I too have seen that very same barge... near to Stockton Heath...

Thank you so much for your thoughts

Augusta xx

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Hello Sian
Thanks for your very kind interest. I am something of a reluctant blogger, having no great regard for what I do (not false humility).
I write to express those things that have passed through my mind (many and various), and if others find them of interest or enjoyable, I am both amazed and thrilled, in equal measure.
Steve

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Thanks Mark, no there's no more, I wrote it more or less on the spur of the moment, not having been on the site for a while.
Shame I've started the new year in Mr Grumpy mode!
I'm try ing to be more positive. will see what I can come up with.

Comment is about Horace Thespider (poet profile)

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oh! watch him Sian,that T.C.-he,s a wolf in young mens clothes-lol!-goodnight all.Mr.Wilde

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Hi Sian seems to take ages to get to the bottom of your postings ha ha.... thank you for the comment hugs are on me, I will send some positive Karma your way, Thaumaturgically Charged of course ;-)
TC XX

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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thank you "Dancing in the rain" Jane !

very good your stuff

take care

Carmine

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Weaving your prose around the chords of Rachmaninoff? I expect your story to be quite a grandiose, maddening experience...

Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)

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Hello Sian HNY to you. Thank you for commenting on Happy New Year. I unfortunately was one of those in last night's clothes. Have just read The Long Fuse. Will comment after a couple more reads. Always necessary with your work. I'm looking for the clever bits that you hide so well. Graham

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Simon, I feel the pain of being ignored by Sir Jimmy myself, also having neglected to send in the letter asking to be a ballerina for a day or whatever it was. I did have him as a friend on myspace some years ago though.
I liked your samples a lot
Rachel
x

Comment is about Simon Lee (poet profile)

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Kealan, we're all 'fairly shit' -- in our own eyes or those of others, but so what. 'Poetry will teach you poetry' -- that's all we need to remember.

So the greatest tribute we can offer to each other is this, as from me to you -- 'Keep writing..you have something to say..'

Michael

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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thanks for your comment johnny

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Hi Both, thanks for the welcome, looks like a really useful site.

Comment is about Ant Smith (poet profile)

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Hi John. Keep looking, keep blogging and we will keep reading.
Winston

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Hi Ant . welcome to WOL hope you like what you find here. Winston

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Hi Carmine welcome to WOL . good to see you are getting to grips with the various aspects of the site - have fun. Winston

Comment is about Carmine Grimshaw (poet profile)

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Hi Andreas.Hope you enjoy the site. Winston

Comment is about Andreas Grant (poet profile)

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..hello Ann..thank-you..I used the blackbird for two reasons..if 'man' disappears from the planet all the flora and fauna and planets will carry on regardless, they have no interest in any religion, and I've never seen a blackbird being instructed on how to build a nest, we don't understand how they know..therfore they are an obvious creature to take us by the hand and explain the universe, something no 'man' will ever be able to do.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Hello again Cynthia
I suppose most of my poems are 'worked on' to some extent.
I write almost everything sat at my computer, generally arriving at a draft fairly quickly. I then let it sit, and generally keep returning to the computer over the next 24 hours and perhaps change the odd word or two, but the bulk of it remains. Fine tuning may be the best phrase, if that doesn't sound too up-myself.
Thanks for the message
x Steve x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
thanks for commenting with your thoughts on Snow People poems.
It's the kind of comment i was hoping for.
The first is my first draft and as it came out on paper. The second is when i started messing around with it. I'm hopeless at editing and often do too little or too much.

Janet.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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In the preview section on this site, the poem shows in a different format than what is actually published. I shortened 'your' to 'ur' so that the sentence fitted on the correct line. That said, I bet e.e. cummings (no caps needed) would probably be well into text spk, not to mention ur instead of your. So I'm allowed too! As regards whether this poem would work more as a blog, I disagree - my style of verse is often conversational and short on the usual poetic gestures. It's just how I tend to write. I suppose the more laboured ones will come across more immediately as 'poetic.' Many thanks for your comments. I will check out your work soon.

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Hi John. I didn't notice any cliches in Left Over. Maybe this poemwould make a good blogg? Somehow it seemed hard to comment on the one you chose as it seemed more of a statement. Is "ur vicious" etc right or should it be "your"? Anyway, good poem I thought. And welcome too.

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Thanks Janet!

Comment is about Paul Conneally (poet profile)

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Hi Ann
Thanks for ever welcome comment. I've added an explanation comment, so those who read know exactly where I was coming from
xx Steve xx

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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really?...nah no way, your boiling my sprouts as we say in Liverpool!

Comment is about jean lucy thompson (poet profile)

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Hya Rache - my grandma used to call me Fanny Fanackapan when I was little and being awkward! I want to be a hedge witch, got books about it and everything! When I wrote this poem it had a cheerful ending, "my love still has its fingers crossed" or some such rubbish, but then I woke up one morning with the miserable ending, which is better.

Comment is about Rachel McGladdery (poet profile)

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Hey. I'm not quite sure of the cliches you're speaking of but I will take another look. I composed the poem in about ten minutes and so perfection wasn't expected. I'll give it a re-edit at some point. Thanks for your comments.

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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Hello Andreas. Welcome to WOL. Be good to see some of your work on here.

Comment is about Andreas Grant (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL Ant. You sound very accomplished. Enjoyed the pace of Far Too Many.

Comment is about Ant Smith (poet profile)

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Hello John. WOL can't find friends for you but you'll certainly get some honest comments about the work you post up. There are some great lines in Left Over. Drop a few of the cliches and concentrate on your own strong words. Oh and welcome of course.

Comment is about John Turner (poet profile)

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REVELATION 2
I am very bad at 'getting' other people's obscurity (love my own of course) but I found some really nice linguistic touches. I gather you do your own translation, so the question arises: "How much is lost in?" (:o)

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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Merci beaucoup Gus pour tes commentaires sur mon poème
'Bound together'...
Je suis toujours ravie quand ce que j'écris te plais : )

xxx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Je t'adore Isobel !
Merci beaucoup pour tes commentaires sur mon poème 'Bound together'...
Tu me touches toujours avec ta générosité...
Et tu me fais constamment rire - qu'est-ce qu'on va s'amuser quand je viens visiter : )

xxx

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks Rachel! V kind of you. I quite often have men laughing... but usually that's when Ive taken off my clothes... ;)

Comment is about Mab Jones (poet profile)

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I am listening:))

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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Yes Natasha : )

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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About bolsheviks??

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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About Bolsheviks??

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia
Thanks for the comment.
I know it sounds naive, but I'm not sure what 'worked on' means. Put before a workshop? I wouldn't go near one. I'm not blase, it's just that a poem wouldn't be mine afterwards.
The poem came to mind after the Copenhagen conference on climate change, and a comment by a scientist that we are only 2 degrees away from an irreversible change in our climate.
xx Steve xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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'Lets have a debate!'

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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"Rude logic measures the steel, the wind, the wand" love that.

thanks for your encouragement and continued comment, I read your profil and would love to chat apres poetry event! Never enough time to talk at these gigs!

Pete x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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I have heard you reading a few times and really enjoy. Russian sounds beautiful and I think that it is a passionate language in the way it sounds. I studied Russian cold war politics and would love to travel there.

"And even shattered schick of shelter ..I’m
Half blooded card of subdivided suit!"

love the 'shattered shick' idea.
Would like to see more readings from you sometime.

Comment is about Natasha (poet profile)

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Looking forward and looking back. The Janus thing is always tinged bittersweet. Welcome to WOL Carmine.

Comment is about Carmine Grimshaw (poet profile)

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I'm also working with an exceptional artist, Ken McCalla and have developed a children's picture book;
"Vircheu and the Bow".
Now available at Foyles, New Beacon Bookshop, www.enkbooks.co.uk, Amazon and your local bookshop.

Comment is about Eli Anderson (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia. thanks for reading 'Browns Convention'. the poem has been edited and I have added some commentary on the blog. Win :-)

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Cate,
thanks for commenting on my poem about Miles Platting. I like 'gritty' and Northern, although we could do with some real grit around here lately eh!

Janet.x

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Hi Isobel, thanks for commenting on my poem about Miles Platting.
I enjoy personifying places and birds/animals too.
It's a while since i wrote one.

Janet.x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Hi Paul,
just want to say i've read your Bach Remedy haiku. Every one of them and i love them. Great simplistic photographic images also. I'm pleased you didn't use the traditional form 5-7-5 for these. They're wild flowers and need to be free.

Janet.x

Comment is about Paul Conneally (poet profile)

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Hi Ann,
yes i agree with you on your audio.You achieved your aim. Well done.

Janet.x

ps thanks for your comment on my poem about Miles Platting. I have done a few similar ones a while ago. I enjoy personifying places and sometimes animals/birds too.

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Saw old Edgar many times from mid 60s onward! Out Demons Out! Ironically I've never seen the Exorcist.
Here's a link to a great version of Out Demons Out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-v2EyG52Y

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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Ann. your wishes have been answered re our recent conversation about the text editor... (And incidentally mine too). Win

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