Now, now, Stella, just because I'm gorgeous, It should not require you to subject yourself to dismal self-abuse. And as an addendum you got it correct I followed all three elements of advice on 'A Lady's dismissal'(as did Stella) I must stop writing stuff at 3am. :o)

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Hi Laura. No my poem was posted on another website. I was not given credit for this poem. So I was able to prove the poem is mine and it was removed.
I originally posted another poem about my experience titled "Haiku about a Stolen Poem".
But my daughter says this poem is a little strongly worded so I posted the second, "Nontraditional Haiku about My Poem"
Thanks for your comment.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on The Scarf x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello zethembiso. Someone posted my poem word for word without giving me credit.
I posted "Nontraditional Haiku about MY Poem", because my daughter says the first poem, "Haiku about a Stolen Poem" was worded a little too strongly.
I contacted the website and told the administrator that I don't have a problem with anyone posting my poetry I just ask to receive proper credit. He removed the poem.

Thanks for your comment,
Shirley

Comment is about zethembiso mkhize (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia. Unfortunately this is true. I posted "Non Traditional Haiku about my Poem" because my daughter says the first Poem "Haiku about a Stolen Poem" was worded a little strongly.
I contacted the websites administrator and told him I don't have a problem with anyone posting my poetry, I just ask that I receive proper credit. He removed the poem.

Thanks for your comment
Shirley

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel. My daughter got a kick out of your comment on my poem "Haiku about a Stolen Poem."
We are from the United States and from the south so sometimes we add syllables were it's not supposed to be. LOL!
As for the poem it's a short one and it was posted word for word. As I told the websites administrator. I have no problem with someone posting my poems I just ask that they give me proper credit. Well I've ranted enough.
Thanks for all your support.
Shirley

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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tommy, watched the pop star video.
good satire. quite scathing and true. a sign of the times.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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tommy

good satire. quite scathing and true. a sign of the times.

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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watched the 'Hicks' vid good-ee. :o)
Nearly finished 'Love all the people'

Nickelback Rockstar Spoof - Popstar

http://youtu.be/7uSlqI1AVUk

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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thanks for the comments. I'm doing a rewrite, and maybe post it.
Glyn

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hello mike, thanks.. your 'the haunted future' wishes the pen were mightier than the sword and we could fix everything...unfortunately we're in the hands of univ' graduates playing while england sinks into a sewer...then they'll disappear on their memoirs.

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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Hi Again , changed the 'You' to 'They', thx. better I think. Win

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Cynthia, very useful comments on 'Easington Colliery' some small changes could add a great deal of clarity perhaps. will have a look. thx Win .

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Hi Mike

For your info -

1. Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert died aged 42; they had 42 grandchildren and their great-grandson, Edward VIII, abdicated at the age of 42.

2. The world's first book printed with movable type is the Gutenberg Bible which has 42 lines per page.

3. On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry discovers he's a wizard.

4. The first time Douglas Adams essayed the number 42 was in a sketch called "The Hole in the Wall Club". In it, comedian Griff Rhys Jones mentions the 42nd meeting of the Crawley and District Paranoid Society.

5. Lord Lucan's last known location was outside 42 Norman Road, Newhaven, East Sussex.

6. The Doctor Who episode entitled "42" lasts for 42 minutes.

7. Titanic was travelling at a speed equivalent to 42km/hour when it collided with an iceberg.

8. The marine battalion 42 Commando insists that it be known as "Four two, Sir!"

9. In east Asia, including parts of China, tall buildings often avoid having a 42nd floor because of tetraphobia – fear of the number four because the words "four" and "death" sound the same (si or sei). Likewise, four 14, 24, etc.

Win X

Comment is about Noetic-fret! (poet profile)

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Perhaps it's one of those words that can be pronounced differently and affected by one's regional accent. Reet... glad to hear you are writing out your annoyance - it always helps.

I've found that poets are inspired by other poets' ideas. I've posted on a certain subject and then seen poems come up on the same theme soon after. Unless people are lifting chunks of my poem, I'm not too bothered - glad,in fact, that I may have been an inspiration. I think poets all have uniquely different styles and the same subject can be handled so differently.

I have been influenced to write a poem by reading the work of others on here. I would normally mention that somewhere in comments though. It all depends to what degree and how much has been borrowed. If I write something really good (which happens very very occasionally), I always have this fear that I might have seen it somewhere else and had it lurking in my subconscious. It must be a worry for most poets, I imagine.

Nice talking, anyway. Isobel x

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel. The funny thing about this is my daughter says poem is one syllable and I say two. I have adjusted my poem,"Haiku about a Stolen Poem."
And I am about to post the more gentle poem about the same subject.

Thanks
Shirley

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Ta la :o)

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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Hi Lynn, just wanted to say thx for reading and commenting upon my poem. Glad you like.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)

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surely room for "common ground" as no politician is to be totally trusted and no politicaldecision ever necessarily admirable/altruistic. My only misgiving in the general sense is the tendency to demonise "the right" and confer saintliness on the other lot...as if the latter were busy plucking their harps for us whilst the former were busy consorting with the devil
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I mostly agree with the above and I have been known to attack the politics of the centre and the left...though to a lesser degree, because I do feel that the politics of the right are inherently more often problematic when considering social issues (of course we don't have to agree on that).

To be clear although that poem was about the a person whose views were informed by certain newspapers. The point was about the tabloid right, not the right generally. I mean I haven't had a go at the Times or The Telegraph. Both of those newspapers like the Guardian and the Independent operate to much higher journalistic standards. Whether your politics are on the left, the centre or the right, whether or not you agree with much printed in those papers...they are much more responsible in their politics.

Anyway I do agree with your point in the main and I have hammered politics of the the left and centre in the past where logistically they have been pants, for want of a better phrase. I also despise liberal fascism, something I myself have been on the end of.

Thx for posting, good to chat

Best

Chris

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

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Hi Isobel. Unfortunately my poem "A Haiku about a Stolen Poem" is true. It was more like the poem was used without giving me credit.
I will later post a second poem with a gentler tone, about this experience.

Thanks Shirley

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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I like what I see here, I hope this is just the beginning, because I would love to read more from you. 'Plastic Surgeons In Zoos' is my favourite of the two I have seen so far, I'm a nature lover so to see you making a connection with society and the perhaps lesser world of the animals, I saw that perhaps the animals are better than us, makes sense to me :)

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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tommy i love the quotes. we have the same heroes it seems, especially hicks. here's something you would love re: corporate stooges and mercenaries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRpW5sEvJk

its stemmed from a great venomous skit hicks did about jay leno and someone turned it into this great piece.

enjoy. let me know what you think.

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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hi tommy. lol @ poetrying. yes i will poetry to the max! lol

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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Fran loved the rummage in the brain x

Comment is about Fran Isherwood (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comment on "The Scarf" xx

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi and welcome- get poetrying NOW! ;o)

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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Ann thank you so much.
Your welcome means a lot to me.
Glad you liked the plastic surgery poetry.
It's a new one never been performed live - will be performing it on tuesday.

i really like this website.
its such a great idea. and nice way to meet other writers.
i love it!

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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Hi Yvonne, just a quick message to say thank you so much for taking all that time and effort to go back through virtually all my work and comment on it.
As your emails kept coming in I went back and read them myself after a gap of a couple of years and its amazing how much of my life is recorded one way or another in those poems!
Some of your comments amused me, some of them I found touching, but in all of them I felt genuine warmth and feeling of "kindred spirits"
My family has just arrived so Ive not time now, but I will return the complement and look at your work later. Best wishes.
Cate xx

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hello Ann, you can view some samples via my website. Thanks for visiting.

Comment is about Helen Calcutt (poet profile)

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Greg, truly sorry I couldn't make Bugsy. Had 2 SSAFA cases for urgent re-homing and still ongoing. Hope it was a success though in spite of Woking's slushy Somme conditions. CHEERS.

Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)

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Hi kaleeM and welcome to WOL. I hope you enjoy being part of the site! Hope you put a poem on the blogs section soon. I really enjoyed the one about plastic surgery - bet thats hilarious live! :)

Comment is about kaleeM rajA (poet profile)

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Hi Helen - it would be great if you could add some of your poems to your profile page - thanks :)

Comment is about Helen Calcutt (poet profile)

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Because there's too many cheese in the holes.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Why does a mouse when it spins?

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Laura Laura Laura, x

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Winston, thank you for your kind words on Grisaille.
I suppose the title came from a melange of sepia, a euphemism for nostalgia, and the manner of painting in a vague and unclear fashion.

Regards, Graham

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hello Chris - the courtesy of your reply to my"profile" says as much about you as your blogs ever will. Certainly, let us by all means disagree on things political but I suggest there is surely room for "common ground" as no politician is to be totally trusted and no politicaldecision ever necessarily admirable/altruistic. My only misgiving in the general sense is the tendency to demonise "the right" and confer saintliness on the other lot...as if the latter were busy plucking their harps for us whilst the former were busy consorting with the devil. Going back a bit for a source of reference...comparing the grotesque WW2 public rantings of "Lord Haw-Haw" with the insidious activities of the Cambridge spies and their betrayal of country and people tends to add another perspective to being chummy with the devil and his works.
Keep up the good work.
All good wishes.
MC

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Hi SS,
as a long distance lorry driver (that came out as 'long distance river' not a bad idea to start from!!!) I'm not always near the old WWW but I'm 'ere now,
I see you take your written stuff seriously, beware! there are those with millions of qualifications that are a tad pendantic about spurious grammatical ... (what!) this is poetry not a classroom for conjugation of Latin verbs!
Haiku's tin is tight for syllabic affitionados but if you wish to dip your toes ... then be my guest but beware there lurks a chap called TT who is a master of , well! several variations of (proper) poetry and if he spots your stuff he may well be the voice to ask!! The only real voice is, of course, your own. Despite my rabblings - go for it - and it will do what it says on the tin!
Ta muchly, Nick.
ps sorry it's a bit wordy - even moreso now!

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Thanks for the reminder of that song. last heard about 40 years ago.
I learned much of my politics from listening to Ewan MacColl's steam whistle ballads as a child. Dismayed to discover later that he was an unreconstructed Stalinist until he passed away, and that this was his stage name; his real moniker being Jimmy Miller, a Salford lad. Who/what can we trust?
And then, listening to Peggy got me to listen to her rendition of The First time ever I saw your face. I cannot listen to that without dissolving.
Bloody woman! Bloody MCcoll! I knew two people who knew him well, both journalists. fascinating stuff.

Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)

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Cheers for your equally world-weary comments on Wilfully Blind ;D Appreciate it Chris, as I know it isn't one of my best but like I said, I just had to get something out about him. I was lying on my sickbed last week watching him drool his way through his statement and it was all I could do not to kick the telly in. Obscene.

Anyhoo, yep, we're all systems go for the next Spoke - looking forward to it. Just finished me setlist today as it goes :)

Can only agree with your really short comment on your poem (heh) - sometimes, you can actually hear the HEADLINES themselves coming out of people's mouths and you know exactly where they've got their 'info' from. I find the attitudes of the majority of my fellow working class heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. Can't agree with you on the 'genuine' right wing though mate. They stand for everything I am against. Zero tolerance.

Anyhoo - it's proper refreshing to hear you rant on about all this - balm to the soul :)

Comment is about Chris Co (poet profile)

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Hi, Shirley I am pleased I was able to help you and happy that you were able to rescue your poem
XX

Comment is about Shirley Smothers (poet profile)

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Hi Glyn. Well I should update my profile as I've now managed to read my work out twice now! I must admit that I lost my nerve and pulled out on Tuesday but it just didn't feel right. Apart from that I'm glad I read my poems out and I think they went down well. I sat back down so fast im not sure! Hope it goes well for you.

I'll have a look at your poetry. Is it your poem The King of Thorns that you'd like me to read?

Comment is about Glyn Pope (poet profile)

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hi Shirley thanx for replying, yes i like your poems. glad you resolved your issue, things like that are important:)

Comment is about NICK ARMBRISTER (poet profile)

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Stokes Croft or Gloucester Road familiar? recognise name/profile pic

Comment is about SPACEGHOST (poet profile)

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I've got to read out loud for the first time in September. I'm rehearing what I've going to say already. I'm terrified.

Comment is about Emma-Jane Stradling (poet profile)

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Hi Nick. Thank you for your comments on my poem "Kids With Drugs-2". Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I have been distracted. I found one of my poems on another website but was not given credit for this poem. The situation has been resolved. I have even posted a haiku "Stolen Poem" about my experience. Also thanks for your comments on my poem. "The Sea".

Thank you again for your nice comments.
Shirley

Comment is about NICK ARMBRISTER (poet profile)

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Thank you for your help and advice on my stolen poem. I was able to prove that the poem is mine. The website took it down. I have even written a haiku "Stolen Poem" about my experience.
I would not have had a problem with my poem being posted on this website if I had been given proper credit.

Thank you again for your help.
Shirley

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Hi Yvonne,

Thx for reading and commenting upon my latest poem- very much appreciated.

I think what you said was very pertinent and on the mark. I've left a very loooong and waffling comment upon the poem.

Far from concise but it might give people an idea where I'm comming from.

My Best

Chris

Comment is about Yvonne Brunton (poet profile)

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Thank you for your advice on my stolen poem.
I took the advice of Yvonne Bruton and was able to prove the poem is mine. The website took down the poem. I have even written a haiku "Stolen Poem" about this experience.
I would not have had a problem with the website if I had been properly credited.
Thanks for your help

Shirley

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

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Hi Laura,

Thx for commenting upon my latest poem- very much appreciated.

I've left a looong comment back on the poem hehe.

P.S

Are we still good for next months 'spoke'?

Best

Chris

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