Yes, I do miss my mum! Thanks for commenting! xx
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Hello Dave. Thank you so much for your kind comments on my poem "Starved to Death, for Jovonie"
The sad truth is this four year old child died of starvation on Christmas day. Even sadder there are probably a million more like this.
Thanks again,
Shirley
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Hi dave it was great to meat you there. hope to c u there again soon
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c.l.i.t. good word that :)
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A warm welcome to WOL Matt - I hope you enjoy exploring the site and look forward to seeing more of your work.
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A warm welcome to WOL David - I hope you enjoy exploring the site and look forward to seeing more of your work.
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A very warm welcome to WOL Oldlancsman! I look forward seeing more of your work to more too!!
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 13th Jan 2012 12:42
Hi Lynn
we are glad the doggy problem
seems to have been resolved.xx
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 13th Jan 2012 12:41
Thank you Tomas
for comments on our blog.
P&S
Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)
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Hi Tomas - many thanks for your comments on 'All The Love In The World' - much appreciated. Like you I have a preference rhyming forms of poetry. :) Best wishes, Dave
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I enjoyed it Laura everyone made me feel welcome with lots of energy and smiling faces or was it moons?
Some great readings, makes me want to write more and hopefully get as good as you guys.
Got stopped on the way home at border control in Westhoughton. They said they it was because there had been an uprising in Wigan.
But I explained that they had got their wires crossed.
IT WAS A FULL MOON RISING !
You have to park your bike somewhere !
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Eh up Mike! Great to meet you last night :) 'Fraid you picked possibly the quietest night ever in the Tudor to come along!! Still n all, there was some quality poetry, and it's nice to get the chance to read more than you expected to. Hope to see you again there chuck :)
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Hi Matthew. Good to meet you at the Tudor last night. Have you run across the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins? I think you might like it. Pied Beauty may be a good place to start.
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I loved the rhythm and swing of this, Matt - I could hear the music - and the last line is a killer - had me laughing aloud! "C'est La Vie" might be an alternative title for this! But if at first ... etc ...
Thank you for your comments on my poem "Resolutions - actually the slimy hair isn't the hardest one to keep - I do have a strong stomach - starting my novel is probably the most difficult to see through,!'m afraid!
Jan x
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You can't start too young with sound advice.
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Hi Matt,
And thanks for your generous comment on "Kenneth." I hope you're enjoying yourself wandering round the archives!
Regards,
A.E.
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thanks for comments on 42.
sincerely
rachel bond
internationally respected manager and game plan extraodinaire of Bond Town FC.
dont mess x
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Thanks for the comment on Faded Firelight
Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)
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"Dont mind the bats, Ill bring my cats" so innocent, yet so obscure... loved the poem, great roll to it!!!
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That every land is a merry land, and let our own lands be the same...
Comment is about Larisa Rzhepishevska (poet profile)
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MC thank you for your input. I do tend to change verses round or lines that I wrote ages ago.
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Hello MC 'I'm looking up at the stars', I changed the last one not sure if it works though.
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Hola Cynth!
Hey thanks for your note on Tigerella :)
My daughter was born breech, but I was cut so didn't rip (ouch!!). I still tease her for being awkward and coming out arse first into the world hehe :D Fifteen-odd students and a top consultant at the business end...you have no shame after that!
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Hi Laura, thanx for your comment on Seven Billion Reasons, great feedback, yes I still ponder over it and if I think hard it still blows my mind. I wanted to build up a crescendo in the poem with the numbers throughout reducing to one. Yes I dont think we appreciate it enough, anyway glad you liked it, hope to see you soon, WOL on Sunday! X
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Hello Cynthia, thank you for taking the time to comment on Falling. You've been away too long.
regards,
Graham
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Thanks Chris, I love all things Schiele - such a beautiful soul and creator. The story around his mistress, Wally, breaks my heart. There is a collection of his letters that I have been trying to get hold of for a while.
Have you ever heard of a band called "Rachel's" (another favourite)? They put together a whole album for him. Beautiful music. Here is a snippet (if this link works)
http://youtu.be/hfqg_Pt2Pzg
Take care.
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... perfect for your excellent writing ..Egon Schiele,died at 28,couple of days after his wife..very sad.
Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)
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poeticide is a good word. i keep the ones that are important. some get deletisized.the genre thing is really to say i have a distance from a lot of my subjects but make them personal. some turn out to be something i want to keep personal. sometimes i write for me. sometimes for others, but i agree that nascent maturity allows for me to see that sometimes what i write is an elaborate escape and sometimes i like to keep it real.
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Hi Laura - thanks for your positive feedback on How Not To Receive A Compliment. Glad you liked it. x
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Welcome to WOL Mike! I read your bio a few days ago and the reference to the spirit level made me smile - there has to be a poem in there somewhere :)
Just turn up at the Tudor - everyone gets to perform on the night. We don't have guest slots, so have a little more time to play with than other venues - which is just as well, since it can get busy sometimes.
The venue is run by John Togher but Louise Coulson will be filling in for him over the next couple of months cos he's just had a new addition to the family :) Look forward to seeing you on Thursday. x
(And yes - teenagers can be a trial at times - like when you have to clean a house full of puke up in the early hours of a New Year...)
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Hi Isobel,as I'm a virgin to write out loud and the protocol of comments, blogs and electronic discussions. I've only just read your stuff i.e. Made of Love. Brilliant! I've got a 14 year old just like that. I wonder if our parents thought the same about us at that age?
I was thinking of coming to the Tudor on thursday cos I want to learn more about different styles etc. If so, whats the protocol? Do you just turn up with your stuff and put your name down for reading or do you have to contact anyone first?
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Many thanks for you snort over Father and Son. I too have snorted when someone was sat on my face!
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What ho, Isobel? Many thanks for your comments on Father and Son and Walford. I am unsure of the causality between Father and Son and the discussion I started on Better Looking Poets which was turned Feudianly by Rachel and you into a bum fantasy. If I have planted pleasing thoughts into your heads then, in the words of the hymn, "my living has not been in vain".
Unlike Father and Son (which was genuine marriage guidance counselling) Walford was pure whimsy.
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Hello AE. Thanks for your thoughts on Father and Son. Perhaps I should have entered it in the "Joyeux" competition. The idea of those ladies sitting on my face is extremely uplifting.
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Hello Jane. Not seen you on here for a while. Noce to see you back. Thanks for your comments on 1962. I think you seem to weathered the years a bit better than me!
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Hello Dave. Thanks for your thoughts on 1962 and Walford - a bit differnt from each other in tone. My memory of the Missile Crisis was that the world out there suddenly mattered to me in a life-and-death way. Walford is my usual nonsense!
Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)
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Hello Nick. Thanks for your thoughts on 1962. I think you must have been one of the "bigger boys" to be able to remember Suez - I'd have been 4.
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Thanks for your thoughts on 1962, Tom. It was the first time I was given an inkling that world "things" affected me, disturbingly in a life-or-death way - not something would would want a 10 year old kid to have to front up.
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Thanks for your thoughts, Greg, on 1962. I would have been 10 at the time and it was a realisation that the world beyond school and home and family was very big and not a place for me to play in; and that those stories they said on the news affected me.
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Wotcha, MC. Just realised how remiss of me not to pass on my thnks for the comments you made on 1962 (I really do remember rolling around the carpet while my dad shouted at me to keep quiet), Le Pere Fouettard and Walford.
Hope you had a good Christmas and the New Year's been good so far.
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<Deleted User> (6895)
Tue 10th Jan 2012 17:51
Hi there Lynn and Colin
and the asbo doggy,biting Benji
or should that be asbow-wow doggy?)
No way is he like that!
you did the right thing Lynn
contacting the police
since what seems petty
sometimes escalates into something more serious
The community coppers are quite good
at dealing with incidents like this
and I think a little more able
to keep a regular eye on things.
Very pleased Colin is on the mend.
I took part in our town clean up team
last Sunday.Had a good laugh
with all the Lady volunteers.
And considering the manky drizzly day
we got a lot of council shrubbery beds
tidied up-trimming tree branches and shrubs,
de-littering etc.
and finished off by power washing stonework etc.
Felt great afterwards-
but very very sweaty!
Hope the doggy situ is resolved.
let us know.
Love to all.
Stef and Tricia.xxx
Comment is about Lynn Dye (poet profile)
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Hi MC, Thank you for your comment 'I'm looking up at the stars'. Yes you are right about the last stanza.
I was going to leave it out. When you are new to poetry all feedback helps thanks.
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yes tommy i have thought about that and i agree, its really why i continue to post or write at all. however i also believe in the field of dreams...'build and they will come' only in this case instead of building a big baseball park i clear out my old poems to make way for the new. fresh ideas. in art i work sequentially, ideas build change and develop. with writing i like to write as if ive never written anything before. which is why some read like that. i like to write with different 'voices' from different perspectives and let styles work together. i have my own genres.
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Thanks, any advice you or anyone else can give me would be welcome. Sometimes you think your work looks or sounds alright but infact it might be shite!
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Mon 9th Jan 2012 18:03
Hiya RM and thanks for the great comment on me latest..and yeah I have changed it to dithering..I know..I know..just don't like ing words LOL..
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Mon 9th Jan 2012 16:03
My own fault for being too ambiguous within my writes..so I have yet again changed the last verse to add a few more clue lol..now I am done with it..shelved!!! Thanks for your time Izz. x
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Mon 9th Jan 2012 16:01
Hiya Mike and Welcome to WOL... :)
Thanks for the comment on my latest I have edited it yet again as I tend to be a tad too ambiguous at times..
Liked the stuff you have put up so far, think I like the Big House the best :) Enjoy the site it is a friendly palce and once you get used to navigating it you can join in all sorts of stuff..like the discussion on arses etc..
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Rachel Bond
Sat 14th Jan 2012 22:09
cheeky bugger! but true my arse will no doubt bore me soon. thanks for the pic i think we did well in creating that 'innocent' look. innocent yet possibly on acid, bit like alice ;)
x
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