I agree Tom. I hope we can have a big WOL family reunion some day!

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D, the sign reads, “DANGER Do Not Climb on Kissing Rocks”. I have always been a bit of a rebel. ?

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Right back at you V. We're all lucky to have found each other (and the words we share) right here. ?

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It's the electricity
of all this poetry
somehow surrounding me
and toying with my gravity!

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Welcome John! I’m enjoying your poetry already. Write on! ~V

Comment is about JOHN F B TUCKER (poet profile)

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why is your hair on end?

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Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

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what does that sign say?
Danger...
I cannot read the rest.

Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)

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Ok, starting today, I’m checking my homepage every time I sign in, instead of just the blogs!

Thank you my beautiful poetry friends for taking your precious time to comment. I love the WOL community. It’s so cool to connect with poets from all over the world. Nigel, Tom, Fred, Paul, D, Philipos, Leon, John, Adam, Flavia, Robert, Dan, and Stephen... I cherish you all. Write on! ~V

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Thanks for your fascinating memories and views on the Falklands war. This is a really interesting article https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/my-return-to-the-falklands. I'm assuming that you knew this movie was being made?

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I agree but..
now that it has infected our President
it's a whole new story.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Hello my friend, thank you for stopping by and liking two of my recent pieces.. It's been a while since you posted a blog on here. I hope you are well and are still writing or at least still playing some music.. I had another listen to your audio gift again today and it felt so pleasant to hear as way back when you uploaded it I was in a different head space with my grief and my mind was full of noise. Thanks again for your support and kindness.. take care. Be well. Emer?

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I am breathing...
barely.
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Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)

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??? i see what you did there paul.

Comment is about khanyie komane (poet profile)

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glad you enjoyed the whimsy...
did you put ketchup on it?
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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is a Biku
like a Haiku?
just wandering!

wink.

Comment is about Wandering Biku (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on "Mother Inez".

(you don't look too happy in your photo.
did someone shoot your dog?)

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Comment is about Clyde McCulley (poet profile)

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Hi dk - here's some good wishes for your ongoing participation in
embellishing our quality of life on WOL with your contributions.
At our stage of life there's the onus
Of treating each day as a bonus! ?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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I'm enjoy this life
the pleasure of living,
on exiting soon
I have my misgivings!
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(enjoyed your rhyme M.C.---thanks for that!)

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Hi Jon
Thankyou for your comment after my poem "Memorial Day In Moscow" - that's much appreciated.
Quite by chance, this poem is going to be published in the next edition of 'Poetry Plus - The Magazine' so it will reach an even wider audience.
Richard

Comment is about Jon Darby (poet profile)

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Thanks Ray.... If I hear "We are Sailing" ever on the radio I throw it out the window... same goes for "Don't Cry For Me Argentina".

I have a hate from those days... The BBC. They announced we would attack Goose Green and the Argie moved 1000 more men into positions, same with their ordinance, their bombs were not going off, loads of ships were hit including mine and the bomb failed to explode, they were fucking up the timing on the detonator. The fucking BBC actually announced that... next thing you know Brit ships were blowing up all over the shop.

My other piece of anger is Colonel "H" Jones 2 Para (VC). He shouldn't have been there, he was "Sunray", Battalion commander, his place was safe back with his maps and radios and tea. Instead he took it upon himself to assault Argy machine gun positions across very open ground, I've seen it, and eighteen of his men and him got killed. "Sunray is down" over the radio left two Para headless, the one man with the whole battles cape in his head played the hero, lost and left his Battalion leaderless, he went against military doctrine and training. Had he lived he should have been court martialled! I was told by a 2 para combat medic he had two British rounds in his back. Someone had sense.

Fortunately Major Chris Keeble was his number two, ex SAS and a brilliant soldier, he was able to get a picture, put things back together and won in the end.

The other thing no one ever mentions is the Argentinians were disgraceful, they literally shit everywhere, in Stanly they shit in drawers, cabinets, wardrobes, in all their positions in the field, it took ages to clean up that filth. I don't know why but they did it.

Everyone thought the Argy pilots were real heroes, they couldn't fly at full speed couldn't manoeuvre, they were so low on fuel if they got caught up in heavy manoeuvring to dodge missiles and aa fire, they would run out of fuel on the way home, this made our Harriers look far better than they were! In fact it was two Harrier pilots told me that. Everyone respected them because despite that, and their heavy loses they just kept coming.Amazing courage.

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Thank you Greg for your comment on my bio poem Aye, Wingate. And yes, 'Johnnie's cafe' , which had been a fixture in the village since the early 50's ( sadly closed around 10 yr ago) still had all the original 50's decor: wooden seats, counter, fixtures etc. So Beamish museum bought it & are rebuilding it in the new 1950's village. But, sadly, the way things are going they might not have the money to complete it. And, as you say, if you visit these days it's more like a ghost town ?

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Hi Greg thank you so much for your comments. Things come to mind, I do suffer still, always will apparently.
One thing I have held onto is my hatred of the BBC. They reported and told the Argentinians we were getting ready to assualt Goose Green, so The Argie reinforced Goose Green With 1000 more men, our lads were outnumbered 3 to 1.
Then many of their bombs were not exploding they hit my ship and the bombs didn't explode, they had the detonators set wrong... the fucking BBC reported this! Consequently our ships started blowing up what seemed everywhere. Bastards.
I know a lot of lads who if the BBC embedded someone with them they'd find themselves with a bullet in the back during the next action.
There was a sadness... we were fighting kids with three months training who'd been given a gun, canon fodder for our well trained professionals. We all felt an admiration for their airforce...so brave with low survival chances. They didn't have the fuel to "dog fight" or make much manoeuvring and only had five minutes over target or they would splash down in the Atlantic getting home. But they still came, their limitation of speed made our Harriers look far better than they were. I got that from a couple of Harrier pilots I was drinking with.

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Fascinated by your Profile poem, 'Aye, Wingate', Stephen, and the revelation that a little part of your village was taken and rebuilt at Beamish, the museum close to the Angel of the North, which I visited recently. I found Beamish very interesting, but also a somewhat eerie, spooky place - a place deserving a poem or two of its own.

Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)

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nothing like being
in old clothes
comfortable in
your own
skin.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Hot sauce is made from
the green Jalapeno,
the Mexican thrives
esta muy bueno!

Comment is about Tom (poet profile)

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Welcome, Dee. Great to hear your work at Write Out Loud Wigan recently. All the best, Greg

Comment is about Dee Allen. (poet profile)

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Government by its nature is corrupt
the politicians and bureaucrats get the gravy
the taxpayers get the shaft!

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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I thoroughly enjoyed this thank you. ?

Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

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Dear Tommy

Thanks for the message. It was a real treat to read the poem, and to come back and read it again.

Steve

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Welcome to WOL Michael. I’m looking forward to reading your poetry. Nice debut poem for the hopeless romantics among us. Write on! ❤️

Comment is about michael scott applewhite (poet profile)

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Thank you Julie for your kind comments regarding Her Last Dance, much appreciated !

Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)

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Cheers Stephen for your like of "Broken Masonry"
Tommy ?

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Hello Salfordman,

Welcome to WOL. I enjoyed your poems and look forward to more. I am also 72 and started to write poetry about ten years ago. This site is a good place to post your poems and receive comments. I wish you well.

Keith

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If you need replacement parts
go online
Livers are on sale this week!
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Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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Holy Terrors
is an old expression here
now we have terrorists
who are not holy.

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Hello Shehariah,

After reading through your poems I felt compelled to leave a comment here. I would just like to say that there are only two other pieces of work that has touched me the way they have...Tracy Chapman's "Remember the Tinman" and Andrew Solomon's description of depression in the "Noonday Demon".
They are eloquent and has such clarity. It is as though you have unknotted my every thought and emotion and rolled the yarn into a perfectly formed sphere. I feel and relate to every word.

Thank you!?

(I am sorry for all you have had to endure)

Comment is about Shehariah (poet profile)

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"LOO ROLL ON ICE"
I thought that was a Chinese dish.
hahaha
(now I get it.)
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Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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Hi, just like to thank you for liking my poems & welcoming me to the wonderful world of WOL! Encouragement is only given by those with a selfless heart, so thanks x

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It's a Brit concept. The loo roll (toilet paper) on ice is for the inevitable outcome of eating lashings of chillies...

"with lashings of chillies
and loo roll on ice"...

what does this mean?

Is it a Brit expression
or something you took
from a highway billboard
or a recipe book?
?

Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)

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"with lashings of chillies
and loo roll on ice"...

what does this mean?

Is it a Brit expression
or something you took
from a highway billboard
or a recipe book?
?

Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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Thank you Vautaw. Looking forward to reading your stuff too!

Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL Stephen. I’m looking forward to reading your poetry. Write on!

Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)

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Hey! I just finished reading all your poems (except for the Hindi ones). It's really worthwhile. Wish I could write about women like that. Or maybe I can, I'm just too afraid to post it. Anyway, nice to have you around here at Write Out Loud (WOL). Cheers

Comment is about Neilkanth (poet profile)

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good for your mom.
i am glad she did so well.
also glad...
you shared her story!
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Comment is about julie callaghan (poet profile)

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Guys just sharing, I've found this interesting! Check it out! http://twolinespoetry.com/

Comment is about Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh (poet profile)

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At this stage
our talents fade-
what's left is me
and my old age.
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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thanks for your comment
on my poem.
one leads to another
there is no end to them.?

Comment is about Emer Ní Chorra (poet profile)

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Not really complaining but I've just scrolled down past several million other comments or reviews of your work. If you are able to answer, you are a genius. To write is a gift.
To engage takes work.

Comment is about Vautaw (poet profile)

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Breathing is optional.
I choose it because
I want to see what
the next poem will be.
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Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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check your mail every day
there may be something important
like this news or
a summons for jury duty!
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