Nice one Ant, and well done to the Reds even though I'm Bolton through and through, be proud of who you support A and let us know!

Only thing that bothered me was all the potential coincidences, 50 years after Munich (when Bolton got no thanks for winning FA Cup!), and no doubt 50 people in crowd called Matt Busby, 50 steps up to the box and so on...... cheers Jeffarama!

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Ah, the devilish beer. My ex-husband didn't touch a cigarette all day long. As soon as he had a pint in one hand, he just had to have a cig in the other. That was in the days when social smoker was acceptable.
I love the title of this blog and appreciate your comment on mine.
Thanks, better luck next time. Janet.

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In answer to your question. I guess the roast dinner thing will have to wait a while. Having problems with my visualizations. The meat keeps turning green.
I had a dream last night about a strawberry pavlova.( i honestly have no idea what one looks like, i just knew what it was.) I wanted to save it from the hot baked alaska sitting next to it, which was bubbling and ready to explode. It was quite scary. I hope you understand.

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Original item by Mia Darlone

HI Peter, Nice poem about the police, they really try hard for the most part to help, and I think when they first start they want to help rid the world of bad so much, yet it can crush the spirit, and turn a good heart to stone, for some.I have met a few nice police persons, I say persons because some are females, I thought about it as a job for a time, but Im so small and my kids went crazy when I applied for the job, they just knew Id be shot Ah well good poem. hope your well.

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I can't wait!

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Hilariously funny! I can imagine your reading that one out to the crowd.

It reminded me of a hideous docu I saw about a couple about to be wed who were having the works done on them before their big day, just so they would fancy each other a bit more. After the surgery they looked like a different couple altogether. Weird.....!

Ally

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Special Offer at the Book Launch only: 3 book titles on sale @ any one book £10; any 2 books £15; any 3 books £20.

Blackley man, Laurie Driver, 40 years a truck driver and author of THIS TRUCKIN' LIFE will also be launching his new book title, THE RAILWAY YEARS - 2 books chock full of humorous anecdotes!

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...and she wasn't too happy about me 'coming across her' either...

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Hi Pete - further to our conversation last night, I once come across a very agitated female who told me that she had come home from doing an errand to discover her husband having sex with a large dog. What she wanted me to do I have no idea?
Then weeks later I saw her again, I asked about her husband and how things were going. She said that they were staying together for the sake of the puppies!
You couldn't make it up. Well, Ok, you could, and I just have. This policeman sounds like a wonderful man. I must meet him sometime.

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Thanks for your comment Tomas, I can sympathise with the writing addiction - I'm chair-shaped, but I disagree that rhyming is boring! I think your first poem is really touching, I wish I had the balls to write something serious!

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Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

It's a tough world out there. Unfortunately, police and other authority figures become prime targets for abuse from both the victims and the culprits. Sometimes, they forget, authority figures are human too.
Enjoyed the read, Janet.

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got it! thanks Daniel

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Hi Mia. I'm working on the roast dinner says she with tongue in cheek.
I'm in agreement with Daniel on this one. Shocking yet very amusing, as above.
Love and lust, you just can't beat it!
Thanks, Janet.

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Can be a bit rough round Salford way I'm led to believe. A copper with many stories. I enjoyed the read.

(Edit note: Did you mean "Then robbed the Texaco garage")

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It takes a broad mind to appreciate this one. Quite a few will find it distatsteful, others will be shocked. Personally I found it amusing.

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Hello Phil, dear friend in Poetry

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment on my poem 'LIFETIME WITH LOVE'- Glad you enjoyed this one. based on reality and common sense.

With sincere appreciation for taking your time reading.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Phil Golding

Hello, Mia

Your poem is very intriguing and it is on time with the reality in todays World. Quite creative and keeps the reader absorbed - pulled in
what is going to happen at the end.

GREAT JOB!!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Tomas

Thank you for taking the time to read my poem. There is a lot of truth all reality in your comment.

Cheers!
Zuzanna

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Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Hello Tomas, thanks for taking the time to read my writings.
I also enjoy rhyming poems but i try not to make a word fit just for the sake of it. Ha ha, there's a rhyme in there somewhere.
I find your seance and devils scripture intriguing, as i am a spiritualist medium and healer.
Very much a save the world person.
Spiritualists embrace all religions, colour and creed. Perhaps surprisingly, many of our congregation are Catholic.
I've been wading through Miltons "paradise lost," for about six months, amazing imagery there for devil poetry.
Thanks again Janet.

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Original item by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Hi Alison, this poem is hauntingly beautiful.

I'd like to have met your friend. Sounds like we would have been soulmates. Perhaps we are, in these days of "all things are possible."

Thankyou. Janet.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

You have humour in your writing...

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Original item by Mia Darlone

Hello, Phil

You are a wonderful Ambassador to the Parkinson Society; please not be offended by my comment. As hard, as it sounds to live with this illness one has to keep going. If you give up then your life will be shattered like a Crystal glass. Your writings will help others to understand better the health problem you are going through. I am sympathizing with you. Worked for 22 years in a Rehab Hospital and have seen many different illnesses that people were going through. You are showing tremendous strength with in you. Keep it that way. Today medicine can help a lot to support the shortage of that brain Chemicals that you need to replace by taking the MEDS. Keep writing as you do. Your words are of great importance. I see you being busy than this is the most rewarding for your brain so it does not quit on you. Thank you for sharing a portion of your heart in this heartfelt poem. I agree with Daniel that it is not easy to comment on this.

Many thanks for commenting on my latest poem. I will head for the publishing perhaps in the future. I am in a process of recovery from a car accident. When finished the claim, I will think about that!
PS: Congratulations on the Manchester United winning the World Cup in Moscow!!

Have a wonderful day!

With my best wishes,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Phil Golding

A well crafted poem/commentry with clever rhyme that hooks the reader further.

What more can I say apart from

'CHAMPIONEES OH EH OH EH OH EH'

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More current commentary... what can I say... gutted!

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Hello, Phil

I found your poem written with passion of a true writer! Wonderfully presented however filled with a tone of grief and a sadness of loss something precious. The Auld English not familiar to me but I did enjoy reading.

Thank you again for sharing your heart with others and me!

Warm Regards,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Phil Golding

Dear Alison

The poem sounds like a Romeo & Juliet' beautifully express especially these lines...

""As the glacier melts and loses density
We remain excellent and perfect
Forming to the shape of ecstasy""

Romantic write & filled with magic!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hello, Antonio

What a great win! I got the news from my friend fro UK through the e-mail. Congratulations to the wonderful Team of Manchester United. Great Team, third year in a row European Cup Champions!!!! Your poem it is a Tribute to this fantastic Team.
Thank you so much for writing this poem so I could enjoy the Victory as well.
Fabulous photo- GREAT JOB!!

Cheers!
Zuzanna

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I've enjoyed your work enough to read all your blog entries and make comments where ever I stopped. Keep on writing as I'm looking forward to your next post.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

The Shakespear play Romeo and Juliet line 'What light from yonder window breaks' popped into my head so i tweaked it a little and attempted to mimic the Auld English language used by the bard.Unfortunately there is a thread of truth within the poem.

Many thanks to everyone for your kind comments.

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Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Alison, beautifully imagination and it felt quite spooky, thanks for sharing, Jeff

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Difficult to comment on this one. Parkinson's is a terrible desease to be trapped within, just as this poem appears to be trapped within the rhyme on every line.

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Original item by Phil Golding

Definately a theme to your work as I myself step back through time to comment, I feel you are a very spiritual person and often find your misunderstood. That's what comes through to me from your poems. Appologies if I am personallising work that is poetic license or written about another.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

I find no amusement in this piece.. I find it a cry for help from someone turning inwards and fading out of the surrounding world. It's an evokative piece and I'm enjoying my foray through your blog submissions.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Free falling through your own mind space. I'm inspired to read some more from you. There is something spiritual in your writing.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi Alison - Like Darren I especially enjoyed the closing stanza, probably because the rhythm of the words is consistant and the rhyme pattern well known without sounding too forced. That's not to say I didn;t enjoy the rest, just not as much.

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi Phil - Drugs are often easier to find than people imagine. All too easy to be caught in the scene and be carried from weed to needles. I hope that if this is a personal pieve you have the strength to get through it... if it is poetic license then you succeeded in making it believable.

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Original item by Phil Golding

Hi Allison, I enjoyed reading this poem very much. nice work!

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi Phil, nice poem.

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Original item by Phil Golding

I particularly enjoy the final stanza

"For every touch I did surrender
And every breath you stole away
With such fondness I remember
When you kissed me on that day"

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi Phil - as usual you paint a very vivid picture and one that I hope is written as a third person and not something that you're having to deal with personally?
I noticed an almost Auld English syntax in the sentence construction, putting the verb at the end of a sentence, after both after the object and subject. I would be interested in why you did this?
A very intimate and perhaps disturbing picture that you have conjured up here. As a poem, I enjoyed it. I DO hope that it's poetic license though. Cheers.

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Original item by Phil Golding

Couldn't agree with you more, Helen. This is the seventh consecutive year I'll have taken a performance poetry show to the Fringe, and the lack of a proper category has always bedevilled me, and made the shows difficult to market. Like you, though, I salute the work that Luke Wright has been doing to thrust the artform into the public eye up there. And fair play to Leon Conrad as well.

To the best of my knowledge, 2008 isn't a great year in terms of the number of performance poetry shows going to Edinburgh. I only know of usual suspects Paul Lyalls, Francesca Beard, Luke, Liz Bentley and Project Adorno. Some of the collectives that used to do Fringe shows - Express Excess, Shortfuse, Big Word - have stopped doing so in the last couple of years (though Poejazzi are returning this year after their storming five-star debut last August). But, as you say, I think there would be great demand if there was a way of linking up with our potential market. And I suspect artists involved in several other slightly maverick artforms feel the same way.

Julian - some friends of mine took their own fringe to Hay a couple of years back: they simply programmed a load of events in the town during the run of the 'real' festival - and went down very well, I understand. Maybe WOL should do the same. The good news is that Hay's near-neighbour, Ledbury Poetry Festival, is becoming increasingly performance-friendly, so they may be worth approaching for next year.

Onward, upward.

Russell Thompson, London Coordinator, Apples & Snakes

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I like your style! Great Stuff!

Comment is about Complete control (blog)

Thankyou for your comment I usually perform at the
everyman, but due to compter problems since april
plus tha bad weather and the recession i have not
performed but if your interested pls see poetstarkeith via youtube or myspace
fot several poetic documentary short films i have done or google keith lucy for audio poetry to download also redbubble.com for photography
alsp poetry.com in the usa bye for now,
yours keith lucy
ps i like your spiritual enhanced poetry

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Original item by Keith Lucy

Do you have the will power? You could have a whole series ... Nicoteen Free - Day 1, Nicoteen Free - Day 2, Nicoteen Free - Day 5. Then if you do crumble and give in ... we'll all slap you about in the comments. Good luck!

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Hi A!

Well done if you've quit, not easy to give up stuff I know, and here it's good to see you can see some humour in it too, enjoyed it cheers Jeff
ps - Complete Control - Fine Clash single too!!!

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Hi Ally

What wonderful romantic thoughts that last sentence provokes, thanks and thanks for comments on my poem, hope you like any others I've done - will have to check out more of yours now!

Will let you know when I have, best wishes Jeff

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi there,
Thanks for your comment. Happy to have made you smile.
As to your poems, Zuzannas right. The humour shows through, very droll at times.
I think we all have it within us to control and master our own success but i also believe we can tap into the universe for a little extra help.

Re- yesterdays poem. It's horrible isn't it when reality breaks the dream. Hope i got that right?

Thanks again, Janet.

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Dear Alison

Thank you again for taking the time to read and the comment on my Riders of the Storm'
Your comments are welcome and appreciated.

Warm Regards,
Zuzanna

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Original item by Alison Mary Dunn

Hi Jeff,
I liked your poem 'The Sea'. "Creating lives and taking lives". The power of the ocean is many things to us all and it's simply put in your choice of words.
thanks for sharing.
Ally

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Original item by Jeffarama!

Antonio-- I am glad you were able to conquer the bad habit! It was a sign that you should quit smoking when the ashtray broke on you. I like the life events in your poetry.

The second poem that you deleted is wonderful too. I like the metaphors.
Your writings are excellent!
Do not hit that DELETE button again...Smile.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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