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M.C. Newberry

Thu 27th Dec 2012 15:32

Ged - thanks for your comment about "Thoughts At Christmas".
I hope you find more to enjoy while you add to
"the brew" that WOL provides.
Cheers!

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Ged Thompson

Wed 26th Dec 2012 23:49

Nice poem mate

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Ged Thompson

Wed 26th Dec 2012 23:44

Thankyou Tony, your very kind

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winston plowes

Wed 26th Dec 2012 22:21

Hi Tommy. Liked this a lot. "leaves the echo of
our space." a highlight. Win x

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tony sheridan

Wed 26th Dec 2012 20:44

Love this! Well done mate! Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Wed 26th Dec 2012 20:40

Love this! Another good one Ged. Take care, Tony.

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Julian (Admin)

Wed 26th Dec 2012 18:13

Thanks everyone.

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Tom

Wed 26th Dec 2012 00:10

Hi Anthony, I just wanted to say thanks for your kind comment on my poem. And Merry Christmas, of course. T

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Tom

Wed 26th Dec 2012 00:01

How odd, I was just listening to Cloudbursting by Kate Bush then landed on your reading of poem - you sound very similar! Really enjoyed the poem and very tempted to 'borrow' the conceit... :) Tx

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tony sheridan

Tue 25th Dec 2012 19:27

Another good one John! Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Tue 25th Dec 2012 19:20

Nice one! Take care, Tony.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 25th Dec 2012 17:58

Very appropriate as we approach another new year in which to amend some of the self-indulgences we enjoy...if we have the guts.

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tony sheridan

Tue 25th Dec 2012 10:04

Beautiful. Merry Christmas Larisa! Take care, Tony.

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Lizzie

Mon 24th Dec 2012 22:24

Thank-you.

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David Subacchi

Mon 24th Dec 2012 22:00

You can catch more of my work including videos by searching on SUBACCHI+POEM.

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David Subacchi

Mon 24th Dec 2012 22:00

You can catch more of my work including videos by searching on SUBACCHI+POEM.

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David Subacchi

Mon 24th Dec 2012 21:45

This is an excellent poem that works as well on paper as it does as a performance piece.

Well done Ged!

David Subacchi

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tony sheridan

Mon 24th Dec 2012 20:56

Nice one! Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Mon 24th Dec 2012 20:51

Hi Mike. Spot on! Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Mon 24th Dec 2012 17:15

Hi Ged. Thanks for your comments on Christine and However it may seem. Take care, Tony.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 24th Dec 2012 15:25

Amen to that! "Pick yourself up...dust yourself off
And start all over again" (with acknowledgements to a great song)

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 24th Dec 2012 15:14

Lines that bring into sharp relief the truth that there is still need out there in the festive season - but, thankfully, there are
"shelters" too, funded and manned by the best of spirits.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 24th Dec 2012 15:07

In the best "groan-worthy" Panto tradition!
Thanks Hugh...and may you continue to lighten
our days in the foo-chewer!!

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 24th Dec 2012 14:59

Steve -
Thanks for your kind comment about "Thoughts At
Christmas". I place it among my own
favourites of all that I have written over the
years.

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Alison Mary Dunn

Mon 24th Dec 2012 12:06

I love this so much Thom. So on behalf of the 'spirits of the unspoken' I give thanks to your curious heart.

Admiringly

Ally
x

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Steve Higgins

Mon 24th Dec 2012 11:29

Great poem MC!

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Isobel

Mon 24th Dec 2012 11:27

This takes me back :)

My son was very late to talk. One of his first words was car - though he refused to articulate the C for a long, long time. He would run a car up and down the sofa for hours, just repeating ar - it's amazing the love boys have for cars and wheels - it seems to be there from birth!

This is a lovely moving poem Ged - than's for posting!

Isobel x

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Dave Bradley

Mon 24th Dec 2012 09:06

Thanks Julian. Well done and a big Happy Christmas to everyone involved

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:55

I like this also

X

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:54

So strange

I felt more like an intruder than a reader like I stumbled o a diary entry I was not supposed to see

well done for bot writing the poem and its point conception

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:50

Brilliant

Very Very good, love this in all its darkness

True emotion

Well done love XXX

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:46

Great stuff, well done

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:45

AHHHHHHH

Thats lovely, well done mate

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 01:02

Its very quirky

They say youll never have a thought that someone hasnt had before, but I think you came close

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Ged Thompson

Mon 24th Dec 2012 00:22

A lifetime ago Dave

Thanks again for the encouragement

By the way when you dropped me off the other night and made the comment "you will be wrong" and I smiled and said "I know". I wasnt making light of it. I really do know....

I'd already written something that day in an email.

At times it seems that my life journey is a series of failures holding varying degrees of severity and all I have to hold me together while travelling this wonderful tapestry of almost unending fuck ups is the adhesive of good intention along with a stoicism that is almost belligerently defiant in the fact that I choose to smile at each and every fuck up and move onto the next without anxiety or anticipation. Maybe this is a victory in itself?




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Harry O'Neill

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 23:36

Chris,
A merry Christmas and a happy new year to you,
Glenys, and Natalie, from me and Yvonne...Hope the venues go from strength to strength in 2113.

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Dave Bradley

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 23:03

Welcome Ged. That first afternoon at the Sudley seems a while ago now

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tony sheridan

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 20:12

A Snow Patrol fan? Keep on writing. Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 19:56

Nice one Ged. I agree with Isobel. A two pronged sword? I think it is a fantastic feeling when the words start flowing! Take care, Tony.

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tony sheridan

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 19:27

Nice one Ged! His truck, just runs on love. Great line! Take care, Tony.

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Ged Thompson

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 17:41

Posted the written one, not sure if I have a vid but will look X

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Ged Thompson

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 17:39

Posted at the request of Isobel X

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Sun 23rd Dec 2012 17:35

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Katy Megan Hughes

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 16:28

Thank you Hugh, your encouragement is always welcome! I am hoping someone will dare to publish Katypoetess in 2013 : ) x

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Ged Thompson

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 16:25

Thankyou, both of you. You're very right Isobel but to the degree that Poets dont make any money from poetry. What we have in this case is someone who works for the NHS but has there fingers in others pies ie working privately selling art and ideas to other hospitals/ establishments and also having a hand (complete control) in who gets awarded the contracts to have work such as this installed in such places.

Now if such a person would use this control to edit a poets work in the fashion that they would remove the Title, Note of dedication and Poets name. It would indicate that they may have a motive for this rather than it just being really bad artistic etiquette and border line disrespectful to both the myself and the nurses.

That aside this issue was only foot note Its about the work itself.

Love you Isobel XXXX

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 14:38

I think the subject of your poem would understand why you should be so determined to protect what you value! Good for you - and for "Tommy"!!

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 14:32

I don't recall my mother (6 children and an infant mortality) having her own mother look after her children. There is certainly truth in this poem...from personal observation. And let's just remember that tragic little girl in Portugal who didn't even have a grandparent to look after her while her own parents were out having a good time!

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Hugh

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 13:42

Don't think you should be on here Katy,you should be writing scripts for Hollywood movies.Sooo much action brilliantly and vividly described in so few words.We are reading on here the words of a genius.Well done !!!!!!!

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Anthony Emmerson

Sun 23rd Dec 2012 13:28

Well done Kingsland for a very worthwhile collaboration. I really hope that we can do more things like this. Best wishes to all involved.

Regards,
A.E.

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