sorry tommy but living that far away would make the whole process of prostitution very expensive and we only accept sterling cash. it is not that our girls will not perform sex acts on aliens, some prefer that in fact, its just with foriegn travel, like to another galaxy, some girls are unable to obtain visas. should you wish to visit an earth brothel there is a form S22-531X available at the post office. please declare any extra limbs or indeed multiple peni as this may go in your favour x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Backing my Ding a Ling must have been a hoot :)

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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hello. really funny u should say that about john hegley - i was reading a book of his today! He is a big influence, and I take it as a big compliment that u think there is any kind of similarity. As far as I know, though, we are not related in any way...

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Hi Chris
Your comment on 'And...' is very much appreciated.
In replying to Dave, I mentioned that it's probably the quickest poem I've ever written. Went to bed, and suddenly it was there.
I wish every poem was so quickly put to bed

Hopefully see you in the not-too-distant
Steve

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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What a lovely reply to my On the other side poem Cynthia, ta very much. My madness is demanding attention, my hormones are dancing!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Dear 'Nut Case' Thankyou so much for your generous comments, glad you liked Quaver. As usual I find it hard to write anything more than half a page and only once I think have I actually required a second! Actualy you are not a nut case at all Cynthia. You are a poet and as such your imaginings are perfectly normal. Win x

P.S. Have posted up a slightly edited version after your comment.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on Platform, Dave. I owe a debt of gratitude to Neil Oliver's book "The Ancient History of Britian" from whence I got the inspiration (blagged it!)

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Many thanks for your thoughts on "Platform". As I explained in my later comment on the page, it was, in fact, my little joke! Everyone is telling me now that because they think it's free verse that it is. But, as I said to Harry, I gave birth to the bloody thing. It was an egg - it won't make a pig.

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Cynthia:
One of the magical elements of reading poetry is you get to bark up whatever tree appeals to you. What you imagine is as valid as anything I intended. Thanks for your comment.
J. Otis

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on"Platform" Gareth.
I'll settle for being flensed and then having my skull set on the mantlepiece.

Comment is about Gareth Writer-Davies (poet profile)

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Glad you liked "Platform" AE.
As I said in my own later comment on it, it's not really a poem.
I shall, no doubt, return to my more usual and more challenging stuff on the timeless issues of tits and bums shortly.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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ok. what then? kidding about what?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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sorry tommy i assumed youd read my post previous to yours. its just a joke. nobody gets head ;)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comments on Platform, Graham. My later comment on that blog explains its provenance. In the light of that you'll probably understand that Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead was an awful lot more challenging as a poem, both rhythmically and lyrically.

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Thanks for your thoughts on Platform, Laura.
As I commented later, I couldn’t resist this little joke. It isn’t a poem at all but a piece of flash fiction prose (100 words exactly) I knocked up in a couple of minutes.
Then I chopped it up into little lines
Et voila….
Free Verse.
I didn’t realise it was that easy.
I shall no doubt revert to the stuff I find more challenging next.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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LOL - well you didn't hear me pissing myself (in a literal sense), that's for sure! :))

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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Dear lovely Izz
Re: And ...
Your comments are, as ever, very very much appreciated.
It's a sort of panic attack poem I think. A bit like a kid comes out with, until they run out of breath
See you soonish hopefully

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Dave
Thanks for the comment on 'And ...'
It's probably the quickest I've ever written a poem.
Got to bed, and there it was - waiting for me?

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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I'm sure I heard you sneeezzzzing at the Tudor last night or was it that man with a big horn?

Mike

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Greg
Your comments on And ... & Wooing are very much appreciated
I am currently trying to summon the nerve to post Part 2 of the 'Wooing' saga. I'm holding back because it's twice the length of Part 1!!!!

Again, thanks for your time
Steve

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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thanks steve for you lovely comment, i'm so glad you liked my poem " these hands " and that it rekindled such a fond memory, a double pleasure on my part :)

Comment is about Steve Higgins (poet profile)

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Anthony, thanks for the welcome to the web site. I enjoyed 'visiting neil', very powerful, moving and sad.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Good on yer Mikey re loggy fire'n'all that.
nice comments,fer which I thank yer.

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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Hiya Lynn,Colin and Benji
thanks so much Lynn for
comments on my loggy fire poem
I should have put four glasses
on the poem pikky&and a plate full of liver
(for Benji boy of course)
and us four could 'cornbeefed' our shins
while polishing the whiskey off!

Hope you manage ok with weather.
feel so sorry for elderly people.

love-Patricia and Stefan.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Steve,

And welcome to the wonderful world of WOL! I like the imagination behind your samples and I hope you have fun here. The poetry blogs and discussion boards are a good place to start from. Have a read, post a few comments if there's something you like (or dislike, if you're feeling brave!) You'll soon find your way around.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Steve Higgins (poet profile)

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Hi Mike, thank you for your comment on my poem "Here I Am". I've been listening to your poems and have really enjoyed them. They have are definitely powerful.-

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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You have such inspiring writing! I love the style, not too much or too little, and I especially like 'The Unknown Child', it's really powerful and through provoking stuff, keep at it, I'm interested! Joy

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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Hi Lyn - thanks for commenting on 'The Unknown Child'. I've just revised several lines as I wasn't happy with the flow, but reckon it may be good enough to try recording now. Best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Yep, I've every intention of coming out to play on Thursday. I'll meet you under the bike shed in the playground!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Wow! I love it!

Comment is about clarissa (poet profile)

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Eh up Is - ta for your note on Equus :)

I just put a note on Anthony's profile but I'll repeat mesen here. That last verse isn't entirely obvious, but may seem so because we are all aware of the phrase 'all the pretty horses'. The phrase actually originates from an African American lullaby, sung by a female slave taking care of her master's children, and unable to look after her own due to that. Kind of an analogy with general enslavement. Worth looking up if you don't already know it :)

See yas tomorrow night anyhow :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony

Thanks for your note on Equus :) Yeh, once I looked up a list of horse breeds, the names were so poetic that I just had to use them...and of course, the geographical areas they originate from are just as poetic! Serendipitous? ;)

I tried to sneak a little analogy in with enslavement in that last verse as it goes...do you know the origin of the phrase 'all the pretty horses'? If not, well, it's an African American lullaby, sung by a female slave taking care of her master's children, and unable to look after her own due to that. Worth looking up if you don't already know it :)

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment - I like the rhythm too :D

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting
on "Of Earths salt"

And thank you so much
for all your support.

Hope you and Colin,Benji are well.xxx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Cheers Glyn for kind remarks
re "Of Earths salt"
Aye,the owd feller waz a gudden!

Welcome to WOL-and wow!
very impressive biography.

Comment is about Glyn Pope (poet profile)

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And a hello from me too Graham..bleak?..Oh I can do bleak ha ha ha :)

Looking forward to reading you. :)

Comment is about Graham Clifford (poet profile)

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Greg, the 'Plato' comment was a quick one. But the idea was that, apparently, Plato valued hugely the effect that a poem had on the reader, while Aristotle championed the individual identity of the poem, its self-contained structure. Age-old argument, eh? It was just something I remembered because it really interested me.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Re: 'Ten Minutes' - thanks heaps - I missed the extra 'can' totally. There were only 'happy mother' moments. For me, the real challenge was not to allow those moments to be overpowered by the negative situations - and there were many, many, many of those. I cannot believe any person, or any life experience, is all bad unless we choose it to be so.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL Gary. I hope you enjoy this site as much as I do.

Shirley

Comment is about Gary From Leeds (poet profile)

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Reliably anarchic. Thought you d appreciate the contradiction x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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cheers laura. Yes we're still together. We met while working at the old Granada Studios Tour. All well with you?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hey cheers Marianne - appreciate it :)

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Cheers ears for y'note on Equus Ferus :)

Comin' out to play on Thursday in Wigan?

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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cum what a god awful abbreviation. come. to come. to achieve climax, its got to be worth spelling properly.
some young thing i knew once said 'have you cummed?' i kept this info. private for a long time for shame...but now i want to expose this incredibly embarrassing misuse of words and grammar. i cannot sleep with anybody who does not understand how to use the past participle of a verb as wonderful as 'come'.
spunk is still spunk. for all my talk truth is i havent seen any since the 80s ;)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on Song of the Ofsted Inspectors. Cheers, Greg

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks very much for your comments on Song of the Ofsted Inspectors. Always morale-boosting to see you looking in. As for Plato, well ... I have to confess that I dropped out of philosophy after one year at uni. Maybe it's time I gave him another look. Greg

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Aw! You look Cute!

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks Izz..you found this saucy?..interesting hmmmmmmm....lol x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on follow the Herd.
I had somehow missed reading/listening to yours and just been catching up on them - totally knocked me out. That last one of yours when part through I realised who the boy was, that was a shock.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thank you (Touching the Void. I think, Anthony, that I may have repeated myself because it was the subject chosen for a writing excercise, and I didn't even know I was doing it. Well spotted and commented on. :)

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Thanks for the comment A. much appreciated.

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