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M.C. Newberry

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:56

This hits home with the force of a sock full of ball-bearings! Harsh and merciless in its evocation of "then and now". I detect something of the blunt-force trauma prose of Raymond Chandler...or Mickey Spillane on a good day!

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Marcus Cooke

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:35

Hi, pleased to meet you. Please feel free to call me call me zenith. Looks like a fantastic site and really glad i discovred it! Many thanks.

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John Coopey

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:19

I hope this works, MC. You old goat!
Whenever I do a poem for Our Gert she calls me a skinflint and demands to know "Where are the flowers?"
After further thoughts I'm thinking the Billie I recall was Billie Davis?
Certainly Jet Harris was a favourite of mine. The first record I ever bought was "Diamonds". Cost me 4/11d. (I play it rather badly on the geetar)

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John Coopey

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:13

Nice one, Harry.
Great discipline and rhythm.

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John Coopey

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:01

Naughty, naughty!

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John Coopey

Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:00

She takes the kids to school each day.
The darling little doves;
And lights a gasper in the car
To kill the ones she loves.

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 13th Aug 2012 13:47

Hi Mr Quazar - or may I call you Zenith? Welcome to WOL - I hope you will enjoy being a part of the site :)

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Mon 13th Aug 2012 12:40

I met Gaia on Dec. 14, 2011, when she shared a poetry presentation at Manchester City Library. I have her small edition of 'Fine Bone China", featuring eleven outstanding poems which I have reread many times. They always give me sheer pleasure and quality inspiration. I feel it is too easy to mix up the overall term 'contemporary' with 'experimental'. Gaia's poetry is very accessible. She must be a superb teacher. I hope I can participate in her course.

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Lynn Dye

Mon 13th Aug 2012 11:44

Wow, love this, very sensuous and some great lines

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Sun 12th Aug 2012 22:43

I feel this is a good piece Lynn, please don't 'bin it' as you implied you might.

My daughter developed Sports fever halfway through the 2nd week and was really fired up when watching the 5,000 M race, hehe. I remember being like that in the days of Coe & Ovett...

Best wishes, Dave

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tracey bucknell

Sun 12th Aug 2012 20:59

hahahahha thanks jeff xx your welcome for comments.. it's a great poem...i know i really wanted to go :( but the coverage has been fantastic :))

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Nick Coleman

Sun 12th Aug 2012 16:35

Aw heck MC, this could make even this dried-up old misogynist get all lovey-dovey.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 12th Aug 2012 15:02

Thanks Isobel - I wouldn't mind the likes of Tammy Wynette singing my lyric!

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Sun 12th Aug 2012 12:37

Strong example. Let them not smoke their life away. Neatly penned Hugh!

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Lynn Dye

Sun 12th Aug 2012 12:33

I'm in total agreement on this one, Hugh. A really good poem, it says it all.

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Tommy Carroll

Sun 12th Aug 2012 12:08

go get'em Hugh!

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Jeff Dawson

Sun 12th Aug 2012 10:18

Hi Isobel, like this look at the more contraversial side of the games. Great compilation of various events that have seen the darker side especially for those who lost out and yes agree about Ludmilla and always thought Sharon D was a cracker! Thanx for your comment on my olympic poem, like your dads way of thinking! X

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 10:12

Nice humour Ann :)

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 10:07

That's a great point you are making Tommy. The pledge to protect green belt will go much the same way, I fear...

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:58

I enjoyed the humour in this. There should be a sport out there that you can only play in pissing rain - then we'd excel in it and win all the medals. Winter sports demand snow and the wealthy background to be able to afford skiing lessons - much like dressage, I suppose :)

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:54

Funnily enough this reminded me of Tammy Wynette - 'Stand by your man' - not the words so much as the sentiment. It's a find sentiment if you can find one worth standing by ;)

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:49

Great flow and pace Harry. I love the way you've played with language. Enjoyed reading and I'd imgagine it would perform well.

You haven't tagged this properly. The tag is WOL Olympic Competition and needs to go in under tags. If you edit the poem you will see the tag for it at the bottom. Am only saying this to make it easier for Graham to pick up all the poems when he comes to do his list.

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Hugh

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:46

Excellent,you'll have us all sizzling in pools of excitement reading this.Beautifully written

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Isobel

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:41

Oh you little devil Lynn :)

I like your use of internal rhyme in this. x

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Lynn Dye

Sun 12th Aug 2012 09:29

Haha, more like shorts and fit-flops, Stef!
It was one of those "think up a first line and see where it takes you" type of poem, but seeing as I changed the first line, it was free to take me off somewhere else.
Thanks for comment, another coming up. xx

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Jeff Dawson

Sun 12th Aug 2012 08:45

Hi Tommy, thanx for reading my olympic poem, not exactly sure what the comment meant but can see you're not a fan. I've read your recent blogs and understand where you're coming from.

We could debate the pros and cons for hours, yes the money could be spent on a lot of things but so could the money for arms, defence, the space race, who the hell knows what!

At least with the olympics folk can get involved and support it (70,000 volunteers and altho opening ceremony cost £30m it wouldnt have happened but for 15,000 volunteers), have some pride (we don't get a lot to shout about) and hopefully there may be a legacy for others to take part and build those sports facilities etc.

And maybe for the next hundred years, we can draw from it as an overall success, but in a thousand years who will be arsed what we happened or what we spent the money on anyway!

By the way, I've only heard briefly about this school playing field issue, nead to read the literature, doesn'y sound good, but like your poem in response to the issue!, Best wishes Jeff

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Jeff Dawson

Sun 12th Aug 2012 00:33

Hot stuff, & some great lines here Tracey. Thanx for comment on my olympic poem, yes Mo & the team an inspiration & what an atmosphere, talk about making a difference, must have been awesome to be there! X

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Sat 11th Aug 2012 20:20

Really good Harry... :)

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steve mellor

Sat 11th Aug 2012 20:17

MC
Thanks for the thought and comment. Truly, much appreciated

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steve mellor

Sat 11th Aug 2012 20:16

The Press 'sisters'!!
I thought that all girls were supposed to be like that, especially coming from Dewsbury

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Sat 11th Aug 2012 20:04

overandever I like that!.. :)

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Sat 11th Aug 2012 19:29

Centre of the podium for this gonger H.xx

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Paul Maxey

Sat 11th Aug 2012 19:05

Hi, John thanks for the comments on 'Keirin for the old'
By the way thanks for your gig in Hull the other week, it was well paced and very enjoyable, p.s. loved the Ken Dodd's dad poem.

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Paul Maxey

Sat 11th Aug 2012 18:59

Thanks for the comment on 'Keirin for the old'
A pacemaker with a pacemaker,nice one.

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Sat 11th Aug 2012 18:52

While you were
'writing about something steamy'and
'sporty angle took over instead' Lynn-
were you wearing jogging shoes and track suit
at the time?

Bung a steamy one on Lynn and we,ll be first
to award you a donging big golden donger-
and wont you love it! haha!xx

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The Funny Huyton Poet

Sat 11th Aug 2012 15:01

Yes Tommy - it is often misquoted and I think that it will only ever be remembered as the "Get on your bike" speech.

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steve pottinger

Sat 11th Aug 2012 14:42

What a wonderful poem to find on my first visit to the site for far too long. Really, really good.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 11th Aug 2012 14:40

Oh - I note a couple of recent posts on your profile.
At least, unlike me, you weren't accused of "ignorence"
(sic).

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 11th Aug 2012 14:34

JC - you're right! A song called "Tell Him" was a hit for a group called The Exciters back in 1963. Also - in the early 1980s, Barbra Streisand/Carly Simon had the same title (but I don't know if it was the SAME song) available from what I see online. But, as I say, there is no copyright in song titles and a few "standards" of yesteryear have had (usually inferior) songs of the same name appear years later.

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Margaret Holbrook

Sat 11th Aug 2012 08:49

Like this, like the flow of it.

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Andrew Brown

Sat 11th Aug 2012 07:22

Down in flames like the R101, hey, John? Sorry I missed it.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 11th Aug 2012 01:30

Noted!
"I would really love to see
Little Riley reach Par-ee!"

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 11th Aug 2012 01:20

Yvonne - Country songs have always had a rep. for being about love or doom and gloom. And since I much prefer to write "positive"....
JC - I certainly recall Jet Harris (of The Shadows) but admit to ignorance of that of which you speak. It is not unknown for songs to have the same title since there is no copyright on them. I must check - out of curiosity more than anything else. As for a tune - I'm working on it!

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Tommy Carroll

Sat 11th Aug 2012 00:53

To be strictly correct Tebbit said his DAD had done just that when he looked for a job. Tommy

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Yvonne Brunton

Sat 11th Aug 2012 00:52

I wonder if he was a pace maker with a pacemaker?

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Yvonne Brunton

Sat 11th Aug 2012 00:38

yep I remember it. What's all this lovey-dovey stuff, M C ?

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Yvonne Brunton

Sat 11th Aug 2012 00:28

well done Harry.An excellent entry.

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The Funny Huyton Poet

Sat 11th Aug 2012 00:19

It was published in The Liverpool Echo newspaper tonight - and I sent it to the Daily Mail as well

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John Coopey

Fri 10th Aug 2012 23:43

Hello Greg
Glad you liked "Whinge and Fucking Bleat", another of my lyrical masterpieces.
When I am dead and gone you will all recognise the contribution I have made to culture.

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John Coopey

Fri 10th Aug 2012 23:41

What ho, AB!
I did "Whinge and Fucking Bleat" at Speakers Corner on Wednesday. It went down like a lead zeppelin.

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