Hi John,

Always great to meet folks who appreciate haiku. For me, I think I just love the challenge: infuse as much poetic punch into 17 syllables. It's half torture, half fun lol ? Looking forward to reading your collection!

Comment is about John Garbutt (poet profile)

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Thank you for the lovely comment on my poem "the little things".

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hi Seamus, welcome! enjoyed reading your sample poem. i can really hear you and feel you. my favorite bit's "I no longer wish to live my life, as a toy upon the shelf." keep writing. looking forward to seeing more!

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Hey.. was disappointed.. your twitter url doesn't work. Nice work above ? Seamas

Comment is about Danni Matthews (poet profile)

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I do love your 'Poor Man's Sonnet'.
Favourite lines: "Or think til' I can't say," and
"Her name gets whispered when I breath".
Well done.

Comment is about Daniel Carrigan (poet profile)

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Hi hazel, sorry to hear about your daughter. your poem makes even more sense now that I know what it is about.

regarding reading some of my stuff at your open mic night-
of course it would be alright. I can think of no greater compliment.
if you do go ahead could you please let me know which one's you choose, and how it goes.

cheers Kevin

Comment is about Hazel Connelly (poet profile)

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You voted Corbyn and you quoted Bill Hicks. What's not to love?

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hello Marc,
reference your comments about a blocked profile, did you delete the offending one? I can only find this current one. Or was it under a different name/title etc?

regards,

Graham

Comment is about Marc Lovett (poet profile)

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Nice to meet somebody else with a passion for haiku! A couple of years ago I decided to try to write 108 haiku over 108 days. I don't think I quite made it in the end. Perhaps I ought to try again!

Comment is about Melissa Gentile (poet profile)

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Thanks Stu for the kind comments re the two bird pieces.

Very best
Dave R

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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Thanks Harry for the kind words on the bird poems. They actually are two pieces written several years apart. I simply posted them together as an obvious pairing!

Best wishes
Dave R

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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I got a very real sense of openness and the beauty of past, future - and present - when I read your poem, Christine. Keep scribbling! - Dorinda

Comment is about Christine Turner (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind comments. Im sorry it took me so long to respond. Have a blessed day!

Comment is about Juan Pablo Lynch (poet profile)

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Cynthia,

Thank you for your kind words.

Your bio is inspiring, as is the Picasso you included. Looking forward to reading your collection of poetry. You had me at: "the halo of humanity is receptivity." Stunning.

~Melissa

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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thanks for your kind and insightful comments on 'Unknowing' Cynthia - it was a difficult but cathartic write - I'm pleased you saw its merits
Ian

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Cheers for that Andy sent one off for love poetry

Turn Up The Heat

Heartache trys to remove insecurity
to give romance another chance
feelings build pure raw emotion
two internal flames find love.

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Thank you for the welcome and comment on "good morning" Cynthia. I've been looking around, and enjoying reading.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Suki, thank you so much for commenting on "write, edit, re-write, write, edit, re-write". I've just noticed it. You are obviously a fellow sufferer! All I can say is, thank heavens for those (all-too-rare) moments when it all fits together, flows and says what we wanted to say!

Thanks again Suki, and best wishes with your writing.

Paul

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL, Maxine. You'll enjoy this site. People here are hugely diverse, but really supportive. Do join in the commentaries too. Everyone's input is appreciated.

Comment is about Maxine (poet profile)

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Haikus are splendid when well observed and well constructed. Your love of the form is clear and a pleasure to read.

Comment is about Melissa Gentile (poet profile)

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Hi Frances,

It's a small world when one can make contact within a city via an organisation on the other side of it!

Thanks for this information, which I will certainly follow up on. However, I'm off in a couple of weeks for a trip lasting six months, so my participation will be a little sparse at times. Luckily for me, my travels include plenty of time in the UK, so I plan to appear in open mics, etc. while I'm there.

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thank you Melissa. I've been enjoying your posts. Hope you plan to stick around and post some more. All the best, Colin

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HI Again Chris,
For my 50th birthday, I decided to give myself a degree in Creative Writing which I did at ECU. I was in the first intake of the new course and loved it.
Glen has been a mentor, now a valued friend and colleague, I'm know he'd be very pleased to 'catch up' with an ex student.
There's also the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA Branch in Cottesloe... not sure which suburb you live. Always good value and another place to read.
Voicebox is a good night and well organised, so I recommend them as a gentle introduction to reading to an audience.
Keep writing, I'll keep reading and best of luck with performance.
Cheers,
Sue

Comment is about Chris Hubbard (poet profile)

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thanks for the comment on 'Old Romantic' Harry - my purpose in life is to ruin the mood *wink*
Ian

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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thanks for the comment on 'Old Romantic' MC :-)
Ian

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thanks Frances, I'm glad you liked it!

Comment is about Joe Williams (poet profile)

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"I'm in love with..." made me smile, Joe.
I really liked the down-to-earth-ed-ness and focus on what really matters when attraction strikes...
Particularly how you told us using the 'circle of storytelling'.
Great structure.
I've now added you to my favourites.
?

Comment is about Joe Williams (poet profile)

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I have a moment this morning, so I've read your bio in detail. I like your attitude to writing poetry. My twin daughters are always saying: 'Mum, write for people just like us, who love your poems. Don't write for other poets.'

I got a 'smack' recently from one of my girls: 'You use too many big words! What the heck is a 'lacuna'. 'My reply: 'Look it up! No other word would do.'

But I really do make a huge effort to be simple. Not simple-minded, of course. But, hopefully, understood. I don't think clarity means 'writing down', just expressing myself as accurately as I possibly can, to convey an idea. There are always 'layers' of interpretation. I've never been good at just 'pure sound' in the abstract, but sound is a huge element in my choice of diction.

I'm gone.

Comment is about Chris Hubbard (poet profile)

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Hi Raj thankyou for your comments it's taken a long time but after a lifetime of being quiet seeing sleaze and listening to it i have found my voice at last . Regards Wendy .

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

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Thank you for stopping by and reading my pieces. I really appreciate it. Your writing is fantastic ? I see you are not here long on WOL, I hope you stick around and remain active. I look forward to reading more of your writing in the future. ??

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Hi Harry just been catching up on your recent output via the profile I player, all worthy of special comment.

I missed them first time round.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Hi MC

Just been catching up with your most recent enjoyable note worthy blogs. On the WOL profiles thinga-ma-jig I player

Ken.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Dear John!

Hi! Hope you are well and the writing is happening! Thanks for your kind words about my work. I like what you say about tone. Thanks. Word choice and tone are inseparable in my work (and in my head when I am writing) and I spend much time researching words and sometimes, particular subjects before I write, only for them to tumble out in ways I did not expect-- that's the muse part of my brain.

But I have my poetic idea-- the beanstalk first, in mind. This quite often includes a form. The time researching dictates how it grows.

World's End is a poem against the odds. I'm glad you like it. (I feel like hugging my son Joshua whenever I read it.) Sometimes, I feel like I am writing the same poem, over and over again.... I feel I have faith. I think, I do. See you soon, in Mold.

Love from, Suzanne X

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Yes it's about time the longest serving dictator ever was dislodged. Can't understand how he's been tolerated for so long presiding atop this overflowed vale of ever increasing tears

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Thank's MC and I'll put that rite

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thank you, glad you like my poem and thanks for your comments x

Comment is about Rebekah Mai Corrigan (poet profile)

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Nice poem. If I can give constructive criticism try revising certain parts that are common such as your line " I fell under your spell." For example instead you could say "enchanting spells put me in a trance."

Comment is about Rebekah Mai Corrigan (poet profile)

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Nice poem I love the line "Because I am bound in earthly contract."

Comment is about Rich (poet profile)

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Thanks for the line LB, I appreciate you.

Comment is about Little Bit (poet profile)

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Hi Juan,
thanks for your comment ?

Comment is about Juan Pablo Lynch (poet profile)

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Hello LB, how are you? Any poems in the pipeline?

Comment is about Little Bit (poet profile)

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Hi David,
Are you making a list of those interested in your book? Please add my name. As soon as you have more details about where I can purchase a copy, please let me know. May your muse always amuse.
Frances.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hi AM - having read your comment about Brexit on John
Coopey's home page (good to know we both enjoy his
champion chuckles), I felt obliged to point out the democracy in the superiority of "leave" votes even if the
verdict didn't meet expectations. I'm old enough to
remember the original machinations employed by Heath
and Co. (he was warned by a Tory minister that if the
British public knew what was intended they'd never vote
in favour and took the decision not to tell them!), and
the stealthy step by step tactics employed towards a
fait accompli once our MPs decided to go along. I've
watched for many years during which the high handed
behaviour of the Brussels entity saw our own prime
ministers being lectured on ignoring the opinion of the
public and become a "European" (e.g. a toady of their
master plan). This was not, and is not, the way we do things here and time has seen the wheel turn to pull
the mask of federal ambition and deceit aside. Now
they even justify seeking their own EU army, despite
the proven oversight of NATO - the true guardians of
Western security. It's all a very long way from a
"Common Market", the last occasion of a public vote
and even then the procedure was based essentially on trading between nations. It is no accident that all
that has followed has been between those already in
hock to the process of political integration - with any
reference to the peoples of the various nations
definitely OFF the CM/EEC/EC/EU (in sequence) agenda.
There had to be a reaction and it is perhaps fitting that
this small island nation should take the first step to
regain self-determination while the wider world watches with expectation and anticipation.
Cheers. MC.

Comment is about AM Cash (poet profile)

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"Loose canon"? I knew you were connected to your local
church but I didn't realise you were such a big shot as to
be a member of the cathedral chapter my dictionary
mentions - and a wayward one at that. Boom-boom!?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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thanks for comment on That Tennyson, Harry, it's whatever seems right!
Dom.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Andy, you need to complete your profile before I can add you to our Stockport WoL group account.

Comment is about Andy Millican (poet profile)

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great stuff tonight guys and girls.

my friend who is doing the love poetry collection is jean sheridan (i'll be helping edit the book and sitting in to select what goes in there)

No minimum line length

Doesn't mind if printed before (but please advise)

Closing date is 28th February 2017

Send poems over to me at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk and I'll forward them over.

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Hi John

Just come across your home page and blog, I hope the collection is going well, let me re-word comment on Byzantine - I retreat rapidly before your superior knowledge!
Dom.

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Apologies that I won't be at WOL this evening, and my friend Christine isn't able to come either.....have a great evening, and see you all next time!
Dorinda x

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Hi, Stu,

I just wanted to thank you for commenting on "..to make something beautiful". And, I hope things are going well with your writing in and outside of poetry. You show quite a unique perspective through it and that, in itself, makes your work invaluable, truly.

elP

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