Hi Anthony.. Thank you for your comments on Within Four Walls... glad I was able to surprise you.

I have visted Gt Torrington and seen the Plough Centre..I had the most delightful day out there loved it. Thanks again for your encouragement.
Ros x

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Thanks for your comment Anthony. I see 'What's It All About' more as social comment than political poetry. If it is political then it is very soft political. The message is the need for equality, mutual respect, inclusion, compassion and dare I say it, the L word....I'm not sure if there is a political party out there capable of giving it us - that comes from within - if only you could extract it and dish it out like a vaccine - then we'd be living in paradise.
Isobel x

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Hi Anthony,
sorry i forgot to thankyou for your comment when i re-introduced my profile. It was a phase i was going through. :-)

Janet.x

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Thanks for your lovely comment Anthony. I read it to my mum, who thought that your words sounded like poetry in themselves. I guess I felt a bit guilty about posting that poem cos it took no time to write and wasn't particularly sophisticated. Those feelings just had to come out of me there and then and I didn't have hours and hours to hone it. You and all who commented made me feel a lot better about the poem. Thank you.
Isobel x

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thanks to you all for your comments on this poem folks - i still need to end the last line and am thinking about it - the poem took about 15 mins to write the first draft and as such, you can tell this from the reading

many regards as always for taking the time to read and consider my poem(s) it means a lot thanks

steve x

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Hi Anthony. thanks for commenting on Oil & Cheese / Chalk & Water. Observations lefton the blog entry. Thanks again Winston

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Thank you for your lovely comment. I love your poetry so it meant a lot.

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Anthony - apologies. I have only just registered your very full approval of my stuff. So I have taken a look at yours - 'like you do' (:o). I see we share the 'human condition' as a spur. I find 'Phoenix' particularly arresting, and overall, feel you use language evocatively (Oh help - is that a word?) and have a nice turn of phrase. I think your style is more acceptable to the modern judges taste than mine, so you should be winning prizes soon - if not already. All the best. Barrie

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Sorry I forgot to thank you earlier. So thanks for commenting on the 'Expert' poem - really appreciate it.

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Your 'lifelines' ... a marvellous evocation of love lost, the cruel sea and the beautiful land of Cornwall.

Loved these lines, among many, Anthony ...

'her days, her nights are one, the same -

a gift of darkness borne by grief

to wounds already salted well.'

And the mention of Lamorna...oh,that walk from Mousehole to Lamorna along the cliffs never fails to blow me away with its beauty! I must get down to Cornwall again soon.

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hi Anthony thanks for your interest in Gone to Earth..The whole piece just came to me and I think when I wrote "sylvan" I had in mind a Mellors type figure Sian X

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Hi Anthony,
thankyou so very much for your in-depth comment on 'Pigeon-holed.'

You wowed me with your perception.
Janet.x

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Hi antony thank you for your comment i really appreciate it! Although i have to say being compared with eminem is lovely, But im nowhere near his level..... lol....Im just trying to be myself and write in my own style..Thank you for your encouragement and ill look out for more of your work....Take care mate...

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Hi Antony
Thanks for connenting on the Razor Shell haiku.
Winston

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for your comment on 'the one which nearly got away.'
and thanks for the inspiration to write another poem. All i have to do now is imagine what it's like in the life of a shredder. :-)

I love the George Best tribute by the way.
Football isn't really my thing but he was so popular and well known and his life so colourful, i enjoyed reading about him here.
Stay well :-)
Janet.x

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Hello Anthony, thank you for reading Springtide and your kind comments on Springtide. Thanks also for introducing me to another new word, sibilants, it sounds like some of those minions with exoskeltons but I'm sure it isn't, so I'd better look it up. They could be green with ten claws and live under shipwrecks.. or maybe I just had too much wine at Hebden last night.. thanks again, Deb : ))

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Anthony, I enjoyed Your IDOL homage to George Best - written with passion - and the footnotes. You write in a variety of styles. Not everybody does that but I think it's good.

Football is amazing. At root, it is an immense waste of cerative energy - 22 men chasing a bloated baldder around a field and trying to slot it between two posts. But beneath the apparent banality there is ... beauty, poetry, magic, athletic grace, tribalism, and, yes, passion. Keep writing. Be the best.

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thank eeee for your kind words anthony. i've posted the link for the song on me profile...im a hillbilly at heart! hope you likes.
also, the doomsday man is bloomin majestic! bestest, sally xx

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for my haiku and i'm very well thankyou.

Thanks for your comment to my 'regal' haiku too.
Inspiration came
from your haiku coo's and kews
gardens of eden.

Janet.x
ps. it's fun to be silly for a change, some of the threads get so serious. :-)

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Thanks fr your comments on my poems Antony,
I like yours too. Very evocative the misty early morning stuff. As for the fluff, keep searching.

Freda

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Hi Anthony, thanks for the compliment. Allow me to return it by saying I enjoyed the richness of language in your poems. "The Doomsday Man" made me chuckle.

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your kind feedback. I have always found self-deprecation to be a pretty useful way to get an audience on side before I start to mock figures of authority.
I enjoyed reading your poetry. The Watercress Girl has some wonderful imagery and The Doomsday Man is perceptive, mocking, and has a very powerful ending.
George

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oh by the way the link i think is fubar but heres is a link to the featured piece and a link in th lat post to the ezine too

regards al

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ello mate thanks for the welcome and for the chuckle i had on your comments about my "dark" work haha

i dont solely write dark for any particular reason apart from that i write what i feel as do most but as and when i wish to evangelise about a summers day etc i will, as im not totally into nihilism.

im keen to ultimately get my work published in answer to your question and am keen to make inroads into doing that (ability permitting)

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Hello, thanks for the kind welcome and feedback!
I'm impressed by the very thoughtful and supportive commenting I see within the community here.
I'm even more impressed by the volume of interesting, amusing and moving writing.
On the whole I'm very glad I inadvertently stumbled on WOL. Pity I can't remember what I was actually searching for... but I don't care anymore!

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Love the audio recording of The Watercress Girl, - nicely read.

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thanks Anthony,
trouble is anyone employed by the nhs who attempts to whistle blow or protest in any useful way against such abuses, now runs the risk of being victimised. According to bbc 4 'Today' this morning, if Jackie Smith gets her way, anyone who dissents in any way against what this government is doing runs a serious risk of being branded an enemy of the state !

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Hi Anthony,
George Clooney. He's ok i guess. Brad Pitt does nothing for me at all. Johnny Depp however is another matter altogether. Phew!

Thanks for your lovely observations on my Mandolin poem. I had the same thought about the Rod Stewart connotations but i do love that song anyway. I wrote the poem while listening to a meditation cd and the mandolin was part of the instrumentals.

Janet.x

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Thanks Anthony

Your work is good and very diverse. I will continue to follow it.

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allright anthony, really enjoyed 'myspace' - would make a very powerful performance piece, also The Gift is a shows such warmth and affection, and resides in a completely different voice then your other work.

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Thanks for reading and your kind comments on 'A Poem'. It was a painful experience, for sure, writing helps.
I preferred your smiling face photo by the way!
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Thank you for your lovely comment Anthony...
I just read 'Weather Report' And I especially liked this part:

But oceans could not
scour away
the footprints
in the sand of me.
Each stinging kiss
has left its hollow mark
on skin that feels
forever scarred
and stained.

Even though this is very sad and I can feel the depth of emotional pain - it's beautifully written...

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for your comment on 'cause and effect.'
Yes it is about being stopped by the police.
I didn't actually mind being stopped, although i'd done nothing wrong. It was his whole attitude in his belief that i had. Not allowing me to speak and his unprovoked verbal attack which i was shocked and upset about. I was simply trying to do my job as he was supposed to be doing his.
The problem is, if i'd got his number and reported it, how much more of the same could i look forward to in the future. It's so frustrating and downright unlawful to use the power of a uniform to vent feelings and cause untold upset to an innocent person, then not even have the decency to admit that this time they got it wrong. I don't get that kind of treatment from some of the most drunk customers let alone the police.
Now i feel much better because i can vent my frustrations in writing. :-)
Thanks again.
Janet.x

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Myspace is simply beautiful, Anthony. we sleep through so much even while awake. you described the uglier aspects in our lives so well yet i felt protected as i was in the room where none of that mattered.
thank you for your comments, i have alot to learn about structure and rhythm yet.

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Hi Anthony Thanks for that ...bit partial to red heads myself!

Thanks again
gus

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for commenting on my haiku.

As to your poem, silent critic. I can relate to cyber bullying, not from personal experience but because of someone on another site i'm involved with completely unconnected to poetry.
She constantly tells everyone at every opportunity about her cyber enemies, writing reams of text. I'm aware this kind of thing happens and not only in cyberspace.

Janet :-) x

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Hi Anthony, what can i say? your new profile pic..instead I will say thank you for reading my posts and taking the time to write such nice comments, sorry it's taken so long to write back. Some of Traveller Sickness autobiographical, some not, small embellishments. Early form of road rage before the phrase,and anger management, became fashionable.Could have been worse.
hope you enjoy the view from there... .D.J.

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Hi Anthony,

thanks for taking the time to read and make comment on Beerwolf

steve

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Hi Anthony,
thanks for your comment on 'why'.
No worries as to the reason you didn't understand it. The dog isn't a metaphor. It's kinda just an observation in relation to the essence of the poem.
I suppose i could have put the word 'like' a sarcophagus but didn't feel the need for it.
To be honest, i was a little unsure of what reaction there would be to it but blogged it to find out. I'm happy with the comments, including yours.
Thanks again for taking the time to read.
Janet.x

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Hi Anthony, thanks for the feedback. Can you have another look at News seller? left comment there. Winston

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Hi Anthony, thanks a lot for the comment, it's much appreciated. I've read your stuff and I'm very impressed with 'The Other Side of Kenneth', I felt a great sense of maturity within it. Good work!

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Being a fan of clever rhyme and lyricism, I have to say that I loved reading '...not the only fruit'. I bet it's especially good in performance - I could see you winning slams with that one - that's if you haven't done so already.
HT

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Thanks A.E. for your comments about Susto. I think we should adopt the word, I agree about the stength and meaning it carries. Unfortunately soul - loss is not commonly recognised as cause of....anything much in our culture..I read of it through Elena Avila. Best wishes, Deb

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Only read of few of your poems but am Impressed so far, 'my space' and 'testament' really flick the poetic switch for me anyway.

looking forward to reading more stuff.

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Thanks for your comments about 'Daisy'.
I am trying to get audio on myself - I've been told you need a mic and a sound card (which apparently my computer already had) and a free downloadable programme called 'Audacity'. So far I've managed to record well enough but I'm having difficulty converting them to mp3 - do you know anyone who is good with computers (most 5 year olds it seems)?
Good luck!
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