Hi Cynthia, re; 'Etchings', perhaps I confused the issue here, under the class system my forebears would have received pittances for a salary, whereas the posh types lived high life styles at the expense of others. That was the point I was trying to make perhaps not too successfully I think and without a focus on the cost of a grave in particular. Many thanks for your comments.

Many thanks for your comments also on Claws, Gondwanaland, Solitary and Vespula Vulgaris about which I have replied individually.

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Hi Laura, thanks indeed for commenting on 'What the Master Saw'. I think the fetish went beyond him just liking stale working class women - Cullwick saw herself very much in the role of slave (a kind of low grade S&M) and she literally liked licking his boots.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Pheasant hunting with your bare hands? Not my weapon of choice, Dave. I prefer to chase the little buggers along hedgerows in my 4/4.
Incidentally I gather its illegal to pick up a pheasant you've mown down but legal to pick up one the car in fron mowed down

Comment is about A Walk with Asylum Seekers (blog)

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Cheers Laura.

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Thanks for your comments Ann.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting Dave. I read your piece on the walk with asylum seekers, you do yourself a disservice. It is important that you have used your considerable skill as a writer to write against the grain, so to speak, and give an insight into what it means to be an asylum seeker. Too many people believe the crap churned out in the tabloid press.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Absolutely brilliant. I am Welsh and used to live in Birmingham, a truly multicultural sociaety. i have had 14733 poems read on the internet. Nice comment from Laura

Comment is about A Walk with Asylum Seekers (blog)

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Goodness what a rant of a ramble round your head!....I hope to hear you reading this one day Dermot :)

Comment is about The song of the existence of matter (blog)

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Very nive write and read

Comment is about no place like home (blog)

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One of those organisations John that many do not think of until needed..Thoughtfully scripted :)

Comment is about 'So sad WAS I' by John Harrison (blog)

Could you expand a little on the line about little girls growing up to be whores or worse Terry? Finding it more than a little offensive as it stands.

Comment is about Break (blog)

I would have let them kill it and eat it - far better in their bellies than a farmer who could afford to lose one pheasant. Would have been a nice little picnic that Dave. Tight get ;p

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Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Ann for comment on Invocation. Can't possibly tell you what happened to the blacksmith's baby daughter. Too grim. ;)

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Wow

Read this through 3 times now. Admire how you manage to paint the pictures with your strange grammatical structures. Ethereal as well as primal in the uncontrollable sexuality of her surroundings, and how it reacts to her.

Love it!

Comment is about Girl in a Lake (blog)

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Sounds like the whole business is an emotional roller-coaster, and I guess it must be for you, Ray. "We've stuck you in to family snaps / to attract a special mum and dad" and "The chances are we won't stay in touch - / I'll just be a name in your memory box". It must be tough at the best of times. But rewarding too, hopefully.

Comment is about Fostering (blog)

Haunting rhythm. I love "gases bubble". Makes me think of Wuthering Heights.

Comment is about no place like home (blog)

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sorry I`m late

wonderful stuff

`You buggers are too healthy and you`re living far too long`

Plese,please,please do one about dignitas

Comment is about Political Statement - The Latest Decree (blog)

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thanks to all for the comments here. This has as you may have guessed one of my favourite poems to write so far.. A

Comment is about Ticket to Ride (Blackpool Mystery) (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Ghosts eh? Sounds autobiographical this - sort of imaginings I had as a kid. My fav stanzas 1 & 3. Really good.

Comment is about no place like home (blog)

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Nice one, Foxy.
Couldn't help but think of the film "The Others".

Comment is about no place like home (blog)

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A very clever and humorous poem Steve with tinges of sadness.As for 'dicky fit' I think the wife invented that saying according to the number of times she uses it(and has one because of me)cheers lets have another! S.W.

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A bit unsettling this one,Ann.Perhaps harking back to some awful happening in the past'but I know what is waiting there,In the cottage ,on the stair'.
Is the main character a ghost herself?
Very interesting and something to think about!

Comment is about no place like home (blog)

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Hi Steve and welcome to WOL. The Dead Man Speaks to his Daughter, lovely, very moving, made me think of my dad. Thank you.

Comment is about STEVE RUDD (poet profile)

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Just found this and like it a lot - and agree with it too.

Comment is about Scar Tissue (blog)

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Very neat!x

Comment is about Tainted Wings (blog)

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Maybe I'm just too obscure!

Comment is about wind in the chimney (blog)

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Damn - missed that! -- it's a long time since I swept any chimneys ;)
I must get my brain back in gear.
Nice one.

Comment is about wind in the chimney (blog)

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Howya Andy? Thanks for all your comments man, always like to read them and no none of me stuff is published or anything. But I'll keep trying anyway.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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I think this is very good. Somehow ambivalent, but there's such a lot in it. Great last line, and the juxtaposition of childish nursery rhyme images with a coldness, I like that. Funnily enough my neighbours have just adopted - their first day today! And I wish them well.

Comment is about Fostering (blog)

Thank you for your kind words, Andy. It was a pleasure to meet you and everyone at Guitar and Verse; I've been made to feel very welcome at both G'nV and WOL so I'd love to perform at Butterflies again if you'll have me!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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'a new more disinterested board' - nice choice of words... and something to look forward to!?!

Comment is about Wanted - renewed enthusiasm and a new openness at the Poetry Society (article)

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John - thanks for commenting on "The Fairies in the Backs".
I assume, like me, you played Union. I always thought it a hard game but having more recently watched League a lot at local dog-shit pitch level it's nothing! League is just plain dirty.
When I was a student at Durham we played a lot of the local teams, all keen to give the poncy students a bit of a "welcome". I recollect a couple of Railwaymen's teams from Darlington were a bit feisty!

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

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Of course this poem is about sex - or the lack thereof.

Comment is about wind in the chimney (blog)

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Very evocative, Ann, in just a very few words.
This reminded me of a phrase my mother used to use -- whenever the wind whistled down the chimney, she'd say it was 'Lucy Moore' calling -- never did find out why.

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Thanks for your comment on Whitechapel Ladies. The first part is a bit like the old folk tune Adeiu Spanish Ladies, which just popped into my head. The chorus is just a bit of a mess trying to fit in all the names. I wanted to pay tribute to some of the women murdered over the years, from Jack the Ripper victims, Yorkshire Ripper victims, the Soham girls, Suffolk Strangler victims, Milly Dowler, Jill Dando and Suzy Lamplugh.

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The first part is a bit like the old folk tune Adeiu Spanish Ladies, which just popped into my head. The chorus is just a bit of a mess trying to fit in all the names. I wanted to pay tribute to some of the women murdered over the years, from Jack the Ripper victims, Yorkshire Ripper victims, the Soham girls, Suffolk Strangler victims, Milly Dowler, Jill Dando and Suzy Lamplugh. Thanks for your comment.

Comment is about whitechapel ladies (blog)

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Honourable? -- dirtiest team we ever played was Ushaw Seminary -- we were seriously scared to go on the same field as them! Anyhow, fun poem, John, and thanks for the laugh!

Comment is about The Fairies in the Backs (blog)

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This is a modern folk classic, Ann! I just had to pick up the ould twang box and pick along -- is it your tune?

Comment is about whitechapel ladies (blog)

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Poetry sure is weird. This took about thirty seconds to pop into my head. My poor old Whitechapel Ladies took ages to try and sort out, record etc but didn't get much response (but thanks Stef and Johnxx). I'm happy to get no comments or one comment or loads of comments, I'm not grumblin' but it just seems inhexpliccabable to me. :)

Comment is about white knights (blog)

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Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post but gets me on the scoresheet until I do something new on the theme.
I have the deepest respect for anyone who knows what their team is going to win at the atart of each season. In Bolton and Tottenham's case - nothing! Everton too - (Dave Bradley blogged).
Deep respect to a fellow sufferer.

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Dave
Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post, but it put me on for the "Ghost" theme until I did something new. (Alison has widened it to goblins and fairies etc so I've just blogged "The Fairies in the Backs" - a bit of a stretch, I know!).
I too am old enough to have seen John White but don't know if I did. I saw Spurs a couple of times in the early 60's at Forest (I'm from Nottingham originallY). He might have played.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Small is beautiful (well, at least perfectly formed!).

Comment is about white knights (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

Enjoyable imagery and use of alliteration, Alan. Nice sonnet.

Comment is about Ocean's Edge (blog)

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Hi Isobel;

thanks for the comment over Ticket to Ride.

Glad you like it.

Must admit, it's one of my more recent favourites, but as always when I blog I was worried people wouldn't get what I was writing about.. lol

Hope you are good and see you soon (I'm off the scene now for a few months - having a well deserved break)

Cheers

Andy N x

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Hi Laura;

Thanks for the comment over 'Ticket to Ride'. I'll defo have to amend the typo as I am a bugger for them.

Severed Sun actually began off as a typo which I sorta liked and stuck with. You are dead right about the context of the piece.

See you Soon (I'm resting until September / October from properly performing)

Andy N x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Jeff - thanks for the comments over Ticket to Ride... As stated somewhere else, this was a poem that was a pleasure to write and hopefully didn't leave you in too much of a mystery! lol

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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enjoyed the shortness of this piece, Ann.. top banana! Andy N x

Comment is about white knights (blog)

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Excellent stuff, Alan.. Lot of good images and well paced - particularly like 'sand shimmer surface of the swell' but the piece stands up well throughout..

Comment is about Ocean's Edge (blog)

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Thankyou Mark for finding something within my poem Sandcastles..much appreciated :))

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