cheers John - I'm 'not just a hat-rack' eh? I have no idea what you're on (about)but you are quite correct - my rack is not just for hats
;-)
Ian

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thanks for commenting on 'the Jesus gene' Cynthia - much appreciated.
I do like a good read - mostly the 'wrong sort' of books such as Steven King, John Connolly, Terry Pratchett and other of their ilk.
I also read a lot of 'alternate theory' books - UFO's, aliens, ghosts and the supernatural - amazing where your mind can go when you have it stretched
I'm also a good (lapsed) catholic boy with a wide range of literary and poetic leanings - mix 'em all up and something like the Jesus Gene will emerge

thanks so much for your comments - much appreciated

Ian

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Cynthia
a typical Yorkshireman is..........


male and

comes from Yorkshire ;-)

as a friend of mine once said - he 'likes what he does and he does what he bloody well likes'

he seems 'dour' and 'unfeeling' yet has a heart of gold and a soft centre - carefully hidden beneath a hard veneer.

he looks like a brickie but has the heart of a poet

he is......YORKSHIRE :-)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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What is a 'typical Yorkshireman' then? Will you give me some clues?

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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Well never come between a man and his sport, well I will make sure I see you when you do your spot with Jeff and I sure hope to see you at mine :)

Regards as ever

R

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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Thanks Laura - Candle Game - blogged 2nd Feb 2010 - a blast from the past! I haven't been writing much poetry lately but doing some songs. A pal and I have done some quite experimental audio things - they are on Soundcloud. I don't know if there is a link I could do from WOL to Soundcloud like we can do with Youtube stuff. Must ask some friendly WOL boffin!

Hope all well with you! xx

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Hi Ann

John Togher gave me a copy of the CD you contributed to in 2008, the earworm experiment. Yours is the first poem on there.

I LOVED it! All the glass tinkling/bells, your beautiful voice over it. It sounded like an old folk song, with the lines about catching a man and beating him. It's called Candle Game, but I can't find it on your blogs. Absolutely beautiful, and haunting, fantastic!!

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Can't do Friday Richard - over in Wakefield for the Rugby League big derby game against Leeds Rhino's - already made my apologies to Jeff - but some things just can't be missed :-)
Ian

Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)

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Hi Starfish, thanks for your continuing kind words; Steve

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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Thanks for looking in on 'Life' MC. I misread your comments about sins that are red as 'read' and had a vision of me at the pearly gates and st Peter with a clipboard checking through a list of my past indiscretions (it was a considerable list)
best wishes, Steve

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

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Hello M.C.
Thank you for your comments on my poem "My Mother In Law, My Mom". It's not my best work but heart felt. I like your poem about your Mother too.

"It's a while now since she passed away,
And time has hurried on,
But still I hear her softly say
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'

With each and every passing day
I sadly think upon
Those quiet words i heard her say:
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'

M.C. Newberry

I just had to share this so others can read it also.

Thanks
Shirley

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

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Hi Dave - could you try to get to September Tudor please, so you can pick up your prize from the 52 Hertz competition :) x

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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If you want your third prize (an inflatable toy ;) then email me your address :)

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Rachel - I'd love to get you one of those lovely little ornaments but when I've priced them up they are hundreds of pounds. But don't worry - I'll get you the nearest thing I can afford - they come a lot cheaper in plastic!

Look forward to seeing you soon. x

Comment is about Rachel Bond (poet profile)

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Hi Sarah - welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy exploring the site. :)

Comment is about Sarah James (poet profile)

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Hmmm - I tend to agree (about the hovering!) Hope you'll put some more poems on here soon - housework related or not!

Comment is about Gareth Glyn Roberts (poet profile)

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Hi Andy - welcome to WOL. What a powerful poem! You'll find on WOL that more people see work that is posted on the blogs, so I hope you'll do that soon.

Comment is about Andy Hickmott (poet profile)

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A long time ago now, I wrote some lines about
looking in the mirror and reflecting...
"You can still say "I have me" - so I have some
rapport with the sentiment you expressed in "Yourself".
As for "Life", I have commented on your post page.
Keep them coming.

Comment is about Steve Higgins (poet profile)

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many thanks for your kind comments regarding 'natural selection' Francine - It was an enjoyable experience trying to work that train-rhythm into the words and i'm pretty pleased with the result - I'm glad you liked it :-)
Ian

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hi Cynthia
thanks for your useful and considered views regarding 'natural selection'. I sort of get what you mean about the second stanza - so may revisit it at some point in the future - as a few of the rhythms do get a bit 'clunky'. Glad you liked it though
Ian

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Dave
thanks for commenting on 'natural selection' - I had genuinely gone for the train-like rhythm so it made my day that you spotted that - very perceptive of you. glad you liked it mate
Ian

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Thanks for looking at 'Yourself' MC. Its another one of mine thats not quite right yet. I was feeling rather cynical when I wrote it but sometimes its good to explore ones other side -ones other self-
Steve

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

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thanks Richard - I really enjoyed myself and it seemed to go down OK - thanks for all your support mate :-)

Comment is about Richard Alfred (poet profile)

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Well done Ian really enjoyed your night :)

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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I think you need to be able to empathise to 'get' certain types of poetry MC - to understand why people from different walks of life, with different experiences should write and think differently to you. Clearly some people are able to empathise better than others.

I am glad you have decided not to leave any further comments on Mark's poetry. I think you've made your feelings amply clear to everyone on many occasions.

Let's hope we can all now move on.

Isobel

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

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Hi Cynthia,
I am glad you like My Dragon Husband. I put it on the blog years ago when I first joined WOL and someone picked it as poem of the month. I was dead chuffed at the time.
I think, for what its worth, that when we identify something that is hard to write about that is an indication that it is a topic that needs tackling. Things that are easy to say have probably been said before.
Peter is always surprised that people think the poem is a love poem. He thinks it is women who say so. I just tell him its subtle.
I would love to read what you produce if you tackle the subject yourself.
I like your comments on here. WOL commentators are a dying breed. Yesterday when I was on the site it said there was one member on. It was me.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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At the request of the previous contributor to my profile and his instant deletion of my comment - I have discontinued any further attempts to maintain an online exchange of views about the content of his most recent poem - in particular, its closing line.
Readers may draw their own conclusions.

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

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As I have never seen a ghost this theory takes me down yet another road of explanation to what a ghost is.

thanks

A lady I know went to her friends funeral then saw her across the road waiting for a bus.

Before the bus came she had disappeared perhaps this force of emotion was so strong she wanted to say a last goodbye to her friend.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Many thanks for your recent comments harry :)

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

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Freda, I don't recall 'My Dragon Husband' from before, but that would be my loss. It is splendid. Please post it on the blog again for new others to enjoy. I have great difficulty in writing about my husband, in fact, almost an impossibility. It is very strange. I've often thought about this inability - or reluctance - or fear.

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Hi Star (if I can be informal)
Thanks for your very apposite comment. Just what I'd hoped for. Actually I'm more than chuffed with the number of positive comments. I was rather expecting a scholarly poet to explain in minute detail why our language works in the way I can't understand in my 'poem'

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel
Just a bit of nonsense, but it struck me how odd our language is
I'm not being too much 'performing' lately (if I ever did), but I hope to see you somewhere some time, and I'll thank you properly for the comment

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Mr Newberry.

We disagreed on a previous occasion, to the point where I found your argument so objectionable that I asked that you do me the courtesy of not commenting on my work again.

I have never had to ask ANYONE not to comment on my work on this site, or any other before. But the way in which you seem to enjoy attempting to provoke argument with ill-informed, emotive and inflammatory remarks, was quite unique for my interactions on this site. I left all those comments there and responded, point by point, to opinions that in places I found condescending, but found I might as well have been talking to myself as there was little evidence my comments were having any impact, despite my real world experiences being very different to your own.

Yours were the only comments of their type and a least one other person seemed to to think your behaviour that of cyber troll. That is to say, confrontational, unpleasant and less interested in creating debate than sowing discord by upsetting people.

As a result I asked you not to post. You grudgingly agreed, whilst making a dig about how it was a waste of your time, but you did agree.

So when I find you making the same points, even referencing the same historical events, of which you know I am fully aware, I was shocked and saddened.

That you felt it appropriate to post five times in 62 minutes, mainly repeating yourself, makes it clear you feel you are an incredibly important person, to whom people must listen. It is not an opinion I share.

Please make this the last time we have any contact, unless you wish to end with an apology, which I sincerely doubt.

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

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Hello Harry ~ Thank you for the attention you've given to my poem Apolide. It was so long in gestation (I work slowly) I eventually just wanted it out there... but your suggestion is right I do need to clarify some elements of the narrative. I could be some time! I'll give it a whirl!

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

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Dear Mr Thompson - I have never suggested to anyone that their comments are unwelcome on my own contributions...
and I have never deleted any that are posted. Say what you will. I don't have to agree - but that seems to something you find unpalatable.I have always resisted the inference - especially when it is misleading - that everything is "black and white" in this life.
MN

Comment is about Mark Mr T Thompson (poet profile)

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Hello Starfish - many thanks for your comments
about my poem "Down By The Mewstone". It is a
personal favourite and it is one of those
delightful cases when it almost "wrote itself"
during my walk down that track to the sea.
Another that had "reality" inspiration was "The
Galmpton Robin" - out of a mid-afternoon November stroll by the River Dart - and in my head by the time I had reached home.
Cheers!

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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Hello Steve - thank you for taking the trouble to comment kindly on "Down By The Mewstone". This is a personal favourite...for a number of reasons, and I'm glad it pleases others. It almost "wrote itself" as I walked that distant path to the sea some years ago.

Comment is about Steve Higgins (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel

Thanks for your comment on Rebirth. Looks like the competition went well! That was lovely of you to post someone's comment about one of my poems, I do appreciate it. I know my stuff isn't particularly accessible but once I've done my collection, I'm going to try and be a bit more mainstream : )

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank you! I'm sure you would get that one published if you submitted it somewhere. I will let you know when I've done it, and try and get a link in to your wol profile.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thank you Isobel, for commenting on The Borrow. You know a lot about me by now I guess. I have written quite a lot, and I thank you for keeping up with my words and work. Some of it is even passable : )

I don't like the way society is really. Like many I wish for a different kind of world where parameters of life do not include warfare or 'other' harsh brutalities. I have made many observations like you have, and I have come to the conclusion that we are 'all' wrong in how we run this world. The problem is, we are taught acceptance of things and if we denounce such things (like many do when awake), we are often targeted by the herd. The sad fact is, the herd too, is made of many unique beings, but they have grown with fear.

Thank you once again Isobel.

Nice one xxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks once again starfish for looking in on me.'Yourself' is a bit mean and cynical and not really me but sometimes I like to flip things round and look at them from the other side,
all the bes -Steve

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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HI John
We've just been to another wedding - went in our wellies with trowel and plant pots! - there was a typo on the invitation!

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Post by M.C. Newberry 25th of April 2013

"If you are so resistant towards a POV seeking an analogy with attitudes to other equally appalling crimes, then I will be happy to oblige your request not to post comment on your contributions...as not worth my time."

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

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So you are going to continue? Minus the Blakelock reference that you have already made? Take a long walk off a short pier

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

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I know you are the resident WOL troll, but please never post on my blog again. I have asked, almost politely.

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

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The game of love is, as you say, urn like in shape. Totally unintentional - I just thought I'd centre the text and thats how it came out! Thanks for reading -best wishes, steve

Comment is about Starfish (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments on 'sticks' Isobel - yes, I'm tired and angry over what people put themselves through trying to attain 'beauty' - that words means virtually something different to every single 'beholder of beauty' so you're bound to be on a losing battle. Killing yourself to live seems such a pointless waste of energy :-(

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Nigel, this is The Stone Tape Theory I was telling you about last Monday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape

'The Stone Tape Theory is a paranormal hypothesis that was proposed in the 1970s as a possible explanation for ghosts. It speculates that inanimate materials can absorb some form of energy from living beings; the hypothesis speculates that this "recording" happens especially during moments of high tension or during intense moments of someone's life. This stored energy can be released, resulting in a display of the recorded activity. According to this hypothesis, ghosts are not spirits but simply non-interactive recordings similar to a movie.'

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Hello Harry. Thanks for taking the time to comment on 'Alone In Cyberspace'. I wrote it a couple of years ago now, but the subject matter is growing increasingly relevant I find.

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

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No worries Ian. And haha, yep, making the most of my waning youth my friend, making the most of it.

Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)

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