thanks again for the comments and critisizm, its much appreciated, i'll get straight on them.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you for the kind words Antony - if you want to see more of my work then go to : http://somethingeveryday.tumblr.comwhere I'm creating every day.

Max

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Ann

I'll dance with you lady !

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi

Thanks for your comment on Broken Babies it was kind of you to make time.

I just read your poem Wife & Mother and you yourself write with a passion and energy. The lines (all of them good) which stood out to me were I have kissed the lips of a dead man
and inhaled as his last breath failed.

I always admire poetry that leaves a map of the persons heart that wrote it.

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

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Ann
It is a bird indeed.
I don't recommend however that you google "goatsucker"!
Myth has it that the nightjar suckles from goats at night. I've never seen one while I've been at it.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Stuck Unsaid is a very powerful poem. Two great performances from you last night.

S.

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

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Congratulations on winning the slam Fatima. It was well deserved and you gave a beautiful performance.

I love your profile poem. Indisposable sadness often comes with excess baggage - don't you think? Beautifully expressed.

Isobel x

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Dave hello. I'm sorry that this is so late, but many thanks for your kind nomination. It's been a very hectic time workwise and I am just getting myself organized on the poetry front again. Once again many thanks. Graham

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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Hi Win; Cheers for the comments over my last two poems.. I didn't even know I was being sketched until sometime later.. To say it surprised me was a understatement... See you soon - Andy N

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Absolutely, although there are definite answers for that particular conundrum depending on whether you believe in one of the the conventional monotheistic creeds or not. If you do then it's the chicken, if you don't, then it's the egg. :)

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Hi Ann - I agree on reflection that there is something there that could be better. I like your version as well, but in that case I think that (somehow) it would need another syllable in line 4. I think I'll have to mull it over, but thanks for pointing it out. I must admit that quite a few people have in the past pulled me up over a change of tense in a poem (as if the tense MUST remain constant throughout) but I don't see why. Many of my poems are like the spoken word, or a conversation, so the tense may well drift as (say) it brings a past recollection into the present discussion. Anyroadup, I agree that I need to work on this one. Did you ever decide on your own "best" poems so I can see if they are as good for me as coromandel? all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Upon reading 'Where do we go from here' I thought to myself I bet this is good performed on the open mic. It also has a gentle wisdom without lecturing, lyrically persuasive too.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Andy and thanks for commenting on my river poem. I do plan to add music since my first collection was pub'd last year abd I will get round to it. Good luck on yours by the way, its a crazy time the editing period but it really holds a looking glass to who we are as writers. Some of your work reminds me of Billy Ramsell - a fantastic Irish poet who seems able to pull off getting people to care about the details most miss (similar to your lines of the cars parking in the distance.) I know poets always say 'have you read this poet blah blah blah' but check him out, his books called 'Complicated Pleasures' - its a keeper !

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi, thanks for comments on Missing Person. I wrote this on the bus yesterday, where there was a small poster about a missing woman. She looked so carefree in the photo. Bits of her car have been found washed up on the coast near where she worked. So who knows? The character in the poem is made up by me (or maybe is me!) As to the fate of the missing woman, her family still wait and hope!

Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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Winston, thank you so very much for your immense kindness and generosity and support -- heck, more heck, triple heck and blimey. I'm still blushing. xxx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Cynthia
Thank you so much for your wonderful and discriptive comments and yes myth always builds up mood and as a consequence ...flashes the spark and a poem is penned.


Once again so many thanks for your very kind words.


Gus x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Yes Old Jack was a bit of a lad Isobel... Hope I don't spoil a good nights sleep... oh the very thought!...thank you for commenting....

Gus xx

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Hi Isobel, thanks very much for your comments on 'Minefield', glad you enjoyed it. You know, until you mentioned it, I hadn't even noticed that it fitted quite well with my war thingy, it actually preceded 'War' by about 2 years. Perhaps I have developed a fixation with combat as metaphor for life .... watch out for 'Tank!' - the story of my dieting ... ok, maybe not ;)
Cx

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Thank-you Cynthia for your, forever generous, comments - I really value them. I read and enjoy all your work too, I'm just not very good at leaving comments, still campaigning for an 'I like this one' button. :)
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hello Lovely, I departed, briefly, for a breather after a weird 'do' on Easter Monday. Massive big thank yous for your generous comment on the Dalek's nit, and for noticing I'd hopped off for a mo. You, as always, amaze me -- as both a poet and the person you are (each being somewhat inextricable from the other). xxx

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Hey Winston, did,nt mean to make you feel you had to explaine yourself, your take on her is different to mine and cause shes a frigment of my imagination i wonder if i am that uncertain, and sometimes i am!So you were quite perceptive there,
Cheers again, Donna x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Happy Birthday Steve : )
Wishing you a fabulous day!

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hey Sian--
Thanks for the comment on my profile, and please excuse the tardiness of my reply (I haven't been on the site in a while).
If you're interested, you can hear more of my stuff at http://jeffcottrill.coffeehouse.ca or http://www.reverbnation.com/jeffcottrill. Cheers!

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Thanks Thomas - I loved writing it. Sorry I don't do Facebook (or anything that begins with 'T'. It is easy to find your way to me if you so wish.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hello, I'll be posting my stuff in the gallery again soon. Had a bit of a arghhhhhhhhhhhh (as we all do from time to time) but your lovely message has brightened my day and lifted my spirits. Thank you. xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Marc. hope you enjoy your 'first definate impulse' onto our site. keep writing. keep posting. Win

Comment is about Marc Anthony (poet profile)

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Loved the Fidelety poem...

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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I loved "Impure Wool"

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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All things we desire are as ballons... they seem too shiney, we check them too much, handle them too rough... and then... they POP and are gone... lost and its our own fault...

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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I think your Jester character rules the world by friend. Loved the poetry.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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thanks for all your comments cynth, means a lot, especially coming from sumone who is published, yea i'll put, As The Moon Prevails back up maybe next week or sumthing.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi there welcome to WOL Colin. Great stuff in your profile. Loved 'Getting the hang of it' especially. Winston

Comment is about Colin Watts (poet profile)

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Hi Colin, I agree with Hatta, your poems are lovely. The Hang Of It is really clever, esp as it doesn't sound forced in any way. And the one about the tree house is really moving, but in that not feeling sorry for yourself way that I love. Hope you enjoy WOL.

Comment is about Colin Watts (poet profile)

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Thank you very much for the kind welcome and comments on my poetry. I very much enjoyed reading through your own.

Cheers ^_^

Rob

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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As regards your comment on 'English Stoicism', I believe it is the people that define the land more than the land defines the people. I could be wrong but that's my perspective on it, I mean, it's arguable that we try to attribute meaning to things that really have none and have thusly turned to all types of beliefs in order to justify those meanings but I don't think that a giant lump of rock really affects the overall character of its inhabitants.

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Thank you!! xx (Doe/Doh!)

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Andy!

Thanks for your comments on Dysphoria! What you see as brave, others might see as self indulgent. I just think that if I have something either on my mind or something to say, it's better out than in! :-)

Glad you liked my work though, thanks again! :-)

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Your review of "My Father's Arm" was so insightful. On various levels, I'm working through my feelings about my father every day. I had to leave my family because he wasn't the only one that was so emotionally and mentally abusive. My mom and I became close after many years, but it was just too hard for her to be in the middle. I think it will always be a journey vs. a destination which is a theme that seems to echo in my life. Thanks so much for reading my piece and leaving such an empathetic comment.

Lisa

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Cheers Andy,thanks for commenting on Lucy, glad you liked 'sleepy sloes' there's no other description for her eyes that'd do, she is the only one of my 4 that has eyes so dark.
Rach
x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello Ann, thanks for the comment on Lucy.Just spotted your audio poem on Jukebox...brill and fab :)
x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks very much Dave for the comment on the Lucy poem :)

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Lol!It'll be a publishing launch spesh again....you get a free copy though but I have my doubts whether there'll be an open mic that night at all.
Thanks for the comment on Lucy by the way.
xxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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What a beautiful style you have! Taking Down The Tree House is especially evocative.

Comment is about Colin Watts (poet profile)

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Well I'm glad to see you back and posting! I might chance the May one. It should be warm by then. I could take a sleeping bag and a cardboard box and camp out in the hope of getting a spot on the open mic. I might also bring a bag of peanuts to chuck at the compere...

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Wocha mean "whimsy"? I put a lot of thought into this! It comes form my training - I was indentured.
Thanks for the post - really liked your most recent blog entry. I think I commented on its page.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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You should try holding them by the testicles (dentists, that is) - it encourages mutual consideration.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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*******BUTTONS EASTER EGG PRIZE GIVING *******
As stated in the small print, I bought an egg and ate it for you. This is my account of eating it!

Ok , if you're sitting comfortably, we'll begin...
First I ran my fingernail around the rim of the box flap, I slowly prised up the lid and slid my hand in to grab hold of the plastic inner....the heat from my fingertips misted it a little...I opened up the plastic to reveal an egg, wrapped in foil, I slowly raised it to my nose to get a whiff of the aroma, caressed the foil and then found the overlap, I teased the foil from the chocolate underneath, revealing it bit by bit, then I could contain myself no longer, pummelled it, kneaded it with frenzied hands till finally..it broke , not into two neat halves but into fragments, each one as chocolatey as the next...then I ate it all...with 2 cups of tea....I gave the buttons away to the kids who were looking at me plaintively as it was corned beef hash for tea and they were sorely disappointed.
That was your Easter Egg, hope you enjoyed it as much as me... I feel thoroughly sick. :)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel,Where have I been???? I've been to hell in a hand basket...the brink...the dizzy limit...well ok then I've been a bit depressed lol, bouncing slowly back now. I am reading at another couple of publication launch events at That Preston one on April 20th and one May 25th if you fancy chancing it....
x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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The pen can be wielded liken to a sword Cynthia but I say again this poem carries no real message or malice, instead of which it carries only that of the mischievous creativity that lurks somewhere within my inner most depths..

The fantasy is a dream like sequel, surreal sexual escapism all built around the image of the beautiful young lady sat upon the red leather Chesterfield.

I agree with you entirely that the forum of WOL is not for anything other than poetry prose and the all things similar.. My poems are usually nothing more than spiralling dreamscapes and pure fantasy bonded to a strong instinctive sexual backdrop. I am happy to paint all of my words in strong bright colours and am constantly experimenting with both the visual aspects of verse as well as the poetic construction of the written..

Hey Ho, Cynthia thank you for most encouraging comments once again, the dinner bells fast approach, that’s me back to my ‘Saddle of Lamb’…and a glug or three.

Augusta xx.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hello Winston
Yes, thanks for the Ronaldo poem - I don't think I caught it first time round.
The joke went (you've probably heard it) that Real wanted their £80m back when they heard that you could get big girl's blouses in Primark for £2.99.

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