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Rasa Kabaila

Sat 22nd May 2021 06:15

I love your poem M.C Newberry 'Thoughts at Christmas' —so earnest and sincere. Thank you.

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Rasa Kabaila

Sat 22nd May 2021 06:12

This is beautiful Martin! So important for us to take note of the beauty that we have around us—in this moment. Thank you.

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Rasa Kabaila

Sat 22nd May 2021 06:09

Beautiful poems Stephen. I particularly enjoy 'Memory Tax' —it is honest and witty but also a little dark— a bit 'Dark Mirror' esque. Well done on all your publications. ?

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Your Royal Poetess

Fri 21st May 2021 23:23

In response to your comment, this quote has been one that really resonated with me:

“We are not minorities, we have been minoritized. We are not underrepresented, we have been historically excluded. “ - Janel Cubbage

I would never consider you a minority! I believe that many have been marginalised due to prejudices but that word doesn’t sit right with me at all, it makes me think something is less than... keep fighting against the inequalities and spreading awareness through your poetry ☺️

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Fri 21st May 2021 21:58

Thankyou for commenting Stephen ? I don't think everyone can have fun at the same time, but we could all be happy at the same time if we would just be genuinely happy for everyone else as well. Problem is not everyone who knows this acts accordingly and most people don't even know this.

Thanks also to those who have clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

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John Coopey

Fri 21st May 2021 21:50

Thanks, Stephen. My tailor for donkey’s years until the rise of the charity shops used to be Wakefield Army Stores.

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keith jeffries

Fri 21st May 2021 19:51

Thank you for commenting on my poem Another Condition. It is only when one belongs to a minority that one really and truly experiences the full brunt of prejudice. I am Gay but stand along side others who are oppressed and discriminated against because of colour, religion, ethnicity of nationality. Free Palestine!
Thank you again

Keith

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Begum BURAK

Fri 21st May 2021 19:02

thanks?

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Begum BURAK

Fri 21st May 2021 19:01

thanks ?

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Begum BURAK

Fri 21st May 2021 19:00

thanks for the likes ?

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J.D. Bardo

Fri 21st May 2021 18:13

Bold poetry, Takes guts. That much I like..... J.D.
Welcome and thank-you

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 17:29

I'm sure it's proper porridge, not that John Lewis stuff.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 17:19

A wonderful poem. Thank you.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 17:03

I remember that you could sometimes get shoes from London Transport's lost property office. Trousers as well. Which begs the question: how could anyone 'lose' such items on a train or bus? The mind boggles.Perhaps they had bought them from a Charity Shop and disposed of them furtively. Thanks for the enjoyable poem, John.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 16:56

I suppose that, like political careers, all lives end in failure. Snatch happiness while you can. Perhaps the modern myth is that everyone can have fun at the same time. (They can't, can they?).

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 16:49

Enjoyed this, Sanja.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st May 2021 16:26

Great poem. As the owner of an electric car (range marginally more), this is close to my worst nightmare. There's the song 'I would walk five hundred miles' - at least it's not as far as that.

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Your Royal Poetess

Fri 21st May 2021 14:49

Lovely poem, it is not a condition at all, I wish people wouldn’t have such warped views on homosexuality. I hope one day love overcomes prejudice!

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Your Royal Poetess

Fri 21st May 2021 14:43

The treatment of refugees and asylum seekers sicken me, they are used as scapegoats for political genders. This image haunts me as I know many others has ended up like this trying to escape to a better reality but met with xenophobia and hate. ?

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John Coopey

Fri 21st May 2021 14:42

Thank you, MC.

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Your Royal Poetess

Fri 21st May 2021 14:39

This is beautifully written, the imagery really flows well throughout the poem

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Your Royal Poetess

Fri 21st May 2021 14:37

Thank you for your kind comment on my recent poem. It was also lovely to read through your poems!

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 21st May 2021 13:50

I have a weakness for this type of sardonic humour. Thanks!

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 21st May 2021 13:47

Ah...you can find fun in the most unlikely places...'pon my sole!! :?
Thanks JC for the chuckle-worthy cheer-up.

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Stephen Atkinson

Fri 21st May 2021 13:21

Why Aviva? ? Thanks & have a good weekend!?
And, Julie, I might just have a little wine as well...'cos I'm a bit greedy like that ??
Enjoy!

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Fri 21st May 2021 12:12

Happy Friday, Stephen, Julie, and everyone else!

It's Friday
My day
Don't ask why day.

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John Coopey

Fri 21st May 2021 11:47

Thanks for the Likes, Aviva, Holden and Leon.

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julie callaghan

Fri 21st May 2021 11:33

Thanks for the likes folks, today is my last week of my Gratitude Gallery course. I must admit finding something to be grateful of everyday has been a challenge that I have enjoyed and has been a very positive thing to do.

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julie callaghan

Fri 21st May 2021 11:24

Sounds perfect. Enjoy?

It's Friday
Wine and pizza day
Mix in your six day

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Hugh

Fri 21st May 2021 08:27

Your poem and the song will dominate our day. Well done.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 21:01

hmm.. I can build a sandwich, but only on a plate in the kitchen... I don't think I could build one up a tree in the wind. And I couldn't build a nest anywhere.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 20:54

This is great! I really enjoyed it. Although the earlier verses seem to say 'Even though you live, remember you will die' the final verse has the strongest message (for me) and it seems to say...

Remember
Until you must die
You must live

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Graham Parker

Thu 20th May 2021 17:42

Fair comment Richard

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d.knape

Thu 20th May 2021 15:43

like your response to Condensed Poem.
makes good rhyme
and sense!

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Martin Elder

Thu 20th May 2021 14:22

without love we are merely flowers without petals

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Tim Ellis

Thu 20th May 2021 10:35

Thanks Greg. I wrote this a couple of years ago but decided to share it now after watching jubilant news reports about British holidaymakers flying off to the Algarve as soon as they are allowed but with no mention made of the environmental costs of air travel.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 08:39

Again, I wasn't really expecting this poem to be so popular. I'm glad that many of you have found reasons to enjoy it.

An extra thank you for everyone who has clicked 'Like', now that it has reached TWO FLOWERS ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 08:28

Thank you for commenting Nigel ?

Even the wreck on the seabed
Is still a treasure many hope to find
And some can be brought back to the surface
For a new existence in the world above water
If lovingly supported.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 08:14

Thank you for commenting Nigel ?

If I dared to risk the consequences
Of tampering with the fabric of time
And the mesh of cause and effect
That this moment and the next is built upon
Then I too, if I could,
Would go back and tell myself many things
That I didn't then know.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 08:02

Thank you for commenting Moon.girl, it is intriguing and I can see why this poem reminds you of the current pandemic situation, but in fact this was written nearly three decades ago. I must have managed to capture some truisms about life and people in order for that to be possible for it to have relevance beyond it's time and anything I could have then imagined.

I'm not really comfortable with the 'it started in China' way of saying things as to my mind 'it started in nature' and it is just random chance that it happened there rather than anywhere else. I also recall that it was incredibly well managed there and only became a devastating pandemic due to the mismanagement of the situation in other parts of the world. The pandemic created by the rest of the world then returned back into China far less manageably than the original outbreak so although in one sense 'it started in China' is true, in another sense it isn't true at all. I also don't think that the pandemic is a punishment from heaven, but you are entitled to your views I just feel that since it is my thread I should also state my opinion.

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Thu 20th May 2021 05:41

Now it spares none. Not even a friend. Entered every premise. We are all in it together and forever.

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Thu 20th May 2021 05:39

It all started in China. Then it started exchanging hands. From city to city, village to village it spread like wild fire.
Country to country it started spreading simultaneously. Those that knew were cautious instantaneously, others joked and ignored the spread.
Wrath descended, a punishment from heaven.

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Nigel Astell

Thu 20th May 2021 01:05

Merry is how you must be
round the corner
is the go to start over.

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Nigel Astell

Thu 20th May 2021 00:59

All I know
this ship can float
once love itself lifts
up that aching heart.

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Nigel Astell

Thu 20th May 2021 00:45

Thanks Martin without love we have nothing.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thu 20th May 2021 00:41

Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

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Stephen Atkinson

Wed 19th May 2021 22:31

Thank you for the lovely comments & continued support Aviva, Julie, Keith & Ghazala! ?
And for all the Likes ??x

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Graham Sherwood

Wed 19th May 2021 22:25

Can’t believe I missed this first time around. Fathers and sons eh? (Especially our generation) need a McGuffin to get close. Mine was fishing. You are very lucky to have had one of the most powerful links....music! A very concise but powerful poem Ray. Well done.

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raypool

Wed 19th May 2021 22:03

Thank you each and every reader Tom Tony Stephen Julie Stephen Ghazala Holden and Nazia for liking my poem.

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Ghazala lari

Wed 19th May 2021 21:14

Thanks for this gentle reminder.

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