I like it , it's cute, your son is lucky to have such encouragement.
Maybe 'Elly the Tiny traveller'??
TC X

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you care too much. look to your own. now. That is true non-p.c.

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Thanks for your amusing comments ;-on RHRH ha ha, I was thinking of 'white hot' maybe I should have put it in there..... (just did thanks);-))I haven't seen that documentry thank goodness lolLuv TC XX

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sniff the coke!!

Comment is about BRAIN SPLEEN (blog)

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if stars were awarded this is a five star-where I would pleasant abide awhile.

Comment is about Today (blog)

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milton loves you too. and yea satire and but truth; requiem and historical record; and the tongue is somewhat in the cheek.

take it to the churches let them sing--hallelujah the bible holders; take it to the rapper, let them wrap it in dollars; take it to a registry let them register the rhythm, the drum beat of the funeral maarch. But let us not cry, for to cry would be to profane.
beautifully done.

i am being so 'blessed' today reading all you poets, you artists that know.

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Comment is about Paul Wright at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale May 2009 (photo)

where are your poems?

Comment is about Paul Wright at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale May 2009 (photo)

this is art. More my style- basic simple This is visual and perfected in the mode of delivery..painting after painting
The artist is poet scribe, painter, sculptor and you have done it. the pleasure is ours.

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Original item by Paul Conneally

probably not. nicely titled and a man thing I so dare to add.

Comment is about Lots of Thoughts to Think About, but Probably Not. I'm Tired, Not Deep. (blog)

didn't know vampires had love for anyone. This is a must read re-read.

Comment is about The lovesong of a lonely vampire (blog)

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thank you very much for your kind words.

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Merci, merci, mercy!

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This is marvellous. There are so many superb lines I'm not going to pick and choose. You have a gifted touch.

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Hey, Girl, just plain bloomin' brilliant. 'and strangers that hurt like mirrors' is an outstanding example of many such.

Comment is about Prelude (blog)

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This is good. Which 'she' is it - the wife or the child's mother?

Comment is about What I Share With A Screaming Toddler. (blog)

Hi Nick
Thank you for your lovely comment on my poem. So glad you liked it. Sorry so late replying I don't go on my site very much. Hope I get to hear you read.

Lynda x

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I will check the library on Monday for the novel you recommend.
One winter while visiting my sister in Canada I got completely snowed in for three days. She had a 'heritage' Bible from the late 1800's, a tome so big I had to spread it on a table to read. But I amused myself by reading completely through Paul's contributions to the canon. It was one of the happiest three days of my life; I was mesmerised once more, and privileged to stay with my reading for hours, immersion in 'his' words and philosophy. I never use the word 'doctrine' anymore. The fine aspects of Paul far outweigh the nonsense, although he has much to answer for in strait-jacketing Christian concepts about men and women. Well, hardly more than St. Augustine who really did a number with 'original sin'.

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Oy Oy, I'll attempt to fuse our words for the mail poem

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I find the stories that lead into poems very intersting in thier own way, I can picture you at the bar on this one, I understand how that spark sets off the poem, I get it a lot with TV ads. What tends to happen is i will just write the whole lot as a blurb in one go, not making any efforts to make it look like a poem, but as I write it tends to form its own rant poem. This way when you come back to perform it you have a pure image of your thoughts. I often wonder if anyone else does the same. Do you think that if you have to take time to arrange the ideas into a classical arrangement its harder to do?

I like the pure/obscene coupling! and the circumstances surrounding the poem make for intersting reading, wanting to know what happens next, where, how , why
with your career in the force you must have some huge stories to draw from, ones that involve th epublic and therefore are gonna lend themselves to a huge audience.

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There is plenty of ego driven badness out there, but there is good too, as janet says. The news is rigged to frighten us into giving away what little freedom we have left. Powerfully written stuff though, would be easier to read if you split it up as Chris suggeste.TC

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Wow!!.... listening to it, makes it sound almost worth the price...
Luv TC XX

Comment is about The lovesong of a lonely vampire (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Mike, never less than intense, moving and troubling, addressing the immediate human tragedy of this earthquake seems to be stretching our capabilities to the limit, but it all seems a metaphor for something deeper and darker.

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Hey Star. Get a hat from the big hat shop in York. I think it would suit you. I like the poem about the Screaming Toddler it reminds me of when my kiddies were small.
Keep safe, Neil

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Hey Ann, Cool poem. I thought it had a real Victoian flavour. It was concise but enthralling. Well read, a favourite of mine.
I don't think you are being "thick" in any way re your comments and value you taking the trouble to read and post, thanks again, Neil

Comment is about The lovesong of a lonely vampire (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I have just found this too and it is lovely, full of longing and a sort of helplessness, that's how it seems to me anyway.

Comment is about His love for me is like the sea, As deep as it is wide (blog)

Original item by Louise Fazackerley

Moving and mysterious Marianne

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These are beautiful images, and it made me read Fern Hill again - not read since 6th form a million years ago. So thank you. I now have to go and look up what tanka are. So you are educating me as well as giving me pleasure.

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Hi Neil! I'm sure you don't have to re-think your Grief Voyeur poem, I was being a bit thick ;-)
I get it now! xx

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Hi Steve. Missed this posting of yours till tonight. these words in your opening

The word was ever,
to handle with care
the early fruit.
Apple blush;peach perfect;
unblemished,
soft-skinned,
easily bruised.

- are so similar to those at the start of my latest blog 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' (Have a look) yet maybe you put it better / diferently? a great emotive piece this. got a lotfrom it. Win x

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Cynthia... this changed my night.. thankyou. Great observations. Great child like observations and language. heart strings etc .It had everything for a poem of this type... i could go on. Win x Thanks for posting.

Comment is about Waiting for Mummy (blog)

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fat balls.

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'Sports day in a Paisley shirt' sorry a slightly strange comment thatbut this one sends me in so many directions. I once did a workshop exercise to sum up a poem in 6 words... that was my attempt on yours. Win x

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Hi Marriane

Another great offering. 'To brood floods' short line... butlisten to the sound of it and the shapes it makes . wonderful. Win x

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Hi Star Garter...
If i read this right the three repeated lines at the end each increase in volume (as a todler might be screaming). A nice idea and one that works in the context of the poem . If this site would allow maybe it could be posted up in an increasing size font each line? Win

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Hi Ann, Ta 4 the feedback on "Grieve Voyeur". I think the point I was making is that if you go from being a morbid spectator to a paid counsellor in order to fulfill a need to experience grief there comes a time when you are going to get rumbled. I am sorry you didn't pick this up.I will have to rethink the draft.
Kind Regards, Neil

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Im with the others on these replies.
I personally prefer to read this style of poetry where the author is 1st hand, rather than poetic exercises that try and be a way of proving a style or other, its all about the pure emotion for me, I think that you should write as much as you feel, I'm especially interested in 'front line' experiences like what you have written about here, i know that Mike (who replies on this thread) has seen front line action and I reccommend a browse thru the many blogs on here.

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thanks for commenting on 'a biting of words' - paul

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This does make you think. What was on the mother's mind? Mentioning her shoulder being funny - just the sort of thing a child would see and wonder (worry?) about.

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for sending "Perspective" to me.

I enjoyed it very much, in its themes and in its writing, and of course the use of the phrase "through a glass darkly". How right to bring to the fore the fact that we can have but imperfect vision and understanding.

Paul is so quotable. I loved what he said about fighting the good fight and running the race to the finish.

If you haven't already read it, I recommend the novel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbary. It's about some of the very things your poem touches upon ... being considered an outsider, scholarship, humility. It's a lovely, philosphical and humane story.

Very best wishes,

Steve R

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Just to say, there are many bereavement councillors (CRUSE for example - not sure of the letters) who do this for no fee, as they are a charity. I am sure that they are all people who have suffered a great loss of someone close. So I hope you are excluding people like that in your intro. I am sure there are people like the one you describe. It seems to be a part of human nature, to be thankful that someone else has got fate's bucketload of shit poured over their heads, sad to say.

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Hello Cynthia and many thanks for your kind comments about "Mole".
I used funereal gauze as trees in mist/fog always remind me of being under burial shrouds.
I used nauseous because the oppressive silence when one stands in a snowscape can be really debilitating. Funiily enough I didn't reckon on their rhyme value, Regards, Graham

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perfect - what else can I say?
banksy

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Cheers Tommy for the post. Much appreciated. Take care.
Regards Neil

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Hi Niel, what gives for me a saver in the poem is the line: 'All the other counsellors avoided Janet like the plague' allowing us, with them (the other counsellors) to distance our-selves from the voyeuristic.

Tommy

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Original item by Nells

Hi There Anne, Thankyou for taking the time to read my piece 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' and for your kind comments. This piece was removed by accident and is now back again. It may or may not have had the audio when you last visited. Win x

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The fact that this poem contains my name made me read it.
In my experience, most bereavement counsellors have suffered tragic loss themselves. It might not always be the case but like minded (people who've shared similar experience) are often the best to talk to in these circumstances.

I thought about doing a counselling course myself as my friends seem to think i'd be great at it. I think i'd become too personally involved though, therefore taking work home with me. Maybe i'm not unlike the Janet in your poem after all.
Have to say it wouldn't be for money though unless it became a full time job.

Enjoyed this, it made me think how some people perceive an occupation as useful/helpful even and perhaps those who may never need it or simply cannot understand the need for it would think it's a rip off.

Janet.x

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Original item by Nells

Yeah man. I feel your pain. Larkin would have been proud.

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Original item by Tommy Carroll

Also terrific. How did I miss this last year? Thanks for reading and commenting on Waiting For Mummy.

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Original item by Louise Fazackerley

I like this one Cynthia. The complexity of adulthood with all its hidden mystery and misery, seen through a child's eye. Very cleverly done.

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