Sign of a good actress Isobel? lol x

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Hello there. Just wanted to thank you for your whole hearted support of WOLOP - I keep coming across little comments you have left and it all helps. I sometimes wonder if it might be more successful spear headed by someone less controversial.... Perhaps you could take it over one day if it doesn't keel over and die this month - not that I'm trying to divest at all - there isn't much admin to it - I would just like it to be successful. Food for thought anyway.
Isobel x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on 'that' poem. It is one that I will never perform - but it served its purpose at the time. Thanks for organising the Busking for Beer - I really enjoyed all the venues I was able to get along to. I guess you will be relieved to relax now and start writing more. I'll look forward to reading it. See yous around. xx

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks Val, really enjoyed the night. Lovely, genuine welcome from everyone there. Thank you.

I look forward to the next. Nicky x

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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Thanks Jeff for commenting on my poem `Why`
Enjoying your recent change in style. Good work

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks Nicki, for your comments on my poem `Why`, I am pleased you liked it.
Enjoyed the poems from your group on Sunday,also your debut at the Howcroft.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hi Nicky,

Thanks so much for your comment on "A Day in the Life". And am flattered by your suggestion to have it as commentary to a film clip.
I hope you have no need to work away these days.
Take care
x

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hey Jeff, thanks for that comment om Pearl Stitch, really appreciated. I have written what I hope is a performance piece, which I am going to blog this time ( next one I will keep under wraps until I get the chance to perform it.) Would love you to have a look and tell me what you think.

Nicky x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Go on Nicks, you tell em.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hi Nicky - well, you weren't wrong about finding where to go for what on the site. I just sent you a message but it ended up coming through on my profile..... Oh well, sure I'll get up to speed one day. Jo :)

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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'Dear John' ( I love that - reminds me of that programme of the agony uncle).

Thanks for responding, and thank you for the inspiration. I enjoy a little sparring on comments, did think your comment was a little 'philistine' though at the time, none of it was meant to be personal, but the written language can be misinterpreted many times. I didn't think you would take offence as you have been quite vocal on the discussion threads, and at the same time as responding to the comment I had inputted into your poem on the poetry review 'there's a heart somewhere....' ( sorry cut and paste was beyond me there, and I didn't have the time to write it out. I teach English, creative writing and asylum seekers and refugees, not ICT :-) I was quite shocked to be reprimanded for bad language and told I was negative in my comments of your poetry, ( which I haven't been, I gave you praise, for your poem that you put up on the review).

If I ever publish ( one can dream - I will thank you for the inspiration in print ). I've only been writing again since August after a 17 year break, but I can take a little criticism. By the new hoo-ha, I think someone has took my defensive place - I shall watch and read. I am quite impulsive, but I don't think I shall put my oversized size 5 in the big pile of dogpoop ( how ladylike of me) this time.

Great to hear from you. Appreciate your comments. Ps. Did you like the poem?

Take care, nicky :-) x

Comment is about John Aikman (poet profile)

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Dear Nicky, Thanks for your message the other day. Sorry I've not replied sooner...or in verse! : )I do think you were a bit quick off the mark though when you replied so robustly to my dislike of opaque gobbledy gook. I am a great fan of the skilfully crafted metaphor and similie, I abhor the platitudinous use of cliche and delight in euphonious assonance and articulate intonation...I don't even mind having to 'work' at understanding a poem...I am quite happy to do so if it fulfills any of the criteria above. What I can't be arsed to do is work out what someone's lumpen dissonance and cliched claptrap is trying to communicate or capture. If something is badly written then it sure as hell needs to be funny for me to give it the time of day.What I can't understand is why my opinions make you want to jump to defend the sensitivities of others?No matter. Here's to some more robust jousting in the future and thanks for the poem...I will treasure it. : )Jx

PS. I love the poem!

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hello Frieda,

Likewise looking forward to meeting you at Puzzle on 2nd. Your biography is awe-inspiring!

Best
Julia

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia, I love your poetry, this last one makes me feel like Faraday, full of bright ideas!xx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Tomas - have only just checked my page after months and find a nice comment from you. Thanks. I'll change the samples soon.
Your mix of music, words and images in Flying Over Europe works well. A moving piece.

Best
Julia

Comment is about Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (poet profile)

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I appreciate your comments on my poem, I am very happy. Thank you, Aziza.

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thanks for the comment Tommy, loved your stuff on the profiel -especially the Ted Hughes one -genius.!
Steve Smith

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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I appreciate all your positive comments. They encourage me to continue writing from my heart.
Many thanks - Aziza.

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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I myself, Steve, have apologised for the fact that, nowadays, some of my blog-poems may be old-hat for long-term members, such as yourself. Also, for what it's worth, I try to be topical, in terms of current affairs, with some of my "daily ditties."

Comment is about David Franks: Walkabouts Verse (poet profile)

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Hi freda, i have tried several times to comment on your poem 'Labour Ward'. But my computer haveing probs. Just want to say, its a really touching poem that brought tears to my eyes.

stay well freda,

Michael

x

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Thanks for taking the time to read my little poem and make a comment. I agree it is an enigmatic poem and your interpretation is as good, maybe even better than mine.

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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Hi Cate, thanks for taking the trouble to ask me about the Jaberwocky poem!! Good fun! I have read your poetry on the blogs and enjoyed it. some of it is definitely song. My favourite though has to be sunflowers, so evocative.

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Thank you Cate. There is a sense of moment in Newborn , it kind of holds you. I am not sure I meant it to come out that way but glad it did.
Olives pumps is fun and clever, much liked.

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Thanks Cate for your comment, agree with you entirely. Also agree with your response to Tony, but daren't add a comment in case I put my oversized size 5 directly in a big pile of dogpoop!:-) Didn't think that we posted poems for just for praise, I know I don't, I enjoy the criticism and not everybody likes the same flavours, although it is nice when we do get it right.

Thanks again Cate.
Nicky xx

Comment is about Cate (poet profile)

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Winston, since you acknowledge the corrections as valid, please jump the queue. I hate to see the poem sitting there so well done but with two glaring errors. I value your reputation.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia... As someone who is a poor speller and yet pedantic about his own work I really appreciate your corrections to my salmon poem. Both are correct. Will leave the blog as it is though as don't want to jump the queue. Thanks for the comments. Win x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hiya Nicky, yeah great to meet you too, you're doing some great and valuable work there.

Thanks for comments on the poems, I tried to pick two that would be appropriate for Che, Aziza and Kinda and it was lovely to meet them too, great performances that takes some doing!

I'm usually working thursdays but if I'm off anytime I will come down to help out with your project, see you soon Jeff X

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Thanks Cynthia for the comment on 'poet critic' - not sure I like that title - It sort of wrote itself between the washing, drying and ironing yesterday, so thought I would give it a bit of an airing. I think I shall take your advice though later and sit down with it and organise it better, thanks. x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi andy, thanks for your comment on Being, think I would end up the same trying to perform it, haha.

Take care,
nicky x

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Hi Jeff, great to meet you at the Howcroft on Sunday. Great poems, enjoyed 'dark skies', and che, kinda and aziza really enjoyed it. Hope to see you again soon.

nicky x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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HI Lenford

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

Comment is about Lenford White (poet profile)

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Hi Cynthia - we have an open relationship based on holistic non-judgementalism

thanks for the s - typo in soup : )

steve x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Win, thanks for your scomment on World in Orange, hope you liked my latest offering Cemetery Gates which I also did at Hebden when you was MC for us, cheers Jeff

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Not meaning to be over critical, you know.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Freda. Thanks for your comments on loco-emotion and re spellings etc. What most folk do on this website (when they have figured it out) is... if someome leave a coment on one of your poems just click on their name and it will take you to their profile then you can leave a message there. You are right that some leave a comment on the poem itself but most of these will be missed. Win x

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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How good are you to wack a poem out so quickly like that? Maybe I confused ironing for irony - you were ironing something out....
It was good to meet you and yours last night - a great evening.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Irony? Me? lol.

the darn thing just wrote itself in between the washing, drying and ironing so thought it deserved a bit of an airing.

feel very cathartic now that I put it to good use. what do you say? x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Thank You for your most valuable critique Re; vixen... The 2nd 'of' is ugly ... I'll amend as you suggest.

Once again many thanks for your wonderful comments.

Gusx

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Thanks Cynthia. Did you write that before I changed the structure. Ran it all together so it read like a stream of consciouness. Better as one or broken into stanza's do think?

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Hi Nicky - yes i like the image very much

steve x

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Nicky, going back briefly to Falling Stars, I finally have decided to say something reference your much-appreciated comment. The final stanza wasn't a return to a belief/faith system on the narrator's part; it was a realization that any belief system of someone else must be respected, and never belittled. Thoughtlessness is no excuse, ever.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Hi Nicky, I've just read the feature about the Howcroft event - how fantastic - I'm really sorry I can't be there now. I hope it's a massive success, what amazing people.

Comment is about Nicky Burrows (poet profile)

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Thank you Jane, I'm flattered by the Kipling reference. I don't think I could beat those little apple pies of his though - yum!

Comment is about jane wilcock (poet profile)

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theres just certain people in the world, you meet them from time time, they are rare, they make it all worthwhile.

Thanks for your encouragement, never fails to touch

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Thank you Isobel as always for taking the time to read and comment.
I tweaked it a bit...
Yes, it's been a while... so busy trying to get caught up... I won't be until it's over though.

Moi x

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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When it comes Andy... it comes


You are so very kind, style ?

I'm not really convinced...but I do flow.

Augusta x

Comment is about Andy Williamson (poet profile)

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Welcome to WOL. If you take a look at my last two posts, you will see that I run an informal competition called 'Write Out Loud Outstanding Poem of the Month'. It would be lovely if you could get involved by voting - we need fresh blood. Hope to hear from you.x

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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Thanks for comment on 'Rose Dog Gus. I hope Shirley was real. As Thatcher once said: "Everybody needs a willy" - and a place to put it, of course, Mrs T.

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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hahahahahahaha

Comment is about Tommy Carroll (poet profile)

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Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. Bill Hicks.

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