Hello AE,
Thankyou for your comments on "Compliment". I hope your arthritis improves soon.

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Hello Y,
Glad you liked "Catch the Bins" and "Compliment". I'm afraid only one is autobiographical!

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And I'm sorry I even picked up on it. It would probably have disappeared into obscurity but for my big gob :) I'm sure that the out of context quote was accidental - it's very easy to do when you are up close to an article that you are writing.

The new magazine must be an exciting project to manage. From a personal point of view, I think you will lack some of the soul that comes from the poetry of people who have lived longer and suffered more. What you lose on the swings, you may gain on the roundabouts though - as you say - young people may come up with newer, more innovative ways of looking at things. It will be interesting to see how it all develops.

Take care and hopefully see you in Wigan some time soon! x

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Hi Isobel, just dropping by to say thanks - firstly for the good luck wishes, and secondly for understanding on that article debacle. More than little annoyed about that.

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Hi Isobel

Glad you liked that one, a few of them are a bit err edgy/erotic. Next sundays poem is in that vein too! : )

Kate

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Thank you Dave - I take "vivid" as a positive comment! : )

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Wahay!!! - thanks to people who are much more IT clued-up than me, I am finally up and running on our dear Stockport WOL site!!!
Thank you, John and Julian...........
I just love our group: let's make sure we keep it going!
Dorinda x

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two old duffers beg ones pardon for late thank you for comments on 'Night walk' xx

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Andy

A luminous piece. Just one question - is the poem about just our own gallery or gallery closures in general?

I think we will press on with poetry at the next meeting. If it is our last four months at the gallery, let us bring our tenure to a glorious conclusion. And if not, let us continue our glorious ways...

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Forgot to blog this before for you guys.. typically late - lol

If the art galleries shut

If the art galleries shut
It’s not just a case of where
Would all the pictures go?

Not just a case of where
Would all of the staff go
(even though there is precious
few of them left altogether now),

or drawing classes
not being able to draw
or sketch
anywhere else.

It’s more of a case
Of it the art galleries shut
Where would you
Be encouraged
To look at life
From a different angle.

Where would people
Be encouraged to think
Outside of the box
And look at Narnia
As more than a
Haunted woodland.

Lowry as more
Than a study of Salford
In matchstick men and women
In glass bubbles,

And Munch’s the Scream
More than a storm in a teacup
But rather than a two litre bottle.

Without that,
Where would the freedom
For expression be?

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Brilliant evocation of that transformation when the Heron takes off. I love this Dave

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Hello Cynthia!

There is a WOL do in Sale on the 18th December. What say to this? We can come to see you there and maybe read too. How does this sound?

xx

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Hi Cynthia, 'The Liaison', much appreciated your views on this & I did as you suggested. Many thanks.

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A Request For Extra Books

Where Is That Damn Pencil?

Two books wanted
Please please Julian
Two books wanted
For Linda too
Also for John
If I forget
You must remember
If you forget
I must remember
Then I can
Remind you to
Do what again
Oh yes that
While still registering
Inside brain cells
Write it out
On some paper - - -

Now where is that damn pencil!

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Marianne, of course I would love to meet you! My home WOL site is Sale Waterside in Greater Manchester. I have no car, so tram and bus are my only transport. There are many venues I'd enjoy visiting, but I am limited to the immediate area. I went regularly to the Green Room in Manchester, and sometimes to the Sandbar. There was an experimental venue, but too isolated to be safe for a lone woman after dark. I do also balance courtesy to my husband.

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Lol! I was flying British Airways!!

Katy

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Hi Cynthia

Thanks for your feedback - it was right shoulder only because of where I was sitting on the plane at the time! Glad you enjoyed

Katy

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Thanks Hugh - glad you liked!

Katy

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Tommy is thinking why posters refer to themselves in the third person. I have tried to, so has himself if speaking in the third person he finds one asking him why? can two people converse in the third person? Tommy finds it difficult to quote directly from a third person's point of view while speaking to the third-person themselves (or is it your imagination that we find ones mind co-joining)We wonder if one's first-person obligates the second-persons directly attributed pro-noun. I myself think that we should (Tommy is speaking directly here)avoid all confusion in such matters by using the first-person when writing or speaking to the reader as one will find that he or she wonders if themselves are also confused. Yours (or is it ones)Tommy Carroll himself.

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Thanks for your comments on Fool On The Hill (Vol 9) John. Yes, ants are very sociable beasts - and once one has decided to be a friend it'll never let you down.

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Nice one John fingers crossed for the outcome

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Thank you for commenting on my last poem Isobel . I feel that my writing is taking alternate directions - sometimes becoming more experimental and sometimes more direct. Hope you are well. x

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Thank you Cynthia for such a warming response to my poem. Hope you are well x

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M.C.

A belated thank you for your appreciated
comment on `Linda...`

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David, thank you belatedly for your comments on Tontine, always much appreciated. Regards, Graham

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Love your sample poems. Poems on blog please. Take care, Tony.

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Hello MC.
Glad you liked "The Last Rhyme".

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I have sent off the ebook to Peter Ashworth. Hopefully, it will guide his consultations towards the right decision.

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Thank the gods for that! Thought we were stuck on seven forever.

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Hi Sid Thanks for comms on Bastille poem. Never thought about the 'hers' - I'll have a think about it!

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After eight it is never too late - - -

The membership is growing

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Hello Anne, thank you for your comment and your advice. This is a very useful site if one uses it properly - I am still a beginner. Your poems on here are lovely - the teashop one reached me very directly and I like the poems about the sea-creature and the owl for their observation. The owl "like a blanket over a birdcage" sizing up his children - very good phrase for the owl's considering tilting of the head as it looks about, as well as its making sure the family grows!

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For the more radical:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/stop-the-closure-of-stockport-art-gallery-and-war-memorial-during-the-week

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Fantastic poem, Meshach. The ebook is growing...

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This link is for contacting the council directly:

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/councildemocracy/yourcouncil/consultation/consultationengagementregister/museums

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This is the online consultation document:

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/leisureculture/visitstockport/museumsandgalleries/consultationculturalandtouristattractions/

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Top Gear Up Rear

Large Baggy
Not saggy
Fat thin
Cheeky grin
Full frontal
Yes please
But if
Too shy
Try covering
Obscene scars
Then climb
Bare bold
Stony cold
Art Gallery
Steep steps
I will
Quickly change
Top gear
Up rear.

All local papers showing photos have been banned
But under the counter copies are available but are in very short supply so if you want some - - -

This is my reply to - - - Nigel's Naked Note

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Just enjoying reading your profile - 2 years on! XXX

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Hello, here's my poem from Monday.

If you keep my candle lit
you'll see all I have to show
the future of a blazing light
casting its mark and leaving a shadow
a row of bright flames
keeping all memories warm and golden
with a continuation of them
if many days are allowed to come

they can give a chance
to reflect and project
signalling their voices
and their outlet
which helped the flame grow
and ignite the clouds of smoke
dancing around the room

Without it lit
the past days spent
would have sunk
into melted wax
leaving mist not clouds
but smoke fading the hot into cold
and every night would be extinguished
and you would only be left
to gaze into darkness
for what was once so bright
is filled with complete blackness
as the candle lights would fade
one after the other

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Hello folks, I need a few things:

Nigel, can you post a link to the council page where Peter said we could register our opinions?

Can everyone apart from Dorinda, Joanne and Linda mail me electronic copies of their poems protesting the Gallery closure?

Mail them to me (j_f_keane@talktalk.net) or just post them on here.

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Thank you for commenting on the H-bomb Izz. Don't think I've ever had a treble comment before. It's curious isn't it how we all manage to live with these things that could wipe out humanity at any time? Of course, it's never happened so it won't happen.

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hi, just wanted to say a belated thank you for the comments on my poems :-)

Kath

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Peter explained to everyone that all normal channels to cut costs had been attemped by himself.

He asked the group if we could come up with any ideas that we thought might help, he said he would do his best to see if these could work before any final decision is made by the council.

I thought the meeting went very well and felt he had given us a platform to help towards solving the problem rather than just oppose him and the council.

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Thanks for your comments on my poem John - much appreciated.

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Hi Chris, I really enjoyed listening to ABC and
Yesterdays post, very poignant.
regards Paul.

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Hi Janice - nice to see you posting. It's true what you say about putting everything online when you may want to enter it in a comp. Often people don't realise that doing this counts as being published - though some do argue the point! Good luck with the pop ups too :)

BTW if you want to reply to somebody on here it's best to post your reply on their page - I nearly missed your comment here.

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Oooooooooooo is that a promise? I'd LOVE to do a duet with you! There are endless possiblities - Sonny and Cher - I've got you babe - When I get old and losing my hair - Nancy and Frank Sinatra - Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like....

You strum it and I'll hum it :)

ps I'm not normally up at this time - just suffering from a bit of insomnia :(

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Me again.
Glad you liked "The Last Rhyme" but immensely disappointed when I discovered that all those xxxxxxxxxxxxx's at the end weren't kisses.

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Hello Steve,
Glad you liked "The Last Rhyme". I have to give a little credit away though. It was a Jagger-Richards-Coopey composition. (We're over 200 years old between us).

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Wow, Anthony! That was brilliant. Your comment on my "The Last Rhyme" deserves a blog of its own. You should post it.

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