Hi Again Isobel. Thx for your considered comments on 'Autism' there is a fuller explanation on the blog page. It was nice to write something not grim for a change. The slightly odd aspects of this also apealled to my liking of experimantal poetry whilst suiting (hopefully) the subject. Your initial comment was spot on. Win

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Hi Greg, Thx for comments on 'Autism' there is a fuller explanation on the blog page. As to the last line there were nothing wrong with your suggestions. Please keep commenting as usual lol. Win

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Hi,

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

How are you? Hope things are good? x

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Hi Andreas. The words of that poem flow nicely.

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Hi Kath - am really enjoying your book.. Review to follow on my blog soon when I get time xx

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Hellooo... : )
I sent you an e-mail a while back - hope you got it and everything is good! (messaging doesn't seem to be working on here!)
xxx

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Hi Andy. Thanks for the comments on my poem "Who is This Woman in the Mirror.
How should I break up this poem? Please don't get me wrong. I really want to know. Since I don't write a lot of poetry I need constructive criticism to help me.

Thanks
Shirley

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Hello Isobel. Thank you so much for the comments on my poem "Who is This Woman in the Mirror".
I took your suggestion about changing my to her.
It does work much better.

Thank You
Shirley

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Hi John. Thanks for the comments on "Who is This Woman in the Mirror".
Men don't age? LOL. Someone should tell my husband this.

Thanks again
Shirley

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A lucky chance that I stumbled across your work. Very impresssed by the depth of observation of places, of people, of all around you. Jealous of your skill with words.
Where can I find more of your work???

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Hiya Kieren... A long time ago, when God or Bog was but a lad, you performed Whatever Happened To The Heroes at some night called Freed Up.

Time has passed and even though I've seen and talked with you a few times since then, I've never commented upon one particular aspect of this poem that blew my mind.

In fact, you could say that commenting upon it now is more than a little odd and awkward. Why haven't I commented? What prevented me? Surely that horse has not only bolted, but bolted some time ago straight to the Pedigree Chum factory and into the guts of several dogs to be shat out onto indifferent pavements?...

And you'd be right.

Anyway... Kurt Vonnegut is punk. Fuck me, that is an amazing idea. And of course he is! Very cool and very intertextual of you. Well done. I like it when a poem makes the reader go "of course".

Grand stuff.

Steve

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Hi Ian, Thankou for adding a pic. I have updaqted your status. Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hi Emlyn, Welcome to WOL. Good to see you blogging. Keep posting. Winston

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Hi David, Welcome to our site. hope you find something of interest here. Winston

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...enjoyed the strong poems on your website as well...c.s.

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Thanks Peter.

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Great poem. I love the words.

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hi is thanks for your comments on comments :)

im all into writing spontanious at the mo and asking people to suggest random titles.

you got one?

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Great to have stumbled across your recording, a happy chance. Listening to songs of yours ten, fifteen years ago inspired me - glad to find you are still around.
nc

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I like this poem David. I also like the 'Liver Bards' that actualy made me smile. Keep 'em coming.

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Didn't think I knew what words like "plausible" and "substantiate" meant, did you?

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Good luck with the new venture. And thanks for the feedback from your group re the villanelle.
Dave

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Hi Ann. Thank you so much for your nice comments on my poem, "A Silly Poem About Hair".
My hair has actually always been straight and easily tangled.
I got the idea from an old high school newspaper.
I think your hair is very pretty, goes nice with your face.
Thanks
Shirley

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aw thats nice of you Lynn.
much appreciated.

will catch up on the hundred poems
you do in our absence-lol!

have a nice evening Lynn
(and all your lovelies too)

Patricia and Stef.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hey Laura,
Thx for reading/commenting on my last poem
My Best
Chris

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Thx for reading/commenting on my last poem Tommy.
My Best
Chris

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Lynn

Thanks for your comment on `Everyone knew...

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Hi Andy, thx for the comments. These football poems have a mind of their own. I just give them a push, There are 2 more of mine on here from different Kevin McCarra match reports -

gap effects
harm resistance

Win

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Amazing work J. Otis Powell. The words in Quintets captured my every emotion.

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Thank you Lynn for your comment on Sexy at Sixty. I have to say I do try. Hazelx

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Thanks Lynn ( beguiled by seals)- I know "nature" poems aren't everyone's cup of tea! When I was staying in St Ives last week I went for a walk on the beach just as it was getting dark and there were these two seals really close in to shore. Magic!xx

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Boo! I've found you ! I am so glad that you liked my poem.

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:o) ta Laura

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thankyou for your encouragement and comments :) x

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Hi Lynn, (Leibfraumilch) thanks v. much for commenting on the poem. Appreciated.

Good to have your views on Cherry Blossom also, and yes thank you for asking, the pesky neck has been much better this week with a series of acupuncture sessions to follow.

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John (Leibfraumilch) I'm sure they do look at us but not in a way we would wish. Reminds me of the song 'Standing on the corner watchin' all the world go by......' Well its a good job we can't go to jail for what we're thinking. Even if these days it's just to stand and admire the outer beauty of youth and perhaps not without a little envy. Thanks for commenting.

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Hi John;

thanks for your comments on my the end of summer poems... mean a lot to me, so thanks for that.

the third one is now up, and the fourth should be following soon, then I'll be onto my next sequence after that which maybe about the end of Piers.

see you soon at Stockport.

Andy N

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Hi Jennie;

thanks for the comment over 'the end of summer ii'.

i am really enjoying writing this series that much have now gone and blogged part iii and hoping to blog part iv (the finale) next week or maybe week-end.

hope you are good and hope to see you again soon

cheers x

andy n xx

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hi lynn;

thanks for the comment over 'the end of summer iii'.. been quite a straight forward a series for me to write this actually - probably because of the strange weather up my way - lol recently.

either way, i think there is one more to comment and then i'll be onto another sequence..

hope you are well

cheers x

andy n x

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Hi Kealan - thanks for the comment on 'the end of summer iii' m8... i think there is just one more to come on this series which i may post over the week-end.

i was also at openmind the other night too and was hoping to see you there.. maybe next time, eh?

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Hi Laura (Leiberfraumilch), you had me worried for a moment. Thought I'd trangressed an unfathomable rule somewhere. I go with my observation as you know and what I wrote was about a refreshing group of young foreign ladies at the local Wetherspoons who quite uplifted the atmosphere from the usual retired stolid folk who sit around. Hope you're OK though.

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Aww thanks Laura..actually wrote this for my lad when he was in Iraq..

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Thanks Laura for the comment and informing me r.e. Dory Previn's lyric.

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Ann, many thanks for leaving such a nice comment on being overly dramatic.. :)

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Hiya :)

mm playing about with emotions/moods at the moment..having a hot flush too!...jeeeeeeez...

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Catherine
So good to find a soul sister on WOL
J. Otis

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Andreas,
Your poem "I have abandoned blood" reminded me of the following poem by Huey P. Newton so I thought I would share it with you:

One day I suddenly realized I had forgotten, name age sex address race, I had found myself
What is greater than love or hate, I will tell you then,
what is greater than love is the relationship I have with the tip of my finger.

Want me to break it down? I can break it down.
It's a simple concept.

If I define myself as my thumb, I deny myself my fingers.
If I define myself as my fingers, I deny myself my hand.
If I define myself as my hand, I deny myself my arm.
If I define myself as my arm, I deny myself my body.
If I define myself as my body, I deny myself my universe.
I diminish myself.

Peace after revolution,
J. Otis

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Sophia,
The wisdom in your poems is so soft footed I hardly heard it coming.
Peace
J. Otis

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haha- ta Win- :o)

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Hi Plowsey.

re alcedo atthis poem
I very much thank you sir.

also re a kingfisher in your porthole-
keep taking the tablets-lol!

seriously though Mr P,yes indeed
a fabulous bird that apparently
not many folk get to see.

there again not many people
are fast enough sighted to keep up!

cheers Winston.

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