You have an unusual style Nick - I've enjoyed reading some of yours - you choose different subject matter to most poets :) We are all reeds, I think. x

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Thanks for your comment on my valentine poem. I'm glad you enjoyed - it was a bit of fun for me and a way of exorcising my demons :)

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Thanks Cynthia for the positive on 20/20 vision.

I have done an edit (as was suggested by Ray)

The picture came after the poem Cynthia..it does not really have to be there at all.

Again thank you for your time. :)

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Yvonne- it could be both?!

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Thank you Yvonne- :o)

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Thank you for your comment, Robert. Unfortunately, I don't think Ella ever lived to see this poem, but she was quite convinced I'd been at those dances with her!

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Thanks, Yvonne, for your comments on The Show. A rare excursion into rhyme and some sort of metre for me!

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Hi Yvonne - doing this 30 poems in 30 things has proved knackering. Felt I am going to take a temporary back seat but i shall be back soon - glad you liked this xx

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cheers Lynn
for the wellycome back-xx

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Thank you so much for your welcome and lovely words about my poem

I really like Bins, it evoked for me an intensly emotional allegory of humanity's selfishness and blindness to the suffering surrounding us everywhere. The starving ignored by the world, our heartless treatment and use of the little people who have no say in their lives and their use, and the ultimate selfishness of war.

The rhythm of your poem is brilliant; rushing along from the beginning in their busy "lives" then slamming to a sharp stop with the last lines and the sharp contrast between their life giving function and war, with the possibility of destroying us all.
Wonderful

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Andrew,
I like the tribute to Ella and her memories a great deal. I can imagine the dancehall, the rose scented perfumes and the smell of brylcreem and floor polish. I suspect she was delighted too.

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Hi Greg, 'Bugsy' bear with me while I do a trawl.

CHEERS. P.

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Hi Nicky, 'Ireland with Betjeman', thanks for commenting - gave me an opportunity to peruse your 'Stuff' clever use of its many meanings.

CHEERS.

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Hi Yvonne, yes thats the word a sort of detached 'loneliness' that always comes across in these computer voices. I thought at the end it (he) sounded rather deseprate! Win

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Thx for commenting on my last Gus. Glad you like it.

Memories seem to be a theme that neither of us strays too far from. They're always there wanting to have their say.

I can say that is something in your case that I am thankful for.

Best

Chris

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Thank you Jane- (re On stolen sheets)I often write in an almost flippant way only to find the 'feeling' emerge at a later reading. 'dark'- as you comment upon- has opened up another facet of the piece. Tommy

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Hi Jane, text posted up on the computer voice blog entry. Win x

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Cheers Win- I had struggled with the 4th myself and at 3am called it a night. Thanks for the comments and advice. Tommy

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It could well have been the George, Win, probably was, in which case I'm sorry to hear it has gone - although for some reason the names Brown or even Spotted Cow come to mind. It was all a very long time ago! Btw, your current pic looks a bit like it was snapped through a space capsule - though I suppose it's your barge window.

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Hi Alison, thanks for your perceptive comments on The Show. It's show week next week! Greg

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Re the computer emotions - glad you concur. This seems like a discussion thread in the blogs section but it was the only way I could include the audio, thx for commenting. Win

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Thanks for your technical comments on The Show, John, which I'm very grateful for. I plead guilty to the accusation oft levelled at managers by football fans: "You don't know what you're doing!"

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Hi Again Greg. I believe the newspaper offices were near the pedestrian crossing opposite WH Smiths. They have now mooved to near the traffic lights and town hall. And also that the pub you mention could have been the Criketers or the now gone George. Win

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Thanks for your comment on The Show, Jane, which buoyed me up no end, since I'm not actually an amateur thespian. On the other hand, I'm very close to someone who is!

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Hi Win, thanks for your kind comments on The Show and The Cruet Set. Little did I know when I left the district office of the Yorkshire Evening Press in the mid-1970s that 35 years on I'd be corresponding with a former resident of the town - no doubt in short trousers when I was around - and a current one whose tunes and lyrics give me a laugh night after night. I remember Gowthorpe, of course - our little upstairs office was on it - and a Sam Smiths pub that did excellent meat pies at lunchtime, which put me on the path to the current shape I am. Greg

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Welcome, Ann,
that's great idea, I'll check blog section, and put there at lat these translations. In fact, I need more translations..

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Hi Greg, Re John battering songs, I have strong boyhood memories of the Selby friers. There was this one chip shop right (On Gowthorpe in the middle of the town). We called it "Fatty Bowls'" The two elderly brothers serving were always decked out in matching white 'overalls' had slicked back pure white hair. Must get more accurate details from my mum. lol

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Hi MC, Echoes. Much appreciate the comments. Ta v much.

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Hi Greg, Echoes. Many thanks for your kind comments which are always very much appreciated.

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Hi John, Re Easington, glad you liked. And an added insight of someone who has 1) been down mines and 2) someone who must have confronted the desperation of these mining towns in their decline.

I would love to go down a working mine. Or should I say love to make myself go down a working mine.

Win

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thanks for your comment on 'Whisker', Lynn. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a whisker from my little black furball of mischief which inspired it. XX

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Ann thank you for commenting on Chaff. It's good to see you back. Have you been doing anything nice, or just having time out?

My best,

Graham

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Hi Charlotte, heard you at BSTG thursday jus gone . . . Enjoyed very much, all the more so as you dont compromise and follow the fashion for such contrived verse . . . Kind regards dominic . . .

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Hi Charlotte, heard you at BSTG thursday jus gone . . . Enjoyed very much, all the more so as you dont compromise and follow the fashion for such contrived verse . . . Kind regards dominic . . .

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Hi Rafal - welcome to WOL. Hope you put some of your poems on the blog section of the site -more people will get to read them then.

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Hi Katy - welcome to WOL. Hope to see some of your poems in the blog section soon - I really liked the Hatton Locks one especially.

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J.C. Re. "Their Finest Hour".
I seem to recall that the WW2 Italian fleet suffered a similar fate (at Taranto?) but then
they were with Hitler then...before they saw
sense and went back to being the delightful,
pragmatic people we know and love.
As always...

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Perhaps more 'pagan' than not, in the generally accepted sense. But, for me, 'pagan' is a non-word, like 'heathen'. I no longer recognise 'sacred' and 'secular' except as deliberately divisive propaganda. Many years ago, I seriously thought of being a minister in the Protestant Christian genre, and did indeed work within the 'church' for a very long time. I found that most ministers with in-depth scriptural knowledge, and vital enthusiasm, were virtually strangled at the pulpit by their congregations' limited 'acceptance' of Biblical scholarship. My heart literally wept for their necessity to temper, or even deny, their spiritual insights. I now go my own way entirely. I think I have made more friends than enemies; but, who knows.

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Dad always insisted on a male dog. (Not kidding.) He actually fathered five girls, but one died. My parents had to give up on the 'boy' thing. We did grow up with no sexual division of labour - the idea of boys' work and girls' work is anathema to me even now: WORK WAS WORK and that was the end of it. Such upbringing still affects me wholly.

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Hi M.C,

Thx for reading and commenting upon my last poem- very much appreciated. I have left a comment on the page.

My Best

Chris

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Hi Again Yvonne, Thx for the detailed comments on my mine poem. Glad it had the desired effect but now you need to do something cheery as an antidote lol.

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Bless you!

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Hi, Win
I think my mind is a regular deserter of my corporeal being - I'm forever losing it!
However on the occasions when it condesends to favour me with its presence I do like your poems. XX

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Hi Yvonne, Re M> ilk. Has your mind never wandered from your body? I think sometimes one is ahead of the other. Thx for looking in. Win x

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Hello Greg.
No,I don't think Nelson had any hand in Copenhagen.
(In any event I'm not that squeamish about the fallibilities of great men)

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Glad you liked "Their Finest Hour".
Very interesting what you added about Churchill's destruction of the French fleet and the parallel with Copenhagen.
England 2 France 0

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Glad you liked "Their Finest Hour", Yvonne. What little knowledge of history I have I blame on Bernard Cornwell.

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Never waste One-2-3-4 on a poem. Use it for a foxtrot.

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Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Game Over, Michael. I speak as a former touchline dad who was once warned by the ref for encouraging his team too much.

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Hi John, Thx for your poetic reply to my Fizz Bomb poem. Stevie nicks, now there's something magical. Win X

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