Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post but gets me on the scoresheet until I do something new on the theme.
I have the deepest respect for anyone who knows what their team is going to win at the atart of each season. In Bolton and Tottenham's case - nothing! Everton too - (Dave Bradley blogged).
Deep respect to a fellow sufferer.

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Dave
Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post, but it put me on for the "Ghost" theme until I did something new. (Alison has widened it to goblins and fairies etc so I've just blogged "The Fairies in the Backs" - a bit of a stretch, I know!).
I too am old enough to have seen John White but don't know if I did. I saw Spurs a couple of times in the early 60's at Forest (I'm from Nottingham originallY). He might have played.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.

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Small is beautiful (well, at least perfectly formed!).

Comment is about white knights (blog)

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Enjoyable imagery and use of alliteration, Alan. Nice sonnet.

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Hi Isobel;

thanks for the comment over Ticket to Ride.

Glad you like it.

Must admit, it's one of my more recent favourites, but as always when I blog I was worried people wouldn't get what I was writing about.. lol

Hope you are good and see you soon (I'm off the scene now for a few months - having a well deserved break)

Cheers

Andy N x

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Hi Laura;

Thanks for the comment over 'Ticket to Ride'. I'll defo have to amend the typo as I am a bugger for them.

Severed Sun actually began off as a typo which I sorta liked and stuck with. You are dead right about the context of the piece.

See you Soon (I'm resting until September / October from properly performing)

Andy N x

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Hi Jeff - thanks for the comments over Ticket to Ride... As stated somewhere else, this was a poem that was a pleasure to write and hopefully didn't leave you in too much of a mystery! lol

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enjoyed the shortness of this piece, Ann.. top banana! Andy N x

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Excellent stuff, Alan.. Lot of good images and well paced - particularly like 'sand shimmer surface of the swell' but the piece stands up well throughout..

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Thankyou Mark for finding something within my poem Sandcastles..much appreciated :))

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hi Isobel...mmm was in a soppy mood.. :))

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Many thanks Laura for taking time with Sandcastles...oh those times when small children can play all day...thanks again Laura :)

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John...thanks for leaving a comment on Sandcastles...yes summers were endless and Christmas never came around...now there seems to be two Christmases and summer has gone on vacation lol

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Dave..glad you liked Sancastles :)

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Hiya Jeff thanks for the comment left on my write Sandcastles..much appreciated...gonna try to get further afield to some other venues :)

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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I enjoyed the poetry : )

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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what the bloody hell are they playing at? ;(

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At the sound of my foghorn-look out! Thanks very much Ann for approving of the cathedral climbing lark poem.I am most grateful.Stef.x

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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revisited this again. this time sober. Its still brilliant! Win x

Comment is about white knights (blog)

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I thought you might have pulled out a candle.... perhaps I'll rephrase that :)

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Hi Ann, I was surprised to find so much on the web about these two - a strange take on sexual attitudes by both parties - sad ending too and I haven't even read my book yet. Will save the youtube 'til later. x

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A very interesting take on wind turbines 'jousting eh?' from static positions. Liked your other end of the wire scenario too.

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Hi Ann, Re; What the Master Saw - well remembered - am just starting to read a book called 'Love and Dirt' which features Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick. Picked it up on the local library bargain shelf having recognised the man's face who is featured at our local Wetherspoon's. Thanks for commenting.

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Welcome to WOL. I have read all your poems on here and I think they are interesting and full of passion.

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Nice one Andy,
Some great lines,'Listening to bus wheels stutter like stray thoughts'.Says a lot without the need for too many words.

Comment is about Ticket to Ride (Blackpool Mystery) (blog)

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Hi Alan, enjoyed this, like anything to do with the sea and it's power, don't mind the seagulls apart from when they're on top of the flamin caravan! Cheers Jeff

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...........and here's me thinking Rugger is an honourable game. Dispicable John, dispicable. But entertaining nevertheless.

Keep posting.

*Gone*

Comment is about The Fairies in the Backs (blog)

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This is such a sad and bitter poem Terry. Nevertheless, in today's climate it is understandable to have this opinion. It seems that many are being bought in one way or another, be they female or male. So sad an indictment in the west when although many would not say what you have said, they know there is a lot of truth in this verse.

Nepal some years ago, entertained capitalism. They invited companies from our side of the globe to invest in thier country. Vice, prostitution and drugs rose several hundred percent overnight. The Royal Household of Nepal then became under siege by the fighting factions of the Royal Household. Several members of their Royal family lost thier lives, because those that invited western ideology into the country had corrupted it overnight. It sort of puts into perspective what we have to deal with. I don't know how Nepal is now after the about turn of capitalism, but here in the west, everybody in some form or other has a price, everyone is corrupted in one form or another, and we have forgotten ethics.

Sad for many fathers that see their daughters entertain the ideas you have put, but just as sad are the males too, who when leaving school with little to hope for, become the soldiers, the labourers, the fools the daughters often go for just to get by. We have lost so much in the West, so much of ourselves that my heart breaks. That is why I promote balance in the world, and why my heart bleeds for the third world that has been duped for so long and has lost a great deal of heritage. We may sit in relevant comfort in the west, but at what cost when we have sold our own virtue and promise.

Nice work Terry.

Stay well, and hope for an attitude of change.

x

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I dare you to write one about a solar panel!

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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I dare you to write one about a solar panel!

Comment is about white knights (blog)

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These questions seem much more interesting - I don't even remember filling mine out... : /

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Yes, who'd have thought that poets could be a bunch of bitching, back-stabbing, egotistical idiots, wasting their energy on plotting and the politics of irrelevance? Well, just about everyone involved poetry, actually...

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Ah, the latest round in our turbines challenge? this is much better thsn my effort. White nights, love it. Win x

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I will try and be ther in part at least (The good part). Win ;-)

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Hi, Ann, and thanks for the comments on 'Eye of the Beholder' -- I agree about the equality of all creatures, as well! Sometimes, other creatures don't, though ... I once had a cat who thought she was God, and we've now got a blackbird, 'Enry Cooper, in the garden, who thinks he owns the place ...

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Hi Nikki , Welcome aboard. hope you enjoy the site. Winston

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reference to Don Quixote? nice and neat-short'n'sweet -ta-S.W.x

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Thanks for your comments. The sad thing is, it's almost all true.

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Thanks Win for your comment on Delicate! ( http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=22326#page_comment_77605 ) I don't think I like how each stanza ends with a full stop - it seems to ruin the flow a bit...

I'll have a look at it, and decide, but critical feedback is welcome.

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Re; Hi Cynthia, re; my Palm Logo and tropical setting, I never got to Bermuda in my sea-faring days but did reach Jamaica, Trinidad, Curacao and Aruba plus other exotic parts, which the logo I use reminds me of.

Have had 'other worldly' experiences too.

Am doing a lot of reading just now including a book post the American Revolution and how loyalists to the British crown left USA to populate places like Bermuda, helped to shape Canada as we know it today as well - its helping me to understand quite a lot about the period.

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Goodness, all those egos.

hahaha, for the love and advancement of poetry eh!

Comment is about Arts Council suspends Poetry Society funding (article)

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I can see your point... Maybe if we were ugly and everyone else was blind? Although that might backfire into an awful lot of work and no play.

Comment is about Kealan Coady (poet profile)

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You are a tonic, Mate. Thanks for the reply.

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thanks for the comment there but blind or not, we are just varying shapes and forms, and I'd rather be ugly than blind

Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)

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Very atmospheric, Jeff. It does make you feel you're up there. I particularly like the towns sparkling "like a thousand jewels". Comforting beauty amid the bleakness.

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Hi Neil, thank you for your comments. How you liking WOL?

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Hi Jeff. Thank you for your comments mate. x

Comment is about Jeffarama! (poet profile)

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I see you must be another insomniac then. I like this one - it did set me off thinking, which is good.

You could also ask, what is the point of vision? Many of us find it difficult finding a partner we are attracted to. If we were all blind, our choices would be magnified. We would all just be varying sizes of skin and bone. The only important thing would the words - the personality - which ties in neatly to your title, which I love.

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One of your best, I would say Andy.

'Random moments
bring portals of memories

on dust covered dunes
lost in the drones of the sea'

I particularly liked these two verses - the alliteration and the flow... x

Comment is about Ticket to Ride (Blackpool Mystery) (blog)

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Nice one Ray. I have had an assortment of female doctors over the years. maybe a poem from me to come. Win

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