Naomi, love the reality of heart ache mixed with doing the dishes. Well done. Marla

Comment is about FROM THE SINK (blog)

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You are extremely prolific. So far, I like "My brother Michael" best.
Glad you are here.

Comment is about Richard Tyler (poet profile)

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It's made worse by the mindless morons that thrive on salacious drivel and ITV relishing every moment. And thanks for the Likes, Tom, Stephen, Tobani and Yanma

Comment is about I CAN'T CARE FUCKING LESS (blog)

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Thank you Tom, Stephen, Holden and Pragya for the likes

Comment is about Different Hand (blog)

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Hoping this isn't autobiographical but the descriptions are extraordinary. Good work Tom!

Comment is about I Hear Nothing (blog)

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Thanks Uilleam for your comments. Marcus Aurelius is my inspiration now. 🙂
Thanks for likes: Auracle & Cryptid. 👍

Comment is about Stoic Man (blog)

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Thank you David.
What words can ever adequately describe the truth of such horrors. Yet you manage to do so.
The pain in the hearts of anyone with an ounce of humanity in them would overwhelm us were it not for the need to hope against hope.

Comment is about Mothers of Sons (Twenty years wasted to abandonment) (blog)

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I really enjoyed this one, Ian, though I doubt I would have made it as far as you did!

Comment is about The Westgate Run (Re-run) [song version] (blog)

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Lovely words of encouragement, Sunshine. Thank you.💐

Comment is about A Knight's Resilience (blog)

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Thanks for that John.
I agree.
Getting things into perspective is always a good thing, which reminds me, I need a new pair of glasses.😍

Comment is about I CAN'T CARE FUCKING LESS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Sorry, I misunderstood you Sourajit.
Yes, I agree with that.

Comment is about "Forged in Fire, Taught in Halls" (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

We all should have education, however it should be free of cost, carefully formulated, to make it useful and not waste of time and money.

Comment is about "Forged in Fire, Taught in Halls" (blog)

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Thank you so much, Pete, for your kind comment, it's genuinely encouraging! 😊

Comment is about Rosary. (blog)

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Thank you Auracle for your like

Comment is about Are The Angels Watching Over Me Tonight (blog)

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Great , as usual!

Comment is about Rosary. (blog)

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Thanks all for your likes.

Red Brick Keshner
Graham Sherwood
Tom
Tom Doolan
Stephen Gospage
Aisha Suleman
Larisa Rzhepishevska
Holden Moncrieff
K. Lynn
John Gilbert Ellis
Auracle
Tobani / Nataiella

It was good fun putting this together, and it helps having a set of rules to build on.

I meant to add that the title is a reference to the birth of Jesus, he, being the personification of God's message.

I'm afraid I've forgotten where I put the fairy lights-it happens every year. I'll have another rummage round the attic!

Comment is about The Word Made Flesh (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Hava Nagila

Comment is about The Presence Of Sinterklaas Has Just Begun (blog)

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Thank You.

I have to comment later on this, I'm too emotional.

😭

Comment is about in starlit sky twinkles (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

I'd settle for that.
From what I’ve read, a stoic believes that the practicing of virtue(s) is enough to acheive a well-lived life. the four virtues concerned being wisdom, courage, temperance and justice.
Go for it Tom!

Comment is about Stoic Man (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Thanks Trevor, I do like a squidge and a schlurp. So, did you take the plunge?

Comment is about Plunge (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, Tobani, Uilleam & Holden. 👍

Comment is about Stoic Man (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

A lovely nonet
'bout a girl in a bonnet.💐

Comment is about Imagine upcoming Spring (nonet) (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you Naomi and Uilleam for the likes

Comment is about Are The Angels Watching Over Me Tonight (blog)

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A lovely sonnet WSDs
Its being personal helps bring out the emotion.

Comment is about where I couldn’t go home (blog)

Original item by Wimpole Street Devils

Do you mean that the poorest should not have a good education?

Comment is about "Forged in Fire, Taught in Halls" (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

Thanks Hélène,
...except that when the reality is brutally imposed injustice, I will rage, well perhaps, just seethe!

Comment is about Choices (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Education is a bit expensive to be a base for deprived population to make something out of it, is the way I feel.

Comment is about "Forged in Fire, Taught in Halls" (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

Thanks Mike.
I suppose it's a time when the most basic human needs matter -and are appreciated? - most; food, shelter, warmth and companionship.

Comment is about UK Winter Has Arrived (1/12/24) (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks Kealan.
I remember as a child, staring into the dying embers of our coal fire, at a time before the haunted black and white fishtank came into homes such as ours...I wonder what moments such as that did for our young imaginations.

Comment is about Heat of the Invisible Fire (blog)

Original item by Kealan Coady

Thank you, John.

And so it is in other lands,
our name they do infame,
much blood is on our leaders' hands.

Comment is about To the Ghost-dancers of the Sioux (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thanks RBK.
In courage such as his, is the best of humankind.

Comment is about in starlit sky twinkles (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you, Clare.
It is indeed time to embrace humanity.
💗

Comment is about Christmas Nonet. (Reversed). (blog)

Original item by Clare

Yeah, but they bring a lot of money into the country - don't they!

Comment is about  Duty (blog)

Original item by Ray

Thank you, Sourajit.
Yes, hopefully we learn through our mistakes and our struggles.
But “sterile halls”? are we then to deny the weakest amongst us, (who struggling most, gain the least) the right to a good education?
That way, we end up with the curent situation in the UK whereby the “halls of might”, the corridors of Parliament, are populated with Eton - and similarly educated elites, whilst the children of the least affluent, who endure the most deprivation, are forced to attend schools which are literally, falling down around their ears!

Comment is about "Forged in Fire, Taught in Halls" (blog)

Original item by Sourajit Nandi

Pavlov, MC…? Methinks you are mistaken.
The Austrian, Herr Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, (he of feline fame) was forced to flee Nazi Germany, was related to the Duke of York.
The latter, as British school chidren are taught, was up, when he was up, and when he was down, he was down, and when he was only half-way up, he was neither up nor down. Schrödinger’s cat suffered from a similar affliction, to which canines such as Pavlov's are not prone.

Comment is about SCHRODINGERS' IMMIGRANTS (blog)

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Hilariously, Lord Acton didn't coin "lies, damned lies and statistics". That was Mark Twain, who attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli. But which of the figures from the Office of National Statistics do you distrust, M.C.? As for "outnumbering the concerned local population", show your working please, lest you be hoist by your own petard.

On David's point. The existence of safe, legal routes into the country would hopefully see an end to the small boats without much need for enforcement action. There would no longer be a market for them.

There are people who are in this country illegally, but they are not asylum seekers, seeking asylum is not illegal, and by and large they did not arrive by small boat, they arrived with a visa and simply stayed after it expired.

Thanks again John for getting some facts to rhyme.

Comment is about SCHRODINGERS' IMMIGRANTS (blog)

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Comment is about A SATURDAY (blog)

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Thank you Larisa, Holden, Tom and Pragya for the likes

Comment is about Are The Angels Watching Over Me Tonight (blog)

Original item by Tobani / Nataiella

Hi Yaz!
Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it!
I make my poems to dish out my thoughts that are either present or from the past and hope to reach others who've maybe felt the same way.
Majority of my poems leave on a light note but I wanted this one to be a bit different.
I appreciate your concern and just to leave you at ease, i'm doing well mentally, at the moment. Feel free to message me! I always love meeting new poets or people who share the same love for poetry as I do!

Comment is about Repeat (blog)

Original item by mouseinmypocket

Thanks Uilleam. She painted all the pictures before I got to work, but I tried to make it seem like she’d illustrated the poem.

Comment is about Barn owls (blog)

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Thank you so much, Graham and Uilleam, for your very kind words, they mean a lot! 😊

Comment is about Rosary. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

To adapt Lord Acton: There are truths half-truths and damned falsehoods. Schrodinger...who he? Is he related to Pavlov? 😏

Comment is about SCHRODINGERS' IMMIGRANTS (blog)

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Thank you Larisa and Aisha for the likes.

Comment is about Christmas Will Pass Them By (blog)

Original item by Tobani / Nataiella

Well considered thoughts, David. I heard Rory Stewart (a Tory I have some time for) on Question Time make the point that we do need to get a grip of immigration or run the risk of stimulating far right groups like the AfD.
But I recognize how hard this will be when global warning renders more parts of the world uninhabitable meaning even more migration.

Comment is about SCHRODINGERS' IMMIGRANTS (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Ah, those Knotty Ash mines...I was only familiar with the Treacle ones.😊

Comment is about 'Jamberine'?? (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks for that very interesting comment, my jam butty mine reference is of course a nod to the mythical jam butties of my beloved Knotty Ash in Liverpool 14.

Comment is about 'Jamberine'?? (blog)

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Thank you Aisha.
I've been plagued by self-doubt throughout my life, and sometimes it's taken everything I've got just to keep my head above the water.

Comment is about Be Proud (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Thank you Holden.
Speaking as someone who was raised a Catholic, I find the metaphor of the Rosary to be an eloquent one. 💗

Comment is about Rosary. (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Thanks Ray. I recollect my old English teacher telling us that Homer simply described Helen of Troy as "the most beautiful woman in the world", leaving it to each person to imagine what that was.
Uilleam - the audio cuts out on mine part-way through on my phone and ipad but not on my laptop. Curious.
And thanks for the Like, Tim, John, Tobani and Aisha.

Comment is about THE WORLD'S MOST TRAVELLED RAFFLE PRIZE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

That's great Tim lovely picture, congratulations to you both.
Were the pictures painted in response to the poems, or vice versa?

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