Thanks for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, Andy

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Thanks for your comments on The Clackety-Clack, John;. Sorry to hear about the heron.

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thanks dave - much appreciated. B
(birth of the night time)

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recent interview
http://www.rawroots.com/interviews/item/406-kat-francois/406-kat-francois

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Thanks for your comment. This afternoon I have written ten poems about airports! The first is called Arrivals....

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Nicky, this is just plain spooky! I was thinking of you on the weekend, and told myself: Find a few minutes to contact Nichola just in case she still pops onsite occasionally. I am fine generally; had a close call with an appendectomy in late January but recovered remarkably, and am still spitting fireballs at everybody - about everything (just spitball-size - no dragon stuff). How are you doing with your enlarged family? Your work will be so welcome when you are able to share with us again. Never give up jotting things down, even on envelopes. Just keep them jammed in a clear plastic bag if necessary, for future reference; they will be valuable fodder for your skill. Enough from me. Love always.

Cynthia

P.S. I love the picture too. What do you think - a coveted persona? Like so many of us women? Interesting thought!

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cynthia, what a fabulous profile picture.How are you?x x

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Thanks Greg. It does seem a world away in terms of its innocence, doesn't it? I remember going to London on the train several times with my mates to go to Waterloo or Paddington to see those "foreign" regions. 13 years old and going to London on our own? These days you daren't let you kids go to school on their own till they're 21!

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I think striving to be something/someone you are not is a hopeless task.

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Thanks for comments Elaine.
I haven't read Femme Fatale.
Perhaps next time I'm in the French quarter of Wigan...

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Hi Isobel. Thanks for the comment on Femme Fatale.I've never read it out at the Tudor - only just wrote it but you gave me the idea some time ago.CheersPS I liked your Yeung Sing Hotel poem.I think I've stayed in one like that.Dave

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AE
Re Fergie - it goes down well at Anfield though

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no- this is a first posting :o)

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:o)

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:o)

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:o)

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thanks as always cynth, for ur very kind words and constructive critisizm. theyre always welcome and appreciated.

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Tee hee - the comment you left on my profile made me really chuckle. The date did seem a bit odd but I wasn't confident enough to have ever question it LOL. You are right in what you say about religion/faith also... x

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Hi again, indeed. More thought required I think. Win X

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Hi Anthony, Re your comment on Portrait of a woman. Constructive comments are so welcome and I agree with this one. Struggled to fathom a better line and came up with "Through your century of frost" but still not sure about it. Thx, Win x

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Isobel, thanks for your comments on November (which should actually be October) 1966. It's only nine lines, I know, but it was meant to be also about how pop songs can fasten a moment in your memory (although perhaps not well enough that you can remember the right month). I was playing the Four Tops out in the garage while doing the ironing when I thought of it, having rediscovered my old vinyl singles at the back of a cupboard. Football, like religion, and possibly pop music, is the opium of the people, of course. Indeed, for many, football is a replacement for religion, involving the same senses of obligations, loyalty and duty, blind faith and hope. Yes, faith, hope - but not always too much charity!

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Hi Lynn-ta for comment('It goes on')I have left you a reply there regarding your question-love-Stefan.xx

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Thanks for comment on my limerick, Anthony, you raised a very good point! Lol x

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Hi Cate, now I know who you are! I shall take the time to have a browse through your postings here! Hope you are enjoying that Gibson guitar of yours. X

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Thanks for your comment Anne and I'm glad you find my latest stuff more acessible.

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Anthony

Thanks for your comments on my poem I appreciate your reaction to it.

You asked if my book is available online
and yes they are, my latest is on www.pighog.co.uk and it is called The Dreaded Boy.

My first collection is online too or you can email me at antony.owen@hotmail.co.uk

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thanks got your comment dave

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Love your stuff. Do I mis-remember (prob!) or have you published a book or got one on the go? I'll buy one if so! x

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I think you should add "goliard" to your list of accomplishments Win! ;)

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Hi Cynthia

You've a brilliant eye for detail I applaud you. I should explain that the poems I post on here are the first drafts and sometimes when I'm distilling the poems I repeat an image. I've changed the latex line in Pearls as I wanted the bones to the poem so later I could flesh it out. Editing is a huge russian doll of which I'm constantly unlayering.

Your comments are always brilliant.

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..hello Ann..thank you...(the whole poem is on the profile)..chris.

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Thank you very much Cynthia for your words on Saving Grace your advice is always spot on and I have reworked this accordingly. Much obliged.

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Many thanks for the kind comments on Port Isaac Dave. some pieces just write themselves. just spent a week there and the surrounds. Does Ann live near there then? Regards, Graham

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"who often seem to use vicarious success to bolster their own fragile self-esteem, aided and abetted by a sycophantic media and international branding" - WOW!
It's a good job I wrote the poem, Dave, and not you!

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Greg
Thanks for the comment on Fergie, Fergie. Bravery doesn't come into it; I have stupidity on my side.

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Thanks for commenting on Pearls.

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Wigan or Blackpool, Dave?

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Thanks for comment Ann.
Happiness is a chevre chaud.

Actually I found out I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat. :-)

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Ta :-)

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Just read your stuff Cynthia and liked it- life force abundant and the words!
steve smith

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Hi Greg

I only started supporting Everton in Autumn 1983 when my son decided he wanted to. Things were dismal then - it was before the great days of the mid 80s.

The game I particularly remember is the last of the 1987 season when we already had the title in the bag, beating Tottenham 1-0. The atmosphere in the stadium was fairly flat considering the achievement. You could cut the complacency with a knife - a lesson if there ever was one about sitting on your laurels in a competitive context.

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There's memory for you! I had a sneaking feeling I had the wrong month. What about you? Have you got one game that sticks out, when everything seemed aligned, somehow? I think it's got to be when you were a kid, before you realised there were other things in life. And I don't fancy our chances at Goodison: it's just lucky the title isn't resting on it!

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John, you're quite right to mention Wembley the following year! Funnily enough I associate Waterloo Sunset with that one, a more melancholy ditty ...

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Thanks for your comments on Janis, Lynn. She was a bit special.

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Thanks for taking the trouble to comment on the November 1966 fragment, Ann, even though you're a not a football fan! I think great pop records help to frame a moment, and if it wasn't for the song I don't think I would remember it. (I guess you could extend the poem and turn it into something else. I've just Googled and discovered it was the month that John and Yoko first met).

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Thanks for comment on Dreamland, Dave. I hadn't intended it for the competition, but only realised after posting it that it would probably fit. x

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Hi John, thanks for comment on Dreamland, I only realised after posting it that it could be seen as escapism. Yes, waking up at the wrong moment is such a nuisance, lol.

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'Are you sure you just didn't want to get 'somnambulant' out of your poetical 'system' where it's been buzzing around for ages? :)' - you might well be right there!

That, and I've been lacking in sleep the last few months, it feels as if I live my life in 'somnabulance'.

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thanks win & philipos - just another silly one I'm afraid. B (pammy)

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ta very much nice to visit again :)

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