Thanks for this insightful write
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😢 but Rosie has you to tell her untold stories.
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A poignant and powerful write 👏🏻👏🏻
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Lovely, uplifting stuff, Helene 🌈
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A good thought provoking poem, moonlight 🌈
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Beautifully conveyed, Tom. I think we've all felt like this at some point lately. The world seems to be rolling towards madness...🌈
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The only poet I liked when I was young. And you've did 'er proud, Ray.
Comment is about I'M PAM AYRES (blog)
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Captures the essence of Turner, Stephen.
Comment is about A Ballad Of Tide & Time (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Thank you Stephen and Uilleam.
2022 was the first time in my lifetime that I've genuinely felt the looming threat of nuclear war or attack. It has been playing at the back of mind throughout the year.
I'm usually good at rationalising the bombardment of fear the media shoot at us, but this time it genuinely felt 'inevitable'.
This poem is based on an actual dream and one from which I was very relieved to wake up.
Uilleam, I'm glad you had that reassuring voice during the cold war. And it was right. Let's hope my internal voice is wrong. I don't really enjoy writing about this kind of stuff. :) MAD indeed!
Thanks also to Frederick, Hugh, Adam, Kimberly and Chris for reading this one and for clicking like. I'll try and record an audio version in the next couple of days. 😊
Comment is about River's End (blog)
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I fondly remember jaunts in our family car from our Wiltshire
home to the Cotswolds back in the 1950s - to the likes of
Bourton-on-the-Water in the days when even a modest
runabout with a name like "Standard" or "Jowett" could find a
parking place and afternoon teas were priced within our
rationed pocket range.. Haven't been back since. Happy though
to see its businesses doing well serving an admiring modern
tourist trade.
Comment is about I'M PAM AYRES (blog)
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Oh where to when all life's problems become unsolvable??
Believe me-I have many days like that Keith.
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Except he, and the vested interests he represents are not speechless, really.
Client journalism and the sewer press will do his lying for him and his friends.
And we'll just carry on, "business as usual" parrotting in the pub and cafe
what they tell us.
That's how the UK is now in the cesspit we're in today.
Comment is about An early wake up call !! (blog)
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Wed 18th Jan 2023 05:37
Excellent satire, John, and the last line says it all! 😎
Comment is about Comfort me with Green (blog)
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Wed 18th Jan 2023 02:27
Thank you so much, John, your kind comment means a lot! 😎
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Thanks Pam, you've still got it luv!
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Thanks John.
Every single line excellent advice, which I find very moving.
Not only am I now a woman, I'm 150 yrs. old next Monday!
💐
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This is great! Inspiring, to be our better selves
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Thank you Uilleam, Stephen G, Stephen A, Hugh, Frederick and Chris.
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Thanks for reading and the liking Frederick!
That's quite revealing Graham, thanks for the info. I constantly get them and sometimes it gets a bit much, but it only happens now that I don't do gigs. All my dreams(every night) are in colour . No wonder i'm bonkers. service stations can seem unreal in the middle of the night but hey, needs must! If you do get your coat make sure it's a warm one at the moment.
Thanks for the encouraging comment Greg. Every word true as it happened. What happened to glamour though? Lynn accuses me of only writing about the sordid side of the business. I have done good work but perhaps that's not so good for the poetic spirit.
Good point Stephen, I remember a Frank Zappa album about tinseltown, Hollywood or suchlike. An enduring image.
Ray
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I was born in '48.
I remember as a child being worried by the "Cold War", and the Cuba missile crisis. A small comforting voice in my head told me "no-one could be crazy / evil enough to actually start a thermo-nuclear war"- the MAD (mutually assured destruction) deterrent?
Now I actually do fear for my grand children's lives.
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stinking bare-faced complacency
Says it all.
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"They steal more than they need,
it could fill the coffers of a nation;
it's not just money, they also take morale,
the future and hope, the food of the poor
and the children's education"
Thank you Noris,
in those words you reflect exactly what is happening here in the UK.
UK Railway safety checks being cut while £ billions shareholder's profits go to the Cayman Isles.
UK inland waterways and coastal waters are polluted with raw sewage, while executives make £ billions profit.
The NHS funding has been cut to the bone and at least 2 UK doctors have committed suicide, because of the pressure they are under,
while people lie in the street for hours waiting for an ambulance....(and that's nothing to do with the NHS strikes).
That's just a few examples.
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Stephen, thank you for your efforts in the cause of peace.
The moment the so-called "Christian" church took on the trappings of imperialists, and the Carolingian Empire onwards, Jesus's message of "love your neighbour" was perverted by state-sponsored murder, disguised as "fighting heresy"etc, etc.
The hypocrisy continues today. A few years ago, I heard a senior UK Cleric come on the daily morning radio "God Spot".
He tried to equate / justify the deaths of our UK military in some ongoing conflict with the death of Jesus, as if we should somehow be grateful for their "sacrifice". The cause of Jesus's death was political expediency...not God's love for me.
Upon which I recall Kipling's words:
“If any question why we died / Tell them because our fathers lied.”
No wonder our churches are empty.
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We regularly eat at a café where the food is great, “not sling and ping”, and perhaps a little pricey.
The number of times I’ve seen huge plates left full of fresh crunchy salad, and meat, left by a family of say 2 parents and 2 teenagers.
Obscene waste - in a country where we literally celebrate morbid obesity – whilst others can’t feed their families properly!
😕
Comment is about Swiss Roll Family Robinson (blog)
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Not really, Rudyard, but I can't believe that the church leaders who are cheering on the war think they are acting in God's name.
Thanks for the like and also to Greg, John B and Hugh.
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The all time poets malaise. Headwords at bedtime!
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I've just added a comment to the Discussion forum too
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We don't have a list as such, but if we feel you have transgressed, you may get a light touch on the shoulder, or suchlike. I would also point out that although MC is a former police officer, he has no official policing function at Write Out Loud.
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Agree with you John. Too much food porn going on! Good to see you getting involved Russell. Keep 'em coming!
G
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Tue 17th Jan 2023 12:34
Are you a believer stephen?
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Thank you for your comment MC.
Which of my words do you suggest I ought not to be allowed to use on Write Out Loud?
If you will kindly let me have a list, I will refrain from using them in future.
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Powerful and surprising, Holden. It is good to remind ourselves of Nature's resilience! 😎
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Am I the only one who felt ravenous after reading this poem? A feast for the senses, JD 😊
Comment is about Swiss Roll Family Robinson (blog)
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Thanks Stephen. My memory cannot really be trusted, I'm afraid. My heroics are, more likely than not, nonsense haha.
Thanks for the likes Frederick and Chris 😊
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A very convincing poem, Tom. It really draws you in. As you say, one of those dreams far too close to (possible) reality.
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Magnificent, JD. 'La Grande Bouffe' for our times!
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Thanks, John. I was going to say great memories but I suppose that they weren't for many people. I was a bit older, but like you I remember enjoying myself sometimes. Just the sight of that snow!
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julie callaghan
Wed 18th Jan 2023 19:47
Thank you for the likes and kind comment John.
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