I appreciated the attention you paid to my sonnet and enjoyed your feedback. You're right, of course, about "crunching." I forced it a little.

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Just to say Harry,

Your critique is always very gentle, courteous and kind.

I'm not in the habit of thanking people for a critique as such, as much as them taking the time to make that critique.

We would soon be drawn into thanking people for positive critique and not negative. Quite often it's the latter which helps us as much or even more than the former.

What I'd like to say thanks for is your honest critique and also for you being a gentle, courteous and kind person.

I normally send these things private to people.

But today....Fuck it!

Big public one on your wall to say thanks and I think You're fucking great! (-:

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Thank you for reading my poem and your comment. My poems are written in my native language, Spanish, maybe something gets lost when they are translated. It happens that sometimes they lose some rhythm and it is not an exact interpretation of what I wrote. In this case it is since what I meant was "and silence stunned everything". Thanks once again and admit that you comment is valid.

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Thank you for your feedback on my poem 'Book'. It's funny you should mention the stuff going on in France as I wrote this poem a while ago but it seemed to fit with recent events so I decided to post it here.

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Harry, many thanks for your kind words. Much appreciated. No, the Red Flag never did it for me either, but I remember watching on the news when the miners marched back to work in 1985 with their banners held high. That certainly did. I hope you're keeping well, and a very happy new year to you. Greg

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Hi Harry.

A profuse apology for not responding to your wise comment regarding the Eleven Eleven poem I blogged in the summer.

Browsing through my profile I realise what an ignorant bugger I must be.

Merry Christmas Ken.

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Harry,
Another comment before I've had time to thank you for the first one.
Thank you so much for your wonderful critique(s) of My Bullet.
I tried to play down the glory side of war as you percieved, in a way that Wilfred Owen and others have done and examine the after effects.
(hence the references to Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, which I undestand he wrote as Poet Laureate)
I am honoured that you enjoyed it and that you must have read it more than once.
We do say shuffeling where I come from.
I read this poem at our poetry evening in Wigan last month, along with a poem by Leslie Coulson (Who Made The Law?) It was a respectful evening at The Old Courts, as The Tudor closed down. If you get the chance come up to our new venue. It would be good to meet up again.
Best wishes and thanks again
Dave

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I was in that place known only to us male artists - elated by the birth of a brainchild!

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I was in that place known only to us male artists - elated by the birth of a brainchild!

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I was in that place known only to us male artists - elated by the birth of a brainchild!

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Thanks for coming to the play and glad you enjoyed the night -seriously impressed with your achievments!
Steve Smith
for the plane home tonight!

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Thanks for your support, Harry!
Steve Smith
Love your stuff, by the way!

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Thanks for your support, Harry!
Steve Smith

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"the manner of her going" is very vivid

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thanks for commenting on 'wounded' Harry

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Hi Harry - all that there is - is enough to be going on with.

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thanks for the kind comments on 'an unexpected ghost...' Harry - I do like the challenge of writing sonnets - I've been watching the discussion carefully about rhymed/unrhymed work on the discussion thread. This free form stuff is OK - but you don't become a quality footballer if you can only take penalties ;-) I think you need to understand and practice form and be able to use it - far better to be a well rounded utility player than an expert penalty taker I would say :-)

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Hi Harry Thanks for kind comments about my Navvies poem. 'Well-paid but dangerous jobs'- Don't I know it. My own father and his brother died within months of each others in the early 80s after accidents on two separate building sites.

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thanks for your recent comments on 'Aldgate Tube Station' and 'Afraid Of The Dark' Harry - very perceptive in both cases.
The Aldgate station one was prompted by 2 articles in the Independent, one about the construction of the station over plague pits and the other about the ebola outbreak - it seemed too macabre a possibility not to try and tie the 2 events up.
As for 'afraid Of the dark' I was starting to doubt the subtlety, or not, of the device I was using to get the story (and twist) across - you have restored my faith in the use of subtle devices :-)
cheers
Ian

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Sorry that wasn't so short was it?

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Hello Harry, just a short thank you for bothering to comment on Faith.

I always hesitate to reply to comments, after all we in effect ask for them by posting our work here on WOL.

I'm also often intrigued by the fact that readers always seem to assume some biographical significance in others' work or belief systems. Similarly to delve into those is an even more intriguing issue.

Suffice to say that let every man have his own level of faith. Mine is rooted closer to home in the skin and bones of my family and friends.

It's always good to receive a comment from yourself Harry. I truly respect your comments around the WOL estate.

very best regards,

Graham

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Thanks Harry and nice to hear from you again.
Don't know about you but when I get to the other side,
I hope they've got more fucking sense than in this dimension.

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Harry, Thank you for reading and making that astute and clever observation :0

Preeti

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Thanks again for commenting on 'Death Of A Poet' Harry - I'm really pleased with this and the other war poems I've put to music - just finishing the recording sessions tomorrow with a Dylan cover and then I need to concentrate on the pamphlet/book that I'm putting out with the CD - the poems/artwork/photo's should make an interesting package.
Cheers
Ian

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Hi Harry - glad you found my poem entertaining one way or another - don't think she'll ever be singing that one - a less materialistic girl would be hard to find - I am very blessed! xx

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thanks for commenting on 'TILF' Harry - not worried, just wary and angry about the cynicism of the tories (as usual)

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thanks for your continued encouragement and kind comments Harry (Remember Scarborough)I'm having a blast writing these war poems, and it's driving me into new forms such as the Ballade Royal for this one (!) really appreciate you finding the time to comment - hope you're keeping well - all the best
Ian

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Harry - Cheers for your kind appraisal on 'Flip-flops and Bottle Tops'. Glad you appreciated the second to last stanza.
I did chop and change it about before posting it then went back to my first thoughts. If you had not have commented I would have always been thinking 'what if'? Thank you.

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Cheers,

Thanks Harry! Yes, my poetry is not always finely tuned or graft to a specific thought, but it is how it comes out of me and I only wish I had the time to edit it. Which is why I usually just create a second version of it >.<

Yes, the spoken word stuff I do into my phone wherever I find myself, either in my kitchen / office or out on the streets or in a bus.

It is my great hope that the works I create inspire something in others, even if it is just a question about me or a simple smile.

I need to do more live gigs! haha, maybe I'll finally get picked up by something or other and get 'noticed...' Oh well, I must always continue writing, for it is not up to me whether or not what I write and post gets read only that I continue doing so until I am blank and dead.

Cheers once again,
JUTON!

hehe

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Hi Harry.

I was just adding a few more(rhyming this time)
Chinese whispers

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thanks for the kind comments on 'children of the glamned Harry' I am once again in catch up mode as I returned from holiday with a severe bout of food poisoning so only just getting round to replying to comments - so, sincere apologies for the lateness of my reply. Hope you're keeping well

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Harry. Thank you very much for your kind words on 'In Llanfairpwllgwyngyll'.
I find I can say it better after a quiet beer... followed by a couple of noisy ones.
Appreciated.

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Harry - Tripe

Your comments are very similar to the discussion I had with an elderly lady whilst waiting for an ultrasound.
My nearest market town is in a state of decay, but all the old woman could see was that she couldn't get to buy tripe any longer

Thanks for taking the time - appreciated

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Thanks Harry.

If a successful career in athletics depended the length of ones member, it's a career path I wasn't made for.

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Hi Harry,

Thank you so very much for taking the time out to write a decent critique of 'In Our Hands Everything - But Worlds.'

I do agree with much of what you have said and surmised about the poem. If anything, it revolves around the feelings of insignificance and it's almost as if no-one cares any-more. Leaving the writer somewhat humbled by the end of meditations.

I think you touched on that and could gauge that from the poem.

More than this though Harry, thank you for taking the time out when I am seemingly in the midst of a snub. I am not just talking about my poems here. I do know they could be better if i edited them, and maybe more readable. No, it is more than that, I am being snubbed by perhaps Gaia herself, and it has been going on for some years. I have not altogether been the best of humans, but then, if asked who drew first blood, then it would not have been me. The Ill Treatment I refer to has been going on since my early childhood, and now I am just wanting for my death. I am a disabled veteran among other things, and know there to be more than this realm. Still though, the snub that has been issued has been going on for years. I am in effect heart broken and crippled by it, and so do a lot of meditation in trying to understand why the powers that be or gods for want of better wordage; are so total in their abuse towards me. To be beaten on, and called names is one form of abuse, but to be left in isolation and social exclusion is still, a form of abuse just as crippling.

Sorry to go on there, but maybe you can get a jist of the writer and how alone he feels.

Thank you once again Harry.

Best wishes

Mike

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Thanks for the message Harry. Glad you escaped the drop. The ankle is getting stronger all the time. I'll risk the stairs for the Spoke next time I think. See you there?

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thanks once again, Harry, for the kind comments and suggestions regarding 'home by christmas'. I've taken your advice and changed 'returned' for 'sent back' (didn't use 'home bound' as you suggested due to the repeat of the word 'home' which may have seemed clumsy)I'm writing a lot of war poems at the moment - all in a different poetic form - and I'm recording them with musical backings for a music/poetry CD which I'm hoping to release before November 11th. Going to include 'dulce et decorum est' and 'anthem for doomed youth' as well as a cover of a motorhead song! - alongside snippets from the declaration of war / newspaper reports and popular songs of the time. got permission from the Wilfred Owen society to use the 2 WO poems and will definitely be sending some of the stuff I've done in for that competition. thanks once again for your supportive and enlightening feedback
Ian

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thanks for the comment on 'under the bridge' harry - it is a type of person I can't abide - the troll - dregs of humanity - hope that came across loud and clear in the narrative - cheers

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Hi Harry. Thanks for the wishes. The fracture occurred while walking down a public road AFTER a hill walk. I rolled my foot into one of the many potholes, heard a crack and that was that. How are you?

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Harry
thanks for the comment on 'digital clock blues' - yes the rhyme helps in a blues number doesn't it? I hope you're keeping well and have avoided any more stage diving ;-)

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Hi Harry

Wish I could remember the words to mine.
they would be lost forever with a slip of the mouse. (Hurrah I hear you all cry)

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You're very generous Harry, many thanks. Graham.

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Do I know you?

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Thanks Harry

I'm getting maudlin in me dotage

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Thank you Harry! :) :)

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Hey Harry,

Poetry-schmoetry lol. Just glad you're both ok, albeit with the dreaded lurgy. Antibiotics don't sound too good mind, but even so, just glad to hear from you :)

Get well soon.

All our love

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Hi Harry, could you check your email. Both myself and Kemal Houghton have been trying to contact you. I have sent photographs of yourself taken at the spoke - very good ones, I think you'll like and also details of Chester Poets. Kemal, I think wanted to speak to you about the possibility of going on his radio show with your poetry.

Hope all is well...love to you and Yvonne from me and my better looking half :)

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Harry I feel you've outed me as a closet Coprophile In the nicest possible way.
I'm so relieved.

Takes one to know one.

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Thanks for commenting Harry. Always appreciated

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There was an empty bottle found near to his body and paw prints leading to the cat flap on the back door.

Not a ghost of a chance of proving it said P.C Birdbrain.

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