Hi Isobel, Great Pic!! You look fab. Whose the glamourous mum now hey!! Good to be back. Have missed you all. Anything interesting been going on?xx

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Hi Andy... Hope you're good. thx for reading my Rainy City Stories poem. Its a good site isnt it? You should submit something Andy, Win

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I very nearly fell for that - and I thought you were being sincere: Definitely a 'feel good' poem Banksy - you do have a heart. Will restrain myself from writing anything rude - I am capable of leaving bog standard comments, you know...
oh yeah? "bog standard"? - perv!

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Hi Thomas - I very much enjoyed reading your poem "Pull Apart The Perfect Nest". Beautifully structured and very clever, love the imagery which this conjures.

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Hi, glad you like my ode to creme eggs! I was sat stuffing my face with a huge easter egg version and thought of the aforementioned poem! Inspiration comes from the strangest places lol x

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Also, I wouldn't necessarily bear in mind your suggestions for how I should view the work, as such an exercise is very much down to the critic and reader. :)

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Hi Cynthia
Moon month is fantastic! I really do like it, thanks for posting it. Also many thanks for your comment on my latest. x

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Personally, I feel that iambic pentameter is a little outmoded anyway. Really, the final version of your poem, and the placement of everything, is down to you. I'm afraid I don't have enough time to do something indepth due to me being a busy f/t teacher. These dropped-in comments during breaks allow me a few moments but something larger would be a different thing altogether.

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Hi steve
Was in the curry house in slawit last week ! Win

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Hi Ann, thanks for the welcome and the comments. I love "the dray" gorgeous imagery. I Look forward to reading more.
Cheers
Steve

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Thanks Winston, looking forward to being a part of this. I'm not too far from you actually - having moved to Slaithwaite a few months back (perhaps not the wisest of decisions when a full-time student in York but it is gorgeous up there)
Cheers

Steve

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Hello Jeff
Many thanks you so much for your continuing support and critique of my work, I refer to your comments on the 'Loney Edge Of Time' Iam so very lucky to have such a devoted fan.
Augusta xx

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Hi Greg Unfortunately, unlike all those others, I completely dried up for 20 years + was worn down by the daily grind of running a Modern Languages department in an appalling comprehensive school for all those years. Still, no doubt it was good for the soul, and at least I have been getting quite a few poems together over the last 18 months. It's funny how things turn out. I suppose at the end of the day, if you've got something to say it will come out in the end.

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Alice Oswald, Don Paterson, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and many, many others ... I didn't realise you were in such exalted company until I Googled the list of Gregory award winners over the years, David! Thanks for your comments on The Tide and the Light. I was inspired to put it up by reading your The Tide, and noticing the similarities in title and subject matter. Greg

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Hi Greg Glad you like the old banger poem. I wrote it in memory of my grandfather who didn't get his first car until he was about 70! At the back of my mind I'd also like to do another one about this clapped-out old 2CV my wife and I had back in the 70s when we we met up in France. Unfortunately, it's just a vague idea and so far nothing has ever come together.

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Hi Beulah, I would like to join but I am not very good at joining things, I dropped out of face book a while ago after I found my details published on Google as a result. Thank you for your kind blog though ;-))luv TC XX

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Hi Steve. A big Welcome to WOL. Looking forward to more contributions. Winston

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Thank you for your witty comment , I
also watch birds by the way.

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I know just what you mean about quality control. I think that every time I open my mouth, let alone what I've put in writing. Your 'One of Us Was Right to Leave' feels like it very much comes from the heart and is very powerful.

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Hi there Ann, thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my poem,I'm totally new to the site and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, I just keep flipping about from page to page reading - is that the jist of it? I love 'where can I find a man who can dance?' I can picture the opals and the graceful swooping and closeness...I can also picture the swarfega men, I own one myself and he's not a fan of dancing :-) x

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Hi Cynthia Thanks again for the comments. We used to spend all the long summer holidays on my grandfather's farm in Ireland. I use to love going up in the hay and spent hours up there reading. I just wish I had the time to do some now!

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"Was she tied up an gagging for it at the time?"

- you really do have a one-track mind..... = a perfect woman :)

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Hi Ann Will do, although it's a bit of a slow process at the moment. Still, until recently I hadn't done anything for twenty years and just had all the old stuff lying in a drawer. I need to stop working!

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Cheers Rach,re 'woodsboy'-inspired by two of my 'clambering grandys'
regards to you and your 'littlies'-Stefanoxx

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Hi again! I hope you'll let me know when your book comes out. I'd like to buy a copy (well, that's one sold anyway!)

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Hi John, thanks for looking at and commenting on my 'Metal Tiger Roars in' poem, and from a different angle too.
Although i don't take kindly to abrupt, harsh critique, i do appreciate and value the considered approach and comment on the structure and technical merits. I've only very recently started to practice with meter based on Stephen Fry's book i have to add. Most of my poetry is written after quiet meditation so i feel it is more spiritually guided. Even that appears flawed because the human element naturally takes over when writing the piece.

I see what you mean about the ending of the poem. I believe that even a tiger would have some vulnerability when injured, literally or in the metaphorical sense. :-)

Thanks again, I needed a comment like yours to spur me on. I worked hard on it and it's the longest piece i've ever written so good to know it didn't go lame.

Janet.x
ps. I like your bio, i can relate to some of it.

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In full agreement with the other comments here. Gorgeous stuff

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Thanks for the comment Ann,I was feeling rather bleak too when I posted it up(Big Birthday Blues) but now I've embraced the whole thing and am feeling much brighter...and the sun's just come out too!
Cheeers
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy, yes, I used to live in Fleetwood, I miss it actually....a bit....sometimes!
Rach
x

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Thanks Isobel, I like Wigan actually, you're never that far from greenery are you?
Cheeeeeers,
Rachel
xxx

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Hi Steve, wow I love both pieces here and your blog is fantastic. I'd love to see and hear stage play performed live.x

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Dear Ann Again thanks for your kind comment on the poems. You were very quick. I only put them on before just before your response! I've also checked out your own Cornish Holiday poem and enjoyed it very much. I recognize lots of those details from when we took our kids off to holiday homes.

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Hi Steve - welcome to WOL. Interesting poems with good imagery. I love the slipshod tears. Hope you enjoy being part of WOL.

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Hi Andy,
you are right..I meant the valentine to be funny; but as TC says he sounds like a real shithead; not like you of course!

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Thanks for your comment, Foxy. May I call you that?! I can hear Bob Dylan himself singing your Valentine's Blues song, save perhaps the tickling feet line. I reckon these words would easily fit around 12 bar blues. You should get together with a musician and perform it as a spoken word piece. Get a little riff going. Buy a cigar just for the occasion. And be sure to wear your heart on your sleeve.

I've just noticed the audiofile; I'll check it out.

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My latest is written in Iambic Pentameter too with some eleven syllable lines with weak endings. Not strictly rhyming. I'm not sure i got some of the line endings right or some of the Trochees and it might be out a bit on some of the punctuation. I really don't know and to be honest, i'm not even sure i care any more. It wears me down.

Janet.x

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Yes it's my own back garden during the recent snow fall. The pic is probably the only airing it will get outside my computer so thought i'd use it while Winter's still here. :-)

and yes it's good to have a change.x

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Hi Andy, thanks for your lovely comment on my Chinese New Year poem. It's always appreciated.

Janet.x

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Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on my Chinese New Year poem. I'll let you into a little secret... I was born in the year of the dog and have other animal instincts linked in. :-)

I doubt very much that ANY of my poetry will EVER be described as 'wonderful' meter etc.... but if that was the only reason for me writing anything, i probably would never write again. It's just not my genre...
but YOU have a gift and a wonderful talent for writing which is recognized by many on this site and so the comments are well deserved. Keep it up but most of all enjoy it.

Janet.x

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Hi Rachel, thanks for your comment on my Chinese New Year poem.
I was born in the year of the dog too but have other animal traits linked in.

Janet.x

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Hi Val, thankyou so much for your recent comments.
and i'm really sorry. I forgot to wish you a very happy birthday for yesterday. :-)
Here's wishing you many more.
Janet.x

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HI Cynthia - thanks as ever for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

re Exegesis - tis a part of something bigger yes : )

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Oh - I touch type so I'm very fast. Next time you would be best to send a quick message like Hi just so the other person knows you;ve connected. Best get on now - need to entertain the cavalry (the kids). Bye for now.
Isobel x

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Not sure what went wrong with chat Joshua - it doesn't work sometimes. Not sure if you read what I wrote - nothing you wrote came across - unless you went off to open a beer or something....LOL
Take care. x

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The chat was working, I'm just not fast at typing. Soz.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks Isobel, I appreciate it. Best of luck to you and your poetry too.

- Josh

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Kenny, cheers for commenting mate, you should blog yours, don't be chicken!! x

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Hi, thanks for your comment on ' the nine'. I have to admit it was kind of just thrown together though i think at the time it felt sort of right. It's about Slipknot. I was listening at the time and thats just how it was then. Tautological - i had to look that one up! You are right though - it is! ;)

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I have composed my own VD poem in the blog section, but it's a bitter bite... not as sweet and lovely as your little 17syllable nugget. My flower is the lotus. Were you thinking of any particular flower when you composed the haiku?

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Hi Greg. Thanks for your comments on my latest - i don't think we've crossed paths before. You are an editor on a newspaper getting into poetry whilst most of us on here are into poetry but would probably love to get into editing on a newspaper - it sounds like an interesting career. I will try to get round to reading some of yours - am just feeling too poetried out at the moment!
Thanks again. x

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