Hi Thomas - welcome to WOL. I think we all (unless we're super-bigheaded, not many poets like that surely!) have doubts re quality control! But I really think that if Pull Apart The Perfect Nest is the sound of your voice, then you are a poet! It's very good and very moving. And it's very original the way you've used images from nature, with moss and twigs and feathers, to describe this sad tearing apart of two people and their home and their hopes for the future.
I find that if you want some feedback, people usually read the blogg poems. Hopefully many also read the profiles, but there are so many poets on the site that you could get missed. So don't be shy, blogg away!
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<Deleted User> (7073)
Mon 14th Dec 2009 17:04
Thanks for the blog on the Sentinel, you can delete this after if you like ;-))
Love TC XX
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<Deleted User> (7073)
Mon 14th Dec 2009 16:38
What Issy says is true Annipoo... foxglove ;-)) there is many a red eye scanning here not logged in ;-)) Keep your heart on your sleeve though ;-))
Love TC X
Comment is about 1 user on line (blog)
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Hi Isobella, yes I enjoyed MCing at Wigan for the most part ... though I did sense there was some sniping in the wings, a little coldness of heart and meanness of spirit, which left me feeling saddened towards the end. Hope you are feeling better soon! You're welcome at the Bards anytime. PS someone told me Darren had put up a review but I never got to see it, as it was, as you say, taken down quite quickly.
Just why it was removed so quickly, I don't know. Though I could hazard a theory!
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thanks johnny, your more than welcome to a hit :)
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well man sori bout not replying earlier, i went to the hospital and left the computer on. howya?
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Hello again Ann,
I agree with the "on the bus" and anywhere anytime inspirations too. both "Copse" observed from the motorway and "From a train" etc are testament to this.
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you are sometimes too clever for your own good, jeff but nice one
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jeff - i know two people who has said you are silently but deadly in a different way - lol.. nice one otherwise!
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interesting stuff, kealan... would like to see you attempt to do that live..
Comment is about Biography of a Backward Man. (blog)
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Although insomnia is a devil if you've got to get up to work in the morning, I find many of my best ideas arrive in the quiet hours.
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Nice One Kealan. Interesting idea, I'll have some of what you're smoking :-)
John
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Hi Steve. Thought you did a great job at the Tudor last week. Darren did a lovely review in blog format but for some reason removed it quite quickly so you probably never got to read it.
Hope to see you soon - not sure if I can make the Bards - no-one to go with and a bit under the weather at the moment.
Queen Isobel xx
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Thanks man i wrote 'at least we tried' when i was about 15, some of my worst work but i thought i'd just put it up anyway because it was harrassing me.
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this is a clever piece Jeff, short and sweet.
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I think very many of us could identify with this one Anne. Haven't got round to getting any sleeping tablets yet - mainly cos I haven't got time to go to the GPs - I tend to wait until I have a few ailments and then blitz him with a package. Don't be fooled by that users on line box though. For every one user on line, there are probably another 20 not logged in.
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Had another looka at this one and really like the structure. It made an impact without feeling 'forced' maybe it could be taken further or condensed into a 3 liner. I may have a go. The only weak link in this chain (and it does seem like a chain to me) is the line sounded bells. though I am stuck for something better. Is this a well known format? not seen it before Win x
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Hi Ann - I'd endorse Greg and Christine's comments. Insomnia is a bugger, and this electronic universe we inhabit is a strange one - well done for being so open about it. The GP's given me some Zopiclone which works and has no side effects but I try to take it as little as possible. Take care
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Vivid. Lovely. Enough to make you start breaking into zoos!
Comment is about Camel and I (blog)
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Don't feel guilty about your internet addiction, Ann - in case you do - we've all got it to a greater or lesser extent. And if you weren't online so much we wouldn't have such a sprinkling of wonderful poems from you. This one encapsulates something we all recognise. Keep them coming! Greg
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Forgot to say when commenting on the lovely drawing that I like the poem too (the one with the camel). The well is at Madron in Cornwall, though the poem was inspired by Alsia Well, my fave well, but didn't have a picture. But I love all wells.
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This is a tantalisingly beautiful poem. Mesmeric (if there is such a word).
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steve mellor
Mon 14th Dec 2009 09:07
Hi Ann
Now why did I have a bet with myself that you'd be the first to comment.
I just fancied an antidote to the usual claptrap about Xmas
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Nope! Still up. Sounds like I might have got more than you though - I didn't get up 'til 4!
Cx
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Myabe only one use on line - but not the only insomniac on WOL .... hope you get some sleep.
Cx
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Whatever the stance I think she got a hole in one Gus.
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<Deleted User> (7164)
Sun 13th Dec 2009 22:42
Powerful and very potent and so very well written Debs.
Starlight.x
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<Deleted User> (6576)
Sun 13th Dec 2009 22:26
....Dont ya think she shoulda da had her right thumb over her left showing her V pointin to her shoulder ... swing back slowly... an follow thru... then shewoulda had him good an proper...
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Who would have imagined that 2 poems could be posted on camels in one day? No humping going on in this one though eh Jane? The poem takes you into the imaginary world of children well - a magical tale with a lovely ending. That is what Christmas is all about. x
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Wonderful, wonderful piece of writing... XXXX
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You are so right cate... but suddenly I realised I was only 12 and what do boys do... sorry... love Christmas really ..
just don't like all the sticky sweetness ..
Thanks again
Gusxx
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...I am not worthy... this is just so wonderful.. you always amaze me with your words I could live and die within them ... just beautiful...
Gus xx
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Have a lovely Christmas Sian. It is a wonderful time to be unrestrainedly sentimental and I praise you for it. Graham
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Hi Emma - thanks for printing your poem - it will do there. For future reference, all you have to do is go back to your original blogged poem, edit it and put WOLOP.nov or whatever month we are on, in the tag section, then press update. Your poem was nominated by another poet - I just collect the emails from people and publish the results - it was a good poem though. Hopefully you may like to get involved on the voting side next month - I am trying to drum up support. All you have to do is let me know your favourite December poem by 6th Jan. My email is farmoorgirl@yahoo.co.uk. I will send a reminder out on blogs beforehand though. Merry Christmas. x
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Hi Isobel, I posted the HUMAN poem for you to see. Thank you for nominating it in to the competition! please let me know if i posted it in the right place for you. take care. em.
Comment is about WOLOP for November (blog)
Original item by Isobel
HUMAN-3
Feelings piercing skin
Tensing bone
Nothing stored for yourself
control stolen, hope lost
the 5am struggle to sleep
Not a speck of time
to breath
Head space packed and swelling:
abusive ideas with heavy fists
bashing fragile flesh and tender mind
damaging and destroying
assembling self doubt
feeding insecurity
starving souls
Struggling to like yourself,
lie to yourself
and paint the world positive
cope with the shape of existence
cringing at lifes texture
And dreading!
the colour of tomorrow
Desperately Seeking logic
in rubble of feelings
miss-spelling life as 'shit'
searching and searching
for hope
rawness, tenderness on skin
pores constrict, hairs curl up
pain laqueres skins surface
expecting, anticipating
injury
until you are a shaking tiny ball
defenses finely tuned
and you sleep and dream
and hope and pray
not to wake
Comment is about WOLOP for November (blog)
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Hi Isobel! I just got your message about a poem I wrote called HUMAN. do you want me to enter it for a competition. wow! it brilliant that its thought so highly of. let me know asap. sorry im late getting back to you. my internet access isnt regular.Take care. em
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Many thanks, Cate, I am glad you enjoyed Camel and I. My children are grown up so I am resorting to my niece to read it to. My daughters friend, Grace, has produced a few illustrations for me. Your comments are always vaued. Best, Jane
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Thanks for reading Camel and I, Ann. My daughters best friend, Grace, does me the pics for my poems. I love them, too. I enjoyed reading Sacred Well recently and wondered if it was Mother Shiptons cave, Naresborough.
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Pics for my poems are courtesy of my daughters best friend, Grace. Thanks for the commentand taking the time to have a look
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I love the little picture - did you do it?
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What a magical tale told from a child`s point of view. The repetition gives the feel of travel and movement, and there is some lovely imagery in here.
Cate xx
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I know that look.... my mum practised it on me, and I practised it on my children!
Cate xx
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kealan coady
Mon 14th Dec 2009 17:47
Thanks for your comment man. The crazy thing is he is actually experiencing life like that. It's actually not backwards he just does things in the opposite way of everybody else. eg. He was divorced three times because he was'nt truly in love ,then he found (real) love. He was a doctor first because he didnt have the grades good enough to go to college so he self taught. Hence doctor first.He died before making his masterpiece is implying that people only get really famous after they die. And he created a cult but never went to mass is him rejecting the church and choosing to take his own spiritual path. Etc.....
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