Hi Ann - re The Tumbler - daft I know but so incongruous I had to write about it - glad you liked it though x

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Thanks for your comments on Night Mail, Val.
There's something almost alive about a steam train which is missing on diesels and electrics.
We go to the North Yorks Moors Railway (Pickering to Whitby) quite often which is magical - especially the Wartime Weekend (usually around October).

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Ann
Thanks for your comments on Night Mail.
I am, of course, joking about Auden's original - it's a rocker.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Ta for commenting on my true life poem, Pit Pony. What terrible days they were and how glad I am that they are over. Although I still suffer from coal blindness I'd really love to share a cuddly bunny curry.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Pit Pony, how I'm glad those days are gone - though the rickets still remain with me alas

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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I know it's a cliche but thanks for your comment on my poem 'Pit Pony'.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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hi young Davey lad! ta for Norma Jean info-news to me indeed.no she certainly was no bimbo-just vulnerable-keep well sir-Mr W.

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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hi lynn-glad I majer laf! av put pikky now on same poem/thingy-should give you an even bigger laff-ta lovelychops-Stefano.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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ta funnybird for commentarios on me giggle poem-now accompanied by an explicit foter of moi!-all the georgey-Stef'oldy.xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you dear friends for the comments. Best wishes, Larisa

Comment is about RZHEPICKS (blog)

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Excellent,I love steam trains and poetry. Well done.

Comment is about Night Mail (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Kate,

Just had a wee look at your profile and really enjoyed "He Is Veg Patch"
I'll have to pop back and have another look around, the poems on your profile a quite fun which is refreshing after so much deep and meaningful :) x

Comment is about Kate Tym (poet profile)

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sorry i hadn't realised i had posted multiple ones i have had a look and cant see anymore i hope they have been taken down by admin

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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thanks peeps and a special thankyou to mr Burns

Comment is about I have a few questions? (blog)

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yeh ill be there...see you then x (if i can get lift sorted!)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Sounds lovely, and an interesting last line...

Comment is about Maybe (blog)

Original item by alan barlow

maybe this is the antidote to my latest one, (Mr and Mrs). Well written alan. Win

Comment is about Maybe (blog)

Original item by alan barlow

The last one is great - mean, but great!

Comment is about RZHEPICKS (blog)

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Thank you for your kind messages, so sorry that its taken such a long time to get back, please charge it to my mind and not my heart. I wish you a very happy new year

Comment is about Abi (poet profile)

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Hi Greg - I have a family funeral at Ruislip that day so not too sure - if I don't get there please tender my apologies

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comments on The Fairies. You're right, it can be terribly distressing for all concerned, whether the thieving is real or imaginary, and has caused family fissures in this case.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on The Fairies, Ann. It is different, but is one of those that had to be written at the time. Please accept my belated condolences about Gemma - and hope your walking plans bear fruition this year! x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your generous comments on The Fairies, Andy.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on The Fairies, Dave. Glad you saw the dignity there.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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This has some beautiful sounds in it Ray...

'through the shimmer and foamy torrent.
Much of her sinks and stains the bottom',

'I'd imagined a floral flotilla

serenely sailing to the distance...
floating closely in its slipstream'

Love the pink and purple petals too

Had to check the spelling on loth as I've always spelled it loathe. Whaddaya know?

Comment is about Picnic (blog)

Thanks for your comments on 13:35 Cynthia :)

Ah, that title...there's actually tons to get out of it, we were messing about with it last night. The verses are 3 line verses...and there are two 3s in the title.

You can add the 1 and the 5 to get 6, which is what the two inner threes amount to. Half of 6 is 3.

Also, 5 minus 3 = 2, as does 3 minus 1 = 2 (don't know if you yourself have a 'lucky number', but mine is two!). 1 + 3 = 4, 5 + 3 = 8, which is 4 doubled(8 is in itself 2 times 2, then times 2).

I like your thought on it too :) I am really quite interested in numerology anyway, and it all got a bit spooky last night!

Anyway, ta for taking the time to read, as always :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, If I didn't write this sort of tosh I may well be bitter. A release valve maybe :-)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Larisa, really enjoyed this little collection - the first one and the one about time are just so true! Love, Lynn xx

Comment is about RZHEPICKS (blog)

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Thanks for your comment Andy (on Pit Pony). As you know I'm a weak and sickly person old before my time due to my hard life up chimneys and down pits so any kindness is always welcome.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thank you for your cruel comments on my emotional poem Pit Pony. I would have thought you would have empathy with an old miner what with all your tin mines down there.
Ah tin... we used to dream of tins of something, it was so hard existing on coal dust mixed with muddy water- not very appetising admittedly but a good sourceof carbon.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on Pit Pony. I was forced to go down the pit when I was too big to go up chimneys. It was such a hard life, I'm only 16 now.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank you Stella and thank you Bernard :)

Stefan, thanks for comment, you are obviously so good at both!!

Yes Tommy, of course you are right, that it is the lengths the correctness goes to that is at fault, naturally it is extremely offensive to use the word you mention. No, I can't give you a verifiable instance on your comment on flags, but then my issue was not really about flags. We are not restricted from celebrating St. George's Day, there's just not many of us that do, for whatever reason.

Comment is about I'm Sorry, I'm English (blog)

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Alan, thanks for your comments on Ghazal (your hair) No it is not my barnet! lol. Winston

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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Andy . More on your recent ghazal comments. They made me think and I have started a related discussion thread -

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1150

Win

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Great poem! Love it so much. With warmest wishes, Larisa

Comment is about OpenMind Valentine's Day Poetry Slots available (blog)

Original item by Ushiku Crisafulli

Yes, where has all the romance gone! Chuffin' good poem. (I'll have to take another look at WHA's version but I do like the film that went with it.) xx

Comment is about Night Mail (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the thoughts on ight Mail.
"Harder than it looks..."? You need lungs like a blue whale's to recite it!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Very enjoyable, John, and harder than it looks. Should perform well.

Comment is about Night Mail (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks ever so much everyone. It's really nice when folk have several different favourite lines. I do death well, Steve, there's no getting away from it. I'm sending out a flyer to all the local undertakers.

Comment is about Picnic (blog)

Hello Alan
Thanks for your thoughts on Night Mail.
Not sure Clarkson would like the comparison!
I did, of course, mean the comment about Auden as tongue-in-cheek. The original is a cracker.

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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Thanks guys for giving this some time..very much appreciated.

Comment is about Remember? (blog)

Hi there,

As always, thank you for reading and commenting. Re the songwriting, not likely lol x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,

Thank you for taking the time to comment. Having re read from the second stanza i have to say that i agree with you, that the first is not really necessary, tho i cant deecide if i want to remove it or not! x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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haha sorry oi shall add one just for you

"you dirty old man"

not too sure whether ive finished or not to be fair ??

and yes i get it budgie tongue ;-)

Comment is about Maybe (blog)

Original item by alan barlow

I agree with the other commentators - liked the eeriness and rusty swing too x

Comment is about ghazal - under grass (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

bloody hell Barlow! you cudda put a picture of the action to go with this disgusting poem-good job I ,ve got a seedy imagination and a big pecker...hee hee(gerrit?)

Comment is about Maybe (blog)

Original item by alan barlow

a very jeremy clarksonesque claim to start off with but ultimately i feel one that holds up.

i did get a feeling of another brick in the wall on the last 2 lines as well

very well written i never thought i would see baccs appear anywhere else but on a pay slip let alone in a poem

Comment is about Night Mail (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

thanks Dave for taking time with 'remember' much appreciatied.x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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This is a strong poem, Kath. For me, stanzas 2, 3 and 4 are the poem. Stanza 1 could be a little gem all by itself; but I don't think it sits well with this poem; it's a bit too 'Chicken Licken'. Well, while I'm here - I would make three-line stanzas; this format would 'sit' so well on the eyes.

Comment is about Never alone (blog)

Original item by Kath Hewitt

Lynn It is not the much abused term 'political correctness' that is at issue it is the incorrect application of it. If it is politicly correct to condemn the casual usage of 'nigger' then I am 100% for it, if it is 'the banning, by councils, of the flying of flags, on health and safety grounds, then I am also 100% for it. But Lynn, please give me a verifiable instance of ANY flag in England that has been banned by a local authority of the flying of the cross of St. George on the grounds that 'some ethnic minorities may be offended'.

Comment is about I'm Sorry, I'm English (blog)

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