Ann, I so know what you mean about the poem on the back of the fag packet syndrome. I wrote one in half an hour the other day while the kids were pestering me and I was hugely pleased with it. Others I work on, like really work and they just don't have that 'feeling'...weird innit!
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Annelise. You are our first new member for 2010. Happy new year... looking forward to seeing you post more of your work. Winston

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Hi Andy, thanks as always for your comments on all my poems.
To be honest, i think i posted the last one way too early. It needs some more work and i'm not happy with the title. It just doesn't sit right so i'll have a think.

Janet.x

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Hello Anneliese, welcome to WOL.

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45 at the most you fibber!

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Hi Cynthia - I'm going to be writing up my WOLOP summary tomorrow. Just wondered if you had a favourite this month. Don't worry if you haven't - just thought I'd check... x

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John,
it's good to know people who like music-still more to know someone whose actually heard of a bands I'm writing about. Actually I keep writing about bands I've seen.

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ey up Frank
your picture caught my eye in the good old Rossendale Free Press this week - you didn't tell them you'd defected to the soft south, now did you? Good luck with the book
Graham

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Hiya Mark,
nice to see your real tag but i liked Horace the spider too.

Thanks for your comment on my latest poem. I do think i posted it a little too early though and i also think i've edited a little too much out of it and on top of all that i now want to change the title. hmmm...
we live and learn! :-)

Janet.x

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Thanks for your comments on my HD poem. I agree with what you say. As so often, I rushed to put the poem on. Have turned breath into breathe, which is what it was meant to be. I think my problem is that my poems jump into my head then right onto the page without me thinking much about them! Nice to get such a lot of caring feedback! xx

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wah?

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Hi CBT ty!

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TY Andy!

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Ty K!

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel - I totally agree about the last line, but I couldn't resist the rhyme! Might change it. Happy Noo Year!

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I adored Beautiful Girl, it had me in stitches. It also made my other half laugh too, no mean feat. The King is Dead had some fabulous ryhthms in it, I read it aloud (to the other half again) and the "son of a mother..."stanza in particular was just gorgeous to read.
Rachel
x

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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sorry Isobel,can,t be doing with your christmas cake look-get back in battledress asap.and as for those superglued lips!!! to think,i once wanted for mine to alight upon them!

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Thanks for your comment on my latest Andy. It was a bit of an odd one for me but as I recall, you like poetry that leaves gaps to be filled in... Hope you have a great 2010. x

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Thanks for your comment on my latest Gus - you will most definitely see me in the New Year. I hope to get out to Bolton or Middleton, if I don't see you before in Wigan. Happy New Year x

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Thank you Clarissa. And a Happy New Year to everyone xx

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G'day Dave - thanks for the comment on my profile - as you say on yours there is a lot of fun to be had just by trawling the site. I think now I would have liked to have made a bit more of the fact that the poem has a very poignant ending that has little to do with the science... And a very happy New Year to you too.

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Hi Ross

Comments are disabled for the POTM you have chosen so this is the only place it's possible to say what a good choice. Thanks for finding it and Happy New Year

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Black is black
I want my panties back

Thanks fer yer cheery banter,,, yes you are right size 18 is a bit Bridget...even 4 me.. poor Francine possibly size 4 ladies squeeze into very little these days ... so I am given to understand.

Happy New Year

Gusxx

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Hey up Our John... me poem is laid in a bi lateral form insofar as it helps me perform ican quickly scan the page to breathe, pause, emphasis, burp..whatever.
However, thats not to say that your suggested edit is not an improvemnt ... because poem to page I think it is, but I would take my version to the open mike...I;ll read and record both versions an try an prove a point, in the New Year, little sense will come from until I have made a fool of myself at the bells.
Have a gud'yun, by the way hope yer bum is on the mend.

Gus

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
yes i changed. Trust me, it's only a google image. :-)

Happy new year.
Janet.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment Isobel.
Love the new pic. Makes you look all young and innocent and yet....

Happy new year.
Janet.xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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So your wife spent up in the sales then...

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Do you mind the fact that everyone always assumes that the poems we write are based on ourselves? This is such a strong, personal poem, but you could have invented the scenario. I feel that I'd like to write a poem and leave it open as to whether it is based on me and my experiences. If you write a novel about a mass murderer, people don't assume you are a nmass murderer. Or is it that poetry is always a sort of truth? Don't know. lotsoflove ;-)
Ann, couldn't agree more with your comments above posted on Rachels blog entry... thats what poets do isn't it? If people assume you are writting from personal experience then thats a bit of a leap surely? Win

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you John for your kind comment, Particularly glad we share an affection for the word Arse, it's a favourite of mine too. I say it quite a lot! x

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hi Mab , Welcome to WOL. Two very different poems inyour sample. Winston

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Thanks for your kind comment on Cinders. Sometimes it's good to play the bastard although for the record I've been happily married for 36 years.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Well, Mab, no-one seems to have made a comment, yet... Please allow me to be the first. x

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on my work. You're spot on as is chris co. I have left a comment on that will clarify what the army speak means. By the way, i like your work.

thanks once again.

Michael

x

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Awww - you're a sweetie - I've never been called beautiful before. This is one of the rare facial photos I'd bother to put up - am just not photogenic. In fact, I have to look that way cos my nose is crooked if I go the other! Glad you approve though and I hope you won't miss the ankles too much - they were never mine...xx

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Cor....lovely! I'll miss the ankles...but love the wry smile...and beautiful face.

: )

Jx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Ahoy Dave!

Thannks very much for your comment!

Mingo.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments - you were very kind. I've written better but not for a long time. Decided to just let go of that one before it got added to the pile of unfinished.... xx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Ha ha - your phone number gave it away!

I'm an old Bacupian myself, living in Hampshire now. Was back up in the valley for xmas. The snow was good.

Comment is about Gray Hamm (poet profile)

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Rachel, spent half an hour reading all of your stuff, enjoyed it very much.'Dad' stood out, very clever. Look forward to seeing more.


John

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Hi Win, thanks for your comments on cycling home (no hands). It had 9 verses but I edited it down, not sure if I might mess about with it a bit more.

John

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John, thanks for your very encouraging comments on cycling home (no hands), it actually had nine verses but I edited it down, if a poem gets too long I get a nosebleed.

cheers

John

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Hi Isobel, thanks for your comments on cycling home (no hands). It started as a daft jaunty piece but ended as it ended.

Happy new year to you.

John

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Helloooo,
re your question about the reader assuming the poems are autobiographical, I don't particularly mind. It does feel a little exposing but it's my choice to post them on here isn't it? I admit some of my poems are autobiographical, some aren't, some of the things I write about happened to people I know but not to me personally. I think readers will always assume there's a back story themselves anyway whether that's poetry or prose. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in asking me that by the way.
Love
Rachel
xxx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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I just sniggered tea on my keyboard after reading your comment on stockings.
Cheeeeers
Rachel
x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Greg - glad you're well. I used to like walking round Hampton Court, but usually went to Kew Gardens! Miss all those trees - not many where I live, too windy! I put the walking the coast path poem up to remind me what I want to do this coming summer, a sort of new year's resolution. Don't think I'll go just at the moment, the days are too short. But maybe toenails don't grow so fast in the wintertime!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Regarding Animals in their Bags, Mia.. I'll tell you where that piece came from when I see you next, but I was a little drunk shall we say... lol

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, yes I did have a good Christmas, thanks, including a nice walk along the river beside Hampton Court! Hope you had a decent one too, and very best wishes for a happy and creative new year. My one worry is ... is it really wise to be undertaking a coastal walk in this weather? Hope you're keeping an eye on the forecasts ...
Greg x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Ta for comment on my nail scissors poem, not really a very good poem but I wrote it to remind me of what I want to carry on doing when the summer comes! Roll on that time!!

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Dear Mia, thanks for your comment on the 'Enigma of perception', you are far from thick, I have seen your work as you know ;-), it is just that I am a little crazy, it comes out sometimes in my script ;-) Yours as ever Thaumaturgically Supercharged ha ha ;-)) XX

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hi Rachel-belated thanks from prodigal chops to say ta el mucho for comments-and! do not include copying my habit-slagging ones self off-in your case,totally without reason-all the very best for the New Year rach'-Stefamungus

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