Wed 22nd Jan 2025 16:25
Aisha,
Your poem is truly uplifting and filled with warmth! In times like these, the way you remind us to embrace patience, stay positive, and find strength in togetherness is beautiful. It’s a gentle reminder that no matter what we're going through, there’s always hope and a way forward. Thank you for sharing such a comforting and encouraging message. We all need it!
Take care,
Rolph
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Wed 22nd Jan 2025 16:21
Thank you Naomi for your like!👍
Comment is about A Deal With the Devil, or The Scales of Justice Shattered (blog)
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Wed 22nd Jan 2025 15:54
Hello Nigel, Red Brick Keshner, Stephen, Aisha, K. Lynn, Flyntland, Manish & Naomi - thank you very much for your likes! 😀
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Wed 22nd Jan 2025 15:52
Hello Flyntland, hello Stephen,
Thank you for your comments...yes, this obsequiousness, this grovelling, this sanctimonious awe for a convicted deranged psychopath. It's all so ridiculous that it's scary.
It is a nightmare for all of us that is too real to be denied - a nightmare that is just learning to walk...
Take care,
regards,
Rolph
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Wed 22nd Jan 2025 14:04
Hopeful and heart-warming, Stephen! 💕
Comment is about Love at an AA meeting. (blog)
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A wonderful poem, Tom! Excellent rhyming, smooth flow, uplifting thoughtful message.
Comment is about Touch Of Humanity (blog)
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A solid, well written poem, Steve, with a compelling message (hidden within it's humorous tone). If only...I will never give up on the dream for a world built on fairness and caring for all. It may never arrive, but that will not stop me from hoping.
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Well we all do that Graham - I think we require an inner dialogue to survive. Besides, I think Sherwood actually has trees you can hide in! 😉
Comment is about Secrets (of a Happy Marriage) (blog)
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Thank you Uilleam - One day at a time lol 🙂
Thanks for likes:Red Brick Keshner, hugh, Holden, Naomi, Yanma Hidayah & Flyntland. 👍
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Many a true word spoken in a poem Rob! With my name being a forest I just talk to myself 😂
Comment is about Secrets (of a Happy Marriage) (blog)
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So sorry that your father has passed away, David. I am sure he would still appreciate this fine, haunting poem. He will live on in dreams and memory, and perhaps elsewhere.
Comment is about Between two worlds (blog)
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Thanks, Rick. One of the benefits of having a dog is that you have to go out and face the weather, whatever the forecast. The dog demands it!
Comment is about Atmospheric Pressures (blog)
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I like the ironic tone of this, Steve. Rueful and regretful we may be, but we have to keep our humour, even in the face of this onslaught.
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Hi Landi,
The first half of this work seems like a contemplation on "Interstellar" whilst the second phase seems more personal. I'm sure I will read this several times.
I love the last line.
David
Comment is about cheating gravity (blog)
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Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No. 4. True Peace or Pieces?] (blog)
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On day two, as we speak, attempts are being made, and the intention has been declared, to sabotage the so-called cease-fire, and to continue the genocide of Palestinians and their land.
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Great comments here, Thank you
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Indeed. Quite funny that Neil Fromage didn't get an invitation.
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Thank you for the likes and comments. Eyes are very telling, if we look deep enough.
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Apologies, Steve; I didn't look at the picture, and missed "One nation under God".
Did you spot Boris J with his head down, like a naughty boy, dodging eye contact with the cameras whilst Trump was whipping up the anti-gay/trans, and xenophobic vote!
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Thanks Uilleam.
A verse about Palestine escapes me for now, but I might come back to it.
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Thanks Steve-"If only we had", one might be moved to exclaim, on observing Britain's historical meddling in, and consequent devastation of the Middle East.
Those who hold the racist and imperialist Winston Churchill in some kind of reverence, need to read Tariq Ali's book on him.
Comment is about If We Had Won The War (blog)
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Thanks for all your likes everyone
Manish
K.Lynn
Stephen
Yanma
Holden
Hugh
Red Brick Keshner
Naomi
Flyntand
and
Uilleam.
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Speaking of dope Kevin, there's a big orange man-sized one been seen around recently. Would it be him?
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14*7 pounds per square inch in old money, if I remember correctly, Rick.
In a layman's language: if I stood on Blackpool beach ( ie. at sea-level), and someone drew a 1 inch square on top of my head, the column of air immediately above that extending up through the atmosphere would weigh nearly 15 pounds!
I wonder if that's the cause of my headaches?
Comment is about Atmospheric Pressures (blog)
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Thanks for sharing that with us , David.
I've had tears in my eyes more times than I care to remember, recently...but tears are most appropriate here.
Comment is about Between two worlds (blog)
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I've just seen E.Musk throwing his heart to his fans...an old Italian custom, I'm led to believe....although I didn't see anything leaving his hands!
Comment is about People throw their hearts at strangers, don't they? (blog)
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Forget about the master plan
Just do the best that you can
Excellent advice, Tom,
Comment is about Touch Of Humanity (blog)
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Thanks, Naomi.
A badly needed prayer / hymn.
Lovely.
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Like it?................Pure Magic, I love it!
💐
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I believe one can eat sunflower seeds; paint on canvas, not so much.😒
Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No. 5. À la Restaurant] (blog)
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My thanks to RBK. Tom, Hugh, Stephen, Aisha, and Holden,
also to K. Lymm, Manish, Yanma, Marla, and Naomi.
for both reading and liking, I am so very grateful.
Rosh, I am not sure what to say, thank you does not seem to be enough, -- erm ---- I think that I will go and eat some chocolate.
Comment is about AT EASE WITH SIMPLICITY (re-edited) (blog)
Original item by Flyntland
Thanks to Graham, Landi and Flyntland for your kind words and the lovely Max Richter link.
Graham, recently my dreams have been becoming more vivid, ranging from themes of great natural beauty, love, violence and repeated dreams of my Father and friends in younger years.
I seem to be in a phase where I am remembering more of my dreaming, whilst some are welcome others are quite disturbing and upsetting. I would rather remember my dreams than not as they are a great source for ideas, often they are source of education which I find mind boggling.
David
Comment is about Between two worlds (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
This beautiful poem has a dreamy mystical quality.
I particularly love the fourth stanza -
"What we seek is always a shadow play
an echo of things we cannot hold or stay"
Thank you for it.
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Thank you. Merci. Bedankt.
Comment is about Climate Emergency! (blog)
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Thank you Flyntland, Uilleam, Graham and Greg, and thanks to everyone who liked this poem.
I still remain optimistic that in the end people will reject this charlatan and his cronies (as well as the tinpot versions now appearing in Europe), although of course they can, and will, do a lot of damage in the meantime.
Optimism is all we have at the moment!
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Thanks for likes: Stephen G, Aisha Manish, 👍
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Thank you Graham!
It's interesting to think that the quest to understand ourselves is what truly sets us apart. Some seem to have a clear sense of self, while others remain lost in the search. It raises the question of who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps the journey itself holds the answer. I’m glad you connected with those lines, and your reflection adds such depth to the conversation.
Comment is about THE LAST QUESTION (blog)
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Thank you so much for your kind words Holden! I'm glad those lines resonated with you. Writing them felt like capturing a moment of deep introspection and the sense of navigating through life's uncertainties. I'm thrilled it connected with you in that way.
Comment is about THE LAST QUESTION (blog)
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I hope you're right, Steve. Thank you for this ray of optimism. I can't help feeling gloomy about the future, though.
Comment is about 2028 (blog)
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I remember the poem from its first posting. I am sorry to hear your father has died. Whilst I do not believe in a hereafter, I do believe that people live on in the memories of others. Dreams and fathers see to loom large in my though processes.
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Comment is about Between two worlds (blog)
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Cheers, Rick.
I'd been walking round town yesterday, without gloves, my hands turning a few shades of blue.
I got into the car only for the automatic warning signal to ding ding, warning of "Icy Conditions"- Nooooo, you don't say!
Such is the disconnect between us and the natural world that people actually "need" such reminders!
Comment is about Atmospheric Pressures (blog)
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Quite so, Flyntland; thank you kindly 🙏🏻🕊👍🏻🌹
Comment is about Edgar Allan: Ravenous Poe (blog)
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That’s probably why I stuck with poetry, at least it’s something substantial to be chucked in strangers’ direction 🕊😊🙏🏻🌹
Comment is about People throw their hearts at strangers, don't they? (blog)
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Rolph David
Wed 22nd Jan 2025 16:30
Hi, Red Brick Keshner,
Thank you for sharing this thought-provoking piece.
Your poem is also deeply reflective. The imagery of breaking mirrors and questioning their impact on one’s features resonates with the complexity of self-perception. The phrase "looking glass-cripple" captures a raw sense of fragmentation, which really speaks to the idea of how we sometimes see ourselves in pieces. It's a powerful exploration of identity and the distortion we may feel, especially in challenging times. Just great stuff!
Love it!
Take care,
Rolph
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