Thank you Sunshine, for reading and commenting on my poem 'Time Freeze', though it would have been lovely if it was written in a way where a person wrote it for his/her sweetheart, when I jotted it down,I just tried to express my emotions on that topic through a 3rd POV, but your comment has given me a new theme to ponder about, so thank you for that

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Nobody beats up the British as well as themselves. Who needs enemies when we can do the job better ourselves eh? Bloody idiots us!

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Thank you for your comment on 'Growing Up' MC. Yeah, I've always loved rhyme scheme and alliteration, so I try to include them whenever possible in my poems

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Uilleam, the submarines were from Kelloggs! and highly prized. Many years later I befriended a Kelloggs rep who gave me a bag full of the things from his garage!!

David, did your mum iron the green Brooke Bond tea packet paper so you could draw on it? Happy carefree days!

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Thank you Keith, for reading and sharing your response on 'When the days become nights', it motivates me to perform better

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Thanks John.
Aristotle's thoughts on "the music of the spheres" are thought provoking.
Also interesting is that, as scientifically "advanced" as we imagine ourselves to currently be, we still use the Pythagorean comma in the tuning of digital musical instruments-probably a self-inflicted difficulty of western music technology and culture?

Comment is about THE SPEECH OF ANGELS (blog)

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Thanks David.
I seem to remember collecting the planets-or was it dinosaurs? and submarines that you could put a dob of bicarb of soda in to make them float and sink.

Comment is about Tea Cards (blog)

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Thanks Carlton.
Arrogance struts everywhere.

Comment is about Disinterred (blog)

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Thank you Nila.
We hope against hope that the little which we small folk can acheive in the face of cynicism and greed, will leave our children an inhabitable world.

Comment is about When the days become nights (blog)

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Thank you Keith.

Buen Camino!
Ultreia!
Per Ardua ad Astra!
Bon Courage!

Comment is about A Personal Odyssey (blog)

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A poem of man's folly and his utter disregard for the beauty of the natural world. A poem which will provoke much thought but as is sadly the case, little will be done in practical terms. I ssalute you for writing this. Well crafted and expressed.
Thanks,
Keith

Comment is about When the days become nights (blog)

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The fourth stanza spoke to me as the mighty always fall. A poem of sadness but covered with an awful reality.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Disinterred (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks Pushkar.
Unfortunately, murderous, genocidal war IS the answer for the many cowards in our government who send others to die allegedly "For King and Country", yet who personally profit from waging it.

Comment is about War is not the answer (blog)

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Thanks for the comment Uilleam and the flowers.

This is merely an account of dreams after the event.

Comment is about Die Träume "The Zone of Interest" (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

I like this very much Helene.

For me it symbolises how the journey into self can render a person isolated. Finding ourselves at last understanding love yet being outside of it. Having the greatest gift with no-one to share it with.

I appreciate this is my interpretation and love is many other things than could be imagined.

Comment is about Remember (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Well said, John. 'Music will never grow old'. Something which is proved each time I listen to Haydn, Mozart, Schubert etc etc....

Comment is about THE SPEECH OF ANGELS (blog)

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Thank you, Graham and Keith. The passing of time is one thing which is inevitable. We can't hold it back. In the end, it is the enemy which will defeat us all.

And thanks to Nigel, Stephen A, Holden, Steve, Manish, K Lynn, Rob and Hélène for liking this.

Comment is about Time Passes (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thank you guys. This means alot to me.

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Great stuff RA. Reminder how important poetry is as an indicator of freedom.
Also reminds me of the book I read recently, the stasi poetry circle by Philip Oltermann. He describes how at the start of the GDR they wanted poets, creatives to be central to society, as a contrast to the nazis. That changed over time as the Stasi got more paranoid and wanted to know more about people. Poetry gave them a glimpse into what people really thought, poetry circles were encouraged, and outputs acted on.

Comment is about Tough on Rhyme (blog)

Original item by R A Porter

Thank you all. I watched the Navalny documentary last night - if you haven’t seen it yet, it is brilliant… and incredibly sad. Authoritarian regimes don’t like storytellers, when the story isn’t theirs. I also recommend Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia for his take on the poets, novelists, playwrights & thinkers of the last century who kept the flame alive, as the lights around them were going out.

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Thanks Carlton.
"Always look on the bright side" they sing to us, as we persist in kissing their arses and licking their boots, even as they kick us in the teeth!

Comment is about Die Träume "The Zone of Interest" (blog)

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Thanks for the flowers folks.

Comment is about In the library of needless regret (blog)

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Marvellous words, RA!

Comment is about Tough on Rhyme (blog)

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Excellent, RA, your humour only serves to emphasise the serious threat to freedom of artistic and academic expression.

In the UK, we are told that we believe in academic and artistic freedom, however, however, however…coming soon to a university or college or bookshop near you…

Kamila Shamsie, who delivered the 2018 Orwell Lecture at University College London, and who had been announced as winner of the Nelly Sachs Prize, named after a Jewish poet and Nobel laureate, has been stripped of her German literary prize, because of her support for the Palestinian people through the BDS movement, modelled on the anti-apartheid South Africa boycott…………….Poets, writers, artists beware!

Comment is about Tough on Rhyme (blog)

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Thanks Holden

Comment is about Nobody's bleeding (blog)

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@Tempus Fugit'. The queue is added to by the day and reduced at eventide. Your poem endorses the fact that I am now well and truly in God's waiting room. A poem which highlights the calendar of life.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Time Passes (blog)

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Thanks Stephen

Comment is about Nobody's bleeding (blog)

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He was right to be anxious, Stephen. We lost the group games to both Italy and Uruguay and drew with Costa Rica to achieve bottom spot. They were, indeed, the Golden Generation.

Comment is about ODE TO ROY (blog)

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The queue certainly gets shorter as time passes Stephen. We shuffle nearer and nearer the front. The trick is to offer your place to others if you can.

Thoughtful work as always

G

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Original item by Stephen Gospage

At a poetry open mic recently, a young poet from Belarus shared a poem with us that she'd written while imprisoned for political dissent. It was quite a moment.

Love the last verse - very JCC.

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This is brilliantly written, RA. Wonderful humourous touches, although somewhere in the background lurks a dark reality, I fear.

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Well done, John. It all seems so long ago. Post-Fabio, but Steve Maclaren with the teeth, where does he fit in? Tempus Fugit, I suppose. (A handy midfielder, I believe).

Comment is about ODE TO ROY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

John,
a powerful poem indeed and one which I assume has arisen out of the world of today in all its calamity. Has God caused it? The final stanza shouts aloud this question. There are many answers to this dilema. Why does God cause or allow such misery? Galatians 5 says something about the freedom given to us and how we should use it. We cannot be without guilt for what we do with the freedom given. We can abuse it or use it to the good. The subject of a profound theological debate. Another mystery for which we search for answers.
An excellent and passionate poem.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about Eloquent Graffiti (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you to all who liked and commented on this poem. Uilleam I must confess to being an optimist but I see your point of view which history suppports. However, I do believe that events in Palestine could be a catalyst for change or at worst a catastrophy. The dominance and hegemony we presently are subjected to cannot last forever. All the Empires of history eventually have their demise.
Thank you again for reading and commenting,
Keith

Comment is about An Era of Freedom (blog)

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Thanks Keith. I wish I could share your optimism.

As a teenager, I saw that image of of a little Vietnamese child screaming and running from the scene of bombing, with her flesh hanging off, and I remember thinking "my God, how can so-called civilised people do that to innocents?" It seems nothing has changed.
This morning, I saw a news video concerning the alleged involvement of UNRWA in the October 7th atrocity, in which, when he was challenged several times, a representative of Netanyahu's genocidal project could provide no evidence whatsoever to justify the murder, starvation and abandonment of innocent people.

"Nation Shall Lie Unto Nation" appears to be the motto of many, if not all of the UK establishment's so-called "news" outlets.

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Original item by keith jeffries

“And the lion shall lie down with the lamb”. Until it gets hungry, that is.

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Amen to that Keith. Nation shall speak unto Nation!

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Sock it to 'em, Pete.
Nice one! 😃

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Original item by Edbreathe

Thank you again, John. Glad you found it worthy of comment! 😊

Comment is about The Closing Of The Red Sea (blog)

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Yes, John, my words are cheap 😄 And, I think she would have preferred flowers...
Thanks, as always, for commenting
And for the likes Tom, Stephen, purplemoon, Holden & Manish. 🌷

Comment is about If Ever I Fall (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

An interesting poem. Its structure is appropriate but I confess to being somewhat bemused by its content. The title of the poem suggests that those who flee are better off elswhere. May I suggest that as a South African the cockroaches are those who abandoned all responsibility and guilt and were out to save their own bacon. I could very well be wrong in this assumption but some poems can be interpreted differently to what the poet intended.
A thought provoking poem or which I thank you,
Keith

Comment is about As the Cockroaches Flee (blog)

Original item by Luke Bainbridge

Pushkar,
A hearty welcome to Write Out Loud. We all look forward to reading more of your poetry.
Keith

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Original item by Pushkar Bisht

This poem asks a question of the reader and also supplies the answer. A topical poem as we witness the tragic events of war in Palestine.
Thank you for this,
Keith

Comment is about War is not the answer (blog)

Original item by Pushkar Bisht

I like your poem Mud 👍

Comment is about ananonymouspoet (poet profile)

Original item by ananonymouspoet

Beautiful and very moving John.

Comment is about Eulogy for Pete (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Thank you John,

I hope recovery is going well.

Comment is about Empty sky, no window (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Green to go
For your eyes only
One quick flash
Is all it takes.

Comment is about A Sprout (blog)

Original item by purplemoon

nice

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“…The guidance does, however, set out a series of steps for organisations to go through,…”
“…we fully respect and defend the rights of individual artists to freedom of expression, political or otherwise.” “However, in practice,”.

Here in the UK, we believe in academic and artistic freedom, however….....................

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“and went to bed contented”.
I did some work at a coal mine in Hungary some years back, Pete. The miners there didn’t wear socks but wrapped cloths around their feet. Surprisingly effective and comfortable..

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