I've just now checked about Concrete Poetry, and it has opened my eyes to the potential, and I think I will definitely give more consideration to construction as and when it inspires me - maybe a few experiments on the way.
Thanks so much Laura.

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Hi Laura. Just to say that I've re - entered The Restorer's Lot on the basis of your comments, leaving three lines indented as I feel they need a special emphasis. I think this is a better presentation.
So thanks again for an intelligent take.!!

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Hi Laura,
Thanks for your comments on "In The Old Fence-Post Was A Perfectly Round Hole".
D'ya know, I think it's true that an improvement in my efforts is due to inspiration from reading "The Melting of the Ice"! If this is a temporary effect, you'll have to keep on writing so I can!
Thanks again :)

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Thanks for your comments, Laura.

They mean a lot to me

:-)

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Thank you Laura for your generous comment on 'Shapeless days and nameless nights'. I'm pretty chuffed that you liked it.
M:)

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Thank you for the very kind comments on Puthering Laura!

Puthering, that's a real word eh? In my childhood household it was a term for any seemingly chaotic action, quote my mother:

"that flour is just puthering all over the shop"


Graham

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Hi Laura

Thanks for your review of "The Rebel"

:-)

Jim

ps I don't wear a watch. Does that give it away, I wonder?

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Hi Laura

Thanks for your kind comments. I'm slowly getting used to how this site works and hope to blog my profiled poem when I can work out how to do it :-)

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Hi Laura, thanks for reading and commenting on Love Song, very flattered that you liked it x

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Laura, thank you very much for your kind words on 'Deals on Wheels'. Very much appreciated!
I sense where you are coming from regarding recreational aspects... I once had to take Tramadol following surgery.. I was floating on the ceiling for at least two weeks. (I always wondered why it never caught on).
Thanks again Laura.

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Thankyou Laura for your kind comments my mind is working overtime let's hope it doesn't stop .Wendy

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Thankyou Laura for showing support and understanding Wendy .

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thanks for the kind comments on 'Don't Pay the Poets' Laura - of course I knew you'd 'get it', particularly after our chat ;-). That being said, I've been paid a couple of times recently - so maybe there's a light at the end of the metaphor
Ian

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HI Laura. Just wanted to let you know I have invoked the spirits of fire by lighting up the log burner for the first time this year - as it is bloody cold down here!

I shall watch compass north for smoke signals.


Ray

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Thanks Laura, I'm glad that Millpond Bridge was a good' un. I really tried to be precise and concise while keeping the atmosphere. People seem to like a tale .. maybe it's my metier.

xx

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I think you're really lucky to get anywhere near an original primeval taste of nature - the elements should get you there, plus of course the lovely fella!

I got my saw from B&Q for £80 with the charger - ok for your small stuff, but its slow and silly. What you need is a lopping axe and a mask to scare people off. (Except me of course). regards ray

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That all sounds delightful Laura - very middle earth. Although we have meagre funds, the access to Surrey woods is limited to walking dogs and 4X4 family bonding with health and safety uppermost. No chance of me wading about with the chainsaw, although I do have a cordless one! Ok for light jobs. Sorry to be boring, but do you not season yours before consigning them to the flames? Outdoors it doesn't matter anyway, but we have a log burner, so we're only playing at it! About £60 so far - but then don't forget the cost of the wine!
Yes I altered a word near the end and you spotted it, and thanks. I thought it was pivotal .

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Thanks so much for your blisteringly good comments re the Log Man. Fulsome praise from a reliable source!
The primitive pleasure remains the most sublime . I just collected my winter's logpile from the man described. He is worthy of a tribute, surrounded by prepared piles of different woods for the asking. (like a sweet shop in a way). bloody hard work to load and unload but I'm now done and what a great way to relax responding to you.
You couldn't invent a better scenario.
cheers, Laura.

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you really are too kind!

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HI Laura, I'm enjoying this to and fro. As Freddie Mercury might have said: we are the thinkers. For me it's quite a new thing to lay out my thoughts on to the trestle table of public scrutiny. In that challenge lies a sort of recollection of youth misspent, so I am living it out now. Could that be an elixir in itself? I think so, although in the way an actor dons a cloak etc. Keep all mirrors well clear, probably a good idea.

Memories of age like ripe fruit need to be fed and there the analogy ends, as it falls off the bough eventually!

Cynthia has commented too on the tram poem, she has been helpful , so I am in the pink at the moment.
regards, Ray

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Laura, re: 'Reading the Sign' - the diverse interpretations are amazing. I still think you understood what I meant; but maybe not. Maybe I don't understand what I meant, although I thought I did when the words just flowed through my head and hands.

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Thanks Laura - largely thanks to your inspiration. It's such a thrill when you can focus up a mental image with clarity. Ayethangyow..

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I've done it now Laura: "to reverse the rows of slatted seats." I think that is more understandable . There is no record that I could find about the procedure, so there it is. Thanks again.

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THanks for all that encouragement; I take any comment as a compliment and yours especially as you wouldn't bother unless you were 100% sure of yourself I reckon.

Is there any other alternative to socialism that gives a fuck about people - I don't know of one. So it does matter - just give me an injection of youth I would be there.

I'll still try another line maybe in that cursed poem if I can do better. Maybe reverse rather than pull forward.
By the way did you know that the old trams had a small pierced screen half way up the staircase to block the view of ascending ladies in their voluminous skirts.!! owz about that?

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hi laura
thank you for reading me.

'ballad of the bear trap' is a good example of a piece of yourself (well, myself in this case i guess) losing restraint to the author's original interpretation.

it is very surreal outside of the context of my own head. i kind of absent-mindedly typed it out on a 14 hour hazy-headed car ride, initially as a love letter but it kept going and turned into something a little bit bigger. mostly unconscious. the definition of anything according to me, especially in the exploration of all abstract things is not as important as what YOU, the reader, think it is. 'please teach me something about myself.'

i can tell you what i think it means though, if you like. :)

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Hi Laura, thanks for the comment on 'I Would'.

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Hey laura thanks for your comments on 'kitchen' it was my first poem in awhile so nice to get some nice feedback!

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thanks for the comments on 'a day in the life Laura' - sorry for delay in replying - been in catch up mode for a month!

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Great tips, thanks ever so much. I actually never rehearse, much to my detriment. I will start though. The breath thing I always do, but the practice slow idea is brilliant. I have a 15 minute slot at the Castle Inn in Manchester on Wednesday so will use the tips you have given me to blow them away!

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your youtube performances are fab! ive only just started doing open mics and its nerve wracking. you look like you dont suffer!

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Hey, hey :)

Thanks for giving me a little push to read a formal piece. I read Her Scent on Silk at open mic last night. Went really well :) x

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Shit! The fact that I have already been blessed/cursed with an addictive personality is not going to do me any favours. Oh well. Bring it on I say lol ;) x

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thanks for the comments, laura over my short little poem. This one is a short little poem this wrote for a friend to prove a point really but pleased you liked it. must admit i'm getting more and more into short short short poems nowadays so hopefully will be more to follow in this style soon.

hope you and bob are rocking and hope to see you both soon xx

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Koans come when you least expect them Laura. I was puzzling over the cult of celebrity actually and why/how people want to be "someone" on the world's stage, and how if they achieve some celebrity can they keep their selfness?

Me, I'm just happy to teach my sixteen-month old granddaughter to blow kisses.

Thank you for reading it Laura.

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Laura, thanks so much for reading 'Moon Month', and making such an encouraging comment. The first motivation was, in fact, many months after the death of a very dear friend. But the idea gained much more richness as I gave the whole concept some really deep thought.

I don't consider myself bold at all, just trying for a little female honesty, never sure whether I'm an oddball, but relatively certain that I'm not.

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Laura, just noticed your profile total. Are you having a party for your 30,000?

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f*****g brilliant response as they say in our house. Cheers Laura x

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Laura, thank you for taking the time to read and comment on M-e-n-U. It is very much appreciated

Graham

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Hey Laura, thanks for reading and commenting on Song for Imar, love the idea of the 'perfume of the survivor'.

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Thanks for the advice. I will give it a go at the next open mic and see how it goes :) x

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Just wanted to say thanks for your comments on 'Her Scent On Silk'. It's a poem about my mother and a memory that had been locked away for many years.

Also, I am a bit addicted the formal stuff lol I don't mind a bit of free verse but unlike you, I enjoy the restrictions of formal and I find sonnets in particular a bit addictive.

Can I ask though, do you hear much formal stuff being performed?? That worries me a bit. I've only just started reading my poetry at open mic nights but have yet to read a sonnet lol.

Helen

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Laura - you have SO 'got' 'Once Upon A Time' - it was literally me wandering from my home to the shops (in my head) on the street where I grew up. I kept it deliberately simply and 'moved' on to give the effect of fleetingly passing these places - so no time to really have a look at them - just impressions - and you picked that up quite brilliantly.
Thanks for commenting - pleased that you liked it :-)
Ian

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HI Laura,
Please don't apologise for not having time to write long comments on my stuff - I'm pretty excited that you took the time to have a read and comment at all - so thanks :))

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thanks for the kind & supportive comments on 'wide is the gate...' Laura. I wrote it for a com petition on unrhymed couplets, so that suggested the form.
I know what you mean about the supernatural, but the example you quote was meant more as a play on 'inner demons' i.e his shadow had more life and energy than his body. cheers
Ian

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thanks laura for the praise over ghost story ii - prologue 2, really pleased with this also as you may have guessed.

this will be part of napwrimo so let's see if i do this kind of quality over 30 days! lol

but thanks again - means a lot to me you like this xx

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aye up - thanks for the kind and supportive comments on 'Dexteram Patris' Laura. It's one I've been sitting on and couldn't get the tone quite right - and originally I was concentrating too much on the chair that's set apart - once I got he 'busted' line it clicked into place.
good spot with that full stop - I deliberately spaced those lines like that and then left the chuffing full stop in - aaghhh!
Appreciate your comments as always
Ian

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Laura, thank you for the kind words on Tartan Beret.
I've just been looking at some of your youtube clips (very impressive) how do you do it?

very best regards,

Graham

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Hi, Laura,

Such a busy week it has been. and, finally, when I sit down to scope, my VODA account runs out beneath my fingers! But my husband donned his 'rainies' and sallied forth to the shop. (His phone refused to co-operate. Sometimes modernism just freaks me out.)

I do not think age equates wisdom - far from it. Experience might, but even then, not always. IMO, WISDOM asserts itself clearly at about age five, maybe earlier, six clearly, eight absolutely. After that, it is just application as needs be. The 'scope' may be expanded, but the 'power' remains inviolate, and frequently disturbing, for all your life.

End of rant! You are such an inspiration. And nothing makes me smile as much as you do.

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Holy shit Laura! I am chuffed to fuckery that the 'Motorway'audio didn't work,and the youtube link you gave me did.

Where the fuck have you been all my cardboard life!?

Dude,swear me in as a gobsmacked fan for life-
-asap!

Absolutely LOVED-'Radical Liverpool #2'!!!!!!!!

Re again the 'Motorway squawking'(which it most certainly wasn't,you golden throated,golden liquid swigger!)and all of your poetical history-
if sleepy Simon Armitage(as much as I love him)can get his fizzog on the box,what the eff are you doing second fiddling?

Fuck me stiff,every which way but loose,and bugger me bandy-YOU ROCK! x

(ps-try not to die before me..;0)

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thanks Laura for your comment on 'the sermon..' thank you so so much for your praise which has made me blush a little but you are dead right, i am really proud of this one and if all goes to plan will be a feature piece shortly in a means to end pieces as both jeff and petrova love it also.

in the piece itself, it's one of those kind of pieces which has brewing for a few years and i enjoyed writing it big style.

thanks again. see you soon xx

andy x

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