What ho, Graham! Glad you liked "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
Whenever I get a call centre in Mumbai I always seem to get a bloke called "Colin" who's an avid watcher of Corra.

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By the way, in the foto are you meditating or on the toilet (or, indeed, multi-tasking the two)?

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'Ey up, youth. Glad you liked "The Charge of the Light Brigade". You should look up Tennyson's original, although he suffers by comparison with me because it was all gas lamps in his day.

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Glad you liked "The Charge of the Light Brigade", Cynthia. Re its length - I think I got carried away by my dislike for the electricians!

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Glad you liked "The Charge of the Light Brigade". (The electrician was actually very fair!)

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Me again. Just working my way through comments on my Greatest Hits back catalogue!
Thanks for your thoughts on "Worth a Try". I was never much cop with the ball, but pretty mean without it!

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Wotcha MC. Thanks for commenting on "Charity Marathon Row". The pinnacle of my athletic prowess; the only other being my ability to hold thin men down when they're flying kites in strong winds.

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Hello Dave. Thanks for commenting on "Charity Marathon Row". No, we didn't row - we're still good mates.

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What ho, Shirley. Glad you liked "Charity Marathon Row". Hope you didn't mind too much the language.

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What ho, Lynn! Glad you liked "Charity Marathon Row".
Sorry to see your discussion wiped off. I didn't see anything wrong with the discussion - it seemed a perfectly fair topic to me. If individuals were not commenting in an approporiate way it seems ludicrous to blame the discussion itself!
Never mind. Like MC says, "something about turnips" (I forget what).

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Thanks for the comments on "Charity Marathon Row" Anthony. Yes, the blisters needed soothing. We're not talking about my hands!

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Hello Cynthia. Glad you liked "Charity Marathon Row".

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Hi John - my thanks for reading and commenting on 'Good Dreams, Bad Dreams' - glad you like that. I used to keep a pad and pencil handy by my bed ready for any nocturnal thoughts or dreams - these days it is mostly a tablet pc I reach for instead, hehe. Best wishes, Dave

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Hi Shirley, many thanks for your kind comments on 'Good Dreams, Bad Dreams' - you were very quick to read that, hehe. I've added the edited audio file now, that was probably missing when you first read the poem. Best wishes, Dave

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Well you know how X mas tress are, they can be very picky and quite particular with what they will and will not wear. Thank you, for your very nice words.

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haha no its my mate urszela. its in the art gallery at leeds. it was lieterally inviting people to interact. the curator took the pic! :)

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Hello JP - as I mentioned to John Coopey elsewhere, I was minded to dedicate my verse
"Sweet Alice" to you and call it "Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More"! But I thought
that just a mite too mischievous...know what I
mean? :-) But your lines WERE the inspiration behind it.

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Halo Laura,

ie Over By Christmas- I've changed a few things etc cos I think you were right it did need a 'make over'. But I've kept the same idea/picture.

Cheers

Michaelthearchangel Ha! Ha!

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Oh - and your pics...wow, you can do visual AND linguistic, that's brilliant. Some can, Rachel can, but I can't take a photo or draw or decorate a room for nothing. I can't even 'dress' christmas trees - it's fucking woeful!

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Hello again! Thanks for your notes on Serendipity and Leaving Home. Heh - I knew SOMEONE reading it at some point would have done the egg-whites trick :D Strange that it should be someone from all the way over your side of the pond!

Yeh, the pheromones thing is very interesting. There'd be average 15-20 of us lot roaming from squat to party to squat, and we were all strangers to the bath, and yet...I don't remember ever once thinking 'god we stink'. Just didn't even think about it. Course, we must have done! But it just wasn't important, the whole being clean thing. And, just like at festies where no one washes for 3 days and no one seems to smell, just as it was back then. I still love going to festies in the summer - come back smelling of sweat, and woodsmoke, and happiness :D :D

The freedom WAS immense - getting older brings wisdom and confidence sometimes, but it also brings literal baggage. Meh. Let's have a fuckin party! :D

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Hello David
From one ex-carer to another
Your very welcome comments are spot on about Annie

I've done a sequel, but it's so bloody long (twice as long as this first), it's likely to send readers to sleep, so I'll keep it back for a good while

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Hi Tom, I am glad you found my comments useful. I do find a lot of comments on here focus on the topic rather than the poetry. I really enjoy looking at how a poem works and what goes into it. I loved Stylistics, at University because it was like a Sherlock Holmes approach to the poem. What is really there? You are welcome to comment on my poems any time.

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Hi Yvonne - welcome to WOL. Glad you've put some poems on the blogs - hope you get some feed back. And I hope you enjoy being part of the site too!

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Stella, how old is Dervla Murphy? Never too old for anything. You could be the travelling poet. A book of travel poems. Does such a book exist? The first of its kind maybe.

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I just read Ordinary, it gave me chills, you write beautifully and I can not wait to read more. Cheers

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Dave,
Thanks for your comments on my poem

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Laura,
thanks for the comment on Patient Betty.

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Hi Cynthia,

thanks for the kind comments on my previous two poems. your comments are always welcome and pleasing to read! you're right freda does provide great feedback, i think it's great when somebody takes time to provide such well thought out comments on something i've written.

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Hi Freda,

Thanks for taking the time to provide me with the advice on my new york honeymoon poem, it was much appreciated. i find the editing of my poems the hardest bit and I often lose sight of 'frisking' my work for unncessary words and phrases. it's great to have someone take the time to work through as you did.

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Oops! sorry Lynn-
forgot to thank you
and very much indeed
for commenting on 'Satellitic'

Greatly appreciated.xx

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Well don't bring any of your jellied eels with you, will you LOL!

Sorry your last poem turned into such a traumatic event. At times, WOL is no different to a big family. We argue like cat and dog, then get on with life. It's not always easy to judge what will get people worked up. I've seen poems on paedophilia go largely uncommented on.

The Tudor is on the second Thursday of every month, just in case you are ever in Liverpool. The scene is quite good in scouseland as well - though you'll probably know about all those.

Glad to see you are still posting anyway.

Isobel x

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hi andy, many thanks for the kind comments on my new york honeymoon poem

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Hi :) I just wanted to convey a difference with Eating Mango cos it is all out of my head..but what a lovely thought the stone and marriage! Ta for reading Laura x

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Glyn..my flights of fantasy take me wherever lol..Oh to have been a travel writer..how wonderful is that?..I think now I am a little old..I guess I was trying to convey some kind of difference with Eating Mango..tis all made up.

Appreciate your comments very much Glyn :)

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Appreciated your comment on Eating Mango..my flights of fantasy take me to wonderful places ;)

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Thanks so much..appreciated x

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And I won't admit to playing cards in church
either!
Thought your comment(s) on Lynn D's "critique"
discussion were on the money.

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I might just do that. I got family in Liverpool so you never know, and i do like a good pie. However being from South London it'd be criminal if didn't have some mash with it. :P

I took the poem down in the end 'cause it was giving me a bloody headache. I had no idea it would cause that kind of palava. It wasn't even one of my favourites anyway.

I will say this though; It's been emotional.

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Thank you Cynthia for your comments on Friends.

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We have a zoo very close to here. You'll be able to visit it in September. A most beautiful zoo where the animals are kept in natural habitat, based in a Troglodyte village and quarry. In the zoo is a vulture centre. You can walk amongst the vultures, even at feeding time.

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Hi MC thanks for your comment on Friends. The internet is a great place.

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Hi Glyn Thanks for comment on the Miami birds! Didn't know you were on WOL! (By the way - they were American Black Vultures!)

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I am naturally discursive, if not downright argumentative. I do not equate 'easy' answers with 'simple' answers, and I do not admire lazy thinking. Ergo, I can be quite annoying - I work hard to smooth out my natural tendencies, not to be a prime PITA.

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Off for tea and crumpets now Lynn
(NO! not that kind!)
will catch you on the morrow.

Keep up the good work!

lotsa you know what.xx

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Hi Lynn.
Read your message on our blog
will get back to you on that.

Thanks
Patricia and Stef.xx

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Thanx for your comment Barbi on my Alien poem, will have a look at your work soon, welcome to WOL! Jeff X

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I certainly did mean "thong" : )

Reminds me of a preamble by Noel Coward to his song "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" when he refers to "hordes of middle aged women all determined to have a ball".....

Thanks for your comments Cynthia and your continued interest in my stuff.

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Hi Barbi - many thanks for your kind comments about 'The Future Is So Near' - I'm enjoying adding the audio to more of my poems, will upload those soon. :) Best wishes, Dave

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"Open up our minds and let our minds run free"
wonderfully done, I enjoyed The future is so near, the poetic meter so perfect and your voice is so calming as well. Cheers

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Hi Graham, thanks for your comments on Holiday Romance. In my mind, the potential 'victims' were naive teenagers, that is, if such an entity still exists.
Cheers
Adam

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