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  • 71 of 71 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 skmm

    Member since 13/03/2001

    Reviews written: 38

    5 Stars Lead, Kindly Light Review with images 28/06/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Memories rekindled

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    It was 28th June, 1987 at 7-30 PM when I reached Thrissur, my home town in my native state of Kerala in India, hearing that my mother was seriously ill and was admitted to a hospital. I had to fly from Dubai the previous night via Kuwait and Goa, rather than by a direct flight to my state capital. When I reached the hospital, it was too late and she had passed away, just ten minutes prior to my arrival at the hospital. I looked at her motionless body. The earth seemed to stop and the whole world ripped apart in front of me. Those eyes would never look at me again, those lips would never smile ... more
  • 85 of 85 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    britum2000

    5 Stars Twas the night before Christmas 20/10/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A Christmas poem for Ciao members

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sorry if I have not included you all

    Hello COT, do some of you remember Miss American Pie by Don MClean? This is my Christmas tribute to you all in festive vein. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a Snowbunni was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by Mrsmopples with care, In hopes that St Loopymum soon would be there. Terry and Art were nestled all snug in their beds, While idioms and identity crises played hell with their heads. And Jackyann with her parrot, and Ian in with his Zippo, Had just settled their brains for a long winter's kippo. When out on the lawn there arose such a ... more
  • 83 of 83 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Dudo_Perudo

    1 Star Sapphires 05/01/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too many

    Been racking my brains whether to publish this but my Bro said that he would like me too. His son, my oldest Nephew, died at the age of 18 after a car accident, early December 2006. We are all finding it very difficult to get back into the swing of being more than just ghosts of our former selves. For you 'blue' and your Father. SAPPHIRES When you arrived on this cold world Your eyes were open from the first They were a sparkling Sapphire blue Too beautiful for this earth We'd tuck you into bed at night And hold your tiny hand so tight You'd cuddle up to your Loy Loy bear And get a great big ... more
  • 60 of 60 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 hannahmc3

    Member since 03/05/2006

    Reviews written: 62

    3 Stars Now She Sleeps 25/06/2006
    User recommends the product

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    I have spent a couple of weeks now getting used to this site and have written a couple of reviews based on my collection of girly films and cheesy pop music! However, I noticed that many people had written creative writing type pieces that were not reviewing products and I toyed with the idea of submitting one of my poems for several days as I hate people reading my work (it's not so good!) but in the end I have decided to go for it (I'm still not sure, however, whether I will end up clicking on "Publish"!) I thought I would submit this poem that I wrote a while ago after seeing a news story ... more
  • 70 of 70 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    angiebabyqueen

    5 Stars all because of you 27/03/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages leting go and loving someone

    Disadvantages Disadvantages pain, suffering and agony

    All because of you is about coping with death and other things that aren’t so rosy in life. At the end is who it is dedicated to and why. I hope that you read on in this poem and enjoy! Thank you for your time. I saw you lying there, Lying helpless in front of me, With tubes coming out of you, Coming out and going back in. You had always been there to hold my hand, Hold my hand when things got tough, But now you’re just going, Going somewhere I can’t ever reach you, I no longer know you. You came home for father’s day, Father’s day was the last, The last day that I’ll ever see you again, The ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 Soho_Black

    Member since 30/08/2002

    Reviews written: 578

    3 Stars These Words Are My Own... 23/12/2011
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Years of collected scribblings to celebrate 500 reviews

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Maybe not technically poetry in the usual sense

    For every century of reviews, I have published a piece of creative writing I’ve done over the years. For my 500th, I thought I’d do something slightly different. Still creative writing, but in a different form. I have mentioned it on here in the past, so some of you may know that writing song lyrics has been a hobby of mine for the best part of twenty years, but I’ve never published many of them online or elsewhere and now seemed like the opportune time. There’s not a song lyrics section, but I work on the theory that song lyrics without music – which is an area I have no talent in whatsoever ... more
  • 72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 robbo2000

    Member since 08/03/2005

    Reviews written: 14

    5 Stars "If" - Robbo2000 stylee 04/04/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Reading poetry makes you look sensitive in front of birds

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not as easy as watching telly

    I've had pretty much no energy lately. I think it may be something to do with the fact that I have been carrying out my own version of Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me" called "Beef-and-Tomato-Pot-Noodle Me". I don't seem to have gained as much weight as that dude did, but I have noticed that I've been a bit more confused lately, and I don't think I can see the colour green as well as I used to. Anyway, I decided that I needed to motivate myself, and at times like this, I find that nothing is more inspirational to me than the music off the Bodyform advert, so I went down to HMV all full of hope ... more
  • 51 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    CaptainDisaster

    2 Stars Inside a Tormented Mind 29/07/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages The best poem I've ever written...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ... still far from the best poem ever written...

    This is possibly the best, certainly the most powerful poem I've ever written. I just want to point out though, that it is NOT BASED ON REAL LIFE! The inspiration came from a few very... interesting months working at a Mental Health Centre in North Birmingham. Actually the first couple of lines lodged themselves in my mind years ago, and I've tried writing stories / a novel / and other poems based around them, but keeping up that level of writing was beyond me. Then this one just sort of came together... *************************** Inside a Tormented Mind ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Elffriend

    1 Star A goodbye to my mum. 06/03/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Coming to terms with death

    Disadvantages Disadvantages So hard to say.

    This is much belated, my mother died in May 2003.I have tried to put feelings into words, but can't convey all the thoughts and feelings, but need to try. Alone with my thoughts in the ebb-time of night I watch as the clock ticks your lifespan away Bathed in the lamplight, your face has a glow A false sense of health, my reality knows This is the fire that consumes. Hushed are the sounds of the home in the night Death stalks the corridors every day Only your rasping breathing stirs the silence that around us unwinds The bonds of our love starts to break. Who comforts who, do I do this for me ... more
  • 122 of 122 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 eve6kicksass

    Member since 03/03/2003

    Reviews written: 344

    3 Stars Saying Goodbye One More Time 25/12/2003

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    Hello All….Merry Christmas to all you great Ciaoers out there!!! I did what I said I was going to do, and my poem is finished, and I’m now wiping away the last of my tears that had accumulated earlier in the day. Hope you all enjoy reading it. For those of you who don’t know me, and want to get a full perspective on what drove me to write this poem, please read my “Bereavement” op, which I will post on my homepage so that it appears right after this special poem. One again, Happy Holidays to you all!! Chris xxx > Sixty-One years ago today, you were born I wasn’t alive then, though I was still ... more
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