Hi Steve - and welcome. Hope you are enjoying exploring the site and hopefully taking part of this poetic experience that is WOL!

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Hi Sonia - welcome to WOl! Great poem on your profile page.

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Hi Tommy,
Thank you for your comments on Rough Justice. And how right you are about the class system! :o)

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Hi Larua, thanks for the kind comment on folk song, no tune for that- but something to consider!

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Hi Laura, thanks for comments. Yes, well remember Grapes of Wrath blowing me away when I was a teenager, one of the first books I purchased with my own money. And I had all but forgotten about the delights of nettle soup and elderflower champagne!

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Thanks Cynthia

I'll see to it right away.

Glad you liked it

Ken. x'x

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Hi Anthony Emmerson,
Thank you for welcoming me. Since the words are chosen at random and done each week,the pics are a bit vague. I try to get them to correspond loosely. Giving any interpretation to be left open, but I don't think that they necessarily have to match the poem/poems completely. This way the reader can read into it however they like.

As far as my methods or writing goes, I'm just coming out of the closet as a writer. I'm still a bit shy,I find writing poetry to make me feel bit vulnerable. I am a visual artist as well and In that world you expose yourself, but I feel a bit more grounded there. The thing is I love poetry and I want to get better at it. I also like to work on group projects, so taking a theme and everyone writing on it, I find to be inspiring and freeing as well as a way for me to find my voice.

I do have a lot of other poems that have not been written in this way (found word), but since they have been already written, I thought that challenging myself with a new theme each week would allow me to grow much quicker than just waiting for the emotions to pour out onto the page, instead in this way go looking for them. So for me it is an exercise as well as a way to find and sharpen my voice.

I hope that this answers your questions.
Wishing you well,
Cheers-BT

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Thank you Ann Floxglove for all your help. I'm really enjoying this website. Best Wishes.

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'direct thought transfer' is on its way, you know, for us all, rather than the select few. Have you been keeping up with the newest 'science', where brain waves alone make recognizable sounds that can be understood as words, and therefore thoughts?

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Hi Tommy, your response to my poem indicates it more than likely you stopped reading after reaching an early line - thereby missing the entire point of the piece, which expresses the need for fresh thinking, not for status quo...

Maybe digging into my many poems on social and world justice might surprise you.

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Hi BT,

And welcome to WOL. I have to say I'm curious re your methods. Are the images also chosen at random, or do you choose them for a particular reason?

You say in your bio:

"These are great exercises and experiments to get the mental blood flow going."

If these are simply exercises, then this begs the question, what comes after the "mental blood flow" has been stimulated?

Regards,
A.E.

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Bless you, Larisa. I'm glad the poem spoke to you. I knew it was possible that no one would even bother to read it, since I'm getting a bit of a reputation for 'complexity' sometimes. And I don't do it on purpose. I think that Simplicity and Complexity are two hands in the same mitten. Speaking of 'winter' - I miss the magical snowfalls of my Canadian girlhood. There is nothing to compare to them. And, as you probably noticed, I am a former singer as well, speciallizing in Music of the Church, but singing in all genres. I found 'Art Songs' from all countries challenging and also personally rewarding. They always made me feel like a citizen of the world.

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Hi Cynthia,

Many thanks for your perceptive comments on "the process." You were spot on with your analysis. I just wanted to highlight what it is we are actually doing when we write something for others to read. It's mind blowing when broken down into its component parts. Maybe it's just as well we haven't mastered direct thought tranfer!

Regards,
A.E.

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Ha Steve - Bessie is linked to my facecrack profile :) And am sick of looking at 'Laura Taylor' :D (you on facefuck?)

A big fat fuck off kit kat eh? Good on yer. I think I've started to reach that point re writing, most definitely in fact. I want to write about different stuff in different ways. I was told not long ago that a poem of mine (not up on here btw) was not 'authentic Taylor'! Therefore, not as good as the heart-wrenching, guts-kicking, strip-myself-bare would-you-like-to-see-me-bleed-for-you type of stuff that I've mined a lot over the last year or so. Well, I want to look outward, I want to look kaleidoscopically, for a change, examine other stuff, write for the pure beauty of the sonics sometimes ya know? Not be fucking epic. I don't want to feel inhibited by some so-called notion of authenticity. I want to write to enjoy, maybe communicate, tell stories, enjoy more than anything. I LOVE words, I've loved the fuckers since before I could read. In fact, I'm working on a poem about exactly that at the moment :)

And yeh - know exactly what you mean. I piss MYSELF off sometimes with the comments that I make.

Bob's not the one with the John Lennon tshirt on btw - that's Mike Hilton :D

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Which one John? Serendipity and Happenstance? It does appear - there's maybe a bit of confusion as some poems have been tagged serendipity and some serendipity WOL comp and maybe some just WOL comp. When it's time to vote I'll make sure all the poems are on the list. My fault for being vague in the beginning. But if you've written another poem for the comp then get back to me cos I ain't seen it.

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Sorry for the delayed response but many thanks for the kind comment on my poem 'famous scenes'

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poem 'Famous Scenes'!

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What ho, Nick! Glad you liked Platform. I once got a platform ticket from Llanfair PG. It was the size of 6" rule.

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This came out of younger people looking at you and thinking 'you're not with it' because you look older. They don't think that you've lived a life as well.

Hence the 'silver and gold' lines.

Enjoyed our converstaions with you and Bob the other night at the Tudor.

Mike

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WElcome to WOL! Glad you are taking an interest in the competition and have also put a blog on here. Hope you carry on enjoying the site.

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Hi Barbi - post your poem here in the blog section. The important thing is that you tag your poem "serendipity". When you have written your poem on the "make a blog entry" page you'll see at the bottom of the page a space where it says "tags". Just type serendipity in there. And good luck with the poem! :)

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

kealan you have quite possibly said this to me, as i can just hear you, 'corpse of milk' grinning. yes i can hear you grinning, like joyce :)

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K what are you on? and can you buy it in UK?

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Dear Sonia:
After reading "The lion tamer is dead." I had no choice but to read on. Whatever trajectory ahead of me after that was likely worth the ride. Thank you and welcome to this network.
J. Otis

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Hi Sonia,

And weclcome to WOL! Hope you enjoy the site. People are mostly friendly! Don't be shy about posting and commenting on the blog or discussions.

Enjoyed reading "The Lioness." A well told story. I loved your last three lines!

Regards,
A.E.

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No, it wasn't Sanatogen. It was Phyllosan - or
something very like that. That dates me!! :-)

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Welcome to WOL Noris.
what a wonderful biography!
well done indeed for donations to the poor kids.

Our very best regards to you.xx

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Hi Isobel, thank you for your comments on "Woman in the Mirror" - I hadn't thought of that - more to worry about if you DON'T see the truth! Lol ;)

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Glad you liked the Ronnie Barker poem...it was fun to do. He was an amazing talent to be sure.
The poem YOU was something of a tribute to other ways
of saying things in other days. That too was fun but in
a slightly different way, I guess.

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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your kind comments on Woman in the Mirror. Yes, just a bit of fun! Glad you enjoyed.

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Hi Laura, thank you for your comments on Woman in the Mirror. Ah, you are so right - the day you realise the eye bags are permanent - very funny ;)

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Thank you Anthony, for your comments on Woman in the Mirror, which made me laugh. :)

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Hi MC, thank you for your lovely comments on "Woman in the Mirror", glad you enjoyed.
P.S. Was it Sanatogen? ;)

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Hi Cynthia
thanks for your comment. The Magus, yes it's complex , but a wonderful read, I've just started it again after many years.

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Hi Cynthia, Thanks for your comments on An Inside Story.

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Hi Cynthia
'And...'
Thanks, as ever.
You're spot on with the personal element
It's amazing what can be transmitted in whispers

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Gareth, re: Poundshops, was a 'thong of aunts' on purpose; or did you mean a 'throng of aunts'. I thought 'thong' was very funny.

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Meant to say how much I LOVE your Profile 'non-poem'
Action Man and Cindy - picture!!!!

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'simple in my structure'?
you say the sweetest things
;0)))))))

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Hi Lynne

Many thanks for your note on Leaving Home, glad you enjoyed it :)

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Cheers chuck for y'note on Leaving Home. Yeh, was about freedom of all kinds - bloody loved it. Happy days :)

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Thanks for your comments on Poundshops!

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http://drivenbythemoon.blogspot.com/2012/02/cellular-memory.html

This week is almost over but, don't fret, you can still play anytime.
This weeks theme is Cellular Memory. Please leave your writing in the comment section. Thank you and have fun.
Cheers - BT

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Glyn, an incrdibly kind comment from yourself and you have left me well chuffed! Thank you!! If I ever get to bind my work into a book sometime I think I would have you write the preface lol...big smile :)

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Thanks for dropping by and commenting on my Valentine poem Anthony.

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i agree is. thanks for your comments on bio. i think it also important t focus on the other. people outside of ourselves. we might feel like shit but if we get out of our selves and do something or feel something or give something for someone else it helps. im a selfish bugger. no immediate family some days i only think about myself and perhaps the cat. it s no good x

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Hi Nick,

Loved "Would you mind making me a cup of tea?" Amusing - yet a penetrating insight into the eggshell-treading of relationships. Welcome to WOL.

Regards,
A.E.

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As promised, Simon, I have done an analysis of your poem. (Whether you wanted me to is another matter.) It was on Facebook originally I know but I feel a bit guilty letting Facebook become the new Write Out Loud so I am posting it to your profile first.

Poem by Simon Rennie

then coded partly
molasses poured on myth
breach (breach)

slow still somewhere
pain has a colour
want recedes yet

wreaks quiet violence
litany (litany)
between silences

maybe they will say
this is where he fell
here where the here

maybe
like him
they wont care

This poem contains many markers of uncertainty. Terms like ‘partly’, ‘maybe’, are direct expressions of incomplete knowledge; ‘coded’ and ‘myth’ refer to hidden knowledge; ‘somewhere’, a non- specific term, and ‘between’ in relation to ‘silences’ is a very abstract concept. An incomplete phrase ‘where the’ and pronouns ‘they’, ‘he’ and ‘him’ imply a reference to identities withheld. The use of bracketed repeats (breach) and (litany) seems to suggest that the writer repeats these to himself, as if unsure of their relevance. Is there a litany between silences?
With so much uncertainty, what is revealed?
‘molasses poured’ is a clear image, but ‘on myth’ suggests we should take it as a metaphorical molasses. Sweetness, smothering, perhaps? ‘Pain’ as a subject is subverted by ‘has a colour’. Feeling is being redirected into a visual image. ‘Want’ as subject is said to ‘recede’, and yet continues to ‘wreak violence’, but silently;- hidden feeling, smothered sound. There is an implication that the silences contain repressed but unspecified desperation.
In the last section there are two complete and seemingly straightforward sentences; ‘this is where he fell’; ‘they wont care’, and the comparison ‘like him’ implies an understood ‘he wont care’.
Amongst all the ambiguous and hidden information implied in the poem only a few words carry strong connotations to inform the reader. Pain, want, wreaks violence – these are set against molasses, myth, colour; and a few words reference the surface world: silences, he fell, care.
I look at this poem as I might look at an abstract painting, letting my mind gather information and references for which my brain, finding patterns and implications, will discover meanings.
Above all, modernism is an acknowledgement that the reader is actively creating their own poem as they read. We grasp at clues of grammar and vocabulary and begin weaving meanings and scenarios. Those of us who like narrative and realism, and this is a very English characteristic, react strongly to the incomplete and contradictory references, and the lack of grammatical cohesion which makes the poem literally ‘incoherent’. We may want to say ‘I won’t let my mind make it up for me. I want the writer’s meaning.’

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Hello Nick - welcome to WOL. Falmouth eh? I was there last night. I live in Kernow too. Isn't it warm here at the moment! I love your "cup of tea" poem. I think you should post it on the blogs.

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Hi Noris - welcome to WOL. I enjoyed taking a look at your website. Peace, love and poetry - seems like a good combination to me! I hope you will enjoy being a part of WOL.

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