Good evening Lynn-Thanks for nice comments on 'Where the heart is'-yes very nice pikky-imagine living there eh-wow! glad you enjoyed it-Thanks-Stef-xx-(B-xx)

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Thanks Andy, I am always tempted to 'add'...

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Hi, Dave! Please, read my new poem "The language of flowers" and tell me if there are any mistakes or something I have to change.
With warmest wishes, Larisa xxx

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Congrats on appearing (is that right?)on this weeks Radio 4's Poetry Please. Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl!

I assume it's on Listen Again if any one missed it.

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Hello Winston. The ghazal is from a poetry site called Poets Graves and was written by a chap called Ben Johnson, who despite the name, isn't famous.I didn't you - or anyone! - had such a passion for ghazals.

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Hi Josh, Saw your comment on my profile. Ta very much :) Hope to see you at some more events. I have been busy updating my profile etc.

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Thanks Josh! I must admit to having been slack about keeping up my internet activities but I'm back on top of that now.

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Dave, many thanks for your kind comments on Melancholium. One look at my profile picture should be the giveaway.
It was reflective, but I wouldn't change a thing that has happened to me. It was just a what if?

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Isobel, many thanks for reading Melancholium. Hope you have a great inspiring holiday. Graham

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Hello Ann, could I just thank you for your kind comments on Melancholium. I always read your work, although not always comment. You have very good eyes for a scene. Graham

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OI! Berny-whats your game? you have had a long enough break-put that wine bottle down and get back here-pronto! tonto! best regards-Stef-xx

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Winston. I've managed to create the link to th ghazal:

I buy them merely for the smells of books
and days disappear in the spells of books

In the sun with a hat and a hardback
I draw refreshment from my wells of books

As a teen my brain was aflame with them
I walked about deaf from yells of books.

For bullies whose brains get tangled with words
I pray there is reserved a hell of books.

At night I was lulled by the wave of words
hissing in my ear from the shells of books.

The notes scribbled by previous readers
genetically alters the cells of books

Faced by the mountain of the works of men
Solomon wished he'd not heard tell of books

The media insists our modern age
will create the final farewell of books

A trail of bent spines and scraps of paper
marks my progress through the pell-mell of books.

Exhilarated I rode the white whale
of Ahab through the turbulent swells of books

Oh Ben your sadly sagging shelves reveal
you can't resist the hard sell of books.

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Aw ta Lynn for further comments-good ole Benji-not daft eh-snugglechops!am just watching one of the old black and whites-a film called 'A kind of loving' similar to all the old british classics-Saturday night and Sunday morning-Billy Liar-etc-etc.Brilliant films! also got a nice radio prog you might like-poetry/short stories/music.Its RTE radio one, Sunday Miscellany-as with all these shows you can go to earlier progs etc-but if you click on-'Latest show' you might like it-some very inspiring readings on all types of subjects-give it a whirl girl! who knows? catch you and Foxfeatures(Benji-not Ann-lol!)later-cheers Lynn-xx(B-xx)

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Glad you like my short'Oneness'poem-is,nt that rose a beautful image-wow! if I sent a bunch of those to my fancy woman-I would have two wives in no time-lol! and re the sad poem of the old Lady-indeed it is a blessing to have relatives who care-all the time-not just when it suits them-when you are put in one of those institutions-I promise to visit you-as long as you pay for the petrol!! haha-we visit an old friend/neighbour of ours,and although the staff are very caring it must be quite an endurance to sit in an armchair all day-staring at the same poor people-there again,what is the alternative? there but for the grace of God go we! lotsa love-Stef-xx(B-xx)

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Hi again Lynn-re 'Natural understanding'did you read it under an umbrella-lol! but I am grateful to you as ever for taking the time to read-Stef-xx(B-xx)

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Thanks Lynn re'Fair comparison' your kindness goes before-and behind as well-lol!-Stef-xx(B-xx)

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Hi Cynthia - Rachel is here in case you didn't realise, http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=11547

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Winston. Thanks for the explanation. It does help. I'm trying to put a link to the other ghazal. Might not work!
Didn't work. I'll post it for you later if you like, it was on another poetry forum.

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Hi andy, thanks for commenting on Ghazal, yes i like the end best also :-) Win

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Thanks for comment on Crystal Clear Cynthia. I didn't actually use the word invisible at all though, so I don't see how there could be too much emphasis on that particular word. I was more thinking of something cold and clear and transparent as a block of ice. Not necessarily invisible. xx

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Hi Ann, thanks for your comments on my latest Ghazal... not writen one for ages so thats nice to do. and thankyou for correction to typo. changed it. glad you felt moved by it. win. x

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Hi Cynthia

Thanks as ever for your thoughtful comment on 'Science Fiction'. I'm afraid Sale isn't a possibility. I play league table tennis and it's the club practice night. I beat everyone last week (competitive? moi?) which has never happened before. So, although Sale is tempting, it wouldn't be good form to fail to show this week.

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Hi There Paulyn, welcom to WOL. Have fun! winston

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Ann, I happened to read your comment to Pete, about 'secrets' in poems. I think that is a superb way to express it: every poem IS a secret waiting to be unravelled by the reader. I think it is often just as much a 'secret' to the writer. What a great observation!

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Good morning Lynn-just popped in to say I,ve popped Pepes poem on-now I,m popping off-not in the true sense of course(drat! I hear you say-lol!)enjoy your day ducky-Stef-xx(Benji-xx)

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A very good morning to you Larisa(and McCoy)hope you are both well.I am so grateful for your comments on 'Oneness' and am very pleased its given you some inspiration-look forward to your poem.thank you-Stefan-xx(McCoy-xx)

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Thanks 4 commenting me! Who would think that workshops turns to be so useful!? waiting for you to post your Ireland stuff here.X

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Thanks for the comments on 'Chaos'. The title is from an interest in Chaos Theory - and some 'poetic licence' taken in applying it (loosely!)to human relationships;and the picture is of a fractal - interpret as you will ;)
Cx

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Thanks for the comments on 'Chaos'. The title is from an interest in Chaos Theory - and some 'poetic licence' taken in applying it (loosely!)to human relationships;and the picture is of a fractal - interpret as you will ;)
Cx

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Aw ta Lynn-no pets at the mo-(except one called woofy the wife)I keep her on a very short lead-lol! we lost Pepe four years ago-now I am a registered dog walker at the local refuge-and sometimes 'borrow' Skip the patterdale off wifeys friend-I will put a 'Pepe' poem on tomorrow-and we can sniffle together!until then-au revoir lovely Lady-Stef-xx

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Hi again Larisa-thank you very much for reading and kindly commenting on 'Truer than true' I really appreciate it.I am also enjoying all your lovely poems too-thanks-Stef-xx

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Hi, dear Ann! Thank you very much for your comment on my romance "Don't go away". Ann! I am just touched. Your words really encourage me. I'll try to tape another Russian romance and would like to hear your opinion. And the main point is: it's not the question of my voice but of the words in this or that romance. With warmest wishes, Larisa

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Hi again Lynn-I know what you went through losing Max-very tough isnt it? I felt same over our Pepe-the Yorkie!hope Max isnt chasing him round doggy heaven-lol! I did a poem for my Yorkhire 'terror' as I him-put it on later-Thanks Lynn-Stef-xx

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Thank you Lynn

I glad I'm doin it for you... Thank you so much for reading and making comment I'm very much encouraged.

Gus xx

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Hello isobel


many thanks for your well thought through critique... you are getting warmer.. you have to wait and read the book ....one day...

Hope you are well hope to see you soon

Gus xx

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Good afternoon Dave-very grateful for your apt comments on 'Truer than true' hope you and yours are well-catch thee later pater-Stef.

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Hi Cynthia You know I'm far too shy and polite to tear you to pieces ... the very thought!!


Thank as always for reading...

Gus
Xx

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Thanks for reading and thanks for the comments, it is much appreciated. I have left a slightly longer comment on the poem itself as to interpretation.
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Thanks for reading and thanks for the comments, it is much appreciated.
Cynthia, with most of my writing I hope there are layers - that's the way my mind works - things relate to each other in both an obvious and obscure way. I like word play, and thought play, and lateral meanings - it can be as obvious, or as deep, as you want it to be. I think with a lot of poetry the interpretation belongs to the reader, not the writer; as here - both Francine and Carole have seen different things.
Sometimes, you are quite right, I am literal and obvious, and I use poetry to try to cope with, or make sense of, things that are getting on top of me - sometimes people relate to that, sometimes they don't. But whatever my frame of mind, or my intention, or my meaning when I write something, is irrelevant to how the reader will feel about it, so why does it matter whether my intention was to be deep or literal? I am a multi-faceted person, I endeavour to make my work reflect that, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
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Hi Cynthia, thanks for the comment on 'stone I own' as usual I'm never sure about posting stuff, also it looks different when you post it, I would like to take guidance on punctuation etc. I dont normally punctuate, with this one I did and its no good, so ill go and edit. I have recently been joining different poems together just to try somethin new, it may head towards a cut up idea, just to keep fresh. I seem to have lost the desire to shout at moment its all Love n stuff. Bestest . Pete xxx

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HI Cynthia. Thank u for commenting on my stuff. i tried not to overload it with meanings and images but maybe i didn't succeed. Actually i'm just from Steve Waling's workshop and it gave me some new ideas. I posted new poem written at the workshop as well

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Hello. Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate before Carol Ann Duffy. Rubbish, though!
As for "my thoughts are less angrier" if you say angrier as if it rhymed with sangria that stretches the metre a bit. But it's just a long joke really! Ta for your comments.

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Hi - (sleepers) I've got to admit - there's nothing like a good night's kip -"la petit morte" as francine would doubtless?? say. I like the clip as he says that heaven lies (not in the big expensive things in life), but the things that are hardly anything at all - a song, a kiss, a party etc. x

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Hi Greg The problem is he's booked well in advance. My plan is to bring it out early next year and that was the earliest he could fit me in. You think getting a book out is the big obstacle, but then it's very hard finding opportunities to promote it. I'll keep you informed. Be great to meet up at the Poet's Cafe. If you read something they knock a quid off the ticket!

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Glad to hear your book is coming out early next year, David, but aren't you being a bit leisurely about 'launching' it in June?! Put me down for a copy, whenever it comes out. I might even pitch up at the Poetry Cafe in Reading one night, you never know!

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Hello Heather - welcome to the gang :)
Thanks for your kind remarks about 'Those Days' - glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes, Dave

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Thank you for reading my poem 'The Berry Bridge'...
So very interesting and perceptive your comments are Cynthia!
You just go on and say whatever you want... : )

Francine x

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Thank you, Andy, for reading and commenting on my poem
'The Berry Bridge'...
Yes... My inner child comes out to play often ; )

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I think chauv'd means mithered/bothered. Clemt definitely means hungry - my dad used to use it and very occasionally you still hear it round these parts - though much of our dialect will probably die out with all the american tv kids watch - like the correct pronunciation of neither and either.

My dad also used to tell me if I was 'slating'. That means when your underskirt is showing beneath your skirt.Hope you don't mind me poking my nose in - it's a fascinating subject.

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Hi - my mother-in-law used to come out with all these sayings & I have absolutely no idea what most of them mean - "I'm chauved d'eath" being one - also clemt ?? It wasn't something I grew up with in Bolton, but she was more towards Leigh XX

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