Hey Cynthia,

Just to say 'Hi I'm back'.

I'll be browsing through your poetry shortly, no doubt (although - I'm feeling the dissertation pressure at the moment, roll on 9th of May).

All the best.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

thank you Isobel. xxx

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Original item by Isobel

don't you think it's worth having a title though ?

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Original item by Isobel

Fabulous expressions of overwhelming thoughts, chaos, and a longing to escape...

Love the ending:

'i'm at the last door and
soon, i'll be gone

into the cavern of nothing
behind, and out to the
wilderness, to where i 'll unwind.

helicopters fall from a maple tree
there in the middle, smiling, is me.'

Comment is about exit route to nowhere (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Hi Ann - re: Three Reflections - many thanks for commenting and so glad you enjoyed the read x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

How absolutely lovely!

Comment is about Sunset (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I like this too. I can hear your voice reading it somehow.

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Original item by Isobel

My initial thoughts were of love lost etc. However on further reading there is a sense of betrayal or possibly inevitability about the loss, unsurprising.
I like the image of words feeding on themselves, and the sunny side down expression. I'm glad you allowed comments because there is a bare-facedness about this short but almost cuttingly direct piece.

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Original item by Isobel

Cynthia this is a charming piece. It has certainly had me thinking of poems that I wrote as a teenager (whilst young and in love) and whether I would ever be brave enough to resurrect them. Well done and bravo!

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

We need reminding of such things from time to time and this poem certainly helps us to do just that - so many images to to make us shudder at the cruelty of it all - well done David

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Original item by Dave Bradley

Delightful no need to say another word and one of your special stock no doubt alluded to on earlier occasion x

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I really like this for the fact that it is left up to the reader's interpretation.
You have expressed so well what we can all relate to in some sense.
For me, everything except 'but then I always knew you would'...
Hmmm... Inspiration? Faith?

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Original item by Isobel

I originally disabled comments cos I didn't want to explain this one - then realised that it was open to misinterpretation.

Could I just say for the record that it has nothing to do with love or romantic disappointment. x

Comment is about Untitled (blog)

Original item by Isobel

This poem still gives me pleasure. I have not changed a word.

Comment is about Sunset (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Your comments on Ash Friday houghts much appreciated Lynn - many thanks

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

I think that would be 'your' rather than 'you're' in the boring line - if I'm reading it correctly.

Would agree with Lynn and Steve - you are a talented poet. I like the surreal style you have used - it does feel very Alice down the rabbit hole. The images of the woodpecker, the holes - the chipping away of our thoughts and minds.

I hope you find your maple tree. x

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Original item by Kath Hewitt

Like Greg, I really love the last 3 lines. That takes the poem to another dimension and is great way to end it. The rest wasn't quite poetic enough for me - but little is nowadays - I'm in a negative frame of mind which is why I'm incapable of finishing anything myself LOL

Pompeii/Herculanium - fascinating places where real lives were lived out. xx

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Original item by Dave Bradley

I like the humour :)

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Original item by Rodney Wood

This is an excellent poem, Dave, expressing our continuing, horrified fascination with Pompeii. But the final three lines are best of all

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Original item by Dave Bradley

turning japanese
I think we're turning japanese
I really think so

(not quite a haiku)

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Original item by Rodney Wood

I like this, Kath, well written.

Comment is about exit route to nowhere (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

PS Rhyming yetis with Betty's is inspired

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Original item by John Coopey

Ah, Betty's! This brought back the memories, John. My wife worked part-time in the downstairs bar for a while when she was a student in York. She remembers having to wear a zip-up brown nylon uniform with a pinny in front. It's reassuring to know Betty's is still going: I enjoyed and recognised your evocation of its genteel yet faintly exotic appeal. There's one in Harrogate too, isn't there?

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Original item by John Coopey

:) Thank you, andy & steve.
It's not so poetic... more emotional, I guess

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Original item by Polina

Hi John, thanks for kind comments on "I Hear You". I didn't plan to do an abab to start with, but it somehow turned out that way! Lynn x

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Original item by John Coopey

Thanks - I did A level geology - does it show ?? :)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

I like this - very simple, sparse, but some packed lines:

after a tongue tied Tuesday morning lie,
and butterscotch remembered
on her breast.
After a simple pirate on Cupid seas,
and powdered snow
on her lip.

Awww...that last verse though. Cold. Necessary I guess, but I reckon that first verse is pretty self-contained

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The appeal over other pronouncements of love and such affections is its total lack of mushiness or mooshiness; no promises just the truth, no crying for the moon or crossing the oceans or mountains, no serenade nor waxing poetic... pure poetry.

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Original item by Max Wallis

Now in that case we have totally and irrevocably lost it!

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Original item by Alan Morrison

Poets and poems result in poetry, its magic in the connection fired by poetry and its readership/hearer-ship. In that way we are all interconnected, much like the viral of which you spoke of earlier. Thanks for sharing, Cynthia.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Richie Krigar - I hope I spelt the surname correctly.

Comment is about Richie Krigar Tudor House Wigan April 2011 (photo)

Ah, Greg, Don't get me going on poetry workshops! I hate 'em. Did an Arvon week last year because everyone seems to have to do at least one Before they die. I was lucky to come back alive. Didn't seem to have anything to do with real poetry.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for the feedback, Greg. I love that photo and have now discovered lots more by Willi Ronis. He's great and with a bit of luck I might possibly be able to do some more. He's got one called 'La Nue Provencale' which I really like as well. Thanks again for the article on WOL's news page.

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Hi Alan. Welcome to Write out Loud. I also like the sound of being a medieval troubador but it is far more likely I was a pig farmer or such like! Hope you enjoy exploring the site. Winston

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John Darby (AKA Johnboy) x

Comment is about John Darby Tudor House Wigan April 2011 (photo)

Brilliant photo - you should have used it for the Tudor profile - in its full length format it was better - very subtle - great use of lighting. I'm no expert on photography but for me it stood out.

x

Comment is about John Togher Tudor House Wigan April 2011 (photo)

Hi Larissa, thank you so much for lovely comments on "I hear you", and for all the other nice things you have said. I agree it is lovely to meet like minded people on a site like this, and being from different countries can just make it more interesting, I think.
Wow, very impressed with your website, didn't realise you teach Russian. It looks a great thing to be doing, and as I say, the website looks really impressive. Love Lynn xx

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Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

if your heart was for rent Lynn,would a couple of cinnamon kisses be enough? woo-oo! nice poem from a nice Lady.xx

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Father Wilde says thank you my child(re gottle'o'geer)xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Tudor House April photos taken by Darren Thomas/ Rachel Bond

Comment is about John Togher Tudor House Wigan April 2011 (photo)

Can I say I love it too. all the best. B

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Like it Lynn.
You've got good discipline.
I think I've said before that I find abab rhyming patterns hardest of all.

Comment is about I Hear You (blog)

Original item by Lynn Dye

It's beautiful, gentle and sweet. I love it!

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello,dear Lynn! Thank you so much for all your kind words and your comment on "Happy Birthday!' My life experience today and knowledge of life tells me who is who. I am really pleased to meet such a nice person like you. It looks as we are the same age and ....though we are from different countries, as women we can understand each other. It's really pleasant.
Now I would like you to do me a favor and visit my site
http://www.learninglanguagesl.jimdo.com

With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

PS Please, let me know about the site

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Original item by Lynn Dye

Thank you, dear Lynn! Sonja has read my poem here and your comment and said: I love you all. My answer was:
I love you too my dearest girl.I wish you to be the best in all. To be always a beautiful flower.Kindness and
heartiness should be your power.

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Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks - that was just a bit of fun - it helps to see the funny side of shitty experiences - I do it all the time... x

Comment is about Rachel Pantechnicon (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel Pantechnicon

How lovely, Larissa. Happy Birthday to Sonja from me too. Love Lynn xx

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Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

I very much liked your Yeung Sing poem - all that verbal twisting and turning within the lines. I think you may have blown your chances of being hired by their marketing team, though...

R x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I liked it - and I have certainly been there - I would have split up the piece, that's just a personal thought and does not detract from this intriguing piece of writing.

Somewhere at the back of the cupboard I still have the wedding album from the ex, what to do with it?

I think there was a 'your' instead of 'you're' but I really liked this, there is a lot in here.

James

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