(nana)
Thanks for comments.
So, Laura - do you still like yer meat doggy-style :D ?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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The only thing I'd say is that I wasn't sure about the line "focusing on this and that" which seemed to me a bit on the vague side. But I really liked the way you widened it out to encompass so much.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the feedback. This poem has really driven me bonkers, but loosening it up into quatrains has improved it a bit I hope. I don't mind it so much when it gets going, but I'm not entirely sure about the beginning.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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I'll second that! What a lot of raunchy material there was last night. I've never heard anything quite like it before...even at the Tudor!

Your house looks very tidy up there - I could do with you coming round to mine!

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

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Well done with your compèring début!

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment on "Invisible" much appreciated xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Cate much appreciated felt I had to do that poem after seeing the news and this lady in Afghanistan and her lover were caught and brought to justice!!

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Was great to meet you too Laura.
Enjoyed your pieces, trouble is I heard so many I can't remember them now, which sounds terrible, but with so much adrenalin in my system last night it's a wonder I could remember my own name - lol!
Have you blogged the pieces you read as I'd love to see them?
Much respect
Petrova
xXx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Eh up - I had to rush off last night without saying goodbye to anyone, totally misjudged how much time I had left and ended up having to leg it for the train!

Anyhow, thanks for the beer and I'll get you one back next time chuck :)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Andy & thanks for your comments on my untitled piece. I made it to the Tudor last night & read, great experience though my bones were rattling!
Met Jefferama & will try to get across to Bolton sometime :) x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks Elaine, I think poems are sometimes like films; you see more the second time round :) Get well soon! xXx

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave. (Gazelle Ghazal) x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Win! Thanks for kind comments on my Gazezzel (oops! I think I've just invented a new poetic form - just got up and my eyes aren't working yet!) my Gazelle Ghazal. No, I had no idea that the dying cries of the gazelle had anything to do with ghazals. Nice touch that my gazelle lived and triumphed then! I was going to try and have a "deer" type of word in every verse but I didn't think gnu or wildebeast sounded very poetic. Maybe I'll write agnuther ghazal! xx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hey Jane,

Been to Bolton the last couple of months...the first wol at Butterflies and Guitar and Verse.

Anyway it made me think that your poetry was missed.

Hope all is good in the world- kids and all that too.

I hope to get to the next Bolton wol happy with my new gf Haha...Be good to hear your poetry there.

Loved the weird Lewis Carrol brilig-esque poem you wrote for your daughter and even more so the poem about about cars/environment and gambol...ala sheep.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Hi Laura,

Thx for the feedback on my latest.

Truth be told the call centre is just a metaphor for self limitation and torture of the mind...that which is self inflicted by our own internal walls/barriers.

Still call centres are shit and as bad as you say. I once worked in one for a couple of months and it was sould crushing.

Though it was quite funny because in order to get the job I had to delete zeros off my prior salary (lie) because I walked out of a high paid job Hahaha

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Andy,

You're a seriously good bloke, good thoughtful feedback and yes I did indeed perform that poem in Bolton at the wol event.

P.S

Please let me know when you have music gigs and I will try to get along. Distance an all that, but would hope to make one or two.

My Best- mate

Chris

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thx for the feedback on my last poem Dave.

Yes freedom is certainly what it is about. Particularly independence from self limitation.

It has little to do with a call centre any more than any job that tortures the psyche...the job is really just the metaphor.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks Isobel :o)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Aw, C'mon Laura - surely HalfManHalfBiscuit have done summat appropriate ?? :D
[car crash blowjob - Kealan]

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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..thanks Laura..no style really, it's just the way I fingerpick the mandolin..some more of my songs if you google 'stepmoth', (on 'myspace')...cheers ..chris.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thank you Ann x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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thanks Andy :-)

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hey Melanie the poet who didnt know it ;) Thanks for your comment its good to know when people can get lost in my dream, keep in touch
Peace

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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Have you managed to sort it now?
Paul explains it better than I - and also all the other changes WOL has recently implemented -

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1068&NewsGroupsID=26

Cx

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Hi there

WOL chat has a few little foibles that can make conversation challenging. I'm guessing from the long silence that you navigated away (there's no turning back sadly)and I was talking to myself (cut & pasted below)... hope it was of some help. You can message me (or any of the admin. team) if you're still having problems

Cx

'a few changes on site yes -

if you got to your profile

on the right hand side you will see your last few poems - you can access any one by clicking on it

the way blogs display has changed

so only your latest blog will show up - but the others are all there

if you go in to your latest blog

you will see underneath

all your previous blogs for the month in blue

we were trying to find a compromise that would suit those who were finding the many blogs difficult to navigate but at the same time not restrict those who like to write more

oh - and chat on here is hopeless so if you've navigated away from this page ... you can't get back and i am now talking to myself'

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hi Elaine I'm glad you liked the poem.

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Hi Elaine,
Thank-you for reading and commeting on 'autumn' - very much appreciated.
Cx

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Re; Kismet - thanks again Laura for the re-assuring follow on

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Purely for the dual sakes of alliteration and perversity, I was willing the last line to end as:
It seems to me a sad and lonely walk
Betrothal, birth, baptism, betrayal.
The dramatist's tic, perhaps? But that would change it toward a feminist poem; or not. In fact, I can see an entirely different poem emerging from the last three lines. Shades of Gray's famous Elegy, both written in/of a Gloucestershire churchyard.
I love that idea of "who has walked this path?".

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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No

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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I'm wondering how many variations on a fox you can come up with? Will we get to see one skinned and wrapped around a neck one day?

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel,
Thanks for reading and commenting on 'autumn' - always much appreciated.
The last two lines don't work - just not quite sure what I want to do with them. The point was (kind of) supposed to be about the finality of it for us ... or something. Need to edit it anyway!
:)
Cx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you for reading and commenting on 'autumn' - I agree that the last two lines definitely need work, still considering which way to go with them.
How are you? Hope you are well.
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Sian, Welcome to Write Out Loud. Hope you find something interesting within the site. Winston

Comment is about Sian S. Rathore (poet profile)

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Hi Heather , Welcome aboard. Hope you enjoy exploring all the various aspects of our site. Winston

Comment is about Heather Wastie (poet profile)

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..yes, chorlton folk, Joe's been running it for about eight years now..gets a good crowd in..including poets of course!!..(have put my mandolin tune 'Josie's Scar' on the audio player).

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Re; Kismet - thanks Laura - think I know where I went wrong have deleted an unnecessary stanza - adjusted the typo and hope it reads better - don't know what you think now x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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No, I think Muscle Shoals and the motor city are fine as they are. I picked those lines out because I liked them so much. I ought to be more aware of modern singers, but with YouTube the temptation is to delve into the past ... or at least it is with me (see my current fb outpourings!)

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Nice quote! I hope most people will work out the reference to Tamla Motown. Do you think my reference to Muscle Shoals might be a bit to obscure for some? It does alliterate nicely though. I've always loved Duane Allman's great guitar solo on 'I Ain't never loved a man..' Btw I think there are some great young women singers around at the moment, and respect to Rumer for writing 'Aretha' - which I actually think is something of a masterpiece.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Laura THanks for comments on the poem. THe word to describe my suit is 'dodgy', unfortunately, I've already used it a couple of times in other poems!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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maybe... and there are real creatures that change sex. but to oscillate so frequently would be a great party trick!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting, as ever, Andy. Hope to see you soon.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Win

Thank you for commenting on Beyond the Garden #5. The first instance I ever came across of gender morphing was Orlando in Virginia Woolf, though it happened a great deal slower there. There must be lots more examples. "There is nothing new under the sun".

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comms. Football would never have been a problem for me! Btw I loved the Four Tops too... and Mary Wells and Junior Walker and The Isleys, and don't get me going on Atlantic/Stax - Aretha what a voice! As usual I couldn't keep Catholicism out. Poor old Brother Vergilius. He didn't have a clue!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Marianne, thanks for stopping by. Weird thing is I don't remember that one by the Divine Comedy and I've liked them enough to see them live. Must be one of those subliminal messages! I tend to take a lot of inspiration from music & other poems so happy with a little "pastiche"!

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Hi Win - yeah, it is un-usual we both have recent poems in here about Curtains.. Clearly great minds thinking alike, eh? lol

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I think you might be!

:-)

Jx

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Good to hear from you, Rachel, and looking forward to your return to action.

Best wishes

Dave

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Good to hear from you. Anthony, and good to know that something may be germinating.

Best wishes

Dave

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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You truly made my day Cynthia... Thank you!
I am never sure if it is ever good enough, but I will keep trying... ; )

xxx

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