HI Peter, wow, this is different from what I read most of the time from you, is this really you? Im sure I would not know this side of you ever. How is Rose? I remember a rose, and a friend, that all seems so long ago faded into dusty dreams almost forgotten. nice poem

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Oh and the Baby is beautiful ! Is that a granddaughter? You dont look like you could have kids old enough to have kids yet.

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HI Carol, this is a very nice poem about us poor females havin babys, I had 3 and never want to have any ever again, knock me out cut me open and get it over with. I tried the "natural way" did not work for me, nothing like being in pain for 24 or more hours with nothing to help, you can say walking and showers,breathing and the like help, but to me it was a load of bull.Sorry Ill recomend drugs to any poor female in labor. Love the pic, your little dog is wonderful!

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HI Peter, This is very nice, I felt like a baby for a time and could feel it all and see it, just as you have written. Im so glad others enjoy bringing babys into the world, I have had friends ask me to be coach etc, and the thought makes my tummy flip, its really to personal of a time, and I have zero desire to be a part of it. I know people think that strange of me as I have had three kids, but I assure you had I been able to remove all from the room I would have, Hahaha Infact I did order people out of the room, with a YELL, get out freak and take your camera with you! now I look back and feel bad for yelling at them, but for me that time is personal and not a party.take care and enjoyed the poem Clarissa

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Hi Carol~ Loved the cute picture too!!

Beautiful baby...Is that Pete when a babe?

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Beautiful Dedication to Pete!!
Thank you for sharing....Zuzanna

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Hello Melissa~ Excellent write. Creative - filled with a lot of metamorphosis. Makes the poem stands out. The expression like running in your garden of life and did not find the center yet. Like a labyrinth you are feeling sort of lost there. But it all makes perfect sense when the reader follows your thoughts. GREAT JOB!!
Thank you…Zuzanna

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HI Melissa, this is such a nice poem. Do any of us really know ourselves,or where we are going? I really enjoyed this poem and felt a connection to it. thanks Clarissa

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Hello Lauretta

Strongly expressed frustration in a word form. You have a talent to show the reality in this world of craziness...The picture worth thousand words too.!

Admire your imagination and creativity.
Thank you...Zuzanna

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Pete, this is your best I have read so far!
Beautifully written. Almost with tiny details of the new born arriving and yes you spoke his/her feelings of the experience seeing the new World behind the Wall.

SUPERB WRITE!!!

Enjoyed the entire poem.
Thank you....Zuzanna

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Lovely poem. Pete. Thanks

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Check out Luke Wright of Aisle 16, he has a long running campaign to be next poet laureate, don't know what impression he's creating at Bucks House but his reviews are good. I always thought Tony Harrison should get it but I'd settle for RM.

Dave

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Its good to the start the day with a smile.
And this made me smile. A lovely thoughtful poem Pete.
I'm sure we do hold a memory of our birth.

The midwive's aura is a mix of hope fear and love. I hope to be at the birth of my fourth grandchild in May, I have fear because I want everything to be fine and I love the unborn child already.

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I love this and really really wish I could have written it, its got the lot.

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Original item by Elvis McGonagall

this is great stuff.

I really love this part of 'in sleep'

On grubby skin
A bedpost leg
A rotten peg
A spring un-sprung
A mattress wrong
A sheet undone
A little one


when I read this selection of poems I was quickly taken in had to read all.

as Julien says, very tightly written, tricky thing to do.

original and bitter sweet
I see the influence of being a mid-wife, how this must open your eyes and spirit to sometimes the tragedy but more importantly the fantastic things in life

I think that a career as a mid wife must give you such a huge platform of experiences from which to draw some very emotionally writing.

I find myself intrigued and I don't know why, and I find that intriguing in itself.

I feel strange as I spent a while on a photo assignment in Billinge Maternity Hospital, and more recently Southport. I think I found the room in which I was born. The very first view, the very first wall upon which I gazed.

you have inspired me to go write a poem.
I have the urge and its always the emotion that drives me.

Your collection of poetry is inspiring.

thanks

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Chloe Poems said:

"This book of young people's verse will have your sprogs agog with humour both cheeky and endearing. The right side of risky and just a little frisky 'We Are Poets!' promises mirth and learning from the offset."

Pat Longmuir said:

I got my copy in the post this morning and have hardly stopped smiling since. I've read it from cover to cover and love it!"

A Year 1 pupil from Holy Spirit School, Netherton said:
"I love your poems so much, I think you deserve a treat!"

And Ms Thomas said: Thanks for including my book in your news section - it's greatly appreciated which I hope you know already! Thank you.

You can also preview some of the poems at: www.creativewomensnetwork.co.uk/CWNWeArePoets.htm

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this is a lovely poem thanks Pete

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I liked this poem, it was fun

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Original item by Phil Golding

Pete - you do this very,very well. The emotion and feeling is palpable (is that a word?). I've just listened to your poem 'jealousy' on your CD and marvelled at its delivery. Is there a hint of Gel 0 C in this one?

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Im not saying its wrong to have a book, just dont shove the cover in my face, ill find it my own way
thats what I meant

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Hello Malpoet

Beautifully written Tribute poem to a sport hero.

To bad that the good ones die young.

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Hello Philip

I enjoyed reading your beautiful writings. All the poems are excellent! I regret we do not have the opportunity to hear the writer to read his/her poems on the stage… Most of these performances take place in Toronto or the cities near Cosmopolitan Toronto. Reading loud it is a great pleasure for the Author as well as for the Audience. Then you can also hear others read their work, which must be fabulous experience. Your romantic writes are the best; you know how to use humorous lines that catch the audience attention.
Thank you for reading my ‘Sentiments.’ I appreciate your comment.

Hope you had beautiful Valentine's Day...Zuzanna

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Phil, your words make me smile everytime
great poem, romance has to be funny, or its not worth it

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Original item by Phil Golding

You should write more often Dave. I enjoyed reading about your Long Good Friday.

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Original item by Dave Morgan

Thanks Julian
Where's the Wirral ode show poets?

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Hello My Gorgeous Abi,
Happy Valentines Day my darling - how are you? I miss you lots and lots and hope to see your beuatiful smile in the flesh very soon.
Love you my honey.
xxxxx

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oops think that should read 20th - ah well Jim's a God of any century - interesting fact for you - do you know that they 'The Doors' got their name from a William Blake poem. ooh and I forgot to say The Poet and His Muse is absolutely beautiful - well done.
xxx

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Carol, fantastic poetry. 'Unplanned. is very moving, tightly written, spare and compassionate.
'I found you' is almost a Haiku in encompassing so much detail in so few syllables.
If you are Wirrall based you might consider reading your stuff out loud at the wirrall Ode Show Poets. I am sure they would love to hear such lovely verse.
Julian

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Enjoyed this poem Phil and also your performance at the Contact. Lovely.

Mel
x

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Original item by Phil Golding

Bel
I love this poem. It grabs you from the first line, the internal rhyme is delightful. A wonderful poem.

Mel
xx

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I am completely with you on that Dave. The long history of the Christian Brothers child abuse is a matter that I have addressed elsewhere. I am an atheist so I do not agree with any religion, but religion is not the whole of the problem either. The government of Sudan is a criminal regime which is engaged in genocidal murder in Darfur as well as many other atrocities. Although it makes claim to be an Islamic government, its real motives are much more complex than religious ones.

I am concerned that some people are reluctant to express criticism of terrible behaviour for fear of being thought 'Islamophobic' or racist. I am not racist nor am I opposed to Islam any more than any other religion.

Yeah, I am for rationalism and an end to religion, but I will rant rather than pray :-)

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Hello Lauretta

I must say, you did fantastic job on this write!!
BRAVO!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!
From Zuzanna

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Hello Belinda

Beautifully expressed love for your Papa. I like the Tribute. It is just on time for a Valentine's Day!! Thank you for sharing!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Zuzanna

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Hi Malpoet

Beautiful poem about flowers and Nature.Miss the warm summer days. Your poem warmed my heart.
Happy Valentine's Day!!
Thank you....Zuzanna

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HI, Philip

You are amazing with your creativity for the Valentine's Day!!
Great poem and lots of pictures to envision in your write. At times love is a strange thing.

Enjoyed reading your creative write!

Happy Valentine's ...Zuzanna

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Original item by Phil Golding

"Stuck Unsaid" is a new favourite which I've bookmarked. If ever you get yourself over to perth, Western Australia - I run a monthly Poetry event in the City and would love to have your perform your work!
I like your style!

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I absolutely agree with Louise (above)!
Good stuff: this poem's like a good short film script - succinct with plotpoints 1, 2, 3 and a powerful punchline.

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sorry for typographical error.the word 'soul' is what i wanted not 'solu'.read on hey!

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too many solu seekers in the world today.talking of heaven and hell with so much conviction that one would be forgiven for thinking that they have been there already.the poem's universality is striking!i live and work in zimbabwe.am a zimbabwean who has been harangued also by these holier than thou people.this poem reminds me of this woman who tried to convert my dad to her christianity when he was on his death bed and could hardly comprehend the warped questioning that he was subjected to.spare me!

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The photo is of me :

a) taking on half a pound of cherry tomatoes single handed and showing them who's boss?
b) discussing Wittgensteinian dialectics with half a pound of cherry tomatoes?
c) Asking half a pound of cherry tomatoes how they'd like to be dressed?

Answers on a post card etc

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Needs saying Mal well done, of course Islam is not alone in providing fundamentalist zealots the power to rule by intimidation and superstition. I had a fair amount of that from the Christian Brothers. Let's all pray for an end to religion.

Dave

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Original item by Malpoet

I guess Sophie I am a believer in the spirtual although I am not sure I believe in a conventional God I think any God would be very much beyond the conventional and may well see beyond Good and evil or positive and negative as I like to call them as the God that I believe knows our actions and why even we didn't them (causality).

But ultimately this poem was meant as a kind of text poem for people who find hope and meaning in the everyday books lyrics in songs etc and make their own way in the world and their own philopsophy!

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Thanks Moxy, I just saw this and have done a bit of adding and editing, You saw it too soon.
Love back from your sister

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Hi there, Carol. These are terrific.
Love from your sister,

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HI, Daniel

Yes you can find answer to each of these questions. Your poem is deep and has a spiritual tone in it!

"Can you find hope in times of madness?
to bring you through your despair
can you find strength and guidance
in the books over there
can you find faith
in actions good works and deeds done"

There is always a solution to each problem. Your poem shines. Very profound and thought provoking...Thank you for sharing...Zuzanna

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Original item by Daniel Hooks

HI Daniel,This is very nice! Yes I can see,Things are getting bad in this world and it seems it will get worse. But Faith in God will see us all through this.

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Richard,
I love what you wrote on Zuzannas profile about the Doors, I think Jim Morrisons is certainly one of the best poet and songwriters of the 21st century - good to have some one who recognises such talent - good luck with your work - I look forward to reading more of your poetry.
xxxxx

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Richard,

The poem you created it's interesting. Just to write something out of a comment...That's very clever! It brought a smile on my face reading this...Zuzanna

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Original item by Richard Brooks

Hello Richard

I have found your writings interesting and diverse.Your ideas to create a poem comes from different life experiences. At times perhaps observing people... Etc... This is great point as it gives the reader a choice to learn something new from each of your poems. You have way with words which is great gift! Keep up the great work!

Thank you for the comment you recently left on my latest write. The poem is based on my own life experience. Great Intuition !!
Thank you ...Zuzanna

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your welcome! its come out of a joke between mates, he worked at a casi and the cleaner would walk around saying "look at that floor" in a high pitched, irish accent!

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