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Rachel Bond

Fri 5th Apr 2013 22:01

hey thanks stef..thought no one in world was going to read it ;) i think its one of best things ive ever written! so thanks cool is cool enough for me x

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Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:54

Good stuff Tony.xx

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Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:50

cooler than cool.xx

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Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:47

'fits' in with us quite nicely-Mr.Whiteley.xx

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Isobel

Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:24

No worries Alex - as I said earlier on line existence is a lot less real and not for all people. See you at the Tudor. x

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Harry O'Neill

Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:20


Steve,
My apologies for not recognising and speaking to you at the last`spoke`.

It was a combination of ancientness, confusion through missing the road earlier, and not seeing much of you lately at the blog (plus myself not having very much idea what one of the bloody poems I was reading was about)

I hope you are well.

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Peter Asher

Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:16

Just got back from seeing Frieda Hughes. Truly wonderful to hear her read poems that I've been reading for years and this brought new meaning to them.

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Harry O'Neill

Fri 5th Apr 2013 21:02


Dave,
glad this was resurrected...fascinating idea.

Were the seven deadly sins ever made the subject of a comp as Anne suggested?

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BRIAN EVANS

Fri 5th Apr 2013 19:06

thank you Jules for your very kind comments B

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John Coopey

Fri 5th Apr 2013 17:58

I will agree time can be tight. But what about dropping a poetry book off at a school on the way to work or posting one?

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Pete Slater

Fri 5th Apr 2013 17:40

Hello there again Laura
Thank you for the reply and the links. I do use Facebook, mainly as an electronic pigeon and for family and friends to read what I write. As for writing exercises the idea frightens me to death. I sit, I sit, I sit. (You will notice I sit a lot). BING!!! I write and post, no thinking it just happens. When I say accidental I mean it. Its a l - o - n - g story. The feed back I have had since I started to feel worthy enough to put stuff up on here has been great, encouraging but I have to admit I do enjoy being out there and reading what I write. Eyes don't lie, if what I do is crap the eyes tell me, not the hands, they can lie everytime they politely come into contact with each other. I have also met some "interesting " people. Coincidentally, if I did write about being a part of the body it would be the eyes.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

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Laura Taylor

Fri 5th Apr 2013 15:56

Howdy Pete

An accidental poet, eh? Pleased to make your acquaintance, from a fellow accidental poet. I hadn't written a line until September 2010 but you can't bloody stop me now ;) Good to see you are enjoying the site - I know that I wouldn't have written anywhere near as much as I have without it.

Do you use Facebook at all? We have a Write Out Loud Community page on there, and once a month, our friend Cathy Bryant puts up huge lists of comps and calls for publishing. Even if you don't send anything, they can be great 'prompts' for new poems.

Ooops - meant to give you the link https://www.facebook.com/pages/Write-Out-Loud-Community/260122457345775?fref=ts

We do writing exercises on here once a month too - look out for the next one, mid-month.

Here's another challenge for you, from a previous exercise: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=33608

Let me know if you write one eh? :)

Happy scribbling!

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Shirley Smothers

Fri 5th Apr 2013 15:24

Hi Nigel,
Thanks for your comment on my poem "The One I Love". I envy your talent.

Thank You,
Shirley

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Shirley Smothers

Fri 5th Apr 2013 15:22

Hello MC,

Thank you for your nice comments on my poem "The One I Love". I wrote this for my husband. Of course my eyes are not as sparkly as the drawing, but the sentiment is there.

Thanks again,
Shirley

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Pete Slater

Fri 5th Apr 2013 14:59

Hi Laura
Thanks for taking time to read my offering. I had written a piece about a friend of mine and the "bedroom tax" Someone kindly made a comment and pointed out that repossessed people were also traumatised. Said they had enjoyed reading and would look forward to a poem about repossession. I have never written to a theme before so I thought I would give it a go. Out of my comfort zone but it was an interesting challenge. Apologies for the novelette. Ta for the typo .... rectified.
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 14:17

I concur.

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 14:16

Also, I love your Bio.

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 14:14

Hi, thank you for your comment on my poem.

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Julian (Admin)

Fri 5th Apr 2013 14:01

I like this poem's reference to the magnificent war memorial that is within the Stockport gallery - the eternal flame that will be regularly extinguished if the building is not open daily which, in turn, will be a dishonour to those who died in support of their country.

Libraries before Trident, please.

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Laura Taylor

Fri 5th Apr 2013 13:55

Yes - good piece this, lots of valid points in it and would perform well. I liked the 'race called rat'. There's a typo I think in 'first rime buyers' - should be 'time'?

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Steve Smith

Fri 5th Apr 2013 13:25

I love the stance of the poem and especially the verses on hawthorn,nettle and sequoia where you turn the power up.
Steve Smith

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Pete Slater

Fri 5th Apr 2013 13:12

Hi Charlie.
Thanks for taking the trouble to read my offering. A chord is struck huh? Must be doing something right. Ha. ha. The amounts of money being bandied about now for houses is boggling my mind. A two up two down terraced a BARGAIN at £100,000? If all you need is £25,000 for a deposit surely you only need dip into your back pocket for any loose change. What planet do these people live on? Glad you enjoyed it nevertheless.

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 12:55

This really strikes a chord with me. Luckily or unluckily I am 30 and still renting. Property ownership for me seems as unlikely as winning the lottery. Yesterday, I viewed at tiny, shoebox apartment in a newly built complex where they were offering the option of 100% mortgage. I was told that, if I didn't have a £20,000 deposit to hand, then I'd have to pay £750 a month for the next 30 years. Unappealing and depressing. Love the poem though.

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Dave Bradley

Fri 5th Apr 2013 12:02

Hi Laura

Thanks for the pointer. What an interesting magazine. I'm enjoying some of the other contributors too.

Dave

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 11:22

Hi Ian, yes 'Jigsaw' can be both literal and non-literal can't it. That's why it's good. Nice bit of extended metaphor. :-D

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 11:03

Thanks for your comment in my poem 'How To Be Better'. Much appreciated. X

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Ian Whiteley

Fri 5th Apr 2013 11:02

hi Charlie
thanbks for commenting on 'jigsaw' I appreciate it. Don't know whether I'm being too clever for my own good on this one - but it isn't literal ;-0 although I'm happy for it to be taken literally or otherwise as long as folk like it
cheers
Ian

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 10:56

I enjoyed this. Even though you've called it 'Jigsaw' I wasn't expecting it to be literal and was surprised when I realised! I'm a fool, I know.

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Julian (Admin)

Fri 5th Apr 2013 10:00

Now John, don't you go all doggerelophobic on me, with your Bysshe bashing, having a pop at Percy. One person's doggerel is another's popular poem - which perhaps it needed to be to take the message as widely as possible. The point here is to mark the event, not Shelley's exam paper.
I, too, aim to go, though must admit to being no fan of Mr Davies, with his patronising habit of telling his Today interviewees what they have just said.
There,I can be curmudgeonly too. Now, if I could just find a rhyme for curmudgeon...

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Laura Taylor

Fri 5th Apr 2013 09:37

Given the physical time constraints of working 9-5 , and that schools operate between 9-3, and that most after-hours classes stop at 5, what would you consider possible, John? Lunchtime? When should one eat, then? Or do the shopping?

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Charlie Preston

Fri 5th Apr 2013 09:25

This is a great poem. I love the line 'guitar feedback flocks birds into our chests'. I suspect I might be a synaesthete. Days of the week have colours (Sunday is yellow; Tuesday a definite blue) and music conjures up shapes - although perhaps I just spent too much time watching Fantasia as a kid! Anyway, thanks for sharing. X

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Greg Freeman

Fri 5th Apr 2013 07:31

I don't think you need to be distracted either by flies in the ointment or by any bees in bonnets to accept that Best of Manchester Poets is an enduring success. I'd like also to take the opportunity to congratulate John Keane and all the members of Stockport Write Out Loud for their anthology, as previously reported in our news columns http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=34998

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Rachel Bond

Fri 5th Apr 2013 04:21


i like that the voice in this is from an innocent place awakening/sleeping, 'just the sparkly darkness...' lovely image.

like the blonde way of her hair..nice title 'blonde' in the darkness... always thought the way women sleep on their mans chests' beautiful. its a beautiful act, to be beheld as here with love..ah real romance.

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John Coopey

Fri 5th Apr 2013 00:46

Pleased you enjoyed "Don't Think Twice..." and the piccy of my taut bottom.

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Fri 5th Apr 2013 00:07

Aye..

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Fri 5th Apr 2013 00:05

Oh well...that poo-blemished made me wonder though...then I thought maybe it was a figure of speech?..like Poo! it's blemished ??

If it is the other...you can keep em!!

And I like the sentiment..

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Thu 4th Apr 2013 23:46

very romantic and thought provoking. I particularly like the references to the seasons

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Thu 4th Apr 2013 23:44

the rhyming structure is very good

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tony sheridan

Thu 4th Apr 2013 23:36

I can relate to this. Well done. Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Thu 4th Apr 2013 23:29

Like it! Nice one! Take care, Tony.

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John Coopey

Thu 4th Apr 2013 22:58

Hello Dave,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Don't Think Twice..".
You are quite right about cultural differences to body shapes and I myself have no room to talk!

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John Coopey

Thu 4th Apr 2013 22:56

What ho, Harry!
Glad you liked "Don't Think Twice...". I shall indeed do the gentlemanly thing and confess that it was my own bottom!

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John Coopey

Thu 4th Apr 2013 22:51

Hello Izzy,
Sorry you didn't like "Don't Think Twice..". I didn't intend it to be offensive (well, no more so than my other offerings that are in poor taste!).
I myself was rather pleased with it, mainly in a technical sense for engineering the structure and tight rhyming pattern.
I think Bob Dylan must have agreed with you because he changed all my words!

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 4th Apr 2013 22:07

I'm curious. What's the difference between a
woman "having some fun with men's genitalia"
(sic) -
and a man having fun with female cellulite?
Laugh and the world laughs with you...or something!

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Pete Slater

Thu 4th Apr 2013 22:01

Hi Mike.
My malaise was only a short one. One that persists to this day though, I still can't bear silence, or should I say my head to be full of silence, so full there is no room for sound, thought, nothing. We are as alike as we are different, your head full, mine devoid. I empathise my friend but realise from your piece, I have the better deal.
Thank you for your supportive words and thank you for sharing your story.
Cheers
Pete The Bus Driving Poet.

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Noetic-fret!

Thu 4th Apr 2013 21:35

Hi Pete, I enjoyed reading this so much so that it prompted me to write my own piece on listening. I have placed it in poetry blogs in case you would like a gander.

Really like this, sometimes i wish for the peace you write of, but there, you will have to read my short short to understand why.

Keep posting,

Best wishes,

Mike

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John Coopey

Thu 4th Apr 2013 21:09

It's always possible to offer something. It doesn't have to be time. (as it happens i'm just about to finish 13 consecutive shifts). It' a choice.

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Tommy Carroll

Thu 4th Apr 2013 20:16

'naughty naughty' as opposed to 'haughty haughty'
Tommy

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BRIAN EVANS

Thu 4th Apr 2013 19:58

it is one i like very much thank you Jules for a beautiful comment B

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BRIAN EVANS

Thu 4th Apr 2013 19:54

thank you jules yes they both work together the picture and my poem

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