Hi again john, Glad you came across my blog and liked it. There is a similarity in the way we have cited names from a memorial. Great minds think alike maybe? :-)

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Hi John, Thanks for the info. I am working at the local polish clubs xmas party soon! P.S. forgot to say, loved the title. P.P.S. probably cycling past the george and dragon again next wed on my regular 200k ride although at the moment very slowly!! keep posting .Win X

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Good evening lovely Lady-glad I was back in time so as not to miss this lovely Autmn poem-very sexy!! love to you-Stef-xx-ps-thank you very very much for comments on my poems too-I am very grateful,always.

Comment is about An Autumn And a Wind (blog)

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'Evening Lynn-blimey you have been spreading your kindness about!-many many many thanks indeed-Porthcawl was really nice-we managed to grab one really nice day,and got blown away by the rest-lol!love to you and yours as always-Stef-xx

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Win
Thanks for your thoughts on Sleep Easy.
I get a bit miffy when I hear people talking about sending all the Poles back and I'm tempted to wonder "Does that include all the ones buried here?"
The idea for the poem comes from 13 Polish war graves in St Mary's Cemetery in Hucknall, where I'm from.
The photo is a bit of a stretch though. Apparently it is on Wood Lane in Hucknall and commemorates a plane crashed in the town piloted by one of the many Polish airmen stationed at the Rolls Royce aerodrome there.

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Greg
Thanks for your kind thoughts on Sleep Easy. I've always thought that the entire Polish nation must have felt shafted by Yalta, although with Russian tanks sprawled across half of Europe I don't suppose Churchill and Roosevelt had much bargaining power.

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P.S. Where is the little monument John?

Comment is about Sleep Easy (blog)

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Hi John A different subject for you? liked this . liked the repetition of names. and on my first reading through it didn't strike me that there was a rhyme going on! Thats how rhyme should be for me, unforced and reinforcing the power of your poem. Win x

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Hey Greg, saw the citrine and sapphire yesterday morning in a really brief birst of sunshine between downpours! magic. really excited by it. Win ;-)

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I love the ideas in this Cynthia. The endurance of the written word is something that fascinates me also - as you may have deduced from my latest - sharing those words can be like sharing our humanity.
The erosion of our language is something that worries me - the focus onto the visual, the speedy. I do wonder how much future generations will read or understand this poem.

Comment is about The Written Word (blog)

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leaves turn golden then they fall
grasping for the past

was my favourite phrase in this piece. Win x

Comment is about November (Golden fallen) (blog)

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Hi Dali, Maybe there is something about a cold clear November day that clears the head and brings clarity to thoughts. I got this sharpness from your words. The clear truth can also hurt however. Win x

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Hi Ann, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Steven, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

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Hi Andy, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

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Hi Isobel, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

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Hi Greg, Thankyou for leaving a comment on TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN. Much appreciated. I have replied in detail on the blog itself. Win x

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Hi Angela
Welcome to our site, hope you find somthing of interest here.
Winston

Comment is about Angela Topping (poet profile)

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Hi Michael, Thankyou for putting your profile on here, Welcome to WOl, Winston

Comment is about Michael Holloway (poet profile)

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It's about the wanderings of a mind in decline, Greg. There was a reason for separating the first and last lines but I've forgotten what it was! I really have! Ha, Ha!

Comment is about What am I Knitting? (blog)

I agree... or at least I think I do , with most of this ....but I'm still having trouble with 3 across...?

Comment is about No Call for It (blog)

Original item by Steven Waling

I thought this were clever and entertaining but I was in The Black Hand Gang and we never did it.

Comment is about No Call for It (blog)

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Thanks Steve - i think I was channelling some late '70's careers officer with this one.

Comment is about No Call for It (blog)

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HaHa - like a red rag to a bull, this subject :)
I've had a fair old spectrum girlfriend-wise; one thought I was an unspeakable pervert, some went along but were non-committal & two (in particular) were literally "game for anything". ahh - happy days !

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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There are a lot more P's than Q's.

Comment is about Antique Zealot (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

I love this Cynthia. The written word remains very relevant. The internet is full of writing. I like performance, but you can't catch all the intricacy of a poem just from listening.

Comment is about The Written Word (blog)

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Hi Cynthia,
Just noticed your query about the tide.
The River Lune is tidal up to and beyond the weir, and you can see the swell of the tide meeting the flow of the water and pushing it back, so that the river level rises. When there is a lot of rain in the hills the river is strongly forcing itself down to the sea, and the tide engages in battle with it. Obviously there is a lot more water in the river anyway, and watching that trial of strength between the river and the sea, taking place twice a day, but at times of heavy rain it becomes really spectacular, I was conscious of those elemental forces that Lawrence writes so vividly about. The meeting of the two becomes a seam, where the water boils and churns. The currents must be fierce, but you can see eddies where the surface seems very smooth and calm, and fragile leaves float, then the current snatches them and sweeps them away.
Thank you for asking the question. It has brought the wonder of it back to me. I loved living alongside the Lune. It is such a living, viscous river.

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thanks for the kind words andy. i particularly enjoyed 'kemptown'. very visual and lyrical.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Ann - hehe - have to say, 'period art' is not really up my street. It's like drawing with snot or bogies or sommat. Bleurgh! Thought it had to go up though - just seemed appropriate, as the first line mentions art :D

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Well I'm glad you DID share it Cynthia. I love this. Those first four lines are fantastic...I'm especially drawn to the Energy of thought line...

I share your dread. Although it has to be said, libraries aren't what they were! People bloody speak in them, loudly, all the time now!

Comment is about The Written Word (blog)

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Great poem - and this is also why (for the most part) we all want to be published - not necessarily for fame or money - but communication.xx

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Hi - and many thanks for the comments - glad you liked it, I didn't know if anyone (except Laura) would. XX

Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)

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really like this, janet.... says a lot in a few words.. top one xx

Comment is about Fields of War (blog)

Wartime, Blitz, doodlebugs? Among other things, incl the National Health Service. Wondered about the exclamation marks on the first and last lines; last line feels very powerful. Enjoyed this, Ray

Comment is about What am I Knitting? (blog)

Hi - thanks - and it was Paul Delvaux - well-known dauber of big hairy muffs - so he gets my vote straightaway :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I found this really moving, John. Excellent work

Comment is about Sleep Easy (blog)

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thank you so much for your comment on my poems Ann!! and I am smitten with your 'Whale Poem'...brilliant work!!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Nice one, Tim.
Look forward to hearing it if I gey through to H'gate next week.

Comment is about A gardener reminisces. (blog)

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Oi ! that's supposed to be strickly private !
...and there's some very nervous sensibilities to be considered on WOL - yes, you're right - post it & be damned !

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Oh that picture - makes me glad I'm so old I never see that stuff no more. Life is great post pmt!! xx (On Your Bike) xx

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GHAZAL

congratulations on your win win . i had read it a while back, but as i am quiet to comment on folks i dont see face to face very often :)i thought it a lovely poem x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I enjoyed it, though I thought the 2nd line was a bit weak. You've got a lot of pees in there. Trying to tell us summat?

Comment is about Antique Zealot (blog)

Original item by Freda Davis

what about rebranding that marge that's made with Omega 3 fish oils...
"I can't believe it's not fanny!!"

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I absolutely cannot believe no one else has commented on Antique Zealot! Ignore them. They know nothing!

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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This is really interesting. I've been through it three times. I need a fourth, I think. I'll check in tomorrow, or soon anyway.

Comment is about WHAT GUIDES THE SPIDER (blog)

Beautiful, Ann. I do hope you consider a children's book. This would charm them as well as us grown-ups. I find poems suitable for children are still my 'mostest' favourites of all. Your touch is unerring.

Comment is about rainraingoaway (blog)

Original item by Ann Foxglove

We often still speak of our cherished pets, who are long gone now. They were an integral part of our daily lives and are remembered with much love and gratitude for being alive with us; hard times seemed more bearable.

Comment is about Jake (This poem was written for a very dear friend on the loss of her true and faithful friend) (blog)

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I like the new style too, every word loaded with ideas and images to take the reader almost anywhere in his or her own experience. It's very sophisticated.

Comment is about Ambiguity (blog)

Your honesty, and the wit to express it so cannily, with such a deft touch of thinking versus reality, is always a delight to read. Irreverently hilarious. As anyone who's come to know me a bit could tell you, I have no categories of living entitled sacred and secular. For me Living is 'sacred', period, by which I do not mean 'religious'.

Comment is about The Death Of Me (blog)

I see what you mean Cynthia. I guess we all instinctively play to our own strengths - we have to be true to our own feelings or the poetry doesn't come. Just as you don't like to write 'romantically' I couldn't write about the mechanics of sex - or about the philosophical subjects you raise. Once you raise them though, I like to take my own emotional angle on them LOL. This site is great for that. Emotions are what bring poetry to life for me - I am hopelessly sentimental - and probably a romantic at heart, if the truth be known.
It is always fascinating discussing things with you - you would make a great dinner guest - shame I don't do dinner parties!

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