Hi Isobel, Good luck with the Lennon slam on Saturday - Soz I can't get along as I'm working but I'll be thinking of you, Go get 'em girl!I hope to get along to Wigan next Thursday so you can tell me all about it then (and buy me a drink of course if you win!)Take care, Stevexxxxx

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You must hire someone to do menial tasks for you till then. My nails are pretty short at the mo. Ooh, getting excited for it now...train rides, big city...I may pop! :)
xxx

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Oh we must have a drink or several. getting quite excited now but I still wish I could write two new poems before Saturday. See you soon x

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Good evening Larisa(and McCoy!)thank you lovely Lady for commenting on my plane poem-actually you inspired me with your plane poem which is excellent!-much love-Stef-xx

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Hello Greg
Thanks for your thoughts on Borders. I spend a lot of time working away from home (well, not at the minute!) and I'd regularly go into a Borders after work and spend the evening reading a book, note where I'd got to, and continue the next night. I reckon I owe them a few hundred quid in lost sales.

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Evening Lynn and all-ta for reading chocky poem-Stef-xx

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Good evening Berni and Ben-although sad-I was glad to write a little poem for Felix-hope it gets easier for you soon-thinking of you-Stef-xx-xx

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Hi Iz - ta for having a look at Scrabble! Not quite sure how it can work on here. Will each word be new and self contained or like real scrabble where they all link up? I think I'd need visual aids for that!! Good luck for Saturday!! Hope your nails hold out! xx

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oi! Gladderbags! wot yew doin lookin all flippin glam n gorjuss! wit-woo-Mr jealous-xx

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eww! stringy marmalade is for old people-I love Snickers cos they rhyme with knickers-and not for their medicinal properties!(yeh rite!)oojit-xx-xx ps-its the pubes getting stuck in me teef I also henjoy-mmm!

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Hi Fran: just enjoyed your clever metre-and-rhyme poems. David.

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Good job you commented on Skinhead, I noticed a typo and fixed it. Thanks for noticing and for being as ever spot on

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Hi Rachel. I used to have a Lennon-flavoured poem on here but I took it off. I'm increasingly disinclined to put my poems on this site. I got two poems for the comp. I'm guessing you have too. I was at the Liver Bards last night in Liverpool with Liam Brayd, anotehr of the finalists. It's an unusual comp, I think. Good luck. We should have a few drinks together on Saturday. Isobel is in it too. Pip pip!

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Jolly good Morning 'Aggy Ann-chivalrous Rusty riding in to say hope you are well sweetie(&gems)ta for snickery knickery sniggerin-and liking 'Destiny'-off up forty steps to the high garden today-thats if Rhondda rotten rain allows!hope thou art bereft of any sogginess 'darn there-love as per-Sir Chocalot-xx-xx

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My signature colour of course - not sure if you'd call it pillar box or cherry - not sure if they will last till Saturday either - she couldn't fit me in any later. Am finding life intolerable with long nails - can't even unzip my flies... think I'll be filing them down before they ever drop off.

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Hi Winston, thanks for the good luck...I'll need it, can't decide how best to numb the nerves...alcohol or beta blockers? Lol!
xxx

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Thanks for the good luck wishes Ann, I'm bricking it! Still it'll be a good night in any case. I wanted to go to hebden bridge but just couldn't get the childcare etc sorted...maybe next year! xxx

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Hiya! *waves* what colour are the nails? See you Sat'day xxx

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Hey, good to hear you read your POM in features. Great. Good luck in L'pool. Win x

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Hi Laura, i'm good at suggestions and not so good at putting them into practise :-)
It's not up to me to show how i would have set it out.
I just noticed that a few lines were very long without punctuation as i would have voiced it out loud. If you say the first line out loud yourself you'll see what i mean i think. It's in the pauses where i just thought that maybe if you look at the structure, it would emphasise some of the power.

Feel free to ignore. I'm certainly no expert.How are you by the way?
You've been quiet on here last couple of days.x

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Hi, just here to let you know i've removed some of my older comments on your profile as they are back in the spotlight since you updated it. Hope you are well ;-)

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Good luck for Saturday slam. I'll be sending as many positive vibes as possible for you. Not that you need them. You can do it! ;-)))
xx

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Hi Dave and thanks for your comment on my poem 'Autonomy.'
I'm in a miniature poetry phase :-)

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Thanks for your comment on 'Autonomy.' I love mirrors now though there have been times when some are not very flattering :-)
xx

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So good you commented twice! Can't be bad, ha ha
I'm enjoying writing the short ones, it's actually fun editing out superfluous words.
Thanks Andy.x

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Félicitations, Rachel, et quel honneur !
J'aime beaucoup ton poème 'Dad'... surtout la dernière ligne.

xxx

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Hi Bernadette - so nice to have you back. So sorry to hear about your cat. I know that we can love a cat just as much as a person. I cried for two weeks when my tabby Sylvester died. I now have Gemma, twenty would you believe!She's hanging on in there! Don't know how I'll feel when she goes! Anyway, keep well and stick around! xxx

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thanks for your comment , i have been fairly quiet on here as of late , so am not up to date with reading :) time to make a start i guess :)

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Hey Rache - lovely photo, but it's a shame the microphone is obscuring you a bit! Good luck for Saturday, sorry I can't make it! I went to the WOL weekend at Hebden Bridge, if there's another one maybe I might see you there? I had a really good time. I wish there was somewhere round here that I could perform at. Everyone there said "start your own" but I don't think I'd have the confidence for that. xx

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Good afternoon sweetness and wotsit-yep you are right-there WAS-a pooem on-but because it was pooey-I pooed it off-till I himproov it-happens sometimes! but thanks for reading it-catch you later Darlin'-Steffyraser-xx

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Hi Isobel - cheers for the comment on Tunnel 3.. The piece addly wasn't wrote in mind of the chilean miners, although i can see what you are getting at certainly..

i was certainly writing about both elements of freedom you were writing about.. the piece isn't directly anti war, but the early draft certainly was.. thanks again xx

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hi Elaine; - thanks for your comments on Tunnel 3... It's a un-usual topic what I have wrote about here certainly and not one everybody will know something about.

the story itself is fiction, but as with everything I write there is a element of truth in it, and the questions are questions i certainly would ask in that kind of situation - something honest and close to my heart..

glad you enjoyed the piece x (and the use of language as you pointed out is on purpose) xx

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Hi Bernadette , glad you enjoyed my Ghazal (Could be Home). Thanks for leaving a comment. It was especially gratifying as the poem is one of my Ghazals. Win

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hi val thank you for your lovely comment and so glad you like my story .. Ben xx

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Nope, it WON'T change! I have tried and tried. I'll get one of the kids to help :)
xxxxx

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Thank you Annie-kins,
:)
I am about to attempt changing my picture but seeing as I'm entirely without techy talent, it might not work!
xxx

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Are you gonna put the lennony-thingy on your profile Mr.Regan, sir? I'm con-tem-plating it!

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Hey Rache! So pleased that your wonderful poem Dad is poem of the month! And I love the photo of you. Maybe you should change your poets profile photo? I find changing mine is very liberating! Lots of love to you Anniepooxxxxxxx

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Lucky you - my older ones just don't get poetry. Number 3 looks promising though. I do have 2 sisters, a brother in law and a mum though - so I won't be without a fan club!
Great idea to let folks know - I don't have time now cos I'm off to work and then getting my nails done. You go for it - I'll do mine later.
Congrats on poet of the month by the way - well deserved! xx

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Many thanks for your very kind comments about All Hallows Eve Andy. Regards, Graham

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Are we updating our profiles yet for bragging rights about sat'day? Talking of which, my biggest sprog is coming to cheer us all on ! :)

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Hi Anthony,a belated big thank you for nominating my 'Dad' poem.I am proper chuffed :) x

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Hi Cynthia, thank you so much for your lovely comments on "Mr.Cameron". Much appreciated.

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Dave, thanks for spotting That Inward Eye. It's the first and only sestina I've attempted, and needs a bit more work yet. I felt I was running out of puff towards the end ...

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Very nice indeed to see you back on Bernadette-my best regards to you and family-off for me baff now-hope to catch you later-love-Stef-xxxxxx

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...hello Ann...thanks..'Bleasby Street' is one of a series of poems that came out of researching the 'family tree'a few years ago..it's about my gr.gr.grans eldest son who died of double pneumonia in Oldham leaving a wife ,Margaret, the street has gone of course and after a hundred years we're all just a 7.50 death certificate at the register office..or maybe a poem...chris.

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...hello Dave..thanks for comment..Bleasby Street came out of trying to trace the 'family tree'and visiting the places they lived..cheers.

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Hi Jane - after my Sage & Onion and your Thyme, perhaps we need Rosemary & Parsley..... :) Best wishes, Dave

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Hi Elaine, Hmm odd that. Just had a nap and woke up. woke up the pc also to find WOL on the page containing your 'The Lane'. in another tab my inbox shows I have a comment, From you! I really appreciate your comment. That is what I am always driving at (to make every work count) the found/experimental thing is not something I have talked about on here (but everyone else has LOL). It has been Fascinating. Win x

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Of course!!!! I really love some of my poems - they are like my family! xx

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