Hi Alan,

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

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Hi,

Thank you,albeit belatedly, for reading and commenting on amnesia haze. x

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Thanks for your comment on Escape Cynthia - I really wasn't sure about it but you've made me feel better! I think I posted soon after Rachel Bond's and felt woefully inadequate - though deeply disturbing, the poetry in hers was remarkable - my winner so far, without a doubt.

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Thanks for commenting on my latest Andy - I'm glad you liked. Looking forward to reading your Escape poem. I thought the theme was too close to Freedom when Dave told me about it - it seems to be taking off though. See youz around xx

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Thanks for your comment on my poem Elaine - it's about the departure of a friend, which saddened me. It probably comes over as more serious than it was actually intended - I was aiming for detached regret underpinned by an empathy with that person.

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lovely rach.. you tell a lot i think in a few short stanzas.. wonderful! x

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Hey Elaine

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for all of your lovely and insightful and interesting comments - so many!! What a splurge :D

I will see you again very soon I hope, and in the meantime, enjoy that room of one's own ;)

Mahoosive hugs xxx

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Thanks Andy re Escape, much appreciated

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thanks andy , i am not fantastically thrilled with my poem. It does however sum up the idea of an escape for me. albeit a spiritual one .

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Have to agree with the other comments Ann. Well done - this is so sensitive, delicate and beautifully put.

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Hi Alison, Escape! sums it all up. very nice. Win x

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Hi Elaine, thanks for youre comments on 1971. and P.S. I could not agree with your biog statement more. Win x

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Cynthia, I can't see for colours! This is so richly painted and full of vivid skillfull descriptions. Is it possible to have too many such passages. Would it be more successful if there were some plain sections in between. In an old city cram packed with amazing architecture none of it is noticed. I may of course be totally wrong! just thinking aloud. Win x

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Hi Andy, an interesting one this. liked the penultimate section.(an hill?)Win x

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I like this Andy. You choose some unusual images, I esp like the first verse (where can those horses be going?) :)

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I thought Parakeets was great! I'm always amazed when I see (and hear) them when I visit London. Welcome to WOL!

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Hi Andy, thanks for the comments on 1971 (It was an odd year) Nothing wrong with a bit of mystery I say. Win x

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Ray's right, Ann, you've come upon an original, affirmative take on a subject many of us find ourselves writing about. There's subtle music in this, too: delicacy and privacy, gone and wrong, dismissed and kisses. Too often people focus on the question of decay in these situations; you've found the beauty of it.

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Hi Sophia, welcome to the site. Liked 'The Photograph' Winston

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Good to see you posting again, Georgina.. I particularly like 'I wake. I sleep' on one line here for the movement and the constract.. top stuff xxx

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yeah, I agree this is a Escape poem. Would defo tag this into it.

Wasn't expecting the Puppet Master reference originally also but it ties the full thing together lovely.

Top stuff x

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good stuff, lynn.. very well told.. x

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A few layers on this for me too, Carole - the ending particulars works well for me with the end but I really like it x

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Good to see you back on these again, Kealan... Some of these are lovely.. Particularly like 'Beard Resin', 'Sharks Fin Soup', 'Trip trance lyrics' to name but a few...

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Very funny, natural, gentle and clever, Dave. X

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This is so bitter-sweet to read - all the sadness and beauty of life. It's not the technical brilliance of a poem that moves the reader but the spirit of the poet that shines through. And you certainly got me with this one, Ann! XXX

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"and yet for me / you left your mark" - the loss you are communictaing is a very deep one. Hope it isn't a question of faith. But it feels like the loss of something very close. X

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Played golf at Beverly a few times,very nice round there

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Thanks Ray, you were right about the right that wasn't right and should have been rite! Spelling not my greatest gift!!

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Just so redolent of lazy summer days. The love of the language oozes through. Love it. X

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Excellent Foxy.
Very vivid.
We start life being pushed in a pram by our parents and end up being pushed in a wheelchair by our kids.

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"give jaded advice for success
yet unknowingly point them to death at fifty"

such wise & pithy lines. Enjoyed this at the Tudor and here again - good to savour the sentiment. X

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Great fun and so true. Reminds me of great story of Joe Simpson - climber who so nearly died in S. American mountains. Whilst dragging himself back to base camp with terrble injuries he couldn't stop "Brown Girl in the Ring" from going round and round in his head. Apparently he remembers being horrified at the thought that this could well have been the last thing he remembered before he died! XXX

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Reading this again tonight - filled with anger and tears. XXX

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Inspired is right, I think. Wonderful metaphor, the mother being being watered like a flower/child.I'm not sure the 3rd verse is adding a great deal but I loved the last 2 verses. Do you mean last right or rite?

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Most paths we take lead absolutely nowhere. There are worse places to end up than the Tudor beer garden, in my experience anyway - Mordor for one LOL x

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It seems that it comes to this for far too many
parents and their children. Age gets us all eloquently expressed and touching - David

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Thanks for the comment and suggestion - I'm beginning to think it's easiest to leave poems as the original and trust your own instincts otherwise the bush will be trimmed to a twig before you know it. Thanks again Dave

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biblical references ... not false , just didnt speak a truth i want . there are many paths

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Beware false prophets eh? LOl - I never factored the Tudor beer garden into it, but then why ever not? Finding the Tudor was a pretty defining moment for me. Hope to see you there on Thursday and I won't be asking you to read ;)x

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thanks for comment on escape , its a wierd one really , as part of it is something that actually happened to me as i was walking along. i felt myself step through a doorway , portal , just slap bang in the middle of the tudor beer garden!and i knew i was changed. the rest is about much of what you say but i never had religion and chose not to get it .. i think we both escaped the prophet and i

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Inspired by a friend of a friend, whose aged mother was so frail she found the touch of a flannel and even being washed in a shower too painful.

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You've painted the scene with your words.Evokes many emotions and sentiments;guilt,love sympathy and contempt to name the obvious - Dave

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Have read this a number of times Carole and like the enigma of it. There could be a number of interpretations. The one that leaps out most to me is perhaps the loss of religious faith. I suppose it could also apply to the loss of faith in a person - the decision to go it alone and the parting of ways. The fact that it is under the Escape umbrella would indicate that your previous condition was a negative one.

I like the simplicity of it - it works.

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Thanks very much for your comment I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Yevtushenko or his "There are no momuments at Babi Yar" nevertheless it would seem to be a great comliment so thanks again - Dave

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CynthiaMany thanks for your comments on Nuts. It was an entry I did for Subtle Flame, the Beverley Open Mic group, last week - theme was "nuts".Incidentally I like the new picture. Self-portrait?

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I liked this and the questions it raised and carefully didn't quite answer!

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Thank you for your considered comment on Escape, Cynthia, your thoughts are always appreciated. I thought about it, but won't be changing it, because I do prefer it the way I wrote it. I realise it isn't the most 'poetic' write in the world, but there is some poetry in it I believe. And it was a bit like stripping my skin off so another reason is that I don't really want to revisit it - left me in a pretty fucked up way the evening after I put it up.

Now I want to write something joyful about Peggy Seeger, because I think I fell in love with her watching her play the other night :)

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Cyn - thanks (lucky escape) -
you're right, but I couldnae think of another - I've compromised :)

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Very heart-warming, in its grace of love, and also well-constructed. The easy, steady style compliments the theme, like an organ continuum. Truths can be so different.

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