Hello Shirley,
Many thanks for your kind comments on my parody of Abba "I Had A Bream". Glad you liked it.
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Sat 4th May 2013 10:36
Hi Isobel great news! your poem has been voted the winner of the: 'a day in the life of comp' You now carry the laurels and the glory, a most worthy winner. Please can you send me your address so that the fantastic, fabulous, not-to-be-missed, outstandingly trivial, prize can wing its way safely to you.
Congratulations, cheers, Nick.
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Letting go - ah yes, still trying! x
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Nigel, how many copies of the anthology do you want?
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Hello there just wanna say, thanks for that comment I appreciate when someone truly understands what I write
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thanks for your insightful comments on 'drunk' John. The music was an attempt at a carousel (spinning) and a music box playing a lullaby (sleep) so you were pretty much spot on.
Also loving 'I have a bream' - reminded me of what i used to shout when i got home from school - "Mam, Im here"
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Hi- re ''How do women escape?'' the blood spilt was a reference to the violence already suffered by the woman. If I could have gone back in time I would have drew a question mark- to act as an interrogative- in the blood. Then I may have been up for an Arts Council grant. Tommy
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Hello MC,
Glad you liked "Michael Seen Flora". A true story as my mother told it. She had no doubts.
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hello Cynthia,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Michael Seen Flora".
Of course, it isn't really a poem at all. It's a piece of prose I wrote and chopped up into little lines.
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Many thanks for your thoughts on "Michael Seen Flora". Your recollection of the howling dog reminded me of a seance me and some mates did when we were teenagers when our dog who had slept in his basket through most of it suddenly leapt up and ran out howling into the kitchen at the very moment that the Christams Fairy fell off the tree behind us. Scary, or what?
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Good luck everyone
with the theme
of a good
old political rant
Tories too right
Labour hard left
stuck in middle
miss a turn
till you make
up your mind
on second thoughts
you May not!
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Hey Richard, Cheers for your comments on TWO a.M.-nice one mate!
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Thank you Cynthia! What a lovely thing to say :)
Glad you enjoyed it. I noticed that your brilliant poem Dreamfooter was in BoMP - was delighted to see it in there, remember loving that poem when you first put it up
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Hi Connor - I like your poem. Welcome to WOL - hope you will enjoy the site and put a poem on the blog section - more people see them there.
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Hi Graham - welcome to WOL. Be nice to see some of your poems on here. Hope you enjoy the site!
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Hi Carol - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope you will enjoy the site and taking part too :)
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Hi Mike
Thanks for reading On the Block
It's not a condemnation of the youth of today just an observation. This was only the fifth poem I wrote. Since then I have written a couple with a more sympathetic view of our young people. Blame was not the intention. Thank you for your comments though Mike, much appreciated mate.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.
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Hi again Shirley - thanks for taking the trouble to read "Dambuster" - and for the kind comment. It was a memorable experience sitting there listening to an actual participant from that legendary WW2 deed. Can you imagine how popular he and his pilot (the American Joe McCarthy) were with the other crew as they kept going around until satisfied that the bomb drop was accurate at that difficult to reach target? The other planes intended to attack that dam didn't do so for various reasons and the target, while damaged, stayed intact. "617" lost fifty three crew (nearly half their number) on that raid on three separate dams. Only recently have Bomber Command got their proper memorial here in Green Park, central London.
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Sat 27th Apr 2013 01:40
Thanks Martin..I have made those little adjustments and now I think I am happy with it..
Moi melancholy? gerroff! Just a misery guts at times!
:)
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Thanks for your thoughts, MC, on "Has Anybody Seen My Little Sarah". Difficult times for dads as their daughters grow up!
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Hello Harry,
Many thanks for your comments on "Has Anybody Seen My Little Sarah".
It's not meant to be sad, but I did find coming to terms with 2 girls growing into women challenging as a dad. I seemed to lose touch for a while as they developed interests which excluded me - make-up, boy bands, boys. We do seem to have come back together though as they entered their 20's.
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Yes, absolutely right! Katy
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Fri 26th Apr 2013 14:01
hey Ian :)
I like the way you read me..pleased you enjoyed this latest offering. :) Feng shui for the soul indeed!
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Aww no NEVER would I even fantasise about poisoning the little fella. It's not HIS fault. He's just being a dog, he doesn't know any different, and I DO kind of admire that about him! Trouble is the new neighbours are incredibly loud when they're home, are unable to communicate in less than a bellow, and when they finally go out it would be nice if all was peaceful, but it's not, cos he kicks off then. Ah well - thank god for earplugs.
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It's actually really comforting to hear about the specific things that you do, you know :) I totally understand. Certain things can also make me feel really nauseous. Our house is a bit of a tip cos none of us like tidying up, but an overflowing bin or lots of stuff on the kitchen table make me feel physically sick, and I have to get it sorted right away! It is possible to get it under a measure of control, I've done it, but it takes immense self-will and it's incredibly hard work.
Ha - and isn't that the beauty of poetry eh? You'd feel a total loon telling someone about it, but put it down in a poem, and there will always be someone out there who feels the same way :)
Nicely done
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Thanks for your supportive comments on my poem about Stephen Lawrence, much appreciated.
Mark
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Thanks for commenting on Hierarchy of Death, Harry. Appreciated as ever. Sad about the Spoke isn't it. Let's hope Chris, Natalie & Glenys can find somewhere else.
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Laura
I've never really talked to anyone about it - this was my attempt at (clumsily) getting across what a small part of it is like.
I am as frustrated and astounded by my innability to stop doing things as are others who see me do it - for instance:
I keep a huge pile of coins by the bedside and put whatever is in my pockets into the pile on a night - in a morning I take 6 X £1 coins, 5 X 50p, 4 X 20p (see the sequence) etc - and that's all that goes in my pocket.
As a kid (I've let this one go a bit now)I would always break rich tea biscuits into 1/3's - chew and swallow first, suck until gone 2nd and pulp with tongue 3rd - utterly bizzare to me and anyone watching me do it.
It's so difficult to talk to anyone who doesn't do these things because (as with other mental health problems) they simply TELL you to STOP doing it - and you know you should - but you can't :-). I guess you just have to cope with it rather than cure it - but talking to people about it??? NO - don't think so
Ian
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Hi Nigel,
Thank you for your comments on my poem "Jimmy Rockford". I have been a fan of James Garner since 1975. No I don't think he still lives in the trailer. LOL!
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Hello M.C.,
Thank you for your kind comments of my poem "Jimmy Rockford". My poem will fade from memory in a few days but your poem "Dambuster" has been read by thousands of people. You have every right to be proud. I also corrected the spelling error. I would never make it as a full time writer. LOL!
Thanks,
Shirley
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Hahaa - mmm interesting take on it, the creativity surges. I suppose so, but tbh, I became so bad with it that it did occupy every single minute of the day and my whole mind.
An example: if I was walking down the road, and scuffed a stone with one part of my foot, I had to replicate that with the other foot but on the EXACT same part of the foot. If there was ANY difference in the symmetrical location, then that second action had then to be replicated on top of the initial replication.
This would often build up into multiple replications, all needing to be done and ticked off in my head. I didn't have time to do anything else after a while, my entire being was consumed by it, and I came to the realisation that it had to stop or I would proper lose it. I was only about 9 or 10 when it hit its full height and had to bring myself out of it. It wasn't allowing me to go off into any kind of other thought process so in that respect it wasn't helpful at all - I do love to daydream!
It was immensely comforting at first though - still can be, when I get it right ;D It just feeds on itself though, which is the bugger.
Apart from us, did you tell anyone else about it? I didn't tell anyone about the symmetry thing until I was in my late 20s.
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Hi Laura
thanks for commenting on 'pure o' you are clearly someone who understands the condition from your own personal experence. I too have way more than disclosed in the poem including the numbers/alphabet/symetry/order thing - so as Steve has said I'm OCD rather than pure O - but I like the title for what it is rather than as a clinical definition of what I have. Read you earlier work on symetry and loved it - don't you find that there is an angel in the fog with all this though? - because apart from the irritation of the condition it does make me more accurate / precise and throws me into some really creative thinking and situations that I otherwise wouldn't experience. Just a thought :-)
thanks
Ian
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Yes, of course the photo was of me. Your application for the position of Chief Groupie is therefore accepted. But I hope the rest of you will be in better nick than your eyesight.
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Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "My Biggest Fan". More than one way to kill a cat!
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Hi Ian THanks for kind words on my photographer poem.
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Harry,
Many thanks for your thoughts on "My Biggest Fan". There did seem to have been a spate of less-than-polite blogs recently, usually spat at someone who had the temerity to take a different political viewpoint.
I like you idea of a free verse poem set to free (unstructured) music. Classical might well suit this best. I might give it a try.
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How de doody Mike.
On the Block was one of the earliest poems I wrote. Thought I'd put an early one on and hopefully get a bit of feedback. Tried reading it a bit JCC. You're right it does lend itself to that style of delivery, never thought about it. Thanks for the comment mate, much appreciated.
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Anthony,
I presume you already know of it...But MAGMA are having a `shaped` poetry competition.
They say they `welcome` unpublished stuff, but don`t seem to put a specific bar on blog stuff
(I.M.O.)
The problem is that the words are so confoundedly difficult to squeeze in to the shape legibly.
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If they had can't see them just using rubber bullets
Thanks for your comment
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Thanks Cynthia for generous comment on my photographer poem.
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Good grief! A little knowledge and a glib pen can wreck civilizations; it isn't always chain balls and volcanoes!
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Sorry Harry - meant to reply to your last note and forgot! It was heartening to read :) Thank you.
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Mr Cooke- ''unfortunately the one I refer to isn't to be found anywhere so I couldn't post it.'' this is just not good enough. Tommy
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Hi Tommy I suppose I could have tried my photographer poem less enigmatic! It's Willi Ronis - although Cartier-Bresson was pretty close. There's a lot of his photos online, but unfortunately the one I refer to isn't to be found anywhere so I couldn't post it.
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john, thanks for your comment and sentiment on my recent poem. much appreciated.
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isobel, thanks for your comment on my recent poem. very kind.
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thanks harry for your comment on 'as she lay dying'
sometimes i get frustrated by my ability to write effectively about those things that most effect me most. the poem came as a result of that frustration.
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You poems are beautiful and powerful. I found your profile through Julian.
Welcome to a great site.
Shirley
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Simply that poverty and social problems were not exclusive to the Thatcher era. As is now widely accepted, the so-called 'post-War consensus' was rife with racism, class-distinction and poverty. To attribute these maladies solely to Thatcher is ridiculous. They existed before her and they exist now she has gone (oddly ameliorated, to no small degree).
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John Coopey
Sat 4th May 2013 22:19
Hello Dave,
Glad you liked "I Had A Bream". Many thanks for your kind comments.
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