Sean - you might be interested in a poem I put up on the blogs - about Conscientious Objectors' Day

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Thanks Cate. Much appreciated
xxx

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Hey Matt, this is hilarious.

Comment is about Matt Panesh, Monkey Poet (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments, 'Dance' is truly stunning :)

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Hi Gemma,

Love 'We Watched It Live' especially after hearing you perform it, interesting that Al Jazeera do 'as is' news and we have to wait for Wikileaks to find out the truth.

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re: When more has been said than done: I have generally been eating salami and cheddar toasties with birds-eye chillies thrown in when I've been writing. Not overly exciting but very nice nonetheless.

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Thank you very much for your appraisal of "Diving" and "When More Has Been Said Than Done." It is always a pleasure to hear feedback from you. I've been writing as avidly as before but have been more and more critical of my work, editing each one to death before being happy with the ones I've posted. I noticed your "Lines on Picasso's APERITIF" as being very elegant and also very apt. I hope to be able to get to Poetica again before too long. All the best

- Josh

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Ta very much Cyn (Time).
life-cycle: it's really a comment on relativity - that doesn't quite work, because Einstein, Hawking, etc are factoring in one element that doesn't even exist - Time!

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Tried chat just now but it didn't work. xx

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Hi Ann, thanks for your comment on my effort at a freedom themed poem..
and it's lovely to be back here :-)

Your comment has helped me to realize that sometimes it doesn't matter what the readers think a poem is about but if it matters to the writer how it is interpreted, further work may be needed.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Laura,
Thanks for you comments on 'Freedom' - they are very much appreciated.
Cx

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No, I didn't realise you actually lived in Selby, John. You will have seen the Selby coalfield pits come and go in that time. I was there for just a a year in 1977, as a district reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Press/Yorkshire Herald. I drove from York each day. When I used to return from visits down south, the sight of the Ferrybridge C cooling towers on the horizon were like a border post to me, telling me I was now back in the north! PS I've put up a poem, Treading Water, that I wrote a few months ago, about my impressions of Selby as a callow youth more than 30 years ago. I'm sure I'd see it with different eyes now.

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Cate
Thanks for the comments on Tom Pudding. I assume when you refer to the old girl chugging away you weren't referring to Our Gert!

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Thanks for the comments on Tom Pudding, Greg. As you probably guess I still live in Selby and had 20 years in mining, so these are well remembered amongst us older lot.
Don't query the accuracy of it all though - there's a fair bit of poetic licence in there. For instance, Prince of Wales Colliery isn't on the canal.

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Here's a gush back, 'Stuck Unsaid' great language. Thanks for your comments on mine, now in yokelsound too.

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Hi Ann, it was great to meet you too, your peonies have been circling my head all week! xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comments on Tom Pudding.
Quite spooky that you detect an "Irishness" about it. When I wrote the final lines I kept singing the song "Farewell to the tent and the old caravan, To the gypsy, ti-tum-tim, the travelling man, And farewell to the life of the rover".
Liked the shopping list. It reminds me of the times I've have fish and chips twice with a can of diet coke.

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Aw, thanks Ann. Lovely thing to say,
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Cynthia, both for the comments and for the warm wisdom.
it's appreciated,
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Yes - I think if I was in the same room as "Her Fordness" I'd probberly be on the receiving end of a glass of Lambrusco :)

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Thanks for the comment on my attempt on the freedom theme.
I won't say where it alludes to. I prefer to leave it to the imagination in the hopes it will perhaps allow readers to be reminded of a similar place they might have been themselves.
It's a trial and error with poetry i have going on here which i haven't tried before so hope it works in that sense for you :-)

Janet.x

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Glad to hear it - I thought I was going nuts :)

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bravo!

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Nah - she's a babe :)
(vinegar strokes)
Hi there - I liked the muntjack poem, but the later one, I couldn't make any sense of it.
I didn't want to say so on the message board though in case it's just me being thick. XX

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Mapule, it is not easy being a stranger amongst people who you regard as brothers and sisters, amongst your fellow Africans...BUT go on we must...

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Will mail you privately for a little chin wag. I'd have invited you to chat but for the fact that I have one off today and am supposed to be going out soon - recording summat. Have you done your bio yet? As soon as we are both up there, I'm going to update my profile and let folks know what we are up to - we might even get a group goint...
Isobel x

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No worries Rachel - like I say, I don't know you, but I've been in that situation, with a small child, and it's incredibly difficult. You will pull through though - both of you. Would be good to meet you sometime. My advice now - get plenty of chocolate, crisps and pop in, and watch some crappy kids films tucked on the couch with your lass :)

xx

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Oh Isobel, you are so wise. Any doubts I'm having are because I feel that he's at rock bottom and I'm worried about him coping and also because of the kids and their distress. Thanks honey
xxx

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Sincere thanks Greg.
x

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy, very much appreciated
x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks Dave, I have left a comment on the blog too, thanks so much for the comment you left, it's not about a bereavement in the usual sense, but about a relationship breakdown, and yes, I am living through it at the moment and much appreciate the support xxx

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Hi Laura, thanks for the comment, it's hugely appreciated. x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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ngiyakuhlonipha ndoda. this is enough to give one a minute in the life of a foreigner.

Comment is about Emmanuel Sairosi (poet profile)

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thanks for the comment over tunnel 3, cynthia .. not sure yet what i am going to do for the final edit of this piece, it's one of those pieces i wanted to get out to the world asap but glad you liked it and thank you for your comments xx

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thanks for the comment over tunnel 3, greg.. not sure yet what i am going to do for the final edit (they will be a re-edit) as i wanted to get this out asap, but i am grateful for your comments x

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Thank you xxx

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Hi - I know this sounds mad, but I've actually built our business around the "wild & wacky" ideas I'd had after a few spliffs.
I wrote em down & the next day they still seemed sensible - just broadens your horizons. Maybe they should hand out spliffs at No 10 cabinet meetings - we might get some sensible governance then :)

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Hi Andy, thanks for your comment on 'Blue' and your continual encouragement for writing in general.
I've edited a little since your comment but decided to leave it to the reader to decide what and where it refers to :-)

Janet.x

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your comment on 'Blue'. It's very much appreciated. I've done a little editing since your comment.
I decided to leave it up to the reader what and where it refers to. Let's just say i'm glad now i decided not to mention the coconut shy :-)

Janet.x

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find a copy of the picasso picture on line and download it to your desk top then go to the make blog entry page. Near where it says 'picture' to the right of the blank box click on 'Browse' when you have found the pic on your desk top, double click on it and the rest will happen automatically if not instantly. Hope this helps. If not tell me the name of the painting and I will post up your poem (it will be in my name however)
Win

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Hi Sian, Cynthia did say hello! Win X

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Well it was a bit different for me as I stayed on til the next day. Very odd being there pretty much on my own, I could still see and hear you all, like a lot of very nice poetic ghosts! Went for a long walk and wrote Turning Circle. Positively luxuriated in a room to myself (after two nights on a settee)and slept!

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Almost. On Sunday night I was still 'in a lower bunk; couldn't orient myself at all: faces, poetry, sessions, conversations - the whole bit. I just THREW myself into the entire experience, and therefore needed time to reorient. Same with you?

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Winston, I have a poem based on the postcard you distributed to me. I'd really like to share it, but it must have the picture to make sense. How do I put this picture up on the Blog screen?

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Great to meet you last weekend - have you recovered yet? ;-)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Andy,
Thanks for your comment (or non-comment :) ) on my 'Freedom' poem - have removed it for moment - needs a re-write I think.
Cx

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi - just updated slightly - almost as you suggest - I think it's better. XX B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi - I used to have dreams where I'd go to the same places over & over & over again (they don't exist) - I have not had those types of dreams in quite a while now though. (borrowed time) B

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and another at http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=16881

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Hi Steve,
Great to meet you - finally! over the weekend. I was sorry not to have made it to one of your workshops - hopefully next year!
Take care,
Cx

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