Thank you very much for the kind welcome and comments on my poetry. I very much enjoyed reading through your own.

Cheers ^_^

Rob

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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As regards your comment on 'English Stoicism', I believe it is the people that define the land more than the land defines the people. I could be wrong but that's my perspective on it, I mean, it's arguable that we try to attribute meaning to things that really have none and have thusly turned to all types of beliefs in order to justify those meanings but I don't think that a giant lump of rock really affects the overall character of its inhabitants.

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Thank you!! xx (Doe/Doh!)

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Andy!

Thanks for your comments on Dysphoria! What you see as brave, others might see as self indulgent. I just think that if I have something either on my mind or something to say, it's better out than in! :-)

Glad you liked my work though, thanks again! :-)

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Your review of "My Father's Arm" was so insightful. On various levels, I'm working through my feelings about my father every day. I had to leave my family because he wasn't the only one that was so emotionally and mentally abusive. My mom and I became close after many years, but it was just too hard for her to be in the middle. I think it will always be a journey vs. a destination which is a theme that seems to echo in my life. Thanks so much for reading my piece and leaving such an empathetic comment.

Lisa

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Cheers Andy,thanks for commenting on Lucy, glad you liked 'sleepy sloes' there's no other description for her eyes that'd do, she is the only one of my 4 that has eyes so dark.
Rach
x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hello Ann, thanks for the comment on Lucy.Just spotted your audio poem on Jukebox...brill and fab :)
x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks very much Dave for the comment on the Lucy poem :)

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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Lol!It'll be a publishing launch spesh again....you get a free copy though but I have my doubts whether there'll be an open mic that night at all.
Thanks for the comment on Lucy by the way.
xxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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What a beautiful style you have! Taking Down The Tree House is especially evocative.

Comment is about Colin Watts (poet profile)

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Well I'm glad to see you back and posting! I might chance the May one. It should be warm by then. I could take a sleeping bag and a cardboard box and camp out in the hope of getting a spot on the open mic. I might also bring a bag of peanuts to chuck at the compere...

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Wocha mean "whimsy"? I put a lot of thought into this! It comes form my training - I was indentured.
Thanks for the post - really liked your most recent blog entry. I think I commented on its page.

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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You should try holding them by the testicles (dentists, that is) - it encourages mutual consideration.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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*******BUTTONS EASTER EGG PRIZE GIVING *******
As stated in the small print, I bought an egg and ate it for you. This is my account of eating it!

Ok , if you're sitting comfortably, we'll begin...
First I ran my fingernail around the rim of the box flap, I slowly prised up the lid and slid my hand in to grab hold of the plastic inner....the heat from my fingertips misted it a little...I opened up the plastic to reveal an egg, wrapped in foil, I slowly raised it to my nose to get a whiff of the aroma, caressed the foil and then found the overlap, I teased the foil from the chocolate underneath, revealing it bit by bit, then I could contain myself no longer, pummelled it, kneaded it with frenzied hands till finally..it broke , not into two neat halves but into fragments, each one as chocolatey as the next...then I ate it all...with 2 cups of tea....I gave the buttons away to the kids who were looking at me plaintively as it was corned beef hash for tea and they were sorely disappointed.
That was your Easter Egg, hope you enjoyed it as much as me... I feel thoroughly sick. :)

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel,Where have I been???? I've been to hell in a hand basket...the brink...the dizzy limit...well ok then I've been a bit depressed lol, bouncing slowly back now. I am reading at another couple of publication launch events at That Preston one on April 20th and one May 25th if you fancy chancing it....
x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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The pen can be wielded liken to a sword Cynthia but I say again this poem carries no real message or malice, instead of which it carries only that of the mischievous creativity that lurks somewhere within my inner most depths..

The fantasy is a dream like sequel, surreal sexual escapism all built around the image of the beautiful young lady sat upon the red leather Chesterfield.

I agree with you entirely that the forum of WOL is not for anything other than poetry prose and the all things similar.. My poems are usually nothing more than spiralling dreamscapes and pure fantasy bonded to a strong instinctive sexual backdrop. I am happy to paint all of my words in strong bright colours and am constantly experimenting with both the visual aspects of verse as well as the poetic construction of the written..

Hey Ho, Cynthia thank you for most encouraging comments once again, the dinner bells fast approach, that’s me back to my ‘Saddle of Lamb’…and a glug or three.

Augusta xx.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hello Winston
Yes, thanks for the Ronaldo poem - I don't think I caught it first time round.
The joke went (you've probably heard it) that Real wanted their £80m back when they heard that you could get big girl's blouses in Primark for £2.99.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thank you for your kind comments, much appreciated. Still so new to putting my stuff out there, I anxiously await my babies' acceptance in the wide world!

Comment is about Dave Bradley (poet profile)

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German Philospher, I think, therefore I am ;-)
..TC XX

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Hi John, Thought you might like this. It's obviously from a while back -

Will Ronaldo?

Will eighty million pounds
Be too much for an arrogant kid?

Or will Ronaldo be crowned
As top scorer at Real Madrid?

Or will his talents be found
To be lacking and they will get rid?

And will Ronaldo be bound
To return to us, heaven forbid?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Good Evening Isobel

Whilst I am the first to agree Isobel, many a fine and upstanding man of the cloth exists within the main body of the churches establishment, but they are far and few between. The farcicality of chastity for life , in my view the catalyst for this plague of violation and abuse, is main cause for this most unpalatable tainted ministry, in my view the evidence is over whelming.

Take the dishonesties and hypocrisy of our fine upstanding political representatives in parliament. If an honest man or woman be there let them be named, for the life of me I can not identify them.

This hypocrisy and theft of children’s innocence together with relentless avarice and manipulation of guilt has been aside the poor and ignorant for centuries and neither is it localised to the UK. This elitist poison has been with us world wide since we first vacated the caves and formed tribal communities.

‘A House Called Heaven’

My poem, however, does not really highlight the extent of my own views and feelings it is a simply a poem addressing a fantasy brothel called ‘Heaven’ and the type of cliental that would be attracted by such a heavenly establishment..

Augusta xx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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hi there , thanks for the invite and kind comments , I have something on around that time but I thank you a lot for taking the time to invite me , maybe sometime I will be able to attend one of your events and contribute somehow.
Spencer

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on "Sheds" - my rather simplistic guide to marriage guidance counselling.
I do hope your reference to my red hot poker was not a masturbatory allusion! I would have you know that this was simply an adolescent phase I was going through for the rest of my life.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hello John. I used to think I was a Villain, but I learnt recently that I'm a Villan. Political Correctness, I think.I wrote a poem at the start of the season about mid-table inertia etc. that I'll post after we've lost to Chelsea next week. Try some Viagra, John.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment Rachel. Where've you been?? You obviously don't have a serious addiction to WOL - perhaps I should take up smoking LOL.

Hope to see you at a venue sooner or later. I might even brave the dreaded Preston wordsoup, if not...

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Lovely words Marc Welcome to Write Out loud

Comment is about Marc Anthony (poet profile)

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Rachel surely I must have the buttons! It's Sunday-'polls' have closed! Also ''with'' will have to be replaced with ''was''. ps I too purchase 'eggs' on the Monday :)

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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How about a globulatiousness of frogspawn! Only jokin'! A glistening tumult? A gelatinous wobbling? I could go on and on! And what's with Tommy's "with" replaced with "was"? Is the Ann he's talking about me? And what IS he talking about. I fear I have missed something! Also, going back to taxidermy, I am not on Facebook. xxxx

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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I love buttons...It's Sunday! applications must have surely closed?...Also Ann as an addendum: ''with'' replaced with ''was'' NOW, I must have my prize, or I will scweem and scweem!

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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that's very sad about your partner dying. my kick-start was similar but not as dramatic - we parted amicably as she wanted babies & I didn't - but it took me 2 yrs to get over it & was my one & only true "broken heart". I started writing some time later, still with a broken heart. I've since been very happily married these last 8 yrs but I still have the urge to write & I feel I've written better stuff since - so I wouldn't give up on it or assume that if you are happy your creativity will necessarily die. only my 2 cents :) B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi there, thanks so much for your comments on my 'War is ..' poem - glad you liked it.
Cx

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

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Hello Alison

Thank you for you comment... Dilly dancing...seems to have pleased people... it must conjure happy and pleasing images. Good for them!

Now, your reference to Terry Pratchet... has me at a loss... but ...hey ho...

Once again many thanks

Augusta xx

Comment is about Alison Smiles (poet profile)

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Hi again - a "dangerous" idea just came to me - why dont you send me what you think of as your best couple of poems & I'll see if (to me) they are as good/better than coromandel. we'd both have to agree in advance that you & I might not like the answers though? B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Ann- I was going to ask this same question generally in "discussions" but I thought it might get too convoluted, plus, I was already pretty sure I knew the likely outcome - a hundred different opinions. Your ideas basically mirror my own, but it is difficult to know what to do. I've been published in a few printed chapbooks, comps & online, but often the editors dont publish the stuff that I sent as my best but usually one I threw in as an afterthought. I dont think it is a vanity to want to be published, to me it is more about some form of communication. The same thing also happens to the acknowledged masters - the Mona Lisa was not generally well-regarded when he painted it, but Leonardo saw it as his masterpiece as it's the only painting he took with him wherever he went. Now, we all recognise it as a true masterpiece. Without wishing to pile on the compliments, you are doing very well writing stuff like Coromandel if you are new to this - I dont think there is much that anyone on here could teach you about writing. but do YOU think coromandel is amongst your best stuff?? One of my best poems just popped into my head whilst I was driving - I pulled to the side of the road & scribbled it down ona bit of paper in about 30 seconds - it wrote itself really, all I had to do was record it - it was as if I hadn't really written it at all. anyway, thanks for answering my question that I am not alone in trying to tackle this mystery of what other people perceive as "the good stuff". all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thanks Tommy, I haven't had much computer time recently but will have a mess around with said poem... thanks for taking the time to have a think, it's appreciated. I think you're going to win the Easter Egg at this rate, it will probably be a Cadbury's Buttons one bought cheap from sainsbury's tomorrow and I will tell you how it tasted! :)
x

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Are you being suggestive, Isobel?! I have "performed" this once and it didn't go down well. It was in a library, which didn't help, and there were tuts from some in the audience, abhorred at the vulgarity. Anyway, at present there's no sound on my computer!Thanks for the comments.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Very succinct, John, brevity's the soul of wit, and all that.

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Hi Cate

Druids are on the whire side of the night...these wee little beastie demons... were deadly, evil and whilst red in colour they were black hearted and satanic.


Hope you sleep well after all that.

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments.

Augusta xx

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Interesting poems Anna, your imagery is really effective. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favourite but Norfolk Sunk appeals to me, the structure of it really reinforces the still and/ or lifeless atmosphere.

- Josh

Comment is about Anna Percy (poet profile)

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hi Ann - many thanks for the comments about "with hindsight". It's strange really though - I wrote all of these poems over the last 15 yrs & posted some of the ones which I thought were my best stuff - with very often little or no comment. Then by chance I posted a few on a totally different tack which were much simpler, easy to understand & these seemed to be better accepted, though IMHO they are not my "best" stuff. do you ever find the same? The one of yours which I included on my site - Coromandel - is sublime but didn't get any more comments than many lesser works by others. I've been aware of this quandary for many years - to the extent that I even wrote a poem on the subject.... but still, it's a mystery. Is it that others just don't "get it" or is it that some of us like Rossini & some like Abba - I just don't know. All I do know for sure is that it is wonderful when someone else does "get it" as we intended. all the best. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Thank you for your wonderful comments on Lemon Pips. As a newish poet, with no background in poetry, I am often flummoxed when one particular poem seems to reach people, then another does not. To me, I can never tell which it will be. This, of course, is a problem if I ever intend to send poems off (hopefully) to either a competition or a publisher. Will I one day know which of my poems works? Is this just me or does it apply to everyone? Or should I just hold to what I think are the better ones. I am often gobsmacked by the reaction to certain poems which, for me, took little work. Or should I say concious work. It is a puzzle! But thank you again for your input which I always value!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cyn - "Dreams" - thanks for the comments. it's based on a true story & the crux is that if you want something badly enough, you can sometimes make your dreams come true & the narrator is just telling that tale. B

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your allusion to Aristotle - who the hell was he? He sounds profound - I shall have to do some research! LOL

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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John, try leavin a message on his profile, im sure his email was 'woodenhorse@tiscali.co.uk'
hoping all is well with you, been too long

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment on my latest Cynthia. Yes, I had a lot of fun with allusion - the discussion thread also! You are probably right about it being too stretched out. Perhaps I tried to cover too many areas - the youth of today could make an entirely separate poem - and I am beginning to sound old!

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hello Coopey! Who 'he'?

Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comments on various things much appreciated ;-) Went to see Bad Company last night at MEN Arena they were brilliant !!! As for marrying you ha ha I probably already did a few times ;-)) heh heh
luv TC XX

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Thank you for reading Lemon Pips. Yeah, I don't think she's mad, just a little eccentric and doesn't expect too much from the world. A gentle soul!

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Thank you Beulah for reading and commenting so nicely on
my poem 'Alone'...
I am glad it made you smile... I think we can all relate to it ; )

Francine x

Comment is about Beulah (poet profile)

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Hi 'A.E'

First of all, many thanks for your comments. Secondly, where have you been? This site needs those Salmons who swim against the tide of mutual gratification. We don't want a site full of 'suckers' - we need the odd 'blower' too. Now get your boney linguistic ass back on here and do some mother f**%$£g blowin'!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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