Hi Ann, thank you for such lovely comments on my poems, and concern for my foot, I think it's slowly healing. Hope you are getting over the sniffles by now. Take care. Lynn xx
(P.S. my sister lives in Hayle - are you anywhere near her?)
P.P.S. Love your Ruby Slippers! xx

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Hi Dave - thanks for your comments. I accept that some of the stuff i may put up causes some disagreement and even consternation, but at the end of the day it's only a point of view so hopefully no-one takes it personally. I thought your comments were very balanced and respectful considering you might disagree with some of the substance of the poem.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Steve - thanks for your comments. I'll hopefully get a chance to read some of yours and others' poems later today (at work!)

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Thanks, Greg. A win over the Baggies doesn't quite compensate losing to the Blues, though.Good to be back.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Andy No need to apologise! Yesterday, I had to ask the window cleaner for his name again - I just can't ever remember it! It's Jason by the way.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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hi dave; - god knows why i called john on my comment on your piece, but it's still a really good piece.

apologises again..

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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LOL
Mmmm... maybe ; )

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hey Gus, thanks for the feedback on Forbidden Fruit...glad you liked it.

Hopefuly catch you at an upcoming event in the New Year, be it Bolton, Middleton or Wigan.

Have a lovely Christmas

My Best

Chris

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I think you may be right I'm veering towards 'white fellas' without italics. The trouble is I write about a lot of foreign stuff and use a lot of foreign terms. It is often hard to know where to draw the line between words that are still foreign or have actually become naturalized. I also seem to be doing a lot of stuff these days that could be termed 'reportage' - which I have no problem with (I'm a big Auden fan) although some people don't seem to keen. In that context 'fellas' might be better and not so melodramatic. Its slightly dismissive tone is also a wry comment on white supremacy.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Greg - the feedback much appreciated and I hope the festivities go well for you and family this Christmas

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To be honest, I prefer "white fellas", David. For me, it has the ring of the here and now, and I recognised it at once. I could hear it being said, in a sort of growl. But maybe white devils would be a more powerful contrast and make the same point more forcefully. As far as italics are concerned, we italicise foreign words and phrases that haven't become Anglicised. You could argue either way on white fellas! I enjoyed it very much. I bought a couple of CDs of Aboriginal music while I was out there. Very atmospheric. But my wife can't bear to listen to them! She doesn't mind the Australian birdsong CD so much.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Thanks for insightful comments. I do sometimes wonder if I overdo italics and in fact I'm toying with the idea of changing it to 'white devils' - It might seem OTT at first glance, but the aboriginals did think the colonists were devils when they first came across them (as late as 1964! according to an article I've read recently.) I was thinking also it might be quite a powerful twist on the 'white is beautiful' theme that comes across in the first stanza. What you reckon?

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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HI Andy Thanks for the feedback on my lighthouse poem. Glad you liked it. By the way, my name's David!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Steve

Cheers for your comment on Blood. See your points, but as it's a haiku, the 'cold air' is there to represent a season. I could lose the 'the' on that line by using something like 'frozen' instead - something that would give me the two syllables lost with 'the cold'.

Course, I could just rewrite whole sections of it and change it from a haiku to a 'normal' poem. Am intending to rewrite a few of them anyway :)

Cheers again

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i am working on scriptwriting workshops for young adults at the moment. i have read your actors cv and wondered if you would be interested in collaborating on the project? where are you based?
would be great to chat about this x

Comment is about Alain English (poet profile)

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Hi Steven ,

posted up a link to some of my poems with synbols we were talking about at the Big Weekend, thought you might be interested. Win

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=17830

Comment is about Steven Waling (poet profile)

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hi..thanks for the comment on just for fun..so pleased you did for i have enjoyed reading your stuff too.. :o)

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hi Steve - thanks for commenting on the Abbey Road poem - line markers do make a difference don't they much obliged for that - just checked out your recent one 'Untitled' and saw how well it works there - read your biog too -awesome

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Hi John Good to make your acquaintance and glad you like the poem.

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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hi Ann-just popped on to say-where the heck are you! hope alls well-S.W.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for the comments - you are right about the sprouts! I'm toying with adding something in about being over-faced with plates and guest places.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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I loved the down to earth Ozzie humour - it is in keeping my own. I can remember a huge bill board encouraging people not to litter. It said 'Don't be a tosser, take your rubbish with ya!' Could you imagine our goverment allowing anything like that to go up in this country?

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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My clever wife won it all as a prize promoted by Mr and Mrs Hotels in conjunction with Waterstones. So it was boutique hotels all the way. Great! In Byron Bay - a fantastic place - we were in this big 'Tuscan' villa with never more than one other couple there. Just us and the 'housekeeper' looking after our every need! I've just done this poem about the Byron Bay Lighthouse. I'll bung it on and see what you make of it. Might still need a bit of tinkering.

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Hi David. Were you staying with friends or in hotels in Australia, or a bit of both? What amazed me was the richness of the Australian language. So many different words for everyday things that we'd never heard before. So many of them very comic! I started writing them down but gave up in the end and have now lost the notebook anyway. I suppose someone has published an English-Australian phrasebook by now ... maybe I'll have a look for it on Amazon ...

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hi Winston,

Had to justify your efforts!

:o)

Mark

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very early good morning Winston-thanks for comments on 'journey'- most grateful-Stefan

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ta for time spent reading and leaving nice comments on 'me pooims' Lynn-but above all I,m glad I(and Banksy and Bernadette)were able to give you a laugh-sorry bout the rude language 'nice Lady'-my best regards to you always-Stefan.xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Mark, since your profile was properly activated we seem to have uncorked a bottle... great! Winston

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Hi Dave thank you for your kind comment on my blog 'someday soon..who knows..maybe. I will look up the blog entries that you have suggested for me when i get chance and am sure I will find them interesting. thank you ..bernadettexx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Steven thank you for your kind and understanding comment on my blog ..'someday soon..who knows ..maybe...best wishes ..Bernadette xx

Comment is about Steven Kenny (poet profile)

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Hello L
Thanks for your comments on Pit and Pendulum.
I didn't realise that I ran on "saw inside" to make it sound like "saw rinside". Just a laziness of pronunciation on my part, I expect.
Do you find regional variations in English hard to understand or are you OK with these differences?
I worked in Scotland some time ago at a factory where there were a lot of Polish workers. They could not understand me but could understand perfectly the locals (from Glasgow) whom I could not understand!

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Oh beHAVE! Hahaa!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Laura
Thanks for your comments on Pit.
How did you know my other fetish was armpit farting?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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'Scuse my manners - thanks for your comment on my space pome.

Cislunar. Remember what it is now? ;)

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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re kissed , yes you are right , and this month is the first month i am beginning to see how to link ideas together in a poem ... watch this space i guess , :)

Comment is about garside (poet profile)

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Right, I'll get on the site and check it out. Thanks for liking the Wolf Man on my FB wall.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Oz was brilliant in every way: People, Scenery, food and as for the weather - what a pain to go from 36 degrees in Brisbane to the 'big freeze' here! Managed to get one poem, too, and working on another one.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Philip, good to see you on here! The lennon poems are now up on the Beatles Story website, think they're attached to the press release about the competition. Thanks again,
Rach
x

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Hiya Dave, the poems are up on The Beatles Story site think they're attached to the press release about the competition. As for the oem of the month thang, you deserve it, I bloody love that poem! :)

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel Just remembered that thanks to your good offices I'm 'poem of the month'. Thanks for that and for your kind introduction. By the way still haven't seen your prize winning poem yet.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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...thanks Andy...I get up and sing my songs here and there...not used to reading poems though,possibly best just read in silence!...cheers.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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..hello Ann...yes, it is off-balance, but this is a girl who says what she wants, how and where, all the previous lines mean nothing..

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Bernadette, Thanks for your kind comment on my blog

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Hi Laura,

Thx for the comment on my latest poem. You make really interesting points about youth holding as it does the pinnacle of beauty.

This begs the question; why it is that most of us as we get older alter our sights?

It would be easy to say we do this on the basis of what is an achievable target. Whilst there maybe some truth in that, I wouldn't generally buy into that cynical option.

I honestly think that there is more to being human, more to love and how the physical side of things ties everything together for most of us. Afterall, we could all be the lech..but so few are.

I think there is something very human and more decent than we would imagine about most of us...connecting with someone and it being right is a huge thing for most of us I think.

I think that is the reason we alter our sights when it comes to the opposite sex...wanting to connect and obtain meaning on a deeper level.

Feel free to have any debate on the poem page...Its great to see and really interesting...also liked the interesting angle in reference to differing sexual orientation and the angle from youth as well.

Thx for your insight and thoughts...

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

Original item by Laura Taylor

Hi Andy,

Thx for the comment on my latest poem.

The line you mentioned was my favourite in the writing looking back...

Thx mate

Chris

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hey Isobel,

Thx for the kind feedback on my latest poem...appreciated.

The debate is really interesting and something of real interest.

The poem took a very long time to write...maybe longer than anything I have previously written...be that a good or bad thing.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thx for the feedback on my latest poem John....glad you like it.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hehe - read your poem, and afraid to say I'm the worst boy-racer I know, and road rage is an integral part of my driving experience. I once terrified some dickhead who was trying to bully his way past me on a single lane road, by winding my window down as he drew close and screaming obscenities at him. He pulled back and behaved after that, heh ;D

I would quite happily put a bullet in Clarkson's head though.

Ah now - you know what happens when two women share the same working and living space don't you? Yep - PMT x 2!

As for lesbians being happier? I'd say that depends on the relationship ;)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=4799

This was a funny rant - I think there's a lot of truth in it though. x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Discussion on the page never works. You say one thing and people read another. I was generalising - there are exceptions to every rule and a zillion grey areas inbetween. Men and women are fundamentally different though - perhaps that is part of the attraction - it often leads to sadness though. I once wrote a poem called 'I wish I was Gay' I might post you a link to it. I think lesbians probably have a greater chance of happiness than most - though you may rap my knuckles for saying that and I may have offended in some way I'm not yet aware of.

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