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Bless your aching heart. The language and imagery of Bluebeard is amazing.

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Thank you

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Particularly like Bluebeard Julie 💙🙏

Hope you're well and ok... not been reading much of others of late... I apologise 🙏

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I only want people here who want to be here Robert, always. God I sound like one of *those* teachers 😂😂😂

No apologies necessary, mate. Keep going with your stuff too, hey? :)

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Writing poetry is something I have never mastered. “One More Step” and “The Wind” are so good, they could have been written about me!

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I suppose I’m of the ‘Confessional’ tradition.

I don’t know if I’ve ‘mastered’ it, does anyone?

I berate myself that the last week or so I couldn’t come up with anything more upbeat but I have to write with mood and i do write upbeat stuff sometimes so don’t feel too bad that I just put downer stuff out there. When I feel very happy I celebrate that too.

Have a lovely Easter Monday xx

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Julie, forgot to say, have a lovely Easter Monday too xx

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I can write articles but my brain doesn’t seem to be wired for writing poetry. Those two poems just resonated with me. Writing with the mood is the only way I can do it too. I love to be happy and embrace it when it arrives. Although the last 3 years of coercion and removal of our freedom has made it harder. Tomorrow night I am going to see Andrew Lawrence in London. These joyful interludes keep my spirits up.

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If you ever start publishing on here, please let me know so I can have a read.

Yes the last 3 years has affected everyone, absolutely. Messed with relationships, friendships, things we took as ‘givens’, all sorts.

Enjoy yourself tonight xx

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April 9, 2023
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We do keep going.

Indeed xx

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