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Sophia
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Jun 29 2009, 10:38 AM EDT by
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I like this set of poems. They are well crafted and thought-provoking. Whatever happened to the new girl? What, indeed?
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Jun 29 2009, 10:38 AM EDT
I like these poems too. They say succinctly in verse more than you ever could in prose.
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Grand Union by Lubetkinsue
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Jun 27 2009, 1:59 AM EDT by
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Both poems are excellent. If forced to choose, I would have to say I prefer the second version. The use of the present tense makes it more immediate, almost tangible in its imagary. A hard poem to forget.
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If I must say something, then nothing will stop the chatter inside
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Feb 16 2009, 7:22 AM EST by
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Life is a seamless mile, unzipping with new words you couldnt have guessed existed a moment ago. Am startled by the Life.
An admirer. spilling with new secrets I cannot really tell till .......
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RE: If I must say something, then nothing will stop the chatter inside
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Feb 16 2009, 7:22 AM EST
"When I read your words 'life is a seamless mile', I thought of driving a fast car or travelling on a speeding train. It's an exhilarating experience, but one might get carried away! What will one see next on one's journey - a pile of litter, a scrapyard, a beautiful wood?" Oh it can be your slippers too, a bullock cart... even a smile... hadnt realised I'd written that - at 0 hrs in the morning, the heads a bit too lucid I guess ; but then, at the moment, life IS abreathless journey and all of the scrapyard and beautiful wood. How bang on that was am laughing and cant stop. Our home's been re located / our entire life.. and its beautiful silly sweet even awesome in bits. Know what Ive never settled in one real house for long, life happened at that pace. ( From early years in the Lighthouse Compound to now.. its priceless and hard to unravel / understand. So its this rollercoaster actually - Maybe we will all finally settle in, husband, our three lovely kids and dog and I - but I know that ' mile ' will still go on
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Yuko's latest
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Oct 29 2007, 3:52 AM EDT by
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Wonderful poems Yuko. There's so much passion in the imagery. I think anybody who wants to know about the power of images should read your poems, never comfortable, but with a wild humour in there too...
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Oct 29 2007, 3:52 AM EDT
Thank you for your comment, Sue. I came back from Japan last week and I'm trying to adjust myself to the English weather. Hope to see you soon.
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Oct 13 2007, 10:38 AM EDT by
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Lovely to see all your wining and commissioned work here Dick, why don't we try and get the BBC film on here too... if you have a DVD I'm certain I could make it happen... would be fab!
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Photographs
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Jul 31 2007, 7:10 AM EDT by
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Loved the orange poets! I seem to have given myself the user name poetryid, not sure how that happened-kimx
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David's poems
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Jul 31 2007, 7:01 AM EDT by
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Enjoyed both of these poems. I particularly liked the feeling of moving through the landscape, you manage to convey in 'Chasing Sunsets' and the concurrent sense of moving through life towards another ending- every day being a journey of some sort. Beautiful photographs.
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poems
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Jul 27 2007, 1:48 PM EDT by
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The Las Vegas poem I particularly like for the quality of fairy-tale, which captures the pull of the place for I imagine most people who go there. The filmic nature of the second one is striking. I wonder if the first stanza which sets the scene could be sharpened a bit. In the second it all gets going.
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poems and pictures
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Jul 27 2007, 1:41 PM EDT by
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Great to read the poems and have the pictures too. More comments to follow.
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The Boilermakers
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Jul 14 2007, 7:23 AM EDT by
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I'm glad to see the 'Boilermakers' poem here. I liked it very much at the Hitchin Library reading, and now I can see better the interplay of the workers themselves, their creation and the passage of time.
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Jul 8 2007, 8:24 AM EDT by
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Welcome to your own page!
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new poems
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Jul 5 2007, 11:25 AM EDT by
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Great to see your poems here! Love the one "Rose", particularly.
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Cornish Scene
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Jul 3 2007, 8:12 AM EDT by
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Cornish Scene is an additional reason to visit Cornwall! I will look for Richard Tuff's gallery when I go there soon.
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Jul 3 2007, 8:12 AM EDT
Thank you Dennis,
I've always felt it was rather too long and over worked, but the idea remains, ( I think) ... that the feelings you get when you are stay with you for a long time
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Shakespear Country
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Jun 30 2007, 8:50 AM EDT by
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The first stanza is really intriguing and I love the feel of 'stitches' and 'thread'. I like this atmosphere of Shakespear country and what's more, it's good that you also mentioned the post office, train and bus.
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Jun 30 2007, 8:50 AM EDT
Thanks for your comment! I liked putting in those everyday things like the Post Office because they are really really important and must be defended at all costs!
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writer's block poems
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Jun 25 2007, 12:18 PM EDT by
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As In suspected, I should have called this workshop 57 Varieties of Angst...love the amazing variety in fact. Dennis, is your big G benign or not?
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Jun 25 2007, 12:18 PM EDT
Now that I have read Yuko's poem on the screen, I think I understand the terrible frustration and helplessness she is expressing.
Sue, I wasn't even thinking of personal qualities like benign or malign. More an awesome presence in the cosmos. I had Hopkins in mind when I wrote the lines, though he had his own beliefs.
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Jun 20 2007, 1:28 PM EDT by
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I'm hoping some of you out there have got contributions from when we did this workshop on 7th June.
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Bridge 73 Grand Union
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Jun 6 2007, 1:24 PM EDT by
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This is a splendid poem! The dirty urban landscape, the idyllic scene of the canal and the predatory heron all fit together in a strange way.
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I prefer...
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Jun 6 2007, 1:21 PM EDT by
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The second version... (although the font of the first is appealing to me for some reason) The opening line is much stronger, and builds atmosphere.... " the sky is turquoise": the assertion that something is going to happen, even if that's nothing.... I think you could loose "of clouds" because we know that's what it will be.
"eyeless railway shed" is brilliant. haunting. and the heron's question mark.... I really love that. A great poem Sue.
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Jun 6 2007, 1:21 PM EDT
wow thanks Charlotte.
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Jun 4 2007, 5:02 PM EDT by
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Dennis
Marvellous to see your page here at last!!
I love the lines...
The city repeats itself
for the thousandth time
It conjures up images of old ghosts and football chants to me... the city being alive ... almost repeating it's own name over and over.
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Jun 4 2007, 5:02 PM EDT
Maybe if you know Stevenage, Edinburgh makes sense to celebrate..I like the poem very much, conjuring up the sensation of travelling and yes an excitement I think.
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Links to the paintings
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Jun 4 2007, 4:52 PM EDT by
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Thank you for your poems, Dennis and Sue. I've just added the links to the painting in your poems but if you don't like the tiles to interfer with your poem, please let me know.
Dennis - I thought 'through association' is the tile of your poem but apologies if I misunderstood it.
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Jun 4 2007, 4:52 PM EDT
Yes I welcome your link to the painting and giving it its correct details, great to be able to look at the pictures and read the poems.
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