Thank you to Kevin, Binte and Holden for the likes. Leon you hit the nail on the head with your comment. Sound advice.
Thank you all
Keith
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Hahaha! Go Greg Go, granddaddy oh!
Comment is about 'Go, go, go'! (blog)
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Sun 9th Jan 2022 12:53
I like short poems.
the shorter the better.
😃
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<Deleted User> (33000)
Sun 9th Jan 2022 12:46
Great poem Keith and if this member of the walking dead may take the liberty of adding another useful slice of advice.....
regular moderate exercise can ease the journey as opposed to vegetating in the armchair methinks
two of which are reasonably easy depending on one's capability and those are taking walks and swimming.
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<Deleted User> (33000)
Sun 9th Jan 2022 12:34
Be careful Johnny boy! if you ain't covered by the ( murdered ) Epstein deal you and the Sultan of Brunei might get yer collars felt! or worse still there'll not be an invite to Andys £17 million quid ski lodge
THAT WE FUCKING PAID FOR!!
keep on arse-kicking Coopey!
Comment is about YOUNG GIRL (blog)
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<Deleted User> (33000)
Sun 9th Jan 2022 12:25
Hi J.E.
This is awesomely neat and, equally as sweet
so keep raging against the age cage girl!
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<Deleted User> (33000)
Sun 9th Jan 2022 12:09
Hi Adam, ( and I state this with the greatest of respect ) although there are some very likable lines in this poem its meaningful aim has gone beyond my uneducable reach. If only I had longer, and more knowledgeable arms!
Nevertheless, thank you!
Comment is about Mould On A Pristine Universe (blog)
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I am tempted to say He is the holy trinity. Only God could survive that! Got me thinking Stephen. Thanks
Comment is about Train (blog)
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Thanks for this review, Neil ... and thanks for all the reviews you do for Write Out Loud! I also really enjoyed this collection, before passing it on to you for review.
Comment is about Mollusc: Mark Totterdell, The High Window (article)
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Julie,
another enchanting poem with a touch of humour. Poems about the natural world is where your descriptive powers come to the fore.
Thank you for this.
Keith
Comment is about Cyril The Squirrel (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the kind likes. For part one and two. Still no answers or sign of an update for part three. I hope not Stephen it would be a lot of work for no reward!!
Comment is about Dark Knight Mystery (part 2) (blog)
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It seems that he did survive, but he's not half the man he used to be.
Comment is about Train (blog)
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Sun 9th Jan 2022 05:10
Sun 9th Jan 2022 05:05
thanks for explaining what a Pit Yakker is.
never would have guessed.
Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)
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Sun 9th Jan 2022 05:03
Artists paint with paint.
Poets paint with words.
Comment is about Following A Creek (blog)
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Thanks, Keith. I suspect that's the knighthood down the Swanee.
And thanks for the Like, Holden and Kevin.
Comment is about YOUNG GIRL (blog)
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An injection of humour is much appreciated into this torrid affair.
Thank you John
Keith
Comment is about YOUNG GIRL (blog)
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How such a creature can live by their senses and in such freedom whereas we are confined by comparison. The animal kingdom might live by their instincts and of the stronger vanquishing the weak but are conditioned by ourselves to a life of constraint.
A truly pharaonic and noble creature. I love the illustration.
John, thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about The Wild (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
The cycle of life with its strange repetitive nature and unexplained emotions. We see the lives of others through a prism of our own making, sometimes as a participant but it continues regardless. This poem asks many questions of the impact of other's lives on our own and where we stand in the mystery of life.
John, thank you for this. Who can ever compare with Edith?
Keith
Comment is about And so she goes (blog)
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Thank you for the comments, yea let’s hope we can kick covid out one day
Comment is about We’re all Stuffed! (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Not wishing to boast but I still wear a hat and before addressing a lady I doff my hat before speaking. I also remove my right hand glove before shaking hands, open doors for ladies and disabled people, surrender my seat on public transport when appropriate, walk on the outside when accompanying a lady. I use expressions such as
May I
Please
Thank you.
I greet strangers in my neighbourhood with the time of day. I do these courtesies as a matter of course without thinking. Why should we conform to an age which is fast becoming mannerless? Make a stand against bad manners by setting an example. What harm can it do?
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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Thank you Mark and Stephen. In this poem the refrain works but that's not always the case.
Comment is about And so she goes (blog)
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Beautiful, John. And who cannot like Edith Piaf?
Comment is about And so she goes (blog)
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Very good one, Julie. I dig a lot of holes to plant shrubs etc and am terrified that I may one day find a time capsule containing a statue of Bernard Manning.
Comment is about Dark Knight Mystery (part 2) (blog)
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Good one, Rick. I guess we just have to hope. As you say, so many normal things seem so far away.
Comment is about We’re all Stuffed! (blog)
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Glad to hear that, Greg. Butskellism had its advantages, in that it made room for lots of 'eccentrics' from the extremes (Sir Gerald Nabarro, Michael Foot) but kept them safely away from power. Until things changed, of course....
Comment is about 1963 (blog)
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Crikey Keith, you’ve shaken a few feather with me in this one. Manner, politeness, chivalry etc are fast becoming museum pieces. Respecting elders was always a given. Nothing rankles me more these days than being greeted with ‘hi guys’ and not sir or madam!
I remember when men would politely lift their hats when greeting a lady and if one was out on the street when a funeral cortège passed, one would stand at the curb and bow one’s head etc. Opening doors, ladies first always.
All this is gradually going to shit sadly.
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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Thank you to all who read this poem and expressed likes or made comments, some of which I find interesting. Without being unduly unkind to following generations there has been a noticeable decline in manners. I don't know what one can attribute this to. I always remember my father's words, "manners maketh man". This is indeed true.
Thank you again,
Keith
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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This is very good, Ray, although I can think of an alternative word for 'impenetrable'!
Comment is about PUPPY LOVE (blog)
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Beautifully written, Keith, and you are clearly passionate about your subject. Many aspects of "modern life" annoy me as well and I can identify with what say, even if I may take issue with one or two of the views expressed.
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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I love the line
The sand in the hour glass
Sighs
So eloquent!
Comment is about Undoing (blog)
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Love the sentiments and the skilful way they are expressed, Keith. Thanks. John
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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So much to identify with here. I retain the habit of walking on the outside of the pavement to pass others when the occasion arises, plus other modes of behaviour handed down by my
parents and their contemporaries who were young themselves between the two world wars when "manners" were de rigueur.
And I remember my step-father's unfailing custom of lifting
his hat (a trilby favoured by many men of his generation) upon
meeting/greeting any woman. Hats, like the etiquette that
provided the oil that lubricated social interaction, seem largely
absent nowadays except...interestingly...in certain traditional
occupations that survive the passing of the years and still
please when observed.
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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Touching indeed. I love the repetition of "And so it goes..." -. so
right in the context of life itself.
Comment is about And so she goes (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Brief, good rhyming and pleasing. I enjoyed this
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Catepillars (blog)
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This was written through the eyes of an irresponsible teenager.Using the bus I notice their attitude in not wearing a mask ,they think they are superior to us adults and delight in rebellion.The conclusion was put there to emphasise the error of their ways.
Comment is about The rebellion of a 14 year old against wearing a mask in school (blog)
Original item by hugh
Pit Yakker! ( Or Yacker, Yakka). A person from a coal mining village, mainly associated with the North East of England. Originally a derogatory term, but we now embrace it as our own! Proud to be a Pit Yakker! (I'm not a Geordie) 😁 I'm sure that's cleared it up for ye D.K...😂
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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An interesting if not intriguing poem. I loathe maths!
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Recognition (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
I do have a fondness for poems not tied to any particular day or events. So many are stuffed with personal details as if everone has to be interested. The more particulars they add, the more I think "why don't you just keep (to yourself) a diary you fucking sillyarse".
So many good and thoughtful lines in this, I really appreciate it.
Well done, Brian.
Comment is about Your Turn (blog)
Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.
Not taking Covid seriously risks the lives of those in your neighbourhood, particularly your nearest and dearest.
A lot of inconvenience has had to be endured to get through this and it's not quite over yet.
Comment is about The rebellion of a 14 year old against wearing a mask in school (blog)
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Miles,
I agree with Rasa, keep writing. This poem echoes my sentiments.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about First poem (blog)
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Sorry John B if I caused offence.
I assumed that you, like me are in your forties.
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Haven't heard the greeting "How do you do" for e long time.
Manners are very important. It does seem that many youngsters don't have manners anymore, and probably many of them don't.
But the rules have changed. And parents don't drill the courtesies into their children in the way that our parents did to us
It could well be that some of the younger generation are well mannered, but in a different way to the manners that we were taught.
Comment is about The Remnant (blog)
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Things don't exist until we've written a poem about them! Super poem dk
Comment is about Following A Creek (blog)
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I'm thinking of getting bald head fitted for solar power! 😀
Comment is about Non-Renewable Energy (blog)
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Thanks for the kind comments and likes. I fear we will never get to the bottom of it. There are two questions. How did it get there and what dug it up. My money is on my youngest son who is now 21!! But what dug it up??? I don’t think we will ever know for sure, but it has brought me two poems and a few laughs.
Comment is about Dark Knight Mystery (part 2) (blog)
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Glad that Mocha didn't suffer the same fate as Yo.
Comment is about Then and Now (blog)
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Sad but beautiful dk. Really touching.
Comment is about Old Wooden Houses (blog)
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M.C. Newberry
Sun 9th Jan 2022 13:35
Old 'uns will recall the nickname that was applied to the
younger Prince Andrew - "Randy Andy". I enjoyed the very
inventive use of this old pop song. And it also took me back to
an old advertising jingle for a home cleaning product called
"Handy Andy"!! - which, I seem to remember, goes something
like this:
'Handy Andy, strong little gentle man
Cleans your whole house cleaner than
A whole lot of other cleaners can.' (Sheer poetry! 😃)
Comment is about YOUNG GIRL (blog)
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