Collage Mixture
Red nostrils
energetic blow.
Winter blue
leaves nature.
Sunset mountains
birdsong written.
Summer kisses
troubled dreams.
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<Deleted User> (10832)
Wed 15th Jan 2014 13:01
Ha ha! Thanks for the link to that inflateable you song. I loved it and what a lovely pair of nashers Tim Minchin has! I like things that give me a laugh. He reminds me Russell Brand. All men should have teeth like those two - and they should make you laugh with it :)
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<Deleted User> (10832)
Tue 14th Jan 2014 20:39
Welcome! I'm interested in living to - or at least I don't want to die yet. There are too many lyrics in me waiting to come out. That's a nice seagull you've uploaded there - does it symbolise the freedom you find in poetry?
Comment is about Tom Dryden (poet profile)
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Good to hear it! And thank you twice over. Ink isn't finished yet ha ha lot more to go yet.
:-)
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
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I am indeed well - good to see you around again. Loving that backpiece!! Wow!
Comment is about Kath Hewitt (poet profile)
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Thanks for the heads-up, MC.
I Look forward to the audio.
John
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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thanks for the kind comments on 'old school tie' starfish - much appreciated as always
Ian
Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)
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JC - you may recall commenting on my post "Fallen Angel" to the effect that you were waiting on the tune.
I have to tell you that I woke up early (too b....y early) yesterday morning with a tune
running through my mind which I somehow knew
would fit. The downside was getting out of my
warm bed to sing a version of the two into my
tape recorder...knowing that if I stayed abed,
I would fall asleep and forget it next time I
woke up. The price we creatives pay for our
efforts!!! Anyway, I am arranging for it to
be recorded by my usual excellent source and
hope to post the completed product on WOL in
due course.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Hello Moira
Many thanks for your comment on 'Before You'. I see you are no stranger to love poems yourself :)
I also note that I last commented on one of your pieces back in 2011! The Library one. Was excellent.
Cheers
Laura
Comment is about Moira Eribenne (poet profile)
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Hi Andy Glad you liked my deer poem and thanks for the kind comments. MY apologies too for being so slow in getting back as I was away for a few days.
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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Happy new year, Laura, chuck, and glad you liked Surbiton Lagoon. To tell the truth, I didn't go there much, because at that time I couldn't really swim. But I could always hear them all enjoying themselves, in the distance.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
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No steam trains going past Surbiton Lagoon, John, more's the pity, thought they weren't far away, of course. A whistle in the distance.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Thanks for your comments on Surbiton Lagoon, Starfish. Glad you liked it.
Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)
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Glad you enjoyed Frank's poem, Francine. Thanks.
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Glad you enjoyed Surbiton Lagoon, MC. I lived just round the corner, and garnered some of the material for it from a FB site with 700 members on it. And obliged to you for your kind comments on the Best of British Poetry 2013 review, too.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Thanks for commenting Francine? I am feeling better at last. Good job too - I'm an impatient patient
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Hi Harry
Very sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you are best to your sparkling best soon.
The competition idea is great. If someone had a go at running it I'd have a go and I'm sure others would too.
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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Dave,
I got your reminder about the competition idea.
Unfortunately, I did a bit of a beautiful back flip at the bottom of the stairs the other night and back-butted a table and I`m still a bit woozy (was I ever not?) The table is fine though.
For what it`s worth The `idea` was just a photo, with a (specific?) type of commentary poem about it. I offer it for anyone with more
internet savvy if they want it.
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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Glad you enjoyed Frank's Valentine poem, Isobel. I found myself talking about Write Out Loud after his funeral, and a number of people there urged me to put it up on our site.
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Glad you enjoyed Surbiton Lagoon, Cynthia. I gathered a lot of material about it from a very chatty Facebook site that had been formed to celebrate its memory. We lived three streets away, and you could hear the noise from it very clearly every summer.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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thanks for the kind comments regarding Circe's Antidote' Gray - very pleased you liked the twist at the end and that it wrong-footed you out :-) RESULT! thanks once again
Ian
Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)
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Thanks for the comments about "The Menin Gate
- 11/11/2013". The poem has been sent to the
Regimental Adjutant at Wellington Barracks
for consideration for use during 2014.
My father survived WW1 (Western and Italian
Fronts) as a young subaltern with the Duke
of Cornwall's Light Infantry (1st Btn.)
A maternal uncle was killed in action during
the battle for Delville Wood in 1916.
I doubt if there are many British families of
a certain generational ancestry who are not
connected with that terrible conflict.
Comment is about cbyrne (poet profile)
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Hi Cythia I hope you're feeling better and you konw what, I think you might have a point with 'ghostly' over 'spectral'. In some ways the former is more 'ordinary' perhaps but then the latter might be slightly more 'mannered'. However, as far as the harmony of sounds is concerned I think you are right. In fact, I never thought of it echoing the click of hooves on concrete, but now that you've mentioned it you are again right and as you say, the other clicks come later. In passing, I hope there is just enough of a hint of 'migration' but without overdoing it in our present climate. Apparently the hordes from the east were actually not that desperate to invade us on 1 January after all.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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MC, thanks very much for commenting on Frank's poem. A happy new year to you.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Harry, thanks so much for commenting on Frank's poem. A happy new year to you.
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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should have sent it to are you being framed
hope to see you next Monday
bye for now
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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Thank you so much :-) I am enjoying myself immensely already
Comment is about Jane Burn (poet profile)
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thanks Nigel. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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thanks Nigel. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
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Hello and happy new year Harry!
Thank you as always for reading and commenting on "shoot the puppy".
I did angst over using this as a title but it was one of the main sentiments that kicked it all off.
The subject was left a little open for interpretation, I prefer that. I may qualify that on my own blog site at some stage.
I can see what you mean about the separation idea. But once the bread is on the water etc etc.
keep well and have good fortune for 2014.
Graham
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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thanks Winston. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol).
Hope you enjoy the book. It's not one of my high brow books, as I wrote it for Cathy really but she loves it and that means the world to me.
Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)
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thanks Gray. glad you liked this. It was just a bit of fun really although most of it is true in particular the bit about diving cats (one of them missed the windowsill the other night and nearly knocked herself out which would have been worrying if it wasn't so funny - lol)
Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)
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Hi David THanks for comment on the Clouds poem. I just went where it took me. I was brought up as a Catholic and the idea of heaven. I've now got three MUslim grandchildren. I don't believe in heaven any more so it might just be saying that heaven is what you want it to be, possibly!
Comment is about David Blake (poet profile)
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Hi Chris, remarkable that you found my poem The Reluctant Volunteer, nearly four years after I first posted it! You're quite right, there is a lot more to the story. I've written other poems about it, and maybe there are still more to come. My father ended up working up on the "death railway" in Thailand as a POW. There's a new film, The Railway Man, just come out, that I hope will paint a more realistic picture of it than The Bridge on the River Kwai! Greg
Comment is about cbyrne (poet profile)
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Thanks for commenting John. Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything is one of my favourite books. And I won a 5CD set of it, read by Bill B himself, in a poetry evening raffle. I listen to it regularly - the combination of things of wonder and human eccentricity is irresistible. Apparently he is an agnostic. Given what he writes in the book, that seems surprising, but each to their own.
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
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Thanks for commenting Harry. Interesting that introversion or extroversion might be seen as gender-related because really they aren't
Are you going to run a competition? No pressure
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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Thanks for commenting Winston. It's a long time since you blogged on WOL which is a pity
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Fri 3rd Jan 2014 17:40
Kenneth Eaton-Dykes
Thu 2nd Jan 2014 16:26
Never mind Harry, it was money well spent, you'll look smart laid out in that new "Granny pulling"outfit.
(Top of the heap)
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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Hi Greg Happy New Year yourself! Be good if you can make it to the Covent Garden gig. Yes, I have quite a few more in the Grimsby sequence. I was amazed by the quick response from Pennilessand the fact that they took the lot, although I was only expecting them to take one and wanted to spread them around!I thought they looked a bit Stand-ish, so I might have to try them with what's left. THough it takes them forever to get back and the lost time was a rejection!
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
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Happy new year to you too, David. Not sure I'll get to the Ariadne launch, but will try to make the Screech Owl one, date depending. Very impressed with your Grimsby poems in Penniless Press today. Have you got any more of those up your sleeve?
Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)
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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your very perceptive comment on "Unwanted." It was written in anger for someone I love.
Have a very happy New years Eve and all the best for next year.
Cate xx
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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Hi Greg Happy New Year! Glad you liked the stamp poem. I'm thinking of maybe going to the Ariadne launch in January. Do you fancy it? Also will definitely be down to the Poetry CAfe Covent Garden for Grant Tarbard's Screech Owl launch, if you're up for it. I'll be reading with other contributors including Bethany.
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
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I know what you mean about the poem
Happy new year mate and see you soon at Stockport
Now to finsh those cans left over from Christmas!
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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Kenneth Eaton-Dykes
Tue 31st Dec 2013 12:28
Hi Harry
Being a couple of octogenarians, next time we move the earth, will be via the Sextons shovel.
Happy New Year.
Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)
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Hi Cynthia Glad you got the poems and sorry to hear that you've been unwell. Hope things pick up in the New ear and that you find some stuff in the book you like.
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
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Books arrived safely almost immediately. My computer wonked out just before sending you a message, and hasn't recouped until today (incorrect info from experts silenced my Christmas period - not a bad thing - and I was quite ill too, but better now. Better computer access - better me - what's not to like!) I will greatly enjoy your poems. Happy New Year!
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kath hewitt
Thu 16th Jan 2014 20:37
Cheers Andy :-)
You keeping well? x
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