Hi Jean Lucy-love your new photo! nice to see you back.lotsa love-Stef.xx

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Hello Greg
Thanks for the comments on Big Issue and Sobibor. Mogadishu=Big Issue - a bit of a stretch, though, eh?
I did Sobibor after the story of the conviction of John Demjanjuk. It seemed to me that morality's an easy commodity when we're safely coccooned.

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Thanks for the comments, Cynthia, on Big Issue. He really does say it like that!

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HI Isobel
Thanks for comments. I wrote the song for a mate who after a messy divorce lost faith in all women. I've just sorted out a utube page (DEVINEHAZE) so me and my co/singer song writer can get our songs out there. There's a video up and more coming soon (don't think this one will make on to utube its more a busker song)
Many thanks for intrest and Comments.

Ian....

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I like it

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ta for comments on 'Patch' poem Lynn-he,s my grandsons dog-smooth haired Patterdale.His teeth are like razors! as for the question of your hair-each time I hear Debussy,s 'Girl with the flaxen hair,I shall think of you-night night-thank you-Stef.xx

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Hi Greg - thanks for your comments on London Tube Map - underground trains are certainly spooky at night - writing about the map brought on other thoughts allied to claustrophobia such as getting stuck in a tube tunnel when powers fails - yuk

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yes indeed Lynn-expecting you to stay out of the Sun was asking too much-but let me know when he comes out of hiding.Thanks for nice comment on 'Hope above loss' only been there for ages..haha!(only joking)whatever colour your hair goes,tis of no consequence-its the colour of your heart that matters-and that will always be golden! thanks for your ongoing kindnesses.Stef.xx

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Hi John and a warm welcome also.Thank you very much from your kind advisory comment-points noted.I love the usual style of your sample poems,hope to see plenty more.Enjoy the site.

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Hi John, welcome to WOL . You are now free to use all the different aspects of the site, Winston

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Hi Danny, Welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy the site. Winston

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thanks Cynthia, I have omitted stictch, I can't have it twice and thanks for the ppointers, its appreciated.

My 2nd collections just come out, check out pighog press, its called the dreaded boy

www.pighog.co.uk

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Hi Lynn-just back from hols-so whats next years hair colour....grey!! keep out of the sun is my advice-thanks love.Stef.x

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Nah, not being kind ... your poems are always very interesting, often very different from each other, and thought-provoking, and when you're away from the site for a few days we really notice it and miss you! I must say Lundy does look quite a bleak spot from the North Devon coast. And in the fog ... but very atmospheric too, I guess

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You're always so kind with your comments Greg! I wasn't bird monitoring this time. It was just a three day break. But fog and wind and being on your own does not make for the best of holidays perhaps! I do better when I am combining doing something usefull with a holiday I think. It is an amazing place - I just felt that we didn't quite "take" to each other!

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Hi Simon - many thanks for your kind comments on Woking Junction - appreciated.

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Hello,
Thank you once again x

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Cynthia, thanks for the suggestions on 'Escape' your spot on, I should have left it more open ended than trying to make it so specifically about something.

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Cynthia I much appreciate your detailed appraisal of Woking Junction especially as one never really knows whether 'Odour rich latrines' is a safe route to go along with some and especially our ladies. I'm so glad this resonated with you.

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Thank you for your comments on Newlands Corner Win - much appreciated.

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Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Dave - appreciated.

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Many thanks for your comments on Woking Junction Greg - not the first poem I've written about Woking's train system though - and having been in the military at Pirbright as a youngster I can personally vouch for some of the romantic goings on with squaddie types plus the harsh approach of the redcaps based at Inkerman throwing their weight about - monochrome days perhaps but I'm sure there were hands reaching out from windows of departing trains which never quite reached the loved one on the station before the steam and smoke obliterated the view.

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Greg - appreciated.

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Hi Ann - many thanks for your recent comments on 'Searching for Agatha' and 'Newland's Corner' much apreciated - BTW I couldn't manage a courtsey myself not with a dodgy knee. x

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Thanks for your kind comments on my poems, Ann!

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many thanks as always Cynthia xx

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hi chuck,

thought you'de not been about lately, hope you're well.

thank you for your words re deep rooted, much appreciated as always x

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Hi Alan,

Many thanks for your very generous words re Deep rooted. Much appreciated x

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Hi,

Thank you,albeit belatedly, for reading and commenting on amnesia haze. x

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Thanks for your comment on Escape Cynthia - I really wasn't sure about it but you've made me feel better! I think I posted soon after Rachel Bond's and felt woefully inadequate - though deeply disturbing, the poetry in hers was remarkable - my winner so far, without a doubt.

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Thanks for commenting on my latest Andy - I'm glad you liked. Looking forward to reading your Escape poem. I thought the theme was too close to Freedom when Dave told me about it - it seems to be taking off though. See youz around xx

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Thanks for your comment on my poem Elaine - it's about the departure of a friend, which saddened me. It probably comes over as more serious than it was actually intended - I was aiming for detached regret underpinned by an empathy with that person.

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Hey Elaine

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for all of your lovely and insightful and interesting comments - so many!! What a splurge :D

I will see you again very soon I hope, and in the meantime, enjoy that room of one's own ;)

Mahoosive hugs xxx

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Thanks Andy re Escape, much appreciated

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thanks andy , i am not fantastically thrilled with my poem. It does however sum up the idea of an escape for me. albeit a spiritual one .

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Hi Elaine, thanks for youre comments on 1971. and P.S. I could not agree with your biog statement more. Win x

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I thought Parakeets was great! I'm always amazed when I see (and hear) them when I visit London. Welcome to WOL!

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Hi Andy, thanks for the comments on 1971 (It was an odd year) Nothing wrong with a bit of mystery I say. Win x

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Hi Sophia, welcome to the site. Liked 'The Photograph' Winston

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Played golf at Beverly a few times,very nice round there

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Most paths we take lead absolutely nowhere. There are worse places to end up than the Tudor beer garden, in my experience anyway - Mordor for one LOL x

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Thanks for the comment and suggestion - I'm beginning to think it's easiest to leave poems as the original and trust your own instincts otherwise the bush will be trimmed to a twig before you know it. Thanks again Dave

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biblical references ... not false , just didnt speak a truth i want . there are many paths

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Beware false prophets eh? LOl - I never factored the Tudor beer garden into it, but then why ever not? Finding the Tudor was a pretty defining moment for me. Hope to see you there on Thursday and I won't be asking you to read ;)x

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thanks for comment on escape , its a wierd one really , as part of it is something that actually happened to me as i was walking along. i felt myself step through a doorway , portal , just slap bang in the middle of the tudor beer garden!and i knew i was changed. the rest is about much of what you say but i never had religion and chose not to get it .. i think we both escaped the prophet and i

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Thanks very much for your comment I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Yevtushenko or his "There are no momuments at Babi Yar" nevertheless it would seem to be a great comliment so thanks again - Dave

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CynthiaMany thanks for your comments on Nuts. It was an entry I did for Subtle Flame, the Beverley Open Mic group, last week - theme was "nuts".Incidentally I like the new picture. Self-portrait?

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Thank you for your considered comment on Escape, Cynthia, your thoughts are always appreciated. I thought about it, but won't be changing it, because I do prefer it the way I wrote it. I realise it isn't the most 'poetic' write in the world, but there is some poetry in it I believe. And it was a bit like stripping my skin off so another reason is that I don't really want to revisit it - left me in a pretty fucked up way the evening after I put it up.

Now I want to write something joyful about Peggy Seeger, because I think I fell in love with her watching her play the other night :)

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Cyn - thanks (lucky escape) -
you're right, but I couldnae think of another - I've compromised :)

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Thanks for the comment and suggestion on Nothing Remains,I think your idea is great and will enter the edited version in the Escape competition. I'll keep the full version for general use as, as you noticed its in memory of my mum and the day we scattered her ashes at Crich stand. It was very winds and I managed to catch some of the Ash in my mouth when it blew back, numpty son not doing as he was told!! Hope to see you at Sale - Dave

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The Green Room is trying to find alternative funding.

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