Thanks for commenting on Dad's Shed, Greg. I've enjoyed yours - could do with more of them!

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Thanks for commenting on my Fairground series - I'll take your suggestions on board for daredevil diver - I was wee bit tired writing that one and it shows a little I feel
thanks again

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hey there Kealan, thank you so very much for your lovely comment. Props to you for your powerhouse poems -- accomplished, pithy and potent.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks Daniel -do you think my language is a bit old-fashioned ? -I'm trying to put modern issues into an old form.

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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Thank you -- again! I meant to say, after you mentioned about the road accident themed restaurant piece that, yeay, I am a vegetarian. On the pip of being vegan. And, digressing wildly again, I am delighted you really like my whale mini-song. I've begun creating heaps of them, little audio moments that might be songs or something remotely musical. But they are a pretty new departure for me, more a leap into the dark/noise. I hear them in my head, get a bit obsessed with them, record them (messing with my voice). I really can't tell you how encouraging it is that you like them so much. But how sad to have a dead whale on the beach -- I couldn't have helped carry its bones (too squeamish/weepy and my own bones are going somewhat awry and seem skittish about carrying me around, so I'm considering creating an ex-skeleton or bamboo body scaffolding). I'd have been blubbering my eyes out (oh no, what a terrible pun). It seems right that the local museum should preserve some of it, but mightily suspect that people would take lumps of its bones home as garden features. I also sponsored/adopted a whale called 'Sod'. Yes, it was really called, 'Sod.' I thought, yes, I have been thought of in similar terms by some people, so I shall stand up and be counted as a friend of 'Sod.'

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello! How lovely of you to comment on my oddments. Thank you so very much. Not sure how they emerge or why or from where, but they do. And 'pique freans' and pique-a-knees, and Little Bo-Pique, pique and mix, piquenic are all dancinf to the muzak of time. 'Pique' is hurt pride, dented vanity, a moment of sharp ego-puncture. "Pique' is misused a lot at the moment, usually by being lumped into the phrase 'It piqued my interest/my interest was piqued.' And my quick brown decaffeinated urban fox jumped out of my daydreams. Hey -- your poems are incredibly vibrant and wowser. You seem to be able to flit from joyous comedy/tongue-in-cheekiness to pastoral melancholy. What a range! They're flipping fab.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Ta for your comment on 'Your smile' - I've never performed this poem so I might try it shouting v. loud indeed as you suggest

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello Winston
I just read your comments on my Houghton Main poem, Thankyou very much. I did work at Houghton Main for a short period, but not underground and after the incident. The Manager when I was there was a right character called Tony Griffin - then the whole industry seemed to teem with larger-than-life characters.
Perhaps there's another poem in there somewhere!
The explosion (and a lighter fictional piece about the visit of Prince Charles) are the subjects of a book by Barry Hines (author of Kes) The BBC screened them in the seventies. They're both very good in their respective ways.;
Anyway, many thanks again.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Ann
Following your suggestion, Fiona has put up another six photos in 'Picture this'. These new ones are much better I feel and give us more to work with
Here's the link...
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=8985

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello
thanks for reading my poems..BlueBerry is an old one but a favorite,
Donna

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you! Your laughter lit my day.
Heck, just read your pieces -- your poetry is emotionally potent and very powerful indeed! Congratulations on the slams.

Comment is about Raymond Antrobus (poet profile)

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Hi Ann

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment

steve x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I have seen things on Ebay like stuffed squirrels riding motorbikes and wearing superman teeshirts, but I resisted those!
It is an old tradition, to have tableau of stuffed creatures sitting round having tea etc.. But I do love my raven. I will post a photo of him on here someday!

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Dave
Thanks for the comment on Our Gert.
There seem to be so few of us who practice rhythm and rhyme. I'm not dogmatic about it (although it is my preference), so refreshing to see your stuff. Keep posting.

Comment is about Dave Dunn (poet profile)

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Look forward to some more wonderful poetry when the month is up! Bye for now.xxxxxxxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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A month will fly by for you Ann - it will drag dreadfully for me. I have tried to do this quietly before but it didn't work. If I do it publicly I might stick to it - I'd look a bit of an arse if I snook back on in a week's time! I think I will end up living in a tidier house and will hopefully write more poetry - we'll see...
I don't think you are arrogant for wanting to leave your poetry as is BTW. It is always a difficult balance - once you open yourself up for crit - it can become a total free for all and you wonder just where the original poem went to. There is a thread for people to post work that they want crit on - no-one seems to use it though.
Take care and continue having fun!
Isobel x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Yup! I tried to give up for one week. After nearly 6 days I sneaked back! We'll miss you. lots of love af xxxxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Wall of death.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on Wall of death. I've been writing a few of these, short and ambivalent (I was going to say cheerful, but there seems to be a lot of death in them) pieces about the fair grounds of the 50s as I remember them (vaguely).
The 'variety' element of the fair was very much on the way out and I caught the fag end of it.

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, thanks for your comment on 'Mona without Lisa.' :-)

I see where you are coming from when you say the last stanza isn't perhaps necessary. I was messing around with an idea when i wrote it and as Andy says, it is multi-layered.
Too many layers to actually describe as i see them and others might see something completely different so on this occasion, i'm sorry but i'll have to leave you guessing or wondering what it is about.
The title in itself is suggestive ie; what if? Would the painting have been any different if it had simply been called Mona? How many times was it stuck in a corner before being worked on again? and if it had included more detail or colour would it still have become a masterpiece? Did it start out as a sketch or even a poem before before becoming a painting?

So many questions and yet who really knows the answer and what becomes of it. Maybe the artists themselves were flabbergasted in that just one of a million drawings would become so famous and yet to them it had so many faults and might only have been done on a whim and painted in a day or less. :-)

None of this really explains my poem and i doubt for a second it will become a masterpiece but the last stanza has to stay for all the reasons above.Not all readers of poetry are academics or write poetry, just as not all appreciators of art can paint but we all have imagination :-)


Janet.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Isobel (Mapping). Always appreciated. It makes me sound a bit arrogant, re not changing anything. Hope I don't come across that way! ;-) I expect, knowing me, I'm just off writing the next one and the bird has flown, as it were. I think as I grow and improve as a poet I will take more notice of what people say. I'm only grateful that they bother to read it! xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hullo Winston, Thanks for the lovely comments, they don't half cheer me up! I.T.A.L.Y. is 'I Trust And Love You' by the way though I prefer S.W.A.G.L. (sealed with a gooey lick) :)
Cheers
Rach
xxx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Our Gert is a fine laff - I could hear that one in my head :)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Rev

Thanks, it is also a true account of events, and many of its protagonists are/were real persons. I think the glossary is an essential inclusion.

I like your profile picture!

Comment is about J F Keane (poet profile)

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Hola Issy thank you for the blog on Teardrop much appreciated you hot piece of totty ha ha ;-))
Love TC XXXX

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank you for commenting on Teardrop, is there any chance for some training on a Nose Flute ha ha..... Lots of Love TC XXXXX

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Hi Ann - thanks for the 2 recent comments. Tinseltown = just the US west coast generally - L.A, Hollywood, SanFrancisco. Based around a true story of the Golden Gate Bridge "jumpers" as they're known to the local 911 services. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Really like the conversational style to 'Dance On' and the carefully chosen images. You sculpt an atmosphere well Greg, portals to another time with good language and narrative.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi! Thanks for commenting on Mapping. I know what you mean about some of the phrases but I was trying to make what is a cliche when applied to the landscape something new when applied to a human body. That was the idea anyway. But I may think of an alternative.

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Hi all -Yes, there *is* a lot on this site! And I am v busy also... So, please forgive my s l o w reply.Thank you all for your v kind comments and compliments. Glad you enjoyed the poems! I just found out that Beautiful Girl will be poem of the month on this site in May! So, thats v nice *blushes* :)Hope to check out *your* profiles soon as I have a spare minute, too!!!And, yes, hopefully therell be a blog... Until that time, please check out www.mabjones.blogspot.comTra 4 now! x

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Happy St Pirans day to you ;-) I confess I had to look it up as it is a Celtic Cornish festival ;-)
Love TC XX

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Mab, excellent stuff. I especially love Beautiful Girl.

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Hi Mab

Why haven't I noticed you before - there's too much happening on this site. I very much liked The King is Dead, which does a great job of making sanity entertaining. Will you be blogging? Hope so

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Re - ZZZZZ. Brrring ! Wake up Mr Darwin and post us more poems. Win x

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment Ann. No I wasn't living with the pigs, but they did a lot of grunting outside my little caravan, especially the night they had been given a load of silage, which they seemed to treat mostly as play material

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hey Andy, thanks for the comment - good to see you're still poetrifying! How's York treating you?

Comment is about Andy Humphrey (poet profile)

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Thanks, Andy! There are more of my poems on my personal site (http://www.faithhope.co.uk) along with recordings and stuff.

Now I'm off to have a keek at your profile! :)

Comment is about Fay Roberts (poet profile)

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Yes, you're exactly right -- some people are profoundly irrepressible. You can attempt a vasectomy (or similar analogy) but they're going to bubble up anyway and follow their own path. You're spot on. Which is a relief since I'm delighted you like my mini poem!

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Andy, thanks for the comment! We're off to Buxton Fringe this year, and I'll be doing a bit at edinburgh. that'll be the extent of the Northern tour at the moment. Suggestions?

Comment is about Andy Humphrey (poet profile)

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cheers Pete, the invasion begins! See you on the 17th (if not before, you know what these things are like!)

Comment is about Pete the Temp (poet profile)

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Hi! Great to see some MK poets being tempted on to Write Out Loud. When are you guys gonna come and invade York then? :)

Comment is about Danni Antagonist (poet profile)

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Hi Fay, good to see you on here. I've admired your poems since the Milton Keynes days and I'm delighted you've made it onto this site. I look forward to reading some new samples when you get the chance to post a few more!

Comment is about Fay Roberts (poet profile)

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Have I got second sight or have I got second sight! ;-)

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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You said - the two people meeting at the art gallery. That made me think of two people meeting for the first time after answering a lonely hearts ad. And realising they are not for each other. (Thats exactly what happened!). Win x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Just "re-did" my Knee poem in the style of your poem with wiggly bits of punctuation - what was it called? Just off to have a little look! @~" or something! I don't think I've got the same wiggly lines on my keyboard! Hope you approve!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I've been reading your stuff, I love On Mondays I Fall in Love. It's so beautiful. And the one about the fruti & Veg (Best Before End) and the two people meeting at the art gallery. That made me think of two people meeting for the first time after answering a lonely hearts ad. And realising they are not for each other. Something I tried many years ago, an experience never to be repeated!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind comments on the back of my knee!!

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi There Scion, Enjoyed reading 'for the fallen' tonight. winston

Comment is about Scion (poet profile)

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There will never be peace in this world, friend. War burns too deeply in our blood.

Comment is about Dr T. Ashok Chakravarthy, Litt.D (poet profile)

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That is disturbing. It somewhat reminds me of Kafka's metamorphosis.

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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