cheers Win for the suggestion on my poem 'Revenge''... Lot to think about with that piece as I actually wrote in about 5 - 10 mins for a friend shall we say who was having issues after she wouldn't write, so i may well go back another day and rethink it through but for the moment it made her giggle and cheered her up which was the full point behind it!

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hello cynthia.
thanks for the comments, i am blown away that you like my work!
i am also startled by yours, 'Last NIght I heard a Sqawk' sucked me in and left momewhere brilliantly uneasy. i very much like your style and talent.
Look forward to more. x

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No, I did a scriptwriting course run by a lady called Beth Mcann, under the name of Primary Creations. She was the brains behind the Not Part Of festival and a general mover and shaker in Manchester. Where do you run your creative writing course? Thanks for your comment by the way!

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I love this line I particular, Emma:
Bringing bugs to bear
nice!
Was that the Salford course you did?

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I like Celebrity Shoes Emma!

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thanks for comment and thought you did a brill delivery on saturday. . work is shit in't it!!!

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Thanks for your comment on Red Shoes Stephen - I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of it.
Legacy is an enjoyable read and one full of truth. I have often wondered just how different everyone's lives would be if we were restricted to the number of houses that we actually needed - surely not the spiral of debt and mortgage that many get mired in - or the culture of adults living with parents that we now see. Human nature is such that we all want more though, to feather our own nest or the nests of our children. The only answer would be to legislate and that would be party political suicide. We may take pleasure from a minority falling on their faces of late - but the trend will always be upward and this problem will be with us forever. Sorry if I'm rambling but your poem made me think - which I guess means it has succeeded.
Isobel x

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Hi Steve... I have finally found an outlet for my bleeding beetroot heart poem... see
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=5711

Win

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Hi Winston, thanks for your kind appraisal of 'Last Runes Cast', much appreciated.

Best wishes

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi John
This is my fav bit too -
Red, through.
Wet, through. Wringing
out the truth beneath
the veins and scar tissue.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Anthony, Really greatful for your recent comments on The Blood Onion. Some interesting observations. Need a bit of time to let them settle, will be back soon. Win

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Potentially explosive?
Well i didn't think you needed to be told a rose without thorns :-)

Janet.x

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I have made some changes to ‘Blood Onion’, which you were so kind to leave some comments on recently. Could you please go to the blog entry and see if you think these changes are for the better or make sense to you.
Your analysis was a great help. It is meant to be 'him' feeling the anguish from the start as she is doing the 'he loves me...' thing in a taunting unfeeling, maybe manic way. Also The word 'throbs' I have decided to stick with it, take your point, it is unusally placed but we can all break the rules a little sometimes I am sure. Ihave written more details on the blog entry. Many thanks, Win

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Hi Dave - I have made some changes to ‘Blood Onion’, which you were so kind to leave a comment on recently. Could you please go to the blog entry and see if you think these changes are for the better or make sense to you.
Not read this out yet, Glad you liked the “Throbs” I thinks it works. You are right about the final cut of the knife at the end.
Cheers, Win

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Hi John - I have made some changes to ‘Blood Onion’, which you were so kind to leave a comment on recently. Could you please go to the blog entry and see if you think these changes are for the better or make sense to you.

Glad you like it, and the ending, yes it does have a similar feel to “She left her coat behind” which is no bad thing as you know I love that one of yours

Win x

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Thanks for your comments Anthony! I think we can but try get past these social conditions - every time we do we become a little bit more free.

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Oi !

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very funny with a hot mug mark

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loved the carbon footprint hilarious lol

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I guess I could work my way through to 'what she wears beneath..' but I might disappoint you all. LOL! No - I'm think I'm done with that one - it was just a brief moment in time where my confidence was shaken - so easily done - I've rallied now - for the next 10 years at least...
Isobel x

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Thanks for your comment Andy - I would say definitely a page poem - my performance stuff is a lot punchier. Am agonising at the moment about whether to chop it all up and put better structure to it - but am glad you liked it.
Isobel x

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You have no email address Anthony - wanted to ask your opinion on something - any chance of emailing me - I promise not to stalk you in my red shoes!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Good stuff here Chris! Best wishes from a newbie

Comment is about Chris Jam (poet profile)

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:)) Cheers Daniel for your comment on 'Dusty Books' - it was actually spurred by a debate on another poetry forum, but I thought I would risk airing it here too, hehe.

Best wishes

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Hello Dave
I find that cat-motivation poems work especially well if you shake a box of Go-Cat (or similar) in time with the rhythm. I've noticed that they soon prick their ears up.
Best wishes
Rachel P

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Hi Rachel - I must seek guidance from you on penning the purrfect cat motivational poem! ;) I confess my own cat scribes feature fur balls rather than address them, hehe. Best wishes

Dave

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Re-balloon. Oh no! You'll have to do much better than that! I want a rose with it too. :-)

My niece sends balloons up into the sky for each grandparent on anniversaries of their deaths. She did it at the funerals too. Much nicer than throwing soil in the ground. :-)

Janet.x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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'Bobby' struck a chord or two with me John - partly due to my own follicularly challenged experiences - a good read, perhaps more so at the mike :)

Best wishes

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hi Daniel - thanks for commenting on 'Chips & Dips' - glad you enjoyed it :) I think you were probably first as there weren't many of us on line when I posted it last night - some folks must have sneaked out, hehe.

Best wishes

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hello anthony, thanks for the comments.
Love your curse!! Made me splutter me tea out as I read it (two sugars for me please, its the less harmful of my many vices).
trying to get audio stuff up soon when i get my hands on a mic.
cheers
xx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Daniel, having read the poems here on your bio page I'm inclined to campaign for legalizing green aliens ;) Good work!

Best wishes

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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Lincolnshire...what's there? Grimsby et al??
I'm afraid I don't know of anything east of ... Lancashire hehe.
If I had a choice between Yorks and Scots - I'd be Scottish every time haha. As it stands, I am probably extremely English with no particular rooting!

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Thanks Dave,
I know! I feel I owe it to my name to become Welsh one day but sadly, I remain distinctly un-Welsh.
I live closer to Wales than I ever have though :) - result!

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Hi Dave, thanks for your comment on What Do You See,......Ive never been one to take shit without fighting back, and I think this poem expresses my personality quite well!!!!! Im learning to be a little more laid back as I grow older disgracefully though!!
Cate xx

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Thankyou for your encouraging comments today David

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When are you going to post your pole dancing poem? The humour was so subtle - your best yet - I would love to read it.
Isobel x

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Thankyou for your comments on H1N1influenza, perhaps I should have added a bit about the eye( the great eye of Sauron that is)!! I enjoyed your prose above but am particularly drawn to Lifelines. The picture of the woman knitting and the poem are exact, did the pic spur the poem I wonder.
best wishes, jane

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Anthony, thank you for your comments, feedback and support. Its really appreciated. Lucky you living in rural Devon! I have been there as a child, would love to go back...if only I can find the time...need to escape......


thanks again

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Hi Andy, thankyou for your comment on H1N1 influenza! I'm trying to work out where your photo was taken, its good. For me I really like the imagery and perspective of Kemp town. I can reread it and still see it. Very enjoyable, i will have to visit again! Jane

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Tommy,
Just read through your first posted poem.Really like this one and the message in it!

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Hello Cynthia and thanks for your comment on ''the healer'' poem.
Truth is i'm all out of steam right now and can't be bothered any more. Telling is what i do and if it isn't good enough then maybe i shouldn't be here at all but i doubt you've seen the last of me because i actually enjoy writing ''performance'' poetry and my technique is slowly but surely improving.
I do enjoy reading between the lines of ''page'' poetry but as for writing it? Well, i leave that to the ones who are best at it. :-)

I've enjoyed your recent blog posts and will continue to read. Thanks again,
Janet.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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The Gallery v.funny n true! Thanks for your comment on my poem also.

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Thanx for the comment John.Definetely see you on Sat.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia,
Thank-you so much for reading and commenting on my work, I'm pleased you liked it.
I'm not sure what a 'flip off the end of the pen' poet is - I imagine someone who just throws it out and sees what happens - in which case, yes - mostly I am.
I have a friend who is (what I consider to be) a 'proper' writer - i.e. someone who gets paid for it! - and she's always urging me to put my writings away in a drawer for a couple of months and forget about them, then when I do re-visit them, she tells me, I will see more clearly and objectively how to edit. But mostly - I'm just too impatient for that!
Thanks again - I appreciate your input,
Cx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my poem - Blood Onion made me want to cry - you have written some good stuff.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Love your new book 'The Importance of Magic in the Void' and the lovely personal inscription you wrote for me. Will be sure to 'dip my feet in the colours of the earth' as often as I can... And to think I thought you were recommending the benefits of a walk in the park....

Comment is about John Togher (poet profile)

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Many thanks for your kind words on Quirky Verse - there's more where they came from. Read yours with interest, which sound disturbingly factual.

Comment is about christine yates (poet profile)

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Thanks for the explanation of 'fantasy'. Not to blow apart any succouring bubbles, but that 'beach scene' now so prevalent as a romantic icon, would in reality have had sand in body parts not happy with grit.

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Hi Marianne, as someone entrenched in the "make it bloody obvious" school of narrative poetry, your work is a challenge, but I'm hopeless at crossword puzzles and chess, and really anything else that requires a bit of effort. I can imagine listening to the flow of words, backed up by a mellifluous sax, sitting on a giant bean bag, slightly or even extremely intoxicated, in the Museum of Modern Art, and thinking "wow i must get into this writing business. Cliff Richard is so dead!" Definitely brain fodder. Thank you.

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Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for your comments on "undercurrents." I think I may have said before that very little of my writing is autobiographical; it's something that I've never been particularly comfortable with. I just tend to imagine myself into situations, or alternatively adapt imagined situations to fit a particular theme I feel like exploring. Today's theme was, as you correctly observed, what past relationships leave behind, and how they never truly leave our subconscious. Oh yes, I've been there several times, but never in the exact circumstances of the poem - I just needed the moonlight, beach and frangipani to add that sense of "From Here to Eternity" romance and lust. Pure escapism - influenced and fuelled by emotinal experience. I hope I haven't disappointed you!
Regards,
A.E.

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