Hi Cynthia Passeig is Catalan for Spanish PAsseo or Avenue. This weird and wonderful house is on the PAsseig de Gracia. THanks again for kind comments!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi MC thanks for your comment on Anger. I wanted to do the same thing when I read the story.

Thanks Hazel

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Well, what a turnout at the Brooklyn tonight. The bar was certainly raised and each one of the performers stepped up to the mark. A well organised and lively evening was enjoyed by all. Performers from right across the age range, from youngsters to octogenarians strutted their stuff loud and proud. First timers were amongst the old hands but you would never have guessed, such was the quality on display. Live From Worktown certainly brought out the best on what was a thoroughly enjoyable romp through the history of a working town, and more. More of the same please. Thanks to all who brought it together.
Cheers
Pete Slater.

Comment is about Bolton WriteOutLoud @ Bolton Socialist Club (group profile)

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Hi JC - both you and your "Ode To Roy" get mentioned by name in the printed copy of my
(slightly edited)letter in today's Sunday Express.
Even more relevant after last night's result. :-)
You might want to check it out for the scrapbook!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Em, thank you for you comment and glad that you liked "Everything is full of you..." You have great talent and a tremendous potential as it shows in your "Red Room" which I very much enjoyed. Beautiful and simple way of expressing two hearts as one.

Comment is about Em (poet profile)

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Cynthia, thank you for for comment on "My Lips..." I'm delighted to know that you enjoyed it felt my words.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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thanx sir shore i am gona enjoy it..

Comment is about Hari Das (poet profile)

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Hello Amy

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for already uploading a picture of yourself.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

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Hello Dan

Welcome to Write Out Loud.
I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

If you haven’t already added a picture to your profile please try and do so. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about My Deerboy (poet profile)

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Hello Hari

Welcome to Write Out Loud.
I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for uploading your picture. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Hari Das (poet profile)

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Hello MC
Thank you for your comment regarding 'The Place Where Only Dead Men Sleep' it was appreciated. With regards to 'The Menin Gate' I should have added that I was fortunate enough to watch this on television relating to the gun carriage and the children with the soil.
I found that your words relating to the horses 'It's horses quiet - as if t'were known, They had forebears of their own' coupled with the appropriate music and bugle call in your audio version a wonderful touch. Kind regards.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Hello Daniel - thanks for your comments on "Bowden
Hill". As the song goes: "Ah yes...I remember it well." I have many happy memories of those
distant Wiltshire schooldays and I understand
that Bowden Hill is one of the recognised "hill
climbs" in today's competitive cycling world.
Having read your poem "The Place Where Only Dead Men sleep", I can appreciate your affinity with
"The Menin Gate".
Lest we forget!

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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really enjoyed last monday guys. really made me smile. the really short poems suited everybody.

already looking forward to july's.

see you all soon.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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it was good ....

Comment is about Tricia Hague-Barrett (poet profile)

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Hi I really liked Piazza very different

Comment is about Adele Ward (poet profile)

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Thank you

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Richard - don't get back from hols until around midnight on Friday - so can't make Cadence until S
aturday PM session

Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)

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Hi m8 are you going to Cadence Friday night

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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thanks for letting us know you are still in the land of the living Dave.Whatever happened to your pink wig,we'd like to know?xx

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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Hello Mallory

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for uploading a picture, it’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Outside of Comfort (poet profile)

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Hello MC.
I've just seen your "Harsh Words..." post, encouraged by your post on my Profile page.
I too find a lot of what passes for poetry uninteresting. In fact, it reminds me of a Fred Wedlock piece in which he goes to a folk club and watches a performer introduce his act with, " I write my songs quite free from bourgeois restrictions like rhythm and rhyme....and interest".
I have no problems at all with you passing on "Ode to Roy"; in fact, I am quite flattered.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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JC - in his article I've highlighted in my most
recent post, resident Sunday Express poet
Martin Newell asks:
"Where are the poets to write humorous or nonsense
verse to amuse us in the manner that Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll or Spike
Milligan once did? Their modern counterparts
possibly exist but are highly unlikely to surface
in our colourless world, where any levity would
automatically disqualify them from winning funding."
Your situation seems worthy of inclusion in that category and worth promoting. My own
pension-funded efforts have just produced a
CD of verse which I've called "Poetry To Please" (sneaky, eh?). The fun from hereon is
to get copies out there, and at the very least
have something to pass on when I pop my clogs.
I am a believer in "you have to speculate to
accumulate" - in whatever endeavour and that
sometimes means self-financing and self-
promotion, no matter what the expectations.
Life can surprise us once in a while.
My emailed reply to Mr Newell's article cites
your wickedly funny "Ode To Roy" as an example
of what is being written...hope you don't mind.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hello Katie

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for uploading your photograph. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Pity-Poetry (poet profile)

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It's me again
Tripe
What would you think to me lowering the line 'The fabric of her town had perished' onto the following three lines. I think I'm going to do that anyway. The fabric of the town perishing is perhaps more accurately lined with the description of the state of the arcades and mansions
My tongue-in-cheek attempt? The town that I grew up in (a vibrant wool town) is truly dying - the arcades, either empty or full of tat, and the 'mansions' left, in many cases to crumble away, but a lady that I was passing 5 minutes with at Hosp. ultrasound dept could only comment on the fact that the tripe stall had shut. It perhaps highlights how we each see the changes that have come about in the time that we have spent on this planet.
I wish I could write, and therefore explain what was in my head at any one specific time

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia
Forgotten
As ever I truly appreciate your looking and commenting on the poem
I agree with you about stanza 5. The idea that I wanted to write something like this, came from a couple of sources
Firstly - the results of the MEP elections, where many people (definitely not me) in the North of England voted UKIP because they see themselves as those described in St.5.
Second - hearing our Southern countrified cousins complaining about the impact on the environment of airport extensions; fracking etc, (both, I accept, perhaps objectionable examples) without them really understanding that the areas north of The Wash have been the dirty engine room of the country for centuries, and the impact that this had on generation after generation
Probably not quite the explanation of what was in my mind when I wrote Forgotten, but I was really trying to write the second half of the poem to describe what I know to be in the mind of many people (perhaps a generation or two younger than me) in my little patch of the world - Forgotten and displaced
Wish I had an answer

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hello Tricia, glad to see you decided to join WOL. :)

I look forward to continuing our conversations here and on Shtyle and will take a look at your poems next.

best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Tricia Hague-Barrett (poet profile)

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Hello Joanne

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for already uploading a picture of yourself. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.

There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Joanne Rimmer (poet profile)

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Hello Tricia

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for uploading a picture of yourself. It’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.

There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Tricia Hague-Barrett (poet profile)

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Have responded to your kind comment about Touchstone on my wall. Thanks again. P.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Writing is an excellent means to sort out emotions. It's even better therapy as you begin to critique your own ideas in their relativity to other people's similar feelings. The world begins to take shape beyond self-made horizons. I think it's the start of real self-wisdom, especially essential to poets.

Comment is about Yenimls (poet profile)

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Hi MC
Thanks for taking the time to comment on 'Forgotten'
I just have the feeling that many folk in the 'NORTH' feel like they're going to end up as one big exhibit in a working museum

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Cheers for your note on me review Dave :)

Comment is about Dave Morgan (poet profile)

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thanx Daniel and big welcome to the site Love your style :)

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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Hi Jean.
Glad you enjoyed "Glasto" and thank you for the comment. Much appreciated.

Comment is about jean lucy thompson (poet profile)

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Hi Laura
Pleased you liked "Glasto in my Garden" and the "sisters lippy" line. I think Glastonbury should be on everybodys bucket list just for the diversity and 101 different experiences with mud ;)

Mind you nowadays it's all "Wet wipes, Wellies and Great big tellys"

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Dave
Thank you very much for your kind comment on 'Glasto'. I have since practiced reading it in a West Country accent since reading your commment. If I get to an open-mic night one day I will try it. Much appreciated.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Andy N

It will be good to see you

The theme for the night is willpower

When craving starts
Try to resist
Send strong messages
To your brain.

I must not
I must not
I must not
I must not.

In the end
Temptation wins battle
Willpower looses control
Feeling guilty maybe.

But even if
Strict diet dies
That chocolate bar
Tastes so divine.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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see you all on Monday as will defo be there unless something goes wrong in the meantime.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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thanks for your kind comments on the 2 war poems mate - this is a topic I'm really enjoying getting my teeth into - wait until you hear the audio versions :-) see ya on the 14th mate

Ian

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Babestation John??? Does that get your creative juices flowing then? ;-)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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thanks for the kind comments aND SUGGESTIONS RE 'pASSHENDALE' aNDY - I haven't made the change you suggested simply because the rest of the piece is written in first person perspective - so it's meant to convey a sense of being there - so 'fall like flies' works better than 'fell like flies' in that respect - if you see what I mean.
thanks mate
Ian

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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thanks for the kind comments on 'slamming flies' Cynthia - I am trying to write a selection of war poems in first person differing styles. it seems to make them more real - thanks for commenting
Ian

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Martin
'Glasto' was about having just as much fun... and mud... in your own garden without having to pay three figures for a ticket and far better toilet facilities than Glastonbury. Thank you for the comment. Appreciated.
I really like your poem 'He's not the one' especially as it gives the reader the hope that there may be a chance for the future. Nice one.

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn
Thank you very much for your comment and to welcome me to WOL it is much appreciated. On your 'Teardops in my Coffee' I love the first verse..
'My eyes as wet as the windows, mirroring my pain'
Sets the mind of the reader to think why. You just want the waitress to give you a little more time in the cafe. Lovely poem.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hello Daniel, welcome to Write Out Loud. Thank you so much for your kind words on 'Sleep'. Much appreciated. Look forward to reading more of your work.

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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Hi Daniel

Thanks for the kind comment.

After reading your splendidly well constructed excellently rhymed work, I sincerely return the compliment.

Are these pieces based on episodes of past experience? First World war work apart.

Comment is about Daniel Dwyran (poet profile)

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Just joined, David.
And what would we do without Miles?
I have a lot of his cds from different periods.

Comment is about John Eliot (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on 'Miles'. Didn't know you were here, John!

Comment is about John Eliot (poet profile)

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Thank you for the welcome, Graham.

Comment is about John Eliot (poet profile)

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Hello Becka

Welcome to Write Out Loud.

I hope you enjoy the site. We're really looking forward to reading some of your work and I know that you will be warmly welcomed by other WOL-ers too.

Thanks for already uploading a picture of yourself, it’s good to see what our fellow poets look like.

Have a good browse around, there’s lots going on and if you have the time to make some comments about the work of other poets please feel free. It’s the best way to get some constructive feedback about your own work too.
There’s always someone who’ll help you out with a problem, so just ask and someone will get back to you. It’s a friendly place, so welcome once again.

Graham Sherwood

Comment is about Becka Brush (poet profile)

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