| HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR
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2025-01-01
Happy New Year Ken
Elle x
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| [this bird has flown]
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2025-01-01
Ah the Vilanelle and a very good one!
Happy New Year
Elle x
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| Happy Christmas everyone
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2024-12-22
I could relate to this, looking after an elderly relative who has significan cognitative decline, yet is still there, it is tough. I have my own health issues, yet I find, dealing with the elderly relative that I question myself - I forget things, I know logically, because I am stressed, but it makes me question. A poem for many of us to relate to.
Happy Christmas Alan, I hope you and yours have a wonderful yule tide.
Elle x
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| Short Work
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2024-12-22
I wonder how many count with their fingers beneath the desk. My untrammelled brain has always had an admiration for Haiku but also a disdain for it. To achieve the minimalist you have to quench the maximus.
Elle x
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| DUPLICITOUS CHILD
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2024-12-22
Ah, have we all not a Aunt Lizzy from our childhoods, I had a remarkable amount of maiden great Aunts whose quirks and idiosycrasities probably have shaped my life. I could really relate with this wonderful poem!
Elle x
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| SUMMER DAYS ARE OVER?
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2024-05-06
I love summer, going to the beach. I don't like bbq's though, I don't mind Al Fresco eating, a nice fruit de mer with salad is lovely with a little chilled wine. I had this boyfriend years ago, who would call me 'his posh totty' lol.
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| autumn leaves
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2023-10-21
This brought back memories for me of a time in Germany - Hanover - the thin walls - ah memories
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| three lines
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2023-07-07
It is very humid here currently, I like summer, there is something very languid in these lines, that summer heat and watering at dusk
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| TIME FOR A PANEGYRIC
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2023-04-11
The rich tapestry of lives that have passed, sorry for your loss.
Elle x
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| Planetpoem
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2023-04-11
Omens of great things to come I think :-)
Elle x
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| Moments
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2022-05-07
Lovely, we may be worlds apart but poems like this bring worlds together
Elle x
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| DAWN CHORUS
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2022-02-09
I love the dawn chorus, but I can see it would not appeal to all :-)
Elle x
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| MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER
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2022-02-09
A lovely, poignant write, wonderful descriptions that brought these memories of yours to light
Elle x
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| Again
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2022-02-09
A lovely indulgent read with a soft sigh at the end
Elle x
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| Another Poem for D.
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2022-01-07
They're a bummer aren't they? lol
Made me smile
Elle x
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| Live On
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2021-11-19
I don't fully understand this poem but I do know that it made me feel and sometimes I think, you don't have to understand everything, it is how, when reading it makes you feel - probably explaining this very ineptly but it touched me
Elle x
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| Backstage
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2021-10-30
Made me think of those old victorian pubs with the bottle glass windows
Elle x
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| When she walked
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2021-10-30
Gorgeous, made me smile
Elle x
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| sorting stars & etc
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2021-10-30
I love plotting stars, a lifelong insomniac, the stars are my lifelong friends
Elle x
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| beyond beyond
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2021-10-12
Beautiful :-)
Elle x
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| An Autumn Rain Poem
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2021-10-03
Beautiful and cleansing
Elle x
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| J'me dis que...
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2021-09-25
sometimes you have to x
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| THE HAIR DRYER SUCKS
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2021-08-19
Sounds like home to me :-)
Elle x
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| baby boo
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2021-08-09
I enjoyed this read very much and put a smile on my face
Thank you
Elle x
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| In the Heat of Summer
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2021-08-07
I love this poem, I love the way you weave the flowers and the heat and I could feel that stillness, that heat can bring - sort of breathless - just superb
Elle x
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| Lightly Sauteed Feelings
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2021-07-03
Definitely, best way with onion and garlic lightly sauteed!
Elle x
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| Making Bread
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2021-05-29
I remember as a child, our housekeeper went through a stage of making bread and I remember helping with kneading the dough - I think it was just a phase tho, we had a wonderful baker run by Monsieur Schmidt and would buy baguettes, then later the rather horrible a doughy portuguese rolls.
I enjoyed - I think I will stick with buying my baguette though lol but I do recall the smell of cooking bread is to die for lol
Elle x
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| Lonely
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2021-05-26
I think many of us can relate - there is another world you inhabit after someone you love has passed on. I remember when my father died, leaving the hospital and a friend called wanting to moan about work and I was struck between the surreal feeling of sudden loss and the mundane.
Elle x
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| Morning meditations
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2021-05-14
I could have been walking through my garden, I could smell the air and that slight freshness - my clematis has been a tad slow this year as it was so dry here - I enjoyed
Elle x
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| Michael sits on wooden steps
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2021-04-30
Beautiful and very poignant, I could see Michael vividly
Elle x
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| dear elusive one
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2021-04-10
I really like this, all those elusive moment, if only we realised at the time
Elle x
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| Haircut
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2021-04-10
Wonderful!
Elle x
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| Through a Window on a Sunday Morning
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2021-04-07
Gentle and contemplative, spring is surely here
Elle x
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| In memory of my father
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2021-04-04
Tears are easier to shed on loss as you grow older, as a child, the expected is always unexpected and reactions are different - I didn't cry either, I was too young and didn't understand the finality of death. I did cry when my father died but I was an adult then
Elle x
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| My tree
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2021-04-04
Nothing better than a good tree hug
Elle x
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| The Blue Tinged Zinger
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2021-03-29
I have become the mask lady, I have them everywhere and of all kinds - for school, the visers, for shopping an array of multi coloured ones - no, sadly shopping is not a pleasure these days and I go rarely and order online, glad your fictional lady was just that
Elle x
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| I Don’t know what to Feel
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2021-03-27
She is your inspiration and my deepest condolences for your loss
Elle x
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| How would you go about it?
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2021-03-08
Ah a problem, I have to agree with shells, although I am a bit of a Thomas and tend to just grumble to myself as I hate confrontations of any kind - but I think shells is right to affect an introduction and mention that sounds do carry.
Hope it works out as noisy neighbours can be draining
Elle x
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| The Snug
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2021-03-08
Sounds wonderfully cosy, having always lived in large cavernous homes, my childhood home, we had what was called the breakfast room, where we would camp out for the winter before moving back to the drawing room - we children had our own space which we called the rumpus room
Elle x
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| Spring in Twilight Denouement
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2021-03-05
And so the seasons pass - and so you shall enjoy those long hot days :-)
Elle x
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| Big school
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2021-03-05
Those were the days! Our schools have not closed and I have been working throughout the pandemic at school - great fun reminding boys to put their masks on! I remember being sent to boarding school in England - it was a culture shock at the time and so damn cold!!!! This made me smile
Elle x
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| Lizziebet, You Are My Sunshine
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2021-02-21
I too became a grandmere in 2020, Oscar is my heart - this love we have for our grandchildren is very special
Elle
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| Frenchie Fernszy
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2021-02-21
You seek him here, you seek him there, that damned elusive pimpernell :-)
Elle x
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| seasons
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2021-02-02
I enjoyed this, the starkness of the spring colours, a watery sun giving hope and the birds
Elle x
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| An Old And Joyous Adversary
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2021-02-02
Never really having known snow - we only occasionally have had some here and then no more than a flurry! I enjoyed reading and could picture the pipe, smoke curling and a warm fire
Elle x
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| Culinary Guillotine
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2021-01-02
Ooooh, poor sliced thumb! Sounds as if it would have been good before all the bloodshed! You should see my scars from opening oysters (you would think I would have learnt the 1st time, but oh no, my love of shellfish surpasses common sense!) Happy New Year and speedy recovery to said thumb!
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| Cocooning
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2020-12-26
Sounds like you had a contented Christmas, I am glad in this the timeless zone
Elle x
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| Jazz With Fond Memories of Long Forgotten Times
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2020-12-19
I can feel that sand right now! Smell that seabreeze - the sea and music are my lifeblood - I used to play in a jazz band back when I was studying music - and those brief encounters when we would crowd into a smoke filled apartment, thank you for your memory which stoked my memories of times past and loves long lost
Elle x
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| Flashes of Christmas Memories
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2020-12-19
What happened to tinsel? I recall this sugared almonds and midnight singers at the door and polished marble in the hall that we used to spin on. Lovely memories, though very poignant this year - my grandson is too young being a pandemic baby so won't have this year as a memory but I hope he has many others that will keep him warm throughout his life.
Happy Christmas
Elle x
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| Vaccine, sung to the Tune of Jolene
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2020-12-19
I'm hoping for the vaccine! Think I'm a way down the list still and so long as this new strain doesn't get me, I wear my mask and absolute joy I don't have to be grabbed into unwelcomed hugs and kissed all the time, there are some silver linings! I hope poor Dolly has her jab soon!
Happy Christmas and a safe new year to you
Elle x
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