Hi Dave
thanks for your recent comments. actually normally my Skoda too is very reliable. Coming up to 100,000 N reg Felicia (Not the one in the pic) Just had a new starter motor and its not spot on. lol Win

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Hi Dave. thanks for your comments on The Silver Surfer poem. It is waky and unusual but the content does mirror the life of this fictional fellow. cheers Win

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thank you Dave, for your lovely comments on Kilim, Debz x

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People have done all sorts of things with the Gormley statues, including the famous (and actually quite artistic) nude calendar. Yellow shorts is different, but there's something new every week

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How do David
Appreciate your taking the time to read my poem
so you live in Crosby. Was it you that put yellow trunks on the Gormley figure?
cheers bud

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Extravagance has been one of my many vices for many a long year David... Have you any vices?
Many thanks for your wonderful comments.
Augusta x

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hi Dave-am here under 'orders' from isobel,glad i came! you have a new fan.loved 'countless' its given me some ideas,one being to hang around as long as poss-to piss all my enemies off.lol!-regards

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Thanks for your comment Dave. I agree, the situation's not quite as bad as in some countries. However I am disquieted when we or the Americans use phrases such as '...for god and country...';

I think the relationship between the (Christian) church, the political establishment, and the arms manufacturers and the military is not a healthy one.

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Hi Dave
Just a line to say thanks for taking the time to comment. Hope you had a good hol.

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Hi Dave, thank you for your kind comment. I think there are many interesting and important figures that never made it to history's 'A list' but played just as significant a part in humanity's long journey to the present. i look forward to your new work, i enjoyed the Churchill poem here, do you have to read it in the style of 'we will never surrender'? Some great language too.

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Hi Dave, I enjoyed your discussion thread and was inspired to post a couple of poems about historical figures :)

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Hi Dave
It appears my excitement has boiled over too soon. Such is life.
The poem is just a bit of fun. The child in me.

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Greetings Dave, thanks for the comment on Eer Olives Pumps. Have a good holiday and see you sometime at the Tudor.
Cate xx

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i meant taking the time to make such nice comments .. : )) D x

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HI Dave, thank you for reading and taking the time to comment on my poem, Porous, deb xx

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Ok, you win. first time I have actually edited a poem after blogging it, so there's hope for me yet. Ammended the first line of the last stanza to include hope, but I do draw the line at wiping tears away haha.

Had some real fun writing that poem, with the irregularities running through it. It sort of symbolises the irregularites and complexities not only of human nature but also of conscious thought for me.

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Hi Dave, thanks for your comment on 'April' - I agree it can last but that wasn't how the writer felt at the time! Like your old texts poem very much - personally I do a lot of deleting to avoid embarrassing myself the morning after :-)

best wishes

John

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Hi Dave
Hope you had a good weekend.
My fear (and that of my US friends) was/is that if he fails, the black population will feel that there is no hope for their world to be improved, and then what?
Steve M.

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Hi Dave
I wouldn't have posted this normally, but it may start the ball rolling on the historical figure front.
It may not be the finest poem you've ever seen (who am I kidding).
Good idea though Dave
Steve M.

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You made my day with your lovely compliment Dave...
It was most appreciated ; )

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hi Dave, thanks for your comment. Are you intrigued by maybe one day our cathartic poery may end up on someones dusty shelves or about Katharos and satanus. Did my homework on this one, was intrigued at the fact that the most famous poets - the majority of them actually write to purge their feelings. However, although I knew what catharsis meant ( be shocking if I didn't being an English teacher. haha), I assumed that it was greek and looked it up. The Internet, my Muse! The wonders of modern technology, I wonder how many more poems the most famous and legendary poets could have churned out if they had access to the internet? or on the otherhand would their poems have been so great if they had access to the internet!!

Imagine. Shakespeare, Blake, Coleridge or Yeats asking jeeves or googling in the middle of the night looking for inspiration! haha.

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Hi Dave,

I am glad you and your friend like my poetry. I see it as a way to express myself and I hope others like it.

K xx

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HI Dave, thank you for reading and posting your kind comment on my poem Shoormal. I went to a beach north of Liverpool once, near where all the red squirrells live, it was HUGE and there were winsufers and other things with wheels scooting along the sand, I can't remember the sea muddily shlurping but I was distracted by all the wind powered things...some of which were horses... nice beaches though you have down there, thanks again, Deb x

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Regarding Bent Heels... Cheers - Dave.. Dead touched over what you said!

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Greetings Dave, many thanks for your comment on For Whom The Wheel Turns.... see you tonight at the Tudor if you manage to make it.
Cate xx

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Hi Dave
Amen to your thoughts.
Thanks for the comment though, and apologies again for the Haiku (if indeed that is what it was)
Steve M.

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Hi Dave,

thanks for reading and making comment on my poem '3am'

steve x

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Hi - me again..... I'm only just getting round to answering all my messages and emails after a hectic month, which has included both a house move and a hospital stay - so sorry for the delays.
Afterlife.... I'm afraid my belief is that there isn't one, when you're dead - you're dead, and the only way to live on is by passing a copy of your DNA on. You don't get your rewards or punishments in any afterlife - only in this one; and those are not always commensurate with your actions or deeds.
And I count myself fortunate that I can live in a society that allows me to say that, and where someone with the completely opposite p-o-v can state their beliefs too.
Leonard Cohen - I love! I believe I've just missed him (again!) in concert over here, but I think the man is a genius. Do you know 'The Future'? - I love the bleakness of the lyrics, though there are too many of his that I love for me to say it's my favourite - just one of many. Who else do you like?
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Hi there,
Thanks for reading, and commenting on, 'Scrabble Online' - glad you enjoyed it. I'd be happy to join you in a game of Lexulous, though I've never heard of it and don't know how to play, is it on Facebook? Having recently lost 2 of my favourite Scrabble partners (you know who you are, you wimps! call yourselves obsessives, humph!) if you want to find me on f/b (I'm there under my other name - Christine Neale - just follow the trail of poets) - I'll be happy to play Scrabble with you too.
Cx

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Hi Dave
I'm very much with you on the Haiku front, but I wondered:-
'Warm applause rings out.
Many highwire walker wait
patiently in line'

Would this be a high queue haiku?

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I have enjoyed reading your word smithery.
Look forward to more.Thanks for taking the time to read my work and comment . It is always good to know that people enjoy it.
Spencer

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Just read your blog-poem, then enjoyed some more of your poetry, Dave.

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Hi Dave,
thanks for your comment on Chloe's poems.
I really do appreciate it.
You're a star!

Janet.x

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Thanks for your comments, Dave.
You had it easy! If my memory serves me well, Saturday was by far the best day with the region's weather. Still, I've earned my camping stripes and, rather surprisingly, it hasn't put me off doing it all again. Without the kids.
Thanks again.

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Hi Dave
Thanks for reading anc commenting on 'Important' - glad you liked it.
No _ I suppose the questions don't come much bigger than why are we here? and does anything matter? but I think I'm coming at them from a different point-of-view to yours. I don't have any religious or spiritual faith or convictions - I don't believe there is any kind of afterlife where we'll receive a reward for being virtuous - I believe this is it! and precisely because this is it ... is why our actions matter. But as you point out - equally - perhaps not. I know which way I prefer to try and conduct myself - but, in the end, I don't think the world notices much!

I, too, loved the Bill Bryson Short History. And although I don't have your spiritual beliefs ..... I do always wonder ......!
:-)
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Hi again Dave, thanks for your comment on Sunflowers... a very perceptive comment you put up!
Cate xx

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Hi Dave, just a thank you on commenting on "CSSB"
Bernie

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Hello Dave.
Thankyou for your comments about my poem. You are right we all bring baggage with us which affects our choices when moving on. It was lovely meeting you at The Tudor.
Regards Yolande.

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Hi Dave, thanks for you comment on Our Gramps. Hope your camping trip is going ok and you are not getting wet wet wet in this nasty weather!!
Cate xx

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Hi Dave,
Thanks for reading and commenting on Shhh - glad you liked it. Trusting someone with those little bits of your life/thoughts etc that have the capacity to hurt, can be scary - one reason, I suspect, that so many of us choose to do it through poetry!
:-)
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Thank you for the kind words of welcome. Being rather new to this, I have a lot to catch up, blogs to read etc. I like The voices when all activity subsides and old texts.

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Hi Dave,
Thanks for comments on "John." I'm surprised some people seemed to struggle with all the clues in there. It's a reflection on the son of a friend who enriches social gatherings so much with his warmth, enthusiasm and innocence. He's a really lovely lad and it's heartbreaking to think that in times past so many "special people" were shut off from society when they have so much to offer. But, from your response I obviously don't need to tell you this.
Regards,
A.E.

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Thank you for commenting on What's Up Doc - just a bit of light weight fun really.
Joan

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Hi Dave - thanks so much for commenting on my poem Inner Beast and I appreciate your honesty about how men can both desire and be pushed away by a passionate woman!

I do very much like your first poem on your sample page - the word play here is very captivating and enjoyable to read.

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Hi Dave, thanks for reading the poem. You're quite right, you've just got to have read Harry Potter to understand it; ask a teenager perhaps! I like Old Texts, really original and thoughtful. Janex

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Hi Dave
thank you very much for taking the time to comment on my recent poems. I really appreciate that. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

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Hi Dave, thanks for your comment Old Photographs, sometimes simple is best!!
Cate xx

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Re: Chat: Dammit, NO! And I'm looking forward to it too.

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Hello Dave. Thank you for reading Love and Theft. It was a departure for me somewhat. However, I think from your comment that you may have thought it autobiographical. Happily not so, it was an idea I got from listening to some music lyrics. Thanks once again. Graham

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Hi Dave
Thank you so much for the time taken to read some of my poetry and the encouraging comments...

Many Thanks once again
Gus

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