Welcome to WOL Tim. Liked your samples and will keep an eye on your work.

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Hi Cynthia Thanks again for your comments. I've enjoyed your last couple of poems too. I appreciate the 'objective' style.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Ann - Edward - I dont think he's died. Calcium - I really dont know - it's just the feeel of the word - the shape of the word in your mouth. A bit like how some guys look really dapper in a bow tie & others just look a complete tw*t. And he does look like a chemistry teacher - dont you think? all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting recently on me poems John. Glad you like Shirley and Dolly. And Sandy Denny, "Who Knows Where The Time GOes" is one of the best songs ever. Re adding a bridge to Blackthorn - I would have added a bridge but I didn't manage to get planning permission! Tehe!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Thanks for nice comments on Dark Moon. x

Comment is about Dave Carr (poet profile)

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Hi Cate Thanks for your kind comments about the poem. Glad you like it.

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Ann, thanks for your kind remarks on Analgesic. I'm not a smoker myself for 20 years. I do feel, though, that the focus on smoking has gone over the top. I think it's a form of displacement; we'd do far better to restrict the use of the motor car.Wine is the most wonderful thing in the world. Apart from football.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Kealan! Thanks for your comment on Scream, glad you appreciated it! I just hope Alan Moore doesn't sue me! :-)

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Of course you can Marianne! xx

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Yes - I am lucky that I don't put weight on easily, despite eating everything that's bad for me. I do have a definite marsh mallow bottom though - thankfully the pics on here never show that!
Re the male body - you and me both on that score! LOL

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your kind and funny comments on Marshmallow. You always look very slender in your pics on here. As to writing about the male physique, I can't remember what one looks like! If you see what I mean!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Ann. Thanks for the advice. I managed to sort the format out. on that latest blog.Cheers. Your ever grateful nephew. Ken.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Max - chapbooks - at the risk of boring you stiff with my opinions, I'll give it a shot anyway & hope you dont take offence. Excepting folks like eg JK Rowling, the average writer makes an annual income of £8K pa whereas the average pay for a Teacher of creative writing is around £40K pa - depressing yes? Poets BTW earn way way below that of the average writer. If you want some advice ?? here it is. My business turnover is ~ £1 million (which these days is not a lot) but we are just opening a new factory as well in the US & expanding out into Europe. We've been going 22 yrs. We work in an extremely small niche market which, to me at any rate, is the way to go these days. You dont want an enterprise where you have a lot of competition. I dont know what your other interests & strengths are, but I would think hard about what you are passionate or at least very knowledgeable about & do that. A guy who worked for me left to make handmade plastic chesspieces - er, no - the chinese can do that for 100th of the price. If you were talented & maybe doing them in solid gold... maybe a different matter. Another thing is that if you watch dragons den everyone thinks you need a bank/investor loan of £100K which is bollocks - I started off with nothing & built very slowly. The hard part is having the idea - it does not need to be a new invention, but you do need to specialize - and be aware that working for yourself is very hard work indeed, but can also pay way better than working for anyone else. for example - my brother in law prints & sells unique/arty Tshirts on the net from london & makes about £30K - not great but easy to do & not too shabby money-wise. I'm just trying to reiterate that publishing poetry is not the route to riches - unless you can maybe think of a unique way of doing it?? I hope I've not bored you too much. all the best. B

Comment is about Max Wallis (poet profile)

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Hi Ann. I didn't intend it to be in one great lump, just the way it turned out after pasting.Anyway it's nice to find I have a surviving relative.Great Aunts are very thin on the ground at my age. Ken.X

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ay lass, tha's reet - if we all had a good gawp every now an then t'world'd be a much better place. just off fer me tripe & whippets...

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting Greg. The world has so many beautiful and/or characterful bridges. In just Britain, Clifton, Erskine, Severn, Ironbridge, Menai, Forth, Humber, Gateshead,Ribblehead, Tyne etc. plus practically any canal bridge and most small rural bridges. And that's just the UK. But the poem is about more than just stone/bricks. I really liked your St Leonards Church.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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dedicated catholic? im certainly not, i was comparing modern israeli imerialism to the foreign policy of the roman empire during jesus' time.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Catch on quick don't I. Ken E.D.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Interesting ideas in your poem about bridges, Dave. I like bridges; take lots of photographs of them. Which is your favourite bridge?

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Ann - "Amongst Equals & For Now" - many thanks for your kind comments. The latter could indeed be a cat looking at a king - I never thought of that - but it was just me, on a first date, gawping. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I think your poem is really good. I esp like the last verse. To be able to write about this sort of subject in such a no-nonsense straight way makes it all the more touching. Hope your better health continues and hope to see more of your stuff on WOL.

Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)

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Thanx for your comment on 'Playing Polo'. It started as rant against 'what have you got' kind of thing. Combined with my secret dream that I am really a prince who was deposited with a poor family to protect me from assassins and that one day I will be offered the kingship of Norfolk, or some such, and have flunkies, groupies and be in the Beatles and so on...
;)

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Yes. although I live in Grimsby, I regularly visit Reading where my mother still lives. They have a Poets' Cafe every third Friday of the month and quite an established community of good poets. I tend to make my visits coincide with it. I'll see if I can dig something ecclesiastical out for a blog!

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Hi Liz an official hello andwelcom from the admin team. Hope you enjoy exploring our site. Winston

Comment is about Liz Millar (poet profile)

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Hi Steve, welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy thesite and all its foibles! winston (Admin):-)

Comment is about Steve Tasane (poet profile)

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Hi Stephen... Good to see you on here. we have met at Hebdenandat the Beehive poets (I should get down there again soon) Good to see you writewhilst cycling, me too! if you post a poem as a blog entry people ar mor likely to come accross them and comment. win

Comment is about Stephen Pass (poet profile)

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An offfical if dalayed welcom back from the admin team :-) Win

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

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Hi, Kealan. Thanks for responding. No, I totally got the 'Hamas' thing; in so many ways the early Israelites were 'terrorists' of their era, god-oriented or not. In my opinion, I think it was introducing the idea of 'woman' into the mix, in any form, that diluted rather than augmented your idea. I did enjoy Rachel's comments. Perhaps she picked up 'ghosts' far better than I did. Maybe one has to be a committed Roman Catholic to fully understand the dynamism of the idea of Virgin Mary as 'perfect woman'. Maybe that wasn't your intent at all. I also wondered about 'admitted', but I have heard that word used. 'committed' is better, no question; avoids a 'bump' in getting your ideas started clearly.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Morning, David, good to hear from you. St Leonard's was written after a walk Gillian and I took with our daughter Kate. I just did it as an exercise really, listing the images I remembered, then trying to shape them into a sonnet in the early mornings while others were in bed. I find it's easier to do when you're in someone's else's flat or hotel room and don't have to worry about/find displacement activities such as filling the dishwasher or the washing machine. At least it's a recent effort: the previous two I put up here were three or fours years old! Look forward to reading more from you, old churches or otherwise. Btw, did I overhear a conversation here in which you said you sometimes read in Reading? I did a spot at Guildford last week

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Hi Greg Old Churches are right up my street. I might post one of mine when I get a minute - all been very hectic this end. Anyway like this one a lot, especially the cadence of 'a thousand years of belief and hope sing across the city'. Also like the matter of fact ending. keep 'em coming.

out across the city.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments about me looking a twat. I appreciate your support!

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Dave, you never know. Life's full of surprises

Ally ;o)

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony, sorry for a very late reply. I need to log on more. Thanks for describing some of my work as being raw and poignant. I'm touched.

'live beneath the eyelids in your dreams' is a great statement. I appreciate your words very much.

Very Best

Ally

Comment is about Antony Owen (poet profile)

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Hello Ms Foxglove! Yes, being an obsessive imaginer and vegan (oh but I sometimes sneak the occasional organic milk yoghurt/organic full milk tapioca pudding!) means I'm in a perpetual state of horror. I was thinking to rectify this by taking a course in taxidermy. Arghhhhhhh!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Ta again Val fof commen-tea-ing on my poem..tee..hee!thanks lovely Lady!...Stef-x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,
I hope the poem, hope all my poems can stand without knowing any background. Of the people who commented only one knows much about me, and I think she was the only one who knew beforehand that I'm about to go in to hospital again, and am a bit uptight about that.
It wasn't intended as a 'chat' thing, and nor is all my work so autobiographically personal. I welcome comments of any kind - particularly nice ones, and I always appreciate yours very much - good or bad!
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Cheers Jonboy!

Comment is about Colin Galbraith (poet profile)

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thank you, i take it your speaking about jesus being in hamas? I was hoping somebody would say something so i could have the oppurtunity to explain. Jesus was a freedom fighter in his own right, he knew his preaching episodes were causing civil unrest in a region then dominated by the roman empire and yet continued. Today that is what western propaganda media would call a "terrorist" if he were to come back and witness the israeli tyranny of imperialism imposed on the innocent people of palestine there is no doubt in my mind he would join hamas. Afterall it is his home country.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Good afternoon Val-my thanks to you taking time to read 'Oh my Father'and kindly commenting.Am very grateful.My best regards to you-Stefan-x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks Val
xxx

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments Cynthia
Cx

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Thanks
xxx

Comment is about Shoeless Carole (poet profile)

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Hi Alison, maybe we are distant cousins - my grandfather came from Perth. Best wishes, Dave

Comment is about Alison Mary Dunn (poet profile)

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Re Blackthorn (mine's a pint!) Oh! You saw me coming back from the beach then did you Gus? Thanks for listening! xx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Wytchewoode, thankyou for reading my election poem! I have now had time to look at your site and listen to the audio. I have read your poetry before but not commented. However I have enjoyed its fine quality such that I dont particularly want to single one out. Vry enjoyable. I agree with you about labels too. Best, jane

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" carcassess ground to mince" as a comment is a great line! Many thanks for your encouragement and comments.
Flashback is wonderful, I think you know I love the vivid pictures. If you stood for election on a the green card with poetical speeches like these you would have my vote. best jane

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia - intrigued by your question. On the whole my poems are quite simple. I don't think I have a problem with what you mention. More a frustration that subject can get more attention thatn poem. xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hiya, I'm based in Manchester, yes. Thank you for your lovely comment!

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

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hey,

i love your poems-just been looking at your blog- and your voice has a nice timbre too. are you based in the north-west?

Comment is about Max Wallis (poet profile)

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Ann, do you ever get the impression that poems are read so 'quickly' that responding comments are really off the mark, as much as comments are appreciated. This is a personal question.

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