Hi Ann, many thanks for you recent comment. Means a lot. Regards, Thom

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Ann- thanks for your comments & I agree - we all want to be loved; the ones who play it cool are only fooling themselves. Banksy

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Dear Valkyrie
Where did that come from?
Anyway, thanks for the amusing 'comment'.
A sign of my old age? But I really did see a small child (or maybe a midget) on patrol in the middle of Huddersfield, in the middle of this week. Well, that's what I think I saw.
xx Steve xx

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Hi Ann

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on my work

steve x

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Re Your comments on the audio on 'On Seeing A Boy's Face'Glad you liked it Ann. I have used it before (as has garside if I remember rightly) It is derived form an onlne piece of software that converts text to speach. You may need to spell words differently to get the voice to pronounce the words as you want them however and alter gaps and pauses etc. I used it here because I felt the faltering awkwardness and non human remoteness of this voice reflected the difficult subject I was writting about. It is a voice without empathy or opinion. Win

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tee hee, your comment made me giggle. I'd imagine it'd chafe if you were tempted! One day I'll tell you about the epilator fiasco!Thank you for cheering me up.
Love
Rachel
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Hi Ann, I've just been having broadband issues and my annual post christmas slump, it involves eating chocolate and feeling sorry for myself. I saw a snowdrop today though so the only way is up!
love
Rachel
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Hi Anne, thanks for your comments- I empathise with 'Why can't i find a man who can dance?' we'd all like that, it's a lovely poem.

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hI ANN, NICE POEMS!

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...hello Ann..thanks..don't know why it's in a paragraph?....'hand on your arm' is because she touched the coffin..they kept showing it on the news, after the plane landed.

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Oy Oy, I'll attempt to fuse our words for the mail poem

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Hi Ann, Ta 4 the feedback on "Grieve Voyeur". I think the point I was making is that if you go from being a morbid spectator to a paid counsellor in order to fulfill a need to experience grief there comes a time when you are going to get rumbled. I am sorry you didn't pick this up.I will have to rethink the draft.
Kind Regards, Neil

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thanks for commenting on 'a biting of words' - paul

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Hi There Anne, Thankyou for taking the time to read my piece 'On Seeing a Boy's Face' and for your kind comments. This piece was removed by accident and is now back again. It may or may not have had the audio when you last visited. Win x

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Loved your comment Annipoo ;-) I am awake and I should be asleep!!
TC XX

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Hi Ann
Thanks, as ever for the word. Still haven't got back to the laugh-a-minute stuff yet.

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Noticed that you are a Nick Drake fan (in another thread). He will be played at my funeral...along with John Martyn and Joe Satriani (it's 'one on the way in...one in the middle, and one on the way out...) although, if the rules permitted, I could easily have three from any of them.... It's a game we play on long journeys. My choices have been the same for many years.

What's your favourite?

Jx

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hi there ann, i sure am keeping myself safe from my scarey thoughts ;)hehe

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Hey, thanks for your comment. Where abouts in Cornwall are you? I am quite new to the performance poetry circuit. Just found this site today.
Rich x

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..hello Ann..thank-you..I used the blackbird for two reasons..if 'man' disappears from the planet all the flora and fauna and planets will carry on regardless, they have no interest in any religion, and I've never seen a blackbird being instructed on how to build a nest, we don't understand how they know..therfore they are an obvious creature to take us by the hand and explain the universe, something no 'man' will ever be able to do.

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Hi Ann,
thanks for commenting with your thoughts on Snow People poems.
It's the kind of comment i was hoping for.
The first is my first draft and as it came out on paper. The second is when i started messing around with it. I'm hopeless at editing and often do too little or too much.

Janet.x

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Hi Ann
Thanks for ever welcome comment. I've added an explanation comment, so those who read know exactly where I was coming from
xx Steve xx

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Hi Ann,
yes i agree with you on your audio.You achieved your aim. Well done.

Janet.x

ps thanks for your comment on my poem about Miles Platting. I have done a few similar ones a while ago. I enjoy personifying places and sometimes animals/birds too.

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Saw old Edgar many times from mid 60s onward! Out Demons Out! Ironically I've never seen the Exorcist.
Here's a link to a great version of Out Demons Out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-v2EyG52Y

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Ann. your wishes have been answered re our recent conversation about the text editor... (And incidentally mine too). Win

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That would be greatly appreciated if you could

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We are on same wavelenght with your idea '0 unread' , i had similar feeling/sentiment i wanted to capture. Do you want to write one and we can splice the 2 together? A project? ..I have not YET seen ajoint or HYBRID poem in here so we may be the first? Send it to Dermot for his magazine section

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"It's steam trains, plugs and sockets they admire,
a trip to Wickes will really light their fire.
In boiler suites and steel toe caps they go,
a pencil stuck behind the ear - they charm me so!
Arms up to elbows in old oil and grease,
Swarfega like a perfume to their nose.
How I love men like those!"

Swarfega Stuff Poet Foxglove!

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..thanks for th'comment...no it's not bitter...just summing-up life a bit....I like your 'dance' poem...if you google 'stepmoth' and go to my 'myspace' you can select 'Easy when y'dancin' and hear me singin' on said subject....doesn't mean I can dance though..!!

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I bet you aren't that much older than me.... anyway, maybe you just had more discerning televisual tastes...I might try and find it on youtube unless they've burnt all the footage....they ought to have!
Rach
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Aw. ta fer the comments chick!I have been reduced to drinking , though in my case the dregs....crap whisky, one measly measure left too. Send me some champagne down the modem!
I love you too

Racheroo
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Hello Annipoo ;-)) I have been busy drinking eating and having a good time, so no time for WOL, I am back in the Gulf now ;-( so I expect to be reviewing your stuff soon!! I will give you a hard time ha ha...... maybe even post something myself !!
Love TC ;-) XX

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Arr, thanks for your comments Ann! Never mind me leaks - I've been captaining a sinkin' ship for some time!

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Thanks Ann, sorry it made you sniffle, most chuffed you liked it though.
fankyoo,
Rachel
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I like your style! :)
Particularly like, finding a man who can dance, and Twit-like.
Really hope you get to perform soon, is there a night near you?

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Hi Ann,
I love the song too and I wish I could say that I was responsible for it in some was but alas, I cannot. Other than the title means the same as the title of my poem and I feel a deep connection to the song and her voice. I play the wooden flute though so maybe I could learn the song as well and put my version of it out there in cyberspace one day. Hope you're ok in this snowy weather : ) deb xx

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thanks for your comment - yes it was fun doing the filming but the editing took forever

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I like you thinking like you do! : )

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Thank you for making me feel welcome here, and for the lovely comment on my blog.

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I read all your blog postings, and I enjoyed the time I spent there. I like ruins too, and a lot of your poetry is a bit like reading my own thoughts. Looking forward to more.

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Hello Ann, thank you for your kind words on Villtur Augu and my other poems too. I am sorry to hear of your loss. Two years ago is not long,I hope time if nothing else,can help to ease your sadness. thanks again, Debz xx

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Hi Ann, yes I was here before, I've just re-instated my personal profile - thanks for your kind remarks, glad you liked 'I had a name'.
Cx

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Hi Ann, Sorry yes the2 cats (Bubble and Squeek) are fine. They had a bout of regurgitation a couple of weeks ago but have now thankfully ceased. They do not like going out in the snow ! Win x

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Thanks for the comment Ann - I'm not just cool, I'm freezing!

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Hi AnnRe Googlize. Actually wobble would not be allowed here. This one is taken from my calculator series. The alphabet used is derived from letters on a calculator read upside down. So 0 = o, 1 = i, 2 = z etc E,h,s,g,L,B follow.Here's another -

Zoo Shloo

Geese gozzle,
bees hibe,
hogs boss,
eels loobe.
Eggs.
Eggs…
Shhh
Eggs sigh.

Win

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Ann, I so know what you mean about the poem on the back of the fag packet syndrome. I wrote one in half an hour the other day while the kids were pestering me and I was hugely pleased with it. Others I work on, like really work and they just don't have that 'feeling'...weird innit!
Rachel
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Hi Ann,
yes i changed. Trust me, it's only a google image. :-)

Happy new year.
Janet.x

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Do you mind the fact that everyone always assumes that the poems we write are based on ourselves? This is such a strong, personal poem, but you could have invented the scenario. I feel that I'd like to write a poem and leave it open as to whether it is based on me and my experiences. If you write a novel about a mass murderer, people don't assume you are a nmass murderer. Or is it that poetry is always a sort of truth? Don't know. lotsoflove ;-)
Ann, couldn't agree more with your comments above posted on Rachels blog entry... thats what poets do isn't it? If people assume you are writting from personal experience then thats a bit of a leap surely? Win

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Helloooo,
re your question about the reader assuming the poems are autobiographical, I don't particularly mind. It does feel a little exposing but it's my choice to post them on here isn't it? I admit some of my poems are autobiographical, some aren't, some of the things I write about happened to people I know but not to me personally. I think readers will always assume there's a back story themselves anyway whether that's poetry or prose. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in asking me that by the way.
Love
Rachel
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Hi Ann, yes I did have a good Christmas, thanks, including a nice walk along the river beside Hampton Court! Hope you had a decent one too, and very best wishes for a happy and creative new year. My one worry is ... is it really wise to be undertaking a coastal walk in this weather? Hope you're keeping an eye on the forecasts ...
Greg x

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