thanks so much for your kind comments on 'Elephant's Graveyard' Martin - it was a deep topic generated by looking at Richard's amazing photo - I'm finding the exercise of looking beyond the obvious in his photo's very enlightening - would never have gone near the Ganesha myth otherwise - cheers

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Thanks for your kind, supportive and always humorous comments on 'Philae' John - that Listerine chapel line had me gargling with laughter ;-)

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thanks for your continued supportive comments MC - in particular for 'Philae' I always enjoy reading your thoughts on these topics - sometimes we even agree :-) but I do appreciate opposite viewpoints just as much

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hey, thanks for the kind comments on 'Philae' Laura - yes, I know what you mean about the emotional mind-blowing nature of the achievement - still think I would have been more in awe of a scientist saying 'I've found a cure for ebola, AIDS and cancer, though ;-)

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thanks so much for commenting on 'Philae' Cynthia - really pleased you liked it

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Steve,
We enjoyed your play very much last night. I was amazed at how much that part of Liverpool has changed....I hope you`re allowed to put it on back in Ireland.

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Re "So&so" The mildly infuriating 'So' at the start of a sentence. And then followed by the (almost) inevitable rising inflection. All of the BBC's radio #4&5&6 are being subject to a viral contagion of such annoyances.

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Thank you so much for your encouraging comments on Validation. Having now read some of your work, I appreciate them even more.

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Stuffing, cramming and tucking: I see a future in hotel work a possibility for you Amy. : )

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Louise I have something to tell you...oh wait I gotta go as Scotland v England are on the field

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I managed to lose your comment in my attempt to fiddle with changes to be made to my poem. Thank you once again. Truly, truly appreciated. And humbled

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No way Cynthia, I'm just pleased that you like the poems I post. The audience for such things is pretty limited so your words of encouragement are appreciated. This is another one that will be in my new book next year, so I post the poem and a picture on WOL that I can then link to my FB page. THIs one is a kind of mini Chekhov play.

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Thank you for your extremely kind comments and more importantly your words of encouragement and praise. I struggle: I always feel I could have done much better which borders on perfectionism. A wrong choice of word as I am nowhere near perfect and can never be!
Preeti

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Thanks for your support, Harry!
Steve Smith
Love your stuff, by the way!

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Thanks for your support, Harry!
Steve Smith

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"the manner of her going" is very vivid

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Steve

Looking forward to seeing your play tomorrow night.

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Cynthia, thank you for taking the time to comment on the Koan.
Have you seriously never been out in moonlit rain?
You must surely have experienced a rain shower in sunlight, it's just the same thing but at night.
As for the koan, it is a wonderful way of thinking but writing less words.

thank you once again for commenting.

regards,

Graham

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Cynthia - about Graham's koan poem - one of the best-known examples of a koan is 'what is the sound of one hand clapping?'. It's meant to make the person think in different ways. In my last poem Jigsaw - that was going to be a koan initially, asking the question if a swing was a swing if you didn't see it swing.

It's good that you're puzzled - that's part of the point of them :)


Here's a link to an explanation of koans

http://www.karate.butsu.net/onzen/zenkoans_intro.html

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Hi Cynthia I'm glad you liked the poem. I had in mind rural communities in times of war who are always at the mercy of roaming bands of soldiers scavenging for supplies and whatever else they fancy. There are languages where those words have got mixed up and I've been learning Modern Greek which has different body language for 'yes' and 'know'. There are also villages in Greece and elsewhere that have evolved very sophisticated whistling languages. The one in Greece evolved at the time of the Ottoman invasion - not that the poem is specifically about Greece. It could be any time and any place.

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Thanks Laura -I think your talent would love the challenge of forms -I know you would find the tension of rhyme very stimulating - you have the images!
Steve Smith

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Thanks Laura -I think your talent would love the challenge of forms -I know you would find the tension of rhyme very stimulating - you have the images!
Steve Smith

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'the aftermath' is rich, isn't it? I look forward now to checking back on more of your work. You have a distinctive touch. I've been off-line with a defunct computer for weeks, and the new one is currently challenging with smaller and flatter keys.But I'm persevering.

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Hi Daniel
Thanks for your comments on Do it again. I hadn't thought about performing it. sounds like s good idea. I will give it a go.

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That's a bit of a cryptic question, Tommy! But I can give you a straight answer. Not me, mate.

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thanks for the kind comments on 'wounded' M.C

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thanks for commenting on 'wounded' Harry

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Thanks for the write up John see everyone tonight.

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Hi Greg, was it you that commented upon a scene from Kubrick's 'Paths of glory'? Tommy

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Hi Cynthia Your comment on the 'Burghers' is very encouraging. It's a poem from my new collection 'A Murmuration' scheduled for Autumn 2015. Watch this space! I am using the WOL site with its handy format of poem + picture to re-post poems from the forthcoming book onto my facebook page.

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This is good work. Excellent use of hyperbole in my opinion. I enjoy reading it. Thank you for sharing it. Keep it up.

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gday love. my names rhys, just made a profile myself i really liked this, ive got a friend that went through some rough times, id like to know if youre ok with me sending this to her?

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He's Not the One - Ha! I've been there and you've caught it so well. I really like it.

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Thank you, Martin. I appreciate your kind words.

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Hi Judi
Welcome to WOL. I like Brownie points. its got a nice flow to it particularly with the dialogue at the beginning. Great.

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Hi Harry - all that there is - is enough to be going on with.

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i do hope so julian!!

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Ta yourself :)

Will see if that's in the library then - cheers

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Thanks for commenting Laura. You're right, I was definitely writing 'from the inside'. They do say we're all on the spectrum - the debate is about where to draw a line and apply a label. You might be interested by Donna Williams' books Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere. Fascinating and revealing.

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thanks for your comment. She might well be doing so.

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Great Profile Chamango,

I think poetry really does open the mind and you will be surprised at what it fetches out of you.

And by the way, reading your profile, you don't sound like an ordinary arsehole to me.

Make 'em proud

very best regards,
and another welcome to WOL

Graham

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hey Bloomie! welcome guy!whhasssaaapp!? what a cool name-what a cool 'poetry sample!'

the last two diamondique lines,are a poem in themselves.

high five across the pond man!

later dude-x

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Thank you for your lovely message Isobel.

Beatrix (known forever as BB) was born in February, only 3.1lbs and eight weeks premature.

This was my first hold after a six week stay in the SCBU but all good now and she never stops smiling.

Grandchildren are the best thing for old chuffers like me!

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thanks for the kind comments on 'an unexpected ghost...' Harry - I do like the challenge of writing sonnets - I've been watching the discussion carefully about rhymed/unrhymed work on the discussion thread. This free form stuff is OK - but you don't become a quality footballer if you can only take penalties ;-) I think you need to understand and practice form and be able to use it - far better to be a well rounded utility player than an expert penalty taker I would say :-)

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Love this poem. A great read

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Hi Harry Thanks for kind comments about my Navvies poem. 'Well-paid but dangerous jobs'- Don't I know it. My own father and his brother died within months of each others in the early 80s after accidents on two separate building sites.

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CBT: re "is" reminds me of the following quote: "Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point, however, "is" to change it." Karl Marx

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HI Cynthia As ever your words of encouragement are greatly appreciated. There's a novel by ALexander Cordell which is called 'The Song of the Earth'. I read it in my teens but can't remember a thing about it!

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Hi Dave Glad you liked my Navvies!

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thanx dazzer :)

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