Thanks, Ray. In Barnsley it's "poo-wuk".
Harry - I don't think so. And neither does uphill mutton for us these days.

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Original item by John Coopey

Ivo,

Your line three is very true.

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A magnificent piece of praise John!

( By the way, does corned mutton still exist?)

Comment is about THE-SAD-AN'-LAMENTABLE-PASSIN'-O'-ALBERT-'IRST-AN'-'IS-PORK-PIE RAG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Cleancut and American in flavour and the better for the sentiment , It's great because it hits directly home and with just enough romance to set it rolling!

Ray

Comment is about Missing Out (blog)

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Beats the hairy bikers specials I reckon John. What a lovely tribute , lifted my spirits right enough! I knew a lad from Accrington and his pronunciation of pork was more like Porick. Alas poor porick.

Ray

Comment is about THE-SAD-AN'-LAMENTABLE-PASSIN'-O'-ALBERT-'IRST-AN'-'IS-PORK-PIE RAG (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Totally sincere. Of course, even the most famous people fade from memory in the end.

Comment is about Embers (blog)

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Mr Keane - A great poem.
That line "Its over. You lost at life" sums up so simply & so clearly the futility of life when examined too closely.
Maybe it's best never to look back and thus avoid the heartache.
Richard

Comment is about Missing Out (blog)

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Thanks, MC. They speak in tongues there known only to themselves.
His pies outlived Albert, in fact. The business was continued after his death by his lad, Albert, I believe. But no longer.

Comment is about THE-SAD-AN'-LAMENTABLE-PASSIN'-O'-ALBERT-'IRST-AN'-'IS-PORK-PIE RAG (blog)

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Your life was never lost
instead given a lucky break
that virgin girlfriend only lied
she was having a child
after a sex pact arranged
with the bearded devil himself.

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I'll drink t'that!
Clearly, when it came to quality, 'irst was first".
This is surely platform material - guaranteed to get them
clapping.

Comment is about THE-SAD-AN'-LAMENTABLE-PASSIN'-O'-ALBERT-'IRST-AN'-'IS-PORK-PIE RAG (blog)

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Thanks for sharing that Kevin. So many lost souls in places that have no souls. Ghastly and dystopian. I thought Mohammed was the best thing that happened that day.

Stu quite a compliment. He doesn't know me, so I feel safe in his shadow.

Nice one, Suki. Everyone stared at us I admit - I felt like they were all lost too mind you.

Col: a dichotomy of choice you bounder. The purchase shall remain secret sorry. Clever line about the deliverance, and a great film.

Rob, I suppose the age thing does come into it, but also the feeling of being overwhelmed keeps dogging my heels. The worst of it is when you come out into the open that feels just as strange!

Love youse all. Ray

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you for appreciating this poem,which I was asked to create for a group contribution.But the poem is born from a practical experience.Such feedback go a long way in honing my skills.

Comment is about Like a moth to a flame (blog)

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thanks Eric. her first book out is in December shortly, i believe.

Comment is about Sadie Davidson - council home and silent (blog)

Original item by Andy N

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this poem! To be honest I wrote it about a dream I had; it was a personal investigation of sorts. To me it is about letting go of all of the constructs and snares of the material world and giving into the natural world. The mother figure in the end representing Mother Nature. The guns and locks representing protection from the outside dangers.. I guess in the dream I felt the peace of disconnecting while paradoxically feeling one with life--to breach back-- to wake up, and have to go back to the routine of every day responsibilities. I hope that helps some.. thank you so much for reading and taking an interest! It made my morning!

Comment is about Before dawn (blog)

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Lovely sentiment and a beautiful rhythm, thank you ?

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Thanks Colin, I appreciate your input ?

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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well written David. I particularly liked the opening four lines with the repeated end words and half hoped that would continue - perhaps in a shorter poem it might have worked but for a longer piece like this it might have become tiring. But you pick up the same repetition towards the end so that's good. It's all good! Cheers, Col.

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Hard to chose a favourite from all these latest poems. Your voice comes through clear and strong and true. Thanks for posting all of them. Colin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGys3RfRog

Comment is about Uncomfortable (blog)

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Hi Dorinda every minute of every day you see people who have nothing without comfort and wealth without being believed without love we should all Believe it really does happen Thankyou Wendy .

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Thanks for your comments Wolfgar, I'm glad you liked it

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That's really interesting and very perceptive Ray, I hadn't consciously intended that work would be significant but it sneaked in there ?

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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Exceptionally powerful and painful to read David. Funny that work is the big blank but essential right the way through, like a background artist that never interferes, and yet that's often where other people are encountered that might disrupt the harmony of a relationship. Just a thought!

Ray

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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Thanks Stu

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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excellent cautionary tale, very easy and enjoyable to read

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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Thanks Keith

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

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'It had to be. I swear it 'had to be!'
Cynthia what is your above post in regard?

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David, words portraying the difficult intimacies of most relationships, well expressed to which, I am sure, many readers will be able to relate. Thank you for this. Keith

Comment is about Relationship karma (blog)

Original item by David T Jones

Thanks for sharing Ray. I don't feel as daft now, for getting lost last Sunday. Our lift took us into Morrison's, when we came back Morrison's was closed. We had to try two or three before we got the right one.


Cheers Kevin

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you Fred. It is nice to have your feedback , much obliged.

Comment is about A MINER'S RETURN HOME (blog)

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to grow and be hurt is to begin to grow again..
my prayers to you my muse..

Patrick

Comment is about To the moon and back (blog)

Original item by Dana Lee

Peeling away the layers - like an onion - we are truly ourselves deep inside.

This is beautiful Gabrielle.

I am troubled. Just now I am asking my self about the double standard. It's okay for women to claim their Goddess self, but if a man was to claim his God self...well, we know how that would be received.....

Still, this is a lovely adventure. May your Goddess shine!

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Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

good writes Jennifer Malden one day I will aspire to be one of your favorite profiles....our wordplay and imagery are much alike..we are poet dreamers.


Patrick

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

Original item by Jennifer Malden

You make me want to read her works. Thank you for that.

Comment is about Sadie Davidson - council home and silent (blog)

Original item by Andy N

I love the meter and the tone. The piece moves along quite nicely.
But I must expose myself, I have no idea what this piece is about really. I don't see the connection with anything.

What is the purpose of the locking mechanisms and guns? Are we reading about a failed hunting expedition? That is what I am getting from the guns mention and the cubs in the howling wind. But,

Breaching back all too separately - that is the way I feel at this point. It's all too disconnected to make sense to me.

Please help me understand this poem. It's killing me that I don't get it.

Comment is about Before dawn (blog)

Original item by Brent Cameron

lovely, like a snapshot of something new and exciting

Comment is about Winter from a Window (blog)

Original item by Chris Armstrong

as if written by cooper-clarke himself

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

this is great!

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Original item by Gabrielle Renee'

Interesting that I put an appreciative comment about these
lines, yet it has since disappeared. Or perhaps I should report that is hasn't been "registered". Cash me in!

Comment is about 'Feed me, feed me with the only love we know' (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Alem, this is a beautifully written poem which speaks of love´s addiction and how easily we are caught in its web. Thank you. Keith

Comment is about Like a moth to a flame (blog)

Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos

Thanks so much, Nicola! The atmosphere at the last WOL sounds slightly heady, or rather appealing, or perhaps not so at all! God bless our male WOL friends!
You are such a love...thanks again..............Dorinda x

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Great Ray, a beautiful poetic story, told with fine expression and mystery. Thank you.
Fred

Comment is about A MINER'S RETURN HOME (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Many thanks all. It was influenced by the TV series in the 70s, and yes the end reference was to the ‘Dad’s Army’ song. Cheers!

Comment is about Families at War (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

No video as far as I know, Julian, but this clip should serve as a reminder of Jimmy Nail's great, moving song. (see link below).
An appearance by Mark Knopfler at the Sage as well would have been the icing on the cake! Two of Knopfler's songs are also in the anthology - 'Down to the Waterline' and 'Tunnel of Love', the latter with its references to the Spanish City and Cullercoats and Whitley Bay. And, naturally, 'Fog on the Tyne' by Lindisfarne's Alan Hull is in the book, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_519h95XFs

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brilliant - with a dreaded lurgy thrown in for good measure. Brave of you to vocalise Mohammed but perhaps wise not to accompany this piece with his image. I'm glad though that Mohammed journeyed you from darkness to light.

what was so important to buy that you had to seek it out in such a hellish place? Try Amazon next time, a different sort of god, with next day deliverance.

take care. Col.

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Thank you so much for the appreciation ?
Means a lot.
Best regards
Sidra

Comment is about Am I the worst one You have yet made?! (blog)

Original item by Sidra Shahid

Everyone loves you as you are

Comment is about letters III (07/19/2017) (blog)

Original item by Zach Dafoe

Hi Ray,

A kind of 21st Century Waiting for Godot - in a golf buggy!

Get well soon too!

Suki

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Ray - Is it an age thing, or just that town centre multi-storey, wannabee American mall type shopping 'experiences' are so difficult to escape from? I like this piece and the fact that you are brave enough to record your dulcet tones, unlike me!
Rob

Comment is about DISLOCATION (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Each to his own, indeed, Ray.
But me?
I write in metre.

Comment is about METRE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I'm not being funny John but rhyme is perfect for the kind of humorous poetry you write - what is important is to find the right framework on which to hang ideas - whether free verse of rhyming. Why damn one against the other?
Vive la difference I say and to hell with segregation!

Ray

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