very nice poem lynn a lovely short story in poetry form with a lovely romantic ending..very nice ! lv bernie x x

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Thanks Andy for taking the time to comment on my poem Magic Fields :) Much appreciated

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Great.

Now you've dunnit
The sky's the limit.
Innit?

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MMM! very romantic Lynn.'so in spite of all my struggles'my virginity was gone'mmm? struggles....mmm? lol!or as I say to the wife..you made me give you a baby.(ha!) enjoyed that little poetical insight Lynn-thank you-Stef-xx(B-xx)ps-cool pikky!

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By the way! The picture is also beautiful.
With warmest wishes, Larisa

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I enjoyed reading it so much.

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Lynn! This poem is so nice. Just beautiful and charming.

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Yeah-folks have said I'm a little psycho (amongst other things) :)

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for comments on "no time for love" B

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Ta very much :)

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Hi, Cynthia! Please, come back to my poems
"His Majesty Accident" and "I Learn And Study English'. With warmest wishes and hugs, Larisa

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You are quite right, Cynthia! Accident is another name for a pure chance. But! In this poem I prefer to use "accident". It is really a good synonym, but....chance is a chance and accident is an accident. Anything can happen by chance, but...an accident can turn the whole life upside down. I've met with them so many times.It is considered that an accident hides the inevitability.

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I would agree with you Ann but direct speech rarely makes for good poetry. I paraphrased what the copper said which is why I didn't use full speech marks. It works better for me but I hear what you are saying. Glad you liked the poem - it was a bit of a different one for me. x

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Thank you dear Ann for the compliment.

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Glad you liked Walking the Shore. It was about a former colleaque who I was drinking with last night, as it happens. Glad to report he's in the best of health! Commiserations about the rejection, by the way. I had a sheaf of returned poems waiting on the mat for me when I got back from my hols the other day. Ain't it always the way?!

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You are indeed a wise woman! xx

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Hi, dear Ann! Please, go to my poem "I Learn And Study English". Thank you very much for your comment. With love and hugs, Larisa

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Hi,dear Ann! I think if anyone works hard it's a big problem. I don't like to work hard. I am very lazy. My mother used to say that my laziness was born before me.lol I can't say that I've never worked hard. There were moments in my life when I had to do that as... there was not the way out. And... we all have a choice: to lose or to win. I always prefer to win. I always wanted to win. So, it means that I had to work hard, even if I didn't like it. T think if you are clever enough you will escape the hard work you don't like to do. I like the work that gives me pleasure. And...if it gives me pleasure then it is not hard at all.
I don't understand those people who say: I am a hard working man. And...it is really surprising for me if they are proud of it.
As for me I prefer to think. I think everywhere: in the bathroom, in bed, when I fume and I am sad.And I never regret. I think when I eat or drink, when I walk or talk. When I write poems I just collect my thoughts together and rhyme the words. lol , try to give them sense and move to logic.
To my opinion, hard work is something you are forced to do. If any work is not a pleasure then I just hate it.

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Love the profile pic. Windswept power. Keep up the poetry variations.

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I'm finding writing haiku quite liberating! I've started to experiment with starting every stanza of my poems as a haiku and seeing how the structure works for me. Building and adding words etc where I think they're needed! Watch this space for the results; good or bad! :-)

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Hi Lynn, thanks for your kind comments on my Pearlfishers poem. And I definately think you should write the "female idea of heaven" poem!! Somewhere where chocolate is very slimming, wine is free and men are always nice and polite!! (No, that would NEVER happen - not even in heaven!) xx

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Hi Cynthia - thanks for kind comments on Pearlfishers. I agree with you re the un-needed words and have made a couple of cuts. And, did you remember where you read that article on Emily Dickinson? ;-)

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Are onions the only vegetable that makes people cry? Maybe it's a defence mechanism to stop people eating them!! (Doesn't work - we are having shepherd's pie for dinner - including onions!) And I like this little haiku! xx

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Wow thanks Thermo! Glad you think I look sexy in my new profile photo - Stef just said I looked drunk!! xx

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Nice poem, Bernadette. xx

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Love all your poems, Ann, just as you write them, so agree with Stefan's advice there. Another good one - Lynn xx

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Hi again Jean-Lucy.Really love this poem,and you will be pleased to know my wife loves your style,and can,t wait for more-so please keep them coming-thank you-Stef-no kisses(the wife is watching-lol!)

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The 'crab' imagery is novel and very effective.

IMO, maybe a bit of further editting would make a pearl of this poem. eg. 'ancient bottles' doesn't really need 'glass' which blocks the poetical music of 'eight ancient' - or maybe a different word to highlight another aspect of 'ancient'. In the same vein, you might do either 'sparkly sand' or 'island sand'; both adjectives tend to drag down the line. Reposition the 'extra' desired word somewhere else. I do think 'stoppered' would be a given, unless you want to exploit more ideas from the word itself, in which case it might take a line of its own. Always just suggestions with great respect for your wonderful talent.

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'Edit, edit, edit' is your own best advice. Very few works lose their 'sense of spontaneity' by reviewing them repeatedly with a jaundiced eye. IMO, most poems give you their 'soul' when you tend/cuddle/prod them into maturity.

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Hi Ann..NO MORE DECORATING LOL...it would be nice to read some published poetry but i wouldnt know where to start and wouldnt want to feel different about my own as i suppose it feels safe in my own comfort zone,but i guess i should read and learn. i have bought a childrens poetry book for my grandson ben,s birthday . he will be 7 in a couple of weeks and he has just read a roald dhall book from start to finish.his reading has become so good over the last few months and he likes poetry and how it rhymes so cant wait to give him his book ! i will enjoy reading it myself .. well ive got to start somewhere i guess lol. i still think that your work is brill! so be confident !! lv bernie xx ps. like your new profile pic x

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A lovely descriptive poem, I had to look up 'nacred' I thought at first it was a typo for sacred but it's not ;-) its amazing how many new words you pick up reading other's poetry ;-)
Luv TC X

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Yes I am still breathing ha ha not been here much of late though, I managed to get out of my Ferris wheel in August to go to the Wigan slam, it was really great, amazing poetry, party atmosphere ha ha got a stonking hangover from drinking an evil brew called 'Pendle Witch' lol still I guess it was worth it, I hope you are well love the new picci you look sexy ;-)) Luv TC XX

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Really lovely Bernybaby! and pikky to match-good work kiddo-keep it up-thank you-Stef-xx

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Hi again Bernie! I always felt it was enough to let the poems flow out, then let them be. Just recently I've started reading more poetry. It can get quite depressing sometimes when you read wonderful stuff, but then you get inspired (hopefully!) I do think I "overwrite", put too much info in, lead the reader into what to think and how to interpret the poem. I do want to try and leave more for the reader to do. We're all learning, after all! But I feel (typical gemini!) like too poets split down the middle at the moment! Take care - done any more decorating lately? ;-) xxxx

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nice poem Ann and i would like to be the one who found the bottles perhaps the poems would be read by a beautiful mermaid sitting on a big rock swishing her tail in the sea..i can just imagine this lovely scene ! have posted comment on .poem for daljit xx bernadette

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hi Ann this poem is so apt and i agree with Cynthia,s comments and i think that she is so right in her advise which i will go by as well. I have little knowledge of the poetry world so what i write can only come from within myself with no outside influence . thank you for your comment on ..alphabet lover..it just kind of came into my head and i enjoyed doing it.glad you liked it xxx bernadette

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Had to have a break from trying to write clever minimal stuff wot I carnt do and the real Fanny Foxglove just had to pop out! (Oooer Mrs as someone I vaguely remember from somewhere used to say!) Adjectives forever!!

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tHANKS

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tHANKS

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i wIl REmeMbur yew!

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this is wot they want!!! you need kissin'-MWOAH!

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As long as you haven't sunk without trace Greg! ;-)

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Thanks,Ann and Ray. I feel both buoyed and a little buffeted, but in a good way!

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Great! I know the feeling!! xx

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OK, taking out the speech marks of the 'story' was a bad idea. and I did it at the last minute too. I honestly thought the dialogue between two people versus the narration would be sufficiently clear, but I thunk wrong. Maybe it was the 'she's' and 'her's', but there is nothing complex about the progression. The last stanza is an Aesop-type summary of a story, the moral so to speak. (I should be so brave!)

Banksy, I don't know what you mean, except, yes, there is the tennis reference which I felt was likely well known. Am I complex!

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I really love this Jean Lucy. xx

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I like this a lot Greg, a lot to see in it, but simply said.

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Very clever Larissa - you must have worked hard to think of so many tricky words and you've used them well. Funny! ;-)

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Hi Iz - I like this, a very "immediate" read, I esp like the last verse. Not sure if the cop would say "Sat Navs an idle distraction’" though. Maybe he'd say "Sat Navs are a waste of time" or something.

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