A lovely, evocative description, Brenda.
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The leaves on our lawn have turned from a dazzling gold to a chestnut brown. It will soon be time to sweep them away. You're right, Julie. The colours really are intense.
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Holden and Tom, I appreciate it! đđœ
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Thank you, Graham. Sad situations like this must be repeated across the UK and Europe. It is hard to see how this is going to end quickly at the moment.
Thanks to Nigel, New Shoes, HelĂšne, Holden, Rudyard and Frederick for supporting this one.
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Thanks Andy, it's very dark. 'The Last Kingdom, ' series on Netflix inspired me to write this one.
Comment is about No victory (blog)
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Thanks Tom and Rudyard for your kind words. Thanks Nigel for the like. It is not a day job type of thing just having a presence for poetry in the mainstream of trade and social intercourse. đ·
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Mon 31st Oct 2022 23:39
Deserves to be read over and over it is that good! Thank you!
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Mon 31st Oct 2022 23:34
A well written and positive kind of poem and a very cleverly rounded off as well. Thank you!
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Thanks Stephen. I really appreciate your comments! And thanks for buying and reading the book! Amazing!
Thanks too for the likes Tom and Nigel đ
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This is a great poem and it's about a serious issue, as you say John. Too many half-wits on the road. Perhaps technology is the only way to slow them down.
Enjoyed your book, by the way.
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Mon 31st Oct 2022 16:57
"Make coastlines and skyscrapers a secret" is such a wonderful line, Candice! đ·
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Congratulations Frederick! Good luck with the book.
Comment is about Ebook out and charting! (blog)
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Excellent, compact piece Emer. The last line hits really hard.
Comment is about No victory (blog)
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Feelings are but a guide
Only when your heart is broken
Your true love will come alive.đ
Comment is about My heart can Lie (blog)
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Thanks for your likes
Stephen G
Helene
Stephen A
Holden
and
Frederick.đ
Comment is about The Dead Good Halloween Party (blog)
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Thanks for the comments Frederick and Martin. I genuinely feel that some drivers don't care! I was going for the grumpy old man humourous approach but the issue is serious, I know đ
Thanks for the like too, Steve đ
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Some lovely lines and a great flow to this poem. Love it
Comment is about Where the Soul Meets the Floor (blog)
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Sadly those who do this will do it because they think they can and all the time they get away with it that's what they will do.
great poem
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Youâre welcome, Stephen. I often think when I see what passes for entertainment these days on âIâm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Hereâ that we havenât come so very far.
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Yes Rudyard! That would be a dream come true! Should someone with heart and skill to bring us thus together then it would be an excellent anthology!
Comment is about Ebook out and charting! (blog)
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Speed is a plague and it ails us all across the globe! I've been to several funerals stemming from this and what do you say, what could you say!?
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Thank you dear Stephen and dear Frederick and dear Holden. Through all the insincere remembrance tinsel that comes with November in the UK Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Suicide in the Trenches' stands out.
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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Stephen itâs difficult to consider any sort of normal life carrying on in Ukraine at the moment but our next door neighbourâs Ukrainian displaced visitors (mother and child) have a trucker husband still in the thick of it. The heart bleeds!
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Many thanks, Nigel, and thanks to Steve, Candice, Holden, Stephen and Rudyard for liking.
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Thanks for reminding me, John. Timothy Spall was good in that and since then has played almost everyone.
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A very strong poem. The Ukraine conflcit shows both the futility and waste of war and the fact that so many are prepared to lay down their life for their freedom.
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An exquisite poem, Greg. A real sense of transition into a new life. So pleased it is going well.
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Many thanks for commenting and for your good wishes, Stephen and Ray. I will always treasure that picture of two of us at the Lightbox shaking hands, with the Sean Henry statue between us, Ray! I read this poem out at Morpeth Poetry Group at the Tap and Spile pub last week and said afterwards: 'I suppose you think I'm a bit starry-eyed about this area.' They all just seemed to feel that I'd got it right
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Terrific sense of new life and how a decision can be made at any time that benefits the soul. Someone told me once and I think it was true that if you just keep doing the same thing repetitively you are not really living a life. Sadly we all have to most of the time. The poem reflects the sureness of a trained eye with loving detail. So pleased for you. !
Ray
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Amusing with a bitter -sweet experience I can vouch for. Better to visit Turkey I suppose Hugh
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I love the insinuations of this Ralph - how do we take it, with a pinch of salt or on draught as it were? A lot of subtlety, some irony, hero worship dashed but poignant too, and would Gareth have been as deep an observer as you. Not on the poetry front I suspect. A lovely offering!
Ray
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Julie, yes it's at the back of the book & thanks.
And Thank you Steve H. Yes I did get a little rosy glow feeling when it was complete! Thanks again
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Hope you settle in like a hand in a glove, Greg! I've gone past the Angel so many times (mainly to go to the Metrocentre, where 'the wife' loves to spend time & money!) I don't even notice it anymore. Which is a bit sad! I'll have to rediscover it once again!
Good luck
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Original item by Greg Freeman
John, you told me that last year as well! I'm sorry, I can't help it. I love this place. And the Angel does kind of take you by surprise as you come up the A1. Graham, many thanks for your comments. Rothbury is just along the road from us. Thanks too for the Likes, Nigel, Clare, Stephen, Holden, K. Lynn, HĂ©lĂšne, and Frederick
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Ssshhh, Greg. Keep Northumberland a secret. Incidentally, I love the way Gormley has made the Angel androgynous.
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Thanks for your lovely likes: Frederick, Tom, Holden, K..Lynn, Helene and Kamran. welcome to H and K .
A philosophical approach Graham. A dishwasher can be a bit of a pain with its restrictions and guidelines. We enjoyed the suds too this time round. I never put decent glasses in there, also hand turned mugs etc. blah blah! All in all, a therapeutic experience and we talked so there you are.
Russell, sounds like a special case, I bow to your needs of course.
Thanks Stephen, you've seen the truth of it as always. The last line a RP special.
That sounds better than a telly Greg. Add a soupcon of birdsong and a sly fox etc and I would swop (or is it swap) places. The dishwasher is by nature a bit furtive, even arty farty I reckon. I hope you're both settling in and getting logs in, etc.
Ray
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ahh the sweet pleasure of having your work published. Well done and best wishes for the book đ
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Thanks Stephen didnât see my name but thank you for the acknowledgment. đ
Comment is about Book out now!... or you could just read them on here lol! (blog)
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Such a waste of life a strong emotional poem Stephen.
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Good idea Stephen you will be safe there.
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Greg I really like the stripped back look and feel of this. Makes me feel like Iâm in the back of your car flashing past those landmarks.
Say hello to Rothbury for me and look after yourself up there!
Comment is about North (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Circle of Life? I sometimes mix that up with the Lion Sleeps Tonight!
Comment is about use ubiquitous in a poem (blog)
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Stephen Gospage
Wed 2nd Nov 2022 08:34
A fun read, Mike. 'Incredible is not enough' sets the bar pretty high!
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