Hi Snowfox... Glad you liked 'Seat 58A Coach D'. Thanks for looking in. Win X

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Hi Winston - thank you for reading and commenting on Passing Clouds - much appreciated

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Hi Cyn - I'm sorry, I can't remember. I just had a quick look back & none ring any bells on that score. I did post one called "when we met" but that was about a dream, and not the missus (and it said so in the poem). We've been married nine years in January & she's called Yuree. thanks. all the best. B

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Season's greetings to you too. I've passed your comment on to the techies who are the ones who deserve the praise - nothing to do with me guv.
Paul

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Thank you for paying me a visit and for your lovely comment Cynthia. My latest offering was one our priest commissioned for the Christmas eve mass - it was so difficult hitting the right mark - not too controversial but not too pious. I decided to post it cos it is a memory of how I saw 2010 out. I'm not sure it fits on this site though, which is why I disabled comments.
It is far too long since we met! I will try to pay a visit to Sale at the end of Jan - that is always a very good night. I was sorry to miss your guest spot recently - I would like to have been there. Hope you and Stan had a good Christmas - it is lovely to hear from you. xx

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Isobel, I'm so glad we have personally met. I like your work so much; I always anticipate the words and ideas because you write with great feeling and equal emotive skill. Higher praise I cannot give.

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Re- instantaneous thinking and blogging, Ann. I can't do it, because I don't have the immediate imagination and the corresponding well of words that just seem to spill out of a fascinating mind, like yours. I have some, of course; I used to keep originals forever, to make sure I hadn't lost the 'first-flavour spice' in the finished piece, but not much now. You will never run out of ideas, never. Meeting you was one of the highlights of my year.

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Hi Cynthia - thank you very much indeed for troubling to comment on Dusk Patrol, The Truce and Christmas Cameos - I certainly agree about spacing on the latter - will try to work the lower case idea subject to memory which you suggested on Dusk Patrol - and in answer to your question about canals in the Sale area - I haven't visited there yet but aren't canals just a gift for painting a picture with the pen - also I would love to see some of your scenic poems on screen - thanks again for giving me such encouragement you're a star

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Hi Andy, Re Hulme idea. ok thats great. A good subject worthy of a retrospective project, I will cogitate and see what happens. Keep me posted. Win X

yes that is my current email address (winstonplowes@googlemail.com)

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Hi Win - Regarding the Hulme thing... I am not sure what is going to be going with this as we are trying to get people interested at the moment more than anything else, but certainly if it comes off - i would love you onboard...

Are you still on your googlemail address at the top????

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have just got round to reading your work (shame!).
so glad I did its really good. i loved the stark images of bones and a carnivorous Africa.... and your summer poem...i am always looking at crying skies...
hope to see you perform in the new year xx

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Dave, Thanks for your metaphysical comments. It will broaden my reading in this area. Difficul to get into at first but when you get used to the style you can be transported. Win X

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Hi Andy, Rachel has been asking if I am part of your Hulme project? Well obviously not as I didn't know about it but if you want me to TRY and write something then I will. If not also fine. I reckon John Darwin could deliver on this too, Win X

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Thanks for your comments on 70m Dash, Win.
Bugger culture - that's what I say!

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Thanks for your kind comments on my Questions poem. Have a lovely christmas - hope your foot is continuing to mend! xx

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Thank you Alison for your kind comment on my Questions poem. xx

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Hi Cynthia - re: Rockpools - blessed I feel by your v kind comments - much obliged indeed

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Hi - all I can do is not to try & force it - I basically never set-out to write anything. I get periods when I think I've said all I want to say.. and then I go & write 3 or 4 in a day. I keep them all in a file on my PC & rarely post straightaway, as I know I'll want to fiddle later. Re-reading afresh & I can ALWAYS see improvements and/or pare them down. I'll pick-up words or phrases in the paper, mags, TV or music that somehow seem unusual & maybe they'll just set-off a train of thought. My wife says things that crack me up cos she's foreign & her command of english is good, but not great. She says things like "my eyes were asleep, but I wasn't"... you know what she means but it sounds funny & sometimes that'll start things off. There's one well-known poet (cant remember his name now though) who writes some interesting words on scraps & just moves them around til something jumps out - I think it all depends on whether you want to write "solely" from the heart or if you'd like to do more wacky stuff as well? I can give you some ideas on how to if you want to ?... but it's not everyones cuppa though, but it often gives me a spark that sets things off :)
all the best. B xx

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BTW - just gone back & there is yours - can you believe - I was going to use this exact same Klimt image... spooky !! (lovely painting)

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Hi - (going nowhere) - I dont know about sexy, or pervy more like - but thanks either way !
I've amended it - maybe it reads better now ?
Serves me right for not following my own rules - I always wait at least 2 weeks from writing to posting (sometimes years) - to let me make amendments that are not always obvious to me (like here). Thanks. B xx

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It's always possible to enjoy a hym irrespective of belief.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ

:)

Happy Christmas.

Chris

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Hi Laura,

Thx for the comment on the ill room poem. I'm glad you felt the ending worked as I wasn't entirely sure.

Hopefully see you at an event in the new year.

Have a Happy Christmas

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on the ill room poem John.

Hope to see you soon at an event the other side of Christmas.

We can have a talk about what I mentioned too.

Have a great Christmas mate.

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on the ill room poem Andy.

Glad you felt it worked.

Have a Happy Christmas...hope to see you soon at an event.

My Best

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on my ill room poem Dave.

I have added another comment on the page.

Happy Christmas

Chris

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thx for the feedback on the ill room poem Win...appreciated.

Hope to see you at Hebdon when the weather improves.

Happy Christmas

Chris

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks, John, much appreciated.

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Thanks, Isobel.We've had the mood swings too but you can't put everything in a poem can you? I was going for subtle.

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Sorry, Laura, thought Al Andalus was a typo!By appendages I meant that at the end of every verse but one the last line is a lot longer. If that's deliberate then fine but why miss one verse out?!

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Ello lovely :)

Thank you re moura encantada. Yes, it does sound very songlike doesn't it? Kinda in keeping with the mouras themselves and their siren songs :)

Oh, and I had to google quite a lot too ;)

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Hi Laura - many thanx for feedback on The Hospice Cat - I should keep a pet really but next door's Labs got into my garden yesterday ripped up established fruit bushes and generally turned the place into a devastation zone - so pleased I don't - owner at work all day of course

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Aw, thanks Andy, much appreciated and have a fab christmas
Rach
xx

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Hi Win

You've flummoxed me there - I suspect you know far more about the Metaphysical poets than I do. That said, I would turn first to George Herbert, who was such a big influence on Vaughan. Vaughan seems to me to be a little flowery and extravagant, Herbert more economical, compact and precise, and thus more intense. But what do I know? For sheer compacting of thought, Herbert's 'Prayer' must be hard to beat. You could write a thesis on each 2 or 3 word combination in it, such as 'Angel's age' "Christian plummet' 'a kinde of tune' etc. The thinking in it is very dense (in the best sense of the word) and yet he manages to make it remarkably poetic as well. A desert island poem for me.

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Dave, you have posted something in the discussions section about Andrew Marvell ! Never heard of him till spent a day in Hull in a very nice square near a very nice church. Performed in the shadow of a statue all day which was of.... yes, Andrew Marvell. Looked him up since but struggle to connect with his work. Big fan of other met' poets e.g. Vaughan. can you recommend something? Win x

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Thanks for your comments on 'Fresh' which just seemed to run off the end of the pen

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Our little book was a great start, but it was just the start of things, x

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Dear M . You are too kind. your own style is something special and rare. never compromise the truth

Win X

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Thanks for the comment on Synechdoche.
Dave

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Thanks for your spandagulous comment on Synechdoche. Have a good Christmas.
Dave

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Greg,
Thanks for your generous comment on Synechdoche.
Dave

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... and for 'Jesus', too!

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Hi David. Thank you so much for your kind words about 'At Cromer.' I appreciate it.

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I love the Iris poem you wrote, it reads like both a painting and a poem at the same time.

Would you be interested in sharing it at one of my OpenMind events?

A poem like that would really make my birthday event special in January.

I've read a few of your pieces and would definitely like to offer you a longer guest slot at one of the later events of the year (we're getting pretty full up in terms of headliners/guest artists).

Email me on ushiku.crisafulli@googlemail.com and I can give you more details about the different dates and see when suits you best.

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Hiya Gus, lolling at the thought of your chin and nose tissue balaclava, thanks for the kind comment on my latest one,
Rachel
xx

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Happy Winter Solstice Annie :) My next door neighbour just brought me in some (pretend)fir garland...how appropriate is that?
Thanks for comenting on my the latest,
love
Rach
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks John,Have a brill solstice x

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Thanks for your Christmas wishes, Ann, and the same to you! You're never alone on WOL, are you ... I've really enjoyed my year and a bit here. Greg x

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Thanks for your best wishes about my mum, Isobel. I did feel helpless on that Saturday, but you're right, she does have some very good neighbours. We go down to fetch her up for Christmas tomorrow. We will have a houseful which will hopefully blur any tensions! Hope you have a very good Christmas yourself. Greg x

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Hi Alan;

Regarding 'Percy' - thanks Alan.. I've never met him sadly and won't now in this lifetime, but glad you liked it... means a lot to me...

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Re; Hospice Cat Dave, absolutely -animals are so much more aware than we think - saved people from earthquakes too - many thanks for the kind words

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