me too
lets hope Rachel can get another railway station set up
but it must have a good bar to go with it!
thanks for putting my poems on your blog.
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Thanks Martin.. glad to be visiting WOL more frequently and hope to post and read more.
Your words on 'Deals on Wheels' and comments are always welcome and appreciated. I hope to catch up with you somewhere in the North West in the near future. (The Vespa is running like a dream.. for a few months it ran like a nightmare). D :)
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Laura, thank you very much for your kind words on 'Deals on Wheels'. Very much appreciated!
I sense where you are coming from regarding recreational aspects... I once had to take Tramadol following surgery.. I was floating on the ceiling for at least two weeks. (I always wondered why it never caught on).
Thanks again Laura.
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Sun 15th Nov 2015 08:38
Hi Cynthia, thanks for commenting on So I Let it Take Me. You know, I have at least 4 hibiscus bushes in my yard, but actually had to check myself whether they open and close or whether I'd imagined it :) - turns out the flowers close at night time - but the image was from a dream. I know what you mean about balking at the pulsing psychedelic hibiscus, I'm not comfortable with it either. I forced myself to leave it in there because there's some sense of shame around it for me, and I won't let shame silence me, at least I think that's what it is, still thinking.
Thanks again, I love your comments both on mine and other's poems -always engaging, curious, and respectful.
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Sun 15th Nov 2015 08:27
Hi Martin, thanks for your lovely and very kind comment on So I let it Take me. I'm very glad you liked it,
Leander x
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my blog featuring a few of your poems is here mate.
great to see you today.
really enjoyed it.
http://onewriterandhispc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/poetry-at-stalybridge-train-station.html
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Here is the link from my blog from pictures took of the poetry and pictures exhibtion at Stalybridge train station me and the lovely Nigel went to 2day.
http://onewriterandhispc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/poetry-at-stalybridge-train-station.html
it's in the waiting room on platform 4 if you are ever passing. excellent fun (
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Re Deeply Breathing
Cheers Martin, warm and lost sums it up. :-)
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Re Deeply Breathing
Hi Katy, you got 2 out of 3, hope not being one of them;-) cheers Tommy
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Re Deeply Breathing
Cynthia hi, I'm afraid I was having a "moment" of cerebral disconnect - as I was trying to write "cerebral" six goes at it. Cheers for your comment, l came back just now to check. (cerebral disconnect had nothing to do with the drink by the way) Cheers Tommy
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Very evocative and warm Michelle. Captures the moment and metaphor for companiosnship / comfort so well.
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Cynthia thank you for taking the time to both read and comment so extensively on Row A Seat 1.
I was daydreaming about people from my past and how I'll never have the opportunity to see their faces again.
The theatre metaphor dropped in like a bombshell but seemed to work.
One is never fully happy ( I think) with a finished product and this one in particular may see another airing.
Anyway, lovely to hear your comments.
Graham
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Hi Cynthia, just read through some of the comments you've made on here today and wanted to say thank you. You are a very kind and generous soul. Always a pleasure to read how you've reviewed the work posted on here, and I always learn something from you. Thank you x
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Not many of us can 'scream from a rooftop'. IMO, that is a superb line, typical of a clear thinker with great poetical ability. Welcome to WOL. I will try to read more of your work.
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Moving Journeys
Stalybridge Station Poetry Exhibition
Saturday 14th November
at 2pm
in the Waiting Room
on Platform 4.
The Lines are Clear
Jump on a train
track down poetic line.
In the waiting room
reading walls of poetry.
Voices in your head
repeating same selective words.
From the poets themselves
in clear vocal cords.
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Thanks for your kind words Martin. :-)
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Preeti Sinha
Thu 12th Nov 2015 05:43
Hi Cynthia, Thank you for your in depth comments and review of my work. You make me feel special.
Much, much appreciated!
Preeti
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LOVE your bio. I'll check out the poems already here.
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thanks dave! yes, north wales is bloody lovely. we've been here two years now and i dont thin k we will ever leave. glad you like some of the poetry i put up. i spend a lot of time trawling through the work on here (that makes it seem like hard work, it isnt!) and will now begin my journey into yours.
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I like your poems and style and word play / choices. I will check out your blogs. Love the one with the line: my brother and I. North Wales - what a great place to live. Anglesey is a fave place of mine and one time I was visiting, the island hosted a poetry festival of Welsh bards and song. Great people and culture.
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Hi Julie, thanks for your comments on my poem gkad you liked it!
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Thankyou for your comments having my mum with eltzimers for 25years and seeing her laugh and crying when she was ill and not even knowing or liking me most of the time because of her illness. There are reasons for hoping our future can be free from hatred for our children's sake Regards Wendy
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Thanks re 'shadowed looks' Stu. Tommy:-)
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Thanks re 'shadowed looks' CBT. Tommy:-)
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Thanks re 'shadowed looks' ray. Tommy:-)
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A good memory is a huge asset to facts retention, for sure, but, IMO, it doesn't indicate the crux of 'intelligence' which I think is a process not a storehouse. Facts have to be associated, interpreted and assigned their due place according to one's ability and experience.
This could go on forever. I bow out, but it's been a pleasure talking with you.
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Not sure how to operate email any more. I used to be OK. Email me.
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Hi Stu thankyou for your comments writing it down makes you feel better and I enjoy it Wendy
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Thankyou Laura for your kind comments my mind is working overtime let's hope it doesn't stop .Wendy
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Thankyou for your kind comments I'm sure Daniel there is a lots more thoughts coming my way Wendy
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Thanks for all your time and trouble. I would truly agree with your assessment and I think it accords with my comment. A tricky area indeed - I failed the 11 plus but excelled and moved to a grammar school later - memory is an aid to accumulating facts which enable one to pass exams, but alas, I had/have a poor one.
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Appreciate that very much
Caserunner123@gmail.com email me!
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Ray, I'm very ambivalent about what constitutes 'intelligence'; there are so many varieties. I have always thought that IQ tests were an inflated EGO trip for the test-makers, and woefully inadequate as a definitive measurement of intellectual ability. IMO, the most they accomplished was to test the quality and extent of the material which had been taught up to the 'time of the testing point', ie. education, a game of chance.
For me, intelligence is often confused with ostentatiously 'clever' - those verbal quips and word play scenarios suitable to fourteen-year-old schoolboys, spewed out by newspapers and TV presenters.
So I totally agree with the premise that the truly intelligent person knows that he/she knows nothing. But the drive to learn from the widest possible spectrum is insatiable.
Ray, you did ask. So I'm trying to be honest. Not necessarily right, just honest.
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Hi Dave,
Glad to see you back and hope you are well.
I`ve not been to any open mic nights for months now but I`m perking up a bit. I may get to Chester later on so If you are there (and me?) I`ll see you..
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Patricio, many thanks for your comments on Cur. You may have been on the right track there, but then again? Regards, Graham.
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Martin thanks for reading and commenting on Cur.
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Ray, thanks for your comments on Cur. Suffice to say "you won't".
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Stu many thanks for commenting on Cur. It's a real bugger getting the ink to stick to the screen and quills are getting really expensive ✒️
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Thank you for your very kind comments on 'The Place Where Only Dead Men Sleep' and 'Truncheon for Luncheon'. Very much appreciated Pat.
I like your biography, the world is for you, and you have a
great body of work.
"It is not important to the wicked seed It's always the bloody same
for the Devils need to feed on a tattered remain, the Devils need to feed is what keeps them all sane"
So very true.
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Thank you very much for you comments on 'The Place Where Only Dead Men Sleep'. It is difficult to imagine the savagery,fear and horrors of trench warfare so to write it in the first person was a piece of escapism.
Glad you liked it and I look forward to reading the one you penned after your visit to Northern France Anna.
Kind regards
Daniel.
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Will keep that in mind. Thank you!
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Just read you profile Marianne. My advice for someone starting out in poetry would be this.
Make every word mean something. There are lots of words that fill in gaps but don't actually say much themselves. Make every word count.
Graham
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Thanks Cynthia for liking On the Northern Line!
I noticed your profile picture is by Picasso, and I was reading an article about Sylvette David, his last muse in a magazine called The Oldie. Well worth a read. She has a current exhibition of her own paintings in Devon. Regards Ray
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Lol serious undertone mind you..you are a very good poet
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Thanks Cynthia.
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Some thoughts to keep.
I often think that use of the seasons as metaphors is a risky business, as it assumes all readers come from the same global climate belt, not to mention terrain. A bit like 'Christmas must have snow' or it isn't truly Christmas, an immature 'European' take on a magnificent concept that crossed the oceans imperialistically, and has been very selfishly distorted from a world viewpoint.
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Sun 1st Nov 2015 10:15
Hi Stu, thanks for your comment on dismantled - feeling very flattered that you enjoyed it. It was one of those ones that just came out and I wasn't really sure about posting it - I love that I rarely have any idea which ones will interest people. When I read your comment at first I was thinking 'is he having a go' and then I realised there was no sting in the tail - a lovely surprise, so thanks again x
Not that I think you often, or ever to my knowledge make sarcastic comments - that is all about my own insecurity. I'll stop now, my explanation is becoming unwieldy.
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Katy Megan Hughes
Sun 15th Nov 2015 21:34
Thank you so much Cynthia! Really appreciate your ongoing support. : ) x
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