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I love this site. I enjoy the interaction with like-minded souls. I have many good friends here who are great poets. I have tremendous respect for you all.

I'm sorry I haven't been around for a few months now. The tap ran dry for a while or let's just say that I wasn't willing to turn it on again, until I was sure that the quality of the water improved. I think I became a victim of quantity over quality and I lost some faith in what I was trying to achieve.

Life is very busy, but I can see a time from late summer 07 onwards, when I might have the opportunity to concentrate on being a little self-indulgent again and awakening the sleeping poet.

Till then, all the best!

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  • on Blondes by Mart, on February 16, 2007

    Thanks H

    Thanks for visiting and reviewing this piece. It's nothing special, just a quick ditty I knocked up in minutes to try and engage the poetic side of my brain again - I'm still looking for it at the moment!

    As for rhyming, I don't understand? Are you suggesting I should write a rhyming poem?

    Cheers mate!

    Mart

  • on Blondes by Mart, on February 16, 2007

    Too right.....

    ...I know. As I mentioned to Lad earlier, I know it's not a great piece, but I guess I'm more willing than ever these days just to commit to print straight from thought without the angst of pondering for days of endless tweaking as I used to; of course, major downsides are the schoolboy errors that creep in such as 'wear' instead of 'wearing'.

    No worries at all regarding the critique bro' - I don't like the poem that much myself, but I felt there was a point that when it comes to assumptions, blondes seem to get far more than brunettes and as a result, the latter could be deemed safe (as pointed out by Pie).

    As for who I like and who I don't, between you and me, I like all of them. But I didn't think it was for me to impose my opinions on this occasion. All 4 were/are such characters that readers in the know will have their own opinion anyway. From that perspective, I realise that this poem is simply vacuous reflection rather than stimulating debate. And sometimes, for the sheer hell of it, I like that. It is more about the curse of being blonde rather than the curse of being who they were.

    Cheers bro'

    Mart