Glad me little 'satin ticker'pleased you-thank you Ann-lots of love-Stef-xx

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Good evening Lynn-I,m ever so grateful for your concerns and comments of course-its just that I,ve been pretty busy doing improvements on our house and doing jobs at one of our daughters houses in the Rhondda(South Wales)plus running up and down to see the other grandchildren in Abergele and yet even more in Northwhich.So to say I clock a few miles up each year is an understatement! I sincerely hope you and your family and 'The Benj'are all in fine fettle,so thanks again catch up with you tomorrow.Still no sign of Bernadette? lots of love to you-Stefan-xx

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Thank you Andrew for commenting on the poem Be!which has recently had it's 21st Birthday and now has come out of the closet as a blue poem. Why blue, I don't know, it won't tell me no matter how much I threaten it with a huge and efficient rubber eraser. So it remains a mystery though I think it might have something to do with the equation a2 + b2 = b2 x a2 - n

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Tommy - try google!

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Hi Dave,
Thanks for commenting on my poem Be! which was 21 years old yesterday so is no longer in a playpen and wants to be taken seriously. I try to make it understand with sympathetic comments like "You cannot be serious!" but alas to no effect. The poem wants to live with you as she's sure your a much better poet than me :(

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Are you mutating into a post box Win?

Thanks for commenting on my poem "BE!" I put it upon the blogs after giving it a 21st birthday party. After some drinks it burst into tears and said it never met anyone any more and that I'd left it unloved in a cupboard for all those years and wasn't it time I introduced it to real poets. So thanks for being a pal to this poem, it really needs one and it hopes you visit again soon.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Freedom Dave, appreciated

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my first ever haiku Ann :)

Do you know, I might well get hooked on haikus! I really enjoyed writing it :) I like the brevity of them

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Afternoon Dave


Where I am now and where I used to be... now that is the wispy nagging teaser... not exactly an age thing and its not exactly melancholy... painless ..but it does get very close to hurting...

just 'wish me back' moments of a man who is getting homesick after all these years.

Thanks again for your well read critique.

Gus

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Thanx Winston I am pleased you enjoyed the 'Umbrella Tree'.... Bit of different pace for me but I enjoyed composing this piece'

Once again many thanks.

Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanx Andy, Nobody does 'Simple ' Better than me... doesn't do to be too clever...eh

Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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That wasn't a criticism of your poem at all - it just sparked me off to think about where I found freedom - everyone finds it in different places, I guess. The secret lies in marrying someone who finds it in the same place - or doesn't mind losing it in the chaos... x

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Yep - I knows about the formal 5-7-5, but it hardly trips off the tongue(for me anyway) - whereas a limerick (say) is the polar opposite - it still has a formalised structure, but has a singy-songy rhythm to it. anyway - I liked yours (and Dave's recent one too).

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Hi Isobel, thanks for your comment on my recent poem. Much appreciated. I agree, freedom is in disorder as much as it is in order - often much more so, in fact. Perhaps the images I choose were too precise. I just took the word Freedom and thought what it meant to me - and where I felt most free.

Thanks again, Thom

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I'm in Wigan, not a million miles away. How cliche is that? ha ha

Haiku is really meant to be made up of images and includes at least a season, scent or other of the five senses and be deep and meaningful (at least that's how i allude to them)
I just enjoy them for what they are.. a neat little poem :-)

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Ann, re 'change a letter' you are not allowed to change the order of the letters (I wasn't clear enough) , can you edit you word please. Win x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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why are they referred to as: 'home'?

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Thank you Winston. I don't think I knew what I was writing till it was all over i.y.s.w.i.m. massive thanks for reading and commenting and I love the 'peek-a-boo' profile pic!
x

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Hi Laura, thanks for your comment on 'Poem.' and yes it does feel a bit strange writing very short poems. I used to practise with Haiku. Might re-blog a couple just for fun :-)

Where do you come from?

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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yeah - it was the shirt - course it was - what else ?? ;)

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Hi Ann - I haven't had much success with the chat function either, it often seems as if you get a connection and then...... silence! Now while silence may be golden for some, I still prefer words, lol. ;)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ian, Welcome to Write out loud. You are now free to comment , post blogs and all the other things on this site. Winston (Admin)

Comment is about Ian Gant (poet profile)

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Thanks for your thoughts on Tom Pudding.
No, I'm afraid I haven't been to that museum - I gather there's something similar in Goole (only a stone's throw for me) and I haven't been there. Must do one day.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comments on The Bidding.
There's a lot goes on my head, Laura!

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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hello evil witch

don't care if you don't comment ;p

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

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Hi again

If I could have posted up the original, I would have - I kept it for ages, and only lost it when I moved house. I see what you mean about the rhyming being less strong at the end - I was trying to avoid too much obvious rhyme, as the Smoke poem had been that way and I wanted to experiment with departing from that a little :)

I'm having a bloody great time playing around with all kinds of stuff anyhow, with no techie knowledge whatsoever :D

I hope you enjoy the NMH album - you may find it takes more than a few listens to fully appreciate it. Bit of an acquired taste. It's quite a strange album, and is not what it first appears to be. Interesting back story to Jeff Mangum too.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi again. Yes for me using found words is great because you are using someone elses palette of words. The decision for me is how much you intervene. Do you leave it completely ramdom and rely on its quirkyness like some of Stevens recent postings or do you try and introduce rhyme for example like your last one and create something new. For me the tailing off is due to falling between these 2 approaches. A punchy strong rhyming end may have worked better. but hey... that is just me. Also remember the Neutral milk hotel album, Well i have down loaded it and will listen in the car soon. My deductions were merely google aided :-) Win x

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Thanks for the comment on the shopping list Winston. I was only recreating a list I found years ago in a checkout bin, but am intrigued as to why you think it is less strong towards the end? (welcoming all constructive criticism, I'm no diva! I've only just started!). I kinda wanted it to degenerate and lose a bit of rationality, as that was the nature of the original. That piece isn't something I think I would have thought up by myself, unless I'd found that list, and it was only Steven's comment that made me remember it :)

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Is your profile pic you in your Ned Kelly outfit? ;)

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Sorry Andy I know my latest post for the freedom comp is a bit tenuous but its just what came out! Win x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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"the paper boy"
Well... it's about the owner of Sky media, News of the Screws, The Sun, The Times, etc etc. Hence "Paper Boy" - who hailed from Australia. and was given to sacking 6000 at a time - a nice guy & I'm sure I'm being totally unfair... or maybe not :) pity about the cat photo tho - I thought it was rather Kute (and, like Val, there's nothing like a little grey pussy)

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I'll keep me hands off yer box ;) (ramblers)

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Merci, Isobel... C'est vrai que la liberté de l'esprit est la plus importante,
car il faut croire - c'est la perception individuelle (dans la plupart des cas)
qui décide si on est libre ou pas.
xxx

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Thank you, Dave for reading 'It is.. (Freedom)'...
I went to the beach on Friday and Sunday - it was paradise, and it inspired me to think about how free I felt and why.
xxx

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Thank you, Cate, for reading 'It is.. (Freedom)'...
I was at the beach on Friday and Sunday - it was paradise, which got me thinking about how free I felt and why...
xxx

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hello laura :) found ya .. now i am going to read your poetry and not comment !! (evil little witch aren't i eh ?) x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Winston,(Peek a boo):-) thanks for your comment. It's really appreciated.

Just been reading your samples here. 'On Mondays I fall in love' and 'coming home without you' are superb. x

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Ah, yes, I remember eet well !
dee dee dee deee dee deeeee...
dee dee dee dee... dee dee dee-dee
(dee dee dee) [ad infinitum]
Blue Peter - Konnie Huq - now what can I think of that rhymes with HUQ?? ahhhh... if only.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hmmmmph! xx

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hello David - yes, I've just posted to Greg that I enjoyed Treading Water too. I don't know if you know Selby but he's nailed the ambience and landscape spot-on.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Thanks for your thought on Tom Pudding. I thought it needed the help of the audio and picture so you Southern softies didn't think it was some kind of Yorkshire offal delicacy.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments Josh, you are always so generous with them and they are much appreciated.
I haven't had chance to comment yet but I've been reading your new work with interest - they seem to be quite different from things you've posted before - a new self-assurance and maturity about them which is very appealing. Bit bogged down with stuff at then moment but I'll give them a proper read in the next couple of weeks.
Hope all is well with you?
Cx

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

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Hi John As Greg has dedicated it to you I thought I'd let you know how much I enjoyed his Treading Water poem. The details are really well controlled and evocative. Excellent.

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And now to yours! I think your poems are getting really strong. Having read again the sestina I find it more and more impressive. I also really like Treading Water. The descriptive details are brilliantly controlled. I love the sickly air from the beet factory and the surprise of the abbey.

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Hi Greg Your comments are greatly appreciated. I wasn't sure that these two would have much appeal to anyone else. The first one is very formal and the second one probably presumes a bit too much background knowledge about the weird conjuction of Islam and Ireland in my family background!

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Hi Isobel;

easier answering you on here instead of the forum over editing.. the bit I told you about me giving one of the pieces to other vocalists in my band wordmusic is quite common for us lot as we swap it round a lot, and i have ended up reading other people's pieces before now... it is a great experience..

my new band (word music is on hold for a bit now)is operating on a similar level as it will be more moody and dark! lol x

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(Ramblers Assoc)
Fight!!!!!!!
sorry Isobel, but you are in there - just look a little closer :)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment on 'Poem.'
I am enjoying this new phase in my writing. Not sure how long it will last but hey, no worries :-)

Janet.x

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Hi Isobel, thanks for the welcome back and your comment on my entry, 'Poem'.
Not sure how long the minimalist style will last but i am enjoying it for now :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks again for your comment on my recent poem 'Poem.' :-)
x

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