Thanks Francine. Truth is it takes a lifetime to read the whole manual and learn the controls. Then, just when you think you might make a fist of it, you become a Dalek. (A bit dim, with a silly voice and can't do stairs.)

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Your comment about my poetry put a smile on my face...
Oh my! How perceptive you are...

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Thanx Steve, and thanx again for asking me, I really enjoyed it. It was a great audience and I enjoyed interacting, think that went really well and remembered my words! Appreciate the feedback I got from you, Dom and few others.

It was a great night, well done, thought your compering was excellent too, good timing and poems, cheers see ya soon Jeff

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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Hello Val - we haven't met before but I enjoyed taking a peek at some of your poetry. Could particularly identify with 'Good Mother' - that is something I often worry about. Also loved My Hearts Triumphant Cry - it reminds me of the first time I was able to buy a take away for the family instead of having to cook - not something I do often but the luxury of being able to and the choosing - the simple things in life eh?
Bye for now. Isobel xx

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks Val. like they say 'if you didn't laugh you'd cry.'
I've been reading some of your poems ,some very passionate work there -I like
'...floating between heaven and earth
in tune with the sound of the sea.'
a great finish.

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks Tomas,
I wrote it in response to a short snatch of a song I heard on the radio. I don't like being pigeon-holed and patronised, especially by Labour politicans who have totally lost touch with the origins of the party.

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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Exceptional performance at WOL Sale last night, mate.

Well done and thanks again.

Steve

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanx for your great comments as usual Jeff

Thanx for the offer of Vixi's No but you've gotto let them make the first move.... Phew

Thanks Again
Gus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comment on 'What's it all about' - probably the deepest thing i've ever written - not sure I'll ever be able to follow it up! I guess it does sit well next to your poem 'Those who faught on that side' which also really makes you think. Would like to read more of your stuff but I shouldn't be on here at all - have a wedding to go to and I'm still in my Jimmies aaaaahhhhhh.
See you again no doubt. Isobel x

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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Read your Impure Wool poem. I tend to think too much impure wool could make you a bit 'itchy' and more than a little sweaty. A very funny poem that dare I say it had me in stitches ..groan groan!
Isobel x

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Thank you for your lovely comment. I love your poetry so it meant a lot.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Read through some of your poems...
These were really funny : )
STEP CHANGE, LIFETIME LEG END and INCLUSIVITY.

p.s. I agree that you need to blog ; )

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi tomas, thanks for your kind words. why is it just us that knows about the banks? Why do the others cover for them and act like nuts? sorry just very tired, never enough hours in a day for me. xx

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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Hi Gus, thanks so much, I can always count on you for a few kind words. xx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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"In Connection with Drowing" is a poem I like...

Comment is about Memoir. (poet profile)

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"Killing our pain with love"... it numbs the pain, but unless we can love without the pain it does not last...

Comment is about Jordan (poet profile)

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good poems George and I love the pic.
is there any airfreshnerbody there? Brill! pic

Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)

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I love your rhyme and your "ASBO" poem...

Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)

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I like the poem "A Lack of Colour"

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

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Nope! Sorry Isobel - I have no idea how to 'drive' this site properly. It seems like a labyrinth with lots of interconnections. I can't find an idiots guide anywhere. I'll just have to go on posting on 'samples' (I did wonder why it said that). Are you still following Isobel, Lauretta? If you are: glad you liked the rudeness. It is actually a satirical device - I hope I don't get stuck on it!
Lots of thanks to you both.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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I'm following Isobel around.
Barry - Wow what a collection
'Lifetime leg end' is a classic!

I thought I was rude until I discovered this jamboree!!! super n rude. Keep it er, up.

seriously super, fun

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Barrie - you've given me such a laugh! And you have scored a first - you are the first man ever to write me a love poem - awwwww - I will treasure it for ever - even if I did have to share it with one other! I did wonder if you knew how to post a blog cos you seem to have rather a lot of sample poetry in your profile. To the right of where you log in you can submit a blog - these poems tend to get read by people looking at fresh stuff but don't all show constantly on your profile - they tend to get commented on more also - which is also nice. Forgive me if I'm telling you what you already know - it took me a while to fathom things out. I do think you should blog some poetry though - it all reads so well and you are obviously very talented.
Isobel X

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Dear ladies! I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is I will post another funny for you after wrting this - the bad news is that I have no idea about blogs and paper clips on here. (Isobel seems to have paper-clipped a blog to her profile - isn't that an offence under New Labour?) I am so pleased to have your delight and approval - thank you.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Oh mercy me, i laughed so hard at our poem i nearly wet myself. Do you not blog on here?
This is really the best laugh i've had in ages, you should share it. Ooh deary me. hee hee.
Thanks, Suzy.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Step Change - a gem of a poem. Thank you, thank you, thank you. How witty are you! And I only stumbled over it by accident - you should have blogged me - you should blog it - it is so funny. You are right about kissing toads! So observant for a man - I shall make you an honorary woman. Tee hee. I do so love a laugh!

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Thanks for your lovely comment - I love the Tudor but yes it was rather a shit time to take the stage! Never mind - I'm a survivor! Look forward to seeing you there again
Isobel x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Hi Steve,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hello there, got as far as the Dylan Thomas one and like what i see here. Will view more. Really do assocaiate with nature so adore 'foecal attraction' and 'you show me yours' is ab- fab.
Suzy

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Anthony - apologies. I have only just registered your very full approval of my stuff. So I have taken a look at yours - 'like you do' (:o). I see we share the 'human condition' as a spur. I find 'Phoenix' particularly arresting, and overall, feel you use language evocatively (Oh help - is that a word?) and have a nice turn of phrase. I think your style is more acceptable to the modern judges taste than mine, so you should be winning prizes soon - if not already. All the best. Barrie

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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also, the poem that I was referring to last night was 'Girly gup shup' which you missed but is on my profile :)

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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love the duckpoem copiedand pasted it :)

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Gus LOL... Yes the Marsh Marigold is apparently locally known as the Bulrush. Someoneonce told me that this confusion started with a famous painting of moses in the bulrushes which featured the reedmace. It was the actual basket that was made from the bulrush which is commonly employed in basket weaving. Regards, Win x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Wow Win... I started out with the Spelling with one L only to dicover when I searched for a better pic on the net that the pic was titled with 2 L's...What the L I thought... then along comes Win... one L'n goin on about all things Fauna and Latin...got a rush to the head... wish I'd seen a Marsh Marigold now...that'll teach me to go all poetical and natural....Stick to what your better they say... and we all know where thats goin!
LOL

Many thanks for your pedantic comment

Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hello Daniel, thank you for commenting on Delilah's Courage. I have to tread carefully here, as it was a response to a poem my wife wrote. She is a very private woman who spends a lot of time on her own just contemplating all manner of things. She is a very deep and spiritual person. She wrote a poem that i came upon, and i was so impressed it invoked in me a glance (sometimes rare), into her soul. I asked her could i put the poem in the blogs and she said no. So i wrote a work of fiction in response to her poem, as her poem reminded me of the lead lady from the book - The Story of 'O.' Because of the confinement the leading character was in. We dont practise such sado masochistic rituals as are in the novel, but it did imbue upon me the restrictions in the novel that the woman endured. It also has an element of our own chaste life, because resources are currently low, we are somewhat imprisoned in our own home, and for this, i feel foolish because we cannot do more, and i feel like her Jailer when in fact im not. it is in essence a work of fiction, with a little input, from our own current situtation, and, it is also a response to the work in, The Story of O. Okay, it is very sensitive, and it does say a lot. The skinny is, not to apply it too stringently to mine and my wife's situation. The poem that fuelled my imagination i will give you now. But if you ever meet my wife, you cannot say that i put it in here. I'm taking a big risk, but i feel it is a good one, because my wifes poetry, often knocks the spots off mine. I have to try to write, with herself, her writings seem more natural. Here is the poem that inspired me to write Delilah's Courage, it is my wife's poem, handle with care. You're a poet, and because of that, and haveing read your work, i know you will treat it with the sensitivity it is written.

The girl sat there,
She sat there staring at the walls,
Walls that kept her -
Day and night.

Walls that shield her from the
Insanity of human kind;
With nothing beyond to learn,
But within herself.

Thats her most recent poem, i have let you read it as i know you will treat it with respect. If you dont, im diggin up my SLR lol.

Seriously though daniel. I was really touched and although my own poem could have been more personal, i chose to distract it with something based on fiction, that perhaps could be seen as a response. I think you get the picture. I like your work Daniel, very thoughtful prose. Keep em coming blue, and be well.
Mike.

Comment is about Memoir. (poet profile)

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How stupid am I? Thought i'd share this one with you cos it made me laugh. When you sign off you comments you always put win. I thought you were saying that the poem was a good one and that 'win' was your way of saying it. It always made me chuckle cos you used the expression a lot - have only just got it. Am I ever so slightly mad? Don't you just love the English language?
Iz, Is Am...

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, Thanks for commenting on my poem. Just wanted to let you know that I wasn't criticising Malpoet's poem. I thought it was very clever - I just found it really hard to read. I have 4 very beautiful children - so I find stuff like that really hard to deal with. Perhaps i didn't explain myself well enough. I totally agree that it was a well crafted poem.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Dearest Gus, looking forward to the audio, got a week off in July that I can pencil in to spend curled up with your whisperings. fondest regards from softest lips Vix

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi rodney,
I found one really good poetry nite near to where I live but there aren't all that many places for live poetry in north wales either unfortunately. Luckily i'm not to far from liverpool so I venture over there when i can & i'm moving to London in sept so I'll hopefully find a few nights down there cos ye performing in front of people is amazing. i get nervous as hell every time but I love every second of being up there and so to win a slam the other night was absolutely brilliant. was a huge pat on the back and has really encouraged me to carry on writing and performing.

I think that this site is a brilliant way of sharing your poetry and reading other peoples stuff though I have just gotten lost for several hours reading other peoples poems and comments and should really get on with something productive haha. I have read your sample poems. I thought they were really good and could imagine them lending themselves to a performance really well.

Thanks for leaving a comment is always good to hear from somebody who has a passion for poetry. good luck with it and keep in touch.

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Hi Val,
thank you for your nice comments. I have had a quick read of a couple of your poems and think that you have written some really good stuff.

My poems are all just recorded sat at my laptop in my bedroom and so hopefully they come alive a bit more when i'm on stage performing. I look forward to seeing you at the north west regional heat if you are going. Are you performing?

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Hi Gus, Just read your comments on my comments on Mal's poem. Thank you. I totally understand your anger and lack of words. I will write about this one day for you and for everyone else who feels strongly. This is a powerful site for people with things both difficult and beautiful to say... lets keep it that way. Win x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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I am but a lowly writer, not to be compared with yourself, a published professional. I just don't understand how it is radical.

Why don't you take a look at my blogs and IF I decide I want you to publish me, I will allow it :-)

Good health to you, Sir.

Comment is about Alan Corkish (poet profile)

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I don't see how any of this is radical.

Comment is about Alan Corkish (poet profile)

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Awww... merci Gus...
Sois toujours complètement honnête avec moi : )

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks DG, they're in denial, they've got it coming to them.

Comment is about Dermot Glennon (poet profile)

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Hi Mia
Sorry I didn't know about you're ocd...

I was writing a book about my formative years and the experienes associated with ocd... back in the days when it was regarded as pure nutter behaviour... must discuss sometime.. as far as beastiality is concerned we can discuss that ...right now...!!!!!
GusXXX

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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You are such a charmer Gus - you can call me Mademoiselle any day.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hello againMaichelle. Good to chat briefly in the Moose! Winston

Comment is about michelle wright (poet profile)

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I have really appreciated you commenting on what I have posted. I feel humbled that anybody would bother, let alone another poet whom I enjoy reading the works of.

thank you

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Such the philosopher you are!
Merci d'avoir lu mon poème...
Loved the bit about the bits ; )

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi, I really liked your piece, 'Beauty and the Beastiality'. Sort but sweet and a nice delivery.

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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