Thx for reading/commenting on my last poem Tommy.
My Best
Chris

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Thx for the comments and feedback on my last Tommy- v good of you to take the time.

I have two versions of the poem now :)

I think I'll keep my version for reading and yours for the page when subsequently handed out.

Thx

My Best

Chris

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Alright Tommy - thanks :) Good to know that my feelings and analysis are shared. Take care :)

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

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Tommy, what have I got all wrong? I don't recognize the quote. I even scouted a bit, but no go. It's fab to have you back on blog.

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Tommy
Thanks for your comments on Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead. There ought to be more of this culture on here.

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Thank you for your coment. I shall take it as a compliment. The Twitter poem, is part of my joke style of writing, I have more, but it's knowing how much rude material I can post on here. Kx

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Hi Tommy. Taken half way through the Raid Pyrenean in 2008, on top of Col du Tournalet. 11,000m of climbing over 700km in 100hrs. Bike - Ambrosio Solaro, Italian aluminum frame. Win x

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Ha ha :D not at all Tommy, it's simply that the 3rd stanza speaks most strongly to me ... ;p xXx

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Have you managed to sort it now?
Paul explains it better than I - and also all the other changes WOL has recently implemented -

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1068&NewsGroupsID=26

Cx

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Hi there

WOL chat has a few little foibles that can make conversation challenging. I'm guessing from the long silence that you navigated away (there's no turning back sadly)and I was talking to myself (cut & pasted below)... hope it was of some help. You can message me (or any of the admin. team) if you're still having problems

Cx

'a few changes on site yes -

if you got to your profile

on the right hand side you will see your last few poems - you can access any one by clicking on it

the way blogs display has changed

so only your latest blog will show up - but the others are all there

if you go in to your latest blog

you will see underneath

all your previous blogs for the month in blue

we were trying to find a compromise that would suit those who were finding the many blogs difficult to navigate but at the same time not restrict those who like to write more

oh - and chat on here is hopeless so if you've navigated away from this page ... you can't get back and i am now talking to myself'

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I think you might be!

:-)

Jx

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I'm impressed - I tinker about for ages with mine (poems).
What I was trying to say was that it was funny you should be inspired to write about Pandora weeks after the competition and not during. I was just pulling your leg really - as I'm sure you like to pull mine! x

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'transforming an
ancient passion
into a smudge.'

I see it as not being able to clearly express yourself as before due to partial memory loss.

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Thx for reading Tommy- appreciated.

Hope you are well- my best

Chris

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LOL
Mmmm... maybe ; )

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Hi Tommy, re change a letter. I must brush up on my Arabic. Thankyou for your contribution (even thoughtI didn't understand it) please have another go and I will try and decypher it this time. Win X

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home county - those nondescript south east counties surrounding London. Neither Greater London nor countryside. Commuter belt.

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Hey Tommy,
Don't know where it disappeared to honey... As long as you don't disappear; all is well!
x

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How odd Tommy, Belting piece all the same. Even better for revisiting just now. :-) Win

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I must have clicked wrong, when I looked there wasn't anything, am glad you have more stuff though!

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Tommy - you're on the money with the comment in Stalingrad, the resourcefulness and desperation of the rape victim is supposed to be evoked in the close of this poem. I have not mentioned whether the soldiers perpetrating this particular crime to be of any nationality.

War does things to people that takes away humanity from some people yet strengthens the spirit of humanity in others.

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Regarding 'In Stalingrad' got it second time, tommy after speaking to a friend who knows the history off this much better than me!

love it now!

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Well, my point has been validated. My London geography is so bad that the place is not even in London. My knowledge of Liverpool is strictly limited to Brookside Close. Pretty shameful considering my Dad lived down there for 5 years or so.

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Re "Family" poem. Gordon Bennet! I don't have to make sense do I? ;-) Anyway, thanks for commenting. I guess, Tommy, I was trying to imply (possibly in a Native American animal spirit way - tho the animals are not from there - except eagles) how I would like to choose different characteristics from different creatures, to be my ideal family. I am not a very literal person!

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*******BUTTONS EASTER EGG PRIZE GIVING *******
As stated in the small print, I bought an egg and ate it for you. This is my account of eating it!

Ok , if you're sitting comfortably, we'll begin...
First I ran my fingernail around the rim of the box flap, I slowly prised up the lid and slid my hand in to grab hold of the plastic inner....the heat from my fingertips misted it a little...I opened up the plastic to reveal an egg, wrapped in foil, I slowly raised it to my nose to get a whiff of the aroma, caressed the foil and then found the overlap, I teased the foil from the chocolate underneath, revealing it bit by bit, then I could contain myself no longer, pummelled it, kneaded it with frenzied hands till finally..it broke , not into two neat halves but into fragments, each one as chocolatey as the next...then I ate it all...with 2 cups of tea....I gave the buttons away to the kids who were looking at me plaintively as it was corned beef hash for tea and they were sorely disappointed.
That was your Easter Egg, hope you enjoyed it as much as me... I feel thoroughly sick. :)

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Thanks Tommy, I haven't had much computer time recently but will have a mess around with said poem... thanks for taking the time to have a think, it's appreciated. I think you're going to win the Easter Egg at this rate, it will probably be a Cadbury's Buttons one bought cheap from sainsbury's tomorrow and I will tell you how it tasted! :)
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Hiya Tommy, I am admitting defeat over "obscenity of frogspawn" I will put in another word when I can think of one, it's been mentioned a few times and as such, in the spirit of accepting feedback it's gotta go....any ideas? (The winner will win an Easter Egg which I will eat for them.)
Thanks for commentingx

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Hi Tommy
I'm not sure my baby bobbies are old enough to vote in the new ballot.
baby bobbies balloted by BA?
Steve

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About Bolsheviks??

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Hiya Tommy, thanks for tellign me about Atonement, I googled it tooactyually, must get a copy of the book.
Cheers
Rachel
x

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Hiya Tommy, thanks for the comment and yes, Miles Platting is a great name which was my reason for personifying the area.. Apparently a shame about the place.

Janet.x

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Thanks Tommy, for the comment.I am exposing my ignorance here but I'm not familiar with Atonement. You'll have to expand pretty please!
Cheers though
Rachel
x

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Hello Tommy.

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Sorry Tommy, it was just so you'd know which poem i was referring to. Won't do it again i promise.x

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What's that then TC?
Everything in each line of the poem. :-)

JR.x

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wah?

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haha yea I know, It took me ages to try figure out which order to go in I suppose all four are in use at the same time?

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Oh! Tommy
Offer me a weekend in Paris or Rome and I'll melt and with just a little coaxing would reach boiling point...

Augusta x

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I realize you won
You always did.
I gave,
You hid.


'End of the affair' really enjoyed it. Reads/performs well, just read it aloud and loved it.

Very tight writing, clean and cutting.
Great.

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aha but behold, logic first then reason, then third down the line perception

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I am no good with a hammer. Thanks for your attention though.

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thanks for your comment (updated) on crows nest. Im complimented by your interest and i like the fishing reference to expand on your point of view...keep wiggling.

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Tommy, if u click on the blue address on my biography it will take u to my gallery but then u must put my name in the search box as there are a lot of artists on that site. Tell me how u get on as I cant access it recently.

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tommy...what if...what if what? could you make a comment please thats all a bit cryptic.

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Just got the one about the luggage! HaHa!.The judge thought it was an art work!

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Hi, Tommy. Thanks for your great comment about my poem. Really cheered me up!
I'ts bad u had a brain hemorrhage..sounds ghastly, hope u are making a good recovery.
I like ur poem about the weekends being book-ends. A bit like that for me, the weekdays are better.!

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TOMMY, ta for your Roman alusions left as a comment on my poem about the Bra. As a toper myself, I chertainly appreshiate them.

Tommy I seem to remember that you live in Liverpool. I'd like you to come over over to the next Bards in New Brighton and perform. We meet at the Magazine pub on the second Monday of every month from 8pm to 11 pm. It's a pretty lively night. Cheers.

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Tommy, should I back off? I'm never sure anymore whether we are laughing together, or whether I am actually being obscure or even cruel.

By the way, you're right to prod me: i must get some samples up to be eligible for POM (assuming I want to be}

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I have read that the moral fibre of the English working class is a world on to itself, an arguable statement, of course, but still very evident in modern English society.

Your 'samples' are marvellous.

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