I had a friend who said she was 'half German' - she only shaved under one arm pit.

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Not sharing my most ingongruous oddities Isobel, think my hairy tufts may ruin my glamourous image for life. lol.x

And come on guys, women wax, shave, pluck and god only knows what else. Wonder how many men would put up with legs as hairy as a yheti and Norman Lamont eyebrows - not to mention...... - hairy armpits. etc etc. Interesting.

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

That sounds like a very minor problem Nicky...
I would hate it if the man in my life wanted to shave the tufts of hair from my back.

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Fabulous!! Very well penned. You know when your loved when your little oddities and physical incongruities are accepted.

I have a mole that pops out of my bellybutton when I'm expecting, and after my hubbies initial shock and disgust three of them ago, haha, he's accepted it as one of the family and nicknamed him 'Morris'.x

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Great to have you back Nicky. You were a great in putter - commenting freely and constructively. I feel sure you would like the monthly WOLOP competition I now run - check out my penultimate blog. Your new poem is super. No need to fear renewal on WOL - you never really left our thoughts.

Comment is about Renewal (blog)

Original item by Nicky Burrows

Hi Nicky,
so glad you ventured back into the halls of Write out loud.
Good come back too. It is scary when standing alone to face the unknown and sometimes to return to the once known. That footprint has to touch on solid ground sooner or later and be met by welcomes galore.

Janet.x

Comment is about Renewal (blog)

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Great to have you back Nicky - and back with a bang. This one's a cracker. The abyss which threatens but invites. Indeed

Comment is about Renewal (blog)

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I have a friend who broke off her engagement because he has a hairy back. He used to shave it for her but she said she could still feel them.
With a phobia like that i suppose it was doomed from the start.

Interesting observation there,
Janet.x

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Hi, glad you like my ode to creme eggs! I was sat stuffing my face with a huge easter egg version and thought of the aforementioned poem! Inspiration comes from the strangest places lol x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Also, I wouldn't necessarily bear in mind your suggestions for how I should view the work, as such an exercise is very much down to the critic and reader. :)

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia
Moon month is fantastic! I really do like it, thanks for posting it. Also many thanks for your comment on my latest. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Personally, I feel that iambic pentameter is a little outmoded anyway. Really, the final version of your poem, and the placement of everything, is down to you. I'm afraid I don't have enough time to do something indepth due to me being a busy f/t teacher. These dropped-in comments during breaks allow me a few moments but something larger would be a different thing altogether.

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Hi steve
Was in the curry house in slawit last week ! Win

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, thanks for the welcome and the comments. I love "the dray" gorgeous imagery. I Look forward to reading more.
Cheers
Steve

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Winston, looking forward to being a part of this. I'm not too far from you actually - having moved to Slaithwaite a few months back (perhaps not the wisest of decisions when a full-time student in York but it is gorgeous up there)
Cheers

Steve

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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You are such a brave poet Mia... shocking images .. I wonder If I sleep like that ... ??

Wonderful
This one for the fridge this week... its my POW.

WeLL Done
Augusta Xx

Comment is about Going Tits Up (blog)

Original item by Mia Darlone

Hello Jeff
Many thanks you so much for your continuing support and critique of my work, I refer to your comments on the 'Loney Edge Of Time' Iam so very lucky to have such a devoted fan.
Augusta xx

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Liked this Mr Garter... loved the title. Win

Comment is about Waiting For Alison Ennis (1996) (blog)

Liked the odd observations in this Mr Garter... Just shows that nothing is as weird and maybe as sad as real life. Win

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

My wife was only trimming my ear hairs last night....she's trying to stop me turning into a hobbit. She's always on about it...but we've been together over 30 years now...a bit of mutual grooming never did any harm methinks. She started out squeezing my spots and it ends up with trimming your ears...there's a poem in there somewhere!

:)

Jx

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Love it, love it, love it.

Very subtly done.

Comment is about How You Can Tell She's Not For You (blog)

Hi Greg Unfortunately, unlike all those others, I completely dried up for 20 years + was worn down by the daily grind of running a Modern Languages department in an appalling comprehensive school for all those years. Still, no doubt it was good for the soul, and at least I have been getting quite a few poems together over the last 18 months. It's funny how things turn out. I suppose at the end of the day, if you've got something to say it will come out in the end.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Alice Oswald, Don Paterson, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and many, many others ... I didn't realise you were in such exalted company until I Googled the list of Gregory award winners over the years, David! Thanks for your comments on The Tide and the Light. I was inspired to put it up by reading your The Tide, and noticing the similarities in title and subject matter. Greg

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Enjoyed this Kathryn. Yum! What a pity Cadburys has been taken over by that nasty American company

Comment is about A silly homage to Cadburys Creme Eggs. (blog)

Hi Greg Glad you like the old banger poem. I wrote it in memory of my grandfather who didn't get his first car until he was about 70! At the back of my mind I'd also like to do another one about this clapped-out old 2CV my wife and I had back in the 70s when we we met up in France. Unfortunately, it's just a vague idea and so far nothing has ever come together.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Beulah, I would like to join but I am not very good at joining things, I dropped out of face book a while ago after I found my details published on Google as a result. Thank you for your kind blog though ;-))luv TC XX

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Hello Annipoo.. reminds me of St Just and Sennan Cove, we used to take the kids there many moons ago, we were broke but happy then ;-)TC X.....
PS I have the Zen Book now ha ha...

Comment is about Cornish Holiday (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Steve. A big Welcome to WOL. Looking forward to more contributions. Winston

Comment is about Steve Nash (poet profile)

Original item by Steve Nash

As so it goes.. the pain of human relationship's and exsistence on this plane... well scripted in this poem.
TC

Comment is about One of Us Was Right to Leave (blog)

Original item by Tom

Short but dark Kathryn, with a sad antomsphere too.... I liked the line 'In Cimmerian shade' even though I had to look it up ;-)TC X

Comment is about Farewell. (blog)

I read your sestina via the link. Great stuff. Inspired me to post one too. Dave

Comment is about The Syllable Sestina (blog)

Original item by Andy Sewina aka Danny A Wise

There should be no apology with this - great one to post on Valentine's day! Why bother with hearts and flowers when you can have a good hard shag? lol :-)

Comment is about Carnality. ( apologies to those i may offend ) (blog)

Thank you for your witty comment , I
also watch birds by the way.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Excellent stuff! :-)

Comment is about Upon The Quality Of Love (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Buggers indeed! I like that you let it go and look to the positive though, and enjoyed following the shift and progression of your feelings though this poem.

Comment is about Feelings on my car being broken into (blog)

Original item by Dave Bradley

I know just what you mean about quality control. I think that every time I open my mouth, let alone what I've put in writing. Your 'One of Us Was Right to Leave' feels like it very much comes from the heart and is very powerful.

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

Original item by Tom

Hi - a great poem - cats can definitely love. when our 18 yr black devon rex slowly but painlessly died a year ago & he looked into your eyes, there was an exchange "of some sort" going on

Comment is about Gemma (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Gedowta here!

Comment is about Cornish Holiday (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Why can't my cat be like yours? He's a psycho, and only loves me when he wants feeding :-) Maybe he'll have chilled out by 18 years old though (he's only 2 and a bit).

I love the way the lines 'Slender as a sliver of paper' and 'Light as a leaf in autumn' trip off the tongue.

Comment is about Gemma (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Wow Cynthia! I was just eating strawberries and cream when I read this, had to put my bowl down :-)

I think 'cunt' fits in perfectly. It's used in the right context for the poem and anyway, what else is there that can be both sexy and sexually assertive as this poem is? 'Front bum'? 'Twopence'? 'Quim'? Haha - I think not.

I like to see any writer taking a risk with language or imagery because like Isobel says, when someone does do something that shakes things up a bit, you do have to applaud them for their bravery.

Comment is about Vanilla Sex (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Hi there Ann, thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my poem,I'm totally new to the site and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, I just keep flipping about from page to page reading - is that the jist of it? I love 'where can I find a man who can dance?' I can picture the opals and the graceful swooping and closeness...I can also picture the swarfega men, I own one myself and he's not a fan of dancing :-) x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Hi Cynthia Thanks again for the comments. We used to spend all the long summer holidays on my grandfather's farm in Ireland. I use to love going up in the hay and spent hours up there reading. I just wish I had the time to do some now!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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This is very good. I found a little confusion in the centre following the use of the period after '....breath'. I tried to pick up the flow of meaning again, and found it veered into other reflections which is fine, just a bit jammed perhaps. Maybe a break of stanza would assist the separation of natural causes and people causes. The last seven lines are an excellent closure.

Comment is about Death Comes To Fleetwood (blog)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

The ending is exceptional.

Comment is about Gemma (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

This made my memories of cornwall tangible again - our little getaway in porthtowan.

Good control of images the beautiful, the kitsch and the sense of a spiritual home, a sweet indulgence for sure.

Did you get the book?

Comment is about Cornish Holiday (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

"Was she tied up an gagging for it at the time?"

- you really do have a one-track mind..... = a perfect woman :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Ann Will do, although it's a bit of a slow process at the moment. Still, until recently I hadn't done anything for twenty years and just had all the old stuff lying in a drawer. I need to stop working!

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Cheers Rach,re 'woodsboy'-inspired by two of my 'clambering grandys'
regards to you and your 'littlies'-Stefanoxx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

Original item by Rachel McGladdery

Hi again! I hope you'll let me know when your book comes out. I'd like to buy a copy (well, that's one sold anyway!)

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

Original item by David Cooke

Hi John, thanks for looking at and commenting on my 'Metal Tiger Roars in' poem, and from a different angle too.
Although i don't take kindly to abrupt, harsh critique, i do appreciate and value the considered approach and comment on the structure and technical merits. I've only very recently started to practice with meter based on Stephen Fry's book i have to add. Most of my poetry is written after quiet meditation so i feel it is more spiritually guided. Even that appears flawed because the human element naturally takes over when writing the piece.

I see what you mean about the ending of the poem. I believe that even a tiger would have some vulnerability when injured, literally or in the metaphorical sense. :-)

Thanks again, I needed a comment like yours to spur me on. I worked hard on it and it's the longest piece i've ever written so good to know it didn't go lame.

Janet.x
ps. I like your bio, i can relate to some of it.

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