Dave..glad you liked Sancastles :)

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Hiya Jeff thanks for the comment left on my write Sandcastles..much appreciated...gonna try to get further afield to some other venues :)

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I enjoyed the poetry : )

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At the sound of my foghorn-look out! Thanks very much Ann for approving of the cathedral climbing lark poem.I am most grateful.Stef.x

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Hi Ann, I was surprised to find so much on the web about these two - a strange take on sexual attitudes by both parties - sad ending too and I haven't even read my book yet. Will save the youtube 'til later. x

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Hi Ann, Re; What the Master Saw - well remembered - am just starting to read a book called 'Love and Dirt' which features Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick. Picked it up on the local library bargain shelf having recognised the man's face who is featured at our local Wetherspoon's. Thanks for commenting.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL. I have read all your poems on here and I think they are interesting and full of passion.

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I dare you to write one about a solar panel!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi, Ann, and thanks for the comments on 'Eye of the Beholder' -- I agree about the equality of all creatures, as well! Sometimes, other creatures don't, though ... I once had a cat who thought she was God, and we've now got a blackbird, 'Enry Cooper, in the garden, who thinks he owns the place ...

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Hi Nikki , Welcome aboard. hope you enjoy the site. Winston

Comment is about Nikki Whittall (poet profile)

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Thanks Win for your comment on Delicate! ( http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=22326#page_comment_77605 ) I don't think I like how each stanza ends with a full stop - it seems to ruin the flow a bit...

I'll have a look at it, and decide, but critical feedback is welcome.

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Re; Hi Cynthia, re; my Palm Logo and tropical setting, I never got to Bermuda in my sea-faring days but did reach Jamaica, Trinidad, Curacao and Aruba plus other exotic parts, which the logo I use reminds me of.

Have had 'other worldly' experiences too.

Am doing a lot of reading just now including a book post the American Revolution and how loyalists to the British crown left USA to populate places like Bermuda, helped to shape Canada as we know it today as well - its helping me to understand quite a lot about the period.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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I can see your point... Maybe if we were ugly and everyone else was blind? Although that might backfire into an awful lot of work and no play.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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You are a tonic, Mate. Thanks for the reply.

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thanks for the comment there but blind or not, we are just varying shapes and forms, and I'd rather be ugly than blind

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Neil, thank you for your comments. How you liking WOL?

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Hi Jeff. Thank you for your comments mate. x

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Hi Alison, thanx for your comment, it can be a cruel place, glad you didn't get stuck! Glad you like it, by the way I had started to write it then your ghost theme came up so very well timed! Keep up your good work Jeff X

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...and thus it goes.

LET ME EXPLAIN...

(and thus it goes. My brain interposing with drivel...)
and sometimes the words come out wardback and shus instead of 'thus' but should come out frontward...'Thus'
( I tire of this consious senility, this humour by disguise...)
...with lost inflection and missing adverbs splet not spelt...
( and so it goes...)

and...thus it goes.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Aye no worries chuck - hope you enjoy :) DEAD interesting!

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

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I'm actually a well established tap dancer in parts of Asia. Yeah I see what ya mean with good or bad being a matter of perception. But I've been rejected by pretty much every small press publisher in this hemisphere. Thats what I meant with reguards to my stuff and yeah I've tried a few different styles. Cinquain, syllabic but I try not get too engaged in one style as diversity keeps it interesting, if not for anyone else then for meself at least.

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Hi Laura -- thanks for commenting on 'Eye of the Beholder' -- I've just been on MSN chat with my daughter in Canada, who did ecology at Bangor, and she reckons she has a book on the Gaia theory left in our loft, so I'll go take a peek this weekend, and see if I can find it. I've heard of it, of course, but my background's mainly maths, engineering and physics, so I've tended to steer clear of such stuff, until recently, p'raps when I started feeling poetic, eh?.
Ta for the pointer!

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Hi again - thanks for replying so soon

What do you think defines 'good' though? Or 'bad'? And who are you going to take that from - yourself, or others? And then...which others? Beware of deification! You have a powerful imagination and intellect - it's not about being better, or worse. It's about your words.

Have you tried writing within certain structures like, say, haiku, ghazal, the diamond stuff that Cynthia is playing with at the mo?

I know what you mean about certain styles being easier to write in. I find that a lot of mine end up being in a musical rhythm - trying to fight against it all the time but it falls out that way. I use haikus to break me out of it.

I think you need to be more courageous about your own work, to recognise if it FEELS good when you write and read it. All the ideas and imagery you're packing in at the moment - it's dense as fuck. You must surely see some merit in that?

Anyhow - keep on writing - not that you could do anything else, I'm sure ;)

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comments laura. Im just not a very good editor. Im not sure whats good and whats not. So I just throw them up here. I kinda try out a few different styles, this one at the moment seems easy to write so I'm gunna stay on it. But thanks again for the comments.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Cheers Dave, honesty is very important to me in all things.

Glad you liked the piece xXx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Just read the Glass Conch - love it!

So few words to convey so much, "And as the tide departs, hushhh"

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hey Win, thanks for commenting on The Changeling.

I wrote it to express my concerns and I'm glad to say that thanks to the feedback at performances, I've had them addressed and I do know that desire comes not only from hormonal rushes but also from what a person sees and feels :)

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Cheers Laura for commenting on The Changeling. I'm a dizzy sod at times; have to park my car in the same few places in a multi-storey, always leave my keys in the hall & I do wonder of I'll remember where I live once I've been through the menopause!

There's a fear for me of losing my womanliness too - lots more things than I conveyed in the poem which focused on female sexuality.

Anyway, thanks again, glad you enjoyed it xXx

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Hi Isobel

Thanks for commenting on The Changeling. I'm not there yet, it's something I've been wondering about - what affect will these changes have? And interestingly, each time I've performed it, women have spoken to me and answered some of my questions :)

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Hi Dave, thanks so much for your comment on Ghosts of Rivington Moor, enjoyed writing it, good to know it had the desired effect on you. It's quite fascinating in a barren way but there's a lot to it. Not been up there for a while but always like the experience, as for those new fandangled GPS things, well, yes could probably need one if weather was that bad! Hope to see you soon mate Jeff

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Hi Cynthia,

replying to your comment on my page; yep that is really weird! It was nice to meet you yesterday, and I look forwards to reading some of your poetry here soon.

: - ) Mary

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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'Excess Memories' is a compassionate write.

Especially liked these lines:

'At a man she then barely knew who tried to overwrite
Jaundiced views of men gained from events afore that night
Shaking from exhaustion as dryness came to end that spell
Face bathed with flannel and water to freshen her well'


Hope you are well...

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Tommy, what have I got all wrong? I don't recognize the quote. I even scouted a bit, but no go. It's fab to have you back on blog.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Thanks for reading Laura - always appreciate your comments - I think we are similar in some respects :) x

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Is there any end to your perversions Coopey? You'll have to write a poem about it. Am I glad to be your muse? I shall have to think about that one!

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Wow that was quick Laura. Thanks for the kindness of your comments mi lady. yes this is a poem about a bloke I found dead in an olive grove many years ago.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Howdy John - yeh, my brother always used to get in first with the accusatory finger pointing and the 'SHE started it'

Did him no good mind, we both got a battering for it.

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

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Women Like Stars- gorgeous poem. Like it all, but especially the last line-brilliant!

Comment is about Amy McCawley (poet profile)

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Hola my dear - many thanks for your comment on Crucifixion. I was brought up an atheist, but might have mentioned to you that I've been reading the bible over the last year or so, and it's really hit me hard. Had sooo many ideas from and about it, and organised religion in general. Been a great source for material have to say!


So! when you doing your first open mic then? ;p

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Thanks for your comment on Tainted Wings - yes - it was probably more than 2 - and it's happened more than once! I think it kind of led to the premature realisation that there was no tooth fairy. I never screwed up with father christmas though! x

Comment is about John Embley (poet profile)

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re '...and thus it goes.'

I think you are close here.

Tommy

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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re '...and thus it goes.'
you got it all wrong Cynthia.

Tommy

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Amy Houston, you've said some very kind things, thank you very much. I'm really not a fantastic poet - I write the occasional good one like The Care Pathway, but I also write a lot of dross. But I do try to turn the dross into gold - I am persistent!

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John, thank you for the comment on "Inevitable". I love form too. Especially the sonnet. To me, it is perfection. No room to be trendy in a sonnet! :-)

The word "did" just came naturally. Honest! It's the old way of talking tensewise. I'm old-fashioned that way. I have to bite my tongue to stop myself from writing thees and thous! I think I come from sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries :-D

Thanks again for the comment!

Alan

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Good morning Ann.As to my clothes being'loud and never square' you would have been right had this been the sixties.One fad in that era was emulating the Hendrix style,I can just see myself now long black trenchcoat,stripey flare jeans,white patent leather slip-ons,
pyschedelic shirt complete with cravat,and a backcombed hairstyle that stood up twice as long as Ken Dodds(hair) and sporting a mexican moustache.Dressed in that fashion I once walked into the vault of our local pub,mostly frequented by flat cappers and ferret lovers.I have always wondered why a hush suddenly fell over the room? as for my present day sackcloth attire?well at least it matches the dozen hairs on my head-not to mention my skin-all over(as it usually is) cheers-Stef.xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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haha-I answered before you Lynn-cos I can read your mind as I can right now...lets see...oh you are awful!-but I like you.-love as always-Stef.xx

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Hi Kealan, dunno whether you're male or female. but you have some fantastic literary skills. I get the feeling you're quite passionate about your writing. and i guess that when you're in the zone you cannot get the words down quick enough. this to me shows real talent and you know I am feeling envious of you for the talent you have. just brilliant work Kealan and don't let yourself down by thinking that you're 'shit,' at it.

keep on, you got the gift.

best wishes

mike

x

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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HURRAH-HURRAH-HURRAH! wifey and I are well chuffed that you are okeydokey Lynn-now get those blummin fingers typing! lotsa love from uz-xx...ps-catch you later-just off for a butty.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Marc, some very impressive poems here, will have to come back for another read. Thank you so much for your kind comments on mine. Lynn x

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