Hi Laura, thank you for your comments on Woman in the Mirror. Ah, you are so right - the day you realise the eye bags are permanent - very funny ;)

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Meant to say how much I LOVE your Profile 'non-poem'
Action Man and Cindy - picture!!!!

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'simple in my structure'?
you say the sweetest things
;0)))))))

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Thanks for your thoughts on Platform, Laura.
As I commented later, I couldn’t resist this little joke. It isn’t a poem at all but a piece of flash fiction prose (100 words exactly) I knocked up in a couple of minutes.
Then I chopped it up into little lines
Et voila….
Free Verse.
I didn’t realise it was that easy.
I shall no doubt revert to the stuff I find more challenging next.

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Yep, I've every intention of coming out to play on Thursday. I'll meet you under the bike shed in the playground!

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Re: 'Ten Minutes' - thanks heaps - I missed the extra 'can' totally. There were only 'happy mother' moments. For me, the real challenge was not to allow those moments to be overpowered by the negative situations - and there were many, many, many of those. I cannot believe any person, or any life experience, is all bad unless we choose it to be so.

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Reliably anarchic. Thought you d appreciate the contradiction x

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cheers laura. Yes we're still together. We met while working at the old Granada Studios Tour. All well with you?

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cum what a god awful abbreviation. come. to come. to achieve climax, its got to be worth spelling properly.
some young thing i knew once said 'have you cummed?' i kept this info. private for a long time for shame...but now i want to expose this incredibly embarrassing misuse of words and grammar. i cannot sleep with anybody who does not understand how to use the past participle of a verb as wonderful as 'come'.
spunk is still spunk. for all my talk truth is i havent seen any since the 80s ;)

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nice of you to comment Laura..I can stamp my foot as good as any other.. lol :))

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Glad you liked Serendipity and Happenstance.

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Laura,

Thanks for the comment on Gerasimos.

(and the kind words)

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You're a little sweety
kissy kissy (the second one's for Bob)

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Hey hey the world's in flames and only us poets can put it out [well, us and, paradoxically, the firebrands.] Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is one of my fave reads - would that I could think/write like Bill Blake. Alas not. I'm ankle-high by comparison. And to think he did so much more too! I don't even think of myself as being at J.C-C's level - perhaps waist-level.

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(Tap on shoulder, as you two women discuss mucky things). Thankyou for taking a look at my Clitoris.

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Hi Laura

many thanks x

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Sorry about that mate!I must have got mixed up in the excitement!I suppose you could say it wasn't TAYLOR made because of all the TINKERing about on the keyboard. I guess I'll just have to SOLDIER on and stay away from SAILORs especially with an Italian Captain!

Rock on, hope to see you at the Tudor next time.

Mike

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Hi Laura, new Bolton WOL start 7.30, be great to see u in March when Petrova on, will send you FB invite anyway, Jeff X

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Yes - your story made me laugh. I think the whole female sexuality thing isn't helped by woman's natural shyness. In my generation it was definitely taboo - and I reckon many thought and still think there is something wrong with them. Even when they find out they are normal - finding a voice to express yourself on these matters can be hard cos there still is a lot of ignorance on this subject - in spite of Cosmopolitan! We should set a themed poetry competition on the subject - all prizes could be of the marital aid variety :)

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Ta very much for the comments re: my profile rant, chuck. It's all been taken on board, processed and assimilated. As for you being a 'reliable anarchist': if you mean you're a libertarian socialist/communist [a la Kropotkin/Bakhunin/Chomsky etc] rather than merely anarchic then you're not boring. 'Merely anarchic' to me means 'flibbertigibbet', 'formless', lacking rigour; someone without a code of ethics intended to make [better] sense of the world. Anarchist is force for good: the tempest come to change the world...for the better. Long may you be a 'reliable anarchist' in a world in thrall to shallow commodification and zedlebrity status!

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Hi Laura I'm glad you liked the Ali poem. Yes, he's a great man and one who when he was really quite young took so much crap from the establishment.

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Laura, that word 'breech/breach' is hilarious. I've seen both used, and I paused over which one to use myself. Yours means 'rear' and mine means 'break'; but yours is better. I could not find verification of either in my resource books. I'm glad your poem was included in the winners.

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c.l.i.t. good word that :)

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Hi Laura, thanx for your comment on Seven Billion Reasons, great feedback, yes I still ponder over it and if I think hard it still blows my mind. I wanted to build up a crescendo in the poem with the numbers throughout reducing to one. Yes I dont think we appreciate it enough, anyway glad you liked it, hope to see you soon, WOL on Sunday! X

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Hi Laura - thanks for your positive feedback on How Not To Receive A Compliment. Glad you liked it. x

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Many thanks for you snort over Father and Son. I too have snorted when someone was sat on my face!

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Thanks so much guys! You are all so kind!(In Sleep)

Anthony and John - I was aiming for a degree of poignancy - wot r u like! ;)

Cynthia - no way! (Mother and son). And he is "gone" into that deep untroubled kind of sleep that young people seem to manage. And maybe that sleep symbolises the unreachableness of the man.

Ray - re last verse - I'd like to add something to imply that skin/flesh has a memory, as they say that water has. Not sure how, yet.

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'Ey up, monkey,
Glad you liked "Dear Sarah and Samantha"

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I love him to bits Laura-...Lenny Bruce- Mort Sahl-
Richard Pryor- Bill Hicks- George Carlin :o)

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Hi Laura,

Sorry about the link. Try this one:

http://bit.ly/rPqaXx

Thanks,

Fifi

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My pleasure, chuck. By the way, all I want for Christmas is a Dukla[?] Prague Away Kit, if you're offering...

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Awww, gawdamn I'm going to miss them. I'm in Accrington - no car - and public transport is, well, a travesty. Tell you what - if you're going record it and one way or another, we'll bootleg the bugger.

'Who the fuckin' hell are Slipknot in relation to me getting out of bed?'

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Half Man Half Biscuit? '27yds of dental floss and she still won't give me a smile...' I'd crawl a mile over broken glass to see 'em live. Got everything they've done.'Bin men, thin men, lexicographers; fish yes, not so octopus...' There now, see what you've done?: you got me started...Re: 'We' - I love it; the bloodrush heartstomping pulsebeat fervour of passion unfettered. Yay!

Oh, and thanx for comments re: 'The Visitor'.

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Hi Laura,
Thank you for your comments on 'The Berry Bridge'...
Made me smile because I am full of childish delight : )

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:o)

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Thanks for your comments on 'My Turntable', Laura. I know what you mean - you can't beat a good 7incher [the records I mean]. Whenever I play 'Gloria' by Them I turn into Tigger.

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Thanks for teh comment Laura.
x

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Hi Tom,Re family circle , Thanks fo that. Yes it is an unusual one and it was born through a very specific experience. Wasn't sure therefore if it would stand alone without more indepth knowlege of its origins. Glad you liked the 'mono slabic' H

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aww ta Laura for the comments on the colour of love..and see ya tomorrow :o)) whoop!! Guest Poet that you are!!!...

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Hello Laura - thanks for pointing out my error in the tag line of "Be Grateful". I will
probably wait a while and enter it nearer to the competition completion date...with the tag line suitably amended!

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Ah, 'Come Inside Now' - lucky lass [you? her? How about both?] Passion: wot a volcano, eh? And yes about food too - next only to 'the most fun you can have without laughing' [cheers Woody].

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Hello Laura.
Thanks for commenting on "Our Tom". He still lives in the village with his mum and dad, and it was only ever a joke that he seemed to spend as much time at our house as his own. I think he had a soft spot for my daughter which he wanted making hard!

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hlo laura dearest, its wigan this thursday i see and not on my birthday at all, i might come then. see you there hopefully x

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Hi Laura,

Thanks for commenting on ManagementSpeak - I appreciate it.

Fifi

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Cheers Laura I have kept both versions anyways..just playing about with it..but sometimes you can over edit stuff out..cheers m'dear for taking time xxx

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Thanks Laura for the lovely comment on my latest..I have played about with it somewhat and hope it still works lol...tried not to take out the dynamics but parred it a bit!

Catch you soon xxx

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Thanks for the comment on Man Flu. :-)
Dave

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Hi there,
'She's Mine Tonight' - really rather very good! Breathless, just like being there, hip against hip, skin against skin, lip against lip. Sin? What sin? Lust is good, love is real; speak the way you feel.

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I can't do the next Tudor, but I'll make it my New Year resolution to do January. Probably see you at the BOMPs launch though.

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Hi Laura - thanks for the comment over Now and then.. It's likely this will get a airing once I get the book stuff out of the way really.. I'm a big fan of the last stanza too.. sort of summed things up best i guess x

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