thanks for your kind comments on 'back to the park' Mark - pleased you liked it - not sure how pleased I am at making you 'moist' but that's another story.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment mate
Ian
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thanks for your kind and thoughtful comments on 'back to the park Hazel - I'l chuffed that you liked it
Ian
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thanks for your kind comments on 'back to the park' Trevor - I'm pleased that you liked it - thanks for taking the time to comment
Ian
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thanks for your kind comments on 'back to the park' Keith - a sad but true tale of loss
Ian
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Wow Anya is all I can say!!! This truly is an amazing poem ?????I love it
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Thu 5th Apr 2018 14:16
thanks for reading my poems. happy to know you like them..?
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Thanks Big Sal.
Hi Hazel, these are words I have used to express my love to those closest to me. Saying and meaning one thing but expressing it in another contradictory way.
However, I like the idea of seeing it as a poem to self - of learning to love oneself again even when some aspects are not always loveable.
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Oh, I wasn't quoting anybody, even with the '--' marks. I actually meant the first star of twilight which I remember so vividly in a cloudless, expansive sky over Lake Ontario. Probably Venus to be honest, but close enough to a 'star' when you're young. It just seemed the first of such a beautiful display of night wonders, away from city lights as I was then. I think I have always thought of it in '--'. Isn't that interesting!
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Thanks for your comments. I was very touched by your insight.
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Life, form,movement. Moving towards and moving away. Love the line 'begins and ends in a single room'. Wasn't sure if this meant one room or the room of a single being. Love the ambiguity.
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Brian- It seems I’ve underestimated JC. He recognises that his masterly strategy of inactivity is a winner when he has always got Boris on his side!
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Thu 5th Apr 2018 07:53
Thank you ...Ok so break it into pieces ? Is that what you mean ?
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Thu 5th Apr 2018 06:54
Hi Niara
I quite like this but for me it would be an easier read if it was broken up into verses.
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Big Sal
Thu 5th Apr 2018 03:24
How life has seemed over the past year. How close to slipping into the deep blue abyss of depression.
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These are words I have spoken to my loved ones at times this past 12 months as life has become tough and the mind weak.
Hope is again dawning and the real love is showing once more.
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A great venue for Poetry at Stockport Art Gallery.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 22:45
Hey Andrea! Hope you are loving WOL! You are a good poet, hope you like my poetry aswell if you have to look at it I'd appreciate it! Thanks
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Somehow I made a hash of the comment page; not old age creeping on but doubled up a bit !
Ray
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Thanks again for all your comments. I wasn't sure if this would appeal, as it is just imagination, but based on an actual person in my family!
Thanks you Wood for dropping in . Hazel for getting it completely.
Nicely expressed David. I just re-read the Betjeman poem, fabulous, sort of genteel. Number one in my book I've had since I was 16. You can always go back to him and be satisfied, a rare gift indeed.
Brian, nice point- it appeals to those with an OCD mindset.
Yes Col. There is an other -worldly aspect here, quite a nice way to go probably. I can satisfy you on the loco. The prairie tankers trundled around on local stopping trains as they were light and sturdy, carried water on their flanks and were quick off the mark and I suppose quite cheap to run. They were used on the GWR and all over Wales! Before you doze off, I photo'd a few in the sixties, and as they were numbered 61-- we called them tanner one -ers. I'll get my coat.
Thanks Mark. We are in good company with our memories. A good point about leaving, as it is implied and applied.
Thank you for liking Frances and Anya. I'm pleased you like my stuff!
Ray
Thank you Suki. Well spotted, like the last page of a book perhaps.
Mark, I am in good company with your memory and mine!
Good point about leaving, it's implied and applied.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 21:43
Big Sal
Wed 4th Apr 2018 21:11
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 19:47
John - If he went of his own accord now there is the risk that more than the required % of MPs won't vote in the nomination of the next left candidate, probably John McDonnell..so they want to keep JC in post until they can get sufficient leftie MPs in post.
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MC - Cappucino socialism.
Brian - I think this anti-semitism thing has got him paralysed. If he deals with it, it’s an admission of racism in Labour. If he doesn’t it’s an admission that he tolerates it.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 17:43
The way the labour party leader is now elected I foresee a line of left wing leaders which the public won't vote for. At some point the moderate labour MP's, many of whom will be de-selected in favour of Momentum candidates, will have form a breakaway party a la SDP to stand any chance of getting a socialist government.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 17:27
Good title for a short but effective poem that allows the
reader to interpret the concept of "leaving" in this life.
PS - as a former train spotter, I'll let the writer enlarge about a "prairie tanker" if he's so minded.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 16:52
Anya, moj ojciec z Krakowa ale, nie mluvite, nie rozumiem, Polski. To trudny! Pszepraszam.
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A moist-inducing effect and a few blinks later and I'm happy
to join the rest to sing a song of praise for this vignette of
the passing of time and the old story of what might have been. Touching and timeless in its evocation of lost youth.
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It is to be hoped that he continues to do just that until the
Labour Party assumes its original aims and intentions to be
the political backbone of the working person. He. like
Livingstone, takes me back to the days of the CND et al.
I always wondered why these enthusiasts never went to
Russia to preach their message rather than stay at home
where society made it safe to speak out with such brave conviction.
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How welcome to find a life-affirming blog to lift the spirits.
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I love photography! What I don't love is every single experience being ruined by knobheads waving their phoness around in my face, instead of simply watching, enjoying and absorbing the gig. I don't get it. You REMEMBER stuff from gigs, there's a hugely enjoyable chat afterwards, analysing it. And the sound quality on phones is toss.
You're a musician Ray. You know how much trouble musicians and sound engineers go to to get exactly the right sound on stage. For knobheads to then intentionally ruin the experience for themselves is just...baffling.
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Good onya Laura. Big question marks arise the older I get on what life actually is for. I love photography but not this mindless neanderthalism. (Is that a word? I hope so).
Regards, Ray
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Ruby
Wed 4th Apr 2018 16:01
Thanks Cynthia for sparing your time to stop by my profile.
Your kind suggestion is very much appreciated!
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It's usually at gigs in venues rather than at festies but it happens everywhere tbh. And small festies are the way to go, proper grassroots kind of parties. Better prices, better punters, better parties had!
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First poem for NaPoWriMo 2018. I missed the first 3 days due to drinking/chocolate.
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Brian - I think JC is just starting to wake up.
Graham - militant Tendency can't believe their luck.
Trevor - I think the reverse. He is a man of principled ideology discovering that assuming power means compromising himself. It will come as a rude awakening to his doe-eyed followers.
At the minute he is paralysed in the headlights.
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Big Sal
Wed 4th Apr 2018 13:59
I like the way you format your poems, it fits the structure and emotion well.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 13:42
Excellent Chris. It is also the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr today. What a coincidence! She was very much involved with the civil rights movement in America and I have just learnt was the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco and at the age of 14 too. Your poem has a strong message and has the echo of voices from the past. Thanks very much for posting. Colin.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 13:25
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 12:58
Chris...like it but I have to admit being a complete ignoramus about Dr. Maya Angelou.
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Wed 4th Apr 2018 12:56
I'm afraid it's win at all costs nowadays Jon. Thank goodness I'm a loser.
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He's not alone. I've come to the opinion that by the time a young, idealogically driven politician gets to where he/she can actually influence stuff, they've become inured to the status quo, and can no longer summon the enthusiasm. And those who can still summon the enthusiasm just never get there.
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That was beautiful~!
I am not sure about the others but i interpret it as love. It is like the person who is writing the poem is afraid to hurt someone that they love. They are afraid to hurt because they do not want to be left behind. They are afraid to influence someone too much, to pour too much love that will limit the receiver's freedom. The writer treats love as a fragile yet blissful thing~! ?
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Laura Taylor
Thu 5th Apr 2018 16:19
A goodly chunk of gorgeousness. Sonorous and resonant, with a proper delightful scene of play. Loved it.
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