I wrote this poem over the Christmas period, whilst eating sprouts and turkey!! Eating all of that food made me think of Japan, it's food, culture and peace and coming home after such a long time away. All comments would be very welcome.

Love Belinda x

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Have a great new year Mr Wood! It's thinking about what will have happened by this time next year that is so exciting, and scary too. This time last year, I could not have predicted so many things that have happened. Mostly good things, whereas last year, it was one really bad thing. So fingers crossed! I approve of your positive poem!

Comment is about New Year (blog)

Original item by Brian Wood

I'm so disappointed that it's cloudy here. But I guess the moon is still up there, being new and blue and, actually, it's being partially eclipsed too!!!

Comment is about Blue Moon Tonight, People (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

I love this, what with my own penchant for lingerie and all. Have a lacy frothy pink scented new year.
Love
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about basque (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

I loved this Cynthia, there is something that is absolutely exquisite about it. It's so precise and beautiful. Loved "silly little pretty pink penis" and "hardly wetting the roseate head"
Happy New Year
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Prelude to a Music Lesson (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Man, that's dark dave. Bleak and dark, still, we are all just like every year around this time, hoping that things will once again change. Lets hope they do for this next decade, as the one we have just had i am glad to see the back of. Nice one Dave.

all the best for 2010

mike

Comment is about Having a shower after watching the news headlines (blog)

Original item by Dave Morgan

Ann-Well written-sounds like the best way to drown to me. Happy new year

Comment is about basque (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Just as well that Christmas comes but once a year. If music be the food of love...I'll have a crotchet sandwich, and make it snappy!

Thank you Cynthia, for showing how filth should really be written. : )

Seriously, though, you have emboldened me...I need to be less inhibited with my writing...I will need to take a leaf from your music book...so to speak.

Fine stuff!

Jx

Comment is about Prelude to a Music Lesson (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Masturbation set to music...
possibly 'Strictly Come Dancing

'What delightful piece superb!!!.

Well done Cynthia!

HNY!

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

pretty pink penis peeking through the hole in his pants. What a way to wave the year goodbye. HNY Cynthia.

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Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Good-bye 2009!

Comment is about Prelude to a Music Lesson (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

Black is black
I want my panties back

Thanks fer yer cheery banter,,, yes you are right size 18 is a bit Bridget...even 4 me.. poor Francine possibly size 4 ladies squeeze into very little these days ... so I am given to understand.

Happy New Year

Gusxx

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Original item by Isobel

Hey up Our John... me poem is laid in a bi lateral form insofar as it helps me perform ican quickly scan the page to breathe, pause, emphasis, burp..whatever.
However, thats not to say that your suggested edit is not an improvemnt ... because poem to page I think it is, but I would take my version to the open mike...I;ll read and record both versions an try an prove a point, in the New Year, little sense will come from until I have made a fool of myself at the bells.
Have a gud'yun, by the way hope yer bum is on the mend.

Gus

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Original item by John Aikman

I'm going on a Marianne splurge this coming week, to read all your November/December poems again.

One thing you might do for the new decade pf poetry is clear up 'its' meaning 'belonging to'. Just remember the 'it's' is a contraction of 'it is'. Your best must be the best. If you wish, I will point out any spelling errors I see, but only with your permission. Editting is easier now that the corrections don't catapult to the front every time.

Happy New Year. I think 2010 will be your poetry lift-off!

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Happy New Year, Tommy. I almost detect the glimmer of optimism lately.

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Original item by Tommy Carroll

interesting stuff, kealan... i think the use off you, you works well just before the end in particular.. good stuff!

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Original item by Kealan Coady

groove to this m8. good stuff!

Comment is about well (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

possibly a extra go too many for my liking here, marianne but i did enjoy this! x

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

One of your favourite pieces for me that I have read off us.. It really sings out to me - beauitful! Keep it up!

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Original item by Isobel

Hi Ann,
yes i changed. Trust me, it's only a google image. :-)

Happy new year.
Janet.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

kylie mynogue poem (short and beautiful)

Comment is about well (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

Thanks for the comment Isobel.
Love the new pic. Makes you look all young and innocent and yet....

Happy new year.
Janet.xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Ann, I have today decided that my new year resolution is to keep my toenails trimmed, and hopefully save my socks from being ripped to shreds so quickly. Not much of an ambition perhaps, and too much information maybe, but thanks for the inspiration anyway! Greg

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Original item by Ann Foxglove

Came back and read it several more times. Top Poem

Mike

x

Comment is about OASIS (blog)

Original item by Isobel

Amusing, yet cynical view...
Either she is an imposter, or the Prince a real toad ; )

Comment is about CINDERELLA (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Simply lovely : )

Comment is about well (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

yes it should have been win. I will change. thankyou for kind comments. x

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

nice and concise Tommy-love the pic! keep well Mr C.

Comment is about well (blog)

Original item by Tommy Carroll

So your wife spent up in the sales then...

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

Original item by Rodney Wood

cheers matey, appreciated...have to give any possible credit to an amazing artist tho!

Comment is about Secret Memories (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Do you mind the fact that everyone always assumes that the poems we write are based on ourselves? This is such a strong, personal poem, but you could have invented the scenario. I feel that I'd like to write a poem and leave it open as to whether it is based on me and my experiences. If you write a novel about a mass murderer, people don't assume you are a nmass murderer. Or is it that poetry is always a sort of truth? Don't know. lotsoflove ;-)
Ann, couldn't agree more with your comments above posted on Rachels blog entry... thats what poets do isn't it? If people assume you are writting from personal experience then thats a bit of a leap surely? Win

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

What a lovely thing to read whist I am surrounded by ice and freezing rain. Great flowing rhymes here too. Win

Comment is about Secret Memories (blog)

Original item by Christopher Dawson

Should it be 'epitaphs read'?

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

I am a shredded ribbon,
a suffering jet stream behind him,
a withering farcical lace stapled to my face
and it will not unveil
and it will not.

This particular section is so strong it stands as a poem on its own Marianne. Brilliant. Win

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

It's money Cinderella wants and moneyis another word for love, silence and the weight of the sun.Loved that last section which really grabbbed me with its powerful contrasts, closed things nicely Rodney. Win

Comment is about CINDERELLA (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Thank you John for your kind comment, Particularly glad we share an affection for the word Arse, it's a favourite of mine too. I say it quite a lot! x

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

Original item by John Darwin

Hi Mab , Welcome to WOL. Two very different poems inyour sample. Winston

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Thanks for your kind comment on Cinders. Sometimes it's good to play the bastard although for the record I've been happily married for 36 years.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Well, Mab, no-one seems to have made a comment, yet... Please allow me to be the first. x

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Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on my work. You're spot on as is chris co. I have left a comment on that will clarify what the army speak means. By the way, i like your work.

thanks once again.

Michael

x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

Hi Chris Co and Isobel, you're both absolutley spot on with your comments, and thanks for taking the time to read and understand. Here are the army speak words that you wanted to know;

CIVS = Civilians
DIVS = Divisions, in other words, a large collection of soldiers, a bit like many companies getting together and all forming a DIVISION
MP4 = Short Automatic Assault Weapon
SUNRAY = Officer Commanding or Commanding Officer (of a unit).
SITREP = Situation Report

Phillip Glass is a composer. If you want to check out a piece of work that he has done, try and go to YOU TUBE, and type in Hamburger Hill - Phillip Glass. Its a very inspiring piece that means a lot to many soldiers.

I can say, it really is frustrating being in civilian street, and yes, plagued by how you have been trained and conditioned. Thank you for taking the time once again.

Mike

xxx

Comment is about SITREP! (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

Great ! - hope you've got a big mirror.... and, on the subcheck of mirrors ......

Comment is about My Nagual is a Narwhal (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Awww - you're a sweetie - I've never been called beautiful before. This is one of the rare facial photos I'd bother to put up - am just not photogenic. In fact, I have to look that way cos my nose is crooked if I go the other! Glad you approve though and I hope you won't miss the ankles too much - they were never mine...xx

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

Original item by John Aikman

Am making this comment without reading what Chris wrote cos I don't want to be influenced. The over riding message for me was the despair and hoplessness of the old soldier with no meaningful purpose. When you are trained to kill, just what do you do when you retire? And how do you dismiss the hideous memories you must take round with you? There were several words I didn't understand (CIVS, DIVS - SUNRAY SITREP) I guess CIVS must be civilians - is divisionals another word for soldier? Also don't know who Philip Glass is. A glossery of words might be a good idea in poems like this - my general knowledge stinks.
Sometimes however - you just don't need to understand all the words. In this poem, the despair and bleakness cries out. A sad one Mike x

Comment is about SITREP! (blog)

Original item by Noetic-fret!

I think you are brilliant with words, tho I don't understand them all. But I do like this poem, and have read it a few times, it draws me back.

Comment is about Repeat to Fade (blog)

Original item by Marianne Daniels

Call me a wet blanket, but I like it when the fairy tale goes wrong. It's real life. (Mind you, who is this Cinderella lookalike who has commented before me?) Compelling final lines

Comment is about CINDERELLA (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Oooo - this smacks of a nasty divorce settlement poisoning your poetry. Not all women are the same Rodders... I'd settle for a handsome prince - so long as he wasn't after MY gold of course... Love the venom in this - though I shouldn't - it is very direct and cutting.

Comment is about CINDERELLA (blog)

Original item by Rodney Wood

Cor....lovely! I'll miss the ankles...but love the wry smile...and beautiful face.

: )

Jx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

Original item by Isobel

I really enjoyed the rolling theme throughout this one. Too many good lines just to pick out odd ones. Love it as a whole.

Janet.x

Comment is about My Nagual is a Narwhal (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Ahoy Dave,

Really like this!

Mingo.

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