So far, "Each Dawn I Die" is the only one I've read. You summed up my life. I find some comfort in knowing someone else lives like I...I hope you do too. I'll be back.

Lisa

Comment is about Richard Krason (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
Thanks for your comments on 'Scar', they are much appreciated. I have left a brief explanation on the poem, if it is of interest.
I don't always comment but I always read your work with interest.
Cx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks very much for your comments on 'Scar' - I always appreciate your input. I have left a brief explanation on the poem itself, if you're interested.
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you Graham,
I look forward to taking my recently published collection 'The Heart and the Subsidiary' further though readings and poetry events.
thank you for making me feel welcomed.

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Incidentally, I just read your samples and I'm afraid I can't help with you finding a man who can dance. I did this "short" some time ago:-

Mi verse, most times, is full of rhymes
(It helps wi’ mi romancin’)
And all my rhythm’s in mi poems –
There’s none left fo’ mi dancin’.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello Ann
Many thanks for your comments about "Yggdrasil". I've never thought my voice was terribly impressive but thankyou anyway. Probably like everyone else I thought it was rich and deep - until I heard it on a tape recorder and then this this thin, flat timbre comes out!
I have to confess I got the idea for the poem from reading the Bernard Cornwell Saxon Chronicles - a ripping good boy's read with lots of battles and fighting and more fighting and battles. I even poach completely the line about "weaving a darker cloth" which stands out a mile for its quality compared with the rest.
Anyway, once again, thanks for commenting.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello Fatima. Welcome to WOL. You've made a good impression already I see. Look forward to reading your work.

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Yes, that was what had caught my eye - thanks!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ann - need your help again! I'd like to be featured and it says to submit profile, but when I hit that, it looks like I have to fill out my profile again. Will that create a duplicate? Thanks, as always, for helping me out.

Lisa

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Gemma,
Loved My Grandma Painted Her Eyebrows On!It's brilliant when someone stands out from the norm!

Comment is about Gemma Lees (poet profile)

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I'm glad you enjoyed 'Contraception' Ann. I was feeling quite self consious about my audio recordings but I'm very happy that you liked those too :)

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Hi Fatima, I agree with Chris, the description of the sucking sound like a snail being unstuck is brilliant. I listened to your readings too, you have a lovely voice. I particularly like When Silence has Sound. All very haunting stuff.

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Thank you Chris,

Yes I did read a few months back in Earlsdon, thanks you for remembering me.
Fatima xx

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Very moving piece of work Fatima, very well written. Look forward to reading more of your work.
Did I hear you read a few months ago in Earlsdon?
Cx

Comment is about Fatima AL Matar (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on my poem, Ann, much appreciated.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on my foxy haiku! No wheelie bins where I live (thank goodness) but we do use bunjees! And I don't live on a street, but a little row of cottages up a hill. And actually, it's badgers! Too many syllables in badgers!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
yeah, i drive a taxi. :-)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, yes indeed - Omaha beach, etc & yes, pips on the shoulders denote rank. thanks for the comments. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ann.
I've not been active on the site for some time. Must do something about that!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for your encouragement for the Funfair pieces, I really appreciate it. I don't agree this is my best work, it's light stuff, not meant for performance in the most part. I prefer the dark stuff or, at least, the different and pieces for performance.

And you think I'm shy - I can't think why you should think that.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia - "the end of the road" thanks for the comments. B

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Ann - "the end of the road" thanks for the comments. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on my funfair series, much appreciated

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on 'Flea Circus'. I'm afraid your observation misses the point of the poem i.e. it's the reaction of the audience rather than how the circus really works. Incidentally, there were mechanical flea circuses that didn't have any fleas at all

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on "Beauty". And I love your "Take Me". Lived it, loved it, lost it....!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy for your comment on my place, much appreciated.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks again Cynthia x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for your recent comments, really appreciate the feedback. I like your challenge for me to cut down my lengthy rant about not having anything to say (kind of self-defeating anyway I realise). I'll see what I can do... Thom

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Greg I'll probably give Southa whirl at some stage. The North would be a good one for you to get into to because they have quite a high profile. I've done a review for them and have another one in the pipeline, but he just will not take any of my poems. He says he likes them and that they've 'nearly made it', but I don't think my stuff quite fits in with his ethos and he probably finds a lot of my stuff too 'intellectual' ! They also do a pamphlet competition, so if you've got about 20 you think are quite good it would be worth putting them in for that also. Even if you don't actually win it's good to get on the shortlist.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Isobel and I thank you so much for reading and commenting on our poem 'Unstoppable'...

I also prefer French wines... with corks ; )

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi David. You should give South a go sometime. I found downloading the fiddly form and filling it in less bother than writing a covering letter. The only trouble is, sometimes they put in a reserve list, and you have to wait a little while longer before finding out whether you've made the cut. At the same time the sample poetry in The North, from five years ago in the Poetry Library, seems just my kind of thing, I must admit. Greg

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hmm, yes Andy, see what you mean. Once it hits on a line, my brain doesn't seem to want to pause - and just ends up blurting the whole line out in one go......I'll watch for this in the future.....Jo

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks Greg! My dad also made several K9s, among other Dr Who stuff. And many years previously, before the BBC, he helped make the poor whale in the Gregory Peck film of Moby Dick. It's nice to tell someone about him, now he's gone, so thank you. xx

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, was just going to say thanks for your kind words, but was diverted by the previous comment on your profile. I also loved Michael Bentine's flea circus as a kid. Your dad made a wonderful contribution to the exuberance of life. Greg

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Wow! Wow! I'm blown away! Your dad was a great man - we are not worthy etc...Feel proud to blow his trumpet, he obviously worked with some of the best!!!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Michael Bentine - yes, I remember 'It's a square world' it was wonderful - I was thinking about it when I wrote the 'Flea circus'

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on the funfair series Cynthia. I'm glad you enjoyed the flea circus. As you know, this is supposed to be a light series but I'm trying to mix it up a bit to keep it fresh.
Your support has been invaluable, thanks again.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Murray And Sod, the Buffalo Bill and Wyatt Earp of the Oceans. Or the Posh and Becks? Or French and Saunders. Hatta x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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'Homeric epithet' - I wish I could say "yes", but alas, it was undoubtedly sloppiness :(

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your recent comments, they really are very much appreciated. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on 'Cash Converters.'
The high street shop was the inspiration but i wanted to put a little twist on it. A bit like a new take on the old pawn shop theme. ;-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on 'Cash Converters.' Much appreciated.

Janet.x

ps. See you at the Tudor Thursday if you're there.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Thanks for your lovely comment on 'Cash Converters.'
Much appreciated.

Janet.x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Greg - thanks for commenting on Twine. I just read your comment to David Cooke about taking a couple of your poems away. It's funny how despondent we feel when no one comments on a poem. I'm sure it's just one of those things! I really don't think it reflects badly on the poem's reception. Often a comment is just someone chiming in saying they've had a similar experience as the one described in the poem, not anything to do with the quality of the poem itself. Or it's just a poet "friend" saying something nice. Or it might be a criticism, which is fine as at least you feel someone has read the blimmin thing. Yet . . I can't help feeling a bit miffed when I see some other poem has 99 comments or something, when my poor little poem doesn't have any. Guess it's just human nature! Sometimes though, someone will discover a poem that's been on WOL for ages, and that is nice. So I hope you put your poems back when you feel like it! I always like your stuff! It is very human, gentle, natural and unpretentious. xx

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Glad to hear that you got it into South. Coincidently I nearly suggested that you try The North with it because it looked like the kind of thing they go for. I've never got around to trying South. I seem to remember that you have to fill in some fiddly form. Mind you submitting things anonymously is a good idea. Loads of stuff gets taken just because of someone's name even when it's not very good.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi David, good to see you back here. I thought you'd done a runner! You're right, it has been quiet on the comments lately. So much so that I put two poems up last week then took them down again a couple of days later after they both received nul points, diva that I am! Funnily enough, The Reluctant Volunteer is one of my very few poems that has been published, in South last year.

Comment is about David Cooke (poet profile)

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Hi Greg Thanks again for a leaving a comment. It's been very qiet recently. I think my two translations must have frightened everyone away. It's funny you mention piano lessons. I know from my own kids it can be struggle to keep them at it. I would have loved piano lessons, but got boxing lessons instead! I must say The Reluctant Volunteer is very good. I like the portrait of the Sergeant Major and the irony of the phrase 'how's your father? - does anyone say that anymore? The final image is also excellent. You should send it off somewhere.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Steve, just called in to say I totally agree with the feeling of Imagine Revisited. I'm a great Lennon fan but have always hated that song, and regarded it as a trite dirge. I suspect Yoko wrote the words. Greg

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia. Thanks for your thought-provoking comment - I'm still chewing that one over. And thank you for posting this poem

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting so kindly on Dad's Shed Winston. Yes, those kind of poems are a genre and there have been some fine examples on WOL. They don't seem to make good performance pieces do they - hard to read something so very personal for strangers, for one thing

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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