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Sat 19th Jan 2013 00:16

I am currently an airline pilot and play bassoon in the Royal Liverpool Philomonic Orchestra and am chef-du-'file at various restaurants and still find time to chuck empty beer cans at gulls that land too close to my caravan.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 18th Jan 2013 21:57

HI Tommy,
caravan and sea are so me!

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 18th Jan 2013 21:54

Hi Steve
thanks for the link to your piccies of Dylan'sbooathouse. I am so jealous that you have been there I love his work too.xx

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Francine

Thu 17th Jan 2013 19:50

Merci beaucoup Ann !
xx

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David Cooke

Thu 17th Jan 2013 12:22

Hi Greg THanks for kind words on my David poem. Yes, now you mention it we did have a conversation about 'postcard' poems. KIngsley Amis once famously said that ' no one wants any more poems about foreign cities'. If these little poems come to anything and I manage to publish them I'll use that as an epigraph. I don't agree with him and some of my favourite poets are always writing about foreign places: Jamie McKendrick, Michael Hofman, Bernard Spencer, CHarles Tomlinson. Anyway, these have ben quite fun to do. I'm up to 14 at the moment.

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Laura Taylor

Thu 17th Jan 2013 09:19

Thank you for your kind words Yvonne - you know what it's like when you're the writer though - bloody things are never QUITE finished! ;)

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Thu 17th Jan 2013 00:09

Thank you Ms B. methinks you enjoy a caravan by the sea?

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Thu 17th Jan 2013 00:02

Hello MC
Glad you liked penis Penis.
It was a rather laboured song just to make the point that Penis and Denis are eye rhymes.

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Thu 17th Jan 2013 00:00

Hello Dave,
Another one near the knuckle, and with only one poor joke in it - penis and denis are eye rhymes!

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Wed 16th Jan 2013 23:56

...and what's wrong with calling it Penis Penis? ("So good they named it twice")

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Steve Higgins

Wed 16th Jan 2013 23:41

Hey Yvonne, glad you liked 'Mum' and loved your villanelle.Don't get me started on Dylan Thomas, I love his work. Went to see his 'house on stilts' - the boathouse at laugharne some years ago, what a great museum and the staff are so nice. Heres my pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61207511@N03/5737365722/in/set-72157629746360284
best wishes, Steve

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Wed 16th Jan 2013 22:42

'brasso', yvonne? Very good. Spookily when i was at school a kid had a testicle removed and cruelly got nicknamed 'womble'.

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<Deleted User> (8659)

Wed 16th Jan 2013 19:33

Hi Yvonne,
Thank you for your comments on 'A Tradition Saved'
I am hoping to include this and other excerpts I may post on here in my next novel (which will be a sequel to 'Hunting The Great White Prawn')so all feedback is especially appreciated.
Cheers,
Ledger

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<Deleted User> (6895)

Wed 16th Jan 2013 15:57

We thank you Yvonne for opinions(Down)
and observations.xx

Indeed,mutilating does NOT work-why?
because two old duffers somehow
forget to add the word-itself-
immediately after it-zzzzzzzzzzzz!!

Cheers chuck.xx

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<Deleted User> (6895)

Wed 16th Jan 2013 15:47

Hi Steve.We hope thou art well and that you are maintaining that youthful,roguish smile.

'Tenebrous' has had the you-know-what
well knocked out of it on W.O.L

It is nearly as popular
and as nice as that word.....er
ah!

Higgins!

Cheers matey!xx

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Isobel

Wed 16th Jan 2013 13:06

Ditto - I don't get the same problem with other blogs though. I'll drop a line to the techies to ask them what the problem is. x

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Yvonne Brunton

Wed 16th Jan 2013 12:36

Ditto for 40 Rats blank page comes up!

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Fkx

Wed 16th Jan 2013 08:06

Thanks Yvonne! I am glad that a connection was made, even without the aid of a cup of tea.

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Rachel Bond

Wed 16th Jan 2013 01:16

wow what a lot of rot i write!! haha will catch up. thanks

ive re read your comment. it is very beautiful.

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Steve Higgins

Wed 16th Jan 2013 00:49

Thanks for checking out 'the middle of the night' Yvonne. I rarely need the loo in the night but conversely when I'm sleeping in the day after a night shift I always have to go at 11:30!
best wishes, Steve

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Nigel Astell

Tue 15th Jan 2013 12:29

Maggie wheelchair will travel
Good to see you
Notice put on lawn
No crumbs for you
New law passed through
States no feeding here!

Thanks for coming Gerald
Welcome to Stockport WOL

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Tue 15th Jan 2013 01:49

Laura you are now officially my second favourite poem on this site- That is all.

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Mon 14th Jan 2013 23:30

THIS?

#1 Rachel- ''I have my own genres.'' Tae Kwon Do or butchery may resolve your need for 'poeticide' ;o). I do re-read my own stuff regularly- and sometimes also feel a distance between 'us' both. Maybe that is the sign of nascent maturity?
10/01/12

#2 Rachel- re your post to myself; have you not considered that your poetry may be 'universal' and therefore have value to an unknown reader?
09/01/12

#3 poeticide is a good word. i keep the ones that are important. some get deletisized.the genre thing is really to say i have a distance from a lot of my subjects but make them personal. some turn out to be something i want to keep personal. sometimes i write for me. sometimes for others, but i agree that nascent maturity allows for me to see that sometimes what i write is an elaborate escape and sometimes i like to keep it real.
11/1/12

4# yes tommy i have thought about that and i agree, its really why i continue to post or write at all. however i also believe in the field of dreams...'build and they will come' only in this case instead of building a big baseball park i clear out my old poems to make way for the new. fresh ideas. in art i work sequentially, ideas build change and develop. with writing i like to write as if ive never written anything before. which is why some read like that. i like to write with different 'voices' from different perspectives and let styles work together. i have my own genres.
9/1/12

#5 'new me.' sometimes i read back old poems and they have become that. outdated thinking, old thought processes. i like to clear em out and start again with a fresh page hoping for inspiration. thanks for asking x

#6 tommy, its a tough one. i believe that if something is written and posted and it offends which all sorts of material is likely to do on all sorts of grounds..i think the writer should be held accountable to their readers as would be with published work. here a comments system operates.so if i were to offend i would personally feel obliged to defend, explain my writing. sometimes its an agree to differ situation. if someone were to post something inciting hatred be it racial, concerning disability, whatever i still beilieve it should stand and be criticised. As such it offers an exampler of its inadequacy as an idea. if someone were to post sexually inapropriate material i believe there should be a standard of censure based on the accessibility of this site to young people as a moral obligation.
concerning freedom of speech once blogged this goes out to the world potentially. Its a gift but just a medium. free media..is up for exploitation like anything else. I think we can only measure our own writing. I have only ever once been offended by a slight comment on this site and ive been a member for years. I think that a sign of its credibility and the level of responsibility of its writers.
Thanks for posting this.
8/10/11

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Rachel Bond

Mon 14th Jan 2013 22:27

hi tommy...now im sorry but you put an interesting comment on my profile and its been so long since i was on here that ive forgotten to which, what, who it refers?? please remind x

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 14th Jan 2013 17:46

Thanks Yvonne - I guess that the "Creator" must have decided that love per se was not conducive to progress or else humans might be inclined to stay happy in a state of commonly enjoyed conviviality and go nowhere in the greater scheme of things. Would that be so bad, I ask?! Instead, we seem to have been programmed to have the capacity but not the total commitment...a sort of emotional half-way house of "one kiss forward...two kicks back"; and vice-versa.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 14th Jan 2013 17:17

I have ambivalent thoughts about the mining industry. I accept its importance as a mainstay of the industrial might that propelled this small country to the fore in other days, yet feel immense sympathy for those men (and boys!) who worked in it, and the animals that had even less of a choice. Who, I have always wondered, would WANT to work as a miner? And with that in mind, I have also wondered why there should be such resistance to seeing the end of such a dangerous and debilitating way of life...especially if it offered the chance of another existence, helped by a financial incentive. There must be plenty of people seeking the opportunity to strike out on their own OR choose a different way of earning a living...even it it means moving elsewhere. But maybe that is the biggest hurdle for so many...moving elsewhere. Is it the fear of leaving what you know - a close-knit community in work however mean and hazardous - for the unknown of a wider world? This may be a "northern" trait as I recall that the tin miners of Cornwall became well known in other lands - seemingly willing to export their particular expertise.
Not a calling for the claustrophobic - and I wonder about life insurance rates!!

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Harry O'Neill

Mon 14th Jan 2013 15:48

Anne,

Thanks for the re-welcome( as warm as your
well-remembered first one)

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Mon 14th Jan 2013 14:00

Hi Ludo - a warm welcome to SWOL - hope you enjoy the site.

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Mon 14th Jan 2013 13:58

Hi - and a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site :)

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Mon 14th Jan 2013 13:55

Hi Tom - welcome to WOL. Good luck with thatr hit single! Hope to see (and maybe hear) more of your work on here soon.

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Mon 14th Jan 2013 13:53

Hi Harry - looking forward to seeing more of your candle boats of poetic endeavor on here soon ;)

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Fkx

Mon 14th Jan 2013 09:29

Thank you, kindly. I am most appreciative of your visit & honest response.

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Katy Megan Hughes

Mon 14th Jan 2013 07:44

: ) lol!!

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Sun 13th Jan 2013 22:01

Oi! I heard that!

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Isobel

Sun 13th Jan 2013 21:39

I'm delighted to hear that there is a simple explanation for you disappearing like that :)

Re photo - any will do - how lucky are you not to be visually challenged - like what John Coopey is... ;)

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Sun 13th Jan 2013 21:16

...that comment about trying to find a photo that does justice...
...best keep looking!

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Harry O'Neill

Sun 13th Jan 2013 21:11

Isobel,
Your chat request kept coming up and I kept ticking `allow` but nout happened and as a computer thick `ead I didn`t know what to do next.

(I presume it was to do with old stupido deleting himself off the profiles by accident)If it was anything else let`s know.

(I`ll add a photo when I can find one that does Justice, homage, adoration, etc; to my immense good looks)

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Isobel

Sun 13th Jan 2013 20:36

Thanks for your comment on my FB poem Cathy. Yes - speaking to the wall is a strange concept - you ARE speaking to yourself - but at the same time everyone you ever knew - from the person you met in a lift a day or so ago to someone you haven't seen since your first job 20 years ago... Facebook is a crazy crazy place!

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Nigel Astell

Sun 13th Jan 2013 18:04

Sexy lady
Seductive glasses
Poetry book
Would love
To borrow
Mind you
I might
Just get
Stuck on
Page three.

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Sun 13th Jan 2013 17:47

Thanks for your comments on "You've Met The Met", Laura.

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Sun 13th Jan 2013 17:46

Hello Harry,
Thanks for your thoughts on "You've Met The Met". Time was when the NUM were a significant if not enormous power. In their time, leaders like Gormley and Scargill were names everybody had heard of; likewise Vic Feather or Len Murray.
Who knows who the President of the TUC is these days, let alone a piddling little union like the NUM.

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