Thank you Hugh! Really appreciate your comments - Katy

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Hi Anthony - thanks for comment, I was, of course, enough rock and roll to make up for it!

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Thank you Harry!

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Hi Hugh. Thanks for your comments on The Rapids. Glad you like it. Take care, Tony.

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Thank you, Laura : )

You've been writing up a storm! I must go through some of what I've missed...

xx

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Thank you : )
You've been quiet too lately - hope all is well and you are just busy having fun!

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Hi Hugh
thanks for your comments on 'The New Me' and 'The Last Kiss ' glad you enjoyed them - I enjoyed writing them.

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Hi Cynthia I'm glad you're keeping up with the postcards. I did worry in this one that I might come across as a bit dismissive of 'ancient wisdom' - however, the context is ironic. It is after all tragic that civilizations that have roots going deep into ancient philosophies couldn't do better than murder each other for decades. Even BUddhism in SRi Lanka can be quite militant and bloodthirsty. I suppose also there is the ironic contrast between the bluntness of the Customs sign - which I must say was really disconcerting (even though I've never touched an illicit drug in my life!) and the labyrinthine complecity of the philosophy of the Indian subcontinent.

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Thanks Isobel for taking the time to comment on my epic piece - Old Laddies, there is a comment there for you. Best wishes, Mike

x

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Cheers mate!

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Ann
thanks for your 'welcome' comments on my new profile page (3rd Jan)- sorry it's taken a little while to respond, but I've been finding my feet around the site and trying to understand the etiquette of posting/blogging/responding etc - and where and how to do it.
Took up your suggestion and started to blog some poetry - and it's getting a few responses - so thanks again for the tip
Ian

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Cynthia
thanks for your recent comments on my poem 'Vermin'. Interested in your suggestion to change the 'tossed in the air' wording, as my intention was to keep each line to 8 syllables - I'm never sure whether words like 'tossed' count as one or two - in my yorkshire diallect when read aloud it's definitely only one :-)
I'm new to the WOL community, so not sure on the etiquette for responding etc - thought best to comment on your profile page rather than on the blog entry. Anyway - went and read some of your work on your profile page - liking it - particularly like the blog post this evening - thanks once again
Ian

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Hi John, I had two pictures ready for the 'Snow Job' the other is a bit of a give-a-way since it shows a giant snow foot! Bit too obvious. This excited one from 'USA' seemed far more rude and therefore possibly captivating. It gained your attention anyway! Carry on with the wonderful songs and things, We all love 'em to bits. ta for comments, ta muchly, nick

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... I might add that I'd be more than happy to check out "The New (You)"

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Hello Yvonne,
Glad you liked Old Ladies.
We had a Festival for the Over 50's in York last year where I did a spot of 'poetry'. (I was, in fact, over-qualified for a Festival of the Over 50's.)

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Welcome aboard, Claire. Glad you sorted it. Yes, the layout looks fine and the content reads beautifully. Stunning final line. Thanks.

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Hehe - I ALMOST wrote one from the perspective of my tits :D But it wouldn't have been very big...

;D

Gwan - have a go!

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Well spotted, Cynthia, trouble is I keep re-ordering them each time I do a new one. When I get around to it I'll have to retitle them on this site too. I must say WOL is great in enabling you to post a poem and an appropriate image - which can then be re-posted on Face Book. Technology is really great these days! Didn't have all that in 1975 either!

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Love the sample poems.Will read your blogs. Take care, Tony.

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Hi Yvonne. Apologies for not replying sooner, thank you for your kind comments on feeling the pinch. Don't know if I'm ready to perform yet, maybe soon though, I'll let you know!

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Hi Cynthia Thanks so much for the encouragement re my 'postcard'. I wasn't sure if they be of any intetrested to others. I've done about 18 so far and have really enjoyed using a form that is very short, but enables you to use some quirky little memory, but then open up a pathway to something bigger. THemes are also beginning to link them up as well. I'll keep you informed!

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Hi Tony, thought I recognised the face! Good to meet you at Mole Valley Poets the other night, and thanks for the welcome and hospitality. Greg (Woking Stanza group)

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Thanks for the welcome - I'll do that

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Hi John,
Thank you for the compliment - I don't have the means to do audio on here but these tales do originate from live performances of 'Hunting The Great White Prawn'.
Them sailors and their Rum ration eh?, they treated it as gold dust by all accounts!

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Hello Harry,
I see you've been rooting through my back issue!
Yes, this is one I did when I came over last year. I thought I'd give it a re-post along with the triolet poem we chorused.
Hope you're keeping well and pleased to see that we have both been spared for another year!

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odd you should say that. sent a shiver down my spine....

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Hi Yvonne,
Thank you for your comments on Rum, Weedy and Bilgewater-not only will it blow your head off, it'll take your socks with it!

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thankyou for your comments on December
not really a poem to 'enjoy' so thankyou for reading

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Wow, Christina! what are you doing wading through my back catalogue!?
Many thanks for reading "The Plays of William Shakespeare". Glad you liked it. If you enjoyed this you might like some more of my other nonsense stuff to be found on my Profile page.

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Well that's where were different Ann. I never have a problem with the tune - its the damn words - but if I try really hard, eventually they come, like magic out of nowhere!

Thanks for welcoming me. x

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Thank you for your warm welcome. I think were gonna get along just fine :)

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http://www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com Noel Harrison ;o)

http://youtu.be/f5IRI4oHKNU

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Hello Dave
Thanks for commenting on Honduras.
I;ll tell you what happened to all those albums.
http://www.brookebondcollectables.co.uk/cardlist.htm

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Brooke Bond indeed, Greg; they had a little landscape shaped album for you to stick them in. I googled it an attached a link on the blog. If you follow it up be prepared for a wonderful fulfilling feeling of nostalgia!

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Many thanks for your comments on "Honduras", MC.
I googled those Brooke Bond cards and the bubblegum flags also. The link to the BB ones is above.
It was like seeing your best mate from the infant school again but without any embarrassment about what to say.
Somewhere in our brains I suppose we park these familiarities and the emotions associated with them.

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Depends what I've got to 'keepy-uppy', John.

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A tricorne hat, eh bonny. I bet you looked like nelson (horatio not mandela). I don't suppose you've kept the rest of the uniform? A girly wirly who collected cards? You'll be telling me next you did latin and can do keepy-uppies!

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Aww.. thank you, very much.

hope you doing well?

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Thank you Ann, that's very kind of you :)

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Hi Dave, Thanks for stopping by and reading 'Ode to a long lost lover' I wrote it mostly in one go a few weeks ago and since then I've tinkered with it too much so its good to let it go.
-Steve

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Hi Simon - welcome to WOL. I see you've put some poems on the blog section - great! I like the poem here on your profile page - reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe.

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Hi Pros and Coms - welcome to WOL!

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Hi Michael - welcome to WOL. Hope to see more of your work on here soon :)

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Hi Tony - welcome to WOL. I enjoyed your poems. Why not put one on the blog section - where you'll probably get some feedback and folk will get to know you.

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Hi Leon - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope to see some of your work here on Write Out Loud soon.

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Thanks Isobel for your kind comments on my January Fairy poem. I remember those christmas cake decorations! They always seemed to have traces of last years icing stuck to them! We had a father christmas climbing out of the chimney one, and those brushy christmas trees! I was a child in the 50s and the fairy I visualise would date from those times - certainly seemed more innocent then. Simpler anyway!

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Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments on my January Fairy poem. I was a child in the 50s and remember our little plastic fairy very fondly!

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Thanks so much Yvonne for your lovely comment on my January Fairy. I go to a monthly poetry group and the "homework" last time was January - and she just popped into my head!

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Hi Chris, I haven't seen much work from you in recent months but my guess is that's my fault. I have become a dad again for the third time and I have been busy tending to my baby daughter who is now some 3 months old.

Thank you for the comment on Out of Darkness. Yes it is to do with disability, without elaborating too much, the disability I thought of is Autism. And its effect on people who suffer this. However, I am not happy with the referral to a clowns status in her enlightenment but, as a poem that I thought would be a little different, I am happy with it I suppose, but then, all we poets can be our own worst critic.

Happy New Year to you!

Stay well.

Mike

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Your 40 rat poem is opening now Rachel, though you may want to reblog it cos it's pretty far down the blog list.

Izz

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