Wooo! I NEVER make comment on anything to do with war as I find my views are almost always unpalatable and offensive to others. Experience bears this out.

Hear, hear!

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I don't see it as romanticism Cynthia - though perhaps you didn't really mean that word. I see it as sharing humanity. I think I am a deeply empathetic person - I can sense and feel pain - that makes it easier to write about. As I said to Banksy, we are all wired differently. What moves one person will make another squirm... So long as you can feel, I guess expressing that feeling isn't as important. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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I don't know if I could ever follow your poetical lead as shown in Beloved. I am so pragmatic I find that type of expression eludes me. Romanticism was never my strong point; I enjoy reading about other poets' experiences, but I've never been there. If I copied emotions they would sound false as hell. BTW, some time back I changed The Last Kiss to Beloved, but it is still 'in your face' poetry.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Howdy Cynthia - cheers for your comment on The Road. It started as me musing on what other metaphor for life I could write about, apart from a museum. Then as I thought 'road', a ton of stuff fell through my head :D I like how you've phrased the process though - poetical in itself :)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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James May ?? and you're upset?
I could unnerstand if it was me or that Richard Gere feller :)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi - agreed totally with all of it. the reason I post some that are daft or "really not that great" is that I've had a few published & almost without exception, it's the duff one I've included to "make up the numbers" that gets chosen over the ones that I think of as good & the exact same thing happens on WOL - no accounting for taste. xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello Cynthia, thanks for the response to my little alphabet exercise.I am trying to get writing again and these exercises are fun.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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You are right about the picture - it does slant interpretation. I almost didn't post one cos I couldn't imagine what to put there - I didn't want a death mask. Perhaps I should have left it without. Thanks for commenting. Glad you liked it. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia As ever thanks for your kind comments on my poem. I loved that old bookshop and was devastated when it bunt down in my absence!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you so much Ros for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Rosalind (poet profile)

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Thank you so much Isobel for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank you so much Andy for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thank you so much Carole for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

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Thank you so much Anne for your comments particular with regard to the subject matter.

To the many of us who are or who have been pet owners the death of an old family pet is more heartbreaking than we could ever have imagined the loss irreplaceable.

In remembrance special moments are poignant such as a family gathering in the garden late at night the air giddy with sausage and burger and where the moon and stars were just a jump away.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you very much for going to the trouble of finding out more about my poem 'Life.'
You know my thoughts on it :-)

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Ann and thanks for not dismissing my poem 'Life'.
You are spot on with the intention behind it. I love descriptive poetry too :-)
I can fully understand as you do how some people can read other things between the lines and even look for it. I do that myself often but sometimes it's nice just to appreciate the scenery isn't it. x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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HaHa - you could always do your own website & tell me where to go ?? seriously - what moves one may not move another (however clever or soulful) - I can watch starving millions in Africa with a dry eye, but I Did once cry at Caspar the Friendly Ghost. Even I don't get it ! some poems - like Beloved - are just great, but I can't really say why. XX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, thanks for your comment on my little november sixth poem. It was just a topical moment.x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on 'Ambiguity'
much appreciated.x :-)

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi - hydrate - yes, that's what I meant & I agree totally - that spoken (or in your head) "hydrate" seems just fine, but the written word looks a little incongruous - but as you're perfoming, it's not an issue.
I did very nearly ask you once if I could include one of yours on my website (under favourites), but the only reason I didn't was that I'd just added one of Kealan Cody's, one of Ann Foxglove's & one of Anthony Emmerson's - so it was starting to read like a who's who of WOL :) xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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I somehow can't imagine CAD writing anything too commercial but I guess you never know!
I loved the picture too - it was worth taking part just to get that. It is a pity they didn't get a shot of me at the end of my second poem. I go into the sign of the cross - it would have looked awesome with all that angelic glow!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, thank you for commenting on "Invisible". I was inspired by your excellent blog entry called Ghazal. I didn't think my own effort as good, but hoped it complied with the form. Ah well, nevermind. :)

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comment on Bookshop.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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That's a great profile pic, Isobel: bathed in a glow under a picture of the cheeky moptop Scouser. I wonder if Carol Ann Duffy will produce a poem to mark the 30th anniversary? She must do, it's her duty

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave, I think I was very very drunk at Pumpkin Soup...did I talk to you?It was the organiser's fault,they gave me free wine and I was mid-split up with my (ex) partner, I'm surprised I could see the paper lol!
x

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave! :)

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Thanks I'm pleased as punch :)and ha ha! I tried really hard to reply in lyrics too but I failed! x

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave!I'm chuffed to bits :) x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on Mannequin.
Dave

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on Mannequin.
Dave

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on Mannequin.
Dave

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Congratulations on the Lennon slam win. I enjoyed your set at Pumpkin Soup in Preston. Very good.
Dave

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Freda
Just found your page and thought I'd let you know I love Metro Lament. Great rhythm.- reminds me of one I used to recite to the kids when they wre little "The train keeps running along the line, jickety can, jickety can..."

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Thanks for the invite to Sowerby Bridge, Freda, but until I can persuade my wife to relocate north I fear my visits to West Yorkshire will be few and far between! I admire the latest poem you have put up, Antique Zealot, too.

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel Well done on winning the Lennon competition.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments, Greg. It must have been the wild wind and rain that led me to put that one up last night. Watching the tide turn on the Lune at Lancaster inspired it. I am very impressed by the quality of your entries. Hope to see you at Hebden again soon. or why not venture to Sowerby Bridge on the first Monday of the month. Don't think you have joined us yet?

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Elaine - thank you for all your comments. I thought at first that gmail was playing up, or you'd edited one comment several times - until I clicked on each link hehe. Doh.

You picked up on maw and paw :-)) Yees...never my favourite person, to put it mildly!

Your nod of recognition...have you written about yours?

Thanks again Elaine for taking the time to read them and comment

Laura x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my poem - your comment did in fact sum up how I was feeling and I never regretted my choice of words. x

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Currawong, Barrie. I enjoyed your Betjemanesque In Passing very much.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi Elaine, thanks for your comment on Ghazal, that was exactly what I was trying to do! so great, thx. win xx

Comment is about Elaine (poet profile)

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no , thankyou Winston :) x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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hello , thanks for reading and commenting on my poem.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Imagine you winning! Were all the guys jealous? They all came nowhere, man. Ok, I'll stop now ...

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Cheers for your comment on Currawong, Win

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Cheers for your comments on Currawong, David. What a stroke of luck, to win a holiday to Australia. You've chosen a better time to go than we did, weather-wise, but my wife's is a primary school head, so we have no choice on dates: August or August.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on me poem. Send me a postal order for £500k and I'll send you details of Sinful-X, the thigh people.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia - thank you for your very kind comments on Salsa with Orion. On a different subject, have you read Elizabeth Bishop? I am just discovering her poetry and I love a great deal of it. xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Good morning (again)Ann-yes it was a bit gooney to have cossack danced-the threads could have burst and all me 'aggis would have popped out! enjoy your London trip-watch out(or should I say breathe in on train_warm farts are likely to abound!)give my regards to old broadway-and take these with you-xxxxxxxSteffo-ps what a flippin deluge in the Rhondda last night-so I phoned the boatyard and asked them to take the car in part ex-for a peddle-o/paddle-o!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Lynne - haven't had a poem from you for a while. Get scribblin'! And thanks for nice comment re the Freedom thing too. xx

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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I've no idea what happens to us after we die and whether we totally cease to exist. Up to a point I would agree with you that we lose our identity when we die. We do live on in the legacy we leave though - the memories, the love. Some people also manage to make a huge difference to other people's lives - a physical legacy I suppose.
I was just thinking how sad it would be to be washed up faceless from a river - a bit like the unknown soldier - for no-one to know and be able to take care of you. This is a bit of a morbid subject isn't it? Sorry if any it has been painful. I was inspired by earlier things I saw on WOL - that's the way it seems to work on here.
Hope to see you at the Tudor maybe.

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

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