Thank you so much, Ruth, for guiding this complete novice through his first radio show. You have such a lovely calm easy manner and link everything together brilliantly well. Really enjoyed it, thanks to you!
Gail sends her kindest regards, too! 😀
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Indeed K, unless otherwise stated all images are of my own volition.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Thanks Keith for your comments on 'Wheeled luggage.
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cheers Brenda your like that contains "context"😌
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Thanks for your likes Aviva
missing your poetry
keeping mine in a safe place
all ready to put on yours.
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Thu 17th Mar 2022 22:16
Thank you for your comment on my poem veiled🌷
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I loved your samples, Pamela, particularly fear which was extremely realistic and gripping. Great skill, I thought. Looking forward to your blogs! 😀
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Hi John
Just wanted to say thankyou so much for you dm. I love the playlist, it is now part of my library. Thanks.😊
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
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Kelly, there is so much material in your 'Colours of Hungary' notes that they deserve working on into a really strong piece.
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Hi Nigel!
Glad that you're keeping well. Aww Thank you for your kind words about my poetry and the lovely one you've just write on my page, I really appreciate that😊 There I go smiling again now!
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Doing ok Ruth
love your poetry and how it reminds me of you
Faces of You
Smiling sometimes sad
words that work
make up on
I always see
faces of you.
Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)
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Fri 11th Mar 2022 23:40
Food poisoning? NOT nice! A cruel combination of input and output! Rest and recuperation are the recommended treatments
I recall. Replace all those lost vital salts and get back the body back in balance!
Chicken soup seems a good start.
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Fri 11th Mar 2022 11:53
Hi Ruth - noting your comment on John Botterill's poem, I'm
not sure poets are always the best readers of their own work and
in the past I used a Bristol studio and its two resident recording
artists to record various poems of mine in musical settings for a self-published enterprise on CD. You can find some examples (e.g. The Menin Gate and English Hills) in the audio list on my WOL page and if you'd like a sample copy of the CD, just let me know where i can send it.
MC
Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)
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Sun 6th Mar 2022 23:33
Yes, I should have put that phrase "Read All About It"
in the poem.
Good idea!
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Sun 6th Mar 2022 02:59
Mosey has two syllables with the sofy y at the end
and is therefore easier on tongue and mind.
"Jaunt" to me is too harsh! With that mean T at the end!
Just my opinion.
I prefer to Mosey, rather than jaunt!
😃
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Fri 4th Mar 2022 02:53
I knew it.
You are like a woman.
Lying about your age.
Actually, you don't look too bad
considering...
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Welcome to WOL Jacie,
Reading your profile I completely agree with the idea of using poetry instead of a diary. I do the same albeit for different reasons perhaps. Look forward to reading your work.
Comment is about roma-mary (poet profile)
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The photo is from the mid-60s - but I'm from 1944 originally. A wartime issue!! 😃
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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Thu 3rd Mar 2022 02:57
Had no idea you were that old,
did you use someone else's photograph?
😃
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Re: Merely a Player
Thanks so much for your comments, Greg and for providing the historical backdrop of which I was unaware. It makes sense of the journeying aspects. Much appreciated!
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Hi Greg, thanks again for your recent comments. Much appreciated you stopping by to read. And thanks for the invite to Write Out Loud Woking's Zoom event. I'm traveling next week Wednesday but will drop you a line in due course. I'm mostly keen to get to a live event too and see there is now one in Worcester, so I may even pop along to that next time I'm in that neck of the woods. 😃 Thanks again, Tom.
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Sun 27th Feb 2022 02:56
"rich in optimism"????
are you being sarcastic?
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Hi Clare. I've really enjoyed your recent poems. You're on top form in my view! I wouldn't have been so flippant about Kathleen if I'd known she was a real person. However, I do feel your poem hits upon a truth about alcohol.
Keep writing fine poems and I'll keep liking them! 😀
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Hi John, Thanks so much for taking the time to like and comment on my recent postings. Enjoy your wine, I know I do! Kind Kathleen is a true story of a woman I once knew. Sadly, she didn't know how to stop and her drinking didn't bring out the best in her.
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
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Mon 21st Feb 2022 11:37
A clean desk may mean
all the work was done.
what about that?
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Yes, I remember a training course at work where people said 'I like clutter' and 'When I see a clean desk, I know there's no work being done'. This was not the aim of the course, obviously.
In clutter, no one can hear you scream. That would have been a good title.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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Mon 21st Feb 2022 03:04
His stuff is now Your stuff!
better get rid of the stuff
before it's too late
and you become stuffed like him.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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Mon 21st Feb 2022 03:01
The people who do not think too straight
are those who tend to accumulate
sooner than later they awake
to find there' no more room
for pity's sake.
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Words can travel, but the spelling and meaning can change.
We're aware of "the usual suspects". As Alan Jay Lerner tells us
in 'My Fair Lady": 'There are even place where English
completely disappears. In America they haven't used it for years'. 😋.
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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Sun 20th Feb 2022 01:38
words do travel
they change their spelling
kind of like a disguise
they look different
but still...could be recognized
in a police line-up.
😃
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Enjoyed your sample, Jaz - reminded me of Roger Deakin visiting Wales, in his book Waterlog, with the aim of getting himself lost there.
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Some sayings are well known here in the home of the English language. I can't speak for their ability to "travel". 😐
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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Sat 19th Feb 2022 02:22
what old saying? have never heard that.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
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You are so right. Thanks for the like and comment. I appreciate you taking the time to read my words.
Comment is about Nigel Astell (poet profile)
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Hi John, thankyou for your like and comment on my poem - The Kids home. I'm sorry for your dad. My mother and many of her siblings were raised in the Irish Catholic institutions, so I feel your dad's pain. These places were often just hell holes where kids were abused and neglected.
I myself was in a kids home - hence the poem. I was luckier than my mother.
Thanks also for the dm, very kind words indeed. Much appreciated!
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
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Fri 18th Feb 2022 00:41
I am napping now.
However I woke up briefly to write this.
it wore me out, so now
I am going back to my nap.
Thanks for reading my poem, Charley Bishop!
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
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Wed 16th Feb 2022 02:41
Humor & Truth
quite a meal
for one old poet.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Thank you for your comment on Bubbles of success.
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
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I really like 'The Deal', Richard. Extremely poignant.👍
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Thanks, Greg. Yes, I had forgotten the Mid-Hants Line stuff. Thanks for this; some nice stories there.
John
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Morning, John,
You may have quite rightly forgotten all about this, but your poem has finally been posted on the Mid-Hants Railway site! Scroll down and you'll find it. Thanks for contributing. Greg
https://watercressline.co.uk/locospotting-a-post-war-subculture/?fbclid=IwAR3ym4KrI7h0Y-5cPTH9YnmGWEHPbitV_6WOxBPbhwGd3EDhPaEYEOFzogM
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Tue 8th Feb 2022 03:25
Except now the sheep in Canada
are attacking the wolves. haha
Trudeau, in the meantime goes into hiding...
afraid of his own people.
I love it!
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Cheers John <stop making excuses >🤔🤭
🙂
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
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Don. Hope you are OK. Really worried now the Baggy Greens have thumped us English into the boundary boards. And you've said nothing. John
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Ruth O'Reilly
Mon 28th Mar 2022 01:00
I Just wanted to say a big Thank You to you for being such a wonderful guest today and helping me to create such a good show.
It was a real pleasure to meet yourself & Gail and you are always welcome back. I'm just posting a link to your show here in case any of your write out loud fans would like to listen back. Kind Regards 🙏
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sxrQ6Qnt4a6ncB1DqFx8G?si=EdmY4jH9T8-CsthulDzNcA
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