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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Yes, I was never a an old Tom but she was a bit of a hell cat as I recall...happy days!

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Hi Winston, Thanks for readin & commenting on 'A Poem' - your opinion is always welcome. And as I've been poorly this week and am feeling very sorry for myself, your kind remarks are doubly appreciated.
Cx

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Thanks for that Winston.

..'its not unusual'
(Heard singing as he leaves stage left).

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Hi Winston,

thanks again for taking the time to read and make comment on my poem : )

i will today read the lines you have sent to me

take care steve

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Hi Winston,
And thanks for taking the time to read and comment on "Phoenix". Yes, it is long, most of the stuff I do is I guess. I have yet to master short and succinct! I suppose there is no easy way of writing narrative poems in short form, and I do like to try to tell stories in my poetry.
Poor, poor butterfly! Whatever did it do to deserve such an ignominious fate?
Regards,
A.E.

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Thanks Win for your comment on 'You Came', and thank you also for the song lyrics you sent- very impressed.
I only get growled at when waking the offsping these days, though it's about my Mum (I'm sure she visited when I was having a stressfull time) x

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Hi Winston - thanks again for taking time to read and make comment

steve

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hey winston how goes it? just received yr book in the post - an exquisite collection mate, very decent! especially liking the yorkshire haikus, you should definitely write more of those lil' gems

take it easy matey! drop me a line sometime

owen

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Just wanted to thank you for the chat Winston.
It was much appreciated. :-)
Janet.x

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Thank you Winston for your comments...
very much appreciated. Different styles of writing are indeed interesting... it's the ones that really touch you that make it so worthwhile because everybody is affected by different things based in part on their previous experiences....

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Hi Winston.
Apologies for taking ages in getting back to thank you for comments on "Peacock Dreams" -always appreciated.
I was intrigued by your latest - "Unsynchronised Manual Transition" and wondered what was your inspiration here. There seems to be quite a diversity of themes and ideas. Particularly liked:

"Brushing by quickly in headlines
your small print rubs off on the world."
and
"So hard that in time you have broken their spine
and they’re afraid to come into the light."
I await your enlightenment!
Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Winston, Thanks for the comment about Different Dad. Sadly the "wahey" dad with all the moves is fictional, I'm a dad who doesn't think he can dance. Your group work in Hebden was really powerful - Excellent. Seamus.

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Hi Winston,
thankyou for commenting favourably on my poem, ' Getting old.'
Janet.x

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Hi there,
Thank-you so much for your help and your input last night, I had a really good evening and it was lovely to meet you.
Hope you don't mind that I've incorporated your lines in to 'scrabble online' - as far as I remember them!
Cx

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Hi Win
Thanks for those heady comments...intersting hearing you breaking new ground...my own view is that multi poet performance must be stage managed and directed in no less a fashion than that of theatre...I suppose what I mean is that more rehersal would make what you want it to be.... I'm wafflin' now sorry ...I am a ware of the logistics that stop that from happening....Still loved it...
Yes I agree a great night ...in my view the best WOL venue.
Many thanks once again
See you soon.
Gus

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Winston, I liked your poem about cats. My girlfriend is crazy about cats and has just got a new one from the rescue centre here in Wallasey. I like cats and they seem to like me but they make me sneeze and my eyes water so I guess I must be allergric to them. But I do like to watch cats patrolling the redbrick walls of the local neighbourhood ... like legionaries on the walls of Chester two millennia ago.

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thank -you Winston, i'm going to check that song out- i love 'i am and i'll be what i'll be'. you're comments are greatly appreciated. don't think i've learnt much yet as i can't get past just blurting it straight out.x

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Hi Winston

thanks again for reading and commenting on my work : )

i think this works as a page poem and not reallly a performance piece?

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Hi Winston,
Thanks for listening to 'Confetti' & leaving a comment. Sent you an email about Hebden Bridge - did you get it?
Cx

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Hi Winston

Cheers for your comment on my Snow Marilyn poem - as for 'a' or 'as' - I'm not sure yet.

Love Decree Nisi. Great poem. Odd question, but is it a song? It looks and reads as quite lyrical - and I haven't seen you perform so I don't know.

Just read through the comments - it's not an odd question, is it?

"The metallic taste of sin
Embroidered with rust red thread"

are great lines - very rich and powerful. It's an image that delivers on many levels.

I also like how the poem builds in momentum from the fourth stanza. There's an intensity to it and your use of repetition only adds to it making it that more engaging.

Good stuff.

Steve

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Thanks Winston, for your comments on 'Initial Name' - I've left a bit more about it on the comments page of the poem.
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Hi Win,
Thanks for your comments on 8 a.m.
How are you doing?
Cx

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Hi Winston,
thanks for your Haiku reply.
It was really luverly! :-)
Janet.x

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thought I'dmention Nasir Kazmi whois appearing in Bradford, advertised on this site - you like the sound of Urdupoetry and i suggest you go and listen to himlive - he's very good!

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Hi Winston,
thanks for your comments to my recent blogs.
I did have some trouble with Imogen. I'll work on it and re-blog when i have a little time to spare.

Thanks also for comment on " Suzanne."
Hope she didn't keep you awake.
Janet.x

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thanks winston for your comments , no its me i am not good with punctuation, and steve knows this :)

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Hi Winston,
thanks for your comment on my profile.
I do tend to have a 'different' perspective when reading poetry and comment as such.
Some unfortunately don't appreciate my seeing other than what was intended but surely it's precisely that which makes for a good poem?

Life is rich! It's often our outlook on it which is poor.
Love Janet.x

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thanks for your comment -however I do not reallylike the word 'foreign' :)

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Hi Winston:

Just enjoyed TWO CATS - I hadn't seen that ryhme-form before, and I like it.

David

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thanks for your comment Winston my poem Is this madness is kind of a rap poem but not if you know what I mean. I will have to read some more of your work but I enjoyed your lastest blog entry. I am jealous of peoples abiltity to write as I am struggling to write anything coherrent at the moment. But I hopefully will get it together soon!

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I'm sure your performance version of 'two cats' was different. Either way they are great, I loved hearing it because it was a little leftfield and I love refreshing changes like that. You brought it to life with the reading.(at Hebden, hole in the wall)

always enjoy seeing what you are up to, and as always really appreciating your support, fantastic community here.

Heres to your wood burner and your solitary thoughts. Great to see the work with your daughter too, she will have a good poetic career i'm sure.

May make it to sale, though Laura has a gig straight after.

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Hi there,
Thanks for the comments on 'Confetti' - it's really nice to know someone is reading my scribbles! :-) It wasn't my wedding day btw, it was a fantasy about someone I didn't marry. My actual wedding day was quite different, nerve-wracking - and I wouldn't go through all that again! :-)
Cx

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thanks for the comments- what can i say? my poetry lecturer would scream in horror if he knew how little i revise and re-write nowadadys- very slap dash poet!!! love the calculator poem, what a novel idea!

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Hey Winston. Thanks for reading and leaving some feedback. In answer to the question about 'pyronoia'; yes i would love to work with someone to have this (amongst a few others) animated. i can envisage a kind of anime style:see. the end of akira perhaps? Also can I say I really dig 'DECREE NI'SI' very dry. It purposefully slows the train of thought down from a normal reading speed, to a much more contemplative tempo. Liking it.
Matt

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Hi Winston.Thanks for your comments. It's actually about my grandmother dying. She was upstairs in our house. I was too young to handle it at the time and I went up the fields to sit with Willow instead.I love the sensitivity of horses ( but am also scared of some) and she seemed to understand.Sorry I rambled and it is unclear. Deb

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Hi Winston,

thank you for your comment on my profile - it means a lot to know that you sense the strata : )

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Hi Winston
I've tried to explain further the "recursion" poem thing - have a look and maybe we'll discuss tonight
P

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Winston!
Thank you for the awesome comment. Yes yes I am twenty-one, which is constantly a surprise to me and occasionally others (in every sense except one-to-one meeting peoples!).
I really enjoyed your stuff too :) nice images going on there!
Thanks again :)

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Cheers for the comments over Perfect Place and Windowscreens.. I like to leave things a bit vague on my poetry sometimes on purpose, and in some cases like Windowscreens I like to do character pieces (My brother is not like that!) lol

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Happy new year Winston,
thanks for your comment on my poem "Nobody ever visits any more."
You picked up precisely on the image i wished to portray.
Janet.x

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Re technicolour - it's a heavenly light I'm bathed in! - lol ..... nobody else noticed.
Cx

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Thanks for commenting on 'sanderling'

About sounds - if the sounds and rhythms are already in the language, do you need anything else?

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Thanks Winston

Don't ever depend on standup to give you a living....
Regards
Gus

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Hi Winston,
And thanks for your comments on "testament." Much appreciated. I haven't got to grips with posting audio files quite yet, but thanks to help from cjd I seem to be heading in the right direction. I can certainly imagine from reading your "BIG TIME" poem why that Peter Gabriel vid would havce inspired you - one of my favourites too.

Regards

A.E.

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Thanks Winston..... Just one of my little pleasures
regards
Gus

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