Many thanks once more. Hope you are well x

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Thanks for the feedback Rodney.

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Hello Cynthia, I have finally gotten some time aside to consider and incorporate your keen (and not pushy) suggestions of the Wind Chimes poem. Allow me again to thank you for your interaction and constructive input. Cheers, Frederick.

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Ah! To be a teenager again (sigh). I bet we could do some damage if we could go back and know what we know now!
Thanks for commenting on Prestatyn.

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Thanks for your comments on Prestatyn. If you can keep a secret -
I've never been!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks Ann for your comments on Prestatyn. I'm working on House of the Rising Damp next!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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John, thanks for your comments on "Prestatyn". It's not entirely factual - we did spend camping holidays in Abergele and Towyn but never Prestatyn. Poetic licence I suppose.

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Hi Alison - thanks for your comment on 'On finding a tiny hole in my shoe...' -- raising a smile is exactly what it was intended to do -- I've been keeping my grandson amused for a week or so with this sort of stuff, while he's visiting from Canada!

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hi alan i've just signed up on recommendation of a very good friend of yours - guess who - profile up soonxxxx

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hi jeff ive just signed up on recommendation of a very good friend of yours - guess who - profile up soonxxxx

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Hehehe, I do like to steal bits of other people's poems and did enjoy very much playing with the First they came for lines. So tempting to put because I am not a chicken but decided to drop the "not".

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Hehehe, I thought people here would latch on very quickly to the "First they came ..." reference, and you did not disappoint! I do love a bit of pastiche ...

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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You're welcome. Re Tudor nights, i am local but i don't really do social stuff, kinda nt that great at it! Appreciate the invite tho x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Jane - appreciate it :) You should come along to one of the Wigan nights sometime, if you're localish, would really love to meet you

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Hi Alanna, Welcome to our site, Hope you enjoy things here. Winston

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Hi Glen, Welcome to the site, thanks for putting up your profile, Winston

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John, many thanks for your comments. Spooky to think those people thought someone was talking to them. Hope the psychs were on hand!

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Many thanks for your comments, Greg. I like thought-provoking, glad it worked! X

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Isobel, Hi, hope you & yours are well. Thanks for your comments. Dark does have the negative connotation but it's more as in secret, hidden, the unconscious breaking through. Although that can bring out all sorts of truly dark stuff in the negative sense! X

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Yep, you got the reference spot on of course! Thanks for your comment. X

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Thanks for your comments & glad you liked! X

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hi, thank you for commemting on mylatest. much appreciated

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Ann

Thanks for your comment on my latest blah. much appreciated x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Greg,
More than happy for Prestatyn to go on your facebook page. Anything in the furtherance of high culture....

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Thanks Isabel for your kind words. I'd be delighted to come and perform in the North West. I'm fairly busy in June and July but I'll look out for opportunities from August. If you know anyone who is looking for poets, I'd love to hear from them.

Best wishes

Mark

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Enjoyed reading your profile poems - a man in touch with his emotions as well as a sense of humour - wonderful! You'll have to drag your but up north and perform for us one day :-) x

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John, I'd love to put your Nights in Prestatyn on my Facebook page, bathe in your reflected glory, but obviously only with your permission. You never know, you could go viral ...

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I hoped you enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the holidays!

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Hi Larisa-hope you dont mind but I never disclose my email adress-but you certainly have my vote on your poem 'Escape'-hope it counts!

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Just joking Greg. I get my bus pass next year. I didn't realize it was going to make the front page!

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Profile up-date:
I put 'Comfort' on at the Unity and it was a great success - due to great actors and support from other poets.Since put on a one-hour play called' Trip to the Cottage'(4 venues) and wrote a version of the Tempest set in a Garden Estate -'The Garden of Doctor Prosperous' in blank verse.Hope to stage it in August. Doing readings still and like to keep up with 'Writeoutloud'

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Hi, dear Dave! May be you have noticed that I've written 4 poems for the competition "Escape". I certainly need your support. I think you know what I mean. Voting started! I wouldn't like you to say that my poems were the best but your comments and voting is very important for me. With warmest wishes, Larisa

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So very pleased that you liked my poem'Adagio' Alan.Love your profile page-even the shirt! lol.And absolutely love your poetry.thank you-S.W.

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Thanks for the empathy on The Clackety-Clack, Dave

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Thanks for your comments on Trainspotting, Lynn.
I enjoyed constructing the rhythm and the abab wasn't as difficult as I thought it might be. I think the longer lines (alternate 12 and 11 syllables) helped, although maintaining the discipline of feminine "a"s and masculine "b"s was a challenge!

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Hi Cynthia

Thank you for your comments on Colours - a true account of a poor old chap whose legs just gave way under him and I happened to be first on scene and helped him through it

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Thanks for your comment Laura. Yes - the Escape theme has been rather heavy - for me it was also too similar to the Freedom theme. Nonetheless it seems to have produced plenty of good pieces - which proves that there is no end to the fountain of misery we all drink from LOL. Hope to see you around soon. Isobel x

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Thanks for your comment on Escape, Dave. Sorry it's taken me so long to come back to you - life's been all over the shop just lately.

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Thanks so so much Lynn for comments on 'Beloved,he waits'.It is for a friend of the family,a young lad,who died from having cancer.And as stated in the poem,was extremely brave indeed.I would like to have named him but that is too personal to his family,which I understand.Glad you too enjoyed Porthcawl-we had a very nice lunch with the ever so kind hard working Ladies of Trinity church,in the town.My gosh.they have so many activities! many thanks again Lynn.Catch you again sometime-Stef.xx

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Thanks for your comments on "Cider"-good to make you "feel good"!
BTW-I know all about Neil Moss-used to do alot of caving myself; mainly in South Wales.

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Thanks for your kind comments on "Cider" : )

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Well actually, it was about panning for gold in Wigan ;-) Glad you enjoyed the sedimentary layers. x

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Thanks Isobel (Rebel...) I must say I don't do drugs either, and I'm not bi-polar thank god. Keep falling in love though - damn! I'd LOVE to do more performance stuff, it has (the little I HAVE done) made me feel more confidant. But there's very little going on down here that I can get to. But I'm always saying that - I should maybe try and start something. I'm feeling great, but I've got to the stage where little old ladies at bus stops come up to me and start saying "Of course, in OUR day" and inwardly I go "FUCK OFF!!!" And women in my pottery class, if men/sex are mentioned, say "Thank god all THAT'S over!" and I want to say "Hang on a tick!" It all started last Saturday when someone at a writer's group I go to was surprised I needed money for the bus. She's DEAD MEAT! (Actually, she's very nice - I'll forgive her one day!)xx

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Thanks for your generous comments on The Clackety-Clack, Cynthia. Always nice to get positive feedback, but when it is also phrased so beautifully ...

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Hi John

Thank you for your lovely comments on my poems. You are very generous.

Lynda x

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I,m very grateful to you Jean for the kind comments on my poem'Beloved,he waits'-still think your photo is really nice-sooo peaceful!-lotsa love-Stef.xxxx

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That's one reason I commented so fast. (Escape 2)- I thought you might change your mind about posting and it would disappear. It moved me so much, and it shows your strength. As you know loads of what I post is stuff that's very personal. If it's in your head and heart, it's hard not to mention in when you write poetry!xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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I think what you describe is common where those who have died are deeply loved and missed. One of my sisters experienced the same with her husband - could even smell his breath - it does make you wonder.

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Hi Isobel, thanks very much for taking such an interest in The Clackety-Clack. Funnily enough, I found myself talking to a poet who had read a very moving poem about her father in the interval at the South magazine reading last week. I spoke about this feeling of my dad being close to me a couple of times in the first three months after he died, and then really never experiencing that feeling ever again. She said she had experienced exactly the same thing after her father's death. I was quite startled by this. I wonder if there's anyone else out there with similar experiences? The final two lines of my poem are really about my realisation about us both taking the same tube and rail line home towards the end of our working lives, and feeling quite comforted by this.

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Thanks very much for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, Simon. You know as well as anyone how much I write about railways. I'm sure there are some who think, Oh no, not another one! Apologies to them. But I suppose I do find trains, railways, stations rich in meaning and metaphor.

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