Nice one or six Dave love the line about the gaudy parrot, cheers for comment on Nat of the Wanderers, Boltons Dixie Dean! good to see you at wigan last night, cheers Jeff

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greetings Mr. Freeman-obliged to you for reading and commenting on'passenger'glad it came over rhythmic to you-cheers-SW.

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I like this one too, Ray, although I've always been more into music that football! I love the dad and son angle - probably because I've gone over it so often in my own stuff.

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Just spotted the title of this one and then got lured into the poem. It's brilliant, a real tour de force!

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Thanks for your comments. It is meant to say more about the natives than aliens but I'm not picky.

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Never thought I'd see John Coopey non-rhyming. This is good, John, very nice indeed.

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As a betting man, John, I can appreciate the wisdom here.

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(nana)
Thanks for comments.
So, Laura - do you still like yer meat doggy-style :D ?

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Stefan what a comment for another brill poem by Charlene are you a slam artist by the way Charlene????

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:) great poem

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The only thing I'd say is that I wasn't sure about the line "focusing on this and that" which seemed to me a bit on the vague side. But I really liked the way you widened it out to encompass so much.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the feedback. This poem has really driven me bonkers, but loosening it up into quatrains has improved it a bit I hope. I don't mind it so much when it gets going, but I'm not entirely sure about the beginning.

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I'll second that! What a lot of raunchy material there was last night. I've never heard anything quite like it before...even at the Tudor!

Your house looks very tidy up there - I could do with you coming round to mine!

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Well done with your compèring début!

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Thanks for the comment on "Invisible" much appreciated xx

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You must have had a really happy childhood and so free and bossy with it, loved this poem it just brings back so many memories xx

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Thanks for your comment Cate much appreciated felt I had to do that poem after seeing the news and this lady in Afghanistan and her lover were caught and brought to justice!!

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Some wonderful rich imagery here Jane.... like Cynthia I had to revisit it to get the full effect of the content.
Cate xx

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Its a cracking anti valentine John, and like Laura I enjoyed your rendition last night..... good job your wife wasnt there!!
Cate xx

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Beautiful Dave! Very uplifting and spiritual.
Cate xx

Comment is about Beyond the Garden #6 (blog)

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I ll second that! A poem that tackles the most horrendous treatment of womankind with honesty.I thought you read it with great compassion and sincerity last night Chris, and your talents as a compere were very revealing! Well done!
Cate xx

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very funny... great stuff. Win

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Marvellous Dave - this does seem like the natural conclusion - it seems complete now. all the best. B

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Hi Dave, I think its a shame it may be the last, it has been an interesting journey. Still. he seems to have started to find himself and his path. Win

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Jane, I read this yesterday and needed to come back today. I have enjoyed your vision, much imagery and many specific lines. But, for me, I began to feel 'adjective fatigue', especially those that seemed contrived and much hyphenated. Always with respect for your talent. It's great to have you blogging again.

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Right and wrong is often not clear-cut in life and role-modelling can be a dicey business. It is good to hear your thoughts.

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Greatly enjoyed. I understood it to be written from the man's voice, and not menacing as much over-eager for intercourse, making a couple's 'intimate' joke. I may be all wrong. But it doesn't matter, does it?

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Good read, Ray, on a subject that never quite allows rationalization to let us off the hook. Dave's comment is hilarious. Where does he pick up his data?

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Was great to meet you too Laura.
Enjoyed your pieces, trouble is I heard so many I can't remember them now, which sounds terrible, but with so much adrenalin in my system last night it's a wonder I could remember my own name - lol!
Have you blogged the pieces you read as I'd love to see them?
Much respect
Petrova
xXx

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Eh up - I had to rush off last night without saying goodbye to anyone, totally misjudged how much time I had left and ended up having to leg it for the train!

Anyhow, thanks for the beer and I'll get you one back next time chuck :)

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Hehe - enjoyed this last night John :D

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Wish I hadn't read this on a hangover - feel a bit sick now :(

;)

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Loved this last night Chris - sent shivers through me

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Bloody 'ell, meet me and me chins!

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Heh - I'll say it again, absolutely BRILLIANT.

Took my breath away this one when you showed it to me last night...I love how it verges on the sexual, and religious, surreal as well as capturing elements of hyper-real nature, and has the potential for almost a kind of redemption at the end. Each one develops the epiphanic feel.

Loving lines like the leaf having self-belief, and the angel touching his eyes.

Thanks Dave - if this is the end of these, it's a shame, but it must end at some point I suppose. It's been ace fun :D Ta la

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Enjoyed this Ray. One of my favourite statistics is that more Americans believe they've been abducted by aliens than can do long division.

Comment is about Frankley Beeches (blog)

Some nice lines in this
A lemon disc rises glassy cold.

The shuttered season groans.

I'd have to say that I found the wintry depictions more convincing and enjoyable than the last couple of verses.

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Hi Andy & thanks for your comments on my untitled piece. I made it to the Tudor last night & read, great experience though my bones were rattling!
Met Jefferama & will try to get across to Bolton sometime :) x

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nice twist at the end of it, Kath.... love it xx

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Can well relate to this, Thom.. Very sad but It's lovely wrote..

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Thanks Elaine, I think poems are sometimes like films; you see more the second time round :) Get well soon! xXx

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Wonderfully menacing! xx

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Thanks Dave. (Gazelle Ghazal) x

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Hi Win! Thanks for kind comments on my Gazezzel (oops! I think I've just invented a new poetic form - just got up and my eyes aren't working yet!) my Gazelle Ghazal. No, I had no idea that the dying cries of the gazelle had anything to do with ghazals. Nice touch that my gazelle lived and triumphed then! I was going to try and have a "deer" type of word in every verse but I didn't think gnu or wildebeast sounded very poetic. Maybe I'll write agnuther ghazal! xx

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Hey Jane,

Been to Bolton the last couple of months...the first wol at Butterflies and Guitar and Verse.

Anyway it made me think that your poetry was missed.

Hope all is good in the world- kids and all that too.

I hope to get to the next Bolton wol happy with my new gf Haha...Be good to hear your poetry there.

Loved the weird Lewis Carrol brilig-esque poem you wrote for your daughter and even more so the poem about about cars/environment and gambol...ala sheep.

My Best

Chris

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beautiful poem.

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Hi Laura,

Thx for the feedback on my latest.

Truth be told the call centre is just a metaphor for self limitation and torture of the mind...that which is self inflicted by our own internal walls/barriers.

Still call centres are shit and as bad as you say. I once worked in one for a couple of months and it was sould crushing.

Though it was quite funny because in order to get the job I had to delete zeros off my prior salary (lie) because I walked out of a high paid job Hahaha

My Best

Chris

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Hi Andy,

You're a seriously good bloke, good thoughtful feedback and yes I did indeed perform that poem in Bolton at the wol event.

P.S

Please let me know when you have music gigs and I will try to get along. Distance an all that, but would hope to make one or two.

My Best- mate

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on my last poem Dave.

Yes freedom is certainly what it is about. Particularly independence from self limitation.

It has little to do with a call centre any more than any job that tortures the psyche...the job is really just the metaphor.

My Best

Chris

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Thanks Isobel :o)

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