<Deleted User> (18980)

Mon 16th Dec 2019 19:52

Quite profound Jason comparing oneself to others leads to feelings of superiority or inadequacy. Better to be in competition with yourself...bit like golf really.

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Jason Bayliss

Mon 16th Dec 2019 19:08

Absolutely beautiful Dorothy. Beautiful sentiment, beautiful words, just plain beautiful.

J. x

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Jason Bayliss

Mon 16th Dec 2019 19:06

Thanks Po and thanks Dorothy, I'm glad you liked it.

J. x

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Do.RoThy

Mon 16th Dec 2019 18:11

Indeed!!

Beautiful n truthful write!!?

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Do.RoThy

Mon 16th Dec 2019 18:09

Rhyme bender!!

Master stroke.....hehehe ?

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jeronth

Mon 16th Dec 2019 17:18

Taylor Crowshaw thank you for reading it?

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Joe Marcello

Mon 16th Dec 2019 17:16

Don, sorry I measure in Fahrenheit, but it's still good.
Joe

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Don Matthews

Mon 16th Dec 2019 13:27

We see a snowy Christmas
They come to us each year
Decorating Christmas cards
Bringing lotsa cheer

Thalia says a Chinaman
Has lots and going cheap
And sells to sucker Aussies
And we don't give a peep

?

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Do.RoThy

Mon 16th Dec 2019 13:04

Hey Thalia, tell Don to bring you to cancer from capricorn. Life here is chilly winter for we are on opposite hemispheres. Have you guys ever seen a snowy Christmas? Common pack your bags n experience it once this summer...oops winter...oops summer...oh these hemispheres are insane things to experience..... Hahaha!!! ?

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d.knape

Mon 16th Dec 2019 12:16

no finer music to be heard
than the beauty of delightful words.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 16th Dec 2019 11:30

I find the position of the SNP curious indeed. It seems that any part of the UK can use the word "Nationalist" in connection with politics
EXCEPT the English!

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Tom

Mon 16th Dec 2019 10:16

Just wanted to say thanks for all the comments and likes Don! Hope you're good.

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Don Matthews

Mon 16th Dec 2019 05:50

Thankyou for your clap, claps Po. Was very faint when it reached me but it made it under the lake.....

Wot lake's he talkin' about Eth?....

Go back to sleep luv....

?

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Don Matthews

Mon 16th Dec 2019 04:58

Eth?....

Yes luv....

Wot's going on 'ere?... outa body? .. OBE? Isn't that Order of the British Empire or something?

Go back to sleep luv....

Snore.......

?

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john short

Mon 16th Dec 2019 03:49

Yes, you bring it all back perfectly. Nostalgic, as you say. Sadly communication is cheap these days. Like an addiction.

John S

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Ruth O'Reilly

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:56

Don you have that special jar of poetry writing pixie dust we're all after. Janet keeps it safe and well hidden on the space ship.

Nigel I said 'Hello' to you in your dreams last night ....unfortunately I then zapped you with my special pen and now you don't remember!

Thank you Po I always enjoy your well informed comments. I have a Diploma in Dream Therapy, and during that course there was lectures on this theory that we die every night.

I'd also like think that a part of all us writers of poetry and thoughts are connected by a silver thread of consciousness... and I'm quite sure that we are!

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:41

44 degrees on Friday coming up, can you believe that? We are nowhere near fires in other states thankfully....

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John Coopey

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:38

Brian, MC, and Po - Many thanks for your thoughts, fellas.
My own political standpoint was complicated. I feel closest to the Lib Dem’s (SNP if I lived in Scotland) but voted Labour. A tactical vote to try to oust the local Conservative MP.

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:36

Eff?....

Yes luv....

Po says I die every night....

So?.....

Why do I wake up each morning then?.....

An' wot's this about a silver cord Eff?

It's that umblical thing you had danging from you when were born luv....

Oh?... you're a walking cyclopedia Eff........

?

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:25

Thankyou for bringing back these memories...

Sadly the art of letter writing has demised. Communication is now sent down the wire...

Or up (with this) in my case. Smell the scent of my fingertips Cynthia?.....

?

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Jeannot

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:22

Don,

I feel for you in Australia with the extreme weather and the fires.

Thanks,

Jeannot

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:16

I like it Jeannot...

We're having a 40 degree heatwave at present so a slice of your weather would have a nice cooling effect.

Santa's not gonna like it.....

?

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:11

I often walk on side-ways
Like sitting on them too
Which is why I'm upside down
Choogaloogaloo

I seem to see things different
On my side-ways seat
Looking down from where I sit
Are those two my feet?

They seem attached to me....

Ergo, they must....

?


(Excuse my humour Tommy. I'm upside down...but your verse prompted me....)

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 22:00

It's like the saying Po 'It's better to have tried and failed than never tried at all'....

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 21:54

This is good Lucas.....

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 21:52

Will he still bring Rudolph down to Australia with my present mummy?.....

I'm sure he's thawed out by now sweetie.....

The weatherman says we will be having a 40 degree heatwave ......

I'm sure he's installed the latest sleigh-conditioner sweetie. Santa's not silly.......

Mummy?

Yes sweetie......

Maybe Santa will bring Jennifer a new computer?.....

?

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 21:42

Like Po says Eric ' You are not the best person to judge your work...'

Post away.....

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 21:38

I do so like this Tom. But if it's just a 'rough dash' my mind boggles at what a 'revision' would be.....

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 21:32

I like it Tom....despite it being still young.

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Tom

Sun 15th Dec 2019 20:30

Thanks both. It was just a rough dash of a poem to celebrate ten years of posting. I'll try and revise it over the next few weeks. Thank you both for your inspiration and encouragement along the way. It is deeply appreciated and I hope I can return the favour occasionally. ?

And thank you Blackrose for the like x

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Chihinga Chakatali

Sun 15th Dec 2019 19:33

Thank you

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keith jeffries

Sun 15th Dec 2019 19:04

this poem has a remarkable honesty to it
Thanks
Keith

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 15th Dec 2019 18:21

Topical and tuneful as ever.
"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind" - and Corbyn's
Labour has lost its Momentum! All - Gone With The Wind" - while
Boris's Tories breeze in. Like Trump across the pond, it will be fascinating to watch how it goes and if they stay in tune with the
electorate's chosen theme....from northern "Family Favourites"!

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jennifer Malden

Sun 15th Dec 2019 17:22

Just to say if I haven't given any likes or comments to others' work, it's because my computer is behaving very badly. I'll either try to get it sorted or get another.

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<Deleted User> (23201)

Sun 15th Dec 2019 13:38

Thank you Vautaw for your kind welcome!

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d.knape

Sun 15th Dec 2019 12:28

It's bad to eat too much
but it's better to go to heaven
on a full stomach
it's a long trip.

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sun 15th Dec 2019 12:03

Two thirds of the public decided they could not vote for one party and one man. We might be fuckwits but we're not completely daft.

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Graham Sherwood

Sun 15th Dec 2019 11:20

I make these comments as a user of the site and not as an officer of it. I have been involved in WOL for many years and poets do come and go, for whatever reason they choose. The number who choose to leave outweigh those, (whom for whatever reason are expelled) by 1000/1. People/poets do outgrow the site, they feel that they have satisfied their requirements for feedback/critique and often join local clubs where the feedback is more immediate.
I too miss several poets who have decided to withdraw their entries and with whom I 'felt' a kindred connection. Indeed the job I have with the site was handed to me by an outgoing poet that I respected greatly.
Ergo, the site is what we make it, good, bad, humorous, serious, political, environmental, religious, atheistic, you name it.
All it asks is that we are all tolerant and respect one another and the wider conditions that the world imposes upon us with regard to the various 'isms' that are so prevalent today.

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John Coopey

Sun 15th Dec 2019 10:21

Too right, Kev. I thought they’d get in with a majority of 15-20.
The pity is the membership as it’s now constituted will replace one unelectable numpty with another unelectable numpty.
“When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?”

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kJ Walker

Sun 15th Dec 2019 09:46

The Tories ran a fantastic campaign, and the result was inevitable, though I didn't forsee the scale of their victory.
They relied on the stupidity of the British public, and it worked out a treat.
Just think how big future margins may be once they start taking money out of education.
We're becoming a nation of fuckwits, and that's exactly what they want.

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John Coopey

Sun 15th Dec 2019 09:15

Not sure about a “poet’s rebellion”, Po. I once went to an evening of “Subversive Verse”. It was the most mainstream, conformist, left-wing tosh you’d come across in a long day’s march.
But a party? Now you’re talking. Will there be scones?

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Don Matthews

Sun 15th Dec 2019 07:09

Thankyou for your comments and likes......

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Hope Rivera

Sun 15th Dec 2019 06:33

thank you guys very much

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Hope Rivera

Sun 15th Dec 2019 06:33

thank you guys very much

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Do.RoThy

Sun 15th Dec 2019 01:36

May you heal faster than you suffer...

Cheer up girl.....u r too young to suffer...pray your dreams to come true....work n stay constant....

Love your poems Cait?

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John Coopey

Sat 14th Dec 2019 22:53

Go for it, Po. I’m not a great believer in platitudes.
You too, Don.

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Don Matthews

Sat 14th Dec 2019 22:00

Go Po.....

Political correctness
Let's knock it on the head
Ouch, you hurt me poet
Stiff shit PC I'm fed (up)


'E sounds a bit brutal Eff?.....

They breed 'em tough down there luv.....

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Don Matthews

Sat 14th Dec 2019 21:44

Yes, I remember them also V , for better or worse......

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Tom

Sat 14th Dec 2019 21:24

Thank you both ?

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Tom

Sat 14th Dec 2019 21:06

I wondered if/hoped you were referencing them. I don’t feel like it has been the same since they left. There was such a good thing going here for a while with their input. I miss them all too. I try my best to keep up with them on their Wordpress blogs but it’s not the same. I wrote one when David ‘left’ called ‘The Ropes Are Fraying and Soon I’ll Sail’. In departing Devon did encourage me to start my own blog which has been really rewarding. But I wish there was a path for them all to return and things to really have that spark again.

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