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Tommy Carroll

Wed 28th Oct 2009 20:44

[from September 28th 2009] ''Anthony: You have re-claimed from my universe a hundred million brain cells from oblivion.'' incase you failed to notice.
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Memoir

Wed 28th Oct 2009 20:24

Thanks for the kind words...
Glad you enjoyed my writing.

Daniel.

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Isobel

Wed 28th Oct 2009 19:55

Would like to come again Steve. I find that journey quite scary on my own though and my sisters don't like Mondays... Perhaps Janet would join me. Will discuss it with her.

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Nichola Burrows

Wed 28th Oct 2009 17:58

Hi Chris, I must agree with Isobel that is a very nice bottom, wish that mine was still like that!

I really do think that 'Your Label' is good, not just good but interesting which is even better than good.

You've been around on here longer than me -
How do you find the site?x

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Isobel

Wed 28th Oct 2009 17:25

Thank you muchly David - would rather be responsible for that than a new Ice Age....
Isobel x

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Nichola Burrows

Wed 28th Oct 2009 16:30

Hey, if I can organise some transportation, will be there, a week on Monday? Already sweettalked my better half to taxi me to Wigan, sounds like a good night.
Nicky x

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Steve Regan

Wed 28th Oct 2009 16:16

TOMMY, ta for your Roman alusions left as a comment on my poem about the Bra. As a toper myself, I chertainly appreshiate them.

Tommy I seem to remember that you live in Liverpool. I'd like you to come over over to the next Bards in New Brighton and perform. We meet at the Magazine pub on the second Monday of every month from 8pm to 11 pm. It's a pretty lively night. Cheers.

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Steve Regan

Wed 28th Oct 2009 16:12

ISOBEL, I wish I'd scooped up the bra and taken it back home to New Brighton with me. Then I'd be able to produce it for performance purposes, smears and all. When are you coming back to perform at the BARDS, me dear?

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Steve Regan

Wed 28th Oct 2009 16:07

NICKY, as a Wiganer, I can quite believe Bolton is littered with discarded nether-garments! Ta for your comments on my brassiere poem. Come to the BARDS and perform your stuff.

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Nichola Burrows

Wed 28th Oct 2009 14:38

Hey, Steve, thanks for the great comment on 'Siren', really appreciated. Had a bit of a panic when I blogged it and toned it down a little, save the rest for a colourful performance. lol x

Getting a bit of a regular here on your profile. thanks again, nicky.x

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David Franks

Wed 28th Oct 2009 13:23

My only worry is, Isobel, they could well be adding to global warming - from under-the-collar!

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Isobel

Wed 28th Oct 2009 12:56

Yes - I see. Hope you are enjoying the half term - though you don't have little ones. The weather has been so changeable - sunny one minute, grey and overcast the next - hard to keep them happy. Look forward to seeing you around. xx

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Gus Jonsson

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:55

Many thanks re Shirley's Bedroom... enjoyed seeing and hearing last night at Sale.... Keep in touch re The Alex Humphrey night.

Many Thanks
Gus

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Gus Jonsson

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:52

incongruous?... Well Shirley is Australian... and it sort of sounds right because of the closeness of truth... but was it her only name??...just read the Auntie Norma item between the lines ...clue.?

Thank you so much for reading.as always
Gusxx

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Gus Jonsson

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:48

Thank you Nicky ... Not quite a siren but yes I believe she had an agenda... but hey ho!...whataway2go!

Gus xx

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Isobel

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:41

No need to apologise John. I seem to remember you saying that red shoes frightened you... Other rhyming words spring to my mind - pity, great great pity...

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John Darwin

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:20

something else rhymes with pretty.

I am now ashamed :-O

sorry

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Isobel

Wed 28th Oct 2009 11:12

Stop press - I must confess
I never thought my shoes were less
Important than a climate treaty
So pretty are my little feety...

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David Franks

Wed 28th Oct 2009 10:44

What news -
New shoes!

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Rachel Bond

Tue 27th Oct 2009 19:30

For some reason I wanted spiderman to break the bed in 'Brief Encounters.'.Nice poem.
Rachel

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Neil West

Tue 27th Oct 2009 19:29

Hi Jeff, thanks for the comments, I can see there is a lot of honesty in your writing too and I can hear the punk influence in your samples! I enjoyed 'cemetery gates' - lots of vivid images and plenty to reflect on. I was put in mind of a sign described on the radio recently in a cemetery 'placing flowers on the graves in no way benefits the dead'. I'm curious to know what they are lining up for in your poem? Is this a suggestion that there may be an afterlife?

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Tue 27th Oct 2009 18:34

Hi Nicky - many thanks for your kind comments on 'After' :)

I can readily identify with the thinking behind 'stuff' - we have so many reminders daily of how essential 'stuff' is - not so many reminders of how vast numbers of folk around the world have no stuff at all.....

Best wishes, Dave

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steve mellor

Tue 27th Oct 2009 17:50

Stunning stuff Cilla

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Nichola Burrows

Tue 27th Oct 2009 15:34

Thanks Andy for comment on 'Siren', think I may be getting the hang of this rhyme thing now.

So you met some of my sisters at seventeen did you? lol.x

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Nichola Burrows

Tue 27th Oct 2009 15:23

thanks Gus.........nice ter hear you did a bit o' dousin' with yer hose!...lolx

Glad you liked it. minx. :-)xx

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Tue 27th Oct 2009 12:44

Andy, that spelling error must have been so diplomatic it went over my head. Good to hear from you.

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Andy Williamson

Tue 27th Oct 2009 00:37

HI Cynthia, Thanks for the great critique of "A Day in the Life". Your comments were much appreciated, as was the very diplomatic spelling correction :-)
Andy x

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Chris Dawson

Mon 26th Oct 2009 23:32

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for reading and commenting on 'Growing Up' - glad you liked it.
Cx

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Chris Dawson

Mon 26th Oct 2009 23:31

Thanks John, for your comments about 'Confetti' & 'Solace'. Yes, I think you're probably right about a lot of people on here mourning lost love, and, like me, many of them are wearing rose tinted glasses. Thanks for reading.
Cx

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John Coopey

Mon 26th Oct 2009 23:24

Pressed a button and deleted loads!
Not sure where this ends up.

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Mon 26th Oct 2009 22:51

Oh Isobel
How kind youare moreover how beautiful your legs are...are they yours?... and what adorable shoes...
Thank you so much for reading and commenting on my poem..

Augusta x

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ian leslie

Mon 26th Oct 2009 20:30

Thanks for the comment. We all really enjoyed your set at The Tudor.

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Isobel

Mon 26th Oct 2009 17:08

Thanks Nicky - I shaved them specially.

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Memoir

Mon 26th Oct 2009 16:31

Thank you for the comment on 'Forever Eve.'
Glad you enjoyed it.

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Dave D Poet Rhumour

Mon 26th Oct 2009 15:35

Hi John, thank you for commenting upon 'After', it was actually my entry for one of those challenges to write a poem including a phrase (After the love), which struck a chord with my muse :)

I found reading your 'Grandmothers Gentleman Caller' rather charming - nicely balanced with that touch of humour!

Best wishes

Dave

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Nichola Burrows

Mon 26th Oct 2009 12:05

Are you still working with them Steve? I'm organising an event between BRASS and WOL, just pinning the date down today but going to be the first week of December.

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Nichola Burrows

Mon 26th Oct 2009 10:48

love the legs Isobel :-) Very chic pic x

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Steve Smith

Mon 26th Oct 2009 10:01

Gest, hope to catch up with you at an event. I ran a charity called 'Toxteth Learning' for mainly immigrants and Refugees ,and the poem was also for them -they are not the bogey man.Steve Smith

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Steve Smith

Mon 26th Oct 2009 09:57

Thanks for your comment, Isobel -yes, the point is the bogey man is not in another country, not a 'foreigner' and to pretend it is is a hoax in order to dominate their country while people here fear for their own children on their own streets.
Steve Smith

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Dave Bradley

Mon 26th Oct 2009 09:44

Hi Cynthia

Thanks as ever for the positive feedback. It was interesting that you thought the poem was close to proselytizing, which is normally associated with attempts to persuade people to join a particular religious organisation. I've just spent two weeks in Israel Palestine which gave rise to the poem, and would hold that particular religious organisations are a significant part of the problem there. I think the poem could have been written by an atheist as, if there is a God (which I believe), He/She is assuredly on all sides of all walls. But if there isn't then whatever is 'ultimate reality' is similarly universally present.

I've done some reading about the situation over there. The best book so far has been Emma Williams' 'It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street'.

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Memoir

Sun 25th Oct 2009 23:12

Thank you for the kind words...

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Isobel

Sun 25th Oct 2009 18:04

Loved your spot on the Arty Types show at the Tudor last night. Glad to see you getting back on WOL also. Will no doubt see you around.
Isobel x

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steve mellor

Sun 25th Oct 2009 13:25

Hi Nicky
I simply couldn't resist ;-))
But it is good
Speak soon
xx Steve xx

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Nichola Burrows

Sun 25th Oct 2009 13:15

Brian, thanks for the comments. That beer and ciggie tasted really good :-) x

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Nichola Burrows

Sun 25th Oct 2009 11:17

Hi jeff, thanks ever so much for commenting on open-mic virgin, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I had great fun writing it, one of those off the cuff ones from a head full of new thoughts and experiences. Hope it performs well, and I don't fall flat on my face. :-)

Take care, Nicky x

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Nichola Burrows

Sun 25th Oct 2009 11:02

Hi Steve, thanks for the comment on open-mic virgin. Read at the Howcroft last Sunday, great experience, hopefully go again next time or may try the Tudor next, reasonably local to me in Bolton.

Wanted to put a comment up about 'The Taleban are Skitting Me Nan', but considering I work with asylum seekers and refugees, thought it may be a little politically incorrect of me. Thought it was a very clever and humourous poem though. I enjoyed it.

Nicky x

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sun 25th Oct 2009 09:43

Tommy, should I back off? I'm never sure anymore whether we are laughing together, or whether I am actually being obscure or even cruel.

By the way, you're right to prod me: i must get some samples up to be eligible for POM (assuming I want to be}

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steve mellor

Sat 24th Oct 2009 19:40

Hi again
A bucket list? Maybe. But there are certain elements that I might look forward to more than the others.
I'll leave you to figure out which
Steve M

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Alan McKean

Sat 24th Oct 2009 17:39

Oops - thanks Steve
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steve mellor

Sat 24th Oct 2009 15:20

Hi Alan
Don't know whether I'm teaching egg-sucking, but I noticed that you answered Gus and Cynthia on your own blog.
The norm is for you to answer onto their own Profile section, that way they know what you want to say in reply, without them having to look back at your poem again
:-)

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