Hey Lynn, thanks for the comments on my poems it made me feel great and really gave me that little push I needed to begin writing more. I'm in love with TearDrops in my Coffee, have a great day!
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Hello Lynn - I appreciated your comments about my
Referendum Calypso. Your use of the word "safer" in
context of EU membership had me thinking that maybe
many others think that way.
The word doesn't apply militarily as NATO has that
responsibility so I assume your meaning is more "financial".
Notwithstanding the many billions per annum we contribute
at present and the fact that our trade has to be made via
the rules of the EU which prohibits government self-help
for our industries etc., it seems very likely that in the
longer term this historically famous and successful trading
nation will be able to revert to a prosperous SOVEREIGN
nation. It must be stressed that the EU seeks centralised
political control over all its members. Do WE really
want that?
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Dare I Ask?
Horrific car crash
glass splinters fly
blinded no sight
surgeons replace eyes.
Now I see
the world from
someone who died
don't sleep much.
I suffer nightmares
of being pushed
falling into water
drawing for breath.
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Hi J.C. Thanks for your kind comment, much appreciated.
Next time your in Brid. order the coffee close your eyes and play Cliff Richards Summer Holiday (ugh) into the earpiece, from that new fangled portable music thingy-ma jig in your pocket
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Really enjoyed this. Great read.
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Thanks Steve for your positive comments and likes. Hope I can someday emulate your achievements :)
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Hi Steve. Very much enjoyed your set at Bath on Wednesday. Hope to see you perform again some time in the near future. Cheers, David.
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Hypocritical Transparency
Thu 21st Apr 2016 08:31
Sure is! I guess we all have to grasp at something...
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I'm crash landing on your profile page Stu. I came in low to avoid detection and now I walk unaided to meet and greet a poet whose comments always cheer me up. I'm flattered that you consider The Boghole a triumph. I love the word, it has a Seamus Heaney credibility for me, and of course can be a rectal equivalent. I never once thought of cancer but in this context would be about as scary as you could get.
Thanks again. Ray.
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great stuff last week.
already done my piece for next month.
see you then.
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Hi Ray Thganks for comment on Rare Earths. It is a bit of a whopper! I've had a bit of a tinker with it since, but nothing too drastic.
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Thank you MC! Couldn't agree more about Afternoon Tea :)
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You should definitely come and visit then! I would love to meet up. Come in the summer when it is far nicer :)
H x
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Just like you to know Nicola it took a Tesco trolley full of scribbling note paper before I found my Banana! but I'm glad you liked it.
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Hi Trevor :)
Thanks for your comments on 'The Has-Been Poet'. It was just my attempt of writing my way out of the old writer's block :)
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Thanks Nigel, I'm incredibly rusty and not up to your "banana" standard yet.
I'm already envisaging a wire basket overflowing with crumpled sheets before our next meeting!
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Ray - thanks very much for the comments about 'Memories of Mum and Dad'. An unfortunate subject, but getting it on 'paper' was cathartic. Thanks again.
Rob
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Nah, you SHOULD be proud. I am. I'm also the only person I know from round here who actually went to uni, at the grand old age of 28! Those hard times definitely chisel a stronger human being. You can give up, lie down and die, or get back up again and just keep going.
I would love to meet you at some point. I do have family in Pompey - keep meaning to go down and visit.
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Thanks for your comments on These Streets. It's a very bleak picture I paint, I think it has improved beyond recognition since then. I wouldn't know though, I tend to steer clear :) It certainly aint Arillas ;) x
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Thanks for your comments on These Streets. Yeah, you get it alright. I was exactly the same, always fighting, foul mouthed little cow. You had to be that way! I don't regret it. It fucked me up and made me stronger all at the same time.
It definitely makes me appreciate what I've got now. I feel bloody lucky. Like you, so many people I grew up with are either dead, on drugs, alcoholics or mentally fucked. I've gone down all of those routes (well except death lol) but I made it to the other side. I know it's a bit cheesy, but I feel proud about that :)
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I like the line - - -
The breeze through the leaves, blends a whispering sigh
and good luck with the children's book - - - you never know!
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Tue 12th Apr 2016 13:39
awww sorry Jan.I have to go now,but I will speak to you soon.Thank you for the offer,and lots of love to you and all of your family.Jemima.
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Who Am I was read by Maggie
We all enjoyed it and sometimes another poet gives your own poem a slightly different feel to it when reading with another vocal pace to each line.
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Thanks for commenting on 'Tumbleweed' Steve - really pleased you liked it
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Aye up Stu - thanks for the kind comments on 'Tumbleweed' really pleased that you got that gothic western 'Preacher' style vibe - I was thinking more about the Johnny Cash video of 'The Wanderer' but that Nick Cave reference fits equally. Also the post-apocalypse of something like 'The Walking Dead'. Glad you liked it
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Hi, me again! Linda suggested I forward the "Who Am I?" poem I read on Saturday - if Maggie, perhaps, would like to read it?
Who Am I ?
We couldn’t be Drifters;
we wanted to:
too late – they already existed
in the USA
Those days in the Two I’s coffee bar,
strumming and singing
and longing for stardom
That came, sure enough,
and I practised my Presley
curling lip
and swivelling hip
and wore pink socks
and loved a living doll
But that was
when we were
The Young Ones –
Now
Shadows of strains
of a summer holiday –
all these are mine:
Mistletoe and wine –
Retired? – No - I’m just wired
For sound
Dorinda x
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Hello Cynthia! I really enjoyed listening to you on Saturday! Our eldest daughter gave you a lift to the station afterwards; your husband left a glove in her car. I will pass it to Martin, one of our 'Stockport lot' next month so that perhaps he can pass it to you when he next visits Sale WOL - hopefully with warmer weather he won't miss it in the meantime!
Love from Dorinda x
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Hello everyone! Yes, Saturday was great! Sorry I cannot be at WOL this evening; hope to catch up with you next time! Dorinda x
ps: Martin: Julia, our eldest daughter, gave Cynthia and her husband a lift to the station on Sat; he left one of his gloves in her car. Can I pass it to you at the next stockport WOL so you can give it to Cynthia next time you visit Sale WOL, please? Thanks SO much!
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Hey Harry
Thanks for your note on Arrested Development - and thank you for spotting the 'arrested' thing! :D I'm still waiting for someone to spot the 'exit, pursued by bears' reference but oh well ;)
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Tara I really enjoyed this poem, great detail and captures the frantic yet calm atmosphere of medical interventions. Great that you have written honestly about your experiene of the job.
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A huge thank you from Andy and myself for all your support on Saturday - - - Saturday Happenings finished with a flourish!
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Amazing imagery in these poems. I also like that they seem written from a deep well of experience of care work. The work is anchored in specific, realistic details but goes far beyond this.
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Great energy, observation and word play in these poems which work well as text and are fantastically good when performed.
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Mark - thanks for the 'like' on Anxious Audience. I suppose the button having been pressed has to have an alternative for those that change their minds, but I agree it seems sort of churlish.
Rob
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Sorry to hear you've had a tough time of it. I read your Mothering Sunday poem and assume it is connected. If so, then I am so sorry :( x
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It started off with telling visitors downstairs that the poetry reading was taking place upstairs - - - then more acts turned up and this really set it off! We ended up asking for more time to the staff downstairs who had just cleared all the food and wine away but we managed it and everyone had a ball!
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Thanks for your kind comments on my poem, Boys and girls, Ray.
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Hi Tommy, cheers for your comments on Scroungers. I like your profile piccie, and have to say that yes, I voted for Corbyn too.
Incidentally, I saw him in person yesterday giving a terrific speech at Harlow, pressing for all the important things for the majority, instead of the elite few. Power to the people!
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Wed 6th Apr 2016 02:12
I like your poetry Martin especially returning to something she once saw allowing her to break all the rules break what had become law :)
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Thanks very much for your kind and supportive comments on 'Catechism' Lynn - much appreciated
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thanks for the comments and thoughts on 'Catechism' MC - we can only hope that we would be prepared to make that stand - but until we are tested, I guess we just don't know
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thanks for the insightful comments on 'Catechism' Harry - yes, it was a very sad tale - but, in a way, it just made the poem more poignant and relative - it is only in what we say and our own actions that we can and should be judged - I think the victim in Glasgow was a truly honourable man..
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TS Eliot hahaa :D
Ooo I like your comment that it gives it a Tom and Jerry feel! Fred Quimby era, obviously! ;)
Thanks Ray :)
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Thank you for your comment on my profile. Much appreciated x
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I loved this piece....it helps me view my ideas for writing from a different perspective... Again it's a very lovely and inspiring piece
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Afternoon H!
Aye, not doing so bad at the moment ta chick :) Yeh, get yourself along to one :)
It's been a bit of a challenging year family-wise but experience is never wasted, eh? :)
You take care now and I look forward to reading much more of your work.
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ken eaton-dykes
Mon 25th Apr 2016 16:24
Hi M.C. Always nice to get a good reaction from you.
Thanks. Ken
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