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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Hello, decent poems, I can almost forgive you been from Accrington!
All the best
Cayn

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"The All-purpose Stars". Very clever. Love it. Tell me, do you read palms too.

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Scott I really felt you were the person going through what you wrote your words were so graphic I could hear the noises all arounf as I read your work. You heard every word and felt what your grandfather endured and expressed it magnificently with drama and compassion for his plight. I am confounded by the limitations of the spoken word and would not want to sound phoney in trying to encompass or pretend to know completely your grandfather's world. I came across my uncles grave in Tunisia out of the blue in November 2005 and seeing his name carved in stone as fresh as it had been yesterday and walking amongst the graves of the 3,000 young men most under the age of 25 really brought home the meaning of the words 'There Name Liveth For Evermore'

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I would like to say that I believe in the continued existence of the human soul and that solcae love and benediction are present in the afterlife. I don't know where Paul's powerful deslolation originated but would like to say that beautiful flowers grow from our murky existence if we but recognise the fear that causes us pain. One cause of pain is the fear of being known for who we really are and sometimes that can not be a vision of perfection and we fear rejection. I personally believe we elect to live each lifetime to learn certain lessons and will not be judged for our failings. How can we know Love and wisdom if we have not experiences what these things are not.How can we show courage without overcoming obstacles that life sends us. I have had experiences of Western medicine if thats part of what the poem is about and believe it treats the symptoms and not the source of the problem which should be to seek an holistic approach of uniting mind body and spirit each of which are of equal importance. I pray you do not really suffer this agony in your soul. The Don Williams song 'Lay down beside me love me and hide me kiss all the hurting of this world away come to mind as to find a place of refuge is a great blessing in life. Do you know the work of Masaru Emoto and his work fascinating work with water crystals? Ask me sometime? Love and Light to you brother.

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I went to Canal Street earlier this year with my daughter who wished to taste the atmosphere. We had a coffee and a man began a conversation with us and went on to show us the most disgusting text ever. He assumed my daughter and I were a couple. I think Julian has an extensive and powerful word power that he uses in a humourous and sometimes satirical way that gives his work great strengh. He is a good technican in in craft and I congratulate him. I look forward to reading hearing more of his work but actually find hearing work performed by the writer to be more enjoyable.

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'Come back today,
Do you hear - Darlington!
Come back today
That mother may cry no more!' - Extremely poignant lines, Clarius and a very moving poem.
I also like to extend my word power - had to check the dictionary for 'harmattan'!

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Yes I am an 11ft Iguana -- you and David Icke have spotted the roller-ball eyes within (no use for bifocul lens bras,then, as Marty Feldman would have said) and, basically, what I decide today happens tomorrow (okay, there's a time lapse between decision and implementation -- we haven't been able to ditch beauracracy yet. I am keeping watch -- people are illuminated silhouettes shifting beneath my nails which is the Illuminati equivalent of CCTV but without the carbon footprint. Besides, I am not a carbon-based life form and so can't hold a tune.

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Correction of above comment: I like how the persona in the poem says, "You were full of life and warmth/Coarse and rugged like the igneous rock". I always love to see rock/stone imagery in poetry and I have often talked about granite and igneous souls, preferring a rock/stone resolve to steel resolve (the latter is processed resolve). Good poem; write more like this!

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Tinashe, you are an artist!
Love this writing.
More strength to your arm!

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I like the persona in the poem saya, "You were full of life and warmth/Coarse and rugged like the igneous rock". I alway love to see rock/stone imagery in poetry and I have often talked about granite and igneous souls, preferring a rock/stone resolve to steel resolve (the latter is processed resolve). Good poem; write more like this!

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Hi Belinda, my names Allan and I perform as Gordon Zola I don't know if you remember me from the greenroom, but I remember you,and enjoyed your performance. Like you, meditation was a big inspiration and got me started. If I can help in any way don't hesitate to get in touch. You'll find my email on my profile. Luv and laughter. Allan

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Hi Belinda. We met at the Green room. I just wanted to say hi and that I think your poetry and performance is fab. Mel. x

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Very funny audio poem! I loved it
Paul Blackburn

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Thanks Moxy. Hope to meet up with you again x

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Hello Val! It was smashing meeting you at Litbury -- all power to your blazing spirit and powerful poetry.

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oops I've done it again!

Hello to the beautiful Abi and may I say what a joy it is just to be in your presence, but to have the pleasure of seeing you perform and to hear your beautful hypnotic voice entrancing us into your enchanted world is wonderful. Much love and laughter to you my friend.

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Hi Gordon,
Just wanted to say you are a pleasure to watch, your rich, witty and humorous poems are filled with depth.

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Hello Gemma! It was fantastic meeting you and hearing you read your powerfully evocative poems. Litbury was amazing, you created a wonderful, unique and friendly word-based family event. My dad thoroughly enjoyed himself, despite hating poetry. As soon as he got home he phoned his friends and said, 'You'll never guess where I've been all afternoon....' Thank you.

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Howdy, hope i'm not being too pedantic here but the band is spelt "The Maladies of Bellafontaine" for anyone who's vaguely interested

cheers

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It's good man, very good man!

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First off I like the poem a great deal, paints really good pictures, but all the way throgh the poem I was waiting for the softeniing of the description, the bit that allows the loving of a dragon...............perhaps it's just me being a nosey bugger....but nice write anyway

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That calvary was rough. Brought me out in a sweat.

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It was when the cavalry twilled.

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I bet it was 07.

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Wend you do that then?

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Hello, I've neighed and may not wend.

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I was very sad to hear my friend Dike had died. I knew Dike before he knew poetry and watched from afar as he created and perfected his art. Love Light and peace be with him.
Old friend
Gale

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Hello, I've been weighed, but not my mends!

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Hello, I've been mended but not my ways!

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I like insects. I am one. Our websites can commune with each other in an interfiasco. I am sure that Hermione and Ermintrude will go along. They are determined cybernauts. I may not be able to. I have been confined in a play pen before and escape can be troublesome.

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The website will celebrate fiascos, insects, colloids, cybernetics, lump hammers, toffee, biscuits, quantum cookery using dark matter, and stuff. Ermintrude and Hermione will be most welcome -- I hope they will come to regard it as a second home. I should be in receipt of said website this week and will probably launch a badly designed, ersatz prototype very shortly. Meanwhile, we are to have our own play area on WOL!

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Quite right. I wouldn't let you on my space. You should go and create YourSpace. Whales are no good, they are bald and they always blow their nose when you talk to them. I am prepared to discuss with them about Shambo becoming thier first minister provided they come and meet me in the Moby Dick pub because that is only 400 yards from my house. They must dress properly in thread worm suits and they will have to cover that disgusting baldness with proper pink wigs. Oh and they are not allowed to smoke unless they go outside.

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I thought whales were ocean-adapted bulls! That's why they attack underwater bunting and are allergic to strawberries. I've seen whales with rings through their noses tethered outside a farmer's postcard sea front parade kiosk. Meanwhile, I am glad to report that Ricardo Reis did make a curry and I am sad to report that the said Ricardo Reis forgot to put the rice pudding in the oven on time. However, it is my turn to make the dinner tonight so there will be rice pudding in the oven at the correct regulo and in time to cook thoroughly to be eaten today and not tomrrow. And I am glad to report that Ricardo Reis's son who is also my son has taken to calling himself Vienna Famous. You can see him on Myspace. I was thrown off Myspace for claiming that my hobby was figure skating on cryogenically preserved bodies to check their frost levels.

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Roddri couldn't object, he would be humanely despatched. Hermione and Ermintrude can't put up with a lot of bull. When I was human I was too tired to campaign and now I have transed nobody can see me. Anyway, Shambo would be best First Minister for Wales. Their assembly is already shambolic so it is his right and bulls are friendlier than whales.

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Shambo -- can't Hermione Pringle or Ermintrude Prune do something to save him? I mean, Ermintrude's, well, gone over and is probably a reformed spirit by now. Surely she can exert some kind of astral protection for the lovely bull? And you're right, swap Roddri over -- Roddri could wear a panto-bull suit and speak in his own defense. Or leg it. Or do kick boxing. Or claim diplomatic immunity.

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Oh OK Paul. I ought to have put Shambo in there.

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Hey Malcolm
I've created a new "Topical Verse" forum for you in Discussions
Paul

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Hi Scion

Good to see you and your work on WOL. I have always enjoyed listening to you at the Wirral Ode Show. I must try to get along there again soon.

Keep posting.

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I'm scared now. I think I will have Dogspot bleached.

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Or William Ernest Henley's Madame Life's a Piece in Bloom from which The Ruffian on the Stair snooked its title -- also declares that the polka dot is dangerous. And I quote, 'to dare to dream in dapplement, the lounging polka dot and speck, and every splashing devilment, a man perchance becomes a wreck.' Warning enough.

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Ruffian On The Stares, as Jo Orton-ow. You are getting dangerously close to polka dots -- step away now!

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Don't look at me with your ruffian glasses! That could be a hotspot.

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Dogspots on cats! Dogspot is a totally appropriate and congruent mascot. Dogspot willl be officially ratified first thing in the morning when I can find my glasses. My special ratification rafia framed glasses.

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Dogspot

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Hello there!
So far I've read two of your poems and can't fault them in the slightest way. Hope that you continue posting on the WOL message Boards!!

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