Thank you to: John, Tom, MC., Carol, Stephen G and Kevin for your comments and to Nigel, Frederick, Rose, Stephen A., Holden and Clare for your likes.
Thank you for reading this poem and expressing your appreciation of it. Your kindness is a constant source of encouragement and goodwill.
Keith

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Thanks for all the lovely comments and likes.

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Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks RC, Glad you thought so. 👍

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Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Superb, Keith. Powerful poetry and message. 😀

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Original item by keith jeffries

Amazing poem. Sad situation, great poem, Linda.

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Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Thank you, Stephen G, John and Stephen Atkinson for your likes and kind comments. Thanks everyone who clicked the like button. Always very much appreciated. 😌

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Original item by Clare

Lovely, Keith. And good for you!

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Funny thing about this process called age
It brings self-acceptance to the page
Of that unfinished volume we call existence
Embraced in a chapter - subtitled: persistence!
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Original item by keith jeffries

RIP lovely lady 💔


Rose

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Original item by julie callaghan

I read these lines following the arrival of an email from Cancer Research, with its hopeful content about the progress being
made in diagnosis and treatment....plus the need for funding
to keep the work ongoing. Many of us will know of someone
in the family or a friend who has become a casualty of this
disease in its various insidious forms. It is a source of insistent
curiosity as to how and why it emerges and this often seems
something of a lottery linked to genetics and lifestyle - with
age no guide to its appearance or otherwsie. This young
woman was an inspitational example of human courage
facing down a daunting enemy while aware of all that she
would be losing in an all too brief life.

Comment is about RIP Dame Deborah James #Bowelbabe (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

A beautifully crafted poem which is heart rending but also one worthy of courage and praise for a remarkable individual.
Thank you for this
Keith

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Original item by julie callaghan

thank you for this Julie and may the beautiful and very very brave lady Deborah James be blessed by God for all she done in our lives and rest in peace. Just could not stop crying when I heard the news. So so sadly missed without any doubt

Comment is about RIP Dame Deborah James #Bowelbabe (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

To be in love then cast aside
means he who has done so
has lost more than he will ever know
for moonlight love the stars
will shine again I am sure
this time - - -
so much brighter than before.

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Original item by Sunshine

Nice one Frederick!






RC 💋

Comment is about desire (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thanks Stephen, for the lovely comment. Thanks too for the likes Frederick, Nigel, Rose and Bethany. 😀

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Original item by John Botterill

Exactly Nigel. We all need God. And I think He's all we actually need.

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Original item by Sunshine

This life we lead
has so many tasks
without his wisdom to guide
we would not get far.

Comment is about Divine wisdom (blog)

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Authentically you! Wonderful!

Comment is about Self Discovery (blog)

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Thank you, as always, Holden, John, Linda & Stephen for the heavenly comments! My wise (sometimes...)daughter likes them too! 😊.

And thank you to everyone for reading & striking the Like button! 🌈🌷

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

A brilliant, truthful write, John! 🌈

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Original item by John Botterill

Thanks so much to Keith, Julie and Stephen for your kind comments and to Holden for the like. This poem took me by surprise, actually. I hadn't realised I thought this, until I started writing it. It is based around the bible story Keith noted, but it also flows from a feeling that people's vehemence against 'sin' corresponds to how much they are trying to cover up their own culpability, Just a thought...😏

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Original item by John Botterill

A heavenly poem, Stephen, even if that place was put in the shade by your daughter.

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Keep at it, Keith, and keep writing wonderful stuff like this.

Comment is about Self Discovery (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

It's a fair point and a fine poem, John, although I suppose there are different degrees of sin. White lie vs Big Lie, for example. But I think we all understand that no one is squeaky clean. Except me, of course!

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Original item by John Botterill

My thanks to you, John and Linda. Yes, it is a tragic poem beacuse it is borne out of tragedy. We have to hope that, in spite of everything, the situation can change and reason prevail

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Original item by Stephen Gospage

It's good to be happy in your own skin.
If people don't like the new you,it's their loss.
Keep doing what you are doing.

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Original item by keith jeffries

Aw, that's lovely! Out of the mouths of babes...

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thank you! 😃

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Original item by Linda Cosgriff

It sure is opened Nigel.

I'm in a position to receive through God's mercy. Doors have opened right on time.

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Original item by Sunshine

Totally agree with you Nigel. With age human beings become harder and least wise.

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Powerful stuff🙏

Comment is about Stoned (blog)

Original item by John Botterill

John, this excellent poem is almost scriptural in its content which makes it very credible indeed. The last line says it all. If I remember correctly when Christ said these words, as Mary Magdalen was about to be stoned, it was the elderly men who were the first to walk away as they knew their sin.
Thank you for this
Keith

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Original item by John Botterill

Thanks John
Thanks Stephen

Thought Paul McCartney made the concert a huge hit loved every minute of it😄

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Thanks for the kind comments and likes.

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Original item by julie callaghan

"... I started reading the Sun and it actually helped me improve my reading.”

But did it help improve your politics, Mr Zahawi?

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Original item by Greg Freeman

I love thie simple structure, the deep meaning and the 'matching smiles!'
A classic, Stephen.

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

A profound and moving poem, Stephen! 🌷

Comment is about A Simple Question (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Really like this poem Tommy.

'when wiping cutlery
does the weight
of near
forgotten voices
hang heavy? -' especially this stanza.

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Original item by Tommy Carroll

life only means precious life
         until birth
A powerful truth. Brilliantly expressed

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Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Thank you Stephen, Stephen and John.
Yes John I'll be doing this one at the next Well Spoken.
Someone's got to lower the tone.

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Original item by kJ Walker

What a sad indictment of America that your excellent poem needed to be written. Heartbreaking.

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Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thank you! 😃

But how sad that it needed saying at all 😞

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Original item by Linda Cosgriff

Selling England by the Pound?

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Original item by Greg Freeman

😤 ahem! ahem! although one has lowered oneself to read this reasonably acceptable piece of literature one begrudingly finds it to be ' quaite nayce ' one says looking down ones nasal passage which ever so spiffingly happens to be located above ones entry where ones silver spoon initially entered to give one a high society status that the likes of people like your lower class self are never likely to-ahem- experience

so cheery bye my good man, one is off for tiffin's which means that you get up off your knee's now 😂

brill poem Mike! hope we gave you a laugh in return?

P & L.

Comment is about posh (blog)

Original item by mike booth

Poetry is a wonderfully flexible and accessible art form. Like a
good pub, it is to be returned to for the content and the company
it offers. The wealth of poetry from UK and Irish poets alone is
formidable and refuses to be "categorised". How to choose
remains almost impossible to answer.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

One of your best, Clare. I love the way it unfolds so perfectly.

Comment is about Why? (blog)

Original item by Clare

Agree with SG. But like life itself perhaps, the questions are
often easier than the answers. Across the world and throughout
history, the reality remains but much diluted from the "barons and
serfs" of other times.

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Original item by mike booth

You sum up the joy and the love, Nigel. A good night.

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Original item by Nigel Astell

An entertaining write, Mike.

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Original item by mike booth

Thought provoking questions. We all know the answers for but reality is way different.

I like your style of writing this poem.

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