it took me about 15 yrs to write the 400, so if you're doing 50 a year then you are doing a lot better than me !
sometimes I couldn't write anything for months then half a dozen all at once :)

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Congratulations on the recent performances/radio stuff Ann. You're getting to be a right celeb! Graham

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Larisa, thank you very much for your lovely comments about Apparition. I have never won anything before so this is a surprise. Graham.

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oo-er Missus, nudge, nudge :) (mother earth)

Hi - Like I said to ann Foxglove - I'd just run out of poems - I'd posted the (very nearly) 400 I'd written over the last few years, so, until I wrote something else .....

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Hi David, thanks for your comment on Nectarine. Certainly heat-weariness, if not world weariness! I suppose it's about age, too. I'm always a little suspicious of poems I write on holiday about where I'm staying ... postcard poems, I call them. But I enjoyed doing it. Also enjoyed giving your poems from In The Distance a proper read while I was out there, too.

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I loved you tonight. I leaked tears of both varieties.
Brilliant.

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Glad you liked New Yorkers, John. I get a lot of my knowledge of history from the works of Bernard Cornwell. I'd just finished reading The Fort, about the defence of Majabigwaduce, which prompted me to do the poem.

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Glad you liked New Yorkers, Dave. I get a lot of my knowledge of history from the works of Bernard Cornwell. I'd just finished reading The Fort, about the defence of Majabigwaduce, which prompted me to do the poem.

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I don't know if it works or not John; I've only ever done this poem at stag do's. Without any response whatsoever, I'm glad to say.

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Hi Kealan - many thanks. B (mother earth)

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Hi - many thanks. B (mother earth)

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Glad to be here!

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Hi Christopher, welcome to WOL. I have enjoyed listening to a few of your audios this morning. Win

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Hi Russell, Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hi Fifi, Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hi Paul, Welcome to WOL . Winston

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Hi Adam. Welcome to WOL. Winston

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Hello Anthony
Glad you liked "Hic Haec...". I suspect it's a rather niche attraction - probably male 50+ somthings of a grammar school education.
(Did girls do Latin?)

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Hi John,
Thanks for your comment on "Over by Christmas."
I've done 5 or 6 of these 10 worders; sometimes I need the challenge to spur me on, otherwise I lay dormant for months. These exercises are set by 10 members of our writing club. using a metaphorical pin and a dictionary. (Sadists all of them.) They never enter the competition.
I take it you won't mind if I do "The ghost of White Hart lane." at my club.
Cheers Mate.

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Thanks for the comment on The Ad and The Id, much appreciated.

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Hi Ann,
I listened in yesterday to you on the radio - as much as I could - internet issues... You sounded 'smashing'... And was that you singing?

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Really sorry to hear about your mum in law, Steve - that must be a huge strain on the pair of you. I hope she makes a recovery and one that involves quality of life. Look forward to seeing you at some point. Give my regards to your wife.
Isobel xx

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..hello Isobel..thanks for your encouraging comment...cheers ..chris.

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The Old World - some great phrases used here - I like the world balm - the poems reminds me of a holiday in Majorca - love long gone and just a memory. I prefer to rmember the holiday and not her.....

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Breakfast Pots - very readable and I nice endnding - the pots or the wahing are always there to return to....

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Hi Isobel! Thanks for leaving a message and your kind invitation - it sounds like a really good day which I would have enjoyed. Sorry I won't be able to make it - my mother-in-law's in intensive care in hospital at the mo in a coma so we will be visiting her. I haven't been over to Wigan for a bit because I cycled from Land's End to John o'Groats earlier in the summer and was working loads and practising for it. I hope to get over again before the year is out - I really enjoy hearing you all and it's a top night out! - hopefully when she is better. Hope you have a great walk and the weather stays fine for you. Take care, love Stevexxxxxxxxx

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Hey John, Just to let you know I voted for
'The Ghosts of Bamiyam' in the Ghosts competition; the best poem for me.

My Best

Chris

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Hi Laura - thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment on "The Patient". Actually, I started last year but left for awhile. I'm adding a few of what I've written in the meantime. Let me know what you think of my older work (some is dark also, some isn't dark at all - like life, I guess!) if you are so inclined and I am looking forward to returning the kindness and take a look at your work too!

I'm so glad that people picked up on the progression from whisper to scream because that was how it evolved and I wanted to somehow get that progression down on paper. I also very much appreciate that you agree with the sentiments of the piece - I hope that anyone going through this now will get some comfort out of knowing that someone understands.

Thanks again,
Lisa

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Thank you Dave, for your comments on "The Patient". Your comments are more than any writer can ask for. It's such an accomplishment when you can strike a chord with someone. I remember last year you left a heartfelt comment on "My Father's Arm". "Quotations" and "Sugar Spice and Everything Nice" are similar in a way. Let me know what you think if you feel like reading them. Please don't feel obligated though.

I, however, will be sure to take a look at your work and return the consideration. Thanks again - it's as if you "felt" what I wrote about vs. just reading it. Very much appreciated.

Lisa

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Thank you so much for your kind comments on "The Patient". It is hard for people to understand addiction, and unfortunately there is a stigma that goes along with it also. People don't realize it is a disease, like diabetes, and often hereditary.

I'm trying to catch up on the comments people left on "The Patient". It was encouraging to get some responses.

Thanks for listening over the last week or so. I appreciate you taking the time. I also need to catch up on reading and commenting on others' work and I promise to read yours too!

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Hi - many thanks Cyn (the king and I)

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Hi Elaine, many thanks for the recent comments and for reading my poems. Very much appreciated. T.

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Re; Steam Railway Fans, thanks John, I knew that stanza needed a tweak and your comment spurred me into doing it. Much obliged.

As to ongoing railways yes I'm sure there are but can't cite them from the top of my head - some of the more backward African countries perhaps.

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Hi Neil re: 'Poet's Haunts' much obliged for the comments - appreciated.

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thanks Lynn.

have a nice goddamn day.
heres lookin' atchoo!
-get me a 'atishoo' goddamn quick-lol!
see ya later hun.

lotsa love Stef.xx

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good morning young lady.
hope all is well with thee and thine.

gonna bung 'that' poem on for you
as I say, no need to comment
tis just for a larf.

click on my name
under 'recent comments'

cheers Lyn.

Stef.xx

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Hi Steve - haven't seen or heard from you in a long time. Don't know if you are aware of the walk a few of us are going on at the week-end. Since it is over your way, I thought I'd give you a nudge - Dave Bradley, Julian, Deborah, Winston - to name but a few, will be going on it. All the details are on the homepage. It would be good to see you and hear some more of your black humour! x

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Ok I love the poetry, great conceit and great fun. I will come back a read more.

Cheers.

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Hi Lynn.

did you mean the Mel Brooks poem?
I will put it on again
when I see you have logged on.

no probs at all about commenting
as long as it gives you a laugh.

thanks.

Stef.xx

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Thanks for your comments, Dave on Mem & Reflect. Glad I didn't disappoint after all!!! X

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Sorry, Elaine, should have made myself clearer. I think "played shadow puppets" reads better. I thought the first line was rather long in relation to the rest of the poem, though maybe that's no bad thing. Poems never are finished, that's the way to look at it, can always be made better.

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Glad you liked Mem & Reflect. Did I not read it at yours last time? Anyway, many tas for the comments. XXX

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Eh, don't be jumping on me bandwagon now Dave ;p

Thanks for the comment chuck, appreciate it.

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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Hi John, yes the "quote" is mine, not from any poem I've written - though I might have to use it now - lol!

And whether taken to the dark places of imagination or a past reality or a light place or any other kind of place - the ability to transport the reader is, as you say what a writer aims to do xXx

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Thanks Hun & ditto!

Think I've got an eyelash in mine - damn! xXx

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Hello m'dear - soooo many thanks for taking the time to read and comment on so many pieces!! You appear to have been up most of the night on WOL :D

Take care, and see ya soon

Moi xxx

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Thank you so much Isobel for you kind comments about For my parents.

I've added something on my blog which may answer your question about whether or not writing helped :) x

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It was me! It was me!
I lost internet connection just as I was posting it, so it didn't all come through.
I think you must be a secret Trucker's Moll, what with all the interest you showed Thomas about the poem!
Would you settle for having "Foxy Lady" painted on the side of my wagon?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks John, that means a lot and is good to know - I hit the mark then?! :) x

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Thank you for the kind comments Dave. Always appreciated. Graham

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