Hi Chris. I really like your poems. I enjoy the narrative and admire the use of rhyme [never trite]. Most of all I like the sincerity. John.

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https://soundcloud.com/professor-doctor/deep-down-inside-by-smothers

Hello Nigel. Thank you for commenting on my poem "Deep Down Inside". Your comment is much better than my poem. I have provided a link to the sound cloud recording. I can't believe someone actually recorded this to audio. LOL!

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Very beautifully put Nigel! Katy

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It would appear that you are new here to WOL, welcome!
Of what your sampler shares with us, I definitely would love to read more of your work. Hope to see more soon. Thanks for sharing.

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Thankyou for you comments on "Going Home Time", Yvonne. Good to hear that you're from vergernal stock. I don't suppose it's given you a thing about the uniform, has it?

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Thankyou for you comments on "Going Home Time", MC. Yes, the quality of sitting alone in the Abbey owes a lot to the knowledge that timeless thousands have done so before.

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Hey Wez! Thanks for your much welcome comments:

"Clever piece, and well written. :)"

You are gratefully appreciated. Cheers.

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Thank you kindly for your kind words of comment on my poem about legal tender:

"Even more binding when you think that money is
usually exchanged for some sort of service."

You are most appreciated, Harry.
Best regards, Frederick

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Thank you kindly, Yvonne, for your kind words in response to my poem about legal tender:

"clever piece, so much said in so few words. well constructed. I enjoyed it."

You are most appreciated. Cheers.

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Hi Yvonne. Thanks for your kind comments on my blog post about "Pretty Fragments."

The prediction is a really fun thing to take part in, it was the one thing that got me writing seriously again 3 years ago. The folks that take part are very welcoming.

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'I am also developing a keen interest in photography, as I am fascinated by the attention to detail it involves, such as the emphasis on aspects such as light and shade'

your poetry presents you well in this aspect of your self observation David - welcome to WOL :-)

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Cheers Tom- things are just so- :o)

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Hi M.C.
Belated thanks for the comments on Ghosts.

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Hi Ann, a belated thanks for your comments on Ghosts. Much appreciated as usual!

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Hi Ged, a belated thanks for your comments on Ghosts.

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Thx for the feedback on my latest one Laura.

Cheers

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on my latest John.

Cheers

Chris

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Strane idee
Nella buio della note
Come una fragile menzogna
Ci vola nel spirito del tempo
Come un farfala sincera
Ma tu non sei...
E partita con le nuvole di matina
Quanto io stavo dormendo
La mia Africa nera

2february2012

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Toledo
Strade con silenzioze catedrali
Come in Paradiso
Senza passegiatori,solo hermetiche ,machine
Affondate all buoi della notte..
Come fratti contemporani arrivati
Da un altro pianeta
Che entrano inttimiditti
Al "Garden of Hope"di James Gurney
Per cacciare le cigarette sperdutta
Che sono lachiati dagli angeli..

Book"Funerali i te gjalleve"1912

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Thank you Ann. I appreciate your kind comments so far.

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Laura you are now officially my favorite poet on this site. That is all. x

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Thanks for your feedback John.......AND for giving me the opportunity to unashamedly plug my opus -you want to know about the Great White Prawn? Details of how to buy the novel are on my website (see the link on my profile), it's all in there!

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Thanx Yvonne :o)I appreciate your comment.

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Oi, smart toff. Wots wiv the big words then?. I can't bloomin' pronounce
syllabically-challenged, let alone spell it.

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Thanks Isobel! I am sure there a few more tales waiting to be told as legal tender passes on from hand to hand, stories of hearts & dreams, both bright & grim, of hope & grief. It may just be the beginning for this humble piece of writing. You kind words are most appreciated & always welcome.

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Hello Chris,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise...".
The kids (they're both in their 20's now) made me up a collage for Christmas of old photos of us when they were little and a few of my poems about them. This was one of them.
I got some of that man-dust stuck in my eye.

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Hello MC,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Samantha Louise...".
It's a vicious rumour that I've done any "effortlessly touching"!

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Hello Old Fruity,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise and the syllabically-challenged Sweet Sarah Jane".
Wotchafink to the threads then, eh? You never lose it!

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Mine are very soft and smooth thankyou :)

Looking at your comments, I see you are a handy man yourself!

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Yvonne
many thanks for your kind comments on 'Snowblind', they are much appreciated
cheers

Ian

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Hi Ann

Thanks for the welcome, it was very much appreciated that you took the time to do that.

Thanks again

William

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Thanks for the tip Cynthia, going to go through that list now.

By the way, have your read any Anna Kavan?

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Hello Cynthia, thank you for your kind words on Submission.
You pose a question about tenses.

The beginning and end are in the future tense as the death has not happened. It is a commentary of how I think I would feel if something were to happen and its effect.
The central piece is reminiscence of the components of a relationship.

I'm sorry if it feels confusing but I never usually explain my work too much. My ending I feel is more profound, prophetic even.

Many thanks once again for your views, always appreciated.

very best regards,

Graham

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Cheers for the comment, Harry.

I see you have a Liverpool and literary background, so do you fancy coming to read / perform with our group, The Liver Bards, at the Ship and Mitre (upstairs room), Dale Street, on third Mondays of each month? Next meetings are on Monday 18 Feb and Monday 18 March. There is no meeting in April though; instead we have a special Monday 6 May Liver Bards at the Ship and Mitre, as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival.

PS When the slow withdrawal of the light .... great line.


Our New Brighton-based group is at the Magazine pub on second Mondays every month.

Both clubs start at 8pm. Both are open floor, where every poet gets to read twice in two five-minute slots.the slow withdrawal of the light

PS

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Wow! Hello MC, and thanks for visiting and responding to Australia Day. I am also grateful for the heads up on the square-rigger. I shall follow the progress of that project. Quite interesting. Have a pleasant week!

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Thanks for your feedback on my driving seat poem Ged. It was an uncomfortable experience for me - I'm glad that came across. It all makes for good poetic fodder though, so something positive came out of it. x

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Personal Odour? Fishermen? Surely some mistake!

Thanks for your feedback on 'Mackerel In The Bath' Yvonne-glad it raised a smile :-)

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Thanks very much for your kind comments on 'Snowblind' Tina - they're very much appreciated
Ian

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Lovely poem Claire. Welcome to WOL. Hope to see more of your work on here.

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Welcome to WOL David. I have enjoyeds reading your work thus far.

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I’m lucky, I don’t suffer except for some, maybe:
The headaches and the nightmares of what could nearly be.
An SAS saved my life by using his dawn knife,
But we weren’t there, so that can’t be,
No, we were not the cavalry.

I am so sorry that you feel the way that you can’t help,
But I have been in places where the enemy wants your scalp,
Before your time – so what? – Lost mates hurt just the same,
I try to sleep, but nothing, no, nothing is the same.

To break away from horrors – I write and do my best,
It’s good that you can, ‘get it out’ – despite my lame protest,
I wasn’t condescending, of that I am most sure,
For you, it is more difficult to quell the fighting roar.

A raw that I know well - that wears its anger for all time,
Ignore those fucking analysts; you fought and spent your prime,
This has now been taken – given to our Queen,
I trust that I do not offend – for I had earlier seen.

The wish was for your solid words to come across most strong,
Not ignored as babbling squaddie – redress always dies long,
I was not a ‘grunt’ but a ‘shiny’ you would say,
Nonetheless, I was there, albeit, previous day.

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Many thanks for being my spell checker! Offending words corrected. xx

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi, John. No, I don't miss the headlines. I still get to write a few on Write Out Loud!

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Yes, Win. I rather did the over-elaboration in the song just to draw attention to the eye-rhyme between penis and denis.

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Hi John. Yes, I found your penis, penis very interesting. The first line got the bigist laugh when I suddenly got your v cleaver word play. :-) Win

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I see you've been looking at my "Penis, Penis", Win!

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Hello Cynthia,
Thankyou for commenting on "Hotel Fawlty Towers". Glad you liked it.

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Hello MC,
Glad you liked "Hotel Fawlty Towers". I know what you mean about the Major!

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Hello Yvonne,
Thankyou for commenting on "Hotel Fawlty Towers". You would not credit the number of times I blobbed in recording it; I must have done 20 takes!

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Funeral of lives
Run like a crazy for your coffin
run in fever for finding a bus
That will carry people ,pain,team..
Run to refuge,residence,-cemetery
But and for going there you need a friend
Fiends for a grave,gravedigger friend..
To seems like you and not somebody else
Friend for marble,friends for...
Run.run in this funeral
Funeral of lives..
Run,like in my funeral
Leon Qafzezi-Poetry books 2012

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