Have deleted my comments cos my profile was getting a little long. I have saved them all somewhere though cos I'm sad like that - will visit them one day when I'm feeling lonely. I saved Moxy because she is an absent friend. x

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Correction Isobel, I had.

~smile~

Comment is about Christopher Dawson (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, I am confused, when did you think you offended me?
Bernie

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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You have a very nice bottom Christopher.

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Sorry it took so long to reply... It's been a MAD couple of weeks! Thanks for your encouragement, I've got big plans for the next year so see you soon!x

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Hi Cynthia
Your very kind comments (After the Deal ..) are greatly appreciated.
I wish I could take great credit for its meter etc, but it's just what came out of my head, to suit this particular subject.
x Steve :-)))

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Hi Nicky, I can only surmise from 'Lilley' that your son was very young when he passed away - a parents nightmare to lose a child, somehow it seems a crime against the nature of things in our society. My sympathies are with you, I know how years can pass without denting the void - my eldest daughter has always resented my youngest child because their mother succumbed to post natal complications.

Peace be with you, Dave

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Hi Cynthia
thanks for your comment on ''who pays the ferryman.''
Further comment on my blog. Do you think it needs more or is it ok as it is ?

Janet.x

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Just read your blog-poem, then enjoyed some more of your poetry, Dave.

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Hi Winston
Thanks for your message
I enjoyed meeting the faces that appear on WOL.
I'll certainly try to keep writing. I'm not 100% sure about readings as I'm not the greatest social animal.
Time will tell
Again, thanks. It's truly appreciated
Steve M.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hello Jeff
Thankyou for your lovely comments.
I'll see you next Thursday at the Tudor.
Yolande

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks for commenting on my latest - yes it was rather a performance piece - hadn't anticipated the language upsetting people on here! Will remember to tone it down in future.

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for the comment. I wrote this when helping at a local school, and saw the mothers dropping off their children on Day 1. Half elation; half tears.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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I should just add that in performance poetry, issues/language don't jump up and bite you on the bum, like my poem just has. Language is soon heard and soon forgotten. Anything written down is there to be read and reread forever and a day - that is why we all need to be very careful about what we commit to paper. Never argue by mail (as some of my family have) - not easy to forget words that can be refreshed.

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I don't know David. Perhaps people just want to feel rebellious and naughty sometimes - I know I do. I just feel like venting all my frustrations in some way. Perhaps I should buy a cat, then I could go and kick it. Will probably never write another poem that contains so many swear words - it was just a phase I was going through - probably cos I knew someone at the time who swore a lot - it must have rubbed off.

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But why is there so much swearing, and shock tactics, in "performance poetry"?

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Sorry if I've offended you with my recent poem David. I try never to swear in front of my children and only rarely in poetry. This was written primarily as a performance piece, not for page. I tend to perform only in pubs where the audience is largely inebriated and accepting of all forms of language. I do take your point.

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Hi Dave,
thanks for your comment on Chloe's poems.
I really do appreciate it.
You're a star!

Janet.x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Val, thanks for your recent comments, and the one for Chloe's poems.
You're a star!

Janet.x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks for your kind comments Lenford . While my current mission is to contribute rubbish and trivia to this fine site, I do it as a perverse tribute to awesome writers like yourself. Where did you learn to write or does it just happen? As Mr Jellyhead, who died five years ago this month, and who we will be commemorating at the Man and Scythe in Bolton Sunday 13th September, often said the only rules Dave, are that there are no rules". I think that's the kind of statement that encourages lengthy and healthy discussion on Write out Loud. Look forward to reading more of your work and seeing it get recognised in a wider arena.

Dave

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Hello Cynthia,
I love that you asked those questions about my poem 'I Thought...'
Definitely both... more about the first, because I love them so... and a little of the second, because when you are let down, doubt creeps in.

Merci : )

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Cate - thank you for your recent comment. Unfortunately, my camping days have only just begun.

D

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Thanks for your comments, Dave.
You had it easy! If my memory serves me well, Saturday was by far the best day with the region's weather. Still, I've earned my camping stripes and, rather surprisingly, it hasn't put me off doing it all again. Without the kids.
Thanks again.

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Hi Dominic

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement, I 'm hoping to do a few more open mic nights this year but at present a bit restricted with hospital appointments due to my ticker.
Really enjoyed the 'Inside Out poetry night'
All the best to you and yours

Paul+Mary Broadhurst

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Hi Dave
Thanks for reading anc commenting on 'Important' - glad you liked it.
No _ I suppose the questions don't come much bigger than why are we here? and does anything matter? but I think I'm coming at them from a different point-of-view to yours. I don't have any religious or spiritual faith or convictions - I don't believe there is any kind of afterlife where we'll receive a reward for being virtuous - I believe this is it! and precisely because this is it ... is why our actions matter. But as you point out - equally - perhaps not. I know which way I prefer to try and conduct myself - but, in the end, I don't think the world notices much!

I, too, loved the Bill Bryson Short History. And although I don't have your spiritual beliefs ..... I do always wonder ......!
:-)
Cx

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your kind words of encouragement are really uplifting. thank you so much. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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...hello Cynthia...thank you for the comment...in sixty years I've never heard anyone pointing out that 'religion' and 'time' are man-made ideas, and the Earth and universe will carry on perfectly well when man has gone...I just thought it needed saying.....chris.

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Hi Cate
Thanks for commenting.
First of all I couldn't beat your Blog photograph (I'm not sure I phrased that correctly)
Secondly, if I'd put a photo of my bum on the Blog, it may have started a riot
Thirdly, if I'd put a photo of the sort of bum I saw on the bus, I'd have probably got crucified.
Us men just can't win
Steve :-))))

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Hi Cate

Thanks for your comments. Yes it was hard - extremely chewy and odd. Even though I hate waste, the attempt had to be abandoned. To top it all I forgot photos could be posted with blogs. A pic of the sad little object would have made a nice addition

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Your comments are always valued and appreciated Cynthia.
Cate xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Nicky, thanks for your lovely comment on Sunflowers. Yellow is one of my fav colours so I think you made a good choice there!
As to the not liking lilies, I think its the frame of mind I remember them in. Someone dear to me died a few years ago and I can still smell the lilies in the funeral parlour mixed with the unbearable grief.
On the other hand my daughter got married two years ago, and she had the most beautiful long spray of white lilies for her bouquet, so its just a case of the frame of mind I was in when I wrote the poem.
Cate xx

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hi again Dave, thanks for your comment on Sunflowers... a very perceptive comment you put up!
Cate xx

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Hi Rod,

I know the West End Centre - i once helped promote Courtney Pine and got free tickets for mi labour

there was also a bookshop within the shopping centre - i bought and read most of the work of the french masters there and some of Chekov's stuff

steve

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Hello Cate,
thank you for your recent very kind comments on my poems דבורה and Virtuality..yes, hope is an uphill struggle sometimes and sometimes it slips away into the mist again..but then a new view opens up in it's place so it was worth the climb..I am trying to play that same violin but i have snapped 2 strings and anyone hearing me might be the ones to cry..never mind..it's fun : )) thanks again, debz xx

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Hi Gus, I can't remember if I thanked you for your lovely comments on Virtuality. No matter, i thank you anew because you are kind to have taken the time to post them, Debz xx

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Hello Val,
thank you for your recent kind comments on my poem דבורה. : ) deb xx

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Good evening mr J, thank you very much for your kind comments on my poem דבורה. Do i have the right to return ?..not sure but if this weather keeps up i might give it a go.. thank you again, debz xx

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Hello Cynthia,
thank you for your recent very kind comments on my poem דבורה. i am touched that you took the time to send me your thoughts, : ) deb x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hello Win,
I hope you and Maisie are having a nice summer on your boat. Thank you for your recent comments on דבורה. Your supportive words are always appreciated, : )
deb x

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Thank an invented God for that, as I really like your style.
As far as I remember, Joyce thought himself too clever to rhyme, preferring assonance. Beckett didn't rhyme a lot...reading his poems are a penance for admiring 'Waiting for Godot'.
Steve Smith

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Hi back
Thanks for the compliment.
'Touch' is certainly heartfelt. It sort of mirrors what I felt on my first and last days with ....
Together - forever
I'm romantic enough to hope that these feelings come along to everyone in their lifetime
Thanks again for taking the time
Steve

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Hello Tomas

Thanks for your thoughts on my "Four Magnolia Walls". I think you have hit the nail on the head (see how I extend the DIY metaphor, there).

Best regards

Rachel P

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Cynthia. You are kind. Don't feel like I'm writing much of great value at the moment - think I need another holiday!

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glad you liked brief encounters.. i was thinking about at one point about reading brief encounters at ky's event but then i thought this was a all ages event so it wouldn't have being suitable - maybe next year! lol - i have got lots off different writing events on the go.. hoping for round 2 in ireland next year.. how bout u?

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Thankyou so much Dominic. I enjoyed your poems very much too and just red the one about purple. It's velvet for sure, even in different colours velvet is purple. I can't see in 3D you know, it's all like a big painting or film to me!
Yes, it was enjoyable. And I'll let you know what I'm doing, maybe will catch you more often this year? Cathy x

Comment is about Dominic Berry (poet profile)

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not anti in the least Cynthia, glad of the advice.
Bernie

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Cynthia the poster read "Support Your Goverment Forces" was in French but that was the translation I got from my Congolese Friends.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Stephen! I wasn't at all offended! Quite the opposite I was amused and intrigued and just thought it would be fun to ask the same question about Irish writers...O dear, obviously I was to curt in my answer...I DO apologize..

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excellent work at Inside Out man. I was thoroughly entertained throughout. I can't believe you say you don't read often yet you had such a relaxed and easy vibe on stage- very charismatic and hugely enjoyable. Please let me know when your reading round Manchester way next, your stuff is brilliant and it was a joy to watch you perform. well done fella

:)

Comment is about Paul Broadhurst (poet profile)

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wonderful poems here and a truly wonderful set at Inside Out- literally full of wonder. Your work is dead impressive as is your delivery- you need to get out there and share your work more! I thoroughly enjoyed sharing ths stage with you and your poems were ace- great length, greath humour, very deep and personal. Excellent stuff. Come to Freed Up!

:D

xx

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