otherwise stated-(as in +1 or -1) 1+1 always equals 2, as I qualified in my remark re 'dialectics'. Re 'the egg'. You are confusing a simple statement of fact with the qualifier of morality- I said: 'If I take an egg and crush it in my hand- it is an event- indisputable- and only becomes a matter for 'dispute' when a sentient being 'intervenes''. Murder is also an event and is covered by my initial statement.

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Original item by Tommy Carroll

indeed Neil is there sadly
for some,
a too well rooted and not neccessarily wanted
subculture.
damn the white collar criminals!

good lines abound in this poem.

thanks.

P&S.W.

Comment is about Hearts of Darkness (blog)

Original item by Neil West

Lynn there is a vast difference between Hitler and Bin Laden: numerically, intent, methods and results.

Comment is about Between A Rock And A Hard Place (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Greg, thanks for your comments there may be more on the way, its quite an enjoyable exercise. Win

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oh-only a temporary glitch Johnnyboy
-you,ll be back forthwith-
if not sooner!

good advice from Kealan btw.

cheers Twelver Embley.

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Original item by John Embley

Good poem, it reminds me of the saying (i think this is it) "In the darkest depths of desperation, man created god"

Comment is about BEFORE THE STATUE OF THE GREAT SAINT CHARLES AT SHREWSBURY.. (blog)

You should try writing a non rhyming poem. Maybe your thoughts are being confined by this form. When writing free form, thoughts are much more capable of expansion and therefore allows more freedom of vocabulary.

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Original item by John Embley

Everyone at my writing group liked your poem very much - and were intrigued to find out what a villanelle was! Most of the group stick to writing prose you see. Thanks a lot for letting me read it to them.

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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Hi Ann Thanks for clever comment on Piano which I hadn't thought of myself. In fact she was very quiet and unassuming which is another reason it was all so shocking.

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Thank you, Patricia, you are right, we are lovely, but I guess some men are not so bad!!! Thanks for comment xx

Comment is about Between A Rock And A Hard Place (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

ha ha...possibly out of the window with my own gallavanting off somewhere more interesting..sighs.. :)

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Original item by John Embley

Harry, your comment on 'Considering Colour' is excellent, and I fully take your point. My aim was to steer completely clear of poetic 'values/imagery' and write something which bends the cold scientific terms into a versed/turned form full of cadence, out of the paragraph/caption genre into a more friendly eye-structure. Textbooks can be very intimidating. I'm still quite pleased with the effort; the facts might actually be remembered. THUS SPAKE CYNTHIA! Hahahaha.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi Elaine; - thanks for the comment on ticket to ride it was wrote on a summers day which i guess sums up the british summertime - lol but thanks for the comment again - hope you are good - speak soon xx

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Hi Elaine; - it was wrote on a summers day which i guess sums up the british summertime but thanks for the comment again - hope you are good - speak soon xx

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Original item by Andy N

thanks cynthia for the comment here on the end of summer .. it's one to think bout which i hadn't thought about so all suggestions are welcome.. hope you are well - andy n x

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thanks cynthia for the comment here.. it's one to think bout which i hadn't thought about so all suggestions are welcome x

Comment is about The End of Summer (I) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Hello Cynth
Thanks for Twice Bless`d

Thinking on this:
Lots of the discoveries of science are marvellous (genes etc;) but we`ve all got so used to praising them in the terms the scientists use that they read dully. Alan Morrison in his poem `Aloneness` gives a description of `a hand` which approaches a wondering, poetic way of telling (and using)a scientific truth. Both poetry - and science - would benefit if we could do more of it.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

really enjoyable poem
I love the open-endededness

the best to you.

Stef

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