So like wot's wrong wiv it
don't get yer knickers in a twist
just go along wiv it.
like so wot's your prob.
like cumon grandad relax unbend
so like it's up to us to set the trend.
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Just like Martin Peters, Graham - 5 years ahead of your time.
Comment is about SO…. (blog)
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Yep I agree JC. Here's my haiku from 2017
so illiterate
don’t start a sentence with so
stupid so-and-so
© Graham Sherwood 09/2017
Comment is about SO…. (blog)
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Thanks for the likes for my silly write.
Comment is about It’s The Liz Truss Show (blog)
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What a gentle reflective poem - I live near the sea and this is a true to life picture of what we see on the turning of the tide.
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Thank you Tom, Graham and Stephen for your lovely, insightful comments. I appreciate and enjoy hearing your reflections.
My warmest wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about A Portal to My Past (blog)
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Got my copy yesterday. A great read and an inspiration to other embryonic/fledgling poetry groups around the country.
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Bethany, I'll have you know our lass that I have hair a-plenty: ears, nose and head. Thank you Stephen and also thanks due to Clare, Holden & Frederick.
No, the hippies are not gone. Their movement has just become mainstream. If you support the environment, reject racism, sexism, war, are sexually open-minded, and are inherently suspicious of the government, then you're already a hippie - regardless of your fashion sense or how you wear your hair. - Author: Tyler Starry
Comment is about The summer of love (blog)
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Tue 18th Oct 2022 18:31
Hi Begum. I think you and I are in a fairly similar frame of mind today according to our poems, of which, this is a very good one indeed. Thank you!
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Tue 18th Oct 2022 18:28
Most enjoyable serving of food for thought Kevin. Thank you!
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Tue 18th Oct 2022 18:07
From all that have heard about and seen about that era John, I think I would most certainly have enjoyed it.
Not sure about the nudity or drugs though since I value my health too much. It would have appealed to me with regards to all the great original kind of music that we are still hearing of to this very day, thankfully!
Peace, beads, and bells to you John 😊 as for the flowers, I;m wondering if you have enough hair to wear them in?
If you are ever in 'Frisco, send me a postcard! 😎 man!
ps-enjoyed the write!
Comment is about The summer of love (blog)
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You conjure up the moment and the emotion with lovely language, John. Thanks.
Comment is about The summer of love (blog)
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Holden and Flyntland - I am so grateful for your kind ans supportive comments. I was pleased with this poem but of course it saddens me enormously. One hopes that revenge not be the order of the day and that compassion and forgiveness will prevail, but there is only so much that people can take.
Thanks to Frederick and K Lynn for liking.
Comment is about Revenge (blog)
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Thank you Tom and Holden for your 'likes' they are very important to me.
Comment is about GOOD MEN AND TRUE (blog)
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I don't know what to say - I can't better Holdens comment - he has got it absolutly right.
"One day, it's revenge will be terrible" is frightening.
I would also like to add that the poem itself is very well put together - every line is relevent.
Comment is about Revenge (blog)
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Tue 18th Oct 2022 02:29
A truly profound poem, Stephen! The "dollops of easy indignation" and "the anger...competing with the grief and numbness of your mourning" are such eloquent and incisive descriptions of hard-to-articulate emotions! 🌷
Comment is about Revenge (blog)
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Many thanks for reading and enjoying , Stephen, Frederick and Holden.
Ray
Comment is about GANACHE GAVOTTE (blog)
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Thank you, John, for your supportive comments. And thanks to Steve and Nigel for liking.
Comment is about Apartment Block (blog)
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A wonderful, gripping and ultimately optimistic narrative, Rasa.
Comment is about A Portal to My Past (blog)
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A lovely poem, Steve, pointing towards a sad moment but, as Keith says, comforting and reassuring in its way.
Comment is about I Am Your Friend (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
The comments are appreciated and respected. But the topic
is worth our attention, free from virtue-signalling and the rest.
It is right and commendable that we "take as we find" and treat
our fellows with respect. That said, there is the wider aspect:
how human behaviour "behaves" and affects others in a more
general often concerning sense. Looking after number one
becomes excusable/explainable from varied viewpoints but
these might not sit comfortably with others. This becomes the
basis for disenchantment and resentment when it is widely
perceived to be a "threat". Check history anywhere in the world. Respect is not a one-way street and that needs to
be understood by us all. UK society at present is being
given the "bum's rush" in a way that does not bode well
for future social health and that worries me, hence the
intention of my poem to pose an awkward question or two..
SG - you were a lucky man that day. You reminded me of the
afternoon when - off duty - I rescued an Asian bus conductor
from the aggressive behaviour of a group of black youths in
Edgware Road. He was a lucky man that day.
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
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Wild winds
Gentle love
Red rain.
Night walking
Silent streets
Tramp light.
Rock God
Jive talking
Elvis style.
Hundred steps
Blood sucker
Dracula waits.
Comment is about October 2022 Collage Poem: Unknown Lives (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thanks for the kind comment Keith
best wishes, Steve
Comment is about I Am Your Friend (blog)
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Re-meeting old friends (albeit in my case not romantically) is a fascination that I have held for many years as I age. All too many have already died and therefore the chance to 'catch up' has already passed.
What I value most is that even thoughour fortunes have all differed the equality within our group is the same as when we were school friends.
Rasa your piece seems to echo this but for different reasons. Well done!
Comment is about A Portal to My Past (blog)
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Really enjoyed this one, Rasa.
Comment is about A Portal to My Past (blog)
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My thanks to Frederick, John and Russell for your 'likes'.
Stephen- thank you for your very supportive coment.
Comment is about GOOD MEN AND TRUE (blog)
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Truly philosophical and beautifully crafted portraying the inevitability of our ultimate demise. Yet somehow also comforting.
Thank you for this
Keith
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Gy John Botterill under his pseudonym J.G.Barwell
Available on Amazon for £6.50.
All proceeds will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust,
"it's a rattling good read!" Peggy, (John's mum) 😂
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BHRFHJM9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T94ANMPND5I0&keywords=jg+barwell&qid=1665742573&s=books&sprefix=jg+barwell%2Cstripbooks%2C78&sr=1-1
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Intriguing, moving and with a wealth of meaning. Fab, Clare.
Comment is about Lady With The Sad Eyes (blog)
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I think you convey the horror which is surely being felt by ordinary people uncannily well, Stephen. Brilliant poem!
Comment is about Apartment Block (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I probably owe my life to a black bus conductor who, back in the 1970s, saved me from falling off the back of a Routemaster in East London. Fortunately, he didn't seem to prioritise the 'familiar race'.
I find this poem depressing and pointless.
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
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Sun 16th Oct 2022 17:12
This poem saddens me and I simply can't be arsed to explain why.
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you, Bethany. Yes, this war must have led to so many individual tragedies, coupled with all the emotions that each of us would feel. As you say, violence is never the answer, but when will people learn?
And thanks to Frederick, Julie and Holden for liking this one.
Comment is about Apartment Block (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A pleasant contrast to some of the stuff that's around. Thanks, Flyntland.
Comment is about GOOD MEN AND TRUE (blog)
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kj - thank you for the considered comment.
Flyntland - Indeed; no denial from me. That said, I sought to
address the dichotomy that sees contrasting behaviour and
attitudes "across the "spectrum". We seem so accept traits in
others that we deny in (or to) ourselves. That intrigues me.
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
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Thanks so much for your support, Stephen A. Hope it lives up to the billing I have given it 😂 I will be buying yours, too. Let us know when it comes out!
Comment is about Poetic Licence Book Release (blog)
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Congratulations, John. Its the same reason I'm so quiet, busy compiling my first book. I didn't realise id wrote so many lol. I'll definitely get a copy, & for such a worthy cause. 🌈
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Thanks Holden. You're a star 😀
Comment is about Poetic Licence Book Release (blog)
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" and that applies to the familiar race" your words - never mine.
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
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Sun 16th Oct 2022 02:59
Congratulations, John, I will definitely be purchasing a copy! 😊
Comment is about Poetic Licence Book Release (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
My initial reaction was to take issue with the title of this piece, and assume some moral high ground.
But unfortunately I have to admit that to a degree you are probably right.
That having been said, if there is a spectrum I think that we'd be on opposite ends .
Comment is about WE ARE ALL RACISTS (ULTIMATELY) (blog)
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Thank you Bethany, you are very kind.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James A Joyce
Comment is about Be-witched (blog)
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Sat 15th Oct 2022 17:32
When oh when will this violence dominated world ever learn the necessary lesson's it most certainly needs to Stephen? Yet in the midst of all of this mayhem, we must not lose sight of our everyday emotional needs so to speak.
A very well and realistically written poem. Thank you, Mr. G!
Comment is about Apartment Block (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you Stephen G, Clare and K.Lynn for your very welcome likes.
Comment is about BREATH (blog)
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Thanks for the likes Russell and K. Lynn 😀
Comment is about Poetic Licence Book Release (blog)
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“Asked.....to stand aside” is the terminology, I believe, Stephen.
Comment is about 5000 MILES (blog)
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Thanks so much Stephen and Clare. It's great to be part of Writeoutloud! Such great people on this site! 😀
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John Coopey
Wed 19th Oct 2022 16:10
Quite, Flyntland. My main objection is that “So…” is completely superfluous. It has no meaning whatsoever (like “Like”).
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