thanks for the comments Elaine, appreciate them. cant get the hang of the format?? will try again though.love the 'old world by the way'.

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Hi Elaine Thank you for your observations. Glad you liked 'Belt' The line with the long Johns was cut and paste from another part of the poem during the editing process and hes therefore become a bit disconnected from its neighbours. I will have a look at it again. Thanks for pointing it out. Win x

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cheers Elaine, and don't worry I will continue to write. these old words are my illness and i'm too far gone to ever be cured.

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Thanks Elaine x

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Thanks Lynn, always nice to see you on here. x

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Thanks Greg - I've changed the title a little bit! x

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Ann, I know you've turned off comments for In Ealing, but I just had to say that the last stanza is one of the most powerful things you've written, and the poem as a whole is very effective and moving. "Angry with angels" is arresting ... might be a good alternative title.

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I am sure that what I tend to read into people's work has a lot to do with the extensive critiquing I had to do in all of my literature classes... ; )

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Thanks, Dave. I've just finished reading the last of the 6 garden poems. Just love them. So enjoyable. Also liked the poem in praise of baths! Especially after a hike in the hills!

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Hi Dave, thank your for your kind comments on my latest. xx

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Thank you Elaine :-)

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Hi Cynthia, thank you so much for your very kind comments on "Knowing when to Surrender". xx

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Ah Greg (Seedy Side of Town)- thought you might identify with this title - thanks for reading and commenting on it

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thanks for the very kind comments Cyn - but I think you're in a minority of one there ! xx
(stand-up)

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Hi Laura, thanks for comment on my hair poem and for pointing out the typo - doh! :-)

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Hi Isobel, thanks for comment on my hair poem. I see your point on the title. Further explanation beneath poem if you care to see.xx
:-)

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for comment on my hair poem :-)
you are not far out with your interpretation. Further explanation beneath poem if you care to read again.x

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Hi Winston - re: Scent of a Maiden - yes something in the air - influences of Betjeman still abound I guess - although not quite Joan Hunter-Dunn

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ta Benjiboys mammy for commontatering twice-so thanksx2..Stefxx

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Thank you very much Dave
Enough with the Stilton cheese already .... specially just before I hit the ole scratcher.


However dreams are the catalyst of inspiration for many of my creative ventures.

once again many thanks

Gus

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Thank you very much Win

Enough with the Stilton cheese already .... specially just before I hit the ole scratcher.


However dreams are the catalyst of inspiration for many of my creative ventures.

once again many thanks

Gus

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Hello Lynn. Thanks for your comments on Fix.
It does seem to be a lot harder being a parent now the kids have grown up.

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Thanks for your comments on Fix, Cynthia.
You're right about the grammar. In perfprmance I retain the singular "was" but replace "and" with "or".
It did seem a whole lot easier being a good dad when the kids were little!

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Hi Michael, Welcome to our site. Hope you enjoy exploring and contributing to it. Winston

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Hi Ann, thank you for recent comments on my poems, you are very kind. (By the way, forgot to say, we both love palaminos!)
Just read your " Lament for a dead badger", I so identified with that one, as the times we drive past bloodied animals when out and about, and just want to bury them all, but so impractical in our busy lives... Love, Lynn xx

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Hi Elaine, thank you so much for your kind comments on "Railway robbery that never was". Much appreciated L xx

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Thanks for your comment on my latest Andy. Hope you are well. xx

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Thanks for your comment Gus - that is praise indeed! I think you have to know me to understand and dig that poem - for once it isn't really about language. xx

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Thanks for your commment on the catweazley review/poem/blog/thingy, Elaine. I appreciate your pieces above, especially the idea of the nagging clock; all nicely understated. Thank you.

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Hi w3inston,

Thanks for reading Neil's story. It has always had a macabre and sad fascination for me. Hope all is well with you. i see your list of credits seems to be rapidly lengthening - well done!

Regards,
A.e.

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Hi Marianne - do appreciate your commenting on The Park Bench - will keep a look out for your book at Waterstones xx

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Anthony, just spent the last 1/2 hr reading all about the Neil Moss tragedy (inc your links). What an amazing and of course tragic story and fitting poem. Thx Win

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Your comment about my comment reminds me of an old joke my dad used to tell. It all hung round the interpretation of these words.

'What do you think - I'll shave you for nothing and buy you a drink?'

Depending on the intonation and whether you left a pause after What, it could reflect astonishment that anyone could be so stupid, or a genuine offer of something for nothing.

Humour used to be a lot more simple back in his day... or maybe it's got more so.

Yep - all the scraps on here can be amusing or upsetting depending on what mood you are in. How deeply you get involved depends on where you are yourself also. In my early days I got right in there and very fired up. Not so much nowadays - I tend to find I've said and done it all before - it is just a little bit of history repeating - just to echo some Shirley Bassey lyrics I know...

Sorry I've no great revelations to show you... you'd probably be disappointed anyway! x

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Disregard that last message - I totally misread yours. Brain a little worse for wee . . I mean wear tonight. You wrote - "See what happens when you come back!" Which I took to mean "Find out what happens on your return" - meaning later today. I thought it was some revelatory offering. Silly me.

I guess these days I might be more inclined to sit back and smile at it all. I'm not sure it's worth it. (Pretty boring too!) I don't think anyone with any degree of a sense of humour can rail at the world - convincingly at least, for any great length of time.

But you have to admit it's funny to watch though!

Regards,
A.E.

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Oh come on! You can't leave it hanging in the air like that! (Reminder to self - "Yes she can, she's a woman.")

Do tell!

Regards,
A.E.

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Yes - nothing much has changed on here - except recently it has...
See what happens when you come back LOL - Apocalypse Now! x

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is it because 'them up north' are outsiders?

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Hi Isobel,

Hope all is well with you & yours.

I just saw the comment you left on Rachel's "em." I have heard of Marshall Mathers actually - I even possess some of his music! I thought "Stan" was a great track the first time I heard it - still do in fact.

Nothing changes much around here, does it?

Regards,
A.E.

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Thank you - I'm kind of chuffed!

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Thank you - first time I've won anything with a poem, really rather chuffed.

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ta for your kindness re 'Keef'-I shall never call you Nana again.On one condition....you drop by specsavers(only jesting)x

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Hi Elaine,
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and comment on
'All that you want...'
It is always interesting to me how someone interprets... x

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Hi Cynthia, thank you for your comments on belt, glad you liked it. Win

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Hi isobel, Thankyou for commenting on Belt. yes there is a shift between the emotional and the descriptive which seemed to happen by itself! Win

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all i was trying to say was there is only life or death, and you can choose to keep living or to die at any point, to commit suicide or not, to keep on living a little bit longer.
this is what my days are like lately: heads or tails...

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Can I just add my congratulations.

That is a very powerful poem and you are indeed a worthy winner. I am sorry that you have had to go through such experiences to write it though. Your grit and determination not to be beaten does you proud. x

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Hi Alison,

Well done on your much deserved POTM.

Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Steven, looking at your poems, this one came out. http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=19680

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loved 'lifelines' going to give a copy to my mum, shell like it. she sits and knits all sorts of wonderful things xx

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thanks for comments on em..nice to connect with another fan, there is some snobbery surrounding eminem's poetic genius...but with lyrics like "shove a gerbil up your ass..through a tube" Ive no idea why ;)
Truly yours, his biggest fan, 'i killed stan',
X

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