Im happy to see openmind thats what we need and yes its a life style whats great and i never chance for a moment

Thank you so much for this video! I have been compiling and editing all my poems for a couple of months and I’m motivating myself to submit my manuscript. I will continue to work hard on this project and hopefully my dream of being published will come true. 🙏💖

great piece of teaching, thanks...

She is a natural sexy woman can't stop watching 😊😊❤❤

I'm from India can you please tell me can i send my poem or story from India to any other country

This is a very difficult....thank you for explaining! This is attempt 1 for my high school class :) Edit: oh i messed up at the end....oh well Pantoum for Growing Up Always thinking, Just one more year. Never actually getting there, To that place where I’d finally feel That I had grown. Never actually getting there Because no one ever thinks that I have changed. That I had grown, Oddly content…but wanting more. Because no one ever thinks that I have changed, I skirt the responsibilities of age, Oddly content but wanting more Time to experience without consequence. I skirt the responsibilities of age, Longing for that simpler Time to experience without consequence. The things I took for granted, longing to grow, Longing for simpler: That place where I could finally feel That my age no longer handicapped. Always thinking, Just one more year.

It's always interesting to learn about other poets' processes. Mine differs from yours in several respects. I almost never start with a handwritten draft. I prefer to see it on my computer screen. Part of the reason may be that I've never really liked my handwriting, and I like going immediately to seeing what it looks like typed out. Plus then I can start to do some early revision. I agree that reading the poem out loud to yourself is a crucual step. I belong to a workshop that meets once a month, so I usually go there for feedback from other poets. But an open mike night is also a good idea if there is one nearby. There are also a couple of steps that I take with my phone. I often email myself a draft of my poem so that I can pull it out and reread it whenever I have a spare minute and the mood strikes me. The other is that if an idea for revision pops into my head during the day I will text it to myself, and come back to it when I'm revising the poem on my computer.

Do the clothed people begin to look funny after awhile? Humans are the only animal that wear clothing.

I tried nudism years ago. It's a wonderful life I enjoy the freedom and you don't have to worry about about talking to anyone. Everyone is equal here.❤❤❤❤

Where are some places that allow being naked

Great review! Joelle is Reading tomorrow and this is helpful!

Fabulous review. (Um .. it’s Faber and Faber pronounced ‘fayber’ 😊

Please make a video on writing a Haibun. I’ve visited other channels, but I dont understand much, you teach so well. 🥹🥹

2024.... are you still there

I want to publish my poem?? Please help me which plate form is best

Milton.

Planed a first time camp next saterday a little nervous as do not hear borne deaf advice please 😬

You dont see younger males and females on uk naturist beaches aged 18- 35 yrs range. It always older aged 40+ to 80s. Young naturist have there own clubs going forwards

So really neither of these pronunciations are right...if you speak french, the front of the word should be more similar to the "r" and the end of bonjour. The stress should be on the first syllable, more similar to "GUZzle" than "ghaZAL." If you're going for an anglicized pronunciation, the word I think would actually be closest is "gazelle." I think English-speakers often say "guzzle" to try to replicate that "gh" sound better. Regardless, preparing to try to teach the ghazal to my students, and this overview is very helpful. Thank you!

I am a nudist and God bless you in your journey

I am literally crying listening to this. Walking to the corner shop, has become something that I rarely do. I work remotely and go into the office once a month, which is 1hr 45 mins away. Numerous times I have struggled to get there, faint, struggling to walk, needing to buy a suitcase twice, so that I can rest on the handle as I walk. And having to book a hotel to stay overnight because there is no way I can physically make the journey back. I take taxi's almost everywhere. I had to go from London to Reading recently and from London to Oxford and had to take a taxi to and from both because I physically couldn't do the commute. I have spoken to the Dr's so many times but they just fob me off, with blood tests that reveal nothing and the cycle starts over again. Thank you so much for sharing.

Miss Mrs Ms Alford or whatever you choose. I have had long term mental and physical illnesses type2 diabetes since 2003 bi polar schizoid since 1993. Huemans are very adaptive to situations but it takes time patience and mistakes. I'm not sure of your orientation. But in my book Big is Beautiful.

Are you naked if you are still wearing your watch?

love the suits mug

Great video Josie! You should do a follow up one 😀

Stupid

Hello and thank you for your videos, I have just discovered your channel from a recent discovery of my hobby of poetry. I have been writing a few months and the standard has been well received normally in end rhyme or sonnet. However i rrally struggling with writing a free verse any ideas or guidance would be well received?

♥️♥️ very helpful. Thankyou so much

thanks 4 all the advice i have hundreds of poems

Sounds interesting…..would love to experience it one day

“Shocked, and didn’t know where to look for the best”. A mate of mine went to a nudist wedding and found out that he wasn’t the best man after all.

The whole notion of 'courtship' as 'hunting', the desired as 'prey', could certainly do with a good kicking here, linking it to that long history whilst demonstrating what a sick and abhorrent metaphor / mindset it is - even a genuine hunter, the bear, is preferable to those who still operate within that framework.

Ha! me again! You are in NZ in these vids, my home, hope you enjoyed the trip!

As a writer and diploma graduate in 'Writing for Creative Industries' I found this video so helpful. Wisdom from a soul that has rolled up their sleeves and got the job done! Nice work Josie - off to go watch the other vids now. hugs from NZ

Hey folks, and @josiealfordpoet. Anyone have info on sites similar to Submittable for New Zealand. I have two collections I'd like to query/pitch. Many Thanks!

Overall, this poem is pretty good. I like the rhythm, particularly with "to protect us" and "to digest us." I feel that the poem needs some visceral descriptions to make the point clear about how scared and uneasy we feel around men and how women have evolved to have to resort to using the survival mechanisms in order to survive, but we should be telling men to not attack women. Something like men claw off our clothes and thrust themselves into us until they roar with gratification or something of that ilk that can match the iambic meter and rhyme. As for the name of the collection, "Little Songs" is simple and is more or less what it says on the tin when it comes to sonnets. Hope all this helps.

I wonder Whether prose poetry Is simply poetic prose. Surely form has a role To play? If I met a traveller From an antique land Yet wrinkled my lip and Sneered in a paragraph, Ignoring rhyme, Would it still be A poem?

Hello Dear🥰

Nice Teaching / greaaaat Villanelle

Is that an Arwen necklace?!! Where did you get that? Looks beautiful <3

love your video, and I love your HAIR!!!

Thank you!

Very useful! Thanks

I'm cheering for you in those endeavors surrounding the care and keeping of a self! I'll also look forward to hearing about the work of living poets in your reviews! I grew up with the Complete Works of Robert Service and A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein only. So now i have it in my head that i need years to even become acquainted with anybody's poetry and a distinct lack of knowledge particularly around anything modern

Thanks Josie, I loved this 'intro' for me to Verve. There are so many great tips and I relished your authentic transparent lens. I live in London, so I hope to make the next one. I resonated with Charades and admired how you put it all together! 👏🏾

why would you catch a cold? silly question.

Grateful for all your videos

I'm a tantric male masseuse and even tho i am use to being partially nude with female clients same id still be abit nervous..have u ever tried a tantric masseuse?? Id be happy to show you

why do people make such a near religious event of having no hair. It is common, attached to certain gender politics and really just a cliche. Have it by all means but it is not rewriting Satre.

Great affirmation at the end too