Thanks Clarissa. This vile crime has never left my mind. I know there are awful murders all the time, but this was particularly sadistic.

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that was a very sad day, stupid people are every place, great poem

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Videos is the first phase in what promises to be some thing quite special

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Pete, I'm fast running out of superlatives for your work and this piece, both its contents and your vocal delivery, are superb.
Two of my children were born at Billinge Hospital by the way. It didn't look much different than your picture!
Anyway, once again, an excellent piece of poetry. Now, if you don't mind I'm off to get older.

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Wow! Chinese food AND plastic furniture, I can but dream....

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Went to the Chinese last night. Ate crap. Talked about the fine plastic furniture endlessly. Chin highly polished. About to be divorced.

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Thanks Clarissa. I appreciate your comments.

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nice, i like it, reads very well. thanks

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HI Derek, these are very nice poem. thanks

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the pic fits the poem very well, my really long comment went to this poem and pic. I have this pic, good job

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I went to KFC then back to me flat to watch Sky till me brain melted and I fell asleep! Haha! But strangley, whilst doing so I did stroke my chin (covering it in chip grease) and discuss the architecture of my living room 'mmm, what an interesting 1970's fire place...'

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Hi Gem

Welcome to the sane and sensible world of Malpoetry. On return from Bordelleaux, Pam and I went to an absurdly expensive and pretentious restaurant where we had about 8 courses of tiny pieces of food and froth, then we went to York to visit our granddaughter at Uni where we stayed in a smarty pants hotel with yet another restaurant meal. Drove through glorious English countryside to the Lake District and another flash Hotel, Dinner in a swanky restaurant and then drove home. Never stroked my chin once and hardly ever commented on the architecture and paintings.

Retired Chinny Winny.

Revolutionary working class poet.

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ah now doesn't it feel better to admit you're a chinny winny after all?!

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OK Dave... I need more poems of yours to read!!! takr care clarissa

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Dave, Go Jack Go is very funny, I enjoyed it very much and think I understand it. you have a sharp mind, would not want to debate you ever! thanks clarissa

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I think its a wonderful poem, seems you have been watching the same people that I have! great job wonderful poem keep up the fab work! thanks

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very nice ideas, I like the poem very much, its too bad the world is going to shit, all we can hope in is Gods love for humans. thanks

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Thanks Val, there's a update on my biog age, glad you enjoyed it.

Dave

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I enjoyed your poems very much, thanks

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thats a very interesting way to write a poem, I enjoyed it. thanks

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theye are really very nice poems, thanks

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I love this, your so good!

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Peeeteerr,

Where will I find the lyrics to your poems ? Great night at Click Clack last night.

Christine aka Betty

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Thanks for your comments, what a nice suprise that was! :)
Deep Down is a beautiful (if tragic) song and I really enjoyed hearing you read it, but next time will you sing?!

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I love these.

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Especially like the first two. I like intense poetry - you are a writer after my own heart.

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Why thanks kind folk! It's great to be here!

I'll go and view your showcase profiles if I may...

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Hi Stef, great to see you on WOL. I really enjoyed it at Turton Tower. Great poems, by the way!

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Hi Malcolm

Many thanks for the Facebook add. I've not really sussed it properly yet - had to sign up to view something. As soon as I'm sorted I'll do the honours. Cheers

Tony

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Love these poems. I heard you perform Dirty Normans and the "When I was five I wore dungarees" and I think they are brilliant.

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Congratulations, well done John!

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I thought you did rather well at th'Octagon!
Well Done.
Paul

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Hi Val,

Good to see you are enjoying the scene. I look forward to hearing some more poems from you. Would liked to have attended Bolton Octagon to see everyone. You say you felt something wrong as you read a new poem, don't worry - you are not alone, I think we all go through it, you will find the words......Pete

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Hiya Darren.
I saw and heard you perform 'Deep Down' at the Howcroft. Under normal circumstances I tend to shy away from rhyming couplets, but the intensity is such that it's hard not to feel the emotion within your words.
If it's rhyme that you enjoy with your poetry, have you tried using enjambment as a technique? Sometimes it allows the author a little more room for manoeuvre with their choice of words. Instead of searching for a rhyme that isn't really appropriate, although that is not the case with what I've read above.
Enjoyable to read. Nice One.

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Hi Lisa
Hey, chill, Sis. You know the world is just perfect as it is. It doesn't need changing, and it doesn't need poetry; but, if it did, it would need yours.
The world just needs to... Bee.
Julian

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I love the idea of poetry bombs. Presumably with several megatons of TLC?
Great poetry Daniel. thaks for posting here.
Julian

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Possibly Shaun's best performance to date, word-perfect, sharply observed and confidently delivered. Arguably the best performance of the night.

Good luck on the creative writing course at Bolton University, Shaun.

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Have a wonderful weekend at Turton Tower -- hope the weather stays dry and the people arrive in their hundreds and thousands (now they sound like cake sprinkles, don't they?). May the Friends of Turton Tower have their coffers loaded and their support boosted. Hooray! Good luck and a merry time to all the stellar poets and musicians you've assembled, too (of which you are an exemplary example, Stellar Stef).

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Hi mate, welcome to WOL, really enjoying the poems, not got round to listening to the audio sample yet but its on my "To-do" list!
All the best

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yes indeed those fingers look spooooky! but i'm looking at the face! its the face!

Comment is about Peter Crompton gives it some wellie at the Thirsty Scholar, Manchester July 2007 (photo)

scary eyes, Darren!

Comment is about Darren Thomas makes a scintillating Debut at the Tudor House, Wigan September 2007 (photo)

Ditto Gordon! Your recent performance at Wigan that included the line, "prescribed a course of monologues instead..." absolutely brilliant.
Power to the pimple!

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I am not partial to lower-case compositirtions, but in this case I make an exception. Alan is a poet of profoundity and takes his craft seriously. These samples are wonderful poems that desrve a wide audience that will understand what poetry is.

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I like this a lot. The stanza arrangement is lovely, allowing the poem to flow ceasellessly. The narration gives the poem its universiality allowing the arguement to remain understated.

Yes, the theme of loss of something precious, is inescapable and though Freda's empathy with the theme is a factor (the main?), I do feel that reading a poem should not require an 'understanding'. With the greatest respect to Freda and other readers, to chose a poem one 'relates' to diminishes that work by excluding all those readers who do not sdhare the expereience.

Whilst any topic can make a poem, including personal experience, then the poem, once in the public domain, should be there for everyone and not those who empathise with the poet.

One poerm, for example, that I find morally reprehensible, is 'Daddy' by Silvia Plath. That she uses the Holocaust to measure her own relationship with her fther is, for me, disgraceful. But 'Daddy' is one of the greatest poems ever written. It goes without saying that the form is so well adhered to and yet, no matter my objections, the theme is a universal one of human relations.

In that sense, irrespective of the theme of 'DARLINGTON: We Little Know You will Die….', this is a really wonderful poem. Both in form and its language use.

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Thanks Moxy. They're unsorted now that I've been in them.

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Hi Steven, Welcome to the wonderful world of WOL, hope you feel at home here.
much love and laughter to you and yours.
xxx

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Have a superb holiday in France among the assorted vinyards. It is also my birthday tomorrow and I shall be having some sort of a treat, too. I hope. Bon Voyage!

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Hello Stef! Wonderful poems -- articulate with a beating heart, crystal zoom-lens observation, and witty playfulness. Welcome to WOL!

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What I decide tomorrow happens yesterday and I'm not a car bon, I'm a silly cone. I can hold a chewn until I am a swallow.

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Yves Klein blue skies over Accrington, the B of the Bandaged/Banged Heads -- both images repeated (or 'bothed") the blurt strange 'Careful' of your work: in between the do and the dids 'something hidden' pops out -- the marvellous!

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