Laura,

Thanks for the comment on Gerasimos.

(and the kind words)

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Hi Cynthia, a belated thanks for your constructive comments on Bottoms Up. Sorry my response was so long coming. Hoping to get back into the swing of things with one or two hurdles out of the way. CHEERS.

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Welcome to WOL, Sally. Good to see you here. Greg

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Thank you Mike for your lovely note on Clear Blue Air - glad you liked it :)

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JC - thanks for the info. about Henry and Matilda. Those were hard days indeed and I suppose a bit of marital (or otherwise) nookey was about all they had to look forward to when not lopping the limbs off each other.

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Eh up chuck! Ta for y'note on me Walk to the Shops :) Thatto Heath is of course where I live - a strange name for a strange place, filled with even stranger people. I reckon we have the biggest percentage of in-bred physical deformities in the whole of the North West hehe. I'm not FROM there though, but I live there because, well, SOMEONE of quality has to ;D I do get drive-by-shouted at quite a lot though. The best was when I was wearing my rather lovely grey cord peaked cap...a car-load of lads drove past and shouted 'nice hat, dickhead', to which I replied 'yes, yes it is, thank you, I agree' - they can't even insult people well round our way.

For the record, I bloody hate Sylvia Plath, me - whining cow.

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Hello Win. Thanks for commenting on Selby Abbey. Yes, it's a remarkable icon to have on my doorstep. I used to think how lucky I was to live so close to York (and still do) but the Abbey is every bit as fascinating.
I also felt obliged to restore the balance to my previous disparaging (musical!) parody of "My Favourite Things" about Selby!

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Hello MC. Thanks for commenting on Selby Abbey. I've just started voluntary work there - they trust me to pour the coffees at the moment! I have been up the tower to wind the clock up though - I needn't go to the gym after that!
Henry 1 was born to Matilda in Selby during the Harrying of the North campaign of W t Conker.

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Thanks for your thoughts on Selby Abbey, Greg. I've just started voluntary work there part-time. It's a magnificent icon to have on my doorstep and too good a prospect to miss not being associated with it in some small way.

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Thanks forcommenting on Kranp AE. I'm sure my turn from the dark side of smut will be only temporary.

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Hi Greg

Ah yes. I was still there then. we moved away in 1978 to Pickering.

:-)

Win

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Win, I had no idea you were a Selby lad. I was a district reporter there in the Yorkshire Evening Press office in 1976. Greg

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Hi Martin.
This piece came from listening to female colleagues chin wagging about how confused things can get in relationships / dating etc. They all said that sometimes they don't know excactly what they want. So they just end up taking it for what it is. Then someone said OH JUST DO IT! and stop talking about it.

Cheers thanks for comments

Mike

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Hi Kealan - my thanks to you for commenting on 'One World Soon' - glad you enjoyed that. I've found the acrostic style a useful tool in concentrating thoughts upon a theme - I should probably use it more often, hehe. Best wishes, Dave

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hi lee, did say hello on chat but it is notoriously crap.

interesting to read about afghan experiences.
punk rock soldiers :)

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Thanks for your comments, MC.

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Hello John. Thanks for your comment on my poem "Ragged Man". Yes I am still posting but not as often.
I have another poem written in the same style but from the homeless view point entitled "Homeless".

Thanks
Shirley

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Hello MC, thank you for your kind comments on my poem "Ragged Man". I have a poem written in the same style but from the homeless view point. This is entitled "Homeless".

Thanks again
Shirley

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re slyvia plath. err i would never suggest one does NOT read something,but it gave me a headache ;)

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Ayup! I likes to kick up a stink, when I'm teetering down there around the brink. It helps me think, especially when I can get my lips around a drink.

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Brilliant Kate - really looking forward to the collection.

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It's good to be on board Ann. I look forward to being able to weave in and out of the various discussions.

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Hello Denis - welcome to WOL! Hope you enjoy taking part in the site. (I've not heard of Japanese court poetry before.)Looking forward to reading some more.

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Hi Brian - welcome to WOL - great to have you on board!Hope you enjoy taking part in the site.

Comment is about Brian Wake (poet profile)

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Hi Brutus - or should I call you Juan? Welcome to WOL. Look forward to reading more of your poems on here.

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Hi spaceghost.

I always read your work, although I can't say I fully understand all of it and feel hesitant to comment. Perhaps that's understandable as most of your writing seems extremely personal. You have an interesting and unique "voice." I hope you won't be offended, but I want to ask you if you ever write poetry that isn't first-person, i.e not about you and your own experiences?

Often people are reluctant to comment on "personal" poetry, perhaps because it almost seems like an intrusion into someone's personal thoughts and feelings.

Regards,
A.E.

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Thx Chris

Praise indeed from one so esteemed.

Glad it hit the spot for you.
Ken.

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Really chuffed with your 'I Pledge' discussion. It doesn't matter how many get involved, even 1 is a step forward.
I've just posted War & Peace to explain myself better (I hope)
Getting involved at school may well be the most enjoyable thing I've ever done (outside family) - hope you do

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I'll be "Motorcycle News" if you'll be "Jewish
Chronicle"!
:-)

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Aye MC Newbury Thanks for comment much appreciated; this was for all children stuck in our wars our famines our stupidity

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

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Did you mean the the sort of clinging clitoris that needs plenty of moisture for an optimum performance.
Where on earth is this going?

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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Hi Mike. Our contributions merely emphasize the genius of others. Or did I mean each other? Ken

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Hi Ann. never thought of the stomach ache angle, although it's the obvious result with a diet like that. a gut full of splinters.(wood chips) xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for reading my Golden Vision. Glad it brought back memories. I loved the bread bin comment! great stuff!

Cheers Mike

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Thanks Winston I appreciate your comments and version - I like it! It goes to show that you can always learn and improve.

Cheers Mike

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks, Julian, for your very kind comments. Much appreciated.

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Brian, really good to see you gracing our electronic pages here. You deserve much credit for all that you have done for poetry, especially on Merseyside/Sefton.

This poem is chilling and well-wrought. The way you use the quotidian to evoke the historical, using our concerns with our children's vulnerability to help us to try to understand that period of terror; superbly done. Part of my family background, too. Thank you.

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Thanks for the lovely comments on the poems. Regarding schools teaching poetry - I think it's easy to imagine how the schools are teaching it, but a look at the GCSE poetry books in W H Smith or other shops should be a bit more encouraging. The national curriculum for poetry is really lovely. Better than the poems I had for my O Levels at school! And a good mixture of old, not so old, and brand new.

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You've given me an Idea for such an event Ant- hmm...Anyone interested in performing it get in touch. Tommy

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@ John: :o)
@ Anthony: I do- whenever i'm in my cups!
@ Winston: ;o)

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@ John: :o)
@ Anthony: I do- whenever i'm in my cups!
@ Winston: ;o)

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@ John: :o)
@ Anthony: I do- whenever i'm in my cups!
@ Winston: ;o)

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I like your sample poem.

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Hi Adele, V Interesting to hear how much your sons and their schoolmates are into doing a thorough job (By Skype etc too!) of analysing poetry. V encouraging. Win

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Do pardon my late thanks Lynn
for nice comment on 'incoming'

Very kind.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Andy,

Thank you! I haven't been on here for ages to be honest. I seem to have hit the biggest wall int he world ha ha I sort of do this though, i'll probably fnd that in a few months or maybe even years, that i'll have hundreds of things to write down. That's usually how it goes!
How's yourself? FB suggests you're doing well!!

Kath x

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Stephen
Your time is much appreciated
Your thought that it could have fallen flat on its face, was something that was running through my mind for about 24 hours prior to pressing the final button to post it.
I really couldn't determine whether my attempt was lazy writing (perhaps because I enjoyed writing it so much). I have a tendency to think that if I enjoy writing something, there must be something badly wrong with it. I hoped that the honesty within the poem, and the light humour, might just make it acceptable.
Eventually I thought that putting it on the site was worth the risk of getting slated.

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Hi Otis, That may well be true. I came a cross a phrase this morning... Grief is the price we pay for love. Win x

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Thank you for commenting on Snafus. The further out I go the more I realize the greatest philosophy is love. Finding different ways to illustrate that seems to be my literary trajectory. Love truly is revolutionary.
J. Otis

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Thanks for your welcome, Ann.

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