Hey Andy, thanks for the comments on Dinner Party, I was wondering how long it would take someone to give a Bukowski reference.

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Yes mate thanks for your comment
i use to live near hyde road n.reddish
i live near brooks bar at the moment
the poem was about the weight of the readers comments , glad you liked it
i need to write
i think as writer's we should be careing people
thanks for the support
much welcomed

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Cynthia....apologies (I forgot to look up my profile) The political thing was on the home page (Julian)

I`m puzzled at the paucity of self criticism in what today passes as political poetry (what there is of it)

Also...the poor? What constitutes poverty in these days of wall to wall cars lining terraced streets? Why (exactly) are people poor these days?...Did the actions of the social security scroungers have no effect on the recent credit crunch troubles? So much of the poverty rhetoric these days is so dated.

I appreciate that your own efforts are more philosophical than political...but in all spheres man is a political animal.

I think the politic thing as now also on the discussion section.

Sorry for the delay.

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Hi Andy, (Evening) you've changed your profile pic I see? Thank you for the comment, much appreciated. Will post this on your site too.

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Isobel I've borrowed the following from Lynn's site: lots of ice;
1 measure of lime;
3 measures of premium vodka;
top up with ginger ale/beer- stir.
Try placing a sliver of ginger-root in glass before ice.
Tell the drink of your love for it, close your eyes and take a deep-mouthfilling- glug...hold cocktail in mouth to warm slightly and swallow-ALWAYS swallow!
:o)

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Lynn- lots of ice; 1 measure of lime; 3 measures of premium vodka; top up with ginger ale/beer- stir. Try placing a sliver of ginger-root in glass before ice. Tell the drink your love for it, close your eyes and take a deep-mouthfilling- glug...hold cocktail in mouth to warm slightly and swallow-ALWAYS swallow!
:o)

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Michael
Thanks for such high praise.

The Other’s Worlds
by J. Otis Powell!
Weird whispers cross datelines
Fine lines of immortal volition
A history of where the blues were born
Whirlwinds that bound de man up
Chain de man down

Willie wiggles then he falls
Willie wobbles and falls regular as daylight
Like pain of uncured sickness
Like blowing - relentless winds

Wild whistles of whiskey wills
Tell secrets that cloak resolutions
Eerie echoes bounce off brick brain blockades
Wander in subconscious valleys
Like demons in deep sleep
Holding healing at bay fencing the body off
Form soul and from voices of angels

It is a commencement of wills at war
A burden for friends - foes
Loved ones / enemies
It’s a yoke that dominates identity
And distorts the smells in the air

Wishes from other’s worlds well-up inside
There is little isolation from weathered want
It’s piped in like air conditioning
It creeps like a thick fog hiding all but itself
The self is warped
Watered down
Withered

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isobel. thanks for your reply. im sorry the comment i made seems personal. i often write a point and it comes accross like this. i was really just interested in the observation and the two ways of looking about things how they are opposite and how the perceptions of the mentally ill are not usually recieved as 'valid'. you should of course be able to write opinion without fear of backlash and your original comment was fine really and also valid (im sure im very dfficult to live with - for 'sane/insane' friends..im lucky to have any friends at all but i think thats true of us all. it would be an odd world if we all agreed...sanity is a debatable concept.
no need for apology, but accepted nonetheless. thanks xx

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i think its a very poerful piece of work...truly ....i am looking forwad to read more of your work

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wow noetic-fret, ....(000oooo).

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Thank you Noetic-fret, I surpass myseld at denial :o)

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Isobel. I have just been reading charlottes page and noticed a comment you made there...
do you know what? form the experience of the manic depressive condition/bi polar personality...i can honestly say that living with the so called 'sane' sometimes unbearable, never mind difficult.
sometimes like existing in flatline.
I am attracted to most my friends by their range of emotion, depth of empathy and understanding, capacity for excitement and generally enriching experience as people who make the world real to me. I dont look at the condition/label, i forget the name of it, get it mixed with the others for I care less about it than for the love my friends and the need/want for their presence in my life.
mainly the sane bore me to death and their blinkered vision makes me laugh.
living with anyone is difficult, life is difficult x

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thanks for your comments on 'kiss me...'. will look up m. piercy :)

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aha xD don't worry about it.

I'm manic depressive - i wouldn't want my girlfriend to go cheating on me or hitting me. Everyone has different perspectives on the whole affair and my opinion is that he did drive her to it.

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Hi lynn, thank you for your comments on the poetry i have written. I very much appreciate all comments be they good or bad, they can only make me a better writer. I have placed Harlequins Meditation back in the blogs for you, and you can find it here;

http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=25080

Thank you once again Lynn,

Much love to you and yours

noetic-fret!

xxx

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Am being nosey and commenting on your comments re Ted Hughes. I don't really think anyone can judge another for sure without knowing them personally. Films and media can portray things in skewed lights. I imagine living with a manic depressive would be very difficult, to say the least. I don't think it's a crime to fall out of love, either. I would tend to judge a person on how they treated their kids, mind. That is a completely different relationship. It can be made difficult when people separate though. The kids and the ex partner can become a package that not all people can unwrap.

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Thanks Peter :)

Sylvia Plath is wonderful, i'm a massive fan. i'm not a fan of her husband, partly because i just don't like his poetry, and partly because i believe he contributed to her suicide.

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Thanks for the comment on my audio blog entry Lynn. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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i'm not sure i understand what you mean xD

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Charlotte
In response to White Noise I was taking off from your comforting words at the end, "Afterwards, I would coax her out from under the sofa,
Stroke her hair when she would sob.

It’ll be okay, baby,
We’ll be okay." At times I settle for such resolve as in; It's sawright wit me because it's alright already. Always has been, you know what I mean? White noise as a metaphor is very real for me.I hope I have been more clear.
J. Otis

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Just uploaded another poem on Australia Day 2008, and heard of another black death in custody... being Sorry is not enough... we need to change our practices, our words and our hearts...

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Thank you Winston. Just love Write Out Loud! Rose

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Hello Lynn
You spotted "A Bloke's Back Brake Block Broke". Is the thumbprint of my doggerel so obvious?
Glad you liked it.

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Hello Greg, many thanks for commenting on 'Evening' and congratulations on your recent poetry recognition.

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Hello Charlotte. I agree with Scott there is indeed a lot going on in your poems. There seems to be a busyness in them, more than is spoken by the words alone. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

By the way, I like Sylvia Plath but not in the usual way as I find her work very hard to digest. I don't understand what she is saying at all. Which is strange as I'm an ardent fan of both her husband and daughter.

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Good to see you back Michael with some thought provoking poetry, you read them really well. Do you still have the Harlequin, I would love to hear it again if you wouldn't mind reposting it? Thanks, Lynn xx

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Isobel...ta for the great comments on my Hitler poem..I have changed that expendable drasticly to requisite and it holds far more punch...now to a confession...I am going to shove it up on my blog, mainly because I do not feel the poem deserves such praise from a well respected poetess as yourself :)

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I've emailed you about the change to "Two Giggling Girls" - a result of your comment on an "awkward" line.
Thanks.

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wow dude honestly i respect and love your work...big ups to you .... you are an inspiration kumina

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doing it twice is very funny....lmfao (000)

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Hello MC
Thanks for your comments about poetry/prose.
I'll look up yer man Binyon.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not against free verse (although my facetious little piece on your Profile page might have indicated differently). I can enjoy some of it. There are good writers on here who I always look up.
And rhyme for me is, in any event, not the essence of poetry. "Hiawatha" is personal favourite.
But for me rhythm is.

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I lynn, Of course it is only your most recent blog entry of any given month that will appear in the blog listings. Had you forgotten this as well as me? lol Or is there still a prob? Win

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Thanks for the recent contribution to my profile which conjures up this reply -Those in verse may well think worseOf those who pose in fractured prose.But a poem like "The Burning of the Leaves" byLaurence Binyon is without rhyme as such, yet wonderful. A great example of how it should be done in myview. But this cobbler will stick to his last,for better or worse.Cheers - :-)

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Hi Lynn, yes this is very odd as Daughter I is accessible via you list of blogs on your profile page but does seem to have disappeared from the listings. I shall enquire as you are the second person today to mention this phenomenon. Win

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Hi There Poet's Corner, Welcome to WOL

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Hi There Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hello John.
To be perfectly honest I was at a bit of a loss over what to title Sixty!
I have just spent a week or so in France with a bunch of friends celebrating the BIG 60 and this stuff just came about, so I suppose it was much as you say. Don't read too much into the literal though, my life is far less exciting. Cheers mate (come on your Spurs).

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Hello Greg, thank you for the kind comments for Sixty. Regards, Graham

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Thanks for commenting on The Tartan Bard John. I know what you mean about his popularity but he does come from an interesting era and I really look forward to seeing what lies beneath the covers of the book. Much obliged.

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Thanks for your comments about my verse to date. Keep writing from the heart!

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Hi Otis, it's always a bit radical and usually impertinent when someone suggests excising the beginning of a poem. Thanks for explaining and defending why the lines are there. I really enjoyed the spirit of it all.

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Greg
Thanks for commenting on Speaking In Tongues & John Coltrane Didn't Practice. I find your suggestion to "loose lines" editorial and missing their origin and purpose.
"Earth is round
Universe is vast
But world is bigger
World is limited only
By imagination and practice"
I agree they are not as poetic as I want them to be but they represent a reference that inspired the poem. I wrote the poem for the recently past Equinox which this year was on Coltrane's birthday. I was in a free improvisation with other artists including a dancer who made moves that gave me the lines, from there I realized Trane expressed that in how he lived and worked. Like Trane I play all of the phrases that come to me. I may sort through them later but when they come I use them. This is still a new poem and I may learn better ways to say what I mean or describe what I saw and these lines will hold place for the rewrite until I do. If and when I find more lines I won't resist them.
Hallowing the search,
J. Otis

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Hi Steven

We've actually met many times in Manchester, and I've heard you recite on lots of occasions long ago at murky open mics - however...I had forgotten all about Euro '96, really made me chuckle (I would comment on your cynicism but for the fact you're so on the mark regarding our shopping being made safe...just see how wonderfully safe and shiny it now is in town!!).

See you anon sir

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Hi Shirley, thank you for your kind remarks on 'The Tartan Bard' very much appreciated.

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T'was my pleasure to get your eyes a-twinkling. I really enjoyed your stuff also, it's very lyrical and really sticks in your head. As an avid music fan it's just right for me. Keep 'em coming :).

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Poets Corner at Glassfire -Hoylake Ch47 2AG...
'Where the most notable poem will earn a cash award from the Guest Poet on the Night'...

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Thanks for the encouragement John, was a while before I dared go into that pub again after they heard that one!

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Thanks for the comments on my work. I posted some here hoping it may kick-start me back into writing again (last few years have let keeping a roof over our heads take over my mind).

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Thanks for comment on my efforts. Enjoyed an hour reading your works and will be back for more.

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Awww... thanks a lot Jeff..haha I went out with a young lady from Billericay many years ago..(back in the string vest days!) ha ha.. Young Love eh mate?

I wrote another one for City talk FM in Liverpool called 'The Pull' about how a man can get back in the stirrups of dating after 'Divorce'..mine was in 2005.

My book is called 'Observations On Life' available from www.countyvise or via www.Amazon or Me! or all you can call 0151 647 3333 (Birkenhead Press) or please ask at your local book shops!!..Thank you for your kind comments..I have just started up 'Poets Corner' at 'Glassfire'in Hoylake and there will be spots available for both 'Guest Poets'each month who will be given a 15 min spot to read their own work..they will also either judge or help to judge the most notable poem on the night! - plus 'FREE' guitarist/singer for a couple of say 10 min spots during the night in the future..so attention all you local Poets or Songsters just let me know if you want to perform as soon as possible ok? (just e-mail me at poets-corner@hotmail.com or FB me ok? Thank you and All the best to you and all at WOL... Graham..(keep it real)...

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