Hehehe! Cool poem. I believe you. A lot of tongue-in-cheek there. "And yet tears roll down - I don’t know why". Please forgive me when I say it but I think I do know why. It's because in your heart of hearts you are a true Romantic (me too). However, much of romanticism comes from childhood when (one believed that) people lived happily ever after, princes came someday, kisses made princes out of frogs and awoke beautiful princesses from decades of slumber and knights on white chargers carried ladyes off to castles in neverneverland. That event yesterday was a childhood fantasy played out before our eyes (coal miner's [Sloane Ranger] great granddaughter marries prince) by people who have the money to do it well. "they all looked so well turned-out & happy" because they were all very very wealthy, which helps in looking well turned-out and happy (I say "looking", which doesn't mean that they really are :o). These events are skilful works of social engineering designed to beguile us (in the face of everything to the contrary) into having Hope and diverting our attention from the things which really matter. But it's a good thing that communities had street parties and that even hardened cynics shed cathartic tears. ;o)

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Having just returned from a week's coach tour -thank you for commenting on Three Reflections Andy and glad you enjoyed them

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Most people on here are some kind of late starter in poetry, so you are in good company.
Your writing is superb, atmospheric, Simon. Parakeets invites you to read and re-read; perhaps an appropriate double-take on this exotic offering.

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The sense of place and atmosphere in 'Kemptown' is almost palpable. The repeated use of prepositions makes reading the extract like being led on a journey - and I'd like to know where it goes next. Great stuff.

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Very good, Ann, enjoyed your poem, I love the line on Camilla too! (In principle I would say I'm not a royalist, but then I do appreciate them at the same time, so as normal, I'm mixed up!) And yes, I shed a few tears too.... xx

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if I could read my lines half as well with 2 billion watching, I'd be well chuffed.
I'm no royalist, but just "well done" to the happy couple in particular & to everyone really - they all looked so well turned-out & happy.
(yeah, I walk like Camilla as well)

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Like the chipped champagne flute, Ann. As a fervent anti-monarchist I had a funny old day ... spent most of it helping out at a street party's in my mother-in-law's road, and enjoyed being there. They had stuck pictures up on the fence of the last time they had a party, for Charles and Di ... and some of the kids in those pictures were back there now, with their own kids.

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Hi Simon, good to see you on Write Out Loud at last! You know I admire Parakeets and Noir. Thanks for your comments on Touch Wood: don't think I've ever read that one out. Greg

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And I wonder just how many egg yolk yellow coats the queen owns... she could have worn any of them and we wouldn't have known the difference...

I thought it was very bad that they left out two ex prime ministers - just bad form and petty - whether you like what they did or not, they both aged dreadfully whilst doing that job.

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Blimey, you were quick Ann!

I did think that locking them all in at Westminster Abbey would have been a good way to start 'la revolucion', but I did watch some of it with my granddaughter and was struck by the thought that it is a part of British history in the making and that there was a sense in which Diana helped to change the monarchy a little. Must be getting soft in my old age.
Harry seems more like his father...
well done Ann. the zeitgeist.

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Fitting! I love it.

'Camilla walks like me – carefully!' -my fav!

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Tongue in cheek here - honest! :)

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Hi Simon, welcome to Write Out Loud. Winston

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Hi Lynn - why why why I don't know - I don't give a stuff about William & Kate - but I've been in floods of tears all morning. I suppose it's memories of other times and other weddings, of hopes and just that something that brings us all together. (Still don't care much for the royal family though!)xx

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Hi Ann, thank you for your lovely comments on "Not for us". Fortunately, I only had to work 7 till 9, but yes poetry can be quite therapeutic, can't it?
xx

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Thanks Ann and Dave. Must admit I got let off lightly as I only had to work from 7 till 9. (Still had to get up at 5.30 on a bank holiday though!) So this poem was more written on principle and for my lovely colleagues really...
Just been enjoying the wedding. Lynn xx

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Hey! I thought you were supposed to be hard at work today! Glad that you have some time off!!!!xx

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Love the poem, Ann. Well written, and also a good chuckle at your last comment to Isobel! xxx

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Nah! She should have had fairy wings - to go with the forest theme! If I ever get married again (!?!?!???) I'm going to get married in a forest and wear fairy wings and jump over a broomstick and dance naked round a bonfire!

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The nicest royal wedding dress I can remember - very Grace Kelly - she got it right and will probably put an end to all these backless numbers. But what did Beatrice and Eugenie look like? Something out of a pantomime springs to mind...

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Great poem, Ann. Nice to be thinking about other weddings, instead of the one none of us seems able to escape.

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Ha - the kids are all watching it - I will take a peek at the important bit when the bride arrives - just to see if she gets the dress right. Am not really interested in what Posh Spice is wearing or Elton John for that matter. :)

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Not watching it on't telly then Izzie? Hope you have a good day off!xx

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Perhaps that's because you can just turn up and let your hair down. If you are close to the couple, you get tied up with all the pre wedding stress and hassle. Who to invite/who not to invite and all the argument that can cause. You also have to be nice and socialise with people you hardly know instead of just getting pissed.

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In my experience weddings are more enjoyable the less close you are to the person getting married! But that don't seem right somehow - should be the other way round!

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What a great take on a theme! I love weddings - where else can you get to eat for nothing and have a good dance to naff music? I like looking forward to seeing the dress - then always being disappointed by it. Absolutely hate all these big bare backs that are fashionable at the moment. Hated all the big meringue nests that were fashionable in my day...

I can think of lots of really funny weddings I've been to - one in Wales where, on a hot day, there was no wine, water or juice on the tables and we were all gasping. One in Cheshire where my own marriage broke down completely... Everyone makes fools of themselves and real life is played out - hot and sweating in clothes that aren't comfy...

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Can't say I enjoy weddings very much!

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Tis true - I spend most of my time alone, and I love it. But, sometimes I suddenly feel ALONE and that it totally different, a very cold and empty feeling. I find the scientific take on the subject very interesting in your poem, about atoms and energy etc., making it sound as if we are all alien from each other and even maybe from ourselves.

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Hello Lynn. Thanks for your comments on The Continuing Story of John the Hat

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Hello Val. Thanks for your comments on The Continuing Story of john the Hat

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I love your thought processes Alan - though life might be easier for you and many other poets if you didn't have them. I occasionally wonder whether intelligence is a curse - being able to really think about your condition rather than just get on with satisfying your basic needs...

You describe disconnectedness/ disconnection (neither sound great) very well and your poem made me think, which I like to do :)

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I'm not sure about the 'technical worth' of the poem, Thom, but the subject matter is intriguing. What is real? How do we go about ascertaining/processing what is 'real'. Etcetera - no end to it

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Sympathy. She won't be getting a Christmas card will she.

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I hope you are enjoying not being a question mark! I find using the photo option very liberating and imagination-pleasing! I am liking being a chough! Sometimes I like being a mud-maid - sometimes I like being me. x

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Oh Lynn - that's so MEAN! Stick her doughnuts where the sun don't shine!! Hope writing this poem (which I think is jolly good) helped to get some of your anger out and made you feel better. xx

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Very enjoyable, John, love your work. X

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How true John. Enjoyed the poem.X

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Hi Paula , Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hi Patrick . Welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site. Winston

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Hi Kieran Welcome to WOL, Good set at WOL Sale the other night. Keep rocking! Winston

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I really like the story in this. Great work!

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Wow! what a bio. Welcome to WOL.

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A lovely wistful snapshot, although wondering drily doesn't work for me.

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It's very complex, often contradictory, with loaded allusions. I don't necessarily see Steve's metaphor. I wonder whose 'Hope' chest it really is, the significance of the 'brailled blind' exactly, and why the key is 'hidden' as opposed to lost by the poet, 'I'. And how did 'grit' get into a sealed chest? I guess you are in an attic generally disinfected with 'camphor' somewhere in 'apple' country; or maybe you are storing apples over the winter in hemp baskets. Or 'apples' are homey-thought inducers. Where did the 'grease' come from? Love you Rachel. Wonderful to have you posting again.

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Freedup is on the 19, May. I must have misheard last night. I am in; see you there. Thanks for the encouragement to be part of this gig.

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That is the Picasso 'Aperitif' which I wrote about. Winston was in Sale last night, and he suggested it might be a good one. I'm a bit apprehensive - but it sort of suits. Not that I look anything like that, but still - it kinda suits.

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Hi Anna, Send your deets to thom@royaldaylight.co.uk and I'll post you the prize. It's been collecting dust on my bookcase for months... at least I hope that's where it is. Thom

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I love this Marianne, great gollops of fab poetry! Solid with fluid imagery! Wonderfull!!

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And I knew that you knew that Rachel McG wasn't a thick fakester - nor me for that matter. I just like to make trouble...

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Yes, but she IS your muse after all! xx

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