Hi Emma

Checking out new poets and came across yours - have to agree with Graham - good stuff - looking forward to seeing some blogs

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Hi Emma, Yes I liked your samples so far. Enjoy the site. Maybe see you again at wigan. Winston

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Hi Barrie! Just noticed your entry, sorry-still getting used to this site., its "lost in" pretty much ( like all Russian sound rows, for example) but its got some new ideas and some of them I find interesting.. I ve got a lot work to do with translating my poetry but I am enjoying it so far. Its hard work through..

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Hi Richard, Welcome to WOL. Hope to see what you're writting at the moment on our blog posts. Winston

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Hello Beulah
Just to thank you for taking the time to read and comment on Handle with Care. Very much appreciated
Steve

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Hi Nells,well done for getting stuck in and posting up 3 blogs recently. Some interesting stuff in there. enjoy the site. Winston

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Thanks Graham :)

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...hello Ann..thanks..don't know why it's in a paragraph?....'hand on your arm' is because she touched the coffin..they kept showing it on the news, after the plane landed.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello Emma and welcome to WOL.
Just read your samples and admire your original approach. some lovely words in there.

Comment is about Emma Robinson (poet profile)

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I'm missing you a lot Steve, so glad you are still out there, thanks for all your events, I hope to be feeling better soon and get out there and see you and the crew. Miss it so much, your warmth, passion and enthusuasim leads to the most nurtered of poetry nights, long live the bards and the Regan scene

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Bienvenue chez nous, Michel.
wonderful alliteration and imagery.
not to mention such erudition: I had to look up whipperwill and procellous.
one line had me puzzling though, and wondering if there was a word missing from it (find, perhaps?):
those who could now themselves strewn

did you write this in English? Do you have it in French, too?
J'attend ta réponse.
cheers

Comment is about Michel Francois (poet profile)

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Yeah, that's fine. I feel 'nowt' detracts from the power of the poem but as with all assessments, mine is as subjective (and as faulty) as the next person's.

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..thanks for the comment John...yes, I wrote it very quickly and so won't be changing any words (including 'nowt')..if you look at chris co's comment he advised lots of edits which I don't understand...you can't edit a sudden verbal outburst, so why this?..having said that I am re-assessing stuff I wrote in my 20s...but I wasn't so concerned with life's mistakes and errors then..!

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Beulah, thank you for your thoughtful comments, and thereby leading me to your own work.I suppose I hide my real feelings, whatever they might be I'm not too sure, behind smart arse reportage. I admire people like yourself who can speak from the heart.

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Thanks for your amusing comments ;-on RHRH ha ha, I was thinking of 'white hot' maybe I should have put it in there..... (just did thanks);-))I haven't seen that documentry thank goodness lolLuv TC XX

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thank you very much for your kind words.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Nick
Thank you for your lovely comment on my poem. So glad you liked it. Sorry so late replying I don't go on my site very much. Hope I get to hear you read.

Lynda x

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I will check the library on Monday for the novel you recommend.
One winter while visiting my sister in Canada I got completely snowed in for three days. She had a 'heritage' Bible from the late 1800's, a tome so big I had to spread it on a table to read. But I amused myself by reading completely through Paul's contributions to the canon. It was one of the happiest three days of my life; I was mesmerised once more, and privileged to stay with my reading for hours, immersion in 'his' words and philosophy. I never use the word 'doctrine' anymore. The fine aspects of Paul far outweigh the nonsense, although he has much to answer for in strait-jacketing Christian concepts about men and women. Well, hardly more than St. Augustine who really did a number with 'original sin'.

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Oy Oy, I'll attempt to fuse our words for the mail poem

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Neil! I'm sure you don't have to re-think your Grief Voyeur poem, I was being a bit thick ;-)
I get it now! xx

Comment is about Nells (poet profile)

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Hi Ann, Ta 4 the feedback on "Grieve Voyeur". I think the point I was making is that if you go from being a morbid spectator to a paid counsellor in order to fulfill a need to experience grief there comes a time when you are going to get rumbled. I am sorry you didn't pick this up.I will have to rethink the draft.
Kind Regards, Neil

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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thanks for commenting on 'a biting of words' - paul

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Hi Cynthia, thanks for sending "Perspective" to me.

I enjoyed it very much, in its themes and in its writing, and of course the use of the phrase "through a glass darkly". How right to bring to the fore the fact that we can have but imperfect vision and understanding.

Paul is so quotable. I loved what he said about fighting the good fight and running the race to the finish.

If you haven't already read it, I recommend the novel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbary. It's about some of the very things your poem touches upon ... being considered an outsider, scholarship, humility. It's a lovely, philosphical and humane story.

Very best wishes,

Steve R

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Hello Cynthia and many thanks for your kind comments about "Mole".
I used funereal gauze as trees in mist/fog always remind me of being under burial shrouds.
I used nauseous because the oppressive silence when one stands in a snowscape can be really debilitating. Funiily enough I didn't reckon on their rhyme value, Regards, Graham

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Hi There Anne, Thankyou for taking the time to read my piece 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' and for your kind comments. This piece was removed by accident and is now back again. It may or may not have had the audio when you last visited. Win x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Loved your comment Annipoo ;-) I am awake and I should be asleep!!
TC XX

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Thank you Steve for reading my poem 'Bound together'
and for your lovely words...

Francine x

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Thank you Sian, as always for your support and encouragement...
means so much!

Francine x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Hi Mingo! Are you an anagram? It's always good to catch me on a jokey day - my default mode is 'Joyous Black' I'll pop over to your spot and make a comment. Cheers.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi Kate, I love yer "Biscuit" poem - makes me mouth water!

Comment is about Kate Tym (poet profile)

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Hi Barrie, really enjoyed reading your poems - "Step Change" is me fave!

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Hello Oz
Enjoyed your spot last night at the Terrier, especially the one about the Stones (cold not rolling). Might make it to Harrogate next week - if so, see you there.

Comment is about Oz Hardwick (poet profile)

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Hi Neil, thanks for your nice comments on some of my poems. Glad to see you blogging! A good poem too.

Comment is about Nells (poet profile)

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Steve, my sincere apologies. I can't get through to you via the other channel. Don't know why. I have chosen to share through this medium. I hope I haven't overstepped.



Perspective

They
Think
I am on the outside
Looking in,
Beguiled by questions …
Scholarship … intellectualism …
Erecting barriers against the sleeping spirit.
But I say:
What a strange thought.

I live to learn,
And learn to live
With understanding,
In the constancy of Spirit:
‘Is … was … and shall be …’
There is no sleeping!
And I wonder why they peer at me
With murky eyes
As ‘through a glass darkly’.

But who is boastful?
Humility
Is essential
To Truth
And Love.
It is hard to eschew
A sense of superiority …
Easily the greatest Lie
Of all Lies.

Cynthia Buell Thomas

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Happy New Year Gaia
Your comment is much appreciated.
I will email direct re performing The Sun Shone.
Steve

Comment is about Gaia Holmes (poet profile)

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Hi Ann
Thanks, as ever for the word. Still haven't got back to the laugh-a-minute stuff yet.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi John - re music for funerals! It's problematic choosing music for someone elses funeral. I had to make this choice, and of course it was at a time when you're in a state anyway. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" seemed perfect, indeed it was, the result is I can probably never listen to it again. Also, cos of the words, we had "The Whole of the Moon" by the Waterboys. I had no idea if M liked that song, but the words summed him up, for me anyway. He was probably up there looking down and tutting! I think I'd like "I can see clearly now" by Johnny Nash, as it is so cheerful. But some bastards have recently used it in an advert, which is off-putting! I could go classical and have A Lark Ascending, bit of a cliche, but it is lovely. Re Nick Drake, it's another load of songs that I haven't been able to listen to for a couple of years, but I remember particularly loving Northern Sky. xx

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Noticed that you are a Nick Drake fan (in another thread). He will be played at my funeral...along with John Martyn and Joe Satriani (it's 'one on the way in...one in the middle, and one on the way out...) although, if the rules permitted, I could easily have three from any of them.... It's a game we play on long journeys. My choices have been the same for many years.

What's your favourite?

Jx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hi Cynth.Yes email your poem inspired by "through the glass darkly"
stvregan@yahoo.com
I'l love to read it.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia
Comment appreciated.
As a voluntary worker in my local school, I often feel that parents are looking and wondering what an old gimmer like me is doing working with 6 and 7 year old children.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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hi there ann, i sure am keeping myself safe from my scarey thoughts ;)hehe

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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hi there rachel, thanks for your comments on the "scarey thoughts" poem i thought i would get lynched for writing it ;)hehe

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Steve, I am a crow's wing circle from Wigan, just around the corner in Sale, Cheshire.
And I too think that Biblical phrase is glorious. It was probably very influential. I have a poem based on it that I might share. Your work is very inspiring you know - or do you?

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I'm way down in St Agnes, north coast. And have no car, so difficult to take part in stuff. I believe that there's someting at the St Ives and Penzance Art Clubs every fortnight, am going to get a friend to take me sometime. Whether I am bold enough to take part, hmmmm, hopefully!

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Hey, thanks for your comment. Where abouts in Cornwall are you? I am quite new to the performance poetry circuit. Just found this site today.
Rich x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello and welcome - but I thought it was only women over fifty that were invisible? I like your poem, I feel that I can hear you reading it, or, that it would be great read out loud. (Is there a tiny mistake in the line "when there's nothing to say"?) Hope to see more!

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Very welcome Richard - and I don't like tea either! I am interested that you hail from the west country. I am in COrnwall, I'm very new to writing poetry, never performed but hoping to. So much of this performance stuff seems to be oop north. Good luck with it all anyway!

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Really liked your samples Andreas.
There are too many good lines to mention, but the last few of I came to fight are really strong "fists cut on daydreams" for example. Keep the words sharp, well done. Graham

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Shards of spite and the grey dusty, grim musty silence are more evidence of your sharpening eye. However the use of single word lines twice......
Far
Too
Long

Together with the.......

Simple
Innocent
Laughter

...shows a really powerful emotional compass. I'm always interested in your work Sian. Well done again and keep them going. Graham

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Hi Rachel,

Thanks for the comment on my 'wall' or whatever I'm supposed to call it!

Interesting reading your stuff here. Hope you continue to get opportunities to do open mic and other performances - it's definitely a good way of getting your own 'voice' and meeting other people who enjoy the spoken word.

All the best.

Simon

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