Dave - Many thanks for taking the time to comment (mackerel sky). B

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Hi Val thank you for comenting on my John Donne poem - having studied the man in some depth I found his age a fascinating one even though I wouldn't want to have lived then - did a walk with my daughter today along a Surrey canal near Pyrford where there was a plaque commemorating his place of residence in the 1600s hence my motivation to write about him

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Hi Emma thanks for your comment on Naughty Digits... glad you enjoyed it!
Cate xx

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Hi Laura thanks for the comment on Naughty Digits, and for the editing... much appreciated!!
Cate xx

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Hi Dave thanks for the comment on Naughty digits.... I do believe he did!!
Cate xx

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Hi Dave, thanks for the comment.... not sure about the performance bit!!!!!
Cate xx

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Hi Tom, Can you send me details of Bob's upcoming gigs please, H x

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..hello Greg..thanks...it's from a selection I wrote when researching the family tree...cheers..chris.

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..hello Ann...yes, those quotes are from some old (year1900) postcards I collected ...did you receive my reply about your book query? ...not sure how 'send a message' works...chris.

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thanks for the comments Dave (earthworks) B.

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Laura. took your advice downsized it. hope you can get your eyes round it now. Uncle Ken xx

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Hi Andy so glad you enjoyed Eastbourne Etchings and for your kind comments

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Hi Greg thanks for commenting on Eastbourne Etchings and glad you enjoyed Smart Casual in particular - my plans to visit Reading this evening foiled disappointingly by a tickly throat and cough which might prove problematic to readers but was truly grateful for the offer of a lift - perhaps next time

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Thanks for the comment on Let the Beast Dance Alison - David
(Hope to see you at Sale on 28th)

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Hi Dave, many thanks & glad you liked it (zen)

In that case - if you are feeling "receptive" I posted another gem a while back, but not mine, - by a guy called David Harsent - you may know it already, but I wanted to share it with WOL community as a little nugget, but it never got a word! - Hope you like it.... for me, poetry doesn't get much better than this.

David Harsent

Red

The skim on the surface of your soup, or the cut on your plate

in the Café des Anges, juices swamping the willow-pattern skiff

as she dabs her mouth with her napkin, your blind, blind date,



leaving a smudge, lipstick-and-gore, though there’s still a worm

of gristle in the gap between her teeth.

Mood music, candlelight, wine, low voices in a world of harm,



the creature brought down, hindquarters heavy, hind legs

broken by the dogs, its head held up, eyes wide,

the tangle and drag as a gralloch knife unpegs



the bulk, all slippage and seepage, and the way she thumbs

a morsel into your mouth, or smiles your smile

back at you, lets you know that everything’s just as it seems,



then back at the small hotel, she strips off quicker than you

might have hoped, pink as a new-skinned cat, all too

eager to have you by heart. Her cry tells you nothing new.

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Thx for the comment on my poem Patriots Steven- appreciated.

Chris

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Thank you Cate, for you comment on Old Glitter and Flip flops :o) glad you like it. look forward to seeing more of your work :o)

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Hi Cate, Glad you liked the melancholic reflectiveness of 1971, hope it was a better year for you than me! Win

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Dave, many thanks for your comments. Much appreciate it. X

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I so appreciate your comments, Isobel. The fact that you read it and came back to re-read and comment further was very thoughtful and of course I am glad it was interesting / enjoyable enough for you to do that. XXX

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Cynthia, many thanks for your very kind and supportive comments. You are right about Echo but I just liked it anyway and as you say it does contribute! xx

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Laura, many thanks for your supportive and kind comments. Just go for wiki - it's about the best definition of Neg cap. XXX

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Forgot to say, drim is totally made-up. It came into my mind and felt /sounded so right I just couldn't replace it successfully. But in a way using a word like that is what Neg cap is all about. Wiki it for a decent definition. XX

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Win, thanks for your comments. I think that "the other" sounds stronger than "another". I am proposing a complete turn around, a 180 degrees, not just another direction. Does that make sense, come across? That's the idea and rationale behind it anyway but if it works..? XX

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Ann, thanks for your kind double comments. I really appreciate and value your words. Drim is a made-up word. Although it does exist in welsh! It just sounded so right & once it popped into my mind I just couldn't get rid of it and nothing else would do!XXX

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Thanks guys

Greg - yes, they are spookily alike. Larkin was often funnier, I gather. While working in the same bookshop I also met Margaret Drabble and Phil Drabble, but I was OK with telling them apart because only one of them was carrying a badger. Margaret.

Winston. It's the hat, yes? Compelling isn't it?

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Indeed Cate ....

I much prefer 'Frosties' for Breakfast!

Thanks for reading and making comment.

Gus xx

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Thanks Laura :)

[mind games poem]

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Hello Isobel,

Thanks for the lovely comment on the 'Dettol' poem. Yeah, I think you've trumped me with the Big Bad Dom advert. Domestos always did have a nicer smell as well. But, that says more about me than it does about the two products... Thanks again for the Welcome!

Adam x

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Cheers Isobel for comment on Me Myself and I. Just thought I'd write a funny one for a change! I quite like daft juvenile stuff :D

See you on Friday!

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Hi Elaine;

Glad you like 'Summer is here'.. I agree totally with your comments here and it sums up what I was attempting to do.. I wrote it the other week at lunch when I got really, really
wet on the way back to the office and it sort of summed up my feelings towards the british summertime..

Thanks again x

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Hi Steve, welcome. Philip Larkin - Eric Morecambe, easily done. I enjoyed Gone Aways and Skiddaw very much.

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thanks for commenting on my poem ... i was rather wrapped up eh , on my way to bed i was :)

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Hello Andy.
Thanks for your suggestions on my poem "The Price of Freedom". I have posted an extended version.
I have never posted this version because a family member told me it was too wordy.
Anyway time will tell.

Thanks
Shirley Smothers

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Love Breakfast pots! you set a great scene of domesticity. Such detail in the simplicity of the morning time :o) could smell it, and see it :o)

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Thank you Elaine for you comment on Old Glitter and Flip flops :o) glad you like it. Take care. :o)

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thanks for your comments on my poem :)

i think maybe my reference to jesus isnt quite so positive as you would hope

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Good Morning. Thanks for your comments on 1971. Glad you liked the last 2 lines. I have edited it this morning and reposted if you care to look. I think it makes more sense now. Win x

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Welcome to WOL, Jess. Your performances at Wigan and the Bards were striking, and it's interesting to read here what we heard. It works on the page too! You've set yourself some big challenges but made a very good start. Keep at it.

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Andy, well, the very thought of you, red-faced! Thank you for your kind comments on "Dark Words". You are right of course. I didn't really write it to be read so much as for myself to perform so I shall take another look. XXX

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Cynthia, thank you for taking the time for such a full critique which was great - many thanks. It is always a privilege for me when someone takes the time to really look at a poem of mine. I don't disagree either! It was a bit of a throw away piece for me and was more about the performance than the poem but I shall take time to look again. Hope you and yours are all well. XXX

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Cheers mi dearest dear for commenting on "Dark Words". XXX

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Hi Tom , you need to change your biog now that you are a spoken word superstar! great to see you and Bob at Butterflies, You did brilliantly. I will be back. As to 1971, many thanks for the comments. Different people like different bits of this somewhat disjointed effort. I think Iso's ideas of a reordering would created a more understandable time line. Also that bit you mentioned "When the naols bite..." I wrote at our table in butterflies! Houston x.

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No problem, I enjoyed reading it :)

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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Hi there, Thx for the comments on my poem '1971' There is a more detailed reply on the blog entry page. Much appreciated. Win x

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Thanks for your comment on my poem Emma and for tagging your poem. It's much appreciated. x

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Hi Greg - thanks for the late flowering chrysanthemum comments on colours much appreciated

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