Thank you, Ruth, for having me on your show yet again (Sunday, 13th August). You really are such a wonderfully supportive host and a gifted radio presenter.
I recommend any WOL poet in the Manchester area to go on the ALLFM Ruth O'Reilly Show. She will do you proud and promote your writing!😎😊

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Ten To Four

Festive food
merry wine
happy talk
crackers pulled
corny jokes
radio tuned
silence please
Christmas wish
poem read.

All the best Ruth x🎄

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Thanks for getting back to me Ruth

Cheers for putting my poem on your radio show loved putting together the song titles along with the old guys going to the concert.

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Island of Poets

Landscape views
poems written
fun time poets
is a must
if name down
could be you.

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So glad both of us could play a part into making it the showpiece it was Ruth.😍

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King for the Day

Sir best mate
Sir taxi driver
Sir funny Landlord
Knighthoods given to
all my drunken pals
waking up with
a stunning princess
Queen out of town.

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Thank you so much, Ruth, for guiding this complete novice through his first radio show. You have such a lovely calm easy manner and link everything together brilliantly well. Really enjoyed it, thanks to you!
Gail sends her kindest regards, too! 😀

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Doing ok Ruth
love your poetry and how it reminds me of you

Faces of You
Smiling sometimes sad
words that work
make up on
I always see
faces of you.

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Hi Ruth - noting your comment on John Botterill's poem, I'm
not sure poets are always the best readers of their own work and
in the past I used a Bristol studio and its two resident recording
artists to record various poems of mine in musical settings for a self-published enterprise on CD. You can find some examples (e.g. The Menin Gate and English Hills) in the audio list on my WOL page and if you'd like a sample copy of the CD, just let me know where i can send it.
MC

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Hi Ruth,

Clyde here, that wrote "the tattered old man on Christmas Eve" to see if you got my message to let you know that I would be pleased to have you use the audio for your radio show.
If you have guest on your show, I would love to be a guest.

Merry Chrismas over there in England from Portland Maine,USA

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I hope you got lots of Christmas cheer
and look forward to reading lots and lots
of your poetry in the new year x

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Ruth O'Reilly
your smile is smiley
your name although
deserves that O.
?

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Check out the
bold and blue
with lots of
red and raw
put one in
your Christmas stocking
- - - now!

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We are going to call ourselves
The Spice Boys
first choice was
The Cheeky Boys
open to offers x

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The next pod
I do with Andy
Get Spiced Up With Nigel
save you a copy.

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Ruth: "Ruth, Campari is but a delight ??"
Reprise nor a reprieve ???

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a cat can stay at your house for years
and never say "thank you".
?

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Don't know much about feng shui
was that the name of
your Goldfish?
?

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Hi Ruth - Cosmos - thanks for the like - have read books about trees and they are truly amazing. Cheers. P ?

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Ruth - The Blarney Stone - now I know how Bats feel, hanging on to cave walls. How do they do it without a pilot's licence nearly bumping into everything. ? Blessings. P

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Thank you Ruth (Cat's eyes) glad it raised a smile. P

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Hi Ruth, thank you so much for commenting on 'Strangeness and Experience'. I love that you picked up on the 'walking antennas' line in particular. What were you thinking at Yoga? Just mulling the sensitivity of some people? Either way, thank you and keep writing ? P.S. I've just given you a follow on Twitter.

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Thanks Ruth

I liked all the special effects on the Ghost of me - - -
it made us all look good!

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Ruth, thank you for the lovely Christmas message. I'm not out much into Manchester, but I do think that I may one day really 'see' you. Assuming you're still in this area, of course.

Your natural warmth of personality is a WOL bonus to us all. Happy New Year!

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As you may pass by my little ol' page
This poetical digital stage
May our New Year bring
Your best role yet
And
Leave behind
All of
Last decade's
Regrets!

Wishing Everyone on WOL a Very Happy New Year! I've really enjoyed taking part on this site that I've just discovered this year. It was a nice alternative to the usual social media platforms!?

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Ah, that's lovely. Thank you Ruth, same to you too. Thanks for all your encouragement, comments and poems this year. Hope you have a great festive season ? Tom

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Yes Ruth - Techno's - and we have the nerve to call them primitive - given their limited resources they were staggering brilliant. Thanks for chiming in - or was it the abacus you were working on! ?

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Thanks for commenting "sorry for apologising", I really appreciate it.

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Hi Ruth and since you ask Reiki was certainly one of these and various other forms of meditation following my NDE some years ago, the latter I think might have been a spur although matters of the subconscious have often helped me formulate my poetic style both on line as well as hard copy. ?

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Thanks for the comment on The Way I Write, Ruth. ? I do find it so interesting and would love others to let me in on their secret methods ? Maybe there are techniques we could all share and learn from...

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Hi Ruth,
I liked the read of 'Blank Canvas' lots.
Yours has encouraged me to put my voice out there.

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They say Greeting Cards are out of date
obsolete in this fast-paced world
but homemade cards are still special
when made by children
in some of their first Acts of Creation.

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Thank you for reflecting on my work Ruth. I agree that home is where the heart is.
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Ruth O'Reily.
what a cute name.
are you a character
from a book?

ROR! add an A and you ROAR!

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And sometimes frogs end up as bookmarks when they get squashed flat. And cats like playing leap frog with them as well. That's when Quasimodi rings the bells - and plaintively he yells for Esmerelda. Thanks for your comments Ruth, always good to share a laugh. P.

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Not to mention 'O'Reilly' as your surname!

I was just dropping off to sleep two nights ago, when that thought hit me. All I could think was: 'Cynthia, you're an idiot!' and I gave myself no argument.

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Thanks for commenting on my poem "climate change". ?

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Yes writers are
real fighters
for the cause
without making pause

human pain
remains
their main concern
and he tries to turn it into happiness

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Waiting for Driver-less cars.
That was a Driver-less poem!

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Hi Ruth, thanks for your kind comment on Lunar. I always enjoy your work. If you made some wishes on that big moon, I hope they come true ?

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I Don't seem to be notified of messages and responses as I did when I first joined, so please accept my apologies for any delays in responding back to you.

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re "The Wild Woods"

Keith, shaken but not... never mind ?

Don, %depends ?

Ruth, Campari is but a delight ??

Tommy

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What foto ms Ruth?
;~)

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I liked your typewriter joke.
"you're not my type".
hahaha

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Ruth well done

Writing challenge complete
so well received
comments all good
poetry first class!

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And My Poetry Writing Challenge to myself is Complete.... I have wrote a poem a day for one whole Month- Yay!

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Liked both your poems in Printed Words Ruth

Never Settled, Never Serious

The tourist seemed like a lover
who did not care at all
liked the link up with the trunk to the suitcase
and the circus to the clown
the lion tamer watching
maybe fate to reel him in
when all the travelling is done.

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Thank you for your kind words

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The poem was just about how
some people do not change
that's all.
thanks for the flower though.
I wear it proudly.
?

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Hi Keith, no I'm not flaming, it was then and not now now. ?

Hi Jason, I think 'moving on' and scorch-marks says it .

Hi Ruth, I think the 'positive spin' echos Kieth's point, not wrong just behind my shoulder as I turn away.

Thank you all xxx

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