Hi Ann. "Field boundaries". Beautiful, melancholic, thoughtful, atmospheric a wonderfully crafted poem.

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Hi Laura. Yes it was my first night at The Tudor, I really enjoyed it, what a great pub.

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Awww, well thank you darlin. I just HAD to write something about the place. And yeh - agree re the communication, but it's the actual punters who communicate, and they ARE different in many ways to a lot of the rest of society. That's one of the reasons I go as often as I can - to plug into that branch of humanity that holds the same beliefs, attitudes, values, morality even, as me. It's a place of peace, love, and unity...not something based on commercial gain, or hierarchy, or arbitrary illogical and dangerous laws...and we LOVE IT! :D

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Howdy Neil - why thank ya! Good night all round last night wasn't it? I've not seen you before in the Tudor - have you only just joined WOL?

I loved your 'Simon Armitage Lives in Stockport' poem - cracked me up :D

Hope to see you there again next month!

Take care x

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yeah but you kinda managed to write the poem i have had stuck in my head for three years :) all about firepits , pendle and how people communicate at a different level in a festival , that if we could bring into everyday society would make it richer for us all. everyone is a friend until they prove they are not worthy

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Hello lovely - aye, well you know the magic of Beat-Herder anyway doncha? Shame you weren't there this year - truly magnificent it was.

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That would be gin for me darling...

Glad you like the piccie. Was listening to Rachel Bond perform at the time. Didn't think I'd like the photo much till I saw that it was out of focus and over exposed LOL xx

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Hi Tom

thx for comments on Solar Lentigo, I think you have highlighted the best bit. x

H

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Thanks Ann x

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You are right about the last line. I knew it at the time but i think i just couldn't be bothered to change it lol
Thanks for commenting xx

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Is your "new" photo your "Hmm, now where DID I put that vodka?" look?

Very pensive . . . :)

A.E. x

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks so much for your kind words about my poems. Just joined the site so it was a nice welcome! The collection they're taken from, 'In the Library of Lost Objects' has just been published. Great to have the work out there finally!

I very much enjoyed your poems also, particularly 'Visiting Neil.'

Good lucjk with your work and talk again I'm sure.

Noel

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Thanks for your kind comment Kate. You make me laugh and that's good, very good. Thanks.

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Neil
I revisited Ex Tenebis Lux after your comments. and enjoyed it all the more the second time round.
I particularly enjoyed the faithful rhythm and I am always impressed by poets who can manage abab rhyming structures especially in such short syllabic constraints.
I suspect you know what you're doing at this poetry lark!

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Hi John, I stand corrected, perhaps the title should be E Tenebris Lux - Out of Darkness Light? School boy error! It's a bit wordy but I think the sense I wanted to convey comes from 'In presentia of obscurum, illic vadum exsisto lux lucis' or 'In the presence of darkness, there shall be light'. The poem concerns itself with an ancient evil awakening - what do you think?

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I love your bio Neil..., Thanks x

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Cheers for your commiserations ... sounds like a song by Ken Dodd?! ... on For My Brother, John.

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Thank you for your comments on 'that house' and I do agree - it makes the world of difference. MM -xx

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thanks for your comments on 'that house'; a very perceptive reading. M

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thanks Winston- West Kirby marina-Tommy

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'wake up-get out of bed drag a comb across your head...' Lennon/McCartney
Tommy

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Andy, thank you for adding some comments to Retrospect, it is really appreciated.

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Hi Cynthia,

Confirmed the venue booking on Friday, and we're all set for the OpenMind Festival poetry day OpenMind:OpenVoice.

Here's the schedule:

Day 2: OpenMind:OpenVoice


Location: An Outlet, Dale Street, Manchester, M1 2HG.

Date: Friday 12th August.

Time: 6pm till 11pm.





Poetry and performance.




6pm: Anna McCrory

6:15pm: Cynthia Buell Thomas

6:30pm: Josh Coates

6:45pm: Dominic Berry

7pm: GrIm

7:15pm Cathy Bryant

7:30pm: Break.

8pm: OpenMind Collective presents: Infinite Perspectives, sci-fi theatre piece

9pm: Another break.

9:15pm Rod Tame

9:30pm: Chris Dommett

9:45pm: David Viney

10pm: Paris Morel

10:15pm: Yusra Warsama

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Thanks so much for your kind comment on "Les Mots qui Rient" (Laughing Words). I found it a joy that you appeciate the sonnet-form. So many don't. In fact because of the seemingly rigid structure the sonnet seems to have become passé, which I regard as a tragedy. I think it is one of the most powerful forms of poetic expression ever to be created. Just the meter makes me go weak at the knees :-) Honestly, I think I belong in the era of the troubadours and early sonneteers!

Take care and thanks again for the contact.

Alan

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Hi huni, hope you enjoyed your jollies.
I wont be no, Wigans a little far I may get lost and never found again lol.

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WARNING! (there may be elements of mirth in these comments)Good afternoon Ann-phew! glad you are well.Just that I was concerned with it being your annual holiday break in Blackpool and I had this 'orrible vision of you(the vision I mean not you)poncing down the prom in your cross-dressing outfit sucking on a toffee apple when a sultry sultan swept you up onto his winged camel and flew you off to some mystical island and there enforced you into the remake of the Frys Turkish delight ad.as for forgetting your passwords-do the same as you would with your financial details-give them to a CLOSE friend to mind on your behalf-but don,t expect to make withdrawals too soon after-tee hee...did I ever tell you I,m insane? read of thee soon one hopes-enjoy your break-Mr W.xx

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Winston
I see you've mistaken my submissions for poetry! Not a common error.

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Hey hey Amyyyyy - soz for late reply, been on me jollydays doing as much f*ck all as poss hehe ;D

Ta for comment on Write for Revolution - us Northern girls gotta stick together eh? See ya soon - don't suppose you're coming the WOL night at the Tudor in Wigan on Thursday are ya? xx

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Hi Winston, thank you, re; Svātantrya :)
am ok thanks,just trying to get my head around some major things which have happened this year,
how's life in Heb? Deb (darn that unintentional ryhming thing..)

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Hi,
Thanks for your kinds words, Anthony. x

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My first poetry reading at Festival of Firsts in Hoylake it was great, i feel now iam hooked on reading so going to look for my next gig

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Anthony, many thanks for your kind comments on Retrospect. It's always good to hear from yourself, valued critique.

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thank you Anthony..and in turn, your comments have given me an idea...so thank you twice
deb :)x

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Hi Cynthia - grateful for your comments on Sugar Boats - there was actually a shipping firm called Sugar Lines and a boat named the MV Crystal Gem in particular around which the events are based. Not that the poem is autobiographical in any way - I mean what young man in his right mind would allow himself to be used in that way (tee hee)

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Thanks for the comments on Senlac Hill. An enormous historical "what-if" indeed. We probably wouldn't have the richness of language we do, poaching from the French our posher words. The strongest influences would on culture would have remained germanic and scandinavian. And we might have fragmented back to smaller kingdoms like Danish-led Northumbria in the North and Saxon-led Wessex in the South ie no England.

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Thank you, Mr Keane. I will make a real effort to check your work out also. I read your bio'. You might also enjoy my poem called 'Beloved' - not too far back.

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Hi elaine, again your comments are very much appreciated. It is sad of course and not the path I hope anyone has to follow. Yes, its the medical term for liver spots. The bit you have highlighted seem to have a good rhythm when at a reading so I have given it a few outings recently. The stones in the trifle i will leave to the imagination. Win x

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Elaine, thanks for your glowing analysis of mish-mash. Am pleased with my poems of late. This one a particularly grim episode. Win x

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Hi Andy, good to see you as ever last night. Thx for your comments on mish-mash. I think it went ok in Glasto. Well, people were looking worried and uncomfortable so I will take that as having an effect! Win x

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Hi There, Welcom to WOL. Winston

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Hi Andy - thank you for commenting on The Water's Edge - clearly you have a bond with waterways and coastal scenes. Much obliged.

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Thank you for your comments on Water's Edge John - much appreciated.

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Hi - many thanks Anthony. B

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I really like that poem Flashback ...

Hard to believe that people have now been flying for a century, so a sky unsullied by planes is only a folk memory - in this part of the world at least.

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hi Ann-just popped on to say hope all is well with you.Best regards.S.W.

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Hi David re: The Water's Edge - how apt your view about the changing weather moods of UK - many thanks for commenting.

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Cheers Zach!

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Hi Isobel - I have but it's at home.. Will blog it when I get back 2nite from Guitar and Verse or do it first thing tommorrow morning! x

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If you've got one ready to go I'll include it on the list... x

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au contraire Shirley..thank you for posting and reading your emotive Wild Wolf poem...you got me thinking and writing..haven't written anything much since my mum died, so thank you for awakening a subject close to my heart : ) Debx

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