Your assets are intellect and humour, an unbeatable combination. The money thing can sting, but 'financially poor' is a movable goal post. What some people call 'poor' these days I regard as quite adequate for creature comforts. I admit I peer with awe through restaurant windows at the hordes of people, especially families with children, who consider dining out a life necessity. No two ways about it though, I don't support the business cycle adequately. It's a conundrum. :)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanx Graham & Poets Corner, every now and again something nice happens in the poetry world and to have one of your poems recognised by others is definitely one of them!

I'm delighted to have my Cotton Town poem featured in Poets Corner and your book, thanx for your support and kind words, hope to see you soon, all the best, Jeff

Comment is about Graham Robinson (poet profile)

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Hello MC
Glad you liked "Angel of Peace".
I agree so many people seem to fail to understand the fragility of democratic society and the nature of Peace.

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

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Glad you liked "George Best" Tom.
The reason I hadn't bought the trousers was that choice was a bit limited in 42 inch waists.
But I could probably have got into George Best's shorts.

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

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We could get a group of say twenty fit members
all go naked then run up and down the steps of the Art Gallery.
After finding out which pile of clothes are yours just swop mobile phone numbers.
The main topic on the next meet could be how many got inspired by the stand against whatever it was!!!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Thanks chuck for your comment on Bed :)

Took ages to find the flow of it...then the conception theme just slowly started coming together and bang! :)

Hope to see you Saturday x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my poem MC. I think I'll stick with bemoaned for now cos I wanted to get across the idea of grumbling - which I really did have to put up with! In the past children used to lay down and sleep by the roadside on the way home, so tired were they from the work they did in the mines. I think I would rather have suffocated mine at birth.

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

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I'm waiting for a storm to cause the shipwreck...

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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Thank you Hugh!

Katy

Comment is about hugh (poet profile)

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Glad you liked "Dedicated Follower of Thrashin", Dave. You really should busy yourself more if you've the time and inclination to look at my back catalogue!
"DFoF" is one of a number of disrespectful parodies I have been doing of late.

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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Protests are pointless.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Let's do a demo! write to your MP. Person the barricades. Or a mass sulk outside the council offices?

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hello again :) Shy my arse ;p Good to see you again.

Re 'Purple' - I'm sorry you bristled on the dementia line. It is not intended to offend, obviously. My maternal grandmother died of Alzheimer's after 10 years of suffering with it, so it's always been there in my mind. I've long thought that I'd end up with it, so to pretend to have it in order to fund some luxury by stealing from the corporates just tickled me a bit and cheers me up about it. It still is a genuine plan too - I know I will be living in poverty if I get to pensionable age, I have no assets, I'll never pay the mortgage off, and I come from a long line of poor people, so this seems like a nicely rebellious act for when I'm old and vulnerable.

Yep, you were spot-on re 'homegrown green' ;)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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In the Manchester Evening News on Saturday
Stockport Council are looking at ways to save money this is one of them.

Nothing has been decided yet but sometimes they do this to see what the responce is from the general public.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Laura, thanks for noticing that I've been a bit 'absent'. It has been a busy summer. You are really striding forward now. I must try to be a bit more 'entry active' with so many opportunities to be chosen for publication. Basically, I think I'm shy. Would you believe it! Maybe it's lazy. But I turned down one opportunity because I didn't like the script size offered. And isn't that the opposite of shy! What IS the definition of schizo? :)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thank you for the nice comments.

I have a recording of me reading The Dentist which I will upload.

I haven't got used to finding my way round this site yet.

Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)

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HI Greg,
Thanks for you congratulations on my WOL poem winning the comp. it was so unexpected. XX

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Thanks, Isobel for you kind comments on my WOL win '100 metres' and on 'us nolympics' xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Welcome Karen.Nice 'samples'
what a coincidence re the hygienist!
I,m off to see him/her tomorrow
and help him/her to get richer-ugh!xx

Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)

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The denist brightened up my sunday morning at work,made me smile--I think we can all relate to what you have written in this amazing piece of verse .Every dentist should have this up on their notice board and patients reading it would smile and feel more relaxed in the torture chair.

Comment is about Karen Robinson (poet profile)

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Where did you hear that the gallery will have to close in the week?

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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I very much enjoyed meeting everyone at
Stanza, looking forward to getting to know all
you folks better

Comment is about The Poetry Society Wigan Stanza Group (group profile)

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Chris,
Got the pictures, thanks for all the hard work you must have put in in preparing them...They were well done (pity about the ugly old bugger you were photographing)

I`ll have a think as you suggested and a talk with you at the next gig.

I`ve replyed on here as I`ve not got the hang of e mailing properly yet...(it`s age)

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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It was reported in Saturday's Manchester Evening News.

The Art Gallery might have to close in the daytime - - - only opening at weekends.

We meet up every second Monday of the month at the Art Gallery.

This might not effect the various groups like us that use the Gallery.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hi M.C.

thanks for the encouragement.

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

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Just catching up with your writings. Havnt been by the website in a while...

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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I love the bio!!! Will catch a better read of your work later... have a gander over mine!

Your poem TED should have been in the movie!!! ;-D

Comment is about Chris Young (poet profile)

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Hello, Roy! You inspired me so much by telling that my poem has reawakened you and it is the best you have seen for months. Your words have certainly flattered me, but...I think that you are a very kind man. I would love you to check out (when time permits of course) at http://www.poetryfromodessa123.jymdo.com and I would really appreciate your opinion and feedback. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Roy Chetham (poet profile)

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Hello, dear Richard! Thank you very much for commenting on " The Autumn Is Coming". I would love you to check out some of my poems (when time permits of course) at http:www.poetryfromodessa123.jimdo.com and ...would really appreciate your opinion and feedback. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)

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Hiya Christine its been very cool hanging with you and john this week,
like your poems very much too.

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

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Hi M.C.

I'll go back to doing what I'm good at.

(Not writing poetry)

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

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Hi John. Thank you for the kind words regarding my poem "Isabella Rose". She is my niece and was born with a serious heart condition. She is two months old and has never left the hospital. We continue to hope and pray.

Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Dame K - a very warm welcome to WOL! Hope you enjoy the site :)

Comment is about Dame K (poet profile)

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Hi Roy - a very warm welcome to WOL! Hope you enjoy the site :)

Comment is about Roy Chetham (poet profile)

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Thanks John.

Just a bit of fun

Ken

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hello Isobel,
Me again.
Many thanks for your comments on "Be Ye There Or Be Ye Square". I do not wish to deter you from making the trek across the Pennines to visit us (Sept 8) but I'm afraid the festivities are not likely to include me taking my trolleys off.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello Y again,
You are not far off the mark about Prince Harry ("Be Ye There Or Be Ye Square"). We hope to raise thousands of pounds by asking people to give money for me to keep my clothes on.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Glad you liked "Crossroads Motel" TC. I never saw Laughin' Lenny although I have seen Bob Dylan 3 times - the first time was brilliant, the last two occasions he stole money from me. He was dire.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Glad you liked Crossroads Motel, Izzy. Of course I was not implying that you were "of a certain age", only that I was!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello Sweet Pea,
Glad you liked "Crossroads Motel". My personal favourite was one called (I think) "Triangle" about a North Sea cruise ship. I think it aspired to the Caribbean cruise genre but the best bit was being able to see the goose pimples on the actresses purporting to be enjoying the sun as the boat bobbed around off Dogger Bank in an Arctic gale. (Incidentally, don't go looking for Dogger Bank!)
I hadn't realised that your poem pre-dated the actual rail announcement. That's very clever of you - a case of life mimicking art. Will you write me a poem about the Grand National next spring?

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hello Foxy,
I thought I'd thanked you for your comments on "Assasseen" but I can't find where I have, so apologies for the delay. I like what you say about omitting the apostrophe in brothers Kennedy which sounds a lot better (although there does seem grammatically to be a possessive in there somewhere!)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my poem Lynn - I'm glad you enjoyed. I'm swapping the pen for a paintbrush at the moment - but alas, not the artistic kind - am too tight to stump up for a decorator! Hope you are well. x

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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LOL!!

Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)

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thank you for your comment Yvonne!

Katy

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Nice one david...my English isn't perfect either but 'Old Giovanni' sounds great for nearly eighty matey? (A True Survivor)...
Bellisima Poem...Multo beni David...

(I have entered 'Edge Of Town' as your PC Entry...but you can submit others...just remember you must enter 'PC' in 'the tag bar' at the bottom of your poem for future entries ok?

Cheers Gray ;-)

Comment is about David Subacchi (poet profile)

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Hi Richard, welcome to WOL, I really like both of your poems, especially "Treasure".
I look forward to more of your work.

Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia

I hope you're well - really missing your presence on here.

Just a quick line to say a big thank you for introducing me to the diamante form a few months back. If you remember, I wrote 2 experiments with it, and I have just heard that Haunted Waters Press have accepted the Scar one for online publication! So thank you again, and I really hope I'll see you around here again at some point.

Take good care

Laura x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Yvonne,
Thanks for the response to Quince tree! Very nice feedback.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi Charlie, welcome to WOL, and thank you so much for your kind comments on my work. I have enjoyed reading your profile and poems and am very much impressed. Especially like "Zeitgeist Heist", and so agree with sentiments of "The Ideal Job".

Comment is about Charlie Sparkinson (poet profile)

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Thanks for that

A framed copy of my poem has gone on display at Stockport Art Gallery - - - they liked it too!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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