Try buying a new mouse John - last time I had the same problem I had a faulty mouse. x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Gareth - I'm enjoying seeing your work on the blogs. I just wondered if the line spacing wasn't working for you. Not sure if you want your work to be laid out like prose but suspect not due to capital letters and longer spaces between some words, and your profile poems. I think this format (looking like prose) might put some people off reading it too which would be a shame. I am not at all technical but if the poems aren't looking as you want them to then do let me know and we'll see what the probelm is.

Comment is about Gareth Mathias (poet profile)

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Hello Andrew - welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy being part of WOL - and find it productive too! Hope to see some of your work on the blog section of the site. Stuff gets more attention there than on the profiles.

Comment is about Andrew Brown (poet profile)

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Hi John,
thanks for your kind message on my profile and for your entertaining and skillful poems. It is a joy to read the work of a fellow poet who enjoys playing with words (and the guitar).XX

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Graham Robinson (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

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

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on 'A Cup'. I hadn't thought of it as a politcal statement but I see what you mean. It was actually the result of a challenge in a poetry group I belonged to to write a poem about a cup. Being me with my contrary streak I thought of 'bra size' not 'drinking vessel'.
I do , however, deplore the trend for folks to need to appear to have the perfect body or whatever fashion dictates this year. I think that the only statement this really makes of the need to conform is "I am a sheep!" - Not for me!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hello Lynn - thanks for taking the trouble to
reply to my "pop up" query. Even Julian seems
foxed by its appearance. It's not "regular" so
at least I'm spared that much! But its origins
and reasons seem obscure and without any obvious meaning for this user. The wonderful
world of cyberspace is providing a rogue comet!!!

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for taking such an interest in The River. The poem is a mix of the public and the private; my father died the day after the Marchioness disaster on the Thames, and my wife saw the helicopters from the train as she travelled down to join us at his hospital bedside. The later Thatcher years seemed to be associated with disasters: football ones (Bradford, Heysel, Hillsborough) marine ones (Piper Alpha, Zeebrugge, and the Marchioness). The lanterns luring the unwary onto rocks is really the idea that so many were drawn into buying into the loadsamoney, get-rich-quick dream of those years. Maybe my father worrying about paying the doctor's bills reflected a gut fear that the NHS was at risk, that we might return to the bad old days, as we still might. A study of Alzheimer's patients found it remarkable how many knew that Mrs Thatcher was PM, when they had forgotten almost everything else. I find I'm interested in writing some historical/political poems these days. Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hi lynn, many thanks for the kind comments on my poem.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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yvonne, many thanks for the kind comments on my poem.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia - I have changed my tent poem a bit - think it's improved. Thanks for your comment. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Something from James Baldwin
"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world."

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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re D.Date not really alone, it's makebelieve, honest! just an idea that nipped in for a cup of tea and got put down on paper. Pleased you made a comment. Thanks muchly, Nick.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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re D.Date. I'm not really sad, in that sense, but sometimes an idea whips across the mind and has to be netted. Ta muchly, Nick.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hiya RM..Thanks for the comments on my last two...and to be honest I am struggling like mad to write any decent stuff at all...It is like the want is there but the words fail me and it is a horrible feeling...sighs big time..

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Dear Fay: Your humor has brightened my day, thanks. This is a response to your lack of appreciation for orange, it's from my poem Free Jazz on my blog http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=24327.

True blues isn’t news

But baritone notes from a tenor horn

Can move ancestors

Fire is needed more than light

So orange lilies scream at the Sun

That’s duende I announced

I scream to ease my troubled mind

She said

To breathe inside thickness and doubt

To throw others off my scent

That’s catharsis we agreed

A flower is a lovesome thing

When it screams
J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

Comment is about Fay Roberts (poet profile)

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Hi , thanks for your comment on Compassion, I agree.
Regards Hazel

Comment is about BT (poet profile)

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Hi, dear Zethembiso Mkhize! Thank you so much for the comment on "I Am a Lady".
With warmest wishes,
Larisa

Comment is about zethembiso mkhize (poet profile)

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Thank you for the kind words Ann, I took a break writing for a while.. but now I'm back!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn Thanks for the kind comment on my poem! Yes, he's a handsome fella!

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Mike, thanks for your comments on moonshine. It's a really good point about the question mark. The poem was written for a purpose - part of a discussion I was having with an individual in poem form, however, it would have served me well to consider how it might need to be different for a wider audience. The question mark (hehehe, can I really have such a dilemma over a piece of punctuation!) made sense in the context of a poem before and a poem after but as a stand alone, perhaps not so much. You've given me good food for thought!

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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Thank you Lynn for recent comments you have made on my verse. I think you're about one of the few who still takes time out to read the work i have done. It makes me kinda despondent but the few that take the time out keeps me going. I really appreciate that lynn. I know my work is often preachy but as you said in the last comment, there is a lot of truth in the words i write. Maybe that's why many do not post feedback. Because as they say, the truth hurts and many people just turn their back on that.

I really appreciate you taking the time out Lynn. You yourself have great courage in the works that you write and you have written quite some impressive works. Keep posting your work Lynn, it is valid and needed, most don't seem to understand that, lending themselves instead to rub each others back for comment threads to boost their ego's. You though lynn have an honesty and uniqueness to your work that touches all.

Keep posting and much love lynn.

x

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hello, M.C.!
Thank you so much for commenting on "Virtual Life".
With warmest wishes,
Larisa

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

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Tarabumdeehey till later chickamungus.P&S.xxx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, I'm relieved that it was recognisable as a sonnet! Many thanks for the relief your comments have caused me! I tried from memory to get the rhyme sequence right and to manage the twist in tone after line 8 and get the blooming meter right, and I think got closer than I normally do. It's come about in an odd way, created as part of correspondence on a forum where randomly I and a total stranger are carrying out a conversation purely in poem form. It's really pushing me to try to express what I mean and also frustrating when I can't force a poem in a direction I want but all in all a really fantastic experience.

I'm Smiles again ... well, because I guess I never really stopped!!!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

agreed... nothing beats hemingway- or paris for that matter.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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THanks Yvonne for the kind comment on my poem for my grandson!

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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HI Cynthia Glad you liked Ziyad's poem!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks Fiona for the kind comment on my Ziyad poem!

Comment is about fiona sinclair (poet profile)

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Thanks for the warm welcomes!

Comment is about Nick Jarvis (poet profile)

Original item by Nick Jarvis

Hello Tom - your kind comments about "Brothers" are very welcome. The poem follows the old wisdom "write about what you know" so I will not claim any visitation from some other-worldly spark of imagination.

Comment is about Tom Harding (poet profile)

Original item by Tom Harding

Ta for y'note on Propaganda Panda mate - see you soon I hope x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

Original item by Andy N

Ta for y'note on Writing in Fire chuck, glad you enjoyed it. Will be working on performing it soon I hope but it needs a LOT of breath!

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Hi Imprisonedbeauty - welcome to WOL. Hope you do have a go at performing some of your work in public - once you try it, it can become a great joy! Hope to see some more of your work on here soon too :)

Comment is about Irina (poet profile)

Original item by Irina

hello Andy .. thank-you. I was dwelling on all the nasty garbage in the news and papers, wishing I was back at sea and miles from here.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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women like stars...i am not outshone by any son of man and usually the company of women makes me dull, but right enough the ones i like make a fiery constellation...15th december me too, coincidention! xxx

Comment is about Amy McCawley (poet profile)

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Thank you for the kind comment as always Ann.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Your little paper boat has just docked.
Expect its return a.s.a.p...

merci d'etre mon ami.xx

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

Original item by Richie Muster

Hello, John! Thank you so much for commenting on "Palm Sunday" and for G K Chesterton's "The Donkey" . To tell you the truth I haven't read anything by this author before. So, when I read his poems I loved them very much and understood that he was really the great.
With warmest wishes,
Larisa

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Thank you, Yvonne for your comments. It's very rare people stick up for me when it comes to animal rights. And I did not take offence. It was much appreciated.

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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