Hi Kealan re: Crows - sorry to hear about your sexual disappointment - that can sometimes happen with a small bird - but thanks for getting in touch with your amusing comment

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Hello Cate
Thanks for your thoughts on Dead Men's Shoes. I really do have shoes ranging from size 9 to 11 (not quite 8s to 12s).

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lol stefan u shud def go red..why the hell not?!!lol thank u sooo much 4 ur kind comment hun

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omg i loved it!!!

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hun u shud def put up more,i read this one 3 times&still laughed out loud its brilliantly clever!!

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Welcome and thanks Mel re 'me dads'poem..in your bio you say you are not a poet..! you could have fooled me-your sample is brill! very inspiring-as is your brill hair colour-do you think I should try it? lol! ta again Melanie.xx

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Thanks Melanie

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aw wow i really got sucked into ur sample

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lol i love it hun

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def go to open mic night hun..jesus th 1st poem sent shivers dwn me,really well done hun

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aw thank you rachel im nervous about finaly leaving others see my poems never mind critique them lol so thank you

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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hi melanie, thanks for your comments on my poems.
i read eight neglected wonders...the foestus in the plegmatic bucket is a very strong image...turning the stomach. i would say that you are a poet, looking forward to reading more x

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thanks c at least u get it

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Hi Lynn,thanks for your comment on Under The Stairs. Much appreciated.
Cate xx

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Hi Dave,thanks for your comment on Under The Stairs. I see the format has changed for the better on here, so I might come on it a bit more often now!!
Cate xx

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Hi John,thanks for your comment on Under The Stairs.
Cate xx

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Hi Elaine, thanks for your comment on Under The Stairs.
Cate xx

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Hi Tom, thanks for the nice comment. Ain't been on here for a while. Will try to fix that.
Mac

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Brilliant, I love your early work. I think you can only get better. Subterraneanism makes me think of home and crazy cats.

Comment is about Melanie Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks Tom, for your comments on 'down among the mad' - glad you enjoyed it.
Very much liking your work to date too.
Cx

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Hi Melanie, You are up and running, Looking forward to seeing more of your words on WOL. Winston

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I've been reading your poems, great stuff. hard and neat. 'somewhere the sun' rolls out beautifully.

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i just wanna say thanks again man ive read your comments a couple of times now and it really means a lot i even touched myself

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Steve, sorry I missed Sale Waterside last Tuesday. I was in hospital.

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Thanks for your thoughts on Dead Men's Shoes, Dave.
This is one of my earlier ones from a couple of years ago. I'm still just as parsimonious though.

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Thanks for your thoughts on Dead Men's Shoes, Tom. This is, indeed, autobiographical. I do have shoes that vary from size 9 to 11.

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i love the tea one..however i will not hear of slanderous tea hating comments as my blood has been infested with the little pyramid bags of love lol

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Thanks for comment on my poem. I have to smile - your lovely little sketch is worth 1000 words! Good to see you 'engage' when writing.

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no not too obvious at all. i could only tell -i'm thirty now- because i spent my early twenties incessantly reading his stuff and trying to ape his style. it was worthless though as his voice wasn't mine. his arrogance, sheer force i couldn't muster. he does encourage a freedom though, which you have. i like your writing, keep at it. you have the movement and suprising phrase which, as your style develops, will become your 'voice'

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Hi Tom Thanks for the comment and nice to 'meet' you. I'll check out yours when I get a moment to give them some proper atention.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comment. You never know where the next poem is coming from, but Antoinette was a gift from heaven!

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thanks tom i hope im not ripping him off too obviously though

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thanks for the comment dave.
i've been enjoying your poems- especially the 'garden 3' which are elegantly written and full of mystery.

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hi ann, thanks for the very kind words. i've been enjoying your audio poems. particularly 'salty girl.' very nice. your voice reminded me of vashti bunyan.

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Good news on the South acceptance - all the more so as I believe you have to send in anonymously? and just get in on merit. You should definitely be sending your stuff out.

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Thanks for the help on East Budleigh, David. At your suggestion I've had a go at that line. As I said on the blog, the subject means a lot to me, and I've written at least three quite different versions of that poem (as well as a school essay at the age of 12!). It is at the heart of my childhood. I'll comment on yours a bit later, when I've had a chance to digest it. Btw, had a bit of good news yday, got a poem in the next edition of South. Greg

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Thank you Emma, for your lovely comments on 'Languid running wild'...
Yes, it is specific to me, but my mind is always thinking of more than one thing when I write.

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Hello again, and thank you for your comment on 'Left Turn'. x

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Hi Cynthia,

Thank you for your comments on 'my childhood rainbow'. x

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I have indeed been compared many times to Leonard Cohen, and to David Beckham. I think they've said I play football like David Beckham and write poetry like Leonard Cohen.
No, my wife says they said it the other way round.

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Hi Greg
Excellent poem of the month, perhaps because it is from an era I still recall (for the moment!). Round our way (up north, to you I suppose) they were t'shadders.
And Hank did panto? How sad; your brother’s Lepanto perhaps, he being outwith the pale of we Beatlophiles.
Had me reminiscing and chuckling anyhow. Thank you.

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hello and thank you for reading and taking time to comment x

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thank you Andy x

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thanks Ann x

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I think you should definitely go to the WOL open mic venue your friends have signed you up for John.
Being part of WOL is a journey. The poetry you are writing now is probably very different to the poetry you will be writing in 6 months or a year from now, if you stay the course. Reading other people's work (which is what WOL should also be about) affects your way of looking at things and writing. I think it makes us develop as poets.
All the best. Isobel.

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Hi John , Welcome to WOL. Hope you get some feedback and enjoy the site. Winston

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Thanks very much, Marianne, for your comment on Stuffed.

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Yes I do agree with you Isobel about not just posting but commenting on others. That's what i've always done and it's a main reason why I don't post that often - because it is wrong not to read other people's stuff and comment on it in a supportive way, and I don't always have time to do this properly. If you don't like it at all, best not to comment, I'd say - unless it;s actually offensive in some way and you feel really strongly the need to comment anyway, but it can and should be done maturely - not something everyone is capable of on here sadly, altho no doubt they consider themselves well-endowed intellectually!

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Thanks for commenting on my La dee da dee da poem. With all these wonderful site changes, it looks like I'll soon have nothing to write or complain about! Will have to start writing serious poetry then! x

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Thanks for commenting on La dee da dee da Elaine; it was a bit of silliness inspired by a very boring night in. It seems to have struck some chords though. Hope to see you around :) x

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