Hello Greg. Thanks for the tip re correct way to allow dead goldfish to mature prior to consuming. I shall certainly bear it in mind for next time.

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hi Greg.new one on me re Dr.Winston'
o'Boogie(top name!)ta.

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Greg, just for my own benefit, is your last poem a sonnet? Or am I getting wonky?

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Hi Greg

I've been on Merseyside since 1974, glad to be exiled from Harrow - there's no pull to return.

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The way things are going Greg you may not have to wait that long! Very hectic here at the moment but will get to your latest offerings in due course.

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Thank you for commenting on Half Light Greg but isn't John Clare the one who got banged up for being nutty - spare a thought - but your encouragement very much appreciated

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PS JUst see you've been busily posting and have three I've not read. I'll get back when I can give them they attention they deserves. Also, just discovered that Steve Black on WOL lives up the road from my Mum in Reading and he can join us at Poet's Cafe for the legendary launch. NOw back to repricing my stock and the business of earning a living!

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Hi Greg I've been wrting this over the last few days but started thinking about it before the disaster struck Japan. Someone passed on to me a link about this bloke's work. Until I saw it I thought 'pavement artists' just knocked out pictures of the Mona Lisa, but now some of them do these big industrial 3-D jobs. I thought this bloke's stuff was amazing at first, but then thought at the end of the day they're not really any more amazing than what 'really' happens. I did think this poem might be a bit obscure (which I was I mentioned the artist), but just wanted to see what feedback I might get. I can't keep writing the same old stuff about my family history! The obscurest image (and my favourite) is the bit in the middle about the Mediterranean. It's been on a constantly changing cycle between sea and desert for millions and millions of years. Slowly evaporates and then gradually refills when the waters flow back in from the Atlantic. Mindblowing stuff. That's why they have all these incredible salt mines on some of the isalnds and the bones of tiny elephants that got stranded as the desert gradually got inundated. Blimey, this is a long post!!

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Thanks Greg (Total Immersion)x

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re spooky incidents Greg-one which was a cross between a nightmare and possible alien abduction-(you can laugh!)lying on the sofa watching tv-some hooded figure pops head round door-I tried to shout out but could,nt and could not move-seemed very very real-ooer missis! yep,thank heaven for birds and steam trains eh-re spooky films,my fave is an old black and white called 'The haunting' which has since been very poorly remade-the original stars Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn-brill! thanks Greg.

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hi Greg-ta for comments(child ghost)wonder if we have similar tastes...birds and bogeymen/women-lol! thanks.SW.

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Thanks for your comments on Works of Art, Greg. I struggled to find something to do on the theme of Art for next month's Subtle Flame at Beverley. I'm thought I'd trial it on here first.

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Thanks Greg - I've changed the title a little bit! x

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Ah Greg (Seedy Side of Town)- thought you might identify with this title - thanks for reading and commenting on it

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Hello Greg,
Thanks for your thoughts on Magpie.

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Thanks for reading and commenting on 'War is such a Cliché' - glad you enjoyed it. I feel a bit embarrassed about pointing it out actually - it just seemed to fit with Rachel's thread :)
But thank-you - really appreciate it.
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Greg - (Matapos) it is so kind of you take the time to comment on my work - especially as I put so much stuff on here - it is this sort of encouragement that gives me the confidence to post more blogs - thanks a million - incidentally I have visited this place but years ago and these thoughts are still fresh in my mind - another friend (not WOL)who did not know I wrote poetry was astonished when she saw this and that I had not mentioned my interest in the muse

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Perhaps also a bit of word play with the 'sleepiness' theme.

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PS should ave mentioned I've tinkered a bit since. Changed the biblical reference to a more appropriate Aboriginal one - which also shortens an originally heavyish line.

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Hi Greg I nearly mailed you that I'd done another Oz poem. Glad you spotted it. You're right where the koalas are concerned. They're actually quite hard to see even if they're pointed out to you. We did a mini safari with this hippy looking bloke called Mark. He was really interesting and made us look at the landscape in a completely different way. The Australians pay lip service to preserving the koalas, but just get on with their lives. There are really quite small numbers of koalas left now. Lots get killed by domestic animals, and God knows how many were killed in the recent disasters. Unfortunately, for the little fellas they favour the S.E. coastal regions same as the majority of the people.

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Hi Greg, Thanks for your comment on 'The Mackerel', also thanks for leading me to your work. I love your nod in the direction of John Lennon. To our generation he was William Brown grown up and brought to life!

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Greg - thank you for your generous comments on Urban Fox - much appreciated

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Hi Greg - re; Night Walk - yes another world indeed - such fond (and not so fond) memories - appreciate the commentsThanks also for comments on Jacarandas in Joburg - nice to feel encouraged

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Hi Greg, thanks for your comment on "I'm Sorry, I'm English", apologies that I only just saw it and I have now answered on that thread.
Must add that I really enjoyed your East Budleigh poem, excellent. x

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Hi Greg, yes am afraid I am old enough! I was about 14, stood on the Great Lever End, Chelsea fans came in, it kicked off then I think there was fans on the pitch from both sides, chaos but great game, yeah those were the days mate!

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greetings Mr. Freeman-obliged to you for reading and commenting on'passenger'glad it came over rhythmic to you-cheers-SW.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the feedback. This poem has really driven me bonkers, but loosening it up into quatrains has improved it a bit I hope. I don't mind it so much when it gets going, but I'm not entirely sure about the beginning.

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Nice quote! I hope most people will work out the reference to Tamla Motown. Do you think my reference to Muscle Shoals might be a bit to obscure for some? It does alliterate nicely though. I've always loved Duane Allman's great guitar solo on 'I Ain't never loved a man..' Btw I think there are some great young women singers around at the moment, and respect to Rumer for writing 'Aretha' - which I actually think is something of a masterpiece.

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comms. Football would never have been a problem for me! Btw I loved the Four Tops too... and Mary Wells and Junior Walker and The Isleys, and don't get me going on Atlantic/Stax - Aretha what a voice! As usual I couldn't keep Catholicism out. Poor old Brother Vergilius. He didn't have a clue!

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Greg. Thanks for your comments on Kosher, the Gnostics and Clockwise. Much appreciated. I miss Ian Dury too.

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Glad you liked my deconstruction LOL - that reminds me of decomposition in maths...
I liked my version better than Win's - you have to have a laugh with all this experimental stuff, don't you? x

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Hi Greg re; Moods - plenty of those SA memories in the stewpot of yet to come - pleased you liked the most recent one - appreciated your comments too

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Thank you for your comments - save me some trifle, I'm starving! I'm going to take yet another look at the second stanza. Something about the rhythm is irking me, and I realised my old fault of repeat words crept in.

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wow Greg-waxwing..what a beaut! so I can,t out-spot you with a pipistrelle up me back alley last summer? thought it was a dirty stop out butterfly at first..so tiny! ps-I thought the nuthatch was a kingfisher at first glance-very similar-I spotted him in the daughters South Wales garden.

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hi there Greg-appreciate your comments on 'Migrator'-as for bird spotting the only two species that I have been fortunate enough to see were my first sighting of a nuthatch and one of my favourites-in fact a 'family' of long tailed tits-wow what a stunning bird-all happily gathered around a left-over christmas cake.thank heavens for them all! best to you Greg-SW

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Greg: many thanks for your detailed comments on Perambulations - very much appreciated

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Hi Greg Thanks for the comment. You never know where the next poem is coming from, but Antoinette was a gift from heaven!

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Good news on the South acceptance - all the more so as I believe you have to send in anonymously? and just get in on merit. You should definitely be sending your stuff out.

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Hi Greg
Excellent poem of the month, perhaps because it is from an era I still recall (for the moment!). Round our way (up north, to you I suppose) they were t'shadders.
And Hank did panto? How sad; your brother’s Lepanto perhaps, he being outwith the pale of we Beatlophiles.
Had me reminiscing and chuckling anyhow. Thank you.

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Hi Greg congratulations on being poem of the month worthy prize winner great stuff

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Thanks for your thoughts on Night Mail, Greg.
Auden's really was a rocker, wasn't it? I keep watching it over and over again on YouTube.

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Hi Greg - I have a family funeral at Ruislip that day so not too sure - if I don't get there please tender my apologies

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Thanks Greg. Not my usual barrel of laughs I'm afraid.

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Thanks Greg!

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Hi Greg - much obliged for your kind comments on Sargasso Remembered and glad you enjoyed it - best regards

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Greg. Yes, you're absolutely right about Beeching/Betjeman.Just don't like "Efficiency!". Trains and poems suit each other somehow, I suppose. About getting my poems published - unless someone is going to pay me, and that's unlikely, it's not a big deal for me. I'm happy enough publishing online, I guess.I do enter poems in competitions now and again. The gambling man in me likes the idea of winning hundreds, even thousands of pounds in return for a few quid.

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Dylans Mystic Garden ... wherein he he doesn't talk just keeps on walking...is the one in particular that springs to mind. Thank you so much for such praise... i am humbled.

Thank you once again .
Augusta xx

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Hi Greg - so glad you "are" poem of the month! Always like your stuff! Happy New Year! xx

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Hi Greg, well done with your POTM. and happy new year. Win X

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Congratulations Greg, on Poem of the month!
'Dance On' is expressed in a sad, matter of fact way, leaving the reader enough to empathise, yet wanting to know more...

Happy New Year!

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