Thanks for commenting on Mistress Rachel. Not a million miles from the discipline and strictures of form.

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Wotcha Foxy. Glad you liked Mistress Rachel. If the "Feet" thing didn't do it for you, am I any closer with this?

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Thanks for commenting on Mistress Rachel. Not quite non-rhyming; the end-line rhymes were consonant rhymes "cage", "liege", "oblige" etc. I did do one some time ago, Attila, which was a structure of mid-line rhyme, end-line non-rhyme.

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Thank you for looking at my Clitoris, Win. We used to pronounce it to rhyme with Doris when men first discovered it - like Van Dieman's Land.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thankyou for looking at my Clitoris. I used to think it was a climbing plant.

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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(Tap on shoulder, as you two women discuss mucky things). Thankyou for taking a look at my Clitoris.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Sorry to interrupt you ladies' mucky women's talk, but thankyou for taking a look at my Clitoris.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Incidentally I don't think Nature is quite so gratuitous as to give humans (women) something which is designed purely for pleasure. I think the contractions a wellworked clematis produces are designed to give the taddies a bit of a chuck on in their journey.
(How revisionist is that? The purpose of the clitoris is to assist the sperm!)

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Glad you like my Clitoris, MC. My own fetish is doing it with the light on.

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Thankyou for taking a look at my Clitoris. Your comments are right on the button.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on my Clitoris, MC. I have a nice specimen growing up my pergola.

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

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Thanks for commenting on my Clituris, AE.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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MC, thanks for your comment.

Remain in light...

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

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good to catch up with you too C

thanks for your time x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Laura

many thanks x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi G - thanks for your time and comment

x

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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Hi Solomon,

Good to have you on board. Enjoyed reading your work - especially "Eye of the Iron." Great to hear a political voice too. Looking forward to more.

Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Solomon Scribble (poet profile)

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Hi Antony, good to see an actual pic of you. Good luck with your words. Enjoyed reading some of your samples again tonight. Win x

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

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I really enjoyed Gonaways - it connected with something in me. I've moved around more than I'd have liked and would agree that you can never go back to the person you were - the house doesn't exist any more. I really love the way you express that.

Enjoyed A Deadman Speaks to his Daughter - that's how I'd like to imagine it.

Comment is about STEVE RUDD (poet profile)

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Well done Kealan on your joint 1st place in WOL comp.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks Lynn for your comments on My Feotal Distress.

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Thanks Ann for your comments on my Feotal Distress.
Congrats on your 1st place.
Well done!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments. I am open to any ideas to help me improve.
I wrote this in my head while walking in the lake distrct.
I tried to keep it as tight as possible cos I didn't to ramble on and lose the picture I had in my mind.

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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Thanks fo your comments.
I wrote this while working with young people who are at risk of peer pressure.
I use this to kick start dialogue etc. Then they can use their own words/poems to buy into expressing themselves.
But it can be used for any age group.

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

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*groan*

Ya daft get! :D Aye see thee there!

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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A Poem - Days...by Graham Robinson (an adaption of a Philip Larkin poem)

What are days for?
Days are where we all live-
They come and go every day-
and have so very much to give.

Days come time and again, it really is a feat.
Daytime then passes to her friend - night time-
together they make our lovely days complete.
Then they allow us peace and quiet whilst we sleep.

Days are so very happy to be in-
for where else can we all live but days?
Days are always there to help us enjoy things-
in so many different ways.

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Sorry about that mate!I must have got mixed up in the excitement!I suppose you could say it wasn't TAYLOR made because of all the TINKERing about on the keyboard. I guess I'll just have to SOLDIER on and stay away from SAILORs especially with an Italian Captain!

Rock on, hope to see you at the Tudor next time.

Mike

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Aha - you replied to my other note on your own profile! Handy hint and tip Mike - if replying to someone else, put it on THEIR profile, otherwise they don't see it :)

Anyhoo, ta very much for y'note on Cause and Effect Mike, appreciate it :) Tis a great one to perform that - I get proper riled up hehe

See ya soon I hope, take care xxx

Comment is about Mike Hilton (poet profile)

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Hi Laura, new Bolton WOL start 7.30, be great to see u in March when Petrova on, will send you FB invite anyway, Jeff X

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Yes - your story made me laugh. I think the whole female sexuality thing isn't helped by woman's natural shyness. In my generation it was definitely taboo - and I reckon many thought and still think there is something wrong with them. Even when they find out they are normal - finding a voice to express yourself on these matters can be hard cos there still is a lot of ignorance on this subject - in spite of Cosmopolitan! We should set a themed poetry competition on the subject - all prizes could be of the marital aid variety :)

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Haha - I shall stop derailing JCs thread and reply here instead!

Well yeh, totally - sadly it's very common for people to just not bother learning how each others bodies work for the best...what a loss eh?

Heehee - a bloke I knew once confessed to 'learning everything' he knew about sex from porn films. I was AGHAST! Didn't know where to start to discuss that. So I just fell about laughing and was immersed in this huge sense of shocked disbelief, that he actually thought that was real and true!! Even now, oo about 6 or 7 years after he told me, I still delight in telling other people about it in front of him. I figured the shame of it might provoke him into finding out the reality of it all :D

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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great to see you doing well! Will try and catch a show...

Comment is about Tony Walsh aka Longfella (poet profile)

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Areet brutha!

Heh - you know, I only really like a couple of JCC's output. It did perform well though, Cause and Effect, done it twice now (most recently at me guest spot in Hoylake on Tuesday) mostly cos I still get so riled about its content!

Oh and yes, bang on with what was left out of the bible! Still and all, I think some of the prophets stuff and the gospel of Matthew are just incredible bits of writing. I found it really inspirational - had a bit of a run with religious-flavoured poems for a while there.

Ha - 'you're simply excusing your own continuing bad behaviour' - ain't THAT the truth. That comes out of the same bag as 'it's ALWAYS been like this/that' as a way of justifying extreme imbalances of all kinds of things. Society, in its total refusal to engage with me, taught me how to confront every single last fucking thing it throws at me.

You a William Blake fan at all? Now that guy was a star - absolute belief in his own opinions etc. Because he'd THOUGHT about it all and questioned it all.

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Truly awesome. Can relate to 'the Commuters' so much! All the best :)

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

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Hi there; just read 'The End Of The World' - simple, unfussy, and all the more effective for it. I'd change 'the sun has RAN away' to the sun has RUN away' though.

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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Thx Ann- though I never really left.
I was reading and such like...I just removed my profile to try and reset a gig that had gone doolally tap lol.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Thx for the comment/feedback on my last poem G. Nickol- appreciated.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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Thx for the comments/feedback on my last poem John. No slap, rather a thx for reading and commenting. Look forward to hearing you soon.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Thx for reading and commenting on my last poem Jane- appreciated.

I left comments on the poem.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Thx for the comment/feedback on my last poem. And thx for a great night in Hoylake.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Graham Robinson (poet profile)

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Hi John
Just to say howdo, and how much I enjoyed your couple of poems at Marsden last night.
A good night all round I thought

Comment is about John Ling (poet profile)

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Hi John - welcome to WOL. Looking forward to reading more of your work on here. (Not so sure about your ideas about a first date though!)

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Love your model railway poem - welcome to WOL!

Comment is about Glyn Pope (poet profile)

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Hello there - hey, thank you for your note on 'I Can Try', appreciate it :)

Welcome to WOL - I hope you enjoy it here as much as I do.

I really like your 'End of the World' - I've been entertaining post-apocalyptic fantasies since I was a child. Almost can't wait for it! Most people wouldn't understand that but I think you would ;)

You're in the North West I see. You should come along to the monthly WOL night at the Tudor house pub in Wigan - there's loads of us go to that, and it's dead friendly :)

It's always held on the second Thursday of every month, so maybe you could make it to the February one?

Comment is about Gray Nicholls (poet profile)

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HI Greg thanks for comments on the Ali poem. It was a spin-off from my 'Shadow Boxing' poem for my dad. I had a stanza about him liking Ali, but thought it was too much, so it ended up in a poem of its own!

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High Chris,

Missed this. Would love to guest the Spoke in April.

Plenty of time to put something (hopefully) entertaining together.

I`d love to see the Wirral Ode show sometime (I went once on the wrong night) But can`t make this one.

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Haha - the former, sir ;) You'd have liked the tshirt I customised for my last performance, as it goes. You ever read my Cause and Effect poem?

You on Facefuck?

Actually, re the religion thang, I was brought up an atheist, no baptism etc, believed that firmly for years. Now, however, I have actually read the whole fucking bible believe it or not and hold a different view. What's in there is nowhere NEAR what the so-called 'Christians' would have you believe!! I changed my mind a lot but not enough room to do it justice here really - demands a proper debate. It's a comment, admittedly caustic, on all those eejits who take Revelations as a seriuz part of the bible. The bible is an astounding collection of writings and I think everyone should have a read, so you're not getting regurgitated shite for info.

Anyhoooo - no, I haven't performed it because a) so very few people would actually get it, and b) those who did would be divided equally between a lynch mob and buying me drinks ;)

Maybe I should perform it sometime...see what happens :)

Thanks chuck :)

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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I appreciate the empathy expressed in your comment on my recent blog. Thank you. As for your own poem, I was "captured" from the first line - a sign of better things to come, usually, - and I wasn't disappointed.I thought the lines -
"In the last fitful fluttering of her fingers
And the resignation of her senses to eternity..." particularly impressive - as was the whole poem. I'm almost tempted to say "they don't write 'em like that any more".(Tiny caveat: couldn't "my own" <death> replace "mine" in the closing lines?) I took up my pen and copied it - and I can't say fairer than that to a fellow scribbler. It is clear your poem was written with the closest attention and care...a fitting tribute to your departed loved one...and one worthy of a place in any anthology.
MC

Comment is about Richie Muster (poet profile)

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Ta very much for the comments re: my profile rant, chuck. It's all been taken on board, processed and assimilated. As for you being a 'reliable anarchist': if you mean you're a libertarian socialist/communist [a la Kropotkin/Bakhunin/Chomsky etc] rather than merely anarchic then you're not boring. 'Merely anarchic' to me means 'flibbertigibbet', 'formless', lacking rigour; someone without a code of ethics intended to make [better] sense of the world. Anarchist is force for good: the tempest come to change the world...for the better. Long may you be a 'reliable anarchist' in a world in thrall to shallow commodification and zedlebrity status!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Laura I'm glad you liked the Ali poem. Yes, he's a great man and one who when he was really quite young took so much crap from the establishment.

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