Thanks for your comments on "7 'Clock Brit" Nick. It's a particularly "blokey" thing is railway nostalgia, isn't it?
Re Beeching: it'd be lovely to have the old rail network we had 50 years ago but even that wouldn't restore the romance of steam.
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Thanks for the comments on "7 O'Clock Brit".
I think it's a case of "the other man's grass" in that the treasured rarities for us in the Midlands was an errant Castle or King wandering up to Nottingham Victoria.
My sorrow was that my territory was always the LMS and I never got to se the Streaks on the LNER. By the time I went to Grantham (our nearest LNER station) they'd been withdrawn and the paler attraction was the Deltics.
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Dick Emery! - Now you're talking Isobel. "Dad, I think I got it wrong again", Win x
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thanks.
yeh my dad died of heart attack. always hurts that. x
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Botheration. I do proof read but it's taken many reads to notice the repeat of "air". There may be changes afoot.
Comment is about Departure (blog)
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Great to see you posting again Alison. This is vivid, made more so by the understated, steady-paced style, which makes the reader feel the moment intensely.
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Just found this Michael and love the expression of passionate relief and enjoyment at escape from the town and encountering wild country, along with other intense teenage experiences. I really connected with that. It kind of links with your latest, The Hill, which is also powerful and intensely personal, though it overlaps with my own experience less.
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J.C. - it's a good bet that they will still be here when importunate mankind has departed in
a self-induced, self-important huff and puff!
And while I'm about it...one man's weed is
another's unlawful indulgence. So there!
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Many thanks, Win, your work has been much appreciated.
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Hi Val,
Thanks for the lovely comment on Jack Frost,I enjoyed writing it. I missed the last Bolton WoL as I was helping my parents with a few bits and bobs but I don't remember seeing you at the last one in Sept. Are you going to any of the WoL open mics? Hopefully we will meet up some time on the poetic open road. I have come to this poem late having not been on line for a while and just love the sense of feedom it conjures, great! All the Best.
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I'd just like to add a few words to those of Julian's. I first met Winston when I ventured along to Write Out Loud at Hebden Bridge last year on a rare trip north. He was compering that night, and I really appreciated his warm welcome and dry wit. His enthusiasm and eagerness to engage has been obvious to anyone who has used this site for a long time, and I'm sure will not be diminished in the future. Thanks Win for all your hard work welcoming hordes of poets aboard WOL. You're one of those who truly represent the heart and soul of Write Out Loud.
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Great poetry Rachel - the inner pain is tangible - you can almost taste it.
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Great audio - you really know how to perform your stuff!
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Know your place young man,
But my young has gone,
Was never really there
These lines stood out to me Michael - there is a lot sadness in here and some fine lines. I think a lot of ideas are drowned by the length of the poem though.
I would love to see the poem broken down into its relevant components - parental betrayal, marital betrayal, political betrayal. There is so much in here but it all needs sorting out so that it has more impact.
I hope you don't mind me saying that. I just want to help and think you would get a lot more readers that way - cos most people want a short high impact poem. x
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Though you may doubt the vessels, there is definitely an appreciation of spiritualiy in your work. Perhaps you had a catholic upbringing? I didn't, but I see that no matter how people kick back, the calmness and the quiet routines of that faith, stay with people for life, becoming a great comfort in times of distress. That's a long sentence :) I hope it makes sense.
Re the profile pictures - yes - I hoped for a naked revolution too! Not to worry - I think we made our stand. x
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Also, i was quite lookin forward to the naked revolution on WOL, thought that once a few had got the ball rolling, we'd see thousands of quirky shots as profile images. Ah well.
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It is indeed my favourite picture from the shoot. Especially as it doesn't show off my 'concentration camp' physique quite so much.
True Manna was supposed to get a few people thinking. I'm going through one of those phases. I think that organised religion has it's place, it's just a shame it causes so many issues and divisions. When really, in essence, they're pretty much all on the same path. So why can't they at least hold hands on the walk?
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Glad you posted this poem Alison, it was lovely to meet you at Lumb Bank! xxxx
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Nice to see you venturing onto these pages Judy. Thanks for the comment. xx
Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)
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Just found this piece and I love it, love it! I hope to God I wasn't the writer who offended you but some of us do, still, wear a basque, have great sex AND have a bus pass!
Comment is about rebel in the boneyard (blog)
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This sounds interesting.. I have one poem that I think is suitable for this... Given the time scale, there is plenty of scope for more... A
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Tell me about it! leylandii, chinese lanterns, buttercups, aquilegia, dandelions...
I can't get rid of the bloody things.
Comment is about STILL THE FLOWERS GROW (blog)
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This is a brilliant poem Jane,every line works. Love it.
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Fri 25th Nov 2011 23:45
Got my attention and easy to visualise too Ann
works for me :)
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Fri 25th Nov 2011 23:42
Lovely..what a tale to be told..The men teachers in my High school were awful...
Thoroughly enjoyed the read... :)
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I really enjoyed this Isobel. Funny, funny, funny.
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Fri 25th Nov 2011 22:28
Hi Richard, Welcome to Write Out Loud. Winston
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Gosh, is that what it's like for young men? Girls get stuck with loadsa female teachers with not much excitment. Perhaps that's why I did well at school!
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Just scraping the ice from the computer monitor to thank you for the comments!
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Thankyou for commenting on Jack Frost. I have been reading through some of your poems and so agree with money, the second verse is very powerful.Thanks.
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Thankyou for commenting on my poem Jack Frost - I think you may have had that same experience of scratching the ice from the inside window in the morning as a child to look out.I have enjoyed a rustle through your poems, lovely evocations, warmed by the pigstraw.
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I admire you for letting your imagination run riot. This doesn't sound like a autobiographical experience from what I know of you. I also like all the implicit emotions you weave into this story.
As Ray says, this isn't particularly poetic - especially that last verse. I can hardly criticise anyone for that though as my last two efforts haven't been either. Sometimes on WOL, it's about whether a poem strikes a chord, engenders discussion, because we are a community.
I must admit to liking poetry about the dynamics of relationships so I enjoyed this. x
Comment is about the note (blog)
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I can admire the poem for its restraint and simplicity. I do think it lacks a bit poetically, though.Should it not be "The note lay in the kitchen bin"?
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Wonderfully descriptive poem, Jane. Think you might be responsible for a big surge in the power tonight though!! ;) Enjoyed.
Comment is about Jack Frost's Army (blog)
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Ouch, painful one, Ann. Well written. xx
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Thankyou, Stella and Ann.
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well done, well written. (and oh for that hem to rise just a little!)how I envy you your Miss Cadogan.
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Fri 25th Nov 2011 19:14
Listened to your Audio? I'm a rebel in the bone yard too! lovely Voice xx
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Atmospheric,and skilfully written, brought back memories of running across the fields to get to the station to catch the steam train to school, signalman had it reverse back in to pick us up once when we were too late. Bugger Beeching.
Comment is about 7 O'Clock Brit (blog)
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I am laughing. Thanks
Comment is about Jolly Fun (with apologies to Charles Causley) (blog)
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Cold enough tonight even before I read this, but having read have turned up heating. Reminded me of our curtains tearing when drawing if frozen to the window panes.
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Philipos
Fri 25th Nov 2011 18:41
How could we not be stunned with such sights as dear old steam trains. Caught such an atmosphere in the Cape years ago where there was a rail enthusiast's club. Just like here, folk stood reverently silent as The City of Cape Town came past blasting away on the whistle.
Your poem so evocative - enjoyed.
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Original item by John Coopey
kafkaesque, liked this. delightful relief of that last line!
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Witty and interesting! xx
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Hi Fifi! Hope you're doin' great! xx
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Philipos
Fri 25th Nov 2011 18:33
Dare to be different - like it jolly lots.
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Philipos
Fri 25th Nov 2011 18:28
Refreshingly descriptive this Jane - brrr quite sent a shiver down my back. Well done.
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John Coopey
Sat 26th Nov 2011 23:38
I was once in a pub in Glasgow and overhead a bloke about 30 saying to a woman about 45 who used to be his teacher "I fancied you something f*ckin' stinky!". There's poetry!
Enjoyed the memories this roused, Ant.
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