Love the last two lines! Wow.....Jeff.....
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Andromeda
Sun 18th Dec 2016 08:10
I like your sample Mr Cash. Where's the rest?
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Inspired after reading Dr Seuss this morning for breakfast...he's a wise man. Jeff......
Comment is about I'm a Pencil (blog)
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What a great piece of work! Keeping in mind " art is in the eye of the beholder" I get a post apocalyptic scene from this whereby Man has finally said "never again". Sort of dystopia to utopia. The rebirth to me is a nuclear mushroom cloud, as to me the cloud top looks like a womb & the narrow bit connecting is the vagina (in this context I might add!) the mountain is the bunker. I really hope I've not offended you with what I get from this piece of work but it really gets you thinking, & that's a great thing!
Also very biblical the way it's written......Jeff.....
Comment is about AND IN THAT TIME (blog)
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You never know elP. Poetry like this is affecting because many of us feel this way. Perhaps a critical mass will achieve what seems impossible - or something truly remarkable that might sweep it all away. We are heading towards something whether we want it or not..
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Bill Hicks. Top man. True legend!
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elPintor
Sat 17th Dec 2016 23:33
Hi, Ray..a very pleasing contemplation about a possible future for man, and looks to be the product of a very well-meaning heart.
Forgive me, please, but I couldn't help but think of this movie. Maybe if we could keep it one-on-one, mankind could learn to quell his instincts just enough..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz8QC2Ng3Vs
..a dark comedy (they say it's loosely based on real events) if you haven't already seen it.
elP
ps
I very much like the idea of a final resting place for all fear and hate, "misery and illusion"...a quite poetic happy ending--or beginning.
Comment is about AND IN THAT TIME (blog)
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Wonderful sentiments Ray. You sound like a prophet!
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You will note, Jeff, that my recruitment drive here on WOL has not been very successful. But it certainly seemed a better prospect than Dundee or Teesside.
Comment is about WANTED - 65 VIRGINS (blog)
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There will never be peaceful coexistence with fundamentalism, Ken, unless it entails complete acquiescence. By its very definition, there can be no compromise with something fundamental.
The situation in Aleppo is not quite this, however. The rebel forces (by media reports seem to include fundamentalists) but also a disparate alliance of regime opponents.
I don't profess to know an answer; I do know that we should have intervened in 2013.
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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"FACT" ISIS (Sunni) believe that Shias are apostates and must die in order to forge a pure form of Islam.
Intervention by us western infidels will only delay the eventual establishing of an Eastern civilisation. Which not unlike ours will be built on a foundation of slaughtered millions and take a thousand years.
It's a shit World!!
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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Sat 17th Dec 2016 17:33
I see the long shadow of loss Michael and a hope of reconciliation . How many families have been split asunder in the long quest of nations to fulfil themselves? More than is bearable. A very stirring poem .
Ray
Comment is about The Magnitude of Love (blog)
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Nicola Beckett
Sat 17th Dec 2016 15:45
Thanks Andy. Yes blocks lifted a little. Must catch up sometime, over a non alcoholic bellini! ?
Comment is about Solidity (blog)
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Many thanks, Jeff. It would be lovely if no-one ever needed to go to war. Unfortunately we sometimes do. 2013 was a case in point. We didn't and the resultant tragedy of Aleppo is plain to see.
As the man said, "Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace".
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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Grandson of a coal miner.....what happened to me? Jeff....
Comment is about Which Dick Ordered the Caramel Latte? (blog)
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Please don't try looking in Dundee or Teesside.......be easier to locate the centre of the universe armed with a hammer & ball of wool.
Ps I have no idea what I'm talking about, but smiled when I did......thanks for the inspiration......?
Comment is about WANTED - 65 VIRGINS (blog)
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Captured the sentiment precisely! From my Punk days onwards I've always enjoyed politically inspired words, whether it be poetry or music. This is simply fantastic.
War ain't like it is on in the movies or on the news. Sold lies and the end user is some innocent human. The west is the ultimate Apex Predator, demonising, criminalising & like pigs at a trough.
& to quote the late Bill Hicks " how low is a countries self-esteem we need a war to feel good about ourselves"? Makes sense.
Take care.......Jeff.....
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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Vivisection - no moral argument & unessessry evil.
Comment is about This isn't what life had planned for me (blog)
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Animal lover myself, & enjoyed this. Really liked the line about second cousin......Jeff...
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Nice, really nice. Jeff
Comment is about Coming back to you (blog)
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Look at all the fab former names listed here. Wow! I'll try to catch up with some more reading, but short on time now.
Regards, and Happy Christmas,
Cynthia
Comment is about Rodney Wood (poet profile)
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Thanks for that, Lancs.
Yes I understand that people read political poetry but the point I was trying to make was that we each only hear the politics and not the poetry.
I can best explain this by a question. I suspect that like myself you lean leftwards; so which of these poets who are right-wing do you enjoy?
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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Ditto from me! I had a 'friend' who was a friend only because she had comic books stashed under her bed. I would make a little conversation and read like a maniac. Even at seven, I was not proud of myself, but the lure and reward was too great to quibble about.
A delightful poem.
Comment is about NOW WHEREFORE STOPP'ST THOU ME? (blog)
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Good thinking. Sorts out a lot, doesn't it?
Comment is about Perspective (blog)
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Happy Christmas to you and your family, Michael. Peace be with you all.??
Comment is about The Magnitude of Love (blog)
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Natasha Bowman
Sat 17th Dec 2016 06:59
Wow this I really good. I mean yeah there are mistakes but I can tell you wrote this in the mood. I like it, it's lonely, it's depressing, it's insecure it's awesome.???
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elPintor
Fri 16th Dec 2016 23:57
Thanks for your comments, LCPTB and Ray.
Golijov has been a favorite of mine for several years now--in fact, since I happened upon this very piece. The elevated blend of folk traditions heard in many of his compositions (Arabic, Sephardic, Yiddish, Spanish, Latin American) is very attractive to me. I'm glad you both enjoyed it.
elP
Comment is about behemoth (blog)
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thanks again MC Newberry
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This piece really gets under your skin with the depiction of simple feelings so hard to express and it succeeds eminently with its comparisons focussing in on the great voids and challenges that we must face.
Excellent and moving Tom
Comment is about The Letting Go (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Days of extreme bravery and risk taking and blind determination when the rewards were great - a cleft stick when viewed with the benefit of hindsight with the monumental consequences all too plain to see and feel, and thanks to the internet right into the homes of most of us.
Apart from that, a thoroughly good read with a strong dash of the Empire still echoing when I was a boy, Martin.
Ray
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A very worthy and fine poem indeed that seeks to describe the indescribable and like all profound questioning asks us all to ponder horrors and hopes elP
The music is so perfectly matched.
Ray
Comment is about behemoth (blog)
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Hi again Ray, sorry for late reply, been getting new book up and running! All sorted now and pleased with it ?
In answer to your question, no dont get many Southerners up here, few from the midlands! We do most of our gigs at Bolton socialist club now, Phoenix Nights club St Gregs is still there but not been to a gig for ages there.
Will be hoping to venture out again to some new venues next year, prob mainly up north I think but one day hope to perform somewhere south of the Watford Gap!
All the best Ray, Jeffarama! ?
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LOL is some little cutie trying to pull you out of it
Comment is about GRUMP LAND (blog)
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Hi JL...be of good cheer!
Remember when the world was engaged in a great world
war, yet Christmas was celebrated unstintingly by those
affected and gave comfort and consolation to those
most in need of it. The films and songs produced during
that perilous time are still with us - and will remain so.
MC
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Hear-hear, Jack Looking back myself as a "war baby" who
grew up in the real austerity of food rationing and an
absence of the all-embracing safety net of social support,
I recall my mother going out to work late in life during her
second marriage after bearing 7 children to a prematurely
dead husband (my own father) and being happy to
continue until made redundant through age. I have no
memory of talk of hardship...everyone seemed to be in
the same situation in our neck of the woods and life
was lived without either great expectations or over insistent complaint. We really did just get on with it!
PERHAPS THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE WAS THAT
THEN WE LOOKED OUTWARDS WHEREAS TODAY THE OPPOSITE SEEMS TO BE THE CASE.
Comment is about A GOOD OR BAD PAST (blog)
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I'm sure none of us KNEW in 2013, Lancs, but events require us to make a call. The call we made was patently the wrong one.
"Sometimes Satan comes as a Man of Peace".
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Peace
Tormented child of war
travels in constant fear
even when told that
they will be spared
he watches his Mother
cry relentlessly for peace.
Merry Christmas to everyone at Stockport W O L X
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So should we have intervened in 2013, Lancs, or, as we did, left the vacuum for the Russians to fill? That plan went well!
Comment is about THE MASTERLY STRATEGY OF INACTIVITY (NOT IN MY NAME) (blog)
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i think its ok the way it is to be honest.
weird rules (:
Comment is about sudden inspiration (blog)
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good stuff, Nicola.
good to see you writing again x
Comment is about Solidity (blog)
Original item by Nicola Byrnes
like the dark humour in this too.
Comment is about Razors do get dull (blog)
Original item by Chunks and Marrow
i can relate to a lot of this.
thanks for sharing, Becky x
Comment is about Christmas cheer (blog)
Original item by Becky Bintus
To be honest there have been some totally forgetable Nobel laureates in the past so I don't really see the problem with Dylan getting it. At least his songs are memorable. And he's not the first songwriter either. That honour falls to the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore, author of a set of songs, Gitangali, still sung in India to this day.
Comment is about Absent Dylan 'panned poetry gold', says Swedish critic at Nobel awards night (article)
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Another cracker. Same sort of sense as the other one I commented on. You do wry very well ?
Comment is about It's their fault, darling (blog)
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<Deleted User> (13762)
Sun 18th Dec 2016 09:37
I used to read / write short nihilistic pieces inspired by some uni mag a friend sent me back in the early 80's. This would have fitted in nicely with those themes. I could really like this poem C&M if it wasn't so much hassle.
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