Hi Lynn

Thanks for your encouraging comment about Harry

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Thanks for your comments on First Class Ticket. I have been a soul mate with my wife for a long time. We argue a lot! Take care, Tony.

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Hi Anthony, thank you for your comments on "devon". I forgot to say that I was on holiday from Hertfordshire though, so unfortunately, I couldn't understand anything you said! :o))

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Got your suggestions thank you & finally sent off my poem to that site.

Cheers. P.

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Can you hurry up and write these poems so I can send them to the WoL news section?

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I have put together a poem to try and highlight what the Art Gallery means to Stockport called
Inside Us.

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I blogged about the petition to keep the gallery open and some of my readers have signed it, but there's a long way to go - 49 THOUSAND more signatures are needed.

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The Magnificent seven rides again in a gallop
- - - after eight.

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I have just completed my 'Stockport Museums and Cultural Attractions' questionnaire. The main thing to remember is that you use the Gallery over four times a year and never visit Stockport's museums, Bramhall Hall or the Air Raid Shelters - ;-)

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hi Hugh

thank you for your comment - glad you liked!

Kate

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Hi Isobel, 'Barbs' thank you for the really good suggestions on this. I have indeed reworked the last piece to include the word 'Fly' to greater effect I think.

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Hi Lynn.

You've convinced me now
that Bankers are an incarnation of something unspeakable. I wonder do they lend their Wives
the housekeeping.

Thanks for your comment.

Ken

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Hi Hugh. Many thanks for your comments on the musical version of First Class Ticket. Take care, Tony.

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Thanks for your comments on First Class Ticket. Food for thought! Take care, Tony.

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Hi Jeff. Thanks for your comments on my poems. Have sent a reply to your message. I had a feeling that we did not know each other. Maybe we will meet one day! Take care, Tony.

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Thanks for your comments on "Happiest on her Back"-you're right, the title is there waiting for a better one....mind you it's taken about fifty years to write the poem, so I can wait : )

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Thanks for your comments on "Happiest on her Back" : )

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Thanks for your positive comments on "Happiest on her Back"-one of those poems that takes fifty years to write....

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Fleeced. Hi Lynne. nice observation.

lending generates bonus. this percuniary mess
was caused in part by bonus mad bank employees
not checking clients falsified ability to pay back loans. these very same clients are now
screaming for the bankers heads.for their lax and cavalier attitude. Or was it, with hindsight a sympathetic gesture by the bankers
to help realise borrowers dreams.

It's impossible to pin down the villain

It's good subject matter for endless speculation. And in time will no doubt generate a host of baseless conspiracy theories

Nice one keep probing

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Hello MC
Thanks for the comments on Man U 2 Spurs 3.
The shirt thing really is a phenomenon of Man U fans. The gym was packed with them again on Wednesday morning after they'd won in the Champions League.

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Hello Greg.
Thanks for commenting on Man u 2 Spurs 3.
My mate who's a Man U fan has enjoyed years of bragging rights. Usually his texts are non-stop. On Saturday I think his signal must've been down!

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Nope, that's fine the discussion - am more than happy to put it up as it stands, thanks :)

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Hi Laura

No problem with the discussion going on FB. It's developed a little. That may change your view as editor - fine if it does, I'm relaxed either way.

Really must find the time to have a good look at the FB pages.

All the best

Dave

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Dave - interesting discussion thread. How would you feel about it going up on the WOL Community FB page? Your decision, let me know, no obligation whatsoever.

Cheers

Laura

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Hi Anthony. Thank you for the welcome back, though I'm not sure whether I am 'back'. It's been very busy for a long time but this past week I've been stuck at my mum's being a carer after she's had an op. Read about Pessoa, got interested, found I could dredge up my WOL password, and here I am.
Thank you also for the link to John's poem. The discussion is fascinating though that's all there is time to check out right now. Mum is keeping me busy this morning. I hope you are keeping well. Do feel free to em with your news.

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Good to "see" you back after a long absence Dave! I will respond to your discussion thread when I have had time to ponder it - I may need a stiff drink first though! Interesting you should pose this question after the blog below and its responses:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=31923

It might give you an idea of what you've let yourself in for!

Hope you are keeping well mate - and hope to see more of you now!

Best regards,

A.E.

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Hi Jade,

Your explanation lends the poem even more poignancy. Sometimes it isn't easy to tell people how we really feel about them, but I really can't think of a better way of expressing your feelings than the words you wrote; and you did write them for him. If someone wrote a poem like that for me I wouldn't stop smiling - forever! You go for it girl.

Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Anthony,

Thank you for your very much for your comment.
I wrote it for my brother he is blind and suffers from cerebral palsy and i never really thought about it, but after reading your comment ive decided that im going to read it to him. :)

Jade

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Hiya lynn, Thanks for the comment on 'if you can hear this' i get hesitant when it comes to that poem so your comment means a lot :)

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Andrew, you're quite right about that first stanza in The Road North in the York anthology - it is indeed about the summer of 1976. Coincidentally, Sid Villan mentioned that same summer last night in connection with one of his poems, called Crickets.

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I grinned at your use of the phrase "after years of being apparently 'normal'" in your reply on my profile. The use of poetry to reflect attitudes is affected by the social mores of the time. As Ian Hislop points out in his current entertaining TV series on the British stiff upper lip, Britons of the 17th and 18th centuries were a far more emotional breed altogether than their Victorian descendants...and the poetry of the respective eras certainly reflect that change. Keats and Newbolt...how different are they?! Today's abrasive, often vulgar style surely 'reflects the age we live in now...just as today's music does. The compensation is being able to return to feed very sumptiously off the offerings of the past, thank goodness for them all.

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If it is too cold for naked volunteers what we need is - - - The Magnificent Seven now we have The Sexy Six.

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You give me the creeps, Nicky-girl. Only this week I stood chopping veggies for tea,and asked myself, 'I wonder how Nicky is making out?" Maybe it was the humdrum job, and thinking of all the work you must have to do before finding time for WOL, like my daughter's mad routines with three kids. I have been off-line quite a bit these past few months , but intend to dig in again by the end of October. Blame the Great British Sports Summer! It really has been a privilege to be able to share via armchair in so many athletic events - I'm much more savvy than ever before. I know everyone did not have such an opportunity.
Thanks so much for contacting me.

Love, Cynthia

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Thanks for your kind remarks, Greg.

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Thank you very much, Laura Taylor.

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Sid, thanks for your comments on Malcolm's Memorial Walk, which has given me the opportunity to look at your work. I really admire it. Greg

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Hi Anthony, good to see you back here. Thanks for your comments on Malcolm's Memorial Walk. It certainly turned out to be one to remember. Greg

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Many thanks for your comments on World Leaders. I think I will edit this poem. Take care, Tony

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Thanks for your comment on World Leaders. I am not very fond of the people who we pay to take care of us. Take care, Tony.

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Thanks for the comments x

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Hi Nicky (a little more presumptious than "Hello Nichola" but you will have to excuse me) -
I do appreciate your positive remarks about my
latest post. Poetry/verse is all things to all
people, but I subscribe to trying to leave them
with something they can enjoy and, hopefully, want to remember.
I have been reading your own profile poem "Stuff"...how very true! It led me to
paraphrase the first line of a favourite Gershwin song...
"It's very clear, our stuff is here to stay"!!
:-)
Best wishes.

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Thanks for your comments on Malcolm's Memorial Walk, MC. It's funny about some blokes and poetry ... they're a bit surprised when you suddenly reveal a penchant for it after years of being apparently 'normal'. Actually, long-standing friends, male or female, can be a bit like that, I find. They think they know you, and then ... sorry, maybe I'm straying off the point.

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John, thanks for your words on Malcolm's Memorial Walk. It's dawning on me that I've written a few poems about walking, and they all have that undertone of, will he last the course? Thanks too for confirming that I made the cut for the York anthology. It's nice to be included, because I have lovely memories of the place. Have duly sent off for my copy!

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Hello Sid - quick note to say that I am really enjoying your poems on here :) thanks for posting them!

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Hi Sarah Clare - a very warm welcome to WOL. Look forward to seeing more of your work on her :)

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Thanks for commenting on the audio Tony - I do plan to record some more soon :), I will go and listen to your song next - best wishes, Dave

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Thanks for your suggestion Dave. I have uploaded the song version of "First Class Ticket" Take care, Tony.

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Thank you Hugh for your comment. I must say I am just finding my way back round WOL. There are so many new and interesting people.x

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Thank you MC, for your comment on my piece. There are times when cathartic release is your closest friend. I felt, I thought, I wrote.... I felt different. Emotion is so selfish, for want of a better word.

I have been reading some of your work. I really enjoy the way you have a knack of seeing beyond things..... and creating an image out of something, (which could be mundane) and then forcing the reader to create his/her interpretation of it. I read your last posting four times and each time I found something more.

Well done.x

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Cynthia Buell Thomas! Where are you? Do you realise I have a HUGE clear platic bag full of constant mutterings and jibberjabble? For that I thank you. I may send them to you and see if you can decipher the constant rambling of a feeble and harrid mind :-)

How are you my lovely? I have been integrating myself back into the heady realms and striving to keep a low profile, but I have finally got to face the fact that I always have too much to say.

My final addition to the family has the unfortunate affliction of being a mini-me.

I hope you are well? I will be in and out of WOL on a regular basis now I have 2 whole hours a day to spare to put my constant rudimentary ramblings into some form or shape.

Love to you.Nicky x

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