Glad you enjoyed 'The Grammar School', Sarah. Thanks very much for commenting.

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Glad you enjoyed 'The Grammar School', Estelle. Thanks very much for commenting.

Comment is about Estelle Haward (poet profile)

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Hi everyone! Just to send apologies as I won't be at WOL this evening - so much going on, I really do need a rest tonight! Also Maggie asked me to send her apologies, too, as she isn't too well at the moment...
Have a great evening!
Love and blessings from Dorinda x

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Thank you very much Ali. It is soul wrenching to just disintegrate without the people caring noticing.

Comment is about Estelle Haward (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL. I'll get back to you. Up to my ears in stuff at the moment. Is the picture of yourself?

Comment is about Lewis da lyricist (poet profile)

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Hey, Ray,

Thanks for your comments on my writing--on "night vision" in particular. You have a notable talent for expressing your personal observations..I really like the way you pour your thoughts out.

elP

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Very smartly writen and very powerful and emotionally charged...

Comment is about Estelle Haward (poet profile)

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Not crazy about your poems but loved the "such"

Comment is about kristine (poet profile)

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wow that's great thank you for liking my blog
yes life and emotions are a battle field
will read your poems and blogs

thank you my friend

Comment is about Runti promise (poet profile)

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Just coming back on your comments on Shut Down Stu.
I very much appreciate the spirit of your thoughts. I had an idea and fleshed it out quite quickly - the idea of a factory closing and taking its time and its toll, then thought how similar this was to a body doing the same. I suppose this all comes with experience of life as you say. Very pleased that you should appreciate what I am doing and I wouldn't say it was rash - honest yes. I was pleased with the last line, it seems to me that desperate people invest imagined hope in close ones, perhaps.

Thanks again, Ray

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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Thank you Sarah for your lovely comment and welcome?

Comment is about scottydotti (poet profile)

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Hi Stuart,

I found Nerium very touching. Good job!

Adouda

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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You are very welcome sweetheart and thank you for stopping by ? Emer

Comment is about Starfish Nova (poet profile)

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Hi Tom. Thank you for stopping by and liking 2 of my poems. I read through your blog, Crustacean Crush gave me a good chuckle ?

Comment is about Tom Doolan (poet profile)

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Just had a read through your blog entries, very impressive. Added to favourites, you are my first! Look forward to reading more from you Robert.?

Comment is about Robert Williams (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comment on dark days.

Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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Hello elP, am flattered by your comment, thanks.

Donna.

Comment is about Donna Marie Beck (poet profile)

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Hiya Stu,
Thank you for your comment on my insomnia poetry. Glad you liked it and a massive thank you for the sleep podcast advice.
Hope sweet sleep and dreams find you.

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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Hi Scottydotti,
I am very sorry for your loss and can completely sympathise. The loss of a parent removes a piece of your heart and can blacken your soul if you let it.
I lost my mum very suddenly December 2014 and it still affects me all the time.
My uncle died about 7 weeks ago and I wrot this to show support and care for my auntie who lives far away.
I am pleased to help you start writing again. I promise that it really can help.
Nice to share with you.

Comment is about scottydotti (poet profile)

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I'm losing the plot Laura. Just made a comment re Things to Do and it's vaporised. Milking a cat is a very hazardous thing to do I imagine and I have no idea where that came from. My diseased sense of what sounded good perhaps !
Thanks for reading and questioning.

Ray
PS I'll have to get more logs in soon !!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thank you for your fine comments, gratefully received

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you for the response to my Grief poetry and yes, witty will always override pity if given half a chance. Always opt for humor

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

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Thanks Martin for comments on The Man in the white coat. They call this the white coat syndrome I think.

Ray

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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THanks Stu for commenting on The man in the White Coat. I thought I'd left a thanks but now I can't trace it. It's a bit freaky like the trip itself. I always refer to the pharmacy as the science fiction end!

Ray

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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It's a really great sample, Donna..and the first blog entry, too. You utilize some very accessible metaphors with unique style.

Hope to see more from you.

elP

Comment is about Donna Marie Beck (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on "The Beach", I will certainly consider them. I was conscious of perhaps too much alliteration, and in fact already tinkered on a line or two where it was definitely too much before I posted this! I will have a look at the 'small words'.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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'Tea with Anushka' is terrific.

I think you are an accomplished pragmatist with a soaring apogee of sensitivity, a bottomless pit of sensibility and an eye for the telling particular. Life experience embraced with self-pride does that.

Not to mention your command of language and literary structure.I totally agree with your comment about poetry being 'meaty', the mental drive to weigh each word for its value to the whole.

Your kids must find you amazing.

Comment is about Rick Gammon (poet profile)

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What exactly is a 'lone father of a huge family'?

I do look forward to reading more of your works. Welcome to WOL. I see you have already made a significant impact.

Comment is about Rick Gammon (poet profile)

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Hi Sarah

Your comments on Fatty McL are most welcome.
The poem is about 80% truth. It happened to my friend nearly 45 years ago. I don't know whether he's proud or ashamed, but there has to be something in the fact of the wee man overcoming the bullies, no matter how

Comment is about Sarah Hill (poet profile)

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I'm pleased you liked the Matt Baker poem Stu. Thanks.
The trouble is with this kind of thing is the amount of time taken to get the simple flow of the words right. I was pleased with Ilk la Moor baht at.

Ray

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL, Suzanne. Wonderful to have you with us. Write your heart out. Never be discouraged if you have no comments, because that doesn't mean your poem has not been read - busy times and busy people as with everywhere.

Make comments on other poets' works when you can; or hit the 'flower button'. Such interaction is always appreciated.

The love of writing poetry will be a great joy to you.

Comment is about Suzanne Kennedy (poet profile)

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Comment is about Kabir Ahmed (poet profile)

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Hello John

Many moons since last we met, but really chuffed you enjoyed Fatty McL. I do value your thoughts.
My writing seems to have slowed (far too content with life) and am now living in Leicestershire with little chance to haunt the poetry world that exists a little further north.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi MC
Really pleased you enjoyed Fatty McL. It came about from listening to a good friend.
Thanks again for taking the time to write

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

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Hello Ray
Chuffed you enjoyed Fatty McL, and that you took the time to let me know.
Strange how this tale came about, but isn't everything?

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Many thanks for your comment/joke on "Brian Rix Remembered". It lightened my day.
I like the one that won a prize at the Edinburgh Festival:
about the son whose father encouraged him to be an
organ donor. Have you seen/heard it?

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

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I wanted to say thanks for your liking 1977 - I tried to convey the feeling of the time and how we inherit things and watch them disappear in a cloud of memory. I respect your work so much, and reading in particular your Poem of the Week gave me much pleasure with its rapier wit and probing sense of fun.

Ray x

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

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Hi Andy, thank you for reading 'Love Is' & for the kind words.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello again M C. I myself have whined over the most trivial things,but my daughter and grandson say my attitude is Vicorian and that I live in the past, but it's my past,and I'll cherish it for the rest of my life, have a nice day ?

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

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Hellof Harry. Thank you for your welcome comment,and I can relate to the ice cold floors and the oil-cloth,we had oil-cloth on our living room floor and it showed wear and tear where feet used to tread,any cmoments will be appreciated, have a nice day ?

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

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Hello there - and welcome back on WOL.
Your recollections are not only entertaining but important
in an age when so much can quickly be forgotten or
disregarded - lost to those younger interested souls
who would like to know about such things from those
who knew them firsthand. After marrying for a second
time following the premature death of my father from TB in the late 1940s, my mother developed what I now
call "gypsy feet". It seemed that after about a year
in any place she'd be looking for an excuse to move and
I reckon that happened around 20 times in as many years
...so I had quite a bit of experience of living in a variety
of homes - pre-central heating and boiler days! But the
art of lighting a coal fire became second nature, as did
rubbing the ice from the inside of a bathroom window!
Keep posting.

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Comment is about Riyabenson (poet profile)

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A range of perspective in your writing I hadn't previously noticed..and you post so much at once. I'll certainly be looking for more.

elP

Comment is about Louis Audet (poet profile)

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Beautiful.. Breath taking.. Amazing..these are the only words that come to mind after reading this.???? keep up the good work

Comment is about Annaj Ledacrem (poet profile)

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If not doing calm - - - just stay wild and willing.

Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)

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Hello again M C I have been fortunate enough to have you comment on my efforts a year or two ago, I wrote under my username Oldlancsman but ill health got in my way ,but all is well now and I'm happy you enjoyed my piece, thank you for your comment. have a nice day☺

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

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Ray, thanks as ever for your patience and your positive words. 'Victory Hill' was initially intended to be a more overtly political piece. I was going to touch on social welfare, the NHS and the decline I foresee in both as we travel into an uncertain future. In the end I went for something a bit more over-arching. Those on the lower part of the 'hill' represent an ignorant youth and a new kind of overclass I see developing. Meanwhile, the older, wiser lot at the top are looking back and pondering over how it all went wrong...

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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Not sure if I do calm very well... : )

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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People who write traditional rhyming poetry always feel they have to apologise for it. I apologise all the time. Someone once told me reading my longer narrative poems was like reading a Rupert Bear book, though I think it was meant as a compliment! Don't apologise. Rhyme adds to the flow and requires a particular writing skill. I like your poetry.

Comment is about JOHN PRITCHARD (poet profile)

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Thanks Alexandra for commenting on Out of the Mist. It was just an idea of strength disappearing out of sight !
I have now read some of your work and it is complex and shows a gracefulness with an element of confusion inwardly if I may say so. Compelling stuff !

Ray x (beautiful profile picture too.)

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