Martin, your poems Rested and Books are the best yet. I like your style and presentation. I am a logophobe, so addicted to books. Thanks. Keith

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind words about my poems, Keith. I read yours titled 'the Morass' and find your rhythm and image choice like that of a movie. It all tells a story that's complex but also intuitive. I look forwards to reading more of your works in the future.

All the best,
Adrian

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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We have to break away from the revolving repetitive sequential events that inevitably end in violent confrontation, by accepting that the EC's example of economic and political cooperation is the only sensible way toward stability in Europe. Our membership of the EU since the early seventies has enriched the quality of life for most of the member states including the UK, together with an accumulated frictionless seventy three years since 1945
The cost of living has risen considerably since the electorate (minds tainted by old fashioned Imperialistic reactionaries) voted to leave last year and will continue to rise, chasing a pipe dream't impractical, isolationist, independent, behind the times, future.

In a country that depends on foreign investment to prop up failing industries. The only successful 100% "british" export to date. Is our language.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Thanks Harry for your wonderfully crafted backup. Is there not time still for us codgers to cobble together some sort of veto against all this madness.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Many thanks Keith for your comment

Yes it's a great pity people don't appreciate the many aspects that make up the bigger picture. They are unwittingly fertilizing the growth of intolerance.

Ken

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Phew! Thankyou for expanding on your earlier comment, Cynthia. I feel hugely reassured!
I'm very grateful that you have taken the time to think deeply about something and then the trouble to put your thoughts out there to be read.
Very much appreciated.
Richard

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Looking forward to meeting you in Sale in November. And, no, I don't think 'drunk'; doesn't quite fit the furrowed brow theme.

Comment is about Joe Williams (poet profile)

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Just a comment, Richard. In no way a rebuke however gentle or delicious. The word 'orbit' came up in a comment of your own, on another poet's work, or Bio page. And it gave me pause for thought. Partly because I've been a bit sensitive to exactly your point, mulling it over a bit on my own.

I realize interchange between poets can be, or not be, totally private. Yours wasn't. So I didn't feel intrusive; I like to see what other writers have to say about certain poems, or about anything at all.

Comment is about Richard Hartley (poet profile)

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Hello Keith,

Thank you for your comment on my poem. It means a lot.

Hannah

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Hi Harry. Hope your safely back in your rut.

Him in North Korea wouldn't be so belligerent if you and I had international bus passes.

Comment is about ken eaton-dykes (poet profile)

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Hi, Ken,
My worlds a bit mad at the moment so only saw your comment on my prof tonight.

You are absolutely right about your deterrence effect (I always wondered how those Koreans wrought up their courage...now I know - sheer opportunism, as soon as they found out that we were demobbed)

I`ll tell you what as well... If that big fat pig in charge there now ever comes over...well slice him into a million little bits with our pension cards.

Keep the poems coming!

Comment is about ken eaton-dykes (poet profile)

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Thanks Martin for picking up on my poems World of Wheels and She loved that Cardigan.

Glad you like them !

Ray

Comment is about Martin Elder (poet profile)

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Thanks Steve, glad you liked the poem. Perhaps I'll run into you at some point when I'm doing all these book gigs!

Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)

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Hello Cynthia
I’m grateful for your comment on my Profile page and appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting me.
I have a sneaky feeling that I am having my wrist most deliciously slapped – although for the life of me I am unable to work out why!
A pleasurable experience all the same! Thankyou.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments Cynthia, I'm glad you liked the poem and my biog. I think the word you're looking for to describe the profile pic might be "drunk" :D

It looks like you're a regular at WoL Sale, so I hope I'll see you there in November when I'm one of the guests.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Richard, do we have an 'orbit' here on WOL. Maybe we do - but it certainly isn't geographic, deliberately. For awhile it wasn't just the UK. Poets came from the US and Canada and Australia and India and Africa and Europe. And were well received too. Sometimes, English was their second/third/fourth language.

Then, again, maybe 'like' does take to 'like'. And the stalwarts are just that - stalwart. Responsive and regular in their written input, with both poetry and comments. Without a doubt, poetry 'friendships' have developed. And there seems to be an inexorable lean to the North of England writers, with their famous 'one foot in romance and the other in necessity' which pervades the whole society. I have come to greatly appreciate this duality - the essence of 'Northern-ness', a very sharing and brutally honest outlook on life.

Just a thought.

Comment is about Richard Hartley (poet profile)

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Iesha, I'll try to catch up with more of your work.
I'm sorry a Welcome to WOL is so late. I'm pretty sure I've commented on some of your other poems, but maybe not.

I'm not on site daily. Sometimes only once a week. But I will make an effort.

'merely a moment' indeed. Excellent phrase.

Comment is about iesha washington (poet profile)

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I don't know how I've missed you thus far. I'll really try to catch up. That's an impressive BIO.

Are you trying to look scary in the photo, or just sun-blinded? Or intense and intellectual? Or maybe deeply 'composing'? It's definitely a 'catchy' picture.

Comment is about Joe Williams (poet profile)

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Lynn,
thank you for your kind comments. It's comforting to know that someone else can relate. I love the stories you tell within your work as well. ??

Comment is about lynn hahn (poet profile)

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Hello, I have enjoyed the poem posted as a Sample. I look forward to reading more. Kind Regards. Keith

Comment is about Nourhanne Khairy (poet profile)

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Hi Ray, thanks for your feedback on On Leave, encouragement always appreciated. The first line, possibly the last line, belongs to Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent who, as you may know, was very popular for his companionable, unhyped stories from the front, for the folks back home, who are involved too, of course.
Dom.

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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I really like your work. So easy to digest but so full of flavor.

Comment is about Lyrical Lexa (poet profile)

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Thanks for posting 'Midnight Train to Bulawayo' - I enjoyed it! Were you there in 1997? How long did you stay?
As you know, I grew up in NR/Zambia from 1955 - 75. Last time I was there was in 1971 - a weekend trip to Salisbury for shopping and a new hairdo from Kitwe, on the Copperbelt in Zambia. I spent between 68 - 74 travelling and working between UK and Zambia. Back to Africa every time I got too homesick and saved up for the next trip to UK.
My little brother went to St George's in Salisbury so we'd go down to take him out for a Sunday lunch at Meikles every so often but I only went to Bulawayo twice on the way to SA.
I have added another African poem from my 1968 notebook to my profile... yes, I still have it. Ha-Ha!

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Karen thanks for the coment re Flight. Cheers Tommy. ;- )

Comment is about Karen Ankers (poet profile)

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Done Us Proud

Ugly bug ball not at all!
opening vocal cords to uplifting poetry
turning up volume came the applause

Cheering Oldknow crowd while clapping nonstop
they shouted and lifted their glasses
Stockport you have done us proud!

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hey, there! Thank you for your comment on my profile. Working on my pieces each time. Thanks again! :)

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

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Hi Keith Glad you liked the Gaudi poem. Got another one coming up soon in London Grip. Cheers David

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Hi Paul Glad you liked the Gaudi poem. Got another one coming up soon in London Grip. Cheers David

Comment is about Paul Waring (poet profile)

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❤

Comment is about andre3000 (poet profile)

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thank you Shirley - I most certainly will. Colin.

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Hello Eseosa, Thank you for your comment on my latest poem The Spirit. I appreciate it greatly. Keith

Comment is about Eseosa (poet profile)

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Hello MC. Thank you for taking time to comment on my latest poem The Spirit. It has taken me a good while to reach the point when I am in full control of myself after a lifetime of conformity and being controlled. It is in fact remarkably liberating. Thank you again as I always value what you have to say. Keith

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Harry, thank you for your comment on my latest poem Existence & Purpose. There is a God - no two ways about it mate. Bless you. Keith

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Stu, thank you for your recent comment on my latest poem. I understand what you say. Poets seem attracted by human existence and the world about us which provides a good deal to think about. I first approached religion in a rationalistic way. How did this all come to be? Why am I here? Then there is the faith approach of belief with little or no evidence. This path invariably steers people into some kind of institutionalised religious grouping be it Church , Temple or Mosque. I developed a faith but soon could not cope with institutionalised religion as I found it corrupt and controlling. As I apporach the age of seventy I would describe myself as a free thinker with a profound faith but not one determined by others. Thanks again for your comment. Keith

Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)

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Hello Keith
Many thanks for your kind words on my profile page
- they were much appreciated.
Richard

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thank you for those kind comments, Your work is a style that I consider beyond me. I've tried to write in that style and, got nowhere. Reading your poems may help me. Terry.

Comment is about Lyrical Lexa (poet profile)

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Hello Richard, Just to say that I enjoyed The Last Train and Deo Gratias. Unfortunately I do not live in Essex but Spain so I am unable to be present at any of your recitations. Thank you. Keith

Comment is about Richard Hartley (poet profile)

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Thanks so much for your comment. Keith

Comment is about Lyrical Lexa (poet profile)

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Hi Harry

Thanks for the comment. I too went in the army 1948. so we both must have been serving together for a while. What a deterrent we two must have been to the forces of communism. For as soon as I was demobbed the Korean war started.

Comment is about Harry O`N eill (poet profile)

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Hello Terry, I am drawn to your biography, its openess and determination to pursue what life has to offer. I also enjoyed some of your poetry. Thank you. Keith

Comment is about terry l shuff (poet profile)

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I love your writing style and the way you rhyme. Especially, 'No Plans'. "Flames of grief anew are lit, rekindling fires of loneliness". Beautiful in the most sad kind of way. I have added you to my favorites.

Comment is about terry l shuff (poet profile)

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Hi Keith.

Many thanks for your comment. It's much appreciated

Ken xx

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Good day Keigth

Thank you for all the kind comments you always leave on my poems.

Such positive feedback always makes one want to write more.

Kind regards

Neill Barnard

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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enjoy so much the poems you write me you truly are a inspiration to me...

Comment is about lynn hahn (poet profile)

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Hello Cynthia
Thankyou for you kind words - about my poem and my poetry group!
It is great fun having a monthly poetic get-together but I think I'm probably more highly valued as an organiser than as a poet - but hey, I'll take whatever appreciation I'm given in life!
Best wishes.
Richard

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL. Great to see that you are 'running' a poetry night in your area. Good luck on the enterprise; I'm sure you're highly valued.

Comment is about Richard Hartley (poet profile)

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Welcome back! Lovely photo.

Comment is about Jacklyn Turner (poet profile)

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Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts.

Comment is about Rich (poet profile)

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I have posted the picture as a blog entry.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hi Neill.. ?Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts on my piece, 'online dating.' I'm glad you enjoyed it. Emer ?

Comment is about Neill Barnard (poet profile)

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