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Dave Carr

Wed 25th Jul 2012 20:56

Gradely!

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Yvonne Brunton

Wed 25th Jul 2012 20:19

ahhh so romantic!

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Wed 25th Jul 2012 16:58

Thanks for your comments on 'Life's Towpath' Hugh, you are very kind, glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes, Dave

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Wed 25th Jul 2012 16:54

Thanks Hugh, you are very kind, glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes, Dave

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 25th Jul 2012 14:31

But I think the cost will be less than the dosh
the event is bringing into the country - with
its value to tourism in the long term: to
London as an Olympic city and the UK in general.
Let's stop knocking - and start clapping.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 25th Jul 2012 14:15

Hoping you are regaining good health. Did you
see that touching little video of the brave
guy in your part of the world rescuing a puppy
from flood waters. Check www.msn.com for the
video.
Best wishes.

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Laura Taylor

Wed 25th Jul 2012 12:51

Love it - think it works well as a poem, and as you MAY know, I 100% agree with your beliefs on this

Cracker this Tommy

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Hugh

Wed 25th Jul 2012 11:07

Just read your collection of poems,very well written with lots of things to think about,well done."Black is beautiful"-loved it.

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Isobel

Wed 25th Jul 2012 08:50

From memory I'd say around October. Julian organises the poetry side of it. It's a lovely place and a lovely festival whatever the weather. There will probably be some publicity up closer to.

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Hugh

Wed 25th Jul 2012 08:14

A fabulous flow of choice words and expressions all through this blueprint.It possess the quality which allows us to enjoy reading it time and time again.
"diamond days,"----"the gravel we crunch under our feet,adds percussion to our song,"

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Yvonne Brunton

Wed 25th Jul 2012 00:05

when is it?

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Yvonne Brunton

Tue 24th Jul 2012 23:52

cool man!

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Isobel

Tue 24th Jul 2012 23:51

You'll have to try to make it to the Marsden jazz festival - we always go there together and there is a lovely poetry open mic on the Sunday in a pub x

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Yvonne Brunton

Tue 24th Jul 2012 23:50

I trust they are paying Ben overtime rates for ringing so often! I hope it won't b****r up the six o'clock news.

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Yvonne Brunton

Tue 24th Jul 2012 23:48

HI Isabel, thanks for your comments on 'Us Nolimpics' I hope your sister enjoys reading it. As I can't get over to Lancashire from Doncaster - too many commitments - I'd be happy for you to read it at a WOL or other session over there. ( I don't often get back to my roots these days)

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:48

There's perversity in diversity
With the English suspiciously quiet;
Politicians push it down our throats,
Hard sell - but will we buy it?
Intent on imposing with impunity...
But since when did "diverse" equal "unity"?
:-)

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:34

Thanks for commenting on 'Red Wine'Ann - Age and creaking bones have failed to quieten my romantic streak - pun intended. ;) Best wishes, Dave

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:33

Hello Isobel, my thanks for your comments on 'Life's Towpath'. Yes there is something magical about water that brings out some thoughts and feelings - and perhaps helps with their flow too!

I wish you luck in finding your way to finishing your canal poem, I owe my effort to Winston for prodding me about his project, or it would not have been written.

All best wishes, Dave

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:31

Hi Greg - many thanks for your kind comments on 'Life's Towpath', great to have your feedback. :) Best wishes, Dave

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:31

Hello Isobel, yes there is something magical about water that brings out some thoughts and feelings - and perhaps helps with their flow too!

I wish you luck in finding your way to finishing the canal poem, I owe my effort to Winston for prodding me about his project, or it would not have been written.

All best wishes, Dave

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 24th Jul 2012 15:25

Hi Greg - many thanks for your kind comments, great to have your feedback. :) Best wishes, Dave

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Tue 24th Jul 2012 14:33

We dig the poem and those cool baseball boots!
if only we were young enough
to be able to wear them as we did-
fourty years ago-boo hoo!.xx

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Tue 24th Jul 2012 14:06

Nice to see yer-
to see yer nice
and-
back on form!xx

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Ray Miller

Tue 24th Jul 2012 12:15

Thanks, Isobel. Such courses do indeed exist. And it seems that tolerance isn't enough, one must embrace diversity. That's the starting position nowadays.
You've possibly misunderstood the 4th verse. We were asked to come up with categories of people who feel themselves discriminated against. There was a long list, all of whom were then described as "oppressed". I objected on the grounds that oppressed was far too strong a word for most of the groups named.But apparently, if someone feels they are oppressed, then they are.I'm feeling oppressed by diversity just now.
That said, it's not a good poem, doesn't make its points clearly enough and the metre is poor in places.

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Laura Taylor

Tue 24th Jul 2012 12:12

Ahhh...I missed this first time around, was on me hollibobs.

Fantastic rhythm in this Ray - absolutely spot on, and I love the storytelling. Tight as tight thing can be!

Really enjoyed it :)

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Ray Miller

Tue 24th Jul 2012 11:57

Thanks, Greg, Steve and Dave.Funny you should mention New Jerusalem, the estate was known as Little Beirut.

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Laura Taylor

Tue 24th Jul 2012 11:03

Aha! I just saw yours too! :D Nice one :D

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Greg Freeman

Tue 24th Jul 2012 10:33

I enjoyed this, Dave, thought it was tender and poignant. It grows on you with every re-read. A must for somewhere on the Rochdale canal trail, in my opinion. Well done.

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Laura Taylor

Tue 24th Jul 2012 10:25

Cheers Greg!

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Greg Freeman

Tue 24th Jul 2012 10:23

I've just seen it up there, Laura. Neat haiku. Fits well, too

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Laura Taylor

Tue 24th Jul 2012 09:31

I was intrigued by this so sent them 5 poems yesterday and they've already put one up on the site! Kinda cool that your poems are gonna be read by tons of strangers :)

I'd urge other WOLers to send them something :)

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Tue 24th Jul 2012 08:26

a great poem on the 'grief and tragic' genre, the way you have expressed the incident to create this breath taking poem !

Well done Hugh !!

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Isobel

Tue 24th Jul 2012 08:25

Not an obvious one Ray - I've had to read this several times to get out of it what I think you are saying :) It's hard for me to put into words what I like about it though - which is probably why no-one else has commented yet.

I like your social observation - the alienation of the person on the course. The 'diversity' course sounds like a naff one, by the way. Do such courses exist? Indeed, what is wrong with simple tolerance and mutual acceptance?

I like the dry humour of you interjecting to ask about eating. It betrays the lip service you are paying to it all. Also the way you sum up all the other course members - that's what we all do on courses when we are bored :)

The ending made me smile - we can throw bean bags to each other till the cows come home - it doesn't mean to say that we will ever have a total meeting of minds with people of different culture. As you've already said, the unappreciated key to it all is mutual tolerance and respect. If we all had that we wouldn't have to waste money on courses like this.

That's what I got out of it anyway. Unless you are poking fun at 'Old School' people and are totally up for diversity courses...

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Isobel

Tue 24th Jul 2012 07:55

This is a sad one Dave. I think any scene with water in it does make you reflective on life and its pathways. I feel like that looking at sea lines also. I'm 2/3 of the way through my canal poem - not sure I'll post it though - can't seem to get any flow with my poetry at the moment.

I can't speak for Winston but I'm assuming that they just want canal poems - and this fits the bill :)

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Dave Morgan

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 22:51

Festering feuds, unsaid truths, untold fears...well that's families for you, some brilliant lines in this and your other poem. Captures in a few lines what people make two hours of television out of (or used to). Like it very much.

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Dave Morgan

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 22:05

Well Ray being old fashioned I like a poem with a story, with a moral, with hooks, with an end that takes us back to the beginning. They used to call Kirkby the "New Jerusalem" in its planning stages. Planners see things other mortals don't see but of course they thought they were doing us all favours giving us indoor loos and hot water. And of course they were. It's just that the vision/imagination stopped there. Well we can't turn the clock back so I presume the next question is what can we do about it? (I've noticed on the estates I work in most dog walkers do pick up their dog shit now)
Very stimulating piece. Thanks.

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kerry fisher

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:49

thank you hugh

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kerry fisher

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:49

thank you ann

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kerry fisher

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:29

hello hugh thank you for the comment and praise on my poem, much appreciated

kerry

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John Coopey

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:13

Hello MC
Yes indeedy. Now re-esconsed in the UK. Out of Wine was, in fact, posted from France.
Now need to catch up on what others have posted while we were away.

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Dave Morgan

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:09

Thank you Jonboy, very kind. Nice to see one of my annual poems still being read. Might encourage me to inflict more on the WoL fraternity/sorority. There is nothing that has happened since 2010 to make me think that we are going to hell in the proverbial hand cart other than the casual unsolicited kindness of individualresidents of this batty corporation.

Cheers

Dave

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John Coopey

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:08

Hello MP
Glad you liked Out of Wine - a biographical pastiche of the impenetrable Mrs C.

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John Coopey

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:00

Hello Greg,
Glad you liked Out of Wine.
Yes indeed, Chris Farlowe. Handbags and Gladrags by Mike D'Abo. The original and still the best imo.
And quite right, a Jagger-Richards composition.

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:45

Thanks Ann - Age and creaking bones have failed to quieten my romantic streak - pun intended. ;) Best wishes, Dave

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:29

Nice one Paul - good to see you blogging!

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:24

Hi Winston - thanks for the message about this venture.

I have just penned something and posted it as a normal entry so you can see it there (with a picture of the actual lock referred to). If that is the sort of thing you were hoping for then fine, but if I missed the mark let me know and I will tackle it from another angle.

Cheers, Dave

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:22

I really enjoyed listening to this :)

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:20

Charming! Lovely!:)

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Ann Foxglove

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 20:19

Thanks Greg. I really enjoyed the experience! Should have said that twelve tents were orange - one tent was white - but I don't know why.....

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Jon

Mon 23rd Jul 2012 19:08

Beautifully written Dave. Clever use of imagery and an end that takes you by surprise. Nice one!

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