It's good of you to give thoughts on The solitary drinker. I've slipped a bit lately - things on my mind, but I meant to imply with the line about spirit that whatever our passing of time we essentially take our own course and that may exclude others on a different course. A bit subtle as spirit can mean anything! The trouble with poetry can be stating something emphatically can cause a hiatus in the thinking and I reckon this poem is an example of it. Thanks again - yours was dead clear and therefore more accessible. I could go into weird world if I wanted but nobody would like it probably!!

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Unfortunately there was a police raid on the private apartment in which I did it and all known copies kept there were destroyed.

There was talk of a remake but once the filming location was leaked to the boys in blue it had to be cancelled.

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i dont have a microphone. but im told there will be a video of me performing coming to a youtube near you very soon. my computer is from the early nineties. i doubt it would even support a microphone. but dont let my technophobia stop you!

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Great photos of all the poems Andy

Next theme is Shades

There was the light
till autumn shades came.

Winter shadows cast darkness
waiting for sunstroke days.

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Great photos of all the poems Andy

Next theme is Shades

There was the light
till autumn shades came.

Winter shadows cast darkness
waiting for sunstroke days.

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Thank you for your comment on Nodding Bitch and you have given me some food for thought. Apologies for the late reply. Thanks again for reading.

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Thanks, Stu . Your observations are always perceptive and intelligent and you peel back the layers . This was a very direct reference to a dear friend and written in a genuine state of guilt. What more can you do ?

all the best with the submission by the way.

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Thanks, Stu . Your observations are always perceptive and intelligent and you peel back the layers . This was a very direct reference to a dear friend and written in a genuine state of guilt. What more can you do ?

all the best with the submission by the way.

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Thanks for clearing that up Nigel. Are there any copies of your movie available.

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just to say thanks for your liking of On the High Plains!

It was a dream in the sense that there is the hope of something dreamlike unable to be confirmed; but I twisted that line into a trap for the mind!!

regards Ray

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Nigel beat me to it with this but the pictures are here. i put it on my blog here but forgot to post it here

http://onewriterandhispc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/write-out-loud-stockport-enchantment.html

next theme is shadows isn't it?

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I write a lot of things recently to be read or performed by people a great deal better than me. I'll give it a go and put it up.. Problay tinnite. Only if you do something similar. Deal?

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i really think it would benefit from live treatment. the first lines are perfect for a stutter, hiphophian delivery (i'll come to that in a minute!).

My home smells like sour and sweat,
post-partum regret
a quarter century flipped
for the malmanager's bet.

As insulting as this is, imagine eminem rapping this. it would work!?!?!?

hiphophian. meaning (imo) it has a 'flow' like the best hip hop. in that it stumbles nicely off the tongue. i have performed scott peterson to myself in the mirror to see how it sounded and it worked really well.

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The Poetry of Enchantment

Poem number 11
In The Presence of Peace by Dorina Macdowell

Poem number 17
Redefining Our Past in Saffron by Grey Nicholls

Poem number 16
In The Garden of Enchantment by Nigel Astell

Poem number 15
Lighthouses in the Mist by Andy N

Poem number 12
Winter's Mourn by Martin Elder

All five poems were put on display in The Enchanted Gallery

I shall go down tomorrow and collect them and bring them to our next meeting.

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gmorning stu,

if im honest, I don't perform anything live without having it right in front of me. I have had and always will have a really fleeting, darting sense of concentration and can't even memorize the simplest things. (especially things I've written myself) It's been a really frustrating hurdle for me.

should I recite that Scott Peterson entry? It's pretty easy to do from home, but every time I record I start to hate the sound of my own voice.

EDIT: hiphophian. I like it. What's it mean to you?

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"Ignore the unfounded rumours
of pus- in your milk
and other stuff
which are also quite scary,"
said the white coated chap
with the clipboard and cap
and the man who's
in charge of the dairy.

words and foto Tommy Carroll

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Harry - I note your comment on the Greg Freeman post about the guy in fawn jacket and straw hat - and your
lament for an old "disappearing" England.
Fortunately, all is not yet lost and the sight of Nigel
Farage singing the National Anthem in strong voice at the
close of the Ukip conference in Doncaster is just one sign
of the refusal of the "old " England to go quietly. Indeed,
there is always the action/reaction effect and the changes
being imposed by political decisions show signs of rewakening old forces of feeling that have usually lain
dormant in the homegrown heart.

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The Enchanted Art Gallery Weekend

Went down yesterday they have already set up some of the work down stairs for viewing.

I think our work will be put upstairs where we meet and they are still sorting out all the art work that has been accepted.

They have had seventy pieces sent in and are very pleased with the high quality of creativity.

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I think you're really lucky to get anywhere near an original primeval taste of nature - the elements should get you there, plus of course the lovely fella!

I got my saw from B&Q for £80 with the charger - ok for your small stuff, but its slow and silly. What you need is a lopping axe and a mask to scare people off. (Except me of course). regards ray

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ooOOoo cordless eh? I looked at them but the sodding charger cost more than the saw itself! Bugger that.

Nope - we only have outdoor fires. I'd love to convert the gas fire into a proper one, as I grew up with a coal fire and am quite obsessed with flames in general :D Was a bit of a firebug as a child - everything got burned!

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That all sounds delightful Laura - very middle earth. Although we have meagre funds, the access to Surrey woods is limited to walking dogs and 4X4 family bonding with health and safety uppermost. No chance of me wading about with the chainsaw, although I do have a cordless one! Ok for light jobs. Sorry to be boring, but do you not season yours before consigning them to the flames? Outdoors it doesn't matter anyway, but we have a log burner, so we're only playing at it! About £60 so far - but then don't forget the cost of the wine!
Yes I altered a word near the end and you spotted it, and thanks. I thought it was pivotal .

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Just to let you know Martin in 1990 I did do a home made movie called The Fantastic Foursome but my acting name was Stretchy Rubber Rocket and not Tommy.

The only thing I can add is I did have a moustache but it was ginger and I did not have a short fuse but liked drinking milk from my girlfriend Big Breasted Mary who was having a baby by a visiting alien.

I hope that clears any connection up.

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Ah so you buy your wood? I refuse to, on the grounds that a) we're skint and b) we can go and get it ourselves for nowt! Also, we really like going and gathering firewood. It's part of that primal process. The fella usually uses a manual saw but I bought him a leccy one for his birthday, and you've never seen more delight shown at an electrical item as that day haha :D

Enjoy getting lost in your flames, Ray :)

ps - I noticed you'd edited. MUCH better now, and it was already great ;)

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Thanks so much for your blisteringly good comments re the Log Man. Fulsome praise from a reliable source!
The primitive pleasure remains the most sublime . I just collected my winter's logpile from the man described. He is worthy of a tribute, surrounded by prepared piles of different woods for the asking. (like a sweet shop in a way). bloody hard work to load and unload but I'm now done and what a great way to relax responding to you.
You couldn't invent a better scenario.
cheers, Laura.

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you really are too kind!

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Hi Mark. About Mobility poem. Thanks and I entirely take your point. There are plenty of glamorous older models around . It just seemed incongruous that whereas the adverts usually appear in the mags and back pages that I imagine are associated with the risks of the older generation the models are out of tune with those readers. It would not be the case in charity fundraising on TV for example where no horror is spared to plumb the emotional depths. By they way , I am sorry that you have the incapacity you mention; I took up motorcycling after a forty year gap, and must admit I just lost my nerve in the end! Especially as my wife was trembling with fear at home.

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Hi Mark. About Mobility poem. Thanks and I entirely take your point. There are plenty of glamorous older models around . It just seemed incongruous that whereas the adverts usually appear in the mags and back pages that I imagine are associated with the risks of the older generation the models are out of tune with those readers. It would not be the case in charity fundraising on TV for example where no horror is spared to plumb the emotional depths. By they way , I am sorry that you have the incapacity you mention; I took up motorcycling after a forty year gap, and must admit I just lost my nerve in the end! Especially as my wife was trembling with fear at home.

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John thank you for your comment on The Black Men.
I thought it would be you that got it. Time THFC had a haka I think!

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Hi Ray Glad you liked my Chicago poem!

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Ha John - thanks but I'm not stalking your scribblings - you crack me up! I have too many of my own to stalk, fragment and disorder. Such lovely narcissism deserves a stalker tho. Find one and pay them if needs be - preferably young and willing.

But take no notice of me. I've been out in my doughnut shirt for the first time today and I'm feeling very wicked indeed. Snip snips are good. Cut 'n' splice too. But don't get too lucid and accessible - you'll be selling your soul.

Keep on being a wreckless Bastard and Yay! for the menopause but no idea why.

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Hi MC
Cheers for your recent comments. Hope all is good.

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Hi Stu, thanks for reading & commenting on Sophistication, I really appreciate it, and enjoy your work very much x

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Hi John. Thank your for your comment on 'Daddy' and for taking your time to read it. Very much appreciated :)

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Hi M.C. Thank so much for your comment on 'Daddy'. Much appreciated.

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Thanks Mark. Mermaid was not planned really, and it is non specific. The truth remains hidden, I'm afraid!!

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Thanks Stu for comments on Mermaid. One of my shortest - just a moment really. Glad you liked it.

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Harry
thanks for the comment on 'Black Spire' and sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Too busy with the gigs than writing at the moment - so haven't been showing my face on here anywhere near as much as I used to. Once I clear a few gigs off the list I'm hoping to get back to writing, which has all but dried up, and then I should be back posting again.
Those old cathedrals really are something _ I hosted a workshop in the Wakefield one (the picture) and that's where the idea came from - I love the unclean building being looked up to and revered by the worshippers.
Hope you're keeping well - all the best
Ian

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Ray
sorry it's taken a while for me to reply - I'm not on WOL as much as I used to be - too busy performing rather than writing at the moment.
Thanks for your kind comments on 'Black Spire' - I hosted a writing workshop in Wakefield Cathedral earlier this month and this was the output.
I was born in Wakefield and have an obsession with its history - the picture accompanying the poem is so evocative of that turn of the century industrial northern landscape - I just loved the idea of this 'unclean' building being revered and looked up to..
Hopefully I'll be posting more poems on here again once I clear some gigs - thanks once again for your kind comments
regards
Ian

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Thanks Tommy

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Thanks Andy or is it Sexy Legs?

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Hello - me again! Do we have a theme for the next Stockport WOL? - if so, please could someone let me know what it is? - Thanks so much, Dorinda x

JAZZ!

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Thank you Stu for your comment on 'Summer Rain'. Much appreciated.

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Thanks Stu

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Thank you for reading and commenting, Ray. Much appreciated. x

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Thank you Cynthia for your comment on 'Summer Rain' :)

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A Big Hello Audrey!

I hope you find Write Out Loud a pleasure to be part of.

Thank you very much for your comment on my poem Internalizations of the External. It means a lot to me.

I shall dip into your work soon. Very tired but inspired right now by David Moore's work.

Be well, be strong and if you can't be happy...........fake it. God knows they love it when people succumbe to how depressing this World can be.

Much love

Mike

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HI Laura, I'm enjoying this to and fro. As Freddie Mercury might have said: we are the thinkers. For me it's quite a new thing to lay out my thoughts on to the trestle table of public scrutiny. In that challenge lies a sort of recollection of youth misspent, so I am living it out now. Could that be an elixir in itself? I think so, although in the way an actor dons a cloak etc. Keep all mirrors well clear, probably a good idea.

Memories of age like ripe fruit need to be fed and there the analogy ends, as it falls off the bough eventually!

Cynthia has commented too on the tram poem, she has been helpful , so I am in the pink at the moment.
regards, Ray

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Hi Harry, thanks for your comment on Open the Borders, yes it is a turn up with us and the Germans, it now seems that some sense is prevailing, for various reasons! thanks Jeff

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Laura, re: 'Reading the Sign' - the diverse interpretations are amazing. I still think you understood what I meant; but maybe not. Maybe I don't understand what I meant, although I thought I did when the words just flowed through my head and hands.

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Oh, and by the way - you wouldn't believe the amount of research I've done on poems before, to make sure of the accuracy of some of my claims or ideas. I've often found it leads me into some incredibly interesting territory - to the point where it's completely changed the poem that I started out with and made it something very different. I recommend it every time.

Haha - an elixir of youth? No such thing chap - unless, of course, you'd like to write one into existence? Hmmm...now THERE'S an idea ;)

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