This is a lovely poem, really resonated with me, but loved the changes of emotion in it from joy to disappointment through to the loving remembrance that she's still with you in those phrases.

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Original item by christine yates

I think this is lovely, really lovely. It wraps around me, and goes through me: mood, imagery, music, inventive diction - theme. Why has no one else commented? I have no idea.

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by pauline sewards

Hi Lynn-just back from hols-so whats next years hair colour....grey!! keep out of the sun is my advice-thanks love.Stef.x

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Nah, not being kind ... your poems are always very interesting, often very different from each other, and thought-provoking, and when you're away from the site for a few days we really notice it and miss you! I must say Lundy does look quite a bleak spot from the North Devon coast. And in the fog ... but very atmospheric too, I guess

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I could see the misty man 0)

Comment is about on lundy (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

You're always so kind with your comments Greg! I wasn't bird monitoring this time. It was just a three day break. But fog and wind and being on your own does not make for the best of holidays perhaps! I do better when I am combining doing something usefull with a holiday I think. It is an amazing place - I just felt that we didn't quite "take" to each other!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Liked the granite face of this broken-hearted Lundy, Ann. Were you bird-monitoring there?

Comment is about on lundy (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

So is that Catweazle or a cross Vector Meldrew?
Took me back, did that title!

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(It wasn't really THAT bad! And Ilfracombe was jolly nice!)

Comment is about on lundy (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Simon - many thanks for your kind comments on Woking Junction - appreciated.

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Original item by SimonW

Thank you, Cynthia.

Thank you, Michael.

I hope you both have a great, great weekend. :)

Melissa

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Hello,
Thank you once again x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

This doesn't bear thinking about, John. But you're right, we have to.

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Original item by John Coopey

I like this very much Alison - as soon as I read it, it put me in mind of something v similar by dennis potter.
http://www.satellite360.com/article/459/fate-dennis-potter-the-singing-detective

Comment is about World Affairs (blog)

Original item by Alison Smiles

Cynthia, thanks for the suggestions on 'Escape' your spot on, I should have left it more open ended than trying to make it so specifically about something.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Cynthia I much appreciate your detailed appraisal of Woking Junction especially as one never really knows whether 'Odour rich latrines' is a safe route to go along with some and especially our ladies. I'm so glad this resonated with you.

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Like the chamelon bit

Comment is about Present (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

I like the verse

Comment is about (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

We have a vendor, a Roma lady. And, we never pass her by without a weekly purchase. It's basically a good little magazine, and a pleasure to purchase it from her.

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Original item by John Coopey

You are a very good writer. IMO, you have a sharp command of vocabulary for a situation, and for the movement of action in a story. Plus, you have a 'main theme' to work through, with internal variations. Simple words are always the most dynamic. You are never boring.

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You are too young surely to have a teenager; but, Oh! how this makes me think of having a 'chameleon' teen sitting at a 'breakfast debacle', and the need to survive each day somehow. However, I know I'm way off course, because 'subdued with ennui' would never be the case.
Perhaps later, you might share a few ideas that motivated this poem? I have enjoyed it.

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Original item by Marianne Daniels

This is strongly emotive. I would have been smashed even more if you used stanzas 1,2 and 4 to be the entire poem. Stanza 3 is so personal it narrows the universality of the lament, applicable by readers to any situation of loss, divorce even, whatever - LOVE LOST. I had a hard time myself with extricating explicit references in my poetry, and was lambasted by a literate friend. 'Suggestion!', he said. 'Invite the reader in to share, not to show.' I'm not always successful, but I try to take his good point.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

maybe I am a mannequin staring out - with a flash of reality...ha, thanks Cynthia.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

A very good one, Kath. Isobel has expressed it so well; I do like the almost clownish switch to couplets like a sing-song nightmare, after the wafting quality of stanza 1.

Comment is about Amnesia haze (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Are you staring at a mannequin in a shop window - with a flash of memory, or fantasy? Your relationship of ideas never ceases to enthrall me.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Wonderful rhyming of Mogadishu with the Big Issue, John. Wouldn't fancy his chances out there, though. Although come to think of it, he might sell more there than in Selby!

Comment is about The Big Issue (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Very oriental in its poetic appeal and filled with meaning within each line.

Comment is about My Flower (blog)

Original item by Melanie Coady

Will you? :-)

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Original item by Melanie Coady

I loved this. Almost sermon like tone at the beginning with a vicious rant in the middle turning back to sermon. Awesome.

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Original item by Noetic-fret!

john thank u so much for reading my stuff...xxx

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Original item by Melanie Coady

Hi Melissa, just want to let you know, that most of the time these days I scroll through the blogs until one catches my eye. This one did! And I have to say, well worth the read. I can really identify with it. As for my own experiences I should be crying like the Niagara Falls. Fantastic work Melissa, just brilliant.

Be well, stay safe and take care.

Love and respect.

Michael

xxx

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Thank you peeps :-))

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you for your comments on Newlands Corner Win - much appreciated.

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Original item by Winston Plowes

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Dave - appreciated.

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Original item by Dave Bradley

Many thanks for your comments on Woking Junction Greg - not the first poem I've written about Woking's train system though - and having been in the military at Pirbright as a youngster I can personally vouch for some of the romantic goings on with squaddie types plus the harsh approach of the redcaps based at Inkerman throwing their weight about - monochrome days perhaps but I'm sure there were hands reaching out from windows of departing trains which never quite reached the loved one on the station before the steam and smoke obliterated the view.

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Greg - appreciated.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Hi Ann - many thanks for your recent comments on 'Searching for Agatha' and 'Newland's Corner' much apreciated - BTW I couldn't manage a courtsey myself not with a dodgy knee. x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Good, I have missed our chats

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

obviously well liked

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I have written a poem of the same name

Comment is about The Big Issue (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I like it

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

I always enjoy reading your poems. Just catching up. I like the subtle references here and I too have looked up info on Huxley. I see that Island was the title of his last novel. Very clever stuff.

Comment is about Island (blog)

Good poem Lynn. I can relate to this. I have a void (just a few seconds missing ) best not to think about. I like the concept that the body knows best.

Comment is about Escape (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Thanks so much, this poem has been bubbling away in my head for the last fifteen years, since I heard about my friend's friend and her mother. The third verse may not fit Ray, you are right, as it is the one bit that echoes my own feelings about my mother whose body was very private to her.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This is a very powerful and moving poem with it's bittersweet central idea of watering that combines echoes of holy water and flowers. I really liked this.

Comment is about watering mother (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Thanks for your kind comments on my poems, Ann!

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

many thanks as always Cynthia xx

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

hi chuck,

thought you'de not been about lately, hope you're well.

thank you for your words re deep rooted, much appreciated as always x

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Original item by Andy N

Hi Alan,

Many thanks for your very generous words re Deep rooted. Much appreciated x

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