Thank you Nigel. 🌷
The world needs more love and peace, always💕
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Thank you John. Sending warm wishes your way. 😃 Best wishes, Rasa
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I didn’t see that coming, Stephen. Nice touch.
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Hi Stephen I am so glad you liked my poem 'Gold'.
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Phenomenal Stephen. Poignant and gripping. Says it all.
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Stunning poem Clare. You've always had a fantastic imagination then?😀
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Excellent poem John. You make your points with humour and accuracy. You are so right, too. Gambling ruins lives and those celebrities who help to promote it should hang their heads in shame!
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Yes, the return flight from Malaga can be a rough one, Steve. But our bag has been returned, and my wife is heading to Gatwick this morning to pick it up - and hoping that it is not actually at Stansted!
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You make a fair point, MC. I would argue that an addiction to chocolate is nowhere near as potentially financially catastrophic as an addiction to gambling but, as a lifelong fattie, I do not underestimate how difficult it is to beat my addiction. You can give up alcohol. You can give up drugs, you can give up gambling, but you can’t give up eating. Imagine telling an alcoholic that should just have three drinks a day, or a smackhead they should just have one fix a day. Effectively that is what it is like for someone trying to lose weight.
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A superb, intelligent poem, David. Many thanks.
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Thanks for your super comment Stephen 😀 My gas mask was my fairer face, as Shakespeare didn't say haha!
Pam! You were supposed to keep our relationship a secret! Is nothing sacred? Thanks for pointing out that I stole from Larkin (unintentionally) as well as Owen! (deliberately) haha!
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I enjoyed the way your experiences brought you to a philosophical understanding. Lovely Rasa.
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It's fascinating how you describe your heritage layer by layer, John. This flows so well. I also found a gas mask when I was young, but it didn't really suit me.😀
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Wed 27th Apr 2022 20:07
Definitely hints of Larkin 'it deepens as a coastal shelf.' It banks up like the soft strata.' Love it John. I can picture the drawer of objects although not quite so well stocked as I remember. After all I am 'the sister' 😲😜😜😊
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Absolutely stunning, Stephen. A rare treat. Manages to be funny and menacing!
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Thanks Ursula and Stephen A. for your super comments! It means a great deal to have your appreciation. Glad I submitted it. 😀
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Some of the rhyming is a bit contrived but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
A suggestion if I may - the last two lines would work better if the penultimate ended 'memories fade'.
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Thank you very much Rudyard, Stephen & Julie. And I really would like to pop his git fat heed with a pin (other instruments available 😉) Hitler would be proud.
And thanks for the likes!🌷
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Sounds like an inspiring trip, Greg. I have wonderful memories of the South of Spain. I haven't flown for some years, but sad to hear that things have got that bad. Did you get the bag back?
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Thank you all very much, Clare, Ursula, Greg, John and MC. I see now that the crux of the poem is the first two lines. I wanted to emphasise incomprehension here.
The more I see of this war, the more I am struck by its crass brutality and pointlessness. Like many modern wars, there is virtually no real battle, just a licence to destroy homes and lives. Apart from anything else, what is the point of invading a country which could end up completely destroyed and where everyone will hate you?
The fact that Putin thinks there is a point shows how mad he and his regime have become.
And thanks to Nigel, Julie, Rudyard, Holden and K Lynn for the likes.
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Powerfully understated. The first two lines slap you into submission. Another superb piece of writing Stephen
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Both beautiful & sorrowful. A great, thoughtful, piece John.
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Tenacious tendrils of the roots which made us...Lovely stuff.
Great writing, as always John!
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That's just a brilliant poem, John. So clever and well thought out. So true, the past is part of what we are now. It is with us, even if we don't recognise it. Well done.👍
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Wow, thanks Greg.
I'm pleased you found Larkin there. He is an influence so you'll be correct. I borrowed directly/ stole from Wilfred Owen in the line preceding my sister, as well haha
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Thank you Stephen. So many brave Ukrainians losing their lives resisting the invaders and the west refuses to send troops to help them. Such shameful appeasement.
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Always a great event when the UK's literary work can be located
and retained for posterity.
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Vivid in its depiction of the bewilderment and grief that is surely
felt by many. Putin's motives are somewhere in the realm of the present and the past, not least the history between the two lands
as recently as WW2 when the Nazis (a term readily seized upon
by Putin for his reasons for this "special military operation") were
very much in evidence. We ignore that reality at the peril of
an incomplete understanding of the behaviour that is helping to
drive this wretched conflict. The pity of war indeed.
Comment is about Missile (blog)
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Next for something similar in this mode. I suggest "chocolate". 😋 Over to you JC.
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Powerful, Stephen. I agree with Greg and indeed would go further. The poem could even end after those first two lines.
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Thankyou, Greg and Julie,
It’s a poor poem but a big thought.
And thanks for the Like, Holden.
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Marvellous poem, David. I look forward to the publication of this collection of metals.
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The point is, she didn't regard you as old people, Graham. You were only play-acting! But yes, a rejuvenating trip, despite the airline hassles. Having to mingle with Brits is the problem, I'm afraid.
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You make us feel old with all this cavorting and performing abroad Greg, all power to your elbows.
Reference the granddaughter/screen generation, ours recently told my wife and I that we had to be old people as she wanted to play care homes! No bad really as I could lie down for most of it.
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Subhanahu wa ta'ala
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Brilliant, should be shared far and wide.
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Tom, this the best thing I've read in some time! Utterly inspired and quite brilliant. 👍
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Well done, John, you've absolutely nailed the cynicism of everyone involved in marketing online gambling.
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A fine poem, John, full of fascinating detail. I thought I detected an echo of Larkin, somewhere.
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Thank you, Stephen, for sticking with all this, and still telling it like it is. Those first two lines are devastating in their simplicity. The pity of war. Yet Wilfred Owen would not recognise this kind of conflict.
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Sunshine
Thu 28th Apr 2022 12:54
It did find the start line🌷
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