hi cynthia,
thanks for your comments on 'carpe diem'. I'm glad you noticed the slight typo-though it's funny to think that it works as well with 'cease'!
Cat x

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Hi again Cynthia, thanks for your two recent comments. The Ibiza one was obviously just a bit of fun about someone I know well (no nods and wink wink but theres a possibility you may know her too!!!!!!} Your second comment on Sunflowers was much appreciated. Luckily I was on line when your first comment went up before you edited it, and feel privileged you shared a bit of your personal life with me, if only for the moment.
Cate xx

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Hi Cynthia

thank you again for taking the time to read and make comment

steve

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Hi, Owl Feather secrets revealed! Have a look at the blog. Win

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Hi Cynthia - thanks again

i wanted to have the words strike like an ambush
and then leave the reader in the mirror

steve

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I haven't a clue if it was meant to be me or not. What was it on? I get around, but can't see why I should be mentioned on tv.

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Thanks again for your comment Cynthia. Have just printed off those definitions. It sounds very restrictive. If I get time I will try to apply some rules to my poetry. Read too many Mills and Boons as a girl - I just can't help writing from the heart. Applying rules is like putting rubber bands round it. How poetic is that?

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Thanks Cynthia for your comments on"Peace in the Future"
It is sometimes a bad, sad world is it not Cynthia.
Bernie

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Thanks Cynthia for your comments on the "Bakery"
Bernie

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Thanks Cynthia for your comments on "CSSB"
Bernie

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Hi Cynthia the comments re "Fish" were about no way about you!!!!!
Bernie

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment on Our Gramps.... glad you liked it and loved your archived one!!
Cate xx

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Thank you for your comment Cynthia. I have read very many of your poems and consider you to be a talented and clever lady - I am therefore touched that you should like my poem. Much of my poetry comes direct from the heart and therefore I don't give much thought to structure. I am not that well educated in poetry so don't know the difference between a cinquain and a tanka - but I will research them for future reference.
Thank you.

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Hi Cynthia

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my poem

steve

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Thanks Cynthia on your comments on "Fish"
Bernie

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Thanks Cynthia for your comments on "Bad Day in Heaven"
Bernie

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Hi Cynthia

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on SOAP.

the solution to the inference can be found in the BOBO doll experiment

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Thanks for your lovely welcome Cynthia - I missed you all too! There was an internet connection at the hotel but I had to force myself to walk past it or the pool and the sun wouldn't have seen me!

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Hi Cynthia
I thank you for reading 'Silence'. Do I look so old/serious that I am Mr.?
The 'I' is me, and perhaps could be described as suffering from slight/occasional emotionally disability.
The 'nothing' is the euphoria from the silence that follows unwanted wittering, where all that I can hear is the ticking of the clock, counting down.
I'm truly chuffed that you enjoyed the 'poem'. It seems I have reached at least 2 people, and that is all I could wish for.
Thanks again
Steve Mellor

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Hi Cynthia, thankyou for recent comments. It's nice of you take the time.

Janet.x

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Cynthia,
thanks very much for your comments and I'm delighted you liked the poems. Eulogy is the final part of a series of poems call My Neighbour which I read a bit of at an open mic in Woking.
RodneyX

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Hi Cynthia. Thanksfor your comments on the Haikus. I have written quite a few now although none are on here. I do like the form. Re Mutton dressed as lamb. Yes this is a well worn phrase as is fish out of water in the first stanza. Tosome it may also be to cliche. I liked the idea of each haiku ending with a common phrase, The second however admitedly does not. Guess It could be 'another spare part'. As to it been cruel, yes perhaps but that doesn't worry me here. Life is all shades. Rough / rude / awkward / sad and cruel. One idea I had was to expand this poem to one where the next 3 'sad' subjects are men (just for balance). Winston

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hello cynthia.
thanks for the comments, i am blown away that you like my work!
i am also startled by yours, 'Last NIght I heard a Sqawk' sucked me in and left momewhere brilliantly uneasy. i very much like your style and talent.
Look forward to more. x

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Hello Cynthia and thanks for your comment on ''the healer'' poem.
Truth is i'm all out of steam right now and can't be bothered any more. Telling is what i do and if it isn't good enough then maybe i shouldn't be here at all but i doubt you've seen the last of me because i actually enjoy writing ''performance'' poetry and my technique is slowly but surely improving.
I do enjoy reading between the lines of ''page'' poetry but as for writing it? Well, i leave that to the ones who are best at it. :-)

I've enjoyed your recent blog posts and will continue to read. Thanks again,
Janet.

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Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you so much for reading and commenting on my work, I'm pleased you liked it.
I'm not sure what a 'flip off the end of the pen' poet is - I imagine someone who just throws it out and sees what happens - in which case, yes - mostly I am.
I have a friend who is (what I consider to be) a 'proper' writer - i.e. someone who gets paid for it! - and she's always urging me to put my writings away in a drawer for a couple of months and forget about them, then when I do re-visit them, she tells me, I will see more clearly and objectively how to edit. But mostly - I'm just too impatient for that!
Thanks again - I appreciate your input,
Cx

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on "undercurrents." I think I may have said before that very little of my writing is autobiographical; it's something that I've never been particularly comfortable with. I just tend to imagine myself into situations, or alternatively adapt imagined situations to fit a particular theme I feel like exploring. Today's theme was, as you correctly observed, what past relationships leave behind, and how they never truly leave our subconscious. Oh yes, I've been there several times, but never in the exact circumstances of the poem - I just needed the moonlight, beach and frangipani to add that sense of "From Here to Eternity" romance and lust. Pure escapism - influenced and fuelled by emotinal experience. I hope I haven't disappointed you!
Regards,
A.E.

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Hello Cynthia, thank you for your kind comments on my poem Blackwater. Deb x

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Hi Cynthia,
Am I dreaming - or did you post something earlier and then remove it? I loved it and wanted to comment - but when I returned it had disappeared. Please post it again, I think it was a really unusual and insightfully erotic take on a subject more usually explored from a male perspective.
Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your input - actually, I also like the first ending too! - I still have a copy of the alternate draft and maybe I'll return to it later, or take a completely different route. I can get a little 'bogged down' sometimes and end up completely undecided about which version works best, or at all.
But again - thank-you very much for your insight - it is very helpful.
Cx

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Hello Cynthia - thank you for your kind comments on 'Brand New View' - I have removed the offending apostrophes now - good of you to draw my attention to that oversight :)

Best wishes

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment on Old Photographs. Very astute of you to pick up on the broken lines and fractured rhythm. This was an attempt to symbolise the breaking and fracturing of their lives in the future. I did try reading this last week keeping this rhythm, and like you I wasnt sure if I could pull it off, but it seemed to scan ok!!!
Cate xx

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Thank you for your compliments about my new poetry Cynthia! Martini's never did much for me.... but Margarita's... now... thats a different story! love

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Thank you Cynthia for taking the time to read and comment on my poem 'Elusive'...

As far as the page placement - It didn't come out exactly as I had wanted...
I always seem to have problems with font, size, and placement on here...
Your comments/suggestions are always appreciated.

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Hi Cynthia, Thank-you so much for reading and commenting on 'Manchester Rain'. And thank-you too for your suggestions - I have re-worked it a little, tried to make it tighter - though I do have a problem with using 20 words where 2 would do!
Thanks again,
Cx

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Hi Cynthia

Thank you for your very kind comments. You ask how 'Only Fond' came about. It's recent. Usually the words just well up, perhaps triggered by a stray thought or feeling, which has some intensity behind it. I grab some paper and pen - very frustrating if that's not around - and start scribbling. Then stand back, look at what's there. Then start honing. More may come as the honing process continues. A friend may occasionally make a suggestion. Then there is a moment it feels finished. The whole has a balance and the well is dry

It would be interesting to know what your approach is, and that of others. Suitable for a discussion perhaps - I've had little involvement in them so far.

I have no idea how 'objectively' good my stuff is - if that is even a meaningful concept here. It simply feels necessary or I'd go off pop and it's nice to have people to share it with. There are some really very good poems on this site and it's fine just being part of it all. Different people connect with different poems and that's fine too.

Thanks again Cynthia - the appreciation is mutual.

Dave

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Hi Cynthia
many thanks for the kind words re 'Voices' and thank you for the observations ...you are probably correct.. just the first piccie I found..
Once again many thanks for your encouraging comment.

Gus xx

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Thanks although not full gear. Am just keeping myself to myself in my space and saying what needs to be said. Your comment brought a tear to my eye . x be well.

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Hi Cynthia

thank you for your kind remarks on Light in a Wood. People have always written poems labelled 'spiritual' - John Donne, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins are three from mainstream British culture. But some experience seems to escape the labels, and that's what fascinates me. I take the hint about flooding the site. I do particularly connect with your poems. If there are pieces you'd like to share, do send

Dave

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I know there's a lot to be said for reading more at uni, but, realising my mistakes, I did it afterward! Thanks for your comments though, really appreciate it.

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A harpoon eh.. well thats a compliment and half so it is... Thank you ... I'm speechless...ish.
Thanks for reading 'Moby Kingsley'
Gus xx

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Hi Cynthia, No it doesn't make you snotty lol. Every reader will get something different from a particular poem and it doesnt matter whether that was in the mind of the poet when he/she was writting. Glad you liked it. (When I see people with that scraped back hair it does make me wonder if they have a permanent headache). Winston

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thank you so much for leaving a comment on my essay.It is highly valued. We will meet :-) I do read at events often, which are advertised on here x

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Thank You so much for your praise and comment..
You are very kind
Gus x

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Lovely poem, Cynthia. Better in the two stanza form here than in one block on the blog. Great use of shortening lines to imply rhythm.

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