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Gift Exchange To Brian From Mandy

To Brian From Mandy My gift I give to you is more of a character inspection I give you permission to leave your ongoing introspection Stop worrying your artistic self with form and stanza true Let yourself, really go and lets find the real you. You are educated and artistic but that’s what your blogs say Just express you yourself, and not quote other poets for just one day. My gift is given in love, I would like to hear the real you Not the man behind the educated artistic, and the formal poet too. Please take my gift as it is given in love, and let yourself really go I can’t wait to see the real you when your artistic juices flow. You study form and stick to it but the more that you try To get it right, which you do, I feel the real you pass on by. For your excellent poetry and your artistic talent too, I know you will give thanks to God, for giving them to you . Use them once for you, be selfish, don’t worry about form one day. And lets the words flow from you, and not what other poets say.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 4/12/2020 9:39:00 PM
Reading my favourite poems here on soup,,,i have a feeling you'll be coming up many time..
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Date: 1/16/2013 7:27:00 AM
re reading this, wow a lot as changed in a year, amazingly.. i like this, if this did offend, which i'll be surprised if so.. but i do feel there is still heaps of sobbery in poetry, you must tell me more about this poem of yours....
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Date: 12/14/2012 9:48:00 AM
Dear Mandy, I see YOU know Brian quite well, I once sent him a Soup mail telling him why I never entered any of his contest to sophisticated for me, not being a real POET. I very seldom follow forms as I don't even really know what Iambic Pentameter means. Congratulations on YOUR well deserved Win in P.D.'s contest LOVE YOU ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal (Young) Liege. ..Harry
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Date: 12/10/2012 7:33:00 AM
wow, Mandy this brilliant, i agree entirely with you, on this subject, i wrote once a sonnet for Debbie, about exactly what you are talking about here..awesome poem just love this.. to my fav
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Mandy Tams The Golden Girl
Date: 12/10/2012 10:42:00 AM
Ha he never forgave me lol xx
Date: 1/5/2012 4:24:00 PM
Congratulations on your beautiful write Best regards, Jon
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Date: 1/5/2012 5:52:00 AM
Congrats on your win in the "Gift Exchange" contest Mandy. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/2/2012 8:53:00 AM
Congratulations Mandy on your win.Nice tribute to Brian.
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Date: 1/2/2012 8:09:00 AM
Congratulations on your impressive win.
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Mandy Tams The Golden Girl
Date: 1/2/2012 8:14:00 AM
Cheers Tony x
Date: 1/2/2012 3:28:00 AM
Congratulations on your win Mandy x
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Date: 1/2/2012 8:15:00 AM
Thanks Wilma x
Date: 1/2/2012 2:19:00 AM
Mandy congrats on your win, Happy New Year..David
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Mandy Tams The Golden Girl
Date: 1/2/2012 2:33:00 AM
Thanks David and the same to you and yours x
Date: 1/1/2012 10:33:00 PM
Congratulation for getting 3rd place in the contest in this Happy new year. Loved it and enjoyed your poem and your win. bl
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Date: 1/2/2012 2:34:00 AM
Thanks BL and the smae to you my friend x
Date: 1/1/2012 8:37:00 PM
Great telling poetry, to open doors , good try, well done here babe ...bye by
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Date: 1/1/2012 8:45:00 PM
Thanks Don x
Date: 1/1/2012 7:10:00 PM
MANDY, happy new year.. and CONGRATULATIONS ;-) on my gift exchange contest. Thank you for being part of the joy of giving another poet a poem from the bottom of your heart,, the best wishes to you and your family this 2012 year,..always p.d.
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Date: 12/23/2011 3:15:00 AM
Thank you Mandy for comments,forever expressed in verse(not the first one to so do,so I am used to that and am in good company)To address your points. 1.I have posted some 3500 poems here on PS Since May 2007 and they have covered all styles/forms/emotions and bio info. 2.Being an artform verse cannot be'free',in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principles.(WCW)He is right,thats the way it is,otherwis,it is not poetry.My criteria is it poetical. Best wishes with your writing.Brian
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Date: 12/23/2011 3:29:00 AM
You are a top man Brian. I wish I had some education, it would be nice to fall back on. Wishing you and yours all the best. x
Date: 12/21/2011 6:38:00 PM
wow. you are very brave to put this out there. i hope he won't be offended by this. i think it's good words of advice for everyone, especially the sticklers, strictys, and rules rules people. there are so many good poems out there that don't follow form or speak of angry (or other) emotions, that are missed when people close their minds!
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Date: 12/22/2011 1:08:00 AM
I will remove it if i find it caused offence it's not meant too. I only want him to throw himself into his work, he is an eduacted artistic man and I think he is missing an oppotunity to be the ral man insde the educated shell. I may be totally wrong and that is him and who's to say there is anything wrong with that. My gift is permission to let rip. x
Date: 12/21/2011 4:55:00 PM
I guess everyone writes in the style to which they are accustomed. I sometimes wish to see him let loose in the blogs!! It's fun to see the "real you" come out in those things. This was a fun read, Mandy.
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Date: 12/22/2011 1:05:00 AM
I certainly don't mean to offend as I say he is excellent. Me being uneducated find quotes boring and think they hide somthing more.x
Date: 12/21/2011 8:00:00 AM
The best to you in the contest Mandy. Love, Carol
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Date: 12/21/2011 8:09:00 AM
Thanks Carol and the same to you always x
Date: 12/21/2011 7:51:00 AM
lucky Brian being the brunt of your talent lovely write here mandy
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Date: 12/21/2011 7:59:00 AM
Thank you for taking the time to read ,and comment x
Date: 12/21/2011 4:55:00 AM
Wait, are you going to write one asking me to talk less about myself?
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Mandy Tams The Golden Girl
Date: 12/21/2011 5:03:00 AM
Not at all I think I may know the real you and don't change. I think you already let your juices flow x
Date: 12/21/2011 4:31:00 AM
Mandy rock on..David
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Date: 12/21/2011 4:42:00 AM
Thanks David i was just reading on eof yours when your meaasge came in. I will get back to it now.x

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