Do you mean 'traveller' as in the word ''gypsy'? Or someone who simply 'travels'? Not sure there is a difference.

'In Absentia' is also really good. IMO, you have the touch of the 'artist', a gift which I think is very rare among writers. It's not just originality of ideas, but also their unusual association, and the power of diction to express these relationships in a meaningful manner.

Always just an opinion, and always with respect - always.

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Thank you for reading my work.

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Nice! Keep going! All the best for you

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Thanks Martin for the commenting on "Haunted Memories". I was nervous posting it, your words made me smile.

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thanks for your comments on 'Perhaps...' Tim - I fear you may be right about the vote - doesn't mean we shouldn't resist where possible eh? cheers

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thanks for the comments on 'Perhaps...' Martin - I think it would suit performance - so I expect to drop it in my set at some point - cheers

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Steve. Thank you very much for your very kind comment on 'Croc.....' There is nothing like a good 'rant' and that was nothing like one! (Note to self... must get more angry sometimes).

In respect of 'Facepest' a friend shared/re-posted your poem 'This will be a re-run' before I saw it here. I have to say it is a most appropriate piece of work which tugged at my heartstings and oozed nostalgia. It then left me with that big personal fight with social conciousness. Superb!

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Thanks Martin for your comment on Final Scene. Appreciate it. Ray

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Re "The trouble with Derek" Harry we, the Labour Party were more than just " a wake up call to the Labour party to get it`s house
into some sort of winnable state,they were of some
use at the time..." Like 5,000 houses, nurseries and sport centers and much more. I will be happy to give you the details. Tommy

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Hey, I remember it well!
Thanks so much, Nigel...
D
x

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As we have the Purple Six heading for Stockport
and have been asked to get involved the theme is the sixties and that's means long hair arty stuff and the bands and their music.

Doing Over Sixty

Wheelchair racers
deaf to
payment shoppers
coming out
of the
black Friday
sale bargains.

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Ray, cheers, and thanks. All positions are between slaps on the back and face to face discussion. Tommy

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Hello there! Could one of our Stockport WOL group let me know the theme for next time (if there is one), please?
Thanks so much x

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Thanks Ledger, good advice:-) Tommy re "The trouble with Derek".

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Very kind of you Stu, regarding Shepherds Bush W 12. Not an easy poem for obvious reasons, but you have graced it with an astuteness of thought.
Simply personal history I think is worth conveying, judgement to be left to others. I know you feel the same. Life moves on and experiences may be valid at a certain time.
Cheers. Ray

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Your Saudi-Arabian poet link in the "News" section drew my
attention - and my signature. Let's hope the total rises
significantly.

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Thanks for your recent comment on my own page.
"Let us listen so that others might speak,
Let us speak so that others might listen."
.........................................................
And long may it be so.
Good luck.

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Hi Wendy, :-) (With permission M.C.:) "...We must all write things down and leave a thread because if we don't who will listen". Regards Wendy . Indeed Tommy

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With permission M.C.: "...We must all write things down and leave a thread because if we don't who will listen". Regards Wendy . Indeed.

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Astute observation Ray re 'Taxi' Tommy

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Thank you Ash for your words, to touch is to be touched. Tommy

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What comeback Cynthia?

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Cyn the foto is of Roisin and myself :-)

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Your comeback is totally brilliant, utterly confusing, very cathartic. I shall treasure it.

The child in your photo is very beautiful, like the portraits of many mediaeval 'Mary's', all big, clear eyes and rosy lips in a pale face. It could be a boy, but same comment - no difference. And you don't look so bad yourself, of course.

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Tommy is thinking:

why do posters

refer to themselves in the third person.

I have tried to,

so has himself.

When both are speaking
in the third person,

he himself, finds,
that they are himself,

asking themself why?

Can two people converse
in the third person?

Tommy finds it difficult

to quote directly from

a third person's point of view

while speaking to the third-person

themselves.

We wonder if one's first-person

obligates the second-person's

directly attributed pro-noun.

I myself think that we should

-Tommy is speaking directly
here-

avoid all confusion
in such matters

by using the first-person

when writing or speaking
to the reader,

as one will find that
he or she wonders

if they themselves
are also confused.

Yours (or is it ones)


Tommy Carroll (himself).

words foto and himself

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Cheers Ray, well encapsulated.

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Thank you Paul!

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yes you certainly do write with feeling, so do I, there's an honesty in that. Well done

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for popping by and leaving your comments on Leisure. The original by W.H.Davies is one of my all time favourites too-many a time those are the words which spring to my lips when stood in a wild and windy place. And his first book,Diary of a Supertramp has been an influence on how I've led my life since first reading it forty odd years ago. But 'massacre'? That was not the intention and I believe that Davies would've approved.

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Great work!

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I will try to catch up with your work, Julie Anne. Welcome to WOL!

Comment is about Julie Anne Sugden (poet profile)

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Nice poem and imagery. Check some spellings though (sorry that's the school teacher me talking.)

Strive against all odds and thrive

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Have you just joined us today? Splendid. This site is excellent, with loads of different writers from all backgrounds. We try to be universally friendly. Do feel free to comment on other poets' works. Such interaction will likely stimulate comments on yours as well.

Cynthia.

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Thank you for your lovely note on Budgetary Democide :)

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Saw your comment on Stockport W O L

You can't call me lovely Nigel till we get those glossy photos back from Rachel Andy darling x

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Cheers Patricio. Interesting take P, interesting. Tommy

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Thank you Nigel!

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Hello Jade
First off, good to see you back. And secondly, thank you for reading, commenting and relating to what I wrote. I go into strangers' worlds, imagining their lives, and getting vicarious thrills tiptoeing around in their stilletoes, watching the world through their eyes.
Preeti

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Hi Pat,
Thank you for your kind comments on Nobody Cane. It was very very hard for me to post it. I felt I was exposing my inner most self so had to take it down.
I am so sorry to hear about your step father. Not easy dealing with things like that, is it!
Cheers,
Preeti

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ray thanks for comments on 'cat' - a simple poem but glad it resonated!

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Hi V! my smile :-)

Tommy

Comment is about veronica kurek (poet profile)

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Cynthia thanks for the response. I sometimes write in the first, second and third person in a piece when I wish to engage then disengage the reader. I am aware of this and its limitations and of the frustration that can ensue. The third person being unannounced. An example of a form would be "Tommy Carroll (himself)" simple but twisting. However I do have some but I would have to read again with greater attention ( I have just finished rereading (skimming) all 300 ( approximately) of my pieces...
I try and flip those pebbles into the pond Cy ;-)

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thanks for commenting on '...the monkeys paw' Harry - hope you are keeping well and the resting up worked.
I rather liked this eerie little piece myself, but as Cynthia noted it would appear only the two of you did. I'm finding myself on Write Out Loud less and less these days - hopefully will get he time to spend a bit more time here = the plus side is I'm gigging a lot - so - hey ho :-)
Keep well mate
Ian

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thanks once again for your kind comments on '...the monkey's paw' Cynthia - I rather liked this one, but - as you say - it would seem not many others did. The Monkey's Paw was a chilling tale that whoever held it had 3 wishes but, of course, those wishes didn't turn out exactly as their 'wishees' thought they would. Quite a good analogy with George Osbourne's defeat in the Commons I thought - ah well
Ian

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Michelle, I would stop making comments completely if I considered them to be 'reviews'. Where would I get the crust? I like the idea of talking together, informally, and often helpfully. Anyone can take my own work apart totally, which has happened frequently, to my delight and improvement. I always consider the points or options suggested and do make relevant changes.

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The Staleybridge poems look great - my personal favourite is 'Somewhere Else'.

As for the Paris massacre, the real question is 'why doesn't it happen more often?' Many urban districts in Europe (the UK included) are full of hate-filled, disenfranchised and alienated young men with nothing to lose. Little wonder they seek out 'causes' to fight and die for - indeed, I suspect we will witness more of these atrocities in the months ahead.

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btw Jade, thanks again for commenting on my poem. I've been reading a few of yours today and enjoying although I haven't left any comments. Just wanted to say.

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The Angel of Grief

Each tear of grief
an Angel will rise.

Sending love and understanding
to families suffering pain.

Faith will bring strength
for those that fall.

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The Angel of Grief

Each tear of grief
an Angel will rise.

Sending love and understanding
to families suffering pain.

Faith will bring strength
for those that fall.

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Paris, 13 November 2015

I weep for you, Paris,
Every beautiful boulevard,
Every humble street
Whose pavements so often have welcomed my feet –

Every drop of blood shed;
Every beating heart dead;
Every au revoir said –

Your heart-beat is mine, too:
Paris, I weep for you –

And WE say to hate: you will never destroy
Good. And we SHALL sing for joy –

This, I will ever recall –
But, for now, my tears fall…

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