Hi Rafal - welcome to WOL. Hope you put some of your poems on the blog section of the site -more people will get to read them then.

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Hi Katy - welcome to WOL. Hope to see some of your poems in the blog section soon - I really liked the Hatton Locks one especially.

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J.C. Re. "Their Finest Hour".
I seem to recall that the WW2 Italian fleet suffered a similar fate (at Taranto?) but then
they were with Hitler then...before they saw
sense and went back to being the delightful,
pragmatic people we know and love.
As always...

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Perhaps more 'pagan' than not, in the generally accepted sense. But, for me, 'pagan' is a non-word, like 'heathen'. I no longer recognise 'sacred' and 'secular' except as deliberately divisive propaganda. Many years ago, I seriously thought of being a minister in the Protestant Christian genre, and did indeed work within the 'church' for a very long time. I found that most ministers with in-depth scriptural knowledge, and vital enthusiasm, were virtually strangled at the pulpit by their congregations' limited 'acceptance' of Biblical scholarship. My heart literally wept for their necessity to temper, or even deny, their spiritual insights. I now go my own way entirely. I think I have made more friends than enemies; but, who knows.

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Dad always insisted on a male dog. (Not kidding.) He actually fathered five girls, but one died. My parents had to give up on the 'boy' thing. We did grow up with no sexual division of labour - the idea of boys' work and girls' work is anathema to me even now: WORK WAS WORK and that was the end of it. Such upbringing still affects me wholly.

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Hi M.C,

Thx for reading and commenting upon my last poem- very much appreciated. I have left a comment on the page.

My Best

Chris

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Hi Again Yvonne, Thx for the detailed comments on my mine poem. Glad it had the desired effect but now you need to do something cheery as an antidote lol.

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Bless you!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi, Win
I think my mind is a regular deserter of my corporeal being - I'm forever losing it!
However on the occasions when it condesends to favour me with its presence I do like your poems. XX

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Hi Yvonne, Re M> ilk. Has your mind never wandered from your body? I think sometimes one is ahead of the other. Thx for looking in. Win x

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Hello Greg.
No,I don't think Nelson had any hand in Copenhagen.
(In any event I'm not that squeamish about the fallibilities of great men)

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Glad you liked "Their Finest Hour".
Very interesting what you added about Churchill's destruction of the French fleet and the parallel with Copenhagen.
England 2 France 0

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

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Glad you liked "Their Finest Hour", Yvonne. What little knowledge of history I have I blame on Bernard Cornwell.

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Never waste One-2-3-4 on a poem. Use it for a foxtrot.

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Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Game Over, Michael. I speak as a former touchline dad who was once warned by the ref for encouraging his team too much.

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Hi John, Thx for your poetic reply to my Fizz Bomb poem. Stevie nicks, now there's something magical. Win X

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Hi Chris,

Belated thanks for you comments / analytical thesis on my poem 'Fizz Bomb'. Glad you liked. Very interesting to see the poem described in your terms. A lot of my poems slide into a quatrain format, I wonder why 4 seems a comfortable number of lines. 4 doesn't seem like a very natural number to me? The main way in which this poem changed in its re writing is the addition of the last line of each stanza which seems to work well and as both you and Harry point out has a long vowel at most ends (Which I hadn't realised I had done!). It is a love poem of sorts, childhood love or love of a child, maybe? I think I will leave school teacher but have changed a typo and the selotape line to make more contextual sense. Thx again. Win x

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Hi Alison, glad you liked Fizz Bomb. good to catch up at Sale the other night. It was a great night wasn't it, must go more often, Win X

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Hi Iso, hope things are good with you. thx for looking at Fizz Bomb. I struggle with the phenomenon of predictive texting and sometimes send messages with 'alternative' word choices. Sometimes inappropriate ones. Win X

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Hi Yvonne, Thanks for popping in and commenting on Fizz Bomb. Glad you enjoyed the ride. Not my usual style (Whatever that is lol) Win x

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi M C. Glad you liked Fizz Bomb. Yes, fun to do. It came out of the blue somewhat. Win

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

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Hi Cynthia, nice to see you at Sale the other week after so long. Glad you liked Fizz Bomb. It all sounds fine in my accent?! lol. Win x

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Hi Noetic, have added further comments to ECHOES. Many thanks for sharing.

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RE: M>ILK

Can you email me the original text and I'll see if I can do something. Good idea about seeing everyone's different interpretation!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks CYnthia for the generous comment on Pilgrims.

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Hi Marianne Thank you for your very generous comments on the red kites poem. I'm really pleased you liked it. I shall have to check out yours.

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Thanks Cynthia, I agree with your observation and will amend accordingly.

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Witaj, Julian

thank You for possibilities of posting my poems at Your webpage. Of course, I inform You about any artistic events in my area. I would like to recomend Your webpage to my artistic friends all over Poland.

Comment is about Rafał Nowakowski (poet profile)

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Thank you for the lovely comments, it's exactly what I need right now. (:

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Rafal, Witam.

Thanks for joining Write Out Loud and posting your work up here. I enjoyed reading these and look forward to hearing other folks' views of your work.

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OK Lynn - I shall dismount from my trusty steed
and park it against my WOL wall! But please do
understand that I totally agree with your views
about errant bike-riders...I see too many of them when I go out and about and there really is NO excuse for some of their antics. I have
described them as "pedestrians on wheels" as
proper cyclists behave properly!
Safe moorings!!

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(Nearly forgot to mention!)I really don't know why my original profile and sample poem disappeared..but then I am pretty hopeless with computers, due to lack of experience. (Oh what a sheltered life I have lived:) !!!!)

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Dear Ann,
Thank you so much for your lovely, warm welcome to WOL - that - and your comments really lifted my flagging ego. Thank you! x

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Hello Lynn,
thank's so much for your positive feedback on my poem! I really love "teardrops in my coffee" and have felt the same, occasionally but could never describe it as perfectly and poignantly as you. Thank you :)

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Hi MC - have to say I enjoyed all the ripostes to my poem, but I decided against posting another riposte as no one wants it to go on forever!
But if any good has come out of it, I now walk on the left of the towpath and allow loads of room for cyclists coming up behind. :))
The main problem with mooring a boat, though, is that you actually need the whole width of a towpath to moor it, so I would only ask that cyclists remember this. (By the way, it was others who were apoplectic, not me! haha.)
As for your little ditty about cyclists wanting highways and byways, I would be completely all for it!!

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Thank you Glyn for searching me out! :)

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Cynthia...firstly sorry to be so late with my thanks of your lovely comments of the confusion of Mary M. Very much apprecisated. This is the first looking at religion write I have done..I have no idea why but there it is. I performed this for the first time this week and it seemed to go down ok! Again thanks for your time. :)

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ello and sorry to have been so long in replying..my head is full of half lines that just won't join together lol...and yes I doodle of sorts..I work with wax and also do floristry..(I am a very, very mature student struggling with a diploma a present lol) I am sure the words will arrive eventually..

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Sorry for taking so long to thank you for the comments on the confussion of Mary M. Andy..very much appreciated... :)

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hi , i love your poem MY WISHES, it is very much my style, the short stanzas and monosyllabic lexis creates a snappy and straight to the point poem. the paralinguistic form places good emphasis on the differences of WANTS, WISHES and NEEDS, and many of my poems also use this paralinguistic style.

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John,
Believe it or not that poem was the only one that ever got me the girl. Kathy was a young surgeon and a wizard with a scalpel.

YOU BET I KEPT IT IN MY BREECHES!

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had a bit of a giddy moment with lumpy sourdough. Me and my mum cooked a lot when I was growing up and she never had a balloon whisk so I genuinely remember the wonder of my Very First Time.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Gus,

You know I love the poems and prose of your childhood, as always beautifully observed- not something remotely easy to achieve.

In terms of poetry and venues, it is just people being precious and egos, it'll all die down eventually.

What I would say is we'd love to see you and hear your poety at the 'Wirral Ode Show' or 'ThePoetry Spoke', the latter of which is on tomorrow night (see blogs).

My Best

Chris

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Yvonne: Thanks for your comment on my quintet. The reality is we've learned too well how to hold on to status quo and not well enough how to move forward to include other value systems that respect all human stories. William Faulkner said it this way, "The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."
J. Otis

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi Cynth - thanks for your note on Prop Panda. Yeh, it started out as a bit of daftness with a transgender panda (don't ask) and then turned all political on my arse! ;D

Went down a storm at the mainly socialist Folk N Verse day in Wigan!

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Thank you for your comments, Winston. Another of someone else's work I need to somehow incorporate!!! Hope all is well with you and that your cycling plans have come off ...

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Cynthia, thanks for your lovely comments on Duty. Very grateful. And thanks too for your Fatima review. Keep 'em coming!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on my breasts! There's one poem which would not lend itself to performance. Picture the instinctive actions if you will ...

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Philip, many thanks for the time taken to comment, lots of detail and really appreciated. It's good to see another perspective. Interesting to hear your thoughts on the third verse - to me my key line is to see a return in a leaving.

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Thank you so much for your positive apt comments on "loneliness to solitude". It's the first time I've really had feedback on my poetry and I appreciated it. Thank you.

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