Thanks for the compliment, Barrie! Keep up the good work.

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your kind feedback. I have always found self-deprecation to be a pretty useful way to get an audience on side before I start to mock figures of authority.
I enjoyed reading your poetry. The Watercress Girl has some wonderful imagery and The Doomsday Man is perceptive, mocking, and has a very powerful ending.
George

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi there George,
And welcome to WOL. Love the gentle, self-deprecating humour in your poems - and don't we just need humour in these bleak times? I have found this to be friendly, helpful place to hang out. Hope you enjoy your time here. Maybe the best way to get something out of this community is to offer a few crits on the work of others and check out the discussion forums. Have fun!
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)

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lovely to meet you and your friend yesterday :)
sorry i had to dash , look forward to seeing you again

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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oh by the way the link i think is fubar but heres is a link to the featured piece and a link in th lat post to the ezine too

regards al

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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ello mate thanks for the welcome and for the chuckle i had on your comments about my "dark" work haha

i dont solely write dark for any particular reason apart from that i write what i feel as do most but as and when i wish to evangelise about a summers day etc i will, as im not totally into nihilism.

im keen to ultimately get my work published in answer to your question and am keen to make inroads into doing that (ability permitting)

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Thanks for approval posted on my page Frank. I see from 'Shadows' you are aptly named. You 'wear your Freud on your sleeve' when writing. Does poor Keith have any idea just how hopeless his situation is? (:o)

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Ha ha... un flirt... moi?

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Freda,
There's such a lot of stuff on here now that it's taken me a while to discover yours. I'm really glad I did, and I just want to tell you how much I admire your work. I can't add much to what's already been said, except to say that you are a very talented poet. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Hi Frank,
Love your work. Fresh, different, quirky, imaginative, technically adept and very absorbing. a poetic breath of fresh air - mixed with a welcome and liberal dose of nitrous oxide.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Hi Barrie,
I'm really impressed with the quality and high standard of your work - not only the content, but the presentation too. it's imaginative, erudite, technically correct and very topical. (An yu cn speell' n do grammur 'n punkuashun 2!) All too rare these days. Your work is a credit to you and the site Sir! Excellent.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi rod, talkin all dat jazz no reference to what you were saying. Talking of Ole, i first heard it on Gilles Petersons One World on Radio One. I tried hi and lo to obtain it in this country, and had the record shops looking for it in their directories, but no joy. I dropped in New York, and the first thing i did was to walk into a record shop in Times Square, where, they duly gave me a copy of the CD. It is one of my prized CD's, sounds good today as its always been. Dunno why us brits have such a horrible attitude, to works of pure genius that court the dark and sublime. Nice one for your comments rod. Be Well.
Mike

Comment is about Rod Whitworth (poet profile)

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Hi Alan,
And welcome to WOL. Took a look at your work via the links you provided, and you're right - absloutely right - it's DAAAAARK - very dark! Darker than a blind black cat wearing dark glasses in a sack of soot sitting in a coal cellar at midnight when there's no moon or stars! Had to look up "crotaline" as I'd not come across the adjective for the pit viper family before - nice to learn a new word, thanks. Couldn't get the link to poeticmonthly.com, despite googling it and searching it - is it defunct? What do you wish to achieve with your writing - more darkness - or a new direction? I'm sure you'll find plenty of inspiration and encouragement here if you are prepared to participate. I would suggest a good way to get feedback on your work is to offer comment on the work of others, a good start might be to give three crits for every poem you post. I have found contributors to be both friendly and helpful here, and hope you find the same. Hope you enjoy your stay.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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I really enjoyed reading your poem. Its funny. I get some very clear images and visuals from it. It'd be nice to paint it.

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, just read your DECREE NI'SI poem - powerful stuff. Ta for your comments on my terraced houses poem, by the way. Hope to catch you performing before too long.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on my poems. Coltrane was a jazz saxophonist of endless invention.

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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"Work is Shit" is a great poem. Says it all.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Like your style, Graham.

Are you from Bacup, by any chance?

Comment is about Gray Hamm (poet profile)

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I really like the one about the slug eating shit, despite the shameless punning in the title.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hello Tim, thank you for your comments on my words,Trust. I am happy you liked it,Deb x

Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, I know, a box containing something dead seems macabre. however, I often find butterflies in one of my sheds, which have tried to escape but become trapped in cobwebs. I try to rescue them but often it is too late. I couldn't help myself and wanted to see the beauty of their wings and preserve them in a little tin. There was still so much life in the colours even though their little bodied were hollow. The silver wires are their proboscises, probosci or whatever, i imagined probing my mind instead of a flower. I love butterflies and I wanted to appreciate the beauty of their wings before they faded. Deb.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Daniel


Thaks for your comment. Childs play? Are you crazy? 'Corporate Christ' is a bit too close to home for me these days and has really made me think, and as for 'Poetry Bomber' - how much do I wish I'd written that one myself?

Fantastic pace and rhhythm, fresh, different, edgy; respect what you do, because its good!

Can't wait to read more

Sis x

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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Hello, thanks for the kind welcome and feedback!
I'm impressed by the very thoughtful and supportive commenting I see within the community here.
I'm even more impressed by the volume of interesting, amusing and moving writing.
On the whole I'm very glad I inadvertently stumbled on WOL. Pity I can't remember what I was actually searching for... but I don't care anymore!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Steve - yes, I did post something. It's back on now, but tweaked a little. It didn't 'feel' right after I'd originally posted it.

Your contributions are adding some much needed life into the site. Well done.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Love the audio recording of The Watercress Girl, - nicely read.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Merci beaucoup pour vos mots gentils Gus...

J'espère que vous me permettez de vous corriger un peu votre français...

'Vous sont très aimables'... doit être:
Vous êtes très aimable.

Ce n'est pas grave...
de toute façon je vous ai compris ; )

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Anthony
many thanks for your kind comments on my samples, and for the welcome.
Cheers
A

Comment is about Alan McKean (poet profile)

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Your poem 'Forgotten'
is very thoughtfully written...
makes you pause, think and feel
for innocent victims everywhere.

Merci aussi Andy pour ta remarque
sur mon poème 'Paris'

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Alan,
And welcome to WOL. Lots to enjoy and identify with in your samples. Particularly liked "Dell Boy" and "Inside Out" - especially as I have two cats! Hope you have fun and get to know the people here - they are a friendly bunch and very helpful. Look forward to reading more of your work.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Alan McKean (poet profile)

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thanks Anthony,
trouble is anyone employed by the nhs who attempts to whistle blow or protest in any useful way against such abuses, now runs the risk of being victimised. According to bbc 4 'Today' this morning, if Jackie Smith gets her way, anyone who dissents in any way against what this government is doing runs a serious risk of being branded an enemy of the state !

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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an amazing collection of poems.!
an amazing profile piccy

we salute you.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony,
George Clooney. He's ok i guess. Brad Pitt does nothing for me at all. Johnny Depp however is another matter altogether. Phew!

Thanks for your lovely observations on my Mandolin poem. I had the same thought about the Rod Stewart connotations but i do love that song anyway. I wrote the poem while listening to a meditation cd and the mandolin was part of the instrumentals.

Janet.x

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thanks Anthony

Your work is good and very diverse. I will continue to follow it.

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Hi Gus,
Thanks for your fulsome praise of "The Watercress Girl". Entirely undeserved really, it's just a piece of Victorian Gothic fantasy, but I hope entertaining. I, like others have mentioned, like your "lips" logos too! Your missing has a "Music Hall/Variety Theatre" quality to it - I can easily imagine some old time song and dance man tip-tapping his way through it with cane and straw hat, complete with suggestive winks and gestures! Max Miller etc . . . now there's an idea for your next performance . . . ;-)
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Malpoet,
And thanks for your comments on "The Watercress Girl". Your feedback is most welcome. I took a stroll through your stuff and particularly enjoyed "Bobbing and Peering" - I have also found that the issue of prostitution is such a fertile source of material for poetry, I guess it's the concept that we are able to "buy" comfort from those who perhaps most need it theirselves. Also liked "Dad", althogh found it a little uncomfortable as it is close to my own experience of a relationship (or lack of) with my own late father. The ending sums it up perfectly, "Shame I never knew you. I am curious now you are dead." More power to your pen Sir!
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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Hello Gus, thank you for your comments on my Sky Iron in this new equinox. I hope your Spring thus far is sunny and blossoming. Deb x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hooray for the return of head butting pandas. It gets bloody boring on here at times. I bite people occasionally, but it's not a lot of fun really. You are needed.

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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Greetings! The instant message box was teflon coated and my words slid off it like water off a Offa. It wouldn't let me respond -- so you just had a Wonderwall of green-ink. Hello there! How are you? Ever so pleased you're keeping the tone effervescent and anarchic and paterphysic and prancey. Joy to your world, oh Honoured Malpoet!

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Hi Jeff

Thanks for your comment about Different Dad. Also thanks for putting on a great night at Bolton. Myself and Maggie had a really good time and I see that you are planning another already for May so well done.

Cheers
Seamus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Why Thank you kindly Mal...the lips thing is a bit of a fetish ...lovely mouths....pretty lips ... and sexy shoes ....grief I'm begining to shake again.....

Thanks again
Gus

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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No don't shut up - your points are very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to read and disect.

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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no edit button , so i changed it back :)

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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thanks steve , love the cool and sexy photo ;)

my poem came back to the top of the listings by default i was trying a change and didnt like it ,

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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YOu're quite right....I'm only dreamin Thats why I'm a poet...Its only make believe...

Thanks again for you comment
Gus

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

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Thanks Carol, I just wish I had taken the time to write something more conventional, but then, perhaps, I might have failed to get my point across -which is probably a reflection on my poetry skills? And you are right, we are all part of it. I like your plea for Burma, short and to the point.

Comment is about Carol Falaki (poet profile)

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It was lovely of you to say so

Many thanks for that Sian
Gus x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Yes, I was never a an old Tom but she was a bit of a hell cat as I recall...happy days!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, Thanks for readin & commenting on 'A Poem' - your opinion is always welcome. And as I've been poorly this week and am feeling very sorry for myself, your kind remarks are doubly appreciated.
Cx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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thanks for reading and commenting Sian ,
yeah sometimes poetry surprises me in its anger when i write it down

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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oh dominic,
i was hoping you'd have that aubergine-y one posted up here-
because what i reeeeeally want to know is....
whats been really bugging me is....
is it 'oh l'amore' or 'oh la mort' ???
i dont think i will sleep soundly until you tell me!
sally xx

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