I am very impressed by the positivity of your work - heard ypou in Rochdale couple weeks ago and was very touched and impressed - well done

Comment is about Tony Walsh aka Longfella (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, Thanks for the comment about Different Dad. Sadly the "wahey" dad with all the moves is fictional, I'm a dad who doesn't think he can dance. Your group work in Hebden was really powerful - Excellent. Seamus.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Val,

Thanks for your comment on Different Dad. I don't think enough people currently tango in tesco. By the way I can't tango.

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Hi gus thanks again Sian x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thank-you for reading and your comments on 'scrabble online' - it's much appreciated.
Cx

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Hi Sian, Thanks for your comment on "Not like the rest". It is a true tragedy, but sadly not rare enough. I was close to psychiatric illness for a long time and got to see lots of flaws in the system, I also saw lots of good bits but don't tend to write about them.

I've a new poem going up later which is much less serious.

By the way "One step behind" is lovely and lets the reader create so much of their own story around it. It could apply to so many people and relationships.

Seamus x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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hi Seamus, "Not like the rest" is a great piece of thoughtful and thought provoking writing and I can see from your other poetry that you have a keen insight and sensitivity to the subject matter. Having worked in the mental health service many years ago I can identify with the "tragedy" you speak of...there are too many people lost in the system some are lost forever. Sian x

Comment is about Seamus Kelly (poet profile)

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Hi Gus i mistakening deleted your last comment re my Beware the Flowers....my fault. i wondered if you could re list it as I enjoyed reading it . by the way the poem does not in anyway indicate my true feelings about men....or does it? Sian X

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Winston,
thankyou for commenting favourably on my poem, ' Getting old.'
Janet.x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi there,
Thank-you so much for your help and your input last night, I had a really good evening and it was lovely to meet you.
Hope you don't mind that I've incorporated your lines in to 'scrabble online' - as far as I remember them!
Cx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Win
Thanks for those heady comments...intersting hearing you breaking new ground...my own view is that multi poet performance must be stage managed and directed in no less a fashion than that of theatre...I suppose what I mean is that more rehersal would make what you want it to be.... I'm wafflin' now sorry ...I am a ware of the logistics that stop that from happening....Still loved it...
Yes I agree a great night ...in my view the best WOL venue.
Many thanks once again
See you soon.
Gus

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi, Maggie,
I just joined - good to find a friendly face here.

<3
Charles

Comment is about Maggie Sawkins (poet profile)

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Hi Sian

Yes tell me about ..Love... I know nothing...just feel my way... so as to speak... and a strange subject for me to be dwelling on...people expect less of me... must get back to the shallow and ranty ribald...ever the court jester.

fondest
Gusx

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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It's great! As you know I love toilet humour. Yes, there will definately be some severe liver abusing on 19th - glad you can make it, get your ticket now as I'm on a mission to sell out!

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy for your comments on 'The One' i do appreciate your input, as a beginner i'm not sure i have the skills yet to change tack deliberately- but i'm keenly picking up tips x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Sian, thank you for your comments on 'The One' . they're very much appreciated (i'm still a very nervous beginner picking up tips but not able to apply them yet) x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Hi Steve
Thanks for reading and leaving comments on the cat poem. It has an unusual structure I guess. Quite suitable for these unusual animals. Liked your comparison to soldiers on the city walls. We once had a castellated fence which was even more fitting. I think you have to write a poem about this.
Winston

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Winston, I liked your poem about cats. My girlfriend is crazy about cats and has just got a new one from the rescue centre here in Wallasey. I like cats and they seem to like me but they make me sneeze and my eyes water so I guess I must be allergric to them. But I do like to watch cats patrolling the redbrick walls of the local neighbourhood ... like legionaries on the walls of Chester two millennia ago.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hello, thanks for the comment on my poem :) Much appreciated.

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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hello good morning good people :-) as early as it is, i'm beginning to push March's POETS AND MASH as this month's is gonna be fan-tas-tic, featuring guest slots from ANDY CRAVEN GRIFFITHS, PICO THE SPONGE, EMMA DECENT and AKIEL CHINELO. More updates will follow. Join us! :-P

Comment is about Dominic Berry (poet profile)

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Thanks Andy

You Know full well they don't come any madder than me.....the old march hare... thats me.. just trying to lighten things a little....everyone's so deep..... possibly real poets...who knows

See you soon
Gus

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello Sian,
Thank you for taking the time to read Lullaby. We lose them all eventually don't we, especially after investing so much emotional currency. Thanks again. Graham

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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I liked the line 'echoing locomotion and squealing swings'. I think the last stanza of that poem is especially good.

Comment is about owen calvert (poet profile)

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Hi Owen, Liked the Summerhouse - like the combination of Echoing locomotion and squealing swings but coughing up truth for me was a killer line. keep posting mate. Winston

Comment is about owen calvert (poet profile)

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thank -you Winston, i'm going to check that song out- i love 'i am and i'll be what i'll be'. you're comments are greatly appreciated. don't think i've learnt much yet as i can't get past just blurting it straight out.x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thank you - I think beastiality is very underated. The dream stuff is interesting - I've stopped having (or remembering) my vivid dreams since I started writing.

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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Hi Jeff, Thank you for your feedback :) i'm good thank you, and will take a look at some of your stuff :)

Ta very much again Belinda

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks For the read re 'Olaf'...just a bit of excercise for the rhyme fairy really nothing serious....mind you thats my middle name...'nothing serious'..I was pleased to do Fat Elvis ...glad you liked it

See ya soon
Gus

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks to you Jeff for your comments
your a star!

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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I like coffee and cheesecake, I might try the two together :) Nice poetry, I especially like 'Control' very well written.

Comment is about Matt Charnock (poet profile)

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Hello! Thank you for the comment on my poem, I really like your poetry, will be commenting shortly !
x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks Rodney. You think I should ? Hang on a minute, I've just got used to sending email !
I wouldn't have a clue how to go about it -but will investigate -another string to my bow. Bill Kelly.

Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)

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Hello, I read your poem...and listened, "all things pass as does time" I think its brilliant! The comparisons are really well put throughout the poem, I shall be reading more. Nice work :)

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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hi, loved your poem, so powerful. x

Comment is about Estelle Zaire (poet profile)

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Hi Winston

thanks again for reading and commenting on my work : )

i think this works as a page poem and not reallly a performance piece?

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Winston,
Thanks for listening to 'Confetti' & leaving a comment. Sent you an email about Hebden Bridge - did you get it?
Cx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Steve

Thank for reading and your coments re- Decree Nisi, most appreciated.

Winston

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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Hi Winston

Cheers for your comment on my Snow Marilyn poem - as for 'a' or 'as' - I'm not sure yet.

Love Decree Nisi. Great poem. Odd question, but is it a song? It looks and reads as quite lyrical - and I haven't seen you perform so I don't know.

Just read through the comments - it's not an odd question, is it?

"The metallic taste of sin
Embroidered with rust red thread"

are great lines - very rich and powerful. It's an image that delivers on many levels.

I also like how the poem builds in momentum from the fourth stanza. There's an intensity to it and your use of repetition only adds to it making it that more engaging.

Good stuff.

Steve

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I especially like your sample poem, it flows very poetically, and has some intriguing ideas within it. Very nice.
Katy

Comment is about Lenford White (poet profile)

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Hello
Many thanks for your comment on my poem, I think that I wrote previously on somebody else's poem that there are so many different ways to interpret somebody's work, and that was one of the interpretations that I got when I read mine back after I had written it...that it was about a love that would exist even after it had left this world. This poem was actually written about two clients of mine (I am a support worker for disabled and terminally ill people) they are very close, not married or anything like that because they are not able to, but they are quite elderly, and I just saw their love, and wrote what I thought that they felt between them. But thank you so much for your words, and yes I would very much like to read the poem that you mentioned. I will also look at some of your work here :)

Comment is about Lenford White (poet profile)

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thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it. x

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

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Thanks Gus,
Have you any suggestions as to a final solution -start a war in the Balkans perhaps-big drugs problem on our streets coming from there -good excuse, like Afghanistan !

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Loved the beastiality poem!!! :-) Set me smiling for the day!!!

Comment is about Mia Darlone (poet profile)

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Hi Bernard, Thank-you for reading & commenting on 'Initial Name' - very much appreciated - I've left a bit more on the comments page of the poem.
Juniper
x

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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Hi Gus,
Thanks for your comments on 'Initial Name', much appreciated. Have left a bit more on the comments page of the poem.
I've never met a Gus, but my great-grandfather was Alfred Augustus - he stepped on a mine in 1917 in Ypres.
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thanks Winston, for your comments on 'Initial Name' - I've left a bit more about it on the comments page of the poem.
Cx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Gus, thank you for your input and suggestions for playstation- they're greatly appreciated. x

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thank you, Val, for your comment on playstation. I appreciate it x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Hello, many thanks for the comment, always useful to have a different perspective and yes, that line does sound alot better...it flows well, so thank you very much! :)

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Jordan - thanks for your recent comments. I've seen you perform at Hebden and was astonished at your level of performance around your words. Keep it up.

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