Thanks for your recent comment Simon. It makes sense.

Comment is about Simon Rennie (poet profile)

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Hi There

Enjoyed reading The Commuters here. Couldn't really concentrate on it at the slam the other night.

Great stuff

Winston

Comment is about Louise Fazackerley (poet profile)

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Hi Steve, cheers for comment, glad you like those lines, was dead chuffed when I came up with them!

We sing from the same hymn sheet mate! see ya soon, Jeff

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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Hi Dan, thanks for comment, it was a bit nerve wracking but the gigs I have done have helped. Get a few more poetry nights in then go for it!

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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aaahh, can sleep now, cheers dom!
i wasnt having the happiest of days at it happens, but your purple poem has cheered me right up. grrrrrr, its bloody delicious.
you are acecakes mister xxxx

Comment is about Dominic Berry (poet profile)

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thanks muchly for your comment val, had a rootle around your page and glad you've got loads of stuff up to get me teeth into, i've really enjoyed having a read of everything, especially Good Mother- it made me sad and happy, happysad, if you will. bestest, sally xx

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

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thank eeee for your kind words anthony. i've posted the link for the song on me profile...im a hillbilly at heart! hope you likes.
also, the doomsday man is bloomin majestic! bestest, sally xx

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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eeeee, winston please put dates up for gig you've got coming up! distressing to see ones that have been and gone.... i love hebden bridge AND your poesy. sally xx

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Wey Hey, Well done on coming 4th in the slam.. proud of you babe. xxxx

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comment about 'IT Support' Winston. I am always looking at improving my work and I agree the ending could be a bit punchier. I really enjoyed reading your poem 'Decree Ni'si'. It has some great imagery in it and evokes powerful emotions.
George

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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well done on coming runner up in the bolton poetry slam! I want to enter a slam one day I hope I will guts someday and will get over my monotone voice!

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Congratulations!!! Nice to speak to you over a fag.

Comment is about michael wilson (poet profile)

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"It's like your first gig on the front row
It's like your first girl on the back row..."

Ah yes, Jeff. Now that's what I call poetry!

Fucking superb.

Steve

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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Hi Steve,
just want to say thanks very much for commenting one of my profile poems. I accept it as a great compliment from you.
I do try to get it right even though it might appear to some that i have no respect for the finer details of poetic mechanics.
much obliged,
Janet.x

Comment is about Steve O'Connor (poet profile)

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Congrats on last night, you were amazing!

Comment is about michael wilson (poet profile)

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Good work George enjoyed them greatly.

Richard

Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)

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Congratulations on tonight! It's made me look at your page and I've got much more from reading your work. I particularly enjoyed the tension in 'drowned world' the uneasy sense of doing nothing, of filling time with over-thinking. I'll look forward to hearing more :)

Comment is about michael wilson (poet profile)

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i thoroughly enjoyed your work tonight- and look forward to hearing more :)

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Congrats Michael! Well deserved win.

Comment is about michael wilson (poet profile)

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Congratulations on the win tonight! It was nice to meet you.

Comment is about michael wilson (poet profile)

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thank you for taking time to read my work x

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hi Steve,
my terrace is a quasi, with a red brick porch.
I don't think the house bricks would ever come up red no matter what they were scrubbed clean with. :-)
You're right about the sun though, it can be felt in the porch.

Are you going to the Bolton slam on Monday?
I'll be there so it would be nice to meet you but if not, i'm definitely going to the Wigan one in April.

Janet.x

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for my haiku and i'm very well thankyou.

Thanks for your comment to my 'regal' haiku too.
Inspiration came
from your haiku coo's and kews
gardens of eden.

Janet.x
ps. it's fun to be silly for a change, some of the threads get so serious. :-)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, you have a lot of comments on your blog dont you. Hope to see you a week on Monday for 'Waxing Lyrical' at the Puzzle. I am going to send the call out soon.
Freda

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks fr your comments on my poems Antony,
I like yours too. Very evocative the misty early morning stuff. As for the fluff, keep searching.

Freda

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi Sian

lets see some more posts. Your last one - Loose ends was fabulous... back to my brawn on toast.

Win x

Comment is about sian howell (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony, thanks for the compliment. Allow me to return it by saying I enjoyed the richness of language in your poems. "The Doomsday Man" made me chuckle.

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thanks for the compliment, Barrie! Keep up the good work.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your kind feedback. I have always found self-deprecation to be a pretty useful way to get an audience on side before I start to mock figures of authority.
I enjoyed reading your poetry. The Watercress Girl has some wonderful imagery and The Doomsday Man is perceptive, mocking, and has a very powerful ending.
George

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Hi there George,
And welcome to WOL. Love the gentle, self-deprecating humour in your poems - and don't we just need humour in these bleak times? I have found this to be friendly, helpful place to hang out. Hope you enjoy your time here. Maybe the best way to get something out of this community is to offer a few crits on the work of others and check out the discussion forums. Have fun!
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about George Stanworth (poet profile)

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lovely to meet you and your friend yesterday :)
sorry i had to dash , look forward to seeing you again

Comment is about Steve Regan (poet profile)

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oh by the way the link i think is fubar but heres is a link to the featured piece and a link in th lat post to the ezine too

regards al

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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ello mate thanks for the welcome and for the chuckle i had on your comments about my "dark" work haha

i dont solely write dark for any particular reason apart from that i write what i feel as do most but as and when i wish to evangelise about a summers day etc i will, as im not totally into nihilism.

im keen to ultimately get my work published in answer to your question and am keen to make inroads into doing that (ability permitting)

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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Thanks for approval posted on my page Frank. I see from 'Shadows' you are aptly named. You 'wear your Freud on your sleeve' when writing. Does poor Keith have any idea just how hopeless his situation is? (:o)

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Ha ha... un flirt... moi?

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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Hi Freda,
There's such a lot of stuff on here now that it's taken me a while to discover yours. I'm really glad I did, and I just want to tell you how much I admire your work. I can't add much to what's already been said, except to say that you are a very talented poet. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Hi Frank,
Love your work. Fresh, different, quirky, imaginative, technically adept and very absorbing. a poetic breath of fresh air - mixed with a welcome and liberal dose of nitrous oxide.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Hi Barrie,
I'm really impressed with the quality and high standard of your work - not only the content, but the presentation too. it's imaginative, erudite, technically correct and very topical. (An yu cn speell' n do grammur 'n punkuashun 2!) All too rare these days. Your work is a credit to you and the site Sir! Excellent.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hi rod, talkin all dat jazz no reference to what you were saying. Talking of Ole, i first heard it on Gilles Petersons One World on Radio One. I tried hi and lo to obtain it in this country, and had the record shops looking for it in their directories, but no joy. I dropped in New York, and the first thing i did was to walk into a record shop in Times Square, where, they duly gave me a copy of the CD. It is one of my prized CD's, sounds good today as its always been. Dunno why us brits have such a horrible attitude, to works of pure genius that court the dark and sublime. Nice one for your comments rod. Be Well.
Mike

Comment is about Rod Whitworth (poet profile)

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Hi Alan,
And welcome to WOL. Took a look at your work via the links you provided, and you're right - absloutely right - it's DAAAAARK - very dark! Darker than a blind black cat wearing dark glasses in a sack of soot sitting in a coal cellar at midnight when there's no moon or stars! Had to look up "crotaline" as I'd not come across the adjective for the pit viper family before - nice to learn a new word, thanks. Couldn't get the link to poeticmonthly.com, despite googling it and searching it - is it defunct? What do you wish to achieve with your writing - more darkness - or a new direction? I'm sure you'll find plenty of inspiration and encouragement here if you are prepared to participate. I would suggest a good way to get feedback on your work is to offer comment on the work of others, a good start might be to give three crits for every poem you post. I have found contributors to be both friendly and helpful here, and hope you find the same. Hope you enjoy your stay.
Regards,
A.E.

Comment is about alan barlow (poet profile)

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I really enjoyed reading your poem. Its funny. I get some very clear images and visuals from it. It'd be nice to paint it.

Comment is about Frank Burton (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, just read your DECREE NI'SI poem - powerful stuff. Ta for your comments on my terraced houses poem, by the way. Hope to catch you performing before too long.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments on my poems. Coltrane was a jazz saxophonist of endless invention.

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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"Work is Shit" is a great poem. Says it all.

Comment is about John Darwin (poet profile)

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Like your style, Graham.

Are you from Bacup, by any chance?

Comment is about Gray Hamm (poet profile)

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I really like the one about the slug eating shit, despite the shameless punning in the title.

Comment is about Barrie Singleton (poet profile)

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Hello Tim, thank you for your comments on my words,Trust. I am happy you liked it,Deb x

Comment is about Tim Ellis (poet profile)

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Hi Winston, I know, a box containing something dead seems macabre. however, I often find butterflies in one of my sheds, which have tried to escape but become trapped in cobwebs. I try to rescue them but often it is too late. I couldn't help myself and wanted to see the beauty of their wings and preserve them in a little tin. There was still so much life in the colours even though their little bodied were hollow. The silver wires are their proboscises, probosci or whatever, i imagined probing my mind instead of a flower. I love butterflies and I wanted to appreciate the beauty of their wings before they faded. Deb.

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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Hi Daniel


Thaks for your comment. Childs play? Are you crazy? 'Corporate Christ' is a bit too close to home for me these days and has really made me think, and as for 'Poetry Bomber' - how much do I wish I'd written that one myself?

Fantastic pace and rhhythm, fresh, different, edgy; respect what you do, because its good!

Can't wait to read more

Sis x

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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Hello, thanks for the kind welcome and feedback!
I'm impressed by the very thoughtful and supportive commenting I see within the community here.
I'm even more impressed by the volume of interesting, amusing and moving writing.
On the whole I'm very glad I inadvertently stumbled on WOL. Pity I can't remember what I was actually searching for... but I don't care anymore!

Comment is about Anthony Emmerson (poet profile)

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