cheers grasshopper, inferior man laughs at the tao, if he did not it would not be the tao....did he mean to write tea, toe, tap? Terrible typists those taoists, to-ists,tapists, trappists, ....etc

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Michel, thanks for the prescription, i'll be taking it twice a day from hereonin (which looks a bit too much like heroin for my liking and talking of liking, the Hennessy prize sounds well worth competing for, I hope it was a magnum, sorry that's a big ice-cream..well you know what I mean) Cheers

dave

Comment is about Michèle Vassal (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment.
I like your 'Walkabout' idea, you really paint a picture.

Comment is about David Franks: Walkabouts Verse (poet profile)

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Really nice to read your poems here.

Comment is about Armando Halpern (poet profile)

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thankyou for reading and commenting on my poem
carole x

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Hi Rodney

Thanks for your comments, good to know you like some of my work, fighting on was obviously quite a personal one but one that means a lot to me.

Tour going well, two down, nine to go, but so far so good. I've just been to Rebellion Punk fest in Blackpool so expect one about that!

Interesting to hear the work you do and what you've been writing about. I'm about a month behond at the mo with blogs due to organising this tour! Will catch up though and have a gander at your recent stuff, cheers Jeff

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re goshawk, Thanks I'll do that and repost, sounds like good advice

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Ah! well in that case, thankyou very much!

I'm so used to people cutting up my work, albeit in good faith, i'm beginning to get a little paranoid. :-)

Janet.x

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Hi Tommy,
thanks for the comment. (I think!)
errr, ''more cut up'' ?

Janet :-)

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Hi
thanks for your comment on 'Fucking in pink'.
thought you might like to know a little more about the poem...

it's kind of a laugh at people who are bothered about stereotyping/pigeon holing. An ex of mine was so bothered about guys that were pink and moisturise and...etc that I almost bought him a pink top just to piss him off!
It was actually 'inspired' by a guy wearing a tracky top that had pink panels on it. I've not tested the theory yet though!

Cat x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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my typing is terrible! apple-ogles if that made no sense!!

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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hi tommy, just to clarify, whilst i admire the cut u styles of Burroughs and I greatly admire Andre Breton, my writing is not actually using that method as they are original texts and have not existed in any other form. I wrote to cynthia, that my style is abstract as well as maybe being a little autistic as i am brainstorming trying to remove my 'I' in some cases from intense emotional experiences but it is always there and is all original. i like the feel of words. I admire the character Nadja created by Andre Breton which touched a nerve with me. Don't ususally like being so bold in explaining my work or confessional because I think my style echoes that plainly too, but you've dragged something out of me!!!
Marianne

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...nor is the side of a red London bus, but I can't afford that space and Mr.Dawkins needs some support...perhaps I'll turn it into a paragraph...less threatening than a poem....pleased to see you like Kate Goes, Rodney, very inventive band....I enjoyed your Sistine chapel, though I'm suspicious of paintings on ceilings and stained-glass windows...cheers for the comment.

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Thankyou for your fulsome response.
You sing to a different tune than i and until you mentioned it the Wham song hadn't entered my head but it does kind of alter the theme. :-)
I had a song with the line 'you'll never know how hard i tried' in it. Can't remember who sung it or even if it's relevant to the poems theme but there you go.
I see your point and will most likely edit for my files so please don't think your time is wasted just because i might not edit and re-post here. I find if i do that, it leaves an open invitation for everyone to have a go and quite frankly i can't cope with it at the moment. Too sensitive! :-)

Thanks so much for your explanation of a clause too. Put simply like that, it's easily understandable. Sentences- i was raised to believe that a full stop ends a sentence which seems to be all wrong when writing poetry. All very confusing. :-)

Janet.x

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Jeff,
enjoyed looked at the poems, esp Fighting On. I do part time work at an Arts Centre and since last year having been writing a poem for each gig I've attended; everything from thrash metal to jazz punk to Tibetan Monks. Best wishes for your Busking 4Beer.
Rx

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Chehre (faces)

Hum kadam bharhatey hey
doasti samajh kar

magar sachi doasti hamarey
peechey hey muntazar

===================================

we take a step forward
thinking it’s friendship

but real friendship
is stood behind us


was great to have you at the event yesterday and am planning next one - will let you know soon
:-)

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Cynthia,
thanks very much for your comments and I'm delighted you liked the poems. Eulogy is the final part of a series of poems call My Neighbour which I read a bit of at an open mic in Woking.
RodneyX

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Hi John, thank you for your kind comments on my writing. I like your work too, it's deeply reflective and shows why work is shit for you, 'cos you should be doing this instead.But i guess it's sometimes the tension and shit that stirs the mud in the glass..i hope you find work that isn't so shitty soon. deb x

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Ta Ant

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hello Anthony,
thanks for the comment on 'devil and me.'
Weaknesses i have aplenty, particularly in my poems which you often pick up on. :-)
So go on, what are the petty minor details in this one?
Could it be punctuation by any chance?
I do like to incorporate punctuation into my work so go ahead with your suggestions because the ''rules'' for that seem to be very different than the rules for writing a letter etc..
BTW, is a clause the same as a sentence?
It always confuses me when people talk clauses.
Janet.x

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Hi Simon,Thankyou for taking requests the other night in Hebden. I was thrilled by your nude poem! Now... I have never noticed your short poem 'Airborne Inversion'. I love it. It is clever, observant and has that certain something that makes it a whole with no part out of place, no corners unrounded and no ends partly frayed. Winston x

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Hi Tommy, not really Absinthe, but plenny Draught Bass and good red wine, plus all the other stuff. You're in Liverpool, aren'tcha? Hope you can come over and do some of your poems at the Bards. Cheers - like your poems.

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Hi John,
thanks for your comments.
Yes i do have my reflective moments. I quite enjoy the creativity it brings out.
Must be the beautiful full moon we just had. It had a definite affect on my emotions.

Janet.x

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HI John - many thanks for your kind comments on 'Excess memories' - much appreciated

Best wishes

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Hi David, Glad you liked 'Windows'. I am getting some material together for a childrens book so look out for more daftness to come! Win

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Mr. Wood, I'm sorry it has taken me so long to 'get into' your poems. I think they are excellent, so much so that I have no favourite/s. I may not comment much but I will read them all. I believe that you have a high standard for your work.

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Hello Dave, thanks for your recent comment. Enjoyed reading your stuff, 'excess memories' clearly painful but stunning.
John

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thanks Tony :)

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Just enjoyed your "Windows", Winston...I wonder if Nathan is leaning Left?!
David

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Dear Gus

Just to say thanks for your well-considered comments on my poem. I'm delighted that it appealed to you. My memories of 'I Got You Babe' are slightly hazy. I was only three months old when it came out. I must remind myself of its finer details.

With best regards from New Malden

Rachel P

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Hello Steve,
thank you for your comment on Aurora. I really like 'A Poetess Worth Words'. Beautiful and haunting... like your country. Deb : )

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Hi John - cheers for commenting on Tramp Stamp. I haven't read it before but am going to at the next Freed Up - it fits the theme I think!

I LOVE work is shit - made me laugh out loud and especially 'listening to fat anne' - god it's boring to hear people drone about calories while stuffing their faces!

Ax

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Hi Winston, thanks for your comment on 'old man at bar'. It seems a tenuous link to 'English Bond' but it was the starting point for me. Hope I can make it to Hebden next month.
John

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Belinda, you paid the highest compliment i could ever have wished for and i thank you.
I can't tell you just how much it means to me for many reasons.

Thankyou
Janet.x.

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...but since you asked so nicely, I have added two more poems to my profile.

Rachel

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Win - thanks for your comments regarding Fireflies (and your help working on it!). With regard to your other comments:

To the Tardis I tried to run
Strange glow around my head
Single blast of Ray Gun
The Daleks shot me dead

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia. Thanksfor your comments on the Haikus. I have written quite a few now although none are on here. I do like the form. Re Mutton dressed as lamb. Yes this is a well worn phrase as is fish out of water in the first stanza. Tosome it may also be to cliche. I liked the idea of each haiku ending with a common phrase, The second however admitedly does not. Guess It could be 'another spare part'. As to it been cruel, yes perhaps but that doesn't worry me here. Life is all shades. Rough / rude / awkward / sad and cruel. One idea I had was to expand this poem to one where the next 3 'sad' subjects are men (just for balance). Winston

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Hi Win,
thank you for commenting on Turn Away. Kind of is children lost but as adults struggling to do what needs to be done and a sinister element intruding. Hope life is good in Heb, Deb xx

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Hi CAte, thanks for commenting on Turn Away. No, they're not children of the future, although I like your take. more they are children of the past, adults of the future,children raised by grandmothers, becoming drowned in things they can't quite handle.thanks again Cate for taking the time to read and comment, Deb xx

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Hi AE,
ta for commenting on my last entry.
"suffer from subconscious comparison." what the barley or the sinister element? hmm. i think you have tied me up in knots slightly.not hard to do. yes, it means a sinister element. I know Sting sang about fileds of the same grain but i live among fields of various stuff and barley was the one i felt lost in in this case. There's quite a lot of it about and it's very tall and green. Easy for the children i was writing of to get lost in.I kinda wishedthey'd got lost in fields of oilseed rape instead to avoid the comparison but it was barley i meant so I'll have to ride this one out.ta. Deb

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Hello Winston
Gosh, blogging. I'm not entirely sure I'd know how to do that. But thankyou for the interest. I like the look of your barge, by the way.
Best regards
Rachel P

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi there. No blog entries? Is this an one poem personal ad? Can we see some blog entries so we can comment? Winston

Comment is about Rachel Pantechnicon (poet profile)

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cheers for the suggestions, anthony over the three poems.. I normally would work on them a heck of a lot before putting them up but thought I would put them straight up... I am gonna be looking at all three poems in due course, but you are right with your comments so thank you for them!

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Hi Marianne
Glad you liked 3 Random strangers. Bus stops are always good poem material arn't they. Winston

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hi dave, Thanks for your comments on rats / fish / barrels / poetry etc. Maybe this was left in the barrel when all the shooting was over! Inany case I think its ok but you are right, it is easy to write this type of thing and maybe thingsof greater worth only come with greater effort. See you about. P.S. I still love you too.

Comment is about Dave Morgan (poet profile)

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thanks for your comments on ,,, oh i have forgotten the name of the poem :) i must be in love ha

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Marrianne, when you have a moment, will you enlarge just a bit on the word 'startling' in reference to my work. I am intrigued to know what you mean.

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony,
Thank you for the link to the children's poetry competition - it's appreciated. I'll check that out.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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hi win,
thanks for the comments. i do try to comment on a few but i get a little tongue tied most of the time so i fear I wouldn't do justice! I do greatly admire your work though and opinion, i hope i have not come across as a boring enigma.
thanks again, it is greatly appreciated. x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Enjoyed the metre, the rhyme, the humour.

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