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Isobel, thanks for your comments on November (which should actually be October) 1966. It's only nine lines, I know, but it was meant to be also about how pop songs can fasten a moment in your memory (although perhaps not well enough that you can remember the right month). I was playing the Four Tops out in the garage while doing the ironing when I thought of it, having rediscovered my old vinyl singles at the back of a cupboard. Football, like religion, and possibly pop music, is the opium of the people, of course. Indeed, for many, football is a replacement for religion, involving the same senses of obligations, loyalty and duty, blind faith and hope. Yes, faith, hope - but not always too much charity!

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HI Isobel
Thanks for comments. I wrote the song for a mate who after a messy divorce lost faith in all women. I've just sorted out a utube page (DEVINEHAZE) so me and my co/singer song writer can get our songs out there. There's a video up and more coming soon (don't think this one will make on to utube its more a busker song)
Many thanks for intrest and Comments.

Ian....

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Hi,

Thank you,albeit belatedly, for reading and commenting on amnesia haze. x

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biblical references ... not false , just didnt speak a truth i want . there are many paths

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thanks for comment on escape , its a wierd one really , as part of it is something that actually happened to me as i was walking along. i felt myself step through a doorway , portal , just slap bang in the middle of the tudor beer garden!and i knew i was changed. the rest is about much of what you say but i never had religion and chose not to get it .. i think we both escaped the prophet and i

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The Green Room is trying to find alternative funding.

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Hi Isobel. Thanks for your comments on my escape! Close, with the last one but the meaning doesn't matter too much to me in this one. Its more the collection of words. Oops, missed the title off, added in now Win x

This is an interesting title Escape / ecsaping / escapism.

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Re: totally selfish, free of kids - a PIPE DREAM OPIUM FILTERED!

P.S. That's a phrase out of my latest poem. Taking it to the Greenroom this month. Maybe the last gig held there; art cult cuts and all that.

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Hi Isobel,

How are things with you - well I hope?

I found your last poem - "Memento" - very sad and wistful. I'm never sure that I interpret your work as you intend; not that that is necessarily a bad thing. In fact, so was the previous "Untitled" one. I hope this is just me, and not a reflection of your present state of mind.

Regards,

A.E. X

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Je trouve que c'est très bien exprimé... et moi je suis pareille ; )

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This bird poem was written last May, Isobel, when there was more rain. There is a marked difference this year, with such a dry spell here in the Northwest. I hesitated to post it after such a recent 'bird poem'. I adore most birds, with even a grudging admiration for the magpies and feral pigeons.

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Not watching it on't telly then Izzie? Hope you have a good day off!xx

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thank you Isobel. xxx

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I very much liked your Yeung Sing poem - all that verbal twisting and turning within the lines. I think you may have blown your chances of being hired by their marketing team, though...

R x

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Hello Isobel

Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. I'd been reading the discussion about poets keeping their photos up-to-date, and felt compelled to act upon it. Blame my artist friend for apparent grubbiness - he does put some odd colours into those skin-tones of his.

Nice to hear from you. I hope to return to Wigan one day, if Mr Togher will have me back.

R x

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I appreciate your comment, Isobel. Like what you got out of the poem and glad it worked for you. Hope to see you soon. X

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Encore merci Isobel, pour tes commentaires sur mon poème
'Stranger in a strange land'...

xxx

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Hi Isobel many thanks for your comments on Peepholes - just parts of a patchwork quilt that needed an umbrella - good idea though Peephole two - might give it a whirl subject to inspiration x

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Thanks Is. I took the poem off cos there had been comment that it sounded like a true life story and as this goes out all over t' world i wouldnt want that assumption made.
Thanks for your response xx

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Thanks for the comment the subject is the spirit of the water which can be given specific titles (nymph etc)

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Hi Isobel, massive thanks for the support on my profile around the 'exchange' that went on earlier. Thanks love I really appreciate it xxx

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Hi Isobel
Thanks for commenting on my poem,it was written many moons ago but I still feel the same about it.
Cheers

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Hi Isobel;

Cheers for the comment over 'Up on the Roof'.. Yeah, the reference to the woman interviewing and the woman isn't perhaps that clear.. I will amend it when I get chance.

Must admit too - caused me some trouble this piece too and am generally pleased you liked it. (the subtle nature of the piece was the bit that caused me the most problems).

Hope you are good.

See you soon x

Andy N x

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Many thanks for taking the time to dig out "Luxury". So glad you got something from it. X

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Hi Isobel (re: RIP)- many thanks for your comments not a nice topic I know but this is life in the raw and sometimes we have show what is happening around us - so am grateful that I might have pitched this about right x

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Hi Isobel,

Sorry for the delay in responding; I haven’t had much time or inclination for the pen of late.

“Haven” is a very old poem – although I still have a soft spot for her. Any fan of Coronation Street – or the shipping forecast for that matter, could probably date it fairly accurately. I freely admit to having no knowledge whatsoever of the musings of the celebrated Ms Cartland - the perils of using one’s imagination! As for the character, she may or may not exist; all I know is that she was somewhere around the misty periphery of my butterfly mind. I guess it was written to illustrate how we are able to isolate ourselves from the larger world, living in our own warm cocoons while life and its wild perils carry on regardless. Sometimes people seem able to do this without feeling the pain of loneliness.

Your own writing/performing seems to be going from strength to strength – deservedly so. (Yes I still read, even when I’m not writing!) Yesterday The Morton Arms – tomorrow The South Bank show! Who knows? You go for it. You know I admire the “directness” of your writing, and I suspect others do too.

“The Stuff of Life” is very clever by what it implies and leaves unsaid. A poem to read “between” the lines of. I think it probably says a lot about you. Just one word that I felt was superfluous – the “why” as in “Why, no.” I admit it’s not exactly the proverbial sore thumb – but I can’t for one second imagine a solid northern lass like yourself ever saying it in preference to the plain “no”! (Sounds a little too “Gone With the Wind” for your neck of the woods! But then you probably don’t give a damn!)

I have tinkered with my profile a little – and yes, that really is me on the big chair. (Or is it that the chair is normal and I’m really tiny?) I may change it all again soon – even back to the guy with his head up his butt – more me sometimes . . .

Take care,

A.E.

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Non... Tu m'as très bien cité : )

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It took me a dozen attempts to make the audio so I don't think I could do it live, although better than his dog!

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Lol, thanks Isobel, I have a well hidden wild streak! :) x

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Thanks for your comments on the Uncertain Narcissist-very spiffing : )

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OK, I'll 'fess up! If there wasn't that "little bit" of "us" in our writing it would all be much the same I suspect. That doesn't mean though that we write all our "characters" and scenarios from first-hand experience. Isn't that what imagination's for? ( although I wouldn't have minded being George Best for a while!)

" . . . a heart, a strong mind and a very sensitive soul."

I nearly fell off my "big chair"! Does The Pope know this- I should be in for Sainthood!

;)

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Who was it who wrote that all writing is autobiographical, in that through our writing we reveal ourselves?

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Hi Isobel,

Thanks for looking in on "alpha et omega", and, as always, for your comments - never drivel! As always it is in no way autobiographical; you should know by now that I seldom do that kind of stuff.You are right in that it's "generic"; hopefully anyway. Most, if not all, have been in "those" situations, and I wanted to write something universal. There was no conscious link between the first and second "couples", although I can see how it might seem that way. I'm pleased you found your own interpretation. I did try to shift the focus by using second-person he/she in alpha, and third person they in omega. Not sure if that worked.

I'm glad your compering stint went well; the challenges we set for ourselves make us stronger and more confident, and it looks like you were appreciated.

So, now you're "a performance poet living in Wigan" - don't sell yourself short! ;-)

Regards,
A.E.

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thanks Isobel : ) I was worried it was just affecting my computer this morning so i mentioned it to Julian..then got carried away imagining : ) deb x

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Hi Isobel, Many thanks for the comments on my 'flood' poem.

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Hi Isobel - re: Reliquary - do appreciate your commenting. x

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Thanks very much, Isobel, for your comments on the Betjeman poem. I had been wrestling with it for some time before I posted it, so I was surprised and pleased that you and others thought it was ok.

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Hello Izz, thanks for your support and feedback on recent works! Always good to hear your ideas on the ramblings......... :-)

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Perhaps, Isobel. Folks do refer to my "bastard poems".

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Good Afternoon Isobel


How perceptive you are!

This is a poem written about a older man who is dying in his sleep as he sits quietly in the sun on a beach. Your powers of deduction through my subtle descriptions are truly amazing as this only the beginning of a story albeit the tale starts at the end so as to speak.

Many thanks for taking the time to comment you are one smart cookie.

Augusta xx

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Hi Isobel, thanks for comment on my hair poem. I see your point on the title. Further explanation beneath poem if you care to see.xx
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Disregard that last message - I totally misread yours. Brain a little worse for wee . . I mean wear tonight. You wrote - "See what happens when you come back!" Which I took to mean "Find out what happens on your return" - meaning later today. I thought it was some revelatory offering. Silly me.

I guess these days I might be more inclined to sit back and smile at it all. I'm not sure it's worth it. (Pretty boring too!) I don't think anyone with any degree of a sense of humour can rail at the world - convincingly at least, for any great length of time.

But you have to admit it's funny to watch though!

Regards,
A.E.

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Oh come on! You can't leave it hanging in the air like that! (Reminder to self - "Yes she can, she's a woman.")

Do tell!

Regards,
A.E.

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Hi Isobel,

Hope all is well with you & yours.

I just saw the comment you left on Rachel's "em." I have heard of Marshall Mathers actually - I even possess some of his music! I thought "Stan" was a great track the first time I heard it - still do in fact.

Nothing changes much around here, does it?

Regards,
A.E.

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Thank you - I'm kind of chuffed!

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ta for your kindness re 'Keef'-I shall never call you Nana again.On one condition....you drop by specsavers(only jesting)x

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Hi isobel, Thankyou for commenting on Belt. yes there is a shift between the emotional and the descriptive which seemed to happen by itself! Win

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Thanks for your comment on the haiku. Tried writing one with 4 of us last week - good fun to see what turns up! x

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Thanks for reading and commenting on 'War is such a cliché' - I posted it on f/b in response to a very funny exchange on a thread of Rachel's - it just seemed to fit :)
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