The Famous Five now for the Sexy Six

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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I shall have to inspire you more - - - love it

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment re- Touch the river. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Jade Eloise (poet profile)

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... thanks Ann .. enjoyed the 'stan laurel' piece !!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello, Patricia & Stephan,
Thank you for the comment. I am outside my friends house. Don't think I would buy anything from Arkwright lol x

Comment is about tina (poet profile)

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Hi Nigel, your comment/poem for my poem "Despair" inspired me to write this haiku.
Thanks, Shirley


A small bud, withered
But just a few drops of rain
Beautiful flower

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Good afternoon Tina
and welcome to W.O.L.
Loved your poems.
is that Arkwrights shop
you are stood outside?

If so,check the sell by dates-lol!xx

Comment is about tina (poet profile)

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Hi Jade - a very warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy being part of the site - good to see you posting a poem in the blog section:)

Comment is about Jade Eloise (poet profile)

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Hi Jade. Wellcome to WOL. "affection tangled amongst bitter words" That line jumped out at me! How true that can be. I like your poetry. More please. Take care, Tony.

Comment is about Jade Eloise (poet profile)

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Hello Nigel. Thank you for the comment on my poem "Despair".
Wow beautifully written.
Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Fantastic Four - - - but we want more

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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The hills are alive with the sound of music. Keep on posting your poems Roy.

Comment is about Roy Chetham (poet profile)

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thanks Ann

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi John. I thought you might like to know that I added audio to my old poem "A Silly Poem about Hair". But no it's not me. I tried to record and first it wouldn't work. Then my voice just sounded awful. So no it's someone I paid.
Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Tim - a warm welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site - good to see you posting on the blogs!

Comment is about Tim Brenan (poet profile)

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Hi Sid - welcome to WOL. Great poems!

Comment is about Ray Miller (poet profile)

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Hi John - the death of summer pieces i told you about in September are here.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=31647

(Part 1 and 2)

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=31706

(Part 3 and 4)

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

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surprised i missed you coming onboard a bit back, Maggie but i have been quiet on here running round after Cathy and being ill (Being in hospital again since the last meet-up) but like your poem here x

Comment is about Maggie Waker (poet profile)

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Hi Marianne ... thanks again .. every now and then I find something to say ... been concentrating on the music .

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Howdy again :)

Ta for y'note on Purple - been planning this for a while now. I will be putting that free bus pass (if it still exists when I reach that age) to good use during off-peak times ;D Doesn't do to get caught too many times in the one supermarket!

Oh and as for gigs - yeh, likewise ;p

Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)

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With the cold weather
Hard nipples frosty thighs
Snowballs go extra hard
Lolly sticks can shrink
Slippery steps health hazard
Because when skin bare
Body parts black,blue
If no one present
To give the vital
Kiss of instant life
Stockport Gallery nude protest
Is doomed from start.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hi Marianne, thank you for sharing you inner thoughts and thank you for reading my poems and your kind comment. I'm really glad you liked my words.

Noris

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Listen Taylor (if that is your REAL name)I select and grind my own selection. £5!? I have drunk superb coffee in many outlets -never costing more than £2.50 Thomas Henry Carroll
Apols to CBT for invasion of your space. (or should that be 'her' space?)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn
thanks for your comments on 'the wrong sort of train'. I hope your other half was not insulted by it!

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Yvonne, thank you for your kind comments on "Can't Beat Experience", much appreciated. x

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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An extra TA for your comments Lynn.
Have a good day chuck.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Thanks John, re Violinist. That is all I've written in months, brain totally constipated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Rach, thanx for your comment on Cotton Town, glad you like it, and yes the mill looks bit like EBM round the corner, you should paint it! Err on canvas, not the whole building!

Comment is about Rachel Bond (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn
Pleased you enjoyed Grammar Blues
It started out as a piece about a first year Grammar student that I saw a week or two ago outside my local Grammar
His Mum and Dad were pretty much acting as I describe in the poem, and I thought it toe-curling. I think that I would have run away if I had been shown up like this lad was

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi John
Thanks for the time on Grammar Blues
It started out as a poem about an 11 year old student, who I had witnessed outside my local Grammar. His Mum was actually straightening his hair, and taking a photo of him, her and his Dad right in front of the school.
It made my toes curl

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hello Noris,

I have been reading your poetry and I am hooked! They are charged and breathtaking, beautiful and defiant.

"when you sentenced your goodbye

without consulting God" love this.

Thank you for sharing


Marianne

Comment is about Noris Roberts (poet profile)

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Thanks for your kinds words on Pictures, John. Yes, I agree, I feel I'm working against a deadline these days ... THE deadline, in fact.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn, thanks for your kinds words on Pictures. Greg

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Humour is a difficult one - often it's the politically incorrect that makes us laugh more. When it comes to regional characteristics, I think there is sometimes a historical grain of truth that is taken and distorted out of all proportion.

For sure the Scots enjoy a wee dram - though plenty are probably tee total and spend their hours knitting aran jumpers. The Welsh are supposed to be insular - although my Auntie is welsh, now living in Brighton and the most lovely, sociable lady you could ever wish to meet. Insurance premiums do rise as you near certain cities - though you'd have to study statistics to substantiate that one ;) Perhaps the necessity to thieve comes essentially from poverty and unemployment - and in its history, Liverpool has certainly suffered plenty of that.

The Livepuglians I've met have wonderful sense of humour and rogueish natures - they normally give as good as they get. But I do take your point about stereotyping.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hola Is

I'm not, technically, but have worked and socialised with scousers for years, and kept getting told I sounded scouse. I poohpoohed this for years - right up until I saw the first vid of myself performing poetry and then thought 'ah, yes, I can see why now!'. I come from Rainhill which has a funny mix of old Lancs and Scouse :) The 'joking' that is done about scousers is always derogatory - the pie eaters reference is funny, but being constantly referred to as thieves is less so!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Dip those toes
Make them splash
Take the plunge
If too cold
Resurface double quick
Then wait till
Warm waters flow
Before diving in
The poetry pool.

Comment is about Maggie Waker (poet profile)

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Hey, thanks Anthony, for your note on Should We?

Just get so bloody angry at people who insist on saying it, over and over again - 'ohh it's pointless, never makes a difference' blah blah. And yeh - you're bang on with the Hillsborough reference. Yesterday was momentous...really didn't expect that kind of result. So so pleased and proud of the people who fought for all those years. Like a lot of Merseysiders, I knew people who were there, and it's been beyond infuriating and frustrating that the Authority's version of events was believed by so many people for so long. And now the truth is out. There MUST be criminal charges for all involved - the Attorney General cannot, in the face of all the evidence, refuse a new inquest.

Cheers :)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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It's been ages since I posted here, Greg, but I've just been catching up with all yours. You do seem to have been quite productive and all very good - as you can see from the very positive comments from everyone. On the subject of TEMPEST, it's definitely better than his last few. Personally I think he could have cut he last two tracks and made a pretty good vinyl album of 46 minutes. The Titanic song is a bit run of the mill and, although I know you're a big Lennon fan, I think 'Roll on John' is the worst track on it lyrically. A real dirge. You could do a lot better and,if I remember, already have!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hey'up Isobel
Grammar Blues - I'm kicking around the ending of the poem, but just to say that I witnessed virtually the whole incident on the first day at local Grammar, except it was an 11 year old boy who was having his hair spat down; had his photo taken by his Mum and Dad; and then got a big smacker on the lips from his Mum, right outside the school gates
I think I'd have killed myself after that
I really hope to see you soonish - I have put together another book, and I have to give them away to someone - I mean what are friends for?

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on Pictures, Isobel. I haven't written a poem about my mum for a while, but I guess this is another stage down the line. Maybe it will form part of a longer piece some day.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Paint fumes
Dark corner
Poetic atmosphere
Theme selected
Costa debeach
Sun sex
Added extras
Hiring deckchairs
Drinking sarsparella.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Yeh, I often wonder where people get all their money to buy bloody expensive coffee from coffee-shops! That's something I never understand. A fiver on a cup of coffee?!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hmm not sure I agree with your simple answer to that one!

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Thank you for your commenmt on Class of 54 Yvonne.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi Robert - welcome to WOL!

Comment is about Robert Garnham (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on Ode To Keighley.

Get Well Soon.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hey MC,
Thanks for the comment on my Snow poem, I appreciate your thoughts!

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on my snow poem Isobel, constructive as usual!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Karen, welcome to WOL, I run the open mic nights in Bolton where WOL was founded, hope you like the site, its done me proud since joining 4 years ago! Performance poetry, running gigs, playing guitar!

Enjoyed your dentist poem, not a million miles from something I wrote - see link (and still perform as a good punk rant) 3 years ago

best wishes Jeff X

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=3611

Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)

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Thanks for taking a look at my poem Tom. Glad you liked it. It's good to see you back posting as well!

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

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