Hi There, just listened to 'face of a child' on youtube. great delivery and the music was perfect. Win

Comment is about J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang) (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony - hope you can make it (Poetry Mine) one day - and thanks for letting me know. At the moment it is such an unknown - will anyone turn up at all? But I am looking forward to it. I think . . . . :)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,

I hope all is well with you. Just to let you know that I won't be able to make St. Agnes next Tuesday as I will be away in Cumbria. I was really looking forward to your event and to meeting you. Nevertheless I wish you great success with the evening and hope that there might be a repeat - which I will be free for!

Best regards and sincere apologies,

A.E. X

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Margaret, Welcome to WOL. Like the way you describe your work here. Wouldn't it be great if our system were able to fully capture the esscence of your work. Maybe one day. Winston

Comment is about Margaret Gosley (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel. Thanks for your comment. I'd never read The Highwayman so I looked it up. It's amazing, certainly there's a surprisingly similar theme but I'm enormously flattered you'd make any comparisons between the writing in Noyes work and my own effort. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I feel I should get the hang of traditional structures before I would be confident to try something more contemparary, maybe it's a bit of a security blanket!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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my thanks to you Lynn
for comments on 'forfeiting'

I hope you find the next poem
I do,a little more cheerful.

we both send you our best regards
as always.

thanks love.

Patricia and Stef.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Peter.

appreciated your correctly
descriptive comments
of the feelings
put to the reader/s of my poem-
'forfeiting'

thank you so much.

Comment is about Peter Asher (poet profile)

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Thanks Winston..I have a bit of a fiddle with 'Days End,' (ha) think it works ok..anyways thanks for your comments :)

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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'Dorty?' moi?...changed that line to within practiced passion..dunno if it works any better but I could always practice some more to find out eh?.. cheers for commenting Laura x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Ta for the comment on my last Isobel- appreciated.

I have left a comment on the poem.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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lol. no but my unmade bed is looking rather interesting! Win x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Ha - you know me too well! I wasn't saying ridiculous - it's just that experimental poetry of that type isn't my bag. Poetry has to move me, make me think, make me laugh. If it doesn't do that then it's missed the mark. Luckily, I am just one opinion and there a million out there who differ. So will you be building a nasty pile of bricks on the canal bank, any time soon?

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel, comtemporary... is that one way of saying ridiculous? lol. These match report experiments are becoming a regular thing. I find it interesting how they evolve a life of their own and create their own meaning. Win x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Greg, Interesting isn't it how, when you know the source material it makes you see different things. And if you then relate to that material in one way or another then you see yet more. Frankly I hope chelsea make things interesting at the top this year. Thanks for your comments. Win

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Tom? Sorry no TV here at mission control. Brian? H

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Now then Houston - thank you very much for your note on Gordon. Yeh, whenever friends ask what sort of writing I do, I tell them I'm a bit like Brian from the TV prog Spaced ;D

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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many thanks Kealan (mon petit shoe)

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Oh well, you & me both - it's a long time since a poem has had this effect on me. xxB

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Barefoot Self... I thought I had to tell you that like Coromandel & Visiting Neil by Anthony Emmerson, (and some others) this poem goes beyond the realms of good/really good and for me attains something else close to perfection. I also don't know whether you know yourself what you've got here, but for me it's a masterpiece like Coromandel. It's not just great it's fabulous because you've gone beyond cleverness & wit & beauty & have successfully encapsulated emotions & your words are able to re-awaken those emotions, which I think is very rare. Being blunt (& serious for once) - tell me yourself - do you realise yourself just how good this is ? I'm genuinely interested. XX B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Isobel,once I said to a very clever friend, "I take 'umption' with your attitude." The word wasn't past my teeth, when I tried to drag it back, and failed. And he hollered with joy: 'MALAPROPISM - HAHAHAHA!' and then he laughed for ten years at least. Ah, well, we're still good friends.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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'lo Cynth :)

Astute? Moi? Don't get called that very often! ;D

Re my right knuckles - it's 'make'. I found a tube of orange dayglo paint at a festie in July and went a bit mad with it. The 'borstal dots' first, then a smiley face on my face, and then got all inspired cos you see a lot of 'love' and 'hate' homemade tattoos on a certain generation of men, so after long inebriated thought, I went with 'make' and 'love' :D

Then I forgot about it and didn't let it dry so it smeared everywhere, doh!

Heh - glad it's not just me who ends up tearing their hair out sometimes on damned words.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Laura, you are so astute. I didn't just 'fiddle' with the last verse, I nearly tore out my hair - would I or wouldn't I include it? Finally, I decided to go with it, for another 'dimension' maybe, for absolute clarification of intent, but the 'pulling power' of the other four verses is definitely compromised. If we were face to face, privately, I would be even more honest.

What is written on your right fist? Is it 'fake'?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Dave - I owe you an apology.
I recently posted a blog entitled Poetry Slam which was based on an idea I had in my head. I knew I'd got the idea from somewhere but couldn't remember where - a film, a book?
I've just discovered it was from your discussion thread A Slam with a Difference.
My poem is virtually plagiarism (although I didn't know it) and I apologise.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks John - I sent off for my Poetic licence at the same time.... (shock n' aw)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Alan, Welcome to WOL. Winston

Comment is about Alan Shepherd (poet profile)

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Hi Peter, thanks for your comment! It's good to know somebody agrees with me.

By the by, I really like your poem 'Hares' - it has a very Ted Hughes-esque firmness which is hard to come by in a lot of poetry.

Comment is about Peter Asher (poet profile)

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thansk cynthia. im studying fine art, which hasa similar type of criticism to that here so thats good. will have less time to post but hopefully more inspiration. itll be my 2nd year. :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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How thoughtful and kind of you to give my poem another go. Thank you so much - a really lovely start to the day for me! Glad it worked for you this time. I was wondering if I had missed to convey it. Have a lovely weekend - it's Friday! Yaaaa! XX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Just a quick one...

Loving the new picture - very studious!

Hope all is well, keep up the good work.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for anniversary wishes, John. x

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hello John (Speechless)many thanks for the encouraging words so appreciated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi - many thanks (Armagh)B.

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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I reckon the hardest thing is getting a publisher interested - there are lots of super writers on WOL who deserve to be published, but it's not easy. If you had poems with illustrations like those I reckon you'd have a much better chance - only my 2 cents though :)
good luck with it. B

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Hey fantastic!! :D Which one/s did Full of Crow accept? I'll have to have a look. Haha, they just rejected 5 of mine so have doggedly sent them another 5 :D

I was so excited I put mine on me biog on here heh. I got into Feathertale online, plus their actual book - a Best Of coming out early next year, with Biting The Bullet! I get a copy of the book for payment so still have to buy me own chips, like ;) I got into RedFez too,with Write for Revolution, and that's just online but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, innit?!

Waiting on bloody loads more - have got a few more links for you too, so will email them to you.

Nice one, well done - knew you'd get published!

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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nice one laura and yeah i got into full of crow magazine, not out til next spring though and i got two into amphibi.us, theyre only online magazines but fuk it like, still waiting on a few replys, hows it goin with u?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Was just recommending your Poetry Slam enthusiasm of a few years ago to some people wanting to wake up a village community with events ideas - have moved there in last few months. Looked you up to see where located if they replied - and what a super surprise to see how you have hit the heights! Congratulations!

Comment is about Mark Niel (poet profile)

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Isobel, thanks for your comment on my last offering. It is nature poetry but I tried to use it as a kind of backdrop to reflect the break down of a relationship, so the two would hopefully work together. Maybe that element of the poem needs strengthening. Hope to see you soon. XXX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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John, many thanks for commenting on my latest - much appreciated.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Win, many thanks for your comments on my latest, very much appreciated. I shall think over your suggested change - thanks. XX

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Dave, thanks for commenting on my latest - glad you liked it. It is indeed praise from one who knows those Torridon peaks! Never doen the horns - too rocky for me! XXX

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Laura,
thanks for the comments on my latest. I chickened out of the relationship (wisely) and the climb was just a backdrop reflecting that fact! XXX

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Andy, thanks for commenting on my latest. Hope you're doing well. I'm fine, thanks. Hope to see you soon. XX

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Cynthia, your comments on "Liathach" meant a great deal to me as you have really "got it". Thank you so much. XXX

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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have a peaceful night Lynn.
see thee on the morrow.

off to cop some zzzzzzzzzzz,s

fingy&wotsit.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

glad you liked
my peeping tom poem
-Windows-

obrigado.

Stefano.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

Original item by Lynn Dye

Hi Odessa girl.

so pleased that you like
'Depth'

thanks Larisa.

Stefan.xx

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

blimey charlie!
Winston

really appreciate your sifting
through my poems.

glad you gleaned something useful
from 'rampage'
your angle on same subject
is excellent.

very grateful.

Stef.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

Original item by Winston Plowes

Hey Laura, Thx for the feedback.

I have left some waffle on the poem lol

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thx for the feedback Isobel,

I have left a waffle on the poem- lol

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thx again for the feedback Dave.

I left a waffle on the poem- and sent you a rather long facebook message- lol.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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