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Tom

Mon 3rd Jan 2022 10:58

Thanks Keith, much appreciated.

I feel this one is a bit scrappy, as it was written into my notebook over the course of a couple of walks around the edges of Sheffield. I'd have spent more time tidying it up but wanted to get it out before the end of the year. The 'there's no wealth but life' graffiti on a billboard towards the end of my walk was genuine and just seemed to slot perfectly in the poem I wanted to write. Wondrous indeed. 😃

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Greg Freeman

Mon 3rd Jan 2022 09:12

I agree with Stephen. To imbue the word "geraniums" with so much meaning is no mean feat.

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Sunshine

Mon 3rd Jan 2022 03:53

Thank you Nigel for reading my poems and leaving your footprints behind🌷

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Inika Inika

Mon 3rd Jan 2022 02:25

Copped me right in the feels
💚🤸🏾‍♀️🤸‍♂️💚

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Inika Inika

Mon 3rd Jan 2022 02:25

Go you good thing! ♥️💛🖤

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keith jeffries

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 23:09

A poem on the beauty of inner reflection in a natural setting. Powerful if not magnificent as so much is captured.
Thank you for this
Keith

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keith jeffries

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 23:09

A poem on the beauty of inner reflection in a natural setting. Powerful if not magnificent as so much is captured.
Thank you for this
Keith

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John Marks

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 21:09

Thank you Stephen and Keith. Repentance Keith? I don't know. I think humans have made such an unholy mess of this world, exploiting nature for profit, that the only answer is....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721JQZw6Spg

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John Coopey

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 20:56

Intriguing, Stephen. I can't help placing it in a 60's/70's context when life seemed to be simpler to ageing gits like ourselves.

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John Coopey

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 20:52

Thankyou, Stephen. I tried to give it a sense of understatement.
And thanks for the Like, Ursula, Stephen A, Holden, Leon and Moonlight.

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Andy N

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 18:56

Enjoyed this. The shortness of the lines I really think would work with some soft ambient music backing it (:

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Andy N

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 18:55

Possibly a bit long for my liking, but i do think the twist at the end of the piece does really work. Love to read more. 😀

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Andy N

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 18:54

Really enjoyed this. The pacing here alone and thought of words shows you clearly thought about this piece. Excellent. 😀

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keith jeffries

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 18:47

An entrancing poem.
Thank you
Keith

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:53

A great poem, John. By leaving things unsaid, it says so much in so few words. Disturbing, yet somehow moving as well.

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keith jeffries

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:45

John,
a poem with a succinct and well defined exhortation to herald the arrival of a New Year. I am filled with a profound sense of trepidation for the future, not mine, as I am on the downward slope, but for younger generations. We live in an ugly age. Is repentance too late?
Thank you for this
Keith

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:37

A good message, John. We have to act.

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:26

Happy New Year, Julie. Thanks.

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:20

A great wish list, Stephen. Let's hope we can achieve a few of these aims.

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:16

very good

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:14

good

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John Marks

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:14

किशोर करुणिक, मैं आपके उज्जवल भविष्य और खुशहाली की कामना करता हूं। पृथ्वी को उसकी रक्षा के लिए हमारी जरूरत है।

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:13

Thanks

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:10

Beautiful

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:07

I Like it

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:06

Very Good

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:05

Happy New Year 2022

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kishore karunik

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 17:04

Very Good

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Holden Moncrieff

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 16:28

A very powerful poem, Inoe! 🌷

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raypool

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 14:34

Thanks Brenda for the like !

Very kind Tom thanks. I drove to the place I had in mind coming back from a music gig at an early hour, and the sensations were palpable.

Ray

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Ghazala lari

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 13:53

This is so beautifully written. So true in words and if implemented it could lead us in life forward, towards success n growth👍🌷

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keith jeffries

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 12:08

Tom,
Thank you for your comment on my latest poem New Beginnings. I appreciate your comments as I also appreciate your poetry.
Keith

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John Marks

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:58

Thanks Tom and a happy new year to you and yourn. J

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:46

Thank you to John, Kishore, Stephen, Julie, Stephen, Holden, Brenda, John and Ursula for the likes - thanks so much for reading this little reverie.

Thanks Brenda, Stephen, Ursula and Holden for your lovely comments. I'm glad you connected with one. Brenda, I agree. I think experience is key to truly appreciating what you have. Our decisions and indecisions guide us down the path and we have to make the best of what we find along the way - and try our hardest to see the wonder in each small thing.

Happy new year all!

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:33

This one feels steeped in atmosphere. Masterful and hauntingly wintry.

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:25

Enjoyed this Keith, very optimistic. I do hope we're all filled with 'new and inspired ideas' in 2022. Very well said.

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:23

Enjoyed this one Robert.

"Come on down to the lost weekend" indeed. 👍

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:22

Lovely stuff Stephen, let's hope for this!

And happy new year to you too...

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Tom

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 11:21

I love this one John. Some fine lines here.

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Nigel Astell

Sun 2nd Jan 2022 00:11

You are a soldier of love
marching poetry into our hearts.

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Holden Moncrieff

Sat 1st Jan 2022 20:59

Thank you so much, John! 😊

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John Coopey

Sat 1st Jan 2022 17:15

Normal service has resumed. It’s now as it was before.

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d.knape

Sat 1st Jan 2022 16:47

IF you wish to post a comment
you must first dig a hole
then plant the Post and fill in with cement.
After it dries, the Post will be there for a good 30 years.
haha

(My habit is writing. The only good habit I have.)

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 1st Jan 2022 15:42

Well said - and welcome too
As we enter two oh two two. 👍

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John Botterill

Sat 1st Jan 2022 14:08

Thanks Julie. Lovely 😀

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Nigel Astell

Sat 1st Jan 2022 11:49

A happy new year and thanks for your likes

Holden
keith
Stephen G
Stephen A
John
and
Your Royal Poetess.

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keith jeffries

Sat 1st Jan 2022 11:26

dk.,
Having submitted the poem you can still alter it by using the same method or so I think. I have never experienced any problem with altering a draft or the end product.
Happy New Year
Keith

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kJ Walker

Sat 1st Jan 2022 09:33

They're all there John. Scroll through January of any given year, and all the other months are in the menu at the bottom of the page.

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julie callaghan

Sat 1st Jan 2022 09:32

I think you have to scroll through January posts to get to the other months.

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julie callaghan

Sat 1st Jan 2022 09:14

Reposted from last night, as not many would see my NYE message to you all.

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